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

" THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS VOL. XLVL, NO. 6963. UNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY ALL THE TIME™ , MAY 16, 1935. |, STRUGGLE OVER NRA IS WAGING WARM MANNER Senator Clark Makes Charges Against Ad- ministrator Richberg FIGHT IS NOW ON IN LOWER HOUSE Director Appeals for Ex- tension of Recovery Act Beyond Ten Months WASHINGTON, May 16— The struggle over the future of NRA continued at high pitch today with Senator Bennett Champ Clark of Missonri assailing Administrator Donald R. Richberg as a would-be Mussolini and Richberg doing his TAKE ADVANGE; TRADING 600D Volume G;;s— to Highest|' Level Since July Last Year GAINS MADE FROM ONE TO 3 GR MORE All Groups-(:u: Upward— Utilities Only Issues Failing to Rise NEW YORK, May 16.—Stocks put on a buying spurt today that lifted prices and trading volume to the highest levels since July. Gains today from one to three points were numerous. The sharp upturn is attributed | MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS CRISIS NEARING ON BRITISH ISLES Three Territories Sec_ek to | Beo:(;me 49th Sta;tc Samuel W. King £ & Anthony J. Dimond PRICE TEN CENTS GOVERNMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN MAY BE CHANGED !Upheaval Is Predicted in i Face of Foreign Pol- | ey of Britsh |PREMIER M’'DONALD | MAY GO TO NEW POST ! Criticism Aimed at Stand on Germany — Also Premier Mussolini LGNDON, May 16.—Reports of a conflict within the Cabinet on Great Britain's foreign policy were rovived here today with the predie- tion that changes in the National government are imminent. Political attacks centered on Sir utmost to combat Clark’s ideas on the Blue Eagle extension, and. to extend the agency for only ten months more. Senator Clark, in a speech in the Senate, declared that Rich- berg had an ambition to be a Museolini in the United States. Director Richberg, in the mean- Rose Long, daughter of Senator Huey Long of Louisiana, shown as she attended the opening session of the convention of the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution in Washington, D. C. (Associated .Press Photo) partly to a revival of inflation psy- | chology. | Today's close was strong. Sales were 2,450,000 shares. | Motors, steels, coppers, oils, chem- | icals, rails and miscellaneous In-| du:trials led in a broad advance. | Only utilities failed to participate| appreciably | Grains were also up and bonds| im Simon, Foreign Secretary, his onents citing particularly his al- leged pro-German sympathies and ndicaticns he has antagonized Pre- m'ex Mussolin! in his “hands off” T h concerning Ethiopia. Premer’s Stock Boomed Cn the other hand, Premier Ram- ay MacDonald’s recent sternness time, appealed to House leaders to make major alterations in the Clark plan for ten months more of NRA and which the Senate ap- proved. AGREEMENT REACHED WASHINGTON, May 16.—Presi- dent Roosevelt and the NRA Board have agreed to a revised NRA pro- gram calling for a two year ex- tension as contrasted with the Sen- ate measure to continue the organ- ization only ten months. | Director Richberg:- made the an- nouncement this afternoon follow- ing a conference with the Presi- dent. | | WHITE, BLACK FLEETS MOV T0 MANEUVERS Most Spetacular Part of War Game Bging Wag- ed on North Pacific ABOARD PENNSYLVANIA IN HAWAIIAN WATERS, May 16— B0NUS MEASURE Attempted HAY 60 TO W, h ON TOMORROW Bill to Be Sent to Roose- velt After Adjournment | Over Week-end BULLETIN—Washington, May 16.—The Patman Bonus bill has been cent te the White House. WAEHINGTON, May 16.—Indica- tions today were the bonus bill will be sent to the White House sometime tomorrow after the Senate adjourns for the week-end so the veio will not be returned until Monday. Benjamin Anderson, Jr., m- ist of the Chase National Bank of New York City, told the newspaper- men that paymeni of the bonus with new currency involves two grave dangers as follows: First—"It might be regarded as the beginning of the use of printing presses and with such a scare there might be a fling from the dollar.” Second—"“The 'already excess re- Kidnaping in Seattle Union Investigator Makes Charges. Against Rad- ical Element SEATTLE, May 16.—Hal March- ant, of Portland, who said he has been sent here by the Marine, Fire- men, Oilers and Watertender Un- ons investigate radical activi- ties here, suffered a fractured wrist as the result of a scuffle in which he told the police he escaped six kidnapers. FORMER HEA BIG TIMBER 60.,1S DEAD J. P. Weyerhauser Passes advanced. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, May 16— Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 17%, American Can 126, American Power and Light 37, Anaconda 17'%, Armour N 4, Beth- lehem Steel 27%, Calumet and Hec- la 3%, General Motors 33%, Inter- 27%, United States Steel Pound $4.88%:, Bremner bid 64 ask- Black Pine Silver bid 30 asked 33. e BOARD CHANGES RETAIL L1QUO New Regulation Differen- tiates Between Hard Li- quor, Beer and Wine Changes in the Board of Liquor Control regulations to divide re-| tail licenses into three classifica- tions as originally planned was made by the board at a meeting yesterday. f national Harvester 43%, Kennecotf| 34 T ed 67, Nabesna bid 58 asked 66,| i | | | Blanton. Winshin Puerto {R Three terrifories seek the distin 49th state \admitted to the w R?Woman’s Mind Improved by Operation Removing Mos of Her “Thinking” Br already been introduced before copgress proposing acceptance of Hawaii and Puerto g{ Alaska relies on the present FEIRA colonization’ plan to increase her population to the point where her petition for acceptance as a state will be assinred. Anthony J. Dimond, Allaskan non-voting ico icane fields. Alaskan mountai ction of being the i delegate to congress and Samuel W. King, who mjon. Bills have serves Hawaii in the same capacity, seek statehood for their territories, Puerto Rico, governed by Blaiton Winship, was promised “ultimate state hood” in the Democratic platform of 1982. Puerto Rico has the largest population of any of the three territories and Alaska is the biggest. The U, & flag would be changed if an addition was made. ALASKAJUNEAU *. 1S CITY BOON ico as states. SLAYER OF WIFE, PRIEST, ON TRIAL Young Divinity Student Is (un‘ c' UF WASHINGTON, May 16.—A wo- man whose mind was improved by | an operation that removed nearly | the entire “thinking portion” of her brain was described to the Psychetric Association here yester- day. 1 The delicate operation, pcr!ormed‘ two years ago, was necessitated by If you want a friend, be a friend. | & large tumor, physicians said. The That is, and has been, the attitude C.IS TOLD Chamber Hears J. A. Hel- lenthal Describe Mine's Co-operation toward Germany has boomed his stock for the Foreign Office. Stanley Baldwin, Lord President of the Council, is regarded as Mc- Donald’s successor if the Premier takes the office of Forelgn Secre~ tary. Some observers said that they be- lieved MacDonald's first move, if he became Foreign Sceretary, would be to summon another World Eco- nomic Conference. I SHARP CRITICISM LONDON, May 16.—Following on the heels of criticism of Mussolini’s policy regarding Ethiopia advanced | by Foreign Secretary Sir John }Stmon. Viscount Cecil also attack- | d the Italian Premier's move and | declared that Ttaly could not fair- |1y criticise Germany's rearmament |it she ignored her own League of ]Nauons vows. . ‘ Viscount Cecil said it would be | impossible to claim respect for the collective system in the north and flout it in the south. Viscount Cecil, who is President of the League of Nations Union, | further said: “The unilateral breach of Part Five of the treaty cannot be | justly condemned unless equal sanc- |tity is admitted for Part One, | which contains the covenant of the | League of Nations.” All vessels of the Nawy's White Fleet, serves of baffks would be added to moved seaward today from Pe:«rl;makinz control of credit one of the Harbor. |greatest difficultie The Black Fleet also bore south| from the Aleutians for one of the most spectacular ‘“plays” in the| present fleet mapeuvers in the | North Pacific Ocean. Away in Tacoma—Ill Only Few Days UNDERSTANDING REACHED WASHINGTON, May 16— Ex- pressing confidence they have pick- ed up some votes on the bonus, TACOMA, Wash., May 16.