The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 5, 1933, Page 1

(> o THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THF NEWS ALL THE TIME” V(“ \LII,, I\O 6332. JUNEAU ALASKA FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATFD PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS PLEDGE GIVEN BY PRESIDENT LAST EVENING Roosevelt Makes Import-| ant Statement Before C. of C.ofU. S. IS AGAINST FURTHER REDUCTION OF WAGES| Cut - throat Must Be Eliminated —Plans Outlined WASHINGTON, Ma ment is ready t to any movem industr cut-throat when of was pledged last night Franklin D. Roosevelt an address before the Chamber An Commerce of the United which for several days has the question of industrial regulation by government or by business men. Asks Wage Raise Calling attention to the “slight ¢ definite upturn in most indus- with a simultaneous rise in mosi commodity prices,” the Pres-| said past experiences ‘indicat- e3 “when the price levels :yc- n to rise after a long period of commodity pr viou refore, ask you to re from further reductions in w of empl s and to also increase scales in conformity to e level of commodity as lies within your in t . inso New Werk Week Bill President said there is still The a lot of work to be done in organ- to accomplish his nation’s business legis ram for it involv trust laws and also apparently involves substitution of ths 30- hour week, the bill already passed | by the Senate and now before the House. ation the izing JBSTITUTE PROPOSAL Wi t. of Labor Perkins has pujec[—‘p@l formance in commodity shares held that th‘ Legislature had no ed a plan for government control and held a gain of about two| sons AI‘C Reported to {power to discriminate between citi- over wages and hours of work. points. Great Western Sugar was| Be In'ured |zens of the United States .\\Im: This legislation apparently will be up one point i ] ,m;- residents of Adl.uka and those alternative to voluntary industrial| Stocks up a fraction to around| el 2 who are non-residents. omission to the Roosevelt plan jone point included American Tele-| BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, Mflh Mr. Faulkner pointed out that of government supervision. phone and Tel Americayy | 5-=Twenty Persons ba¥o faph KU ithe aliegad got of the Legulature £ AR &R Tobacco B, Westinghouse, Stand-|®d and more than 200 injured bY|in question increases the taxes lard Ofl of New Jersey, New York 2 tornado which swept three wesi-\which must be paid by salmon \Central, Woolworth, Case, Liggett C€PY al Alabama commumnes early | p, ors in Bristol Bay by some- |and Myers Tobacco B, Union Paci- ”’jlf_ morning > |thing over $23,000 per annum based fic, United States Stecl, Anaconda| The Helens mining village of 700 \on last year's license collections. land Goodyear. population bore the brunt of the|ye said that the Alaska Packers BE GAND'DATE Motors were off fractionally jsform with 13 dead there a“d‘Assou'mon alone paid directly to L] ; nearly 100 injured. ~lthe Territory in taxes last year | Relief facilities were functioning|,ver $174000, and in‘ cddition MAYUR uF N Y CLOSING PRICES TODAY within an hour ar:m; the twister i gnereto, paid in the Territory in- & Olosing Which, lasted but a few moments|girect taxes which brought their ¥ B0 NEW YORK, May 5—Closiig ang jeft residents dazed and ter-|total tax to $199,000, in the face 3 . Stosl today 1s 9, merica. n he bOd Mrs. N. D. Thomas, pe 000. Based ,on last year's Rum.ms Clr(.:UIale.d FO“OW- 4%, merican P{’;c" ‘};dmlhqm wife of a Helens deputy sheriff, ;L:gsoe fees collected, the Alaska ing Resignation of |8% Anaconda 12%, Bethlehem woq found lodged in the highlpaciers Ascociation would be Te- Steel 25%, Calumet and Hecla 5, pranches of a tree some distance louired to pay an additional tax Joseph McKee NEW YORK, May 5.