The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 7, 1935, Page 1

| " . o " . THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLV, NO. 6955 UNEAU, ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 1935 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS LACKS NEEDED VOTES TO CARRY OVERF. D. R VETO Measure Calls for Immed-| iate Payment of Veter- ans Certificates 55 T0 33 IN FAVOR OF INFLATIONARY PLAN Proposal Provides for New Currency with No Metal- lic Reserve Specified WASHINGTON, May 7. — The Senate this afternoon passed the Wright Patman inflationary bonus| bill by a vote of 55 to 33. It is| short of the two-thirds required to! override a Presidential veto which | has been anticipated. The measure; had previously. passed the House. | The Senate finally acted on the| Potman bill after battling over the| Harrison compromise measure and, the Vinson plan. The committee had voted out favorably on the Harrison compromise proposal which was said to have Presidential approval. It would have given the veterans negotiable bonds for their certificates which turned this down In favor of either the Vinson or.Patman immediate payment plan, finally settling on: the Patman measire. Provielons of Bill The Patman bill proposes to do this about those certificates: Let veterans turn their certifi- cates over to the veterans' admin- istrator “immediately” and receive cash for their full 1945 value. If the veteran had borrowed on his certificate, the amount of his loan and any interest that accrued be- fore October 1, 1931, would be de- ducted. The cash the veterans got would be United States notes—currency— which the bill declares “lawful money” and “legal tender in pay- ment of all debts and dues, public and private.” This new currency—for which no metallic reserve is specified in the bill—would be issued by the Secre- tary of the Treasury. Price Gauge If prices rose above the 1921-29 level, or if the Secretary of the Treasury thought it necessary to “prevent undue expansion of the currency,” the Treasury could: 1. Prevent the issuance or reis- suance of Federal Reserve notes. 2. Prevent the issuance or re- issuance of national bank notes. Patman inserted inghis bill a last-minute section making an ap- propriation of the amount of money needed to pay the bonus. He says the Veterans Administra- tion now figures it as $2,015,000,000. 5000 IDLE LUMBER MEN SEATTLE, May 7.—While over 15,000 remained idle today because of the lumber strike and more mills ' shutting down, one union representative declared. negotiations with operators led him to believe “we are really getting somewhere.” - GETS HIS GOAT Somebody got ‘‘Frenchie” Domi- nick’s goat. Tt is one of a herd of goats Dominick has on his place on the Thane road. The animal has been shot, according to deputy mar- shals who investigated, and culprit who did the deed is re- ported to have taken the bell from the deceased animal and placed it on another, but he didn't take the, carcass. ———————— IN HOSPITAL Mrs. Percy Reynolds of the Ju- neau Ice Cream Parlor was admit- ted to St. Ann's Hospital today for medical treatment. Other medical cases are Mrs. Daniel Livie, Mrs. Audrey McCurdy, FERA nurse, and Al Osgood. the| Railroad Retir Declared Unconstitutional by Supreme Court Decision Science Revives Animal After 3-Day “Frozen Death” LOS ANGELES, Cal, May 7. —A tiny guinea pig today scam- pered arcund in a cage, restored to physical activity after what Dr. Ralph Willard said was a three day “frozen death,” con- cluding an exhaustive five year vearch in the field of revivifi- cation. The ycung biochemist declar- ed he has perfected “‘almost the piecice methods” for restoring life to animals frozen to death. He pointed to his latest experi- mental subject. The guinea pig apparently is enjoying a normal existence after a three-day stay in a block of ice. Dr. Willard is conducting sim- ilar experiments of freezing cer- tain portions of the human body < a means of allowing impaired ues {o resume a normal state. - 1 STORY HOME would have been FI I"i sl“EPI; TLOSE LIVES nationally Known Ar- tist Is Destroyed BOSTON, Mas May 7.