The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 11, 1935, Page 1

N& G4 > -V THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY; MAY 11, 1935, VOL. XLVI, NO 6959 " BONUS ISSUE IS INVOLVED | NOW BY JONES, RFC Glisimaan Says In- mediate Payment Might Be Good WASHINGTON, May 1li.—+ new complication has entered the bonus struggle with Jesse Jones, Chair- man of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, indicating belief that immediate payment might be a good thing. This drew expressions of some surprise at the ‘White House where | it was indicated, Jones said, “it| appears entirely possible Congress!| may override the veto of the bonus, measure.” Republican leaders predicted flat- ly the Vinson bill will be sent by| Congress to the President if the Patman bill is killed. They forecast! it will be passed over any veto. Senator Huey P. Long said virtu- ally all Democratic leaders want to “go ahead and pay the bonus by the Patman bill,” Senator Long also said that Jones had some independence about him and “evidently does not want to be a party to leading the Democrats to slaughter.” Meanwhile President Roosevelt, with several congressional leaders and Vice-President Garner left for a week-end in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Maryland. ANOTHER VOTE WASHINGTON, May 11.— This afternoon Patman bonus bill lead-' ers claimed another vote to over- ride the veto with appointment of LAl Dressed Up for Rose Bowl Betty Talbot gives a preview Rosa, Calif., rose carnival. Press Photo) Party Sages S(’e thtlo Chance, Ra(hcals Uniting DISCOVERIES OF BYRD ARE GEN, ALLISON VISITS HERE | | | Chief of Uni),pd States Sig- i nal Corps, and Col. { Kumpe, on Boat | Major General James B. Allison, of the Signal Corps, United States Army, with his headquarters in Washington, D. C.,, and Col. G. B Kumpe, Officer in Charge of # Signal Corps, United States Army 1In Uuneau aboard Northwestern this afternoon, on inspeetion trip. The two will re here until Monday when they has been in Juneau before but Q‘ present trip to Juneau is the first one for -Gen. Allison. Col. Krumpe's headquarters are in Seattle. Gen. Allison was born at York, South Carolina, on September 18, | 1873, and came into the Army from jeivil life, being apointed a second ——|lieutenant of Infantry, October 10, 1898. of what she will wear at the Santa | It's a bathing suit of roses. (Associated | Promgotions N Gen. Allison was promoted first lieutenant of Infantry, January 29, 1900; captain of Infantry, April 5, 1806; major of Infantry, May "15, 1917; lieutenant colonel (temporary) of Infantry, August 5, 1917; and colonel, Signal Corps (National Army) September 4, 1917. He revert- ed to his Regular Army rank of major of Infantry, August 31, 1919, | He was promoted lieutenant colonel, {Infantry, July 1, 1920; and ‘was| ‘pmmoted colonel, Signal Corps, May 9, 1921, He was appointed Chief By BYRON PRICE (( hief of Bureapw, The Associated Press, Washington) The newspaper reader who finds | himself bewildered by the confus- ing welter of present-day polmeal headlines may claim at least this consolation: he has plenty of dis- tinguished company. i | DURING TODAY, Washington-Alaska Military Cable (i the steamer { g0 south on the Yukon. Col. Kumpe! Dennis Chavez from New Mexico: < 1t'is said the bill will probably be . released next Tuesday and sent to .2 the Whie House Antarctic ls All One Con ‘Fhe plain truth is that even the most experienced and astute of the | politicians do not know what to Signal Officer of the Army for w} term of 4 years from Jan. 31, 1935, with the rank of Major General. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW PI“NEERS JHas “Typncal Mothcr Changcd9 OF ALASKA ARE INNEW HOMES olonists Find Meal Ready in Matanuska, Fires Ready to Light PALMER, Alaska, May 11.—Sixty- Seven Midwest farm families reach- | ed the land of opportunity at sun- own yesterday and climbed off the | ain amid shouts and cheers. i The colonists were assigned t0 mporary homes and even found The new pioneers that have come Alaska were greeted by 500 CCC and Frank U. Bliss, truction Engineer for the project‘ ‘he commissary had supper all ready for the colonists. The @vening was chilly after the! mercury had reached balmy 50 mi' and enthusiastic send-off ab An-| chorage yesterday noon. ) REAL ARMY LIFE ! PALMER, May 11.