The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 23, 1935, Page 1

VOL. XLV., NO. 6892. 'ROOSEVELT IS ADMINISTRATOR TELLS FLORIDA CITY OF AGENCY ArgumentMade for Flexible Measure to Allow Discrimination TRUST LEGISLATION IS NEED OF NATION Miami Audience Hears De- mand for New Dis- tribution System MIAMI, |Fll.. R. Richberg, Executive Director of the National Emergency Council, opened the Administration's drive to consolidate public pressure be- hind the new NRA bill in a speech here last night. He argued for a measure flexible enough to allow the distinction between good and bad trusts. Richberg said that laws are need- ed to prevent the development of monopolies, but that those re- straints to trade which place a bar- rier across the highways of com- merce enrich only a few through Feb. 23—Donald | 4 the impoverishment of many. 4 e 4 laws,” industrial associations may be or- ganized to carry out, under pub- lic supervision, carefully devised programs. - The introduction of a system of distribution of the larg- est possible amount of goods. and services to provide the greatest possible material comfort and se- curity to the largest number of American people is needed.” “St. Lawrence Enthroned” (above), by Fra Filippo LI| of two masterpieces sold by J. P. Morgan u&:wum of Art in New York. The other was ciated Press Photo) Bay Given Clean : After Spy Inquity ¥ TOKYO, Feb. 23.—Army offl after an .investigation today. € ed the American tanker Kellogg, on suspicion of the riewspaper Asahi sald ‘1 dispatch from its Kokost 3 tespondent. Otficers at the 08 nrters for res o mmanding kyo Bay gave the Aerita : | clean bin after inquiry. ppl, was one Museum Rubens’ of Austria” (Asso SANDWICH MA AMUCK IN HOTE Spectator Drops Déad as Mental Patient Casts Evil Eye on Crowd |SUDGE S. HELLENTHAL 3 ARRIVES HERE ON TEN| DAY VISIT FROM WEST assuming the District Judgship in the Third Judicial Division ‘of the Territory, Judge Simon .Hellenthal arrived here last evening on the Victoria from his headquarters in| Valdez. | He will remain here for about ten days attending to business matters before returning to the Westward. The vessel under chart Japanese firm is iree to {to Osaka as soon as it is rel 5 | Suspir.ons of army and na %_ | ficlals was aroused wien the' ship' became grounded Fridsy i ghe military zone entrance to Y0, Bay, a spot which commandef &; splendid view of the defe —_———— COURT MAKES DECISION Perm;ment Enction Also Issued — New . Deal Counsel to Appeal BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Feb. 23— ASKA EMPIRE S ALL THE TIME” RDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1935. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SHIP SUBSIDY GOOD WILL'AIR DERBY TO SO-UTH AME.RlCA PROPO ri‘c“ was revealed in Washington that General Hugh 8. Johnson (left) of bl committ tethnical advisor, and Elliott Ro director, to promote an 18,000-m ute that has been discussed, e back who will put up the n flown and £15,000 give: 'in Wa whife ¥ Press EDSEL FORD velt (right) son of the president and BRUNELLE HEAD OF TERRITORIAL Body of *Clover Pass” Nelson Is Found, Ketchikan KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb. 23. —The bedy of “Clover Pass” gle fame, may head with Eugene Vidal (center), dirgetor of aeronautics for the department of c aviation executive, in the recent Lopdan to Australia derby. Vidal is shown above at his 'Qhonlr'l Johnsan luq Ruos ll‘»l{. shown after one of their numerous air BILL DEFEATED IPRESIDENT ON SPECIAL TRIP, BUT WORKING Proposes Change in Plans of Giving Aid to Steam- ship Lines: ! SPECIAL MESSAGE IS BEING PREPARED | i Has Report of Experts Be- fore. Him — Goes to Harvard, Hyde Park WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Presi= dent Roosevelt left today for Har- vard to visit his son and will then g0 to Hyde Park for a brief rest. Enroute to Cambridge, the new ship subsidy program to supplant the present policy of ocean mail contracts, engaged the attention of the President. It is understood the President favors direct grants to American steamship linés rather than aiding them by -an -indirect subsidy through mail contracts. - The President is studying the Teport of the committee of experts who have made an investigation of {the whole subject. Indications are the President will | J | . jput_‘the fipishing = touchés to & message covering his recommendas tions which may be sent to Wash- ington for transmission to Con- gress before