—Four persons. including the mother and 14-year-old daught’r of John La- valle, internationally known por- trait painter, were buined to death or killed in leaps as fire swept the artist’'s home during the night. Six other perscns were injured. The dead are: Mrs. John Lavalla, aged 70, a cripple; Alice, the art- ist's daughter; Miss Mary Dolan, a The latter two were killed leaping from windows. Starts During Night “The fire occurred du the ab- sence of the socially prominent art- ist and his second wife, and is be- lieved to have started from an un- determined cause apparently at the bottom of a dump waiter shaft in the four-story brick residence. Youngsters Leap John Lavalle, Jr., aged 10 years, and his sisters Mary and Ellen, were trapped in their second story bed- rooms. John leaped from a window and landed on the soft lawn unhurt, but his sisters suffered severe burns and were further injured when they leaped from the windows. Drop Four Stories The Misses Dolan and Costello crept outside their fourth story win- dows and clung desperately while the flames scorched and the smoke choked them. Bystanders screamed ‘to them to hold on while rescuers were trying to reach them, but they were forced to drop and were killed instantly. SCOTT, TERRITORIAL | LEGISLATOR, HERE Tolbert B. Scott, known variously jas the Territorial Representative |from the Second Division and as a popular independent mining man |in the Solomon district of the In- |terior, paid a brief visit to his Juneau friends this afternoon while the Yukon was in port. Scott is a passenger on the ves- !sel from Seattle for Seward. From that port he will travel in to Nome. He is not accompanied by his family. i eee i ORIENTALS ON SHIP Among the working crews aboard the Yukon for Westward canneries from Seattle are two groups of Ori- entals. One, of 36 persons, is bound for the Libby, McNeil and. Libby Company plant at Kenai; the oth- er, of 25 persons, is for the Uganik Pisheries Company at Uganik. | Palatial Residence of Inter-| maid, and Miss Kathleen Costello. | ement Act | WASHINGTON, May 7.—The entire Railroad Retirement Act, affecting more than one million | employees, has been held un- | cont'ifutional by the Supreme Court of the United States. The decition was read by As- sociated Justice Owen J. Rob- erts. The cecizion upheld the lower gourt’s ruling in declaring the | act invalid. | The ruling was directed es- pecially at the section of the Act which made it apply to all employees of Interstate Com- | merce carriers including em- ployees not directly engaged in interstate commerce. It was another five to four decicion with Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes in the minority list. In signing the bill last June, | Prevident Roosevelt said it was “crudely drawn and required | many changes and amend- | monts.” STUDYING DECISION POPPY DAYIS | DESIGNATED B MAYOR OF ! Proclamation Issued Settirig May 25, Day to Honor World War Dead Saturday, May 25, was proclaimi- OPERATION WILL START IN JUNE Superintendent Announces Reopening of Plant on | Limited Scale | The Kennecott Copper Corpora-; ed Poppy Day in Juneau in & prog- lamation issued today by Mayor 1. Goldstein. The proclamation urges all cifi- zens to honor the World War dead by wearing the American Legion and Auxiliary memorial poppy on that day, and to aid the war’s liv- ing victims by contributing to the Legion and Auxiliary welfare funds. | The proclamation follows: “The City of Juneau, during the great crisis of the World War sent |forth its sons in response to the nation’s call. They served gallantly in the nation's defense, and of their numbers some were called upon to lay down their lives in that | | service. The memory of their patri- |otic sacrifice should always be held dear by the citizens of Juneau. “Others of these brave young men WASHINGTON, May 7.~ New| "Denl lawyers have embarked on a life, but the health and screngmipecoed that men will be taken from| idetailed study of the Supreme,which makes life'worth while. Their | Juneau, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Pe-| | Court’s rail pension decision to de- families and the families of the tersburg, Fairbanks and other it has dealt a' {termine whether body blow to NRA and the Boclal# ! Some lawyers believe the decis- ion indicates the Court frowns on a relatively wide interpretation of INRA is based. KING'S JUBILEE BRINGING FORTH NEWERRESOLVES Improvement of Great Bri- | tain’s Economic Con- ! ditions Heralded LONDCN, May 7.