The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 27, 1934, Page 1

HE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VBL.‘XLV., NO. 6791, JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDA'Y: 5CTOBER 27, 1934, ALASKA EMPIRE MEMBER OF / ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ADMINIS’I'RATION TURNS FROM SINCLAIR " NOME SCENE OF RGTIVITY; MINE WORK KEEPS UP Carpenters Employed from Dawn to Dusk as Freeze-up - Nears LAST STEAMERS NOW DISCHARGING Framework Is Completed for Dozen Business Houses—Few Needy Brlde of Turkey s Kemal Pasha» NOME, Alaska, Oct. 27.—With | the winter freeze-up near, Nome is stil a hive of ashivity in the| wake of the disastrous fire asl everyone has taken a hand in re- | building Mining activities blast. The Snake and Nome rivers are frozen over néar their mouths. Ships In Port The last ships of the year are in port and the waterfront is one of | the busiest places. Two lighteragg | companies are rushing the unload- | ing of the Victoria and Baldwin. | Work will also be rushed on the | Jo. C. Kirkpatrick, due during the , bringing further relief. | The Victoria will go to Golovin for cargo of herring for the| States. | continue full | Navigation Closes The three ships will leave Nome during the next two or three days and this city will then be cut off from steamer transportation until next summer. i The Coast Guard cutter North- | land leaves for the south shortly. Drédging and’ other mining - ace tivities continued despite the cold. Work has been started on more than a dozen business houses to be completed this fall. The outer frame works are completed. Carpenters Busy Crews of carpenters are kept busy from dawn to dusk with fev- erish activity, rushing work. The gold output over Seward Peninsula will be the largest in| several years with an estimated half million dollars worth gomg= out on the Victoria, last trip. { Government agencies have aid- | ed in relief work making quarters | available to house all those needing shelter. There are only a few needy in the town. The first issue of the Nome Nug- get will be printed in about ten days with entirely new printing equi] pmenl PUBLIC ENEMY HUMPHREYS IS | INPRISON NOW Last Big Shot in Chicago Crime Wave Surrenders and Is Sentenced CHICAGO, Ill, Ocf. 27.—Public Enemy Murray Llewellyn Hum- phreys, successor to the rackets of Al Capcne, came out of his 16 months’ hiding yesterday and sur- rendered to the authorities. Humphreys immediately pleaded guilty to the charge of attempting to evade an income tax totaling $169,561. He was immediately sentenced to| 8 months in Leavenworth Prison and he will also have to pay the delinquent tax and interest. Humphreys is the last real big shot in the Chicago crime ring. He said he has been in Mexico and California during his hideout. Body of Alaskan Woman and Child Are Recovered from Capsized Vessel SEWARD, Alaska, Oct. 27.—The bodies of Mrs. Ed Anderson and one of her children, dorwned when a boat capsized in Homer Slough, Cook Inlet, have been recovered. The body of another child has not been recovered. Mrs. Anderson and her two chil- dren were trapped in the cabin of the boat when it capsized. Ander- son and Fred Munson, boat owner, escaped. jof the Administration From Vienna comes word that Mustapha Kemal Pasha, inset, 5T- year-old dictator of Turkey, may choose a bride from the four mar- riageable sisters of King Zog of Albania. 24-year-old Ruhie, above, who is the second youngest. Prettiest of these girls is Ruhie’s sis- ters are Senie, 26; Myzeyen, 25, and Mahide, 23. The dictator.was PRESIDENT SAYS 0CC PROJECT TO BE KEPT ALIVE Is Considered Outstanding Accomplishment of Administration By HERBERT PLUMMER WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—Presi- dent Roosevelt’s decision that the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps “must go on” came as no surprise to Washington observers. The President’s pet project of | the “New Deal,” laughted at by many at first, denounced as vis-| fonary by others, gradually has| come to be regarded as one of the! most *outstanding accomplishmentsi AAA, FERA and all the other| alphabetical groups of the “New Deal” have at one time or another} come in for scatching ecriticism, but CCC has been