The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 27, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY VOL. XLIL, NO. 6377. e e e e EXPEDITION TO SEARCH FOR MATTERN LONDON GOLD BLOC SUDDENLY SPRINGS NEW SCHEME STABILIZATION| Ex-Champ at Society Show PLANS PROPOSED ON BROAD FRONT ; | Dramatic Development Takes Place at Econ- omic Conference SECRET SESSION HELD BY BANKERS Gold to B:Befended to Last—Solution Rests with British LONDON, June 27. — The World Economic Conference is in the throes of a fresh dramatic development pre-' cipitated by the unexpected action of the gold bloc coun- tries trying to force Ellrfl-v i b BT 8. , sl pean monetary stabilization 3 3 A irrespective of the desires of the Americans or what hap- pens to the American dollar.‘ Representatives of central banks of France, Switzerland, For the first time hl'dse“:;.l yeags, é}henie Tunn;%u 3 i met se-' champion of the world, and his wife, the former Holland aug: SEeliim hi h' Lgrap}\’;d together as they attended the recent society horse show at cretly to perfect plans which f,oy0, "pa. Withlthe Tunne%sfare Alnith)onyTDrexel ifddle d(leftb)o nind inv i itain Mrs. Stacey B. Lloyd (second from left). Tunney refereed a boxing involve 'f(.)rcmg Great. .B""a ' bout at the show, the proceeds of which weont to charity, . to stabilize along with the . X WILL BE WIPED MAY COME HERE OUT JUNE 30THFOR CONVENTION claration by one of the conferees that gold will be defended to the last diteh. ) Abolition Announced from Gov. Troy Advised Pros- Washington —Part of | pects Bright for Holding National Reduction Next Meeting Here ® owow owm omow mom ) 3 2 wRE RSB o ow w W w oW OM W | | | former heavyweight y Lauder, are photo- | | ' On the other hand there is 2. renewed threat and chaos of price debacles ' which will follow if the American and Canadian wheat sur-| plus is dumped on the world mar-| ket. This acted to save from a breakdown of the wheat acreage restriction negotiations of the four} principal wheat producing nations.’ The arrival of Prof. Richard Moley, who last week held an im-| portant conference and received in-; The Alaska unit of the National structions from President Roosevelt Prohibition Bureau will be abolish- is due to arrive today and this is ed June 30, according to advices' causing the delegates to the World received today by The Empire in Economic Conference to wonder an Associated Press dispatch from what other excitement will be Washington. This is part of a thrown among the delegates. general cut by which a total of Speed Is Shown 113,000 employees of the dry bureau The momentum of the parley is will be either furloughed or dis- ially extended to it an invita- picking up to such speed that it missed from the service. |tion to come North next year for is believed anything might happen.’ There are five employees em- its annual mezting. Many observers expressed the ployed in Alaska by the bureau, At its recent meeting in Mil- opinion the gold bloc scheme in including W. R. Vinake, Acting waukee, Harold W. Snell, General etfect challenges President Roose- Deputy Administrator, investigators Passenger and Freight Agent of velt's price raising program which Joe M. Freeley, Ketchikan; S. G.jthe Alaska Railroad with head- the gold bloc members maintain Swain, Fairbanks, and L., L. Fill-'quarters at Chicago, and Passen- will force depreciation of their cur- more, Anchorage, and Mrs. J. R. ger Agent Goodsill of the North- rencies and be disastrous. Sharpless, Clerk in the local office ern Pacific Company, personally Bankers, in their secret session, of the bureau. "discussed transportation arrange- decided to ask the Bank of Eng- nts and rates for the northern land to make a declaration to the Anncunced by Director | trip. effect that it will not be t0 Great The first word of the abolition’ A letter just received by the Britain’s interest to see continental of the Alaska unit was given out Governor from Mr. Snell said that currencies depreciated. |in Washington late yesterday by prospects for securing the con- British Sit Tl‘zht |A. V. Dalrymple, Director of Pro- vention next year are bright if Meanwhile the British are sitting hibition Enforcement, who announc- conditions continue to improve. tight