The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 14, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIIL, NO. 5770. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1931. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRE SS PRICE TEN CENTS SEATTLE VOTERS RECALL MAYOR FRANK EDWARDS TAKEDRASTICSTEPSTOSAVEGER ALL BANKS ARE CLOSED: DECREE IS MADE TODAY Action Taken to Stem Tide of Financial Disaster to Nation CASH MUST BE PAID FOR FOREIGN MONEY Collapse of Darmstaedter Causes Trouble in Other Countries | BERLIN, July 14—The German Government moved today to stem the tide of financial disaster by placing in effect what amounts to a general moratorjum on banking operations. i In accordance with the decree of President von Hindenburg, all banks throughout the Reich, with the exception of the Reichsbank, have been closed nominally until next Thursday but actually as long as officials deem it advisable to re- store confidence. No Money Transfers Banks and post offices are pro- hibited from handling payments or transfer either in Germany or to foreign countries. Stock exchanges have been ord- ered to suspend operations for the remainder of the week and any- one insisting on buying foreign eur-, rencies will have to pay cash and checks will not be accepted. | The collapse of the Darmstaedter caused temporary closing of all banks in Hungary and the sus- pension of the Mercur Bank at Vienna, a subsidiary of the Darm- staedter. It is understood here that For- elgn Minister Henderson, of Great Britain, is enroute to Paris from London, and Eecretary of State Stimson, of tis United States, is also bound there for conferences. | | DEEP CONCERN CAUSED | WASHINGTON, D. C., July 14— The financial situation in Germany is the cause of deep concern in of- ficial circles. Credit extension is eased a bit and anxiety has chang: ed but President Hoover continued to watch every development as the results of the order of President von Hindenburg closing the banks in Germany. | President Hoover awaited reports on the frail economic position of the Breuning Government from Am- bassador Sackett. It is indicated that conditions are still bordering on collapse. ! NEW POLITICAL PARTY | BERLIN, July 14—A new politi- cal party called the Loyalist So- cialist Party, whose members will wear green shirts for identification, has been launched. The party will campaign for restorationn of the German monarchy, repudiation of reparations and the “war guilt lie;” reestablishment of conscription, construction of a big navy, and recovering of all German colonies. e on o cumesd ARCHITECT TROAST RETURNS N. Lester Troast, architect, re- turned to Juneau today on the steamship Aleutian from a brief business visit to Wrangell. evr. CHARLES E¢” comm. ROSENDAHL ' HERTRAM U, RODGERS LIEUT. COMM. L8 ROLAND GEORGE MAYER HERBERT V. WILEY Akron to Be Entrusted to Young Officers Who Favored Lure of Sky to Call of Sea g LIEUT. COMM. The navy's $5,375,000 air monster, the dirigible Akron, expected to fly this summer, and four of the officers who will be' aboard. Lieut. Comm. Roscndahl, Captain, will be in command, By 0SCAR LEIDING (A. P. Aviation Editor) WASHINGTON, D. C., July 14— Flying days of the navy airship Akron will be ruled by‘'men who found the lure of the open sky stronger than the call of the sea. Ten officers, sea salts once but now experts in an areial field, head the crew selected to man the mon- ster dirigible that is expected first to fly in mid-summer. To their task they will bring the daring and quickness of youth —their average age is 34—tempered with the experience and judgment of years afloat and aloft. As captain there is Lieut. Comm. Charles E. Rosendahl, 39, slim,, stu- dious leader, quiet but direct of speech, on whom will rest the ‘full responsibility for the $5,375,000 air queen. Skipper Leads in Air Honors Annapolis trained with the class of ’14, he started his lighter-than- air career after nine years of 'sea and shore service because, he said, “I thought I would like flying.” Senior surviving officer of the Shenandoah crash in 1925, skipper of the Los