The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 7, 1933, Page 1

e p— AN M THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” Ly s . \ F v i VOL. XLIL, NO. 6385. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT§ JIMMY MATTERN REPORTED ALIVE, SAFE THREE SUBJECTS JeanHarlow UndergoesO T0 BE OUTLINED', FOR CONFERENCE — \ World Wide Action Is Pro-' posed by Delegation from U. S. SHORTENING HOURS | OF LABOR IS FIRST Increasing Wages, Raising Agricultural Prices, Other Issues | LONDON, July 7.—America’s first big contribution to the revived and revised World Economic Con- ference, which her delegates saved from death, is expected to be a sensational proposal for a world action in shortening hours labor, increasing wages and raising agricultural prices. New Proposal The American delegation is work- ing on a draft of the proposal and | while the entire group has not ap- | d it yet, the sponsors said believed it will be presented to the parley shortly. The Conference today radiated an atmosphere of purposeful ac- tivity which has been lacking in the last few days. Cemmissions Meett Both the Monetary and Financial Commissions met and set subcom- mittees working on a revised agenda of subjects which will be delt with without centuring into monetary topics which France and her gold bloc allies refused to discuss pend- ing stabilization of currencies. of GOLD BLOC LOSES LONDON, July 7—The European gold bloc lost a fight for exclusion of monetary questions from the renovated agenda of the confer-' ence when a subcommittee on im- mediate measures for financial re- where she went to attend World’s construction voted to discuss mone-| tion, is delaying Jean Harlow’s return to Hollywood from Chicago, photo. Fair. This is one of her latest tary problems. This question will %e finally threshed out by the Steering Committee next Monday. 1t is said the French fear Great Britain is on the verge of break-! ing openly with the gold bloc and casting its lot with the American! inflationary program. The Bflnsh“ deserted the French yesterday on the question of adjournment. | The French today found the| pound falling on the French ex-! change for the first time in months. — e, REDUCTION OF ARMS SCHEME IS ABANDONED No Further Action to Be Taken Until Autumn | | Conference | ‘ ‘WASHINGTON, July 7.—The Ad- I N ministration yesterday abandoned plans for informal arms reduction y ‘nsgotianons until next Autumn,) |convinced that nothing could bef {done meanwhile to reconcile the| Security Registrations Will Pretiing berbring disagreements Now Be Demanded | Tnis was disclosed by the an-! g i nouncement of Ambassador Nor- by Commission !man H. Davis, Chief delegate to ,the Geneva Disarmament Confer-| WASHINGTON, July 7.—Protec-ienge who said he will remain in tion for the investing public with the United States until September out handicapping the general busi-|ynen the Assembly of the League ness of Tinancing is listed as the ,¢ notions meets. chief objective of the Federal Trade| ' wag again emphatically stated Commissiqn in an announcement pgyis win not resign. The question yesterday in promulgating rules for o pis resignation arose when his enforcing the Federal Securities name was found on the selected Act. 4 |Morgan list of stock clients. The Commission will begin re-| el ceiving registration certificates to-‘, day. Those offering securities must| MRS. ELIZABETH SAINDON give detailed information which| HOSTESS AT DINNER IN | will be available to the public N'ld! HOME ON GASTINEAU AVE. certificates must be on file 20] i days before becoming effective.i Mrs Elizabeth Saindon enter-' The filing is not mandatory until'tgineq at a dinner party at her July 27. residence on Gastineau Avenue' —— |last evening in honor of Mrs. Gus MR. AND MRS. R. B. ATWOOD George, who recently returned RETURNING HOME FROM (from a visit in the south, her SHORT VISIT IN SKAGWAY gisier, and Mrs. F. J. Mullen, who Among the southbound passen- js a house guest of Mrs. George. gers on the Princess Louise which| cCovers were laid for eight at the docked in Juneau this «morning!atiractively arranged table. were Mr. and. Mrs. Robe}x‘t l‘ ——.ea— Atwood, son-in-law and daugher of| Mr. and Mrs. ‘A. E. Rasmuson, ofj CASE OF FLU Skagway. ' twood ve beeni Mrs. Gertrude Thompson is il v;:;‘;,’,gm;: fi';:ood's p}:‘e'ms in.at the home of Mrs. J. M. Bennett Skagway for several weeks and With a severe attack of the flu now are on their way to their and is under the care of Dr. W. J. home in Springfield, TIL Pigg. Miami Beach Residents to Vote On Advertising MIAMI BEACH, Fla., July 7.