The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 6, 1934, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLHI., NO. 6618. jUNI:AU ALASKA FR IDAY APRIL 6, 1934. MFJVIBhR OF e =) ASSOCIATED PRE,SS PRICE TEN CENT§ REPEAL BILL NOW AWAITS SIGNATURE MASSACRE ARRESTS ]EXPECTED TODAY STAPTL]NG NEWS PrtTIe of o Roosevel IN BREMERTON'S ““Frovs noue CRIME FDRT:GAST That Fishing Yarn of Presi- dems Son Is Too Much Wants Retraction MIAMI, Florida, April 6.—Pres- {ident Roosevelt's pride as a fish- erman has been hurt and he called HARRY KIMBLE FORMER Sheriff and Depuhes Leave! Headquarters This Af- | ternoon on Tip erday for an investigation and action of the story told by his JUNEAU MAN, IS FREED pagsias Suspect Held in Idaho Ab-| heard the story aboard the x:u:ht Nourmahal solved Aftex Provmg {and immediately declared he want- Alib1 for F“day ed * 1 committee (just like { to investigate and secure m:ract on.” April 6.— "5, ont Astor, host; said 31 fish arrest of a person Who ' yere caught yesterday but he de- clined whether the Presi- B IE}',HER’I()A 5 Iy clear up the Kkilling of to say <ix persons at the summer ;:;\n.hv\cdau:f.“:;;\hm even whether colony at Erland’s Peint a| gniott Roosevelt, returning from go last night, was fore- the Nourmahal the other night,} by the Sheriff’s” dec'ared his father was not having any luck rshxr 4 depunties left headquarters here this afternoon ostensibly ‘STDUKS FI R M to make an arrest. ! EUT TRADING The Bremerton Chief of artling develop- REMAINS DULL week a today cast office. The Sheriff and =eveml Pelice said ¢ ments are expected ~umetm*c today. Kimble Apsolved | Coeur dAIsnc Idaho, Harry At known at au, who was held there for questioning in the case, | Low Ebb as Share has been absolved from participa- | P,ices Mark Time tion. Kimble had been arrested because of an injured head. He | aid he received the injuries in a! NEW YORK, April 6. — Late ht in Spokane last Friday night | firmness of rails and scattered and alsc proved where he was on the night of thc Six aymgs MRS, MASSIE N OEATH ATTEMPT ON ITALIAN SHIP = Principal in n Hondlula ' As- | today, but speculative enthusiasm | was at a low ebb. Most of the Ieadmg issues were trendless and {there was little public participa- | tma in the market. The close was teady to firm with sales for the dd) under 1,000,000 shares. ‘Wheat lagged and bonds were | listless. Silver futures were soft | while foreign currencies were low- i Sterling exchange, however, came back after early heaviness. 1 Up Three Points { Union Pacific was up three at the close. Chesapeake Corpora- |tion, Allied Chemrical and Alle- saUI[ Case Slashes gheny Corporatiog preferreds were Tup one to two. Santa Fe recov- i Wrists—Will Recover ered a point. Gainers of about GENOA, Ttaly, April 6.—The ship @ point were Goodyear Rubber, Ar- rs of the Steamship Roma mour Preferred, a few tobaccos, d Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie, | American Can and Owens-Illinois principal figure in the sensational Glass. United States Smelting and Honolulu assault case of 1932, at-| Refining lost a point. Kennecott tempted suicide by slashing her|and Anaconda improved. Stocks wrist and then throwing herself moving in a narrow range were from the liner's top deck, on ;he‘Umted States Steel, American Tele- voyage from New York. !Phone and Telegraph, Dupont, Doctors said she told them she!Chrysler Motors, General Motors attempted suicide, when the steam-|@nd Western Union Telegraph. ship was three days out from Gen- | oa, because “I wanted to die. I| CLOSING PRICES TODAY regretted having got a divorce.” T NEW YORK, April 6.—Closing Mrs. Massie secured her divorce| quotations of Alaska Juneau mine in Reno, Nevada, on February 23. |stock today is 21%, American Can Doctors here said Mrs. Massie | 103%, American Power and Light must remain in a clinic for at least 9, Anaconda 16%, Armour B 3%, 30 days before her recovery will be Bethlehem Steel 42%, Curtiss- complete. Despite her leap to the|Wright 4%, Fox Films 15%, Gen- deck, a distance of 20 feet, the| eral Motors 38%, International ician of the ship said her con- | Harvester 41%, Kennecott 21%, dition was not serious. She ap- | Southern Railway 32%, Ulen Com- pears to be greatly depressed. Af-/pany, no sale; United Aircraft 23, ter being picked up from the United States Steel 517%. lower deck, Mrs. Massie remained | t?onfi; t:‘r;ru;r:;::& until comple‘JFleT¥7MiETlNG’ OF S e P NEW CITY COUNCIL BE HELD TONIGHT MAYOR'S LIFE e o At 8 o'clock this evening there |will be a meeting of the Juneau IS THREATENED : "ot 2 Though it might not be apparent CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 6— An extortion plot against Mayor |of the old City Council, first meet- }T;a”y Davis has been disclosed by|ing of the new one, which will