The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 7, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA VOL. XLV., NO. 6902. “ALL THE NEWS/ALL THE TIME” UNDER § BLOWING IN OF | ° NEW WELL HAS FATAL RESULTS Premature Explosion of Nitroglycerine Is Cause of Tragedy NINE ARE KILLED, MANY ARE INJURED, Derrick fiurled from Moorings Onto Crowd in Utah District ST. GEORGE, Utah, March 7.— Nine persons perished last nlgm in a tragic oil well explosion which rocked the countryside. A deadly charge of nitroglycerine, that had been dropped into an un-~ | finished ofl, well .belng drilled ln a promising field, exploded ' pre-i i | | { | | I i niaturely, ripping the “derri¢k’ from ' its moorings snd hurling'it . onto the crowd gathered to witness the shooting . of" the first well in the district. A blinding sheet of oil flame, then suddenly swept over the crowd surrounding the well. Scares were thrown to the ground by the explosion: and besides. those killed - masty -others: were infured; RICHBERG ASKS | FOR NRA GRANT OF TWO YEARS Blue Eagle " Head Requests Senate Finance Commit- tee for Extension WASHINGTON, March' 7.—Don- ald R. Richberg, NRA chief, in out- lining the Administration’s views here today, ‘asked the Senate fi- nance committee {0 extend the Blue Eagle agency “substantially in its present form for two years,” but with codes limited to “those trades and industries actually engaged in interstate . commerce;” Director Richberg was.the first witness in the committee’s investi- gation of the nation's recovery ma- chine. He listed 17 Bpecific. suggestions for: legislation, including. a recom- mendation to empower the Presi- dent to impose ‘limited codes, con- taining requirements fof minimum wages and maximum hours, prohi- bition of “notoriqusly unfair busi- hess practices,” and provisions to protect natutal resources. BRITISH NAVY ENLARGEMENT NOW PROPOSED Estimates: for Present Year Sent to House of Parliament LONDON, March 7. — Construe- tion of three'cruisers, one flotilla leader, eight destroyers and three srbmarines are provided' for inthe British Navy estimates for 1935 as| sent to the House of Parliament. MINER FATALLY INJURED, RUBY ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 7 —John Stayten, a .miner, was fat- ally injured by a falling timber while at work on a flume in the Ruby district, This is according to SHIP STRIKE IS BELIEVED: - AVERTED* { Union - and Transporla Officials Compromlse Is Reached SEATTLE, March 1. of Alaska Shipping lines and t rapresentatives have - reaghed - {'sgreement on wages and: DAY, MARCH 7, 1935. MPIRE THEY’RE THE RANKING ‘DOLLAR PRINCESSES’ \wherzby the demands for, @ si¥=| | hour day and wage increases . up 150 percent are compromised. 'strike ‘has apparently been: averted. | Union and shipping ommh” they. will announce the exact’ terms | when the “agreement hxfllgwm saturday a ;Traders. However Cautious| i —Today's Close Is* Steady to Firm NEW YORK, March 7.—Stocks, without any noticeable inflationary I.EGISI.ATIIH 'OF VETS BONUS {Senate Ob]ects to Support- porting Any One Bill but Asks Immediate Action Amended- so as to support no particular bill but still asking im- mediate payment of the Veterans Adjusted Compensation Certifi- cates, commonly known as the bon- us, the Territorial Senate yester- day afternoon passed House Joint Memorial 13 which now goes back to the House for concurrence or rejection. Introducedy in the House by the inally asked passage of the Pat- man- bonus bill in Congress. immediate payment, struck . the word Patman on grounds they were not conversant with the vari- ous measures before Congress - for tonus ‘payment and .did not feel qualified to pass on the merits of any special Congressional measure. Kill Referendum Memorial The Senate by a vote of 6 to 2 indefinitely postponed the House memorial asking Congress to give the Legislature power to refer questions to a vote -of the ‘people. ! 'Roden and Walker voted against ing the measure. With but one dissenting vote, the Senate this morning passed the memorial asking' conStruction of the Alaska end of the International highway with the. hope.of encour- aging Canada to build its portion and thus open vast undeveloped districts. Sehator * John' B. Pow- ers -said he felt the highway at the present time would not warrant the expense and that it would cpen the way for “tin can” tourists |to come north, and get stranded itc become a burden on the Terri- I ;w:y, He voted against. Sees Benefits Senator M.'E. 8. Brunelle, who also is ‘President of the Territor- | ial Chamber of Commerce, declared the benefits from such a road would far exceed any detriments it might have. “““All you have to do is go down over the Pacific Highway and see what the road will mean to this country,” he said. “You' talk'of ‘tin can’ tourists. It would be cheaper for those kind of people to buy transportation on a boat than it word brought here by lhe Imflt of | would to buy gas and oil for a car TR an airplane, _i¢ drive up here and you have the | labor committee, the memorial orig- | The'! Senators, while in sympathy with' Jeweler Into I BAGKS PAYMENT Alley, Rob Him ‘zm-m, generally worked higher to- | day. | The general tone was better lllu’oughout the session although {Lnders were extremely cautious. Today's close was steady to firm. Girls Back L. A. LOS AHGILES Cal,, March | 7.