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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLL, NO. 6281. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS STRINGENT BANK RULES ARE RELAXED NEW CONGRESS PREPARES FOR ACTIVE WORK Will Rush Through Needed: Legislation in Nation- | al Emergency | SENATE DEMOCRATS | WILL ACT AS ONE| Failure to (—.};Quick Ac-! tion, President Will Be | Given Authority | WASHINGTON, March 7.—Uni-| fied Democrats, in control of Capi-| tol Hill, are rzady to rush through | Congress, which meets Thursday | noon, whatever legislation Presi- dent Roosevelt thinks will meet the national emergency, or failing in R that, will give him extraordinary 3 £ t alone. A 1 anxious are the members of - PrelateS will be among the six new ess to cooperate, that the ording to a recent announcement from Vatican sources, these two cardinals to be created at a Vatican consistory on March 13. At left is the Rev. Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi, TWO TEUTONIC NATIONS SEEM ABOUT TO JOIN |0ld Cry of—G_ermany and Austria Forming Un- ion Again’Raised MASS MEETINGS ARE HELD BY HITLERITES Government Sudden- l ly Brought Forth BERLIN, March 7.—The move« ment for a union of the Teutonic BELIEVE THAT RECOVERY HAS NOW STARTED Experts Figure Bank Holi- day Has Served Real Purpose in U. S. PRICE LEVEL IS " "ALREADY BOOSTED 1 |Question of Parliamentary’While Central Markets Are Closed, Trade News Is Encouraging NEW YORK, March 7.—Experts are working on a puzzle, from Nation’s Banks Authorized To Reopen on Next Friday ARE ANNOUNGED WASHINGTON, March 7.— Late this afterncon the Treas- ury Department authorized the guarded reocpening of the na- tion’s banks, beginning next Friday and the issmance of clearing house certificates or scrip to be used in place of money. The reopening of the banks will permit the flew of cur- rency for meeting essential needs of business and citizens. In some quarters another banking regulation is expec- ted which will permit deposit- ors to withdraw one third of their deposits in banks. Many states immediately made haste to take advantage Of the new regulations. Checks on temporarily closed banks are to be accepted for income tax payments providited dili- gent: and conscientious efforts are made to furnish either cash or post office money order. SIX FOOTER AND HIS MIDGET BRIDE nations, Germany and Austria, fre-,whlch many pieces are missing, | quent cause of alarm in neighbor-‘'and are trying to figure out wheth- | ing countries since the World War,:er the bank holiday does not mark has been given new impetus. lme beginning of the economic re- Hitler Victory 1 covery. The Hitlerites held mass meet-| Prices Advance ings throughout the country last| Some see this in the advancing night acclaiming the victory of the commodity and foodstuff prices and former Austrian, Adolf Hitler, in' indications of mild inflation with Senate Democrats have agreed to bind themselves as they have not been bound since the World War. Apostolic Delegate to the United States; and at right, Mgr. Jean Marie Rodroque Villeneuve, Archbishop of Quebec. The creation of the new cardinals by Pope Pius is in connection with the Holy Year celebrations. WALKER BRINGS Il MEASURE TO In a preliminary meeting, the Senate Democrats voted to a rigid 1le under which future caucuses by action of the majority could sind them to support a particular iece of legislation. FORMER MAN OF FAIRBANKS 1S A SUCIDE. i Albert Duckwitz Takes the rescus of Al n industries| Puicon ShOOlS Hlm- and residents by enacting a bill > to protect them from competition self, San Francxsco 1of countries having = depreciated curencies is voiced in Senate Joint + SAN FRANCISCO Cal. March 7. Memorial No. 1, which was intro- —Twenty minutes after Albert duced Monday afternoon by Sen- Duckwitz who married while he ator N. R. Walker, Ketchikan. was steward of the famous Tanana| The measure was referred toj Club at Fairbanks, Alaska, a mem- the Committee on Judiciary, Sen-| ber of a prominent New York ator Frawley, Chairman. Today a family, killed himself, leaving a resolution asking that the Presi- preciated Currencies— Urge Alaskans for Jobs come 1o | AID INDUSTRIES Tome Seeks Prol(:‘ct;n from De—"Perfect Accoj Registered MRS. GREENBEBG HOUSE SELECTS | COMMITEES IN SESSION TODAY in Approval of List of Regular Committees The House of Representative to- day completed its work of perma- nent organization by approving without a dissenting vote the re- port of the Committee on Commit- tees, naming the regular committee Qrganizations to-serve through the session. epresentative Joe Baronovich introduced a memorial urging Con- gress to pass suitable -legislation to protect local industries from com- petition from countries with deprec- note he could not find work, a dent, in filling Federally appoin- friend called at his hotel to offer tive positions in the Territory, him a job. 