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

. - . ¥ “ the fishermen as well as the ad- - THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME™ ——— VOL. XLIV., NO. 6640. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT§ JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY MAY 2, 1934. WOMAN CONFESSES TO BIG THEFT IN SEATTLE FISH HEARINGS SET FOR NEXT WEE CODE FORMING BE UNDERTAKEN 3-DAY SESSION | Heads of Industry of Pa-| cific Northwest and Alaska Be Heard SEATTLE, May 2.—Deputy Ad-| ministrator R. H. Fiedler said three hearings, covering many phases of the fishing industry of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, will be held here at the Olympic hotel next week. Halibut will be taken up next Thursday, herring on | Friday, preparing and wholesaling | on Saturday. | ‘The proposed codes are intended | to be supplementary to the master | Fishery Industry code, and Deputy Administrator Fiedler, in charge | of the NRA Fishery Section, will | conduct the hearings. | Decline Experienced Both industries have experienced a considerable decline from boom timesw Capital investment in the halibut division declined from $5,- 520,000 in 1929 to $2,850,000 in 1933, employees from 2161 to 1633 in the same period. The industry is con- ducted on the high seas and uses large fishing vessels, The peak of the Alaska herring industry came in 1928, when capital investment was $3,500000 and 1992 workers were employed. In 1932 capital had declined to $2,500,000 and only 750 people were given employment. in 1933, however, there were about 1,000 employees in the industry.. Halibut Code Terms of .an international con- | vention between the United States! and Canada regarding control of | production are incorporated in the! halibut code. Under regulations of the International Fisheries Com- mission half the fishing fleet stays in port until 10 days after the-sea- son opens, and a quota system is used to pro-rate the total permit- ted catch. Minimum wages in the Alaska herring code are proposed at $55 a month when board and lodging are furnished; $75 otherwise. Piece work rates would be 55¢ for each 250 pounds Scotch full barrel of| herring gibbed and packed. Cooks would not come under maximum | hours limitations. | SUGGESTS WADE ATTEND The protest of the local Cham- ber of Commerce against adoption of these codes without Alaska in- terests being given a chance to be heard has been taken into consid- eration, according to a telegram re- ceived by Hugh J. Wade, Deputy NRA Administrator for Alaska. He was advised that the Administra- tion understood it would be satis- factory to both the herring and Deputy Fiedler to attend the hear- | ings in Seattle. ‘The National Labor Advisory| Board will guard the interests of ministration in general, it was said. Mr. Wade has heen asked by Deputy Fedler to attend the hear- ings so that later he can discuss the codes with groups of fisher- men in Alaska and through him they can present their case to Dep- uts Fiedler before the codes are formally approved. Mr. Wade said today he did not know if he would be ableq to make the trip. > TORNADO HIT INDIA SECTION CALCUTTA, May 2— Twenty, persons are known to have been killed, hundreds injured and doz- ens missing as the result of a tor- nado which swept the town of Slyhet in the province of Assam. Houses were crushed and boats foundered. - e Not to Reduce Tax On Liquor in Fight On Bootleggers WASHIN G TON, May 2.— President Roosevelt is not in- clined to reduce the liquor tax at this session of Congress pre- ferring other methods of attack en bootleggers. The President is hopeful the removal of the quota restric- tiens on liquor imperts will help curtail ltootle(u.:flvflh Ousted Pastor 4 9 i § £ Rev. Fred W. Shorter( above), pastor of the Pilgrim Congregationa Church in Seattle, Wash., was re moved by the congregation after hy had been charged with radicalism The trouble started when he de fended a group of murals on a wall of the church rooms. (Associated Press Photo) WAGING FIGHT ON CONTROL OF ~ STOCK MARKET Chairman Rayburn Makes Charges-Against New York Exchange WASHINGTON, May 2—Chair- man Rayburn, of the House Com-; merce Committee, charged today | the New York Stock Exchange is| waging a vicious and senseless| campaign of misrepresentation | against the Stock Market Control | Bill. Chairman Rayburn says the Ex- | change is seeking to intimidate employees of financial concerns | into requesting their Congressmen | to vote against the bill. 1‘ PECORA HAS EVIDENCE | WASHINGTON, May 2—Ferdi- nand Pecora, special Senate Coun- sel, placed before the Senate Stock Market Committee today evidence' f | captured the First Congressional | lany other Congressional campaign | SOUTH DAKOTA | DEMOCRATSIN [~ REAL HARMONY Gov. Berry Renominated, Also Congressmen Hilde- | brant and Werner | SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota, | May 2.