regarding any attitude but ed he had retommended to the The final decision has been left it is learned that a representative Department of Justice and it had in the hands of the Association’s of the Bank of England is con- approved the recommendation that directors, W. W. Loomis, La ferring with the President of the the Prohibition offices in both Al- Grange, I, W. H. Conrad, Med- Bank of International Settlements. aska and Hawaii be closed. All ford, Misc, and Walter H. Crimm, The situation has simmered down activities of the bureau here will‘salem. Ind. to this—success or failure of the be placed in the hands of thel — e old bloc program depends on Great United States Marshals’ offices. v %ncain‘s decision and England is Agents of the bureau in the Terrl~<Dough; Fmrbmks' Jr_ not ready to return to the gold tory, he added, will be furloughed| - standard yet. she.' in effect, wm‘under the plan. be doing this if she agrees to the Today, an Associated Press dis- There is'more’ than a possibil- ity that the National Editorial As- sociation will hold its 1934 annual conference in Alaska, according to advices just received here by Gov. John W. Troy, who is Al- aska Vice-President for that or- ganization. As Governor he offic- Shows Recovery Now gold bloc stabilization scheme. On patch said: “Attorney General the other hand she will suffer Homer Cummings announced 13,000 trade losses were France and other {employees of the Prohibition Bureay | countries forced off the gold stan-;will be furloughed or dismissed on dard with a resultant depreciation June 30, to save $4,000,000 during| of currencies in relation to the the coming fiscal year. Five em- pound. | ployees will be dropped in Alaska | Well-informed circles close . to and 23 in the State of Washing- the American delegation expressedllon." the opinion the gold bloc scheme) No Confirmation Here is futile and devaluation of sevs] Acting Chief Vinake, when shown eral European monies is decxded.\y’a copy of Major Dalrymple’s an- in prospect. /nouncement this morning said his DODGES ISSUE |office had not been advised of the LONDON, June 27.—Great Bri- plan. He had no comment of any tain is understood to have refused kind to make. to commit herself to the new gold! Albert White, United States Mar- bloc scheme under which Great shal, said so far no official orders Britain and continental currencies had been received turning over the | are to be stabilized irrespective of work to his office. They are ex- the desires of the United States,'pected to come through regular as she wants to keep her hands|channels before the end of the free to deal directly with the Unit-|current month. ed States when the proper umel The abolition of the Prohibition comes. ¥ (Continued on Page Two) NEW YORK, June 27.—Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., suffering from pneu- monia, passed a comfortable night and shows improvement today. He recently returned from a trip to Europe. MRS. J. C. MORRIS AND CHILDREN TO JOIN MR. MORRIS IN JUNEAU Mrs. J. C. Morris and children,t Iris, Doris and Donald, will ar- |rive in Juncau on the motorship ! months ago that the “sole reason Northland where she will join her | husband who is opening a Juneau ion, was to get Henry Ford | office for the West Coast Life declared that Wall Street belic\ PRODIGAL SON OF NATION IS COMING HOME Sees Light in Window, Left Burning Three Years, Waves Greeting RECOVERY HAS NEW SUIT OF CLOTHES, TOO| (Casts Smiles on North andi South Alike—To Make Tour Through Country WASHINGTON, June' 27. ~—The recovery of the prod- igal for whom the Nation ' has kept a light burning in | the window for three years appeared out of the gloon'd and waved a greeting. The prodigal wore a new| f suit eut with bold shears by | President Roosevelt and : stitched hurriedly by Con- | gres; The prodigal has the Na- tional Recovery Act in his| | { pocket and there were also; | | indentification cards of $1 wheat, tén_cent cotton and® other encouraging trade re-| ports. | | He advanced none too briskly, for he was not sturdy after his CITY INUNDATED AS WATER SWEEPS THROUGH B Kelso, Wash., was flooded wrgen a 150foot section of the Coweeman river dike broke, foot wall of water ghrouuh the city. Upper: shopping by boat as the river overflowed upon t (lower) an aerial view of the community under water. (Associated Press Photos) hong absence, to the music of danc-| |ing stock tickers. i Smiles on North, South Recovery smiled impartially on, the North and South alike as {wheat and cotton climbed out of the scorching sun which has al-| ready done great damage to grain’ in some sections and wilted to some extent agrarian optimism. In the National Capital, there* was gathered in Recovery’s honor i ors for encouragement, textile repre- Genera | Impor[ant Issues sentatives with Hugh Johnson. | . The meeting is expected to write Fall to FO”OW Thrqugh —Report Some Gains GRAINS AGAIN the major American history for textile operators. A code has been prepared for fair competition. More than two-thirds of the industry have approved the code with mini- mum wage provisions of $10 for a 40-hour week. The purpose or the meeting is to provide a vehicle in which Re- covery can start a long awaited ride across the country on an in- dustrial reconnaissance program which has called for the most am- bitious emergency measures ever undertaken by the Government. This program aims at a revival of industry through higher wa and wider distribution of work, higher prices for products and elim- ination of unfair competition. Administrator Johnson is cor- centrating on the textile operators’ code so it may serve as a chart to other industial groups which are setting up similar codes by which they hope to get smoke pour out of factory industrial as it used to be. WASHINGTON; June 27— Ident Willlam Green of the A can Federation ‘of Labor said opposes the 40-hour week sched and minimum wages provide |the textile code under the Nat Recovery Act. CLOSE BANKS T0 GET HENRY FORD IN GRIP DETROIT, Mich,, June 27—Her- bert Wilkins, Detroit banker, toid the grand jury probing the clc of two national banks here s NEW YORK, Jung 27.—Grains soared agaln today to new high levels for the past thres years, wheat reaching one dollar or more at Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City and Portland, but stocks, outside of a few specialties, failed to follow through in resumption of the buoyant upswing and were content to maintain a restricted firmness, é Gains generally extended from fractions to around two points. advances. Sales totalled 6,000,000 shares. Grains Take Advance Wheat, corn, oats, rye and bar-| ley added three to around seven cents a bushel to the spectacu-| lar gains of yesterday. Cotton was hesitant. The dollar declined rather sharp- “ ly on foreign exchanges and the| sterling on some. European gold currencies got up to new high for | " the past several years on reports : of new currency stabilization move | " at the London conference. “ Bonds were firm. Regular Runaway ! National Distillers ran away from the rest of the share mar- ket advancing sixteen poiuts as! the shorts in this isstie fled to} cover. | Rails and somé motors were Ini demand. American Telephone and Tale-! graph, United States Steel, Amer- ican Can and others were in- clined to move indifferently | Slack Farm Group | The so-called farm group did| not exhibit much strength as at ths previous session. i Liquid Carbonic points, Other issues up one to three| points: were United States Alcohol 14 Crown Cork, Owens Tlinois Glass. ;for closing the banks, in his ol Heavy profit taking shaded many | Insurance Co. Mr. Morris has it had a chance of tying up F been representing the insurance deposits in the banks to so dep: |company in Alaska for tkhe last his working caapeity that he 1ust several years but made his home deal with them or go broke. ' | in Seattle and only recently de-‘ ‘Wilkins said Ford had $65,000.000 cided to make dJuneau the per--on deposit in the Detroit bank manent residence of the family. + the time. If Winter "c};}fiésfl' May Bettridge, mascot of the floral exposition at Los Angeles, shows what the well-dressed flower girl will wear this coming season— weather conditions permitti course. The pretty costume is ioned entirely of colorful blossoms on a groundwork of netting. MINER DIES IN ACCIDENT Explode—Man Bur- \ | ied in Cave-in Rails up one to two points in-| cluded Union Pacific, Santa Fe Southern Pacific, New