The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 7, 1934, Page 1

i i | 7 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE \ “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIV., NO. 6696. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1934. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SIX STEAMERS LOADING FOR ALASKA GENERAL STR CONSPIRACY IN LIQUOR TRAFFIC REVEALED NOW, Two Canadians, Henry! Reifel, George Reifel Are Taken Into Custody ARRESTS MADE BY SEATTLE OFFICIALS Civil Suit Also Brought Into Court for Judgment of $17,250,000 SEATTLE, July 1.—Henry Reif President of the Brewers And Dis: tillers, Ltd., of Vancouver, B. C., and son, George C. Reifel, el, were arrested here yesterday by Customs Agents, Accused of being leaders in an| International liquor conspiracy, they were released after posting £100,000 each as bonds. With oth- ers not yet arrested, they are charged with having smugghd | bundreds of thousands of cases of liquor into the United States during the past few years. Big Sum Involved United States Attorney J. Charles Dennis said that S8am E. Whittaker, Special Assistant United States Attorney General, has filed a civil suit in the Federal Court asking total judgments of $17,250,000 from the Reifels and others, asserting that the sum is for duties, cus- toms penaities and internal reve- nue taxes alleged to have been evaded. Issues Denial Attorney Donald E. Eggerman, representing the defendants, issued a statement on behalf of his clients denying any violation of law, and declaring that “there’s spite work behind these arrests.” It is said that the men were in Seattle on business at the time of the arrests. The complaint stated that the alleged conspiracy started more than three years ago and continued up to January 1, 1934. Tt also stated that the men or- ganized and operated a boat line for the purpose of shipping into the United States. ANOTHER ONE WANTED SEATTLE, July 7.—Another son, Henry Reifert, Jr., is being sought in the alleged Canadian Liquor ring The case will be entirely new to the Federal Courts, Federal offi- cials said, as it will decide whether the United States has a right to arrest and convict a citizen of an- other country carrying on alleged illicit operations outside of the 12- mile limit set by International law with the asserted purpose of vio- lating the laws of the United States. STOCKS DOZE, DULL SESSION, N. Y. EXCHANGE NEW YORK, July 7. — Stocks dozed for most of the short session today and prices generally were held to a fractional range. The session was one of the dull- est in eleven years, only 175,000 sales being recorded. Today’s close was steady. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, July 7. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 21%, American Can %, American Power and Light 67, Anaconda 14%, Armour B 2%, Bendix Aviation 15%, Bethlehem Steel 33%, Briggs Manufacturing 17%, Calumet and Hecla, no sale; Chrysler 40%, Curtiss-Wright 3%, General Motors 32, International Harvester 32%, Kennecott 21%, Southern Pacific 24%, Standard Oil of California 34%, Uley, Company, no sale; United Aircraft 17%, Unit- ed States Steel 393%, Warner Pic- tures 5%, Pound $5.04%, Electric Auto Light 21, Nabesna bid 145, ask 155, | when two explosions set off eight tons of newly mixed dynamite. Ten a small boy, were killed and five others injured. The main storage m explosions were preceded by a fire. The origin was not immediately d 75,000. (Associated Press Photo), EXCITE TARS | R 0F U. S, NAVY Brawls Between Sailors and| Citizens Occur in | Nice Cafes | NICE, France, July 7. — Scenes reminiscent of the Armistice were recalled last night when sailors of the U. S. S. Arkansas and Wyom- | ing and citizens mixed in brawls | in various cafes. | Twenty-eight U. S. sailors were( injured, ten seriously. | The damage done is estimated at | $1,600. | The tars were finally quelled by 1 naval riot squad and packed back to the ships to be dealt with | by the officers The Prefect has requested the naval authorities not to let the Dana S. Williams of Lewiston, Me., was named Imperial potentate dition which leaves Washington for} sailors return. It is said the trouble started over Nice beauties, those on the stage as welk as at the tables, in the various cafes. Nice girls are noted for their alluring beauty. Joseph Kline, wireless operator on the Arkansas, is slightly im- proved from a bullet wound in the of the Shriners of the United States at their St. Paul convention. (As- sociated Press Photo) FAST FLIGHT neck inflicted by the Chief of Surete. The latter said Kline knocked * him down twice and blacked his eye when he attempted to protect the handsome wife of a prominent lawyer from the opera- tor’s advances. - e TWO ARE HELD! | Fairbanks with Passeng- SEATTLE DEATH e from Vancower SEATTLE, July 7. — Wiliam| FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 7— Evans, aged 22, Special Policeman Pllot Joe Crosson, of the Pacific- at a night club, and Alex Grant, Alaska Airways, arrived here at a laborer, are held for questioning ' 10745 o'clock last Thursday night in connection with the death of / from Vancouver, B, C., with flying John Strongren, of Port Angeles, time of 16 hours and elapsed time a logger, fatally injured on a Of 24 hours and 30 minutes. downtown strect last night. died of a skull fracture after being knocked to the pavement in a fight. ‘ | Evans said he arrested the log-! ger when he resisted arrest for knocking Grant down. JOE CROSSON pert, Juneau and Teslin Lake be- fore dropping his pontooned plane |into the Chena River here. Crosson’s passengers were Gen. A. D. McRae, Ira B. Joraleman and | Major J. E. Ross. | Radio Operator Bob Gleason | made the trip from Fairbanks to the States and return. . MAGVEAGH Ford Freighter Plane Flown from N. Y., to Fairbanks FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 7.