The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 21, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 0L’ XLL, NO. 6320. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE RULING POWERS NOW PROPOSED FOR PRESIDENT PLANFI BIG QUESTIONS T0 BE SUBJECT OF CONFERENCE British Prime Minister Is Here to Talk with Roosevelt CONVERSATIONS AT DRAMATIC MOMENT U. S. Executive Assumes Leadership in World Economy Recovery WASHINGTON, April 21.—With LIBBY WANTS SON TO BE FLIER rival today of British l?‘rimeJ 8 Ramsay MazDonald, Britain and the United Stat- es came together in an atmos- phere charged with grave reality to set upon the tangled skein of International finance and com- mer Premier Herriot, of and other statesmen, are so to join with President Roose- in an attack on the forces deflation and depression, un- the Chief Executive’s newly world eco- of der assumed leadership in nomic recovery. The President faces a est at a dramatic moment in fin- ory with many believ- elt's hand is trengthened the new Gold Standard’situa- ion. ! great MACDONALD'S STATEMENT NEW YORK, April 21.—Britis Premier Ramsay MacDonald ar- rived hers today and he said the American action on going off the Gold Standard does not effect land as far as he was con- h official said he came clp wage a worid wide “unmerited poverty.” The Br! here - to against HERRIOT'S VIEWS ABOAD S. S. ILE DE FRANCE, April 21.—The French Comm_fi- sion, headed by former Premier Herriot, to attend conferences with President Roosevelt, issued @ state- ment saying it is believed that by America going off the Gold Standard the move will spoil pros- pects for a monetary conference. - GREAT BRITAIN GOING EASY ON FINANCE MOVE No Official Action Will Be Taken on Pound and Dollar Ratio LONDON, April 21.—Although the government is being ‘imporhun- ed to maintain the ratio between the pound and the dollar, which existed before the United States abandoned the Gold Standard, there is no indication any officiaf| move will be made to meet this and. The highly articulate section of the British press held it necessary for Great Britain to retain advan- ta accrued to her through the depreciated pound but financial quarters seem to support the idea of lctting the currency find a level with the hope of economic con- ference will prevent nations from starting competition in debased currencies. Teach Idle to Sing STOCKHOLM, April 21.—Free instruction in choral singing is one of the vocational and cultural courses offered unemployed young people here. One group of young men recently gave their first con- cert with great success. Cheer U. S. Recognition | BOLOGNA, Italy, April 21.—An agrcement for mutual recognition of medical degrees, reached by the United States medical board and Italian authorities, caused @ cheer- ing celebration at the Bologna Medical School under the leader- This Associated Press telephoto of Smith Reynolds, heir to the tobacco millions, and her son was—| among the first pictures taken since his birth eleven weeks ago. The | child was born after the father’s death from a bullet wound presum- | ably a suicide. Mrs. Reynolds hopes HOUSE ENACTS HELLERICH BEER MANY MEASURES AND KILLS ONE The House of Represen late yesterday afternoon p measures, continued one in second reading and indefinitely rostponed another, virtually clearing its cal- ender of all accumulated business. It passed another bill today and continued a second in third read- ing. Various committees of the House were in session today preparing to bring back tc the floor many measures now bcfore them. Defeat Pharmacy Bill Hofman's measure to regulate the sdle of drugs was indcfinitely posponed yesterday by a one- sided vote. House Bill No. 101, fix- ing a fee of $250 for teachers’ certificates was continued in second reading. Measures passed included: House bills No. 92, carrying $094.64 in emergency rescue and relief of Jost persons and boxing commission deficits; No. 94, general claims, to- taling $7,667.50, less than 50 per cent of the claims that had been presented to the Ways and Means; Committee; No. 98, relative to membership on school boards; No. | 99. authorizing school boards to} contract for education of pupils outside of their respective districts; | No. 100, fixing a maximum for| teachers’ salaries; No. 102, empow- | ering the Board of Education to| abolish rural school districts; No.| 103, changing the wording ofz aph (g), section 15, Ohap-| &a:\aggrl pScssion Laws of 1929; No.