The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 16, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL XLV NO 6937 JUNEAU ALASKA TUEBDAY APRIL 16, SENATOR LONG SEEKING MORE POWERS IN LA, Special Session of Legisla-| ture too Grant Him More Authority BATON ROUGE, La., April 16.—\ United States Senator Huey P. Long's special session of the Louis- | iana legislature, the fifth in nine| months, moved behind soldiers’; guns to speed the passage of more| than one score of measures design- ed to strengthen his power and| cripple his enemies. Highlights of the legislature's program, are the following: plac ing in Long's hands administration of all local government agencies,!' and control over the expenditure of funds obtained by the agencies from the Federal Government. MAY CANCEL PROJECTS | WASHINGTON, April 16.—Secre- tary of Interior Ickes threatened to cancel all Public Works projects in Leuisiana if the special session of the Legislature passes laws to give the State authority over the| local projects as Senator Long's plans indicate. NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY | BATON ROUGE, La. April 16. —When informed of Secretary Ickes’' intentions, Senator Long said Ickes could “go slap down to Hell,” but “if he kmew what the laws were, he‘d be for them.” INSULL MUST 60 10 TRIAL AGAIN ON FRAUD COUNT Government to Prosecute Ex-financier for Alleged Illegal Funds Transfer CHICAGO, April 16.—The Fed- eral government has chosen to make one last effort to punish; Samuel Insull and his colleagues for the alleged transfer of assets of his corporation and securities company with advance knowledge of its collapse. Acquitted on charg- €s of embezzlement and mail fraud conspiracy, Insull and eight others including his son, must face trial for the alleged removal of $2.- 558,000 from the company's treas- ury before they stand clear. The state, believing conviction im- possible, dropped its last indict- ment and thought the Department of Justice would abandon its prose- cution also but Attorney General Cummings concurred in the recom- mendation of District Attorney Dwight Green to proceed with the trial. —————————— SUPREME COURT GIVES WARNING T0 PROSECUTORS Methods of Some Attorneys Are Flayed by Justice Sutherland WASHINGTON, April - 15—After roundly criticizing one Assistant District Attorney for having “over- stepped the bounds of fairness” the Supreme Court has warned all Fed- eral prosecuting officers they should be less interested in winning crimi- nal cases than seeing “justice shall be done.” Employing unusually strong lan- guage, Associate Justice George Sutherland flayed the methods used by the prosecutor in the case of Harry Berger, of Brooklyn, sentenc- ed to one year for counterfeiting. In ordering a new trial, Justice Sutherland said the records showed Henry Singer, Assistant United States Attorney for Eastern New York, was guilty of misconduct. — BAILEY TO KODIAK Bound for Seward on the Alaska' is F. H. Bailey, for Kodiak. He is connected with the Kadiak Fish-| eries, g jManeuvérs of United States Batfie F i;et to Test “Surprise Element” of Naval Forees| Ridirg the cleuds cver the I935 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ALASKA SCHOOL, IMINING ITEMS, $46,000 for Education, $160,000 for Geolog- ical Survey Mapping ' WASHINGTON, April 16— The Department of Interior bill, appro- priating $61,500,000, has been ap- ved by the Senate. The measure carries $2,500,000 more than n passed by the House. Among additional items are $46,000 for fublic schools in Alaska and $160,- ‘{000 for mineral and mining inves- turbulent Pacific, the naval birdmen will vie with their brothers on (he wavis and in the cccan depths in the vast m ncuveis which will cover a 5,000,000 square mile cxpanse. Fiom the maneuvers, naval experis hope o dctermine in which branch of the naval forces is thc me.t powe:ful “surprice element.” The map shows (he beundaries of the testing ground, stretch- lng ficm the West BODYGUARD OF ABE LINCOLN PASSES AWAY Smith- ‘Stimmell, Picked Man for White House, Dies at Age of 92 SMITH STIMMELL- FARGO, North Dakota, April 15.—| Smith Stimmell, one of the plcked‘ men of the Seventh Independent Ohio Cavalry troops selected to act at the White House as the person- al bodyguard of Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, and a promi- nent pioneer attorney, is dead at his home here as the result of complications of old age, in his 92nd year. Cellege To War His first enlistment for Civil War service was in_an Ohio volunteer infantry regiment, recruited for three months’ duty. At the end of that time he entered Ohio Wesleyan University to study law, but at the close of his first year he enlisted with the Seventh Independent Ohio Cavalry and was sclected as one of the guard for the President. This personal bodyguard was still in service as such at the time of Lin coln’s assassination, but was dis- missed by President Andrew John- son soon after and was mustered out in September, 1865. Prominent As Lawyer Resuming his studies, Mr. Stim- mell was graduated from Ohio Wes- leyan in 1869 and then