The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 31, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA VOL. XLVL, NO. 6976. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1935. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS NRA DECISION FAR REACHING, MANY ISSUES President Roosevelt Ac- cepts Ruling of High- est Court in Land GREAT QUESTION HAS BEEN RAISED Legality of Commissions Other Objective Laws Arises W ASHINGTON, May 31— President Roosevelt has accept- ed the NRA decision of the Supreme Ccurt as a focusing irsue on whether the Federal Gevernment or States shall have contrcl over the national social and economical condi- tions. The decicion has raised the question as to whether AAA and the Sccurities Commission weve legal and whether it meant an end to the Federal Alcehol Centro! Administration 28 now constituted. | The President did not elabor- ‘e bul apparently was express- ing the possibilities on cther law: tc reach New Deal cb- jectives, laws that would be up- held. The President described the ruling as perhaps the most im- portant in the histery of the naticn. Gravity of the situation wac expressed in his voice. - | Federal agents Theesteed Family and SuspectT NHA F(]R[}Es ARE1 (AGAIN SPLIT AS| 22.year-old Bridgeport, ight Gl il boy, on charge of extortion butcher threatening letters sent prominent residents including Charles Shipman Payson shown with wife and two of four children, millions of late Payne Whitnev. CIVIL SERVICE REFORMER DIES AT AGE OF 86 |William Dudley Foulke,! | Lawyer.and Author Pass- es Away in Indiana arrested Peter Smindak |To Make Hop of 13.600 Miles Conn., through heirs to {Giant Clipper ALAMEDA, Cal, May 31— The Oakand Tribune says the giant clipper which successfully | negetiated the round trip to the Hawailan Iclands last month, leaves Alameda next Monday cn a flight tc the Mid- way Icdlands, a 3,600 mile trip cver-the Pacific Ocean. BV A S ACTION PLANNED| Hostility Between Johnson and Richberg Once More in Evidence DENIALS SENT OUT FROM WHITE HOUSE Conferences Held to De- termine Future Plans for Recovery Program WASHINGTON, May 31— The long-standing hostility between Gen. Hugh S. Johnson and Donald R. Richberg, is again in evidence as the Administration seeks, in a se- ries of conferences, to determine what to do about NRA. Richberg is known to be displeas- ed at the manner in which Johnson has reentered the NRA picture aft- er the Supreme Court’s invalida- tion of the code structure. Richberg has also heard with dis- satisfaction the early reports and later disclaimed twice by the White House that Johnson has been sum- moned to take a leading role in preparing the new NRA. Some of the present members of the NRA Board expressed the view that an undue amount of their time has been spent in attempting to rectify what they termed Johnson's mistakes. Johnson has criticized, although not mentioning Richberg by name, 3 & MINNESOTA PIONEERS SETTLE IN ALASKA Some 274 men, women and children from Minnesota landed in Alaska to homestead the Matanuska valley. Some of the pioneers are shown debarking at Sewatd and at the right they are boarding a train from the seaport town to Matanuska, 150 miles inland. A group of CGC workers built a temporary fown of tents, some of which are shown at lower left, for the pioneers. During the trip north from San Francisco aboard the St. Mihiel fire drill was held .egulariy and Vivian, Violet aud Margaret Poore (lower right) were assisted by relatives in gettina into their life preservers. (Associated Press Photos) the NRA case as presented before the court by the govermment. Richberg argued the case in per- son. Johnson said it was a poor case RICHMOND, Ind, May 31—Wil-| to take to court and the “true LManeuvering'by Right WiIng ‘LUfiBERSTmKE PRICE TEN CENTS GANG SUSPECT SOUGHT, KIDNAP CASE ASSOCIATE OF MOB LEADERS BEING HUNTED Authorities Have New Angle in Weyerhaeuser Abduction, Tacoma FEDERAL AGENTS NOW ENTER CASE Lindbergh Law Applies— Boy Either Dead or Spir- ited Out of State BULLETIN — TACOMA, May 31 An unnamed boarding house woman named Volney Davis as the man who lived at her place some last year and he relurned Saturday mcining and borrowed her car fcr a few moments. TACOMA, Wash, zlay 31—Ed Bentz, aged 40, one-time associate °f Albert Bates and Machine Gun Kelly, is revealed to be the newest suspect in the kidnaping of nine- year-old George Weyerhaeuser. This was indicated when a Fed- eral agent remarked: “We would like to talk to Bentz." Even before the agent dropped the remark it was known that local authorities theorized over Bentz's probable connection with the kid- nap here. Some believe Bentz, last of