The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 2, 1934, Page 1

B e e ——— THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “4LI, THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLV., NO. 6796. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1934. SEmee— MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS CAMPAIGN NOW ROARING ALONG T0 BIG CLIMAX Crippling Tactics Reportedl Employed by Leaders of Both Parties MORE CHARGES ARE AGAIN HURLED OUT Democrats Moving Into Opposition Territory for More Power WASHINGTON, Nov. 2— The strategy of the momentous Con- gressional campaign is roaring to a crescendo and has developed into a drive by the high command of the major parties to cripple each other for the 1936 election. Final efforts of the Party chiefs are to toss the important opposi- tion Senators out of their seats and thus weaken their foes’ morale for the next Presidential drive. President Roosevelt is watching the battle. He is planning to leave late today for Hyde Park where he will vote next Tuesday. Demxocrats Are Active The Democratic leaders here are striking deep into opposition terri- tory and making special efforts to elect Fred C. Martin, in Vermont, over Senator Warren R. Austin, . Republican. The Republicans are.seeking to unhorse Senator Key Pittman in Nevada in an effort to seat George Malone. The Republicans also express hope of invading the so-called Solid South and make the claim there are fair chances for Ben Hooper to win over United States Senator ,Kenneth I MoKellar, Democrat, in Tennessee. More Charges Made Charges that RFC money trickled into the Pennsylvania campaign continued to agitate rival camps despite the exclamation of RFC Chairman Jones it cannot be possibly true. mator Davis A. Reed, Republican, claimed he was “sure of his facts,” when he said three Pennsylvania firms made con- tributions to the Democrats to get RFC Joans. ———————— WHEAT PRICES T0 BE PEGGED, DOM, EXCHANGE Canadian Government Makes Request—Heavy Selling Responsible WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Nov. 2— At the request of the Dominion Government, the Winnipeg Grain Exchange announced that wheat prices will be pegged effectively at once at 75 cents a bushel for De- cember and futures at 80 cents. The Grain Exchange officials said the pegging was necessary because of the resumption of heavy selling interests outside of the Do- minion. The pegging keeps the prices about the present level. NOT EFFECT MARKET IN UNITED STATES CHICAGO, I, Nov. 2—Local grain dealers announced that the action of the Winmipeg Grain Ex- change will have little effect on the American market. ————————— BANK TELLER HELD IN JAIL FOR SHORTAGE OLYMPIA, Wash, Nov. 2—G. ‘Wayne Cutler, aged 33, teller of the Olympia branch of the National Bank of Commerce, of Seattle, is held in the Thurston County Jail on an open charge following dis- covery of a e in his ac- counts, Sheriff d Havens said. Prosecuting y Harold Trdy said the will exceed 5,000 3 Bank officials said Cutler’ aduiit- | & i £zl iweniirued on Page Two) candidate for Governor, ted a shortage. Interest Rate Is Fixed by President On Housing Loans WASHINGTON, Nov. 2— President Roosevelt has direct- ed the Federal Housing Admin- istration to fix the interest rate on mortgage loans and for the building of new homes at 5 percent. This applies to the en- tire country. It is predicted the home building campaign may reach a fiftcen billion dollar construc- tion boom during the next ten years. Regulations under which loans for home building are an- nounced and include insured up to 80 percent of appraised value. VETERAN TRADE IN JUNEAU ON HS WAY WESTWARD Capt. Axel Olsan and Wife Stop Here Aboard Their Floating Home Ruth C With a replenished stock to be used trading along the Alaska Pe- ninsula, Aleutian Islands and Cook Inlet coast during the coming win- ter, Capt. Axel Olsan, veteran trad- er and pioneer of Alaska, arrived in Juneau from Seattle om his motorship Ruth C., on Wednesday night. He is accompanies on his trading trips by Mrs. Olsan, and they make their home aboard the well equipped