The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 12, 1934, Page 1

LASKA EMPIRE S ALL THE TIME” DAY, JULY 12, 1934. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS REAT SPREADIN SENATOR DILL NOT SEEKING RENOMINATION Twelve Years ok Life inl Washington, D. C., Has Proven Sufficient SPOKANE, Wash, July 12— United States Senator C. C. Dill, Democrat, declared last night that he did not intend to seek public‘ office again unless some pressing issue affecting the State of Wash- ington arose which would require the help that only an experienced member of the Senate could give, and he added he foresaw no such condition at the present time. Senator Dill's term expires this year. one of the few Democrats of the North to survive the Hoover land- slide. Tired of D. C. Senator Dill says he is tired of living in Washington, D. C., and wants to spend some of his time in his own State. He expressed the wish that the rest of the| Roosevelt Congressional delegation | He was first elected in 1922 | and again in 1928 when he was | ‘World Wide Grain Yield Lowest in 33 CHICAGO, Iil,, July 12—Stunned by the Government's prediction of the lowest world wide grain yield in 33 years, tradérs rubbed their eyes and wondered what next. The report sent grain prices sky- rocketing to the highest points al- lowed under the trading rules. The Government’s report is the Makes Sensational Report Years; U. S. biggest surprise grain traders ever received, one commentator said. Traders and speculators are re- ported to be entirely unprepared for the development of such a sensational character. Cash grain followed a rise in futures with premiums generally | maintained. CHAMBERURGES CONSOLIDATION OF TWO AREAS Asks International Fisher- ies Commission to' Act Without Delay Immediate consolidation of hali- but areas two and three and limit- ing the total boat take in area two | to 16,500 pounds regardless of size of this State be returned to office by the electorate. For some weeks it has been' rumored Senator Dill would not seck renomination as he desired to enter private business. Senator Dill is Chairman of the | Intersmte Commerce Committee, | also a member of the Irrigation and Reclamation, Judiciary, Patents | and Public Lands and Survey com- mittees. DEMOCRATS GET BUSY SEATTLE, July 12. announcement by Senator Dill, Demoerats all over the State began digging up new material. Four pos- sible candidates have already indi- cated they would seek the seat in the Senate. The four who have indicated their candidacies are Representa- tive Sam Hill, of Waterville; Super- jor Judge Charles Leavy, of Spo- kane; Lewis B. Schwellenbach, of Eeattle, University Regent and Presi- | dent W. H. Pemberton, State Sup- ervisor of Inheritances. The last two are both attorneys. ——eeo——— PRESIDENT TO START ACROSS OCEAN TODAY Roosevelt, Aboard Houston, ' Leaves on His Visit to Hawaiian Isles BALBOA, Canal Zone, July 12— President Roosevelt begins today the longest run of his vacation cruise, over the Pacific to Ha- wali, where his arrival, twelve days hence, may coincide with the de- cislon there to fight the New Deal control of ‘sugar. The Hawaiian planters have made threats to challenge the consttu- tionality of the Jones-Costigan Act which placed sugar as a basic com- modity under AAA. The U. 8. 8. cruiser Houston is starting late today for Hawali, tak- ing a President the farthest from home any President has been since President Wilson went to Ver- sailles. ————— SOVIET UNION “WILL PAY UP NEW YORK, July 21.—The Sov- jet Union, it is authoritatively learned, will repay within the next few days the indebtedness of four and one half million dollars in- curred a year ago in the purchase of American cotton. Funds have been deposited in the Chase National Bank. Cotton sales were made * the U. 8. 