Angeles for three years, first commander of the navy's rigid airship training and experimental squadron, he has flying. time now equal to 138 consecutive days and nights aloft. He was aboard the Graf Zeppe- lin on its first flight to ‘America and again when it fi2w around the world. He has had more hours in the air as skipper than any other American officer. Wiley Right Hand Man Lieut. Comm. Herbert V .Wiley, as executive officer, will be his right-hand man. He is 40, a year and a day older than Rosendahl, Annapolis trained with the class of '15, served on the Shenandoah King Zog Has Nest Egg - for Reforms in Albania TIRANA, Albania, July 14—King Zog, uncrowned ruler of this feud cursed land, just has obtained a nest egg with which he hopes to help save his people from further traditional private wars. It is a loan of $20,000,000 from Ttaly, but the loan couched in such terms that it may easily be- come a gift. No interest is charg- ed; no definite time set for pay- ment. In fact, Albania will not be expected to turn back any of the money unless the country gets to a point where its revenues reach $10,000,000 annually. Last year's income was $6,114,000. The money is to be used for pub- lic works and cultural and busi- ness expansion. This summarizes the general program for the king. Deadly Feuds Flourish He hopes -above all to educate of private vengeance which has hitherto been their greatest handi- cap to progress. It is a system of blood feuds even more deadly than the family affairs which used to keep the mountdin folk of Ken- tucky and West Virginia in a fer- ment. The feuds stand in the way of national unity. They are con- stantly springing up and killers are seldom punished. The Albanian code obliges the nearest relative of & murdered man to destroy either the killer or, if the latter has fled, the nearest rel- ative of the slayer. ‘When the second murder has been commit- ted, the nearest relative of its vic- tim must take up the cause. Thus the feud gathers mass and momen- tum like an avalanche. Albania is dotted with the black- ened ruins of homes becguse it is his people to the point where they will sée the futility of the system (Continued on Page Threg) ( 2 and for.a year was skipper of the Loos Angeles. i Lieut, Comm. Bertram J. Rodgers is engineer officer. He is 37, and has’ been ‘executive officer of the {Los Angeles. Lieut. Roland G. Mayer, con- the construction of the Shenan- doah., On that airship when it broke - asunder over Ohio, he es- caped with Rosendahl and five others by free-ballooning 12 miles in the forward section. He was aboard the Graf Zeppelin {in 1929 as naval observer on lts trans-Atlantic flight from America to Germany. Lieut. Richard R. Dennett was a balloonist in two national elimina- tion races and a watch officer on the Los Angeles for a year. He is. 30. The Akron will have another for- mer watch ofifcer of the Los An- geles in Lieut. Harold H. Pickens, 29, a lighter-than-dir man since 1929. struction corps, is 39. He aided in | (- Youngest of the officers is Lievt | Wilfred Bushnell, 28, a graduate of Annapolis in 1926. He served | little more than a year on surface | ships before he was detailed to | lighter than air training. A familiar figure in ballooning | circles, he was aide to Lieut. T. G. | W. Settle in the 1929 national elim~ | ination race in which the pair plac- ed first in setting a world distance | record of 952 miles. | Experienced in airship power plants, Chief Machinist Emmett Clark Thurman, 39, has served with the navy for 21 years and was | assistant engineer on both the Los | Angeles and Shenandoah. | Sixty-three enlisted men are in- cluded in the crew of the Akron for peace-time operations. The wartime complement would be 75. Fifty-one will be attached during the trial flights while the remain- der form the airplane unit to be | attached after the airship is de- livered at Lakehurst. 