The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 29, 1934, Page 1

> » THE DAILY A “ALL THE ASKA EMPIRE WS ALL THE TIME® VOL. XLIV., NO.. 6690. OUTSIDERIS | NAMED JUDGE IND DIVISION J H S Mc;;;n, of Cum- berland Gap, Tennessee, Appointed to Alaska RESIGNATION OF GORE REQUESTED Delegate DTrr:)nd to At- tempt to Block Con- firmation in Senate WASHINGTON, June 20—Alas-| ka Delegate Anthony J. Dimond| announces the Department of Jus-| tice has requested the resignation of Lester O. Gore, Federal Judge of the Second Judicial Division of Alaska, with his headquarters at Nome and he is to be succeeded, over the Delegate's protest, by J. H. S. Morison, of Cumberland Gay, Tennessee. This makes the second non-resident to be a Fed- eral Judge in Alaska, Judge George F. Alexander, of Portland, Oregon, Judge of the First Divi- sion, with headquarters at Juneau, being thel other. To, Bleck Nomination Delegate Dimond declared he will do everything in his power to block confirmation of Morison if the appointment comes before the | Senate next year. “I understand the plan is tohave Morison go to Alaska immediately and serve until just before the! next sesplon,” said Delegate Di-| mond. “{At the time he is sup- posed tol resign leaving the way| open foria nomination. I was in- formed the proposed nomination | was madd as a direct favor to Cor- dell Hull, Secretary of State, be- cause the Cabinet member had| asked for no other patronage jobs| and thisi one was given to this | | | | man. Alaskans Wanted “Alaska’ does not want and does not need’ outside Judges who are| ignorant pf the Territory, and have no other interest there than Judg- ships.” Under the plan Morison will be able to hold the Judgship about one year before his name comes |Soaring Over Two Brothers Are Atlantic for Poland HARBOR GRACE, June 29. | The Adamowicz brothers, Ben- jamin and Joteph, swept sky- ward today cver the Atlantic headed for Poland. The two brothers took to the air from Brooklyn, N. Y, at 5:45 o'clock yesterday morning on a flight to Warsaw, their | ancestral home and stopped here last night for refueling. UNITED STATES MAKES PROTEST T GERMAN ACT WASHINGTON, June 20. — The United States has protested Ger- many’s discrimination against Am- ericans in suspending payments of Germany's external debt, and de- clares that Germany has deserted this Government but must make every effort to pay. This strongly worded note was delivered to Rudolf Leitner, Ger- man Charge-d'Affairs. | The United States, in the note,' said that this nation is aware of they are largely troubles of Ger- man Government, but insists that they are laregly troubles of Ger- many's own making, or such as could be modified by Germany. { The American note is the result of German action in declaring a six months" moratorium on interest | on transfers of foreign obligations | estimated at a total of three bil- | lion dollars. American investors hold more than forty per cent of Germany’s external obligations, and other countries have either been, given more favorable treatment ‘or{ such treatment is contemplated CITY COUNCIL ANTICIPATES HOT MEETING The City Council in their spe- cial meeting tonight expect a hec- tic meeting with miany representa- t ;Agreement Is Also Reach- Reporters Furnish Blushes at Nudist Wedding CHICAGO, I, June RF Dressed in a coat of tan bare- skin, smiling and wearing .a wedding ring, Jean May Am- arillo, very pretty young wo- man, was married to Charles Eller, of Milwaukee, dressed in less than before. A party of nine cameramen and re- far-§ STEEL STRIKE IS AVERTED BY F. D. R. BOARD ed in Wool and Tex- tile Industries VIOLENCE BREAKS OUT IN MILWAUKEE! Arn Th rZESRand‘Azid:BUSlNESS IS & Patis of Betico. " GOING AHEAD, SAYS REVIE Statement by President on WASHINGTON, June 20—Death| has stepped into the picture of Recovery Movement Aiding Industry The parson was wrapped in a goatskin. i — e — the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, trans-| portation workers! strike and 80, have arson threats and acid hurl- ing throughout the nation as the whole labor conditions were con-l siderably ' brighter today as the‘ result of President Roosevelt's ap- pointment of a National Labor Re- | lations Beard for the steel indus-/ try. NEW YORK, June weekly Dun-Bradstreet, view said that whille the “trade tide is undoubtedly ebbing from 29.—The Inc., re- Two Strikes Averted | The International Executive, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1934. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 1S ANNOUNCED "BY ROOSEVELT Three Prin;%;l Plans Made Public by Chief Ex- ecutive in Speech DECLARES GAINS MADE IN PAST 15 MONTHS Replies to Cvitigs:of Ad ministration—Practical Policies to Continue ‘WASHINGTON, June 29.