The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 21, 1931, Page 4

o porter on that paper. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1931. JOHN W. TROY o EDITOR AND MANAGER | Published _eve! vening except Sunday by _the EMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Streets, Juneau, Alaska Bntered in the Post Office in Juneau as matter. econd Class <UBSCRIPTION RATES. Delivered by carrier in Juneau, Douglas, Thane for $1.25 per month. b) mail, pc Treadwell and . at the following rates: vear, in_advance, ; six months, in advance, u; mr one month, in advance, $1.25 Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly Jotify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers Telephone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise cr in this paper and also the local news published ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION AMERICA’S GOLD SUPPLY GROWING. Notwithstanding diminishing exports there was never a time in history when there was so much gold in the United States as now. According 0 the Boston News Bureau the Federal Reserve's total gold reserves reached the new high point of $3,- 174,700,000 on May 1. This surpasses by $7,182,000 the previous peak of July 23, 1924. It is an increase of $11,886,000 in a week, reflecting more millions received from France and Argentina. There is an increase of no less than $102,000,000 within the past twelve months. That Reserve System gold hoard far outweighs any other large holding by a central bank. It ex- ceeds by $950,000,000 the gold store of that other large accumlator, the Bank of France. It is four and one-third times as large as the Bank of Eng- land's $736,000,000. Likewise this country’s monetary gold stock has been steadily soaring to new heights. At $4721,- 000,000 it was about $50,000,000 higher than at the beginning of March, with each intervening week showing some accession. And the top figure has not yet been formally recorded, since about $15,- 500,000 gold just arrived from France was not counted in. How that monetary stock has climbed under the influence of war and post-war factors may be appreciated by the contrast of the present new high of $4,721,000,000 with the fact that the total did not cross $3,000,000,000 until 1923, or $2900,- 000,000 until 1916, and had risen in the interim only gradually from a billion in 1900. Its recent previous peak in 1927 was a little under $4,600,000,000. We may expect to hear a new chorus of com- plaint, chiefly British, about “maldistribution” of the world's gold, with ourselves the chief offender, now that France has lately been sending us con- siderable gold—that we don’t need or want. This vast increase in the gold supply has been in the face of the extremely low rediscount rates which have discouraged sending money here for investment. Much of it is returns from previous foreign investments, including American branch fac- tories in foreign countries. While the flow of gold to the United States is larger than the demands of business make neces- sary, some experts give it and the low discount rates credit for the lessening of bank failures and the reopening of banks that had previously sus- pended. REPUBLICANS ATTACKING HIGH TARIFF. Julius H. Barnes, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the United States Chamber of Com- merce, for three years President of that organiza- tion, one of America’s leading business men, Zor many years among other things one of the principal wheat exporters of the country, a Republican in politics, declared in his speech at the Atlantic, City meeting of the United States Chamber of Commerce that the thing that would do most to restore prosperity in the United States would be radical reductions of the Smoot-Hawley tariff schedules. Gen. W. W. Atterbury, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Republican National Committeeman from Pennsylvania until his recent resignation, and Bertrand H. Snell, New York Congressman, one of the Republican House leaders and member of the Committee on Rules, and other Republicans have similarly denounced the monstrous tariff law as among the most serious contributors to the present depression. These cause one to recall that the New York Herald Tribune and Chicago Tribune, the two largest Republican newspapers in the country, warn- ed President Hoover and Congress, when it was pending, that if the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill were enacted it would mean that the Republicans would lose control of the Government because business disaster would certainly follow. After it was passed more than one thousand of the leading