| 104, authorizing the Commissioner of Education to initiafe corres- pondence courses in high school work; No. 105, transferring $12,- 000 from the game stocking fund to the general fund in the Tem-: torial treasury. Senate joinl mem- orial No, 3, urging homestcads for fur-farmers, was also passed. Property Sale Authorized The House this morning passed under suspended rules a bill au- thorizing the Governor to sell the Territorial property at the corner of Seward and Third Streets; or if suitable sale cannot be arranged, to lease it. The measure now goes to the Senate for action. It deferred action on Senate bill No. 3, de- fining and regulating the practice of optometry which is said to have the approval of all optometrists in ship of 70 Italo-American students. the Territory. | | that | between two houses. of Libby Holman Reynolds, widow her son becomes an aviator. | HALTED BEFORE HOUSETHIS A.M. Senate Measure Suspended While House Studies | Procedure Followed The Hellerich beer bill came back | to the House of Representatives| | today, but its identity was so ob-: scured that many members doubted | its identity, and when it seemed as. if admission was about to be| denied it, immediate decision was postponed until tomorrow morning when a .motion to defer action to time was adopted without discussion and with no record vote. The Senate apparently adopted: many amendments to the bill as passed by the House. However, in- stead of returning the original| House bill, or a substitute Senate measure, it returned a revised and rewritten bill still bearing the| House number and the name of Representative Hellerich, author of the original bill Procedure Is Doubtful The attitude of a majority of the House seemed to be to ex- pedite the measure, but to protect its own record. When the Senate's| communication regarding the meas- ure was received, Representative| Green, Hyder, moved it be referred| to the Engrossment and Enrollment Committee for it to compare with the original bill to.definitely de- termine its identity. Representative Nordale was less cordial in his re- ception and moved it be rejected| and returned to the Senate for| failure to conform to the joint| rules regarding transmission of bills | i The contention of the House members is that the rules require that any measure passed by either branch and transmitted to the other, if passed with amendments,| shall be returned to the original house wtih éach amendment at- tached to it for consideration detail. Any rewritten, revised or new measure dealing with the same in| WINNIE JubD, | { couples | marriages and condemning “stunt” | | weddings, has been issued by the ALIENISTS SAY, 1S NOT INSANE, Case of Slayer of Two Ju- neau Women Is Still Be- for Sanity Jury FLORENCE, Ariz., April 21.—The State climaxed yesterday its case in the contest in Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judds effert to escape the gallows and go into the sanctuary of an asylum. She was to have been executed on the scaffold today for the slaying of her two friends, Mrs. Agnes Anne LeRoi and Miss Hed- vig Samuelson, nurse and school teacher, formerly of Juneau, Alas- ka. Alienists for the State testified before the jury in the sanity hear- ing, and summed up that in a legal sense, the slayer was not insane. The alienists found that she was suffering from “neurosis of the condemned, which .caused her to simulate insanity. The case will probably go to the jury late today. MACON IS OFF, MAIDEN FLICHT WITH OFFICIALS One Hundred and Five Persons Are Aboard Navy Dirigible AKRON, Ohio, April 21— The| United States Navy dirigible Macon | soared aloft early today on her maiden “shake-down” flight. A short time later she was sighted over Cleveland. The dirigible carried 105 persons including eleven officers, with Capt. Alger Dresel, Commanding, and eight members of the Naval Board of Inspection under Rear Admiral George Day. There are also 31 engineers and inspectors of the Goodyear-Zep- plin Company, builders of the huge aircraft. The ground crew was dismissed until 5 o'clock this afternoon. J. E. Wilson, ground crew mem- | ber, slipped from a platform or‘ the mooring mass and and frac-| tured both legs. - eee — JEROME FACTOR GIVEN FREEDOM BY ABDUCTORS, Kidnaped Northwestern University Youth Is Released, Unharmed CHICAGO, 1., April 21.—Ap- parently unharmed, Jerome Fac- tor, 19-year-old Northwestern Uni- versity student, held captive by kidnapers for $50,000, has been freed by his abductors and returned to his mother’s apartment. ‘The police believe that part of | the ransom was paid but Factor's 1 /it was in his power to render to ‘SISTIE’ DALL HAS WHITE HOUSE BIRTHDAY PARTY GHT ON DEPRESSION, DEFLATION Joyous cries of small children rang through the White House when “Sistie” Dall, one of President Roosevelt’s grandchildren, entertained at her sixth birthday party. to one of her guests as her mother, Mrs, Curtis Dall (right), supervises the affair. (Associated Press Photo) CAPT. ALGER IN JUNEAU CALLS ON GOV, TROY Commander of Bering Sea “Force Offers Serv- ices to Alaska ‘ | Capt. James Albert Alger, com- mander of the Coast Guord’s Ber- | ing Sea Patrol Force, acompanied by Commander C. J. Dench, cap- tain