The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 23, 1933, Page 1

| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JU NEAU, ALASKA TH’URSDAY MARCH 23, 1933. Muva QUICKLY TO OPEN BEER TAPS APRIL § Government Sets Machin-| ery in Motion for Sale, Legalized Beverage | OPPOSITION LEADERS ARE PLANNING FIGHT Wisne Manufacturers Are Not Excited Over New Regulations | | | WASHINGTON, March 23—The [Zcvernment is moving swiftly to [open beer taps through which legal 8.2 per o:nt brew may flow to Americe’s thirsty after midnight April 6. Machinery to license brewers was set in motion by Dr. J. M. Doran, | Industial Alcohol Commissioner, who pleged himself to keep bootleg beer and racketzers out of the leg- alized industry. | Opposition leaders have made plans to test the law by blocking | the sale of beer by injunction, "serving notice of a stiff court battle. Breweries in the country got full steam up to supply the demands. | Dr. Doran made ready to send | 850 field workers to licensed plants | Vinters Not Active Meanwhile, California vinters made no move to take advantage of legalizing wine, saying wine is worth nothing if it isn’t wine. Leaders of the industry in whose | cellars are stored 20,000,000 gallons reiterated they will wait and con- | tinue to fight for legalization of naturally fermented light wines of approximately ten per cent alco- holic content. Only one brewer indicated his company may attempt to manufacture 3.2 per cent wins and then not until the end of the rush attendant upon spiggoting | of the beer kegs. | SENATE PASSES INTEREST RAT BILL OF HOUS 5, AR Fi;:l—Passage Is 7 to | — Six Other Measures Passed The Senate today by a vote of | seven to one passed the Scott bill lowering the legal rate of interest in the Territory from eight to six per cent and the contract rate from 12 to nine per cent. Senator Hess, Fourth Division, voted against its passage. But the House, in which the bill criginated, hesitated to go that far in lowering interest rates. After a general discussion, by six to ten, a motion to concur in the Senate amendments was lost, and the Senate has been asked | to recede. Will Go to Conference It is not believed likely that the Senate will withdraw from its posi- tion, at least without some discus- sion. A conference between repr'-- sentatives of both branches prob- ably will be necessary to iron out the differences of opinion. The Senate this morning passed six other measures, all originating in itself, and sent them to the, House. One, by Bragaw, appro- priated $60 for relief of Rolland Osbourne. The others passed were* Bill No. 13, amending Chapter 65, , Session Laws of Alaska, 1923, rela- tive to banking corporations and permitting increased borrowings; Bill No. 14, prescribing the resi-/ dence, term of office of notaries public and their removal; Bill Nn 15, to amend Section 550, Com piled Laws of Alaska, declaring vold transfer of property in certain in-| stanczs; No. 16, to amend Sections 511 and 512, Compiled Laws of Al- aska, relative to the execution of} deeds in foreign countries; No. 17, to amend Section 657, Compiled Laws of Alaska, providing penalties, by foreigned corporations of desig- nated statutory provisions. A Senate substitute bill was ap- proved consolidating the four House, measures carrying deficiency ap-] propriations was adopted for the latter and read the second time. (Continued on Page Eight) ABE HANSEN | a vote of Gmnt of Air Chrlstened *w"' h i R The U. S. S. Macon, shown in her hangar, was christened March 11 in Akrom, Ohio, by Mis. William A. Moffett, wife of the aeronautics chief. The christening the Navy's five-year aeronautic program designed to assure the Uni than airgdiv International Illustrated N on. Prescriptions for Liquor May Be Liberalized okl L Hcuse Judiciary Committee by fads v INDIANS SEEK "HOUSE AID IN | | | a vote of 10 fo 8. Abe Hansen, well beat owner who has spent man; years in Alaska, -was shot and| killed by Harry DeGroot yesterda t Chichagof, where Hansen Iis thought to have been working. A woman is being held at Chi- chagof as a material witness. Word of Slaying ~H0u<e Gets Re olution Word of the killing was received | Urgmg Dismissal from here late yesterday afternoon by o . . United States Marshal Albert Fisheries Position White, in a telegram from Louis | A resolution, H. Smith, U. S. Commissioner at Chichagof. Alaska Native Brotherhood, de- Deputy Marshal George Jones manding the dismissal of Henry t Juneau on the gas boat Ya- O'Malley from his present position kobi with Capt. Tom Smith, at 9 as United States Commissioner of olclock last night to bring De- Fisheries, was received in the House Groot and the woman, thought to of Representatives today and re- be his wife, to Juneau. ferred to the Committee on Fish- * May Hold Inguest eries by Speaker McDonald. According to the Marshal's of- known gas- presented by the lefi Chi- conservation of fisheries in Alaska had been put entirely on The Yakobi, with the prisoner the seiner and other local