~Freeholders of this munici- pality will vote July 11 on a proposal to levy a tax of one er twe mills for publicity and advertising purposes for the next iwo years. The proposal is to make the levy two mills. Under terms cf a charter amendment pass- cd at the recent session of the State Legislature the elector- ate will vote every two years on the publicity and advertis- ing levy. If the proposed increase to two mills is voted down, the cum will be automatically fixed at one mill CLASS ROOM TEACHER IS N.E. A, HEAD Philadelphia Miss Elected Over Denver Junior High Principal CHICAGO, July 7.—Miss Jessie Gray, of Philadelphia, a class room teacher, was elected Presi- dent of the National Education Association yesterday afternoon over Miss Anna Laura Force, of Denver, Junior High School Prin- cipal. The vote was—Miss Gray 853, Miss Force 338. -—— HARRY L. SIMONDS LEAVES FOR SOUTH ON THE LOUISE Harry L. Simonds, Vice - Presi- dent of the Alaska Pacific Fisher- ies, who came to Juneau by plane from Hoonah on Wednesday, left for the south’this miorning on the Princes Louise, peration || NDUSTRIES OF UNITED STATES GIVEN WARNING Must Spre_fi Work and Raise Pay—Slow Ones May Get in Trouble |ATTORNEY GENERAL TAKES FIRST STEP Codes Must Be Submitted at Once Under Nation- al Recovery Act WASHINGTON, July 7.—The Ad- ministration’s attempt to make tardy industries agree to a means of spreading work and raising pay found the slow ones warned in a forthright fashion that they may have to fight anti-trust suits. The warning was issued by At- torney General Cummings. There was no mincing of words in the warning. Warning Is Clear “Industrial and other groups must abide by the terms and con- ditions of the anti-trust laws, un- less and until they obtain actual exemption from certain of the re- quirements thereof by formulating a code under the National Re- lcovery Act and obtaining its ap- proval by the President,” was the warning issued by the Attorney General. Monopolies ~ Studied The Attorney General announced he is already studying the Al- uminum Company and America Steel and Rail concerns to see whether they have an interna- tional monopoly. He said he saw {an inevitable conclusion these two had fixed prices. YOUTH, PEDDLER, KIDNAP BANKER IN ATLANTA, GA. Seventeen-Year-Old Boy Is Invoved in Crime— Confesses Part ATLANTA, Georgia, July. 7.— James Pryor Bowen, aged 17 years, a farmer’s son and high school | boy, who helped kidnap John Ott- ley, 65-year-old banker and sports- man, said he did it so he could gain the victim’s gratitude by help- help hunt for his companion in the abduction. The youth told the officers the older man engineered the plot. Banker Abducted Young Bowen said the banker was hailed by a fruit peddler as he drove to work. A gun was poked to write a $40,000 ransom note { note. letting him loose. After telling the boy of the ! grave situation, - Ottley was re- leased. Released Together the banker and the boy went to Suwanee. Ottley telephor ed to his home. The boy was taken into custody. Bowen said he came to Atlanta to get a job and met the fruit peddler who proposed a ‘deal where by the youth was to get $10,000 easy money by kidnaping a rich man. “He told me all T had to do was to drive the car and stay with the man while he went back and saw about getting the money,” said Young Bowen. “I figured that i that was all I had to do, I would go along and then let the ma: free as soon as I could and if he was a very rich man, he would be my friend.” - Miss Mary M. Denton of Los Angeles, a teacher in the Dosh- isha mission school at Kyoto, Jap- an, continuously - since 1888, has been decorated by the Empero in his ribs and he was driven tollow and closing of wheat today the woods near Suwanee and forced follows: Ottley talked the boy out of livery $1.05%, Alaska Juneau Net ; For June Tops First Five Months SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 7—The Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company yes- terday -announced a June profit of $137,400 on the op- erations of its Juneau mine, before allowances for depre- ciation, depletion and taxes. This is the best showing made for any month this year, it was noted. @ 900 0 000 00 000 ———ee——— PROFIT TAKING STEMS MARKET; PRICES LOWER Some Issues Rally in Last! Few