The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 29, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. L, NO. 7523. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1937. 'MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BOMB TERRORISM CHARGED, CI0 AGENT FIEND HUNTED FOR SLAYING 3 LITTLE GIRLS Bodies, Bru—i;e;, Found by Boy Scouts in Gulch— Search for Assailant INGLEWOOD, Cal, June 29. — The garroted and bruised bodies of three little girls were found in a gulch yesterday and what the au- thorities considered was a substan- tial lead evaporated leaving them up a blind alley in search of the fiend who attacked and killed Mel- ba Marie Everett, aged 9; her sister Madeline Everett, aged 7 and Jean- ette Majorie Stephanie, aged 8. Othello Leroy Strong, tie mill worker, who was ordered detained under suspicion, has been absolved of any connection in the crime, said Sheriff L. C. Huntamer. The little girls were missed last Saturday from e playground. Word spread around that the girls were missing and hundreds of aroused citizens took up the search. The Boy Scouts found the bodies of the three girls. The police this morning stated there is a possibikty the killer is still in Southern California. The police reported that a butler in the fashionably Belair district, ten miles from here and a few miles from the scene of the crime, said a young man, seemingly desperate, with his| clothing bloodstained, came to the house last night and attempted to sell him an auto for $10. The butler went into the house, ostensibly to get the money, but instead tele- phoned for the police. When the butler came out, the man was gone. FERRY STRIKE ENDED; RATES UP, PROTESTS Investigation to Be Started —State Control to Be Advocated ! SEATTLE, June 29.—An investi-| ation of ferry boat rates will start immediately, Public Service Schaaf ‘Great Chance Awaits Grad- QUEENS IN A COACH. Two English 2 are Que‘;n Elizabeth, Queen Mother Mary and the Royal Princess garet ueens and a queen-to-be rode in this coach after watching a militar, Rose has her back to the camera. They were en route to Buckingham Palace. ceremony. They Elizabeth. Little Princess Mar- Planned Nation S;)un(is — Swell But It Might Be Killing Profit System FEDERAL JOBS SCADS OF THEM, ARE OPEN SOON The ideal of “planned econ- omy” lies behind much of the New Deal program. What does planned economy mean? What are the problems connected with it? Preston Grover, Washing- l ton columnish for The Empire, | explains in a series of three ar- I ticles, the first of which follows. By PRESTON GROVER i WASHINGTON, Junie 2. — This uates for Remaking of Nation By PRESTON GROVER 'already are envisaged, the public WASHINGTON, June 29.—Thou- should be shown the problems in- sands of bright-eyed graduates are volved—and the changes entailed. being cut loose from the colleges A planned economy is held up as these days to go out and remake a national program with clearly de- the nation, and they might just as fined objectives, in contrast to hap- well know there are vastly greater hazard progress in response to econ- opportunities now for first hand omic and social pressure groups. remaking than ever before. (That way it sounds fine and whole- Never in the nation's history, ex- some and everybody is for it. But; cept for the World War period, getting it is a frog in another were s0 many jobs open in the field. parlor. Social security has just started! Under a planned economy, the, said today in view of the numerous complaints received from Puget, Sound areas. These complaints are pouring in by letter, long distance ‘and the Wagner Labor Act recently production of industry would be upheld by the Supreme Court has- governed by a plan instead of be- n't really hit its stride yet in op- ing left wholly to the influence of| ening jobs. TVA is helping re- prices and markets. telephone and day messages. |make the south, but the new Norris| The operators were empowered to bill, likely to be enacted in some raise rates only 10 percent in view form next session, will remake six of the wage increase to the ferry- other sections in similar fashion. | men. The operators and workmen| Enactment of the wage-hour bill accepted the proposals of Gov. (when and if) should create scads Clarence D. Martin and ferry ser- of jobs, for the Federal Government vice has been resumed after weeks must keep its eyes open when it be-' of tie-up. 