the police. | serve for the next year. The change The Mayor is threatened with would hardly be noticed as all death unless he pays $15,000. | three outgoing members were re- Sl et cen elected Tuesday to serve for an- CARPENTERS, CONTRACTORS |other two-year term. DISCUSS NRA TOMORROW| Considerable routine business is —_— scheduled to be taken up tonight. At 7:30 o'clock tomorrow even- On Friday, April 13, one week ing, the general contractors and|from tonight, there will be a spec- carpenters will meet in the City|ial meeting of the City Council to Hall for a thorough discussion of |pass upon applications for city of- the NRA trade codes, fices, it was announced today. off to an onlooker, at the session to- night it will be the last meeting IDUNS DECLARES BEST IN YEARS SALES OUTLOOK Expected Slac kening in Trade After Easter Fails | to Materialize NEW YORK, April 6.—Business| prospects for the second quarter |of 1934 are ‘“generally conceded to! be potentially capable of produc-| ing the most satisfactory results of | |any second quarter for the past| four years” the Dun-Bradstreet| Review said today. The expected slackening in pace which retail buying set before/ | Easter has not appeared, although | | sales in some apparel lines have| receded n the big totals of| | the preceding week. Buying of fur- niture and housewares has in-| {creased by a wide percentage, Alaskan gambler, |Speculative Sentiment Is at| industrials aided stock sentiment | .[FORMER JUNEAU Because so much “really need-{ ed spring merchandise is yet to be }nrqum\ no interruption to the| | present trend appears in prospect ’fn the current month. Besides, | any seasonal recession will prob- wahl) be buoyed up by the increas- |ing number profiting from ises recently granted by ‘h: and commercial establish- ‘mt‘nn Sales in various lines show every | indication of outdistancing ‘the spring figures for the past three years and provide conclusive proof of reawakened interest, the review -eoe SETTLEMENT NASH STRIKES, IS ANNOUNGED Forty-six Hundred Men In-' volved in Agreement Reported Reached : T | RACINE, Wis, April 6.—Seattle-! ment of strikes involving 4,600 em- ployes of the Nash Motor Com-| pany plants in Racine, Kenosna and the Seaman Body Corporation to Milwaukee, affillite of the Nash | Company, was announced last night by the Federal Automobile Labor Board. | The agreement is subject to rati-| fication before becoming effective.: MORE LABOR TROUBLES DETROIT, Mich., April 6.--The Automobile Labor Board, flushed with success in its first test, head- ed back for this heart of the in- dustry to tackle more labor trou- bles. ' Administrator Johnson sent Ed- ward McGrady, NRA Labor advis- er, here when he received reports @f new strikes in Michigan. Sev- eral thousand employees of the Motor Products Corporation and the Excello Aircraft Tool Company walked out. Setftlement of diffi- culties are already well under way. FOUND DEAD [ James Daly, old-timer section, was found dead in hic ca- bin on the Sheldon homestead, this afternoon. He had apparently been dead about 24 hours. The de- ceased is well known around Gas- tineau Channel and had mining property at Funter Bay, MISSIONARY HERE; TO HOLD SERVICES Evangelist Mrs, E. Wade has arrived in Juneau fo hold evange- listic services. She was formerly | Miss C. Wright and was here about 20 years ago doing missionary work. Mrs. Wade has been in evange-| listic work for 28 years, conduct- | ing services in many parts of the, United Stdtes and Alaska. services will be announced later. | Chicago | very vital' distinction because 1 l'RlE.D SUlCIDE—GETS FILM CHANCE Juliann Graham, 13, who left Si wood in search of film fame, and then took poison when she “failed to | is going to have a chance at a movie career after all. Earl Carroll, musical comedy producer, heard about her and promised get a_break,” her a job if screen tests prove he Carroll. (Associated Press Photo) 13-Year-Old Boy Becomes Baronet KENT, England, April 6.— Rcobert Peel, aged 36, hus- band of the ctress, Beatrice Lille, died during an appendec- tomy today. He was the great grandson of the famous Prime Minister. His 13-year-old son Robert succeeds to the baron- cy. - . DOCTRINE OF REPUBLICANS IS OUTLINED Publisher of Chicago Daily News Discusses Re- covery Program INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 6.