the Bates gang, teamed with the vemnants of the Karpis mob to stage the local l-bduqltpn. " Lindbergn naw: 1.4 ¢4 With thé Lindbergh law's séven days of grace expiring at :con to- . MAY ATTEMPT REWRITING OF day, Justice Agents are prepared step directly into the case and sct. The agents ‘said under the law, George is presumed to have been slain or taken across the State lines. . If he is still unre- lMam Dudley Foulke, lawyer and au- thor, Civil Service Reform advo- cate, is dead here at the age of 86. Beginning a long and busy career as a lawyer, William Dudley Foulke devoted the latter years of his life Seen as Attempt toEnlist GOVERNMENT OF All Conservatives for 1936 FRANGE OUSTED; philosophy of NRA was not put be-| fore the Supreme bench.” FIRST GERMAN 1S NEARING END ~ IN SOME AREAS By BYRON PRICE CONSTITUTION Group of House Members Peeved at NRA De- cision, High Court F i ‘WASHINGTON, May 31—A group of House members are said to be| preparing to assemble immediately | and canvass the possibility of hold- ing a conventior to rewrite the| Constitution. | Representative Maury Maverick | of Texas, is planning to carry the | issue to the nation in a radio ad-" dress. He said Congressman Kent E. ! Keller, of Tllinois, is the present! chairman of the group, and he wfll{ call a meeting within the next few days. Maverick said: “Legislation can't g0 on . forever being thwarted by the Supreme Court. The question is —are we going to go about it in an orderly way to obtain proper chang- es in government to insure our hav- ing a decent country to live in?” Maverick also said the court ought to' be deprived of the power to invalidate acts of Congress or some system be established whereby any act held to be unconstitutional would become constitutional if re- passed by Congress. —— MAN'S BODY IS to writing. In between he interested himself in a variety of activities, having teen a reformer, educator and edi- ABEOCATED PRESE WILC)IAM-OLEOULKE tor. He also took a fling in politics. As a young lawyer, Mr. Foulke went from New York to Richmond, Ind, in 1876 and there became so- licitor for a railroad company. He soon won recognition in Wayne County and in 1880 as a Republican candidate was elected to the Indi- ana State Senate . C. S. Reform He refused to support James G. Blaine for the presidency and with the end of his four-year term he \fetired from politics. About that time he became interested in the IDENTIFIED BY PERSONAL DIARY William Cleaver, Despond-| ent, Goes to Death in Elliott Bay SEATTLE, May 31— Identified from'a diary, the body of the man found floating in Elliott Bay, is that of William Cleaver, Route 1, Port Orchard. i A diary entry on Wednesday, May 22, said he came to Seattle with $11 “and will try to get work. Will make money last five or six days.” Another entry on the following Saturday was: “Things hopeless for me. It is just a well' for myself. Wish my son had work so he will not do something desperate.” The body had been in the water about- two days. 1 reform of civil service and organ- ized the Indiana Civil Service Re- form Association, of which he be- came president. During 1889 and 1890 Mr. Foulke conducted on behalf of tne National i Civil ‘Service Reform League a se- ries of investigations into the con- diticn of the federal civil service and the operation of the reform law. Congressional patronage, ad- ministration of the patent office and census bureau, political chang- es in the postoffice department and removal of officeholders on alleged seeret charges were gone into in detail. Some severe strictures were made against the administration of President Benjamin Harrison. g On U. S. Board His interest in civil service con- tinued and in 1901 was named a member of the United States Civil Service Commission, serving two years. Other ‘organizations with which Mr. Foulke was actively connected ‘(Conlinued on Tage TWo,) PREMIER LOSES | | | | Flandin Denied Dictatorial Powers to Defend Franc —Crisis Threatened PARIS, May 31.