of the Tallapoosa, made a| formal call upon Gov. John W., Troy at the Governor's office this morning. After formalities were exchanged, Capt. Alger and the Governor indulged in a renewal of their years of acquaintanceship. | Capt. Alger arrived in Juneau on his flagship, the U. S. €. Sho- shone yesterday @fternoon, enroute to the Westward. While here, the Commander of the Bering Sea Force offered all possible services any government or territorial ser- vice encountered on his cruis: North. To the office of Indian| Affairs he proffered the medxcali service available on ships of the; Bering Sea Fleet whenever and| wherever it would be of a.:sx.sv.ance.! Both the Shoshone and the Tal- | lapoosa were scheduled for de- parture early this afternoen. GRAIN MOVING PAC.NORTHWEST Growers Have Already]| Reached Fortune by Markets Advance SPOKANE, Wash. April 21.~| Rising commodity prices have un- locked the doors of the Inland Empire's granaries. A flood of | grain is pouring to the coast markets. It is estimated thai| Northwest growers have been en- father, “Jake the Barber,” denied | he had paid one cent. I riched by more than 88,500.000[ since January 3 by the advance in the grain mark c riage code for ministers, recom- mending that clergymen guide both before and aft federal council of Churches of| subject matter shall be returnad! as a substitute bill and take the| usual course of three separate read- | ings and committee report. i Is Not Done They also declare that this was not done by the &g;u “About all we have left of e Hellerich bill passed by this Body is the | Addressed to the clergymen icountry, the statement recommends Christ in America. of | the council's member denomins tions, which include almost ever ‘majm- Protestant group in the that pastors give premarital inter- views to couples contemplating | marriage and organize classes or (Continued on Page Two) clubs for young married persons. “Studies in unhappy marriages Chu;ches Sugg;si Ministers Teach Secrets of Marriage, NEW YORK, April 21.—A ma; /| standing the pastor may render and the experience of family con- | sultation institutes reveal that ig- norance and maladjustment of the | sex relationship appear in most cases,” the statement declared. “The pastor cannot be certain that those who come to him for marriage understand these vital! relationships which God himself has ordained and sanctified. “If there is inadequate under- the. new family a service of the greatest importance through the in- struction which he gives them. “Whatever is offered, while frank and thorough going, should be rev- France Is Not Going to Abandon Gold Standard PARIS, April 21.—France has ne intention of abandoning the Gold Standard, acording to a statement made by an official of the Finance Ministry. The official was asked the question just before the close of business yesterday after- noon, if France would abandon the Gold Standard and he re- torted with: “Positively, ne.” The identity of the official is net disclosed. e GAME MEMORIAL RUFFLES SENATE QUIET SLIGHTLY Senate serenity was ruffled slight-' ly yesterday afternoon in the dis- cussion of Senator DeVane's shap- ly worded criticism of the Alaska Game Commission, but there was| no difference in opinion as to the desirability of Congress transfer- ring to the Territory the right m‘ control its own fur and game re- sources. The memorial was amended to strike from it a paragraph urging jthe immediate removal of H. W. Terhune, Executive Secretary of the Commission, and the appoini- ment of a bona fide Alaskan in his place. Senator DeVane argued strongly against any amendment, and was successful in preventing any change in his vigorous attack against the Commission’s regula- tions which he asserted in no un- certain terms are “oppressive and repugnant.” Passes Several Measures The Senate passed several meas- ures and considered 14 measures in second reading, including the Game Commission memorial. All of these were on its calendar for final dispositon this afternoon. Bills passed included: Senate Bill No. 79, authorizing the Governor to lease school lands; No. 77, re- writing the woman’s suffrage act; No. 80, repealing Chapter 4 and Chapter 14, Session Laws of 19i9. The former relates to postpone- ment of municipal elections, and the other deals with the qualifi- cation of voters. Senator Lomen’s memorial urg- ing the President and Congress to enlist an Army of Prospectors fcr Alaskan mineral areas and to use Army and Navy planes to put them into the field and keep them furn- ished with supplies was passed and sent to the House. Pass Beer Bill The Hellerich bill, as rewritten and revised by the Senate weis passed by a unanimous vote. One amendment was made from the floor to the new measure. This struck off lodging houses and apartment houses from the list of establishments that can obtain licenses to sell beer and wine. The Senate was in session late “Sistie” is shown giving a present MPROVEMENT N BUSINESS IS GENERAL ]Pubhc Buying Wave Has Not Reached Crest— l Trade Review ‘ NEW YORK, April 21.