The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 9, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLL, NO. 6283 ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1933, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS EMERGENCY BANK BILL IS SUBMITTED * * * * * * MESSAGE * * 3 * * * * * * * * ENT NEW CONGR * * * * * * * 2 ES5; * * * * * * * * ACT * * * * * * * * * * * * [ON DEMANDE * * * WARTIME POWERS FOR PRESIDENT 8oLD HUARDERS(F- D._R.’;‘.S;c;étary_of Commerce CHAMBER GIVES "WITH PUBLICITY Treasury ‘D;;a—rtment An-1 nounces New Scheme of Government WITHDRAWALS MUST | BE RETURNED SOON llarch Thirteenth Is Set| for Date—Views Giv- | en by President WASHINGTON March 9. — The | A Depariment has launched‘ upon gold hoarders with | veiled threat of publish- | r names. | er Secretary of the Treas- Woodin's directions, orders! rd early today to the ral Reserve Banks to| names of all persons who| e withdrawn gold from mem- banks since February 1 and! fail to deposit it by March! Taking the new honor which Wachington. Reper, a native of Officials, while reticient, indicat- ed that the move is part of Pres- Roosevelt’s general plan to end hoarding. Confidence is expressed that a! '+ large portion of the gold now held | BANK MEASURE PASSES HOUSE Bank Act Russhicd Through —Signed by Gov. Parks This Afternoon r currency before March 13. With the gold back in the hands| of the Federal authorities, it can| be utilized for a basis on a con- trolled currency ~expansion plan ich has been substituted for the rip money idea originally con-; templated. ASSASSIN OF MAYOR CERMAK ) {the House of Representatives un- ider a suspension of the rules by {a vote of 15 Joe Green, Hyder, voting mo. It ! mediately and went to Gov. Parks i The Hess Bank Stabilization Act |was passed yesterday afternoon by | to 1, Representative ; |was returned to the Senate im-| PLEADS GUILTY Lengthy Discourse About this afternoon for his signature. | The bill was signed by him and its - text wired at once to every |bank in the Territory. “Killing Presidents” The Walker memorial urging Is Cut Short \Congress to pass necessary legis- MIAMI, Florida, March 9.—Guis- |lation to protect Alaska indus- sappe Zangara, when arraigned to- |tries from competition from coun- day for the murder of Mayor An-|tries having depreciated currencies toh J. Cermak, of Chicago when was passed by the Senate he made his attack on Franklin D. morning by a unanimous vote. It Roosevelt now President, pleaded was reported favorably by the Com- guilty. !mmee on Judiciary and advanced In pleading guilty Zangara said: on the calendar for immediate ac- “I want to kill Presidents. I want tion. It now goes to the House. to kill ail Presidents and all Kings.”! The Senate Committee on Edu- | Depreciated Currencies Bill | Zangara’s lengthy discourse wasfcation, Senator DeVane, chairman, | halted by the Judge. !this afternoon began its study of The second count charging pre- 'the Shattuck bill re-organzing the meditated murder of Cermak was Territorial Department of Educa-| dropped. ——————— tion, It will probably take several this | CATHERINE DE WITT AND | OSCAR CLAUSON MARRIED Catherine De Witt and Osocar Clauson were arried on March 4 by United States Commissioner Charles Sey. Both are residents of Juneau. f days to complete its work. House Gets Three Bills Three measures were dumped in- t othe House Legislative hopper this morning. Representative An- drew Nerland, Fourth Division Re- publican, proposed to change the (Continued on Page Six.) Another Precedent Broken As Roosevelt Gives Direct Answers to Newspapermen WASHINGTON, March 9.—For the first time since the early days in the Harding Administration, a President of the United States, vesterday gave direct answers to questions of newspaper correspond- ents at the White House press con- ference. Whimsically commenting that he had been warned the new system would not work, President Roose- velt discarded the custom of written queries submitted in ad- vance of the press gathering, then settled back in a chair and let the queries come thick and fast. ‘Two stenographers made a word by word record of the proceedings. More than 100 reporters plied the President with questions and about the only restriction he laid down was that he