The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 27, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, WED! “ALL THE N!WS ALL THE TIME” AY, FEBRUARY 27, 1935 ON WORK RELIEF POPE-DIMOND MINING BILL HAS APPROVAL Director ofal—r;au of Mines. Finch Gives Offic- ial Sanction LARGE SUM TO BE SET UP FOR WORK' Operation of Properties, at Prevailing Wages, Is | Provided ; \V-\SHU\GTD\I Feb. 27—The! Pope-Dimond mining relief bill, to provide Government operation of promising mining properties where private capital is not available, | has been approved by Drector o:‘ the Bureau of Mines Finch. i Director Finch said that while he did not anticipate returns from the activities, as provided in the measure, would show a profit, he believ: will materially aid in decreasing the cost of relief and | at the same time add considerable | to the stock of precious metal of the United States. Under the Pope-Dimond bill, a fund of $100,000,000 will be set acide for the Bureau of Mines to develop new properties and work old properties within the United States and Territories. The bill provides that miners will | be paid the prevailing wages of the communities. | Director Finch told the “sub- committee of the Senate Mining Ccmmittee, that reemployment un-' der the bill will be most rapid ' in the gold mines. $3499, LONDON, NEW HIGH MARK Old Family Trinkets Are’ Brought Qut as Price Shoots Upward LONDON, Feb. 27.—The price of gold bar reached a new high of $3499 a fine ounce or 143 shillings, 11% pence, an increase of five pence over the French franc here today, causing a resumption of sales of old family gold, silver trinkets and ornaments the supply of which was thought to have been exhausted here following the first rush three years ago. SENATE KILLS LEGISLATURE PLAN TO EXTEND House Hold;—s-ession at 10 Tonight for Final Flood of Bills By a vote of 6 to 2, the Ten‘l-‘ torial Senate this afternoon Kkilled the House memorial asking Con- gress to grant an extension of 30 days to the Legislature. The House recessed shortly be- fore 4 o'clock until 10 o'clock to- night to permit all those wishing to draft further bills to do so, to- day beinz the last day for intro- duction ©of measures without a two thirds majority. Discussion of the appropriations bill took up the time of the House this afternoon, various Territorial cIficials being called to explain items in their budgets. R FIRST RAIN OF SEASON COMES NOME SECTION NOME, Alaska, Feb. 27—The | } i 6OLD REACHES In a “quadrangle” instead of the usual “triangle,” four persons are principals. Mrs. Leah Clampitt Sewell (upper right) was named co- respondent by Mrs. Jane Scholtz Emerson (lower left) in the latter's cross-suit for divorce against Walter Emerson (lower right), writer- sportsman, while in Emerson’s suit Barton Sewell (upper left), mil- lionaire sportsman, was named co-respondent. The case went to trial in Lo: Angeln. (Anocnated Press Photol) Public in Quad- rangle Hearing row Wilson Passes Away —War Time Worker LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. 27.— Tex., | Heari ings in the quadrangle love HOUSTON, Stockton Axson, Professor of Eng. |case was held behind closed doors jisy Rice Institute, died sud yesterday and the same procedure genly here. He suffered a stroke is on today. Mrs. Blanche Sholtz on Monday. | mother of Mrs. —ane Emerson, on - the witness stand, was asked to repeat an alleged telephone con- versation she had several months ago with her son-in-law. At this |point Judge Ben Lindsay inter- rupted the case early yesterday forenoon and ordered the testi- mony recited in private chambers. in 2 small southern col Mrs. Scholtz testified she ad-|le8e—Rice Institute of vanced $6250 to Walter Emerson,‘Tex ~—there to live the ::x'acxvou r son-in-law, three weeks after| life cf an intellectual bachelor. he married her daughter, to setle| He Was much admired by stu 's heart balm suit supposedly ,brought by Suzette Tcbey, former wdan irig partner of Emerson, who | claims to be a de:cendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson. | Dz, Axson, Fidus Achrates of Woodrow Wil son, probably one of the closes intimates the War had, left the larger