The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 21, 1934, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIV., NO. 6683. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1934, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ARMY PLANES T0 MAKE ALASKA FLIGHT VESSEL WITH 1,000 ABOARD STRIKES ROCK I . Panic Ensues as Excursion'g Steamer Goes on Reef, Starts to Sink FOUR WOMEN ARE KNOWN TO BE DEAD Lifeboats Lowered Are Capsized — One Young Officer Proves Hero ST. AVANGER, Norway, June 21. —Four men are dead and many passengers were injured when | Army Honor Man the Nazi excursion steamer Dres- | den, carrying 1,000 German Nazi on a holiday jaunt was knifed by a rock in the shallow Uord‘ near here this forenoon. | A wild panic ensued after the | craft sank. ‘ Twenty women lowered to the | yoy are being saluted by Cadet water in a lifeboat drifted too | Charles F. Tank, of Syracuse, N. Y., clese to the propellors and the | who has the distinetion of being lifchoat capsized. ‘ “honor man” of the 1934 graduat- Women Victims Three women were drowned and four died soon after rescued. Another lifeboat carrying 20 wom- en was being lowered when th | ing class at the U. S. Military Acad- | emy at West Point. Cadet Tank has | been top man of his class in each ‘ of his last two years. e gear broke and the occupants of the boat were flihg into the sea. A young officer dove from the third deck of the Dresden, swam | to the rescue of the women, en- | couraging them and supporting the: weakest until another boat came | to his aid. The officer’s name was | not made public. OPENING PACKS OF SALMON ARE her bow visible. She is anchored Fishing Starts in E]ght Dis- to the shore by heavy chains with | tricts—To!al to ‘June some hope of salvage. | 16 181,792 Cases [ TAKNS FULL BLAME ‘With the fishing season open in ST. AVANGER, June 21.—Nor- eight districts, 181,792 cases of sal- wegian Pilot Tacogsen has assumed mon, largely reds and kings, had sole responsibility for the wreck. been packed up to *the close of “The disaster was caused by a June 16, it was announced today greater drifting than I estimated,” by Capt. M. J. O’Connor, -Asst. said Pilot Tacogsen. “I will take Agent of the United States Bureau sole responsibility although I have of Fisheries. Copper River was nothing with which to pay the leading to that date with a total material damage. The moral re- ponsibility is heavy enough.” | pack of 77,448 cases. Of the total counted, 142,448 were ired salmon and 22,171 were kings. |The run has slacked off in the | Copper River, is increasing in Ber- /ing River and a very good run is e — MANY BILLIUNS | reported at Chignik. l The pack to date is as follows: R E s P E N T I N | Eastern District ... . 2,226 cases A | Yakutat ... . 4,624 cases RELIEF BATTLE R sy 448 cases Record Set for Peace Time —But ‘War Expense Still Much Greater WASHINGTON, June 21. — The Seventy-Third Congress found the battle against depression expensive, but far cheaper than the war against Germany. Although a peace time record was set for approp- riations and obligations, the total fell far short of the 36 billions of dollars in war expense. Some mention six and one-half | billions, while others estimate al- most 18 billions as the total ex- penditure to date. The latter figure includes potential expenditures and all money likely to be spent if things go bad again. There is every indication that fi- gures will be an issue in the com- ing campaign. Representative Ta- bor of New York, ranking Republi- can Appropriations Committee member, set the appropriations and obligations during the special and regular sessions at more than 21 billions of dollars. He called it a record of extrava- gance with disregard for any sense of responsibility to taxpayers. ———————— - CARTER WILL MAKE REPORT At the regular meeting of Silver Bow Lodge No A2, Odd -Fellows, tonight at 8 o'clock, Charles W. Carter, representative to the recent Grand Lodge held in Bellingham, will make his report. The Grand Lodge has jurisdiction over the ledges in the State of Washington and calso Alaska. | Resurrection Bay o | let . . 