was not to be quoted directly unless a transcript of his remarks were given out at the White House, has come his way calmly, Daniel C. Roper, who will handle the portfelio of Secretzry of Commerce in the Cabinet of Presiient Rocsevelt, is pictured at his desk in South Carolina, was Collector of Internal Revenue during the Administration of President Wilson. Daring the past few years he cperated a law office in the capital. STABILIZATION HELLENTHAL AND HOLZHEIMER ARE ENDORSEDBY BAR |Resolutions of Endorse- - ment Be Sent to At- torney General , Resolutions passed by the Ju- inear Bar Association Saturday en- dorsing S. Hellenthal for appoint- |ment as Judge of the District Court, First Judicial Division, and ‘W. A. Holzheimer as District At- torney, are being drawn up by a |committee consisting of U. S. Mar- Ishal Albert White, V. A. Paine and |Henry Roden and will be sent to | Washington on the first boat south. Copies of the resolution endors- ling the appointments of Mr. Hel- {lenthal and Mr. Holzheimer will be sent to the Attorney-General |in 'Washington, D. C, and to | Delegate-to-Congress Anthony J. Dimond. Members of the Bar Association in attendance at the meeting Sat- urday were R. E. Robertson, Grov- er C. Winn, Frank A. Boyle, Albert | White, Henry Roden, G. W. Nos- itrand, V. A. Paine, H. B. LeFevre, {Harold Dawes, William Paul, Frank |Foster, M. E. Monagle, Attorney- {General James 8. Truitt and Ar- |thur Fox. The vote for endorsement of Mr. { Hellenthal and Mr. Holzheimer was {unanimous. Both had previously received the endorsement of the | Democratic organization. — e COPPER ALSO ' TAKES ADVANGE | NEW YORK, March 9.—Copper |joined the list of commodities showing an advance. Domestic sales were made today at 5% cents la pound, up half a cent from yes- 'terday. E. J. DYER, FORMER " RESIDENT, IS DEAD | | According to advices received in |Juneau, E. J. Dyer, former resident {of Juneau and Douglas, recently |passed away in Seattle. For some 'vears Mr. Dyer has been operat- ing an undertaking parlor estab- lishment at Ketchikan. He is sur- (vived by his widow, LOYAL SUPPORT TO FINANCIERS Overflow Meeting Today Greets Bankers—Sev- eral Make Talks The business and professional men of Juneau today, through the Chamber of Commerce, filled the luncheon room of Bailey's Cafe to capacity to join in paying tribute to local banking institutions in whose soundness they exhibited un- bounded confidence. The soundness of the banks and the community is coincident,. it was pointed out of J. A. Hellenthal. As long as Juneau is sound, as its industries are sound, and its prop- erties sound, and they areextreme- ly so, the banking institutions will be likewise and in the same de- gree, he declared. Breaks Year’s Record All attendance rectords of the year ‘were broken by today's at- tendance of the Chamber. The | luncheon room accommodations were exhausted, almost all the booths occupied and those unable to find room in either overflowed to the counter. B. M. Behrends, President of the bank bearing his name, ahd Sam- | uel E. Pope, head of the First| National Bank, said they expected these institutions would be open Press Photo) A NEW BROOM FOR ‘NEW DEAL’ In the broom corn country near Arcola, IIL, this huge broom has been fashioned as a gift for President Roosevelt. C. H. Chatten of Dallas, Tex., while his secretary is holding a giant 35-pound mep to be sent to Vice-President Garner. - NOW PROPOSED New Financial Scheme Is Also Given to U. S. Congress URGES NECESSITY Resumption of Normal Business Activities | Predicted — | | WASHINGTON, March 9.| | —President Franklin D.| | Roosevelt, in a message to Congress this afternoon, pro-| posed immediate opening of| {2ll sound banks and provis-: {ions for currency expansion }duriug the banking reorgani- zation period, l The seventy-third Congres } was called in extraordinary, session at noon today. to en-| act legislation to immediately relieve the banking situation. This is the last. day of the i banking “holiday wunder the| Ii is held by (Associated for limited operations tomorrow. Both emphasized is was not pos- sible for any local bank to func- tion normally as long as the banks of the rest of the country are shut down, or operating on a basis of limited withdrawals. Pay Roll