— Division Engineer and Pilot of the' Pacific-Alaska Airways, Joe Bar- rows, and copilot Al Monsen, ar-| rived here on July 3, flying from| New York with the compaay's new Ford freighter plane. CHICAGO, IIl, July 7—A ten- SR SRV yday bronchial pneumonia sickness A Maltese cat in the home of proved fatal to FPranklin Mac- Sheriff O. M. Barnes of Hickory,|Veagh, aged 96 years, former Sec- N. C., adopted a brood of mice retary of the Treasury under Presi- and raised them, dent Taft, {Lands Pontooned Plane at! He'} Crosson stopped at Prince Ru-| PASSES AWAY POWDER FACTORY BLAST KILLS TEN, HURTS FIVE All that was left of a plant of the Denn Powder company at Hawks Prairie, near Olympia, Wash., including two women and escaped destruction. The Loss was estimated at persons, agazine etermined. ALASKA BOUND ' PLANES MAKE - TEST FLIGHT Army Bombers, Soon Com- ing North, Plan Trip to Texas and Return | | DAYTON, Ohio, July 7. — Six | United States Army planes which | will shortly undertake a flight | from Washington, D. C., to Fair | banks, Alaska, will make a t flight to Dallas, Texas, on Sunday | and return Monday. ! The test flight is to determine the gasoline and ofl consumption SCOUT FPLANES FLY SMITHERS, B. C, July 7—Two United States Army planes have arrived here from Prince George and are planning to leave for Whitehorse to arrange for landing 'and refueling of the main expe- Alaska withing the next few weeks. { Captains Ross G. Hoyt and E | B. Bobzien are at the controls of the two scout planes. ., HELEN JACOBS DEFEATED BY - ENGLISH GRL Two Men Players from U. S. Winners of Wimble- don Doubles WIMBLEDON, July 7. — Helen | Jacobs was defeated today for the | All-England Tennis Championship, ‘lby Dorothy Round, ranking Eng- lish player. ! George Lott and Lester Stoefen, of the United States, won the men'’s doubles. Louisiana’s gigantic strawberry ‘industry was begun just as an ex- periment 45 years ago. IKE MAY BE DEC SAN FRANCISCO UNIONS STRONG FOR BIG TIEUP One Hundred and Twenty Organizations Vote on Drastic Action PORTLAND MAY JOIN GENERAL WALKOUT [Move Taken in Sympathy i with Present Situation of Maritime Trouble SAN F R A N CISCO, Cal, | | | i July 7. — The grestion of a! paralyzing general union strike has been placed in the hands of the Strike Strategy Committee to lead an organ- ized movement in case a gen- eral strike is called in sym- pathy with the present mari- time walkout. One hundred and twenty San Francisco unions last night voted to support the committee plan after & strongly - worded resolution was adopted in condemnation for the |use of the militia on San Fran- ¢isco and Oakland waterfronts, It is said here that the general strike 1s also proposed at Port- land where unionists have adopted the battle cry of “victory or death* on the waterfronts. 6.0.P. CHAIRMAN 1S T0 ORGANIZE YOUNGER MEN Goes to Middle West to { Hold Meetings, Confer- ences—Attack NRA NEW YORK, July 7.—Henry P. Fletcher, new National Chairman of the Republican Party, headed for the Middle West yesterday to organize the party's younger ele- jment to fight for the election of Congressmen with “forward look= ing viewpoints.” Fletcher's first task will be the organization of the younger men. ! He will hold a number of meet- lings and conferences for that .pur- pose. ’ Fletcher will also attack the NRA and other features of the Democratic administration, ANNIVERSARY OBSERVED JACKSON, “ich.,, July T7—Re- publican National Committee Chairman Fletcher, in an address here today before a gathering of Republicans observing the Eightletd Anniversary of the birth of the Party, said Congress “under the influence of a combination of fear and fascination. This has under- mined Democracy and weakened | the representative Government by | surrendering its law-making. power to the President.” Chairman Fletcher also said Congress yielded to the President “power and authority comparable only to those possessed by Musso- lini and Hitler.” | WASHINGTON, July 7. Secretary Harold L. Ickes let four thousand Interior Depart- ment employees off work three-quarters of an hour early yesterday te deliver an infor- mal lecture on the evils of eating . breakfast, primping, reading, and holding social gatherings on Government time, Soldiering on Covernment Time Condemned by Ickes; Dept. Employees Lectured for rushing into the corridors at quitting time, saying that | recently when a woman em- | ployee was knocked down, the i others were so intent on get- " He