'gins imposing wage and hour con-' Kitsap County Prosecutor Ralph 'ditions on private industry. And' Puvis said he will ask the Governor Federal eyes come high—$2,000 to to call a special session to enable $10,000 an eye per year, depending the state to take over ferry opera-'on how much the eye is expected tions. |to see. l ————e NRA, AAA and the Guffey Coal Act included fragments of the ma-. chinery of a planned industry. The| wage-hour and Joseph-plan farm bill carry additional. They do not | go the whole way, by any means.| SETQUOTAS ! Under a fully planned production system, each industry's output would be set by a national planning | board. There are hundreds of industries, thousands of factries. To make cer- LEGAL BATTLE OVER SLAYER NOW STARTING Question of Insanity of Robert Irwin Enters Into Triple Murder Case NEW YORK, June 29. — Strange |acting Robert Irwin marked time |in the gloomy historic Tombs prison | today while legal forces opened a |6OLD STANDARD TOSSED OVER BY FRENCH NATION B Premict Camille Chav- temps Given Vote of Confidence in Crisis serted the Gold Standard to save the. franc and the new People's Front Government is struggling seeking aid from the United States and England to stem the flight of gold from France. Premier Camille Chautemps’ Gov- ernment today won a vote of confi- dence in the Chamber of Deputies by 393 to 142. The vote was on the demand of the Premier that he be granted sweeping financial powers |to reestablish France's fiscal struc- ture on a sound basis, restore the country's confidence in itself by ending speculation and abuses of conserving the gold reserves, bal- ance the Budget and watch over prices, thus reviving national econ- {omy. MR SRl W. R. MALONEY * PASSES AWAY |Former Territorial Mine In- spector Dies in San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., June 29. —Funeral services will be held here tomorrow for William R. Maloney, |former Mines Inspector in Alaska. bitter fight over the question of his sanity. | cutioners, is studying all angles of | the case of the man arrested in Chi- | cago Sunday and , flown here,“ charged with the triple slaying of Vernica Gedeon, artists’ model; her| mother and a man roomer in the| Gedeon apartments, IS INDICTED NEW YORK, June 29—Scarcely | ten minutes after Mrs. Ethel Kud- ner completed her story of the mad| impulse that led Robert Irwin to| kill her mother, her sister and a, lodger, an Eastern New York county | grand jury handed up three indict-| ments charging the eccentric sculp- tor with first degree murder. Irwin, stroking his nose and grin- | ning broadly, was brought in for| arraignment but his attorney, Sam- | uel Leibowitz, said: “In my opinion the man is crazy. Before any plea is entered, I would like twenty-four| hours relay.” Judge Allen granted| the plea. 3 | Mrs. Kudner was the object of| Irwin’s murderous desire, but she| failed to come home on the night| the other three were killed. INVASION CASE WORRIES JAPAN Islands in Amur River Are! Being Occupied by | Russians TOKYO, June 29.—The Japanese Government has invoked the mutual | assistance pact between Japan und! Manchoukuo and served a vigorous | protest on the Soviet Government against the alleged invasion of the| Sennufa and Boloshoi Islands in the| Amur River. | The Japanese Military High Com- mand took a grave view of the situ- ation and said the islands belong to Manchoukuo and has demanded that the Russians evacuate them immediately. Alaska Stowaways Arrested fl Seattle SEATTLE, June 29.—Two stow- aways from Alaska were jailed here after being taken from the steamer Baranof when she arrived in port. They were booked at police head- quarters as Glenn Mills, 27, a labor- er, and Harry Lamson, 22, a carpen- ter. lawaits you. The pay is lower as a'as under the present unregulated| GROWING INDUSTRY There are hazards in Federal em- quate jobs, quotas apparently would loyment, but then insurance com- have to be assigned to each industry panies and banks can fire you, too. and to each factory. Prices in turn the principal difference being they Would be set at a level to insure can not let you have it any “me_“demsnd for all the production. llk instead of every two or four years. the board could accurately arrive at It is always smart to get in with'such a goal, the plan likely would; a growing industry, and no indus- Work. try except airplane making is grow-. ing faster than the Federal Govern- DIFFICULTIES ment. The pay isn't so hot over al But how could it? Could it con- period of years but the chances are tro] demand, or even predict it?