'select none but bona fide Alaskan: himself, the police said. |was introduced by Senator Camp- Duckwitz took poison then shot 'bell and referred to the same com- ! Two sons, Paul and Chester, mittee. ; live in Tacoma. Ready For Business | | | Duckwitz, in his note said: “I; g o Lk & = S am not a moocher or four flusher. ‘HOTQI‘:‘ c,":;’f;“lfilse d{\ibkfr?gs ‘311“‘;’5:‘ 1 have always been a successful! .~ ° . 73 E A business man but I have looked in hing l?u>)nes.s‘. E?c_h bOd}.m‘m'd . > * the Governor it was organized and b o e Iready to receive communications. |The House notified the Senate of fils organization and the Senmei 2 K I D N A P E Rs {appointed a committee for thej same purpose tos notify the Houwse | which was done this afternoon. UNDER ARREST | The Senate completed its per- {manent organization late yester- iday afternoon by appointing its| DENVEH GASE“regular committees for the session.| These follow: FINANCE AND CORPORA-| . |TIONS—Bragaw, Hess, Lomen and| Two Others Involved in snattuck. i Boeticher Abduction | TAXATION AND TRANSPOR- B * SO h | TATION—Lomen, Campbell, Walk- eimng ugl t \erand DeVane. | EDUCATION, ETC., INCLUD-| DENVER, Col. March 7—Two al- 1 g | leged members of the gang mac‘;’;{g’) ?E:_g?ggg}fs _ODFT‘I/S’;CS] kidnaped Charles Boettcher, 2nd, B v‘fi e q Sh"'Luck. { wealthy broker, for $60,000, are in | eav: i s jail the police revealed. | TFISHERIES, GAME AN AGRI-. Two other men who helped in|CULTURE—Walker, Lomen, De-} the abduction are also known and | their arrest in South Dakota is! expected soon. I . Preshyterian Church . . | Cuts Mission Budget NEW YORK, March 7.—A 21 per/ cent reduction in the 1933-34 bug- get of the Board of National Mis- sions of the Presbyterian Church | in the U. 8. A. has been approved by the executive committee of the Beard, Dr. E. Graham Wilson, general secretary, announces. The total amount appropriated for the fiscal year, which begins April 1, is $2,800,000 approximately one-§th less than that for the current year, | Vane' and Campbell. JUDICIARY AND FEDERALI RELATIONS — Frawley, Bragaw, Walker and Hess. MINES, MINING, MANUFAC-; TURE AND LABOR — Campbell, Hess, Frawley and Shattuck. ENGROSSMENT AN ENROLL- MENT—DeVane, Walker, Camp- bell and Frawley. | Ketchikan Banks Are Observing Holiday KETCHIKAN, Alaska, March 7. —The two local banks here closed yesterday in accordance “with the Presidential proclamation. There was little disruption in business. | Scott. iated currencies, It is identical {with the memorial presented in the enate Monday by Senator Wal- er. List of Committees The list of House Standing Com- mities approved today follows: Committee of Committees—Bar- onovich, Patterson-and Nordale. Banks, Banking and Corpora- tions—Taylor, Kehoe,” Hellerich and Nerland. Elections, Election Laws and Mileage—Blake, McCutcheon, Green and Lingo. Education, Public Health, Quar- antine and Morals—Nerland, Ke- hoe, Hofman, Scott, Lingo, Judson, |Swanberg. Engrossing and Enroliing—Pat- terson, Nordale, Blake, Green. Fisheries, Fish, Game and Ag- riculture — Hofman, Baronvich, Swanberg, NerlYand, Patterson, Green and Kehoe. Judiciary and Federal Relations —XKehoe, Taylor, Hellerich, Nordale, and Judson. Labor, Capital and Immigration —Lingo, Blake, Green, McCutcheon and Patterson. Mines and Manufacturing Green, Lingo, Blake, Patterson and Scott. Municipal Affairs—Judson, Swan- iberg, Nerland, Hofman. Printing and Purchasing—Baro- novich, Taylor, Seott, Lingo. Rules—Swanberg, Hofman Kehoe. = Roads and Highways: Nordale, Blake, McCutcheon, Green and and Transportation — Scott, Lingo, : Baronovich, Judson and Taylor. Territorial Institutions Mc- Cutcheon, Swanberg, Baronovich, Nerland and Nordale. Ways and Means — Hellerich, Swanberg, Kehoe, Baronovich, Hof- man, Taylor, Nerland and Nordale. In its session late yesterday after- neon the House completed selection of its employees, named a Com- (ConunueG on Page Three) the German elections. | Meanwhile the question is; whether the Parliamentary Govern-| ment had been eliminated here. Officers empowered to call Parlia- ment in a session resigned last Saturday after a stormy meeting. | Seize Gevernment A street shooting affray at Ham- burg resulted following upon the seizure Of the municipal- govern- ment by Nazis. Three Nazis were slain and 10 were wounded. D { SEEKS DIVORCE, SEATTLE GOURT Poetess Also Wants Share! of Mining Property at Nome, Alaska SEATTLE, March 7.