The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 20, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY VOL. XLVL, NO. 6966. PREDICTED BY DEMO LEADERS Veto of Patman Bill Will Mean Ancther Proposal as Compromise, Report | WASHINGTON, May 20—Certain Administration leaders in Congress predicted today the bonus issue would be resurrected in swift and surprising fashion after the defeat of the Patman bill, defeat of which leaders call a mathematical certain- ty. They claimed 40 or 41 votes in, the Senate to sustain the veto' scheduled for Wednesday. | One Administration chief, who is represented as thinking it would be good politics for the bonus to be paid this year, made another poll, of his own and reported 72 Senators would support a plan to push through a bonus bill in the form of a rider on another measure, giv-| ing the President choice of three ways of paying—issuihg currency, borrowing or taking money out of the works relief funds. The House Demgcratic steering committee calléd on President Roosevelt to disci he bonus issue and this was intefpreted by ob- servers as.a forerunner of a pos- sible attempt by bonus adherents to reach a compromise with the Presi- dent. | In the meantime the American Legion called on veterans to bom- | bard 12 Senators with telegrams in' an effort to get the Senate to over- ride the veto of the Patman bill. | In an effort to forestall a veto,' the House bonus bill steering com- mittee also Roosevelt gave no indication of any change in his determination to re- ject the measure. PLUNGES TWO | { ‘called on_the President! “ALL THE NEWS§ MONDAY, MAY 20, 1935. () JUNEAU, AL S An Associat:d Pres map of the War maneuvers are being held by the navy. In one of the “war game” 46 planes took off from Hawali for Mid 1328 miles distant. Since the departure of the aerlal | refused to divulge any Information, cloakil secrecy, The artist drew a line wl fleet should go to the Aleutians. Pacific and the triangle In which problems of y Island, the navy the in strictest hich would be followed if the air Chain Years Ago; “Cat-Rat” Craze [ | 500 COLONISTS ENROUTE NORT TO MATANUSK Sailed from Seattle Last Saturday ~— Due in Seward Thursday. y Moy 20 o “for 4 new world to make a new start in life, more than 600 pioneers from the wastelands of Michigar and| “We propose to organize a cor- Thousands Foodless Wh]le Wisconsin embarked on the Army transport St. Mihiel last Saturday and sailed north shortly after 4 which should be reached next Thursday. Letter Had Parallel PORTLAND, Ore,, May 20.— The | perpetual profit claims for chain !letters had 2 parallel two decades ago in a cat-rat craze, Mrs, Dorothy | G. Ott, of Pertland, recalls. | In an old scrapbook, she unearth- ed an original prospectus on the cat-rat plan as sent out June 1, 11916, by the promoters and organiz- |ers, Ratski and company, Hyde ! Park, TIl. The offer was: “Hearing that you are always open for an investment in a good, live business proposition, we take the liberty of presenting to you what 8. most ex~ 'tellefimwa«'%}m, it is "hop:-d. you will take a lively inter- lest. | poration to operate a large cat ranch near Denver where land can ’?)e purchased cheap for that pur- !g'clock in the afternoon for Seward!pose. “To start with, we will collect PLANE DIVES INTO LAKE; 3 CARRIED DOWN Early Sunday Morning Ac: cident Near Cordova— Girl Passenger ‘Drowns LL THE TIME” = urope C—an MoTn EMPI MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS KED : ow CORDOVA, Alaska, May 20. =f{ Mavis Fields, aged 19 years, is de William Bunson, aged 32, mechanic and student pilot, the hospital with severe and Stanley Seltrenich is f bruises as the result of an eal morning airplane accident. ‘The small plane in which son was taking the otheys for ride, plunged into Lake Eyak at 4! o'clock Sunday morning 560 the take-off. Fishermen rescued Seltrenich but the girl was dro when she attempted to swim. shore, 100 yards away. . The plane was the m T. M. Donohoe, local attorns Mavis Fleld was the Mr. and Mrs. Archie i dova. She was { as electrician by the and Northwestern Railroad and t} family is widely known here. |sides her parents, she leaves brother, William. ILLINOIS FAGES > State Attempts to Raise $3,000,000 Monthly CHICAGO, May 20—A foodless spring from Cordova High Sehool.} Her father has long been employed 1ize“17,000,000 Men for War DENALI STRIKES * ON REEF, BREAKS INTWD, SINKS | i 'Alaska Steamship Com- pany’s Freighter Goes Down Off Zayas Island 'DISASTER OCCURS IN | HEAVY SEAS AND FOG ‘Officers, M;r;bers of Crew, Passengers and Four Stowaways Rescued A lecs of over half a mil- licn dollars, including the cargo, resulted when the big freight steamer Denali, of the Alaska Steamship Company, went to the bottom -of the Yacific Sunday morning. dnly the shattered fore- peck, which hangs on a reef off Zayas Island, British Co- lumbia, en the east end of A sl Despite parleys and peace conferences, the inter- national armament competition goes merrily on. Eight nations of Europe today can mobilize more In addition to this huge than 17,000,000 troops. force, Japan and United States coi the field more than 1,600,000. Armed forces of the great powers today are la equipped than in 1914 on the eve of the World war: Europe’s leading military Arms race on in every line. uld each put into rger and better powers are now " ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS NRA Declared Unconstitutional SEATTLE, May 20.