—Returns from the primary | theld in the state yesterday showed | the Democratic renomination of | | Gov. Tom Berry, Congressmen Fred | | Hildebrandt and Theo. Werner, but | left two Republican contests unde- | cided, those for Governor and the | Second District Congressman. | ©C. A. Christopherson, former | Representative, had apparently]| District and W. C. Allen is given a | good chance at the nomination for | | Governor. | The Second Congressional dis- trict probably will rest with the convention in June in the ab- sence of a 35 percent majority for any of the four aspirants. MONTGOMERY, Alabama, May | 2—Former United States Senator {J. Thomas Heflin, attempting a| ‘comoback. pulled into a contending position for the Democratic nomi- | \ nation to Congress from the Fifth | |'‘Alabama District. Early in the| | returns he trailed but is now draw- | ing within striking distance of Miles Allgood. | at Tucson, Ariz., Wednesa i 1 the child’s father, | GRESSIUN AL; was paid June would be slain, CAMPAIGN HAS BEGUN QUEERLY | ! ¥ HEFLIN IN COMEBACK )‘ | { , April CON child but were called off by the ranscm would be paid and search abductors. IS STILL IN HA Uncertainty Prevails i Both Party Headuarters —Other Gossip By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated which has begun in the haphaz-' - ARMY STAFFIS Press, Washington) 1 It would be difficult to recall| DEAD IN EAsT ard fashion of that of 1934. Both party headquarters are ki(_lnaped /iri'zbna Girl Little Junc Robles, 6-year-old dazughter of a wealthy pioneer Arizcna family, was kidnaped as she was walking home from school Fernande Rebles, Tueson police, aided by 1000 citizens, including cpwboys armed with six-shotters and members of the American Legion, immediately tock 1%, «#he search for the kidnaped | 25. The kidnaper, in a note to said unless $15,000 ransom parents as they announced the would prevent contact with the (Aszceiated Press phcto.) | ;_I(ETGH_IKANIS_- | FOR MUNICIPAL LIQUOR STORE |Special Election Held Yes- ‘ | terday—Majority Against Private Operation 2. KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May —The special election held y terday resulted in a majority favering a municipally oper- ated liguor store as against privately operated stores which started the hard liquor sales at midnight last Monday. — o STOCK PRIGES ~ ARE SMASHED, SELLING WAVE Shares of All Categories Go; | Into Decline of One to More Points jsTOCK PRICES— NEW YORK, May 2—A sharp| | selling wave hit stocks during the |last half hour today and quoted values of all categories declined one to three or more points. There | was nothing especially to account | for the relapse. The close was | heavy. | The curb was dull, United States | Government securities displayed re~ newed strength. Some Shares Keep Up Only a few gold mining shares and scattered specialties were able D TUCSON, May 2—Up to this forenoon there | from the kidnapers of little June Robles although the -family is ready to pay the ransom and promise no official interference. FORMER CHIEF, |to hold their heads above water. | There were some feeble recoveries near the finish, Grains dipped and rallied. ‘Cotton and rubber were better. APERS ad been no response OF KII | { B S A S R B et | Holds Gain | | Radio preferred held gains of DR W, H. WELCH < 1 L] L] Dome, McIntyre-Porcupine and | | Auburn were up around one point. | | 'American Telephone and Tele- | PASsEs Aw AY |graph lost more than three points. Johns-Manville and Western Un- IN BALTIMORE ion were off three points. Other issues off about one to |two points included U. S. Steel, Sears-Roebuck, Dupont, General Motors, Chrysler, U. 8. Smelting, ADMTTS TAKING LARGE SUM OF MONEY, JEWELS j$25-a-chk_Bo_okkeeper Is | Held Under $10,000 | Bond, Grand Larceny 1 SEATTLE, May 2—Mrs. Claire | Phillips, a $25-a-week bookkeeper | for the Ben Tipp jewelry store, has fconre&sed to Deputy Prosecuting At- | torney Lenihan of stealing $27,000 *lin cash and $80,000 worth of jew- elry from the store over a period of | vears. She is to be charged with | grand larceny. | Deputy Prosecuting Attorney !Lenihnn quoted Mrs. Phillips as | saying she spent all the money on .