—Joseph Mc- Kee's farewell to politics in dis- gust, gave increased currency to the talk that Alfred E. Smith may Mayor of New York City for run e succeeded James J. Walk- as Mayor and for a time he as a possible candidate in the He resigned from the ite future. Board of Aldermen on Wednesday. McKee withdrew from politics to president of a business concern. be No confirmation came for any the principals involved in the Smith reports but other reports said news to this effect reached McKee and helped influence him in his step. ——————— Ketchikan Council Seeking Reduction In Utility Rates of KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 5—, The City Council Wednesday night called on the Ketchikan Utilities unit of the collapsed W. B. Foshay chain, to make a voluntary reduc- tion in rates or face hearings an: investigation. Compstition looked to by anti-Tammany- | | { | | | Senator Joseph T. Robinson, flo Associated Press in New York dur director; Kent Cooper, general ma president. PROFIT-TAKING 'FAILS TO KEEP | - PRICES DOWN 1 Many Issum Ad\ancr from One to Three Points | —Closing Steady YORK, an Rails went to sleep after an e amou; of pr ntinued Ito maintain an impressive front |today. Gains were pared in the final hour and the close was |steady to firm after many issu2s tadvanced from one to three or Imore points, | Traders took in hmd r] and ran them up befors -hc:n realizing began to appear. | !Prices then sagged one point ,‘ more, recovered and then dropped) {back again. ‘ Slumber | | | Rails 1 flourish. SHINGTON, May 5—Secre-| American Sugar gave the best Over Two Hund\ed Per- Armour B 2%, Fox Films 2%, ‘General Motors 22"., International Harvester Kennecott 17%, Packard Motors 4, General Ameri- can Tank 2 United States |Steel 48%. | DR. SCHACHT IN U. S. FOR CONFERENCE German BaIer Comes to, | Talk with Roosevelt— | Praises America NEW YORK, May 5—Dr. B. Haljmer ' Schacht, head of the |German Reichsbank, has arrived here enroute to Washington, D. |C., for conferences with President Roosevelt on economic conditions. Dr. Schacht said America is the only nation able to solve the 'World's problems. “It is fine that America has taken the initiative as the Americans won the war and er’s table with officers of the association. —— | 4 . | SEATTLE, May Mayor John Makmg Collecllon F. Dore plans to surrender the \reins of the city from June 16 to| Suit was filed in the District| s, June 29 while he goes on a jaunt Court at Juneau today by Hilding | to Alaska with the Chamber of Anderson of San Francisco, Cal-| Commerce Alaska Excursion. The ifornia, against Walstein G. Smith, | trip will be made aboard the Al- as Treasurer of the Territory of| or leader of the senate, was the guest speaker at the luncheon of The ing the news organization’s annual meeting. He is shown at the speak. Left to right: Adolph 8. Ochs of The New York Times, nager; Senator Robinson and Frank B. Noyes of The Washington Star, NUN-RESIDENT 'GILL NET TAX - UNDER ATTACK ‘Suit Is Filed to Prevent Treasurer Smith from (Associated Press Photo) M a yor Dore Isto Make Alaska Trt Will Be Member of Cham-| ber of Commerce Ex- CUl’SiOn in June aska Steamship Company's Aleu- Alaska, for the purpose of enjoin- an. ing the Treasurer from collecting | e (the tax imposed on non-resident | gill lof House Bill No. 19, recently pass- | ed by the Territoral Legislature. | The suit was ffled by H. L | Faulkner, attorney for Mr. An-| |derson, and, in speaking of the case | ltoday, he said that in his opinion | net fishermen by the provisions | !the Circuit Court of Appeals had lalready passed on this quesfion in the . ¢ of Wood Freeman vs.| |Walstein G. Smith as Treasurer of the Territory of Alaska, and had from her home. the The death list is expected to grow of $8,650 per annum under recent act of the Legislature THREATS MADE T0 MILITIAMEN County Attorney Issues Defy but Guardsmen Make Two Arrests LEWARS, as several persons are believed to have been cnum]ly injured. oSy, vl BRIT, CABINET OPPOSES U. S. LONDON, May 5— Donald, .in two Ca 8—D Iowa, May has failed to swing s ininisters|ing the threat from the C y to support the Ame 1 iroposals | Attorney to arrest guardsmen if for a world tariff liective [they enter his county to muke immediately and t0 con'inue|arrests in connection with the present mortgage foreclosure r, the state militia pushed into ¢ okee County and arrested two suspects, Walter Dunn and Klabe, as participants in th: cent assault on Judge Bradl