8. R, through eredits grant- ed exporters by the Reconstruc- tion Finance Corporatibn. ———————— Statisticians have estimated Flor- ida supplied more than one-third of the fruits and vegetables mar- keted in New York City during the first quarter of the year, — With- the } and capacity has been requested (from the International Fisheries Commission by the local Chamber of Commerce to prevent unemploy- | ment and suffering among resi- dent fishermen. This action was | taken last Tuesday by the Board jof Directors as authorized some | two weeks ago by the Chamber as 'a whole, the organization was in- formed today. Sitka endorsed this propdsal, both fishermen and the Chamber of Commerce approving it unani- mously. Petersburg and Ketchi- kan declined to act, the former I saying it swouldn't do any - good: land the latter saying it could not see its way clear to act at this | time. Text Of Message The Chamber’s radiogram to the | Commission said: “Re early ciosing halibut season in area two, local | fishermen will suffer greatly if season closed in August and such closing will work decidedly against small boat owners who are mostly | Alaskans. We urge relief by com- i bining areas two and three with present season limit and limiting total per boat catch of all boats to 16,500 in present area two with continuation of present per man basis, thus placing small boat own- ers on equal basis with schooner operators. Fishermen and mer- chants here and 8itka strongly suppon this plan and urge your ! consideration of this necessary re- lief.” Supporting this, the Chamber !also wired Edward W. Allen, mem- ber of the Commission in Seattle, saying: “We wired International Fisheries Commission, Seattle, to- night urging relief of local halibut fishermen from early season clos- ing by suggestilg combination areas two and three with present season limit, and limiting total per boat catch all boats to 16,500 in present area two with continua- tion present per man limit. This would give small boat operators equal rights with schooners which they do not have as long as area three can remain open longer than area two. We urge you as Alaska’s friend to do all possible to secure this relief.” Air Field Work Started Work ‘on a temporary landing field for airplanes was started near mile eight on Glacier Highway last Sunday by & B. P. R. crew, R. E. Robertson, Chairman of the special committee in charge of that project, reported today. It is believed an excellent temporary field will be completed there with- in a few days. An invitation was sent by the Chamber to the pathfinder planes of the Army Good Will Flight, ad- dressed to the mat Whitehorse, to come here and inspect the field. It was suggested they come to Skagway and take a hydroplane there for Juneau. No response has been received to date. Wrangell Suggests Zoning Zoning of Alaska into two dis- tricts for migratory bird open sea- sons was suggested by the Wran- gell Chamber of Commerce which asked the local organization to Join with it in presenting the mat- ter to the Department of Agriculs ure. It further suggested that Southeast ‘Alaska be put into a :&ne apart from the rest of Alas- If but 30 days hunting should (Continued on Page Seven) AUSTRIA TO . DRIVE NAZIS OUT OF LAND Chiaacellor” Dollfuss Takes| Into His Own Hands Mili- tary and Police Powers VIENNA, July 12. — Chancellor Dollfuss has announced a hug: el new drive against Nazis after con- | centrating in his own hands all military and police powers of the Nation. The death penalty awaits nere possession of explosives. Chancellor Dollfuss presented lhz-\ ‘esignation of the whole Cabmol| ind then submitted a new list '.cw the President. The Chanceilor is determined to stamp out the whole ment in Austria. BOMBINGS TAKE PLACE “ VIENNA, July 12. — Two new | bombings are reported in Austria only a. few hours after Chaucellor Dollfuss announced a new anti-ter- cor campaign with the death pen- alty for posession of explosives. Five persons, four of them tour- ists, were injured at Salzburg when a bomb destroyed the auto of a member of the Dollfuss Fatherland Front Organization. STOCK PRICES DRIFT LOWER; TRADING DULL Rails Come-—Un der High Pressure—Specialties Buck Down Trend NEW YORK, July 12—Stocks drifted lower today. Rails were under most of the pressure. Trade was dull. | On the decline a few specialties bucked a down trend. The close was heavy. Grain speculators were swamped with orders. CLOSING PRICES TODAY | NEW YORK, July 12.—Closing quotation of ‘Alaska Juneau mine stock today was 22'%, American Can 100%, American Power and Light 6%, Anaconda 14, Armour B 5%, Bendix Aviation, no sale; Bethlehem Steel 3%, Calumet and Hecla 4%, Chrysler 40%, Curtiss- Wright 3, General Motors 317%, International Harvester 33%, Ken- necott 22%, Ulen Company, no sale; United States Steel 39%, Pictures 4%, Pound $5.037 besna bid 141, ask 153, Electric| Auto Lite 22%. i ———o——— T HALIBUTERS | SELL, SEATTI.E SEATTLE, July 12—Halibut ar- rivals today were as follows: Good-Will Trip Starts day from Chicago—¥ Prominent Men CHICAGO, 1ll, July 12 ‘!._‘t o W. H..Alexander, former Chief Instructor “ of United States Navy Station Pensacola, will be in comi a plane on a good-will flight, S0 ing next Sunday, on a flight a the world, sponsored by a rwup business men. b ¥ The route will be to Berm to the Azores, then to Patis, lin,' Moscow, Siberia, Nome,"} and return to Chicago. ¥ Accompanying Lt. Com. ander will be co-pilots Mi John . Wycliffe < Iseman. 