The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 8, 1933, Page 8

- 8 AE—— e THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE MONDAY MAY 8, 1933. FIRST MEETING MEASURES T0 OF COMMISSION ASSIST NATION HELD SATURDAY ARE PROPOSED Board Launches Prelimin- President Promises Fairer ary Work Toward Wage Returns, No Building Home Over-Production Pio- (Continued from Page One) ion 3 o ing in a flight of American capital out of the country | jold to a partial extent, and silver, make a good basis for cur- rency and that is why 1 decided not to let any gold now in the { country to go out,” said-the Presi- Attorney | qo Treasurer | missioner of Karnes. His Stewardship The President went over thor- oughly his actions taken in his two months in the White House to emphasize that this resulted in no surrender of power by Congress, rather he delegated himself as an agent for Congress to put the em- sites, or others that may |ergency program into effect. suggested. Each is to be asked| “We are working toward a defin- > furnish data on which the se-|ite goal which is to prevent a re- of the site for the mnew | turn of conditions which came very 'mme will be made. iclose to destroying what we call Five communities have already modern civilization. The actual ac- filed petitions for the institution complishment of our purpose can- These are: Sitka, where it has been | not be attained in a day. Our poli-| since it was created in 1913; Skag- cles are wholly within the purposes way, and Craig, in Southe of the American Constitutions A . Anchorage and Cordova. Government established 150 yea Where hearings are considered ne- the President said. cessary or desirable, Chairman Country Was Dying He: will hold them personally Asserting that two months ago and submit the data obtained Ly the “country was dying by inche: that manner to the Commissi today we have reason to belies No meetings of the b things are better. Industry ected to be held until picked up. Railroads are carrying has been us(mhlol more freight. Farm prices are bet- o gt ter but I am not going to xndulg(" in issuing proclamations over the! enthusiastic assurance that we bnl-} lyho ourselves back to prosperity.| 1 am going to be honest at all Disarmament Subject Look- ed at from New Angle | ation Ant e Commissioner authorized the nan to draft a letter to all of Commerce in the Ter- the City OCo Is he desire of the Ter- obtain data on various nas try.” to the banking reforms, war 30-hour work week. A Nenana Ice May Move Soon; Chena Slougl: Ice Does by Wall Street ‘ ke Ice on the Chena Slough ¢larted mcving on May 4, ac- cording to a letter received this morning by Robert J. Mc- Kanna frem friends in Seward. The datc on which the Chena Slough ice breaks is of great interest owing to the fact that the ice in the Nenana River usually moves about cight days latcr, McKanna said. In a letter written on May 4 to Juneau, R. Ketzler, of Ne- nana stated that it looked as though the breakup would come about the eighth. The weather in Nenana has been damp and cold with a mixture of rain NEW YORK, May 8—Some of Wall Street’s leading financial ex- perts express as keen interest in the Disarmament Conference at Geneva as in the forthcoming economic conference in London Nationalism, they, say, can scarce- ly end so long as war threatens They further say it is theé threat of war perhaps more than any- thing else which makes each nation anxious to make itself economically self-sufficient, thus throttling the flow of trade between nations. | Bounties Are Paid | France, Germany and Italy, it is explained, are paying the farmers - hu);(- bounties to grow wheat when Aand snow, according to Mr. this product is produced on a large Ketazler. scale in Canada, United States and =™ Argentina and is available on the goods through a normal flow of gentina and is available on the world trade, world markets at a fraction of & Financial experts feel, price maintained in those European that few nations will be willing| countries. to make themselves dependent upon Other Activities i foreign markets for products they Other countries are doing the do not produce at home even if at came thing in other commodities much higher costs, until war clouds and it is the hope that the econ- are cleared away. omic conference delegates can de- vise methods whereby nations will Let the aaverusements Thelp you once more sway huge surpluses of make your shopping plans, Women’s Summer Hose Pebbeled Ribbed Fabric in white or brown $2.95 . LEADER DEPT. STORE George Bros. SEE YURMAN The Furrier Alterations . . . . Glazing Storage Summer ‘prices now in effect! [ icontinued to such an extent, times to the people of this coun-| The President made no reference| debts or| however, i Horses H ltched to This F arm Aul Plan. Expert Bring back the horse to t Tllinois. there were amount of the present surplus. URBANA, 111, about the old gray mare isn't what it used to be. It has assumed a serious com- plexion—involving the whol> pr iem of farm prices. Prosperity Via. decline of the Horues The horse |cording to studies made by C. W. Crawford, horse husbandry exper t the University of Illinois, th: 'his conclusion is this: estoration of which have disappeared off Am can farms in the last 17 would do “more than ‘vahm" relse” to wipe out under-consump- |tion of grains and bring back the 68-cent gorn and 43-€ent ocats of 1915. If there were 21,195,000 ho: United States farms—as“ther 1915—Crawford says: “They would eat mor: lare now marketed and 85 of the corn which was |of producing countries in 1932." Minimizes Production as Ca | Crawford discounts the idea [low grain prices are results of sed production. | “Quite the |tends. “We have been |about the same amount |and oats in recent years before the war, | “The 1932 corn crop was than usual, but it had been exc ed four times in the past 20 yea and has been egualed three differ- ent years in the same period, Combined production of corn and oats for the 10-year peniod 1905-1914 averaged 3,756,000,000 