craft which carries a crew of five in addition to its interpid skipper. Accustomed to the gales and storms in waters. surrounding thé weather breeding Aleutian Islands, Capt. Olsan_though of . the wind wmfl‘nc‘gxuy %Q Se- waterfront. He left Tacoma shortly before the storm came up and continued calmly to Seattle until he had reached his destination at Fisherman’s Dock in Salmon Bay. He remained there for fourteen days while he loaded general mer- chandise for trading and pulled out five days ago bound for his far-flung market to carry supplies to his widely scattered customers throughout the bleak winter months. ‘Winter Headquarters ‘While the headquarters of Capt. and Mrs. Olsan during their win- ter travels may be said to be An- chorage and Seldovia, they are equally at home in any one of the shallow bays or anchorages to be found along the Aleutians or in Cook Inlet. Capt. Olsan has seen civilization come to the coastdl towns of Alas- ka since he first arrived in the Territory in the early '80's. He knows much of the Interior part of the country also, as he spent many years in the mining ?me before he took up trading than 30 years ago. Of great and timely interest, in these days when the possibility of war in the Pacific is much talk- ed of, was Capt. Olsan’s statement that swift Japanese boats, carrying from 40 to 50 men, are frequent visitors to the Aleutian Islands, and often barter with the natives for the valuable furs, fox, mink and lynx., “Natives even declare that they poach along the coast for quantities of the invaluable and protected sea otter,” he said. Renews License Among other things which he attle and eaused havoc along the | DEPRESSION IS OVER FOR FORD MOTOR CONGERN One Million CarsScheduled for 1935—Hint to Industrialists DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 2.—Henry Ford said the Ford Motor Com- pany is'out of depression and its 1935 production schedule will be one million units ar more, for the first time in four years. “Depression will be over for the whole country very soon if indus- trialists just forget the alphabet schemes and take hold of indus- tries and run them with good sound American business sense,” said Ford.. GREAT OUTLAY DETROIT, Nov. 2—The an- nouncement- that the Ford Motor Company will turn out one million cars or more during 1935 will in- volve an outlay of $415,000,000, of- ficials reported. This sum includes freight on raw and finished products as well as fabrication of cars. Tires alone will cost more than $22,000,000. The large scale of production is expected to begin in December when 87,000 men will be on the payroll, R FIRE OFFICIALS T0 START SAFE BULDING TOUR Chief Gray: 'Heads Group Which .Will Begin Work Sunday To maintain Juneau's record of few .serious fires, the Juneau Vol- unteer Fire Department. will start its annual winter inspection of downtown commercial buildings Sunday. This was the decision reached last night at City Hall where the Fire Department held a meeting. Authorized to conduct such an inspection at the last City Coun- cil meeting in October, the Fire Department named four men, last night, to perform the work. Fire Chief J. L. Gray will head the inspecting group. Aiding him will be Assistant Fire Chief Wil- liam Neiderhauser, Foreman Min- ard Mill and Foreman J. S. Mac- Kinnon, - Careful check of all ‘houses and public places will. be made, with a' watchful eye toward chimneys, blocked fire escapes or prohibited storage of inflammable material. The inspection work is expected to take several weeks be- fore completed. { Among the other decisions made last night at the Fire Department meeting was the formal backing given a basketball team in the City League, scheduled to start play next week. No manager was selected for this team, the De- partment feeling that the team Premier of France May \ Lose Office |Doumergue Faces Tough! Proposition — Cabinet Meets This Evening BULLETIN—PARIS, Nov. 2. —The Cabinet appeared saved by agreement of Herriot and five other Radical Socialist Ministers to accept, in general terms the form of the Premier’s plan for greater power to dis- solve the Chamber of Depu ties. ‘ PARIS, Nov, 2.