The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 2, 1934, Page 1

i 5 4 , trict Attorney’s office said. ) 1 | To Be Called In THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 4 VOL. XLIIL, NO. 6614. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1934. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —— GHASTLY TRAGEDY REVEALED; PIRATES SUSPECTER SENATE PASSES' RESOLUTION TO | REMEDY DEFECT Step to Put ut Alaska Re- pealer Into Proper Shape Is Passed Today W.\SHINGTON, April 2.—! The Senate this afternoon| witheut objection passed Sen-| ator Tydings's concurrent § esolution corercting the Al-|: & dfllm prohibition repeal hlll.! § It now goes to the House ,\ where similar favorable ac- i& tion is expected by Delegate | Dimond. | The resclution eliminates from the bill a clause em—: powering the Governor of Alaska to pardon perso¥s con- | | victed under the Prohibition' Jaws. Advised that this was | & not constituticnal, President | Rocsevelt withheld his ap- proval of the bill te give Con-| gress an opportunity to cor-| % rect it. ——-o—— KIDNAPER LOSES HIS NERVE; GIRL RETURNED HOME Abductor Recelves Threat Shortly After Sending | Ransom Call is the photo test. she atlains her majerity. trust fund for the little girl by Gallagher and Mrs. Gallagher. Most Beautiful Chlld indl 8. | FOR MUNICIPAL VOTE TOMORROW | City Ready”t_o— Cast Heav- that won Angeles, the title of being the most beautiful child in America. picture was chosen from among 75,000 entrants in a national con- A relative in New York entered the picture unknown to the child’s parents, who subsequently rejected all film company offers and declared the child shall not be exploited at any price until | A prize ‘of ‘$1000 was sst aside as 3 10, gher, of Los | The | her parents, Attorney Lashery B. VALDOSTA, Georgia, April 2— Miss Mary Nell Carlisle, aged 17 is safe at home because the years, man who kidnapped her lost his| nerve. Miss Carlisle was kidnapped last | Saturday night as she went to a garage to get her automobile. Shortly afterwards her father re- ceived a note asking $1,000 ran- som. ,ST[lGKS FAIRLY STEADY AFTER by i g e Y bee,.’SATURDAY RALLY taken to a house where a woman | g refused to let the man come in Batter Business Reports | Help to Hold Shares in with her sxymg she would shoot | Narrow Price Range Calls For Help Sunday morning members Of her family heard her calling for help and found her bound on the campus of the Georgia State him unless “you carry that girl| back where she belongs.” Migs Carlisle said the man took | her back to her car and she does not remember anything else until she became conscious later on the| campus. | FILM ACTRESS = IS KIDNAPED IN MARRIAGE CASE NEW YORK, April 2—Stocks were subdued generally today and There were numerous gains but also many er. The close was fairly steady. The Cur® Exchange closed gen- erally higher buf bonds closed ir- | regularly. Silver Futures Up Wheat and corn were heavy and cotton was reactionary after early firmness. Silver futures were up substantially under the spur NRAU plwld in Federal Court On Issue of Minimum Rates | Conboy said the decision is of the failed to follow through on Satur-| Communications, rails and | some specialties were a little high-| further hopes of favorable Iegisla- Marjorie Crawford ~Ab- furt | ducted to Yuma by Ac- | air, metal and sieei socks - lied mederately on the forecast| tor R. C. DOWIIng of better business. A few rails, . were up fractionally to around a LOS ANGELES, April 2,~Mar~‘poim‘ jorie Crawford, 25-year-old flier Issues Gaining and screen actress, complained 10| G.ins of a point or more were the police today she was forced held by Western Union Telegraph | by R. C. Dowling, film ‘actor, ‘and Postal Telegraph preferred, RPONADALY blf. W1 TS, Anmm"lv«hxle General Motors, Chrysler, where he sought to marry. Ner{,unum and Nash Motors were re- He is held there for investigation.| | Tatively active. Stocks closing mod- Miss Crawford escaped from 2| erately higher were United States hotel room where she clmmm‘A]cohol Schenley, United Aireraft Dowling held her while sending ,ng geahoard Oil. American Tele- | out for a marriage license. |graph and Telephone, Consolidated A complaint charging Dowling|Gas ang Public Service of New with kidnapping has been issued| jorcey were unchanged to a trifle and he will be sought, the Dis-|j,qer United States Smelting and | Refining and American Smelting SRR 4 R | each lost about a pomnt. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, April 2.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stocks today is 22%, American Can Fourth Liberty i Loan Bonds Are i _— 199%, American Power and Light WASHINGTON, April 2. — | 8%. Anaconda 15, Armour B 3%, Secretary of Treasury Morgen- | Bethlehem Steel 42%, Curtiss- thau is studying plans for re- |Wright 4';, Fox Films 15%, Gen- tiring on April 15 one billion |eral Motors 88%, International dollars worth of Fourth Liber- | Harvester 41%, Kennecott 19%;| ty bonds, which are to be |Packard Motors 5%, Southern called in. There is no hint of any but the orthodox borrow- Railway 31%, Ulen Company, no|both for light and heating pur- sale; United Aireraft 23%, Unkwmposes' according to J. V. Hickey, States Steel 52%, NEW YORK, April 2—Felerad Judge John Knox has ruled the Government is entitled, under NRA, to a judgment restraining the Spotless Dollar Dry Cleaners| Inc., from performing dry clean- ing services for patrons at less than a minimum rate provided under the Dyers and Cleaners| Code. NRA officials at have been awaiting the decision| to chart a course for h.m\‘llmg‘i code enforcement cases, Washington Administrator Johnson already has a large staff! preparing cases for court presentation. United States Attorney Martin utmost importance to the Govern- ment’s enforcement of NRA and of the provisions of tlc codes adopted thereunder. The company is charged with rerforming services from to 30 cents under the code pri The company contrels 32 New York cny I.EASING ACT, ALASKA COAL MINES, IS UP 2. — The WASHINGTON, April | House Public Lands Committee| has voted to report favoral on| the bill by Delegatc Dimond which suspends lease payments on coal mines in the Territory which are inoperative. The bill is an amendment to the | leasing - act of 1914 under uh\ah‘ mining companies were enabled to lease coal claims for 50 years. Secretary of Interior Ickes re- commended the amendment and said that while many leases were issued, only four are now operative. The Secretary said other lease payments on inoperative mines have been suspended and he saw no reason why the privilege should not be extended to Alaskan opera- tors. ————— HANGAR WIRED FOR ELECTRICITY TODAY The Alaska Air Express hangar is being wired today for electricity, 1,664 REGISTER | ever to register, | election to ballot for a Mayor for { pared to 300 last year, | tion to it. {ning with Mayor I. Goldstein on| s| monuments from the jurisdiction iest Vote on Record in Municipal Election The largest number of voters 1,664, are appar- ently ready to proceed to the polls tomorrow in the annual municipal a one-year term, three City Coun- cilmen for two-year teams, and & School Director for a three-year term They will also vote on a $100,000 municipal bond issue with which to provide funds for definite public improvements. The polls open at 8 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. | Largest Registration The 1934 registration of voters smashed all existing City records, aggregating 1664, or 238 more than than that of 1933 which wasj the highest mark ever attained up to that time. ¥ach one of the three precincts gained over last! year, The smallest gain of ‘any, nine; was shown in Precinet No. 1 which had a total of 773 as com- pared to 764 last year; No. 2| gained the most, 141, showing 503 this year as against 362 in 1933; No. 3 Precinct had 388 as com- a gain of 88. The voters will also have before them a question as to revocation | of the franchise held by the Ju- neau Water Company, if, in the| judgment of the City Council the | company has not made every ef- fort to comply with the terms of the franchise. While this ques- tion has been put on the ballots| none of the candidates have made | an issue of it or paid any | atten- | It seems to have be-| | come more or less-of a dead 1cLLe\;.'9~,Y_fii' Tickets in the Field There are two full the field, and one tickets n independent | the Economy Ticket are: Council-| men Ralph Beistline, H. Messer-| schmidt