The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 16, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5644 JUNEAU ALASKA MONDAY FEBRUARY 16 1931, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRE SS PRICE TEN gF;N_'_T_S_ HOUSE READY TO PASS VETS' BONUS MEASURE NOW DROUGHT RELIEF COMPROMISE PASSED LI‘\'DBERGH HOUSE, SENATE FINALLY AGREE ON LARGE SUM Twenty Million Dollars Are Now Available to Help Sufferers PRESIDENT SIGNS MEASURE AT ONCE Reported Opposition in Senate Consits of Only | Fifteen Votes WASHINGTON, D. .C., Feb. 16.— Congressional approval was given | the $20,000,000 drought relief com- promise late last Saturday when the House accepted the proposal| about one hour after the Senate. The House took no record vote. | The Senate stood 67 to 15. Thir- ty-one Democrats and 36 Republi- cans voted for the compromise. | Eight Republicans, six Demo- crats and one Farmer-Labor voted against the compromise. | The compromise was an amend- | ment tothe Interior Department's supply bill which became the first regular supply bil to meet Con- gressional approval. Charles A. Associated Press Plhoto In recognition of his flight from New York to P aris in 1927, Col. Lindbergh (left) received the cross of the legion of honzr from Ambassador Paul Claudel of France at Washingtoin, D. C. President Hoover immediately ap- ' proved of the relief compromise action by signing the Interior Department Bill to which the $20,- 000,000 appropriation was attached. ! HEARINGS ON REINDEER TO BE RESUMED | Special Commlttee Meets Again Tomorrow in NO FURTHER FUNDS | WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 16.— Prospects for a mnew -attempt of; Congress to get additional Federal relief funds are. seen although | there is no expectation that tho' move will be successful. Easier sailing in efforts to avoid! an extra session are seen after| W President Hoover signed the $20,-| 000,000 drought relief bill. | ashmgton. DL It took the Senate a full week | WASHINGTON. D, N, D. C., Feb. 16— to approve of the compromise al- | Further details of the controve; though only fifteen votes Were petween White and Eskimo rein- opposing. Fr deer herd owmers in Alaska will be| T 1heard tomorrow when the Gov- ernment Committee investigating UNE THuusANfl |the reindeer situation will resume (hearings. The committee is fune- ,Momng under the direction of Sec-! Temperature Drops to 60 Degrees Below—Odd Train Accident panment Committee was told last week that the Lomen Reindeer Company, in which Federal Judge Lomen held stock, was taking ad- vantage of the Eskimo through ag- gressive business methods. | Senator Kendrick is chairman of ithe committee. Representative Lea- {vitt, Assistant Attorney General {Sisson and Ernest Walker Sawyer L lare the other members with Secre- | HARBIN, Manchuria, Feb. 16— tary wilbur ex-officio chairman. With the mercury falling t0 45 de-| " panoe ryjes will be discussed to- grees below zero, this city is ex- morrow. Probably Delegate Suth-| periencing one of the coldest Win- |, 1ang winl also appear at the hear- ters in years. ling. He accused Judge Lomen of h:‘v‘:"ge::‘";rf;:; t:(‘:’“ds::ti T‘rs‘t’:: being unfair to the Eskimos and {laid a similar charge against Gov. streets or along the Siberian-Man- |George A. Parks. churian border, where temperatures | dropped to 60 degrees below zero. The snow is not unusually heavy | but trains are running from three| to_four days late. Recommendations will probably Several major accidents have p, Grawn for submission I:'rto Lhi been reported, one case” being re- Biol ] S e ported of a train which left the | b be SWVEy Bureau of the | Following the hearing tomorrow {the Committee is expected to con- |vene again after March 4 for what 'may be the final session. Interior Department for settling tracks when the locomotive wheels disputes. P seAie froze and cracked. : A PRI ——————— HOTEL MAN IN HOSPITAL MINING MEN HKERE George Schumaker, clerk at the| Nick Bez and Mike McKallich Alaskan Hotel, is a patient in St.|came to Juneau today from the Ann’s Hospital, having entered ths‘Alaska Chichagof mine on Chicha- mornmg for medical treatment. gor Island. Modern Woman Scored by Diva; Motherhood Is Not In Make-up; Peace Far Off BUFFALO, N. Y, Feb. l&—}tha& is important Madame Schumann Heink says the |lipstick, jazz and bridge. modern woman “has no heart.” does not want children. The famed Diva is here for a! “She will never accomplish any-| radio concert. She said: thing toward world peace by con- “Motherhood is the most sacred |ferences. thing in the world.” “Let them have good warm meals She is the mother of eight. ready for their husbands when they “But the modern woman has no|come home tired from the day's heart,” the Diva continued. “Moth- | business. erhood won't