—The Wash-| ington State NRA is held to be un- constitutional by Superior Judge R. R. Smith, ruling it is an illegal del- spending more than $8,000,000,000 annually to maintain the largest combined military machine' in the history of thé world. strength of the leading powers, figuring active troops: and reserves, is as follows: 2,500,000; England 1,500,000; Italy 1,600,000; Russia, 6,000,000; Germany, 1,600,000; Japan and United States, 1,600,000 each. Also, Poland and Czechoslovakiaican raise large forces, Dixon Entrance, remains of the steamer. ALL ABOARD SAVED The Denali’s seven passeng- cers, eight officers, twenty- ‘three members of the crew and four stowaways, were (taken off by the Coast Guard {cutter Cyane from Ketchi- - ikan. | The comparative ‘[ France, TWO-STAFES I st engine room and was raging when the craft broke in two, one portion sinking into the Pacific, and the forepeak re- maining on the reef. SOUTH ARE HIT, - FLOODS, STORMS egation of legislative authority to| e The Denali was valued at 11,000 cats. Each cat will average 12 weekend was the lot of thousands| The colonists are part of the kittens a year. The skins will sell of families in Illinois where county Government's colonization projecifor 10 cents for the white ones to0 after county exhausted all regular| in the Matanuska Valley in Al-175 cents for the black. We will have emergency relief funds for support| aska. |about 12,000,000 skins to sell at an of 1,200,000 of the state’s citizens in The sailing of the St. Mihiel was average of 30 cents apiece, making Cook county alone. Appraximately; between $300,000 and $400,- ‘000 and the cargo of nearly 3,500 toms, including 10 tons iol' dynamite, much coal and code enforcement officers. State Attorneys said they will appeal to the State Supreme Court, STORIES; ONE | Thirteen Persons Known' Dead, Many Missing, NRA, Bonus and Other Is- sues Likely to Prolong Session Into Summer YOUTH KILLED Group, Watching Pionee Days’ Parade Met with Accident Sunday YAKIMA, Wash,, Mdy Z&—-Vicmr" Ruff, aged 18 years, was killed, and more than one score were injuredl ‘when the cornice of a building, from which about 40 persons were viewing a Pioneer Days’ parade, | collapsed, plunging them down two | stories upon a sidewalk crowded | with other persons. ‘The parade was the final event of the celebration marking the fif-| tieth anniversary of the founding of Yakima. The accident halted the parade until the injured were removed to the hospital, then continued. Thousands were out to see the old days portrayed in the parade. Sufficient stretchers and ambu- lances to care for the injured were not available. Paraders doffed their leather jackets -and heirloom pio- neer costumes and improvised stretchers, then rejoined the pa- rade. Those injured suffered broken arms or legs, cuts and bruises. 08, CARLSON PASSES AWAY AT KETCHIKAN Member of Stefansson’s Arctic Expedition Dies of Pneumonia KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 20.— Joseph Carlson, aged 78 years, fa- mous in the northland for his 1929 spectacular trip, at the age of 73, down the Stikine River in a skiff while the winter ice was running, is dead here as’'the result of pneu- monia. Carlson was a member of Stefans- son’s Arctic exvloration expedition and formerly resided in Dawson, Nome, Fairbanks, and Atlin, B. C,, where he was engaged in mining. Carlson was born in Sweden. to the ins of the “Stars and!c i r Stripes Forever.” Several thousands gro: crowded the Terminal cheering and , “A man can 'skin 50 cats a day; revenue about $10,000 a day, 100,000 persons, members of 28,000 families, were placed upon their own resources by lack of food or- pelting the' decks with confetti,|he will charge $2 a day for his la- ders due Saturday. making the scene a colorful one. ‘Women carried children and chil- operate the ranch;" therefore the ¢ dren carried dogs. The Junior Red Cross passed out fruit and presents. The colonists laughed and had a great time. NORTH STA:{ LEAVES 23D The North Star, Bureau of Indian Affairs ship, is scheduled to leave Seattle next Thursday with a full cargo, going directly to Seward, ac- cording to the Alaska Rural Re- habilitation Corporation officials here. The vessel is taking lumber and equipment to the Matanuska project. The transport St. Mihiel got away Saturday from Seattle with families for the colonization pro- ject. Both ships are going direct to Seward and will not come to Ju- neau, Corporation officials said. e ,——— HAUSER, POLISH FLIER, KILLED IN STUNT TRI Noted Pilot, Who Was to Attempt Atlantic Flight, Burned to Death DETROIT, Mich., May 20.