oconomists of the country petitioned President Hoover to veto it. ‘The predicted result has come. The whole world is discriminating against the United States in pur- chasing. Peoples buy from those who do not refuse to buy from them. ANOTHER GREAT PUBLISHER DIES. Another leading American publisher went to his reward when Col. Robert Ewing, owner of the New Orleans State, Shreveport Times, Monroe News-Star and Monroe World, all Louisiana papers, died the other day in New Orleans, at the age of 71. He was self made. He quit school before he had finished high school, and became a bank nessenger. He then became a messenger and later operator in a telegraph office. He was a press operator in the New Orleans State office when he became a re- He was then transferred to the business office and soon became business man- ager. He purchased ‘the paper and threw into it 2 tremendous energy. - He is survived by five sons, |get after now is that which isn't committed by all of whom are active in the publication of the | c°riminals—(Boston Transcript.) Daily Alaska Empire | Second and Main | ;) G. Brown National son-in-law, E. was Democratic na when he died. S Untiedt, the thirteen-year-old Calorado‘ sard hero, who spent a few days in the White Ewing papers, as is his of New Orleans He Cme tteeman for Louisi: Hnasn as President Hoover's guest in recognition of ' his heroism in saving most of the lives of his, |schoolmates that were frozen in with a school bus dur a terrific blizzard, admitted that he was {a Demc t but he said he thought his dad might | vote for Mr. Hoover the next time. He. said Mr.| |and Mrs. Hoover are mighty nice and treated him “ine We suspect that some of those Senators and| m,n.uummes who shou! so loudly in insisting| that economics and not Prohibition should be made |the big political issue by the Democrats in 1932 are really making the first step in an attempt prevent the adoption of a wet platform plank. Yo We move to change that name from Twenty Grand to a Couple of Hundred Grand. Mrs. ‘Whit- ney would probably ask more than that for him. (Manchester The Suez Canal Company is a curious survival in more ways than one. It was the product of | private enterprise and, indeed, one of its greatest | monuments. But it seems strange nowadays that one of the world's greatest seaways should be run | as a profit-making concern. That ships should pay toll as they pass through is a natural way of charg- ing, but that the dues should be fixed with a view to the payment of maximum dividends rathen than, on the principles of a public trust, to the provision of services at the lowest possible cost is an an- achronism. The company is predominantly French, and there are 32 directors, of whom one is Dutch, | ten are British, and twenty-one French. These di- rectors are paid according to results, and the re- sults are, from their point of view, highly satis- factory. They get two per cent. of the net profits, and last year, according to a statement in the House of Commons, each director received a sum of about £4,000 on this basis. One wonders how many of the directors felt qualms about the receipt of this money or doubts about their having really earned it. But perhaps the chief objection to these rates of pay is not that they are far beyond what thirty-two gentlemen can really earn by attending board meetings, if that is all they do, but the fact|" that the remuneration varies with the profits, so that when, as now, shippers believe themselves to be | overcharged it is to the personal advantage of the. directors to maintain dues at the highest possible profit-making level. This is not merely not the principle of the public trust; it is the direct opposite. The British Government is supposed to have done very well out of its purchase of Canal shares, but it ought not to regard its interest in the Canal simply as a good speculative invest- ments Our Most Expensive Luxury. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) Generally Mr. Borah is a controversialist. He likes to inject his voice into arguments that have divided the people into separate and vehement camps. But when he inveighs with characteristic robustness of phras: against the high cost of bureaucracy and the alarming rate at which we multiply the functions of Government he wins un- animous agreement. When he declares that the bureau is the most wasteful and inefficient tool of administration the taxpayer should say amen! and determine to learn the cause and the cure of the parasitic disease of bureaucracy. In warning the voters that they either must | put strenuous checks on their Representatives at | Washington or submit