The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 20, 1933, Page 1

2] THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY VOL. XLIL, NO. 6371, GOLD BLOC FIGHTING AMERICA, LONDON CONFERENCE ' > NEW SECRETARY T0 ASSUME HiS| " DUTIES SHORTLY E. W. Griffin to Succeed Karl Theile when Latter Returns to Town i, E. W. Griffin, Ploneer Wlaskan who was recently appointed Secre- tary of Alaska, will assume the duties of that office upon the re- turn here of Secretary Karl Theile iirom Wrangell, it was announced today. The latter had expected to come here by plane yesterday but il was crowded and could not han- dle him. He expected to be able to get a plane today or tomorrow. As soon @s he arrives the transfer will take place. Alaskan for 33 Years Mr. Griffin has made his home in Alaska for 33 years. He came north in 1900 as auditor for the ‘North American Trading and Tans- portation Company. When that organization disposed of its sev- eral mercantile establishments, Mr. Griffin and R. H. Miller bought the Chena station, and the former took charge of it in 1905. A short time afterward R. C. Force, later head of the Caterpillar Company, joined the company. In 1907, Mr. Griffin purchased the interests of his two partners and ran the busi- ness continuously until 1916 when he sold to the Northern Commer- cial Company. He continued to reside in Fair- banks until 1918, looking after var- ious business interests. In that year he became interested in the fishing industry and went to Hali- but Cove to engage fn the herring packing business. He built a saltery | = at Three Saint Bay, Kodiak Isl- znd, in 1970 ‘and operated it for two years. In 1922 he moved to Kodiak where he was associated with W. J. Erskine in the mercan- tile business until 1931. Iliness Forces Trip Mrs. Griffin died there in 1930. A year later, Mr. Griffin's own health was seriously impaired and he was forced to go to the States for medical examination and treat- ment. He resided in Chicago prac- tically all of the time. He was living in that city last November, and had been sufficient- 1+ long to possess residential quali- fications to vote. It was his first chance to vote for a President of the United States and ne took ad- vantage of it to cast his first vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt. Amused at Protest He seemea amused at that vote having been used as the basis for 4 protest against his appointment on the ground he wasnt a bona fidle Alaskan. “Anyone with a Fnowledge of Interior Alaska and the Kodiak section doesn't have to be shown that I am an Alaskan. From any standpoint, residence, business investments, or any other, my qualifications have gone un- questioned for 33 years, so 4 guessl there’s no need for the Democratic organization to issue any circulars to explain I am not a non-resi- dent,” he said smilingly. He was equally amused at the jdea that anyone should think that his voting for Mr. Roosevelt for President would be considered a disqualification in the eyes of Na- tional Chairman Ferley or the President himself. “I worked as hard as I could for Mr. Roosevelt and was delighted to get a chance to vote for him,” he declared. “And 1 am sure that does not make me any less an Alaskan than I was Dbefore. then.” : o NICK BEZ IN TOWN To bring Nick Bez to Juneau, Jos Crosson made a trip to Hawk Inlet yesterday afternoon in the Fairchild plane of the Pacific Alas- ka Airways Co. in which he flew down from Fairbanks Sunday. ———— Former Kaiser Has Narrow Escape, Death AMSTERDAM, June 20—The former Kaiser had a narrow escape from death while mo- toring recently, it became known here today. His automobile was crossing a railroad when the bars were let down automatically and when the car was on the tracks. One of the heavy bars hit the car. The chauffeur was able to move the auto off the tracks only a few seconds fore the train rushed past. kaiser was not hurt. be- The Bandits Find Easy Marks In Marxes and Other Stars i | BerTy HELENE CompsoN CoSTELLO comedian’s servants, forced Zeppo and Mrs, Marx into a clothes closet and decamped with nearly $30,000 worth of gems. Police believe that the perpetrators of the robbery are of the same gang that robbed Helens Costello, of the film sisters, of $30,000 in jewels last year, and took §5,000 in jeweled baubles from Mae West, the “Diamond Lil” of stage snd screen. Betty Compson, who was held up and robbed of $41,500 | bst Janvary, was luckier than the others, for the loot was mysteriously returned some days after the robberv. THREE STATES 'CHARLES ROSE | terday afternoon. !accompanied by their wives. +|er landed. As the ship drew along- | groups, many of whom were met SEATTLE 1933 GOODWILL TOUR MET BY CROWD Varied anmformal En- tertainment Provided for Visitors on Aleutian Greeted by the several. hundred residents of Juneau, the 1933 Good~: will Tour of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce arrived here on th steamer Aleutian at 5 o'clock yes- The tour was headed by Cassius E. Gates, Presi- dent of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and was made up of ap- Iproximn.tely 125 members of the organization, many of whom were The party which included many of the most prominent business and profesional men of Seattle was met by members of the Juneaw Chamber of Commerce and resi- dents of the city who were crowded on the City Dock when the steam- side the wharf the Seattle party sang “Hail, Hail the Gang's All Here” and when the gangplank was put down the crowds mingled in an informal reception on the steamer and wharf. 