The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 25, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ' “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” N ) VOL. XLL, NO. 6323, JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1933. * MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ] WESTERN ALASKA TOWN STAGES BIG DEMONSTRATION CONVERSATIONS IN WASHINETON MAKE HEADWAY Program for Coming World Conference Is Being Mapped Out U. S. PRESIDENT AND BRIT. PREMIER AGREE Former. French Premier Is| Enthusiastic Over Roosevelt’s Move WASHINGTON, April 25. — Thel conversations between President Roosevelt and representatives of foreign nations are [progressing rapidly and making points. resident Roosevelt and British Premier Ramsay MacDonald an-| nounced their conversations have “admirably served the purpose of| ping out the territory to be covered at the World Economic Conference.” Today the American and British r:presentatives are to have a final talk regarding topics to be dis- cussed at the Disarmament Con- ference which is to reopen in Gen- eva. Former French Premier Edouard| Herriot, following a conference with| President Roosevelt, announced en- thusiastically that the American| Chief Executive had laid down a complete program including dis- armament, world economic stability and war debts. ———————— PRODUCTION OF WHEAT ENTERS IN DISCUSSIONS White Metal May Also Be| Subject at Conferences in Washington WASHINGTON, April 25.—Wheat production restrictions on an In- ternational scale was projected in- to the Washington economic dis- cu ns yesterday by -the arrival of Premier Richard B. Bennett of Canada. Canada, with the United States, Australia and Argentina, the world’s chief wheat growers, is eager that an agreement be reach- ed to guarantee better world prices for foodstuffs. Premier Bennett's arrival also in- | creased interest in silver as Can- ada is a large producer of the ‘white metal. -oo———— HUNDREDS TO JOIN RUSH TO £OLB DISTRICT Stampede Similar to Klon- dike Days Announc- ed from Harbin HARBIN, April 25—Three hun- dred Russians, Chinese and Japan- ese fired with the spirit of the Klondik> rush, will set out as soon as possible for the gold fields which are said to exist on the upper| reaches of the tributaries of the Kutungso River. The stampeders will be partly financed by the South Manchurian Railway and Manchukuo Govern- ment. Immense streaks of the yellow metal are estimated to contain all the way from ten to one hundred millions in gold. The streaks are said to run through the river bed. Latest scientific machinery, such as is used in Alaska will be em- ployed. Three years of panning in that Propose_d U.S. Aid to Home Owner i {Measure Nears Direct Relief Seeks Creditor-Debtor Adjustment|Fina Approval By J. R. BRACKETT NEW YORK, April 25.—Debt of America’s home owners is greater than that of America’s farmers, federal statistics show. To relieve both burdens is the aim of projected federal legisla- tion. The mortgage debt of the farmer is about $8500,000,000, of the small home owner about $20,- 000,000,000. Total debt on urban real estate is $35,000,000,000, including large apartments, office and other big buildings, held by wvirtually every lending institution in the mnation. Rescmbles Farm Plan The new administration plan to aid the small home owner is simi- lar in action and effect to the farm plan. It proposes to reduce both the face of the mortgage and the interest rate through mutual agree- ment of debtor and creditor. 1t is directed toward those home owners whose homes have a value not exceeding $10,000, the present limit set by the government. There are no statistics available to show what proportion of the $20,000,000,000 of home mortgazes these $10000—and-under homes represent. But the proporfion is sizable in amount and preponder- :5; fi;’;‘gg;’?f% ant in number of debtors, statis- Y] ties indicate. 2 ‘The home owner seeking aid un- der the proposed plan simply would approach the new Federal Home Owners Loan corporation either directly or in cooperation with the individual or institution who holds his mortgage. Reductions Sought | The loan corporation would seek to reduce the face of the mort- gage, give the original lender bonds with interest guaranteed by the TCAN'T PAV THE CHARGES ONTHIS & PERCENT . 