The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 8, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA E VOL. XLV., NO. 6903 'BOMBARDMENT OF “ ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1935 THE e " ALASKAN MISS VINSON RALLIES T0 SUPPORT OF ALASKA DEFENSE House Naval Affairs Chair—l man Urges Program Be Carried Out WANTS BILLS BROUGHT' OUT FOR EARLY VOTE' B | Suggests Amendments, if One Unemployment, Old Age Pension Bill Is Approved WASHINGTON, March 8.— The House Labor Committee has approved the Lundeen Un- employment Insurance and Old Age Pension bill. Provisions of the bill lets the Government pay the unemploy- ment and old age insurance cqual to the prevailing wages, providing payment is mot less than $10 weekly plus $3 for each dependent. —————————— NIEDERHAUSER, | i Knapsackaflof—'lfi()hn Laverdin| CORDOVA MAN BEING HUNTED BY DFFICERS Discovered — He May Have Been Waylaid ROSEBURG, Ore, March 8. —The Douglas County Sheriff has ordered a search to be made for John Laverdin, Cordova, Al- aska fisherman; whose knap- sack, contsining clothing and papers, was found near a bridge on Myrtle Creek this morning. SHELLFIREIS EXPECTED FROM . REBEL VESSELS | Terror Grips P8pulacc’ of Ancient Capital—Ar- tillery Mounted | FEDERAL WARSHIPS ARE SCOUTING SEAS illaly Sends.‘N:;lgl Craft to Scene—Villages Are Being Pillaged ‘ | Necessary, to Include i GRAY NOM‘NEES 5 The knapsack was soaked by the rain and its condition in- dicated it ias been exposed for soveral weeks. e ruelling than last year’s London- National Aernnumthd‘chl:g:r ‘and South America race, with stops at all Latin American eapitals, as a Pan-American good will ges ture. City of Vancouver expects to stage race from London via Moscow and Tokvo to Vancouver as feature of its 1936 centennial selebrotion | | Two air marathons longer and Melbourne Derb; ing aere y are bei of Commerce is planning | ATHENS, Greece, March 8— | Residents, alarmed at the prospect of a rebel bombardment of Greece's WASHINGTON, marcn s—What- | ever is needed in the way of nayal, defenses in Alaska should be built.| Chairman Car! Vinson, of the Northern Territory FOR FIRE CHIEF House Naval Affairs Committee, T | | mide: iy ‘stathiaatil.! toay: iDepartment Makes Annual! Chairman Vinson said he did not| Selections at Mefling know what was needed in Alaska! . . in the way of naval. defenses. He' in Hall Last nght J. L. Gray and William Nieder~ said while fortification or defense developments along the Aleutians' were entirely in the hands of the hauser were nominated for Fire Army Department, he did not know Chief at the regular'monthly meet- of any actual plans for such de- ing of the Juneau Volunteer Fire velopment. ;Department at the Fire Hall last Chairman Vinson urged the Rules Might. Committee to provide for a rule! Gray s the present Fire Chief 50 that four of the naval bills now and Neiderhauser is Assistant Fire pending could be brought out of Chief. The election will take place the committees considering them, | APril 4. After the selection of the pe Chief on that date, the. City Coun- | oil probably will give “official ‘ap-' proval to the Department's nomi- nee for the post. In the nominations last night, po- |sitions other than for Fire Chief ‘went unopposed. Minard Mill, now a company foreman, was the sole nominee for Assistant Chief. V. M. Mulvihill was nominated to sycceed | himself 'as secretary, while A. F. McKinnon was re-nominated as: trustee for a three-year term. Helzheimer Re-elected i Second in importance at the ses- slon was the election of officers for ‘the Juneau Baseball League, oper- | ated under the auspices of the Fire Department. W. A. Holzheimer wasl re-elected President. John E. Pe-| for an early. vote. He said .there may be a possibility . some Alasks project is_cofftained i them, .and if not, amendments, could be made for development in thé 'northern territory. i e $40,000 SCHOOL BILL APPROVED BY UPPER HOUSE Luskituited a5 Reliet: Mans. 'xues was named vice-president and | Mulvihill was chosen secretary. ure with Hope of Get- ting Federal Aid Approval was given by the Ter- ritorial Senate this morning to the school bill which would appropri- ate $40,000 for the construction ofj rural schools, equipment and re- pair with the purpose of relieving rnemployment. Instituted as a re- lef measure, it is hoped the Fed- eral government will contribute a like amount from its relief funds toward carrying out the projects, ¥, was explained when the meas- ure ‘was sponsored by the Board of Education. The Lingo measure for changing the name of the Alaska Agricul- tural College and School of Mines to the University of Alaska also was passed by the Senate this morning. It will become effective July 1, 1935. Other Bills Passed Other House measures confirm- ed by the Senate today included the ‘Chamberlin bill on hair seal bounty which extended the area to in- clude the waters of