and W. S. George, seeking re-election for another term. | Former Mayor Thomas B. Jud- son, who was defeated in 1933 by | Mayor Goldstein after he had served six successive terms, heads| the Progressive Ticket composed of | himself, and Messrs. G. E. Krause,| | former Councilman, Ludwig Nelson, and Hugo Peterson. John E. Green, former Councilman, is run-| ning as an Independent for the Council. Grover C. Winn, with 17 years to| his credit on the local School Board, is unopposed for re-election for another three-year term. Location of Precincts 1 will vote in the Fire truck room | | | the aceident Donaldson Brown, vice president Photo) AUTO MAGNATES AFTER WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE This group of auto manufacturers conferred for two hours with President Roosevelt when he urged them to compose their differences with their workers to prevent a threatened general strike. Left to right, front row: Alfred P. Sloan, president of General Motors; Alvin MacCauley, president of Packard Motors; Waiter P. Chrysler, president of Chrysler Motors; Roy D. Chapin, president of Hudson Motors. Rear row: of General Motors;Nicholas Kelley, ¢ Nash, chairman of Nash Motors; John T, Smith, vice president of General Motors. SOVIET PILOT IS INJURED IN ARCTIC CRASH Large Speeds(er Also Re- ported Damaged—Acci- dent n Blinding Blizzard wiane was, the propeller. was wirelessed pec from M. T. Sletneff T | candidate for the Legislature. Run-|who has been here ready to follow Siberia to Pilot 89 Russians arc floes where marooned. Pilot Sletneff, with bad weather reports from Siberia, awaits here before he starts his hop for bet~ ter conditions. | PLAN USK NOME, Alaska, April 2—An ef-| fort will be made with dogs and sleds to remove to safety, off Cape Van Karen, Siberia, some of the) 89 marooned Russians on the ice| floes. Pilot M. T. Sletneff, was notified Sunday, from Prof. Ushadorff,| head of the Soviet Relief Expedi-| tion, to load his plane with dogj feed, furs, snowshoes and small! stoves and take-off for Siberiaf when the weather permits. Prof. Ushakorff reported the in-| at the City Hall. This precinct in- cludes the region lying north of| the north side of Second Street and that street extended to Wil-| loughby Avenue, as far north and west as Pipe Line road and Gold| Creek. | Electors in precinct No. 2‘j which is the district lying on the| south side of Second Street, and south thereof to the city limits, will ‘vote at Mrs. Giovanetti's| store, corner of Main and Front Streets. Electors in Precinct No. 3 will| vote at the Home Grocery on Wil- loughby Avenue. This district in- cludes the territory lying west and| north of Pipe Line Avenue and Gold Creek. In tne first precinct the judges are Mrs. Jessie Baker, Mrs, Will- jam Franks and John McLaughlin; clerks, C. E. Rice and Mrs. E. H. Kaser. | Second precinct judges are Mrs.| Kate Jarman, Miss Agnes Man-| ning and Mrs. Gertrude Helgese clerks, A. Bartholomew and D. M Bothwell. | Third precinct judges are Mrs. Margaret Lennon, Mrs. Tna Jack- son and Mrs. W. E. Kilroy; clerks, | Grant Baldwin and Mrs. Fanny Robinson. National Monuments, ; Including Old Kasaan, | Alaska, Changed Over WASHINGTON, April 2—Secre-| tary of Interior Ickes announces the transfer of sixteen National of the Department of Agriculture ot the Department of the Interior National Park Service. The monuments include Mount Olympus, Olympic Mountains in| Washington, and Old Kassan, in Alaska, an abandoned Haida In- dian village with totem poles, manager, grave houses and monuments re- maining. | Hall juries of Pilot Levenevsky were slight and only a minor hurt to his arm in the crash. He did not make any statement regarding him to Camp Schmidt on the ice| |in E lw W Ptm Passes Away, |Chairman ‘of House Rules | Committee Dies in Wash- ington D. C., Sunday WASHINGTON, April which formulates the Legislat program for the Party in power. He was elected in 1900 and served continuously since. Representative William B. Bank- head, of Alabama, will become Chairman of the Rules Committee. WAR STARTED BY DELEGATE - ONSEA LIUNS WASHINGTON, Aprfl ZfAlaS- kt Delegate A. J. Dimond has de- j.