—Premier Dou- mergue seemed likely to be forced from his office as the result of the refusal of the Radical Socialist Party, headed by Edouard Herriot,, to give him increased power to solve the Chamber of Deputies. = | President Lebrun continued his desperate efforts to reach a com- promise and have a truce govern- ment, which took over authority. after bleody rioting last February. He has summoned Herriot, who a former Premier, to the palace, for a settlement. tonight and should it fail to solve sign. crisis, said one of the ministers. Blast Delayed; Farmer Inquisitive, He Is Killed BELLINGHAM, Wash., Nov. 2.~John Johnson, aged 50 years, Custer districi farmer, was kill- ed inctantly late yesterday by | a dynamite ‘Blast while clearing” * land. . The charge exploded when Johnson went to see why it hadn’t exploded within the us- ual time. e ee— INNER HISTORY OF STOCK DEALS Claims to Be Victim of Only a miracle can avert the|steamer Political Moves — Mor- gan Also to ‘Get Him’ about half a million dollars in 1930 and 1931, he admitted on the wit- ness stand under cross examination in his mail fraud trial. Insull also said he fled across Europe to “avoid being prosecuted as part of .a political campaign.” Admitting he “supported the market for his securities,” Insull said he did no more than was done by the Government in its whisper- ing campaign. He said he directed the Insull companied in 1930 and 1931. should be permitted to name is.own head. Favorable ‘reports on the recent baseball banquet sponsored by the PFire Department, with Ken Junge and C. H. MacSpadden as heads, ‘were made. It was announced that the Fire did while in Juneau yesterday, ‘Department had approved the con- was to renew his first class pilot’s | giiction in Juneau of a license with the Inspectors of hulls pling hook for marine rescue and boilers, which gives him &u-|mye construction will start soon. thority to operate steam vessels in Southwest and Southeast Alaska, and Bristol Bay, from Dixon’s En- trance to the Arctic Ocean. Mrs. Olsan and he spent last| MEET TONIGHT WITH |¥hich all card games will be play- winter also, among the : desolate islands, trading sometimes from one island or tiny community to an- other and again exchanging sup- plies for furs and other natives. Last year he brought in 4,000 blue fox skins from his jour- neys which he sold to the Alaska Commercial Company. He carries valued " A ake | GENE stock at thousands of dol- ed that there was nothing out-of- | frolic for children, which will t: lars which inclades foodstutts,|the-Ordinary o be considered to- |place on December 22 at the Dug- grap- work. CITY COUNCIL WILL QUIET MEET HINTED In an effort to drive down his stocks and hurt his credit, Insull said there was a rumor that the Morgan Company “was out to do me up.” A. L. AUXILIARY TO HAVE SOCIAL NOV. 15 ‘The American Legion Auxiliary members held a meeting last night and .decided to give @ social and card party on November 15 at ed. Last night Mrs. Lucille Stone- ‘house was installed by Mrs. Edith NOMEITES ARE BIVEN ANOTHER SEARE OF FIRE Two Blazes Arouse Resi- dents—Origin of Both Are Not Known NOME, Alaska, Nov. 2.—Resi- dents had two more fire scares in the last two days. The first fire occurred Wednes- day night when a cabin in the rear of the Catholic Church burned. Those in the vicinity quickly re- moved their household goods from their homes and then took them back after the cabin burned to the ground. At noon, Thursday, a residence next to the telephone office, one of the few in that section that did not burn in the big fire, took fire, Ibut was brought under control af- ter the interior had been practi- cally gutted. Both fires are of unknown origin. Wind Stops Lighterage js| An offshore wind and low tides have stopped lighterage work on but the latter'’s radical Socialist|tDe Vvessels in the harbor. Some supporters said there is little' hope{lumber piled up on the beach was blown into the river, but most of A cabinet session is scheduled for |1t Was salvaged. Two Vessels There the question, the cabinet might re=| The Forest King and Baldwin are still in the harbor here. The Victoria sailed Monday with 200 passengers aboard. 