8000 MORTGAGE / SAM— . ‘WE'LL HAVE T CUT THIS MORTOAG| 70 $ 6000~ UNCLE SAM = eQ\Tr MR BANKER , I'LL GIVE ] You $6000 IN 4 owner and the mortgage-holder if approved. the Government, in turn, secured adjusted figures. . HOW UNCLE SAM WOULD SETTLE IT SAM *MR. HOMEOWNER. , HERES A NEW MORTGAGE FOR $6000| N WHICH You PAY ME 5 PER CBNV v@ “ALL RIGHT * Uncle Sam would stand between the mortgage-burdened home f projected Federal legislation is | In the end, according to the steps outlined in the hypo- i | thetical transaction above, the debtor's obligation would be re- duced, the creditor given a Government obligation in payment and ] by a new morigage based on the government for this reduced amount, and take over the mort-| Easing of the home mortgage | gage at a lower rate of interest. ' |purden is held important not only | No ‘published figures show how to the homeowner alone but alsoin many mortgages are in danger of | foreclosure, but the government ex- ;ma.ny cases to the holder of the | pects about $2,300,000,000 in new‘mortgage. financing to be enough for the| Billions In Credit ‘Frozen’ needy cases. Some city owners; Loan institutions find themselves have objected to the plan on the|With billions of frozen credits in ground it should eover larger;the form of mortgages which may mortgages so that home owners in become liquid under the new plan. metropolitan areas where the pro-| Private, authoritative statistics portion of homes costing more than show that 27.5 per cent of the to- $10,000 is larger, would receive tal assels of life insurance com- more benefit. panies is in urban real esate; 52.8 per cent of mutual savings banks; 90 per cent of building and loan associations, and lesser percent- ages in national banks, commercial banks and other institutions. These securities are of more im- portance to lending institutions than are farm mortgages. While they will be reduced in amount un- der the government plan they will be replaced with more liquid bonds, enabling the institutions to carry the remaining debtors more easily and to protect their other assets from forced liquidation. Cook Inlet GENERAL SALES o Opore 1 LLNST] * OPeet 1N THE SENATE | | Most of Plants Will Run to’ : ) Full Capaciiy=-Coal iCompensation Act Amend- | Is Ordered ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 25.| G —Cook Inlet canneries are prepar-| I a lengthy session yesterday | ing to start operations. soon, most'afternoon, the Senate passed seven | of them at full capacity. bills, killed two, continued two and | Libby, McNeill and Libby has Passed two joint resolutions and purchased 2,000 tons of coal from|on€ Joint memorial, all originating, the Evans Jones Coal (Jmnpany.‘“'l the W;sz’“‘e- s ; The shipment is at Seward awaif- me“* l"m‘“m"-'s fea;ed were.i ing distribution to the various ean-| ‘¢ @eneral sales tax, and amend- Setis ‘mems to the Workmen's Compen- | - sation Act, both by Senator Hess. ment Also Beaten—Im- | portant Measures Pass to create a Board of Administra- plement the laws of the United | WASHINGTON, April 25.—Secre- holding of mining ‘claims was! bell, road —_————— , The latter was introduced by re- Jquest and he joined the other sev- vIcE - A DM I R A L\en ‘members in voting to indelinue-’ ly postpone it. | STANDLEY HA b o BEEN PRUMBTE ,tion, @ kind of Governor's Cabi-| (net, with discretionary power over s 'appropriations to the end that the treasury deficits might be avoid- | States relating to the location and tary of Navy Swanson announced Passed by a unanimous vote | last night the selection of Vice- Two additional head tax meas- Admiral William H. Standley, now, ures were passed by the Senate He will succeed Admiral William ”Moly'-&x "h;fheh“ ";flb*;!sf:;:ek 2 s 3 use of the|Many years. smoone, , del;{,:';: petired, heow 2 tor Bragaw, Anchorage, levies al ‘Admiral Pratt will retain the post|$250 tax on all owners of radio| One Hundred Cases Dis-| |a snowball in the tropics as the TOM MOONEY ANCHORAGE 1S BIVEN SNIFTER OF NEW BREW appear Like Snow- ball in Tropics ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April —One hundred cases of beer, first received here since the cent Federal enactment, faded like re- thirsty seized upon it like manna in a desert. Business was’ good while the bev- erage lasted but it amounted to merely a snifter. All restaurants and several hotels and stores are planning to handle the brew when available. Therz are no municipal regula- tions as yet pending legislation by| the Territorial Legislature now in| session at Juneau. i —_—— 1S READY FOR SECOND TRIAL | Impatiently Waits at Pris-| on Gate to Be Taken to San Francisco SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Cal,; ’Temmrm officers. WASHINGTON, April 25—A Bill to set up a half billion dol- lar fund for direct unemploy- ment relief neared final ap- proval today when the Senate Banking Committee approved the measure virtually as it passed the House. The bill marks the departure from the policy under the Hoo- ver Administration of lending funds to states. The present bill provides for outright grants which are not to be repaid. HOUSE REVISES BEER BILL AND LOWERS RATES Amendments to [Measure Liberalize It—Beer Par- lor Section Changed This afternoon the House passed the appropriations bill after reducing it $890. This amount reduced” the salary of the mining engineer and clerk to conform with reductions made in other official salaries. After a two-hour consideration of the Senate beer bill in Committee of the Whole late yesterday after- noon, the House of Representa- tives amended it some 15 times and was all set today to pass it and shoot it back to the Senate. The House lowered license fees, restored lodging houses and de- fined restaurants and