The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 5, 1934, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS! ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIV., NO. 6746. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 57, 1934. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS TEXTILE MILLS SHUTDOWN COM GIVEN RELIEF, NEW POLIGIES Acts Are Detailed by } Donald Richberg J\ FINANCIAL PRESSURE NOW BEING RELIEVED President Is Given Ac- counting !)y Secretgry, Executive Council i E | | | | 1 WASHINGTON, Sept. 5—Donald | Richberg, Secretary of President; Roosevelt’s Executive Council, has; NOVELIST NAME { | | i | tied the Carters’ two children to! BANK ROBBERS ESCAPE WITH LARGE AMOUNT Two Men and One \Woman| Kidnaped—$100,000 Reported Stolen' LAKE CITY, South Sept. 5—Three men: robbed the, Palmetto bank today 'of approxi- mately $100000 after kidnaping J.| H. Carter, bank president, and his| ' wife from their home. The'bandits. their beds. Carter and his wife wereforced to accompany the robbers to thel bank where they found:Fred Sbal-‘ vgy, cashier, had already arrived and with the vault unlocked. Taking the money from the| vaults the robbers forced the twoj | § | 1 Carolina, | NAVY SEAPLANES SOAR OVER ALASKAN MOUNTAINS I FACTORIES THAT WERE OPERATING, CLOSING TODAY Owners of Plants Seeking Protection for Them- selves, Workers MEDIATION BOARD GOING TG BE NAMED [President Makes Announce- ment—"Flying Squad- rons’ in Action . WASHINGTON, Sept. 35— Various textile mills operating yoterday were closed today presented an accounting of the| | H ol because the strike of cotton Government's enormous relief pro=| bankers and Mrs. Carter into: their | Soaring over snow-capped Alaskan mountain peaks, these seaplanes of the United States navy's base textile workers is virtually com- gram saying that “under the pres- | car and then sped mway. ‘ at San Diego, Cal.,, made a striking picture during their trip from Skagway to Juneau, Alaska. Two squad- plete and plants have shut eni Administration, the individual Mrs. Carter was released three rons from this base have been operating in Alaskan coastal waters since mid-July. surveying 2,000.000 down in 5 y \ practically all textile is getting aid.” locks away, but Carter and Stal- | square miles of the north Pacific. (Associated Press Photo) Renters. Richberg said prior to March,| vey were not released until they s — e e o e e e o ~—-——— | 4 President Rcosevelt has an- 1933, major efforts were made toi reached Lamar, 30 miles away. | 5 - 5 | nounced he will name a Board provide corporate relief but “under A g g P S ) H R i No. snedibie; the present Administration, mezs‘i rice Jees ewr to alney | The number of idle is placed ures to relieve financial pressure at 300,000. were extended for the individual in: distr | Richberg mentioned the Home| Owners Loan Act, Federal Savings | Lown Association, Farm Credit Au-j ministration, Commodity Credn“ Corporation, Federal Housing Ad- minisiration and the Nationall The democratic nominee for governor of California, Upton Sinclair, hown at his Pasadena home reading telegrams of good wishes from friends as returns came in from the statewide primary. (Associated Press Photo STOCK PRIGES | Named by Roosevelt, Garner;’ GERMANY ENDED ' RECOVER SOME, TRADING TODAY TREASURY GAIN MAINTAINED IN By BYRON PRICE I (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) 1 The only sure thing that can be said now about the House Speak- ership is that Speaker Rainey's SEEK PROTECTION Heads of silk, wool and cof- ton industrial organizations de- cided to obtain all pretection pessible for the textile who wish to rensain at : looms. s From New England come re- ASSERTS HITLER ers.” ortgage Association, all aiding|~ ¢ r iy N i Riend cams Ves o e | T Monster of Deep ‘ | death leaves the field ‘wide open. Declares Nallqnal Socialist SO e S o e : Iy W recljise of Cotion and Metal lisues' g 1IALIQT REPORT | ot 5o St Movement Is Absolute | 120 25 G ovoa % Blimp Lead Others Upward | fore there is any decision, The Power in Land tect the interests of our work~ ANOTHER NAZI ; . : | ! vill fFatic— e any o . o A o SGARE SEN Ds fWITH RBUSEVELT blasted blimp, explains Teremoe | siaged o quiet recovery at the ses-|. o yboo i July—Gain ,;"fwa er“dssce: m:;ma“f;‘;dfl“rccw of Germany. dEclared” the YNax|" of thg resulf of action of mill . | McGrath, White §tar Line Ex- [gion today, coincident with brisk | y M epublidatet slaim sotns i ise _nm‘nonal Revolution has ended. It has| gwners and “flying squadrons™ | contive, en his arrival from |rallies of wheat. Cotton and metal | Made from 1933 pind i s pohal fulfilled all its hopes | of strikers foreing shutdowns T suLnlERs : 3 5 Sectland. |1ssues led in the upturn. Transfers P ithou ma teDeemese? flf\l‘/t 13“;5- Hitler spoke at the annual con- o oS 5 > XAl 4 e pres r lead- 0 - rty California Nominee for “Mcgroth went to Glassow to |wers 525000 shares Wiming 5, i, we of SN | SV clove e rention of (e Nast Party, and WioibNoR bk cRalie * | incpect the new White Star | £ : A sl o i " inep.