—Presi- ik Roosevelt told the nation last it in a speech over the radio ‘thaf. substantial gains have been in the last 15 months and inted to the future in which the new Governmental structure will be “part of and fulfillment of the old. Looking into the future, Presi- dent Roosevelt said: “‘The first jprinciple program will be the means of providing better homes for' the people of the nation, WASHINGTON, June 29. special license is issued. The action was taken wi purchased before the order wa Some here believe the move nationalize silver. TWO WINNERS NENANA POOL BOUND SOUTH Johnston’s Money Claimed Half Gone—Pykil Will Raise Ginseng Jack Johnston and Nick Pykil, fortunate muckers of the Lucky | 8hot Mine near Craigue Creek in |the Nenana Ice Pool last Spring are on their way outside on the Aleutian. clamped an embargo on silver exports Embargo Is Clamped Down on Silver; Exporting Prohibited UP T0 STRIKERS — The Treasury Department last night unless a ith the approval of President Roosevelt to effectuate the recent silver purchase policy. Exceptions are made to include allowing of export silver s issued. e a forerunner of a move to DESTROYERS DUE IN JUNEAU THIS ;EVENI@ AT 10 U.S.S. Buchanan, Crownin- shield to Be Here Until Tuesday Morning 1 I | To remain in Junmeau until next Tuesday, the U. 8. S, Buchanan land U. 8. 8. Crowninshield, fist (the Willow Creek region, who won line destroyers of the United States | Fleet, will arrive in port tonight 'between 9 and 10 o'clock from !Ketchikan where they have been Board of the Amalgamated Associ- | ation of Iron, Steel and Tin Work-' ers issued a statement it saw no further “necessity or occasion for suspension of operations” in that) industry. | Representatives of the Wool and Textile Code Authority and union labor reached an agreement which apparently averts a strike of 75,000 workers in that field next Monday. Milwaukee Violence the standpoint of sales, and earn- ings are gradual but irregular, an uptrend is noticeable in practically all major lines. “It cannot be denied that crueial points lie in the path which busi- ness must follow during the mext six months, but with reassurance by the President that nothing will be allowed te interrupt the re- eovery movement, overcoming of To Use Resources second is to plan the use land and water resources of the country to the end that means that the livlihood of our citizens may be more adequate to meet their daily needs. “Finally, the third principle is the hse of agencies of the Gov- ernment to assist in the establish- ment of means to provide a sound “The of the Their shares on the one ticket since Wednesday evening. The de= | timidity and jettinsoning of pres- and - adequate protection against In Milwaukee, violence virtually ent excessive caution may result}the Wcissitudes of the modern life, paralyzed all street car and bus in a sudden forging ahead in the for, other words, a social in- lines. ‘nexc few weeks.” surance.™ A youth was electrocuted when a. } To Crities crowd stormed the main generat- ing plant and another demon- strator was burned. One guard was gas that was used. B A S hurt by tear Not Prospecting For Pay Dirt, But Laying Water Main It's a new water pipeline, not a search for pay dirt, that has shifted a crew of Talla- poosa men from squeegees On the deck of the cutter to picks i —,————— o Y Replies 1 | Saying that some persons insist- 1 jed on applying such names as | Facism, Communism, regimenta- - LOWER TODA | | tion and other names to what the | Government is attempting, the | President declared: Grains Slide Down Creat-| | ing Depression Atmos- | phere on Dull Market !ways been doing, the fulfiiment i of the old and tested American [ “I believe in practical explana- tions of practical polictes. NEW YORK, June 29. — Stocks ideals.” drifted lower today caused by de-| To Step On More Toes “I believe that what we are do- ing today is the necessary fulfill- | clining and creating a depressing! Referring to ‘“self-seekers ment of what Americans have al- and |tives of the townspeople present | to present their views on the pro- ALASKAN NAMED | posed liquor ordinance. Many Yesterday it was announced that|Variant points have been attacked, Simon Hellenthal, of Juneau, has|and supported in informal discus- been appointed Federal Judge of|sions during the past two weeks before the Senate. | factor. The close was rather theoretical die-hards who tell you and shovels on the tideflats |00,y 1t was a dull market with that you have lost your individual adjacent to Willoughby avenue. | ,nceers under half a million liberty,” the President said: The rock fill on Willoughby | g, .r0g “The toes of some people are sak sk -the- Work - beneath The reversal in grains found being stepped upon and they are Femmer's dock, broke the Wa- | yneat and corn losing one to £0ing. to be stepped on , but those ter line to the Government |more than "R cents a bushel on toes belong to a comparative few the Third Divsion of Alaska with headquarters at Valdez. He is an Alaskan of many years. ——.