Following the invasion of through the world economic mone- tary conference Senate Takes Position On Future R.F.C. Loans WASHINGTON, May 5—The Senate has voted to prohibit the |county, County Attorney J:m:28) Reconstruction TFinance Corpora-| Smith gave the militia a to |§ tion to make loans to any corpor- (lashing and predicted a ation paying any ofifcer, director [jury investigation if the prisy they will have to make the peace.” or employe more than $17,500 year- |are taken out of the county a: ly. their will, > |KIDNAP CASE TRADE KEEPS IS BAFFLING T0 OFFICERS New Clues —Szght in Ab-| duction of Ten-Year- Old School Girl BULLETIN—HARWICK, May 5.—~Margaret McMath, kidnaped last Tuesday, has been returned to her parents. She appeared en a Coast Guard boat with her father and police officials. The entire party is reported _headed for the Coast Guard “base at Woods Hole. { HARWICH PORT, Mass., May =~The spirits of a sorrowing mothe: and father remained unbroken to- day as admittedly baffled police and state troopers cast about for some new clue as to the where- abouts of Margaret McMath. All avenues of contact with kid- napers have been left open but no word has been received ONE BELIEF REMAINS HARWICH PORT, Mass., May 5. —There is a belief that 10-year- old Margaret McMath, kidnaped from school last Tuesday afternoon, has been taken®to Detroit in an effort by abductors to get in touch with her wealthy grandparents, is expressed by the spokesman for the child's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nejl C. McMath. 4The police of Detroit are report- d working on this theoty. Mrs. McMath has broadcast what her little girl likes to eat and ex- pressed hopes her daughter will do all the kidnapers ask of her and be a good girl. Hopes are in- creasing at the chances for her safety. One negro and two white men are involved in the kidnaping. - e ON INCREASE OVER NATION Weekly Review of Dun- Bradstreet Continues Encouraging NEW YORK, May 5—Expansion of trade and industry broadened appreciably this week says the Dun-Bradstreet review. Retail distribution held previous gains and wholesale buying ex- tended beyond the customary per- jod of seasonal activity. “General convictions are that prices are now headed wupward after fluctuating for more than a year at the lowest level for the jpresent century and are leading to precautionary policies which are rapidly approaching speculative ac- tivity in some operations,” the re- view says. Revival Nation Wide The weekly reports says that “reports of an unmistakable re- vival in commercial and industrial activity does not emanate from a few isolated districts but are na- tion-wide. The scope and duration of the buying movement however is difficult to gauge as in some quarters, at least, it is attributable to @ desire to shift money from banks to raw materials and fab- ricated products with the strength of the consumer yet to be tested There is obviously an absence of increased purchasing power as yet and there is a vast majority tem- pering enthusiasm regarding con- sumption prospects in the immed- iate future.” o Public Works Bill To Be Introduced During Coming W eek . WASHINGTON, May 5— ® A bill calling for a public works program running into millions of dollars and vest- ing broad administrative “powers in the President will | be introduced next week by | Benators Costigan, Cutting | and LaFollette, . |the advertisement of District Judge Condemned In House Resolution for Refusing to Issue Beer License to George Brothers After a night of fruitless controversy, the Legislature this morning abandoned the idea of changing the licensing clause of the beer and wine control act from administration by the United States District | Court to the Auditor and Treasurer. But the House passed by a unani- mous vote a scathing denunciation of Judge Justin W. Harding for re- | fusing yesterday to grant a beer retail license to George Brothers. The resolution was the last of several steps initiated in the Legislature, all of which were blocked. The House bill to take away from the District Judges th: power to issue beer admission to the Senate. Amendment The