| you will get to the “own-a-car” Changes in weather, in styles, in stage on a Federal job long before public moods, and scores of other you would as a clerk in your un- factors cause demand to fluctuate. cle’s hardware store. {Yet if planned production is to If you are the rabbit type and work, factories must produce ac- don't like the hazards of the elec-'cording to schedule, else a spiraling tion turnover, the Civil Service 'cycle of unemployment results, just| | rule (although the top brackets system. hold jobs at $6,000 and up), and| To preserve harmony in a planned ['goveming board would have to be‘ lin control. Socialists say the profit Sheep Butu wou of such centralized authority. And' from Door, Kills It many economists agree with them. | sheep turned the tables at the Wal-| production by managing wages | and costs?) ter Vorhies farm—it killed a wolf. | left motherless and raised it on a bottle. ARMARILLO, Tex.—Col. W. S. fell through a hole in the floor into williams, 68, for 20 years an auc- gry buck sheep butted it to death pile 345,000 miles before retiring re- against a wooden gate. Vorhies col- cently, and “never had a serious] (Continued on Page Three) production, undoubtedly a central ,system could not survive in the face| CRESTON, Ia., June 29, — The| (Tomorrow: Why not regulate Vorhies had adopted a wolf cub . % Cautious with Car Romping in the haymow, the cub| a sheep pen beneath, where an an- tioneer, says he drove his automo- lected bounty on the pelt. accident. |tain of exactly the right production)| MILDRED APLAND !to fill all needs and provide ade- BACK IN JUNEAU AFTER VACATION Among vacationers returning north aboard the Yukon this morn- ing was Miss Mildred Apland, sis- ter of Mrs. W. W. Council, who ar- rived back in Juneau this morning following a month’s stay in Seattle. Miss Apland, who has been in Ju- neau for over a year, visited with her brother, Donald, in Seattle. - PRSIt T T ' STOCK QUOTATIONS | | Pilodat okt ol L L et NEW YORK, June 29. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 11%, American Can | 92, American Light and Power 7%, Anaconda 50%, Bethlehem Steel 81%, Commonwealth and Southern 2%, General Motors 48%, Interna- tional Harvester 105%, Kennecott 55%, New York Central 34%, South- ern Pacific 41%, United States Steel 96%, Cities Service 2%, Pound $4.93%, Republic Steel 34%, Pure Oil 17%, Holly Sugar 30, U. S. Treas- ury Bonds 2%s 97.21, Atchison Gen- eral 4s 109%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow,| Jones averages: industrials 167.11, | rails 50.55, utilities 25.56. ———,—— The treasury will use 1,016 tons| of paper in printing the nntiun'si ‘currency during the 1938 fiscal year. He died Sunday after being in ill- (heatn for a year. He began his country has taken several tenta-| Irwin's attorney, the famous Sam- /mining career in the north in 1800 der, quite determined, quite charm- tive steps in the direction of alye] Liebowitz, who has saved 123 and was appointed Territorial Mine ing—thoughtful !planned economy, and before it|clients from the death penalty and |Inspector during the Wilson Ad- She's the reigning beauty of the takes further steps, some of Whlch‘never lost a defendant to the exe- Ministration. — e — — Nerth Pacific Halibut Act Is Signed by FOR WASHINGTON, June 29.