The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 17, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS - ALL THE TIME DRIVE FOR NATIONAL. RECOVERY NOW UNDERWAY GRDERS 1SSUED BY PRESIDENT EORQUICK WORK All Agenciemlder Recent Legislatioh Instruct- ed to Go Ahead HEADS APPOINTED FOR ALL BRANCHES Hundreds oTNIi“ions of Dollars Available for Public Program . WASHINGTON, June 17— The| Government’s drive for national re- covery through a vast new power | conferred by legislation is under | way. Executive orders were issued by the President that all Federal| agencies take the aggressive at| once to fight depression. Hugh Johnson was given formal appointment as Director of the Industrial Control plan and a Cabi- net committee was designated to aid him passing immediately on voluntary cooperative codes to be| submitted by the major industries, for production and employment| control. Public Work Program Col. Donald H. Sawyer, Chairman | of the Federal Employment Stabil- ization Board, has been assigned| as Director of the Public Works program. He was told to go ahead and get $100,000,000 worth of new! buildings under contract by Octor, ber 1. A batch of contracts total-| ing $25,000,000 will be let wuhin: 45 days. | Grants for state highways to- at Jeast $250,000,000 will be alloted at| once, | Wallace to Get Busy Secretary of Agriculture Wallace | was given the go ahead sign to im-| pose processing of taxes on wheat, to curtail production of next year’s crops and levies to be imposed on flour beginning in July. H Joseph Eastman, outstandlng‘ member of the Interstate Com-: merce Commission, has been as-| signed as Federal Coordinator of Railroads and he announced early | today he was on the job. —l TEN PER GENT TARIFF CUT S PROPOSED American Delegation at London Conference Submits Report 1 i | | vestigations for the Department of LONDON, June 17.—A proposal for a general ten per cent reduc- tion in tariffs has been submitted to the World Economic Conference by the Economic Commission. ‘The proposal was drawn up by the Am-, erican delegation. It develops that fourteen more nations have joined in the tariff truce during the conference being held here. A tentative agreement on con- trolled stabilization has been reach- | ed by experts and submitted v,oi the home governments for approv-, al. This is learned from import-' | | ant conference quarters. — Wife Flirted by Wireless, Asserts Blind Man, Suing“ LOS ANGELES, June 17.—Dots and dashes that flitbed through thei air between Mrs. Vivian Kneedler and another amateur wireless op-, erator more than 500 miles distant, carried messages of love, Mrs. U. S. Lady Minister in New Home Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, U. S. Minister to Denmark, pictured with her secretary, Miss Helen Lee Doherty, as they began the business of un- mking and getting settled in the lady Envoy’s new home at Copen- Mrs, Owen is Uncl; Sa.m‘s first woman diplomatic envoy to a oreign A en, PRESIDENT ON HOLIDAY TRIP, EASTERNCOAST RoosevelT_'—raking Two Weeks’ Vacation—Most of Time on Sea RECOVERY PROGRAM MEASURES SIGNED Congressional Leaders, Sponsors, Watch In- itialing of Bills WASHINGTON, June 17.—Presi- dent Roosevelt left by a special train at 8:30 o'clock last night for a vacation. After a call today at the Groton School, in Massachusetts, where his youngersons are attending, he will board the schooner Amberjack II, for a cruise off the New England Coast. Most of his two weeks' vaca- tion will be spent at sea. Measures Signed Yesterday afternoon the Presi- ;dent moved his recovery program | into broad operation with the sign- )ing of the final emegency powers. ~—- |sent him by Congress. He quickby | approved the bills in the presence of Congressional leaders and spon- | sors of the bills. Three bills give him great col {mand of the nation’s industry, rail« country, , roads and public works. They were Charges Power Theft Louis R. Glavis, Director of In- the Interior, who investigated con- ditions at Muscle Shoals and - re- ported to the President that he found irregularities. The report alleges the misuse of the govern- ment power plant by private com- panies, causing damage to Federal property. FIVE MEN DIE IN GUN BATTLE | ! IN KANSAS c'TY;of a small school tax for that pur-) KANSAS - CITY, Jjune 17.