|the regimented delegates cheered | pORTLAND, Oregon, Sept. 5— Governor Says Talk | Pt (i W b CLOSING PRICES Topay |O™. lash month, the Territoral | hyrmy leadership s been inef- | tn orra s ety e gon, Sep Austrian Patrols Rushed to/ HAS CONFERENGE " . NEW YORK, Scpt. 5. —~ The Lochness monster is just a ness tc seec the reported mon- ster of the deep. Most Enjoyable ——Rallyml'i _Wl:\e‘at i i | | | i i | NEW YORK, Sept. 5.—Closing ! NEW YORK, sept. 5-- stocksiNet Balance $56,986 Larg- Treasury had a gross cash balance | fective, however, of $913,596.83 on hand at the close | yo)) calls, situation may turn in any one_ of | directions. § sever; , Dy 9 80 o “the theory- the on some crucial | A decided opposition to ! SAdoiL SOUTHERN SHUTDOWNS NURNBERG, Germany, Sept. 5. £ R dent “CiRsallc Violence flared today in the Ore- gon Worsted Company’s mill when roclaimed nowhere else the world could be found a polit- that in - |quotation of Alaska Juneau mine|of business, August 31, according ' pj p o ' % Rl s 3 striking textile workers stoned and Y}xgoslav Border FO“OW HYDEWPAR..K, N. Y. Scpt. 5.—-; McGrath said the BrnishA.d- islock today is 18, American Can|to the monthly financial slntement‘}sz:e ]:;us:fl;roufi}_mwon;p apn(;:;if :‘cx.a: de.nf)nfixf\t;un ‘wl)LUTglEt(;llg partly wrecked a large car driven mg Reporls Of Pulsch Upton Sinclair, Dcmoc!:anc noml-‘ mln{lty sent two divers to in- 199 American Power and Light 5%,{of W. G. Smith, Treasurer, which bllity 15" el fiia bo- advanced to £ !‘ 5 ulLLla ’u'_ ominate will al by Fred Bishop, one of the mill nee for Governor of C«}n’orma. vis- vectigate the denizen and they |aAnaconda 124, Armour B 62%,| was made public today by Gov. the Speakership, partly to clear v,he\l )4‘\,;-":) dmm},u:n. P officials. VIENNA, Sept. 5—A new Nazi ited President Roosevelt yesterday found the wreckage cf a Ger- |pethiehem Steel 30%, Calumet and|John W. Troy. way for a more aggressive floor|Nation S _f-;sl“a eny A tn l‘)" Twelve persons were arrested scare sent reinforcements from and :-:u.d he had exper:encefi the man war-time blimp, the stern jHec]a 3%, Curtiss-Wright 2%, Gen- There were outstanding warrants leader, } 6 lt-m ocia ls ‘:‘:VN;‘ ]11{1015 :(;. - |when the bumper of the car touch- Austrian patrols along the Yugo- “Most interesting two hours' talk of which appeared above the |eral Motors 30, International Har- aggregating $89.673.05 at the end| The whole set-up points to al'“"“‘ POUSE L pane) N0 ¢ €-led girl pickets. The machine was clav border hustling to the fron- I ever had in my life.” [ff: florl]fiyut-oday. d Sinclair refused to say what the The move followed reports that tWo talked about. the Nazis, exiled in the ncighbor- | ng country, following their abor-| 1 tive putsch last July, were plan—} I ning to recross the border for an-, other attack. | RENUMINATED FIVE PERSONS ™" sENATOR : State’s Democrats have renomin- THU ated Key Pittman to be United | States Senator. He received 10,600 |votes to 3,500 for H. Sixth Critically Wounded in Shotgun Attack— Cooke, |Reno attorney. State Engineer | George Malon received the Repub- Killer Arrested FULTON, Iil., Sept. 5—Five per- ican nomination for Senator. Senator Pittman has just com- pleted his twenty-second year in sons were slain, a sixth critically injured, and Frank Blink, 45, Ful- ton truck operator arrested as the ithe Senate. The outcome of the six-cornered slayer, after he attempted to turn | his shotgun upon himself. Democratic race for Governor is Four of the victims were shot still in doubt. while cowering against a farm - e house wall, and the other as he sought to escape. suzface at low water, e ‘Poison in Apple Pie Kills \Three Children PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 5. —Stanley Grabowski, aged 40, unemployed, is charged with murder after the police said | he confessed placing poison in an apple pie and feeding it to three children, causing their death. He said he wished to | kil his children and then him- i self, because of domestic trou- ble. EDW, BARBER | i | - FOUND DEAD Alaska Pioneer Overcome | While Hunting Ducks Near Anchorage | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 8.