—The spirit of (the King's Jubilee has imbued! Great Britain with a new determi- | nation to improve the economic conditions. Under the Monarch's leadership, a carnival atmosphere reigned into| ithe early hours this morning. Min- jgled with this carnival atmosphere |and reflected in expressions of the! loyal subjects of all classes appeared a more sober will to free Great Britain from the scourge of un-; employment, poverty and hunger. The public repeated the King's words in his message to his Em- pire: “I dedicate myself anew to your service for the years that may still be given to me.” 50 BOY SCOUTS ON HAND FOR MEETING Twenty-one former Scouts and 29 new members turned out at the Boy Scout reorganization meet- ing in the Grade School Gym last night, an excellent turnout, accord- ing to officials. Wayne Young is the new Scoutmaster and plans are being made for the Scout Camp on Eagle River in June. The former Scouts will meet again next Monday in the school gym and the new Scouts on Tues- day night, the same procedure be- ing followed until camp. MARRIED George Shebalin of Juneau and Mary Roussalev from Shanghai, China, were married yesterday by the Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff at the Russian Greek Orthodox Church, Witnesses were Tom Baloff and Willle Peters. Shebalin is employed it the A. J. mine. ———————— RETURNS TO SEWARD I Harry Kawabe, proprietor of a team laundry in Seward, is bound for that port as a passenger on the Yukon from Seattle. i were called upon to sacrifice, mot | dead also were required to make heayy sacrifices. These disabled &1 dependents are still paying tie- e j man price of our nation’s World| War victory. “From the £ou - front in France |Interstate Commerce on which'gur returning soldiers brought the families there at the present time. poppy as the symbol of sacrifice The Security bill may be revamp- anq the memorial flower of the|Cordova situation where a great | dead. Each year on the Saturday Many men have been idle due to before Memorial Day the men of the| American Legion and the women of | the American Legion Auxiliary nsk‘ us to wear this flower in tribute to| the nation’s fallen defenders and to give in exchenge for the flower al contribution to aid the war's living | victims. | “Therefore, 1, I. Goldstein, Mayor | of Juneau, urge all citizens to hon- or the dead and aid the living by wearing the American Legion and American Legion Auxiliary memor- ial poppy on Saturday, May 25. “And to that end, T do hereby proclaim Saturday, May 25, Poppy Day in the City of Juneau.” 1. GOLDSTEIN, Mayor. SUB FLEET OF 'GERMANY READY FOR SEA DUTY tion will resume operations of the Kennecott mines on a limited scale of production early in June, accord- ing to advices received by The Em- pire today from Superintendent E. J. Duggan, of Kennecott. The plant has been closed two years. | 8 In the matter of employment preference will be given as far as possible to old employees and to men now in Alaska. | Mr. Duggan adds: “It is most advisable that those who wish to X work communicate with one of our four employment agents or the Kennecott office before coming to Kennecott.” Opening of the Kennecott prop-| lerty will be a big help to employ-| {ment in the Territory as it is an-| | ticipated some 400 men will be put | | to work, according to those famil-| lar with the undertaking. It is ex- points, it was said. . In addition to the employees ac-| necessary, it is reported, to hirel more men on the railroad. There are some 20 old men with their It also is expected to help the the closing of cannery operations there. e PR Y. i STOCK PRICES TAKE DECLINE; CLOSE HEAVY Technicacl Factors Enter Into Trading Today, N. Y. Exchange NEW YORK, May 7. — Despite relative firmness of some oils and scattered specialties, prices’ were generally downward today. The de- cline is attributed partly to tech-l nical factors and discouraged sell- ing. Today's close was rather heavy. CLOSING PRICES TODAY aally tsed “n “the“mine ‘1t with e Another Report Is that ~Ew vork, May 7— Closing : | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine Consnuc"on Has NO[ | stock today is 17%, American Can |GRADUATE NURSES TO Yet Been Started LONDON, May 7—On the twen- 117%, American Power and Light |3%, Anaconda 13%, Armour N 3%, | Bethlehem Steel 24%, Calumet and KENNEGUTT MlNE SEATTLE MAN HEADS NEW UNIO?; Harry Lundberg (above) of Sea $ailors Union of the Pacific, was elected president of the newly org 'zed Maritime Federation of the seft) of 8an Pedro, Calif., a memb ttle, Wash.,, and a member of the Pacific. Fred W. Friedell (in er of the Marine Firemen, Oilers and Water Tenders, was made vice-president and F. M. Kelly (inset, tight) of the 8an Francisco Marine Engineers Unlon was named secre- tary. A membership of 35,000 was claimed. (Arsociated Press Photos) President Invited To Come to Alaska During Summer WASHINGTON, May 7.