—Five men were killed in a gun battle; !put on the statute books. Thére jis the drastic bill for revision of i banking, the Glass-Steagall bill; |the Industrial Control Bill and ;leroad Bill. i PLANS OUTLINED i WASHINGTON, June 17.—The UUT BY BUAR ‘Presxdem intends to put on all immediate emphasis on the indus- | # | 5 trial control program on reduction |Board of Education Makes of working hours with payment of Important Changes in a living wage for the shortened 5 TR B, i labor week. This purpose was in- Existing Policies \dicated clearly in a public state- ment issued just before starting on Abolition of rural school boards, his New England vacation. |discontinuance of payment of nation of high school work in rural people back to work with an ur- and special schools have been de- gent request to industry that it {cided upon by the Territorial Board forego quick profits and devote it- of Education-which ended its first self to increasing the country’s | meeting here today after five days’ purchasing power. lof work. The first step is to be| The President sald the govern- |taken immediately, and the second ment will cooperate with industry and third will be effective upon the without interference from anti- close of the school year, 1933-34, it trust laws. He said he wants to was announced by H. L. Faulk- get many hundreds of thousands Iner, President of the Board. of unemployed back on payrolls All of the changes are taken in by snowfall. the interests of economy and to; ——————— | | promote efficiency of administra-| tion, it was said. The Board fixed the second Tuesday of March, 1934, for its next meeting. Pay Own Transportation Heretofore, the Territory has pais for the transportation of pupns! residing nearby, to schools in in-| corporated towns and incorpor-| POONA, India, June 17.—Devi ated school districts. Under a reso- Das Gandhi, eldest son of Ma- lution adopted unanimously by the hatma.Gandhi, today married th Board, the costs must, after next daughter of Raja Gopal Achariar year, be borne by the residents of high caste Brahmin and forme: the areas from which the pupils President of the Indian National come. This, it was pointed out, Congress. Before the ceremony th jcan be easily done by the organiza- | groom underwent a purification tion of school districts and the levy virtually becoming a Brahmin. Mahatma Gandhi has devoted |pose. The Territory, however, will his life to elimination of the casu |continue to pay the tuition fees as system. v The President said the purpose| |transportation of pupils and elimi- of the industrial program is to put | . WEDS IN POONA t| national debts, one by giving her er 36%, MOTHER OF CALIFORNIA’S LARGES S Born in the mining town of Nevada City, of her children. All of the children are living and are from two and a T FAMILY DIES al., 44 years ago and leaving it only twice, Mrs. Jennie Kistle, mother of 20, died suddenly In Pairfax, Cal. Mrs. Kistle is shown here with her husband and 18 half months to 27 years old. (As- New U. S. Treasurer Trensurer [STOGK PRIGES HOLD AVERAGE, SHORT SESSION Several Lea:]i-n; Jssues Are Gainers — Bond Market Firm NEW YORK, June 17.—Leading shares maintained resistance today in sporadic profit taking at the short session. There were several, gainers of one to around two points but the range was generally nar- row. The close was steady to firm.| Trading was limited. ! | Bonds Firm | Some groups of the bond market ' were generally firm with a fair| | i was no appreciable response to the manufacturer, has accepted "¢%S that & proposal %o regulate post of treasurer of the Unit. exchanges had been placed before ed States. (Assoclated Press Photo) President Roosevelt by the World | Economic Conference. Dispatches oy indicated that the Administration GEHMAN' AsKs had made no decision. | FOR TERRITORY e 27 |American Telephone and -Rails re-: Business Improves Week-end trade reports disclosed further improvement in the eco-| . 