12,966 cases 35,589 cases 13,518 cases Cook Inl Kodiak Chignik | Alaska Peninsula, (South Side) 32,136 cases 181,792 cases THREE DEPUTY U S, MARSHALS - ARE APPOINTED ‘Total | Effective July 1, United States |Marshal W. T. Mahoney made the | following announcemént of new | Deputy appointments: B. C. Ficken to be Deputy Mar- shal at Sitka, succeeding Frank Price; Jim Nolan at Wrangell, suc- {ceeding H. D. Campbell, and Jud- {son L. Brown, now Mayor of | Haines, for Douglas, succeeding W. E. Feero. Under orders from the Department of Justice, Wash- Eington. D. C, the Douglds jail |has been discontinued and Brown |will be attached to the Juneau office. ———— ;i MRS. JUNGE RETURNS FROM MONTH'S VISIT | Mrs. Kenneth Junge, who has been visiting for the past month {in Seattle, Everett, Portland and | Corvallis, returned on the Princess Louise. | During hegr visit in the south, Mrs. Junge attended the Com- | mencement exercises at Oregon State College, where she was for- merly in atendance, and stayed for 'a few days with the Kappa Delta | sorority of which she is a member. e Shipment of Florida green peas ‘was the largest on record this sea- AVER VISITORS, More Advertising Neces- sary to “‘Sell Alaska” Chamber Is Told More community and general ad- vertising is essential for develop- ment of Alaska's tourist trade, the Chamber of Commerce was told today by two of its luncheon guests, Stanley Schlenther, Seat- tle advertising expert, and Merritt L. Owen, executive of a large Port- land wholesale firm. The former is here “headline hunting” for next year’s advertising campaign of the Alaska Steamship Company, and the latter on a combination busi- ness and pleasure trip. Despite the setback given Alaska by the longshoremen’s tieup of transportation here, business throughout the Territory is defin- itely better than it was a year ago, declared Glenn Carrington, of the Juneau-Young Hardware Com- pany, and who has connections throughout the Territory. Caused Some Loss The strike caused material loss in several lines, he added. Wrangell was particularly hard hit through the cessation of the fresh fish business. Ketchikan and Peters- PUBLICITY FUR‘ SON OF DWIGHT DAVIS IS ALASKA NEEDED, Kivvicatm 4 MARRIED - Dorothea E. Gay and Dwight F. Davis, jr,, son of the former secre- tary of war and governor-general of the Philippines, are shown burg also were affected as were other Southeast Alaska towns. “In spite of this, however, busi- ness is showing a big improvement over last year. All through the Territory we note an improvement in the mining industry especially,” he added. Will Advertise More Mr. Schienther, who is Seattle Manager for Beaumont and Hoh- man, national advertising agency which is handling the national ad- vertising for the Alaska Steamship | Company, said good pictures of historical events and scenes are especially needed to tie up the ad- vertising program more intimately with Alaska. He said he would like to get material of this kind | wedding. The bride is the daughter WOMAN DROPS OUT OF SIGHT and would return it if desired. | he Alaska Line, he said, was, getting good returns from its 1934 | campaign and that its plans are to conduct an even more vigorous campaign for 1935. He invited co- | IN CALIFORNIA ving the Church of the Resurrection in New York after their fashionable of Mr. and Mrs. William Otis Gay of New York. After a honeymoon in Europe, the newlyweds will live In New York. (Associated Press Photo) New T;l rif f La w Se;’ks Customers for U. S. Goods But on Basis of “Swap” WASHINGTON, June 21.—Uncle Sam, in the role of storekeeper, wants to get more business from his foreign customers and Presi- dent Roosevelt is.authorized by the new reciprocal tariff law to “bar- gain” toward that end. Competition in the dwindling world market has grown keener of late. Many nations have given 2 #ltheir executives She’s “*Man-Hunter” POLICE FORCE PICKETS BACK, ' SEATTLE DocK, Entrance Cleared for Trains| and Trucks—Perkins Takes One Step SEATTLE, June 21.—The police | cleared the way for the entrance | of trucks and trains to Pier 40| this afternoon, forcing 50 pickets | to a distance of 150 yards back on the orders of Mayor Charles L.