The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 7, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ,‘ VOL. XLL, NO. 6257. : JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 751933, BRITISH PLANTO SETTLE U.S.WAR DEBT KIDNAPED WOMAN SET FREE BY HER ABDUCTORS g AGED WIFE OF PROFESSORIS GIVEN LIBERTY Mrs. Mary Skeele Returns| Home in Hysterical Condition BOUND, BLINDFOLDED, ALL SHE REMEMBERS Five Hundred Officers Wait for Clues to Take Up Search ON FIRING LINE AT THE BEACH | | 1 1 | | | | | | ALASKA TRADE | VOLUME DROPS INPAST YEAR McBride’s Report Shows Merchandise Worth $60,- 894,501 Was Handled BALANCE OF TRADE IS FAVORABLE TO ALASKA Exports Exceed Imports in 1932 by $19.873,674 —Gold Is Active The total commerce of Alaska for the year 1932, as disclosed in t annual report of J. C. Me- | “Buy American” Guns Open on Depression LUMP SUM IS PROPOSED FOR FLATPAYMENT New Commission of Great Britain May Make Offer to U. S. e PRESENT DEBT WOULD BE CUT ABOUT IN HALF Interest Created as to What Congress Will Do About Question LONDON, Feb. 7. — Reli- able sources put the stamp of authority on the reports LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb.| 7.—Mrs. Mary Skeele, aged 65 years, wife of Prof, Wal- ter Skeele, Dean of the Col- | Bride, Collector of Customs, made| | public today, was $60,894,150, as. jcumparcd to $70,125410 for 1931, a | decrease of slightly more than' 20 Great Britain will seek to settle the American war debt By lege of Music of the Univer-| 5 3 i sity of California, was frced‘ by her kidnapers and return- ed home in a hysterical state at 8 o'clock last night, 24 heurs after being lured away.| She sobbed: %They bound me and blindfolded me. I don’t know anything more.” The police said the hue and ery raised by her disap- pearance frightened the kid- napers into freeing her. Five hundred detectives and policemen are ready to pursue the kidnapers as soon as she is calm enough to furnish any information. The kidnapers demanded $20,000 ransom. Dr. Skeele had taken a dummy bundle of money to a spot designated by the kidnapers but no one appeared. Mrs. Skeele was spirited awray| from her home last Sunday evening | when she was informed over the telephone her husband was at an emergency hospital suffering from injuries sustained in an automobile accident, and that an automobile would call for her and take her to the hospital. Before leaving her home, Mrs. Skeele telephoned her son. He went to the hospital but neither his mother or father were there. He then returned home and founl the ransom note. Later he located his father who was at a nearby church where he serves as organist. The police were immediately noti- fied of the abduction. — ., Bandits Must Have Marshal’s 0. K. at Bank GEORGETOWN, Ina, Feb. 7.— Bandits, or anybody else for that matber, must have credentials to erter the Georgetown State Bank. Ivan Kelly, president and cash- ier. announced doors of the in- stitution would be kept locked at all times. “If an acquaintance comes to the door, Kelly will press a but- ton unlocking it. If a stranger appears he will telephone the town marshal, who will saunter -past bank to inspect the prospective customer before he is admitted. | per cent. | | | D e em————————— Dressed in an attractive swim suit Dolores Hunt of Chicago takes | a shot at the ocean at Miami Beach, Fla, where she is vacationing. | _{Associated Press Photo) { . Ere i : | Farm Relief Movement Now : Winning Converts; Attitude | On Need for Aid Changing, l By BYRON PRICE { (Chicf of Burecau, The Associated Press, Wachington.) \ Whatever its immediate legislative effect the present farm relief dis- DR. MARIS 1S BURNED, FIRE | 1 Z cussion is demonstrating that a) important change has taken \place in the nation’s general atti- itude toward agriculture. | Until quite recently the dispo- = 2 i sition of most non-agricultural S(lgertlStyconECCted Wlt‘h ups has been to think of the oiar Iear Lxperiments mer as merely another victim IS Blaze Vidim of the depression, to advise him be must work out his own salva- tion, and to denounce every agi- tation for tangible relief as a raid on the treasury. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 7.— Dr. H. B. Maris, scientist wit |quantity of products, the Naval Research Laboratory, o Washington, D. C, burned his hands severely saving the records in a fire that partially destroyed There has been far less of that during the present consideration of the domestic allotment bill. A widening circle has come to believe that depression or no de- the building housing the scientific| pression, the farmer has not had experiments in studying the Polar @ square deal; that under the ex- |isting économic system he cannot Yonz, {hcpe to 'make his way without It is believed the fire staru‘d)help‘ and that in the interest of from electrical apparatus. (the country as a whole, it is time ——— ‘rsomethmg was done about it. BILL WOULD DO “SOME- i THING” WARSAW, Feb. 7—The Govern-| No one will dispute that the nor of Poland’s fedgral district has | domestic allotment plan proposes appointed a “dance dictator” to|t do something about it in a most supervise dancing academies. Many | émphatic way. parents had complained that their| When a tangle of technical de- children did so badly after taking |tails are cleared away, you find lessons from advertised teachers|at the heart of the plan a pro- that they became objects of ridi- |Posal to pay over to the farmer a cule. The “dance dictator” must direct cash reimbursement, in ad- decide whether ‘poor teaching orffli?wn to the sale price of cer- lack of talent was the cause itain of his products; and to raise 4 _lthe money through the operation Get Dance Dictator Prince in Lone NICE, France, Feb. 7.