The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 23, 1933, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIL, NO. 6374. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN"CENTY e PRESIDENT MAY BE RUSHED TO LONDON BUSINESS IS EXPANDING TO “FURTHER LIMIT Dun-Bradstreet Review for Past Week ExcePtlon— ally Encouraging TRADE PROGRESSES IN BROAD SWEEP No Indication of Usual Summer Lull Is Appar- ent in Industry NEW YORK, June 23.—Business during the past week continued wholly unaffected by seasonal in- fluen: id Dun-Bradstreet review today, and the expected hesitancy | from uncertainties regarding ap-| plication of commodity and proces- | sing taxes is not apparent in man-| ufacturing schedules which arej generally above those of one week ago. | Astonishment | The review says the broadened sweep at which trade is now pro- gressing is eliciting astonishment from even the most worn veterans of industry as sustained strength of the upswing has passed boldly beyond the most sanguine expecta- tions. g Further widening ot employment | continued and a rising trend n,]; wages form a base for large buying power. Consumer Trade Concrete evidence is the con- stantly widening distributive totals of ~each ‘week and consumer trad> is being extended to additional items. | Major industries fail to reveal even the faintest liklihood of the| usual summer lull ———————— BANKER COMER IS IN PRISON, WALLA WALLA Loses Last Fight to Escape Cell—Others There Ahead of Him Kenneth and Cyril Buck, charged with the kidnaping ot Margaret McMath, 10, of Harwich Port, Mass., are shown in custody of officers as they were taken to court during state charged Kenneth kidnaped the child from her school and with the aid of his brother extorted $60,000 from her wealthy father, Neil C. McMath. Left to right: Deputy Sheriff Howland, Cyril Buck, Kenneth Buck and Deputy Sheriff Bassett. ( GENERAL VIE Six Basic Commodities Rise Between Febru-" ary and End May® ° GOAL BEING SOUGHT Beer Collections Lead Pat-! ade in Providing Gov- ernment Revenue | WASHINGTON, June 23—Com= | modity prices outstripped the fall | of the dollar and point for Roose- | ,to bring to the country some pros- perity. This is the official analy- Isis made by the Federal Reserve, The analysis also says six basie commodities, at the end of May, ‘Jumped 60 per cent since February | ‘hnd one half of this jump is due| ‘to a general world rise and 1] {other half represented the doll |depreciation plus an actual domes. Itic rise. Six Basic Commodities The commodities their trial in Barnstable, Mass. The Associated Press Photo) GRIFFIN TAKES NEW EVIDENCE OATH THURSDAY AS SECRETARY New Secretary of Alaska: Inducted Into Office inPresence of Friends There is still a long way to go, |says the analysis, to reach the 1926 |average which is regarded as the | | Roosevelt goal and pending whlch1 ithe dollar stabilization plans are | IS SEGURED IN ="z PROSPERITY IS | | IS AVERAGE IN 1926] o i How some of those unable to join the exodus of thousands wave are combating the humidity. kee overcome, as pictures show. Children in Greenwich Village use the fountain in 1 their “old swimming hole.” while elders abbreviate their garb and keep ice-cakes and beer in demand. ty during fecord heat V% animals from being ashington Square as from New York Zoo authorities have big problems in keepi CAPT, BROATGH discussed are! cotton, lard, silver, copper, tin and = (18 KILLED IN PLANE CRASH {Canadian Pilot and Two'chIM‘BERs HERE Emergency Program for Recovery Just Started;: By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The -Associated Press, Washington) Machinery Is AUl Ready With this® clear cut evidence of ! - MYSTERY FIRE % 57 Assistants Die in Ac- cident in Sask. a mounting tide went also better| business. A growing tax on cole | lections from beer led the parade,! FOR ASCENT OF 1t is a great mistake—indulged in' just now by large numbers of the American people—to speak - of Death of. Four. Persons in Ranch Home Starts Investigation 1$11,500,000 plus several hundred |thousands of special associated lev- 'ies. At that rate beer collections Imay yield $280,000,000 annually in- May surpassing expectations,. withs . PRINCE ‘ALBERT, Sask., June 23.—~Prom meagre reports received here, three men have been killed in a plane crash at Emma Lake, north of here. the adjournment of Congress as marking completion of the Roose- .velt emergency program for recov- ery. No such view is held by the re- MOUNTCRILLON In the presence of a few friends, | SEATTLE, June 33,_5herigf“sbead of the calculated $150,000,000. including a number of Territorial,| Claude Bannick said he had been Federal and party officials, Edward |told by Frank Lavergn e that | W. Griffin, resident of Alaska for threats to wipe out the entire fam- one-third of a century, yesterday ily were made by George Coyne, afternoon at 4 o'clock took the owner of the farm where the home oath of office as Secretary of Al-|of four people, Mr. and Mrs. Ar- taska. The oath was administered