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* VOL XII NO 17
TAKOTNA ALA8KA SATEKDA Yl JUNE 12, 11*35!
PRICE 25 ChiX'm
7Bid She Know
t Of Big Crime?
k«hd in morrow home com
mits SUICIDE WHEN ABOUT
TO BE QUESTIONED.
: ENGLEWOOD, N. J.-JVliss Violet
' Sharpe, maid in the Dwight W. Mor
rom home, committed suicide today
by poison while police waited down
stairs to question her about a taxicab
driver with whom she made a mys
terious automobile trip on the night
v Charle Lindbergh, Jr., was kid
naped.
The woman .had identified a photo
graph of the man during previous
questiinning. Police declared her act
* tended to eonfirm their suspicion that
she had guilty knowledge of the
Lindbergh crime. They hoped that at
last, they had a definite clue that
" woud solve the murder mystery. The
v -nan in question, Ernest Brinkert, had
’ been arrested tonight.
NEW YORK.—The smouldering ill
. feeling between the Chicago Cubs and
Brooklyn Dodgers flamed into a bat
tle royal at Ebbets Field today and
■ the fight-loving fans enjoyed a double
treat, a good free-for-all, and a 5 to 3
Brooklyn victory. This defeat cost
* Chicago the lead in the National
League, as the Boston Braves again
climbed to the top. The melee was
■ • . halted after fifteen minutes of merry
slugging.
Senate Backs
Salary Guts
A 10 PE RCENT SALARY CUT
THAT AFFECTS ALL FED
ERAL EMPLOYES.
WASHINGTON.A 10 per cent sal
ary cut, which affects all ^Federal em
ployes from congressmen to janitors,
rode into the $238,000,000 economic
bill today behind a solid phalanx of
Senators which swept aside amend
ment after amendment and allowed
exemptons only for those workers re
ceiving less than $1,000 a year. The
vote on the pay cut was 38 to 27.
The estimated saving in the salary
reductions is $119,000,000. Exemp
tion of the lowest bracket of em
ployes meant a loss of only $2,000,000
to the Federal .economy program,
wh'ch, together with the billion-doilar
tax bil, is expected to put the Gov
. nment once more on a pay-as-you
go basis.
. COLORADO SPRINGE—A tornado
struck the residential section of Col
orado Springs late today. Six houses
were demolished, several persons re
ported iniured, an : numerous trees
uprooted. Tbe funnel-slhaped clouds
just missed the business district.
WASHINGTON.—The Senate to
day approved a $300,000,000 emerg
ency measure for Federal loans te
States and cities which are in need of
funds for unempoyment relief work.
Alaska Inieitsts At
The Nation’s Capital
By W. A. 8.
WASHINGTON, May 16—Delegate
Wickersham on May 11 .appeared be
fore tho committee on rivers ami har
bors and urged the necessity for the
construction of a harbor at Kodiak as
early as possible. This project has
been favorably reported by the Board
of Engineers and the Secretary of
War, with the stipulation that work
would be commenced when a cold
storage plant was constructed that
would provide business for the rarbor.
The Delegate set forth at great
length the need for the improvement,
with the result that the committee
went as far as it could in adopting a
resoution asking the Board of Engi
neers to review the reports on Kodiak
harbor, with a view* to determirfing if
any modification should be made in
that part of the recommendation that
requires local cooperation. At the
same meeting the committee ap
proved the projects for Wrangell. Nar
rows, Wrangell harbor, Stikine river
and Dry Pass, but it was further
stated by the committee that there
would be no appropriations for a river
and harbor bill before the second ses
sion of the present Congress, which
convenes on December 5, next.
A bill has been introduced in the
House by the Deegate authorizing
the Attorney Genera to convey to the
city of Nome all the title of the
United States in lot 2, block 60, of the
official plat of the city. This lot was
formerly used for the first court
court house, but long since abandoned,
and the city now desires it for street
purposes, to which the Department
« .of Justice has no objection.
On May 11 the President sent ti
the .Senate the nomination of Hon
Cecil H. Clegg to be district judge i«
Alaska for the Third division, to sue
ceed Judge E« Coke Hill, recently ap
pointed anl confirmed as judge of thi
Fourth division. This is, in reality
an exchange of divisions, as Judgi
Clegg has presided over the Fourtl
or Fairbanks division for the past tei
years. His nomination has today beei
referred to a subcommittee and con
firmation is expected in a few days.
