The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 26, 1935, Page 1

i THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL TEE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1935. VOL. XLV., NO. 6946 -2 DEAD, 1 DYING, H . VINSON'S BONUS PLAN GIVEN NEW 6. 0. P. SUPPORT Republican Drive Seen as Real Threat to Harrison Compromise Bill MATTER EXPECTED TO COME UP MONDAY Patman or Vinson Measure | Will Be Offered as Substitute ‘ e i WASHINGTON, April '26.—The Harrison bonus plan, which was re- ported out by the Senate F‘mance" committee yesterday, ran into dif-{ ficulties today in the form of a' Republican drive for the Vinson bill| to pay the bonus in full immed-| iately. They were lining up unan- imously for the Vinson measure which was defeated by the House by a narrow margin. The Repub- | lican stand threw a scare into Ad-/ ministration leaders. ! The bonus is due to be called up Monday at which time either the Vinson or Patman bills will be offered as a substitute to give the Senate a chance to select the bill it prefers to vote on. With the Republicans solidly be- hind the Vinson bill which does not state how the money will be‘ raised to pay the bonus, it is looked upon as a real threat to the Administration’s compromise Harri- son measure rather than the Pat-| man bill. | The Harrison bflf offers cash! only up to the current surrender| value of the certificates. ‘V PLAN TO RAISE MONEY | WASHINGTON, April 26. —An inheritance tax plan estimated to, produce from two hundred to six hundred million was submitted to the Senate Finance Committee to- day by Treasury Secretary Mor- ganthau as a reminder that the Administration believes new taxes will be necessary to meet any cash bonus program. Senator Pat Harrison made public a letter from Morgenthau pro- posing an inheritance tax system which could be used to cash the bonus based on progressive rates running up to 60 per cent. - — METAL ISSUES HIT TODAY BY PROFIT TAKING Rails Rall;Tate to Help List—Alaska Juneau Takes Advance NEW YORK, April 26—Metals were subjected to substantial prof- it taking today despite another advance in the world silver prices. A late rally in rails helped the list ‘but the close of the market was somewhat irregular. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, ‘April 26.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau ‘Mine stock today is 18, American Can 122%, Anaconds 13%, Armour N 8%, Bethlehem Steel 26%, Calu- met and Hecla 3%, General Mot- ors 30%, Intgrnational Harvester 40, Kennecott 18%, United States Steel 32%, Pound $4.81, Bremner bid 61 asked ‘65, Nabesna bid bid 61, asked 65; Nabesna, bid 60, asked 70, American Power and Light 3%. Hopkins ‘Will Help in Pushing Public Works WASHINGTON, April 26.—Harry L. Hopkins has been named Ad- ministrator of the Public Works Progress Division under the new Work Relief bill, e — Lieutenant Wilson Ordered Transferred WASHINGTON, April 26.—Army orders issped here today transfer Lieutenant Wesley C. Wilson, from Chilkoot Barracks, Alaska, to Fort Lincoln, North Daketa. |8ixty seven young families, ENGLAND WILL CELEBRATE IN BRAND STYLE Jjubilee to Take Color of Victorian Revival— National Holiday LONDON, April 26—The color and gaiety of bygone days will re- turn to England this summer in celebration of the 25th anniver- sary of King George's accession to the throne. Every city, town and village will |be emblazoned with flowers, flags and bunting for the high carni- |val centering around May 6, the home: ‘ead colony. \‘accual anniversary which will be . a national holiday. Buildings will be floodlit, and | there will be parades and pageants the like of which England never 67 FAMILIES. &= The official period for the cele- |brations is a fortnight, but most of |the decorations—which are to be weatherproof, incidentally—will re- Donald Irwin, who has charge of the Matanuska colonization projeet, will arrive in Juneau abarurd the North Star. He will piocead ca the motorship to Seward, then te the Matanuska Valley to take charge of the farmer: whe will cstablish the main weeks longer. Manufacturers |of flags and bunting