thur Stone and their two children, by Charles E. Naghel, Fiscal Agent|Jean and Gloria May was destroyed for the Interior Department as|by fire early yesterday morning and Notary Public. |the four were burned to death. FLASH HEARD; | |24, and R. D. Forsyth, aged 28. Capt. Broatch was engaged M AY BE w u Rn katchewan government. | ' Capt. Advance Guard of Wash- sponsible officials of the adminis- in forestry patrol work for the Sas- Broatch was one of the Canadian pilots taken north to aid Mr. Griffin succeeds Karl Theile, | Secretary for the past 12 years, Lavergne is the elderly caretak- er of the ranch home for Coyne, FROM MATTERN in the Eielson-Borland search but he returned from Fairbanks, how- The dead are Capt. B. W. . B o S 2y They ar nal Broatch, pilot, and two of his as-| burn Expedmon Leave |tration. o, Bre. grajiliods BaRre sistants, Hi C. Brooks, aged ally, by the legislative accomplish- Here for Lituya ments of the special session and |by the almost unprecedented suc- cess of Mr. Roosevelt's The advance guard of the 1933 leadership. But they realize very ‘Washburn mountaineering , expedi- keenly that the real proof of the tion to the Mount Fairweather new Democratic pudding still is to range left here at noon today on ,,ma 5 ! the gasboat Pheasant, Capt. Bert e faot that Congress has voted Maycock with a camp and field oytraordinary powers into the joutfit to be landed on Cenotaph pregident’s hands will mean much twho was the first to congratulate'who arrived at the scene of the ihim and wish him success after he fire several hours later with his had taken the cath. negress wife. He was arrested and Friends Witness Cerémony lxs being held for questioning. Included in those at the cete-I Argument Arises mony were: Gov. John W. Troy,! Lavergne said Coyne had an ar- James J. Connors, Dermocratic Na-'gument about a gasoline bill of La- WALLA WALLA, Wash., June 23.] tional Committeeman for Alaska vergne's son and went to the ranch —W. D. Comer, former President and soon to take office as Col- and brandishing a revolver in the of the Puget Sound Savings and;lect,or of Customs; Attorney Gen-'presence of the Stones said: “I am Loan Association of Seattle, arrived|eral James S. Truitt; Walstein G. goi,,; to wipe you all out some here today from Kelso, to enter, Smith, Territorial Treasurer; J. C. day.” the State Prison for one to two!McBride, Collector of Customs: M.| Fred Kanzler, Mrs. Stone's di- years imprisonment following COH-!L. Merritt, Assistant Regional For-'yorced husband; Jimmy Reynolds, viction of charges of issuing a false ester; S. Hellenthal, Chairman of and Mary Clapp have also been ar- statement in connection with the| collapse of his organization. The battle to escape imprison- ment ended at Kelso with Judge the Divisional Democratic Commit- tee; W. B. Kirk, retiring Secretary Theile, Walter Bellon, of San Diego, a friend of both Secretary Griffin Homer Kirby denying the applica-iand Mr. Theile; Elmer Reed, Clerk tion for a writ of habeas corpus, rested at Coyne's home and are being questioned about the fire. ! Admits Drinking ! According to present evidence, Coyne was at the Stone ranch on Two Operators in South took up the hunt. Pick Up Words, Also | B v Call Leters — EXEGUTIVES OF _RAILROADS AND SEATTLE, June 23.—The words “SOS aeroplane” were heard yes- terday by a Bremerton Radio op- erator and also by a Seattle ama- teur. The words are believed to have come from a Russian vessel and may be concerning Jimmy ever, before his fellow Canadians!Island in Lituya Bay. The leader, o Jjitje according to the manner| H. B. Washburn, and two others, i, which those powers are used. will arrive' next week and jomv Nearly all of the avenues to the advance party, going from here s.tion opened up by the new legis- lby airplane. lation are optional. The burden There are five members in the now is on the White House to party leaving today—Charles Hous- choose what it will do and to make ton, Howard Platts, William S.a go of the particular measures it Child, Adams Carter and Russell selects. Dow. They arrived here yesterday| In a sense far greater than ever aboard the Canadian National before in peace time the future of steamer Prince George. the country now is up to the Pres- ident. Mt. Crillon Is Goal Mattern, now missing on his solo world flight since a week ago last Wednesday when he hopped off from Siberia for Nome. MEN SIGN PACT No Further Wage Reduc- Just Warming Up The ascent of Mt, Crillon, one of, By mid-June only a negligible the larger peaks of the Fairweather | the Judge declining to act as an King Appellate Court over the County Superior Court issuing the committment papers. Two- other former Presidents of the same financial institution are| alse in- the prison here in connec- tion with the same case. They are Adolph Linden and Edmund C«mp-l bell. W. D. Nicely, former State Supervisor of Savings and Loans ‘Associations, is also here serving! time in the same case. —_—————— PRESIDENT IS IN MAINE ON CRUISING TRIP Two of Roosevelt's Young- est Sons, Out from School, Join Him PCRTLAND, Maine, June 23.