The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 18, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLV., NO. 6912. * * * * VERSAILLES TRE GERMANY TAKES ! * * * * * * * SPIKE SCHEME T0 SHELVE PART OF SECURITY PLAN President Frowns on Pro-| posal to Split His Economic Program WORK RELIEF BILL BATTLE IN SENATE Attempt Being Made to Cut! Appropriation to Two | Billion Dollars WASHINGTON, March 18.—A move in Congress to cast part of the' Administration’s Social Security, plan aside until the next session brought assertions from informed sources that such a suggestion has already been turned down by Presi- dent Roosevelt. The comment resulted from the activity of Congresswoman Isabella Greenway, of Arizona, who has obtained enough signatures to a; petition to force a Democratic cau- cus on on the question of lifting| the old age pensions out of the So- cial Security bill and enacting them | as a separate measure. Senate Working Senate leaders are today con- centrated on ¢he task of beating | back new efforts to change the Work Relief bill. Conservatives are expected to line up behind a pro- posal of Senator Adams, of Colo- rado, to cut the bill to two bil- lion dollars. Leaders expressed confidence, however, that the bhill will go through substantially unchanged. Bonus Debate The debate on the bonus measure starts in the House tomorrow and | will probably last three days. NRA and the bill on utility hold~ ing concerns will also come out in the spotlight of Congress during the ! present week. - e, — CORRUPTION IN RELIEF IN ONE STATE CHARGED Hopkins Makes Complaint| —Governor .of OChio Makes His Reply COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 18— Gov. Martin L. Davey, facing pos- sible indictment because charged by Harry L. Hopkins, Federal Re- lief Administrator, that he had in- controvertible evidence of political corruption in the administration of the Ohio relief funds, has filed a warrant charging criminal libel against Hopkins. The startling development oame after President Roosevelt directed Administrator Hopkins to “assume entire control” of the administra- tion of the Government’s eight mil- lion dollar monthly relief bill in Ohio. “Come to Ohio, if you dare and show you are a man, or turn and run like a coward and confess your contemptible character,” Gov. Dav- ey said in his 700 word telegram | to Administrator Hopkins. THOUSANDS ARE FLEEING FLOOD MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 18.— Sweeping steadily southward, the crest of St. Francis River's flood surged over 100,000 acres of farm- lands and made refugees of more than 8,000 persons. - e — DR. CARTER ARRIVES Dr. Cassius C. Carter, a physician connected .with the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, at Tan- ana, arrived in Juneau aboard the Dinstinguished Service | GATHERS OVER 2000 PERSONS {Federal Agents and Police of Various Cities | Making Arrests WASHINGTON, March 18.—The Treasury Department announced | this morning that as the result of i the drive on c¢rime, Federal agents innd police of various cities in the | United States, have so far arrested ‘2.359 prsons. CRY FOR QUARTER | WASHINGTON, March 18.—The Treasury Department heard the first cry for quarter last Saturday night in its two-day-old anti-crime campaign as late tabulations show- ed a record pf 2110 arrests and property seizures running into the millions of dollars. 5 Officials predicted that arrests .“(ci:ac[; h:::re';mvlv:‘c)w:lxic;;:rr: will reach 3,000 before the con- Love” has won her the medal o certed push is over. the Society of Art and Sciencet The cry for quarter came from for her ‘“conspicuous achievemen ; group of bootleggers in Cleveland CRIME DRIVE | “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MDNDAY, MARCH 18, 1935. * * ATY mine near Leadville, Colo., by H. A. W. Tabor, famous Colorado multi-millionaire picture of Mrs. Tabor was taken in a happier day wi finances. (Associated Press Photps) NATOR TABOR DIES IN MINE SHACK she was the toast of Denver and W society. She had hoped the famous mine which helped to build the Tabor fortune would restore her . MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS » * » » * » X | Power of Nazi Natio to Be Placed Under Years Are Broken (dent Adolf Hitler in a smashi , rearmamcnt policies, has decr | Moseow, Paris and London. | The Versailles Treaty allows A partments