studied for two years at the Cincinnati law school. He practiced in Cineinnati| several years and then removed to Fargo, wher> he became promii- nent in his profesélen as well as‘in {Continued on Page Three) Coast to Midway and from the Aleulian Islands to Hawaii. By WALTER B. CLAUSEN LOS ANGELES, April 15— The| sky, the waves, the ocean depths— | where lurks the elements of surprise | |often vital to naval victory? That is one of the fmcmatmg‘ questions involved in the greatest maneuvers the United States navy ever planned, which will be staged | in thé northern Pacific ocean May 3 te June 10. The men who riae the clouds con- fidently expect t@e show that the | most powerful defensive weapon of | the United Statestis. found in the | wings of the navy. There wili be| approximately 500 airplanes and more than a thousand aviators out with the fleet to demonsirate this Distance No Problem The fact that the maneuvers will have an operating area of some 5,000,000 square miles, extending from the Pacific coast to Midway (more than 1200 miles west of DUST CHOKED ™~ CATTLE DYING IN COLORADO Government Aid Promised to Save Stock — Hu- mans Suffering LAMAR, Colorado, April 16.—Hu- lust choked and hungry cattle in the Southeast Colorado -dust bowl 2ountry is promised. >f “the dust storms. nan sufering increased but aid for | There are nine pheumonia pa-| ients in one hospital as the result Honolulu) and from .the Aleutians of Alaska to the.Tropic of Cancer, does not feaze the naval birdmen. | They point with pride to their new patrol fighting ships, cruisers of An appeal has been made to the Red Cross for help and the Gov- srnment will make Federal loans to farmers to save their cattle choking from dust and suffering from eat- ‘mghts during the last six months | prise, which often holds the key to the air, which have made formation ‘ng dust-covered forage. |SPECIALTIES, equal to any jump within the area. As to power on the waves, all naval officers agree on the power of the main battle line of dread- naughts, the newer and faster scout chips, the cruisers. As another element of that sur- victory, there is the mosquito fleet, | composed of turbulent little hornets of the waves, the destroyer flotillas. There will be some 70 or more otl these 37-knot fighters with their‘M F . arket Session, However, deadly torpedoes, still regarded as the most effective weapons against Quiel with Selectiv- ity Ruling a main battle line. Lone Wolves In It Too The men who talk least are the picked strategists aboard the lone! NEW YORK, April 16.—3peciai-| wolves of the sea—the underseas|ties, with scattered chemicals, oils men. They do not have to talk, for}and industrials pushed up after all naval tacticians knbw from ex-{early profit taking. .Selectivity rul- perience that for actual demonstra- ed throughout the session which tion of surprise the undersea cruis- | was Wather guiet. Today's close was ers hold the honors. {fairly firm. There will be at least six world-| cruising submarines, augmented by CLOSING PRICES TODAY two dozen or more smaller coast! NEW YORK, April 16.—Closing defens'e submarines. These loneiquotatmn of Alaska Juneau mine wolves carry sufficient 45-knot tor-'stock today is 17, American Can edoes to put out of commission the|119%, American Power and Light whole surface force, battleships, air-|3%, Anaconda 11%, Armour N 3%, sraft carriers, cruisers and destroy-: Bethlehem Steel 26, Calumet and ers. 1 Hecla 3%, General Motors 297%;, In- By the middle of June these men, tcrnaticnal Harvester 38'%, Kenne- of the sky, the waves and the depths cott 17'%, United States Steel 32, of the sea will know the answer |Pound $485%, Brem bid 59,} Most of the details will remain asked 63; Nabesna bid 70, asked 90. secret, but the navy will have been| - put through one of its most gruel-' MORRISON RETURNS ling tests. ————————— BROJACKS FROM TENAKEE L. G. Morrison, formeily connect- ed with the Juneau Radio stationy tigation, ! The $46,000 for Alaska schools is understood here to be the regular appropriation from the Alaska fund for this purpose and not PWA funds as now being sought. The $160,000 is for the Geological Survey to car- ry on its mapping and other work and is a customary appropriation. It is not interpreted here as being federal aid for the new Territorial| Department of Mines. sioner of Education, are both in ‘Washington now in an effort to ob- tain aids for their respective de- partments. BOMB EXPLODED DURING NIGHT, ~ | TANKER STRIKE {Portland Restaurant Also | Damaged Early This | Morning by Group | | PORTLAND, Oregon, April 16.