Minutes—Trans- actions Are Fast Csccesecsose ©eeecccecvccoe NEW YORK, July 7. — Profit taking stemmed one of the most buoyant stock sessions of the year today. Leading isues, after cancelling Who according to advices is earlier profits from one to four “SMILING” JIMMY MATTERN alive in the Siberian town. or more points, turned around in the last few minutes of the session and regained some yielded terri- tory. Today’s irregular. & renewal of inflationary en- thusiasm accompanied another sharp decline of the dollar to around 70 cents in terms of Eu- ropean gold. Fast Transactions The fast pace of transactions slowed as realizing decimated early advances. Grains and cotton went up with practically all grains at $1 or above. Stocks coming back for recov- eries of one to around three or! more points included General El- ectric, United States Steel, Bethile- hem Steel, New York Central, Pen- sylvania, Allied Chemical, Dupont, Westinghouse, Reynolds Tobacco B. Issues failing to rally were Har- vester, Case, National Distillers, Deere, United Aircraft, Union Pac- ific, American Tobacco B and Santa Fe. close was moderately By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) From an obscure corner of the dictionary politics has resurrected a high-flown but unpleasant- sounding word. It is the word “reg- imentation,” and newspaper read- ers will do well to make its ac- quaintance. In the sense attached to it by the Republicans who discovered it, “regimentation” means a condition where the government controls everything, and men and women and wealth and industry are as- signed to their respective places and told what to do just as sol- diers are organiged into regiments. During the campaign a year ago, President Hoov, repeatedly ob- iJected to any sucl system of gov- ernment, declaring it would smoth- il individual initiative and close ithe door of free opportunity. Now Steel 48%, Calumet and Hecla 8%,|covs “reqim 24 4 { ’|says “regimentation” appears to be Ward Baking B 4, Radio Corpora- actually at hand. The Democrats by no means but they do not seek to CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, July 7. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 22, American Can 95%, American Power and Light 16, General toin 11, Motors 30%, International H‘”"“"agrec, Fox Films 3%, ing him to escape and offering m'er 44, Kennecott 24%, Packard i imise the fact that a long step Motors 6, Standard “Brands 2%,/ pas been taken toward bringing the United States Steel 66, Unlon Pa-| ;10 industrial life of the nation cific 128%, American Cyanide Bl ,ger the hand of the government. 14%, Ulen 4%, United Aircraft 38%. zold Theory Contradicted ey | 1t is this one aspect which is WHEAT QUOTATIONS [ijeqrest when you review the Roo: CHICAGO, I, July 7.—ngh,"ven bills passed during the spe- ’clal session of Congress. They tend towards government manage- 96%, 96% 'ment, and they put a fine point to July delivery $1.00%, to his wife. The peddler left the'to 96%; September delivery $1.00%, some words spoken by Mr. Roose- 99%, 99% to 99%; December de- yelt himself a year ago when he $1.02, $1.02% 10 gocepted thé Democratic nomina- $1.02%. | tion. e “We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made | REPEAL FIBAT o ro e MOVES SOUTH OURINe uL v, SOUTH TO OPEN NEW EC CAWP Three States Will Go to Polls to Vote—Both Sides Hopeful [ MONTGOMERY, Alabama, July 7—The contest over Prohibition moved into the deep South where | | Alabama, Arkansas and Tennes- | see vote this month on repeal of With a 10-man crew under; the Eighteenth Amendment. The Foreman T. C. Thompson, J. P.| fight 1s & hot one and both sides | Williams, in charge south of Jun-| have hopes of victory. |eau, will leave tomorrow on the| July 11 to v:t:"onw the :_lke:ns‘:;\ri,anger VII, Capt. Clay Berricklow, | on July 18 and Tennessee on July |for Farragut River to open a new | 20, | Emergency Construction Work camp, | Leaves Tomorrow to Es-| tablish Camp for Farra- gut River Trail Work | Regimentation Now Exists Over Entire United States; Politics Digs Up Old Word by nature,” he said. ‘They are made { by human beings.” | These two sentences contradict- | ed what many leading economists | have taught and most people have believed for years. They threw overboard the old| conviction that such natural forc- es as supply and demand, compe- tition and the law of survival of the fittest are omnipotent, and that all man can do is to