singularly spar- ed. Aside from the charges of “graft” in the purchase of toilet| kits for members of the corps in the early stages of organization, no serious criticism has been made. The reason is easily understand- able. CCC, a new and hitherto| untried experiment on a national scale, has proved a godsend. It apparently has solved admittedly ope of the gravest and most im- portant problems to face the coun- try during the period of depres- sion. 850,000 ENROLLED A casual glance at the report submitted to the President by Rob- ert Fechner, Director, covering the | first 183 months of COC operation offers convincing proof of its exist- ence. During that period Fechner es- timates that some 850,000 young men, war veterans and Indians had been enrolled in CCC camps over the country. The authorized strength of the corps at the present is 370,000, but the personnel is changing constantly. Fechner esti- mates that apporximately 10,000 of the men are leaving the camps to reenter industry, business and the farm. The cost of the experiment to the Government for the year and a half of operation has been $443,- 000,000. Of this amount $136,000,- 000 has been paid in wages, of which $113,000,000 found its way to the families or dependents of mem- bers of the corps. (wonunuea on Page Two) { divorced in 1925 byh ewn decree. Horse: Rms Return $11.,500 On $2.50 Outlay NEWBURY, England, Oct. 27. —The largest daily double in the history of horse racing was paid yesterday when one man won the entire pool of $11,500 on an original investment of $2.50. The man refused to give his name. He choose winners in two races, one of the herses came home a 67 to 1 shot and the other 12 to 1. e ——— DULL TRADING CONTINUES ON STOCK MARKET Frice Changes at Short Session Today Keep to Narrow Range NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—Dullness settled over the stock market again today at the short session. Price changes were extremely narrow. Weakness of the European gold currencies against the dollar at- tracted attention. The franc is nearly at a point where gold ship- ments from Paris to New York will be profitable. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Oct. 27.— Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |stock today is 177%, American Can 1007, American Power and Light 4%, Anaconda 10%, Armour N 5%, Bethlehem Steel 25, Calumet and Hecla, no sales; Curtiss-Wright 2%, General Motors 29, International Harvester 32%, Kennecott 17, Unit- ed States Steel 31%. Widow of Kidnaper Is Found Not Guilty of Conspiracy Charge SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota, Oct. 27.—Mrs. Fern Sankey, widow of Verne Sankey, was acquitted last night by a Pederal Grand Jury on the charge of conspiracy in the kidnaping of Charles Boettcher, II, Denver capitalist. Celebrates with Gun PORTLAND, Ore—Levi Heller, Civil War veteran, celebrated his 87th birthday with a brisk demon- stration of the manual of arms, both regular and zouave. jdraw from party activity was 00 ANYTHING, oiL MUNDP[]LY; Makes Point Blank Reply| to United States and Great Britain I TOKYO, Oct. 27.—Japan disclos- | ed it has told the United States: and Great Britain the Government is not able to ask Manchukuo to; modify the oil monopoly program announced yesterday. The pro- gram would, according to protests received from both the United! | States and Great Britain, strike at' the oil industry of both nations. Japan advised the two nations to approach the Manchukuoan Gov= | ernment directly and asserting the | oil measures do not violate the| “Open Door” policy, as claimed. AT, LR T SRR GANDHI GIVEN 600D DOSE OF OWN MEDICINE Mahatma ForcedOut of Re-. ‘tirement by Passive | Resistence Act t BOMBAY, India, Oct. 27.