— /One restaurant was ravaged and a | waiter was knocked down earlv lhis morning, a few hours after an oil |service station was bombed on the waterfront where the tanker strike {is underway. | Six men walked into the cafe where oil terminal employes and the police are fed. When told no beer was served after 1 am. one member of the group hurled a bottle through a mjirror, and others smashed the |cash register, game machines and chairs, Tables were overturned and demolished. A bomb shattered windows in the service station, demolished cash registers and damaged three pumps. The station is a Standard Oil serv- ice place. o Compromise Bonus Bill Is Indicated WASHINGTON, April 16— United States Senator Pat Har- rison hopes to introduce before nightfall a compromise bonus bill which he said has the ap- provai of President Rooseveit. Details are kept a secret but the bill is believed to offer bonds maturing in 1938 to obtain full face value of certificates and these bonds could be converted for cash. LAURA INGALLS MAKING FLICHT ALBUQUERQUE, New. Mexico, April 16—A monoplane believed to be that flown by Laura Ingalls, trying for a transcontinental speed record, has been sighted over here at a height of 5,000 feet. ————— Boy with Upside Down Stomack Fails to Rally Folloying Operation FALL 'ER, Mass., April 16— William Spiegelblatt, aged 9, of| Newport, Rhode Island, who under- SENATE PASSES B. D. Stewart, Commissioner of) Mines, and A. E. Karnes, Commis- | The Empire)—The New its course but the status The Daily mains constant. the newspapers archives di Library learned that The Empire Parsons, Chief of the Peri Although the library ({ thousand American and of space is made available to of demand by readers. | ical archives section of \ only for tourists hungry fo ! rent research workers an ecutives, politicians and latest American cross sect torial comment. takes its place with a high most world dailies. generations will have a co of contemporary times. library annually. CHANGE IN LAW MAY RESULT IN NEW ARMY ERA By HERBERT PLUMMER ‘WASHINGTON, April 15.—Unless | there is a slip somewhere along the/ line to upset carefully laid plnns. the United States army will have occasion to remember the present session of Congress for years to This branch ot uncle Sam's fight- ing forces is getting the breaks on capitol hill this year as seldom be- fore. Almost in routine fashion Sena- tors and Representatives agreed to the proposal of General Douglas MacArthur, chief of staff, and oth- ers of the army high command, to increase the size of the nation's military establishment by 46,000 men—creating the largest standing army in time of peace the country ever has had. Encouraged by this victory, the general staff has set in motion a drive to change its system of pro- motions in the army. Approved by the President, Sena- tor Sheppard of Texas, chairman of the Senate military affairs com- mittee, has introduced legislation | which, if enacted, will overhaul com- pletely the present promotion sys- tem. A New Promd¥ion System As Senator Sheppard says of his| bill: “It will make a welcome and in-| spiring change from the dreary and monotonous spectacle of 10,460 of-| ficers ranged one above the other on | the advancement list from second| lieutenant to colonel, virtual prison- ers most of them behind the bars of a hopeless senlority system, each | walting for the next one above him tardily to be promoted, gra- ciously to resign, thoughtfully to| desert, obligingly to be court-mar-| promotions may be had when it is Daily Empire Wins Special Recognition Among Great Newspapers of Country WASHINGT VIR N il 16.— (Specis ! ON, B Gy AprifyiB.— (Spactal to. 4 iGsvl mant Accused of may change as the T4th (Ung’re\\iom\l session runs Alagka Empire as a selected political and economical barometer of our times re- This was discldsed tod: of Congress on Capitol Hill where it was group of newspapers most in demand by library readers and research workers, according to Dr. Henry Demand of Readers there is space to openly display only about a third these and part of this Dr. the library New Among Foremost Dailies The Empire by its inclusion in the famous li- brary, long the main source for American historians, The papers, including The Em- pire, are carefully preserved for posterity and future More than a million people are visitors to the AAA Bombardment Mounts H Debate on Roosevelt Farm | Policies Seen for Summer, ( i | tudes of PWA and FERA took turns tialed, generously to retire, or con-; siderately to die.” | Some idea as to the hardships|ing to agree to an AAA proposal for {imposed by the present system of Deal program and policy in the Nation’s Capital of sectional | v in a special survey of on of the world famous is among the important odical Archives Division. PRICE TEN CENTS INCREASES IN - ARMAMENT IS CONTEMPLATED Balancing Budget by Fail- ure to Pay U. S. Debt 'LABOR DENOUNCES OFFICIAL ACTION Special Deparlment will Be Created to Handle Aerial Defense LONDON, April 16.—As the gov- receives approximately a foreign papers regularly strietly limited display The Empire on the basis Parsons said the period- is a mecca not or home news but for cur- d for Administration ex- Dealers seeking the ion of spot news and edi- { ! i 1 ,* | { | ly selective group of fore- ymplete picture of Juneau i E i ernment announced it was setting up a special department to deal with safeguarding the British Isles against air attacks, it was charged by opposition leaders with balanc- ing the budget through failure to pay the United States war debt, and the comparatively modest conces- cions accorded taxpayers despite a surplus forecast for the current fis- cal year is being interpreted as paving the way for further increas- es in British armament. The war debt was brought up by George Lansbury, labor leader, who said: “Chancellor of Exchequer Ne- | ville Chamberlain is able to balance accounts only by refusing to pay Britain's debt to the United States. 