soon to much higher taxes, | the Idaho Senator points out that in less than two years more than twenty-five new commissions, committees or bureaus have been established, either temporarily or permanently. All of them mean new | jobs to fill; each of them costs a great deal more than its service justifies. And in almost every in- stance the creation of a bureau represents v.he‘ shirking of an administrative task by some official | duly elected to perform that task. They Learn to Speak at Gonzaga. (Spokane Chronicle.) It didn't “just happen” that Willilam J. Codd, | Gonzaga High School senior, won the State High School Oratorical Contest here last week. ! It came about largely through the fact that his| school for years has stressed the importance of being able to speak in public and through those | years has built up a strong department. Gonzaga | thinks as highly of its orators as it does of its| football players and it is probable that the former have gone even further in the world of affairs after their graduation than the grid heroes, al- though they, too, have made sizable footprints on the sands of time. That's one very good reason why Gonzaga men have made good impressions in the practice of law, in public office and wherever the spoken‘ language is a requisite. Alaska Fruits. (Seward Gateway.) Natives of Norway and Sweden who live in Seward and along the railroad belt have for years been telling other residents that apples, pears, cherries and peaches can be grown in this area of Alaska. They cite the fact that these fruits are grown successfully in the Scandinavian countries for centuries, where climatic conditions are similar to the climatic conditions in the corresponding lati- tudes of Alaska. It is now known everywhere, almost, that Alaska grows garden vegetables the equal in quality and quantity per acre of the best sections of Wash- ington, Oregon and California. Also its possibili- | ties as a grain growing region on a large scale m'el fast coming to be realized. It is a good notion that occurs to our sprightly | contempt, the Sun’s Mr. H. I. Phillips, who sug- gests that if Bobby Jones wants a'successful movie he will have Marlene Dietrich caddy for him. It| wouldn't be a bad notion, either, for Tilden's movie to have as ball boys the Sixteen Tilden Girls, led by Greta Garbo.—(New York Herald Tribune.) It seems that a man with a salary of $4,000 cash can easily amass a fortune of $100,080 in a few years if he sticks to his job, is assidious, alert and thrifty, and happens to be a Police Captain in| Chicago.—(Beston Herald.) There doesn't seem to be any Red menace in the National League this year.—(Cincinnati En- quirer.) Evidently the crime that the country wants to | preferential | with an assistant archaeologist will |and on Cottonwood Creek. | with his father, Gordon McDonald, | The bride taught | Third Division, and a sport coupe |J. M. Regan, recently arrived. | pect with a keystone drill the bars | All-Alaska News Realty holders in Seldovia who improved their realty holdings prior |erection of a Presbyterian church to December 4, 1926, will have pref- |at Wrangell to take the place of erence in acquiring government ti-|the edifice that was burned last tle to such holdings. The cost of |fall. The approximate cost will bz serfecting title will be about $20 a |$15,000. lot, according to the United States Land Office at Anehorage. After| Nelson McCrary has been elected rights are exercised, | shief of the Cordova Fire Depart- the rest of the lots in the Seldovia | ment. B. B. Tibbs was appoinied townsite will be sold at auction by | aight patrolman. ‘Lhc government. No date has been et for the auction. At the Anchorage Federal jail, one of the guards has worked seven years without a single day’s vaca- tion. He is cited by the Federal Employees’ Association of Anchor- age as an example of why govern- ment should grant all employees Saturday half holidays and annual leaves. Scldovia will be made the head- quarters this summer of Miss Fred- erica de Laguna of the Museum of the University of Peénnsylvania, who direct excavations at the sites of Indian scitlements of a near-an- cient period on the Yukon Mrs. H. D. Cole, resident of Quartz Creek, near Dawson 31 years, died in the hospital at Daw- son. She is survived by her hus- The first salmon of the caught off Ninilchik, an season Indian village on the east shore of Cook |band and a married daughter. near Seldovia, weighed 82} Walter Jackinsky was the | Inlet pounds. lucky fisherman. To commemorate the discovery cf gold in the Klondike in 1896, a memorial is to be erected at Dawson by the National Parks ol