'Lindbe.rghé 3 Will Stop f at Barrow ) TS Order for Gasoline and Oil Delivery Is Receiv- ed at Nome NOME, Alaska, July 14—A pro- posed stop at Point Barrow when the Lindberghs fly to the Orient is revealed in an order received here. The order calls for the delivery of 200 gallons of gasoline and 30 gallons of oil to Point Barrow for Col. Charles A. Lindbergh by the livery will be made by the cutter Northland leaving Nome next Sat- urday. WILL ROGERS AT WELCOME NN —— Flies to Home Town to Be There to Greet Post and Gatty CLAREMONT, Okla., July 14— Wwill Rogers, humorist, joined his home town today in welcoming Wiley Post and Harold Gatty. The “gage of Colagah” recently told his townspeople they needed fliers. The fliers were accorded their third ovation at Tulsa last night. Rogers eame by air from California. Lomen Commercial Company. De- | U S. SENATOR START TROUBL {Crowd of Ffii—p_inos Attack | Army Officers and Their Wives MANILA, July 14.—A group of | American Army officers and their wives were stoned by an angry crowd of Filipinos while the island- ers were participating in an inde- pendence demonstration before two United States Senators. Several Americans were hit. Capt. Fred Adams and Robert Davis, son of an Army officer were injured | slightly. The incident occurred in open, at the swimming pool of the Army and Navy Club. A crowd of | Filipinos overran the grounds and | were ordersd off. the grounds, using their fists The independence demonstration |was started by Senators Hawes of | Missouri and Pittman of Nevada, advocates of Philippine freedom and drew a. throng estimated from 100,000 to 200,000. 0l A | Mrs. A. L. Nordale, Joan Nordale and Arthur Nordale, well known residents of Fairbanks are home- bound passengers on the steamship | Aleutian. While the vessel was in called on several acquaintance STOCK MARKET ALASKA JUNEAU IS REFLECTING PRODUCTION IN GERMAN ISSUE JUNE, $325,500 Crisis in Central Eourpe Recovery Value 95.06 Per Makes Trading Slug- Ton with Costs Aver- gish in New York aging 50.66 Cents NEW YORK, July 14. The| The Alaska Juneau's production world's financial market today re- | of gold for the month of June fiected paralyzing influences of the | was $325,000, and silver $500, ac- scute banking situation in Central | cording to the monthly statement Burope. | of operations issued from the San MANY He Is Ousted — ” 3 Security trading on the New York matket was extremely sluggish. Stocks developed rather a heavy ton?g. Bends were scarcely active enough to establish the trend of the Street and there was only par- tial reassurance in the statement made there might be a renewal of the loan to the Reichsbank. Bankers are inclined to await de-' velopments and the reopening of the German banks before passing' The stock lists changes to limn,ed1 small fractions, Several prominent issues sold' off with a point or two of losses. | U. S. Steel, American Can, Leh-| man Corporation and Eastman de-| clined. Issues losing a point were Am- erican Telephone, Consolidated Gas, Bethlehem Steel, Anaconda, Co- lumbla Gas, Johns-Manville, In-| ternational Harvester and American Smelting. The banking opinion regarding the German crisis remained highly confused. e ——— ——— TODAY'S STOCK ) QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 14.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine; stock today is 14%, American Can 105%, Anaconda Copper 23%, Beth- lehem Steel. 45, Fox Films 15%, General Motors 37, International Harvester 419 Kennecott 17%, Checker Cab 10%, 10%, 10%, Cur- tiss-Wright 3%, Packard Motors 7, Standard Brahds 17%, Standard | Oil of California 36, Standard Oil of New Jersey 36%, Trans-Ameri- ca 7%, United Aircraft 26%, U. 8. Steel 94% e e — S | ON WAY HERE jthe motor quit after the take-off. l the jife in Alaska and to take motion The islanders became incensed F. W. Schome, naturalist of the| and began throwing stones. Only Puget Sound Academy of Science.! cne police officers was available.jThe party of ten are mostly uni- | Twenty members of the club form-]versity and high school students ed a phalanx and quickly cleared interested MRS. NORDALE SEES FRIENDS 'as far to the westward as Gla- ' High School, CAPT, PEASLEY, FICTION HERO, Notable Mariner in Not-| able Craft Is Coming with Scientists One of fiction's