The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 30, 1934, Page 1

o THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIIL, NO. 6638 ]UNEAU ALASKA MONDAY APRIL 30, 1934. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRFSS PRICETENCENTS PR]MARIES IN MANY SECTIONS GET ATTENTION Citizens in Half a Dozen States Will Go to Polls During May S. DAKOTA, ALABAMA WILL VOTE TOMORROW Former Seighar Heflm Try- ing Comeback-in South for House Seat WASHINGTON, April 30.—Polit- ical calls are sounding again in half a dozen commonwealths with Alabama and South Dakota open- ing May's primary balloting to- mOITow. Before the month of May is out, results from other primaries, Penn- sylvania, New Jersey, Indiana and Oregon will be recorded. Although only gubernatorial and House nominees will be chosen~in Alabama and South Dakota, Sena- torial candidates as well will be selected on May 15 in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. National interest centers in Ala- bama on the effort of former United States Senator Tom Heflin | against Representative Miles C. All- good for one of the Democratic House seats. .- J SUSPECTS UNDER ARREST, SLAYING OF 6 Negroes Taken Into Cus- today in Connection with Bremerton, Wash., Case LOS ANGELES, Cal, April 30.— Two negro suspects were arrested here Saturday night on telegraphic information in connection with the recent murders of six persons at Bremerton, Wash. The negroes gave their names as Alex Lucas and William P. Evans. They said they came here on April 5 from Seattle where they ran a pressing shop. Both denied having been in any trouble. Sheriff D. L. Blankenship, of Kitsap County, wired asking for the arrest of the men and that they be searched for diamonds and other jewelry. They are held in- communicado. The murders were committed about March 29, the exact time, however, being unknown as the bodies were not found until several days following the slayings. BELIEVE MYSTERY IS AT LAST CLEARED UP SEATTLE, April 30. — The two negroes arrested in Los Angeles Saturday night are known to have been at the home of Frank Flieder, near Bremerton, on the night of Thursday, March 29, the night on which Flieder, his wife, and four guests were shot and beaten to death, Claude G. Bannick, King County Sheriff, announced Satur- day night. The Sheriff said the two are known to have operated a pressing shop here and had gone to the Flieder home to get money which Flieder promised them to open a beer parlor in Seattle. Flieder had previously failed to give them the money, Sheriff Bannick said. Lucas and Evans drove their car to Bremerton by way of Olympia, said Bannick. He believes the two arrests will clear up the case. “I believe the slayings are solved definitely although the two negroes deny in Los Angeles they were at the Flieder home or even in Kitsap County at the time of the ap- proximate iime of the slayings,” said Bannick. HOPE WANES LOS ANGELES, Cal, April 30.— Suspicion waned that the two negroes detained here as suspects in the Bremerton murder case might have any connection with that crime. The police announced that photographic copies of finger- (Continued on Page Seven) Statehood Demanded by Hawaii Delegate @ndless In- troduces Bill—Puerto Rico Also Joins WASHINGTON, April 30.—Hawaii has renewed her demand for State- hood with Delegate Lincoln L. McCandless introducing the bill. Simultaneously, similar demands from Puerto Rico are heard on Capitol Hill. Both island groups are particu- larly emphatic in their demands because of the alleged discrim- inatory treatment in the Jones- Costigan sugar bill. RED TAPE CUT BY BOARD FOR REMOTE TOWNS Waives Formal Applica- tions in Three Towns— 22 Licenses Gr_anted Faced with the possibility that three of the larger communities in western, interior and northern Al- aska might not be in position to | dispense liquor legally tomorrow, the Board- of Eiquer today to set aside red tape and make legal sales possidle there. The Board’s regulations were mail- ed out to Nome, Fairbanks and Anchorage with the remainder of the Territory but through a mis- take in the postal service, the sacks | were returned to the Juneau office, it was said today by Frank A. Boyle, Secretary of the Board. This has made it impossible for the applicants in those towns to submit applications in proper form, if at all, and to obtain licenses. Telegrams were sent by the Board