The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 10, 1933, Page 1

» WY THE [ “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIL, NO. 6363. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY — SCORES INJURED, EXPLOSION AND FIRE SENATE, HOUSE WORKING HARD U. S. Goes to Parley ~ ON MEASURES London Delegates to Seek Quick Action on Curren&i: * ies, Silver, Prices, Money Flow, Trade Tariffs ADJOURN TONIGHT PLANT WRECKED BY BLAST; FIRE BREAKS FORTH ‘} Hope to Complete Legisla- P e\ Ba%le:;.nzreEfllg\:irsed by i idni - ‘ urni — | tion 'by Midnight To ; H S night and Quit \ ouses Set Aflame i W BOTH CHAMBERS i FLAMING CELLULOID A IN EARLY SESSION \ i Much Parliamentary Pro- ‘ Investigation Indicates In- cedure Remains However cendarlsm—f—(;lue.s Are to Be Untangled | Found in Ruins 3 NORTH ARLINGTON, N. WASHINGTON, June 10. | I ; — Adjournment tonight is J., J:lmed l()f.'-Elght :leils':?:s the goal Congress strove to ared 7;\.,. IV; are':h . “fi -, make when it assembled this | an| JAnjured as e res morning. | of terrific explosn_ms which It will complete in one ‘ . tore a celluloid plant asunder, i fired seven houses and shot shert extra session Roose- velt’s monumental emergency- ’ §heet's‘ of flar:e;al:rl: a scream- program, the greatest legis- | ing throng of ers. lative production of peace | The blasts sent scores of time. injured to the hospitals, some 'h i itical condition. The Senate and House was e e——— [ in 5‘1' cri » called together early, facing JAMES M. COX was Democratic KEY PITTMAN, Chairman of the SAM D. McREYNOLDS is chair-| Firemen began a renewed Presidential candidate in 1920, at least 14 hours of tremend- ous work before the term could be ended at midnight.' The Senate's passage last night of the Public Works, Industrial Control Bill and an agreement with the House Democratic leaders to the Chief Executive’s com-| promise proposal on veterans’ cuts made adjournment possible but there is such a maze of pnrfla-: | His running mate was Franklin D. Roasevelt who now has named him as cne of the American dele- gates to the world economic con-| ference in London. Mr. Cox is a, former Governor of Ohio. His regular vocation is publishing newspapers at Dayton. In his Presidential campaign he advo- cated American membership in the League of Nations. mentary procedure to untangle that unusual unanimity is required or a; delay to Monday is seen. i Today’s Task ] | | (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the sixth and last of six daily stories dealing with the aims of the leading nations at the Today's task included a confer- world economic conference. ence on the agreement over the Industrial Bill and House approval, Outlining America’s program, of the veterans' compromise; pass-' it was written by F. G. Vos- age by the Senate and House of a' burgh, of the Washington staff list of eleventh-hour appropriations’ ©f the Ascociated Press. He will to operate the new governmental! Aaccompany the United States machinery created, and approval by, delegates to London.) the Senate of scores of Presidential nominations. By F. G. VOSBURGH Rainey’s Views WASHINGTON, June 10.—Amer- Predicting the adjournment of ican delegates to the World Mone- Congress today, Speaker Rainey tary and Economic Conference in said: “There will not be another London hive their eyes fixed on session of Congress before January & Series of definite goals. unless some of these things we ap-| Ihey have also a unanimous con- proved don't work and I believe viction that no international gath- they will” ering in history carried such vital e A i potentialities, either for success or failure. Serate Foreign Relations Com-| mittee is & constant advocate of the remonetization of silver, a subject, which may leom large at the werld economic conference because of the standing of that metal in China, India and ehe-‘ where in “the Orient. Pittman, was in the Alaska gold rush, o,pppyy HULL, Secretary of State, heads the American delegation to went to Nevada as a gold and cilver miner and has been a Senator since 1912. emphatically that the conference must act and act quickly. Here in brief are some of the things the United States represen- tatives would have it do: 1. Stabilize the currencies of the world—or at least those of the major countries. 2. Increase the price of silver and restore it to something like its old place in the world’s cur- rency scheme. 