'sponded slightly but most of them ! In held only a fractional range of, gain. | W. A, Julian, retired Cincinnatl | i | nomic picture and freight carload- ings increased. | Bethlehem Steel spurted threel points today. National shipbuild- ing was up around three pomts," Desires to Form Empire Africa or Some Other Part of World ‘ CLOSING PRICES TODAY | NEW YORK, June 17.—Closing LONDON, June 17. — Germany quotation of Alaska Juneau mine has asked the world for an African stock today is 18%, American Can' Colonial Empire in a memorandum 8§, American [Power to the World Economic Confer- 12%, Anaconda 14%, Coty 6, Ar-| ence. !mour B 3, Bethlehem Steel 32%,| The memorandum said there are Calumet and Hecla 6%, Conllnen-f two possible ways of increasing tal Oil 13%, Fox Films 4, General| Gerthany's capacity to meet inter- Motors 26%, International Harvest-| Kennecott 18'%, Packard| an African Empire where large Motors 5%, Standard Brands 19, public works and schemes may be United States Steel 53':, carried out, or by opening other Roller 27%, American Cyan. B 12%,! new territories “to this people Ulen 4%, Curtiss-Wright 3'%. | which do not have enough space o |in which to 1ive® {Woman Beats Cow; ! » i \ in the past. Regarding the elimination of |of armed men at the Union De-| {pot and two other men are report- or Commissioner of Education, the between the police and a number high. school work in rural schools, |which will be replaced by corre- pondence work under the Office | |l ed dying after an effort was madCI‘Board said: “There are many by aides trying to release Frank places in the Territory ol_xt_side of | Nash, fugitive from justice. The\incorpomw:' wh“l ;’;d!flitmes’ :;:' |incorporated school st s Wi ) gendtuste Rash: |high school courses are.being giv-| As a group of officers syrround- en at the expense of the Territory ing Nash came out of the from‘w such numbers of high school, door of the station and prepared gtydents that the cost of furnishing | to get into a car, the officers were 'gycn high school course is out of Ford W ould Eliminate “Dole System;” R. F. C. Is Attacked DETROIT, Mich.,, June 17— shortest cut to restoration of un economic balance, Henry Ford in an interview yesteray, is elimination of the “dole system One of the quickest ways eliminate the dole, Ford added Kneedler's husband charges in a fired on by men in a motor ar a1 proportion to the cost and ex- to “get rid of the Reconstruct $50,000 alienation of & against Leonard de Geus. Kneedler, an El Monte blind mu- sician and amateur operator, as serted De Geus, a Healdsburg, Cal., operator, won Mrs. fections by wireless and then en- ticed her away from her house to Healdsburg. Kneedler re- cently filed suit for divorce, ° ‘Al Spencer band of train robbers Knesdler's af- rather than effect his release. The officers’ expressed the be-!incorporated school districts, and, lief that an effort was made 10 ou; of all proportion to the results rub out” Nash, a member of the ,piained. For these reasons, ltl |the close of the school year 1933-34, A ]no further Territorial funds will: Nash was captured in Arkansas be used or expended for the estab-: husband’s and was being returned to the lishment or maintenance of high Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary schools except in incorporated | from where he recently escaped. i (Continued on Page Eight) ffections su‘itlwhich sped swiftly from the sceme. pense in incorporated towns and Finance Corporation. Recovery i come only up through the peop and not down through financ organizations and schemes. must put work everywhere, not kind of work that pays a dole, bt 4 wage with a margin. “The Reconstruction Finance Cor- poration is nothing more than & | systemized dole and does not : at its as a lasting improvement in ' Gets 10 Days in Jail| | CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, June 17. —Ten days in jair was the unusual- ly stiff sentence handed down yes- terday to Mrs. Vergie Filson, moth- 7 er of three children, by Justice of lieve anybody. As long as it con- the Peace A. 8. Reed, because she tinués to function it is a dis- peat a neighbor's cow over the tributor of a dole. We cannot 100k head with a hoe. Girl Writes of Hate | Then Takes Death Leap; and not being able to do anything, without money is a wrong system' NEW YORK, June 17—With only| and