The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 3, 1934, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIV., NO. 6641. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1934. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE * MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT§ MAN HUNTERS MASS FOR DILLINGER i i S —— = l | T — T T———— —— » . . I NATIONS ARE NEARING BREAK * OVER COMMERCE Important Ann ouncement Expected to Be Deliv- ered to Diplomat JAPANESE TRADE Unless Settlement Is Made Imports to Be Re- stricted by Quotas LONDON, May 3—Walter Runci- men, President of the British Board of Trade, is expected in well informed circles, ready to inform Ambassador Tsueno Mat- , of Japan, that Great Bri- has completed proposals to ct importation of Japanese goods to British colonies. This is indicated, according to an interview published here this afternoon The move, if it results, is re- garded as most sericus in face of world competition between Great Britain and Japan for trade mar- kets. Undersell British In many areas Japanese goods are underselling British goods as., well as goods of other nations. Japan has made rapid strides in the textile business, long a main- stay of England. “Great Britain is alarmed at the spread of Japanese trade through Ler colonies and Africa. Establish Quotas \ Unless Japan offers some settle- ment is is understood Great Britain will abandon all efforts to ease competition between the two na- tions and Runciman is reported ready to inform Matsudaira that restrictions of Japanese imports into the British colonies will take the form of quotas on imports. THREATS OF BOLT bolt at the International Labor Conference resounded today in Ja- panese quarters because of resent- ment at the report on Japan's la- bor and monetary conditions. The report was drawn by Harold Butler, American Director of the Conference Committee and hinted that the successful Japanese inva- sion of the world markets was “commonly called a form of social dumping due to the excessively low wages and bad labor conditions.” The report is ready for presen- tation to the coming International Labor Convention. -—-— - Kansas to Honor Woman Lobbyist in Suffrage Fete KANSAS CITY, Kas, May 3.— The memory of Kansas’' first wom- an lobbyist, who battled for woman suffrage 75 years ago, will be hon- ored at the festival marking the diamond anniversary of the Wyan- dotte constitution, May 10-14. She was Mrs. Clarinda Irene Howard Nichols, a Vermonter by birth, a Kansan by adoption and an associate of the noted suffra- gist, Susan B. ‘Anthony. Although not a delegate to the convention which framed the docu- ment under which Kansas became a state, she attended the sessions and pushed the suffrage cause be- fore and after meetings. She was successful in obtaining equal voting rights for women on school mat- ters as well as equal property rights, radical departures in that day. ———.————— Philippines to Get Interest on Gold MANILA, May 3.—Official circles said yesterday the administration has agree to grant the Philippine government a:net profit of $23,800,~ 000 upon gold currency deposits in the United States as a result of devaluation of the dollar. — e — Tt has been estimated by agri- cultural authorities that Ameri- can farmers spend $40,000,000 an- nually for planting seeds. ALARMS BRITISH| GENEVA, May 3.—Threats of a| Former Alaskan Performs Marriage Ceremony for Another F SEATTLE, May 3.—Col. James J. Crossley, Portland attorney, former United States Attorney at Fairbanks, Alaska, and Mrs. nerva Brown, of Portland, were married yesterday by Superior Court SR wealthiest heiresses of the West, Mi- S precklcs H eirés_s | __ B Miss Dorothy Constance Spreckles cf San Francisco, among the ormer Alaskan Judge Kazis Kay, former Immigra- ‘Lirm Inspector for Alaska. Col. Crossley and his bride left immediately for Washington, D, C., where he will argue a War Risk | Insurance case before the Supreme tCourt next week. ride ] - b daughter of Mrs. Alma de Brett- ville Spreckles and the late Adolph B. Spreckles, who was married in New York recently t¢ Jean D richest women in France, owner wedding took place at the Hotel away by her mother. upuy cf Paris, scn of cne of the of a string of newspapers. The Pierre, and the bride was given INDUSTRY CHIEF, MAKER OF SOAP, DIES SUDDENLY, Col. W. C. Procter, Who Started Wilson in Pol- itics, Passes Away CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 3.