The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 11, 1934, Page 1

INFLATIONISTS ARE IRRITATED BY HARRISON Governor of Federal Re- serve Bank of New York Starts Something WASHINGTON, July 11. — In- fationists are irritated by reports that George Harrison, in talks at Basel, Switzerland, might be pro- moting an idea of stabilizing rela- tions between the dollar and the Treasury Departments that Harri- son, Governor of the Federal Re- serve Bank of New York, is not acting for those Departments. Harrison's conversations , have been with Montegue Norman, Gov- crnor of the Bank of England. Senator Thomas, of Oklahoma, has cabled to Harrison saying that instead of being stabilized, the dol- lar must be restored to the 1926 purchasing power. GOES TO PARIS BASEL, July 11. — George Har- rizon has left for Paris saying that he is satisfied with the results of his important financial conferences with England and the Bank for International Settlements officials. Before Harrison left, the Bank of International Settlements sent | protests to Germany against the recent moratorium and seeking toj| insure interest payments to the American and other holders of the Dawes-Younz bonds. BEAUTY QUEEN IS FOUND DEAD OklahomaA uthorities Have | Baffling Case—Young Man Is Sought NORMAN, Okla, July 11. — A campus death mystery, with a beauty queen, a pharmacy student, the victim, and a fraternity house | cook, in the leading roles, baffled the authorities today. Marian Mills, aged 20, daughter of a professor, was found dead at the home of Mrs. Hazel Brown, fraternity house cook. She is be- ing questioned. Neal Myers is being sought. He| telephoned a physician that the, girl was believed dead and dis- appeared. Miss Mills was chosen by Fred- erick March, movie star, in 1933, as the most beautiful girl on the campus. She was engaged to Ber- rard Doud, of Shreveport, La. Miss Mills was found, fully clothed on a bed. She was Myers’ girl companion during an overnight stay at Mrs. Brown's home. Mrs. Brown said Myers introduced her as his wife and asked to spend the night at her house which they did, the girl sleeping with her young man in another room. There are no marks of violence on the body and no sign of heart| disease. THEORY ADVANCED NORMAN, July 11.—1Tt is the belief expressed here this after- noon that Miss Mills died as the result of an attempt to prevent motherhood. The officials take this view after Mrs. Brown said Miss Mills had been taking a “quack” medical preparation. Myers' mother said her son and Miss Mills were secretly married sometime ago. Albert Memorial Library Perpetuates Belgian Era| BRUSSELS, July 11.—At the sug- ‘gestion of King Leopold, the bulk of the funds being collected throughout the country for mem- orials fo King Albert are to be bunched for a national library in Brussels. As originally planned, the money was to be used for a monument in Brussels and memorials in the chief towns of each of the nine provinces. King Leopold’s suggestion, which has been approved by the govern- ment, is that his late father’s ser- Vvices would be commemorated best by a national library, erection of a monument at Yser in accordance with the wishies of ex-soldiers and ' She’s the Cream and Coffey, Too | | reported out of committee during Judges at the na- tional convention of the Grotto at Atlantic City, N. J, had the pleasant task of picking Miss Isa- bell Coffey, 17, of Buffalo, N. Y., as “America’s per- sonality girl -of 1934.” Believe it or not, she can sWim. N ~(;;lass Evye Frees J ensen; He Is Not “Blueberry Tom” and W anted for Alaska Murders BROOKIAN, N. Y., July 11— TmnlMoN The glass eye that Thomas Poter | Jensen cursed back in 1908, 1 |gained his freedom and broug BILLS ENAGTEDI switt exoneration from an Alaska | ' | triple murder charge after a heur-j‘ ing before United States Commis- | Every Bill of Delegate, Re- ported Out of Commit- sx»;ner Martin Epstein. Jensen, a Danish seaman, was freed after accused of murder in |a strange tale of greed, it being a case of mistaken identity. | tees, Passes Congress WASHINGTON, D. C., June 3 —(Special Correspondence.) — Ev. ery one of the 20 Dimond bills Three sourdoughs of the Yukon |gold rush tentatively identified |Jensen as “Blueberry Tom” who | was indicted for the slaying of two | prospectors and a dance hall girl 0. during a trip on which they car- ~'ried Alaska gold. | Jensen was questioned to decide | whether he should be extradited | to Alaska. His glass eye saved him. | Geoger Berg, Federal Agent at Seattle, testified “Blueberry Tom” had no glass