The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 4, 1934, Page 1

) THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESD. (, SEPTEMBER 4, 1934. PRICE TEN CENTS 200,000 WORKERS ARE OUT ON STRIKE INDUSTRY WILL BEPROBEDNOW i Special Senate Committee:, Is Starting on Long | Investigation [ ]; TWO WITNESSES ARE READY TO TESTIFY, Connection of Europe’s Mystery Salesmanwith U. | S. Firms May Be Learned WASHINGTON, Sept. 4—A spe- cial Senate Committee began a/ long investigation into the muni- | tions industry in the hope, as Chairman Nye said, of averting‘v “another terrible world conflict.”| Officials of the Electric Boat Company are present to testify whether Sir Basil Zahroff, the| mysterious European arms sales-| man, has connections with a sub- marine building concern. The wit-| nesses are Henry Carse, president,; and J. F. Spear, vice-president. Chairman Nye said the scope of | the inquity will be broad, the first into the munitions industry,| taken by Congress. ! The committee wants to know,| said Senator Nye, who owns “our munitions plants and what part of the taxpayers' dollars goes to munitions makers, and also, what| are the profits of munitions mak- ers in war and peace times. Evidence is that Zaharoff receiv- ed commissions from the Electric Boat Company from 1919 to 1930. His commissions are alleged to to- tal $766,000. This evidence was placed before the . committee Cliaat i 5 ———— STOCK PRIGES | | ? ; Suing for $150,000, ‘Albert Rogell, tor, charges William V. R. Smith, well-known motion picture direa wealthy Beverly Hills, Cal., resi: dent with alienati-n of the affections of his wife, Ena Gregory Rogell, shown at right. Rogell to- visit bis homp.according Eo pos(’d :i laska Naval Bt—lsiei Smith, shown at top, lcft, induced Mrs. to Rogell, below, in the ¢ase tried at Los Angeles, v TAKING SLUMP = Starts Action by Jupanese: AFTER HOLIDAY Sales Are Correspondingly Lower—Textile Strike | Causes Depression i | | NEW YORK, Sept. 4—The Stock Market appeared to have received; little benefit of the Labor Day| recess and prices generally pointed | lower. | Transfers were about 310,000 shares. The textile strike has caused in-| tense depression on the market. CLOSING PRICES TODAY POLICE GUNS GUARD STREET CARS,SPOKANE Partial Service Reported to Be Resumed Today— Hooting, Jeering SPOKANE, Wash, Sept. 4— Under the protection of guns in Newspaper Gives Information TOKYO, Sept. paper Jiji Shimpo, usually well in- formed on naval matters, indi- cated that Japan may establish an air base on the northern extremity of the Empire if the United States should establish an Alaskan Na- val base. The newspaper says officials of the Japanese Navy are studying plans for building an aviation base either in the Kuriles or northern Hckkaido. The plan for establishment of an air base is a counter measure to America’s establishment of a naval base in Alaska which Secretary of Navy Swanson recently indicated was possible if Japan abrogates NEW YORK, Sept. 4—Closing|the hands of police, street car and |the Washington Naval Treaty. quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 18%, American Can 97, American Power and Light 5, Anaconda 12%, Armour B 61, Beth-; lehem Steel 29%, Calumet and Hec-| la 3%, Curtiss-Wright 2%, General| Motors 29%, International Har-| vester 26%, Kennecott 19, United| States Steel 33%, Pound 5.01%. — WOMEN NAZIS LEAVE AUSTRIA VARAZDIN, Yugoslavia, Sept. 4. Women Nazis are fleeing from Austria to this border town and have established their own concen- tration camp adjoining that of the| male Nazis who have' lived here| since the July insurrection. The Austrian leader the St. Yrian Nazis, Frank Kammerhofer, | | said 30 women have arrived dur-| ing the last few days and have brought their children with them. Two hundred more women are ex- pected. He 3Said the women were sentenced to a prison in Austria for trying to write to women in the United States that they were left to starve if they remained in their own country and that those who have money are being perse- cuted. The women said life in Austria was intolerable. - e MEL GRIGSBY RETURNS Melvin C. Grigsby, who has been doing assessment work on the Kensington group, near Comet City,| returned to Juneau and is regis- tered at the Gastineau Hotel, l | Arctic Ocean, were rescued August !game during the two months. The | |plane took three other scientists | ANCHORAGE BALL CLUB { bus scrvice was resumed on a re- | stricted basis today although the | |operators were hooted and jeered |miral Koichi by pickets at the. car barns. Downtown dispatching centers were also scenes of hooting but| no violence was attempted. \ Only a fraction of the normal cars and busses are in operation. e r TAKEN FROM ARCTIC ICE Three Russian Scientists Are Rescued by Soviet Aviator - | MOSCOW, Sept. 4—Three Rus- | sian scientists marooned for two| over the shifting ice floes from | the mainland, it became known today. The scientists existed on wild | back to the island, replacing the| men brought to the Siberian shore. ! i el | HOLDS DOWN NAVY TEAM | Anchorage came nearer to de- feating the championship baseball team of the U. 8. 