—(Copyright by Associated Press, 1935)— Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin has been overthrown because of his demands for dictatorial powers to defend the franc. Bernard Bouisson, Presiding Offi- cer of the Chamber’ of Deputies, is attemptinz to form a new govern- ment. Flandin's government was defeat- ed by a vote of 353 to 202. Flandin declared devaluation of the franc is inevitable unless his successor is granted powers the Chamber of Deputies denied him. Meanwhile the government sought to stem the flood of gold from the Bank of France and launched police action against speculators. Several banks were searched and many doc- uments seized as officials routed the bank managers from their homes for questioning in the drive against speculators. The names of the banks are withheld. MAY CALL HERRIOT PARIS, May 31~—~With Bouisson unable to form a Cabinet, politi- cians said Edouard Herriot probab- ly will be called upon again to serve as Premier. PILOT AND MRS. JERRY JONES ARE PARENTS OF INFANT DAUGHTER There was great excitement in Pacific Alaska Airways circles in Juneau yesterday when radio word was received from Jerry Jones, well known pilot with the com- pany, that he is the proud father >f a baby girl born in Chula Vista, California, on May 29. Pilot Jcnes reported both Mrs. Jones and their daughter as doing well. Jones, who is pilot on the PAA ichedule to Nome, arrived here on -he Electra from Fairbanks two weeks ago and continued south by steamer to be .in Chula Vista in time for the big event. This is Mr. ind Mrs. Jones' first child and company officials are wagering that she will follow her father's foot- steps and become a noted flier in a few more years, PEAGE PLAN IS |Proposals Secret but Bri- | tain Understood to Insist { Armament Agreement | LONDON, May 381.—Adolf Hitler ihns offered Europe a draft of the |“air Locarno,” first specific Ger- | man proposal of peace bulwarks on |the Continent. The copies of the draft were sent simultaneously to Britain, France, Ttaly and Belgium, the four governments with which - GIVEN EUROPE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated | Press, Washington) Noise-making among the political radicals has been so deafening late- | ly that the real significance of cer-| tain maneuvering among the con- FORCES GOING | The object of these right-wing | operations, is, of course, to find a |way in which those conservatives of all parties who regard the Roose- | velt policies as fantastic, un-Amer- ican and doomed to failure, can be welded into one voting unit in 1936. Broadly, three possible courses MORE ITALIAN éAdditional Mobilization Is }' Announced, Official Communique ROME, May 31—An official com-| munique announces greater addi-|have been proposed: tional mobilization of troops for| 1. Revival of the Republican service in East Africa including one | Party, under conservative auspices, | Army Division and two Fascist and nomination for President of |Black Shirt Divisions eventually. |some Republican with sufficient ap- | Plans now made bring the total of Ttalian forces in East Africa to| |more than 250,000 men. Germany signed the original LOA} carno pact. The British studied the proposals which were kept secret, but it was believed Britain would insist, with the signature of the air conven- tion, that Germany join some gen- eral armaments and security agree- STOCK PRICES g e o i INSETTLED BY FLOOD WATERS SELLING WAVE ROAR; COLORADO sz gy e SECTION SWEPT oo b o™ b S5 | NEW YORK, May 31—After dis-| lplaylng a steady to firm tone | throughout most of the session,| stocks were unsettled by a late sell- | {ing wave that followed comments| |attributed to the President on the| NRA court ruling | Today’s close was heavy. CLOSING PRIC | NEW YORK, May 31— Closlngi Hundreds are homeless in the quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| flood areas. |stock today is 17%, American Can| Froperty damage has already run 122, American Power and Light 3%, into the hundreds of thousands of | Anaconda 14%, ArmourN 3%, Beth- dollars, |lenem Steel 25, Butte Copper and| The flood is the most disastrous|Zinc no sale, Calumet and Hecla| in 15 years in this harrassed are 3%, General Motors 30%, Interna-| Homes have been swept aw tional Harvester 38, Kennecott bridges are gone, communication 17%, United States Steel 31% and power lines are down and Found $4947%, Bremner bid 67 ask- fransportation paralyzed. |ed 69, Nabesna bid 55, Black Pine — e Silver bid 36 asked 38. TO WORK IN MI | e | BANFIELD TO SITKA To be employed by the Chichago! Mining Company at Chichagol,| Norman C. Banfield, associated Nick Bouketta, Tony Marusa and|with Attorney H. L. Faulkner, is H. Karavela left Juneau on the travelling to Sitka on the Este- Estebeth. lbcth from Juneau. Homes Are Destroyed— Nearly Score of Persons Dead or Missing COLORADO SPRINGS, Col., Mas | 31.—Flood waters still roared down the steep mountain canyons aft ‘eaving dead and missing at 23 | Republican Independents. peal to induce Conservative Demo- crats to leave their party. 2. Nomination of a Conservative Democrat with a large Democratic following, such as Alfred E. Smith, on the Republican ticket. 