| | Smith. ! Operators hope to start unload- | | ing ships before nightfall. | Secretary of Labor Perkins will invoke the new Labor Disputes Act in an effort to settle the long- shore strike. She has wired to President Joseph H. Ryan, of the International Longshoremen’s As- sociation, now in San Francisco and also the steamship companies urging them to accept arbitration. Ryan is said to have wired back he is willing. Pickets beat a truck driver early this morning. A salesman was also beaten when it was believed he was transporting non-union men to Veronica Flynn Romance and mystery in connection with detective work is pure “bunk,” in the opinion of Miss Veronica Flynn, of New York, who ought to the docks. know, for she now is director of the sleuthing business of her late EARLY REPORTS father, William J. Flynn, Peace negotiations in the coastal longshore strike were reported in Associated Press dispatches this morning tc The Empire from San Francisco as being in a new dead- lock. At Seattle efforts were being made to block the moving of car- goes. Pickets sat on the railroad tracks in front of a locomotive |sent to move freight cars and re- {fused to move. The locomotive was sent back to the roundhouse. In Poriland, non-union crews started unloading gasoline on the tanker Lio under protection. e EVIDENGE 1S “BRAIN TRUST" MAY BE ISSUE IN CAMPAIGN Foes of President, Espec- ially Republicans, Take Up His Yale Speech WASHINGTOUN, June :X.APrcsl-: dent Roosevelt's praise of the| “Brain Trust” has made some of | his foes see red. There is no doubt but that men from universities will TEN MARTIN - BOMBERS T0 COME NORTH Twenty Officers and Ten Enlisted Men Are Go- ing to Make Trip FIFTY DAYS PLANNED FOR ROUND TRIP TOUR [Training Also Photographic Work Will Be Undertak- en — Start in July | ‘WASHINGTON, June 21. — The | War Department announced today that ten Martin bombers will make a training and photographic flight from Washington to Fairbanks, Al- laska, and return by way of Min- | neapolis, Winnipeg, Regina, Ed- | monton, Prince George and White- |horse sometime during the first |two weeks of July. | Twenty officers and ten enlisted 'men will make the trip to take |about 50 days. | The flight will be commanded by Lt. Col. Henry Harnold, Com- | manding Officer of March Field, California. The names of the fliers have |not been made public but it is indicated they will be among the Army's most experienced cross- country aviators. The ‘date and other details of the flight will be announced with= in a few days. The State Department has been negotiating with Canada for the past several weeks for the neces- sary permission to fly across Can- adian territory. -, ROPER TO SAIL WITH PARTY ON GATHERED IN be headlined as an issue of the campaigns in the fall elections and will rise to a crescendo. Supporters of President Roose- broad tariff - ad- Department Agents, Naval operation from the Territory’s busi- | ness and civic organizations. | Not Advertised Enough ‘( Mr. Owen declared that the Ter- | ritory and its communities do not advertise their ows country enough. | He emphasized ‘the importance of | SAN JOSE, Cal,June 21.—Agents advertising and said “if you want|Of the Department of Justice, an this country really opened and to |officer of the United States Navy get the tourist traffic you will|Intelligence Bureau and the police Officer and Police Making Search have to do more advertising.” | His own firm, he added, this year offered a number of trips to its| employees as a business promotion | scheme. Included were trips to| Alaska, Hawaii and elsewhere. “IL was difficult to get anything nn; the Alaska trip, except steamer | schedules, while we were able to get two reels of pictures on the| Hawaiian trip,” he declared. He was greatly impressed with! the scenery of the Territory, awed | by the size of its mountains, and not bothered by the rain. He was used to it, he said, and Portland still holds the belt for rainfall. Elliott Robertson, just returned home from school, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Robertson, was also a guest of the Chamber today Possible Solutions Suggested While several possible methods of solving problems confronting the local halibut fleet were sug- gested by the Executive Board, def- inite action was deferred until next week in order that the Board can | confer with Olaf Larson, head of the local organization. He is out on a trip to the banks at present. Among methods mentioned were: consolidation of areas two and three, which the fishermen favor but which, it is believed will not be favored by the International| Fisheries Commission; increase the catch per man and boat for vessels fishing in area three with the idea of inducing the larger vessels to operate there exclusively; limit still further the catch in area two, to discourage the larger vessels from fishing there; and closing both areas when the limit has been reached in either of them. Usual Finances Assured The Chamber’s usual $500 allot- ment for the Fourth of July Cele- bration is assured it was announc- ed todey by the Executive Board. This has been made possible by special donations made this week (Continued on Page Seven) directed a search today for Mrs. Sibyl Fidanque, missing since last Saturday. Theories ranging from amnesia to kidnaping are presented by the police while the entrance of Fed- eral men deepened the mystery. Naval Officer Lieut. A. J. Rich joined the investigation at a cabled request from the attractive 39-year-old woman’s husband, Jos- eph Fidanque, Panama shipping man EESUARCE e HITLER WILL MAKE REPORT T0 PRESIDENT BERLIN, June 21— Chancellor Adolf Hitler has left for Neudeck to gonsult President von Hinden- burg, who has endorsed the vigo ous criticism of the Nazi regime made by Vice-Chancellor von Pap- en, who is also Premier of Prussia Von Papen resigned but Hitler has re¢fused to accept it. It is generally assumed that von Papen's speech will be an impori- ant subject of the conversation be- tween Hitler and von Hindenburg although it is also said the Chan- cellor's purpose is to report to the President his meeting with Pre- . mier Mussolini. —————— PORTLAND BUSINESS MAN SPENDS SHORT TIME HERE Merritt L. Owen, controller of the Charles F. Berg store, ladies apparel firm of Portland, arrived in Juneau on the Aleutian, and plans to return south on the same boat. He is enjoying sightseeing, and plans to make a few fishing trips. while here, justing powers in the interests of quick action. It has been claimed that America, hamper- ed by red tape, 'was being out- Classed in the race for trade. 7 The new tariff act gives Presi- FRANKUNQRIOSIVELY dent Roosevelt authority to make ‘‘executive trade reements”—lowering tariffs as much as 50 per cent on some im- ports—in return for like conces- sions from abroad. This he may without Senate ratification. Al- though he is mnot empowered to transfer commodities to or from the “free list.” What To Admit? America’s shelves are loaded with farm and manufactured products ready to be shipped to foreign ports. The question facing Presi- dent Roosevelt in his projected bargaining, then, is—what com- modities can be admitted to Amer- ica in larger quantities without en- dangering home industries.” Many products shipped into this country, and for which duties must be paid, do not compete, advocates of the act say, in a large degree with home productions. Some exponents of greater for- cign trade have suggested, however, that those imports alone do not ford a broad enough basis for kind of “swapping” which would increade America’s foreign markets substantially Raw Materials Possibility Administration spokesmen have nted that America may be re- led primarily as a “mass prod- uction’ nation in its trade bargain- ing. Thus its imports might con- sist chiefly o feertain raw mater- ials mot adequately available here d @ wide variety of luxury items produced in small foreign craft shops. 1TIts exports might be ma- chinery produced in the highly me- chanized American factories and agricultural products which Amer- ican’ farmers can raise efifciently. Much has been said of the so- called “lefsicient” industries in discussions of the tariff policy. Sthoolboys have been taught the importance of economic barriers as the protector of “infant industries.” (Continued on Page Three) velt, reading the speech of the President’s acceptance of the Hon- orary Degree yesterday at Yale,| found between the lines a chal- lenge to “bring on that issue.” A few hours after the President had made his speech at New Ha- ven, Conn., Ogden L. Mills spoke in New York City hitting the New Deal with the declaration that ‘“‘a planned economy is surrender.” Judging from comebacks here the | Republicans plan to pose the ques - MYSTERY GASE Strange Disappearance of N.Y. Woman Attorney Entangles. Captain VIENNA, June 21.