—Life similar to an army camp during the World War days began for the Minnesota families Cooking utensils are expected to be issued tomorrow, then ench‘ family will begin normal home life | as possible in tents. ' Most of the colonists liked the valley instantly. All water is being hauled as Lhe‘ wells are not yet ready. By the time the Wisconsin fam- | ilies arrive, 200 farms will' have| the “typical American mother" eyed drawing will lKee: ’%:v"fiw::‘:wjd [rl-'l ither side of the quest land. i miles from Palmer. All those here | .ago.:At the same time, there is a The furthest farm is about 10| itodly is little different than hN' prototy BUT 10 MONTHS IS PLAN NOW Senate Democra!s at Odds, with President on Extension WASHINGTON, May 11.—Presi- dent Roosevelt is at odds here with| a movement in the Senate to con-i tinue the National Recovery Ad-; ministration only ten months more. Senate Demecrats, at a conference, | backed a plan to trim the Blue Eagle’s wings somewhat by extend- ing its life only until April 1, 1936. Leaders held that any insistence upon a longer extension might lead | to a long floor fight which would destroy a chance of passing the new legislation before the present NRA law expires on June 16 of this year. In the face of this situation, the President reiterated his pre- ference for a two-year extension. Some observers are regarding his expression as an indication that he is counting on the House to pass and insist upon a bill closely in line with his wishes. e DENNIS CHAVEZ NAMED SENATOR SANTA FE, New Mexico, May 11. —The appintment of Dennis Cha- vez, former Democrat Representa-| tive, to succeed Benator Bronson M. Cutting, killed in an airplane crash, is announced today by Gov. Clyde ' Tingley. Chavez who ran against Cutting last year contested Cutting's seat. The appointment runs until next year’s electiorf. Farm Work in Two Canadian Provinces Is Held Up by Rain WINNIPEG, May 11.—Rain and snow beat down on most parts of Saskatchewan and Albertad today, further delaying farm work in those Provinces following more than a week of general rains over the west. | Antartic | tinent — New Land Claimed for U. S. WASHINGTON, May 11.—Admiral ]Rlchard E. Byrd was received by| left-wing uprisings, | President Roosevelt in reception last mght after his two years in the Antarctic. At the dinner, at which Admiral Byrd received the National Geo- | graphic Society Scroll, he spoke of some data brought back from Lit-. tle America. Admiral Byrd said the ice age was | at the peak at the South Pole with ice varying in thickness from two feet to two miles; that explorers gy nope of the Republican lies in | of Infantry. discovered and claimed for the United States the Marie Byrd land, | with an area as large as the east-' ern seaboard from Maine to Geor- gia; that an area of a quarter of a million miles, hitherto listed as unknown, was found to be part of the Pacific Ocean, and that the is all one continent as| large as the United States, Mex- | ica and pan of Canada combined. TEXAS PRIS| ON FARM CONVICTS ATTEMPTBREAK Two Pnsoners, One Guard Are Slain While Others Are Wounded HUNTSVILLE, Texas, May 11— Two convicts and one guard were slain, and five convicts and one guard wounded during an attempted four-man break from the Eastham Prison Farm, 18 hours after Ray- mond Hamilton, Southwest desper- ado, and his companion, Joe Palm- er, were electrocuted for killing an officer during their Eastham es- cape in January, 1934. Convict barber Jack Peddy killed guard Vergil Welch and shammed death so the posse passed by. Later Peddy was killed during a search for his body. Still later, Ernest Young, a convict, was stabbed to death and four more convicts se- verely bruised during a gang fight of 100 men in the main penitentiary | yard here s ls. " DAL L L INCORPORATE Articles of incorporation have been filed with the Territorial Auditor by the Alaska Gold, Inc., of Anchorage. Incorporators are U. G. Croker, Mary I Crocker and Jack McCord. Capital is listed at $100,000. | Service think. [ After a