Bering Sea and Golovin Bay, lying within a linc drawn from the tip of Rocky Point to the tip of Cape Darby, and the McCutcheon measure re- quiring Administrative Officers or employees to make written, detail- ed application for traveling ex- penses which must be approved by the Administrative Board before such money is paid. In’case of emergency, the applicant must file his statement within 30 days after returning from a trip. . Kill Ziegler Measure The Ziegler bill which would re- quire hospitals to file within ten' days expense accounts for taking care of those on relief, was de- feated. Two committee reparts also were |heard. Harry Sabip, chairman of| the Firemen's Ball committee, re- ported that this season's dance proved, financially, to be .an even greater success than the one held last winter. | censuring recently of the New Deal Papers in the bag suggested that Laverdin might have had money on his person. Officers belieye it is possi- ble he was waylaid. Bank books in the knapsack showed Laverdin had accounts in banky in Seattle, Portland and Cordova, JOHNSON SAYS CLERGY.HAS NO| POLITICS PLACE Ex-NRA Head Believed to| Have Implied Slam at Father ‘Coughlin * PROVI! ICE, R. I, March 8.— Gen. Hugh Johnson said the! clergy had a right to discuss soctal problems but they had no right to form a political organization and use religious emotion,” instead of exposjtion, for an argument. | Although Father Charles E.| Coughlin was not mentioned by name, it is believed the Detrolt priest was implied because of his in recent addresses. Gen. Johnson spoke before the Rhode Island Bar Association meet- ing. The former NRA chief predicted an ever widening field of Federal supervisiop over the nation,- sanc- Arnot Hendrickson, chairman of a committee to construct a drag.for recovering of bodies in marine ac- cidents, reported that the imple- ment had been constructed and was now in the Fire Hall. Finally, the firemén approved the swimming pool project as out- lined to them last night by Milton Anderson, the recreation sport's backer. tioned by the nation’s courts. | LONG VITRIOLIC INRADIO SLAP AT ADMINISTRATION Louisiana Fif_e_-Brand De- SHIP SUBSIDY - PLAN REVEALS THIRD SAVIN Administration’s New Pro- gram on Mail Contracts Would Cut Costs WASHINGTON, March 8.— plan, official sources said - today, would cost the government between eighteen and twenty millions an- nually. They said it represents a saving of about one-third as com- | pared with the present’ ocean mail contracts. | It also was indicated some steam- ship operators, now bging helped, might lose government financial @ssistance if the plan goes through in the form contemplated with no subsidies to be granted to two com- panies in direct competition. HUGE MILITARY BUDGET PASSED BY JAPAN PEERS 47 Per Cent of Year's Ap- . propriations, Will Go to Army and Navy TOKYO, March 8.—~The House of Peers has enacted a Budget giving final' approval to de- mands of Japan’s Army and Navy leaders for the largest military 2ppropriations in the Empire’s history. The bill allocates 47 percent i F aded Beau_ty of Fabled Past " Found Frozen to Death in One Room Shack at Historic Mine LEADVILLE, Colo., March 8—)why the 73-year old woman had | Eligabeth McCourt “Baby Doe”|not been seen about lately. [Pabor, faded beauty of the fabled| Of the famed Tabor fortune, only ‘past, was found frozen to death, two wrinkled dollar bills and a few yesterday, in a shack at the Match- | small coins remained in.the shack. less Mine, where millions flowed} Tabor told his wife long age wwhen her late husband, H. A. W. never to give up the Matchless , was prince of the roatring Administration’s new ship subsidy \The woman was found on the| floor of the one-room shanty. Coroner James Corbett said prop- ably the woman died about 15 days Ago. Neighbors found the body when they went, to the shack to. learn We, lhen her fortune vanished she still YénAingd in “the’ shack,’ al- "thogh. ownership had 10ng . since passed to other hands. The only surviving relatives lo- cated are a brother, Willlard Mc- Court, retired Denver salesman, and her daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Tabor- Little, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. BUSINESS TREND UPWARD, SPRING OUTLOOK BRIGHT Stability Revealed as Mor Factories Near Capac- ity Schedules NEW YORK, March 8— The broadening tendency of business has been resumed, the Dun-Brad- street, Inc., report. said today. “It is now evident the leveling process of operating in some divist ions 'was nothing but a pause in the general uptrend and did not permit interpretation of a reaction- ary -movement,” the report said. “While some uncertainty, expect- ed along the cburse of NRA, re- mains unclarified, business should be aided by greater intensity of lveness which is now pro- € results. and making for STOCK PRICES FAIL TO KEEP clares White House Is Making ‘War’ on Him