—Gov. Seward invited President Roose~ velt to visit Alaska this sum- mer. They reported discussing general Alaska conditions and its future with the, President. QUICK TRIGGER SLAYERS MEET MATCH, SLAIN Two Brothers, Former Convicts, Shot Down in Gun Battle SEAR CITY, Arkansas, May 7.— Freddie and Jarvis Busche, former Missouri convicts, accused of five quick-trigger murders in two states, met their mateh in Hanford Russell, | a 40-year-old farmer who shot and killed them in a brief gun battle. The brothers were mortally wounded when Russell answered | their fire last night in the woods near El Paso. The two had been sought since last Saturday. Russell encountered them in a stolen car and shot out the wind- shield, foreing them to abandon the auto and they took to the woods, where the gun battle was fought. The Busche brothers are accused of a series of kidnapings and rob- beries and other terroristic activities tieth anniversary of the sinking of Hecla 3%, General Motors 30%, In-ly, this state which culminated in the Lusitania, Great Britain was|ternational Harvester 39%, Kenne- (., slaying of two men at a rural concerned over a new fleet of un-|cott 18%, United States Steel 31%,|gance near Sheridan last Wednes- dersea craft Germany is hastening Pound $4.84%, Bremner bid 64 asked day night. to put into the water. The true situation is obscured | between reports that the German undersea fleet is ready to put to sea and German assertions that ac- tual construction has not begun. | > | 68, Nabesna bid 55, asked 65. ——e——— Seward Woman Is Jailed on Charge of Attempting to Burn New Born Baby SEWARD, Alaska, May 7.—Mrs. NINNIS' MOTHER ARRIVES TODAY Mrs. Bessie Ninnis, mother of Elroy Ninnis, manager of the Ju- neau Motors Company, arrived in Juneau this afternoon as a passen- MEET AT ST. ANN’S AT |Charles Curtis, wife of the care- fer on the Yukon from Seattle, 7:30 0’CLOCK TONIGHT| taker of the Naval radio station, has been jailed on a charge of attempt- Mzrs. Ninnis, who makes her home in Tacoma, will visit with her son All graduate nurses of Juneau are ing to burn her new-born baby girl.|, . about six weeks before return- invited to attend the regular meet- The infant was born soon after last ing south, ing of the Graduate Nurses organ-| ization to be held at 7:30 o'clock| this evening in the parlor of St.| Ann’s Hospital, it was announced‘ today by Mrs. R. H. Williams, pres- ident. ! Dr. L. P. Dawes will give a talk| on a medical topic to the members as the principal feature on the pro- gram and Miss Henrietta Ellis is t0 read a paper. During the meeting, plans for the Hospital Day tea are to be dis- cussed and it is urgent that there be a full attendance, Mrs. Williams said. Following the meeting there is to be an informal social hour with supper served by the mem- bers of the hospital staff. week's fire which ravaged the radio station. The Curtis family contains four other children. PP — CREWSON HERE H. B. Crewson, Schillings Pro- ducts representative, arrived here on the Yukon from Petersburg. e - “BUSTER” POOLE ARRIVES E. L. (Buster) Poole, connected with the Royal Blue Cab Company, returned to Juneau as a passenger on the Yukon from Seattle He has been on an extended va-|merchdandise broker, is bound from | cation in the States. e WHITTIER RETURNS M. 8. Whittier, assistant collector of United States Customs here, re- turned to Juneau on the Yukon af-| ter a brief trip to Wrangell. He had been taken to Wrangell on the Princess Norah. - e GEORGES RETURN Mr. and Mrs. T. L. George return- ed to Juneau on the Yukon from| Seattle. George is connected with the Leader Department Store e SHUCKLIN TO SEWARD Sam Shucklin, whoiesale drygopds Seattle for Seward on the Yukon. ayor Don Carl r < 'MATANUSKA COLONISTS [Army Transport Brings New-Day Pioneers to Northland SEWARD, Alaska, | daunted by illness which is feared [to be diphtheria or measles and last minute docking delay which | kept