are working | overtime. S[,‘ Various boroughs of London have ‘approved expenditures of more than |$100000 for the decorations, while iBrighum, England's fayorite sea- | side resort, has set aside $30,000 ST. PAUL, Minn, April 26. — | for fireworks and other frills. from| Even the summer's fashions are hardy Minnesota stock, have been!EOins to idealize typical beauties of assembled for the journey to the|the past, the camellia-like types of Matanuska Valley in Alaska, their|early Victorian days. Women will future home. appear with curls bunched on the A special train leaves late to-!forehead and at the nape of the day, starting them on the way to|neck, revealed by bonnet-shaped San Prancisco on the first lap of |hats. their long trip. The families will| Mere Man Unadorned sail from San Francisco May 1. | One of the gowns already de- Each family is bound by & con- <igned is in a material copied from tract to remain in Alaska for 30 an engraving at a Bond street art years. |gallery. Another contains 60 yards Before leavinz they will hear a 0f tulle, another 110 yards of horse- lecture on Alasks by Arthur Arm- hair. Skirts of flimsy material will strong, former member of the Uni- rustle over acres of petticoats. versity of Alaska at Fairbanks. | As 2 final touch, London's beau- The members of the 67 families ties will be expected to carry long- Special Train Leaves Paul Late Today—To Be Entertained are high in hopes on leaving for the Land of Promise. ENTERTAINMEN' SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,, April 26.| {—The Minnesota farm families en-| route to the Matanuska Valley in| Alaska will ride free on the muni- cipal street cars, the municipal fa- thers decreed today. The families, numbering 350 persons, are due w‘ arrive Monday night. The enter-| tainment program includes free, ! movies arranged by the San Fran- cisco daily newspapers. - RARE TREASURE IN POSSESSION, KETGHIKANMAN Sends Delicate Cameo Ring of Marie Antoinette to Washington WASHINGTON,, ‘April 26— A ‘délicate cameo ring which is declared to have once belong- ed to Marie Antoinette, de- | capitated Queen of France, is " téday guarded in the rare book rcom of the Library of Con- grese. .« » The ring belongs to a miner- fisherman, Joseph Geist, of Ket- ckikan, Alacka, who did not concider his facilities for safe- guarding the treasure as be- | ing oufficient. Geist inherited the ring from hig father, Anton Geist, Ger- nan educator and antiquarian. The ring wac forwarded to Washingten by Otto William Geist, archaelogist, a brother of the owner. | | | Pl;nl 26,000 Trees DALHART, Tex.—Relief workers here will plant 26,000 trees in a 25,000 acre wind erosion control , project. | handled parasols, tied with bows. Nothing has been done so far to- ward decorating the male form for the occasion. “ROYAL SQUANDERMANIA” LONDON, April 26.—The British Communists term the Silver Jubilee of King George on May 6 as a “Royal squandermania” in a man- ifesto issued by the leaders of “London’s First of May Commit- tee.” The Silver Jubilee is termed Thirty-Five Thousand Maritime| Workers Are United in One Big Federation Along Pacific Coast SEATTLE, April 26, — Harry Lundberg, aged 34 years, of Seattle, who believes “keeping to ‘the mid- {dle of the road,” has been elected President of the Maritime Federa- tion of the Pacific, regarded as the most powerful labor group on the coast. Fred W. Friedell, of San Pedro, Cal, has been elected Vice-Presi- dent, and F. M. Kelly, of San Francisco, Secretary-Treasurer. Lundberg said the organization represents 35,000 workers welded into one.” s While emphasizing primary b- pendence on arbitration in all 1a- bor disputes the organization plans to make extensive use of the sti as a weapon where negotiatiofs fail. 3 ‘The newly formed Federation vot- ed approval of the oil tanker strike even to the extent of calling & general strike in its support if necessary. The Federation binds several mar- itime unions, longshoremen, en- gineers, sailors, firemen, oilers, watertenders, cooks, stewards, mas- ters, mates boatmen into the one unit. NEGOTIATIONS IN TANKER STRIKE HAVE