today to the Mayors of each of the three communities to remedy the situation. They were advised that appli- cants possessing the requisite quali- fication, whose applications for retail liquor licenses have been ap- proved by the City Council or en- dorsed by 50 reputable voters, can upon the deposit of a fee of §25 open for sale on May 1. The Board will issue the licenses later, Mr. Boyle said. Twenty-two licenses were grant- ed today by the Board, including| five for vessels of the Alaska Steamship Company. Those granted were: W. T. Douglas, Juneau; James Nolan, Wrangell; C. E. ‘Wortman, Sitka; Wheeler Drug Co., Petersburg; Frederick Cun- ningham, Petersburg; Juneau Drug Company, Juneau; Charles Gre- naa, Petersburg; Walker Drug Co., Ketchikan; Richard Harris, Ketchi- (kan; Lomen Bros., Nome; Arctic Piggly Wiggly Company, Cordova; C. J. Egan, Valdez; C. J. Ander- son and W. L. Dolger, Haines; Northern Commercial Company, Fairbanks and Nenana; Harry Race, Juneau; Ed. Snyder, Tenakee; Lowe Trading Company, Dillingham; Arctic Piggly Wiggly Company, Fairbanks, and 8. O. Breedman, Cordove. The last is conditioned upon the statement of location which was not set up in the origi- nal application, The Alaska Steamship Company was granted ship licenses for the steamers Northwestern, Yukon, Al- aska, Aleutian and Victoria, —————.—— NEGRO HUNTED BY HUNDREDS Sheriff Makes Capture— Hustles Prisoner to Baltimore Jail CRISFIELD, Maryland, April 30. —Sheriff Luther Daugherty cap- tured Harry Fleming, a negro, for whom hundreds searched the woods and swamps. He is wanted for seriously wounding a policeman, Harry Daugherty, with a chisel. Fleming was rushed to Baltimore for safety before the searching crowd was informed of his capture. | town. el Sales Stagt at 12:01 YAl Yofig as trade RETAIL LIQUOR SALES TO OPEN HERE TONIGHT am. — Stocks Are Said to Be Ample l At one minute after midnight to- night, the repeal of Prohibition in Alaska becomes effective. The Dry laws were repealed by Congress in an ect approved by President Roosevelt on April 13, but that law| prohibited traffic in alcoholic li- quors until it was authorized by regulations issued by the Terri- torial Board of Liquor Control, The Board’s regulations, promul- gated April 14, last, fixed May 1 as the date on which sales could le- gally begin. Stocks held locally, while not as complete as they will be before the end of the week, are described as ample in quantity and wide enough in rdnge to take care of all reasonable demands of the trade. Prices Range Widely The price question is one that has been discussed more or less ve- hemently for several weeks. Local dealers say they range from me- dium to high for whiskey of various brands. Gin and rum are not so expensive. Good Scotch will run from $5.50 to $6.50, bourbon about the same figures, whiskey blends are lower, and wines are reason- able. Several of the local stores will] at 12 01 am, mands. The Board's regulation for a 1 am. clos- ing does not affect anything ex-! cept the beer dispensaries. By per- | mitting the liquor stores, which| sell only in original packages, to| remain open as long as they choose, the Board hopes to put a crimp into the operations of bootleggers. Ten Licenses Granted Ten licenses have been granted by the Board (o local retailers. Those holding them are: California Grocery, W. T. Douglas, Dave Hou- sel, Mrs. Lena A. Pigg, Harry Race, Butler, Mauro & Company, Guy L. Smith, Juneau Drug Company, Juneau Liquor Company, and Wil- bur Irving at the Totem Grocery. Only one wholesale license has been applied for and grantcd,‘ throughout the Territory. It was granted to Montgomery Nelford of this city. Mr. Nelford has leased the building formerly occupled by the Alaska Bottling and Beverage ‘Company on Second Street between Seward and Franklin streets. Mr. Nelford is now having alterations jmade in the storeroom and will re- ceive his stock on an early steam- er. MARCH TRADE SHOWS UPTURN DURING MONTH Fifty-eight Railroads In- crease Revenues— Business Gains NEW YORK, April 30—A sharp upturn in. business and industry during the past several months is exemplified by estimates of the net operating income for March. Reports received from 58 rail- roads show an aggregate of ap- proximately $51,900,000 or 392 per- cent above March in 1933, and 50 percent over the corresponding month of 1932. MBS A Senste Committee Approves Loan Bill ‘WASHINGTON, April 30.