Owned by i‘I ero of Reindeer Drive Are Sold in Sédttle for Mortgage group ‘members were among 175 persons picked up by agents of the 1 ! The Coast Guard fs taking an ac- w'DE sEcTIn tive part in the crime drive, their suspected persons. in raising the standard of cinemi who reported in a telegram to (Associated Prew Secretary Morgenthau as ‘“getting ;A]wh,ol Unit. ! .Secretary. Morgenthau _indicated activities including boarding of 1553 vessels to search for contraband Ten Persons Believed to Have Lost Lives— sick of the whole business.” The _ithe drive will be continued indefi- rum, narcotics, smuggled goods and Damage Large MOONSHINER CAUGHT LEESBURG, Virginia, March 18. —Thomas Quisenberry, bearded mountaineer moonshiner, sought e for the killing of a policeman and KANSAS CITY, March 18—The ywounding of a Federal agent, was dust storm abated during Sunday captured Sunday. Although heavily | a!:@r sweeping a wide section. It is grmed, he offered no resistance. | estimated that ten persons lost Orficers said Quisenberry admit- | their lives. Property damage is not teq he was an escaped convict from | estimated but it is in the hun- wisconsin and that he had killed dreds of thousands of dollars. three men. Early Sunday Quisenberry killed SUFFOCATING GALE Clarence McClaray, policeman, and KANSAS CITY, March 18—vp Wounded George Kirkpatrick, Fed- to last Saturday night, four per- €2l asent. BREAK:COUPLE DEADIN FALL Midwest and Rocky Mountain sec- tions counted the cost of the \ blinding two-day storm. Spokane Airplane Joyride Has Tragic Ending in 1,500-Foot Fall Seven year old Khile Salmon was found dead late Saturday a quar- ter of a mile from her home near Hays, Kansas. She became lost last Friday night and suffocated. Four' other persons were killed in acci- dents attributed to the storm. The Middle West plains were swept by the dust storm which was Southwest Kansas, parts of Okla- SPOKANE, Wash, March 18— homa were swept and gale like 'Dropped head first into space winds whipped over wide areas in When the safety belts of the air- Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Plane in which they were riding, Kansas and the Texas Panhandle, broke, Esther Goldback, 22, and tearing away tons of top soil. Robert Heyer, 23, both residents of Dust was being carried high in Medical Lake, were killed yesterday the air over Missouri and Iowa in a holiday joyride. into 1llinois. The pair were plummeted 1,500 so high that even the sun was ob- ' scured, | ASKS DIVORCE FROM PRINCE completed a five-year reindeer Barbara Hutton, After ary injunction to stay ‘the proceed-' lawyer had been instructed to in-|Will have a year's time in which to| nouncement did not say. Seattle. drive across northern Alaska to northwesteyn Canada, were sold Saturday to satisfy mortgage claims, The buildings were bid in at $62,784 by the Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company of Phila- delphia, which held the mortgage. Superior Court Judge Roscoe R. Many Denlals, Admlls | Smith declined to grant a tempor. ACUOH Contemplaled ings until Bahr's expected arrival | here two weeks hence. LONDON, March 18—Barbara| Bahr's attorney, Edward D. Phe- Hutton Mdivani, wealthy American lan, said the buildings represented: heiress, is getting ready to divorce his client’s entire life savings. He| her husband, Prince Alexis Mdi- | also said that he would attempt to; vani, a laconic announcement is- have the sale set aside again when sued from her hotel suite Satur-|he argues for a permanent injunc- day night said. | tion. The announcement said that her| At any event, Phelan said, Bahr! stitute divorce proceedings. redeem the property. This came as a surprice, as only| Meanwhile, Mayor Charles L.! last Thursday the Woolworth heir-|Smith has set aside April 1 as An-| ess, her fortune estimated to be|drew Bahr Day, to honor him for | as high as $42,000,000, had issued |his heroic drive of the animals to another of her many denials that|Save starving natives near the her marriage was near a breakup.|mouth of the MacKenzie River. Just why she is divorcing the|Bahr is reported as making his way Prince, whom she married in Paris |t & Yukon Territory outpost from on June 20, 1933, the brief an-|Where he will be flown out to She has been in virtual seclusion| SN here since her arrival from Paris | early last week. Her husband is re- ported either in Barcelona or en- route to that Spanish city in the company of his sister, Mme. Sert, the wife of & Spanish painter. | “CAN'T GET ALONG” LONDON, March 18— Barbara - Senate Votes Continuance of Fed. Relief Adm. WASHINGTON, March 18.