— ASSASSINATION PLOT REVEALED IN CUBAN COURT Attempt Was Made to Kill President Coolidge in 1928, Is Claim HAVANA, Cuba, June 29.—Unit- ed States Secret Service Agents are accused by a Cuban attorney of having two men slain to foil the plotted assassination of President Coolidge in 1928. Heliodore Gill, counsel in a mur- der trial, described the alleged plot and its outcome in developing ar alibi for six men charged with the killing of the two principals. ———aeo— LIVES TAKEN INHOT WAVE WEST T0 EAST Temperatures Are of Siz- zling Kind With No Relief in Sight CHICAGO, I, June 29.—More than a score of deaths are attrib- uted to the sizzling temperatures that scorched much of the con- tinent from the Rockies to the since the first draft of the ordi- nance was introduced. One of the most discussed sec- tions of the ordinance is that re- quiring 1 o'clock closing for liquor stores, it being the contention of many that this is a 24-hour town, and hence should have the liquor stores open in order to prevent bootlegging. ‘The ordinance was originally in- troduced primarily for the purpose of giving the City Magistrate jurisdiction over violations of the Territorial rules of operation, it being felt that if the City must do the policing, it should collect the revenue from fines. Extra chairs are being installed in the Council Chambers for the accommodation of the anticipated crowd. WINGARD LEAVES FOR BRISTOL BAY TODAY; TRIP MADE BY PLANE Lemuel G. Wingard, Alaska Agent of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, after a hurried trip to the southern fishing areas yester- day, left today by plane enroute to Bristol Bay where the season is just getting under way. He will re- turn to Seward in a few days and meet Secretary D. S. Roper of the Department of Commerce there and accompany him on the Shoshone to Southwestern Alaska. Mr. Wingard will remain with | the party until it returns here about July 20. It will join Com- missioner Frank T. Bell either at Kodiak or somewhere on the Alaska Peninsula. e B. D. STEWART IS BACK FROM SIX WEEKS TRIP | OF INSPECTION WEST B. D. Stewart, Supervising Min- ing Engineer and ExOfficio Fed- eral Mine Inspector, returned to Juneau on the steamer Aleutian yesterday after being away six Atlantic seaboard. No relief is in sight according to weather bureau officials, ‘ weeks making a Special investiga- tion of the coal fields in the Mat- anuska Valley. doek. As a consequence, for some time, the Tallapoosa and other government vessels were unable to take water aboard at the dock. A new main line from Wil- loughby is being laid now and will be completed by Tuesday, according to those in charge. - e - SCHOOL PROGRAM TONIGHT The Bethel Vacation Bible School will give their closing pro- gram this evening at 7:45 o'clock in the Bethel Pentecostal Mission on Main Street. The classes will give portions of what they have learned during the two weeks and also the songs they have learned. ‘The awards will be given for the best class work. Everyone is in- vited. A combfhed picnic for the Bible school, church and Sunday School will be given in the Evergreen Bowl Park on Saturday, if it does not rain. CHERAS Sl CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, June 29.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 21%, American Can 96%, American Power and Light 7%, Anaconda 147%, Armour B 2%, Bendix Aviation 14%, Beth- lehem Steel 32%, Briggs Manu- facturing 17, Calumet and Hecla 4%, Chrysler 38%, Curtiss-Wright 3%, General Motors 30%, Inter- who seek to retain or gain posi- tion or riches, or both, by some shortcut which is harmful to the greater good.” was up two | Company, no sale; United Aircraft aboard when it sailed from Van- national Harvester 33, Kennecott Wil &rrive on the Alaska tomor- 21%, Southern Pacific 24, Stand- "W | ard Oil of California 34%, Ulen The steamer had 350 passengers 18%, United States Steel 38%, couver, Miss O'Neill said. Most of | ‘Warner Pictures 5%, Pound $5.05% {them are tourists who didn't allow | Nabesna bid 1:51, ask 1:60. |a little thing like a shipping tieup PR PO S ST jto interfere with their summer's Henry Gorham and Oscar Jen- vacation. sen, recently awarded the contract | TR e o for construction of the new school! Following services this morning | at Chignik, took passage this 3t 10 o'clock, the remains of Lloyd | morning for that place on the Bayers, oldtimer who died earlier| John C. Kirkpatrick, taking with this week, were taken aboard the | them supplies and equipment nec- 8asboat Messenger which went to essary for the building, which is the entrance of Gastineau Chan- to be completed in time for the Del, and then consigned to zhr”iln ‘for a business trip to Ket- |southbound, are enthusiastic about eral projects including the Seward | beginning of school in aapumr.ideen- moisture relief. Bonds were irregular. Rails did not respond to the re-| | more than the usual seasonal gains. | points included United States | Smelting, Depasco, Eastman, Am- |erican Telephone and Telegraph, Is SIGNED TU L] | Bethlehem Steel, Chrysler, a few| L) i rails, Kennecott, Dupont, Ameri- HE | U. 8. Industrial ‘ LP INDusmY ints. | | Homestake, on a single sale, Miss BEss ONEILL | gy Cut Ten Per " HERE FROM SEATTLE Cont by Dealers | WASHINGTON, June 20.