The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 25, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLV., NO. 6918. WS ALL THE TIME” AY MARCH 25 |935 “ALL THE N JUNEAU, ALASKA, HON SECRECY SHROUI)S-»- PLOT TO KIDNAP DIC Just What Do You C(i?l POLICE GUARD IS PLAGED AROUND DAFOE HOSPITAL Provincial Government Takes Action Follow- ing Abduction Rumor TORONTO, Ontario, March 25.—The Provincial Government has ordered police to guard the Dafoe Hospital to foil an alleged plot to kidnap the Di- onne quintuplets. Rumors were circulated that a plot has been uncovered to use an automobile and airplane to take the five babies into the United States in about two weeks, ENCIRCLED BY FLAMES, 6 DIE IN CLUB FIRE, | Smoke Starts Stampede _Early in Morning—One Exit Quickly Blocked CHICAGO, 1, March 25.—Six pérsons were burned to death and scores wene injured by flames which ‘trapped them early yester- day morning in a club rendezvous. Encircled by the swift spreading fire, panic stricken patrons fought for the one exit. Many were tram- pled upon. | Motorists made ineffectual at- tempts to open another exit by ramming a car against the outside of the building. Smoke curling up from the cloak- room at 2:30 o'clock in the morn-| ing started the stampede for the one exit. The fire was of an un- determined origin. The club was one of several night resorts clustered in the lit- tle town of Morton Grove, several miles west of Evanston, a suburb, scene of the kidnaping two years ago of John ‘“Jake the Barber” Factor. The six victims apparently died in an effort to get their wraps before fleeing from the burning structure. e iter to The Empir PHILIPPINES RECEIVE HOME RULE SET-UP Roosevelt Signs Bill Allow- ing Ten-Year Period Before Freedom ‘WASHINGTON, March-25.—~Sure rounded by beaming Filipinos, Pres- ident Roosevelt here Saturday signed the document which pro- vides home rule for the far-away Philippine TIslands. The home rule policy will be followed for ten years before the islands are given their complete freedom. The home rule measure will be- come effective after the special session of the insular legislature meets in ten days to set the date for the election at which the Fili- pinos will vote on the acceptance of the constitution. Until complete independence is granted, the United States will see to the defense and foreign rela- tions of the commonwealth gov- ernment. The United States also reserves the right to take over the customs in‘case the Philippines fall behind in the deBt service. R\miu'lr .ery Gfies to Prison for Killing Man SEATTLE, March 25— Russian Mary Kelly, convicted of slaying Otto Johanson on January 16, has left for the state prison to begin serving from five to twenty years, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Native of Juneau? World Awaits Answer to This One What's the name, please? Mr. Charles E. Funk, who is quite an expert and student of names, is in a quandry. As a pub- lisher of dictionaries for lo these| many years and one of the pub-‘ lishers of the Literary Digest, Mr. Funk knows his words, but at last he is stumped. “What term,” he ask» in a let- applied to a native of Juneau A native of Glasgow is called a | Glaswegian, Mr. Funk suggests, but to set the dictionary publisher right, it tsn't entirely true that na- tives of Juneau and the North are Norwegians, although some face- tious individuals have referred to the Lhrec g'oups of chp]l’ in Al- raska as White Men, Natives and ‘ Norwegians. | A native of Halifax, {goes: on by way of example, is termed a Haligonian, but what about a person from Juneau? i | ‘Well, let’s see. Juneauite, Unoite,! | Junoite, Junoalaskite are sugges-| | tions that have been made. Juneau- ite has become more or less un-i versal, but let’s set Mr. Funk | right on this matter, Empire read- ers. Send your answers to his two questions in to The Empire. Here they are: What term is applied to a na- tive of Juneau? If the name is similarly unusual, can you explain its ongln? ;Suprome Court Deusw n Does Not Stop Opp onent of New Deal’s Gold Policy STATEMENT ON CITY AFFAIRS IS RELEASED TODAY Financial Condltlon at End’ of Fiscal Year Ex- plained by Mayor In a prepared statement issued tat the City Hall today, the follow- ing was released: “When the municipal bocks for