The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 24, 1931, Page 1

MIEIRIRY IHI IRIISTM| A\S/ DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA THURSDAY DECEMBER 24 1931 ADJUSTMENT OF WAR DEBTS IS RECOMMENDED Young Plan Advisory Com- mittee Reports on Reparations NEW AGREEMENTS MUST BE REACHED Action Must Be Taken Im- mediately to’ Avoid Disasters BASEL, Dec. 24 — The Young Plan Advisory Committee last night called for adjustment of all rep- arations and other war debts to| the ! the troubled situation of Word's finances and warned that this must be done immediately “if disasters are to be avoided.” All of the eleven financial ex- perts agreed unanimously to thel report. The official advance summary, said Germany “would be justified in declaring that despite steps taken to maintain stability of her currency she is not able in the' 1932, to part of years beginning July 1, transfer her conditional reparations and annuity.” No direct reference is made to unconditional reparations and an- nuities which the committee had | no power to touch. The committee recommended that interested governments get to- gether and work out a practical agreement in line with the recom- | mendations made by it. DOWNWARD REVISION WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 24— Doubt today blanketed the whole future of war debts due the United States from her former Allies, but the probability of a stiff downward | revision became emphatic after t.hfl‘ Basel report, which is regarded by bankers now at Basel, as the be- ginning of the end of the Young Plan in the eyes of Europe at least. Reparations are the key to the| whole structure of the world war burden and it appeared virtually certain, in the case of many na- tions that obligations due this coun- try will not be paid at the ex- piration of the moratorium. No Comment Made The official attitude of Wash- ington is reflected, however, des- pite a determined refusal to com- ment on the report from the Young Plan Advisory Committee, and this showed a clear conviction that Congress made it impossible for President Hoover to take further steps on debts as the result of (Continued on Frage Four) German Cruiser Karlsruhe to Be Here Next May Juneau will be visited by the German cruiser Karls- ruhe. This port will be reached by the warship next May 18 and she is scheduled to stay until May 30. She then will go to Sitka, ar- riving there June 1 and re- maining until June 8. J. C. McBride, Collector of Customs, has received from the Department of State a request that he ex- tend to the craft all the courtesies and facilities of his office. . . e®0ec0ececcccccceccc e ‘Woman Is Chosen to Conference President Names Miss Woolley as U. S. Dele- gate to Geneva WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 24— Mary Emma Woolley, of South) Hadley, Mass., has been chosen as| the first woman delegate to the! International Disarmament Confer- | ence at Geneva, by President Hoov- er and the appointment was made | vesterday. Miss Woolley has been President of the Mt. Holyoke College for| Girls at South Hadley for the past ® 30 years. She is 68 years of age.| Charles G. Dawes will head the American delegation at Geneva and | be chief spokesman. ——— - STOCK PRICES TAKE ADVANGE ~ THEN GO DOWN, Bankers Satisfied with Young Plan Commit- tee Report TUG ROOSEVELT REPORTED LOST IN OCEAN GALE “For God's Sake Hurry” Is Last Word Receiv- ed from 11 Men tug Roosevelt, used by Admiral |Robert E. Peary in the discovery of the North Pole in 1909, with |eleven men aboard from which the last words “For God's Sake Hur- ry,” were heard last night, is feared lost in the storm tossed seas ofl southern Vancouver Island. Coast Guard cutters patrolling |the waters have not found the Roosevelt which was severed from | the schooner Commodore which she !was towing to Seattle. The Com- modore was the winner in the Honolulu to Puget Sound sailing race. Heavy seas severed the Roosevelt twice from the Commodore and efforts were being made to get a third line aboard when the storm lincreased and the two craft sep- arated. The Roosevelt previously reported she was “flooded and not much chance for us.” The Commodore ran up ber sails and stood out to sea to avoid the storm. She is now reported safe, /38 miles off Estavana, British