The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 19, 1934, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLV., NO. 681 0. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1934, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ALL IS WELL, COUNTRY COMING BACK POs 9 YOUNG MEN ABDUCT FIVE, MAKE ESCAPE Four Are :mr Released but Fifth Victim Is Not Located SLAYING IS REVEALED OF DRAMATIC STUDENT Believed to ?l;e Been Kill- ed ‘when Resisted At- tempt to Steal Auto WACO, Tex., Nov. 19.—Fear for | the safety of one kidnap victim isl expressed as posses pressed the ssarch for two youths who sought to evade arrest on a murder| charge by abducting five persons and driving away in their auto- mobiles. The youths are Joe Averett and | Roy Curry, both of Hubbard. The young men have evaded cap- | ture since Satlrday when James Malcolm Stewart was found dead near here as the result of bullet | wounds in his body. At first, four persons were ab- | ducted by the pair, but they were later released unharmed. The fifth person abducted has not been found. i Officers believe Stewart is a former Hollywood dramatic stu- dent and was killed when he re- sisted an attempt to steal his au- tomoblle SENATOR LUNG'S LEGISLATION IS HITTING ON LOW ™ PWA Holds Up Big Im-| provement Loan—Chain | Store Is to Move Out NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 19.—| Senator Huey Long's “Utopian” leg- | islation has been weighed in the/ balance by the Public Works Ad- ministration in Washington and ruled against by @& cigar store| chain. The PWA announced that two| and one half million dollars ready | { to be delivered to the Sewerage| and Water Board of this city as a‘ public improvement loan, will be held up pending a study by its| legal department of the legislation | passed at Long’s special session of the State Legislature. Fred Metzler, Manager of the Schulte Cigar Chain of stores, said three of the four stores here will be closed because of the chain store tax legislation passed by the Legislature. He declared Senator Long was responsible for the clos- ing. 1 KINGFISH AMBITIOUS; TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT BATON ROGUE, La., Nov. 19.— Senator Huey Long plans to run for the Presidency in 1936 on a third party ticket. He said he regarded himself as a “King-Presi- dent that this country needs.” The Kingfish said he hopes to sweep himself into the White Houce on an anti-Roosevelt platform. He believes that Roosevelt's popularity cannot survive two more years. Long further said he hopes to per- fect a model government in Louis- jana that he can take before the nation as an example of what he would do with the National Ad- ministration. Senator Long does not give serious | consideration to the probability of the Republicans returning to pow- er two years hence, He is bank- ing on- the young vote, especially university students for his major support. e, — FARLEY DIES Michael Farley, 71 years old, died recently in St. Joseph’s Hos- pital at Fairbanks. Farley was born in Canada, but was long a resident of Alaska. At one time hewuempwmmlhcmtmc-msemnisnidwhuebeenu:nlemyts tion of the Alaska Railroad. Here’s F arl_ey’s Victory Smile Postmaster General James A. Farley, generalissima of the nation’s democratic forces, displayed his victory smile as he sat at his desk in the democratic natlonal headquarters in New York and read election reports showing that the new deal, blg majorities throughout the count with few exceptions, had plled up ry, capturing some strategic repub- lican offices. (Associated Press Photo) Garner Scarred ln Hunt Tells Story WASHINGTON, Nov. 19— Vice-President John N. Garner has returned from a deer hunt with a 10-point buck, sprained knee and numcrous scratches. He tcld a story of gefting lost in cleudy weather, climb- ing a tree to get his bearings and the limb broke, dumping him to the ground. g e A ST UNDERWORLD THREATENING ANABDUCTION Daughter tflovernor-El— ect of Ohio Is Placed Under Guard KENT, Ohjo, Nov. 19.—An un-| derworld threat kidnap Evan- geline Davey, daughter of Gov-| ernor-Elect M. L. Davey, was dis- | closed today. Davey was told that certain un- derworld characters planned the kidnaping in order to force him to make certain appointments he ordinarily would not make. ‘The girl is being guarded. WILLARD MACK | DIES SUDDENLY BEVERLY HILLS, Cal, Nov. 19. —Willard ‘Mack, aged 56, actor, playwright and film director, whose wives included Pauline Frederick and Marjorie Rambeau, died sud- denly here as the result of a heart atack. His last wife, Beatrice Banyard, also an actress, was with him at the time of his death. Kuskokwim Mining Season Is Closed ; Succcessful Y ear ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 19— According to advices received here mining operations have closed for thé€ season in the Kuskokwim. the most successful on record. %INI]USTRIALS - UP; UTILITIES ARE DROPPING Selected Equities Overcome Some Pessimism on Stock Exchange NEW YORK, Nov. 19.