The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 20, 1934, Page 1

o { { ¥ i ! D 0 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE - “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME™ VOL XLIIL, NO. 6630. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIbAY. APRIL 20, 1934. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS == PRICE TEN CENTJ ] MlLlTARY BASES URGED FOR ALASKA HOT TIME IS INDIGATED AT ARMS SESSION Geneva Conference Prom- ises to See Showdown on Big Problem FRANCE MAY ASK FOR INVESTIGATION Rearming of Germany 'May‘ Cause Split—Certain Action Rumored GENEVA, April 20.—League of Nation’s circles forecast a dramatic showdown on disarmament on May 23 when representatives of nations in the World Disarmament Con- ference will return here for a full session to attempt to catch and pull together the flying strings of; the many sided problem of arms control. There are even unconfirmed ru-| mors that France may insist upon an investigation regarding German armament before consenting to negotiate any sort of disarmament | treaty. | D 600D TRADING REPORTED IN ALL SECTIONS Peak of Season’s Buying| Expected Late in May | ¢ Early June ‘ NEW YORK, April 20—Main- tenance of a steady consumer de-| mand this far this year, said the| Dun-Bradstreet, Inc., Review today| had -an increasingly stabilizing ef- fect on all basic trades and mer- chants are generally “taking the most cheerful attitude regarding the future than has been in evi-| dence for the past three or four years. “With spring temperatures yet to appear it seems certain the peak of the season’s buying will not be reached until late in -May, with| much of it carried into June. “Retail sales are reported the| best, in nearly all lines, for any spring season in the past three years. Gains average 20 to 40 per cent over last April total. “Wholesale markets became ac- tive this week with orders for summer goods taking precedence | over fill-in requirements of spring merchandise. Fall needs are be- ginning to press for au,ennon SEATTLE PASTOR T00 MODERN; IS 0UT OF PULPIT Rev. Shorter Is Ousted Be- cause of Murals Paint- ed in Bible Room SEATTLE, April 20—Rev. Fred W. Shorter has been ousted from t pastorate of the conseravtive Pilgrim Congregational Church af- ter eight years of service as the outgrowth of a disagreement among the congregation over “radical mu- rals” painted in the Bible room of the church by young moderns who defended the Pastor. One of the murals depicted ‘the Nazis crucifying a Jew upon the Swastika. Rev. Shorter said he will carry on his message of “revolutionary | religion” from another pulpit. “T will continue to preach the brotherhood of man, and I am go- ing to keep on flghtmg for a living practical Christianity even though the church revenues diminish when pro-capitalistic members don't like what is being preached,” said the Rev. Shorter. g James Allen Dies as Result of Throat Tumor SEATTLE, April 20.—James AI-I len, of Olympia, former head of the State Highway Department, died here today as the result of a rhroat tumor. COMEDIAN MARRIES IN MEXICO Stan Laurel, motion picture comedian, and the former Mrs. Ruth Rogers, in Hollywood on their return froin Agua Caliente, Mexico, where they announced they were married. They will not live together until his divorce from Lois Laurel becomes final next October. At that time, they will go through a second ceremony. (Associated Press Photo) wes STOCK PRICES RALLY LATEIN * TRADING TODAY Ancnaft Issu es Lead 1 General Recovery— Caricatures of Hitler, Dawes, Borah, Removed NEW YORK, April 20.—Car- iactures of Hitler, Dawes and Borah have been removed from the Metropolitan Museum Exhibit of Unemployed Ar- tists of the CWA. Officials sponsoring the show said Hi letrites oppesed the Chancel- lor's picture which represented & him with one foot and one Close Is Firm hoof, putting the best foot for- | ward. | NEW YORK, April 20.