fisher- and witness aboard, is expected to men and not on traps. A second arrive in Juneau tonight or fomor- resolution on the closing of bays row morning. and inlets to traps was also re- | De Groot came to Juneau last ceived and referred to the same September and has been employed committee. as a barber by Bill Sherman since Recommits Tax Bill |that time. | The House this morning recom- On Short Trip ! mitted Nordale's measure revising Last Priday, DeGroot told Sher- the Territorial school tax law. This {man that he was going to take a action was taken after the Ways |short trip with a friend of his who and Means Committee amendment owns a gasboat and that he ex-'extending the tax to women gain- [pected to return to Juneau and be fully employed and to persons be- back_at work within a few days. tween the ages of 50 and 60 years, DeGroot’s wife is said to have had been adopted. The purpose oI !been employed in Juneau, until the recommitment was to recently, the phrase “gainfully cmploved Hansen, who is said to be 2bout; Mr. Green's Ffesolution urging ‘forty years old, has owned and Congress to adopt the Wheeler pro- 'worked on gasboats in Southeast gram relative to bimetallism, and ‘Alaska for many years. his memorial urging repeal of Section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 were read the second MISTREATMENT, © GERMAN JEWS 'ate to recede. Senator Lomen’s marriage com- missioner bills were in second reading in the House, also. Minor § amendments were made. After some debate, the House re- jected the Senate’s amendments to Scott’s measure on the legal rate WASHINGTON, March 23—The Representative Patterson, by re- |United States moved today to ob- quest, introduced a measure to |tain from Berlin official informa-'amend Section 2, Chapter 100, Ses- \tion on complaints made by Amer-gion Laws of 1931, the Alaska Jury lican Jews that members of their Act, by adding a clause giving the race are being mistreated by fol- clerk of Court and Jury Com- lowers of Chancellor Adolf Hitler.! icsioner the right to place in the The information regarding the jurv pox names of persons, not ‘mlstreatmems was received bY a hoving voted, known by them to delegation headed by Rabbl Ste- pe otherwise legally qualified for phen Wise. a 5 ’jury service. Complaints of indignities "and | s S |outrages against the. German Jews | were cabled to Ambassador Sackett inquest over in the chagof. the killing Indians made Silver Lake, at __|by the State Department and ask- Akron, Ohio, a favorite spot for ing for detailed information. ‘thexr tepees as late as 1812, O'MALLEY TILT: The resolution sharply criticised! fice, it may be necessary to holdan the Commissioner and declared that ‘c f interest and requested the Sen- IBIG BREWING GENTER SHOWS NEW ACTIVITY Milwaukee Eées Regular Celebration When Beer Bill Is Signed MANUFACTURERS ARE TAKING ORDERS NOW *“Americans First,” as For- eign Countries Put in Bids for Beverage MILWAUKEE, Wis, March 23.— | This Prohibition brewing center | bubbled over with activity with | the signing of the beer and wine | bill by President Roosevelt. | The police were called to main- %tam' order among thousands who ! clamored for jobs at the doors of the ' eight large breweries. Engineers and . firemen in the boiler rooms of the city leaned on the whistle cords when it was announced the President had made the beer bill into a law. Sirens and Bells The city fire department con- tributed to the din with sirens and bells. Motorists pressed the horn but- tons. One large brewery installed ten additional telephones to receive orders. It was announced that one of the many orders was for a train- load of beer. Americans First “Americans first,” said one brew- ery executive on receipt of orders from Porto Rico, Japan and several European nations. “America has a l4-year thirsy and our first obligations are to it,” said the brewery official. The eity will go on a holiday when legal beer becomes actually available. COAST GUARD GIVEN HONORS BY JUNEAUITES Officers anmn of Talla- poosa* Guests of Local Chamber Commerce of the giant dirigible completed States supremacy in the lighter |BiG STEAMER - LINE TO QuIT ALASKA FIELD ‘Pacific rop fisks Permis- sion to Withdraw— Reasons Given SEATTLE, March 23.—A special wrrum Washington, D. C., to the Scmm Daily Times said the Pa- mrm Steamship Lines, Ltd, has applied to the Shipping Board for permission to temporarily withdraw ts vessels from the Seattle, South- |east and Southwest Alaska routes on the grounds of over tonnage. The Shipping Board was told |that the withdrawal carried an agreement with the Alaska Steam- ship Company whereby the latter line was not to enter the Puget) Sound and California trade as long as the former company does not operate on the Alaska routes. While the Shipping Board is considering the request, the Alaska service of the Pacific Steamship Lines, Ltd., will be maintained, it is said. ) Honor was paid today to the Coast Guard Service, and particu- larly to the officers and men