— President Roosevelt brought the schooner Amberjack No. 2 to shel- ter in Chandler's Cove, near here, in the Secretary's office; H. G.'wednesday night and admitted Watson, Secretary to Gov. Troy, drinking with Stone and his wife and John E. Pegues, Acting Secre-lafter the children had gone to tion—Agreement The call letters RMZA were also R l’l d heard but the remainder of the €ache flashes were in Russian, badly ——— garbled and leaving a mystery. | WASHINGTON, June —————— |range, is the goal of the expedi- | tion. Mr. Washburn, at the head of a similar group in 1932, after having been turned back from a percentage of the emergency pro- gram had come into operation at ROOSEVELT MAY 60 T0 ENGLAND FOR CONFERENGE Cruiser Indianapolis Re- ported Held in Readi- | ness for Trip {PROFESSOR MOLEY IS TO GIVE WORD lBreakdown of Economic i Parley to Be Prevent- f ed If Possible NEW YORK, June 23.— The New York Daily News in a copyright article from Prov- incetown, Mass,, says the Navy is prepared to rush President Franklin D. Roose- i velt to London if Prof. Rich- ard Moley, now enroute to London, sends a hurry call for the President. Meanwhile in London, Brit- ish Premier Ramsay MacDon- ald, after contacts with other World Economic Conference delegates Is quoted as saying that the previously disturbed situation is distinctly improv- ed and continued progress seemed assured on the mone- tary situation and other im- mediate problems before the conference. 1 . The Daily News declared in, i the copyright article that if | Assistant Secretary of State Moley believes, after reach- ing London next Wednesday, the President can bring about world economic accord by a dramatic tour, then the cruis- legislative ' et Indianapolis will pick up the President on his present cruise and hit for London. Stores for six months were put aboard the cruiser at Philadelphia a few days ago, the News says. Will Not Go Ashore It is not believed that the Presi- dent, if he goes to London, will set foot off United States territory but will remain aboard the Indianapolis in the Thames River and invite the big wigs of other nations to confer with him there, the News further says. ¥ Gold Bloc Demands . The gold bloc, headed by France, insists on stabilization of he Am- erican dollar before any other problems are discussed by tiic World Economic Conference and ha:s been hinting of adjournment until this is done. Washirigton does not be- lieve stabilization is a paramount issue, all. The budget still is out of bal- 23.—Rail- road executives and rail labor lead- tary of the Democratic Territorial Committee. Details for the transfer of office were completed -earlier yesterday.' Mr. Theile completed his last day in office yesterday and Mr. Griffin took up the reins this morning. Theile Remains Here Mr. Theile announced he would, continue to reside in Alaska and| to make his home in Juneau. He will leave next Tuesday for Wran- gell to assume active charge of the operations of the Diamond K Pack- ing Company ,of which he is the owner, and which has just com- pleted the erection of a new shore plant at Wrangell. “It was a pleasure to me to turn the office of Secretary over to such a genuine Alaskan as Mr. Griffin, and particularly so as he is a personal friend over a period of many years. He is an able man, a fine citizen and a true blue Democrat,” said Mr. Theile. Liquor Runner Suspect Kills Dry Officer anda W ounds Another,Escapes OSKALOOSA, Iowa, June 23.—A| last night, after an easy after-j noon's sail from Little Harbor, New Hampshire. Two of the President’s youngest sons, Franklin, Junior, and John joiled him here for the final week|pect also wounded A. A. Murphy, ment at St. Ann's Hospital for the used to their new surroundings on the North Atlantic cruise. Theé another agent, and made his ‘es- last few days, left the hospital the opinion of a veteran Wes two boys arrived here from school. liquor runner suspect shot Harry Elliott, dry agent, full in the face' with a shotgun as he attempted to' arrest the suspect. enroute to a hospital. The “sus- cape. bed. Yesterday Coyne said he tried to rescue the four from the burning building but di@ not succeed. He also admitted he was a little ‘hazy on just what did happen. A revolver was found near a jug FOOD PRICES MAN MAY BE | "Dl SCHLESSINGER WASHINGTON, Junc 2 KELSO, Wash, June 23.