donal and international relief fo ar post professor 0! cator. \‘n highest es teem by the Held in stat | warm friendships | Dr. Axson Joined the fac Rice Institute in 1914 and was made head of the department. He became ognized Shakespearean HAUPTMANN 1S PRAYING DAILY 2% | dropped consideration of bethan matters for the more pri ing concern of helping his brotr er-in-law's administration handle late a rec: {Accepts Spiritual Consola- tion—Wife Visits Him in Death House onflict. Boosted Liberty Bonds First he stumped for the Lib erty bonds. Nexi he became na TRENTON, N. J, Feb. 27 TWO THI]USMW TESTIMONY ¥ NOTEDEDUCATOR LOVE CASE IS DIES SUDDENLY GIVEN,SECRECY AFTER STROKE Doors Close_d_—to General Bl'olher-in-_].;v of Wood- Feb. 27—Dr. e | brother-in-law and t President eveli tasks of na-| T gl Houston, s dents as an intensely human edu-|not reached the strike intelligentsia, he basked in the s un\hme of many pecause employment in the Alas- ; English States enter- he temporarily _lare ruinous. the problems inherent in the e"cnh T0 BE BROU T0 NORTHL Colonization PlanS\of anuska Valley Are: ing Worked Qut WASH!NGTON. Feb, 27— for the migration of about & persens from the drought to the Matanuska Valley in are being worked out by the Administration and Interior partment. Two hundred families, to the present plans, will be\n |to the Northland. | rhe plans were descnbed L cmbers of the House Approp tions Sub-committee conducting hearing on the Interior De ment's appropriation measure. Otto F. Ohlson, General ager of the Alaska Railroad, the sub-committee the Relief ministration “will form a corpg tion for the purpose of fim the project.” %DELAWREGfi RULES AGAINST LABOR CLAUSE, Governmenl s Action Against Wierton Steel | CoThrown Out | WILMING'ION Del Feb. 27— Federal Judge John P. Neilds to day declared unconstitutional J void Section 7A of the Na Recovery Act and dismissed the Gevernment’s suit for injunction |against the Weirton Steel Com- pany. Judge Neilds dismissed the Gov- ernment’s bill of complaint for injunction to restrain the com- pany for alleged interference in its workers' selection of collective bargaining. Representatives of the Govern- ont contended the Wierton ample €: foion plan or so-called ny union did not constitute r quate arrangement of col- lective bargaining. The case was generally consid- ered one of the most important tests of th2 labor guarantee pro- visions of the NRA. B HIGHER WAGES, SHORTER HOURS ARE DEMANDED Seamen on Alaska Vessels Are Negotiating with Ship Operators s | | | | are reported over the waterfront as the Sailors’ Union sought to negotiate higher wages and short- er hours in the Seattle-Alaska ser- vice. Union officials said: “We have stage yet. We are still negotiating. The sea- men are making their demands ka servica is seasonal.” The Alaska ship operator's spokesman said:" “The unions |have ymade impossible demands which we cannof meet. They want authority, ' @0 increase in wages of approxi- | mately 50 per cent and a six hour day. is to tie up our ships and board up the docks for their demands The Unions have | refused to arbitrate. We will sub< mit a counter proposal tomorrow.” .0uer Score Killed , in Explosion, Fire in Pencil Factory |inated for the City Council SEATTLE, Feb, 27—8trike clouds | js the widow of a for~ The only thing we can do| { | | Bruno R. Hautmann has turned to spiritual consol in the death ments of his appeal “He is not ation as he house for downhearted, could he be when he is_innocent,” first rain of the season fell here!his wife said after a visit. Monday night and led to hopes of a favorable mining season and an early opening of navigation. The v mann prayed daily cpiritual ng minister said Haupt- and accepted advice, develop- tional secretary of the Red Cross| with headquarters in Washington,| MOSCOW, ,but racing from coast to coast wwuerscns were killed in an explos i direct mobilization of that organ-|And fire which destroyed the K ization's resources. There \’:er:longfm pencil factory. The facto and difficult periods “on the|oP the Ou!skms ot:m: city 9ad,” many cf them trying to a Py el man who had jumped from clois- "“‘“"8 records of Japan go & tered intellectual pursuit into the ;;::;:e:dfi when the first oil waits how (Continuea on Page Two.) Feb. 27—-Twenty-nine sion ras- was was in Echigo prefecture nesota but the temperature i and presetned ‘to the government |1t Gmnt Army Planes Nou‘ Making Lon g Eleven bombers, similar ‘to th making the flight \ bardment Squadro, tcok cff from Merch Field ye ‘sdiy ‘ms \000-mile round trip training flight to the Panama Can D. C. Capt. H. D. Smith (inset) > |,Ir fleet belnx prepnred for the flight. (CHICAGO MAYOR | ,'RE - NOMINATED ~IN LANDSLIDE| Rolls Up Largest Plurallty " Ever Given Mayor- ality Candidate CHICAGO, I, Feb. 27.—Mayor Edward J. Kelly rode on the crest of record breaking Democratic vote and won the nomination for Chief ( Executive of the cffy again by the| | largest plurality ever given a May~ ? bralty candidate’ in the <Chicago primaries. / The Democrats also swept to vic- tory in the Aldermanic races. Emil C. Wetten, attorney, was nominated by the Republicans for the April election. Wetten's vote was 69,000 and Kelly's vohe 479,000. CINCINNATUS NOMINEES IN SEATTLE FIELD New Reform Group Looms| as Power in Muni- cipal Eletcions refutation of the vania, respectively. (Associated P SEATTLE, Feb. 27—The entrance of the Order of Cincinnatus, a young men's reform organization, as a definite force in the city gov- ernment loomed with the nomina- tion of Arthur Langlie and Fred- erick Hamley, both attorneys, for the City Council in the finals on March 12. | Mrs. F. F. Powell also was nom- She Vice- W. D. Comer . By BYRON PRICE | (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Prese,” Washington.) An extragrdinarily ber of political powder being buried ‘these days the premises of the New Deal COmPflnY | No one knows whether any of | them actually will be touched off, |It is notorious that most such | bombs never explode Either some- COLD WEATHER i B GRIPPING EAST; =7 o= o e = WEST WARMER Yet when one does let loose, it Spring Routed from Many makes a lot ef excitement. So Washington "is deeply interested Sections Along At- | lantic Coast e num- 25 are around President of the and 15 watching very closely the operations of those who are try to underming warious administra alities. The situation from that of a few months ago Then Mr. Roosevelt’s opponent did very little boasting. For the most part they opposed him list- lessly, as if fhey were sayinz “We know we're licked, but we have to go through jwith ' the motions protesting anyway.” Now, whichever it may mean those who want to change or even defeat some of the major admin- istration recommendations to Con- gress are talking as if they really had a chance. something new. CHICAGO, I, Feb. 27.—While winter's front line assaulted the| Eastern States, temperate weather started to obliterate the snow blanket and ffigid temperatures that gripped the west and large sections of the south Nine inches of snow fell during the night in the panhandle of | West Virginia. Spring has been routed Washington, D. C., by snow Plains and Mid-western States are being cleared of drifts of snow as the sun came out and melted and temperatures abated from of from ASTONISHED AT DEFEAT It seems to have started the Senate roll call on the wo: court. An atmosphere so funereal that . |sub-zero. It was 20 below last \mght in many sections of Min- ing up this forenoon. 2 by way of is in commanl cf the bombers, Two prominent woman educators “beautiful but dumb” idea. Mil an outstanding University of Indiana scholar. right) was a Phi Beta Kappa at New York unive! R. Shipley (center, right) and Edna Mae Dieh, scholastically in Ohio State university and t L tion projects; policies and person-| is quite different| Even that much is |, Fllght %SENTIMENT IS | UNCHANGED IN of the Thirty-first Bom- fi.ot leg of @ p Saa Antonio 224 Wa hingte The adove BEAUTIFUL—BUT NOT DUMB '8 cite these prltty college girls in dred Stewart (left) Is Fritzie Prlgehxy (top, reity last year. Virginia (lower right) rank high University of Pennsyle Photos; 2 Price Sees Open Opposition to Some New Deal Activity Since World Court’s Defeglt was painful enveloped the }ml court men when the debate start- ed. They