10 o’Clock Reception Shortly after the landing the crowd separated into smaller, by personal friends here, and had dinner ashore while others made trips to Mendenhall Glacier or visited the shops until 10 o'cloek: when a reception was held aboard the Aleutian at which Gov. John| | W. Troy and Mayor I. Goldstein headed a large and representative gathering of Juneau people who mingled informally and pleasantly in the large lounge rooms of the | steamer, expressing their pleasure |at the visit of the Seattle peoplc and a desire that the trip be re- | peated. The Aleutian departed at 11 o'clock for the Westward by way of Sitka. It is due to return o Juneau southbound next Monday. Forced to Land After Sailing in Air for ARE VOTING ON WILL ADDRESS REPEAL TODAY L OCAL CHAMBER Connecticut, lowa and Field Secretary of National New Hampshire Resi- | Organization Is in dents Go to Polls Juneau | WASHINGTON, June 20.—Three| Charles R. Rose, Field Secretary States, Connecticut Towa and Newl‘or the National Chamber of Com- Hampshire are voting today for re- merce, with headquarters in Wash- peal or retention of the Eighteenth|ington, D. C., will address the local Amendment. Chamber meeting Thursday. To date the score of the repeal] According to Mr. Rose his prin- forces is eleven States and the) cipal mission on this trip is to dis- Prohibition forces none. cuss with business men the Na- Thirty-six States must ratify the|tional Industry Recovery Act, and proposed repeal of the amend-| explain its working to them. ment to end Prohibition. It is on this important subject Connecticut never ratified the|that Mr. Rose will talk at the Eighteenth Amendment. Rose be- !lieves that through this legislation business men have the greatest op- portunity in the history of the country to stabilize business and believes that the beneficial ob- jectives of the act will be felt within two months or less. Towa and New Hampshire were once bone dry States but recently they have shown signs of abandon- ing the dry propensities. -oo—— | Thursday meeting. Mr. Nearly Nine Hours YAKIMA, Wash., June 20.—Aft- er soaring over the Kittitas Valley !for eight hours and fifty-two min- utes in an attempt to break the world's sail plane endurance rec- |ord, Charles McAllister landed at '11:10 Saturday might when winds failed. He will make another try in the fall or next spring. State Departments In S. C. Abolished COLUMBIA, 8. C., June 20.—By failing to appropriate for them the South Carolina legislature has abol- ished or devolved upon other de- |partments three states functions— ithe bank examiner’s office, ware- {house department and natural re- sources commissions. |Grmddaugi|ter of Fairbanks to Wed PASADENA, Cal., June 20.—Cor- nelia Fairbanks, granddaughter of Charles Warren Fairbanks, vice president of the United States un- der Theodore Roosevelt, will mar- MEN IN WEST POINT GRADUATING CLASS ‘) The five sadets with outstanding scholastic records in this year's graduating class at West Point :r:‘, I'l:t Qs rllnh(:DK‘t"n“ghEl. Flsldl, Elkhart, Ind,, also a gridiron star; George Beeler, Seattle, Wash.; ohn L. Danis, Dayton, 0; Duncan Hallock, S§t. Louis, Mo., d Alfred St i (Reociated Prase Bhots) H 3 an red Starbird, Burlington, V& ROOSEVELT IS Tomorrow Is Longest Day; BIG CONTRACT S Begins | o d (Sails Hoisted Early This " Boneof Btled Brew | | Moming—Presiden Be Manufactured * ADJOURNMENT FAVORED NOW TOFORGE U.S. No Decision on Currency Stablization Is Hold- ing Up Progress PITTMAN RESOLUTION FAVORABLY RECEIVED Raymond Moley Is Enroute to England with Im- portant Proposals BULLETIN — LONDON, June 20.—In high French quarters it Is said this afternoon that the proposal to adjourn the World Economic Conference will be brought before the Steering Committee tomorrow if there are no clearer indica- tions of stabilization of the dollar could be affected. LONDON, June 20.