cafeterias, and again changed the beer dis- pensary section to make it possible for soft drink parlors and cigar stores to sell beer and wine by the glass to patrons seated at either counter or tables. Minimum Limit Fixed The House also restored the “wholesale license,” stricken from the Hellerich measure by the Sen- ate. It fixed the fee for such a license at $100. It put lodging houses back into the list of business that can ob- tain “beer and wine” licenses. Such places, however, must have accom- modations for 15 persons. Restaur- ants and cafeterias must also have accommodations for 15 persons. These requirements are supposed to keep out fly-by-night establish- ments, “joints” as some members phrased it. Cuts Beer Parlor Fee The House reduced the ‘“beer dispensary” license fee from 8250, the amount fixed by the Senate, to $100. Tt also wiped out the Senate restriction ‘which limited beer dis- pensaries to the sale of draft beer and beer in uncapped bottles. It cut the fees for club licenses from $50 to $25. The Senate bill, like the original House measure, prohibited any brewery or winery, or any officer or agent of such plants, from own- ing any interest in any beverage dispensary license, and from fi- nancing such establishment. It ex- empted, however, storages or ware- houses where beer or wine might be stored by manufacturers. The House wiped out that exemption. Remains in Courts Headed by Representative Green, Hyder, a movement was launched |to put the issuance of licenses and collection of fees and ‘taxes under ‘The first (Continued on Page Seven) Manchuria Opens Door To Trading Privy Councillor for Man- chukuo Government Makes Statement TOKYO, April 25—The Man- chukuo Government promises an Ace I taiy Tunes ghi ps; Men For Fli ht to Chicago @ TREVRsaVIK \ Above is the first authorized photegraph of a model 10 Saveia- Marchetti 55 seaplane, two dozen of which will start a mass flight next month from Italy to the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago. They will follow the rcute shown on the map and will be headed by General Italo Balbo, ORBETELLO, Italy, April 25.—A life like that of a bunch of pugil- ists in strict training is led here by the 100 aviators who will man 24 TItalian seaplanes on General Italo Balbo’s group flight to Chi- cago late in May. Men and machines are being tun- ed to the highest possible point of efficiency so that both human and mechanical units may be with- out flaw when the moment comes from their leader to signal “con- tact.” One by one the model 10 Savoia- Marchetti planes, beautiful speci- mens of workmanship, are being turned over to the pilots, navi- gators, mechanics and wireless op- erators who will form their crews. The ships embody several late improvements over the planes used on Balbo's mass flight to Brazil in 1931. Each is driven by two Isot- ta-Fraschini motors developing Minister of Aviation. dem over the single wing. The front motor drives a three-bladed propeller and the rear engine a two-bladed affair. ‘The maximum speed is 175 miles an hour., At the cruising rate of 150 m.p.h. each machine can carry 2,200 pounds more than 2,500 miles. The men selected for the trip are walled off from all distracting contacts. They at at a training table, may each have just one pint of wine a day and are limited on their smoking, Sports, such as swimming, ten- nis, fencing, water polo and skiing, are on the daily program, along with flying and intensive class room work in aerial subjects, al- ternated with two hours ih the air daily. Visitors are taboo. Already “in the pink,” every man jack of the expedition is certain that he soon will be sauntering through the fair grounds on Chi- 1,600 horsepower and erected tan-cago's lake front. ARE TO OPERATE ON HELEN VASCO Court Orders Surgeons to Act for Removal of Tumor from Eye YONKERS, N. Y., Aprl 25.—Two- year-old Helen Vasco will exchange one of her blue eyes for what may be her life. The delicate operation ordered by| April 25—Tom Mooney is ready w“open door and equal opportunity in step from prison here in a new trade in Manchuria to all nations ; After days of discussion and con- | sideration, the Senate by a six to| Itwo vote passed Walker’s measure | Secretary Swanson An- ed. Frawiey and Devane voied| 3 R against passage. nounces Selection, Chief |*g1%% penee e o of Naval Operations Commander of the Cruiser Scout-|yesterday. One by Senafor Camp- ing Force, as new Chief of Naval Anchorage, provides for ‘a 85 Operations. ¥ tax identical with the $5| pending developments of the pres- ent international conversations and meanwhile Vice-Admiral Standley district is estimated to have pro- duced $4,000,000. will be assigned as Commander of| “After incorporating-in it Sena- |,y while attorneys cleared the | the Battle Force. 