—J. P. Weyerhouser, aged 76, former Pres- ident of the Weyerhauser Timber Company, the largest in the West, {retail license which the first rules |liquor retail license and beer and 'A. Boyle, Secretary of the Board, Charged with Double Murder, Brooklyn NEW YORK, May 16—The trial of Joseph Steinmetz, young Brook- lyn divinity student, accused of killing his wife and a Catholic priest In addition to the one genera provided, there will now be a hard wine retail license in the future, it is announced by Auditor Frank WAGNER LABOR 'BILL FIGHT IS |reports said that for the first year| of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining rafter the removal of so much of her| Company toward the City of Ju- | brain, the woman was extraordinar- neau. J. A. Hellenthal, mine attor- !ily gay and happy, in fact, almost| ney, gave that though to the Cham- } childishly so. | ber of Commerce members at Bail- But during the second year fol-|¢¥S Cafe this noon as he opened a lowing the operation, mature chang- “°'ies of talks entitled, “Building Juneau,” SETTLEMENT OF LUMBER STRIKE DIFFICULT ONE Thousand Small Operators Must Make Seperate Peace Agreements SEATTLE, May 16—With only a| few scattered mills open in Wash- ington State and two major opera- tions going on in Oregon, the lum- ber and logging industry is virtu- ally stagnant as the result of the| widespread strike. Pointing out that each of about| 1,000 small operators must make separate peace pacts with employ- es, E. P. Marsh, Federal Councili tor is quoted at Portland as say- ing this lack of central organiza- tion for dealing with the organized workers, handicaps an early settle- ment. PPt 0735 Federal Board Named in Tanker Strike WASHINGTON, May 16—Sec- retary of Labor Perkins has ap- pointed a Board to attempt to arbitrate the dispute between the oil tanker men and the op- erators, : supporters in the Senate this after- noon decided to send it to the President for a veto with the under- standing it will not be acted upon in the Senate before next week. President Roosevelt previously made an announcement he will veto the measure and said it is his ear- nest hcpe Congress will support the veto. The President’s secretary, who made the announcement, said the President is not “interested in the bonus because of political reasons or political expediency and will send the strongest veto message possible.” —— e~ COLONISTS FOR ALASKA DUE IN SEATTLE TODAY Welcome \Xgfie Given by Officials—Entertain- ment Is Planned SEATTLE, May 16.—Colonists en- route from Witconsin and Michigan to the Matanuska Valley in Alaska are expected to arrive here at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon on a special train. Cifiicals will give them a welcome and much entertainment has been planned during their stay here. The colonists will leave for Alas- ka on the Army transport St Mi-' hiel on Saturday. died today as the result of pneu-| monia. He became ill last Monday. The deceased Ww2s the son of| Frede; ‘Weyerhauser, founder of! the mpany Wwhich entered the West about 1900. He retired from active management of the lumber company several years ago. who favored the three-way plan at |the outset. Under the new regulations a gen- eral retail license will cost the same as before, $150. A hard liquor retail permit will be $100 and for beer and wine retail $100. Sale under any of these licenses must be in the original packages as the dispensary license pertains as be- fore, when he found them together in a|€s were noted and intelligence tests| hotel room, has been resumed af-.raied her as well as the average ter adjournment for the death of [American adult. She is an Austro- development of Juneau would the the defense counsel's father. ‘Hun}s]wrlan |E vm_\'.lznwfaty,s has been a gru:g-‘ dria R _| The power of concentration and Ing principle of the managers of e | cui?o;hedzfi;aaa?;:i:fi\;‘: ;Lr:soa%a nimproved memory of events long A J. Mr. Hellenthal said. Unlike moody, self-centered, highly religi- past are ‘“remarkable” acquired MOSt omor.lm-ge n'nnes, the Alaska ous and emotionally jealous yaum_[characzerisucs, physicians said. She -IUIf"a\l always has shown a strong {is reported as saying that she can | SPirit of co-operation with the city, !do more work without fatigue; the Judge said. The taecry that owmy (hrough the | “Fred Bradley was the man who WAGING TODAY Union Leaders Hope to See Measurg Passed in Senate by Night BULLETIN—Washington, May 16.—~The Senate passed the POINT BARROW SCHOOLS WILL !we term hard liquor, distilled spir- its, and beer and wine, Mr. Bc said, “and we feel this action will tend to confine the sale of hard liquor to liquor stores.” The Board also clarified further the road house license provision by specifying that a road house in additicn to being at least 10 miles from an incorporated town must be in fact a road house and not located in a settlement or com- munity. WHALES $pauT, ARCTIC WATERS POINT BARROW, Alaska, May 16.