improve her art if she| “I tell the women to build homes, | has talent because she does not|raise children properly and then fecl the great sacred emotion. Alllwe will have peace.” in her life is She |retary Wilbur of the Interior De- GREAT AMOUNT OF WORK STILL BEFORE SE SSION ‘Congress Has ¢ Only Four- i ten Working Days to | Wind Up Business | APPROPRIATIONS ARE | OVER THREE BILLION Leaders of Both Senate and House Exceed- ingly Optimistic WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 16— Congress has fourteen working days in which to pass $3,480,000,000 of appropriation bills to avoid an ex- tra, session. | Eight of I | | nine regular supply HONORED BY FRANCF ‘ SPMN’S FATE UP TO LEADER FOR REPUBLIC Klng Alfonso Leaves Fu- ture of Monarchy in Hands of Guerra FORMER PREMIER TO MAKE REPORT TODAY Will New Form of Govern- ment Be Advocated or Old Continued? MADRID, Spain, Alfonso has designated Jose An- tonio Sanchetti Guerra, leader 'of a movement for a constitutional convention, to determine whether Spain is to remain a monarchy or become a Republic and form a new ' government. Guerra promised the King to re- port on his success late today. It is believed that Guerra will be‘ able to form a Cabinet. The terms of the agreement be- | tween kept secret. Guerra headed a Liberal Cabinet 1922. He was expelled from Spai for enmity to Primo de Rivera dur- ing the latter’s regime. He charged the King violated the Spanish con- stitution in permitting De Rivem to assume a dictatorship. Guerra was imprisoned aboard a| warship at Valencia in 1929 and courtmartialed for sedition. The trial was secret and the flnmngs were kept secret but it is beueved he was found not guilty. De Rlvera refused to accept the findings and' continued to hold him. Shortly, after the Dictatorship fell, Guerra was rcleased RAVEN STARTS T0 SUPERINTEND PUBLIC SCHOOLS 'A. 8. Dunham Will Take| Over Seme of Work of Principal R. S. Raven, for four years prin- bills are now enroute through Con- CiPal of the Juneau high school as- gress while a second deficiency bill Sumed his duties as superintendent is scheduled to make its bow on ©f Public schools in this city today, Wednesday. succeeding W. K. Keller, who re- Both the Senate and House lead- signed recently preparatory to tak- lers are optimistic all bills will be ing over the office of Territorial put through by March 4. | commissioner of education to which The pending bills are: he was elected last November. Independent bill for more than' While filling the position of su- $1,000,000,000, in conference. perintendent, Mr. Raven also will Treasury and Post Office bill continue to perform some of the for more than $1,000,000,000, in work he has been doing as prineci- conference. {pal. A. 8. Dunham, member of | Agricultural bill for $214,000,000, the high school faculty, will under- in conference and expected to be take the other tasks heretofore im- reported out today. |posed on the superintendent. This War Department bill for $447,- arrangement, by. which the super- 000,000, in conference. intendency duties will be divided, | Justice, State, Commerce and will continue for the rest of the ,Labor Departments bill of $138,- scholastic year. 260,000, in conference. | Mr. Raven is an experienced edu- Legislative establishment bill of cator He attended Michigan State | approximately $27,000,000, in con- Ccllege three years and Washing- | ference. ton State College one year. He | Navy Department bill of $348- took graduate work at both the 052,000 now before the Senate Washington State College and the Appropriations Committee. ‘Umven,lty of Washington.. He wis District of Columbia bill, \'«thh}prmcipal of the high school at has been reported to the Senate gelah, Wash., before he came to land will be sent to conference t0!Juneau in 1927. determine the amount. The new superintendent was born Second deficiency bill which 1s'in Doland, South Dakota, 37 years being prepared and is expected to, ago. His parents live at Monroe, call for $125,000,000. |Wash. He was second lieutenant TAT S IR of a company in a combat corps in the World War and went over- *”- —— . | TODAY'S STOCK | seas. He was gassed and taken to | QUOTATIONS |[n military hospital. He is mar- 4 e ® ried, the father of two sons, 6 and 2 years old respectively. e, MINE EMPLOYEE IS ILL NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine; stock today is 9, American Can 94%, Anaconda Copper 36%, Bethlehem Steel 60, General Motors 43, Gran- {by Consolidated 18, International Edmund Dull, employed by the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Com- pany entered the St. Ann's Hos- {Harvester 5%, Kennecott 21, Pack-|jiva) this morning for medical 'ard Motors 10z, Simmons Beds|i.carment. iw‘;. Standard Brands 19, Standard pill. 5 e e IR el Oil of California 497%, Standard Oil| The U. S. S. “Essex,” once fin- of New Jersey 50, United Aircraft .33,4, U. 8. Steel 146%, Hudson Bay 874, est ship of the American battie fleet, sold for junk recently at Superior, Wis., for $410, Feb. 16.