—Presi- agent of the United States Bureau |Housing Bill intended to aid in of Fisheries, arrifed here last night |reviving the industry by increasing {the Summer and Fall in local | The Lumber Dealers’ Association {headaquarters of that bureau. She has ordered a ten per cent cut |was delayed several weeks by the [in the price of lumber and other | Miss O'Neill, whose winter head- housing program. quarters are in Seattle, left there —_—————— to connect with the steamer Alaska | isailing from Vancouver the same | evening. She left that vessel at Gallagher, who will be a Clerk in| sENT Tu PHIsuN Miss O'Neill's office this Summer. FARGO, North Dakota, June 29. —Gov. William Langer, after win- in last - Tuesday’s primaries, was today sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined $10,000 in the defraud the Government. - - JCHN F. CHAMBERLIN LEAVES ;cooler temperatures and some | port that freight loadings showed o o e | | Losers of one to around two HUUSING BILL | Westinghouse, United States Steel can Smelting. |went to a new record high at 412. Prlce of Lumber Is Immed- Miss Bess O'Neill, disbursing |dent Roosevelt has signed the by plane from Ketchikan to spend |construction and repair work. ' Seattle longshoremen’s strike. ibulldlng material to aid in the last Tuesday on a special train Ketchikan last. night. Mrs. Georgia | ning the Republican nomination Federal Court for conspiracy to FOR KETCHIKAN THURSDAY John F. Chamberlin, wholesale which they bought for the lucky day netted them $28800 apiece. They shared 20 tickets. Pykil is | quite definitely settled on what he is going to do with his money, of which he claims to have spent very little. Even before winning his stake made and planned to |leave Alaska this fall for Howard Lake, Minn., where he will go into the ginseng raising business with a 'meher. Winning the pgol just set his plans{”n_:\;ead a few mont) n A Daze - Johnston, who js claimed to have spent half his share already, |8ays that he Is in somewhat of a ‘dam. and doesn't know what to do with himself. “It’s just like being out of work,” he said. He thinks he may get married in Seattle, or may visit his sister in California, but whatever he eventually does, “whoopee” is very definitely included in his plans for the immediate future. He says that he is surely coming back to Alaska and go to work again. { Both men have been in Alaska | for & number of years, Pykil since 1907. Johnston has not been out- side for several years, but Pykil | was out last year, when he visited |the World’s Fair and relatives in |8t. Paul, Minn, Pykil stated that he is going to sée the Fair again, but Johnston is not just so sure that he will go to Chicago. e LATE BULLETINS ‘WASHINGTON—President Roose- velt has signed the bill liberalizing the laws governing compensation for world war widows and orphans. OLYMPIA, Wash. — The death toll of the Denn Powder Company's blast reached 11 persons with the death today of William Barto, Plant Superintendent. WASHINGTON — The President has established a committee on Economic Security to prepare a program of social legislalion he recently advanced as business for the next session of Congress. Sec- retaries Perkins, Morgenthau, Wal- lace and Cummings are on the commijttee. Former War Veteran, Minor League Player, Hanged,Prison Gallows KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 29.— Paul Kauffman, aged 35, World War veteran, and former minor league player, was hanged this morning for the murder of 17- year-old Avia Woolery, of Webb City, Missouri, whom he Ilured here and attacked in Swope Park four years ago. Kauffman protested his cence to the last. PROMINENT SEATTLE PEOPLE VISIT ALEXANDERS HERE Harry M. Haller, prominent Portland, Ore., business man, and Mrs. Haller are round trip passen- gers aboard the Aleutian. Mr. and Mrs. Haller who visited Judge and inno- the pool, he figured that he had ,stoyers were to leave the First City this morning at 8 o'clock for 1Juneau and will tie up at the Goevernment Dock here. Both vessels have a displacement ‘of 1090 tons and are normally a |part of Division Four, Destroyer Squadron Two, United States Fleet, | with their home port at San Diego, | California. They were built at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works. The Buchanan was launch- ed on January 2, 1919 and com- missioned on January 20 of the sdme year while the Crowninshield ywas launched on July 24, 1919 and ! commissioned on August 6 of that year. Both vessels carry four four- linch, 50 calibre guns, one three- inch, 23 calibre, anti-aircraft gun and four 2l-inch, triple torpedo tubes. Officers and Men In addition to Lieutenant Com- {mander Theodore E. Chandler, com- manding officer of the U. 8. 