1f the labor government defaulted in the same way we should have been told it was the end of all things.” James Maxton, left wing Socialist, shid:-“T now notice tebtsno. lot need ba mentioned:, that. the vesy: ! satisfactory way of dealing with the By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) The AAA appears to be accumu- lating a constantly larger share of | the alphabetical troubles of the Roosevelt Administration. | Up to quite recently, what this | farm relief agency was doing was largely overshadowed by the activi- | ties of its more noisy brothers and sisters, NRA, in particular, stirred up {such loud controversy that those who wanted to start an argument about AAA couldn’t make them- selves heard. At times the vicissi- playing the lead role in the Wash- ington extravaganza. Nowadays, however, AAA is com- ing more and more into public and private discussion. There is every sign that the next few months will see the Roosevelt farm policies de- bated with growing intensity both in and out of congress. AAA Troubles Here are a few of the things AAA officials have to think about: ‘The cotton program has piled up nearly 6,000,000 bales in the hands of the government, and there is widespread apprehension that when it is turned loose (as presumably it must be some time) prices will crack badly. Many attributed to that cause the recent case of jitters in the cotton market. Drought has upset completely the plan to hold wheat acreage to 90 per cent of the 1928-32 base average. After changing their minds several times, officials new plan to permit farmers to plant 165 per cent or‘ their base acreage. What will hap- pen during the next few years when presumably an effort will be made to get back on the track again? Definite back-peddling is indicat- ed on the milk program, under | which an attempt was made to fix the price to the consumer through marketing agreements. Great uncer- tainty and confusion has developed in the face of court decisions hold- ing such agreements invalid except where the milk moves across state lines. Cengress Unsympathetic Western livestock men are refus- levying beef and mutton processing taxes to pay benefits to farmers ment. an operation for disarrange-|considered that if @ .second lieuten- for adjusting the production of feed After a holiday spent at Tenakee, Mr. and Mrs. Steve Brojack arrived here as passengers on the Kenai Srojack is a cook at lhe Pionzers' ‘ome in" Sitka. 5 but Who has been in the Seattle ctfibe of the Signal Corps for sev- ment of his internal organs, similar| ang enters his second lieutenancy | to that of Alyce Jane McHenry, died | 54 the age of 23, serves the refluu'edw | grains. Corn-hog processing taxes are €éral years, ‘returned here today|in.the hospital today. His 3""‘““”; six years as such as 10 years as !irsti running behind the copn-| hog bene- : abcard' the Alacka. He was accom- (paniad by his wife. was upside. down, and far out place, (Continued on Page Sevemr (Continued on Pazt. Seven) extraordinary debts has been reach- !d\ by limbo ‘Chancellor mumborlun yemr‘ day, in presenting the 1935 | budget, estimated a_surplus 000,000, as clearly an im| of Greal Britain’s 'fi trade posnlon FRANCE PI.ANS TOREVIVEITS REICH PROTEST Minister Startles League by Insisting on Criticism of Germany ial GENEVA, April le—Prenchhr eign Minister Pierre Laval created a sensation in League of Nations, circles today by annguncing he plans to revive the French draftof a resolution criticizing Germq\vl treaty repudiation through her res . armament program. France, has de- cided, he said, she prefers to get some condemnation of Germany's act even if supported only by a sec- tion of the council rather than an unanimous - endorsed msoluuon o( no significance. The French appeal caused ll!'fl' among members of the, council. Denmark and Poland are uhder- stood t0 be leading a .camp ‘Which desires gentle handling of Ger- many’s unilatera] abtogation’ of mil- itary clauses of the treaty. Poland and some South American states also are reported anxious to lolgfi pedal any threats to impose sance/ tions on future treaty violators, Indiana Cars Must Have Shatterproof Winddws_: INDIANAPOLIS, April 16.—Auto-" mobile manufacturers will have to° quip their automobiles with shat- terproof glass, both in windshield and in window, if they want to sell them in Indiana in 1936. It has been so decreed by the state legislature which recently end- ed its biennial 61-day meeting. The new law will become effective Jan- uary 1, 1936, 3 Prisoner Shot in Attempt to Escape FORT WORTH, Texas, April 18. —One prisoner was killed and two sthers injured when jail lulldl ‘ired during an attempted ' break ‘rom the county jail last night. Melvin Bcwes was the prisoner who, ~a3 killed. Joing e eop, o 0.