| parties and clothes but sent $20 | monthly to her husband in San | Francisco who has been looking for 1work. He believed she was making | $50 monthly. ———————cssasay | The smallest monthly theft was For Governor , last month, Officlally announcing his in- | >0 s?ggome MV 0 tention o be a candidate for (VR SEN o aparte the Democratic nomination for | 9% Governor of California, George "M/l prinine is held under a Creel, Regional Directer of the 1510000 bond. Emergency Employment Ad- 3 ST B ministraticn, issued a statement | outlining his campaign and ‘NEw DEALS UF | | motives for entering it. Creel has asked President Roosevelt to relieve him of his adminis- trative duties. WALKER PASSES MESSERSCHMIDT ?Ad‘minislratio_n Is Praised; IN HOUSE RACE Also Criticised at U. S. C. of C. Session Craig Man Noses Qut Lo- cal Candidate in Returns from Southern Towns Twenty-six votes cast at Myers Chuck and Kasaan for A, P. Walk- er, Craig, to six for Henry Mes- serschmidt, Juneau, put the former into fourth place on the Demo- cratic House ticket and probably nominated him with A. H. Ziegler, Joe Baranovich and Joe Green. ‘Only one precinct is unreported— Loring—and the vote there is so | WASHINGTON, May 2.—Strong criticism of the Administration mingled with praise before the an- nual United States Chamber of Commerce convention here. | Henry Harriman, President of the Chamber, reported the new 'deals of the first year have been brightening the economic horizon | everywhere. A. W. Robertson, Chairman of !the Westinghouse Electric Board, !said that “planned economy is un- | doubtedly necessary, but we need better plans and not more plans.” Harriman asserted that actual ‘unemploymem, has been reduced jhe said showed that Stock Ex-| characterized chiefly by their at-|Major General Hugh L. Foremost Pathologist of American Smelting and Bethlehem change member firms made nearly! one billion dollars during the past: six years despite depression. Ex-! change firms averaged almost two million dollars each net profits during two boom and four depres- sion years. i Pecora said he gathered this from! Stock Exchange member firms themselves. NEW SPY RING | IS UNEARTHED, mosphere of uncertainty. Republi- Scott Passes Away After can Chairman Sanders is on the! sidelines, and talk persists of re-| TWO Months' Illness placing him entirely. Democratic; Chairman Farley has said he would | J resign, but no one knows when,| WASHINGTON, May 2—Major or who will succeed him. {General Hugh L. Scott, aged 84 On both sides the conduct of the!years, former Chief of Staff of the campaign is so decentralized that Army, died late yesterday in the | candidates hardly know whose ad-| Walter Reed Hospital after an ill- Hopkins Hospital as the result of Jehem Steel ness of two months. When the exigencies demanded, Major General Scott fought with gun and saber, but more often dur- ing his half century in the uni- form he faced his enemies in friendly fashion and by preference achieved his outstanding successes by diplomatic rather than military tactics. But both in the struggles vice to take. As the active weeks approach, central strategy seems entirely lacking. Besides, both or-| ganizations are dead broke, deep in debt, still owing bills for hotel space, radio time and whatnot from 1932, No two politicians seem to agree what the issues are, and there are increasing cross-currents such as | World, Dean of Medicine, |8teel Dies of Cancer CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, May 2— Closing BALTIMORE, Md., May 2.