WASHINGTON, March 8— Opening a floodgate of railing ac- of the appropriations for the |Fdore stability than any temporary current fiscal year to the Army | €mergency or relief program could and Navy. ,Jope to achieve.” The Arzsy and Navy budget ' .The Retail Trade Review said totaly about $600,000,000. (business ‘had turned sharply bet- - ‘ter during the week with general CITIZENS URGED T0 REGISTER FO APRIL ELECTION [Only 238 Have Signed Books—Gossip Rife as to Probable Candidates | With rumor rife. as to possible candidates for the general munici- | citizens had: sig registration ‘No candidate yet put’in for- mal bid for.any of the five munici- pal.posts |t be yoted' upon. al the coming: election. ‘A’ mayor, three councilmen, and a school director are to be chosen. Today,- City Clerk A. W. Hen- ning announced that the registra~ tion books would be kept open to-; morrow afternoon to accommodate voters, . At the same time, Mr. Henning urged prospective voters to register soon, as the books will be open only for 19 days more. Where but 238 had signed today, an electorate pal election ‘due April 2, it was, learned at City Hall today that 238, fhe permanent i T {efiminated gradually over a period ancient capital, shave blocked, in comparative safety, the outlying districts. Every avallable artillery piece is mounted on the ramparts of Pi- raeus to repel the expecteil attack, and apprehension, approaching ter- ror, has gripped the populace. FISH IS ASKED .., 2, row e Gen Kondylis has began the of- e | fensive against the rebels, hurling | iy a 12-plane bombing attack in N stg Fastern Macedonia where a heavy ;Hous.e Memonal Requehls snowfall has impeded the advance | Legislature Act Concuir- ot the Loyalist troops. rently with Congress AUTHORITY TO * TERRITORY ON Rebel Force 6,000 Gen. Kondylis estimated the reb- | With the purpose of giving the L force Against his | as only Territory greater authority.over its About 6000, He finmm‘ po- fishing industry, Representative Joe Sition as Minister of War to take Baronovich of the .First Division the field against the insurgents. introduced in the Territorial House Pillaging _Starts this morning a memorial asking It 1s said the rebel forces on land ‘Congress to grant the Legislature T¢ in sore need of supplies and the right to legislate concurrently Pilaging of —undefended villages with Congress on all subjects re-|has’ started. Food is being confis- lating to fisheries in Alaska. |cated and both arms and ammuni- Attached to the memorial was the | tion of villagers seized. tapy of A letter from Delegate Rebels Roving Seas Anthony J. Dimond to Gov, John| Meanwhile the whereabouts of W. Troy in which Dimond sug- five insurgent war vessels is un- gested such a plan might be work- Certain, but it is reported the craft ed out. His letter says: are roving in the Aegean Sea near “Your letter of February 1 with the Cyclades Islands. respect to fish traps reached me a Put Out to Sea day or two ago. Four Federal warships have left _ I am very glad to have this for the sea in an attempt to in- more extended statement of your tercept the enemy ships and turm views with regard to fish traps them back before they can come and to Territorial confrol of the Within shelling range of Athens. tisheries. Perhaps something can| be worked out along the lines indi- REVOLT WITHIN REVOLT cated by you, namely that the Ter-| ATHENS, March 8—According Iritorial Legislature be given power |to advices received here, there is 'to legislate on the subject concur-|@ Tevolt within a revolt. It is said rently with Congress. I also note|the reports bring the information the opinion of Mr. Baronoyich that that internal trouble is spreading no more than 25 per cent of the in the rebel ranks. The soldiers traps should be abolished in one|are demanding an arrangement year. There is a strong sentiment!whereby the command shall be in’ Alaska ‘among our friends that|passed to non-commissioned offi- the traps, if eliminated, should' be|cers. 4 of years—some people think that ITALY TAKES ACTION three years would be the proper| ROME, Italy, March 8—Premier period, others advise a longer time. Benito Mussolini has ordered three “Of course, if the umsmn!