—Otto Stein- haesul, Police Segretary, said evi- dence connecting Capt. Ivan Pod- erjay with the disappearance of Miss Agnes Tufverson, Is strength- ening as the authorities became convinced that the 43-year-old New York lawyer is dead. “Ab! fitics en- {nere from New York City, 10| washington. There has been acer- trace has been found there of the | tain amount of laughter about the woman who was recently married |yse of prains by the Government. to Capt. Poderjay. He claims he |1y seems to be a good practice and has not seen his wife since shortly | win pe continued. We are going to after their marriage. - call on trained people.” Capt. Poderjay was located here e ittt living in an apartment with an- other wife. KIRBYSVILLE, Texas, —Two hundred white men took Sonny Griggs, a negro, aged 30, from the officers and hanged him. The mob them shot the body full of holes and dragged it behind an auto. Griggs company girl. MEPRAS T 6 KIDNAPPED e ENGLISHMEN |"sk: Rerurnin Howe { ARE FREED here aboard the Prince Rupert to- ity night after attending the Wash- . {ington State College at Pullman. Roar of Planes Over Pi-{Miss Dorothy Green has completed > o . her third year, Robert Hurley rates Hldeaway Be‘llCV- has also completed his third year ed Cause for Action POLICE STUMPED BRIGHTON, England, June 21 —Search continues here for the head and arms of the torso of a woman which was found in a rail- way station here. It is almost conclusive the torso is not that of Miss Tufverson, missing New York lawyer, as no scar is on the abdo- men, which would furnish identifi- cation. — e — — June 2L had of been seen in the a 17-year-old white Two Juneau girls and one young man are returning to their homes and Miss Edna Riendeau her Freshman year. Many of their |friends will be on the wharf to- SHANGHAI, June 21.—The roar night to give them the welcome of British planes over the swampy |home hand. hideaway of the desperate Chinese | pirates is credited with the release of six Englishmen kidnaped from a British commercial steamer at! sea. The six Englishmen are being returned to the British base at Weihawei, MPKINS GOING SOUTH George M. Simpkins is leaving aboard the Princess Louise tomor- row morning for a ten-day trip to Seattle and Tacoma, BRANT MONDAY Secretary of Commerceand | Guests Will Spend Some- time in Tertitory To visit most of the salmon fish- ink areas and seal herds on Prib- ilof Islands, D. 8. Roper, Secre- tary of Commerce, accompanied by Mrs. Bell, two guests, and Frank T. Bell, Commissioner of Fisheries, will sail from Seattle next Mon- day, according to a radiogram re- ceived today at the Governor's of- fice. Their itinerary is not defin- |itely known. It is expected they will make the trip in the Brant, flagship of the | Alaska fleet of the United States Bureau of Fisheries. It is under- iskood the party will visit most of the towns along the coast and go as far west as the Pribilof Islands. They probably will arrive in Ju- neau about the .end of next week and remain two or three days. TWO ARE CONVICTED FOR NARCOTICS USE Dewey Sharp, alias Bud Willlams, and Lawrence E. Hill, alias Ray Momeny, yesterday entered pleas of guilty to charges of being drug addicts after arraignment before Judge J. F. Mullen in the local United States Commissioner’s Court. Each man was sentenced to 45 days imprisonment in the Federal Jail. The men were arrested Tuesday night by Federal deputies. Home made needles and three ounces of morphine were found on them. Both readily admitted they were [.cddlcls and Sharp declared he had | been pronounced incurable. Sharp has a long record of petty crimes streching from Fairbanks to San Francisco, beginning at Ket- chikan in 1923. He is said to have served a two-year term in McNeil Island Penitentiary for breaking and entering a store at Ketchikan in 1930. Prescription blanks, stolen from offices of local physicians and forged by the two men from time to time led to their arrest. Druggists, whose suspicions were arocused, reported the matter to the authorities who investigated. Spoens used on cooking “dope,” hypodermics and a small quantity of morphine were found in their possession,