the '1934-35 fiscal ‘year are closed March 31 the City of Juneau will start the coming year free from current indebtedness, it was an- nounced by Mayor I. Goldstein to- day in response to inquiries about the financial condition of the city. “The city has paid the $15,000 it was obliged to borrow from the 'bank to tide over the period be- tween tax payments, has taken care of current bills to date and will have enough cash on hand assuming that promised tax pay- ments are made this week, to meet March bills and payrolls, without borrowing,” continued Mayor Gold- stein. “The only other obligation of the city, in addition to the bonded indebtedness, is the amount of $2,033 still due on the street grader purchased in 1933, payable in two annual payments October 1, 1935, and October 1, 1936. Bond Situation “The City owes $226,000 in bonds, including the $80,000 borrowed this year from the PWA for which only $6,262.38 has been expended to date The sewer bonds total $56,000, due March 1, 1949, and the school bonds total $90,000, maturing June 1, 1957. The latter issue was originally $100,- 000 but the City paid off $10,000 in December, 1933. “Mayor Goldstein explained that though the City was authorized by Congress and by the citizens at a special election held last August 29 to issue $103,000 in bonds for public improvements, paving, sidewalks, bridges and sewers, only $80,000 worth has been issued. This amount wgs advanced by the PWA and made available in January to de- fray the cost cf the improvements covered by the loan and grant agreement between the PWA and the City. PWA Expenditures “The agrcement calls for the expenditure of $51400 for street and sidewalk improvements. $17,- 850 for bridges and bulkheads, $2,- 750 for sewers and water mains, $25,000 for a refuse incinerator and $6,000 for engineering, overhead, etc, or a total of $103,000. How- ever, after investigating costs of construction and operation, the | City Ceuncil decided to give up the plan of erecting an incinerator as keing impracticable and in- stead installed a new garbage dump snuth of the city at a cosv. of tl - (Cnuunucd on Page Hve) By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Precs, Washington) Those who leaped to the con- clusion that the Supreme Court's gold decision settled everytning in I[avor of the Administration appear to ‘be revising their opinions. The suit brought by Robert Taft, Ichiunnxmg the right of the Gov- ernment to call its liberty bonds ahead of maturity and substitute lower-interest obligations, has been | causing lawyers some thought. Mr. Taft may not win, but he has put his finger on a declara- tion of the highest court which is not likely to be forgotten by those who oppose the Administration’s gold policy. It is the Court's plain statement that the Government has no constitutional right to repudi- ate a promise to pay in gold. Out of this part of the decision arise the prolonged conferences of Government attorneys, the demand in some quarters for new legislation, and the apprehension on the part of some that at some time the non-repudiation ruling may arise to plague or wreck monetary plans. It would seem there is a central issue* here still in dispute. A War Debt Idea More may be heard within the next few months about the war debts. The Roosevelt Administra- tion is studying quietly what, if anything, can be done. i A plan advanced by a group of Chicago attorneys is attracting some attention in Washington. It proposes that the combined total of the debts be scaled down from about $10,500,000,000 to about $3,- 500,000,000, and that payment be made over a 12-year period at the rate of something less than $300,- 000,000 a year. To enable Europe to save the money necessary to make a begin- ning, a five-year holiday on arma- ' ments is proposed. It is argued this would mean further compensation for the United States, too, because what we now spend on armaments could go into savings. The authorship of the plan is attributed to Salmon O. Levinson, who had much to do with laying the groundwork for the Kellogg- Briand anti-war pact. Nothing approaching acceptance of this proposal is yet apparent in Washington, but it will remain un- der study salong with other sug- gestions, | To Follew G. O. P. Plan Looking to the 1936 