—Stocks Museum officials said the | rallied briskly in a late upturn af- cariactures were removed only ter early irregularity apparently because in bad taste since the |due partly to a mild revival of in- snb]flh were still living. flationary psychology coincident G h the weakness of the Interna- tional dollar rates. Aircraft tes led the recovery | in equities. Final gains ranged from one to two or more points. The close was CARRYING MALL + BY AIR UPENED of the dollar on exchange. | Wheat Comes Back | Wheat came back for a gain of Poslmas[er Genelal Farley one cent a bushel and other cereals S S "——Zl finished equally as well or better. prlng ur prlse States Government securities The curb was improved. United sagged as the result of the decline Wright Aeronautical was up four Routes Covered points. United Aircraft was up two AR | points. WASHINGTON, April 20.—Spec- | Other Gainers | Other issues showing gains of tators whistled when Postmaster General James in surprise today | A, one to around two points included Farley opened bids for carrying Case, Borden, U. S. Rubber, pre- mail on 21 routes that the Govern- 'ferred, a few rails, Dupont, U. 8. ment intends to place in private Alconol Utilities were improved. hands for the next three months. | Some companies bid as low as| 19 cents an airplane mile. The, maximum range stipulated was 41 to 47 cents p(r nirplane mile. Rails were somewhat spotty. General Motors and Chrysler i were steady but Auburn was off two points. U. S. Smelting lost one point. The gold group was a bit higher. CLOSING PRICES TODAY EW YORK, April 20—Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 20%, American Can 104%, American Power and Light 9%, Anaconda 17 Armour B 3%, Bethlehem Steel 43% Curtiss- Wright 4%, Fox Films 16%, Gen- leral Motors 39 %, International Harvester 42%, Kennecott 22, Sen- eca Copper 1%, no range; South- ern Railroad 34%, Ulen Company 3%, United Aircraft 25%, United | States Steel 52%, Briggs Manufac- ‘(urmg 18, Mclmyre Pnr"upme 46% . CHANCELLOR OF IONAP GANG SPEEDS AWAY AMID BULLETS Officers in Eastern States on Lookout for Wound- ed Victims of Fight WESTON, Mass., April 20. ——th- cers are today hunting for three victims of bullet wounds in what is believed to be a kidnap case. Officer Albert Rainor stopped a! car which was speeding. In thny car were six occupants, one a kid- | nap victim, it is said. | The occupants opened fire and Rainor responded. Three of h)h AUSTRIA SEEKS Officers in all parts of the east- ern states are on the lookout for CanHOt BC Three chla!ors —Others Must Submit victims of the shooting and also for the bulley pi 7 K 3 2 for ulley pierced automobile. to Hls Authonty VIENNA, April 20. — Definite evldence of a serious dissension rnment ranks has brought lorlh a declaration, ac- cording to sources close to Chan- cellor Dollfuss, that he feels the !time has come for a showdown. WASHIKGTON, April 20.—An The Chancellor has declared, international agreement for remon- according to rumors, that there etization of silver at a uniform ra- cannot be three dictators in Aus- tio to gold is seen in high official tria. He said this means he will diplomatic circles. Conferences make Prince Rudiger von Star- are now afoot for an international hemberg and Vice Chancellor Emil discussion as soon as Congress ad- Fey, leaders of two factions, sub- journs, .mit to his authority, SILVER RATIO | at |reading in The Empire last night HENDRICKSON'S STORY DISPUTED BY TAXI DRIVER Local Cab DrTer Tells Of-| ficers He Brought Katain- en to Town in Car SALVAGE WORK STARTED AGAIN Tug Georgia Arrives at Scene Bringing North Forest Pride Further complications were add- Salvage operations on the Is- ed to the disappearance of Abel'lander in Stephen's Passage near Katainen, unseen since early last!here were resumed today on arriv- Sunday morning, when Federal of-{al of Capt. Frank Curtis, head of ficers were informed that the miss- the Seattle Salvage Company, ing man did not come to town;which last year moved the famous with Oscar Hendrickson, as the lat-|sunken gold ship to shallow water ter claimed, but rode most of theiat the edge of Admiralty Island. way in a taxicab and was put orf) The Forest- Pride, 241-foot the Triangle Building, corfher: barque, was brought to the site of of Franklin and Front Street,about)the salvaging from Seattle in tow 1 a. m, an hour before Hendrick- of the tug Georgia. Curtls ex- son climed to have left him at pects to use the Forest Pride and Indian Street. {the Barge Griffson to Ilift the The driver of the taxicab, after}sunken Islander to the beach, Winch Crew of Kataineu's disappearance, came! Twenty-eight men are in the forward with his story In the crew operating the lifting winches meantime Hendrickson has left)on the Griffson and Forest Pride. town for a logging camp at Red|Capt. Curtis and this crew expect Bay and cannot be reached forjto hoist the hulk to shore on immediate questioning {one of the high tides during the The taxi operator was positive|Summer. Though Curtis is non- n his identification of Katanen|eommittal about his plans for sal- fls he hrad worked with him in the|vaging, it is believed here that Alaska Juneau mine at one time. the Islander will be high and dry He said he was coming back from |within four months from now. a trip to the Salmon Creek Roa Anchored Over Wreck | house shortly before 1 a. m. Sun The Griffson has been anchored day. Near the residence of John, over the wreck under guard over Pademeister, he saw a man walk-| winter. Winter weather prohibited |ing toward town in the road ahead the final lift to the beach last of him He was staggering and November after the salvagers had N|apparently was intoxicated. The spent six months in lifting and driver stopped, picked him up and moving the Islander from her rest- brought him on into town. He was ing place at the bottom of the absolutely certain it was Katainen. Passage. The ship was sunk in The description of his clothing, August, 1901, when she struck an however, did not agree with that iceberg enroute from Skagway. given the officers by Mrs, Kat- Seventy-two lives were lost. ainen. This is the only additional infor- mation netted by the investigators Clirtis hopes to recover some Klon- dike gold which was being brought since yesterday. No other person down on her. has reported seeing the missing The tug Georgia, which brought man. Officers today were drag- the Griffson up last year and fhe ging the waters adjoining where Forest Pride this year, is owned his boat is tied up at the City and captained by Capt. J.C.Brown Float. field, well-known Seattle tugboat man. NEAR VICTIM MRS, PINCHOT | OF MOB TELLS ' MAKESATTACK OF OLD CRIME g\ NRA CHIEF Fred Lockhart Was Mem- ber of Lynching Party that Hanged Leo Frank 20.-- Clalms,General Johnson Works to Increase | Wall St. Dividends days PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 20.— ago from death at the hands of*Mrs, Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, wife an infuriated son, has iden d of Gov. Gifford Pinchot, fired an- himself as a participant in the sen- other blast at Gen. Hugh 8. John- son in an address at the Fifty- SHREVEPORT, La., April Fred Lockhart, saved three sational Ieo Frank Ilynching in Georgia in 1915. Lockhart, a trav- Ninth Annual Convention of the| eling salesman, is held for the Steel and Tin Workers. Mrs. Pinchot said the NRA Chief “ignored the workers’ inter- ests and has done everything he could to increase Wall Street di- vidends. “When Johnson talks of self- government he means governmem.' by Industrialists or by one or two| percent of the population. brutal criminal attack and killing of 16-year-old Mae Griffin. Lockhart turned from reading the Bible and told he drove the auto which carried Frank from the Georgia prison at Milledville to be hanged at Marietta. “I know how Frank felt when he was taken from prison and hanged” said Lockhart. “When he failed to make the Frank was hanged afte: the OWners of captive mine toe the death sentence passed for the slay- mark, big business knew his so- ing of Mary Phagan had been com- called orders need not be taken seriously.” g Duel to Death HOLISTER, Cal—A battle to the death between a police dog and a coyote took place on a road near here. The bodies of both animals, slashed and torn, were found a few feet apart