—Leg- islation estimated to provide two hundred and eighty million dollars for loans by Federal Reserve banks to private industry has been ap- proved by the Senate Banking Committee. el lrr—— MRS. WILSON IS BACK AT BEAUTY SHOP AFTER TRIP Mrs. Alsie J. Wilson, proprie- tor of the American Beanty Shop, returned to Juneau on the North- western this morning after a ten days’ visit spent in Haines on busi- ness. Mrs. Wilon had an enjoyable dglgm, and, runL, 3 PRISONERS MAKE ESCAPE; SECURE ARMS Convicted Robbers in Sen- sational Escapade in EasternPenitentiary COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 30— Three convicts escaped Sunday over the walls of the Ohio Peni- tentiary despite the strong guard to prevent any attempt to deliver the three Dillinger mobsters, two of whom are under death sentences, The three convicts used smug- gled automatics. They forced a guard to accompany them to the watch tower, as if under guard, col- lected his shot gun, gas gun and a rifle, dropped over the wall, step- ped into an automobile, driven by confederates, and were whirled away. The men waiting in the automo- bile are reported to have had mach- ine guns. No shots were fired. The convicts are identified as Rufus Deeds, aged 40, sentenced for robbery; Arthur R. Koontz, aged 40, automobile thief, and Martin Schmidt, aged 37, sentenced for robbery. STOCK PRICES 60 DOWNWARD “TOERD MONTH Final Lossfiange from One to Three Points When Session Closes NEW YORK, April 30. — Stocks ended the month on a downward slant, virtually igmoring a substan- tial rally of wheat and corn . There was a sharp sell off after the second hour, followed by dull- ness and another relapse just be- fore the close. Final losses of one to' around three points prevailed. Sales were 1,600,000 shares. Bonds Irregular Bonds were irregular. High grade issues were steady., United States Government bonds improved mildly. Major cereals ended the month with gains of one to two cents a bushel reflecting closing o May contracts and further crop damage reports. Silver Sags Rubber was strong. Silver sagged as legislative hopes dwindled. Cotton was nervous. Mining and metal shares were especially heavy . Homestake lost 23 points, United States Smelting five points, American Smelting two points, United States Steel lost more than two points. Other Issues Down Other issues which were down one to two or more points included Sante Fe, Chrysler, Allied Chem- ical, American Telephone and Tele- graph, Johns-Manville, National Distillers, Republic Steel, Bethle- hem Steel, Armour preferred, Du- pont, Kennecott, Montgomery- Ward, Rayon, Sears-Roebuck and many others. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, April 30.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 19%, American Can 100%, American Power and Light 8%, Anaconda 15%, Armour B 3, Bethlehem Steel 39, Curtiss-Wright 3%, Fox Films 15%, General Mot~ ors 36%, International Harvester 39, Kennecott 20%, Seneca Copper 1%, no range; Southern Railroad 29%, Ulen Company 3%, United Aircraft 22%, United States Steel 46%, Briggs Manufacturing 17%, Simmonds 18%, Standard Oil of California 35'%, pound $5.14%. REV. HUBBARD COMING NORTH SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.,, April 30. —The Rev. Father Hubbard, known as the ‘‘Glacier Priest,” leaves to- morrow night enroute to Alaska to measure the depth of a volcano's The S. S. Exilona, American freighter on which Samuel _and his official "escort,” Burton Berry, Third Secretary of the ‘voyaging from Smyrna, Turkey, to the United States. Exilona. Inset Captain TWO COUNTRIES KIDNAPED GIRL Six-Year~Ol;JTu ne Robles Is Believed to Be Held in Mexico TUCSON, Arizona, April 30— Federal agents of two countries }havc entered into a search for | June Robles, six years old, kidnaped | last Wednesday, and her 73-year- old grandfather, Bernabe Robles, who failed to return from a mys- | terious trip into Mexico. Two others accompanied Robles into Mexico, reportedly to estab- lish contact with the kidnapers. The destination is not definitely known here. RETURNS SUDDENLY TUCSON, April 30.