Canada, Department of the Inte- rior. Grade and nigh scnools in Pe- tersburg cloced for the scholastic year May 15. Teachers have been engaged for next year. There will be new principal and superinten- dent and six new teachers. George V. Beck, who has been principal| Miller Creek, near there, to resume mining operations for the summer at Ketchikan high school, will be|season. Gold was first found on principal and superintendent in|mMiller in the early '90's, several Petersburg, succeeding C. H. BOW-|years before George W. Carmack man ,who will go to Douglas.. The new teachers will be Miss Dorothy Walker, Mona Thorp Johson, Miss Vera Gardner, Miss Alta Peters, Miss Hanna Anderson, Miss Impi Aalto. made his famous strike on Rabbit Creek, now known as Bonanza. Miller Creek is still a producer, pay being found on the benches. Miss Dorothy Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Johnson of Wrangell, vice-president of the Associated Students of Whitman College, Wal- Machinery for the Maid of Mex- ico mine is being installed. The 10- stamp mill has a capacity of 12 tons. Five men are working in the||g Walla. She is a member of the | mine. Junior class. With the improvements to be Louis McDonald and Miss Adelia Hansen were married at Peters- burg. Mr. McDonald is associated made at Dutch Harbor Radio sta- tion and the new dock and other construction work now under way at Unalaska, in all aggregating well over $100,000, it may reason- ably be said that Unalaska is about” in the midst of a building boom. in the McDonald Logging Company. the past year in the Petersburg school. Dr. Bart C. LaRue, while riding on a motor truck near Fairbanks, was struck across the face by an iren pipe projecting from a building near the roadside. Several of his teeth were knocked out. The Chitina Herald says that a man was arrested and put in jail in Chitina, charged with being in- sane. The following night he scaled a 4-foot wall and escaped. Dep- uty Unite dStates Marshal Nels Sorby gave notice of the. escape ang offered a reward of $6.50 for the return of the prisoner. A num- ber jof posses began searching the hills and within two days had de- livered 13 trappers at the jail. e e s Valdez's fleet of motor cars has been increased by two. A Sedan for E. Coke Hill, judge of the Unit- ed States district court for the for Deputy United States Marshal | SCHOMBEL'S ELECTRIC SHOP adv. TELEPHONE 4502 Thirty of the 61,700 tickets in the Nenana Ice Pool specified April 31 as the day the ice would break. The holders of these 30 tickets will have their money refunded. it MIDWAY CAFE ATTRACTIVE PRICES Jack Steele says he plans to pros- jon the Stikine River to ascertain | if they warrant dredging devglop- ment. Many of the bars were pan- | ned years ago, and some pro- | duced as high as $40,000 in coarse | TO STEADY e BOARDERS SEWARD STREET Opposite Goldstein Bldg. Work has been started on the {erection of Wrangell's new $50,000 school building. George Bottler orw Spokane is the contractor. | ALASKA MEAT CO. QUALITY AND SERVICE TO YOUR LIKING Meadowbljook Butter Austin Fresh Tamales PHONE 39 Deliveries—10:30, 2:30, 4:30 Pioneer Pool Hall Telephone 183 EMPLOYMENT OFFICE POOL—BILLIARDS Chas. Miller, Prop. THE HOTEL OF ALASKAN HOTELS THE GASTINEAU Our Services to You Begin and End at the { Gang Plank of Every Passenger-Carrying Boat ( A T S U RS N = . Thoughts on Thrift spends all of his salary and the clerk who saves part of it is the difference in ten years between the owner of a busi- ness and the man out of a job.”—John Wanamaker. Our Savings Department will render you admirable assist- ance in saving for the future. The B. M. Behrends Bank OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA i “The difference between the clerk who Bids will be opened June 23 for H. A. R. Stewart left Dawson for | | was. recently elected |- ] WATCH FOR NEXT AMERICAN LEGION SMOKER A. B. {all W. P. Johiison FRIGIDAIRE DELCO LIGHT PRODUCTS MAYTAG WASHING MACHINES GENERAL MOTORS RADIOS Phone 17 Front Street Juneau SRR A R — | Second Hand Guns Bought and Sold New Guns and Ammunition SEE BIG VAN | THE GUN MAN | Opposite The Midget Lunch BLUE BIRD CAFE Next to Nifty Shoppe, Front St. NOW OPEN H i | H H H H Fast Courteous Service— H Excellent Food— H Properly Cooked— i Popular Prices— i H The two best places to eat— “At Home and at the BLUE BIRD” N. C. McBROON, Proprietor SEE YURMAN for New Fur Garment Styles A big variety of Land Otter, Mink, Marten and other skins for your selection. Repairing and Remodeling YURMAN, the Furrier Triangle Building ), SNOW WHITE LAUNDRY CAPITAL CLEANERS DOUGLAS AGENCY CITY BAKERY, MRS. REIDI