began to take courage as the vote neared, but even so, most of them were utterly as- tounded when the court finally was beaten decisively. Now the Presideni's Work Re- lief program is being rewritten by a Senate committee and all corts of mines and pitfalls are waiting for it when it reaches the Senate floor. The same is true of the Administration’s soclal security program. In the House a momentary dem- ocratic “febellion against the Work Relief ed by indicaticns that the gag rule may have to be invoked again to put the social seecurity legislation through. PATRONAGE REVOLT revolt i3 in cubject of patronage. For time, organized labor is on the warpath against rtant features of the n labor policies. The war kes, Farley, Richberg, Tug- and others very close to the 5 on vigorously. re surprising in view 5t universal Mr. Roosevelt would | new Congress, and the | 1aking of labor and other poli- firmly in the holiow of his id. 1 ©f course there can be no oer-| taipty that, this e net yet be fulfilled A sizeable on the expecta~ lon that hava the pactation Ths may Presi- | (Continued 'on Page Two) program has been succeed- | progress | Admin- | SENATE GROUP {President Plans to Return | from Hyde Park to Capltal Tomght | | CONFERENCE WITH | LEADERS PLANNED :Glass Pre(ficc—!s Veto if Measure Passes with Pre- vailing Wage Rider WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—With tie work relicf bill still is in com- | mittee waiting for a move by {President Roocevelt before further action, who voted for the prevailing wage amendment re- !mained still unchanged in their fstnnd today. The Senate was in all day re- 223 as the capital awalted eagerly what the President’s next moy 1 be. He plans to return |here tonight from Hyde Park and a confersnce with Senate leaders {omorrow is predicted Cenator Carter Gia. the Fiesident will veto the bill if it passed with the McCarran amendment calling for the prevail- ing wage scale. HOUSE APPROVES APPROPRIATION those reiteratzd Increase in Mining, Indus- try Tax Discussed at Night Session Approval of the bill to approp- riate $3,000 to the Alaska Terri- torial Chamber of Commerce, de- feat of the dollar a month pen- sion plan measure and passage of the Brunelle memorial asking 1$200,000 from the federal govern- ment for education of natives carried on by the Territory mark=- ed the afternon session of the Ter- ritorial House yesterday. At- a session last night, the House in committee of the whole, took up the Green mining tax bill, | hearing representatives of the min- ing industry, who argued it was excessive. The measure provides for a levy on the net income of from two and one half per cent on $10,000 to five per cent on a i million or over. Those Appearing Among those: appearing before the committee were H! L. Faulk- Imer, Junedu attorrey representing | various mining interests; L. H. Metzgar, general superintendent of |the Alaska Juneau, and A.'J. Daly of the Alaska Steamship Com- pany who represented various cop- per mine interests. The speakers said they had no objection to paying their just {burden of taxation but they did {not think it was good for the Territory to levy an excessive tax with the resultant barrier of keep- |Ing out interested capital. Pay- {rolls, Mr. Faulkner told the com- | mittee, are more important to the | development of Alaska than rais- {ing taxes. Only through inter- | esting outside capital can the Ter- ritory hope to develop its resources, he sald, pointing out that increase in taxes wouki tend to keep that capital away. | Point Out Benefits In passage cf the appropriation |for the Territorial Chamber, sev- cral members urgeed its passage on grounds that the efforts of the Chamber reflect in favor of the entire Territory. It was pointed out the advertising gained through the work of the Chamber would be well worth to Alaska the amount expended. Opposition contended it |was not a proper expediture of public funds. Another bill gaining favor of the House' yesterday calls for hehibili- tation of abandoned signal corps stations in the Second and Fourth Divisions. It and the Territorial Chamber measure now go to the Senate, lcoauuue;i Aon Page- 1:"0)77