The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 10, 1934, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ‘“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIIL, NO. 6621. ANOTHER WORLD WAR PREDICTED | AT ARMS MEET Int(tl'nalione:lanference Is| Called for May 23 at Geneva | | | 10.—The Steer- the Disarma- GENEVA, April ing Committee of ment Conference has decided to call an International Conference| on May 23. The Committee then! adjourned until April 30. Previously the spectre of another | World War was conjured up by Ar- | thur Henderson, President of the| Conference, as he warned the.dele-| gates here for a reconvened ses-| sion of the Steering Committee, that they must do their utmost to prevent an international catastro-| phe. Henderson said there must be a universal treaty of disarmament,; describing it as world problem. | He flayed verbally that section of [ H puohc opm&on which declares the| Victim of a rare disease called leukemia, believed incurable, Willie Mae | Miller, four-; Vu})hold daughter of W. vun) is given but two weeks to live by physicians at Memphis, Te Leukemia is caused by a deficiency of red co\vuscl:s. o 1ation as hopeless and | thc Con[eu.ncc usel BUSINESS GMN Fred Topkok SHOWN IN WEST, In Ahead In PARKS ASSERTS ~ Nome Derby Ed ungnuk - and Gregory Asahkpun Cross Line, Second and Third April 10— Nome-Solomon in hours, Former Governor, Home After 10 Months' Ab- sence,Sees Improvement Frod ME, Alaska, Fred won the Business in virtually all lines is i ace Sunday ing up in the western United s and conditions are distinct- ly better, declared former Gov. George A. Parks, who returned home today after a vacation of 10 months during which he was not east of the Rocky Mountain sec- tion. He spent most of the time in Denver visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Parks. “I had a fine vacation and joyed every bit of it, but I glad to get back home,” said »he former Governor. He added he had no immediate announcement to make relative to his business plans. Leaving here last Spring, Mr. Parks spent two months in Yel- lowstone National Park, after brief trip to Denver where he pur- chased an automobile. visited Carlsbad, New Mexxco, and onds. being six hours, thirty-seven min- utes and forty-five seconds. Gregory Asahkpun was third ra- cer, time being six hours, thirt; eight minutes and forty-seven sec- ‘ondsA en- e e WAGE INCREASE ACCEPTED; AUTO :DISPUTE ENDED its famous caverns, took in the Workers Of MO[OI‘ Pl’Od" &elebratefl Fiesta at Santa ew Mexico, and spent two wecks in the Puebio Indian country around Taos, New Mexico. He motored through Montana and Idaho, trying out all of the golf courses in them, and revisted! Butte, where he was employed| many year ago. ‘With the copper mining indus- try there shut down, conditions are worse than anywhere else he visited, he said. He met a num- ber of engineers and others who were employed in the mines at the same time he was. For the present Mr. Parks is) house guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Pullen. e e e “JANET GAYNOR GIVEN DIVORCE LOS ANGELES, Cal, April 10. —Janet Gaynor, film actress was freed today from Lydell Peck, Stu- dio Supervisor, when the interlocu- tory decree becsme final. ESCAPES DEATH; BULLET IS WILD MADRID, April 10.—Assassins missed an attempt today to Kkill Jose Antonia Primo De Rivera, son of the former Dictator of Spain. The attempt took place in Central Madrid but the shot went wild. ucts .Corporation Re- turn to Jobs Today of the key disputes in the automo- | tive industry was settled last night lwhen employes of the Motor Pro-| ducts Corporation of Detroit agreed | ,to return to their jobs this morn- | ing, thereby opening the way| whereby 18,000 employees of the Hudson Motor Company could ter-| | minate their layoff. The employes of the Motor Pro- ducts Corporation, manufactures of automobile parts, ended weeks' walkout by accepting a 10 percent increase in wages. Nego- tomobile Labor Board. e Auto Plunges Into River, Three Young Persons Are Drowned CHEHALIS, Wash, April 10— Warren Bowen, aged 