COLLAPSED Matinie Circles View Sitta- tion as Now Exceed- ingly Delicate SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 26 —Mediation - efforts of the Gov- ernment Board in the coastwise tanker strike collapsed last night and it was admitted in marine circles that the situation is deli- cate. Whether the situation will de- velop into a general marine strike could not be determined late last night. The breakdown in efforts for a settlement was announced by Al- bert A. Rosenbaum, Chairman of the Mediation Board. As members of the joint tank- ers and strike committee left the conference they blamed the “ar- rogant attitude of the Standard Oil Company for refusing to give in one inch” in its recent stand on the strike, as the cause for the deadlock. One strike leader said: “There is nothing to do now but to tight- en up our picket lines and liven up the strike. > “twenty five years of robbery of workers in which millions of our brothers have been slain, mutilat- ed, gassed and tortured.” The Daily Worker, a Communist newspaper, jibed at the price paid for vantage seats to view the Ju- bilee celebration. The cost of the Jubilee has also been criticized in Parliament, no- tably by the fiery Laborite “The Ungovernable” Jack McGovern. Notwithstanding the criticism, however, elaborate plans go for- ward for the Jubilee. FIVE HUNDRED DIE IN QUAKES TEHERAN, Iraq, April 26. Twenty eight villages have been destroyed and five hundred lives have been lost in earthquakes in this section during the past two weeks. e, President Roosevelt Goes on Air Sunday Over 2 Major Chains WASHINGTON, April 26.—Pres- ident Roosevelt goes on the air Sunday night at 10 o'clock East- ern Standard time, over both ma- jor chains, to make a report on national affairs. —.-———— Cumana, capital of the state of Sucre in Venezuela, was founded by Christopher Columbus’ son Diego as FARMERS A PLANT WHEAT, GET BENEFITS Comptroller General Makes Ruling Releasing About $33,000,000 WASHINGTON, April Agricultural Adjustment Adminis~ tration said that under a new ruling made by J. R. McCarl, Comptroller General, farmers may. receive the benefit of payments. without reducing wheat acreage. A larger acreage is desired be- cause of the fear of a possible wheat shortage due to the pre- vailing drought. The ruling, AAA officials said, will release about $33,000,000 to the farmers, many who have suffered greatly through the drought and dust storms. SILVER PRICE MAY ADVANGE WASHINGTON, April 26.—Sena- tors from silver producing states watched the Treasury in hopes the price of newly mined siiver will be raised to a new high of 84.04 26 —The New Toledo in 1521 cents an ounce or mare. radiomen and ferry-| e — \ Senator Carter Glass Senator Carter Glass, who has ment of Marriner S, Eccles as go eral reserve board on grounds that Eccles had not divested himself of private banking interests, gave | assurance_that_he_would werk to.‘expedite’, the | bank stocks and taken a §$90,000 loss on the deal Senator Robert 3. Bulkley opposed appoint- appointment fol’ vernor of the fed- amined Eccles. By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, the Associated Press, Washington.) President Roosevelt has under- taken some sizeable tasks, but it is questionable whether anything he has tackled thus far is even in the same class with the $4,880,- 000,000 spending job he now is beginning, The total of the new work relief appropriation is so great that most ordinary people simply can't grasp its magnitude. To most American citizens, $1,- 000,000 is hard to visualize. Imag- ine 4,880 sacks of currency, with $1,000,000 in each. And in spite of the qualifying amendments which Congress put into the act, the President’s lati- tude as to the manner and alloca- tion of the spending remains ex- tremely broad. The ease with which “earmarked” funds can be moved about from one ledged column to another has been demonstrated frequently, The responsibility which rests on Mr. Roosevelt in this matter would be positively staggering, even if it involved only the obvious difficul- ties of making wise selections, in a wholly detached