—Bernabe Ro- bles returned mysteriously this af- ternoon. The spokesman for the family declared the ransom money is ready to pay the abductors when contact is arranged. Robles, it was- indicated, went to a secluded place. It is believed the girl is held in Mexico. - e, — GUARD AGAINST JAIL DELIVERY IN WISCONSIN Three Women Associates, Dillinger Gang, May Be Rescued from Cells MONTICELLO, Wis., April 30— Federals and sheriffs at Madison have been warned to take extra precautions to prevent delivery of three women associates of the Dil- linger gang from the jail there. This was done after George “Baby Pace” Nelson was reported to have been seen in an auto near there. He is a Dillinger henchman. HEIRESS DIES IN HOTEL FIRE MILWAUKEE, Wis, April 30.— Miss Viola wonstrof, aged 49, heir- ess and world traveler, members of one of Wisconsin's wealthiest fam- ilies, was burned to death in her room in the Hotel Schroeder. Apparently the fire was started by a rigarette. She had been treat- ed for a mervous tension and had been given a sleeping potion. and busy time in the Lynn Canal|crater. The volcano, he says, has{ She was the daughter of Nichol- not yet been named. as Lonstrof. SEARGHING.FOR | Price Sees Breathmg S pell Following a Y ear of Action By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) One impressive element in the present Washington outlook is the Roosevelt to give the country a breathing spell. For a year action has followed action and experiment has succeed- ed experiment with a rapidity | which made it difficult to keep track of all that was happening. Now the prospect is for a sum- mer of comparative quiet. Congress is to go home, the President to Ha- wall. Governmental machinery will | continue to operate, of course, but | on lines already pretty well under- stood. New Policies are out. At least that is the idea just now. Business, especially, has been ask- ing for such a respite. Through the chamber of commerce of the United States, the industrial ad- visory boards set up under NRA, and many other avenues, the argu- ment has been put forward persist- ently that what the patient needs now is rest, rather than more oper- ations. The burden of the plea has been that credit will be freer, big and little business men more willing to launch expansions, and the pub- lic itself less disposed to hoard and hang back if it is known that no violent changes in the economic structure are in contemplation. ‘QUIT AND GO HOME’ Advocacy of such an armistice is by no means confined to those who think the Roosevelt polic bad. Some of the President’s warmest supporters believe what he already has done can accomplish the great- est good only if his ventures are permitted to work themselves out in an atmosphere devoid of too many outside distractions. Others do not agree, and on Mr. Roosevelt’s return from Florida there was a grand scramble to get his ear. Congressmen with pet bills, brain trusters filled with ideas, “reformers” of various types, all were for more and more action. He accepted as a part of his pro- gram only two really first-calibre projects, and he already had been committed on both of these. One was more rigid stock market regu-| lation. The other was a mammoth lending campaign to stiraulate building construction. He rejected any sweeping cur- rency expansion, the bill to pay off bank deposimrs, the labor board OHIO COVERNOR BEING GUARDED COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 30.— Gov. George White and his daugh- ter Mary are under guard follow- ing reports that the Dillinger gang plot their kidnaping. The Gover- nor has been warned to pardon two gangsters under death sen- tence for killing Sheriff Sarber at Lima during a jail delivery. Insull, American Embassy at Istanbul, | former Chicago utilities czar, are Wenzel Habel, commander of the NOMINATION OF SHATTUCK NOW SEEMS CERTAIN - apparent.--disposition : of -President| Leads Kirk-207 Votes-and}’ Only Seven Precincts | Are Not Reported With only seven precincts un- reported, most of them small, the | renomination of Senator Allen Shattuck over his rival, W. B. Kirk, by the Democratic Party was practically a certainty today. Elev- en new percincts were reported over the week-end. They gave 122 votes for Mr. Kirk and 110 for Senator Shattuck, reducing the latter's lead to 207. The precincts reporting were: Kil- lisnoo, Goddard, Angoon, Funter, Tenakee, Klukwan, Chilkat, Haines, Kimshan (Hirst-Chichagof), Bar- anof, and Hoonah. The outstand- ing precincts are: Loring, Myers Chuck, Kasaan, Port Alexander, Kake, Windham Bay and Cape Fanshaw. Olscn Gains Here Oscar G. Olson, Cordova candi- date for