21; Louise Swiggert, aged 19, and Juanita Ri- ley, aged 18, were drowned last which they were returning home from a dance plunged into the Cowlitz river. All lived at Riffle and had attended a dance at Kos- mos. — eee EDWARD L. BORUP ON WAY TO KENAI PENINSULA TO INSPECT PROPERTIES | Edward L. Borup, well known mining man of the Territory, is a passenger for the Westward on the steamer Alaska bound for Kenai Peninsula to inspect properties for people of Montrael, Canada, whom he represents. Before quarters in the East, he will make a trip through the Fairbanks dis- trict for. his principals, he de- Dies Silver Farm Relief Bill Given 0.K. by Committee; WASHINGTON, April 10— The Senate Agricultural Committee to- day reported favorably the Dies clared. While he was in Juneau Silver Farm Relief bill carrying|today, he visited with Chester the Thomas amendment for na-/Tripp and Al Zenger, both old tionalization of silver. time friends. * just Two Weeks to Live twelve minutes and fifty-three sec-| Ed Pungnuk was second, his time | DETROIT, Mich., April 10.@:1(" the | tiations were handled by the Au-‘ Saturday night when a car in| returning to his head-| - JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL IO 1934, MEMBER OF ~ MINIMUM PRICE FOR FISH MAY BE FIXED SOON Salmon Code Authority Required to Recommend Minimum in Six Weeks In the final draft of the propos- ed code for the salmon packing in- dustry, copies of which were re- ceived today by Hugh J. Wade, Deputy NRA Administrator for Al- aska, provision is made that is! . designed to establish a minimum compensation for employee fisher- men. The code is expected to be presented to President Roosevelt on his return to Washington for approval, The provision relative to the fish- 'ermen is in lieu of a minimum price fixing requirement for fish, but #t requires that such’ a mini- mum be fixed during the coming season. Act in Six Weeks To this end, subsection (1) of section 8 of Article VI, relative to| Administration of the code, de-' clares: It shall be the duty of the: Code Authority “to investigate and submit to the Administrator with- in six weeks after the effective date of this code, recommenda-| tions for the minimum compensa- | tion of employee fishermen. Such | recommendations, when approved by the Administrator, shall become ef- fective as a part of this code.” The Code Authority is compbsed of 11 members, four from Oregon | and Washington, six from Alaska and one to be sZlected by the| > other ten. In Alaska, two are to be erfiMotor Stnke IS named from Southeast Alaska, two Al Settled from Central Alaska and two from/ Also dettle Western Alaska. It also pro- | g vided that five of the original ten NEW YORK, April 10.—Stocks shall come from members of the were-up today under -the stimulus industry which packed 100,000 -or ' {of the motor strike settlement and!more cases of salmon the preced-| bright industrial new hopes and(ing year, and five from those | i also that the Stock Exchange Con-|packing less than 100,000 cases, ‘vm] bill will not be too severe.|This is designed to give the mde- {Many issues rallied one to around|pendent units full representation tho points. There was a brief{on the Code Authority. | buying rush and issues held most Other Codes Are Offered | of their gains. The close lOdfl&J Two other proposed codes vit-| was firm with sales totalling 1-fally affecting the Alaska fishing 500,000 shares. Imdu stry have been transmitted to ‘Wall Street was also cheered by ' Washington. authorities for ap- the spurt in steel output figures|proval, Mr. Wade announced. One and on the March auto production.