Kick May Brmg Life in Cells to Pair of Robbers SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Apruuu not taken out of the garage 20—A kick in the trousers may|by the robbers he was kidnaped— send two alleged robbers to a state | under the new and stingent Kid- prison for life without possxbnny\mm laws of California. \ muted to life imprisonment. A A SOMMERS GOES SOUTH R. J. Sommers, who left here for the south on the Northwestern, will be absent for about two weeks on business, he declared previous to h s departure. of parole. On the night of March 19 two The two are John W. Haubner men entered the garage and and William J. Howard, who ar-| threatened Morris with revolvers. rived in San Francisco a short time | They forced him to go up to the ago from Chicago. They were| fourth floor in an elevator, and given a preliminary hearing before | | there they bound him. The taking Municipal Judge Steiger and held of Morris from the first *o the to answer to the Superior Court fourth floor forms the basis of the on a charge of kidnaping for rob- | kidnaping charge. bery, and inflicting bodily harm on, ' When Morris attempted to re- their victim. fiM the robbers, one of them kick- Ray Morris, night attendant at'ed him. This, according to the OVER ISLANDER The salvage company headed by | Japan G(’ts tsz Jolt Undor TOKYO, April 21).—Ap €] | reaction to its statement w 3 off China, a new prenouncement interfere with China’s treaties. erting the Japancse Foreign Office spokesman has ntly surprised by the world’s 1g other nations to keep hands sued that Japan does not desire to dependence or infringe upon existing PRINCIPALS IN ROYAL ROMANCE Despite official denials, it was learned from persons closely assocle ated with Scandinavian royalty that the announcement of the engage- ment of the Danish Crown Prince Frederick to the beautiful Swedish Princess Ingrid is expected to follow upon the return of King Gustaf, Ingrid’s grandfather, to Stockholm from the Riviera. (Associated Press Photos) GHIGLIONE WiL HAVE CHARGE OF DOUGLAS BRIDGE 'Designated as Re siden t Engineer—Dishaw Moves | Plant to Tenth Street : i The designation of A. F. G lione, staff engineer of the Alaska Road Commission, to be resident| engineer on the Douglas bridge project was announced, today by | Ike P. Taylor, Chief Engineer. He| took over the project yesterday. ' Mr Ghiglione joined the Com- mission’s engineering force last summer and has been in Southeast| Alaska during that time He han-| dled the CWA work at Ketchikan, \ Petersburg and Wrangell during the past winter. The plant for ereecting the four piers for the bridge is now being| assembled at the foot of Tenth Street by Alfred Dishaw, local con-| |tractor. He moved his scow there |yesterday and is about ready to start operations. The scow is| equipped with a clam shell shovel| for excavating for the pier foun- dations, donkey engine, a stiff-| leg derrick and other machinery.| A steam hammer for driving the piling will be added. Mr. Dishaw expects to begin with a crew of five or six men. As work progresses this force will be enlarged and crews be put on wo piers SENATE TAKES ON NEW PROBE Propaganda to Promote War to Be Investigat- ed by Committee WASHINGTON, April 20. —The Senate has organized a committee for investigation which its spons- ors said would prove that manu- facurers of arms and munitions are engaged in propaganda to pro- mote war for private gain and prof- it. The members of the committee include two western Senators, Pope of Idaho and Bone of Wash- the Palace Garage, was the vlc!xmldEflniuon of the law, constituted of the kidnaping, and although he “bodily harm.” ington, Claims Dillinger Is Only Modern Robin Hood CHICAGO, I, April 20— John Dillinger may be poison to society in general but in his own home town, Moores- ville, Indiana, he is just a mod- ern Robin Hood on a spree. In Mooresville, John Roe is circulating a petition request- ing the Governor to grant am- nesty to the desperado. Many of his acquainis.ces are re- ported to have signed the peti- tion which alleges that Amer- ica’s public ememy No. 1 did net get a square deal when he was convicted and sentenced to prisen in 1934 for robbing a grocer. WARNING BIVEN T0 GERMANS BY STORM TROOPER Must Flght on Battlefield if They Want Imperial Dynasty Returned | BERLIN, April 20.