|clared war on sea lions in the a possible campaign issue, hopes Congress will remove prote tion from the animals which fish ermen consider in the taking of salmon. Delegate Dimond pointed that the sea lions are protected waters of the United States bu¢ in other fishing areas the |is a bounty for killing them. The delegale does not ask for a the plane, | GOOD SPIRIT PREVAILS l MOSCOW, April 2.—A wireless| from the stranded party on the ice floes in the Arctic said a new meat supply has been obtained| through the killing of a polar bear. The men are in good spirits the radio said. bounty but does want the protec- tion removed. S e — Hog-Reduction Plan Receives One Rebnfi FALLS CITY, Neb, April 2 THREE OTHERS MISSING | MOSCOW, Aprit 2. — [Experts | fear three Russian aviators«have met disaster in attempts to rescue| the 89 men on the Arctic ice noe,‘ off the northern capes. The fliers are Kamanin, Molo-x koff and Pivenstein No word has been received from them since March 29 when th hopped off in their three s ')s[ en, |from Anadyr for Cape Van Kar the rescue base. gl Five Lives Saved . By Cup of Coffee CHICAGO, April 2—Deciding to stop for a cup of coffee, Willard| taxi driver, entered his home | to find the house filled with coal; gas and to see his wife unconscious on the floor. He dragged her to the porch and | rushed to the room where his two| small children were sleeping. The window in the room was open and | the children were unharmed. | Then Hall went upstairs and broke open the door of the apart- ment occupied by Mrs. Harry Tow, seventy-one, and Miss Mary Cur- ran, fifty-eight, both of whom were unconscious. ! He opened windows and called| police and a physician. Rescue squads revived the three women. | cians sald they would recover. It There’s a Chester White sow on the farm of Sam Oberst, here, that has little respect for (the administration’s hog-reduction campaign. It recently gave birth to a litter of 20 pigs, of which 19 survived Nine of the pigs are being fed by bottle, due to the mother's in- ability to supply more than 10| | with food. e All Taxpayers Have |Right to Vote |On Bond Issue At tomorrow’s here the question of bond ing the municipality f $100,000 as a means of ob- taining Federal funds for badly needed local improve- ments will be voted on. The issue has been fully ex- plained by the local ad- ministration in a series of advertisements. Every taxpayer, as shown by the 1933 assessment rolls, whether of personal or real property, or both, are entitled to vote, Mayor Goldstein said today. Where the property of a family is assessed only in the name of the husband, the wife is also entitled to a vote, he said. © 0 0 0 0 0 0 00000 election gs Heart Attack 2. — Re- the worst enemy' out | near | 'SIX PERSONS - FOUND SLAIN I ONE HOUSE Inquisitive Nelghbor Re- { veals Crime Near Bremerton 'VICTIMS HAMMERED, " STABBED, THEN SHOT Bodics’ Stahterpd Around Rooms—Horrible Sight Is Presented BULLET — BREMER- |TON, April 2. — A pirate gang, operating in a fast ounsel for Chrysler Motors; C. W. (Associated Press i boat under cover of darkness and shooting its way into a R party then going to work IN SULL Tu BE | with hammers, blackjacks jand Kknives, is a new theory | thrust into the mass murders wthat the polue advanced this It was learned thnt the sparsely settled EXTRADITED TO UNITED STATES resatt Rk oo 10 Soli B0 Arrest Is Oldmed 1,} Turk- @ number of robberies by ish Government Ac- (Such a gang operating from . . . p cording to Advices ‘”“ water U o neast o | presentative Edward W. Pou, Dem- 2 | G NOME, Alaska, April 2—Russian|ocrat of Smithfield, North Caro-| ISTANBUL, Turkey, April 2.— T)iaxingNsi'xw;:?ébn‘:m:p:;,. Pilot F. A. Levanevsky crashed at|lina, oldest member of the H orders have issued oY ently murdered e robl;ery at- Balytichan Bay, near Cape Vanjof Representatives from point of mal arrest o Insull, paok were found in the home of Karen, on the Siberian coast last|service, died Sunday as the result > fugitive abo chart-'ne and Mrs, Frank Fléider last Thursday while fighting a blinding|of an attack of the heart follow- eek steamer Maiotis, and Snl‘urday mg‘)‘u at Erland's Point, blizzard. He was injured but how| ing a siege of influenza at 70 years ntion for American author-| " gimmer colony near here The' seriously was mnot determined, ac-!of