is Assured Mr. Pope formally announced that the monthly pay roll of the ALASKACHAMBER OF COMMERCE T0 would be necessary to delay it a\Territorial Organization few days, he added, due to the sit- | B 3 s iennial Meeting Opens uation that had developed in the States, but not longer than that. | Tomorrow P M By an enthusiastic vote, the| | Chamber adopted a resolution ex-| The Alaska Territorial Chamber pressing its complete confidence in|of Commerce will open its biennial the financial integrity of the two|sessions in Room 106, Capital Build- oot RS ___ 'Roosevelt proclamation. President Roosevell in his Nu TRAGE FUUND message said: “I cannot too strongly urge upon Congress the clear ne- All Night Search Reveals No Further Clues to cessity for immediate action.” The President declared that he Channel Tragedy would request from Congress, at an early moment, the enactment of two other measures he regards as of “immediate urgency.” It is understood in Capital quart- ers these refer to granting the President power to cut Federal ex- penses drastically, including those ~ BY ROOSEVELT FOR QUICK WORK! { ( BANK OPENINGS HOUSE PASSES MEASURE, SENDS IT TO SENATE Emergency —B——a—r;king Bill Is Given Quick Dispatch This Afternoon SENATE COMMITTEE MAKES REPORT ON IT Various Phases of Subject Are Outlined—Can- cel Decrees BULLETIN — WASHING- TON, March 9.—The Senate has passed the Koosevelt Emergency Banwing Bill and sent it to the White House for the President’s signature. BULLETIN — WASHING- TON, March 9.—The House passed the Roosevelt Emer- gency Banking Bill at 4:05 o’clock this afternoon and sent it to the Senmate whose Banking Committee intro- duced it to the floor as re- ceived from the House. The Senate immediately began consideration of the bill. SENATE AT WORK WASHINGTON, March 9. —President Roosevelt’s Em- ergency Banking Bill, submit- ted to Congress carrying out his program for controlled expansion of currency and: resumption of normal bank- ing under his regulation, was immediately given to the Sen- ate Banking Committee which At press time today, the bodies of young Norman Fleek, Douglas, and Wayne and Grant Hudson, ‘attached to the Veterans’ expendi- tures, also getting to work on & huge public building program to provide employment. banks and their ability to care for 1g at 1 p. m. tomorrow. This was the needs of the community, and|made known today by M. S. Whit- the integrity and capdbllities of |ijor, Secretary. the personnel directing their oper-| R, g, Bragaw, of Anchorage, ations. President of the all-Alaska organ- Hess Explains Legislation ization, will preside. He is a sen-~ Senator Luther C. Hess, Whose jor member of the Senate from Bank Stabilization Act has juSL‘xim Third Division and an active paszed both branches of the Leg-|member and Secretary of the An- islature, explained briefly TTie nec- chorage Chamber of Commerce. essity for such legislation and how| It is expected that all the mem- that necessity had arisen from|per organizations of the Territorial the serious situation that has de-|pody will be represented by mem-! yeloped in the States. The bank-!pers of the Legislature during the ing crisis in the States, he pointed | sessions, Tomorrow’s meeting prob- out, had made the nation-wide aphly will be the first of several. banking holiday necessary. The ex-| The annual report of the organ- | tent of its success depended large- |ization to Gov. Parks, as required ly upon the measures taken to ap- Ly law, has been submitted and ply to the banking system after ywill be considered briefly at the the holiday period expires. | meeting Priday. All Alaska banks, Mr. Hess said, | .