The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 13, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, VOL. XLV., NO. 6908. MARCH 13, 1935. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS D IN FIVE STATES PROGRAM FOR NEW DEALIS AWAY BEHIND Democratic Congress Fails to Enact Legislation After 10 Weeks ROOSEVELT BEING CHALLENGED, CLAIM Indifference Over Sena!eé Deadlock Also Cause of Speculation WASHINGTON, March 13.—An| overwhelming Democratic Congress | ended the tenth week with none of | the New Deal program enacted. | Political Washington is wonder- ing what this signifies for Roose- | velt's future as he is challenged as| never before. | The Administration’s outward in- difference toward the Senate dead- lock is a puzzler for those seeking tc evaluate its strategy. Some quar-| ters are inclined to consider the White House is at a loss for means to start action while others viewed it as a ‘‘patient iting” attitude | deliberately undertaken with a weather eye to 1836 and one that developments would justify a stand- | still. Others see in the situation | that it is only going back to nor-| mal with the Executive and Legis- lative branches having it out on| traditional lines. — .- PRESIDENT TO GO FISHING BY END OF MONTH Also Considering Making| Cross Country Trip to San Diego Fair WASHINGTON. March 13.—De- | spite the delay caused by the re-| tellion on Capitol Hill, President ‘Roosevelt plans to leave Washington late this month on his annual fish- ing trip to the warm blue waters off Florida's coast. Unlike other Presidents, Roose- velt does not seem to think he has to stay close to Washington just be- cause Congress is in session. In addition to the Florida trip, the President is also seriously con- sidering a cross country trip next summer to the California exposition at San Diego although present in- dications are that Congress will be in session at that time. Those close to the President say Congress or no Congress, President Roosevelt likes to break the White House routine by travel and he also feels that it is his duty to get out among the people. NEWSPAPER HAS BLAZE One Life Is Lost, Many Old Files Are Destroyed, Denver Post Fire DENVER, Col., March 13.—One man lost his life and a number of valuable newspaper files were de- stroyed \by ‘a fire which broke out last night in the paper storage floor of the Denver Post. Frank Turner, aged 52 years, negro Jjanitor, died. It i3 believed he was cvercome by smoke. The files destroyed included some cating back to 1890, Rev. Charles E. Coughlin Senator Huey P. Long Principals in present radio “bombarding.” They are calling cach other various things but most of them printable. 3 W orld Famed Inventor Dies After Illness of Five Weeks; Revolutionized 3 Discoveries NEW YORK, March 13.— Prof. Michael Pupin, aged 76 years, the world famed inventor and Columbia University scholar, is dead. He had been ill with heart disease for five weeks. Inventions which revolutionized telephony, wireless telegraphy, and the X-ray were® Michael Pupin's contributions to the scientific world. The man who passed from immi- grant to inventor in 22 years re- turned a rich reward of more than he received from “the land of op- portunity.” The “Pupin coil,” used in putting telephone and telegraph wires un- derground, he regarded as his greatest achievement. It was a comparatively simple arrangement ! of induction coils so placed at prop- er distances as to combat loss of ! electric power in underground wire systems, It made possible the New York to San Francisco telephone| line, the Boston to Washington un- derground cable, and the submarine cable between England and Hol- land. ‘A350cIATED PREST PROF. MICHAEL PUPIN method of receiving wireless sig- nals through electrolytic rectifica- tion of high frequency oscillations Underground Wiring ’flt wireless receiving stations. Telephone experts sald it did| Michael Pupin was nom_m Id- more to extend the sphere of tele- | YOT,» Banat, then a province of prhone work than any other inven- Hungary, but now in Jugo-Slavia, tion since the telephone itself. The | October 4, 1858, of peasant people. result of its use has been the sub- | His mother supplemented hi; school stitution of underground wiring |lessons with her own teaching, but systems for the old overhead wir.‘early in his youth persuaded his ing, both unsightly and dangerous, ' father to let him go to school at Pupin began work on the problem Panchevo, 15 miles distant. '_I'his purely as a matter of scientific in- | Chance at education he imperiled, terest, but finally, urged by hu‘however. when he brought hoqm to friends, took out patents which the ' his rat_her the story ‘o[ l}en)am:n telephone companies later pur- ir“ranklm's drawing electricity out chased. from the clouds. Pupin’s father In 1896 he discovered a rapid Va8 enraged because this disputed method of X-ray photography which the old tradition that lhunder»wavs shortened the time of exposure caused by the passage of Elijah's from about an hour to a few sec- | ¢hariot wheels through the clo_uds, onds. At that time he made a gnd he forbade his bt{,\' to continue photograph of a wounded hand con- 1B school. His mother interposed her taining 100 small shot, all of which ©%D influence, however, and the radio-telegraphy. He also devised a| {a surgeon, guided by the picture, was able to remove. In the same year he also discovered the sec- |ondary X-ray radiation principle universally employed now in the study of X-ray spectra. The monetary damage was small. - e—— Dashes Into