bushels. For the five year period 1928-1932, it averaged 3,803,000,000 bushels—an increase of only 1% per cent. Population Is Partial Offset “To balance this slight increase,| we have had a steady rise in pop- ulation. The 1930 census showed a 16 per cent increase over 1920. Therefore it seems we do not have a surplus as far as potential con- sumers are concerned.” Corn and oats, however, are not | eaten directly by people to any great = extent, Crawford explains, with 85 per cent of the natior {in that in- contrary,”” he . c produc of corr s we did being fed to livestock. fluenced by and the latter industry is dllEL Ye He says that restoration of the 8,500,000 work animals that have disappe 21,195,000, would be 'a partial remedy for the depressicn on the farm by consuming a great May 8—That joke | the 8,500,600 horses'| : J. DE VANE HOSTS AT ‘LARGE DINNER PARTY _dinner pa . W. Troy d of the Unive ared since 1915, when he farm “table,” is the advice of C. dependent on mea for the most part Meat, Lard Ccnsumption Off Per capita consumption of meat and lard in the United States has dropped less than 2 per cent, Craw- ford says, while recei of dressed poultry at major markets hav gained 35 per cent in 11 yea: “There p our decrease in con- |sumption of coarse grains,” he ar- gues, “must be in other classes of livestock than meat anima Jumbers of dairy cows have in- 1sed steadily for years and must on as much or mo. nerly. This leay of livestock which problem consumption ~BUSINESS IS MUCH BETTER IN TWO LINES Steel Productlon Upturn—| cr casmg Wages grain only may one answer the “This is the horse, which eplaced by other power xtent on many farms.” - 'SENATOR AND MRS. T. NEW YORK, May 8. — Further indications of business upturn 1s secen steel production took an unexpected jump. ss has as to a In the Youngstown district, three additional open hearth furnaces began working today raising the steel activity from 33 to 36 per cent apacity e Greenwood, 8. C, ills and 96 others near there an- ,nounced a 10 per cent wage in-| crease immediately. Revival of activity on the Stock Market has brought pay increa to many Wall Street workers and new jobs to a considerable num- ber of former employees. - > S and Mrs, ane of Ruly, enter er of their Junead at Baile Cafe after which they guests to the Capitol 1tor Thomas J. De- ained a nun friends s la took The- evening thei! ater. The guests Mr Mr were H. I Luther Mrs, W. B. Kirk Lyman S. Brewst W. Kehoe, Mr Watson, S. Bragaw Theile, Mrs. N. Florence Walk J. J. Meherin Governor John Morgan, Se C. Hess, Mr. Mr. and and and R. HALIBUT AND SALMON SHIPPED ON YUKON tor and Mrs, Mrs. H Reb: Karl Miss Mrs. and E. Engstrom shipped 27,000 pounds of halibut and 500 pounds |of salmon to the Sebastian Stuart Fish Company in Seattle on the , steamer Yukon which left Juneau early this morning. Dr. On the same steamer, the Ju- Council, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. B"n-‘ne,nu Cold Storage Company ship- der, Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Me- ped 2,000 pounds of salmon trout |Kenna, Miss Mildred Keaton, Ted to the San Juan Fishing and Pack- |Keaton and Miss O. M. Andrews. |ing Company. | rrrrrrr e | corn and 80 per cent of its oats “Consequently,” he contends, the “coarse grain prices are vitally in- | livestock production, s;- -~ We Still Have Harry Rac Druggist. Cotton Mllls Are In- | cotton | | | | | FIRE PARTLY Says 8,000,000 More at Feed Trough, Help Out| DESTROYS ONE MAINE CITY Incendarism S u s pected— Men Seen Running from Where Blaze Started BULLETIN — ELLSWORTH, May 8.—Late this afternoon the damage by fire is placed at $3,000,000 and the hcmeless at 400, ELLSWORTH, Maine, May 8~ Fire, believed to be of incendiary laid waste to a large secs origin, tion of this city with a loss esti- mated at $1,500,000 at dawn when the fire was brought under trol. A blackened desolate area is all that remains of approximately 175 houses and residences and from 300 to 400 of the city’s 4000 residents have been left homeless. The Red Cross moved took charge. The fire started in a framed storehouse formerly a theatre and spread both ways moving with such yspeed that the firemen were con- stantly having to leave their lines of hose with water running. Some say they saw two men running from the building where the flames started. BEER HELPING RR. BUSINESS R A Makes Report Showmg Business Trends Are Improving WASHINGTON, May 8.—The in- fluence of beer as brightening bus- iness is brought in the most opti- mistic carloading report from the American Railway Association Lhu |has come in many manths. The report is taken generally as' an indication that business trends are improving. The report shows 42,705 more cars were loading during the week ending April 29 than in the preced- ing week. The figures are still 18521 under the same week last ear. However the largest incre is shown in miscellaneous merchan- | dise loadings which includes beer | shipment Promote Frosperity er's Ink! Tun TEXTU The kind of b adds zest and f bodies. Use i wiches, toast, | snacks, too! foods it accompanies, and builds strong, healthy FIRE DEPARTMENT WERS CALLS ON SUNDAY, THIS A. M. Twice yesterday and once at 8 o'clock this morning members of the Juneau Fire Department promptly answered calls and ex- |tinguished blazes, none of which caused serious damage. A brush fire on the hill above the Bethel Beach home was the cause of the first alarm yesterday at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. By | beating the fire and with the aid | ; g 2 | 1 of chemicals the blaze was quickly put out. A roof fire at the home of S. |Bragstad at the foot of 9th street, caused the second call on Sunday jat 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon. Considerable damage was done to .me kitchen before the fire was ex- tinguished. | Another roof fire at the home or August Niemi, on 8th street and Willoughby, was the cause of the alarm this morning. 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