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has signed the Nor- thern Pacific Halibut Act of 1937 putting in effect the convention with Canada which also was signed this year. The convention is for the purpose of proteoting the North Pacific and Bering Sea fisheries. It re- !striccs halibut fishing in the United, States Territorial waters to Amer- ican citizens and gives Canadians the exclusive rights to Canadian waters. Senator Schwellenbach said it is planned to draft legislation simi- larly to protect the Northern Pa- cific salmon fisheries. e —— HISTORIC SPOT IS FIRE SWEPT SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., June 29. —A spectacular fire swept through the historic Mission Dock ware- house, relic of the old sailing ship days. Flames were visible for miles around, The warehouse had not been used for years. e eee RELIEF BILL UPTOF.D.R. WASHINGTON, June 29. — The billion and a half dollar relief bill has been sent to the White House for approval after Congres- sional action was adopted by ac- cepting a settlement of differences between the House and Senate in which various amounts were- allo- cated. Judges in Alaska To Have Terms Of Ten Years WASHINGTON, June 29. — The Senate has passed and sent to the House the bill extending from four to ten years, the terms of United States District Judges for Alaska. PARIS, June 29—France has de- | with the crisis and is reported to be | U. S. koyal Romance s ETHEL DU PONT AND FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, JR. They'll Be Mister And Missus Tomorrow BULLETIN — Wilmington, |where five generations of her family Del, June 29. — Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr, and KEthel du Pont have gone through with all preliminaries of their cere- mony tomorrow and {o the two She’s Ethel du Pont and she be-| young people it will be just a |oomes Mys, Franklin Delano Roose- | routine at the brief but solemn | o) 5, At the reception a little service. Guests are beginning ) per gnen stand in line with her to arrive by train snd motor, husband and her parents to smile /in a poised manner at the goodly section of the nation’s well-known ied. They're marrying after four years of knowing each other. He Comes to Dance By SIGRID ARNE AP Feature Service Writer WILMINGTON, June 20—He's| |quite tall, quite slender, quite de-| termined, quite charming — witty, |democratic and 22. He's the Presi- ‘dent’s son. She's a head shorter.” just as ster= happiness. She probably wore a less poised |three years ago that her guest list for @ dance included the name. of Franklin Roosevelt. The du Pont industrial empire is so large that the family easily qualified for the title “Economic Royalists,” the very group against which the boy's fath- | retiring and 21. {du Pont millions. | They're marrying here tomorrow jat 5 p. m. in the little stone church' HOLZHEIMER IS GIVEN APPROVAL BY U, S, SENATE District Attorney to Serve Another Four Years | OBSECTIONTO | ANGLO-FRANGO SPAIN PATROL Italy and Germany Protest| —European Coop- ACOfitlx;uéd on Paze’ V’Ir‘hrreer)" [ i | I} Joins Two “Alikes” people as they file past to wish her! smile the first time she mentioned,! in This Division | liam A. Holzheimer of Juneau, Al- 1aska, was confirmed by the U. S. Senate today for reappointment as District Attorney in the First Ju- dicial Division of Alaska for a term of four years. Holzheimer's name has recently been presented to the Senate by President Roosevelt. Judge Holzheimer will be serving his second term as District Attor- WASHINGTON, June 29.-—Wll-| eration Slumps LONDON, June 20—Italy and Germany have flatly rejected the British-Franco plan to patrol all of Spain's cost in the interest of neu- | trality. The decision left in suspense the possibility of maintaining Europ- |ean cooperation to isolate the Span- ish war. The decision brought a quick ad- journment to the sessions of the International Patrol Sub-Committee ney in this Division. He was for-|while Italian Ambassador Grandi merly a District Judge at Nome in|and German Ambassador von Rib- the Second Division and also prac-|benstrop talk again with Rome and ticed law in Juneau and Ketchikan|Berlin. for years. He is ome of the best| It is said here that both Germany known men in the Territory. and Ttaly feel that the Anglo- i aliie 00 0 4 IRE PFranco patrol will benefit the Span- ish Central Government. | DIES, NEW yopk ADVERTISING Educator Ousted by Mayor WASH. STATE of Chicago, After Charges OLYMPIA, Wash,, June 29.—The Made, Passes Away State Progress Commission has been | formed and is to spend $1,000,000 in advertising the state as an ideal re- gion for tourists and a state favor- | able for investment. — ., — Boy Is Drowned While Fishing MAMARONECK, New York, June 29.