the Democratic nomina- tion for Treasurer, made a 44-vote gain over Martin Harrais ipr the eleven new precincts. Their Ter- ritorial total to date is: Olson 2,032, Harrais 1,737. There were no additional returns received here from any of the other three Divisions. Until more pre- cinets are heard from in them, the outcome of the race for the Treas- urer nomination cannot be pre- dicted. House Race Unchanged The Democratic battle royal for nominations for the House of Rep- resentatives, so far the first four contenders were concerned, had not changed complexion today. A. H. Ziegler, Joe Green, Joe Barono- vich and Henry Messerschmidt held on to their places. The first three are practically assured of nomina- tions. Mr. Messerschmidt has a 44-vote lead over A. P. Walker, Craig, who passed John Ronan and went into fifth place on the latest returns. Ronan's total is 742 and Mrs. Crystal Snow Jenne is nine votes behind him. The other standings |were not altered. Republicans in Tie Without the returns from the seven missing precincts and Yaku- tat, from which no Republican vote was reported, Frank H. Foster and Walter B. King were tied to- day for fourth place on the ticket, each having 293 votes. H. R. Shepard, in third place, had 295. Louis F. Paul had advanced from fifth to second place with 306 votes. H. G. McCain was leading the field with 448. Kake, Windham Bay and Cape Fanshaw returns were expecied to arrive here this afternoon on the mail boat Pacific. The other pre- cinets, except Port Alexander, should arirve tomorrow. - John Kaminski entered the Unit- ed States from Poland during the Civil War, but just received citi- zenship papers at Houghton, Mich, SOLDIERS AND POLICE READY T0 KEEP ORDER Demonstrations Tomorrow to Be Suppressed— Extra Plans Laid NEW YORK CITY E FEARING TROUBLE Paris Marshals Large Forces to Combat Mobs Expected on Streets NEW YORK, April 30.—Police and soldiers in many lands mar- tialed forces today for extraordi- nary duty as the authorities girded for battle in outbreaks feared on May Day. In New York City the police laid plans, the most extensive in his~ tory, to guard against violence as parades were announced in which two hundred thousand marchers are expected to take part. In Paris In Paris, 18,000 police and 10,000 extra guards, 3,000 mounted, are ready for action, if mobs take to the streets. In Havana, another point in which clashes are feared with at least 40,000 taking part in dlm- onstrations, police and soldiers n-q preparing. The demonstrations might take on the form of ndlell WMKW" vl The authorities in Austria began precautionary movements by round- ing up many wellknown agitators and consigning them to jails, fear- ing plots against the government. The rump Parliament, accord- * ing to advices received here today, approved the new National Con= stitution and also 470 other laws decreed by Chancellor Dollfus since March 8 Xast yenr PRIEST SLAIN AS HE DEFENDS SISTER-IN-LAW Clergyman Ts Shot Down After Saying Noon Mass in Jersey City JERSEY CITY, N. J., April 30.— Dominick. Marra's ‘“delusions o} persecutions” is the reason given for the slaying at noon today of Priest Julius Moscati, aged 62, and the wounding of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Christina Moscati, at the rec= tory. Marra, a carpenter, entered tho rectory just as Priest Moscati had officiated at a noon mass. The priest was slain when he attempt- ed to shield his sister-in-law. A bullet penetrated the priest's heart. The woman was shot three times and is in a critical condition. ¥ Marra was captured. He said Mrs. Moscati owed him $245 in connec- tion with some work he had done and he sought to collect it. Relatives said he suffered a head injury ‘recently and had delusions of being persecuted. GIRL DIES IN AUTO ACCIDENT EVERETT, Wash, April 30— Caught under a car that over- turned on a curve, Peggy Johnson, aged 20, of Arlington, was fatally injured Sunday and died an hour later in the hospital here. John Halverson, the driver, and the girl's sister, Eva Rudolph, were only slightly injured. The coupe overturned when it struck loose gravel. B SITKA MAN IS BROUGHT HERE TO SERVE TERM Willie Grant, Sitka Indian, was brought here today on the motor- ship Estebeth to serve a month sentence in the local eral Jail, He was convicted week of assault and battery. 4 ial Deputy Marshal John Lawrenge brought Grant here. X