—Advanc- ing industrial issues held the at- tention of the traders today on the New York Stock Exchange de- spite the renewed heaviness of utilities. A firm undertone displayed by selected, equities did much to over- come pessimism caused by the sagging power and ligh group. The close today was somewhat irregular. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, -9.—~Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 16%, American Can 1037%, American Power and Light 3%, Anaconda 10%, Armour N. 6, Bethlehem Steel 29, Calumet and Hecla 3, Curtiss-Wright 2%, Gen- eral Motors 30%, International Harvester 38%, Kennecott 16%, United States Steel 35%, Pound $4.98%. — GOVERNMENT SPENDS CASH WASHINGTON, Nov. 19—At a rate unexcelled since war time, the Government has spent $2,603,977,000 during the first five and one half months of the current fiscal’ year, starting July 1. This is almost one billion more of expenditures than at the same time last year. S So far this fiscal year Federal spending has increased sach month’ 1 — o> CASHENS ARE NOW ON WAY TO COAST AND HOME Word has been received by Ju- neau friends that’ Mr. and Mrs, Thomas Cashen, who have been visiting relatives in Montana for the past month, are now enroute to the coast and they should leave their home on Gastineau ROUTE REGEIVES STATE SUPPORT {Washington O r ganization Addresses Resolution " to Congress TACOMA, Nov. 19.—Alaska and Washington State private and com- mercial interests were contemplat- |ing today the resolution passed here irecently by the Washington Fed- ieration of Commercial Organiza- ticns, and which strongly sdvocnteq e |immediate installation of a regular {air mail route between Puget Sound {ports and Alaskan cities. The memorial, which pointed out |clearly the many advantages to be |obtained from the inauguration of |the route, was sent to the proper officers of the Post Office Depart- |ment at Washington, D. C.; to the | members of the Washington' State Congressional delegation, and to | the Delegate to Congress from.Al- ‘sska A salient point of the arguments presented in the resolution was' the comparison of time between . the boat service now supplying coastal and interior Alaska, and the pro- |posed mail planes. Between Seattle and Tacoma and |Juneau the airplane would take | | five to six hours as compared to | three days for the. boat. Nine ,da)s is taken from Puget Sound to { Fairbanks by steamer and rail, as to twelve hours | and about eleven days | |c1mpflred to ten {by airplane; |by steamer | to: sixteen | airplane. | ‘Time is a big factor, the memor- |ial said, in development of terri- |tory and trade. The faster trans- portation of mails would, it was indicated, reflect in more rapid de- velopment of Alaska and a big ‘saving in dollars and greatly facili- tate the transaction of business be tween the State of Washington and Alaska; the banking clearance also would be reduced in time on an average of 75 per cent. — e SOCIETY LEADER BEATEN, KILLED to Nome as compared to eighteen hours by and Hacked—Promin- ent Doctor Attacked DENVER, Col, Nov. 19.—Mrs. Lillian Sarkisian,” aged 51 years, leader of Denver social circles, and wife of Dr. Toros Sarkisian, phys- jcian and art patron, was hacked to death in the family home on Capitol Hill early last Saturday night. The police are seeking Abraham L. Kloian, aged 58, hired man, as the slayer. Dr. Sarkisian told detectives that Kloian struck him from behind when he entered his residence ghortly before 6 o'clock. The doc- tor ran for help and returned with officers. They found Mrs. Sar- kisian's body battered and hacked, in the basement. The weapon used was not discovered. Kloian had been an employee of the Sarkisian’s home for a short time. It is believed he went sud- denly demented. ARREST; CONFESSION IN DENVER HOME Woman's Body Battered| Federal officers have dug up $6,820 of marked currency paid to the kidnapers of Unis regon| Ty S Urschel, Cklahoma City oil millionaire, frem buried cachcs at the Medferd, Ore, home of two alleged members of George (“Machine Gun”) Kelly’s mob—Alvin H. Scoit and Margaret Huriticnne. The money was found in several fruit jars inside the doorway of the cld barn and in the well ter he was critically injured in an automobile accident, is the father of ott and Miss Huritenne, who said she was Scott’s housekceper, autherities on $25,000 bail and will be returned to Oklahema fcr presccuticn. are reported to have arrested Clara Feldman, alleged member of Kelly Hurtienne and alleged to be the wife of Albert L. Bate:, now serving life imprisonment for his part in The Feldman woman is reperted to have been seized at Medford tured Beth the Urschel kidnaping case in 19 Fedcral agents. 