8. Wright than any <other team in Alaska. The score was 3 to 2 in favor of the Navy. { The Jiji Shimpo's article said the Navy has commissioned Vice Ad- Shiozawa, Chief of Naval Aviation, to investigate pos- sible sites in northern waters. The Navy Office. spokesman termed the story as “imaginative” ut admitted Shiozawa is aboard battleship participating in the combined fleet maneuvers off Hok- Kaido. ———-——— MAIL FRAUD CHARGE MADE IPresident of Seattle Metal Exchange Is Accused by P. O. Inspectors jmonths on Dunai Island, in the| SEATTLE, Sept. 4—Pierce Lone- gran, attorney and President of the 113 by Aviator M. Golovin flying |Seattle Metal Exchange, was sought last Saturday night on a Federal warrant chrging him with viola- tion of mail fraud statutes in con- nection with operating the Ex- change. Investigators said investors lost approximately $100,000. The warrant was issued by Unit- ed States Commissioner H. S. El- liott on complaint of Post Office Inspector W. 8. Swenson. The complaint charged irregu- larities in the purchase of silver futures on margin. - — An official survey has shown the average wage of a farm hand in 4—The news-| ' MAKES ATTACK - ON NEW DEAL Herbert Ho:)v—er Scores Ad- ministration Policies in Magazine Article PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 4—For- mer President Herbert Hoover' in a Saturday Evening Post article labels the Roosevelt Administra- tion policies as “will-o'-the-wisps.” Mr. Hoover decries “economic regimentation,” 'saying that the whole thesis behind it is the ‘theory that man is but a pawn of .the state. 4 The article does not mention President Roo:zevelt by name, a statement accompanying the re- lease of a portion of the article for newspaper publication said, but makes “‘a digest of the staggering number of powers delegated the chief executive, with the author frankly in disagreement both with the current administration’s poli- cies and the un-American attitude of Congress in yielding virtually dictatorial powers to the Presi- | dent.” HAS THEM WONDERING WASHINGTON, Sept. 4—Politi- cal Washington wonders if Hoover plans an attempt to return to the ‘White House Speculation is stirred by the statement in the Saturday Evening i Post article by the former Presi- ldent. It is the first tim¢ since he left the White House that Hoov- |or has publicly expressed his views ca political quetsion: Is Challenged He has been promptly /challenged by Secretary of Interior Ickes, former Republican, who said: “When he speaks of Liberty he ’Does he mean Liberty of a special ~!class to build up fortunes and ex- ploit others, less fortunate, or Lib- erty of the people to have jobs and decent homes in which to live?” 'MACHINE GUN' KELLY INMATE - ALCATRAZ PRI One Hundred Desperate Criminals Reported to Be on ‘Devil's Island’ OAKLAND, Cal, Sept. 4—Tt is| estimated that 100 or more of America’s most desperate criminals are now located in cells in the Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco | Bay. One trainload of convicts from Leavenworth, including George “Ma- chine Gun” Kelly, arrived early today. The train was under heavy guard and was run onto a train barge which was convoyed across the bay by boats, bristling with guns, to the prison. Kelly was taken to Leavenworth from Richmond and placed aboard the train there. — - U. . WARSHIPS QUITTING CUBA HAVANA, Cuba, Sept. 4.—Uncle Sam has taken the last of his war- ships out of Cuban waters when the cruiser Richmond sailed for St. Petersburg, Florida, thus end- ing a full year of United States surveillance in Cuban waters on account of revolutionary disturb- ances. Secretary of Labor Escapes Injury when Her Auto Turns Over BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 4—Secre- tary of Labor Perkins escaped in-| jury Monday when her automobile | overturned in avoiding a collision with another car. She arrived here | several hours late for a speaking engagement. — et An autémobile dealer in Bombay, India, recently purchased a stream- | line automobile from the Prince| Colletta Mulvihill, 15, Pittsburgh heiress-bride of Thomas Creen, truck-driver, allowed photographers %o get pictures of sun-baths she is enjoying at mountain retreat to which she fled after quick breakup #of her elopement with the husky 22- * year-old trucker, Zme;ricans Fly from Alaska for Purpose of Getting Data, Air Mail Route Si BULLETIN.