—King ( the King and Guerra are | and over in 1915 and was Premier again 1n‘ | | i msuu of Congress granting power to President Machado (inset at right) to guarantees for a period of ninety days. cne dozen unions walked out. 1 figure in negotiating with the labor leaders with the result the walk-cut of the union men ended fluen wlthm 24 hours CONSTITUTIO\ AL GUARANTEES ARE SUSPENDED IN CUBA Harry Guggeaheim (left) A recent strike was' called as a pre United States The Presidential Palace (above) in Havana, Cuba, has heen placed under extra heavy guard as a rther suspend constitutional t to the ador, was an il Amb: CAPI[T@]L, IS DEDI[CATED LARGE CR@WD PRESENT' WICKERSHAM SHOWS NATION'S DEBT T ALASKA Northern Trade Totals Bil- lions, Appropriations but Millions “Alaska’s Trade Value to the United States” is the title of the address that James Wickersham, Delegate-clect to Congress, deliv- ered at the exercises in connection with the dedication of the Capitol Saturday evening. He showed that | the money the Federal Government in behalf of the is. but a trivial sum compared” with the great wealth had expended Territory , i ( | Complctwn GOVERNOR BIVES Fine Program Addresses, Musical Selec- tions and Prayers Mark Final Exercises Department of Interior, Washington, D. C. Hon. George A. Parks, Governor of Alaska. My congratulations to the people of Alaska on the com- pletion of the new Capitol. Besides providing more ade- quate quarters for the many Federal and Territorial activi- ties, it signalizes the govern- ment’s interest in the affairs of the Territory. Alaska has long needed a modern Federal build- ing and I am glad that it has become an actuality. that hag flowed to the Union as a resulf of the Northland’s trade and commerce. He said in part: “In recent years Congress en-| Ray Lyman Wilbur, tered tpon a limited system of Secretary of Interior. internal improvements in Alaska in e aid of the development of Terri- torial Government and the nat- ural resources of the country. It enthorized the construction of a In the presence of a throng gath- ered in the Museum Hall of the Alaska Capitol Saturday evening, from nearly all parts of the Terri- Government owned and operated railroad from an all-the-year-open |tory, the new public building, cost- harbor at Seward, through the|lDg approximately §$1000.000, was Matanuska and Healy River coallformally dedicated with appropri- fields to the Fairba gold fields,|ate exercises, Among the dis- at a cost of $70,000,000. Recentlytinguished company upon the the Secretary of the Treasury caus- |SPeakers’ platform were mayors and ed plans and estimates to be made|Tepresentatives of municipal ex- ecutives from Southeast cities and and set apart the funds necessary to construct a general-use build-|from some of ing at Fairbanks, to cost $400,- | the Westward On the floor were 000. delegations from the various near Harbor Improvement Fund |and distant places with a large as- “The War Department will spend|sembly of Juneau residents this year for Alaska harbor im-| A seat upon the platform had provements, $272,000 for the Ket-|been reserved for J. I Marshall, chikan basin, $85,000 for the Sew-|construction engineer for Lh» Treas- the communities to ard breakwater, and $18,000 for melury Department, who supervised Port Alexander harbor work, while!the erection of the Capitol for the improvement of the Nome har-|the Government, but he is con- t accident bor, to cost $250,000, is to come mflalesmg from his re two years. The Alaska Road Com-|and could not be prese mission will spend this year $1,-| Dr. W. W. Council, 000,000 for general highway work the Chamber of Commerce in Northern and Western Alaska,|ed. With brief remarks and in addition the sum of $130,-|nounced the numbers of he the pro- 000 on roads in the Mt. McKinley gram and introduced the speakers. resentatives of the comuany were National Park. | Invecation by Rev. H. R. Allen “The Bureau of Public Roads,| under the Agricultural Department, the Rev. H. R. Allen, pastor of the will spend out of Forest Service Resurrection Lutheran church. In funds, for highways in 1931, $50,- course of the evening, several se- 000 at Ketchikan, $140,00 near Ju- lections were nicely played by the neau, $45,000 at Seward, $40.000 at Wrangell, $60,000 at Skagway, $45.