Presidential campaign, some administration strategists are taking encourage- ment from what happened in 1924, They base their reasoning on a belief that next year will see a three-way contest, with Mr. Roose- velt and the Republican nominee biddinz for the right-wing and middle-ground support against a third party left-winger. In '24 the Republican nominee, Calvin Coolidge. was opposed by John W. Davis, Democrat, and Robert M. LaFollette, progressive. wonunuee on Page Two) | !Nebraska and Texas-Oklahoma | Behrends Bank, PAGIFIC N. W, AGAIN SWEPT 'SUN AND WIND | ' RAVAGING PART WESTERN AR Storms Are Reported Over Week-end SEATTLE, March 25. TFour drownings near Waldport, Oregon, when a Will Be Useless for Many Years to Come KANSAS CITY, March 25.—The Southwestern drought damage = day embraced homes, half stai herds and dust smothered ¢ The damage runs high into mill of dollars as the weather m*\ farmers prayed for general rain %o check the ravages of sun and wi Hubert Collins, Denver suufl- cian for the Department of Ag- culture, said thousands of acres of land will be useless for farming and grazing for 100 years or meore and he predicted the “most com-|tryouts at the Rainier National plete crop failure in the history!Park, causing a postponement. of the wester plains regions.” This| Dust storms swept Spokane and was in reference to eastern Colo-|several other eastern Washington rado, Wyoming, western Kansas,|counties. Central Oregon also experienced Panhandle. la dust storm. Farmers have already started the, AR L5 PR SR exodus from several Colorado coun-| | ties. |Standing Army of MINIMIZED IN COLORADD AREX Baca County Loses Wheat Crop, but Deaths Not Laid to Silt Storms DENVER, March 25.—Ninety-five | per cent of the doss to Baca Coun- ANcHnRAGlTE’S ty's fall wheat crop was attributed | here today to last week’s deluge of| wIFE Is KILLED dust in Southeastern Colorado, buf investigators co-incidentally dis- Mrs. Adam Simons, Said counted the effect of the black blizzard on humans and livestock to Be Drinking, Does i Trapeze” Act i } is* part of the toll of the worst Pacific Northwest gale of the win- ger since the big blow of last fall.! Gales, rain, blizzards and heavy ldust storms was the {weatherman sang. One blizzard stopped the compe- | tition ~in ' the Pacific Northwest WASHINGTON, March 25— An agreement on the immedi- by 40 percent has been reach- ed by the Senate :and House conferees on the $400,000,000 War Department’s appropria- tion bill. The increase begins at once with an annual cost of $20,- 000,000. e | As the swirling storm subsided in isolated regions which border on Kansas, Oklahoma and New Mex- ico, county health authorities were inclined to believe that the four deaths in Springfield and the two others in Lamar, were unrelated cases of pneumonia influenced only slightly, if at all, by dust irritation. However, scores of adults and children suffered discomfort and lung infection from the constant clouds of silt, but none is expected to result in permanent injury. Four cows perished from the dust on one farm and there were scat- tered cases of other livestock fa- talities. i The national Red Cross organiza- tion has been informed, following DOES TRAPEZE ACT a conference with physicians, that the local medical facilities are, SEATTLE, March 25— Pretty sufficient to cope with the situa- Mrs. Adam Simons, who, detectives tion and that the dust storm has| said, is the wife of an Anchorage caused no emergency to health con- | reindeer breeder, explained to hor- ditions, as was previously reported.|rified spectators as she hung out Hay fever sufferers found the|of & hotel window here Saturday, dust an acute irritation. |“I'm doing an act of the trapeze.” ——,>—— A minute later she fell 40 feet. CLEVELAND BACK She is critically injured and near Connected with the B. M. death. George E. Cleve-| She registered as Toy Lee. Offi- the'cers said she had been drinking before she staned her trapeze m SEATTLE, March 25.—Mrs. Adam Simons, who plunged 40 feet Saturday after shout- ing to tenants in an adjacent apartment building she was do- ing an act on the flying tra- peze, died. Sunday in the King County Hospital. land returned to Juneau on Nerco from Ketchlknn Aviation Remly for that Asia Route; Virgin Isle Test Flight Is Successful ‘MIAMI, Fla., March 25.