of the cutter Tallapoosa, by John W. |Jones, President of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce, and a well attended meeting of members and guests at today's luncheon in Bail- ey's Cafe. Mr. Jones pointed out the many courageous, useful and colorful du- ties and services performed by the Tallapoosa in Alaskan waters. He further elaborated upon benefits Juneau derived from having the Tallapoosa based here. Dench Responds Commander C. H. Dench re-| sponded in an entertaining talk on the experiences and adventures loccurring during the Tallapoosa’s ent cruise to the Westward, vhich included a personal descrip- I tion of the rescue of the Jack Mc- Cord rty from Chirikof ‘I,:and wmm was recently re- jported in detail in The Empire. ’L"\ rikof had a particular appeal !to the commander as he had visit- jed it 20 years ago, while on prev- lious duty in Alaska waters. Aids Needy Several other minor relief inci- dents during the westward cruise ook place, according to Command- Dench, including the supplying flour to one village in need. Little fishing was in evidence, al- ugh several fishing craft were hted. The Commander conclud- by saying that when in south- and eastern waters officers formerly stationed in Alaska are want to gather and pleasurably emininise the fine friendships de- Sasany SCHEDULED The first sailing of the 1933 season of the Admiral Watson of the Pacific Steamship Lines, sched- uled for March 29, has been can- celled, according to word received by J. E. Kearney, Juneau agent. The Admiral Watson will leave Seattle for Alaska on her first trip April 19. | The first Pacific Steamship Line ship for the Westward will be the Admiral Evans which leaves Se- attle April 6. The Admiral Evans, now at Westward and due in Juneau route to Seattle Apirl 1, will stop at Sitka southbound, Kearney s id ADOLF HITLER CONTROLS DIET, - FIRST MEETIN Session Goes on Record o for Union—Another Move Tomorrow the en- not Mr, BERLIN, March 23. — Prussia’s en new Diet has acclaimed the policy of a political union with Austria at the first Hitler controlled meet- ing. veloped. among Afaskans, pointing The Reichstag is expected tomor- out that in the smaller communi- row to legalize Hitler as Dictator ties.a mueh more satisfactory op- thus wiping out the last vestiges portunity for associatiodf with civ- of democracy in Germany. lians 18 offered than in the more Hitler will be Dictator for four densely populated stations. years, or as long as he remains Juneau Looks Good be Chancellor. E. W. Knight, editor of the Al- A ska Weekly, expressed satisfaction the relatively good business con- litions prevailing in Juneau. He to ——————— + In rural parts of Sussex, En:- , land, men are making house-l0- fo! IEdward W. Allen, Seattle {having a good time. Legislation SEATILE SET FOR ALASKA EXCURSION Chamber of Commerce, Makes Radio Address Plans for the excursion to Alaska this summer, which is being ar- ranged by the Alaska Committee of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce are well under way and the group in charge of the trip has already received assurance from many leading Seattle business men that they will join the expedition. | The group will sail from Seattle aboard the Aleutian, June 16, and make the trip as far north as Anchorage. To interest Seattle residents in the Alaska excursion, Edward W.!| Allen, chairman of the Alaska com- mittee of the Chamber of Com- merce, made the following radio address in Seattle recently, review- ing the work of the Alaska Com- mittee, trade relations between Al- aska and Seattle and extolling the beauties of Alaska as a vacation land. Alaska—Country’s Playground “Alaska should be called the country’s playground and Seattle’s treasure chest. “Nowhere on the North American contlrvm can more entrancing scenery be found, forests dense and impending as of the tropics, crystal clear channels between rocky is- lets carved by the tides, vistas of glacial fiords and snow-capped mountain ranges; in fact the most magnificent and stupendous scen- ery, and much of it can be viewed from the comfortable deck chair, of any one of a dozen steamers | whose officers are charged with| the duty of seeing that you mul A Dependable Customer “For Seattle, Alaska is not only a pleasure lure, it is our most dependable customer. ' As Alaska prospers, so prospers Seattle. Few even of our own people seem to appreciate the importance to this city of its Alaska business. “Since the United States bought Alaska from Russie only sixty- six years ago, Alaskan fish alone have yielded almost a whole billion dollars—a billion dollars—most of it handled right here in Seattle— and gold, silver, copper and other minerals account for almost an- other three quarter billion of dol- JOHN W (Chief of Burean, | (Special |emergency banking legislation re- | quested by President Roosevelt was (sequent legislation” | f TROY First Emergency Bank Requested Is Only Just a Starter By BYRON PRICE Press, Washington.) WASHINGTON, March Correspondence) 