|of these covers the herring fish- « Moter Shares Rally |ing, packing and reduction mdus- Motor shares were the first Lo‘hy of Alaska. The other is a rally. | code for the halibut industry. Some bonds hit new highs. third one—covering the who]eml- Most of the commodities, includ-|ers of fish and fish products—is ing silver, rubber and copper, were|understood to be in the process of strong. Spot copper was up one-| formation now. | clghth of a cent a pound. It is planned to call hearings on| Grains Improve ! these codes, probably in Seattle, Grains were much improved to-)in the near future, although no day. | definite dates have been fixed, Mr. Chrysler, General Motors, Hud- (Continued on Page Two) son and Motor Products were up |one point. B. Miller (in whose arms she is STOCK PRICES TAKE ADVANCE ON GOOD NEWS Industrial Ouflosk :Bright- Gainers | Gainers around two points in- cluded Continental and American | Can, Santa Fe, Allied Chemical. Up fractionally to around one | point. were American Telephone and | { Telegraph, United States Steel, | Case Kennecott, Anaconda, Howe | Sound, Sears-Roebuck, Montgom- ,my Ward, Union Pacific, National Distillers, Penny and United States Alcohol. \Pope Pius Has Praise For Press Foreign Correspondents Are Received, First Time Papal History ] CLOSING PRICES TODAY VATICAN CITY, Ttaly, April NEW YORK, April 10.—Closing | 10.—Pope Pius praised the press of |quomtion of Alaska Juneau mine|the world yesterday, saying: lstock today is 21%, American Can| ‘‘This is an important mission in 104, American Power and Light life, to be transmitters to thoughts | 8%, Anaconda 17%, Armour B 3%,’of humanity to all ‘humanity.” Bethlehem Steel 44, Curtiss-Wright| The Pope made the statement as 4%, Fox Films 15%, General Mot- he received foreign correspondents ors 39, International Harvester 42%, Kennecott 22'%, Southern Railway 83%, Ulen Company 3%, United Aircraft 23%, United States Steel 53, -, I.AHGE RELIEF in Papal history a Pope has greet- ed correspondents. Twenty-five na- tions were represented in the Con- | sistorial Hall. { The Pope arranged the audience | himself and the correspondents pre- sented a statement requesting es- | tablishment -of a press bureau at ‘the Vanczm Stx Slaughtercd in W hol(’salo M urder Or The bound and gagged bodi home of Mr. and Mrs. ders, police belicved, cccurred following a party them were believed to have been shot to death as wil as ha been dead several days before the gruesome discovery and that robbery might have been a motive. Lower left: Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Chenevert, better known as Bert and Peggy Vincent, vaudeville play- ers, who were two of the victims. place and (right) Magnus Johnson, another vietim. ciated Press Photos) es of hbll.l" men and (wo Frank Flieder at Erland’s Point, near Bremerton, Wash., by police. victims were brutally beaten while three of ked with knives. ard the Center: Mr. and Mrs. Flieder in women were found in the pretenticus beach The sixth person slain was Fred Balsom. ASSOCIATED PRFSS DOCTOR WIRT TESTIFIES OF ‘BRAIN TRUST' Gary I:ducator Tells of Talks Regarding Plan Overthrow U. S. 'GIVES NAMES OF THOSE AT “CERTAIN” DINNER Hearmg of Short Duration Today—Will Be Con- tinued Tomorrow | The mur- Police believed they had home the slayings took (Asso- vh A w WASHINGTON, April 10.—Nam- ing “brain trusters and their satel- |ites” as informants, Dr. A. W. HOUSE OF MYSTERY MURDERS A«Prach home of Mr. and Mrs. Are Among Nine Sentenc- | Frank Flieder, at Erland’s Point, | near Bremerton, “';Ish, where six were found murdered. { Btllboards Seream Charges \ Over F atal Stauskv Rioting W.T. PINKERTUN DIES SUDDENLY Former Postmaster of Fair- banks Passes Away in California SEATTLE, Apriu 10.—Masonic funeral services are being here here today for W. T. Pinkerton, aged 56, pioneer Alaskan, and former postmaster at Fairbanks, Burial| will be in the Acacia Memorial | Park. Mr. last Thursday Pinkerton died in Los Angeles while preparing to start to Alaska | after a visit. He went to Dawson in '98, then went to Fairbanks. He resigned the postmastership at Fairbanks a year ago and con- tinued to make his residence there. Survivors are the widow nephew, John L. Pinkerton, of Se- attle. U. . NAVY IS GOING SOUTH in a group. It was the first time - OFF LOWER CALIFORNIA, April 10.—Divided into two great, opposing fleets, the United States Navy “fought” its way toward the Panama Canal in maneuvers which will earry the Armada to the At- lantic coast after being located on the Pacific ooast for over one year. California Repr esenlahve Wants Additional $400,000,000 | | | WASHINGTON, April 10.