—Com- and Honolulu, the longest overwat- mercial aviation Saturday dl'mon-;" hop in the proposed service to strated its technical readiness for| ’I'he plane took off Friday after- trans-Pacific air service when B‘noon and flew all night, returning 19-ton Pan-American clipper ship to its base in the morning alighted on Biscayne Bay alier a Despite the long flight, there 2,504-mile circle flight to the Vir- were 498 gallons of gasoline re- gin Islands. No stop was made | maining in the tanks. This amount, The flight was credited by air- it wae estimated, was sufficient to line officials here with establish- | fly the plane 550 more miles. ing several new records, including. The clipper ship has a wing- the world’s seaplane distance mark. spread of 114 feet and its hull is The huge plane was aloft 1769 feet long. Its four engines pro- hours and 16 minutes. It covered duce 2,800 horsepower and give the several hundred miles in excess of plame a eruising speed of from the distance between California 150 to 160 miles per hour ty BY ELEMENTS Mr. Punk Thousands (Eres of Lai rRain, Blizzagand Dust sedan plunged off the .| highway into a river during a storm tune the | ehampionship and Olympic games | ROME, March 25.—Premier Be- nito Mussolini trundled forth a ‘war machine totaling 1,000,000 men as Italy's answer to Germany's re- armament and declared the Ital- ian nation was ‘‘ready for any threat of war.” The Premier has called the en- tire military class of 1911 ta arms as a “precautionary measure.’ The Fascist Dictator declamd POPE CLAIMS APPROVAL FOR MINING BILL Will Make Available One Hundred Million Dol- lars, Relief Measure i 1 i WASHINGTON March 25.—Unit-! ed States Senator James P. Pope, Democrat of Idaho, estimates that 50 Senators will vote for his bill to make available $100,000,000 for Government, operation of gold and| other mineral mines as a relief| i measure, Senator Pope's bill was also in-| troduced in the House by Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimionds, |- ‘The bill has the support of the mining groups of the western states and the Senate’s mines and min-| ing committee. Senator Pope said only 20 of 70 senators questioned on the bill opposed the measure. —— e —— FORMER VALDEZ OFFIGIAL DEAD, CANADIAN CITY John Lecdy Once Govern-| or of Kansas, Passes Away in Edmonton EDMONTON, Alberta, March 25. ernor of Kansas, died here yester- day. He had lived at a score of aska before settling here. Leedy went to Alaska in 1901 and practiced law until 1908. He served there successfully as city attorney, mayor and referee in bankruptey in the Third Judicial Division of Alaska. was defeated in the election of 1899, SENATOR LONG | PLANNING FOR THIRD PARTY WASHINGTON, March 25.—Sen- ator Huey P. Long gave the coun- try an idea as to how he might talk if political events now shap- ing toward 1936 should lead to a third party campaign in which he will take a hand. Laughing over Hoover's call for a militant revival of the Republi- can Party, Senator Long said: “Hoover is a hoot owl and Roose- velt is a screech owl. “A hoot owl bangs into the roost and knocks the hen clean off and catches her while falling, but a screech owl slips in and talks softly to the hen, which falls in love, and the next thing you know, there ain’t no hen.” Some Democratic leaders viewed Long's sally as a series of utter- ances designed to lay the founda- tion for a third party Presidential candidate next year, 'One Million Trdined Men, Ready to Fig Ituly Gives to Hitler Plan| First Contingent to Leave ht, Is Answer Hmt “millions of bayonets cnrrled by the people will accompany our' sincere desire for European col- laboration.” The mobilization order added 200,000 men to the forces already under arms bringing the total for| the regular army to around 600,000 plus some 400,000 Black Shirt mili- tiamen ready to move at the drop of the htlt SINGLE MEN TO PREPARE SITES INMATANUSKA Seattle April 20— Families in May | WASHINGTON, March 2')~—TheI first contingent of midwest farm- ers whom the government is setting up anew in Alaska, will sail from' | Seattle April 20, it’was announced’ here today. These men will be chosen from transient camps in northern Michigan, Minnesota and ‘Wisconsin, and will prepare the | way - for. the 200 families. vhieh will be establishéd ‘as Homestead-' ers in the Matanuska Valley. Selection of the families will be completed by April 5, it was stat-, ed. They will sail on May 1 and May 15. Disclosing the details of the pro- EUROPE AWAITS - ANXIOUSLY FOR RESULT-OF TALK Hitler Explams Armamenl Program to British Representative TENSION GRIPS ALL DIPLOMATIC CIRCLES 'Back Towa;i—l;eace or On Toward War Is Burn- ing Question BERLIN, March 25— The long awaited conference be- tween Great Britain and Ger- many started teday when Presi- dent Adclf Hitler talked per- sonally with Sir John Simon, British Foreign Secretary, and Capt. Anthony Eden, British Lerd Privy Seal. President Hitler told his guests of Germany’s armament program - but the conversations were not made public this fore- neon. DIPLOMATIC VIEWS GENEVA, March 25.—The Berlin conference is deseribed in diplo- matic circles as ‘‘likely to determ- ine whether Europe turns back to- ward peace or continues on toward war." iy v UP TO GERMANY GENEVA, March 25.—According to advices received here, official Italian circles in Rome are said to have expressed the opinion that Italy is willing to participate in | Ject which is to test out the possi-|diplomatic negotiations with | bilities of larger migration from France, Great Britain and Ger- the drought stricken areas, Reuer many, provided the latter is will- —John Leedy, aged 86, former Gov- | places in the United States and Al-| | Leedy was the second and last|parity with Japan on information Popularist governor of Kansas and. | game !ing northward again to renew | tering well-equipped Japanese fish- ling boats and treining ships tak- | the Aleutians into the Bering Sea| 1S REND BOUND | Administration officials said each farm will cost $3,000 and is to be; paid for within thirty years. The single men receive the same wages as the CCC workers and will be returned to the states in Oc-' tober. | — e o———- CHARTING WORK INALEUTIANS STARTS AGAIN Nafinh to Prepare for Big War Game SEATTLE, March 25.—New maps which would give the United States Vessels Are Starting about the Aleutian Islands are in the making as plans are being perfected for the navy's biggest war in the North Pacific this summer. Naval vessels are plough- charting work. Coast Guard and trading vessels frequently have reported encoun- ing soundings and making other observations in the islands. Evi-| dently supplied . with accurate| charts, or willing to take, chances, Japanese merchant vessels cut cor- ners on the great circle route from | Japan to America, sailing through, while American vessels skirt the} southerly edge of the islands over| a somewhat longer courw T0 GET DIVBRCE SOUTHAMPTO.‘J. Eng., March 25.—Princess Barbara Hutton Mdi- vani, the ten cent store heiress hurried away from England last| Saturday toward Reno, U. 8. A, for a divorce. She was ac~ companied by hex' cousin, Jimmy ,Ponohue. They sailed aboard the ' Bremen for N‘w York City, ’o Nevada, | ® ing. MAY JOIN GERMANY GENEVA, March 25—Hungary, according to advices received here, is showing a sentiment is growing for a union with Germany. BORAH SAYS NO WAR FOR EUROPE NOW Declares Rearming of Ger- many Might Mean Peaceful Qutlook ‘WASHINGTON, March 25.—Unit- ed States Sepator William E. Bor- ah predicted there will be no Eu- ropean war within' the near future. and forecast that even if there was a European conflict, America would keep out of it. His ideas were giv- en in an interview with the Asso- ciated Press. Senator Borah suggested that the rearming of Germany might, in- stead of bringing war, lead to a more peaceful Europe. e ool S ee 00 e e . STOCK QUOTATIONS o l..v'...'..'... NEW YORK, March 25—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 16, American Can 115%, American Power and Light 2%, Anaconda 9%, Armour N 4%, Bethlehem Steel 23%, Calumet and Hecla 3, General Motors 27%, In- ternational Harvester 37'%, Kenne- cott 15%, United States Steel 20%, Found $4.78, Nabesna bid 60, asked 75, Bremner bid 55, asked 60. R REGISTER! REGISTER! To vote at the city elec- tion on April 2 you must register. The qualifications are—resident of the Terri- tory for one year and the city for six months. If you have not registered yet, do so now, at the City Hall REGISTER! REGISTER! e e P09 R0