way, from among the thousands of spending projects | which will be placed before him for approval. UNDER PRESSURE But it involves a great deal more. | Mr. Roosevelt is very far from| being in the position of a man making a wHl disposing of $4,880,- 000,000. Undue pressure from pos- sible beneficiaries invalidates a will; and moreover, the maker of the will never has to worry much about the consequences. Prom now on until the last pen- ny is allocated, Mr. Roosevelt is| certain to be under the strongest kind of pressure. The states, cit- ies and communities are mobiliz- ing their most persuasive agents on the doorstep. It is a disputed question how far politics actually will enter into the decisions made, but it is perfectly assured; that scores of politicians will da_their, oily best to get in on the ground floor. So far as the consequences ave | concerned, Mr. Roosevelt himself| has more to gain or 'ase than has any claimant. Not only the su¢- cess of the recovery program, but| his own political future may easny‘ become involved | Either a first class failure or a first-class . scandal would be used| against him in 1936, even though the real cause lay in the blun-| dering crookedness of subordinates. | AT A CRITICAL TIME Many in Washington believe this = AR Roosevelts cmifiyg gie of GBI s gor-| SAiRE. (0fibe’ xeport, Tereal Uiet | rdly would come at a inore crit- erned by Rule XXXIV of the industrial production Is lagging ical time, On the one hand, political cur-| rents again are swirling uncer- tainty. The Republican opposi-| tion, declaring public sentiment, is turning . strongly away from the Staggering Responsibility — OREGON STATE of Spending Relief Money May Mold F. D. R’s. Future ‘Prcsidvnt_ is preparing for its most | victorious attack since the ‘new | deal” came into being. That prep- |artion will include a microscopic | examination of ‘every work relief | allotment. | On the other hand many econo-| | mists believe recovery itself is in ;Lhe balance. They look for a def-| inite turn up or down within the next few months. | For all of these reasons, the new | spending program seems likely to | overshadow everything else in the | Washington picture for a long time “ to come. | SENATOR NEELY banking committe in Washington at which Glass and Scnator Robert J. Bulkley of Ohio cross-ex- | versity sophomore, when a crumb- ‘Senator Glass Withdraws Oppbsition to Eccles DRESS BES'QNER 1S MURDERED N HIS APARTMENTS Law Instructor at Univer- sity Found, Perhaps Fatally Wounded CHAUFFEUR SUICIDES FOLLOWING GUN PLAY Authoritiesaieve Finan- cial Difficulties Are Responsible | HOLLYWOOD, Cal, April 26— Confronted ‘with apparent cases of murder, near murder and a suicide, izhe police sought today to unravel |@ welrd maze of facts surrounding the shooting of Paul Wharton, aged 25, dress designer; Willlam Howard, 35, ex-navy ensign, and | chauffeur for Wharton, and the serfous wounding of Henry E. Bolte, aged 38, law instructor at the Uni- versity of California in Los An- | geles. ! | Wharton was known profession- ! Marriner Eccles lowing a hearing before the senate Eccles stated that he had sold his ally as Paul Ivar who fashioned the clothes of several screen act- Wharton was found slain in his GAPITOL UNLY |@partment in a studio which cli- {maxed a supper party. MAss UF RUINS\ Bolte was found perhapd fatally wounded fn front of his apartment 1 | door. | Howard was. found dead at an ne R apartment building entrante, sev- Sixty-Year-Old Building Is eray biocks away, as he wab sought Destroyed by Fire |after Wharton's deatn. * Last Evening AUTHORITIES' THEORY G HOLLYWOOD, Cal., April 26— The authorities decided late this Smouldering ruins, U8lY. afternoon that the shooting to black shell, is all that remains t0- gaath of Paul Ivar Wharton and day of Oregon’s State Capitoliine prohable fatal wounding of Building, which was razed by fire Henry Bolte, was done by Howard, last evening, killing one fireman, | tivated by financial differences Floyd McMullen, Willamette Uni- involving the three men. Howard suicided after the shootings. BUSINESS IS SALEM, Oregon, April 26 only an ©CC worker was injured during the height of the fire, Firemen this morning still train-! ling chimney fell on him. One! ! | ed water on the ruins. | § |last night in the basement and swirled upward through the eleva- MUCH BETTER, H Lns IT wELLiwr shaft and a little more than an hour later the dome collapsed.