3. Raise the .price of basic com- modities, especially wheat. ‘4. Start a resumption of the flow of international capital with a view of reviving business, reliev- ing unemployment and helping the hardest-hit countries get back on their feet. 5. Reduce tariffs and clear away the figurative barbed wire and broken glass that have appeared | the world economic conference. Senator to enter the Cabinet. Previous to 1930 he served 22 years in the House as a Representative posd high tariffs. He was author of the first Federal income tax law and the inheritance tax of 1916. of the other American delegates and Norman Davis, who helped plan the parley. He resigned from his first term as from Tennessee. He always has op- At Hull's left and right are three action and based on the best pos- sible estimate of the proper level for the pound, the dollar, and the franc in relation to each other. Favor Return to Gold The ultimate goal would be a re- tirn to the gold standard by the United States and the scores of other countries which have aban- doned it but because of the diffi- culties in many cases, few here be- lieve this objective can be very ful- ly achieved during the sessions of the conference. The American dele- gation would be well content if the conference succeeded in paving the way for such a return. Without at least a de facto work- On the matter of silver, one of President Roosevelt’s closest ad- visers, a man expected to play a most prominent part in the Lon- don conference, predicts that if the meeting can be restored to its one- time position in price and mone- tary use, the conference will suc- |ceed in its other undertakings. Pittman Friend of Silver Friends of silver—represented no-“ ternational financing. tably among the American dele- | gates by slender, active Senator | Key Pittman of Nevada—believe a rise in the price of silver would carry other commodity prices up- |ward and would greatly increase American trade with the Far East man of the Foreign Relations| NORMAN H. DAVIS, Ambassador- at-Large, has been President Roosevelt’s personal representa- tive in making preliminary ar- rangements for the world eco- nomic conference. He has been in the diplomatic service since America entered the World War. He gave up a banking and sugar| business in Cuba then to velun- teer his services. He was one of President Wilson's advisers at the Versailles peace conference. Committee of the House of Ilep-l resentatives. Like Secretary Hull he is from Tennessee and the two | are close friends as well as see- ing eye to eye on political and economic questions, . McReynolds was a Circuit Judge before he/ was elected to Congress in No-| vember 1922. He has studied in-| ternatiomal affairs closely for | years and is considered an expert.‘ sition to play a leading role, thanks to the new farm relief bill designed to enable the government to limit American production. Secretary Hull's delegation will work for an agreement to restrict the output of this staple to the world’s needs, thus removing bur- densome surpluses, which have beaten down the world price. Seck Normal Capital Flow ‘The American delegates will bend their efforts to re-establish- ing in cooperation with the other countries the normal flow of in- of these restrictions has grown up to strangle international trade, he says, pointing out that all nations seek to sell and none to buy. No Easy Task In working out such a program at London, the Americans forsee no easy task, despite the careful groundwork laid in the President’s unprecedented economic conversa- tions here. War debts payments, falling due just three days after the confe: ence meets, are frankly acknowl- edged to be a dangerous hurdle at the outset. They are officially bar- red from the program of the con- ference and dealings concerning them will be kept in the hands of President Roosevelt at .Washing- ton. But unless the matter is handled President Roosevelt is heartily in favor of a general expansion of credit through central bank ac- tion throughout the world, and an international program of public works, all aimed at helping the search today of the ruins for more bodies in the burned houses or in the Passaic Riv- er where bathers fled to es cape the flames. The heat brought scores of bathers to the small bathing beach near the plant of the Atlantic Pyroxylin Waste Company, dealers in scrap celluloid. As darkness descended, men, women and children lingered on the beach to escape the heat, or splashed in the cooling waters of the river. Suddenly, a witness, John Jack- son sald, there was a roar and flames shot 200 feet into the air. Burning debris and flaming cel« luloid fell in showers. New sheets of fire