—Mrs. Anna Frieda Greenberg, poetess, using the pseudonym of Johanna Friedo, has brought suit against Herbert Green- berg for divorce and a share in his mining claims located in the Cape Nome district in Alaska. Mrs. Greenberg alleges in the papers filed that her husband was offered $250,000 for his mining property, that he has a $20,000 yearly income but has been stingy and cruel to her. ————.———— Whistle Furnishes Noise | OKLAHOMA CITY—When man- agers of a Chamber of Commerce drive expressed a desire for ‘“some real noise,” W. L. Huggins, Jr, Traffic Manager for a railroad, rigged up a standard locomotive whistle with compressed air tanks.' 1t almost stopped the meeting. Advoc;tes of Silver Start Their Battle Cry WASHINGTON, March 7—Sil- ver advocates here have begun to cry for “adequate” currency based on silver. a boost of the price level. Along this line they felt it begins to put money in the jeans of the farmers |thence will stimulate industry to- ward a return of happy days. Good Trade News Many markets are closed, how- ever, and other unsettled factors prevented the experts from putting the _ picture together. .. All. they odlild do was to receive news from the market centers and try to re- late it to the general situation. From™ Market Centers Among the news so far from market centers an advance is shown of 2 to 2% cents for cash wheat. Corn in steady and up fractions. Cattle prices are higher and hogs are reaching the top at $4.05. Sheep prices are up and provisions are sharply higher. SCRIP NOT IN USE YET WASHINGTON, March T7.—Ac- cording to information received here, no clearing house scrip is actually in eirculation but the pros- pects are several States might re- lease such mediums of exchange as already printed by tomorrow or the next day. Parks Will Deliver Message W ednesday To Joint Session Before a joint session of the ture, Gov. George A. Parks will deliver his biennial message to that body at 2 pam. Wednesday, it was announced today. Arrangements for the session were perfected this afternoon, Both houses today passed a concurrent resolution fixing that hour for the meeting. It acted after committees had conferred with the Governor on the matter. — The English language has ap- proximately 700,000 words, while French has 210,000, and German, 150,000, Advertising Paid Debt of. $45,000,000 Says Firestone MIAMI, Fla, March 7.—Harvey S. Firestone, the rubber magnats says newspaper advertising and cu tailment of production costs helped him conquer the panic of 1920 and pay off a debt of $45,000,000. Speaking here before the Com- mittee of One Hundred, Firetsonc said he owed that sum to bank when he returned from a visit Europs in 1920 to find business i a slump. “I told my sales manager to g0 on a vacation,” he said. “Then I placed full-page newspaper adver- tisements in every eity in the Unit- ei States. Within two months I sold 18,000,000 tires and reduced my indebtedness to $32,000,000. Next I cut my expense and readjusted ousiness. 1In less than four years 1 did not owe the banks anything. We must change our attitude and concentrate on simple fundament- als to improve business. Let’s make a sacrifice and help the other fel- low.” Charles F. Kettering of Dayton, Ohio, President of the General Motors Research Corporation, sug- gested that industry go back and 44 Nancy Malinda Beal, who is 42 and her fiance, the Rev. Charles est woman evangelist in the wor inches tall, stood on a chair as she J. Wilgon, a six footer, applied in Los Angeles for a marriage license. The bride is known as the small- id and is a graduate of Angelus Temple training school. (Associated Press Photo) BODY OF ANTON CERMAK IS ON WAY TO CHICAGO Special Train Carrying Re-/ mains Home—Zangara to Be Arraigned MIAMI, Florida, March 7. — A special train is bearing the body | of Anton J. Cermak, who died yes- terday as the result of wounds in- flicted by Guiseppe’ Zangara's bul- let, back to Chicago where he was Mayor. Zangara has been ordered ar- raigned on a first degree murder charge as the result of the Chi- ago executive's death. . J. J. MEHERIN LEAVES TONIGHT FOR WEST Joseph J. Meherin, prominent | |Seward Digging Out Old Time Gold Scales SEWARD, Alaska, March 7.