House yesterday had p licenses was denied Is Quashed d a bill taking away the power of the judges to grant licenses under the beer control act. The Senate, |in the meantime, had passed another measure dealing with the same subject matter which created a Board of Appeal compos:d of the Gov- ernor, the Auditor and Attorney Co which was authorized to hear| appeals from the rulings of the District Court on applications for licenses In the meantime, the Ho: prepared another bill which would have put tha licensing in ti of the Auditor and elimin- ated the judges. That measure pas > House. The Senate, however, refused to receive the bill. And a urs of informal discussion no change was affected. Early this ning the House changed the measure: to a House resolution and passed it by an unanimous vote. It was wired to Washington. The Whereas, this Legislature has a license for the sale of beer and au grant such license under satisfacto: is of good moral character and financially respensible; and ‘Whereas, the firm of George Brothers of Juneau, did apply to the District Court of the First Division of Alaska for license to sell beer in its grocery department in the said Town of Juneau, where said firm has conducted business for many years and has an investment in excess of $50,000.00; and Whereas, the moral character and financial responsibility of the meémbers of said-firm ar: well and favorably known by the community | at large; and ] Whereas, the said application of said firm, submitted in opposition thereto; and Whereas, such action on the part of said District Judge was in the light of the reasons given not governed by a proper legal considara- tion and the intent of the above law; and Whereas, the term of said District Judge 1933, and no recess appointment, been made; Now, Therefore, Be It Resolved, That this Legislature does hereby condemn the action of the said District Judge in refusing to grant such| license to George Brothers of Juneau, Alaska, for the reasons above set forth, HOUSE BILLS ~ SENATE BILLS WHICH PASSED = WHICH PASSED | BOTH HOUSES BOTH HOUSES The following is an ]n(\:))np_’\‘c\ The following is an incomplete list of the House bills which have |list of the Senate bills which were been passed by both chambers of passed by both houses of the Ter- the Territorial Legislature, ritorial Legislature. ull text of the resolution follows enacted a statute requiring the District Court to that the applicant therefor zing the Judge of said First Division has refused to grant without satisfactory evidence being expired in January, or reappointment in his stead, has | | to| HB. 1, by Scott—Relative S.B. 1, by Hess—Banking Holi-| interest and usury. ‘day. H.B. 7, by Swanberg, Sr—Rela-| S.B. 2, by Shattuck—Creating!| tive to the publication of delin- Board of Education. quent tax roll in municipalities. HB. 8, by Hellerich—To repeal |Board of Optometry. the Act of Congress of Februa 8.B. 4, by Lomen—Amending Sec. 14, 1917, “An Act to prohibit the 434, C.L. of Alaska as amended by manufacture or sale of alcoholic Sec. 1, Ch. 27, Laws of 1929. | 8B. 3, by Walker—Territorial liquors,” ete. ; SB. 5, by Lomen—Creating of- H.B. 17, by Taylor—An Act mak- {fice of Marriage Commissioner. ing the unlawful- issuance of S.B. 6 by Bragaw—Relief of Rol-| checks and drafts on banks u’land Osbourne. | larceny. S.B. 8, by Hess—Amending Sec. H.B. 12, by 'Taylor—Providing for |3, Ch. 40, S.L. 1929. the construction of an airplane| SB. 9, by Hess—Amending Sec. landing field at Cordova, Alaska |3, Ch. 20, SL. 1919. and making an appropriation! S.B. 10, by ness—Amending Secs. therefor. 1895 and 899 C.L. of 1913. HB. 19, by Taylor—To provide| SB. 12, by Lomen—Amending Sec. 11 and (a) of Sec. S.L. licensing of fishermen in the Terri- tory of Alaska. 