—The whaling season started this week and Bering Sea and th Action was taken by the board after it was found that many places were interested in handling only beer and wine, and also (0 put retail handling of hard liquor in a separate classification. Danger from Influenza Epi- demic at Arctic Outpost Now Apparently Over 1 Indication that the influenza epidemic at Point Barrow has vir- tually passed was given here today in a wire to Charles W. Hawkes- worth, Assistant to the Director in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which stated that school classes will resume there Monday. The schools have been closed during the sickness With no word of further deaths and assurance from Dr. F. B. Gil- lespie, who flew to the stricken area from Fairbanks, that the sit- uation was under control, author- ities here feel satisfied that the danger is now past. Dr. Giliespie is visiting not only Barrow but Wainwright, Point Lay and other Arctic ogean is full of them. TI villages and unless new difficulties teason finds the crews short-handed arise expects to be able to leave because of the ravages of the in- there probahbly - Saturday. fluenza epidemic, PLANE IS HERE FISHERMAN IS gave the mine that policy,” Mr, Hel- lenthal said. “The first active man- ager of the mine, he laid down this principle: “The only way to build up an enterprise, is to build the ccmmunity in which it centers. ON NORTH HOP Pilot McLean Leaves with) Three Passengers for Anchorage Today Chet McLean, Star Airways Cnm-: pany pilot, took off for Anchorage at 8:30 oclock this morning. Fly- ing a Waco biplane enroute from After spending the night here, Seattle, McLean arrived here at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Coming north with him are W. E. Dunkle, Willow Creek mining man, and his son, Jack. Mrs. McLean also left for Anchorage this morning as a passenger aboard the plane. She bad remained here since the plane came through here last Friday, vis- iting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rutherford. McLean was accompanied to Se- attle by T. J. Herman, Anchoraze druggist, “I'm A Miner” ed Bradley once told me, ‘I'm # miner, not a boarding house keep- er .or a merchant.! By that he meant that the Alaska - Juneau would not enter into other lines of business, It has encouragéd others to build these.enterprises. “A second way in which the Al- aska Juneau has shown co-opera- tion to the city’ was when Bradley ordered the construction of the mill, practically all within the city lim- This decision, incidentally, was made against the advice of many SEATTLE, May 16.—Paul Luketa, engineers. But Bradley wanted his! a middleaged fisherman, was award- plant near the city. ed a judgment of $7,500 against the “Bradley's policy of buying local- Port of Seattle for the alleged loss ly is now being carried on by his of fishing gear by a Superior Court brother, Phil, and L. H. Metzgar, jury here yesterday. mine manager. Of course, there are In 1933, Luketa said he returned many things that can't be purchas- from a trip to Alaska to find the ed here, but everything that can, doors and windows of the space even though purchased at a slight where he stored his gear on the disadvantage to the Alaska Juneau, municipally-owned Fishermens' dock is bought right here.” opened and the gear gone Merchants Praised The Port of Seattle contended ev- The splendid co-operation of Ju- erything that Luketa left on the neau merchants was praised in this dock was still there, | (Continued on Page Three) AWARDEDS 50 ON GEAR LOSS Seattle Jury Returns Ver- dict Against Municipal Port Commission Wagner Labor Relations bill | this afternoon. WASHINGTON, May 16.— The long fight between industrialists and union leaders over the Wagner La- bor Relations bill approaches a cli- max in the Senate. Advocates of the measure, which would set up a permanent National Labor Relations Board, and forbid certain practices by employers, es- pecially company dominated unions, hope to see the bill passed before nightfall. REPEAL FORGES LEAD, GEORGIA ATLANTA, Ga., May 16.—Repeal forces in Wednesday's referendum vote on Georgia's 28-year-old pro- hibition law held a lead of 8117 votes today,with indications that an official tabulation would be neces- gary to definitely decide the ques- tion. Neither the wets or the drys concede defeat, The present indi- cations also were that the sale of beer and wine would be made le- gal,