~ Two handson:ily attired E CLOSING PRICES. TODAY i NEW YORK, March 7.—Closing quotation .of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 16%, American Can "hbe" Rl o " 117, American Power and Light 2%, Anaconda 9'c, Armour N 4%,/ | Bethlehem Steel 25%, General Mot~ s 28%, International Harvester 138%, United States Steel 31%, !Pound $4.75'2, Bremner 56 bid, 61 PARALYSIS ARE -« re=szse i e NOW REPORTED, CONGRESSNOTES LESS BILLS BY ADMINISTRATION F. D. R. Still Sends Meas- ures Along, But They Don’t Have His Name By HERBERT PLUMMER WASHINGTON, March 7.—There has been a noted absence in the newspapers during this session of Dr. Vance B. Vlux-ay left Ju-|congress of reference to proposed neau for Cordova on the steamer | jegiclation as being an “administra- Victoria and is expected to bcltlon measure” or a bill ‘‘sponsor- girls, one _carrying a pisto}, backcd S. P, Shustler, a jeweler, into an alleyway last night, and Three Devel opments at! Sand Point—One Vic- tim Convalescing { UNALASKA, Alaska, March 7.— Thres known cases of infantile paralysis have developed at Sand: Point, Dr. Leslie White, Govern- ment physician announced here. He also said that Alice Ludvig, aged 13~ brought here from Sand - Point, is now convalescmg the taken to the Westward aboard theieq by the administration.” ,Ooast Guard ‘cutter Haida. The reason is that President According to Associated Press|poncevelt has decided to let mem- advices other dpctors and supplies bers of Cengress write their own may also be sent to the commun- " bills Wherever possible ity, 1 requtred During the last Congress A E ! White House had a habit of send- ‘ing a short message to Capitol Hill ‘recommending that something be done and sending along with it a draft of the bill prepared under the Is GHART direction of the White House. Such measures promptly were {labeled as administration bills by ALASKA TRIPSHM newspapers and members of | Congress. If a bill was amendec or subjected to drastic revision, im- mediately word got around the ad- Will Cany Can"ery S“P‘, ministration had taken a licking. phes too Sand Point for | Often it was a source of embar- rassment to the President. A. P S. Company Messages, No Bills Acting on the advice of some SEATTLE, March 7—The ‘Alas-|of his closest congressional advis- ka Pacific' Salmon Company has'ers, Mr. Roosevelt decided to pur- chartered the Forest King to make|cye a different course in the work- at. least two -trips to Sand Palmulng out of his legislative program Alaska. | this session. The Forest King will sail on- thei Hell continue to send up his first’ trip next week and will 'have ' short messages as before, but there a cargo of cannery supplies.” 'wul be no bill dropped into the » }noppen at the same time. If such a : bill has been drafted at the other boats running all the time. I thnklm of Pennsylvania avenue . it we should support this =measure 5 wholeheartedly.” g J ¢ (Connnufd on Page me |Prince Ananada, Aged 11 | Vestigation. With the marriage of Doris Duke, for some time Number One heiress of the country, a new ar- ray of eligibles claimed the spotlight and vied for the vacated top'rank spot. The air is filled with heiresces to fertunes of oil, steel, bauking, toothpaste, merchandising and whatnot. among whnm are Ethel: Dupont, “Princess of Delaware” anddaughter. | \ 1o dentifrice millichs anfl a screen pros- pest; Helen Lee Doherty, Henry L. Doherty’s daughter by adoption; and Dorothy Fell, daughter of Mis. Q[den Mlb. (A!soehlcd Press Photos) LITTLE BOY IS PROCLAIMED TO BE KING, SIAM Held In Canal Zone Years, to Rule Nation Under Regency BANGKOK, 8iam, March 7.— Prince Angnada, aged 11 years, has been offi¢ially proclaimed King of Siam by the National Assembly. The Prince is now at Lausanne with his ymther going to school there. ‘The tiny lad will rule under a| regency consisting of three men, two of whomt' are’ princes. The President of the Regency will be| Prince Abitayu, nephew of former' King Prajadhipok, who abdicated. WANTS TO PLAY ‘ Heather Spencer (above), 27, was LAUSANNE, March 7— Litle Lonorveq'herd by Canal Zone poll Prince Ananada said he did not| for jnvestigation-as an “undesirable want to be king, and did not want | person.” She was taken into custody to return home. He said he wanted | In company with three men who to remain here and play. were held there on grand Ilreeny BONUS BILLS ‘BGLD IS STOLEN AT LAST ENDS FHUM AIRDROME | Orl. (Associated Press Photo) WABHING’I'ON March 7— ’T'he House Ways and Means Commit- | Ten; Thousand Dollms 0Of- tee this afternoon voted 23 to 1 to| submit the Vinson Bonus bill to the | fered for Information for “Solution House and agreed to the procedm'el under which the Patman bill wijl A —— CRG 1’DEN Englaud March 