Telephone 7 Leave your order at bakery or phone and we will call DON'T BE TOO LIBERAL Pione 718 . — . PP SR TRy T Drs. Barton & Doelker | CHIROPRACTORS | Teacher of the Studio, 206 Main St. | Dr. J. V. Bayne DENTIST Meets Monday 8 p. m ' Ralph Reischl, Dictator Legion of Moose No. 25 ) -« .. ] SiEd \ PROFESSIONAL | Fraternal Societies | . . OF { * o Gastineau Channel Helene W. L. Albrecht | PHYSIOTHERAPY B. P. 0. ELKS Massage, Electrizity, Infra Red Meeting every - Ray, Medical Gymnastics. Wednesday evening ' 410 Goldstein Building I|at 8 oclock Elks | Phone Office, 216 || Han, 2 vz ®| Visiting brothers w e | welcome, DRS. KASER & FREEBURGER | | \; 5 JORGENSEN, Exalted Ruler. ! oy M. H. SIDES, Secretary. | 301-303 Goldstein Bldg. | A PHONE 56 | Co-Ordinate Bod- Hours 9 a. m. to 9 p.m. | >3 les of Freemason- e ey . | ry Scottish Rite . T, e Regular meetingze Dr. Charles P. Jenne ) ENTIST each moath a+ - 7:30 p. m Soot- | Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine tish Rite Temple | Bullding | | Telephrme 176 | WALTER B. HEISEL, Secretary L vt LOYAL ORDER OF . |‘ MOOSE, NO. 700 i | | ( | Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. | Office hours, 8 am. to 5 p.m. Eveningr by appointment. Phone 321 | . Dr. A. W. Stewart | DENTIST Hours 9 a m. to 8 p. . | | SEWARD BUILLING Officc Phone 469, Res. meets first and third Tuesdays G. A. Baldwin, Secretary and Herder, P. D. Box 273. MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO_I.‘: day of each mouth in Seottish Rite Temple, H. L. REDLINGSHAF- %" ER, Master; JAMES W. LEIVERS Second and fourth Mon- beginning at 7:30 p. m. W‘Xfiv Secretary. PRUGLESS HEALTH SERVICE “Maintain that Vital Resistance” Hellenthal Bldg. Phone 250 Hours 10 am. to 9 pm. | S bgmm o ot e Robert Simpson t. D. ! Graduate Angeles Col- lege of Optometry and Opthalmology Glasses Fitted, ~..nses Growod —_— e — DR. R. E. SOUTHWELL Optometrist-Optician Eyes Examined—Glasses Fittea Room 17, Valentine Bldg. Office phone 484, residense | phone 238. Office Hours: 9:30 to 12; 1:00 to 5:30 ORDER OF EASTERN STAR Second and Fourtk 4 Tuesdays of each month at 8 o'clock, BScottist, Rite Temple. JESSIA KELLER, Worthy Mat- ron; FANNY L. ROB. INSON, Secretary. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Saghers Council No. 1760 Meetings second and lask Mounday at 7:30 p. m. Transient brothers urg- ed to attend. Councll Chambers, Fifth Street JOHN F. MULLEN, G. K. H. J. TURNER, Secretary. DOUGLAS AERIE 117 F. O. E. Meets first and third &Mondays, 8 o'clock, vt Eagles Hall Douglas. ALEX GAIR, W. P. GUY SMITH, Secretary. Visiting brothers welcome. Hazel James Madden Pianoforte and exponent of the Dunning System of Improved Music Study Leschetizky Technic—Alchin Harmony Phone 196 JUNEAU-YOUNG ‘ Funeral Parlors Licensed Funeral Directors l ‘and Embalmers Night Phone 336-2 Day Phone 12 | With the coal if it comes from our place. For our coal goes farther and gives a more even and satisfying heat. low, better have us send you a new supply to prove our statement. Our draying service 1= always the best and we specialize in Feed. D. B. FEMMER Phone 114 Juneau Recreation Parlors EMILIO GALAO, Prop. BOWLING—POOL Lower Front Street It tastes like more. That’s why you will continue ordering it after you have tried the first loaf. Get the habit of eating it and favor your friends by telling them what a mighty good bread it . Peerless Bakery “Remember the Name™ If your coal bin is running| 22 HAAS | Famous Candies | The Cash Bazaar Open Evenings ROCM and BOARD Mrs. John B. Marshall PHONE 2201 GARBAGE HAULED AND LOT CLEANING E. O. DAVIB Phone 584 HOTEL ZYNDA ELEVATOR SERVICE 8. ZYNDA, Prop. — e/ P . wOO0D HEMLOCK FOR KITCHEN RANGES FOR HEATERS FOR FIREPLACES $4.50 Load In 8, 12, 14, 16 or 24-inch lengths CHESTER BARNESON ' Telephone 039, 1 long, 1 short or 91 Economy Cash Store Our trucks go any place amy time. A tank for Diesel OM and a tank for crude oil save burner trouble. PHONE 149, NIGHT 148 | | RELIABLE TRANSFER | N ———— NEW RECORDS NEW SHEET MUSIC RADIO SERVICE Expert Radio Repairing Radio Tubes and Supplies JUNEAU MELODY HOUSE JUNEAU TRANSFER Moves, Packs and Stores Freight and Baggage Prompt Delivery of ALL KINDS OF COAL PHONE 48 L. C. SMITH and CORONA TYPEWRITERS Guaranteed by J. B. BURFORD & CO. “Our door step is worn by satisfied customers” ) ], - . Garments made or pressed hy‘ us retain their shape l PHONE 528 } TOM SHEARER ¢ . PLAY BILLIARDS —at— BURFORD’S GENERAL PAINT CONTRACTING Those planning exterior work this summer should place their orders now to insure comple- tion while the weather lasts. B. W. BURKE TELEPHONE 415} Alaska’s Resident Decorator