York Cen- tral. . Point Gains Point gains were held by Beth- (Continued- on Page Two.) SEATTLE,” June 27. — Andrew Postischek, aged 50 years, of Ren- ton, miner, was killed in the Black Diamond coal mine when he was buried in a tunnel cave-in as 50 1"/ lenem ' Steel, Liggett and Myers pounds of dynamite he was carry- | relative to her husband being dom- ling exploded. St | UGH BREAK y nding a two- he town and INDIANA SOLON 'DUE TO ARRIVE HERE THIS P. M, Senator Arthur R. Robin- son Will Confer with Governor Troy Senator Arthur R. Robinson, Re- publican, of Indiana, now on an extended trip to Alaska, will ar- rive here this evening on the | Coast Guard Cutter Chelan for a | brief visit. He has asked for a conference with Gov. John W. Troy and other officials here to- morrow. He is the senior Senator from |Indiana and a member of the | Committee on Territories and In- sular Affairs before which many | legislative subjects pertaining to Alaska are brought each session |of Congress. He is also member of the Committees on Mines and Mining, Judiciary, Foreign Affairs and Pensions. Senator Robinson has served in |the Senate since 1924 wnen he was appointed by the Governor of |Indiana to fill a vacancy. He was |elected in the following year and again in 1928. His present term will expire in 1935, He is promineui Masonle cir- cles and is a thirty-third degree Mason. He is a veteran of the |World War with overseas service, | attaining the rank of Major of Infantry. Commander F. A. Zuesler is in |command of the Coast Guard Cut- ter Chelan, which is based at Se- attle. The Chelan will continue |from Juneau to the Westward and Bering Sea. —————— GERTRUDE WISE gained five Fifty ‘Pountfif Dynamite: GIVEN DWURGE | LOS ANGELES, Cal, June 27.— | Gertrude Wise, testifying that her husband, Ray Wise, film actor, who| married her at Nome, Alaska, h.ldl lost his love for her, won her| divorce here yesterday. Their mothers are Eskimos. l | Gertrude dropped the accuutions: I inated by a spiritualist meédium. ! PARTY FORMS IN NEW YORK L 7060 NORTH {Personal Friends Will Go to Arctic to Hunt Missing Flier | FAMOUS PLANE TO BE USED ON FLIGHT Bill Alexander Will Be Pilot —Mechanics from F. Bennett Field NEW YORK, June 27.—It was announced last night that | an air expedition, composed of personal friends, will leave here tomorrow to search for Jimmy Mattern, the “smiling aviator,” who attempted a solo flight around the world and has not been heard from since he left Khabarvosk, Si- beria, at 9 p.m. on June 14, for Nome, Alaska, on one of the most dangerous legs of his flight. ' The air expedition is spon- sored by Irving Freeman, Brooklyn brewer. The expedition will fly to Nome, via Chicago, Edmon- ton and Fairbanks in the plane Bellanca used by Hugh Herndon and Clyde Pangborn in their flight across the North Pacific. The pilot will be Bill Alexander, who is described as having three years experience as a test pilot mn Alaska, The others will be Fred Fetter- man and Harold Pearson. me- chanics of the Folyd Benneit Alr Field here, and Thomas Abbey, New York City motorcycle police- man. SEARCH ALASKA COAST BREMERTON, Wash,, June 27.— Nacy Fliers Ensign W. A. Moffett and Lieut. John West flew from Dutch Harbor to Kanaga Island, the Navy reports, without finding any trace of Mattern. NORMAN DAVIS HURRYING NOW T0 ROOSEVELT Ambassador - at - Large, Back from Geneva, Goes for Conference LAKEMAN HARBOR, Maine, June 27—Disarmament vied with the call of sea today for Presi- dential attention as Roosevelt looked forward to the visit of Nor- iman H. Davis, Ambassador-at- Large, just back from the Gen- eva Conferences. Davis is, speed- |ing here for a conference with the | President. e \’ Some bee growers of the Sacra- mento valley, Calif., are emulating stock men by transferring their bee (colonies to the High -Sierra moun- itains in summer time to range in the cedar belt. ——.—————— Wounded Man Is Dumped at Entrance Police Headquarters SEATTLE, June 27.—A man who gave his name as Mike Lokez, as the result of being shot in the side and in a se- rious condition, was dumped from an automobile at the en- trance of police headquarters by two men who then drove away. All Lokez could say was: “They shot me, they shet me.”