- — and loans. Due_ s these ve. FORMER RESIDENT OF DOUGLAS DIES ments, it is naturally not possib for them to pay out all depo: | Russell York, for , Where he oper: at any given time.. Nor wou they ever be required to do ving there in 1918, died today | n Petersburg of the flu according| except due to conditions of f based on panic psychology rat |to advices received by Secretary M. iH. Sides of the Juneau Lodge ofl than good business sense and r Elks. soning. Empowers Banking Board The measure introduced by gives the Territorial Banking Bo: the authority needed to protect ¢ positors and banks from a tion of that kind. It is pu emergency legislation and i never be used, except in emerger _ local lodge on 19217. |He was born November 26, 1885, in Watson, Mo, | Lately, Mr. York has been oper- |ating & laundry at Petersburg. | —— - i 1qullington Senator uary 18, tical, he said, with the Washir ton State Law and the few cha es made in it were evolved b legislafive committee of which was but. one member. Senator Hess predicted that ° On Terr. Committee| WASHINGTON, March 9.5Unit- ‘ed States Senator Homer T. Bone, of Washington, has been placed on the Agriculture, Navy and Ter-( itories Comimittees, i (Continued on Page Three) | . lening, dragging the bottom of the! || channel, Mr. York was initiated in me)“ {Pocket-Vetoed by {Hoover, It's Revealed Juneau young men, had not been‘ found. The President in his All day yesterday, through the today further said: night and today a vigllanf Search “It is my belief that banking continued for the youths, supposed legislation will not only lift im- to have been drowned while row- mediately all unwarranted doubts ing from Juneaa to Douglas in & and suspicions as regards to banks, light skiff Tuesday night. | which are 100 per cent sound, but Yesterday morning the rowboat, also marks the beginning of new known to have been used by the relationship between banks and the boys, was found bottomside up on ' people of this country. the beach near the Union Oil dock. ; First Task One oar was also found nenrby.i “Our first task is to reopen all Another oar was found on the rock 'sound banks. I ask Congress for dump. | immediate enactment of legislation Searchers Are Out | gi igiving the Executive branch con- W. A. Fleek, father of Norman!tro) over banks for the protection Fleek, and G. W. Hudson, married ¢ ge, n positors, and authority to re- brother of the Hudson youths, both ad: & Wha ide in gls, jopen such banks as already have To Lift Doubts message are Inpeen gscertained to be in a sound charge of searching parties that;congition, and such other banks! haAve beenrdragginx the ch‘m“’]':as rapidly as possible and authority i c:ew ohflve men with Charles |y, reorganize and reopen banks as moot, on his gas boat, has been|yay pe found to require reorgan- working in two shifts of three( z (ization to put them on a sor men each, since 8 o'clock last ev- [ pasis, b i To Amend Reserve Act Searching parties have “I ask amendments to the Fed- been patrolling the beach on both | started to labor through the { complexities of the mammoth revision bill with the aim to get it ready for Scnate action by tonight. House leaders also made preparations for expediting the legislation. The bill, if passed, which is prac- [(lcally certain, will bring war time | powers to the President in regard to the present situation. Bonus Certificates Although veterans’ bonus certifi- cates constitute a pledge of the Government to pay, Administration officials said they will not be ex- changed by banks holding them as collateral for loans for currency. | A brief authoritative description by a Senator who studied the bill, but not the Administration’s ex- planation of the emergency meas< ure follows: Decrees Validated- Validation of all emergency de- crees and proclamations of the President and Secretary of the l’I‘reasury. sides of the channel, so far with-| (Continued on Page Two) out success. — (Continued on Page Two) Halibut Captains Aid | H: ut boat captains in port | | “(Continued on Page Eight) -~ o Davis-Dill Radio | ! ‘WASHINGTON, March 9. \Lights blaze in the Bureau of En- WASHINGTON, March 9.— Herbert Hoover, while Presi- dent, it was learned today, 'of workers hasten the printing of pocket - vetoed the Davis - Dill crisp Federal Reserve bank notes. radio bill to forbld broadcast- | The order to speed-up came ing of information concerning |from the Federal Reserve Board any lottery enterprise or simi- on March 4. lat scheme, Bureau officials said the print- graving these nights as three shifts | i’h;ec; Shifts Working on New ' Federal Reserve Bank Notes; Special Orders Given March 4 [ing began immediately on denoms inations of five to ten thousand dollar bills but now the maghines - are turning out mostly denomina- tions from $5 to $50. The Bureau had been working |a regular one shift schedule preve ious to the March 4 order, i