—Rep- resentative Thomas F. Ford, of California said today he planned to press for an amendment to proposed legislation authorizing an- other contribution. of $400,000,000 80 UBlucky fisherman, 9o far. | to states for highway work and re- The newsmen interviewed the lief which would make it manda- President aboard the yacht and re- | tory, despite the state laws, that fused to accept “press bulletins” the money be spread according to which were supported by members | unemployment. 'of the party aboard the yacht,| MIAMI, Florida, April 10. President Roosevelt went out to- |day to do some real fishing in the Bahamian waters after White House correspondents sided with his son Elliott that he has been - SUM Is SOUGHT Yes, President Has No F zsh. Newsmen Side in with Son that he had pulled in a sperm ‘whale. Investigation revealed “no wh so the newsmen informed the Pre: ident that they sided with El- liott's story he was having luck. The sun-tanned President took the verdiet with a smile. He re- fused to make any comment on lho‘ Congressional situation. The President will be back Washington for the regular Fri- day Cabinet session. suddenly | and a/ | "4 By ALEXANDER H. UHL | PARIS, April 10.—Now that the <hormng has died down, Paris is | staging one of the most hectic| | “battles of hillhoard posters” that | it has even known, | Since the night of February 6, | when 18 persons were Kkilled in the worst disorders in the history of the Third Republic, the Bill Post-/ ers’ Union has been having a field day. i | “Assassins!” shouts the right atw |the left on the billboards. “Dem-| ocracy in Danger!” shouts the |left at the right. Stavisky, of course, is the hero —aor villain—in the piece, but back of him lies a hot political fight| [that may pet upset “Papa” Dou- { mergue's cabinet of political truce and peace. H “Down With the Thieves!” and, | “Down With the Assassins” shriek | the billboards while knots of Par- isians gather around the posters solemnly reading the cries for jus- itice and relating their personal experiences on the night that ap- parently is destined to become his- toric, perhaps to end up with its name attached to some street as “the Street of the Sixth Febru- ary.” | ) “Escaped German Bullets” “He escaped German bullets but the bullets of the Cartel didn't miss him,” says one poster pictur- ing a wounded and dying veteran on the ground with his wife and children in the background. “They were veterans, without arms, who |simply cried, ‘Down with thieves! Vive la France’ that the Cartel killed on February 6.” “A mafia assassinated Magis- !trate Prince,” cries a bright yel- low poster. “This magistrate who was to have given evidence the| next day on the Stavisky case and | | to reveal the names of the guilty | | politicians was ferociously assas- sinated at Dijou on February 20. This horrible crime was commit- | ted by a mafia. Who form this | maflia? Down with thieves! Down : with- assassins | Radical Socialists The more direct political |tacks in general are directed | against the dominant Radical So- Under Fire | at-| no | clalist Party of which former Pre-! mier Herriot was one time head The “history” of recent Radical Socialist governments is given as follows: . | “The Chautemps government | in fnnshed in the mud of the Stav- # J (Continued on Page Two) WASHINGTON U N. Y. EXECUTIVE | Wallace McDowell, American Min- (lapsed at an official banquet given |In his honor last night and dxcdi Wirt, Gary, Indiana, educator, to- id.n indicated he traces to Rexford G. Tugwell, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, his conviction that a plot exists to “overthrow the social order of things,” in the United States. Dr. Wirt said he attended a din- ner with two men and three wom- en associated with Lawrence Todd, Soviet Npws Agency representative here and.he quoted Todd as saying | President Roosevelt was “in mid- stream and could not turn back from a revolution.” Further Summons Today's hearing ended with a 'suggeshon the committee summon SEATTLE, April 10. — Nine ! Budget Director Douglas and W. I. ynunu men and one young woman, | Westervelt, of Chicagb, official with two of the ‘metr and the young wo- | Sears-Roebuck, formerly with the man being University of Washing-|Farm Administration, who could ton students, were given jail sen-|throw more light on the alleged tence by Police Judge Willlam R.