notable person- ages is an actual character. He is| Capt. Ralph (Matt) Peasley, im- mortalized in Peter B. Kyne's sea- faring stories, and the doughty mariner is now voyaging in South-! east Alaska waters. He is reported by Associated Press dispatches to| be in Ketchikan and is due in Ju- neau in a few days. He is skip- per of the auxiliary sloop Linda, once owned and navigated by Jack London, eminent author of North-| ern tales. The rhission of the craft is to col- lect specimens of animal and plant pictures of land and ocean crea- tures for Washington State Mu- seum. The expedition was organized by in scientific research.| They include Samuel Harby, Colum- | bia University, New York City; Henry Lohse, Lakeside School, of Seattle; Francis Holman, Garfield Seattle; Leonard Jones, Washington State Normal School, Bellingham; H. L. Seeger, Lakeside school instructor. The vessel is scheduled to cruise cier Bay and the North Pacific off | Cape Fairweather. —— - PARLIAMENT MEETS MADRID, July 14—For the first Parliament convened here tonight. i judgment. |3 'Eleven Dead Francisco headquarters of the com- pany and made public here today by L. H. Metzgar, General Super- intendent. The recovery value per ton was 95.08 cents, and operating expenditures averaged 5066 cents per ‘ton. The net operating surplus with deducting for depreciation and dz=- pletion was $154,800. | x i % The company’s statement of es-j FRANK EDWARDS 70 N, M. PRISON 42,440. WASHINGTON, D. C, July 14— |A ruling that Albert B. Fall will serve his sentence in the New Mexico State Prison was handed down today by Attorney General Mitchell. The latter said he be- lieved the climate will be better suited for Tall's delicate condi- tion there than at Leavenworth Penitentiary. The sentence was also amendsd to be one year and one day, Cents | Per ton | $325,000 9491 500 15! Operating Revenue: Gold Lead and Silver Total ) Operating Expenditures: Mining and tram- ming Milling All other Juneau operating costs New York Stock Transfer and San Francisco office expense 95.06 $ 91,000 71,500 26.57 8500 248 2,500 -..$113,500 $152,000 2,800 Dobml Sk PR MR Operating Profit Other Revenue Nonstoppers to Attempt Flight Witliin 2 Weeks SEATTLE, July 14—Reg L. Rebbins and H. 8. Jones ar- rived yesterday afternoon at 4:56 o'clock in their plane Fort Worth frem Fairbanks, making a nonstop flight from the Al- aska town of 1,600 miles. Rebbins said the second at- tempt to make a nonstop from Seattle to Tckyo will be made within two weeks. The aviators will fly more in a southwesterly direction from Nome, over St. Lawrence Island and down the Siberian Coast. The route will be longer but probably the weather will be better, Robbins said. FLIERS REACH HARBOR GRACE HARBOR GRACE, Newfound- land, July l4.—Alexander Magyar tand George . Endres, Hungarians, landed here yesterday after a seven hour flight from New York., They plan a nonstop flight to Budapest as soon as the weather able. Surplus $154,800 R VRN, in Accidents of Airplanes Week-End Disasters Take Toll of Death in U. S. —Also Canada CHICAGO, Ill, July 14. — Air- plane accidenfs over the week-end claimed the lives of eleven persons in the United States and Canada and another is dead as the result of an accident last Wednesday. Chester Bailes and Willlam War- ren were burned to death in a crash at Chicago. Witnesses said Elizabeth Osborn, aged 16, and Ruby Hinson, aged 18, were killed when a plane fell. The pilot H. E. Lawhead was injured. The acci- dent occurred at Jonesboro, Ar- kansas. Irwin Vrooman's plane crashed in flames after entangled in a tree at Harrisonville, Missouri. George Col- burn and Urshul Thomas were burned to death. Vrooman was burned and died later. Art Bielby and Willlam Bramp- hall, Canadian passengers, were killed at Lloydminster when a plane fell 1,200 feet. Another passenger was injured. e,—— WALLSTEDT GOES TO SEWARD 8. Wallstedt, deputy grand presi- dent for Alaska of the Loyal Order Charles Sugg died at Martin's|of Moose, booked passage this Ferry, Ohio, as a result of a frac- | morning on the Aleutian for Sew- tured skull when