1 SALESHAN IS 'FOUND GULTY, REINDEER CASE Two Others “Acquitted at Seattle Trial-—Govern- ment’s Contentions SEATHLE, Nov. 2—E. A. Kruss- man, Pocatello, Idaho, salesman, and ‘O, E. Waechter, Seattle and IAlaska' business man, have been acquitted of using the mails to de- fraud in connection with the or- ganization of three Alaska reindeer companies. T. J. Howard, Seattle salesman, was convicted on five counts and will be sentenced on November 5. Howard was convicted of organiz- ing the companies for the declared purpose of selling stock on false and fraudulent pretenses claiming to investors the companies owned $1,750,000 worth of reindeer where- as the Government stated the herd practically valueless and had was CHICAGO, IIL, Nov. 2.—Thirteen | quindled to only a few animals salaries paid 8. Insull by his com- | yhen the money was collected from panies gave him a pay check of |¢ne investors, RIVAL MINERS' UNIONS CAUSE TROUBLE IN PA One Thousand Engage in Riot — 'New Organized Force Finally Routed WILKESBARRE, Pa., Nov. 2.— More than one thousand miners, members of rival unions, fought a battle with stones and clubs at dawn today at Number 7 Colliery of the Susquehanna Colleries Com- “|pany, at Nanticoke. Scores were cut and bruised, but none seriously. ‘The two hour fight was pre- cipitated by efforts of the new United - Anthracite Miners’ Union, to close the colliery protesting against the alleged dismissal of several of their members. The Unit- Indications, were this morhing|Sheelor, as Second Vice-President.led Mine Workers sought to keep " | that the tirst November meeting of Blar the City Council, scheduled’ for 8|of the Legion Auxiliary inclus Ues of commerclal value, with the | ..oy tonight, 2t City Hall, would |soclal and mixer for both' Auxiliay |new Christmas ~entertainment plans the mine in operation. By 9 o'clock this morning the members were routed feature nothing but routine busi-|and Legion members to be heldland ene hour later everything was ness. Talk about City Hall today show- clothing and every manner of night, merchandise useful and by desired the isolated patrons of his motor- | Douglas ship store. Nick Noko, Indian of Seldovia, and member of the crew, who was F Mb. left here to enter the hospital when | ALBUQUERQUE, Nov. 2.—Doug- the Ruth C stopped in Juneau|13S southbound about three weeks ago, Fairbanks, appearance here election 8r., will make a personal @il “rhioin the ship here and|€ve 10 speak in behalf of his {riend, Clyde Tingley, Democratic at the Dugout on'December 20 and the annual Christmas tree and out. - ——————— SILVA HOONAH BOUND Tak!.z’rmth him his portable , J. R. Silva, manager of the Alaska Welders, left on the Kenai Wednesday for Hoonah. There Silva will use the % ging Company. He expects t0 gone about two weeks, 6n a job for the Hidden Falls Log~ | reported quiet at Nanticoke. —_————evee 'WESCHENFELDER IN ST. ANN'S HOSPITAL WITH BADLY INJURED HAND Gene 'Wue,heu!elder accidentally severed thumb of his left hand meat with the elec- ¥ic mest cutter at the Alaska Meat Company shop this morning. “was taken to St. Ann's Hos- ‘and it was necessary to am- the joint, according to . who treated Counel | NEW YORK, Nov. 2—Declaring that he is convinced after three years of prospecting that the Ter- ritory of Alaska “is still reeking with gold,” Merrill K. Riddick an- nounced the organizing of an “aer- VETERANALASKA CITIZEN, IS DEAD 70-Year-Old Grocery Man! Dies from Cerebral Hemorrhage | Juneau lost one of its oldest citi- 2ens with the death, late yesterday, of Ernest Millaeger, proprietor of the Home Grocery. Millaeger, about 70 years old, was rushed to St. Ann's Hospital early Wednesday afternoon, with a cerebral hemorrhage. His con- dition was reported as unchanged yesterday ing, but he died at 4:40 o'clock yesterday afternoon. _He was an Alaska veteran, hav- ing «come here about 35 years ago. | One of his activities came when | he was employed in the old Cir- cle City Hotel. Following