s in prooess of disappearing an ermine coat ana a 5-cent piece | right now.” left of her dream of splendor| Ford said a working plan would among the bright lights, Mildred | mean “sending work and wages di- Betts, platinum blonde dancer, rect to the people.” leaped to her death from the thir- economic conditions. “All I am saying is the system of making money out of money, He referred . to the Industrial teenth floor of a Times Square Ho- Scotland, Her epitaph, contained in alhnurs a day without payment pro- |fishing under a fixed. price. \vided their labor is used for beau- plan must be ratified by British {tifying the town, Recovery Act as an experiment, te] the value of which. remains to be letter to “Dear Joe.” was: proved, l Oh, how I hate Broadway!” d number of sharp advances. There! ° DYKE SUDDENLY | BREAKS;PEOPLE FORGED TO FLEE Coweeman River in Wash- ington Inundates Large Part of Kelso DISEASE DANGERS THREATENED TODAY Thieves Ee About in Small Boats — Aband- oned Houses Looted KELSO, Wash., June 17.— Fifteen hundred persons are | homeless here today as the result of the breaking of the dyke of the Coweeman River late yesterday afternoon and flooding of the city’s and | suburban area. Flood waters are still pour- ing through the break. Disease dangers arose this afternoon. The homeless are also fac- ing losses of property as loot- ing takes place. Thieves Busy During the night and early this morning thieves made their way about in boats and : istole radios, washing machines land other valuables which {the owners were forced to {leave behind them when they ifled from the sudden rush of water. Seventy-five men are this afternoon aiding highway Miss Margaret Kruis, of Newark, N. J, one of the five persons wounded during the attempt on the! life of President Roosevelt at iami, last February, shown as she left the White House after calling on the President. The Chief Execu- tive expressed joy at her rapid re- covery. DESPERADO IS NEARLY CAUGHT BOLIVAR, Mo., June 17.—Sher- iff Jack Killingsworth, kidnaped by ‘“Pretty Boy” Floyd, noted Okla- homa desperado, from a garage yesterday where Floyd was almost captured, returned to his home today unharmed. He had been re- and Light jeased by his captor. ——vo—— U. 8. PUBLIC SURVEY MEN patrolmen in guarding the "flooded homes and 100 men |are working to repair the dike. ! Two hundred and fifty or ‘more homes are more or less - submerged. So far the damage is esti- . mated to be at least $60,000. ———.—— MILLIONAIRE 1 KIDNAPED INMINNESOTA ‘William Hamm, Jr., of St. Paul, Is Held for Ran- som of $100,000 ST. PAUL, Minn, June 17— LEAVE FOR WEEK IN SITKA Wiliam Hamm, Jr, aged 39, mil- C. P. Seeley, Norman Rustad, of Sitka on the motorship Northland this' morning to make some surveys {in the vicinity of that town. They will be in Sitka about one week. ——ee——— Starving Persons Are Easy Prey To Wolves SHANGHAI, June 17.—Thou- sands have starved to death and cannibalism is widespread throughout Shensi Province as the result of a long drought, Chinese reports said yesterday. The formerly fertile wheat . growing country has had prac- tically no rain since 1928. One account said wolves ob- tained victims nightly from among the half-starved people. —————— Unemployed men of Airdrie, offered to work three Pat Naghel and the U. 8. Timken Bureau of Public Survey, left for' lionaire, was kidnaped last Thurs- |day and is being held for a ran- som of $100,000. The kidnaping had been withheld by officers in an effort to contact with the abductoss and bring about arrests. When the officers became convinced such contact could not {be made immediately, the abduc- izxon was made public. | The public has been asked to |aid in apprehending the kidnap- |ers. A taxi-driver who delivered the ransom note identified a picture of Verne Sankey, as the man who igave it to him to deliver. Sankey {is sought for the kidnaping of | Haskell Bohn, of St. Paul, last !year. and the more recent kidnap- !ing of Charles Hoettcher, the sec- ond, of Denver, Col. i;l’nget Sound Fishermen | Vote to Return to Work | SEATTLE, June 17.—Three hun- |dred Puget Sound fishermen, idle since April 28, voted to resume The i |Columbia and Alaska fishermen. 13