Flames to Rescue Children NEWPORT, Wash., March 13. —Mrs. Larry Kirkpatrick dash- ed into her blazing home and rescucd her 2-year-old son, then went- back ' again to get her 4-year:cld boy Kenneth and brought him out but his face and arms were bodly burn-- ed and he died later. Into Wireless Field Wireless telegraphy, however, was |the first field to benefit from his iresearch and inventions. With the | appearance of wireless in 1896 came the problem of sending messages so that they would not interfere with each other. Pupin invented a meth- od of eélectrical tuning, later pur- chased by the Marconi Company, and practiced universally new in boy was allowed to keep on. Discovery at Night At night, while guarding cattle from thieves to help defray the expenses of the school he discov- ered that by thrusting a lance | deep into the soil and pressing his "ear against it he received vibrations which told him where his cattle were wandering. Many years later this suggested uses of the vibration | theory which changed the history |of the electrical world. | In Panchevo his loyalty to Ser- ibian tradition resulted in frictfon with constituted authority and he (Continued on Page Two) feat Dispensary Plan ' as Saloon Scheme House Bloc-l':;;med to De- The House late this afterncog passed the House Liquor Coh& trol bill by a vote of 10 to 6 " The bill, which is a modifies= tion of the present system, Will now go to the Senate. k& In the Senate the dispensaty liquor bill passed on to third reading this con, with prebability that it - will ccme up tomorrow. Sy P Party lines tightened sharply o= day in. the Territorial Legisingure as a House bloc -was reported 'be- ing formed to defeat passage “of{ | any liquor measure which ‘savered’ of the open saloon. Aimed at mq' dispensary bill, the opponents were" pointing out again that the Demo= cratic platform had pledged there be no return of the saloon which: they bluntly stated was the pur~ pose of the dispensary measure now under consideration in the Senate. As the clock moved rapidly to= ward the final hour, 12 midnight tomorrow, the Legislature had fore it unsettled three of the major matters to come up at this session —liquor, appropriations and ‘theé mining tax. - The House refused to concuréin the Senate mining tax substittite this morning and a committee of Green, Lingo and McCutcheon was! appointed to confer with a like ply only to gold mining while the Senate substitute calls for a xvn-’nEATH BEFORE agree on the Senate plan of grnd-. uated tax on net income starting | with three-fourths of ‘one percent FIR'NG suu An million or oyver, although the amended House Bill proposed a tax y on gross production of gold mines tion of 750 ounces. It is generally' tax will prevail with the stickler| Lol A being whether it should apply only! sur rechoms{s re o gold, other mining being taxed Courtmartialed Wide Apart on Liquor The two houses are widely apart ATHENS, March 13—The pos- on liquor, with indication today, sibility of death before a firing present system with modifications. | rebels. The House is sitting tight on House, The Government has instituted Bill 94 which amends the existing wholesale courtmartials for those agency of licenses officers in ad-| The belief is expressed that a dition to other enforcement agen- mass execution will mark the final cles; provides for local option in chapter ‘of ‘the uprising. A similar Senate group. Majority of eral graduated tax on mining to on $5,000 up to fouripercent on & of 75 cents an ounce with exemp—l bredicted the graduated net income Three Hundred Greek In- under the existing statute. that the swing was back to the squad faces more than 300 Greek law, setting up an enforcement implicated in the 11-day revolt. incorporated cities and towns; pro- fate befell the leaders of the last hibits the sale of liquor in anything 'rebellion. but liquor stores, and appropriates! From Rome came the report that $50,000 for carrying out provisions former Premier Venizelos, has ar- of the act which will be up to the rived in'Italy, accompanied by his Board of Liquor Control. wife. He is said to have been the In the Senate the Frawley bill instigator of the revolt. Insurgent on Page Eighv (assoclates said Ttaly will. refuse STu—cr——‘ifil-c—Es I ment for exteadition. LIMPING BACK NO CONFESSION T0 RECOVERY T R e " BY HAUPTMANN ers—Other Issues Still iMakes Statement to Spirit- Remain Down (Contmu ~ ual Adviser—Cost of Conviction NEW YORK, March 13.—A limp-, TRENTON, N. J, March 13— ing recovery developed in the stock Br_uno Richard Hauptmann told his market today after scattered selling SPiritual adviser, Rev. D. G. Wer- uncovered several weak spots. ner, of New York City, that he had Small net gains predominated in| Nothing to confess “about the Lind- leading issues at the finish al-|Pergh baby kidnap and slaying.” though some stocks were still down| = The Appropriations Committee, meeting at the State House, reveal- Sales today were about.1000000 ed that the total cost of the Haupt- shares. mann trial was approximately $130,- —— 000. CLOSING PRICES TODAY " NEW 'YORK, March 13—Closing ? quotation of Alaska Juneau mine One of Dionne stock today is 16, ,American Can Gy s 115, American Power and Light Sl:sters Has 1%, Anaconda 8%, Armour N 3%, First Tooth Bethlehem Steel 243%, Calumet and Hecla 2}, General Motors 27%, International Harvester 35%, Ken- necott 14%, United States Steel 29%, Pound $4.74%, Bremner bid 55 asked 61, Nabesna bid 70 asked 80. about one point or more. CALLANDER, Ontario, March 13—One of