Dr. E. W. Clark, secretary of th»
Association of Pacific Fisheries, thai
is largely operating in. Alaska waters
was in Washington May 12 and ap
peared before the House committe<
on ways and means. He advocatec
support of H. R. 8688, which seeks t<
equaize taric duties by compensating
for depreciation in foreign curren
cies. He was particulary interestec
in the competition which the canners
of Alaska salmon have to meet in con
nection with the products of Japan
Siberia and Canada. The great com
plaint is that the yen has dropped ir
value 32 per cent, and the ad valorem
duty on Ash products from the East
8 25 per cent, which leave the fish
canners of Alaska and the United
States without any .actual protection
Dr. dark stated thate Japan is par
ticularly dangerous.as,a.fish compet
itor because that -caantry-v has the
same kind of raw-mateeials. and ma
chinery, together with slower costs of
production and transportation, than
do we in the UndtalkaStates. Prices
for fish cannery pcodacts in this coun
try are now heow the cost of produc
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BONUS ’EXP.E11ITfON’ARY* AEM>
DEBATES WHETHER Tfi SIAKCpi
INTO CHIC A i; O 'CON VENTKHf4
.- y
WASHINGTON —.Loader* of ' tfie
bonus expeditionary .forces went inSto
a conference today .‘to> debate".? ;«ug
pest.ion that they marshal their army
for a march on Chicago to -xieniaiv
inclusion of a bonus,plank in the plat
forms of the Republican and Demo
cratic parties, .lust prior 60 the coj
ference the bonus army did a right
about-face and decided to admit to its
ranks 150 self-prucliamed communists
who arrived Thursday night from
CleveancL
LOS ANGELES .Southern Califor
nia’s bonus expeditionary army, num
bering approximately 1200 former
service men, started from here today
I on the long trek to Washington. 1). 0.
Bradstreets
)
Optimistic
REVIEW OF AMERICAN BUSI
, NE&S STRIKES DEFINITELY
OPTIMISTIC NOTE.
I
i NEW YORK.—Bradstreets Weekly
review of Amercan business, released
today, struck a definitely optimistic
note. ‘^Evidence of returning confi
dence among business men and pur
) chasers has been fairly pronounced,”
- the report said, “in the f>5 key cities
of the United States. Employment
conditions are improving in certain
sections, while retai business has been
stimulated by favorable summer
weather.’ Merchants throughout var
.uus sections are generally hopeful.
LOOKING FOR MURDER MO
TIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO CASE
SAN FRANCISCO.—Investigation
into all facts in the Katie Weber case
was started .today by I. M. Golden,
chief deputy district attorney, in the
beliefr that it .furnishes a motive for
the murder of Mrs. Jessie Scott
Hughes , of whch Frank J. Egan
j stands accused. “The fact that Mrs.
Hughes’ attorney was demanding a
settlement of money for whch Egan
stood liable, supplies the one direct
motive we have at present for the
killing of Mrs. Hughes,” Golden said.
DENVER.—Suicide by knife and
, fork takes a greater toll, than all the
battlefields of the earth, delegates to
the third annual convention of the
Western Branch of the American
, Public Health Service were told to
I day by Dr. Louis I. Dublin, of New
, York, vice president of the Metropol
itan Life Insurance Company.
. WASHINGTON.—President Hoov
, er tonight flatly reiterated his opposi
. tion to the reestablishment of the
wartime Council of National De
fense, urged upon him today in a let
ter signed by 86 nationally known
bankers, economists, industrial and
labor leaders.
WIMBLEDON,~Eng.—The hope of
Great Britain to even the Wightman
Cop score with the United States suf
fered a rude jolt today when the
Americans, headed by Mrs. Heen
Wills Moody, scored a clean sweep in
the opening day’s three matches.
BOSTON.—+Capt. Frank M. Hawks,
speed flyer, recovered from severe in
juries suffered in a plane crackup at
North Grafton on April 7, flew to
New York today,, but as a passenger.
Items of Importance
In Reecnt News Events
NEW YORK. —- Madison Square
Carden announced today that the
[.Now York Milk Fund would share in
the profits of the Max-Schmelling
Jack Sharkey title fight on June 21,
and that prices of fifteen thousand
| seats at the new Long Island Stadium
, had -been reduced for the bout. Ten
thousand seats have been reduced
from 93. IT' to $2.30, and five thousand
from $23 to $15. Ths latter reduction
leaves ten thousand seats at $23 the
highest price. No changes were made
in.„the other seats.
EPSO MDOWNS, Eng.—April the
Fifth, a sleek brown colt, streaked
! across the finish line a winner in the
, 153d Derby today to the plaudits of
1 the King and Queen and some half
j million of their subjects. Another
I outsider-had taken the world’s great
! est horse race. The crowd, stunned
| at the failure of Orwell, the 5 to 4
| favorite, hardly rallied enough to
! give the winner the accustomed ova
tion. April the-Fifth finished three
: fourths of a length in front of the
Aga Kahn’s Dasur, which was a nose
ahead of Lord >Roseberry’h Miracle.