3 receiving sets. Senator Shattuck | voted against the latter. Building Bill Passed (Continued on Page Eight) suit Tor his second trial in San Francisco, which starts -tomorrow. He waited impatiently for his de- way of technicalities. in exchange for reciprocity. This is announced today by Tokuzo Ko- mai, Privy Councillor for Manchu- the court, after a battle with the| girl's parents, is expected to be| performed today or tomorrow. The operation is for removal of a tumor which doctors say will destroy her life unless removed, but which will probably cause the loss of the eye. The mother of the girl previously said she would rather “God take Helen,” than see her lose her eye. Labor Secretary Asked to Explain 30-Hour Week Plan WASHINGTON, April 25— Secretary of Labor Perkins has been asked to appear before the House Labor Committee and explain in more detail her suggestions for Federal control of production and a minimum wage law in connection with the proposed 30-hour week leg- islation. e A handle mill at Pine Bluff, Ark., kuo, as told in an Associated Press|Ppays farmers about $13,000 annual- copyrighted article, ly for hickory timber. AMERICAN BEER WORRIES BRAZIL Comeback of Beverage In- dicates Fall Off in Coffee Trade By PAUL SANDERS RIO DE JANEIRO, April 25— Whatever beer’s return means to the United States, it has put an- other wrinkle in Brazil's brow. It is taken for granted here that beer’s comeback there will cause a slight reduction in coffee consump- tion ' because the American takes his coffee with his meal rather than after .it, and e isn't likely to drink beer’ and coffee at the same time. Any reduction in American cof- fee consumption will be felt, be- cause the United States is the big- gest customer. The coffee problem causes as many nightmares as ever. Huge Surplus in Sight World production for the next crop year is estimated at more than 13,000,000 sacks above world consumption. Since Brazil, the Jargest producer, holds the bag for most of the excess stocks, 13,000,000 sacks plled on top of 21,000,000 on hand at the beginning of 1932 means an excess load of about 4,- 500,000,000 pounds. The newspaper A Nacao goes so far as to say that Brazilian coffee is in danger of suffering a collapse slmilar to that which sucked dry the rich Brazilian rubber trade 20 years ago. WORLD ECONOMIC ILLS BFING TREATED SEWARD BURNS RAILROAD TIES; - WARNING GIVEN Regular “Boston Party” Staged to Westward— Committee Acts \PROTEST MADE TO IMPORTED MATERIAL Mayor of Town Deplores Action but Condolences Given to Hewers SEWARD, Alaska, April 25.—In protest to the importation of rail- road ties from Washington State, a “Committee of Twenty,” set fire to a carload of ties Sunday night as a warning against further ship- ments. In a communication received by the Seward Gateway, the “com- mittee” said if made, “not only one car but whola trains, and who can say, possibly even boats will be set on fire.” the blaze one and a half hours. One railroad flat car, loaded with ties, was destroyed. Had Other Plans The report was freely circulated, prior to the arrival of the North Star from Seattle, that a “Boston Tea Party” would be staged but the “committee” apparently chang- ed its mind and decided to burn instead of throwing the ties ovar- board. While deploring the procedure, Mayor D. C. Brownell expressed sympathy for the men who had been thrown out of work and who used this method of expressing re- sentment and bringing attention to the public of what they regard- ed as an unfair deal (o tie hewers. COAL EPISODE RECALLED The burning of the ties at Sew- ard recalls the other Alaska “Bos- ton Tea Party” in Cordova, in 1912, when citizens massed on the wharf and shoveled two carloads of Brit- ish Columbia coal into the harbor as a protest against delay in open- ing the Alaska coal fields. TIE ACTION HERE Last Tuesday, the House of Hep- resénitatives, under suspended rules, passed a memorial by Representa- tive J. 8. Hofman, of Seward, and later wired it to Secretary of In- terior Ickes, charging that General Manager Ohlson, of the Alaska Railroad, refused to fix the price that he would be willing to pay for native hemlock ties and later de- clined to acknowledge a telegram on that subject sent by former Gov. George A. Parks. The faiure to make the price is alleged in the memorial to have destroyed the credit of 100 men engaged in tie making on the rail- road. The Secretary of Interior was requested to instruct Ohlson to fix a maximum price of native ties. ——-——.— JAPAN, FRANGE FACE TROUBLE IN MANCHURIA French Join with Russia in Dispute Over Rail- way System PARIS, April 25.—Close relations that have prevailed between France and Japan are placed in jeopardy by Far Eastern developments which at the same time tend to strength- en the Franco-Russian friendship. Official quarters called attention to this evolution in the foreign pol- icy of the French by expressing uneasiness over the Manchurian railway crisis. France joins Russia in regard to the anxiety and charges Japan with fomenting the plot to have the Manchukuo Government seize the disputed railway. ————l e basketball star, will play second _{base for the New Orleans Pelicans this summer, uother shipment is - The local fire department fought ot <o s A 5