his plane smashed ' ard last Wednesday. J. L. Hazeltine, pilot, and Martin | . . . giessn, & wuiness man, ot e Delight in ‘Kick’ Is What airport at Trinidad, Colorado. | e (cational standards and the lure of |the modern miss for things with a OTTAWA, July 14—Premier R. B. “kick” in them were bl Bennett announces a new trade Maude West, Scotland Yard wom- agreement between OCanada and|an detective, for the increase in Australia. Each country grants'female criminals the other substantial tariff prefer-! wiss West testified in the trial ences on bulk commodities export- of three well-dressed girls convict- ed and the agreement is intended eq of petty larceny to divert trade from other coun-, «Por some time,’ the detective tries. Vsaid, “we've suspected the opera- tions of a ring of girl burglars in the outer ;i cause many of the robberies netted Mrs. L. H. Metzgar is home from only women’s finery and candy.” a visit in the States. She was a| Asked to what she attributed the ! | i i aat i 1 MRS. METZGAR IS BACK Juneau this forenoon, Mrs. Nordale:time in eight years, the Spanish|passenger on the steamship Aleu- gpnarent increase in crime among tian, which arrived this morning. ' women, Miss West said: '] is favor- | LONDON, July 14.—British edu- | amed by | sections of London be- | ' QUSTED, HEAVY - VOTE IS CAST Over Thirty-five Thousand Favor Ending Reign of Mayor ROBERT HARLIN IS NOW ACTING CHIEF Council Will Choose Suc- cessor to Edwards Within 20 Days EXECUTIVE IS ] | § | SEATTLE, July 14.—Mayor Frank Edwards was yesterday recalled by 35,567 votes to 21,836, a total of about 4,000 less than cast at the Spring election. Robert Harlin, President of the City Council, will take charge of the Mayor's office. \ The Council will elect a Mayor ;thhm 20 days. The recall campaign started when Edwards dismissed J. D. Ross, for more than 20 years Superintendent of the City Light Department, last March, on the eve of the Council election. Backers of Ross promised his immediate reinstatement by a sym- pathetic Council. | Mayor Edwards was accused of undue friendliness with the private power interests. Ross was cham- pioned as a defender of public ownership, EDWARDS TALKS ?" SEATTLE, " July 18—Mayor Ed- !wards is moving his personal be- longings out of the Mayor's office. | “Looks like you are moving,” a |reporter said. | “Yes, all T can say is that I'm as 800d as any other man. I have done the best I could for the people of Seatplev They don't seem to ap~ preciate it,” said Edwards. | He said he would take a short vacation, then return to private business. He is not certain wheth- er he will attempt & political come- back. | To Reinstate Ross A clean sweep of the Board of Public Works and immediate rein- statement of J. D. Ross is an= nounced by Acting Mayor Har- lin who became Mayor as soon as the votes were officially canvassed. “The result of the election was a mandate from the people that they want Ross reinstated and the * | Board of Public Works complete- 1y reorganized,” Harlin said. | A special meeting of the City Council is called for tomorrow to i select a Mayor who will serve until the regular city election next Spring. 4 RUSSIANS T DIE, CRASH | MOSCOW, July 14—Eight Rus- \sian army officers were killed in a plane accident at Alabino, 30 miles west of here, late yesterday after- noon. | & e HAS EVERE COLD William Smith of Juneau, is a patient in 8t. Ann's hospital. He has a severe cold. . Lures Uneducated Girls to Enter Crime,Asserts Woman “Two things are to blame. Our educational standards, which teach girls only a smattering of this and of that, do not fit her for their | particular circle of life. “They see their neighbors getting an easy living off the dole and imagine they also should have an easy living. “Then, too, there is the desire of the girls to do things for the ‘kick® | eriminals of today are far different from those of a few years back. “Today theyre smarter and bet- |ter dressed. They make our work | harder, for none suspects the rea- | sonably well educated girls of crim: {inal tendencies.” they get out of it. Really the girl *