short service with his | They do not know the real ex-| company, Gen. Allison became Act- | tent of recent defections from Pres-|ing Assistant Quartermaster at ident Roosevelt, they can only guess Columbus, Ohio, from January 1899 | at the actual strength of the various | {to April 1900. From April 1900 to and they have ! (June 1902 he served as Acting As- no idea what the Republicans will|sistant Quartermaster in Alaska, in do in 1936. ‘charge of construction of Fort Lis- Only a few elements of the situa- ‘cum. In September, 1902, he became | tion stand out clearly enough to be|aide de camp to Brigadier General recognized as facts by all schools Georsge M. Randall at Vancouver are hoping they will draw a place near Palmer. WORK RELIEF FUND RULING ,of political planners. One is the that Mr, Roosevelt will be renom ed a3 the Democratic candidate next year. Another is the conviction that the |the attainment of a unity which does not now¥ exist. A third is the indication that the chances all are against any ef- fective union of the various inde- pendent groups ‘whieh are talking so loudly of independent action in the coming campaign. Canvass of Sentiment Seen Beyond these' rather elemental ‘concla\wrb few ‘politicians are will- \mg to go, uniess they are talking | for publication and for political ef- | feet. , There is no certainty, for instance, \what sort of campaign, Mr. Roose- velt will find it advisable to make— \\helllel he 15 likely to incline to ht, or the left, or adopt a midd,t‘ course ' calcu]ated to please | all but the extremists on both sides. It is” highly interesfing circum- |stance that Democratic headquar- ters is contemplating “a systematic ‘canva_ss of sentiment to find out | just how much' the Président’s pop- {ularity has suffefed recently.. Sel- ‘dom has there been a political head- quarters which seemed more sure |cf itself in general; yet it is be- ginning ‘to wonder, and is taking steps to find out what all the shoot- ing ‘amounts to. Both party headquarters would |like to know; too, how much there is behind the claims of the various left-wing leaders. There is a sur- prising divergence among the guess- es of seasoned politicians as to the actual numerical strength of the followings of Senator Long, Father|. Coughlin, Dr. Townsend, and the others. Long Backs Borah The Republican uncertainties ap- pear to increase, rather than- de- crease as the party leaders seek a i basis for unity while mid-western- jers are debating with a surprising show of irritation whether to hold their much-advertised get-together |at Kansas City, or Des Moines, or somewhere else, or whether to hold |it at all, Senator Borah comes for- ward with a -proposal to nullify | Whatever they may do. | Mr. Borzh is quoued as saying the (Continued on Page Six.) universally-accepted ! Barmck.‘, Washington. In April, 1905, he sailed for the Philippines with General Randall, and when relieved as aide in January, 1905, |he commanded a battalion of Phil- (ippine Scouts and later a company In August 1906 he be- came a student of the Infantry- ;Cavalry Scheol, Fort Leavenworth, (Kansas, graduating in June, 1907. | He then attended the Army Signal School, graduating in June, 1908. He returned to the Philippines in {June, 1909, and served with the 7th Infantry until June, 1911, when he returned to the United States. After one year with the National Guard of the District of Columbia, he rejoined the 7th Infantry and served with it at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and Galveston, Texas. In April, 1914, he went to Vera Cruz, Mexico, with his regiment, return- ing to the United States in Novem- ber, 1914. Then he served at vari-l Mrs, George F. Alexander will Ous posts in Texas until August, sing. The Rev. John A, Glasse's 1916, when he was appointed a lieu- [ sermon will be centered along the tenant colonel, 2d Infantry, South| theme of “Mother Nature.” Carolina National Guard, and be- | ———r — ———— came Inspector, 10th Provisional Di- | Supply Division until June, 1828. He vision, until April, 1917. During the | Was Signal Officer, 2d Corps Area, war he commanded several United from July, 1928 to January, 1935, States Signal Corps training camps. 