this occu- pation, he worked in the Thane mill of the Alaska-Gastineau Mine Company. | About fifteen years ago, friends | recalled!today, Millaeger bought out LaFranéde's Grocery near the base- he pur- i ball park. 8ix years ago, ! chased the Home Grocery, which store he operated until his death yesterday. He is believed to be survived by @ sister in Kent, Wash.,, and by ! relatives .in Eastern Washington. He has 16 bload relations in Ju- neau. ¢ The body is at C. W. Carter Mortuary pending funeral arrange- ments by friends. FIRST SHRINE CLUB DANCE S HELD TONiGHT Winter Festivities Get Underway with Club En- tertainments Beginning With the first Shrine Club dance which takes place tonight at the Scottish Rite Temple, the winter social -season of Juneau will really E. MILLAEGER, MAYOR'S WIFE |away here in St. Joseph's hospital. Aerial Expediu:on to Pros peét For Alaska Gold Being Formed ial expedition to go after it.” Riddick, who claims to be the son of a former Montana Congress- man, says he knows of 800 unex- plored granite domes or mineral- ized areas in Alaska. AT FAIRBANKS PASSES AWAY Mrs. Mary Kimball Collins, Pioneer of 1906, School Teacher, Is Dead FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 2.— Mrs. Mary Kimball Collins, aged 52 years, wife of Mayor E. B. Col- lins, teacher in Alaska schools for 20 years and Past President of the Pioneer Women of Alaska, passed Mrs. Collins came here from California with her husband in 1806 and was one of the first white | women on Goldstream. She helped organize the first school at Fox,| teaching there until 1918. She taught later in Fairbanks. Mrs. Collins was a Past Worthy Matron of the Eastern Star. The widower, a daughter, Mrs, Margaret Cooper, of Oil Sill, Kan- sas, and a sister, Mrs. E. M. Hill, of Hoquiam, Wash., survive. - BRISK ADVANGE FORSTOCKS IN EARLY TRADING ssemirx Profit Taking Then Takes Place Paring Gains—Im- proved Tone Noticed NEW YORK, Nov. 2— Stocks pushed up briskly early today but profit taking pared most of the extreme advances of one to two or more points and activity slowed ap- Ppreciably. Specialties led in the upturn, Other’ groups also displayed an improved tone. Today's close was firm. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Nov. 2.— Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 18%, Americen Can, 101, American Power and Light 4 nda 10%, Armour N 57 get under way and there will be|Bethléhem Steel 25%, Calumet and a -succession- of .dances and other Hecla 2%, Curtiss-Wright 2%, Gen- events from now until next spring. eral Motors 20%, International Har- Members. of the Shrine Club and vester 32':, Kennecott 16%, United their friends will dance this eve- ning to music played by Earl Blin- zer's popular dance orchestra and an exceptionally fine time has been planned by the committee in charge. ‘While there is always a good crowd at Shrine Club dances, an unusually large turnout is expect- ed to attend this evening’s affair as it is the first to be held this| ‘winter. JUNEAU HUNTSMEN LEAVE FOR ISLANDS Here's warning to the wild game and fowl on Admiralty and Chi- chagof islands! G For three mighty Juneau hunts- men are ~bound that way tmsl morning, bound to bag their share of deer; dueks and . In the party, Which expects to be gone a weok, aré’ Capt. James Davis, Jim- my, Carlsqn and Dave Davenport. The party will use- Capt. Davis' Roedda for transportation. S Observers Discuss Mexican Situation MEXICO CITY, Nov. 2— Some | observers said the investigation by the Mexican Attorney General into charges the Catholics planned an| armed movement to overthrow the | Government, may result in the closing of every Catholic church in | Mexico and the expulsion of every | Mining Company employees who priest. ———ee— Retail food prices in Kansas, were 12.1 pef cent higher in June, | 1934, than in the same month of 1933, the state commission of labor | and industry found in a survey. {active and enjoyable club. States Steel 317%, Pound $4.98%, Bremner Gold bid 46, ask 55. WOMEN’S' ATHLETIC CLUB MEETS MONDAY Next Monday at 2 o'clock, mem- bers of the Women'’s Athletic