-mhlps to the Aegean Sea area. were given authority to legislate| The order was issued today and on the subject, then it would not|the navy craft will get away during be in order for me to ask Congress| this afternoon. to take any further action.” Approval was given by the House ARTILLERY FIRE HEARD today %o the Growden bill which, SOFIA, Bulgaria, March 8—Vio- 'would fix pensions at $30 for men |lent artillery fire between the $40 a month for women, The meas- | Greek forces and Greek rebels is | shares. GOING UPWARD Metal and {JtTlity Issues, However, Take Advance —Close Is Irregular NEW TYORK, March 8—Stocks made a feeble attempt to' follow throigh on yesterday's rise 'Qut| asids ‘from the firmness ‘of some metals, utilities and scattered spe- cialties, few however got very far. Today's close was irregular. Transfers were under 500,000 Ci-OSlNG PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, March 8—Closing Yesterday afternoon the Senate approved the Walker bill appropri- ating $16,000 for the construction of a new school at Craig to replaoel the one recently destroyed by fire., Four measures were passed onl favorably this afternoon by the upper house. They were: ¢ H. J. M. 11, requesting the Coast P quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 174, American Can 117, American Power and Light 2%, Anaconda 9%, Armour N 4%, Bethlehem Steel 26%, Calumet and Hecla 3, General Motors 28%, In- ternational Harvester 38, Kenne- cott 15%, United States Steel' 31, Pound - $4.777%, Bremner 56 bid, 1 asked;, Nabesna 75 bid, 100 ask- ed. [ cusations, United States Senator Huey P. Long, last night asserted the White House had “declared war on him ‘and that the lead-off man had been’' Hugh S. Johnson under whom NRA” became such 4, nation- al scandal. g Sehator Long said that “Presi< dent Roosevelt 'has let Johnson. slide put- as rthe scapegoat.” « Serhtor Long mage his @sser- tions 4in atradio address and was prepared ta, deliver .an answer g the’ spagch made by Gen. Johnson last Monday in which Johnson call- ed the Louisianan and Father Charles E. Coughlin, Detroit priest, “mad pied-pipers” who were ap- pealing to “lunatic fringes” of the people. Senator Long termed Gen. John- son as “one of those satellites loan- ed by Wall Street to run the Gov- arnment.” e POLESCHUK HEARING TODAY Peter Poleschuk, who was ar- rested for disturbing the peace, is te have a hearing in the United States Commissioner's Court this afternoon. HOLMES LAID TOREST WITH . OTHER HEROES Former « Associate - Justice Is Buried in Arling- ! ton Cemetery WASHINGTON, March 8.—While President Roosevelt and other not- ables stood in a heavy sleet storm with uncovered heads, the body of Oliver Wendell Holmes, former As- sociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was buried among the Nation's military heroes in Arlington cemetery. A3 the body was lowered into the grave, a parting salute was fired and taps were blown. ‘The service at Arlington Ceme- tery’ followed those Unitarian Church. ! in All Souls . tions expanding more rapidly in February with no slowing down . in. sight’ as. miore factories near capacity sthéddles. ' = i }’(: LT THREE MISSING ‘ON'TROLLER ON. WAY T0 ALASKA inquiry Is Made Regard- ing Party Bound rth for Hoonah KETCHIKAN, Alaska, March 8. —Inquiries have been received here relative to the whereabouts of Ray operaf than Trafton and two sons who left| Anacortes, Wash., for Hoonah, Al- aska, oh January 2. The trio started out for the north | in a 25-foot troller, the M-3969 Miss Alice Mellott, of Anacortes ie the inquirer. | numbering 1,800 usually is found {Uré NOW goes to the Senate. at time. i Another ,pension. bill, introduced It,plso was pointed out, that, by registering at this time, a voter is ed previously changing the date of not required to repeat the proced-|those | eligible for pensions from ure at subsequent elections, due only those who were residents prior te the recently approved perma-’w 1906 to' include perSons ‘of 25 nent registration ordinance, years continuous residence in Alas- ———e——— SHOWDOWNNEAR. ON WORK RELIEF BILL N SENATE WASHINGTON, March 8—The | power issue was called to the at- | tention of Semators today as they | {met with the hope of reaching & SSATTLE, March ;’V‘::&do;:ue?z:l, nightfall on the \ne pest market on The American Liberty League Coast for two-bit cigars. asked the Senators to find out Port Angeles, Wash. is the lead- if additional government power pro- ing city per capita . in the con- ‘jecu like the TVA are confemplat- :umption of high priced smokes. |ed under work relief legisiation, This {5 the statement made by a. Kill Lingo Bill By a vole of 8 to 7 with one absent, the House this afternoon killed the Lingo bil] asking $5,000 for road building in the vicinity of Nenana after calling Willlam A. (Continued on Page Two) 8. —Alaska is the Pacific by Andrew Nerland, has been pass-{ Alaskans Smoke High Priced Cigars, Trade Figures Show | reported heard along the Bulgarian frantier. No forces have, however, crossed' the boundary line. REBELS HARD PRESSED ATHENS, March 8.—Shortly af- ter the loyal troops launched the offensive at the rebels in East Macedonia, reports were intercepted by the Government saying the in- surgents in that sector were ready to surrender. ‘Gen. Demetrius Kamanos, com- manding the Macedonian Division in the north, is said to have sent i (Uonunued on Page Two) M. L. Applegate, Seattle manager for a Market Analysis Bureau, in a speech at a Nile Temple Shrine | luncheon. “This analysis,” sald Applegate, “indicates that financial conditions are picking up In Alaska and Port | Angeles,”