—Stan- ley Hauser, Polish-American trans- Atlantic flier, was killed when his plane, in which he planned a non- stop flight to Poland, crashed and burned on a warehouse. The crash came when he was bor; it will take it 10§ men to | profit will be about $9,800 a day. “We will feed the cats on rats land will start & rat ranch adjoin- ing the cat ranch. The rats will | multiply feur times as fast as the |cats, and if we start with 100,000 |rats we will have four rats a day |for each cat, which is plenty. “We will feed the cats on rats |and in turn will feed the rats on | the stripped carcasses of the cats, thus giving each rat one-fourth of |a cat, which is plenty. | “It will be seen by these figures hat the business will be auto- matic and self-sustaining. The cats will eat the rats, the rats will eat | the cats, and we will get the skins.” The letter then explained it would |Be selfish to keep all of *such a |good thing” in Chicago and com- |mon and preferred stock was being offered for sale over a wide area. A closing wedge to the argument was that as a by-product, we “have a contract with a fiddler’s union to | take all the cat gut.” ————— TRAINS AGAIN * OPERATING ON CR&NWAR. |Ore Will Be Transported— Kennecott Mine to | Be Opened CORDOVA, Alaska, May 20.— | The first through train to Chitina in more than six months over the |t 1 stunting over a church where me- morial services were being held for Marshal Pilsudski. 1 Hauser will be remembered as the flier who was rescued from his Copper River and Northwestern Railway, left today. This is the first time since 1932 the railroad will be used as an ore carrier. Officials of the Kennecott mine plane which was adrift on the At- lantic in 1932, when his projected New York to Warsaw flight failed. For one week Hauser clung to his said the mine will be opened and operated on limited production re- !quiring only a small part of the original crew. Sunday 87,000 other families in he county were in need of relief orders tefore the State Legislature meets Tuesday to renew action on a bill to increase the sales tax from two to three percent. The increase is necessary to supply $3,000,000 monthly which Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins says must be paid by the state before the federal jgovernment would -again include Illinois in relief appropriations. In other counties relief clients were subsisting on local funds or provisions supplied by charitable or- ganizations. The Governor appealed for pub- lic support for his program for in- creasing the sales tax and thereby obtaining money for reopening re- lief stations. THOUSANDS AT CANONIZATION VATICAN CITY, Italy, May 20— In his sermon yesterday, when 50,- 000 attended the Canonization, Pope Pius besought the return of England to the Roman Catholic Church. Two Britons, 8ir Thomas Moore and Bishop John Fisher, were exe- cuted 400 years ago by the order of | Henry the Eighth, for opposing his marriage to Anna Boleyn. They were made Saints. Pope Pius' geremony yesterday was a gorgeous one in St. Peters. |Special seats were given several thousand pilgrims here for the cere- imony. Many British Bishops and former King Alfonso of Spain and his family were present. Spectacular Fire Occurs at Seattle SEATTLE, May 20.—Incendiaries are blamed by the sheriff for the fire which destroyed the abandon- ed woolen mills at Kirkland. Thou- sands on the shores along Lake 1 wrecked ship before he was sight-" Officials warn against any influx | Washington and other points gath- ed and rescued, exhausted but un- of men expecting to find jobs as|ered to watch the spectacular night injured. | the local labor supply is ample. blaze. [ 1' WASHINGTON, May 20.—Demo- | cratic * Congressional leaders have set early July as the tentative ad- journment goal but agreed the NRA, | the bonus and other issues held the | key to the vacation door. | Senate advocates of a shorter |life for the Blue Eagle are threat- |ening to hold out to the bitter end against the Administration-favored | | two-year extension. House legisla- | | tive pilots confessed this is but one | of the argumentative struggles that may push adjournment farther m-} to the summer. On top of that was | the omihous warning of inflation- | lary bonus advocates who say they will attempt to tack the Patman bill | onto almost every other measure receiving consideration should Con- gress sustain the President's veto.| This, in itself, would consume plen- ty of time. As for other legislation with each | house still having to pass three of | the President’s preferred minimum | of five bills, Democratic chiefs said there would be abundance of debate. | In the end they predicted the ad-| ministration would have its way| ‘with perhaps slight compromise here and there. | MISSING GIRL IS FOUND DEAD NEW 'YORK, May 20— Eight- year-old Shirley Evans, missing Texas, Oklahoma | mining machinery, was worth DALLAS, Texas, May 20.