shot upward and shrieks 'of people in houses nearby were achoed by screams of bathers as the flames struck them and their bathing suits were aflame or scorched. Many plunged towards the river as the second explosion shattered the night and the bursting of a gas tank splat- tered fire anew. INCENDARISM SUSPECTED If this country’s delegation head-|on top of already high tariff walls| A Jjobless by breaking the vicious cir- | with consummate skill a danger of PRUTEST FII-ED led by tall, brown-eyed, diffident|in the form of quotas, embargos, |ing arrangement for holding im-| by munlplyx_ng the purchasing |cle of deflation. international irritations damaging] NORTH ARLINGTON, June 10. | Cordell Hull, secretaty of state,|exchange restrictions, cle aring|portant currencies at a given level, power of millions in the Orient|. Closest of all to the heart of |to the success of the conference is| —A Preliminary investigation made has its way the conference, which |@agreements and quarantines. the Washington view is that the where it is the traditional medium | Hull is the matter of sweeping away | seen, several debtor nations hav-|today into the celluloid plant ex- iopens June 12, will wind up within two months. President Roosevelt has asserted STOCK MARKET SHORT SESSION - VERY INAGTIVE Industrials in Sag but Utili- ties Traded—Alaska Juneau Is Up BY JUNEAU BAR WITHDELEGATE Protests Against Appoint- ment to Territory of Any But Residents At a meeting of the Juneau Bar Association held here at noon to- @8ay, a resolution was adopted pro- testipg against the appointment of any except bona fide residents of the Territory to Federal positions here. The resolution was telegraph-, ed this afternoon to Delegate Di- mond with the request that he file it with the Senate Judiciary Com-: mittee, While the Association did not mention any particular instance, it | NEW YORK, June 10.—The| Stock Market shuffled through the | short session today without any great amount of enthusiasm. There ‘The first step toward currency stabilization would be a “de facto"” arrangement preliminary to final conference could make little pro- gress with such questions as the tariff. of exchange. In solving the problem of wheat the United States will be in a po- excessive tariffs and discriminatory | or unduly redtrictive trade barriers of all kinds. A tremendous network | ing taken a firm stand against any more payments under the existing settlements. DIG THROUGH CONCRETE TO GAIN FREEDOM Two Prisoners Make Es- - cape from Jail at An- chorage, Alaska ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 10.— Eighteen hours after being sen- | tenced to three years each in Mc- Neil Island Penitentiary for rob- bery, the stealing of a quantity of Present Series of Morgan Hearing Ends; Financier Gives Opinion of Probers ‘WASHINGTON, June 11.—J. P. Morgan's parting shot last night at his Senate investigators, was a vigorous condemnation of the pub- licity given his selected list of clients which he said resulted in “unwarranted criticism of our cus- tomers.” Morgan further said: “This un- Jjust criticism we feel deeply.” Another List The financier made the statement tomer,” Morgan said. This statement ended the present series of hearings of the Morgan| and Company affairs but Thomas W. Lamont, a partner, was told to prepare himself for certain ques- tions next fall. 13 COUNTRIES EAST SWELTERS, ARE NOTIFIED TERRIFIC HEAT OF DEBTS DUES PREVAILING Controversy Already Rag-:‘Over One Hundred and ing Abroad Whether | Five Persons Report- to Pay or Default | ed to Be Killed Into the final chapters of the| Senate's investigation of his bank-| fj, WASHINGTON, June 10—Noti- | plosion developed evidence, the police said, of incendarism and in- dustrial warfare as the cause of the holocaust. Detectives said incendarism clues have been found in the wrecked plant. They also told of being informed of threats made against the operator of the plant by busi- ness rivals. Alex Scheinzeit, operator of the business, is held on a technical manslaughter charge. — CANNERS MAY BE CONTROLLED BY cation that war debts are due ing house, Morgan inserted a sharp next Thursday sped through diplo- denial that men of affairs on the matic channels today to capitals | firm's subscriber lists were chosen already abuzz with the controversy | NEW YORK, June 10.