also reprimanded them ting outside that they didn't even stop to pick her up. Secretary Ickes censured _“drones” and praised “busy bees,” Mounted officers and patrolmen on foot are shown in Seattle, Wash., clearing strike pickets off a railroad track leading to the piers. Three of the striking longshoremen received head injuries as police swung night sticks. The piles of junk in the foreground were gathered by the strikers to block the track. (Associated Press Photo), 'STRIKERS DISROBE DOCK WORKER i 1 i Clad in shirts and shorts and holding a piece of canvas, P. Correll is shown in front of a 8an Francisco police station saying Chauncy he and another man had been dragged from their hotel, stri , pped and taken to the street. He said they had been working on the wa‘!’erfront and strikers were blamed for the attack. Left to right: Officer Eddie Miskel, Capt. Hoertkorn, Officer Gus Steffen and Correll, (Associated RIOTINGIS |HOLBROOK GETS PROMOTION: TWO RESUMED IN 'AMSTERDAMOTHERS RAISED Police Use Tanks to Break Down Barricades brook from Forest Examiner to Assistant Regional Forester to fill n S"eets the vacancy left by the transfer of M. L. Merritt to Portland, Ore., was revealed here today. He has been performing the duties of his new office since the transfer took AMSTERDAM, July T7.—Rioting of unemployed and Communists, believed to have been checked with the arrival of additional soldiers, place. broke out anew this afternoon Té-| Two other promotions in the sulting in two deaths and bring-|personnel of the local Regional ing the total to six for the day. Forest Service headquarters staff The police used tanks to flatten |ere 4 announced. Harry Sperl- barricades erected at various sec- tions of the streets! SCREAMS SAVE BOUND MAN AS . FLAMES ROAR SEATTLE, July 7—Bound with| g wire by two men who robbed him | HOLLYWOOD, Cal,July 7.—Alec fof $80 and then set fire to his|B. Francis, aged 66, distinguished building, Joe Maret was rescued [character of stage and films, died from his blazing beer parlor this|of an internal ailment of long morning by Mr. and Mrs. Charles standing after an emergency op- F. Fiddler, They were passing and jeration. heard his cries for help. They | Harry Pollard, aged 55, film di- they saw two men run from also died teday of an establishment, tack of the heart, ing was advanced from Chief Clerk to Administrative Assistant, and C. H. Forward from Forest Ranger |to Assistant Forester. All of them became effective on July 1. FILM COLONY LOSES 2 MEN LARED VESSELS ARE SCHEDULED TO LEAVE TODAY Mail, Freight and 500 Pas- sengers Taken to Ta- coma from Seattle |HIGHWAYS BLOCKED BY LOADED TRUCKS {Plans Made to Load Steam- ers All Next Week Un- til Truce Blocked BULLETIN — TACOMA, July 7. — Six steamers are | loading for Alaska, the first |of an estimated twenty mil- lion dollar cargo for the north with.the Haleakala scheduled to sail early this afternoon and others tonight and to- morrow. Mail, passengers and ex- press are being brought from Seattle by trucks and ferries. Loading for Alaska will continue all next week. Nine more vessels are scheduled to sail then. TACOMA BUSY SCENE Alaska steamers are being loaded today in Tacoma and the latter port is a scene of awakening to new life. Steamers will be dis- |patched as quickly as the freight is received aboard. The highway between Seattle and Tacoma is reported to be blocked by trucks loaded with freight for Alaska shipment. Union longshoremen from Se- attle, Everett and Olympia are assisting the Tacoma longshoremen |in the work of loading the vessels. | Steamers Loading | Steamers being loaded are the | Haleakala, Yukon, Northland and Evelyn Berg and when these are dispatched the Zapora, Norco, De- | pere, Victoria, Lakina, Tanana and Aleutian will be loaded unless there is another breach in the truce. Should there be another blockade in the Alaska shipping, Col. Otto F. Ohlson, General Manager of the i | Alaska Railroad, said he will char- !lter ships for the Government. He estimated nearly 20,000 tons of cargo await shipment to Alaska. 500 Passengers Five hundred passengers-are be- ing transported today from Seattle to Tacoma to board the Alaska bound steamers. Associated Pr ess dispatches tg The Empire stated that Seattle fears it may lose the Alaska and fish trade by the Tacoma agree- ment to load northern vessels there. One Associated Press dispatch stated the Tacoma Citizens Emer- gency Committee insists on placing armed guards on the waterfront in order to open the entire port to commerce instead of just to Alaska but the Mayor said he had no immediate intention of taking such action. REPEAL LIFTS | IMMENSE LOAD FROM PRISONS New Offenses Made Fill Penal Institutions Up Again, Says Bates WASHINGTON, July 7.—Repeal has lifted a load from the Federal Prisons but new Federal crime laws may put it back again. | ®Sanford Bates, Director of the Federal Prison Bureau, disclosed today that the number of prison- ers serving for prohibition viola= tions has shrunk almost 75 per cent from the 1932 peak in some institutions. The last Congress made many acts of violence and other offences Federal crimes and this may fill the prisons up again, P