13. The in itself, of such breath-taking magnitude that many people seem- ed to forget it was only the be- ginning. In his first message to the spec-| ial session of Congress the Presi- dent made two statements filled with significance for the future, One was his allusion to ‘“subse- quent legislation,” and the other was his forecast of “a new rela- tionship between the banks and the people.” Few who have discussed bank- ing with him privately doubt that Mr. Rooseveli's proposals for “sub- will be quite as sweeping as his emergency ac- tion in tehifrst days of his ad- ministration. His “new relationship between the banking fraternity and the Ppublic is visualized pretty general- ly by ‘his intimate associates as| meaning a large-scale scrapping of many of the present practices of banking. It is unlikely that the Presi- dent himself has formed many definite conclusions thus far as to the changes he will seek. Many plans are before him and he hopes to learn from the operation of the temporary measures now in effect. There can be no risk in saying, however, that he will have in mind two essentials. First, such a reorganization of the whole banking system as will encourage each banking institution, within itself, to maintain a much safer and sounder financial struc- ture. Second, from outside, a much more stringent government supervis ion. (Continued on Page Twa) The Associated | Chosen for Territorial Executive NAME OF chL MAN SUBMITTED BY ROOSEVELT Editor of T—h—e Empire, Resident Here 20 Years, Picked for Governor (PROMINENT IN PARTY IMATTERS MANY YEARS ‘ il Was Original Roosevelt ' | Man in North—Has Sup- port from All Parties : John W. Troy, President of {the Empire Printing Com- pany and Editor of The Daily | Alaska Empire, resident of )uneau for the past 20 years, was toda y nominated for | Governor of Alaska by Presi- | dent Roosevelt. Mr. Troy’s name was this morning communicated to the Senate for confirmation, ac- cording to an Associated Press dispatch from Wash- ington to The Empire. Mr. Troy, who was in Washing- ton prior to the inauguration is still' in that city but is expected to leave for home in a few days. Is Organization Candidate The unanimous choice of the Democratic organization in the Territory for the Gubernatorial post, Mr. Troy has also been given wide and general support through- out the Territory. He was endorsed for the post by every one of the four Democratic Divisional Com- !mitees, the Territorial Committee and both Delegate Anthony J. Di- mond and J. J. Connors, National Committeeman for Alaska, who is also in the National capital con- ferring with National Chairman Farley over Federal patronage in Alaska. Individual Alaskans from every section of the Territory, Democrats and Republicans alike, officials and private citizens, have written letters of endorsement to his candidacy. It has been known for sometime that his name would be submitted to the President by the National organization, and that was done as soon as the new Administration took over. Organization leaders here were informed several days ago that his nomination was al- ready assured and that it was only a question of when it would take place. Today's announcement came as no surprise to them. Active in Politics Mr. Troy has been actively con- nected with the Democratic Party all of his life and associated with the organization in Alaska con- tinuously for the past 20 years, and for another ten years earlier in the Territory’s history. He attended (Continued on Page Two) R B 4T FARM RELIEF BILL OPPOSED BY SENATORS WASHINGTON, March 23.—The Farm Relief Bill, passed by the House, reached the Senate today. Strong opposition faces the meas- ure. | | Fixed Dat.e. Easter Is Being Debated by Churches’ Council NEW YORK, March 23.—Easter, the caléndar's wandering child, is receiving the churches’' attention from a new angle. Shall it continue toroam through | March and April, coming one year when snow is on the ground and | another when spring flowers are in full bloom? Variation Termed Nuisance Or shall the churches, forgetting | tradition, agree to a fixed date, thus placing themselves in alliance with various groups who contend lars of which Seattle again is the house canvass for soverigns, i Y ,which they pay 31 shillings, (Conuinued on Page Three) (bununueo “on Page .w) that the feast day's variable occur- rence is a nuisance to business, financial and educational systems? These are some of the questions |which the research department of the Federal Council of Churches, acting on instructions from the | Council’s executive committee, is trying to answer. In doing so the department is studying the attitude of the Coun- |cil's 26 denominational members |to calendar reform in general as | well as to the stabilization of Eas- ter in particular. Calendar Change Invelved | The survey is being undertaken at the request of the Universal Christian Council of Life and Work at Geneva, acting at the instance of the League of Nations, which | (Continuey on Page Three)