—Dr. quotation of Alaska Juneau mine william Henry Welch, aged 84 stock today is 19%, American Can years, Dean of Scientific American|99, American Power and Light 8, | Medicine, died last night at John Anaconda 15, Armour B 27%, Beth- 38, Curtiss-Wright 3%, | cancer. He was one of the five Fox Films 15%, General Motors | members of the original Johns Hop- | 35%, Kennecott 20%, Seneca Cop- | kins Medical school faculty, and Per 1%, no range; Southern Rail- | one of the foremost pathologists of road 28%, Ulen Company 3, Unit- |the world, known equally well in|ed Aireraft 21%, United States | the centers of science in Europe Steel 46%, Briggs Manufacturing and America. |17, Simmonds 18, Standard Oil of Dr. Welch was born o a long|California 33%:, pound $5.12, Cal- line of New England physicians in umet and Hecla 4%. Norfolk, Conn., April 8, 1850, and attended Yale university, taking his small that it will hardly affect the|to four million. He praised aboli- results. jtion of child labor and then laid Returns from two precincts were|down the rule that “frank con- received yesterday afternoon at the |structive and helpful criticism is office of Clerk of Court. They were desirable from every standpoint, from Myers Chuck and Kasaan. Os- | but rejecting and blocking desirable car G. Olson gained 12 votes on|reforms will result in either na- Martin Harrals for Democratic |tional' suicide or complete revo- nomination for Treasurer and Sen- | lution.” ator Allen Shattuck added 11 tol his lead over W. B. Kirk for the Senatorial nomination. U. S. TRADE TALK WASHINGTON, May 2.—Secre- Aside from the displacement of tary of Commerce Roper told the Mr. Messerschmidt in the House;American section of the Interna- race, no other changes wi magde | tional Chamber of Commerce that in the standings. America’s foreign trade in the fu- No additional returns were re-|ture is hanging in the balance as ceived from any of the other Di-!“natural channels of International visions during the day. The Terri-|trade have been closed through torial vote for the Democratic nom- | man-made barriers and restric- ination for Treasurer is as follows: FRENGH NATIUN‘tinued allegiance of some Republi- PARIS, May 2—A far-flung dr.lle&dership, the quarrels of House ganization of German spies en- Democrats, the persistent revolt of gaged in gathering vital frontier de-'a Democratic Congress against a fense secrets are said by the po-\Democranc President. lice to have been uncovered with' Altogether, it is an amazing and the arrest of three agents of the bewildering situation. band, including a French Captain the troubles of Tammany, the con-!| !can Insurgents to the Roosevelt where he relied upon the force of J . arms, and those which hinged up-|dcgree there in 1870, and ranking | on the force of personality, he suc- |second in a class of 150. For a time | ! ceeded with a regularity which won|he taught Latin and Greek, but I him many words of high commen- | abandoned the classics to attend| ! dation from his superiors. the College of Physicians and Sur- | ‘The TIndians of the Western|g&eons in New York, now a part of Plains, his first foes in battle, rclll(?z}lumhla University, a_nd gained a| /many years ago the inhvren”mffdicm degree in 1875. ! i friendliness of the man, who later| Goes to Europe TWO CUSTOMS TRANSFERS ARE First Division, Harrais 793, Olson 1,346; Second Division, Harrais 193, Olson 95; Third Division, Harrais 408, Olson 617; Fourth Division, Olson 340, Harrais 578; total, Har- rais 1,972, Olson 2,398 There was no change in the Re- publican standings in this Division. Not a single Republican ballot was | used at either Myers Chuck or | tions.” The Secretary of Commerce fur~ ther stated new trade agreements must be worked out with foreign- ers who can pay for the goods. TWO SUSPECTS and British Army officer. Revela- | Remaking Tammany !'was to become their protector and\ The pursuit of medical educa- | R i tions show the spy organization to Tammany's overthrow of the Cur-'their instructor in the ways of the| tion then led him to Europe, and be the most dangerous discovered in France since the World War. ‘Same Cocktails “Up” After 15 Dry Years LEXINGTON, Ky., May 2—The until the whole Tammany organi- life was a never ending round of pital Medical College. last order filled by the bartender 2ation has been made over on, duty. Between times he was called | in a Lexington hotel the night na-| tional prohibition became effec- | tive 15 years ago, consisted of three Martini cocktails. ‘When liquor by the glass became legal in Kentucky recently, the same bartender’s first order called for three Martini cocktails—for