8t which time he was appointed In March, 1919, he became Assistant |Chief Signal Officer of the Army ‘Commandant, United States Disci- | With the renk ol Major General. plinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, | Decorations Kansas, and then served on the| Gen. Allison has been awarded War Department: General Stall|the Distinguished Service Medal, from September, 1919, to June, 1924 the citation for which reads as fc! He went to the Army War College | |lows: “For services in the organi- in September, 1924, graduating in |zation and training of tecnnical June, 1925, after which he was or- troops of the Signal Corps, while dered to Fort Monmouth, New Jer- commanding officers of the Signal sey, as Commandant of the Signal |Corps Training School, Fort Leav- School, until August, 1926. He re- |enworth, Kansas, and commaiding turned to the War Department |officer of the Franklin cantonment. General Staff and served with the jCamp Meade Maryland.” | first decision on the Work Relief Fund, J. R. McCarl, Comptroller General, ruled that the money could not be ‘used for subsistence of homesteads unless they involve farming. MOTHERS TO RECEIVE FLOWERS AT CHURCH A boutonniere will be presented every mother who attends morn- ing worship at the Northern Light Presbyterian Church tomorrow— Mother’s Day. These floral tributes will be sup- plied by the Toastmasters' Club, an organization within the church composed of high school students. A potted plant will be given to the oldest mother present, and’ an- other floral gift will be presented to the most recent mother. Scream Goeé Up Over Kzllmg of Alaska Eagles for Bounty WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, West Virginia, May 11.—Defending the eagle as the National Emblem, Rex Brasher, ornithologist, said he | has protested to Congress for fail- ure to act against Alaska's dead cagle bounty. salmon. Brasher said even if this is true, there is no reason for extinction of these fine birds and the eagles should, be medalled for removing refuse and not murdering, as the fish they eat have spawned and are Brasher said the eagles are facing ready to die. extinetion and Alaska has passed| Brasher added that protests to a law because the fishing inter- |the Washington solons have been ests claim the eagles destroy the puseless. WASHINGTON, May 11.—In his| [ & . Recent selection of Mrs. Lucy Keen Johnson of Irvington, N. Y., as prompts one to speculate as to ‘whether the characteristics of motherhood have undergone a trans- formation in this changing decade. One might make out a strong 1f Mrs. Johnson is accepted as "t Wonld-ippeir thav theimother !e of two decades of more ct type of “modern mother”, distin lof younger years, more advanced in view, and less domestically 4inclined. Mrs, James Roosevelt, mother of the president, headed the ‘sommiuee which selected Mrs. Johnson as the typicn! American mother, s Air Armada Navy Still Continues Secret Maneuvers HONOLULU, May 11.—Some- where in the Pacific, the Navy's great armada of 46 seaplanes continued unprecedented secret maneuvers while high naval of- ficials hinted at even more amazing operations to come in- velving 450 aircraft aboard the surface vessels of the fleet. No other information has been given out, R BOMBER FALLS, 3 MEN KILLED CHERBOURG, France, May 11.—| A seaplane bomber fell 1,000 fect onto a subchaser and plunged into the bay killing three French navy airmen and injuring the fourth. Divers recovered the bodies of the dead and also the injured man from the wreckage. Witnesses said a gust of wind/ overturned the seaplnne NEWFOUNDLAND JOBLESS RIOT, LOOT STORES More than 900 in Mob! Which Is Evenluully Quelled by Police ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, May 11—Rioting hoodlums were driven to cover here today by batons of policemen. Left in the wake we two score broken and looted s fronts and a badly crippled light and power system. A crowd of more than 900 jobl stormed through the city’s main streets. Scores were injured as police used batons freely to clear streets. Vandalism and thieving again when the light service shut off and fighting resulted. began wa UNIUNS FAVOR ARBITRATION IN - TANKER STRIKE Seattle Orgamzatlon Takes | Vote—Lumber Indus- try Paralyzed SEATTLE, May 11.