Co- lumbia. NEW YORK, Dec. 24—A trickle | aof selling percolated through se- |curities for a time today to minor \Iractians in stocks. The turnover was a little over 1,000,000 shares, the smallest in nearly three months. Bankers are inclined to express satisfaction over the Young Plan Advisory Committee report. Wall Street felt it did not bring {the problem near enough to a| solution to justify bidding up se-‘ | curity prices. | Stocks had a firmness period early in today's session but later | lost the gains. Westinghouse was a soft off to a new low at 95. Allied Chemical, Auburn, Con- | solidated Gas, Coco Cola, Santa Fe | were of about one point. Changes in such issues as United | | States Steel, American Can, Am- erican Telephone and Telegraph, General Motors and General Elec- tric were negligible. spot, CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Dec. 24—Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |stock today is 13, American Can '61%, Anaconda Copper 10%, Beth- lehem Steel 18%, Curtiss - Wright 1%, Fox Films 3%, General Motors 22%, International Harvester 24, |Kennecott 11%, Packard Motors 4, | United States Steel 37%, Bunker Hill, no sale. Alaska Pilot Held Two Days on Lake When His Plane Breaks Through Ice ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 24. —Pilot Barnhill returned here last {night bringing Mrs. Oscar Samuel- |son from Bethel to the hospital here. He reported he was held for !two days on a lake enroute here when his plane broke through the |ice in landing. Pilot Monsen is reported ground- ed in the Iditarod district by motor |trouble and is awaiting the arrival of repair parts. R Russia’s 1930 harvest produced 3,600,000,000 bushels of grain, 600, 000,000 bushels more than the year before. GOVERNMENT TO SHUT DOWN ALL FARM STATIONS Budget Bureau Strikes Out Item for Alaska Ex- periment Stations Abandonment of all the Agri- cultural Experiment Stations of the United States Department of Agri- culture after June 30, next is indi- icated by the.fallure of the Federal | Bureau of Budget to recommend any appropriations for that work, or for maintaining the stations. The budget, which was recently transmitted to Congress, does not carry any reference to the item. If Congress does not restore the item, it will be necessary to close the stations, and transfer the per- sonnel to the States. Flory Not Informed Efforts to find out the reason for the elimination of the estimates for this service from the budget were made here today without re- sult. Questioned about the matter, Charles H. Flory, Alaska Commis- sioner for the Department of Agri- cultere, said he had discovered that the bugdet had stricken the cus- tomary appropriation but that he had not been informed of and did not know any reason- for the ac- tion. “I have no information as to- why the cut was made, and cannot, therefore comment on that phase of the subject,” he said. He acknowledged, however, that the result of the cut would be to wipe out all of the Federal Gov- ernment’s agricultural experiment projects in Alaska, the closing down of the stations, and probably the sale, or transfer, of all plants in- cluding equipment and stock. It Natural Procedure “This naturally would be the procedure to be followed,” he said. “If we have no funds, of course we cannot keep the stations on an SEATTLE, Dec. 24—The historic| COPE IS SAFE AT UNALAKLEET WITH AIRPLANE Salvages Sg;on Tundra After Siwashing it for Five Weeks SEATTLE, Dec. 24.—The Seattle Daily Times says Alonzo Cope, after siwashing it for five weeks on an open snow plain, is safe at Unalakleet, Alaska, with the plane he salvaged from a mishap occur- ring last summer. The plane, equipped with pon- ' toons, was forced down on the tundra and Cope found it impossi- ble to get back into the air. Last month, Cope went out by dogteam, carrying a set of skiis. Since then he has been working on the plane in the open awaiting for favorable weather and snow on which to take off. Yesterday he succeeded in get- ting into the air and flew to Una- lakleet. Anchorage, Alaska, Dec. 24.