‘ Admits He Reads Comics ~—After' Duties Known, | One Can't Blame Him | (By HERBERT PLUMMER) | WASHINGTON, April 26—Sen-| ators chuckled in the cloakrooms | when a Washington newspaper re-| ported that Senator Neely of West Virginia read the comics while his colleagues tried to dlsenv.agle‘ themselves on the President’s work- relief bill. | But West Virginia’s only Sena- tor at the moment (the junior Senator, Rush Holt, won't be 30 until June 19) doesn't mind— Mention the fact to him and he'll say right off: “Comics? I like them, Did I ever tell you of the time that I fell behind and almost had to call| a page to carry 'em over to the floor?” | There's a reason the Senator from- West Virginia reads comics at bis' desk. while others are en-| gaged ih’passing bills. And _it's because he toughest job of them all. “GLORIFIED HOUSEKEEPER” \ ‘There are exactly 95 Senators who sympathize with the Senator from West Virginia and in the same cloakrooms praise him for his patience. Because despite the title of Chair- man of the Rules Committee of the Senate Mr. Neely is a sort of glorified housekeeper for all of them. Sprawled over the left side of Capitol Hill there is, among other things, the Congressional Library, the Union Station and the office building that houses Senators when they are not on the floor. This has the Senate Manual which reads. Sec- tion 2: “It ~shall -be the duty of the Committée on Rules to make all (Continued on l;u;gc Seven) | gon. The 60-year-old building which ¢ contained the main state offices,' Executive offices, State and House,'Stocks Being Rushed toRe- cost $700,000 but the value of the! tail Trade as Consum- { equipment, records and historical » relics are expected to bring the| ers Start Buymg actual investment of the loss to| J around $1,500,000. NEW YORK, April 26. — Dun- Gov. Charles H.. Martin is pre.|Bradstreet, Inc, in the weekly re- paring to call a special session of View released today, sdld ‘“senti- the State Legislature to discuss| Ment in business continues on the housing of the executive offices,|trail of actual trade improvement and a new bullding. and this condition prevajls not- withstanding reports that the pre- Easter trade was only a spurt and considered as being just a flash. “The wholesale markets are con- sidered much better and stock is being rushed to the retail trade which shows growing business. “Maintence of industrial opera- tions in most divisions is also re- ported.” —————— PRODUCERS ARE TWO T DIE LAGGING BEHIND | FOR MURDER REPORTS A. F. I'flMother and One Son Sen- tenced to'Hang in Uncertain Regarding Con-| Delaware June 7 gressional ‘Legislation, | GrorcETOWY, Del, Aprit 26— European Furore iMrs. Mary Carey, aged 52 years, jand her son Howard have been sentenced to hang June 7 for the slaying of the woman's brother seven years ago for his insurance. Another son James, has been sen- tenced to life imprisonment. e PWA 'AID PROMISED WASHINGTON, April 26—PWA officials have notfied Senator Steiwer that everything possible | will be done to aid ‘in' construction | of a new Capitol at Salem, Ore- oot | | WASHINGTON, April 26.—The | business pickup is healthy but noz‘ healthy enough to slash unem- | ployment according to estimates of the American Federation of La- " ;. bor. The jobless now is placed at| Air Defense Bill, eleven and one half millions and 4 3 the relief rolls at 22,000,000. Including Alfuka‘ The Federation estimates, ac-|Introduced- Senate WASHNGTON, April 26— The Wilcox bill to provide for a series of frentier air defense baser, including one for Alas- ka, hac been introduced in the Senate by Senator Elbert D. Themes, of Utah, and producers are holding back because of uncertainty over legis- lation of Congress over enforce- ment of NRA through the courts and also over the situation in Europe.