eye in 1908. Berg knew “Blueberry Tom” well and Minataen ‘ofthese bills ‘were . #p= quickly decided that Jensen was proved and one was vetoed by the,m’t She right man. { —————-— President. He declined to approve[AIR FURGE Is the second session of the Seventy- Third Congress was passed. The McKinley Park and Nylan bills, already passed by the Senate, re- ceived House approval in the clos- ing hours, STEEL INDUSTRY PRESIDENT IS IN COLOMBIA; | | Roosevelt Says Chaco War Is Discordant Note, * Must Be Stopped 20 CARTAGENA, Colombia, July 11, —President Roosevelt, in an ad1 dress here, hailed the dawn of & new era among the nations of the American continents. The American Chief Executive promised the United States wil exert every possible effort to en the Chaco war between Paragua; and Bolivia. He said that war i the one discordant note in Amer- ican international affairs, ; Crowds swarmed the wharves and streets to greet the President on arrival aboard the U. 8. S, cruiser Houston. ¥ JOHNSON WILL COME TO WEST, SPEAKING TOUR [Roosevelt Tells Him to Speak as Often as He Wishes, Where Desires WASHINGTON, July 11. — Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson disclosed today he ' wants to turn the NRA job over to a commission and step back | into private life as soon as Presl:i dent Roosevelt feels he can spard |- him, | Gen. Johnson hopes to promul- | gate a new code before leaving on a combination vacation and speak- | ing tour to the West, a one big| code for 450 small industries. The speaking plans of Gen. Johnson are considered the answer to published reports that President | Roosevelt curtailed Johnson's speak- | ing tour in which the Adminis- | trator is expected to expound NRA. | His office sent word to the Presi- dent that the tour, according to | reports had been curtailed and the | President immediately sent a radio | to Johnson to speak as often as!| he wished and wherever he desired. MORE TROUBLE horses, motorcycles and afoot. Press Photos) Rioting Follows Move to()})en Port | 1 Below—One of the many clashes, showing police (at right) IS THREATENED, TyewELL NOW * TOURING WEST . T0 SHOW THEM ['Brain Truster’ No, 1 Sent Republic Corporation Ends 20-Year-Old Agreement, Fearing Radicals WASHINGTON, July 11. — New labor troubles in the steel industry working on the Pacific Coast long- shore strike and many other work- ers’ disputes. The Republic Steel Corporation, of Warren, Ohio, announced it has ended its 20-year-old relationship with the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, fearing that control of the union would pass into the hands of radicals. A strike is threatened at the Wheel Steel Corporation plant in Portsmouth, Ohio, where 5000 workers may walkout. POLITICIAN IS ASSASSINATED is plaguing the 'officials alrcady | | Out to Become Acquaint- ed with the People By HERBERT PLUMMER WASHINGTON, July 1l ~— The | Administration’s No. 1 “brain trust” | —Dr. Rexford Guy Tugwell—will ! revive a neglected hobby when he itmlrs the agricultural west in his !new capacity as Under-Secretary 'of Agriculture. @t is inspecting agricultural ex- | periment stations. He hasn't had much opportunity to pursue that hobby of late, A {revival at the moment would fit 1 in nicely with the professor’s plans. | While he will be traveling in be- half of the accomplishments af the | new deal thus fir, the Administra~ | tion also wants the west to gep a 'good look ‘at Tugwell. | . The fight ‘in the Senate over his confirmatioh as second in com- the McKinley Park bill because, it is believed, of opposition expressed closely, this measure was founded | on principles of simple justice. It! PR TE T S was introduced after the situation [ ] [}l had been made known by D. E. Stubbs' 6f McKinley Park, who has ok ¥ been in Washington since last fall awaiting the outcome. ing a living. The ‘surrounding an adequate air force is essential country upon which they had de- to present day protection of the pended for game and fuel had be-: Nation, Rear Admiral Halligan, come part of the national park sys-, newly appointed Commandant of tem 4nd investments built up over the Thirteenth Naval District, has a period of years were suddenly arrived at Bremerton to take com- wiped out. This was notably true mand. could no longer be ‘done the busi- in Alaska and the Northwest will ness became unprofitable. be increased,” the new Command- Made No Appropriation ant said. The bill made no direct appro-| priation. It merely provided for a Teview by the Secretary of the In-i terior and, if any or all of the set up for payment to these settlers in case the Secretary or the Court of Claims found their claims just. Otherwise the government would not have been qut of pocket one penny. g The Interior Department opposed by the Department of the Inteflor.