he returns to the National Capital from Hyde Park. SUPPORTER OF {Judge W. I. Grubb, in the United N o The NRA Administrator’s speech { While in the ‘clty he. 8 staging aelollh o e s the elson, missing since last Sun was made at a time when, in Washington, D. C. Congressional plans are being shaped for an in- quiry into NRA practices, prelim- inary to writing a new bill to con- tinue the agency another two years. - e — OIL CONTROL BILL SIGNED BY RODSEVELT Designed to Prevent Ship- ments of Illegally Pro- duced Product WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-—Presi- dent Roosevelt has signed the new oil control bill designed against shipment of illegally-produced oil in interstate commerce. The measure fills the gap made in the New Deal when the Su- preme Court held that Section 9-C, of the Recovery Act, was uncon- stitutional. NOT BROAD, ENOUGH WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Secre- tiry of Interior Ickes said the new cil law, officially in effect with the signing by President Roose- velt, is not broad enough to cover the situation. WORK RELIEF BILL FACING UNCERTAINTY Many Rumors Being Circu- lated Today in: Na- tional Capital WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. — The huge Work Relief Bill has been set back to where it was nearly a month ago as the result of the Senate annexing the MecCarran prevailing wage rider, and it! faces a precarious future. t There is talk ‘on Capitol Hill that ranges all the way from- hints NEW YORK, Feb. 23. — Frank |the Gastineau Hotel. Greges, 67, sandwich sign man who | Judge Hellenthal, who has a term gained fame and a better job by ;of Court held in the various cities finding $42,000 in bonds and re- under his jurisdiction, expressed turnihg them to the owner ,went | enthusiasm over the people living on a rampage in the hotel where |in the Westward district and their he lives today. He shouted “I am God; I can kill anyone who looks at me.” p ‘While police attempted to re- strain him, Robert Edwards of Los Angeles, walked into the room and complained of feeling ill. “I am God; I can kill anybody” Greges ghouted again, glaring at Edwards, who dropped dead. Greges was taken away for men- tal examination. ‘Greges had already sent one man to the hospital with a push down a flight of stairs. As he was held preparatory to removal to the psy- chopathic ward, he shouted to the gathering crowd “nothing is too good for me. My hat cost $15, my shoes $10. I am God. People stare at me ever since I found the money. They stare at me all the time. That's why I Kkilled him, I killed three today but I had a bad day, I usually kill from 10 to 15.” The dead man was said to have been in the last stages of tubercu- losis. ——.o——— KETCHIKANITE PASSES AWAY KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb. 23— Ole Dohl, aged 47 years, logging company operator, is dead in tie local hospital as the result of hem- orrhage of the lungs and pneu- menia. A native.of Norway, Dahl had been a resident of the North- land for 25 years. He was a war veteran. - Surviving relatives life in Norway. Boy, 6, Dies After fine spirit of hospitality. EARTH SHOCK, WEST ALASKA CHICAGO, Ill., Feb. 23. — Th Weather Bureau reported today a four hour earthquake of moderate intensity has been recorded on the seismograph. It is believed the | disturbance was in an uninhabited area north of the Aleutian islands, 4200 miles from here. The shocks began registering on the seismograph at 11:16 o'clock yesterday morning. INUMEROUS FERA MEN ARE FINDING WORK IN VARIOUS INDUSTRIES Records of the FERA office here discloses that there has been a vement among 8 con- ! notfceable mor siderable number of FERA regis-| trants, that they are finding jobs in industry, preparing for work | during the coming season in var- ious camps in this district and other parts of the Territory, ac- cording to H. G. Watson, Deputy FERA Administrator. At this time there are approxi- (mately 225 men busily engaged in i the neighborhood of Juneau in | completing projects begun during the early winter months. — PROMINENT MINING MAN IS BOUND FOR EAST ON BUSINESS ABOARD VIC, ! ‘W. E. Dunkle, principal owner of ithe prosperous Lucky Shot mine in the Anchorage district, was a ® tract with the Tennessee Valley He Is 'leell qulIOI’IJuneau visitor last evening while !the steamer Victoria was in port. TEXARKANA, Ark, Feb, 23— Mr. Dunkle is bound for the East- Six-year-old Charles Edward Bal- ern States on a business tsip. lard was buried yesterday — five, While in the city last evening he days after he was given & cup of conferred with several members of whiskey so that he might “xetlthe Territorial Legislature and vis- drunk and act funny.” {ited briefly with friends. Several grown persons, attending e a party at a house here, must tell NOWELL GOING WEST the President will carry his fight to the people over the radic to a the story of the child’s sudden ill- ness and death to a here, District At/ 44Deoln sald. ; Everett Nowell, representative of grand jury the Blake, Moffett and Towne y Elmer L. Paper Oompany, is leaving on the L hg Westward. 