— Edward Barber, aged 58, resident of Alaska for the past 42 years, died of heart trouble in the woods When captured, he told police that he, had killed seven others, but ‘the bodies have not been found. His ' wife said that Blink lef: home saying that he was going to “do something” about some money one of the victims owed him. 3 THOUSANDS OF JAPANESE ARE OUT ON STRIKE TOKYO, Sept. 5—All members of the Transpor{ Workers' Union, estimated at 11,000, went on a strike today, tying up the munici- pal tram and bus system. ‘The strike is in protest against threatened discharges and pay cuts +owing to reorganization, " ATVANCOUVER Blink was wounded twice. i inear Otter Lake, 15 miles from 2 . lhere. He was hunting ducks and | CVANCOUVER, B. C. Sept. 5—the others of his party found him |Canadian Oustoms officials have ,rier g search of 30 hours. Barber |narcotics vaued at $6,000 in thelr congucted @ fox farm. He is sur- custody after " seizure’ aboard the yiveq by his widow and two sons. liner Empress of Asia. No arrests PRESESe . S {have been made. It is b‘encved‘AID FuR NEEDY |At Federal Government i Is Nuw URGED | the drugs were intended for ecither |~ Enters Into Senator | LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 5.— !Honolulu or Manila. | > : i L()"g'Wal"WIeY Flght‘characterizing the present a¥ “years {of a great test,” Herbert Hoover NEW ORLEANS, La. Sept. 5— appealed before the Service Clubs' l'rhe Federa! Government has step- meeting “for open-hearted giving {ped into the Long-Walmsley battle to the needy.” for the first time. “We must recognize that in the An order has been issued re-|last half century we have herded straining the \Registrar from re- fifty million human beings into moving names from the list of towns and cities where the whole voters to be used in the September 'setting is new and unaccustomed 11 primary. {to our race,” said Hoover. He con- The temporary restraining order |cluded by saying: “City and nation was also signed in Baton Rouge must have a heart and a soul, for prohibiting the use of Senatorfout of these come Spiritual ideals Huey Long’s State Police during truly shape the future for tbe | that the election, ' people.” vester 26%, Kennecott 19%, Unit- |ed States Steel 337, Pound $5.01'%,! ‘Brcmncr Gold Mining bid .48, lask 54 | SIX HUNDRED FIGHT FLAMES | |Fierce Blaze Is Raging in i Jackson County, Ore., This Afternoon MEDFORD, Cregon, Sept. 5.—8Iix hundred men are fighting a most destructive forest fire in Jackson county and are reported to be | getting it under control. Four |homes have already been con- !sumed. Several cabins and pros- | pectors’ camps are in flames this |afternoon. The flames have ex- tended over a sixteen mile front. ,Deadl}; Rattler 7 | Taken by Thief PIKEVILLE, Ky., Sept. 5.—Dewey BOMB EXPLODE Hunt is wondering if anything is | safe from thieves. ‘/ | He and a companion captured a four-foot reptile and planned tol snake removed. the suspect, charging the theft of} “one rattlesnake four feet long h with 13 rattles and button.” : Hel pl;’ssr OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Sept. 5.—A real life horror story was un- folded as Mrs. A. W. Gott, wealthy paralyzed widow, recuperated today from an attack of thousands of fierce red ants which advanced upon her. ‘The helpless woman suffered over two hours before screams attract- ed the neighbors and she was un= conscious when rescued. Her eyes were swelled shut, of the month, this leaving a net' probability that two men—none| cash balance of $823983.78. The other than President Roosevelt and net balance at the close of busi- his chief leglslative agent, . Vice-| ness for July was $765997.07. President Garner—will make the | The Treasury’s position was | decision. materially better than it was on;, what they agreed upon probably the same date a year ago. The i would go over. But first they will report for August 31, 1933, showed‘want to analyze the returns from a gross cash balance of $641,833.79, the November election. with $51,368.28 in outstanding war- | . rants, leaving a net balance of » $500,465.51, or $233518.27 less man]DROUG“T P OYEEY Al that for this year. | The general disposition has been ————— (to regard the drought as a barrier "to National Recovery—but is it? | The depression started on the {farm. Agriculture suffered several !lean years before hard times spread to other economic groups. A gen- IN sHuuTINs.emlly—ncwmed belief has been that | |an indigestable farm surprlus was/ the original cause of the trouble, LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 5— The surplus depressed prices, so The death of Russ Columbo, leadet Nat the farmer got next to noth- of a dance orchestra, by a bullet ¥ for his crops and hence the from an ancient duelling pistol, is next