— Col. Frank Knox, Publisher of the Daily News, last night called upon Republicans to adopt policy of ‘‘recovery but not revolution.” The preseént Administration, C Knox said, ebandoned its prin ples of democracy in favor of Gov- ernmental precepts tried out 400 years ago and which were found wanting, namely, the Guild con- cepts of the Middle Ages. The Roosevelt program, Col. Knox said, “also smacks of Fas- cism existing in Italy end Ger- by !many and which is unquestion- ably the underlying concept of the Soviet Republic of Russia.” The call on Republicans was made before the Columbia Club's jannual beefsteak dinner. the publisher declared that “Republican of the present time is the of this One who firmly believes in recovery .5 but not by revolution. This is a at this moment actual recover: being seriously retarded by Lhuw who frankly are more interested in revolution.” Col. Knox charged the Admin- istration had undertaken to re- | store the anclenh feudal sy‘\'zem WALLED &ITY LOOTED, FIRED SHANGHAI, April 6.—Laying feudal siege to the walled city of |Mingyu, 300 miles north of here, 2,000 Chinese bandits scaled the walls, looted and ravagéd the pop- The ylace then applied the torch. This girl time and place of the evangelistic ig according to advices received Ann's Hospital last ¢ here, directly to New Y where . the hearing is slated start on April 16. . Representatives and officers of the leaders of the industry are expected to atfend the gathering. It is understood that of Al- | istersville, W. Va., to go to Holly- ¢ ability. Here she is shown with BRIT COLUMBIA | NRABOARDIS TAKING AGTIUN; Strike in Loggmg Industry | Being Investigated as | I to Wages, Hours | T VICTORIA, B. C., April 6. —Th(‘ | newly created Board of Indus | Relations, the NRA of Blul%lh Columbia, held the first meeting yesterday and plunged into a re-| view of the wage situation in the | logging industry seeking to settle the strike of 2,000 loggers. The trike is now In the tenth week.| Representatives of the strikers| 1 | are being heard and it is the in- tention to “take on” the next. The Board of Industrial Rela-| tions was given wide powers over hours and wages, also wn:‘km:l conditions in industry under the enacted at the recent legisla- operators e METZGARLEAVES FOR GONFERENGE A-J Supenn[ehdent Leaves for Miners’ Hearings in New York City | To take part in the hearing on| the national code for the gold mining industry, L. H. Metzgar, Geenral Superindent of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company, left on the steamer Vic 3 this morn- for Seattle. H ill proceed askans engaged in gold mining will be present. Mr. Metzgar said he didn't know how long the conference would be in session, and, consequently, how long he will be absent from Ju- neau. During his absence, J. A Williams, Chief Engineer, will be in charge of the Alaska Juneau's cperations. He returned early this week after accompanying his fam- y to Southern California - ENTERS HOSPITAL Susan Nolno, 10-year-old Indian from Douglas, entered St. io re- uinonia, E \ceive treatment for pr | Small Trac@ Land May| | which has passed | Texas when a home was washed ALASKA BILL ON HOMESITES PASSES HOUSE Be Secured—Other Di- | mond Measures Up 6. — The| nt to the ‘WASHINGTON, A House has passed and Senate the bill to permit persons occupying small tracts of land in Alaska as homesites to purchase up to five acres for $2.50 an acre as a home site. Mining Regulations | The House® has passed and sent | to the Senate the bill by Delegate | Dimond permitting the Territorial Legislature to make its own regu- lations on placer mining in a | by repealing the United States mining laws insofar as their a plication to Alaska is concern Fishing Bill The House has also sent to the| ‘White House another Dimond bill the Senate to| permit Indians and bonafide per-| manent white residents along the| Kuskokwim and Yukon rivers to| fish commercially for king salmon | under regulations made by the Secretary of Commerce For Citizenship The House has also passed and | sent to the Senate the Dimond ill granting citizenship to Metla- katla Indians who emigrated from | Bl'l:l\h Columbia in '87 and who| lare denied certain hunting and| fishing privileges because of alien| birth. Anchorage Measure Another Dimond bill authorizing | the Secretary of the Interior to sell| to the occupants 13 hogyses and lots at Anchorage held by the Al- aska Railroad and now rented to the employees of the railroad, also | | has been passed by the House and | sent to the Scxute FLOOD WATERS TAKE TOLL OF TWENTY LIVES Some Bodisd § Already Re- covered—Missing Are Believed Drowned ELK CITY, Oklahoma, April 6. —More than 20 persons drowned and property damage estimated at more than one million dollars is the toll resulting from the floods which have swept areas of Okla- homa and Texas. Twelve bodies have been recov- ered from the Washita river in Western Oklahoma and another rise in the river is threatened Five missing persons are believed to have been drowned. Three persons were drowned in away end a woman was drowned when she attempted to wade to higher ground from a stalled auto- mobile. TAKES LEAP AS AIRPLANE FALLS ALTOONA, Pa., April 6—Lieut. John Leland McAlister, aged 25, leaped from his falling Army plane near here when the pursuit ship lost altitude as it sped through the mountains. McAlister stood up and jumped when the plane got down to the 200 foot level. : s . King's Grandson Not to Be Forgiven for Given Chance to Make Good ALASKA LIQUOR ; LEGISLATION IS - FINALLY ENDED “Brain House Passes Senate's Charges | Resolution Amending T Original Measure 'PARDONING POWER IS STRICKEN FROM ACT |Indiana T:ducalor Ordered to Testify in Trust” Delegate Dimond Looks for ;| | | ‘Roosevelt to Sign 1 j Bill as Changed WASHINGTON, April 6.