33, and held incommunicado when she hurried there to visit her sister. Photo shows Scott home on the outskirts of Medford. New Senator { Here is Lewis B. Schwellen- bach, Demeccrat, and ardent supporter of the w Deal,” pictured he read telegrams of congratulation after he was swept into the United States Senate from Washington by a large majority in the Demo- cratic landslide. SALMON FACT FINDING WORK RECOMMENDED | Washington Adopts Two Proposals TACOMA, Wash., Nov. 19.—Mo- tions recommending construction of a high dam in the Grand Coulee fact finding and research Inter- national Commission, composed of Planning Cornmlssnon of and approving ‘of a plan for a, to Brmg FORMER PAPAL SECRETARY OF Pietro Cardinal Gasparri Passes Away in Rome, Result Pneumonia ROME, Nov. 19.—Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, former Papal Secretary ‘of State, died Sunday, as the result of ppeumonia. He was 82 years old, Besides his great work in behalf lof the Roman Catholic Church, Pietro Cardinal Gasparri was noted for his efforts in the cause of juniversal peace—in the church and among the nations of the world. Immediately upon assuming his duties as Papal Secretary of State in 1914, a little more than two months after the outbreak of the | World War he joined with the late Pope Benedict XV in an attempt to terminate the conflict. Foreseeing the great slaughter of humans and the devastation of property with so many nations in- volved in the war, Cardinal Gas- parri, with the approval of the Holy Father, carried on diplomatic negotiations with the various gov- ernments, but to no avail. The ilmlm—e of the Vatican’s move and the prolongation of the war caused the Pontiff such grief that it was ascribed as an indirect cause of his death in 1922, For Permanent Peace | With the elevation of Pius XI to |the Papal throne and the contin- uation of Cardinal Gasparri Secretary of State, thejlatter in- sph’ed and directed a new active .pohcy of the Catholic Church, throwing the full force of the church into the effort to establish permanent peace. The Pope was in DENVER, Nov. 19.—A 58-year-old | Unujted States and Canadian ex-|full accord and sympathy with the Armenian immigrant, Abraham L. Kloian, is held after the police said he admitted the axe killing of Mrs. Sarkisian and the serious injuring of her doctor husband. “They tried to cheat me out of my house and overworked me,” Kloian said. He was employed as an odd jobs man. . PIONEER DEAD A real pioneer of Alaska, Thomas: Smith, 71 years old, died recently in Fairbanks. Smith, a laborer, came north in 1898, and had been a resident of the Fairbanks dis- trict for many years. perts into the life and habits of all. species of salmon before any itreaty covering salmon fishing be made, were adopted by the State Planning Commission last Satur- day afternoon. —_————— Former United States Senator Broussard Dies 19.—! NEW IBERIA, La., Nov. Former United States Senator Ed- win Broussard is dead here. was defeated for re-election at the last Senatorial election by J. H.| Overton who was supported by the | organization. He | move. Even a power among the pro- ponents of reconciliation betw the Vatican and Prance, the Cardi- nal worked diligently to bring about ‘lhe secretarship. Once in that of- fice he exerted all the authority of it in behalf of that concord and finally, with France once moie| represented at the Holy See, he| _tumed his attention toward the| between the church and the lhllul Government. Latéran Treaty Signed Negotiations between the church (Contiwued on Page Two) J STATE IS DEAD . | skeptically wondered. that result even before attaining to | task of renewing friendly relations | Sco't, who was cap- even mincr children. are being held by Federal Subsequently the officers mob and sister of Miss She has long been sought by the Busm(’ss 4dmuuatmtwn Umtc for Great Effort About Recowry |Labor Looks on Skeptically —Three Parties Con- cerned [ssue Statements WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.