Club of Juneau are requested to be on hand at the Elks’ Club gymnasium and bring along any friends who are intereMted in the organization. The occasion is the monthly busi- ness and social meeting. Cards will be played during the afternoon and refreshments will complete the entertainment, of this Among the activities which are keeping them interested now is cage ball, which menibery are prac- ticing with the hope of getting a few games during the winter with contesting teams. ERIDE-TO-BE HONOR GUEST AT SHOWER HELD LAST NIGHT Honoring Miss Norma Minzgohr, whose marriage to John Homme is to take place on November 7, a miscellaneous shower was given last evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Minzgohr, on Second Street. ‘The party was organized by the wives of the Alaska Juneau Gold work with the bridegroom-to-be, and was in the nature of a com- plete surprise. Mrs. John Monagle and Mrs. Cecil Traylor acted as joint hostesses at the affair. Vari- ous games and amusing contests PRICE TEN CENT§ THREATENED SAAR OCCUPATION STIRS TWO NATIONS UNEASINESS 1S INGREASING IN TWO COUNTRIES Both Germans and French Denounce Each Other in Intentions INDIGNATION IS EXCITING BERLIN President fmer Confers with Leaders of His Storm Troopers LONDON, Nov. 2—The people of France and Germany appear today to be under increasing uneasiness over the Saar Region difficulties. Citizens of both countries, accord- ing to advices received here, are denouncing the other’s intentions. Official advices from Paris in- dicate that Prance is still stand- ing by her intentions to send troops into the Saar district to preserve peace before and during the plebi- scite to be taken on January 13. The issue is expected to be taken up by the Council of the League of Nations at the special session called for November 21. On January 13 the Saar resi- dents will vote whether they will rejoin Germany, unite with France or remain under the League’s man- date. FRENCH MOVE DENOUNCED: BY HITLER; CONFERENCES WITH TROOPERS ARE HELDY BERLIN, Nov. 2. — President- Chancellor Adolf Hitler is re- ported to have taken up the trou- blesome question of the Saar oc- cupation by the French with the leaders of his Storm Troopers. Hitler's newspaper today de- IRy Wit “We remind France” sald the newspaper Vielkischer Beobachter,” that the International definition of an aggressor is one whose troops invade foreign soil. Even the Ver- sailles Treaty recognizes the Saar as German territory.” FRANCE EXPECTED TO SEEK HELP FROM ITALY ROME, Nov. 2—The Foreign Of- fice, it is said, expects France to seek support here for her decision to send troops into the Saar Re- gion during the Saar plebiscite. It is also reliably reported that Great Britain will also be asked to lend support to the indicated occupa- tion of the region. The Italian spokesman said Italy’s chief position in the Saar problem will not lead to a war. DIST, ATTORNEY OF LOS ANGELES, SISTER, INDICTED Perjured Testimony Hol- lywood Girl Mart Case LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 2— Formal indictments he gave perjured testimony before the 1931 grand jury in connection with the “Hollywood Girl Mart Case,” were returned last night against District Attorney Buron Fitts, his sister and secretary, Mrs. Berthal November 9. The District Attorney issued a statement declaring the charge Judge Fletcher Brown deliberately chose the jury for the purpose of attacking him. Fitts calls it a po= litical indictment. SISTER OF ST. ANN.: WILL ENTERTAIN Hospital Guild members will hold their annual meeting at St. Ann's Hospital next Monday at 1 o'clock, when the Sisters of St. Ann will be hostesses to them at luncheon, it was announced today by Mrs. ‘W. A. Holzheimer, president. Officers of the Guild are t to reach all members by telephone, and those Who have not been o tacted are requested to L. H. Metzgar of their ac tanc In addition to the unc} con annual reports Wilhe T | were enjoyed during the evening. andphmlnmmcodhweu';- ing winter, e Two Charged with Giving Gregory. They will be arraigned on y was without foundation. He said HOSPITAL GUILD b