the | Want-a Tammany sufficiently loyal! Apaches; to decipher for the bers of the original faculty of the |to the party to keep New York Smithsonian Institution sign lan-| institution. same three men. . | Quilt 226 Years Old | TULSA, Okla—Mrs. H. O. At- kins of Tulsa owns a quilt made 226 years ago which has been| handed down through 13 genera-| tions in one family, ~ v leadership was accepted by ad- ! civilization of the white man. | | ministration politicians in Wash-| In Service Abroad | ington as a step in the right direc-' From the Sioux expedition of |tion, but only a step—a relished 1876 through the successive Nez, On his return he began to teach |appetizer rather than a full meal. Perce and Cheyenne campaigns, to Roosevelt lieutenants are not ex- Cuba, the Philippines, pected to be satisfied unless and Mexican border, General and the Scott's sweeping lines. {upon to organize and lead for five ‘They are not sure what leader- | years a command of Kiowa, Co- ship will succeed Curry’s. They|manche and Apache Indians; to in- | would not be surprised if the bat-|tervene as chief investigator of the the Johns Hopkins Medical school, |tle has only begun. |Ghost Dance disturbances of the Administration men are thinking | Eighties; to assume charge of primarily of 1936; first of all they [Geronimo’s band of Chiricahua state’s big electoral bloc safely jn guages of the Indians which he the Democratic column, |alone among the white men mas- But some of them also are think- ' tered; and to take over various im- |ing beyond 1936. They count on ur’ portant tasks in connection with, ored simultaneously Roosevelt’s being in the White the Cuban and Philippine cam- House for eight years, and a long! paigns. range program of remaking Tam- (Contiwed on Page Two) | In his time he served also as " (Continued on Page Six) the next four years were spent in the universities of Breslau, Strass- burg, Leipzig, Vienna and Berlin, e mew science of pathology, in iStivers Will Go to Seward! Kasaan. H. G. McCain and Louis i ~Chllberg Wlll Be F. Paul are first and second in the | House race. nk H. Foster and | N H. R. Shepa are tied with 315 ome ! Sent to each Walter B. King trails them n 308 votes, ARE RELEASED, - MURDER CASE | Two transfers in the Customs Service were announced in Juneau today. | E. R. Stivers, who has been De- While he was professor of path-|,¢y goector in charge at Nome, wu?oglcal finstomy. sud general path':has been transferred to Seward { olog¥ @t Bellevue, plans wem}be"and he left last night on the 1¢ made for the establishment of| oo, nor vukon for his new station Laurence J. Chilberg, of Seward has been transferred to Nome. He will leave for Nome about the middle of this month, going to his station by airplane. | Mr. Stivers has been at Nome since 1930 and Chilberg has been Deputy Collector at Seward also Isince that year. Clatid gig by OLYMPIA, Wash.,, May 2.—The State Liquor Store Act has been upheld by the State Supreme Court, which later he was to become a | world figure, at the Bellevue Hos- and Dr. Welch was brought to Bal- timore to take the chair of path- ology, being one of the five mem- Climax to Honors | Dr. Welch's honors were climaxed April 8, 1930, when he was hon- in America, |China and several European coun- tries with an international celebra- tion of his 80th’ birthday. Presi- “(Continued on Page Three) i S AP 0. ROBERTS ON WAY TO UGANIK FOR SEASON H. O. Roberts, superintendent of H. the Uganik Fisheries Company, is| aboard the steamer Yukon on his way west to prepare for the open- ing of the season. - President Vetoes Bill for Wages P. O. Substitutes WASHINGTON, May 2.—Ve- toing the bill fixing wages for postal substitutes, President Roosevelt said increasing reve- nues are providing more work for cubstituted carriers who have ‘een idie, ;Negroes Arrested in Los | Angeles for Bremerton Slayings Exonerated | LOS ANGELES, Cal, May 2— | Alex Lucas and Willlam Evans, | two negroes arrested here last Sat- lurday on suspicion of being con- nected with the Bremerton mur- yder of six persons, have been exon- erated and released from jail. 1 Q. A. PYLE RETURNING | TO WASILLA DISTRICT . Q A. Pyle, mining man from the Wasilla district, is aboard the steamer Yukon, on his way to the { Interior from a business and vaca~ Ition trip outside.