- 000 at Yakutat, $25000 at Kake, $30,000 at Moose Pass, $10,000 at (Continued or: Pagc Three) | high school orchestra. Gov. George A. Parks delivered the address of welcome He 1 | telegrams congra'u‘aun" th (Cor mnuul on Page Six) | 1 NORTH HISTORY, Ncw Capitol Marks Begin- ning of Another Epoch for Territory Gov. George A. Parks, in his ad- dress welcoming visitors to the ex-| Capitol Sat- s dedicating the y evening, took occasion to review briefly the history of Alaska. He said in part: “For convenience we may con- sider the history in three phascs. First, the epoch of discovery and exploration; second, the 45 years that elapsed between the purchase by the United States and the or- ganization of our Territorial Gov- ( | | ernment; and third, the period| |from 1912 to the present. | “A Russian expedition,” he said, | “landed on the east side of Bt'rm;i Straits in 1730, or just 200 years ago. Thereafter for 137 years, the| Tsars exercised dominion of this; vast domain Rivalry Among Monarchs “During the early years of this first epoch, 1726-1867, there seems to have been competition among An invocation was pronounced by|enabled them the sovereigns of Europe in their efforts to extend their domains by discovery. “Captains James George Vancouver mission of the King Spain was ably MEASURE TO - BE PUT OVER, FAST MANNER | Bonus Compromlse Will Be Rushed Through House by Large Majority FORMAL REPORT IS MADE BY COMMITTEE [Hope that Senate Will Send Bill to Hoover Be- fore March 4 WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 16— A formal report recommending the enactment of a compromise pro= posal for additional loans to vet= erans has been submitted to the House by the Ways and Means Committee. The report estimated that the cost ranges from $375,000,000 up- ward. The report said “there was un- animity on the part of the com=- mittee that some kind of legislation actien of (ungrr\\rblmnnfl upon the question should n- | be enacted by Congress.” The committee vote was 17 to 4 for the compromise which gives a loan value of 50 per cent of the face value of the certificates. HOUSE READY TO ACT WAHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 16.— Deaf to the Administration’s disap= poval, the House with an over= Y whelming majority, is ready to pass the veterans' bonus compromise. Supporters are prepared to rush the bill through to assure the Sen- ate a chance to pass it and get it to President Hoover in time to prevent its death after the March 4 adjournment. Speaker Nicholas Longworth ad- | vocates the bill, bringing a break with Floor Leader Tilson who op= posed it and causing a split, the first for years between the Re= publican House group. PENSIONS ARE UP WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 16.— { The House Veterans Committee has approved pensions for dependents of World War veterans. An efforl will be made to bring the bill to a vote immediately. The estimated cost will be from $12,000,000 to $14,000,000 the first year. The bill provides $26 monthly for a widow regardless of the cause of death and $6 a month for each orphan. The bill excludes widows without children. e CLAIMS 3,000 COAL MINERS FIRE VICTIMS {Burning Shaft Reported Closed — Men Are Trapped in Flames PEIPING, China, Feb. 16.—De- respective |spite denials of colliery officials, |the Chinese newspapers insist that Cook and}a,ooo miners were burned to death sailed by per- in the fire in the coal mine at Pu- of England.|shum, near Mukden, Manchuria, & represented hy|week ago yesterday. Representa- Perez, Bodega, Areteaga, Martiney, |tives of the Japanese management and Malaspina. France was le interested but nevertheless con- tributed the efforts of La Perouse. “So far as the Russian Govern- ment was concerned, it was sat- isfied to delegate responsibiliti to a chartered company and de- manded in return a share in the profits from the undertaking. As a government, is contributed noth- ing to the devélopment of the new colonies. Endowed with Broad Vision “Fortunately, some of the rep- |endowed with broad visions which to realize that if they wished to encourage their own people to remain in the new country and impress their civili- zation on the native people they must ablish institutions for tk purpose. Consequently as 1784 schools and churc ‘L)rgamzc(l, The company head- (Continued or insist however that none were killed. The Mukden correspondent of the Takungz Pao, one of the most re- liable newspapers here, reported the mine management closed the burn- ing shaft in order to localize the blaze thereby trapping the men in the flames. The correspondent described the pitiful scenes at the pithead as the relatives of the miners pleaded that the burning shaft be opened. PRI G I o METLAKATLANS LEAVE Roderick F. Davis, mayor of Met- and the Rev. pastor of the Presbyter- lakatla, Marsden, ian Church there, who came here the Capitol dedication, will for leave ship Northwestern tomorrow. e, Chicago consumes 35000000 tons i Edward ° for their home on the steam- -