—According to a to Siberia berian Air Route from Moscow, is talking of the right of property.l radiogram received this after- noon by Gov. John W. Troy, the party consisting of Branch, Thach, Peck and Gleason, re- turned to Fairbanks after a “most muarvelous trip to Si- :‘T‘n i BULLETIN — FAIRBANKS, 4.—~Joe Crosson piloting the plane carrying the Branch party, arrived at Ueleen, East at 5:45 Sunday after- noon, according to a radio re- Scpt. Cape, v then both planes will proceed to Anadir, the eastern terminus of the Russian Airways for a confer- ence. The American party may re- turn here today. OFF FROM FAIRBANKS beria, for conferences there with Soviet officials about the possible establishment of airmail service between Alaska and Siberia, a par- ty, including Harllee Branch, Sec- lm%@mmfifi &~ nited States Senator- Huey Longt) WASHINGTON. Septi: ond Assistant Postmaster General, | - | been implicated in the theft. ceived here. hopped last Saturdy for Nome in ——y—— a PAA plane. The party intends NOME, Alaska, Sept. 4— The|to fly to Nome, then to East Cape, Alaska Airways' plane, piloted by |thence to Anadir. Joe Crosson, with Harllee Branch, Robert Thach, Lyman Peck and Bob Gleason, radio operator, as passengers, left here Monday for Siberia, via Teller. The purpose of | the flight is to inquire into the | advisabllity of establishing an air- mail ‘route from the United States | to Asia. The party will be met at Whalen by a Soviet plane with Soviet representatives of the Trans-' of di: would Europe as well as Russia. The plane is piloted by Joe Cros- son, Other members of the party are Robert Thach and Lyman S. Peck, ficials of the company, who will scuss the possibility of hooking up the Alaska Commercial Trans- port with the Russian Transport. The proposed mail extension include other countries in MISS BOOTH IS NEW S. A, CHIEF LONDON, Sept. 4 — Evangeline Booth, aged 68 years, daughter of | the founder of the Salvation Army, | has been elected Commander. She | has been leader of the Army in the United States. POLICE SEARCH FOR DYNAMITE LOS ANGELES, Sept. 4—Police reserves have been called out to search for nine tons of dynamite stolen four months ago. ' 1t is believed to have beeni cached in either the Hollywood or ‘Wilshire districts. Two men and two women are under arrest on suspicion of having ey Officers fear that the dynamite has had time to crystallize, and| may detonate by a jar. - e, T Engagement of Royal Couple Will Soon Be Officially Announced| VIAREGGIO, Italy, Sept. 4—] Former Empress Zita, aristocrat) of Europe, said the engagement of | Archduke Otto, pretender to the! Austrian throne, and Princess! Maria, of Italy, has been definitely concluded but the bethrothal will not be announced definitely until later. The King, Queen of Italy, and. Maria, visited Zita today at her- villa and left after an hour’s| conversation. . iNorth Carolina is $14.25 per month. of Wales. DOUGLAS OUT; BELL SUCCEEDS HYDE PARK, N. Y, Sept. 4— President Roosevelt has accepted the resignation of Lewis Douglas, Director of Budget, and appointed Daniel W. Bell, acting director. MISSING TWO YEARS, FOUND MOSCOW, Sept. 4.—Ao Alex- ev, Russian, has rescued four {Soviet scientists and fifteen dogs. This feat was accomplished on August 30. The sclentists have been stranded two years on Nova Zem- bia, in the Arctic Ocean. The feat Doucl d | included a round trip flight of 500 miles, the radio message said. - eee Democrats of Cal., Strenger han Republicans SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4.— In the total vote in the recent state primary as well as the total registration, the Demo- cratic Party was stronger than the Republican Party for the first time in 25 years. Although the vote was heav- ily Republican preceding the primaries, in last Tuesday's election 817,348 voted Demo- cratic for the gubernatorial candidates, and 779,357 voted for the Republican candidates. The registration showed 1.- 494,411 Democrats and 1,418,826 Republicans. | | | SENATOR LONG TRIES TO OUST MAYOR OF N. 0. Special Investigation Start- ed—Second Session Being Held Today NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. began weaving a web around his mortal political enemy, Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley, through testi- mony, last Saturday afternoon be- fore his special State Legislative Investigating Committee, by which he hopes to force the Mayor out of office. Senator Long, who has the power | of a Caesar in Louisiana, within a| week called a special session 'of the Legislature to grant him au-| { thority by special investigators, in | attempt to oust Walmsley,| at B. Bond, and Judge | ‘Henr- son, District Judges of | | New Orleans, who have been ren- dering decisions adverse to Long's political interests. | Alleged Lottery Graft The hearing Saturday brought | lout testimony by witnesses who Jclaimed to know that lottery pay- ‘ments went to Mayor Walmsley | each week; $700 a week to the| police superintendent, and smaller | amounts to lesser police officers. | Saturday's testimony was taken | behind closed doors but a broad- ‘casting equipment was set-up and | ithe public was given certain infor- mation to Long’s liking by broad- | cast. Newspapermen were barred from the committee room and the | environs bristled with armed troops |of the state, called here by Sena-| (tor Long through the Governor. | After the hearing adjourned at| 2 o'clock last Saturday afternoon,| {until today, Mayor Walmsley issued a statement denying the testimony | concerning him. AVIATOR DIES | IN SPEED RACE | CLEVELAND, ©hio, Sept. an 4—| as Davis, aged 35, was Kkille Monday competing in the Thomp- son Trop! Race, National Air Speed Classic. ¢ Davis lost control of his plane| when banking on a repeat turn after cuiting a pylon. He ura.ihed‘} going at the rate of 248 miles an| hour. | - i | Tip to President’s Wife Leads to | Moonshine Arrests | FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, Sept 4—A ter to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevel officials said, brought; about the seizure of a moonshine distillery near here. | Officers learned she had written | her informant, living near the still that the matter would be handled through the proper channels. | John Schnitzer and his son,| Frank, were arrested on the tip and | are held for the grand jury. UNION ORDER TO WALKOUTPARTLY OBEYED, REPORT Labor Leaders, Employers Disagree as to Extent of Textile Industry Tie-up BOTH SIDES ARE CLAIMING VICTORY With Employees Quitting Looms, 650,000 Work- ers Are Said to Be Idle WASHINGTON, Sept. 4— Over two hundred thousand tex- tile workers seemed today to have cbeyed the union order for a general strike and this makes 650,000 workers idle in 26 states. The exact number of strikers is disputed between unions and employers as both claimed vic- tory. Reports from the south indi- cated the strike is 50 percent effective among the 160,000 em- ployes of the Carolinas. Francis Gorman, Chairman of the strike committee hailed the strike as a “tremendous success.” Peter VanHorn, chairman of the 8ilk Code Authority, said a sur- vey applied to the silk rayon syn- thetic and fabric industry, showed the strike ‘‘almost a complete fail- ure.” ¢ George Sloan, chairman of the | cotton textile industry, said the |survey in the New England States indicated a “majority of the work- ers are not in sympathy with the 1smke movement.” LOOMS ARE ABANDONED ~ [11:30 o'clock was reached last Sat- 'urday night, Lloyd Garrison, Chair- iman of the Labor Relations Board, |wearily told the newsmen there was no peace possible in the cotton textile workers' strike. | As the deadline hour - arrived |workers abandoned their looms in factories that were working night time. Union leaders cautioned against any violence where it was possible. “Our instructions are specific—be peaceful, if possible, but if our workers are slugged by hired thugs, they are advised to slug back,” said Francis J. Gorman, militant strike general of the union forces. Demands Labor demands a 30-hour week with no reduction in wages; grad- uated scales, based on skill required for various operations; uniform limitation to machine loads. rec- ognition of the United Textile Workers as a collective bargaining agency; creation of an arbitration board with power to return a bind- ing decision. The industry contends that in- creased labor costs under NRA has jumped 100 per cent an dthe cost |of raw materials 42 cents with the |processing tax. |goods makes further increase im- A slump in cotton possible., TWO OPPOSE - SEN. PITTMAN IN PRIMARY RENO, Nevada, Sept. 4. — The voters of this State have nomin- ated party candidates, Senator, Congressmen, Governor and other State offices, at the primary clec- lon. United States Senator Key Pitt- man is opposed'by two rivals. The Democratic choice, the veteran Sen- ator, is attacked by one of his opponents, H. R. Cooke, Reno at- torney, on the charge he is allied with the “bipartisan” political ma- chine headed by George Wingfield, Republican National Committee- man. The third candidate, Bob Moore, Las Vegas business man, is pledged to demand a “mandatory” on silve legislation, if elected. Representative James Secrugham, Democrat, 1s unopposed for the House. - HOME BURNS The H. A. Kenney home, seven miles from Wasilla on the Fish- hook road recently burned to the ground, a total loss,