| Plotting to bring Communism. He Bell on charges of disorderly con-|Was quoted as having asked Speak- duct, growing out of a demonstra- |€r Rainey what Congress was going tion during the Army Day celebra-|t0 do and Rainey replied to as- tion last Friday night. |semble and pass certain laws, stay Three others were dismissed be-|in session until May or June and cause of lack of évidence, |within a month or so the Govern- The longest sentence was 60 days|ment would take over some of the given Earl Halomen, described as|industries, thén “I don’t know what one of the leaders of the move-|Will happen.” This was denied by ment. Thirty day sentences were |Kainey. given the others, among them be-| Others at Dinner ing Robert Simon, Marvin Cole| Dr. Wirt said others attending and Miss Marian Edwards of the|the certain dinner were. Robert Umvergny of Washington. Later Bruere, of the Textile Code Ad- | the woman said the name she hadvisory Committee; David Coyle, of given was assumed and she refused the Public Works Administration; to give her real name as she said| Hildegarde Kneeland and Mary her ‘“parents must never find it|Taylor, Agriculture Department out.” leconomists, and Alice Barrows, of the Interior Department, Education | Bureau. STUDENTS SENT T0 JAIL CELLS ed for Demonstration on Army Day To Be Subpoenaed Those named will be subpoenaed. The dinner was at the Barrows's | | | | | Senate Reverses Itself an Passes Important Measures home in Virginia. Dr. Wirt quoted Kneeland as |saying that Tugwell said he would havc closed the grain stock ex- Twu BIG Bll-l-s change if he had the power and termed the summer’s business im- ,provement as a speculative spree, lalso to the effect “it is impossible d to have planned economy and have big business operating industry.” l Direct Question Asked who talked of President Roosevelt as being a Kerensky who - |would later be replaced by a Stalin, ALBANY, N. Y., April 10—Gov. Dr, Wirt said “Todd.” Herbert H. Lehman, swinging '-he The hearing terminated soon big stick, turned defeat into a'after the noon hours and will be victory in his efforts to put across resumed tomorrow with Dr. Wirt a public utilities program. lon the stand. The State Senate reversed itself| Todd denied to newsmen, after and passed the Governor's two key the hearing today, the quotation measures. | attributed to him by Dr. Wirt. One of the bills permits muni- | Ancther Denial cipalities to own and operate their | aggistant Secretary of Agricul- own power plants. The other bill| tyre Tugwell said Wirt's assertions requires utility companies t0 DAY | were garnered from his 1931 public a share of the costs of the rate|speech and that he knew neither lnvestizfillon |of the woman Dr. Wirt referred e 'to and never talked to them. Kneeland said: “I have never talked to Wirt on anything con- |nected with all of this.” U. S. MINISTE | _ DURING BANQUET said in my Philadelphia speech was that ‘was I very skeptical of plan- |ning because I do not believe the | people realized what ‘the cost | would be'” Dr. Wirt ht | vain to go Wll]lam W. McDowell Col- Rl ey o A lapses at Official Af- ‘{ g SR fair in Dublin {14-Year-Old ey School Boy Is I Held for Murder POWELL RIVER, B. C, April 10.—Accused of smashing the head of John McFarlane, then burying the body in the ' 10. — William ister to the Irish Free State, col-| within a few minutes. McDowell was responding to! speeches of congratilation. He fal-| tered, then collapsed as the result| of an heart attack President {De Valera and others hastened to| his side but he quickly paased‘ resentment that his dog of in McDowell was a resident | Butte, Montana, and a power | Democratic politics in hat state. 10 years old.