—Col. William C. Procter, aged 72 years, industrial leader, is dead here as the result of bronchial pneumonia, death coming suddenly. Friends claimed for him that he contributed indirectly toward the making of Woodrow Wilson Presi- dent of the United States. As a graduate of Princeton Uni- versity and later as a trustee he made determined efforts to bring about modifications in the admin- istrative policies of the university. As part of his plan, he favored t.hel establishment of a graduate school that would enjoy freedom from control by the university head and set aside $500,000 for the endow- ment of such a school. ‘Woodrow Wilson, at the time, President of the university, wel- comed the gift and approved its purpose, but insisted that the de- partment should be coordinated the others of the institution. In an effort to carry his point, Mr. Wilson made a trip to Cincinnati to induce Mr. Procter to modify the terms of his gift, which he re- fused to do and it was declined. Wilson In Politics ‘The issue over the gift precipi- tated a controversy, in the midst of which another wealthy alum- nus of Princeton died, leaving a large bequest to the school on terms similar to those stipulated by Mr. Procter. Unable to sway the governing board of the university to meet the terms of the benefac- tors, Mr. Wilson shortly afterwards resigned the Presidency of Prince- ton to be nominated and elected Governor of New. Jersey. ‘There were many who believed 1 GEN. JOHNSON MAKES REPLY T0 QUESTIONS pears Before U. S. i Chamber Commerce WASHINGTON, May 3—Hugh S. | Johnson, answering open forum | questions of the Chamber of Com- (merce of the United States mem- |bers last night, asserted that the form of unization industry took was éntirely beyond his control. The Recovery Administrator sparred off another blunt inquiry, which has been most loyal to NRA, industry or labor, by saying: “They have been equally, ways.” ‘The audience laughed at both [the question and answer. Gen. Johnson said he had mo doubt that part of the Recovery Act will be permanent but did not know what part. Previously the NRA Administrator said the good part would, and should live while iif it had been any bad part, that part should and would die. both CALL ISSUED WASHINGTON, May 3. — The delegates to the Chamber of Com- merce of the United States con- vention heard a call today request- ing the President to “cease experi- menting” and asking Congress to stop enacting “hysterical legisla- tion.” Silas Strawn, attorney and former *President of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, leader of the conservative wing, asserted in an address that busi- ness men now wanted “more defin- ite promises” in order to plan their ‘uture conduct. i ne el A “Madonna and Child” paint- that this venture into politics prob-' ¢ by Bondinelli and Belleni, re- (Continued on Page Two) naissance artists, brought $2,000 at an auction in New York City. :NRA Adm inistrator Ap-' HITLER MARKED FOR DEATH; BIG EXPOSURE MADE Ritual Murder Planned by Jews, According to Berlin Newspaper SPECIAL EDITION RELATES DETAILS Official Sanction Is Given to Reveal Alleged Facts in Plot BERLIN, May 3—Details of a “Jewish plot to murder Chancellor Adolf Hitler,” appeared today, of- ficially countenanced, in a special |edition of the Anti-Semitic weekly |“The Stormer.” Twelve pages are devoted to the discussion of the “Jewish ritual murder” climaxed with the allega- tion that world Jewry is planning the ritual murder against Chancellor Hitler and his followers ever wit- nessed by the world.” The write-up asserts the Czar Nicholas was a victim of a similar plot. | - .- LOGAL CHAMBER GIVES MERRITT FINAL TRIBUTE IHawkesworth Ex presses | Chamber's Regret at His Removal to Portland With a capacity membership in {attendance, the Chamber of Com- |merce said its formal farewell to M. L. Merritt, former director of the organization and a member for the past 13 years, who will leave ‘on May 8 for Portland where he {will make his future home. The (Chamber’s regret at losing him were spoken by C. W. Hawkesworth, member of the present Board of Directors. He recited some of the achieve- ments of Mr. Merritt as an indi- vidual and a Government official, and praised him for the sincerity jand effectiveness of his services |in both capacities. At the con- clusion of his remarks the Chamber |stood and gave Mr. Merritt an | enthusiastic salute. | Was “One of Us” The finest compliment a com- munity can pay to a newcomer is | say “He is one of us” Mr. | Hawkesworth said. And that is |how Juneau has regarded Mr. Mer- |ritt since he came here in 1921. He joined the Chamber then and as been a member through the intervening years. “He 1s one of (Continued on Page Eight) “biggest and most gruesome { { A view of Castel Gandolfo, Italy, the beautiful villa, built by Pope Urban VIII in 1629, which may be occu- atican this year. It | pied by Pope Pius as a Summer v . would be the first time in 63 yea May be “Summer Vatican” of Pope Pius housed a Pontiff. terrace garden. furnished, one of rs that the villa Below is a view of the beautifal The villa_has been complctely re- the new features being = two-way radio transmission plant. GOVERNMENT SPENDS MORE THAN INCOME Pays Out $2.34 for Every| Dollar Collected— Figures Announced — | WASHINGTON, May 3.