— Busi- ness and the Administration were definitely united last Saturday night in a mighty effort to produce re- covery while labor looked on and | After consulting with Donald R |Richberg, Recovery Coordinator land James A. Moffett, head of the Housing Administration, Henry I Tarriman, President of the Cham- ber of Commerce of the United States, asserted that for the “first time since depression began, busi- ness is rarin’ to go." Green's Views Meanwhile, at the headquarters of the American Federation of Labor, Willlam ;Green, - President, pondered on the meaning of the new alignment and termed it a ‘complete about face on the part of big business.” He reserved his opinion as to what the alignment pointed to. Officials of the Chamber of Com- merce of the United States said Labor is welcome to cooperate. Green asserted there has ‘“not been an opportunity for eooperation because the Chamber assumes such Labor.” It became apparent, however, that an antagonistic attitude toward while business leaders are reluctant to exclude Labor definitely from the partnership, they see little pos- sibility for effective cooperation by reason of the fact the objectives of the two groups are almost in direct opposition. Foremost among the issues involved is Labor’s in- sistence on a 30-hour week, made wdatory by statute. The Chamber of Commerce of the United States and otfiér busi- organizations are ready to fight such legisiation to, the end. Richberg said: “I alwhys said it is up to business: to do this recovery job. Business has to or- nize itself and my theme song been that the Government ould not do so much organization that were the case.” dccidentally Shot to Death When Falls Over | Log on Hunting Trip | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 19.— | Reports from Kanakanak state | Harold Bell, aged 18, accidentally shot himself to death Friday when | he fell over a log while hunting at Mosquito Point on Wood River, ‘30 miles from Dillingham. The | family lives there and are rela- tives of Frank Waskey, first Dele- gate from Alaska to Washington. SES HUNT MURDERQUS KIDNAPERS ALASKA AIRWAY |F ind Alleged Urschol Rflnsom Monmf in 0 on PROGRESS IS ~ ESTABLISHED BY NEW DEAL {Is Now Permanent Institu- tion, Says Roosevelt, Sunday Addresses ASKS OBSTRUCTIONISTS TO COME INTO MARCH Declares People of Nation Understand What “We Are Trying to Do” WARM SPRINGS, Georgia, Nov. 19.—President Roosevelt, with the pronouncement that all is well and that the New Deal is progressing in the présent program, particularly for cheaper power, has seftled down here for his Thanksgiving visit, having arrived late last night The, President said Sunday, in two significant talks, that the New Deal is permanent, and he called for cooperation from “obstruction- ists, few in number, and I am confident we are coming back.” The experiment for cheap power for rehabilitation in the Tennessee Valley, the President said, is “go- ing to be copied in every State of he Union before we get through.” Gives Ultimatum This is interpreted to mean that the President endorses municipal power plants as exist at Tupeld, Miss., where he made a brief speech yesterday and gave out an ulti- matum to private power companies to cooperate for cheaper rates. The President asserted that it is his “deep seated belief that the people of this nation understand what we are trying to do and are cooperating. They have made up their minds we are going to do it today. “I see mnot only hope but de- termination. All is well with the country and we are coming back.” At Birmingham, Alabama, the President gave assurance of the Administration’s keenest concern for heavy industries and asserted that obstructionists “do not reflect the views of the overwhelming ma- jority of the people.” - DUPONT MAKES SUGGESTION T0 INVESTIGATORS Urges Elimination of Ex- cessive War Profits in Munitions, Etc. WILMINGTON, Delaware, Nov. 19 —Elimination of excessive war profits in munitions and other fields was urged Sunday to the Senate Munitions Investigating Committee by Lammot DuPong, President of the powder company, in a letter to Senator Gerald P. Nye, Chairman of the Committee. DuPont favored a sgrict govern- ment control over International trade in arms, “preferably an In- ternational agreement. DuPont and other officials tes- tified before the committee in September concerning the activi- ties of the company during the World War. In a previous statement, Du- Pont pointed out that his firm, since the war, produced powder mostly for sports use and dyna- mite for industrial and agricultur- al purposes. JAPAN REJECTS NAVALPROPOSAL LONDON, Nov. 19.—The Japan- ese Ambassador to Great Britain, in behalf of his nation, has re- jected the British suggestion for a compromise in . the proposed naval treaty offered by Great Bri- tain. The Japanese demand actual | tonnage equalify.