—William MecAndrew, 73, educa- tor, who was ousted as Superintend- ent of the Chicago public schools| in 1928 by Mayor Willlam Hale Thompson, as being “in the pay of died here last Great Braitain,” night. In West Alaska) He was made one of the principal i targets of Mayor Thompson's “ " DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska, June T‘;’"em_” i “mp"““:l' "h‘”",‘zs.-"nw Coast and Geodetic Sur- ompson was campaigning for .. .n, piscoverer reports that Mayor of Chicago in 1927. The candidate declared he would “kick that ‘stool pgeon’ of King George out of the schools.” Thompson was elected, and true to his declaration, Mr. McAndrew was ousted. Suspended—Charges |Jimmy Gardner, 15, son of Mr. and | |Mrs. John Gardner, of False Pass, |was drowned in Isanonki Strait, a {mile north of the False Pass can- |nery on June 22, when his skiff |overturned while fishing. The fu- |neral took place at False Pass on BRAINS OF BIG PLOT IS HUNTED BY AUTHORITIES Explosions Have Already Caused Heavy Damage, Also Thirteen Deaths WATER PIPE LINES ALSO BLASTED AWAY |Mediation in_S_leel Strike Reported Failure by Secretary Perkins BULLETIN — Johnstown, Pa., June 29. Mayor Daniel Sheilds, this afternoon, tele- graphed President Roosevelt that “the people in my city may take the law into their own hands unless the Lewis steel forces withdraw.” (By Associated Press) Gus Hall, CIO organizer, was charged at Warren, Ohio, today with being the brains of a plot to halt operations of the steel mills by bomb terrorism as explosions caused have been christened, wed and bur- |Vast damage and the death toll rose to thirteen. All available forces were thrown out in a hunt for Hall. The strike front erupted violence as dynamite blasted water pipe lines leading to the Cambria Works of the Bethelehem Steel Company at Johnstown, Pa. At Beaver Falls, Pa,, George Mile, 45, died of a fractured skull in a fight between pickets and deputy isheriffs. i Hall, at Warren, has been specifi- cally charged with illegal possession ‘of explosives. Three fellow union- ists, according to City Slicitor George Buchwalter, made _state- ments charging Hall with plotting systematic blastings, including .de- struction with high explosives. The three union men, 'Arthur Scott, John Boraweic, and George Bondas, are in jail under bond of $25,000. The explosions in Johnstown mean the closing for two weeks of the plants, throwing six thousand men out of work. Two hundred state police have closed every road lead- ing to the works. MAN-TO-MAN DISCUSSION WASHINGTON, June 29. — The Federal Mediation Board today told Becretary of Labor Perkins that “a man-to-man discussion around the conference table” would be neces- sary to break the steel strike dead- lock. MEDIATION FAILS WASHINGTON, June 29.—Secre- tary of Labor Perkins said today that the government’s efforts to mediate the steel strike had col~ lapsed. She added that she is study- ing the industrial dispute to deter- mine whether further mediatory steps are possible. She made her statement after a conference with Charles Taft, chairman of the board. STRIKE DEADLOCKED ‘WASHINGTON, June 29. — The thirty-four day old steel strike, which has cost 25,000,000 to date and has involved four steel corpora- tions, is still deadlocked with the CIO demanding signed contracts and the companies refusing to sign. At Johnstown dynamite blasted the strike wide open. Two vital pipe- lines were sundered. The pipelines fed water to the Bethlehem works. The blasts threatened tremendous damage and menaced thousands of Jobs. National Income Spinning Upward Business Activity Increas- ing and Prices Are Also Rising WASHINGTON, June 29. — Ad- ministration economists said the National income has been spinning upward since 1931 and totals about thirty-five billlon dollars for the first half of this year based on in- complete business statistics. This sum surpassed by five billion the same period last year. Increased business activity is not- ed everywhere and an important factor is that prices are also rising. R CAPT. EDWARDS HERE Capt. P. 8. Edwards, Signal Corps, United States Army, arrived in Ju- The Superintendsnt wes s"f’p"nd"Wednesdny of last week, soon after Ithe body was recovered. (Continued on Page” Two) neau aboard the Yukon and expects to be here for about ten days.