3. Abandonment, of the Republi- can party entirely, and nomination of an outstanding Democrat on a “conservative Democratic” or ‘“‘con- servative independent” ticket. Rehabilitation Favored Of these three alternatives, only the first-named would be thorough- ly orthodox, and conservatives are inclined by nature to be orthodox Unquestionably at this moment the proposal to rehabilitate the Re- publican party is far more in favor than either of the other two. But the difficulties of that are many, and may easily become more and more obvious as time goes on One complication 4s that an out- and-out Republican right-wing campaign could be counted on 1o alienate still further the western | Another is that it might fall also to attract many Democrats. The party tie is pretty strong among the| Democratic old-liners who make up the conservative wing. Besides it is not easy to induce voters to! leave a party when it is in power, after years of lean waiting. A third problem is to find the| candidate who fulfills the specifica- |tions as set forth in the plan Smith Nomination Talked The proposal to nominate a Dem- | ocrat on the Republican ticket| seems not to have got very far | {among the politicians, although it has been much-discussed the business men. A movement to obtain the G. O.| P. nomination for former Governor Smith is definitely afoot, backed by among | (Continued on P’agc Three) Five Thousand Mer) Ex- pected to Return to Work Next Monday FORTLAND, Ore, May 31.—The strike in the lumber industry ap- peared today as heaced for a speedy denouement with prepara- tions under way for at least 5,000 workers returning to work next Monday. ‘Three major lumber companies and many smaller ones have come to terms with the men and it is believed other operators must fol- low suit quickly or lose out on. the present rush to catch up with the demands for lumber or even lose permanent business. The Puget Sound area, Portland and the lower Columbia River dis- trict in Oregon, are the points re- maining under the grip of the strike FOREST SERVICE T0 GET CUT OF RELIEF FUNDS Certain Portion, Not Yet Announced, to Be Ex- pended in Alaska WASHINGTON, May 31—Plan to 'nd $156,000,000 of the work re- lief’ money in the nation’s forests and on wind swept planes where shelter belts of trees are contem- lated was put forward today by the Forest Service of the Agricul- ture Department. The work is pro- posed to be done in 47 states. Alatka and Rhode Island are not included but Ferest Service funds will be used there. No details of the plans have been announced. Local Forest Service officials have fved no definite word as yet how tne program will be carried {out in the Territory. - .- Z. M. BRADFORD'S FATHER PASSES AWAY IN OREGON George A, Bradford, age 88 years, father of Z. M. Bradford, former well known ' resident of Juneau, ncw at Wrangell, died recently at Portland. He had been ill for some time previous to his deatn. turned after seven days, the kid- napers then’ face the gallows or life imprisonment. Up until the seven days had expired the Federal agents were interested in the case only through the mail fraud act. Bentz was last known to have been in Tacoma. (wo years ago. living with Bates and Kelly at Steilacoom Lake. The three were questioned then but were not held and immediately disappeared. NEW REPORTS TACOMA, Wash, May 31— “Baby Face” Nelson's gang has entered into the abduction as well as the Karpis gang. John Paul Chase, Nelson's partner, is report- ed being questioned at Alcatras Island Prison in connection with the case but the San Francisco police have not given out any in- formation as to what was learned. Student Gives Clew A University of Washington stu- dent, Prank Stojak, said he rode on a bus with a man last Friday who resembled Volney Davis, a Karpis gang lieutenant, who asked about Fox and Vashon islands in Puget Sound, as to the weather and population. The man, Stojak said, was reading a letter addressed to Volney Davis. Suppositions United States Attorney J. Charles Dennis said failure to return the boy after seven days presupposes he has been slain or taken across . the State lne, thus giving the; | Federal agents authority to act under the Lindbergh law. 14X Tiere is little activity around the | - Weyeraeuser home. Mrs. Weyer-" haeuser. sifs. by a window, in the 4 un room, gazing over , Commences! { ment Bay. Once she bowed Her! head in her hands like somebody crying. .- — 30000 DIE EARTHOUAKE LONDON, May 31.—A correspon- dent of the Exchange Telegraph Agency at Karachi, India, said un- confirmed reports coming through timated the quake death at Quet- a at 30,000 alone, Two thirds of the population has been wiped out. FLIERS KILLED QUETTA, India, May 31.—Forty- three attaches of the military air-o. drome, including one of the best- mown pilots, have been killed l &2 quake here, W