‘ Measure Believed Just | In the opinion of Delegate Di- mond and others who studied it} New Commandant Arrives| When the boundaries of the Parkl at Bremerton and were enlarged a few years ago! Makes Statement many settlers found themselvesi _— cut off from all possibility of mak-! Seattle, July 11.—Declaring that in the case of Mr. and Mrs. Stubbs,! “As regards air defenses in the who had a fine fox farm. Of Northwest, you are closest to the course they got most of the fox Orient. That is all one need say. feed by hunting and when that I cannot say what air defenses claimants dissented from his de-| cision, they were given the righci to aeppeal to the Court of Claims. An appropriation of $75000 was the bill from the first, but the Delegate was able to get it through Congress despite that fact. It is customary to refer these bills back Tax on Municipal Utilities Fought by Indiana Cities BEDFORD, Ind, July 11.—This city is taking the lead in the fight of 40 others against the Indiana law which provides that all cities must pay state and county taxes on municipally owned utilities, Appeal has been made to the State Board of Tax Commissioners. If the appeal is denied, the cities, which are affiliated with the In- diana Municipal League, plan to carry their fight to the courts to mand of the Department of Agri- KANSAS CITY, Mo. July 11— culture, the contention of his erit- John Lazia, North Side political ics that he was not a “dirt farm- leader, died today as the re flult‘er" and his position in the “brain of bullet wounds suffered in front, trust” apparently have convinced of his apartment early this morn-|the Administration that he should ing at the hands of unidentified machine gunners. Lupe and Her Johnny Are To Separate BEVERLY HILLS, Cal, July test the constitutionality of the act, passed in 193. the marking of the Marches les/to the Departments after their, Bedford’s axes on the municipal- Dames site where his death, X i passage and it is assumed that the wonunued on Page Two) ly owned water works under the new law amounts to $1,504, 11.—Lupe Velez said teday she will file a suit for divorce from Johnny Weissmueller, swimming star. She will charge mental cruelty. -l d i be seen. . | TuGwELL: A TARGET Inspecting agricultural experi- |ment stations is considered to of- |ter a splendid and dignified meth- od for Tugwell to be seen by the rank and file of the farming ele- ,ment, end, et the same time, af- ford something he enjoys. « It has been apparent for some time. that Tugwell has been singled out by the Republicans as a target in .coming political campaigns in their fight on the “brain trust.” (Continued on Page Five) N S s S S S S O 5 ach y Striking longshoremen and 500 police engaged in numerous clashes in which clubs, tear gas and bricks were the chief weapons when an attempt was made to move freight out of the dock ware- houses that line San Francisco's embaradero, to break the tieup resulting from a strike. Top—The first truck emerges from a pier warehcuse to start the activities. Center—Strike pickets, strikers and sympathizers give way befcre the advance of policemen on arresting a striker. (Associated Secretary of Treasury to Come North SEATTLE, July 11.—Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgen- thau, Jr., arrives here on July 19 enroute to Alaska on a tour of inspection. The Secre- tary will make the trip north on the cutter Chelan. Accompanying Secretary Morgenthau on his Alaska trip will be Rear Admiral Harry G. Hamlet, Commander of the United Stateg Coast Guard. — e ——— MISSISSIPPI T0 STAY DRY JACKSON, Miss., July 11.—The votes of the State have apparently vetoed the proposal to repeal the State’s quarter of a century old Prohibition Jaws. ‘With one third of the precincts heard from, the repeal act, pro- viding for State liquor stores is trailing by 17,000 votes. DRY SHE STAYS JACKSON, Miss., July 11.—It was officially announced this afternoon that Mississippi remains dry by a vote of about 2 to 1. Domestic Troubles Cause of 3 Deaths BOSTON, Mass., July 11.