1 Tennessee Valley Authority is with- out legal authority to dispose of surplus power generated by the hydro-electric plants on the Ten- nessee River. At the same time Judge Grubb made permanent an injunction re- straining fourteen north Alabama cities and towns negotiating loans with the PWA for the purpose of | bullding munieipal electric distri- bution systems. ! A group of preferred sharehold- ers of the Alabama Power Com- | pany brought action after the Ala- !bama company entered into a con- { Authority ' to sell fourteen distrib- juting systems and transmission lines and the site for the Joe ‘Wheeler Dam to the TVA. The sale would have virtually eliminated the companys opera- tions in northwest Alabama. Counsel for the TVA, a New Deal venture, immediately gave notice of appeal. ¢ ——————— DEPUTY NATE HARDY MOVED TO KETCHIKAN Well Known—l:ocal Couple to Chal;'_ge Residence to First City To take charge of the U. 8. Marshal's office in Ketchikan, De- puty U. 8. Marshal Nate Hardy, accompanied by Mrs. Hardy, leaves on the motorship Norco for the PFirst City where they will make their home in the future. Deputy Hardy will replace Will- lam H. Caswell, who has been sta- tioned at Ketchikan in charge of the office Yor' several years. Mr. Hardy has been Office De- puty in Juneau for the last year and will be succeeded in that posi- tion by Deputy U. 8. Marshal Wal- ter G. Hellan. No announcement has yet been made as to who will take Mr. Hellan's place on the staff. Mr. Hardy was notified by U. 8. Marshal W. T. Mahoney by wire yesterday to leave immediately fo0 take over his new duties, Marshal Mahoney lpn been in Ketchikan on officlal business and returned CHAMBER GROUP Cordova. Legislator Chos- en President at Big Gen- eral Meeting Here Senator M. E. S. Brunelle of Cordova was elected President of the Alaska Territorial Chamber of Commerce yesterday at its session in the Territorial Senate Chamber, succeeding R. S. Bragaw of An- chorage. Other officers chosen were F. A. J. Gallwas of Douglas, First Vice-President; Representative An- drew Nerland of Fairbanks, Second Vice-President; Senator John De- vine of Nome, Third Vice-Presi- dent; Allen Shattuck of Juneau, Treasurer, and M. S. Whittier of Juneau, Executive Secretary. Gall- was, Shattuck and Whittier were re-elected. Board Members Members of the Board of Man- agers from the respective Chambers affiliated were named as follows: Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, J. B, QGottstein,-R. S. Bragaw and E. R. Tarwater; Cordova Chamber, T. M. Donohoe and K. G. Rob- inson; . Douglas Chamber, L. W. Wilburn and F. A. J. Gallwas; Fairbanks, Davis Runyan, George Preston and Martin A. Pinska; Ju- neau, J. P. Anderson, H. L. Faulk- ner, H. R. VanderLeest and R. E. Robertson; Ketchikan, J. E. John- son, H. 8, Hall and W. C. Arnold; Nome, G. R. Jackson and A. Polet; Seward, P. C. McMullen and J. R. Fickinger; Skagway, W. C. Blan- chard; Sitka, Leslie W. Yaw; Val- dez, Robert S. Kelsey. Names of those to represent ‘Wrangell and Petersburg were not received but will be approved by other members of the Board of Managers, it was stated. Successful Session ‘The session was declared to bé one of the most successful ever held by the Territorial group and more than 25 delegates were in attendance due to the fact that many members are here for the Legislature As a result the Cham- ber voted to change the meeting dates to correspond with the bi-| ennial legislative session and also, decided to elect directly at the meetings in the future rather than, through the Board of Managers as| 'has been the custom in the past.