—The east |1s still fainting under heat which felled men and animals. More tnan 125 have died as the FEDERALPOWER was said that the nomination of Were profit taking flurries and ' groceries from a4 warehouse last|at the close of the three weeks of [Or “any actual or potential politi- of paying or defaulting. result of the present heat wave in|Commissioner Bell Gather- \ George F. Alexander, Oregon at- some categories tended to balanceywinter, Hal Fernandez, a boxer, and | hearing. Just a bit earlier Morgan cal relations.’ | The Government sent identical|the Middle West and on the At-| - I f . o torney, for United States Judge further rising tendencies in others.|gopert Names, dug through the | Watched another list placed on the The lengthy statement of Mor- notes to each of the thirteen debtor |lantic seaboard. g Intormation on Fair in the First Division of Alaska, led The. close was moderately irregu-|flimsy concrete door of the jail [Semate Banking Committee's record 81 Went straight down the line of nations which on June 15 will owe| Heat records fell by the score Prices of Product to the adoption of the resolution. ]ar and trade was light. and escaped. which showed bargain price sales defense of his business against ai-|the United States a total of one|as pictures of eggs being fried on The telegram sent to Delegate Carloadings 0. K. Fernandez married Lucille Rog- of Johns-Manville stock in June tacks and he struck out at publica-| hundred and forty-four million, one the pavement and kids playing in b < | S Feder: Dimond said: Satisfactory freight carloadings |ers, aged 19 years, part Indian, last | 1927, to Morgan's official family at “;?hol T Splcared _che:lt lists| hundred "and seventy-nine dollars. the water when a hydrant broke salmon l:&nc!:;‘ntzmlindl:lrfl:;wisAm “Juneau Bar Association this date report were optimistic with implica- | Thursday, counsel having arranged |one price fnd to prominent out- ™ fed"‘ Said Tesulted in “unwar-| S filled the front pages. able if it doesn't take the proper ! adopted following resolution: ‘We tions that United States Steel's|a temporary parole for the cere- |siders at $10 higher. ranted criticism of our customers” yg. AND MRS. HUTTON Floods prevall along the Colum- |steps itself, it was indicated at are opposed to the appointment of backlog figures are about in line | mony. This new list included such . | AND DAUGHTER LEAVE bia River. Ketchikan yesterday by Frank T, any person to Alaska position who with expectations. .| The pair was still at large Fri- |nhames as William H. Woodin, Nor- MRS, JOE THIBODEAU | The Middle West enjoyed some|Bell, United States Commissioner is not a bona fide resident of the' The American dollar again weak- | day night. man H. Davis, Owen D. Youn AND FAMILY TO VISIT | Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Hutton and |surcease after heat hdd killed more Territory.’ Please file this telegram with the Senate Judiciary Com- mittee.” - e — MRS. GUS SCHMITZ LEAVES Mrs, Gus Schmitz left today on the motorship Norco for a visit in the states, “ened on foreign exchanges. | Industrial Sags Various industrial issues were inclined to sag but a number of utilities found a following. Among |the latter up fractions to' around {two points were Consolidated Gas ,and North America. (Continued on Page Three) —————— MRS. O. E. TURNER LEAVES FOR SOUTH ON NORCO Mrs. O. E. Turner, who has been visiting her sister, Miss Stella Jones in Juneau for several months, left today on the motorship Norco for the south, and John J. Raskob. The sales were long befor Woodin and Raskob entered publ! life. Vigorous Protest “We vigorously against this breach of what we have always assumed to be confidential re tionship of a banker and his cu - IN YAKIMA FOR SUMMER | their dasghter Shirley H left for the south on the meotorship Norco Mrs. Joe Thibodeau and her| today. Mr. Hufton has been em- children, Robert, Cecelia, Kenny ployed in the meat department and Dorothy, left today on the|of the United Food Company. motorship Norco for "the south ——————— They will visit Mrs. Thibodeau's’ James Ramsey has recently family in Yakima, Washington, joined the- force at the California during the summer, Grocery Store, than a score in Illinois alone. Terrific Heat | ©One hundred degree heat return- |ed to the Southwest Thunder and showers early to- day sent the New York area mer- cury easing downward. Thunder and showers early today (Continued on Page Four) of . Fisheries, just starting his first official visit to the Territory. This was disclosed in a press des- patch rgceived by The Empire today. The Cimmissioner reached Ketch- ikan Friday and at once began a series of private conferences and public meetings. He listened to (Continued on Page Three)