help nature work out the ideal solution. The Roosevelt theory was that the big element was not mature at all, but human management. The special session proceeded from a managed currency to a managed agriculture, managed railroads and banks and finally a completely managed industry. What the Critics Hold The critics of these policies say ! a “managed economics” won't be! managed but will obey its own| laws. It would be as easy, they| argue, to repeal the multiplication table. The supporters of the Roosevelt policies, in turn, look on such bene- fits as entirely old-fashioned and | discredited. “Why is it,” asked one of them recently, “that when nature de- crees a crop failure, reducing the wheat surplus and increasing the prices, everyone thinks it's great; | but if the same reduction is ac- complished by law, the same peo- ple hold up their hands in hor- ror?” This is the fundamental differ- ence now developing over the Roosevelt program. The unwieldy word “regimentation” is not fully expressive of the principle in- volved, but it is made to serve the purpose for the present. it was announced today at regional headquarters of the United States Forest Service. The Ranger VI, iCapt. Ottar Johnson, will trans- port part of the crew and supplies to the site. The Farragut River camp is the twentieth to be established by tlie Forest Service since the work start- ed about six weeks ago. The crew there will repair and extend the mining trail up the river to min- eralized areas at its headwaters. After opening the camp, Mr. ‘Williams will proceed on the Rang- er VII to inspect the work being done by the Mole Harbor and Windall Harbor crews on ‘Admiralty Island and the crew at Windham Bay. The Ranger VI will return here for supplies to service the same camps. Eight more men have enrolied here for camps at Petersburg and Wrangell. Two will go to the former place and six to Wrangell, MISSING SOLO FLIER SAID TO BE AT ANADIR Is Down in Little Trading Post on Coast of . Siberia THREE DISPATCHES TELL WHEREABOUTS No Particulars Are Receiv- ed—Has Been Missing Over Three Weeks Jimmy Mattern, world solo flier, alive and safe in Si- beria, according to three re- | ports. An Associated Press dis- patch from London says: “Mattern reported safe at Anadir, Chukotka, Siberia, where Capt. Roald Amund- sen, discoverer of the South Pole, appeared in 1920 after lost in the Arctic for more than one year and a half on one of his attempts to reach the North Pole.” The second Associated Press dispatch from Chicago says: ; “Sponsors of Mattern's flight have received a cable- gram, believed to be direct from him. The message is slightly garbled but it is in- terpreted to read he is safe at Anadir. It is signed Gem- my Mattern.” DIRECT FROM FLIER The third Associated Press dispatch is from Moscow which said a telegraph mes- sage direct from Mattern said he was safe at Anadir. The message was sent from Boch- arova at 11 p.m. July 5 and received in Moscow at mid- afternoon today. The message gave no further details. It is known in Juneau that the Coast Guard cutter Northland was 300 miles from Anadir yesterday after- noon searching for Mattern and is expected to get in di- rect touch with him some« time today. Wife Jubilant An Associated Press dispatch from Walla Walla, Wash., says: “That's the news I've been wait- ing for all the time. Isn't it won- derful. I knew he was safe all of the time.” This was what Mrs. James Mat- tern exclaimed when informed that reports received said her husband was safe at Anadir. She is staying with her sister in Walla Walla. “Jimmy always has a faculty of taking care of himself,” she de- clared further. MISSING THREE WEEKS Jimmy Mattern has been missing over two weeks, On June 14, Mattern hopped off from Khar- barovsk, Siberia, for Nome, Alaska, on what is considered the most dangerous leg of his attempted flight around the world. Until this morning no word had been received from him. Ensign Willianr A. Moffett, son of the Naval Air Service Chief who lost his life in the Akron disaster, sought Mattern by plane. Moffett flew from the deck of the U. S. Navy steamer Argonne, now in Westward Alaskan waters, and re- turned without finding any trace. Another expedition is now on the way from New York City to Nome to hunt for Mattern. Anadir, where Mattern is re- ported to be, alive and safe, is only about 275 miles, in a direct line, from Nome, Alaska, his destination (Continued on Page Two)