| A resolution from the Valdez Chamber of Commerce protesting tolls on the Richardson Highway was endorsed by the Territorial| i ] day, has been found in the narrows near his moored boat. He apparently drowned. Al- though he lived here for sev- eral years, little is known about Nelson., ¢ HAUPTMANN 1S 600D PRISONER, OBEYING RULES Guards jand Also Chief! Warden at Trenton Giye Credit I TRENTON,. N. J, Feb. 23— Bruno Richarg Hauptmann is de- scribed by hjs guards as a man who obeys the prison rules. The guards said he ended the first week in the death house as he| began it, sllent but outwardly cheerful as t@ the outcome of his appeal from the conviction for the killing of the Lindbergh baby. | Col. George L. Selby, Chief De-| puty Warden; said: “The prisoner | understands prison’s rules. He is obeying them. He is a typical| German soldfer.” | Hauptmann has requested the pastor of his Bronx church to be his spiritual adviser. YOUNG 6.0.P. MEMBERS ARE GETTING BUSY Plan to Elect Sufficient Delegates to Control | Convention IN HOUSE 11- Nome School : Appropria- tion and Memorial to Ex- tend Session Approved Moving rapidly under suspension of rules the Territorial House ‘passed five bills and one memor- ial at this morning's session, de- feated ' the ship subsidy measure and tabled another lesser bill. The successful bills now go to the Sen- ate. By a decisive vote of 11 to 5 the House turned down the Scott bill to appropriate $10,200 to aid ship- ping along the coast of Seward Peninsula from St. Michael to Kot- zebue. Opposition to the measure was led by Howard Lyng of the same division as the author, Tol- bert Scott, and the debate waged around the vessel Meteor operated by. Frank Willlams who has the mail contract for the 750 mile trip, St. Michael to Nome to Kotzebue. Bad Precedent Lyng declared that if the Leg- islature passed the measure it would set a precedent and that every contractor would submit bids in the future figuring the subsidy in. The result would finally be that the Territory would be pay- ing the contractor and the govern- ment would be getting the mail hauled for virtually nothing. Ask- | ed if he bid on the ‘job when the present contract was let, Lyng re- plied he did not because he knew it would be impossible to do the job at the figures submitted by the other bidders. “If they lose money its their own fault,” he said. “After all a con- tractor has no right to figure in a subsidy when bidding on a job and I am very strongly opposed to passing this bill and setting a pre- cedent. Scott Rallies to Support Scott rallied to the support of his measure on the grounds it was 4t service the community affected Wjust ‘had to have and that the plmfl‘}gg;‘m-- P:: 23. ;;‘thmmctor really was losing money Republicans {on th b. control of the party is disclosed |y ’}:)earlng M. J. Walsh, Nome Briefly, the young Republicans plan cyy Clerk, tell the disasterous re- ;oauenl;c;e ;Wn%fig:fi" l:.r :‘;fsults of the fire there last Sep- to gein contfol of the Republican ;el:r:::‘:in;hev:':ou:e ;;Imu‘: :p‘propf National Convention in 1936. riate $25,000 to assist Nome in com- — e pleting and equipping the school NEW BABE ARRIVES q|house in that city, Mr. Walsh ex- uf;b.obymm was b°;tn '7\;:;‘0:; q| plained the city itself had already o SENATOR LONG IN TAX SUIT Bt L 1 ] Former Governor of Texas Is to' Represent , Government { WASHINGTON, Feb. 23— Dan Moody, former Governor of Texas, has been selected to represent the Government in the income tax prosecution of Abe L. Shushan, po- litical supporter of United States Senator Huey P. Long. The trial starts the first week in April. Shushan is a clothing merchant and he held contracts for supply- ing garments to persons in state institutions. Senator Long said he planned to follow the proceedings closely and this would have a large part in the determination of the legal strat« egy. WAR PROFIT CURBING TO BE STUDIED Senate Munitions Commit- tee Preparing to Make Report WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Propos= als to curb war profits by price control and gnaw -at them with income taxes are being studied by the Senate Munitions Committees as it neared time for showing the Senate what has been accomplish- ed with the $100,000 appropria- tion. With the examinatoin of two ship yards completed; the committee will begin on Monday to question of- ficials of the Bethlehem Shipbuild- ing Company, with Fugene Grace as the major witness. R SALESMEN TRAVEL Two salesmen, H. A. Gerstman and Frank Parrish, are southbound on the Viectoria from here. Gerst- man is a merchandise broker and Parrish represents the Fobes Elec~ ric Company. Both are bound for A,