to nothing to spend. Evcmu-’ declared an accident by the cor- _ally that Heats s remendous dent QMer's Jury. Lansing Brown, dJr. in the nation's purchasing power. | Hollywood photographer, who fired Factorles and stores closed down | S Wik as axdhorated. |because the market had become| { much .narrowed. \ | Now the surplus no longer is a | major problem. Farm prices are| ymuch higher, and on top of them the farmer is reaping various re-| lief and other benefits. It may} | manded Hitler. army leader, in effigy. Woman Is Attacked | by Thousands, Fierce Red Ants AT CELEBRATIO Previously 400 Left Wing students ad burned Col. Rulgencio Batista A stream of the ants, yards long, and about two fingers wide, were ordination. seen entering the Gott home by the frustrations accompanying the re- rescuers. The ants got onto the bed by using a chair as a ladder. Mrs. Gott's nurse had been given night off. A neighbor heard screams for hours before deciding they were - made by a human being, [ felt? seem strange, but the latest offi-! cial figures show that the aggre- | gate purchasing power of the Am-‘ |have it stuffed. But durlng the HAVANA, Cuba, Sept. 5—Two rican farmer is up, not down. | | night the cage was broken and the men were killed and ten wounded So what will be the effect, tak-/ lin a bomb explosion at the cele- INg the long view? Is there a pos-|p Dewey, who says he knows who'bration inaugurating a new fire SIDIlity that real recovery now is did it, had a warrant issued for station. ;on the way because nature reversed the process by which, during the years of plentiful crops, the de- | pression first began to make itself | | LOTS OF COUNCILS | Washington was interested but la little puzzled at Secretary Wal- lace’s speech in Illinois proposing a | “national economic council” to co- |ordinate “new deal” activities. No one denles the need for co- The conflicts and the | covery policies have been apparent to everyone. But why the new| | council? | | Already listed in the congres-, lof natural ice supply helped folks stoned and one door torn away. Hitler predicted there would be ¥ no further revolution for at least| one thousand years and said the next attack would demolish those who voted against the Nazis in the recent plebiscite. - PRODUCTION OF 80LD FOR JULY 1S MADE PUBLIC NEW YORK, Sept. 5—The pro-| duction of gold in the world dur- ing July was 2,229,000 ounces against 2,190,000 ounces in June and 2,- 250,000 ounces in May, the Amer- | ican Bureau of Metal Statistics| ounced today. Two hundred and fifty thousand ounces were produced in the United States during July and 244,000 ounces in Canada. 2 RESIGNATIONS ARE PRESENTED WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. — Lee Crowey, Chairman of the Federal | posit Insurance Corporation, an-| ounced today that Director E. G. Bennett has submitted his resigna- | on to President Roosevelt and will return to his home in Utah | very soon. 1"1 | TROUBLE IN EAST FALL RIVER, Mass., Sept. 5— Pistols and tear gas were brought into play by the police seeking to liberate 300 workers held prisoners inside a textile plant. A fleet of cars loaded with work- ers aboard, raced through a crowd of 10,000 after tear gas dispersed them. Shots were fired in the air and none were injured. b o o e PROFESSOR AT UNIV, SO. CAL, TAKES POISON Curator of Herbarium Pens Note of Disposal of Body —Act Is Unexplained . o LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 5— Penning a note giving directions as to his burial, but omitting any reference to the motive of his act, Dr. Fredica Detmers, aged 68, Curator of Herbarium of the Uni- versity of Southern California, swal- lowed poison The police reported he died sev- eral hours later in a hospital. Relatives sald the Curator had been in ill-health since he suf- fered an injury several years ago when he fell on some rocks while ant hunting in the mountains. W. R. Stark, Chief of the Finan- G, - Economic and Research De partment of the TreaSury, has also mer cretary of Treasury Mills| and indicated he is not sym-| FRUM ALASKA clal pathetic with the Democratic money policies. Well FT. DAVIS Tex. A different sort | SAN DIEGO, Cal, Sept. 5— IEleven seaplanes returned late yes- raraie | ATSANDIEGD. i atinad Skt wo such coun-|°% the Tyrrel Smith ranch stand| terday afternoon from Alaska. The il et ¥ 1Lhe heat. Hail, washed into a well, twelfth plane developed motor trou- | 'cils. One—the “national emerg- ency council’'—even has prcempwd[ | (Continuea on Page Thrce) proved sufficient for freezing ice ble at San Francisco and is to are cream and other purposes for sev-|rive sometime today abcard the eral weeks, U. 8. 8. Wright, ¥