—Ma- hatma Gandhi returned to the In- dian Congress Assembly yesterday, ! Hunterdon County, N. J., has received Bruno Richard Hauptmann as the ncw “guest” for trial in January on murder charges in conneetion with the slaying of the Lindbergh baby. house at Flemington, the county seat, where the trial left, and Sheriff John H. Curtiss, standing outside the cell Hauptmann cecupies; McCrea, wife of the Warden, who is doing the cooking for Hauptmann. be staged; forced out of retirement by thel weapon he himself invented, pas= Hauptmanns’ sive resistance. Gandhi's_determination to witheul ife and Baby ré Near Him. FLEMINGTON, N. J, Oct. 27— runip Richard Hauptmann's wife en down when seven Congress dele gates, including two women, lay stretched out at full length on the' ground near Gandhl's quarters for ,;q gnild have established them- 30 hours. i : \selves: here to bring him such Cheers greeted the leader as hc‘chee) and comfort as they may. arrived at the initial gathering of - He_.greeted his infant son with the party pledged to_ indepefidence tears in his eyes in the prison bull for India. pen T STILL A CIRGUS. PRICE SAYS OF POLITICAL SHOW By BYRON PRICE DAUBHTER OF SENATOR RUNS AWAY, FOUND Patricia Mca;ran Is Re~‘ ported to Be Safe and Returning Home (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) It is an old figure of speech Lo refer to politics as a three-ring |circus, but the description is so appropriate that it does not grow RENO, Nevada, Oct. 27.—Sought | tiresome with repetition. by officers since last Monday night, | Look at the political situation Miss Patricia McCarran, aged 15 today. Was there ever a circus| years, daughter of United States better equipped with what it takes | Senator Patrick A. McCarran, is [to thrill and amuse the public— reported safe and is returning better supplied with living speci- here with her father and mother. mens of the wild and the woolly, | The girl was located but her |freaks of nature, magicians and parents refused to discuss the mat- ‘soothsayels tight-rope walkers and ter further. The police said they |tumblers, ballyhoo artists, clowns had been requested to look for her |and camp followers? after she left home following a| Under the political big top there |are grim - visaged statesmen |Took for all the world like lions in . 8. Keepmg Up | be only toothless matinee perform- SOUTH BEND, Ind.—Belief that €S When the ring-master cracks tific discoveries abroad is express-| There are men as wild as any| ed by the Rev. Julius A. Nieuw- WO ever came from Borneo, men istry at Notre Dame after four-|88ile as the best trained seal, men | months sta) 5 ) |slapstick artist who ever lived. The accepted standard of time | The writer of this dispatch names measurement is the period of ue quarrel. { who {their native state, but turn out to America is keeping pace with scien- | the whip. land, C. 8. C., Professor of Chem- |28 ponderous as elephants, men as | as funny to intelligent folk as any e earths rotation on its axis | " (Continued on Page Two) | | Heroic Acts Are Recogmzed | Pension and Medal Are Given { to Persons in Western State, PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct Two acts of heroism in the of Washington, one of which brought death to the man attempt- ing to save a life, have been given recognition by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. Mrs. Arthur Hilberg, of Vancou- ver, Wash., has been granted $20 monthly pensio;: supplementing the ‘Workmen’s Comjpconsation award. berg, rock crusher, who died March 10, 188, trying to save his foreman | from drowning in Lewis River, The other award is a bronze | medal for Hallie Knapp, of Se- attle, for rescuing a family of four | Irom a burning house in Chehalis on a night in March, 1933. The‘ house was ewned by Mrs. Phyllis Moore. He rushed into the burn- | ing house and saved Mrs. 8he is the widow ¢. Arthur Hil- {and her three children. Heads Legion Frank N. Belgrano, Jr., San Francisco banker, who has been elected National Commander of the American Legion at the convention held in Miami. CHURCH CRISIS NEAR, MEXICO MEXICO, Oct. 27.—The church question appeared headed for a crisis with reports of killing of 16 men at Cochaoca and-the publica- |tion of documents purporting to prove the Government's charge that high Catholic church officials are plotting subversive movements. —————— DYE WORKERS' STRIKE NEARS END IS CLAIM - Settlement Expected to Be Reached for Thirty- five Hour Week PATERSON, N. J.,, Oct. 27.—The settlement of the three-day strike of 30000 silk rayon dye workers in this and the New York area is expected today. An agreement is | expected to be reached sending the Moore ‘workers back to their jobs on a a Surrey retreat having his eyes treated. 