— The House has appreved of |the Senate resolution amend- ing the measure recently ap- proved by Congress repealing |the Prohibition laws of Al- \aska. ’ The amendment strikes out the provision which gave the Governor of the Territory power te pardon Prohibition law viclaters. The provision was stricken |because it was held it made § the act unconstitutional [ Alaska Delegate A. J. Di- imond said that with the adop- tion of the Senate resclution DR. WILLIAM A. WIRT lhv the House, the President SHINGTON, April 6. — Dr.|would now sign the repeal am A, Wirt, noted educator of |jaw, v, Indiana, was asked yeste: day to appear before the House Committee next Tuesday and name | the Administration officials who| told him President Roosevelt's “Brain Trust” is plotting a Com- | munistic regime, planning to over-| throw the Government. Dr, Wirt| asserted he received his informa- - v CITIES SERVICE FINANCE POLICY tion from & member of the anh Tru He has also mentioned| Secretary of Agriculture Wallace | and the latter's Assistant Secretary | Prof. Rexford G, ’I‘ugwell ‘ Scnale Commlttee Told Big PRESBYTERY OF | ‘600t B Sk ALASKA MEETS WASHINGTON, April 6. — Evi- dence that the Cities Service Com~ | pany obtained more than one bil- |lion dollars from American invess SKAGWAY, Alaska, April 6 tors during the boom days and (Special Correspondence)The Alas-|Used most of it to maintain the ka Presbytery of the Presbyterian Price of lts stock was before the Church, with representatives from|Seénate Banking Committee today the various churches of that de-|3% it began a drastic revision of nomination present, is in session|the Stock Market bill in an exe« at the Presbyterian Church here (Cutive session. : this week. Sessions began Thurs-| This evidence, made public to- day morning and will continue|daY. Was given in ftestimony by through Sunday. Robert E. Healey, Chief Counsel The Rev. Verne J. Swanson, who|Of the Federal Trade Commission, is in charge of the mission boat Frise Bant Uy Pririceton, has been chosen asMod- | Healey said the utility company erator to succeed the retiring Mod-|dre¥ one billion one hundred and erator, the Rev. George Beck. forty-six million dollars from in- Ketchikan. The Rev. David Wag-|VeStors in the boom years and used goner, of Juneau, |almost one billion dollars to keep as stated clerk. up the price of the stock. He told Women of the churches are also ® Vivid story of a high presseure having their anum!l"‘fl“ campaign conducted by the 1. A most interesting|COMPany while it maintained the lenging program has bepn‘markfl price by market operations. | The proposed market rbgulation SIS | bill will end such practices, Coun- isd Healey said The Federal Trade Commission, GEORGE A. L!NGO ls )Heuley further said, has uncovered ARRIVAL ON VICTORIA write-ups of assets of industrial FROM w E s T w A R D corporations totalling more than {one billion one hundred and fifty . (mil 1lion du’Iars is again serving| in session, G 2 A L:nm_ ,,,,, the Farthest North in Juneau on the steamer Vic-| tornia from the Westward He. has been in Fairbanks for the STAGE RIOT | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. ,April 6. ‘Three thousand unemployed about on blood spattered alks this afternoon after the two months taking care of busi ness of the company and his own campaign for Repr the Fourth Division torial Legislature for wk a candidate for re-elect Mr. Lingo expects to be in Marrying Commoner CANNES, April 6—King Gus- tavus of Sweden let it be known here today where he visiting, there is no forgiveness in his heart for his grandson, the former Prince Sugvard, who married a German commoner, a film actress. is neau for the next month prepar-|authorities twice repulsed on- ing for the opening of the tourist!slaughts made against the City season here. He is expecting two|Hall and Court House. large new de luxe sight-seeing Eighteen . persons were injured. coaches to arrive from the south|Twenty-five persons were arrested. this month to handle the business| —— in this district. The company will| Los Angeles residents read on an have equipment to compare vuth;n\'e\wze 10': books a year, accord- the finest to be found in the|ing to statistics compiled by the States, “city's public library. b3