them abcard the Army trans- port St. Mihiel, the Matanuska | colonists came to Alaska today in |a pioneering style, unlike the way |the families of a few generations back settled in the Minnesota wilds. | The North Star is still unloading | cargo. | Six hospital beds are ready for the stricken members of the colony |when they can be taken from the | transport. A hilarious hearty greeting await- ed the remainder of the colonists when they landed. The vanguard of CCC men are at Palmer, tented out to begin work immediately. Landing scene resembled the old time gold rush days. Engineer Bliss said the colony | will be ready by the latter part of this week for the newcomers. EXECUTION OF KIDNAPER HAS BEEN DELAYED Stay Granted Walter Me- Gee, Abductor of Miss Mary McElroy JEFFERSON, Mo., May 7—Gov. Guy B. Park hab granted Walter McGee, kidnaper of Miss Mary McElroy, daughter of the City Com- missioner of Kansas City, a stay of execution. McGee was to have been hanged | Friday but a stay has been granted to May 31 in order that the case may be studied Miss McEiroy pleaded the penalty be made a life sentence, e May 7—~Un- |SITKA MAN REPORTED Dr. W. W. Council, who rushed to Sitka yesterday by plane in answer to a summons for help in caring for Oscar Tilson, reported seriously injured, returned last night and said that Mr, Tilson was recovering. He had fallen and suffered 4 badly mashted left ankle dbout a week | aga. jee —AT-SENARD IPLANES RUSHING DOCTOR, NURSES T FLU DISTRICT fd | Disease Reported Under Control but Precaution- ary Measures Taken ROBBINS, JONES FLY " SHIPS ON MERCY HOP Nurse from Fairbanks, One from Kotzebue Accom- panying Physician With the Point Barrow influenza epidemic believed checked, author- it spread precautionary meas- u to Wainwright in the same locality today where it was re- ported residents had been stricken but there w no critical cases. Dr. F. B. Gillespie, Health Of- ficr at Fairbanks, hopped in a PAA ‘phm!’ from Fairbanks at 3 o'cleck | yesterday afternoon for Kotzebue accompanied by Mrs, Eugene Brown, a nurse, and a supply of pneumonia vaccine. He was wired instruc- tiens at Kotzebue to pick up an- other nurse there for duty at Wainwright. No word had besn re- ceived here this aftenoon whether 'the physician had arrived at Bar- row but it was assumed by officials here that he was al the scene. 7 No New Deaths No additional deaths have been reported and it is beleved the situation is well under control. Dr. W. W. Council, Health Com- missioner, wired Dr. Gillespie short- |ly before noon yesterday to pro- ceed by plane at once to Barrow. |Lyman 8. Peck of PAA immed- |lately put a Fairchild plane at his | disposal with Pilot 8. E. Robbins |and Fred Milligan, mechanic. At 3 |o'clock yestreday afternoon they took off. In the meantime Pilot |Jerry Jones, who was at Point Barrow awaiting favorable weath- |er conditions to fly E. O. McDon- ‘nell and Roderick Tower, polar bear hunters, outside, was instruct- ed to fly to Kotzebue as quickly as | possible and there meet Gillespie {and Mis Brown and take them |back to Point Barrow. Purpose of 1l'mving Jones intercept the Fair- banks plane at Kotzebue, PAA of- ficials said, was because the former |is flying a much faster ship, a | Fleetster. | Had Vaccine | Vaccine was sent from here to- |day to Fairbanks by plane but it is doubtful if it will be necessary |as word from Fairbanks said a (supply of vaccine had just arrived |there Sunday night by train and Dr. Gillespie was able to take that | with. him, | Mr. McDonnell, a director of |PAA, who is on the hear hunt |with Mr. Tower, was stricken with influenza when he first arrived at Point Barrow, according to word |from there, but is understood to have entirely recovered and has been out “hunting the last few days. WOMAN DIES, FIFTH VICTIM PLANE CRASH Two Others Injured Are Reported to Be in Critical Condition MACCN, Missouri, May 7.—Mrs. William Kaplan, of ‘Los Angeles, died in a hospital here as the re- sult of injuries received in the plane crash early yesterday morning in which United States Senator Bron- scn M. Cutting, of New Mexico, and three others were killed. | Two other injured passengers are in a eritical condition. e + GIBSON TO FAIRBANKS 8. J. Gibson, druggist, is enroute ‘to Seward on the Yukon from Se- attle. Gibson lived in ‘Tacoma this | winter and is bound for Fairbanks,