— Re ponding to the President’s request, the Senate last Satur- ¢ay voted to continue the Fed- eral Relief Administration for another year but deferred ac- tien on the proposal to extend the PWA two additional years until sons>time today. Representative’s Son Is Indicted for Alleged “Sale W .P. Appointment 'WASHINGTON, Mparch 18— tative John Hoeppel of California, has been indicted by a special grand jury for alleged sale of a ‘West' Point’ appointment ' for §1,000. feet to a field 20 miles southwest of here. 5 Heyer’s sister, Polly, and Arnold Ackerlund, the two other passen- gers riding in the cockpit ahead, narrowly escaped a similar fate when their safety belts ripped half way through as the plane suddenly ‘Isballed, upside down. | Air currents_had flipped it over Hutton Mdivani said Sunday she INREICH LAND BRITISH CABINET STOCK PRICES AGAIN. SLUMP, MEETS, PROTEST BEING PLANNED TRADING TODAY Action of _Germany Calls Outside Influences Force Decline from Fractions for Immediate Action, It Is Said to One Point LONDON, March 18—Great NEW YORK, March 18.—Stocks Britain, late this afternoon, pro- tested to Germany against for- were upset today by outside influ- ences and declines from fractions to one point followed. Some issues| mation of the conscript army regained their losses but In most| a4 “calculated seriously to in- cases prices held to a narrow range crease uneasiness of Europe.” to: tlie-ne. The note expressed Great Britain’s regrets at Germany's actions and called on President Hitler to explain the meaning and extent of Germany’s move and state the Reich’s future policy toward the proposed Eu- ropean security system. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, March 18.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 16'%, American Can 113, American Power and Light 1%, Anaconda 8%, Armour N 4, Beth- lehem Steel 22z, Calumet and Hec la 2%, Qeneral Motors 27%, In- ternatiogal. Harveste: 347%,’ Ken- President Hitler's announcement of necott 14%, United States Steel 28, [ €ompulsory training system and re- Pound $4.76, Bremner bid 54 asked'ming, also rejection of the Ver- a id 69 asked 80. Inmes Treaty as it applies to arm- SALMON LOADS |FRANCE SEEKS LARGER IN 183 WAR DIKE FOR February Shipments Show| Big Gain Over Same Period Year Ago SEATTLE, March 18— The Merchants Exchange here .reports Would ‘Encircle Germany —Alliance with Russia Is Now Sought LONDON, March 18.—Jolted by|— PEACE, EUROPE was goinz “straight to Reno” as soon as she reached New York. She said the divorce had been ar- ranged amicably between her and the Prince because ‘“we just de-| cided we didn't get along.” She' denied she was going to Eight Thousand, Armed, Trained, Are for Mo- ment Friendless ] By M. K. WHITELEATHER that waterborn shipments of, sal- mon from this and other Washing- ton ports showed marked gains last month over the same period of time last year. The canned salmon movement in February was 363,363 cases as com- PARIS, March 18—France today sought a “union of peaceful peo- ples” as a war dike around re- armed Germany. It is understood here that Great Britain proposes that the old Al- lies xgobeu Jjointly , against Presi- 1 make any cash settlement with the Prince whom she said had ample on its back as Pilot Joseph Miller | means of his own. She will leave | MUNICH, Germany, March 18.— Armed and trained, but for the mo-{ ment friendless, about 8000 Aus- dent Hitler's scrapping of the peace treaty. Government officials said it pared with 267,139, cases in Febru- ary of 1934, 7 is! S0-HOUR WEEK " BILL APPROVED WASHINGTON, March 18.— The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved of the Black 30-hour {Charles Hoeppel, son of Represen- week bill. All goods manufactured peal “‘made a quarter of a million| pareq to back the futile ooup didhas with labor working more than five| hours daily and six days weekly would be barred from interstate commerce. London for New York on March 23. trian Nazis still are in German camps awaiting that sunny morn- ing when they can march home and turn their country into a Nazi stronghold. Around them a strong force uouldl Will Soon Come Back be built should events in Austria SEATTLE, March 18—William|pave the way or should Hitler Upshaw, anti-liquor crusader (mm!chmge his policy of non-interven- Georgia, here on a lecture tour|yon in ‘Austrian affairs. ! which will cover the state for the| They are all that rem:;\in in uni-| Anti-Saloon League, said prohibi-|form of that famous Austrian le-| tion will soon be back because T€-|gion which last summer was pre- Claims Prohibition unwilling barmaids out of decent COAST STRIKE IS EASING OFF SEATTLE, March 18.