7 be offered as a substitute on the floor. | The sum of $10,000 has been of- fered for information leading to the solution of the Croyden airdrome’ vanished gold of $107,000. The gold was stolen from the safe at the airdrome, THOUSANDS DIE, RESULT PLAGUE HAICHOW, China, Maxch 7 The mysterious scourge, the Ori- ental Black Fever, 15 now causing ' thousands of deaths. The bonus bills are expected to reach the floor of the House for action on Monday. SERVES TIME FOR CONTEMPT WASHINGTON, March 7—For- mer Assistant Secretary of Com- merce W. P. McCracken has been released from jail after serving a ten-day gentence for contempt of the Senate during the airmail in- A WOULD CONFINE BRISTOL BAY T0 AREA RESIDENTS {Request Li;r;:d Pack of 250,000 Be Handled by Home Fishermen ‘With the hope of cenfining the limited fishing in the Bristol Bay area this season to resident fish- ermen, Senator James Campbell, by unanimous consent, introduced a resolution in the Territorial Sen- ate today asking Gov. John W. Troy and Dclegate Am,hony J. Di- mond to make an effort fo sce that no outside fishermen aure allowed to take part in’ the catch this season. Later in the day the Benate moved the resolution along under | suspension of the rules’ and passed it, and sent it to the House with a request that early action be taken. ov. Troy is asked to wire the re-|’ G |quest to Sgcretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper #nd Frank T. Bell United States ©mmissioner of , | Fisheries. Reverse Order | The Bristol Bay area had heen i closed for this year but the Bureau |of Fisheries recently issued a sup- | plemental order permitting a lim- ited pack of 250,000 cases with the purpose of relieving distress and poverty among those thrown out of employment as a result, H The Campbell . request. -doclares there are enough fishexmen in th Bristol Bay axea to take care of the limited pack, The unions.. it was stated by Senator Camyp have demanded that 50 per of the fishermen needed be outside the area, 1 On Long Calendar Starting work on a long. calen- dar, the Senate this morr killed eight Icuse measures, passed Lwo and this afternoon were taking up consideration of about 25 othe among them the important mining tax bill Winning approval were the memorials, one asking construction of the Alaska end of the Interna- tional Highway and the other re- questing sufficient ap pr o priation from the Pederal Government to the Bureau of Indian Affairs to cllow losis hospitals, sion. cent from one in each Divi- Kill Welfare Commission The welfare comumission blll was WContinuea ¢n Page Two.) the construction of tubercu-| ‘I Revolters Await Ze'roHour, Knee Deep in Mud, Salonika Trenches ANCIENT AEGEAN SEA PORT IS ED Report Fighting in Progress Near Frontier of Bulgaria | BULLETIN — LONDON, | March 7. — Late this after- ' neen it is reported all South- crn Eurcpe shook to the thunder of the Greek revolt. Greek rebels, it is reported here, have apparently threat- ened Athens itself. Bulgaria has protested to the League of Nations against concentration of Turkish trcops along the Turko-Bul- garian frontier. It is also reported that the internal. situation. . {n . Greece is 8o serious the Government is discussing recalling former King' George’ from. India and restoring a4 monarchy. STRUMA ‘1§ BATTLEFIELD ATHENS, March,7—Government trogps, their ranks_bristling with heayy. artillery,” poured’s through Struma Valley today intent on crushing the East Macedonian reb- els. An air attack against the Mace- donians is also to be launched as unfavorably weather conditions hold up fast progress of the land forces. The rebels awaited the zero hour. almost knee -deep in mud, in the weather-beaten trenches which wonnnued on Page Two) FEDERAL BANK HEAD ASKS FOR INCOME SPREAD Eccles Tells—Housc Com- mittee that Salaries Should Be Adjusted WABHINGTON March 7—~A re- distribution . of ?me nn%! not wealth was suggeste ouse banking commitfee bere yeSgerday by Marriner 8. Eccles, l"edcml Re- serve Board Governor, as one way of solving the - depression’s, prob- frig on thes fe#f omnibus sanking bif! &cl@.famu took a leaf out of Senator Huey Long’s istribution of wealth book. But. Eccles said in efect that ‘it would be all right for a man with, say, $10,000,000 capital to keep that, provided . the incdme was redis- tributed.” Long, the fiery Louisiana solon, wants capital redistributed. | Going back to post-war days for an illustration, Eccles said at the [op boom one single average fam- in the big income class got much as 400 families at the bot- tom of the list. Few individuals receiving so | mich ' income,’ he - explained, re- ,smlud in an increase in the capac- {ity to produce far beyond the | pacity to consume, because those who received such large incomes | could not use the income in con- sumption and, therefore, turned to the investment field as an outlet for their income. | Pactories, consequently, Eccles said, ‘éxpanded and made more J.h]ngs than could be sold. The re- Ncuun set in’ which Hnally resulled n the depression. ’f::t