—A lone quest of the fabled lost continent of Atlantis is the task Prince Wil- helm, second son of the King of Sweden and former husband of the Grand Duchess Marie of Rus- sia, has set himself. To this end, he plans to leave Nice shortly to trek to the heart of French West Africa to talk with the Touaregs, fierce warriors of the Sahara and implacable foes of the French Foreign Leagion. ° One theory is that the Touarege are descendants of the race that inhabited the lost continent, of which the Canary Islands are be- Quest For Lost Fabled Race of a tax collected eventually from the ultimate consumer. That would have been regarded iaa quite revolutionary a short time ago. Something soward the same lend, but regarded by many as |less drastic, was proposed under lieved to have once been part. Be- fore the continent sank into the Atlantic, the ancestors Touaregs are believed to have made their way to Africa. Ghat to Be Goal of the| |the equalization fee and the de- ibenture, and neither of these pro- posals ever attained anything like the vogue which now attaches to th allotment plan. They originated with the farm “The main causes of the sharp decline in 1932 were in the near collapse of the copper industry, for a long time a major industry of the Territory, and the unusu-} allw low value of the products 0!5 the fisheries industry,” said thej Collector. i Trade Balance Healthy The aggregate value of outborne shipments for the year was $40,-| 383912, The inbound commerce | totaled $20,510,238. The balance of irade in Alaska’s favor was 3$19,-| | The year’s business total was| e smallest experienced in almost | two decades, Collector McBride pointed out. The decline, however, except as to copper ore, was one of values rather than volume. The fisheries lost little if anything in| Gold show- | €d a healthy gain, increasing from $0.928,795 in 1931 to $9,261,488 last| year. Fisheries declined slightly more than $10,000,000, dropping from $36,168,799 to $26,075,038. Total Gold Large Commenting on last year's trade mcvements, the report said: “Of Alaskan industries, mining stood almost alone in showing an upward trend. Domestic gold and silver shipped from the Territory| this year amounted to $8,328,879, as “(Continued on Page Two) ! RACE ON FROM NOME T0 SOUTH T0 SAVE BABY - S &8 FEFIEIC &AW F ot City Hall and at every street intersection in the town. Three workers in the campaign are shown as they strutted their stuff. Left to right, are: Raymond G, Peters, City Clerk, Louis H. Buren, campaign chair- man and Mayor Arnold C. Frutig. Enlisting a New Arm The campaign for the support of home industries as a means of fighting the depression is fast gaining impetus. Here is the first “Buy American” sign to make its appearance in River Rouge, Mich. The slogan is stenciled on the sidewalk in front of the y |Mrs. Roosevelt i \Makes Appeal to Women of Nation o NEW HAVEN, Feb. 7.—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the President-Elect, urges wo- men to take an interest in the problems which may arise from the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. This is stated in an interview in the Yale Daily News. Mrs. Roosevelt says: "Although I am dry, I am for repeal. 1 am not satisfied with conditions ' a§ they are, but we as a nation lean to extremes. It is a serious prob- lem. I especially like to see the women of the nation real- ly take an interest in the mat- ter.” immediately with a single payment. The new debt commissian is expected to offer a flat payment of about one-third of the sum now allocated for settlement in the next 50 years. The plan emerged from the {field of speculation with the arrival of Sir Donald Lind- say, British Ambassador to the United States, from Washington. The present debt is about four billion, three hundred million dollars. It is proposed to-offer, ac- cording to reports, one billion and one quarter or two bil- lion dollars. . AMERICAN INTEREST WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. — Wide- spread interest has been created by dispatches carrying the plans® of the British on the American war debt. For some time there has been reports that Great Britain would TRANSFERRING ART TREASURES Women of Santa Monica, Cal, who organized the first unit of “Buy American Forces,” are shown wearing their snappy uniform caps on which the insignia “B.A.F.” is prominently displayed. Those enlisting must 'swear to buy American-made products only. Left to right are: Jane Edberg, Mary Adeale Poore, Louise Bernero and General Lucy Hillyer, who is in command of the new battalion, PEIPING, Feb. 7.—Fearing much | trouble in the Japanese campaign | threatened ~against this ancient Manchu capital, the Chinese are transferring three thousand cases {of art treasures to Shanghai and Plane and Steamer Used by Northern Mother to Get Medical Aid FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 7.