I Far back came Orwell, thoroughly
j beaten. It is estimated that in
sweepstakes pools and betting at
least $50,000,00ft changed- hands- or
the race. The depression had no ef
fect. April ■ the Fifth's owner and
trainer, Tom Walls, the British actor
manager, won a purse of about'f450,
000 on-the race.
NEW YORK.—Samuel Keabury to
,’xlav «bncludfed'-th>- most spectacular
phase Of his case against the city ad
ministration of 'Ne--' York and nidi
cated thht he w ill demand the re
moval from office of Mayor James
Walker. The vigorous counsel for
the Hofsader investigating committee
which for thirteen months has exam
ined tons of documents, bank ac
counts. and brokerage dealings of
city employes, announced that the
holding of certain bonds by Mayor
Walker in a company doing business
with the city should subject him to
removal from office and possible
■ charges of committing a misde
; meanor. This open declaration, com
: ing as a surprise in the midst of a
! session which has been devoted most
ly to an analysis of the mayor’s bank
accounts, was the first statement
from Seabury, tantamount to a de
| claration that he will prefer charges
j against Walker with Governor
Franklin D. Roosevelt. In a late ses
■' sion today, at which the committee
listened to what was described as a
j cleanup of odds and ends-in the in
| vestigation, Mayor Walker’s brother,
Dr. William-H. Walker, was given an
uncomfortable hour on the witness
stand in relaton to his alleged split
ting of fees with '-Dr.' Thomas J.
O’Mara, employed as physician by
the compensation bureau of the city.
CHICAGO. — Edward F. Swift,
chairman of the board of directors of
Swift & Co., -and one of the largest
packing firms in the world, died in a
fall at his home today. Swift was
killed accidentally, a'flWroner’s jury of
bankers and brokers -"declared at the
inquest.
NEW YORK.T-i-1stanley Hausner, a
virtually unknown- Polish flyer, start
ed late today from Floyd Bennett
Airport on a nonstop trans-Atlantic
flight. Hausner’s papers were all
made out for Warsaw, Poland. He
told field officials he hoped to make a
nonstop flight to London or Paris and
then proceed to the Polish capital. He
started in the face of warnings from
trans-Atlantc veterans. The skies had
been cloudy. Only this afternoon did
the sun burn through the thick at
mosphere and permit a semblance of
visibility. Then Hausner decided he
would go. Friends rolled his plant
down the runway. He circlod the
; field and headed out over the P.oek
aways.
WASHINGTON.—Senate opponents
of the manufacturers sales tax as
sailed t today as policy of taxing
those least able to bear the burden.
Senator LaFollette read into the Rec
ord a letter from William Green, pres
ident of the American Federation of
| Labor, predicting it would inflame
| thousands of distressed workers. Sen
! ator Harrison challenged manufac
turers tax Senators to come out in the
| open and settle the question with a
Senate vote, while Senator Couzens
denounce^ that tax system as a mon
! strosity. Green’s letter said that en
actment of the sales tax would in
, flame the minds of distressed workers
! until the present unrest would be
. greatly exaggerated.
HOPEWELL. N. J.—An indictment
| charging John Hughes Curtis with
j obstructing processes of justice in
. the Lindbergh kidnaping case was re
; turned by the Hunterdon county
grand jury in Flemington today. The,
1 Norfolk boail builder has been held in
jail at Flemington sinre his arrest.
There were unconfirmed reports that
Curtis would not oppose the charges,
merely placing himself at the mercy
of the court. Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh has indicated a willingness to
testify against Curtis, should authori
i ties deem it advisable.
NEW YOK.—Pennsylvania’s Var
j, sitv eight defeated Columbia and
Princeton in the annual Childs Cup
regatta on thg Harle mriver today.
McKINLEY. Texas.—Art Goebel,
noted aviator, sugered a broken leg
and jaw, and his mechanic, R. L. Riss,
of Dallas, was killed when Goebel's
plane crashed here today.
WASHINGTON.—President Hoov
er was asked today to support the
Carey-Steiwer agriculture relief bill,
f which its authors said would avert a
tendency toward an otherwise most
alarming situation.
HAVANA.—Negotiations are re
ported under way to permit ex
President Maro G. Menocal, national
ist party leader and one of the lead
ers of the revolution of August, 1931,
to leave Cuba. General Menocal evad
: ed arrest when he sought refuge n
| the Brazilian legation here. The
: government refused to discuss the
! wholesale arrests of nationalists dur
: ing the last few days, but it was re
| ported a plot against the adminis
i traton had been uncovered
SAN FRANCISCO.—With the slay
er of Luigi Bugs Malvese still at
large, police during the night con
tinued their drive against undesir
ables, jailing thirty-five T*ore men ae
vagrants. New-ar-rert* brought h-Im
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