16, Ch. 118 1929; repealing Ch. 77 SL H.B. 23, by Green—Appropria-|1913; Ch. 2, SL. 1931. tion to protect Hyder from the| SB. 13, by Lomen—Amending encroachment of Salmon River. Sec. 17-b Ch. 65, SL. 1923, | HB. 24/ by Patterson—Relative| S.B. 14, by Judiciary Committee— to the method of choosing jurors Terms of office of Nbiaries Pub- in the courts of the Territory of lic. SB. 15, by Judiciary cOmmmee! —Amending Sec. 550 C. L. A. 1913 in re. personal prcperty in certain | Alaska. HB. 25, by Kehoe—Relative to a license tax on motor vehicles. HB. 26, by Kehoe—An Act to cases require the registration of vital, S.B. 16, by Judiciary Committee statistics. —Amending Sec. 511-12 C.L.A. 1913 H.B. 29, by Taylor—To prohibit| S.B. 17, by Judiciary Committee certain beyv- —Amending Sec. 657 C. L. A. 1913 erages. |relating to foreign corporations. H. B. 32, by Kehoe—An Act to| S. B. 19 by Judiciary Committee provide for the incorporation of —Amending Sec. 377, CL.A. 1913 in| eligious, charitable and education- re recording districts and commis- associations, institutions and sioners. societies as corporations sole. | 8.B. 20, by Judiciary Committee H. B. 35, by Nerland—Relating —Amending Secs. 728, 733, etc., C.| to the administration of small L. A. 1913—unclaimed property. estates. 8. B. 21, by Judiciary Committee H.B. 37, by Taylor—An Act to —Repealing 44 obsolete sections C. establish a teacher’s pension fund. L. A. 1913. HB. 40, by Kehoe—Providinz| 8. B. 22, by Walker—Amending “labout ready 18 173, in the lprnvi(led by | the REDUCTION IN SALARIES ONE CAUSE WHICH FORCES DELAY {Principal Diffeveiods. e pected to Be Ironed Out for Adjournment This Afternoon After a session beginning at 9:30 o'clock Thursday morning the Eleventh Session of the Alaska Legislature was to adjourn at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon after the longest over - time session on record. The principal difference be- tween the two Houses was in the 15 per cent salary cut made by the House in the general appropriation bill. Conferees from the House and Senate wlo started work shortly after 9 o'clock last night reached an agreement this afternoon fixing salary ‘and wage reductions at 10 per cent. Beer Complicates While ostensibly uation the prin- [ciple difference between the | House and Senate was in the reduction of wage and salary, the House holding out for 15 per cent and the Senate for background lurk- ed the question, whether beer licenses should be handled by the Federal District Court as the beer and wine control act, or whether act should be amended to permit the licensing to be done by the Territorial Aud- itor. This quetsion was raised when the local court yesterday refused to grant a license upon applica- tion made by one of the leading retail grocers of Juneau. And while the Legislature could not agree upon any other method of issuing licenses except through the United States District Court, the House without a dissenting vote con- demned the local presiding Judge i for refusing to grant the license and by implication urged his im- mediate removal. Senate Blocks Change This was not done, however, un-~ til the Senate had blocked move- ment from the House to change the system of licensing from Fed- eral to Territorial control. The House, after having been inform- ed ol the action of the Court in re- fusing to grant a license to George Brothers, to retail beer, passed an amendment to the Beer and Wine Control Act placing the licensing in the hands of the Territorial Auditor. Representatives Blake, Patterson, and Taylor were appointed this aft- ernoon by the House to notify the Governor that the House was rea- dy to adjourn. Representatives Lingo, Baronovich /and Judson were appointed at 3:45 o'clock this afternoon to notify the Senate the House was ready to adjourn. b L s Wrangel Island Given New Name LENINGRAD, U. S. S. R, May 5.—Wrangell Island, the dot of land north of Kamcl.atka whose own- ership was th: cause of conflict- ing Russian, American, British and Japanese claims a decade ago, has been renamed Davidov Island by - the Soviet Arctic Institute in hon- or of Vladimir Davidov, a Rus- sian explorer, who died two years ago. The Soviet maintains a col- ony on the island. e e e——— AMSTERDAM, May 1.—Eggs are s0 cheap here that one is given away, hard boiled, with each glass of beer. Germany's increased tar- ifs shut Dutch eggs out of that market, but nobody warned the esccenvsocoe (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Seven) lhem to ewf production.