—The George N. Peek, Chief Adminis- trator of the Farm Act, said yes- nude body of a man recovered from the Columbia River is be- terday that the maximum prices of lieved to be that of Lee Schles- food might be fixed under |Parm Act as well as the mini singer, of Portland, department | store manager, and member of al STABILIZING trial differences. ers last night signed an agreement to extend to June 30, 1934, the 10 per cent wage reduction now in effect. In return for the extension the railroad managements agreed to withdraw the demand for an ad- ditional 12% percent reduction of the basic rates of pay. The railroad employees were deadlocked over the wage dispute until the Administration made it plain - that it considered this a most inepportune time for indus- _Lindbergh’s Hopewell Home to Be Child Center JERSEY CITY. June 23. — The > home of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh at Hopewell, will become a Chil- dren’s Welfare Center. Incorpora- tion papers have been filed here.! Col. Lindbergh is one of the trus- tees. price in stabilizing trade agre ments aimed to cut down ! spread in price between the pro ducer and consumer. wealthy San Francisco family. He was last seen at Vancouver, Wash,, several months ago and was be-\ lieved to have been drowned. In-; vestigators indicated their belief to- day in foul play. ———-———— F. S. SCOBEE IS HOME | YAKIMA, Wash., June 23.—Boys FROM ST. ANN'S HOSPITAL from New Jersey, working in 0 ‘ of the Civilian Conservation Camps patient receiving medical treat- will be all right when they o° yesterday fo rhis home. woodsman who came to town yc:i- Hardboiled N ew Jersey Men | Afraid of Wash. Chipmunks terday for supplies. One of the things the New Jer- sey boys will have to get used “These New Jersey boys are a < | wise-cracking, pardbotled lot but 1 they are t?rguld of chipmunks,” he ' pedition success and offered to aid K They are charged with murder in declared. proposed ascent of Mt. Fairweather, ance and must remain so for spent several weeks picking a route months to come. The economy up Mt. Crillon and with the goal measures and new taxes become in sight had to abandon the effort'effective at various times over the due to weather and other condi- coming year. tions. ’ The industries bill cannot oper- He was able to do considerable ate, even on a partial basis until mapping and photographing of me‘ume has been afforded for setting area and this season is hopefuljup a tremendous of blazing the way to the top ot_machlne. Not a spadefull of earth the mountain. ‘He will also do ad- can be turned under the public ditional ‘mapping and make more Works project for wesks and per- photographic studies with both still haps months to come. and movie cameras. The Tennessee valley develop- ment exists thus far only on paper, and the conservation corps is only partially recruited. ‘The Administration merely has nibbled at currency expansion. No Capt. Tom Smith of the Yakobione has been prosecuted for hoard- | who was with last year’s expedition.|ing gold. A large proportion of the Included in the equipment is a'banks still are closed, and reor- | small portable radio receiving and ganization proceeds slowly. The sending outfit with which the party|securities reform act does not be- will keep in touch with the outericome effective until late July. world through local stations. Those charged with administra- tion of the farm relief law have Are Solioge Moo not even reached the point of The entire party is composed of| poosing which of the authorized | college men, Harvard predominat-| (Continued on Page Two) ing. Other colleges represented are !the University of Pennsylvania,| | Dartmouth, and the University of| The party’s equipment was ship- ped here in advance and all ar- rangements for its immediate de- parture for the fiell were made by Escaped Prisoners Are | New. Hampehire, i Caught by Bloodhounds ; Mr. Houston, whose father is a 4 prominent attorney of New York| Now Face Murder Charge City, and a friend of Walter Gaff- ney, former local Assistant United States Attorney now located | Washington, was a caller at the ture four inmates of a reformatory GATESVILLE, Texas, June 23.— today and was cordially welcomed body of W. J. Leonard, reformatory administrative | in' Bloodhounds aided officers to cap-| P PED P e BELL RESUMES HIS HEARINGS ON FISHERIES Diverse Views Presented at Seward Meeting— Fishermen Fight Traps Frank T. Bell, United States Commissioner of Fisheries, Wed- nesday resumed his hearings on the salmon fishery at Seward where diverse views oOn gear were ad- vanced, according to an Associated Press dispatch received last night by The Empire. The hearings were interrupted by the suit brought by P. E. Harris and Company to pre- vent the closure of one of the com- pany's traps at East Anchor Cove, Alaska Peninsula district. The suit was dismissed early this week at Valdez by Judge Cecil H. Clergg of the Federal District Court. The Commissioner immed- iately left for the West. Merrick Defends Traps Ivan Merrick, member of the Seattle law firm of Merrick and Kelly, was a witness at the Seward hearing. He told the Commission- to Elliott died F. S. Scobee, who has been 2 near here, are good workers and |are chipmunks, the woodsman said. office of the Governor of Alaska who escaped shortly before theier that fish caught in seines, or methods other than by traps, were by Gov. Troy, who wished the ex- blacksmith, was found in his shop. |iv if desired, | connection with Leonard’s death. ¥ largely unsalable and that to force the industry to resort to hand (Continued on Page Seven) .