—The arrival of Alonzo Cope is anxiously awaited by his wife so funeral| arrangements can be made for a still born child Cope has not heard about. e e THREE NATIONS i GIVE WARNINGS T0 JAPAN GOVT, | Appr clisnsion. Exprcssed Over New Military Operation, Manchuria TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 24. — The United States, Great Britain and France are understood to have ex- pressed to the Japanese Govern- ment, what Tokyo considers as a “warning” upon the new Japanese military operations in the Chin-| chow region. | Apprehension of the United States Government is understood to have been conveyed to Premier Inukai by American Ambassador Forbes. At the same time the Rengo News Agency said warning notes were received from Great Britain and France. The Rengo Agency says the text of these warnings will be publish- | ed soon with the Japanese reply e lying designs and colors to hair in volume production been discovered. SEWARD, Alaska, severe earthquake at 5:45 o'clock yesterday No serious damage ported. minute. MRS. STROEBE RETURN FROM CALIFORNIA Mrs. ‘The long sought method of app- Thomas, Jr., mo- night after spending se has in Santa Monica, Ca visited her parents MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS \ SEWARD HAS EARTH SHOCK Dec. ord: afte: has bee The shock last —aeo AND T. J. Stroebe returned and er a SON home last ral months , where she Cf,‘,‘jg f;‘,‘;“;;l | GASH JEWELRY aturday =y EAIRBANKS 24—A d here | rnoon. | n re- full Woman Juror in Foshay Trial Will Soon Know Fate MINNEAPOLIS, —Tt sported a decision will be announced next Saturday on the contempt of court action Mrs. Genevieve Clark arising from the jury disagreement of the Fo- shay mail fraud cas Two Federal Judges have had the Drug Store Proprietor Is l{eld'u[) Cash ch' ister Not Touched FATRBANKS —An unmaske robber drug store here Tuesday up Frank M. Dunham, one of the proprietors, and robk him of a Minn., Dec is son, | Dec. 24 entered a and held Alaska, Former Governor and Mrs. Scott C. Bone Send Greetings to Their Alaska Friends In pursuance of their annual custom, the former and Mrs. Scott C. Bone ask The Empire to transmit the following message to their friends in the Northland: “Over six years have elapsed since we sailed out of Juneau amid the loving au revoirs of citizens of the becloved The scene is vividly with us interim, our thoughts have daily turned to the picturesque coun- cherished tiful little Capital. try of our adoption. Time has memory of four happy years. “To each and all of our God bless you every one! faith in its future abides. vast friends in Juneau and the Territory, we send heartiest Greetings this holiday We feel your warm hand cl love you dearly. The lure of Alaska is strong within We know that we should n and bea not dimmed O hout t overnor In the oughout season. asps and see matter under consideration for se’ eral weeks since Mrs. Clark, t only woman on the yury and who| The robber made no effort. | held out for acquittal inst con- | reach the cash ter viction of the eleven men jur | The unmasked robber | The Government brought the |elderly man and has so far | contempt action asserting she com- | the efforts of local officer: | mitted perjury while being ques- |iure him. | tioned as a prospective | which she said she did not any of the defendants. W. B. Foshay and six a will be re month. - |diamond stickpin and ring, valued at $1,500 and $40 in currenc to was an eiuded to cap- in | know e, — ociates | i BACK FROM WASHINGTON Officer laska home G. H. Skinner, Chief Cl Commissic ay after weeks which ington, D. C., Disbursing the rned s and Road ) rd of ret an absence of sev he spent in on Commission Jury Acquits Dentist of Causing Death of His Former Fiancee RENO, Nevada, Dec. 24—A jury has acquitted Dr. Pierre Andre, West Virginian dentist, of the al-| leged murder of his former fiancee, ur he Interior Man Found Insane; '\ ,'&Jw‘« :;.z iy PRICE TEN CENTS LONE BANDIT GETS $20,000, - MAKES ESCAPE Four Men Held-up at Point of Gun Late Yester- day Afternoon | CURRENCY TAKEN FROM 'DESK, ALSO FROM SAFE [Robber Mgles with Crowd in Lobby and Quickly Disappears SEATTLE, Dec. 24. A lone bandit, armed with two guns, held up the cashier's office of the main Seattle Post office late yesterday afternoon and escaped with appro- ximately $20,000. A dozen patrons were in the lobby, a few feet away, at the time of the robbery. The robber was apparently fam- iliar with the building and the cashier’s office procedure. Enters