the five Dionne sigters cut her first tooth yes- terday. It was the first tooth to be ‘cut by any of the famous quints, ' Pictures Begin Telling Story of Greek Revolt Bombing planes, ships, artillery and infantry have been engaged in battler in Magcdonia and Thrace and also on the high.seas. Former Premier Venizelos (upper left) is said tc have becn the revolt instigator. Gen. George Kondylis- (in civilian suit at top), Minister ¢f War, resigned and lead | the loyal troops. He captured Seres apparently ending the incmrection. One of the captured armored Bl v CANDIDATES OF CINCINNATUS IN SEATTLE CHOSEN |Langlie and Hamley Elect- | ed Councilmen with Mrs. F. F. Powell SEATTLE, March 13. — Candi- dates of the new order of Cin- cinnatus, a young men's reform | organization, swept the City Coun- cil elections Tuesday. B Arthur B. Langlie and Frederick G. Hamley, the Cincinnatus can- | didates, and Mrs. F. P, Powell, P.- T. A, and civic worker, defeated | incumbent Councilmen David Le- vine, Frank F. Fitts and Willlam A. Gaines. The margin of win was about | three to two. The Cincinnatus figured in the leity election a year ago when David Lockwood was elected to a three-year term. The Cincinnatus candidates made |& popular demand for “a new deal in the Council, in the interests of good government.” The defeated candidates sought re-election on their records and |charged their opponents with be- ing inexperienced. HOUSE BLOC OUT AFTER SCALP OF KINGFISH HUEY Oklahoman Head's Group Trying to Whittlle Down Long Power Mrs. F. F. Powell, the only woman running against five men to fill three places, was elected to the City Council in Seattle at yesterday's election. She has been active in Parent- Teacher Asociaticn affairs for years. (Asociated Press Photo) COAST FIRMS REPORT MONEY AGAIN MOVING Wheels“of Business Turn Faster — February Best Since 1931 SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March 13—More money is moving over the counters of Pacific Coast firms making the wheels of business MISSISSIPPI, TRIBUTARIES, PISING TODAY Swirling Waters, Already Ménacing Areas from North to South FAMILIES DRIVEN FROM THEIR HOMES Snow, Rain Sinknds Report- ed Sweeping Across South This P. M. CHICAGO, I, March 13. —Swirling flecod waters of the Miscissippi River and its tributaries menaced homes in five States this afternoon while snow and’ rain storms swept across the South. Hundreds of families have been driven frem their homes in Illinois, Missouri and Mis- siseippi by the rising flood watcers. Levees of the St. Francis River, near Kennett, Missouri, are crumbling and the flcod waters threaten to go cn a widespread rampage. JRRLER SRS & S U.S. WILL KEEP TELEGRAPH LINE, SAYS DELEGATE Predicts Permanent Gov- ernment Ownership of Alaska System WASHINGTON, March 13—Per- manent government ownership' of the Washington - Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System is pre- dicted by Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond if a bill submitted to him by the War Department for a financing system is enacted by ‘Congress. In a letter accompanying the proposed bill, Lieut. Col. Guy M. Chipman told the possibility of selling the system had been taken up but President Roosevelt doubt- ed the advisability of sale or that any private irterest would be will- ing to purchase it-at a reasonable ‘The bill, as submitted to Di- mond would eliminate the free use of the system by all government de- partments except war, navy and coast guard; other governmental sgencies paying approximately 50 percent of the commercial tele- graph rate. In addition all income from commercial work would go direct to the Treasury to be ap- plied directly to maintenance and operation of the system. “Buch a change in administra- tion of the service will eliminate loud cries of expense for with re- ceipts applied directly to expenses there will be little if any possibili- ties of its failing to pass and it practically eliminates all possi- bility of the system ever passing into private hands,” Dimond said. 'DEPORTATION NOW FACING BRIT. AUTHOR turn faster. This accelerated activity in PFeb- ruary topped all figures for the month since 1931, Banks in 30 of the chief cities of the Paciftc Coast eashed checks worth about 14 per cent more in February than in the same month iast year. . This gain is taken by banking circles to indicate a like improve- ment in the total money value of all industrial and éemmercial nancial transactions. .- The cost of maintenance and op- eration of rail lines by the Alaska Railroad in 1934 was $1,410,032. fi- WASHINGTON, March 13—For-|Son of Late Publisher Lon- mation of an anti-Long bloc in the House in an effort to whittle down the Kingfish's power either by direct attack or ridicule is un- der way here. Spearhead of the group is P, L. Gassaway of Okla- homa who with Wesley E. Disney of Oklahoma and about 16 others are holding frequent consultations on the matter. Gassaway, wearing leather boots and string bow. tie of the cow country, said: “We are the meanest scoundrels in Congress. We are c¢amp tired of Hu palver and we ‘are going to kmock him over.” | don Speéctator Says He Is Communist CHICAGO, M, March 13—E. John - St. Loe Strachey, British | author and former member of Par- | iament, is econfronted with possi- ble deportation following his arrest on charges of entering the country | by making false statements. He is | aceuszed subsequently as describing himself as a Communist. Strachey is the son of the late publisher of the conservative Lon- don 'Spectator.