age. i ceking to extradite him €0 gy haq been dead for 36 to 48 cording to advices receivéd here| Representative Pou was the the United States. The American!poips late “.aturday. The large speedster|Chairman of the Rules Committee |Officers are expected to arrive here The tragedy was discovered by a Inelghbor who became Inguisitive &g i TSR i aner noticing a large sedan, with TO BE EXTRADITED three dogs locked inside, had been WASHINGTON, April 2—Turkey | standing in front of the house for has notified the United States In-'an ynusually long time. sull will be extradited to Chicago Terrific Battle to stand trial for ('mbn‘,lun ent. The house was tom to pieces “ TRYING T0 GET CAMPAIGN ISSUE had been a party in progress when ) any, time. { the attack started. While it was first reported the i victims had all been gagged, bound and then shot, the police said the assailants were apparently in the act of tying the victims up when ( the fight started. The bodies are so horribly bat- WASHIVG’I‘ON April 2. _Re_‘tered that it is unable to tell publican leaders, trying to secure| Whether any were shot or just have beaten to death. Those Found Dead In addition to Flieder, who was retired grocery store operator, roved of the Lea-Norris con-| stitutional amendment to change' the method of electing a President. a | Arguments for and against may @nd his wife, the dead are: Bu- be shouted in every state before 8ene Chenevert, owner of the au- the year is out. ‘tomobxle‘ an unidentified house Campaign issues are rather maid, Magnus Jordan, and another arce and the G. O. P. chiftains| Unidentified man. {hope the amendment will be ap-| EXcept the housemaid, who was proved by the House and disap- 2bout 18 years of age, the others proved by the Senate, as enhanc- Were between 45 and 50. SC {ing it as a talking point in the! May Takes Case ! Congressional elections. ~ They| Luke S. May, Seattle criminol- lclaim it will give the Southern!'©8ist, was called into the case and states too heavy a vote thus tend Ne asked that the bodies not be to keep the Democratic President touched pending his investigation. in office | 1t is believed that probably the R g N ;avackers either raided the house ! while a party was in progress or \Body of Alaska Laboring ‘else attacked the victims as they (dropped in for neighborly calls on the Fleiders, first having beaten the Fleiders and the housemaid to | Man Found, Seattle Lake' | it Bl | SEATTLE, Aprii 2—The body,death. horu\uul from Lake Union ship G i {canal last Friday has been iden- RUNNING DOWN CLUES tified as that of Olaf Nelson, a la-| — At~ BREMERTON, April 2. borer, who returned to Seattle tempts are being made here and in from Alaska on the steamer Seattle to untangle the clues to 'Nommz\urn November 28. | (Continued on Page Two) S poulmr Rainey Claims Wall Street Working Against Him WASHINGTON, April 2—(Copy- mm by the Associated Press, )—Speaker Henry T. Rainey he has been informed that e | Wall Street interests are pouring {mon-’y into the Illinois District to defeat him for re-election as a “lesson to President Roosevelt and hir. recovery program.” The veteran legislator of fifteen rms in the House, read from a report sent him by his friends that A. C. Davis, of Springfield, Mis- souri, had been sent into the Twentieth Illinois District several weeks ago to look over prospe of bringing about Rainey’s defeat. Strike at Davis Party It is disclosed that Davis called a meeting of Republicans in Jack- ed to strike at the Democratiz Party and Roosevelt’s recovery program by concentrating upon the defeat of the Speaker of the House. “According to my information, they are pouring money int> the district to defeat me and give a lesson to the President and his Recovery program,” said Speaker Rainey. Set Up Headquarters “I understand they have set up headquarters in Springfield. My oppenent at the primaries 1s James Kirby, Democrat of Petersburz.” Speaker Rainey said his informa- tion was that Davis told the Re- publicans they could not cefeat Rainey in the primaries but if the sonville, Tllinols, at which he stat- ed he was being financed by New York financial interests who wan'- Republicans got behind the Re- publican candidate they cculd !elect him next fall. I s R s s e M e