—A path of death and destruction has been left by the floods and tornadoes which swept across Texas and Ok-, lahoma over the weck-end. Thirteen persons are known dead, | several are missing and scores have | been injured. | 1, Flood and storm damage is al-| ready estimated at over two million | dollars. FRANK BENDER IS FOUND DEAD AT ANCHORAGE Cashier, Freight Office of Alaska R. R., Sends ey ’ Bullet Into Brain | CKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., MHY‘ ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 20.— 20.—Three hundred families have Frank Bender, cashier at the freight been ordered from their homes as office of the Alaska Railroad, was 4 16-foot wall of water has been found dead in & sitting position in reported sweeping toward the city.| a car in the suburbs, a bullet in his The families, expected to reach head and a pistel in his right hand. here late this afternoon, will be 1t is believed business worries caus- cared for by the city. o Him 4o SR ibla:iite. The storms of Priday and Satur- Bender leaves a widow but no day have turned the nation's dust children. He was formerly a purser POWl in the south into a mud sec- on Alaska coast ships. tion. Creeks, dry for months, over- AGAINST F. D. R “SAYS SINCLAR Opposi‘tfdn fild Not Pre- '-'vén}'-‘jNohination Though, | League Leader Believes League’s Council | Settles Down to Intense Activity GENEVA, May 20.—The Italo- Ethicpian dispute and projects | for bringing Germany into the European peace system domi- nated the League of Nations' circles here today as the Council met fer what appears certain to be a period cf intense activity. .o | { | i from. her home since last Friday LOS' ANGELES, May 20—Unless night, has been found dead a short| pregident Roosevelt puts forth a na- distance from her home. The body | tional program of production for was in a building buried under four | yse the End Poverty in California feet of earth. It has not been de-|reague will enter a presidential cied whether the little girl was slain | candidate against him in the 1936 " Xllled L0 30 caph slids: primaries in all states of the un- | ion, Upton Sinclair told a state con- AMERCAN IS UNDER ARREST as much more. The first news of the ves- sel’s fllight was picked up by the Signal Corps station at Ketchikan, and also at Ju- neau in an SOS at 3:13 o'clock Sunday morning. In less than an hour the Cyane was speeding out from Ket- chikan, through heavy weath- er and a thick fog, to the scene of the disfressed steam- er. : t 5:05 o'clock radio reports said the vessel was listing and the seas were pounding savagely. Two life- boats were lowered from the Denali, taking the passengers and stow- aways, all reported to be cannery workers, and some of the crew ashore. Remain Aboard Capt. T. E. Healy and Frank | Hoseth, radio operator, and other officers remained aboard. At 6:15 o'clock the radio went dead. Two hours later the Cyane ap- |peared. The Denali began to buckle |and three officers were taken. off. Capt. Healy, Chief Mate' /W. E. Clesby and Third Mate J, dLaw- ton were left aboard. Hope Abagdoned Having picked up ‘the’ survivors in lifeboats and towing them ashore, the,Cyane returned to the Denali ang stood.by until Sunday focn when all hope' for ‘the strand- d ¢hip was given up and the three officers remaining aboard were tak- en off by the Cyane. At 2:44 o'clock,. the Denali began listing heavily in the wind and the seas increased. Fire broke cut two h later and finally the Denali broke in two and part of the hull slipped into the deep water rs 1 2 = | vention of Epic followers here. Sin- w'“‘e RIVCI’ Dalry | clair said the President told him Is Damaged by Bomb iast september he would come out | for production for use by October SEATTLE, May 20—A dynamite of 1934, “but he did not for some MUNICH Charles Niffelbe naturalized Ame sted by i|lakatla on Annette Island, her bomb hurled on the roof of the White River Dairy smashed two skylights, blasted a 2-foot hole in the roof and smashed the rear wall. The damage is estimated at $200. The Japanese manager said he knew no motive for the hombing. charged with ities,” and smug v The police asserted he is suspect- of Being in touch with agents of povement in the aticnal Socialist Par reason.” Sinclair said he did not believe EPIC oppesition could prevent nom- | ination of Roosevelt and that in the end EPIC forces would get be- | hind the President and defeat the “Fascist Republican party.” opposition te i ! of the Pacific. The Denali was off the usual oute and was headed toward Met- rst of call, when she struck in heavy sea and fog Road Equipment Aboard Scme $35,000 worth of equipment or the Alaska Rcad Commission was aboard the freighter Denali (Continuea on Page Two) =