4of - York; Major W. C. Brooks,: Lincoln, Nebraska; radio’ man, Capl Arthur Finch and flight mechanie, John melo ESCAPES FROM TIME IN YEAR Nazi move-' Pretty Woman Is Fugitive Again — Killed Two ¢ Men in Arkansas ' LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, July 12 ,Helen . Spenge.. who killed two men, is a~ mgnwe from the State Farm for Women for the fourth time within a year. The quiet, carefree prisoner was serving ten years for her second killing when she escaped by feign- ing illness and then took the guard’s pistol. Prison Farm officials fear trouble in returning her this time. Miss Eaton killed Jack Worls in 'a courtroom for the alieged killing f her father just as the jury left to consider the case. After her first escape she came here and worked in a cafe. She killed the operator of a cafe at Dewitt saying he made unwelcome advances. The girl left a note as follows: “To Whom It May CuncernA—I‘L never be taken alive. The note was found in her lock- | Bloodhound.s are combing countryside. the DIES IN GUN BATTLE LITTLE ROCK, July 12—Mak- ing good her threat never to be taken alive, Helen Spence Eaton aged 22 years, slayer of two men, died in a gun battle with a trusty| guard seven miles from the Jack- sonville Women’s Prison Farm, near here. ‘The girl died before the shotgun charge of Frank Martin, who with B. O. Brockman, Deputy Superin- tendent of the Prison farm, en- countered her on the road after she had invaded a farm house and attempted to force the farmer wife to provide her with transpor- tation. Miss Eaton reached for her re-| volver, when ordered to halt, and was shot down. CHARGES ARE FILED LITTLE ROCK, July 12. — The coroner has filed a first degree ,murder charge against Frank Mar- tin for killing Miss Spence. ————— Retires Aft Two Yeus of Teaching WATERVILLE, Me., July 12. — The Colby College commencement i this year marked the retirement of be permitted this year; w;meu'fnulty brakes and driving by per-|chorage to Dillingham, Nushag wants it made during October, u:mns without licenses, Ketchikan 60 days, September 15 to N’ovem-'B conducting brake tests on Mis- From the western banks—Radio Dr. Clarence Haywood White, pro- 40,000 pounds, Akutan 40000 fessor of Greek, after 32 years of pounds, Kodiak 40,000, all selling service to the institution. He was for 6% and 6 cents; Alten 40,000 graduated from Amherst College in pounds 7% and 6%. {1886. Among his classmates were From the local banks—Oceanus Robert Lansing, Secretary of State 18,000 pounds, 8% and 6 cents; in Woodrow Wilson's Cabinet, and Husky L., 6,000 pounds, 8% and 6 Clyde Fitch, playwright. cents;” Wireless 16,000 pounds, 7% | and 6 cents. ' AWARDED MAIL CONTRACT | INSPECT BRAKES The McGee Airways of Anchor- |age was recently awarded the con- As part of a campaign -g-mst tract to carry air mail from. An- k, 'Snu Point, Naknek, Egegik, Ili- amna and Koggiung, making a ]round trip of 928 miles twice each m_mth beginning Qctober 1. sion Street, Main Streets, between front and (WA~ New, Steel Labor Peace Board Begins Work UNI[IN LABUR imbers of the fewly Created National Steel Labor Relations Board, appointed by President Roosevelt ofi the eva of his vacation departure, %o help mediate, met for the first time in Wash- ington, with' Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. tary Perkins. Here pictured from left to nght are, Dr. James Mullenback Chacog; Wiley, U. 8. N. justice North Carolina supreme court, and Secre- Rear Admiral Henry A. retired; Walter F. Stacey, chief o ' PRISON FUURTH,, Recovery Program Is Keepmc National Capital Stirred Up| el BASIC CODE IS FORMULATED BY . NRA CHIEFTAIN [Will Include All Industries | Not Not Under Recov- ery Regulations WASHINGTON, July 12.—Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson has promulgated new basic code for industries still without NRA codes and set a |30-day deadline for winding up |the Blue Eagle code making, | istrator Johnson gave all uncoded industries the choice of merging | with existing kindred codes or ‘opemung under the new basic code with the General NRA code to be created by him, Gen. Johnson said he did fiot intend to force all remaining un- codified industries under codes but Bave notice that industries remain- |ing outside the NRA and which appear to be harboring labor | abuses, may have a code imposed, | Uncoded industries, while nu- | merous, Johnson said, employ far |ness than 10 per cent of Amerlca’s great labor army. LOS ANGELES IS DISCARDED [One of Navy's Airships Re- moved from Strength as Being Unsafe WASHINGTON, July 12—The airship Los Angeles has been re- moved from the Navy's fighting strength and is a forerunner of a serles of changes in the Nation's aviation line-up which will include |a study of aviation conditions in | the United States and Europe, | The Los Angeles will he used as an experiment hangar, mooring at the mast at Lakehurst, New Jer- sey. The ship has been laid up as unsafe on aceount of deterioration of materials used in construction, — e —— CHINA IS HIT BY 5 SCOURGES SHANGHAI, July 12. — China's old enemies, floods, famine, lo- custs, heat and cholera are again taking a toll as the hottest sum- mer in more than 60 years, sears the country. The price of rice jumped 50 per cent within a few days, In a special order, NRA Admin- | Pe By BYRON PRICE Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington). Even with the President, Con- gress and the Supreme Court | away, old and new aspects of the recovery program are keeping Washington stirring. Here are a few: “NRA: July and August are criti- cal months. Gen. Johnson, Sen- ator Borah and others will be talk- ing to “the little fellows” from | varying viewpoints, and the returns | will be laid before President Roose- | velt, for his decision, when he comes home from Hawaii. | AAA: The whole tendency is m‘ fortify and expand the crop con- trol experiment. There is no sxgn of retreat; the main effort now is| to ride down the opposition. Un-| less the situation changes radical- ly, at least another year of the ex- periment seems certainly in pros- et PWA: Officlals are convinced; too many projects are being unduly delayed. Greater speed will be in- sisted on during the summer, cul- minating in a big push, coincident with the normal seasonal business upturn this fall. STOCK MARKET CONTROL: The personnel of the new control commission is so preponderantly liberal in its views that Washing- ton expects some real regulation of ‘Wall Street. It is agreed the Presi- dent has chosen a commission with teeth, HOUSING, LABOR, FARM HOUSING PROGRAM: .Impor- tant industrial interests are en-| couraged at the selection of James A. Moffett, an experienced business executive, as administrator. LABOR BOARD: There is no conviction in Washington that this problem has been solved. Thel Tnew board’s operations will be ex- Perimental, and the lessons learned will provide #* basis for further legislation next session. FARM MORTGAGE MORATOR- TUM: Almost everything depends on what the courts do. If whole- sale applications are granted through court action, the act could be used for a tremendous scaling down of debts, which many regard as one way of redistributing wealth, SILVER: Issuance of the new silver certificates will proceed cau-| tiously. Official sentiment still| opposes extensive inflation, BANKS, SPENDING, RELIEF BANKS: The administration Is not yet through remaking the| banking system. Special pressure | will be exerted this summer to get bankers to lend more freely, putting to work some of the bank Teserves which the government| feels are excessive; and to hammer | down interest rates, too. | SPENDING: No one crowded, because the annual deficit was| three billions less than forecast— four billions instead of seven. The| implication was the spending mere 1y had been delayed and would in-| crease shortly, | RELIEF: Plans for the winter already are being drawn. The gov- ermment will try to learn from last year's complications. In pro-| " (Continued on Pnse Emm | [ Tells Farmers of lIowa that GEN. JOHNSON STARTS TOUR WESTERN AREA NRA Has Helped Them Most—Wage Statistics WATERLOO, Iowa, July 12— Iowa farmers teday heard from Gen. Hugh S. Johnson that all of the other Government departments have not done “so much for you as NRA,” in his first speech on | his Western tour. Gen. Johnson said the industrial machinery put