—The long- shore and seamen's strike eased with the President Jefferson sail- ing for the Orient and the Wind- rush signing a union crew and leav- ing for Tacoma for loading. in Vienna which cost the life of girls who have been forced Lo serVe| Gnancellor Englebert Dollfuss. Their | intoxicating liquor or lose their (Continued on P:\‘g}’ 7Sevei1; | 3 « Three oil tankers are still tied up. Supplies of gasoline and fuel oil are dwindling. ’ ¥ inevitable that an alignment of Great Britain, Prance and Italy, poesibly other nations, is absolute- ly necessary for a “defensive work- ing agreement.” France is also hopeful of support from Russia, whose army is now being made one of the most power- ful in Europe. BE PREPARED | MOSCOW, March 18— Michael Kalinin, President of the All-Rus- {sia Central Executive Commiltee, today warned the Red Army that war in Europe may break out un- oxpectedly and he called upon the Soviet armed forces to be prepared. e PRICE TEN CENTS » * * ' Peace Threatened in Europe as Reborn Military n Breaks Loose; Conscript i System Is Put Into Effect; Half a Million Men Arms; Fetters of Fifteen | BERLIN, March 18.—The German Cabinet and Presi- ng denunciation of the foreign eed compulsory military train- 'ing and further declared Germany is released from further | obligations under the Vcrsailles Treaty. ; The announcement came after charges and counter (charges concerning armament reverberated between Berlin, ! The Germany Cabinet further decreed that the Ger- }man peace army of the future will consist of 12 army corps of three divisions each, totaling around half a million men. Germany a total of 100,000, President Hitler said, in his de- nunciation of the rearmament poli~ cles of the other nations, that the |Reich was compelled tc take her |own military fate in her own hands. He emphasized the failure ot “other nations" o live up “towres- ductions of armaments called for in the treaty which he sald re- leased Germany from the treaty | obligations. | ALONG OLD, SYSTEM | BERLIN, March 18.—Authorita- | tive sources said conscription will be remodelled on the old Imperial | war machine. The system will be put into effect at once and is re- garded as now actually in exis- tence. PET SCHEME LAUNCHED | BERLIN, March i8.—Adolf Hit= | seized up when the French Cham- ‘)ber endorsed extending France's | military service, actually launched | Germany's pet scheme of military | conscription when even the clos- est advisers said there was no inkling of it. The action of the President and CAPITALS OF " EUROPE ARE All Nations Are Agitated at Latest Move Tak- en by Germany GENEVA, March 18.—As Ger- many plunged into rearmament, free for all the energy pent up during the fifteen years she has been fettered by military clauses of the Versailles Treaty, reverbera- tions of President Hitler's startling announcement that Germany was restoring its conscript army sys- tem, continued to agitate the capi- tals of Europe. | Germany’s army, insiead of to- | taling 100,000, allowed by the Ver- sailles Treaty, will soon jump to half a million. Hums With Activity According to official advices re- ceived here, the Reichswehr’s Min~ istry hummed with activity as of- ficers leaped to their task of co- lordinating military units and start planning a recruiting campaign, construction of an officers’ corps and arranging for supplies. French Activity French official circles, seeing all hope for diplomatic settlement of Europe's peace problems shattered, according to official advices, turn- ed attention to the possibilities of arranging a network of defensive alliances to oppose Germany’s re- ‘born military powers. |7 (Continued on Page Elghv) ler's dramatic stage management, ARLIKE ATTITUDE IS RENOUNCED FOREIGN REARMAMENT POLIGIES ARE DENOUNGED BY GABINET AND - PRESIDENT HITLER;COMPULSORY - MILITARY TRAINING IS ORDERED i WROUGHT UP.