—The senti- ment of the gold bloc delegations favoring adjournment of the World Economic Conference until Wash- ington has decided where America wants the dollar pegged grew today despite attention paid to United States Senator Key Pittman’s sil- ver resolution as providing a basis for currency stabilization and monetary reform. French leaders and gold standard groups interpreted there is little indication of a disposition of America to allow anyone to pass through the stabilization door al- though it is not entirely closed. Encouraged Senator Pittman and Secretary of State Hull, of the American delegation, declared they are en- ] | OAKLAND, Cal, June 20. — A STOGK PRICES contract for the sale of $23,000,000 SHADED TUDAY: worth of beer, said to be the larg- est ever made in the beer industry,' was consummated here yesterday by the Western States Grocery, Company with the Humboldt Malt' couraged over support received to ENROUTE TO SEA, June 20.—|Ppittman’s monetary resolution Hopeful of a break in the weath-|which has the approval of the er, President Roosevelt today again delegation as a whole and meets pointed his yacht Amberjack No.[ywith the approval of President 2 toward the end of Cape Cod with Roosevelt, That the United States Provincetown as his gcal on his will not return to the gold standard vacation. until it is sure ti The President put in at Nan- also certain. i s e e | ' | and Brewing Company of Eureka, The Western States Grocery Company will distribute the beer‘i through its 52 wholesale branches' located in the Pacific Coast ter-i ritory, including Alaska and Mex-{ ico. The retail outlet will be reach- tucket yesterday becaitse of bad weather but the skies cleared early this morning and with the Chief \Executive at the wheel, sails were hoisted before dawn and the craft turned seaward. Trailing the yacht is an armada Trading Starts with Rush then Eases Off Dur- ing Afternoon | Pittman Resolution The Pittman resolution has been received fayorably and it has had an effect of quieting di of an unofficial proposal ema ing from the gold bloc that the NEW YORK, June 20.—The bull- ed through a chain store organiza- tion. The contract calls for delivery of weakness of the dollar on foreign 75,000 barrels of bottled beer an-|exchanges and continugd reports of nually for three years with option pusiness and industrial improve- of continuing the contract for ten ment, years. Earlier gains of one to around two points were shaded or replaced by similar or greater losses as speculators chased in sizeable pro- | fits. Transfers were 6,000,000 shares. ‘The curb is irregular, Bonds were firm, | British Pound Up Stocks opened with an upward jrush spurred by another advance !of the British pound to $4.19, the ihlghosc since England dropped t.he‘ {gold standard. Transactions were in a heavy| ! volume during the forenoon but ithe pace slowed as prices eased. FORMER COM. AMER. LEGION PASSES AWAY 0. L. Bodenhamer Dies in conference adjourn until America A of newspapermen, photographers {1sh fever of the financial markets gnd smal war yessels. PReTS | has agreed to some form of stabili- 1cooled a trifle today despite further VOl g B zation but today further word came from Washington there will be no stabilization of currencles in the immediate future. ONE INDUSTRY U. S. PROPOSALS WASHINGTON, June 20. — The Government has seized the present as the logical moment press proposals upon the World Economic Conference. Raymond Moley, Assistant Secretary of State, _— closest of President Roosevelt's ad- visers, is enroute to London. Bern- Cotton Textiles Fix Mini-|M. Baruch takes over the unofficial . - but real supervision of the Wash- I Wage and Max" ington policy although he gets no mum Week Hours Government salary or appointment. He is acting as contact man be- WASHINGTON, June 20.—Hugh|'Ween the vacationing President Louisiana as Result of | Burns in Explosion SHREVEPORT. La., June 20.—(1, L. Bodenhamer, of Eldorado, Ar-; kansas, former National Command-| Celanese, Chesapeake and Ohio, Public Works Administrator, last Sears, American Can displayed re- night announced that the eotton sistance to realizing. {textile industries have swung in Western Union lost three points. and head the line under the Na- Issues Off | tional Recovery Act submitting a National Distillers, Owens Illinois code of fair competition under the Glass, Dupont, Case, American Industrial Recovery Act. S. Johnson, Industrial Control and "",f,h:he London Uelegation. American currency plan in- volves & bimetallic standard by which paper money will have 20 per cent gold backing. All details will probably be explained by Moley when he reaches London. Mr. Rose, accompanied by his wife, left Seattle June 3, and will visit all the larger towns in Al- aska before returning to the States. ELECT STRONG | AS TREASURER | & =iftect UF GUVT. GURP.‘ ington, D. C., Mr. Rose made many| i stopovers and talked with hundreds| {of business men. Practically every-| { where conditions were rapidly im-| WASHINGTON, June 20.