three million city workers back on the payrolls and added three billions of dollars to the domestic purchasing power. Gen. Johnson denied contentions that NRA raised the cost of living | faster than the farm prices. Beats Borah to It The NRA Administrator struck directly at the projected speaking tour of United States Senator| William E. Borah, of Idaho, by | saying: - 2 BAY CITIES TAKING VOTE Truck Dri\./; Refuse to Take Their Cars Out of Garages Today SOLDIERS AND POLICE READY, EMERGENCY Situation amrtland, Se- attle Quiet—Violence at Bellingham SAN FR A N CISCO, Cal, July 12. — An ominous ap- proach of a general strike ap- peared with violence marking the walkout of the Bay Dis- trict Truck Drivers and other organizations falling rapidly in line to support the mari- time strikers. Troops and police are pre- pared for any emergencies despite the promise of the International Longshoremen’s Association to conduct a ref- crendum vote on submitting the situation to arbitration. Other unions have balloted in favor of a general strike and the Bay cities are-pre- paring for a siege, making large purchases of staples and gasoline. Trucks carrying produce have been “halted“and™‘over- turned, one being wrecked when forced off the road. Portland and Seattle are reported quiet. TRUCK MEN STRIKE Truck drivers in San Francisco and Oakland left their machines in théir garages today and walked out, 3700 strong, in sympathy with the maritime strikers. Some observers, according to As- sociated Press dispatches, see the action of the truck drivers as a forerunner to the much talked of general strike and it also means shutting off of supplies to grocery stores, meat markets, etc., and all gas stations in the Bay cities. The members of the Teamsters’ Union (truck drivers) disregarded the appeal by the Labor “I understand Senator Borah in- tends to make a field day out of | the summer by lambasting NRA.| He won't be able to say anything| of a critical nature that we shall | not have corrected before he gcts! Board, which reported the first definite step toward a possible set- tlement of the longshore strike. For Referendums The Board said it will proceed | it uttered.” tcent; { house owner | with referendums among the mari- |time unions on its request for a voluntary acceptance of mediation. The Waterfront Employers of all said: “In the year ending May 31, |Major ports and forty-two shipping employment increased by 32 per |cOMmPanies have submitted uncon- all payrolls increased by 28 ditionally to arbitration. The Washington State Federa- per cent, and payrolls in manu- ) facturing where NRA has the most (veiiiinied ‘o6 Eeee RYS: - e direct effect, increased 57 per cent. During this same time the cost of living increased only 11 per LABBR nlsPuTEs cent.” Higher Wages Demanded 2 FOUND SLAIN IN THEIR BED in Several Sections— Men Walkout OAKLAND, Cal, July 12. — Miss Adella Merrill, aged 73, boarding and Miss Millie Foote, laged 64, re found slain this WASHINGTON, July IZ—Gmd and bad news from labor's’ world was received here today, Minneapolis truck drivers voted [morning in Mrs. Merrill's bed. Both {had been slugged over the head. last night to strike on Monday for higher wages. To the -contentions raised the price of living faster than farm prices, Gen. Johnson that NRA jor 'Poppy Dreams Barred in China’s “New Life” NANKING, July 12.—-In an ef- fort to break down China’s billion- Llu.Lu narcotic traffic, one of th(‘l |worst evils in the country, Gen- | |eral Chiang Kai-Shek, China's cru- sading leader, has forbidden opium | smoking throughout the nation. Offenders caught making, selling smoking the poppy derivative will be rigorously punished. This is part of the general's iew life movement” which seeks | the moral rebirth of the Chinese. It is believed they discovered a burglar, who then killed them and later ran ked the house. B St. Paul truckmen will vote onm the strike issue tonight. A peace agreement has been reached in the strike at the Wehr Steel Company and West Allis, Wisconsin. The Amalgamated Association of Steel Workers at Warren, Ohio, have voted not to return to work at the Republic Sfeel Corporation {until a union contract is signed. ‘The two weeks' strike of the em- ployees of the Corn Products Re- fining Company at Pekin, Illineis, has ended by ratification of an agreement. ‘The Cudahy Packing employees at Salt Lake, Utah, have struck demanding more wages,