—Uncle Sam has been passing out an av- | erade of $14,000 every sixty seconds, day and night, during the past ten months, | The. Government's spending dur- ing the first ten months of the present fiscal year averaged more | than nineteen million, one hundred ! and fifty-two thousand dollars daily. Against this expenditure, Government collected daily on the average, of a little more than eight | million one hundred and eighty- four thousand dollars. This , means that almost every!| eleven " million dollars of every day’s expenditure is borrowed, in other words, for every dollar col-' lected the government spent $2.34 of which $1 went to emergency re- | covery expenditures. | College Land for CWA | WARRENSBURG, Mo. — Ten| acres of the Central Missouri State Teachers College farm were do- nated to Johnson County for use as @ community garden in a CWA relief garden project. {Geneva Bureau By JOSEPH E. SHARKEY GENEVA, May 3.— The United States is beating the International Labor Organization to the latter's treaty-designated goal, but offi- cials of the bureau aren’t griev- ing. The organization, which, like its sister, the League of Nations, was created by the treaty of Versailles, ‘was brought into being to establish “humane conditions for labor.” Its present leaders consider that the Rooseveltian labor policies are giv- ing it a new lease of life—a sort of transfusion of healthful labor blood. Discuss 40-Hour Week ‘They are looking forward to a June conference which will dis- States is expected to send an un- official delegation, and the Geneva leaders feel certain that delegates from the rest of the world will lis- ten attentively to expositions of American policies. Although the organization formed at Washington, the United States never took out formal mem- | the slogan in this field. Labor in Front Ranks Now! cuss the 40-hour week. The United | Sees U. S: bership. In the earlier days Ameri- can labor feared that the body might advocate measures that| would be inimical to American| standards. | Now the situation is reversed.| European employers apprehend that | new deal” policies on child labor and collective bargaining might create delicate problems for them. There is real hope here that the United States soon will see its way clear to join the organization. It is felt that its ideals ought to appeal | to the Washington government. In furtherance of its aim to get the whole civilized world into the organization the bureau’s officials| recently set up a special “extra-| European” section. The object is to' place the bureau’s machinery more, effectively at the disposal of both North and South America. } One method employed toward this end is inviting labor leaders | and stlidents to write or visit Ge- was | neva in quest of information. “Tell your troubles to Geneva” is J & Contacts High Power Line, Is Electrocuted WENATCHEE, Wash., May 3—~Ben Buob, of Brewster, a lineman connected with the ‘Washington Water and Power Company, was electrocuted yes- terday when he came in con- tact with a high tension line. He was not married, - e, TEETOTALER 1S WHISKEY CHIEF, NEW e A. J. Mellott to Organize 1,800 Detectives to Stop Bootleg Flow WASHINGTON, May 3.—A self- styled teetotaler from Ka 5 ar- rived in the Capital yes organize the whiskey detective force of 1,800 men to crush repeal’s bootleg trade. Upon this new army, which Ar- th ministration has apparently placed full reliance in choking off the illicit liquor flow, at least as the | White House word ended the talk of trying to lower taxes and tar- iffs just now. Mellott becomes Director of the ‘Treasury's Alcohol Tax TUnit on May 10. “I'm personally a dry but I'm not a fapatic and never have been,” Mellott told the newsmen. DR, SCHMIDT IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, May 3. — Dr. Otto Schmidt, leader of the Soviet scientific expedition marooned on Arctic ice floes and finally rescued, arirved here last night from Nome via Fairbanks, accompanied by | Prof. George Ushakorff, command- | er of the relief expedition. Dr. Schmidt and Prof. Ushakorff will remain in Seattle a few days before continuing their journey to Moscow. Game in Alabama MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Veteran | hunters say more game of all sorts was found in Alabama last winter than at any time in many years. Quail, rabbits, deer, squirrels, foxes and wild turkeys were plentiful in many rural sections. U. S, UNIT rday toi ur J. Mellott will direct, the Ad-| 12NAVY PLANES TOVISIT HERE DURING AUGUST | Sacloh |Will Be Biggest Expedition | of Its Kind Ever Sent ‘ North by Navy | The largest air force ivisll Alaska will leave Seat in July and spend about 30 days i ever to |in the Territory, it was revealed here today by R. H. Sargent, topo- grapher for the United States Geological Survey, who was a guest of the Chamber of Commerce to- day. His report was confirmed by .a telegram received at the Gov- lernor’s Office from Commander A W. Radford of the Aeronautics |Bureau of the Navy, Washington, |D. C. ‘1 The expedition will arrive here ion August 2, after brief stops at {Ketchikan and Petersburg. It will !be based here for seven days. Twelve Giant Planes | Under the command of Admiral | Johnson, the force will consist of |12 Naval patrol planes, the Wright, |a large airplane tender, and two smaller vessels of the same type (a§ the Gannett which accompanied the Navy Alaska mappers here in |1926 and 1929 | The air force is to be com- {prised of two squadrons of six ships each. It will be under the jcommand of Capt. Read, one of the first Navy fliers to cross the |Pacific. The planes will be of the largest type operated by the | Navy, having a wing spread of 100 {feet. They are similar to the big |ships that recently hopped from | (Continued on Page Seven) -+ {“Pussyfoot” Got ' $900 in 1933 as ! Dry Law Crusader I s | COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 3.—W. E. “Pussyfoot” Johnson, interna- tionally known as a crusader against liquor, made $900 last year as a lecturer for the Anti-Saloon League, records on file here show. His estimated remuneration for | next year? | “God knows,” was his answer. | He is, he explained from his home at McDonough, N. Y., em- | ployed “only occasionally.” | The records were included in a | compromise plan of the American Issue Publishing Company, which proposes to pay off in bank claims the personal debts of Johnson and Ernest H. Cherrington, secretary of the World League Against Alco- holism and education director of ‘the Anti-Saloon League. The fig- | ures showed the Anti-Saloon League iof America has a $77,400.08 defieit. tle late | TRADE FIGHT LOOMS BETWEEN BRITISH, JAPANESE DESPERADO BELIEVED - TO BE IN CHICAGDO Nation’s Ace Criminal Chas- ers and Police Marks- men Running Down Latest Clues CHICAGO, 11, May 3.— The Government’s ace man hunters and police marksmen are massed in this area in a new drive to get Public En- |emy No. 1, John Dillinger, dead or alive. The massing of the double force here followed discovery of a blood stained auto iden- tified as one the hoodlums used after their escape from a Mercer, Wisconsin, resort. ARMS ARE WANTED WASHINGTON, May 3. — The Department of Justice has outlined a two million dollar thrust at crime and will ask Congress for that sum to buy more guns and pay for more men. Agents have found that the chasers after des- perado John Dillinger are armed with machine guns which they have taken from mobsters and not those supplied by the Government because none have been purchased for them. o PAT KELLY IS UNDER ARREST, PRINGE RUPERT Wanted in Connection with Theft of $1,500 Furs at Wrangell KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 3.— The Prince Rupert Provincial po- lice have arrested Pat Kelly, of Wrangell, sought on an alleged grand larceny charge in connection with $1,500 of furs stolen. Extradi- tion negotiations are expected. The furs were stolen from Stan- ley Jekell, of Wrangell. Thomas Tremble, former employe of Jekell, was arrested at Wrangell, under suspicion of being implicated. The Prince Rupert Provincial Police said Kelly is also accused of stealing the gasboat T-1957 which they said was used in his getaway. ———— BETTING 0DDS, KENTUCKY RAGE ARE ANNOUNGED LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, May 3. —Various horses are being picked for the winners in the Kentucky Derby to be run next Saturday. The probable odds now are Cav- alcade and Time Clock at 4 to 1, |Mata Hari 5 to 1, Peace Chance and Discovery 6 to 1, Sir Thomas 8 to 1, Bazaar and Blue Again 10 to 1, Spy Hill 12 to 1, Agrarin 15 to 1, Singing Wood, Speed More, Riskulus and Sergeant Byrne all 20 to 1. Revolt Against |President of Spain Ends | MADRID, May 3.—Any possi- bility of ousting President Za- mera has believed vanished with a vete of confidence in Premier Ibanez by the Chamber of Deputies.