35 hour week. PLUNGES EIGHT {Estranged \)(71fic~ of Federal Top, the court- left, Warden Harry O. McCrea, right, Mrs. Margaret The suspect is shown, center. STORIES DOWN T0 HER DEATH Official Is Killed in New York City NEW YORK, Oct, 7.—Mrs, James Moffetlt, estranged w'fe of the Federal Housing Admir.tra- tor, plunged eight stories to her death in what the police say was| an accident. | The former Adelaide Taft Mc- Michael, aged 47, dropped from the | window of her bedroom to the apartment house court yard. The investigation showed she was the subject of dizzy spells and had | been feeling ill lately. Moffett flew here from Washing- ton. SPRING - LIKE | WEATHER HAS COME IN FALL Farmers Are Smiling in| Many States — Rains Benefitting Crops KANSAS CITY, Oct. 27.—Spring came this fall and the farmer is smiling after a disastrous drought. Rains are appearini at last with mild, spring-like wei ther. Garden trucking Gops in Wis- consin are almost normal instead | of 25 to 40 percent short as feared. | whberries are moving in an| unusual volume from "Minnesota. Vegetables are being gathered in Towa A few more days of good weath- | er Oklahoma will bring in good; supplies of grain, forage and sor- ghums | Kansas and Nebraska are also benefiting by the spring-like weath- l\urg of Siam Is Reported to Have Abdicated Throne SINGAPORE, Oct. 27 King Prajadhipok, of Siam, has abdicat- ed the throne at Bangkok, accord- ing to reports reaching here. The King is in London, where his secretary is reported to have said he had no comment to make. The King is living quietly in JAPAN CANNOT Nmr Jorsey Makes Readv for Huuptnmnn Trml NOT SEEK|NG HIS ELECTION FOR GOVERNOR National Organization Plainly Indicates Dis- approval of Socialist GEORGE CREEL HAS WITHDRAWN SUPPORT Declares EPIC Plan as ‘Op- timism Carried to Point of Delirium’ WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. — The Roosevelt Administration definitely turned away from Upton Sinclair yesterday, dropping unmistakable indications it does not care to have the former Socialist elected as Democratic Governor in Cali- fornia. The letter from Democratic head- quarters urging the election of Sin- clair and carrying the signature of James A. Farley, Chairman of the Democratic Committee, is termed a “mistake.” The signature was affixed by a rubber stamp and its dispatch is said to have been an error on the part of a minor employee. George Creel, runner-up to Sin- clair in the State primaries, has withdrawn his support on the grounds Sinclair is not following the platform adopted by the Cali- fornia State Democratic Conven- tion, { Creel termed Sindair's EPIC plan as “optimism carried to a point of delirium.” TALK OF FUSION SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct, 27. —Talk of a Fusion candidate was being injected into the bitter political campaign in this State for the Govenorship but Upton Sin- clair declared he will carry on under the EPIC banner. The fusion proposal was made by Raymond Haight, Commonwealth Progressive nominee for Governor. He explained, however, that using the term was in expressing his be- lief he would draw support from the Republicans 4and Democrats and it did not indicate fusion with Sinclair and Merriam. Haight continued to refer to Sinclair as his principal opponent despite desertions from the lat- ter's party ranks and apparent re- pudiation by the National Admin- istration. VIOLATIONS ON HALIBUT BANKS REPORTED NOW Coast Guard Cutter Morris Returns to Seward En- route to Seattle SEWARD, Alaska, Oct. 27.—The Coast Guard cutter Morris, re- turning here, reported numerous violations of regulations of the In- ternational Fisheries Commission governing halibut fishing in Areas 2 and 3. The Morris is leaving for Seattle for a general overhaul and the Tallapoosa and Alert are taking over the patrol work on the hali’ut banks. Tht night. VETERAN DIVER DIES UNDER 50 FEET OF WATER eason closes tonight at mid- lBody Is Br~ou__ght to Sur- face at Aberdeen by 19-Year-Old Son ABERDEEN, Wash,, Oct. 27— |Walter McCray, veteran Northwest diver, died under 50 feet of water yesterday afternoon while working on a submarine water main. McCray's 19-year-old son, also a diver, brought the body to the sur- face. i The cause of the accident is not learned