—James proving and the rising price o[“ | G. Strong, former Republican Rep- commodities and raw materials was; resentative from Kansas, has been|definitely accelerating business, he lelected Treasurer of the Home said, and unemployment is decreas-; Owners Loan Corporation to ad-]ing. minjster the Government's two bil-| ———— lion dollar Home Mortgage Re- REV.WALKER | 60 TO PRISON | TRANSFERRE“‘Aubum Bankers Are Sen- ! tenced Following Con- | 41 viction, Fraud i SEATTLE, June 20.—The Pacifi: | Northwest Conference of the Meth-!| SEATTLE, June 20.—Charles E. odist Episcopal Church has ended Walters has heen sentenced from here with the announcement of two and one half to fifteen years, appointments and transfers includ- and his son Ralph Walters, from who goes to Ketchikan, Ah&ka.|vleuon of selling stock under false at - Ketchikan, pulpit in the Bothel church. going to take me" of Auburn. {ry David L. Stone, Jr, son of Brig. Gen. David Stone of Wash- ington, D. C., it has been an- nounced. The wedding has been set tentatively for August. : "~ | Telephone and Telegraph, New, er of lmel .;mertcsn Legion, died| yory central, Johns-Manville, Del-' Rt ;{Tl"‘:; lrfiesc;w’;fh“n “aware and Hudson, United States s explosion in the East Texas Stecl, U, stapagustcial Aloohal, Union Pacific, International Har- oil field near Henderson. vester were all off from one to “No Monarchy,” Socialist | Chief Bauer Warns Austria, PRI VIENNA, June 20.—Those who believe a Hapsburg restoration join- ing Austria and Hungary would be the surest way to prevent Aus- tria from “going Hitler” have been warned by the soclalist leader Otto Bauer that his party is in no mood to tolerate such a change, Sees Forelgn Obstacles Advocates of such a restoratior should realize, said Bauer at party conference here, that there also would be international ob- stacles and he added that Czecho- slovakia and Jugoslavia would not willingly accept a new Austria- be folly to disregard the possibility and the Rev. C. L. Walker, now.representatinns in the holding cor- of an attempt to restore the mon- cial poration which controlled the Bank archy. So he warned his fellow- which later appeared with the of- isoclalists “we must make clear to fending passages removed. "1 three points. | CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, June 20. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |stock today is 20%, American Can |93%, American Power and Light ne Austrian people ithat the Haps-!13%, Anaconda 16%, Coty 6%, Ar- ourg menace is in - no way smaller mour B 3%, Bethlehem Steel 34, han the ‘Hitler menace.” He add-|Calumet and Hecla 7%, Continen- |ed: tal Oil 14%, Fox Films 3%, Gen- | Compares Two Dangers |eral Motors 27%, International | “If the Mitler menace means Harvester 39, Kennecott 19%, Pack- hat the orgy of barbarism raging |ard Motors 5%, Standard Brands |'n Germany would engulf us, t0o,|20, United States Steel 56%, Tim- |that the bones of Austria’s sons|ken Roller 29%, American Cyan. B night be the price for some scheme|13%, Ulen Company 5%, Curtiss- o regain the Polish corridor—then, Wright 3%. ve must keep just as clearly in e mind that a re-union with Hun- MEN FROM NAVAL RADIO ;ary never can mean anything else | STATION NEAR CORDOVA han that our sons will be sacrificed] ON WAY SOUTH ON YUKON to regain Slovakia and Croatia for | tne future king of Hungary.” | €. J. Carlson, H. E. Jackson and | An attempt to publish this sec-'R. J. Whitty, who have been sta- ing the Rev. Fred R. Isaacson' five to fifteen years, following con-: Nevertheless, said Bauer, it would|tion of Bauer's speech resulted m;uoned at Mile Seven, near COrdova,‘ Mrs. John Olson, who has been| onfiscation of the socialist offi-'at the U. S. Naval Radio station, orgamn, “Arbeiter-Zeitung,” recently abandoned, are south- bound passengers on the steamer IYukon, Hearing on the code has been set for June 27. The code fixes $10 as the weekly minimum in the Southern industry and $11 in the Northern industry with 40 hours as the maximum | week. ! Administrator Johnson said the scale boosted the wages 30 per cent and reduced the working hours 20/ per cent. v —— MIDDLE WEST | 1S SCORGHING; DEATHS MOUNT Crops Rej orted Wilting Under Sun—Tempera- ture Nears 100 Deg. CHICAGO, 1ll, June 20.—Anoth- WAR PERSONNEL {regions of the Middle West but WASHINGTON, June 20— The the weather man promised relief War Department announced that|in some sections with showers and the $50,000,000 cut in the proposedygeueux rellef by tomorrow. .expenditures for the next fiscal, Deaths from the heat continued |year, as compared to the present to mount while crops wilted under one, will be made without reduclnglme sun as the mercury soared. the personnel | The temperature is near 100 de- — !grees in Ohio and Nebraska. MRS. JOHN OLSON RETURNS ——— FROM KING COVE ON YUKON (. C. BOATMAN TAKES PLANE { TO PETERSBURG ON SUNDAY teaching school at King Cove,| . C. Boatman, representative of on the Aleutian Peninsula, since the Columbia Lumber Co., left for last fall returned to her home here Petersburg Sunday morning on the on the steamer Yukon. (seaphne Baranof, -