—The “wcckly trade review of Dun-Brad- street reports a general improve- {ment through business and industry |with the “wave of public buying ap- pearing to be far from having {reached the c: a direct reversal to the usual post-Easter trend. “The volume of sale receded but moderately from the levels of the past two weeks Indicating a chang- ed attitude on the part of the public ' which eveidences stronger | preference for things rather than |money as the belief becomes (Stronger in the present stability of the forward movement. “All trade indicates that at least some evidence of early prac- tical results will be forthcoming from the President’s trade talks | With foreign statesmen.” METEOR SEEN: FLASHES OUT THEN BURSTS {Residents of Seattle, Ta- coma, Other Sections Witness Rare Scene { SEATTLE, April 21.—A flashing | meteor, whick lighted the sky in | beautiful colors, was seen in Se- (attle, Tacoma and also Central jand Southern Washington. Witnesses said the meteor burst |followed by a roar before striking the earth. DAISY DEVOE OUT OF JAIL {Former Secretary to Clara | Bow Serves 18 Months ‘ of Sentence | { LOS ANGELES, Cal, April 21.— ‘The doors of the County Jail open- 1ed for Daisy DeVoe yesterday end- ling her 18 months' sentence im- posed as part of the 5-year proba- tion granted when she was con- victed of grand theft against her former employer, Clara Bow. Miss DeVoe was convicted of stealing property of the actress while her secretary. EI AR | The University of Michigan will lose four of its 1933 basketball reg- erent in tone and in keeping with |today with a lengthy calendar (9 ylars by graduation—Garner, Eve- the seriousness of the occasion.” consider. iland, Altenhof and Petrie. NEW INFLATION MEASURE T0 BE RUSHED THROUGH Senate Banking Committee Plans Speedy Action on Proposal \SALIENT FEATURES BEFORE CONGRESS Several Arrangements for Roosevelt Are Includ- ed in Bill WASHINGTON, April 21.—Re- Publican opposition today threat- f‘l)cd to block the speed Democrat- ic leaders plan in legislation to give President Roosevalt ruling bowers over American moves to- ward inflation. The Senate banking Committee called a session this morning to make a quick study and report on the bill for controlled inflation, Predict Approval The Democrats, this morning, predicted approval within a [ev; hours but the Republican forces served notice they intended to Oppose the unprecedented grant of power to the President long enough to arouse public sentiment to show the country what has happened to other countries which have taken this same course. General Plans The inflation measure fs in- tended to expand credit by three billion dollars to start the wheels of business turning, and give the President broad discriminating power to arrange with the Federal Reserve System for the purchase, up to three billion dollars of Gov- ernment obligations held by the Reserve member banks, thus releas- ing that amount of money in come- mercial and credit channels. If such an arrangement is not possible, the President would be given authority to issue tiree bil- lion dollars in currency to buy the Government obligations, reduce the gold content of the dollar by 50 percent, or accept up to $100,- 000,000 on war debt payments in silver at 50 cents an ounce. PROGRAM APPROVED WASHINGTON, April 21.—The Administration’s expansion pro- gram won quick approval from the Senate Banking Committee this afterncon after there was & split on the provision to authorize re- valuation of the gold dollar. President Roosevelt directed that legislation be speeded with the Farm Relief Bill and it is an- nounced that debate will ve shut off if necessary to kill a filibuster. Senator Elmer Thomas quoted Secretary of Treasury Woodin as saying that with this bill, depres- sion is over if administered in a business-like way “and we can combat anything.” AT 16 TO 1 WASHINGTON, D. C., April 21.— Speaker Rainey said the Adminis- tration's proposal to accept up to $100,000,000 in silver on war debts would result in “placing silver cn a 16 to 1 basis.” ————————— HOARDED GOLD NOT RELEASED REPORT SHOWS Over Nine Hundred Million Dollars Remain in Hands of Someone WASHINGTON, April 21.—Des- pite President Roosevelt's anti- gold hoarding of April 5, requiring the metal to be deposited with the Government before May 1, approx- imately $900,000,000 still remains cutside of the Treasury and Fed- eral Reserve Banks. A statement was issued yester- day by the Reserve Bank officials and showed that gold reserves in the twelve Federal institutions amounted to more than $3,365,000,~ 000 an increase of approx g