—A race from Nome by airplane and steamer to reach the States to ob- tain medical treatment to save tr life of a baby boy is on with P Vic Ross flying from here to C dova to catch the steamer Nor western. Pilot Ross hopped off from here| yesterday morning with Mrs. N¢ son and two children, of Nome passengers. The Signal Corps had radio the Northwestern which waited f the plane at Cordova. Mrs. Nelson said Nome physic declared her infant son would lit only a few weeks unless sp treatment was obtained for thyroid gland disorder. s o e Mummies Catch Cold; Duce Gives Them Heat TURIN, Italy, Feb, 7. — Mu Ini has ordered a steam he plant to protect Turin's Egyp PLANE MISSING . British Cra_f{ Down from| —A plane miss on a flight from with seven persons ing five Provincial been found by the salvage steamer'prookiyn N, Y., motorlst, whose Princess near with engine has been taken in tow by the for Anyox. craft near Kincoll Nanking. \Tuition Bill Whick OUNFESS_ES 10 | Moy difect Atasisnns SLAYJ!G PLOT & Being Shelued | OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. 7—Indef- postponement of two bills ON TRIP, FOUND | inite Man Under Arrest in Ore- gon Admits Implica- tion in Murder Engine Trouble— Officers Aboard PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, Feb. 7. and Washington State College, who |live in Alaska or other States, is recommended by the House Edu- LA GRANDE, Oregon, Jan. 7—| cational Institutions Committee. | abolishing tuition fees for students| at the University of Washington| propose a lump sum offer but of- ficial Washington maintained a strict silence whether Congress could be induced to accept such an arrangements with or without tariff concessions. William Farnum Files Bankruptcy LOS ANGELES, cai, Feb. 7— William Farnum, noted actor and an idol of screen fans a genera- tion ago, has filed a voluntary petition of bankruptey. His lla- bilities were listed at $45,438.23, Total assets exempt from creditors | wearing apparel valued at $500. - e !MH. AND MRS. BEN FICKEN | HERE FROM HIDDEN FALLS Mr. and Mrs. Ben Ficken,. of Hidden Falls, were Juneau arrivals on the motorship Estebeth. Mr. Ficken is interested in a lumber mill at Hidden Falls. since yesterday state Police Lieut, Lee Noe said here to ANyoXtoday that William Mooré, arrested aboard, includ-'yesterday, confessed implication in | Policemen, has the slaying of Harold O'Connor, Kincolits, disabled trouble. The - plane shxp‘ body was found near Coopey Falls, near Portland, last September. | NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—From the |pen of a hard-bitten American |army general has come an inti- {mate picture of Queen Marie of “the enchantress queen 1 the o Nita Naldi Broke, Pilot W. J. Lawson landed and was gain when able to get away gine trouble developed. The plane was chartered at Van-| couver to transport officers to Anyox where 1,000 miners are strik- ing. en-| ——,-——— Prince Wilhelm hopes to pene- trate their country as far as the sacred city of Ghat, where few white men have ever set foof. He will make a thorough study of Touareg customs and evaluate their civilization from a cultural point. Men of the Touareg tribes are all warriors, but go ‘veiled. Their women, on the other hand, ar2 scantily dressed. | organizations, and were looked up- |on widely as the rankest kind of |class legislation. A CONTRAST Observe, in contrast, the pater- nity and backiffg of the allotment plan. A college professor, M. L. Wil- son of Montana State College, is (Continued on Page Two) mummies from the rigors of ter. Scholastic Corporation His attention was called to plight by museum frequenters, v said that the mummies actu suffered from the cold, grew b tle and chipped. This is the first time long history of the local mu that heating arrangements been -undertaken, NORMAN, Okla., Feb. 7. homa, has been chartered. "loans, — The petition in bankruptey, is lving holtz did mnot intend for publica- University Scholastic Corporation,|at the exclusive Plaza hotel with tion, was obtained from his wi- seeking to assist married couples her through the University of Okla- But her debts run back over & University Press. It ex-|period of ten years, and her hus-!| pects to build up a loan fund band is not legally responsible for'rest of Sir George Ru through donations and earnings cn those contracted before their mar-|British member of But Lives in Style! Bepaaln NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—Nita Naldi, one-time screen vampire of Holly- wood, has declared herself entire- ly without worldly goods, either of the siren voice.” In “an undiplomatic diary,” the |late Maj. Gen. Harry Hill Band- holtz, membere of the interallied military mission to Hungary dur- ing the Rumanian invasion of that —— jU. S. Army Man Depicts | Marie As Siren Queen “It was most apparent that Sir George, owing to his prolonged stay at Bucharest, had listened to the siren voice of thc enchantress |queen and fallen under the spell of the Rumanian environmient. Her majesty, certainly seems to think that she can control any man whom she meets, and it must be admitted that she has consid- |erable foundation for that opin- cq:\'h, bank accounts, legacies, Iur-}wumry in 1919-1920, ironically de- niture, or jewels. |scribes the queen's feminine wiles. | Miss Naldi, who recently filed| The diary which General Band- the bluff general, known to collegaues as the “tough nut | cracker,” writes of his own inter- |view with the queen. . husband, J. Searle Barclay.|dow, and is issued by the Columbia| “I am inclined- to think, how- {ever, that she realized it took Speaking of the visit to Bucha-|more than a signed photograph 11 Clark, to cause me to wonder from the commis- | straight and narrow path of mili- tary duty.” the sion, Bandhaltz wrote: riage.