~ Residents here resurrected gold scales and are prepared to pan geld and go on a gold dust basis if necessary. The local bank closed yesterday in con- formity with the proclamation of President Roosevelt. SWANSON PLANS NAVY BUILDING WASHINGTON, March 7.--Sec- retary of Navy Swanson said to- day he will make every effort to build the American navy up to the limit of the’London treaty as soon as conditions permit. Al SO S A {Two Stolen Holy i Statues Recovered ! | VIGO, Spain, March 7.—Police Juneau merchandise broker, willl announced that they had found leave on the steamer Alaska t0- two holy statues of the seventeenth night for a six-week ftrip to Lhe:cenlury carved by the sculptor Sa- Westward and Interior districts. |lofllo, valued at more than 2,000~ Mrs. Meherin will remain at“ooo pesetas (approximately - $1,640,- their home al the new Assembly gocurrently.) Apartments during her husbnnd'sl The image5-vepresent the Virgin absence, |“Immaculate” and the “Divine COTAANED . 5. . oariiean |Shepherdess.” The Images were |stolen in 1031. —— - ALASKA SNOW COVER | The following amounts of snow,lcmiser Portland in inches, were reported on the! . . . ground at various Alaskan stations| Put in Commission Monday, March 6: Bethel, 14; Cor- dova, 24; Eagle, 8; Fairbanks, 18;; BOSTON, March 7.—The Navy's Fort Yukon, 15; Juneau, 16; Ket-!Dewest cruiser the 10000-ton U. S. study the fundamentals of science and utilize the nation’s unlimited rossibilities as a step toward ad- vancing to prosperous times. chikan, trace; Nome, 7. {8. Portland, is now formally com- Ice on Chena Slough at pglr.!'mimoned today. She will leave banks was 555 inches thick, andIn several weeks to join the fleet on Snake River at Nome 45 inches,|in the Pacific, EXTRAORDINARY POWERS PLANNED FOR ROOSEVELT 8 REGULATIONS BY TREAS. DEPT. Limited Reopening of Fi- nancial Institutions Provided For DEMAND DEPOSITS TO BE GIVEN ATTENTION {Payments on Accounts or Other Obligations to Be Accepted BULLETIN—WASHINGTON, March 7.—State after state late teday announced reopening of banks in line with Secretary Woedin's ruling permitting of the transaction of essential business, including Ohio, South Carclina, Kansas, Florida, New York and Michigan. WASHINGTON, March 7.—Eight regulations relaxing stringency of President Roosevelt’s proclamation on the four-day banking holiday ending Thursday at midnight, were announced last night by Secretary of Treasury Woodin. The eight regulations provided for the following: First—Limited reopening of banks to accept new deposits subject to “[withdrawal Without " restriction, .at- counts to be kept separately. Demand Deposits Second—Repayment in full on (Continued on Page Two) R e BILL TO ASSIST BANKING GIVEN COMMITTEE 0. K. Hess Bank Stabilization Act Reported Favor- ably by Committee The Senate today advanced one step in its program toward protect- ing banks and their depositors from reverse results from the bank- ing - erisis in the States by re- porting favorably on the Bank Stabalization Act introduced yes< terday by Senator L. C. Hess. It will be taken up on the floor to- morrow for general consideration and discussion. It authorizes the Territorial Banking Board to declare banking holidays, and empowers banks, with the approval of the Banking Board, under certain conditions to sus- pend payment of deposits. The text of the measure fol- lows: X A BILL For an Act entitled: “An Act to authorize the Territorial Banking Board to declare a banking holi- day, and to authorize banks to postpone payment of deposits, and declaring an emergency giving this Act immediate effect.” Be it enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of Alaska: Section 1. This Act shall be known as “The Bank Stabilization Act.” Section 2. The Territorial Bank- ing Eo.;urd, when in its opinion an emergency exists is authorized to declare a bank holiday of not to exceed five days during which per- iod the banks of the Territory may in their discretion, remain closed. Board May Act tion 3. The Territorial Bank- ing Board is hereby empowered upon the written or telegraphic application of the directors of a bank, if in its judgment the ecir- cumstances warrant it, to authorize a bank to postpone for a period of ninety days and for such further periods as the Board may deem expedient, the payment of such proportions or amounts of the de- mands of its depositors from time to time as the Board may deem necessary, the period or periods of postponement and the proportions or amounts of the demands to be (Continued on Page Eight)