8. {Buchanan and Lieutenant Com- mander Raymond Burhen, in com- mand of the U. 8. 8. Crownin- shield, the ships will have 19 naval officers, approximately 50 members of the Naval ' Reserve Training Corps from the Universi- ties of Washington and California, one from Yale University and 120 enlisted men aboard. Visitors Welcome It is understood that local visit- ors will be welcomed aboard the vessels every afternoon they are in port after 1 o'clock and many resi- dents of Gastineau Channel com- munities have expressed their de- sire to take advantage of this opportunity of inspecting the fight- ling craft. | Both officers and men were en- tertained in Ketchikan yesterday by motor car rides to places of interest, a dinner by the Chamber of Commerce for the visiting of- ficers and two large free dances in the evening, one for the naval officers and members of the Naval Reserve and another for enlisted men. A suite of rooms at the Ingersoll Hotel was provided as an uptown meeting place for the visit- ing officers while they were in port. Plans for their entertainment while they are in Juneau include a baseball game and dance at the Mandarin Ball Room tomorrow evening, motor rides to Menden- hall Glacier on Sunday and visits to other places of interest Monday, according to E. M. Goddard, of the Entertainment Committee of the local Chamber of Commerce. >ee - Man Claiming to Be 160 Years Old Dies in Turkey ISTANBUL, Turney, June 29. —Suffering a varlety of ail- ments, including Brights dis- ease, gland and bladder disor- ders, Zero Agha, Turkey's Methuselah and whose age brought him world fame and also Broadway, of New York City, America, when he was past 150 years, is dead. He claimed to be 160 years old. e terior Ickes has allotted more than representative, left Juneau yester- | Mrs. George F. Alexander while twenty-five million dollars of the day afternoon on the steamer Aleu- |the ship was in Juneau, north and|Public Works funds for non-Fed- chikan, their trip to Alaska, power loan grant of $118,000. Officers WASHINGTON—Secretary of In-| |PROPOSALS PUT AND EMPLOYERS |Seventy-two Hour Resump- | tion of Loading Is I Plan Presented REYNOLDS DEMANDS ACTION IN 24 HOURS Break of Agreement Will i Be Investigated Unless Decision Is Made Waterfront employers and striking longshcremen in Se- |attle were asked today by | Charles A. Reynolds, repre- | senting the President’s Arbi- tration Board, to agree to a | seventy-two hour truce in Al- | aska shipping. The employers were asked to cease operations with non- union crews while the strik- ing lengshoremen were asked to work Alaska ships in the interim. The employers and strike leaders who conferred with Reynolds were told that un- less the Alaska situation was settled by tomorrow and that branch of shipping allowed to resume, he would open a hearing to determine who | was responsible for breaking the agreement on Alaska shipping. Reynolds later said the em- ployers agreed to several con- cessions in the Alaska ship- ping resumption but the pro- posal was rejected by the strike leaders who are firm in their demand that all non- union work on other shipping be halted before the Alaska agreement is again \n force. AT SAN FRANCISCO SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, June 29. —Negotiations for peace in the longshore strike continued today after rejection by the employers of a new settlement offer which would put control of the hiring nalls into the hands of both em- ployers and employees. JRBIEEN 1.7 i BT S CONTRACTS ARE FOR AIRPLANES {United States Taking Steps to Meet Air Limits of Other Nations ‘WASHINGTON, June 29. — The United States made another move today toward increasing airplane power to the level with that of any other nation. This move was in the awarding of contracts for the purchase of 81 bombing planes and 280 airplanes totaling and ex- penditure of five million dollars. _—— -, SPANISH NAVY INTO ACTION; RUSH ORDERS Fleet Being Seut fo. Valel cia Where Needed in Case of Emergency GIBRALTAR, June 29. — The Spanish fleet has sailed, after wireless instructions from Madrid to proceed immediately to Valen- !cia, where it is wanted in a case of emergency. Valencia is the closest large sea~ port to the State of Catalonia which threatened recently to cede from the Spanish Republic. Rumors of a Civil war also caused the movement of the fleet, . - AWARDED TODAY 5