—Nazi Leader's | Monarchism | stern stand against has dimmed further hopes of the Germans who long for restoration of an Imperial Hohenzollern Dy- nasty. “The Imperial battlefield,” warned Capt. Ernst Roehm, Leader of the Brown Shirted Nazi Storm Troopers, add- ing ‘I doubt whether the Ger- yman people wish to fight for it there. Capt. in an Baldwin-uttered the warning address to foreign corres- pondents and diplomats in an ad-| dress discussing Nazi ideals with particular reference to functions of the group he heads. il AT New Jersey Governor Candidate for Senate TRENTON, N. J, April 20— Gov. A. Harry Moore, with the support of the organibzation, candidacy for Senate. The Republican incumbent, Sen- ator Hamilton F. Kean, has an- nounced he would seek the office again, announced his Untied States has the Crown lies on the | Democratic State | ‘N Y. DEMOCRAT FUR PROTECTION NORTHERN ISLES Representalive Sirovich | Takes Steps for Defense Against Enemy, Sup- | posedly from Orient WASHINGTON, April 20. —Representative William L Sirovich, Demcerat of New York, has started writing a bill for the éstablishment of military and naval air bases in the Aleutian Islands for pretection of the United IStates against a western enemy. Representative Sirovich said the measure based |upon the belief that if war | between the United States tand Japan does occur, the Orientals will first attack the unprotected Aleutians. He said it is time the Unit- ed States woke up to the fact that Japan mes to control all fishing in Bristol Bay, Alaska. HELGESEN DIES AFTER ILLNESS IN PORTLAND Wellknown Local Man Sult cumbs to Disease After Months of Suffering Claude Helgesen, well-known lo- cal businessman, died Wednesday afternoon at the Veterans' Hospital Portland, Oregon, according to a telegram received in Juneau Thurs- day by Mrs. Martin Lavenik from her sister, Mrs. Helgesen, who was enroute to Portland. Mrs. Helgesen received word her husband’s condition was growing more serious Wednesday morning, and was able to catch the North- western southbound immediately. Her telegram, carrying the news of her husband's death, was sent from Sitka. Mrs. Helgesen is continu=- ing her journey south Suffering from a condition diag- nosed as collapsed vertabrae, Mr. Helgesen had been ill for nearly a year. He was Chief Clerk of the | House of Representatives in 1933, and toward the end of the session of the Legislature, was not feeling well. He finished the session, and left for a rest at Tenakee Hot Springs. He failed to recover his health, and in July went south | for further observation of his ill- { ness and hospitalization. Mrs Hel- gesen was with him for a time in Portland, but returned to Ju- neau several months ago. His fa- ther, whose home was in Iowa, was with him at the time of his death. Claude Helgesen was born in Decorah, Towa, August 17, 1889. He came to Juneau before the war and was an accountant at Tread- well. He was married to Gertrude Johnson, of Douglas, and they were the parents of three children, | Claude Jr., Robert and Susan, all residing in Juneau. An overseas veteran, Helgesen was a First Lieutenant in the 38th | Fleld Artillery, and received his discharge at Camp Lewis January 23, 1919. He was an active mem- | ber in Alford John Bradford Post 7o {of the American Legion, and served is {as Post Commander and Post Ad- jutant. He became a member of the Juneau Lodge B. P. O Elks in 1932 Returning to Alaska after the war, Mr Helges.n was employed by various Juneau firms as ac- countant, and several years ago went into business for himself when he become owner of the Juneau | Bottling Works. He had many friends in Juneau who for months have followed the progress of his health and hoped for his recovery and who are now saddened by his death. No information regarding funeral day. arrangements are known here to- .