By Secret Door The robber stepped into the cashier's office through a second office, barred to the public, shortly after 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, where O. P. Hale, Chief Stamp Clerk, and E. A. Chitwood, As: ant Stamp Clerk, were at their desk counting the days’ stamp re- ceipts. The robber covered the two men with a small automatic, swept the large stack of currency from the desk into a leather brief case, then went to the safe and scocped up several large sacks of currency and held two other men, at bay in addition to Hale and Chitwood. Makes Quick Getaway After the hold-up, the lone rob- ber escaped through the door which he entered and mingled with the wd in the lobby and disap- red. The hold-up is described as a man about 35 years of age, six feet in height and wore a cap over his eyes. The victims said the bandit's breath smelled strongly of 1.quor - e Application Filed for Denver-San Pedro Line WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 24— Application has been filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission by the Denver-Pacific Railroad for permission to build an 800-mile line from Denver to San Pedro harbor for a quick service from the coast to the Orient. e P Secretary Wilbur Sends Greetings To People of Alaska ® Season’s greetings were ex- tended Alaskans today by Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, in telegram received today at the office of Gov. George A. Parks and addresed to him. Mr.- Wilbur “I extend to you and ka and y greeting peu,)le of my and prosperity w Year bring new tive accomplish- to the common good.” ee e oo v oo ®e00es000ccoce e® 9000000000000 operating basis, and the personnel now engaged in conducting the work would be shifted to other fields where similar activities are carried improvements all along the coasts and Territory. Progress may be slower than you wi marks and will be continuous. Alaska is gradua throt Mrs. Martha Hutchinson. The jury deliberated one hour and fifteen minutes. Says He Killed His Partner 24 it is FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. coming was afoot to steal his mining prop- Couple Is Sentenced to Two Years for Cruelty to Child WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 24— Mr. and Mrs. Harry N. Riley have been sentenced to two years im- prisonment and fined $250 dor cruelty to their 12-year-old child, Edith. Justice F. D. Letts imposed the maximum sentence after describing the evidence as “revolting.” Riley and his wife were convicted for treating the girl cruelly, keep- ing her in a dark closet for four )ylelrs, and otherwise mistreating er, on by the Department. “It is probably that the Federal Government will instruct me to tender the stations and their equip- ment to the Territorial Govern- ment if it desires to take over the experiment service on ite own be- half. If the Territory does not care to do this, then the next step (Continuea vn Page 5ix) into its own. “Year after year, we have looked forward to re-v It is,a hope only deferred. friends. mitting, we shall see you 2ll again. abound. So fine a domain as Alaska cannot halt. It is country, populated by God's people. “A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year is ol May the year 1932 be the best of all your ye: 5 wish! Santa Barbara, California ng Some day, Pr Meanwhile, let you nce good per courage God's devout from Nenana ristensen has be sane at a hea roadhouse, forty on Wednesday. stensen was brought in by after being found wandering » woods. He said he shot his ar ner, Sam Fedderson “under ords m McKinley Park Range to do Mrs. Hutchinson died as the re- sult of injuries received wh he fell or jumped from an automo- bile driven by Dr. Andre following a party - e HOME FOR HOLIDAY Robert Livie, son of M Mrs. Jack Livie of this city > last night on the steam- Victoria to spend the holiday with his parents, says de- g in miles plane rs 1r $0. cuson Christensen said @ conspiracy 1 was worth “Eighty Mil- number of including Christensen had a lerson’s possessions, his partner’s dog. Federal authorities said they had no funds with which to investigate to see if Fedderson has actually been kiiled by the insane man. Christensen said he shot down the moon and stars after shooting | Fedderson,