—All affiliated umom of the Maritime Federation he Pacific here have voted hvavllv in favor of the arbitration proposals of President Harry Lund- berg to setule the oil tanker strike and avoid a general coastwise strike. LUMBER STRIKE | SEATTLE, May 11 —Thirty thou- {sand lumber workers are out, para- 1lyzing almost completely the giant lumber industry of Washington and Oregon. Eighteen hundred men left their jnbs yesterday. D COLLECTOR CONNORS TRIES RADIOI’HONE Further teslm;: out radiophone communication with the States James J. Connors, Collector of Cus- \ums Lz\lked this morning with C. E. Stoner at Seattle (nd lh(-" reception was reported as excellent, Mr. Connors said he could hear Captain Stoner as clearly as if he| was in the next room. The Col- lector, who many years ago was connected with the Bell Telephone { Company, told of the great advance that had been made in communica- tion since the days when hooked | telephone line and t was marvelcus a 25-mile ne thought up €veryol wi it worked. Stoner pointed out that at the moment the ex-Bell| man was talking 900 miles with- benefit of any phone line and d widespread use of the one in the future. - TOOLSHED BEING out p r BUILT Foundation was laid today for & toolshed near the Zynda Hotel on| Third Avenue. The building will used by the Gastineau Con-| ion Com der of a I'uth Works Administration con- |tract on a street paving project. +| clalties, PRICE TEN CENTS 3 UNREPORTED SINCE HOPOFF AT ANCHORAGE Pilot Valfe? with Two Passengers, Last Seen in Bad Weather ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 11.—Pilot A. J. Valley and two passengers are not re- ported since leaving yester- .|day for Goodnews Bay. The plane, a monoplane, was last sighted over Quins- by in bad weather. The names' of the two pas- s(nurs are nnt known here. ANOTHER DEATH IS REPORTED AT ARCTICOUTPOST Total Dead in Barrow and Wainwright Flu Stricken Area Reaches Sixteen Another death has brought the total of influenza deaths at Point Barrow and Wainwright to 16, acs ctording to word received here to- |day. It was not indicated whether the latest death was at Barrow or Wainwright but virtually all the f"fl" - deaths “have been at, the Tl former PIaeR: nmur w5 it 3o ) Mildred Keaton, formerly widely known Juneau nurse who was in the Government Hospital here, is now at Wainwright with Mrs. Eu- gene Brown, Fairbanks nurse, and Dr. F. B, Gillespie who flew from Fairbanks. Katherine Allen, daughter of James Allen, Wainwright trader and whaler, has wired Charles W. Hawkesworth, Assistant to the Di- rector in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, here volunteering her services. She is now in San Fran- cisco and a graduate nurse No official word had been re- ceived direct from Dr. Gillespie here this afternoon as to condi~ tions in the stricken area. MOST GROUPS ARE LISTLESS, TRADING TODAY Some Recent Gainers Sag Under Profit Taking —Few in Demand NEW YORK, May 11.—Preferred utilities and sugar company is- sues, together with scattered spe- were in demand at the short session of the New York Stock Exchange foday but most of the other groups were rather listless. Some recent gainers sagged uns der profit taking: Today’s close was about steady. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW. YORK, May 11— Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine quotation today is 17%, American Can 124, American Power and Light | 4%, Anaconda 15%, Armour N 3%, Bethlehem Steel 26%, Calumet and Hecla 3%, General Motors 31%, | International Harvester 41%, Ken- necott 19%, United States Steel 33', Pound $4.86%, Bremner bid 64 asked 66, Nabesna bid 59. D ‘Vllib COMSTOCK HERE Mrs. Gladys Comstock arrived on the Northland from Seattle to at- |tend the funeral of her father, | Frank Bongard, which will be held ‘\danduy under the auspices of the Elks at the C. W. Carter Mortuary. - GRANTED DIVOR(E A divorce decree was granted in | the Federal District Court today to Esther from Ora Goss. - e | STEELHEADS BITlNG Steelheads are reported biting in | Peterson Creek and several good jcatches are said to have been made.