—The police said John Gidney, aged 55, a letter carrier, shot his daughter, Margaret Borgeson, aged 19, and her husband Ernest, to death, wounded their six months old baby Estelle and then suicided over do- mestic troubles. and also baby troubles. The baby is not expect- ed to live, REPUBLICANS ADOPT PLANKS OF PLATFORM Three Items Sent Back to Committee for Redraft- ing — 23 Present At a weu-aaverused meeting of the Juneau Republican Club in the City Council Chamber last evening, 23 members of the club adopted platform planks for the Republican Party of the First Di- vision as drafted by .a platform Lcommmme composed of H. R. Shep- ard, Frank Foster and Albert White. Mr. Shepard, candidate for the post of Representative in the Ter- ritorial Legislature, recently took copies of the platform to Ketchi- kan for similar action by the Re- | publican Club there. | The platform adopted, follows: | Territorial Offices “We pledge the candidates of the Republican Party, in the event of their election, to honest and ef- ficient service in the management lof Territorial affairs for the best | interests of the people of the Ter- | ritory. v | Fisheries “We believe that the fisheries of Alaska are particularly the her- itage of the people of this Terri- tory, and that they should be han- {dled by the people of the Terri- tory to the exclusion of Federal Bureaus. | “We pledge ourselves to do all in our power to abolish fish traps |and other fixed fishing appliances, | for which principle the Republican Party has stood since 1924. “We favor complete survey of | the waters adjacent to the Terri- |tory of Alaska, to the end that a (Continued on Page Three) SHOTS FIRED: NTO RANKS OF LONGSHOREMEN /| Observers Believe Actid_kg May Precipitate General» Walkout in Oregon LABOR BOARD IS STILL CONFERRING | Waterfront Employers Are Ready to Reach Agree-. ment, Cal. Bay Cities .- Blood was spilled in Port- land today in the longshore | strike when the police fired | from shotguns into a crowd-of pickets, an act some chserv- ers believed that might pre- cipitate a general strike there, according to Associated Press dispatches received by The Empire this afterncen. Four longshoremen were | wounded in the Portland shooting. The trouble started when the strikers prevented | erews from moving a freight train ontec the Municipal | Terminal. A dozen shots | were fired. A bloody shirt, worn by one of the wounded, wes waved hefore |the City Council meeting by Matt | Meehan, member of the Executive Committee of the Intenat Longshoremen’s Assoclation, who shouted: “This blood is on your hands.” San Francisco Action In San Francisco a pledge to | cooperate fully with the Labor Dis- |putes Board in negotiations to !semc the strike and thereby pre- )venn a possible general walkout, |was made this afternoon by the | Waterfront Employers through Thomas G. Plant who pledged full cooperation to end the controversy and permit the Board to supervise |the disputed hiring halls. Load Steamer At Bellingham the first steamer began loading since the strike, which began over two months ago. In Seattle, Alfred Lundin, Chalr- man of the Citizen's Emergency Committee, said he had asked Gov. Clarence D. Martin to send &5k patrol to drive alien agitaters. blamed for the recent violerce T connection with the strike, ouf of the city. S In Olympia, Gov. Martin denhl'l receiving such a request. - Early Reports ' ™% The menace of a general ‘shrise hung over San Francisco, Oakland and Portland this forenoon as the Labor Disputes Board sought to break the deadlock in. confi in the Bay City, according tesAs- sociated Press dispatches. ™ With a walkout of 2,500 team- sters (truckmen) set for tomo A the outlook this forencon was ad-. mittedly anything but encour: At Portland, longshoremen employers both declared wi to accept the Portland plan for & strike settlement but. held shghtly different versions of the plan. Ready to- Agree The employers said they would accept the plan calling for recogni- - tion of the Intenational Longshore- men’s Association and joint control of the hiring halls, with wages to be arbitrated later. MLy The longshoremen demanded'tHé right to discipline union members . with an I. L. A. member named as hiring hall dispatcher. e The Aleutian arrived at Tacoma today with 70,000. cases: of salmon. The Lakina clears tomorrow for Ketchikan and other cannery centers, * by — JIM BRENNAN RETURNS °° TO JUNEAU ON YUKON James Brennan, well known gjds timer of Alaska, returned to Juneau on the Yukon and is registeréd ‘&t the Alaskan Hotel. Mr. Brennan has been outside since last when he went to California health until a few weeks ago,": when he returned as far as He declares that the climate: Alaska is better for him than, more salubrious climes, and * he feels better since his return ¥ he did while undergoing in California,