The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 10, 1933, Page 1

e e £ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ey e VOL. XLIL, NO. 63687. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 10, 1933, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY MATTERN RELIEF PARTY IN JUNEAU LONDON MEET IN DEADLOCK ON CURRENCY Stabilization Issue Stll Continues Accord- ing to Reports STEERING BODY IS IN SESSION | American Delegation P: re-: pares Topics for Re- vised Agenda LONDON, July 10—Winding up the presemt phase of the World Economic Conference by July 26 has been tentatively decided upon by the Steering Committee. It is understood in usually well informed sources that the parley is still in deadlock over currency stabilization. Many leading dele- @ frankly asserted its continu- ance under present circumstances is useless. The Americans however are fighting strenuously to keep thej conclave at work. Meeting Today At a meeting being held today of the Steering Committee, it will be decided what subjects should| be included in the revised agenda for the Conference. The Steering Committee has al- ready decided to eliminate discus- sion of subsidies and commercial policies including tariffs and quo- tas. tes Gold Bloc Bohs Up The - Committee however has been unable to decide whether monetary questions, which the Eu-| ropean gold bloc say cannot be dealt with until stabilization is realized, has asked the Drafting ‘Committee to consider this matter and report to the Steering Com- mittee tomorrow. Indefinite Adjournment When the present session of the conference ends, it will be adjourn- ed for an indefinite period, per- haps two months. Meantime the Conference will complete such work as is possible in view of the disa- greement between the gold bloc and the non-gold countries. Committees are to be appointed to prepare for work when the con- ference resumes next autumn AMERICAN PROGRAM LONDON, July l0.—American Secretary of State Cordell Hull said last Saturday afternoon that numerous topics including the! “war-breeding trade practice meth- ods” are still open for discussion by the World Economic Confer- ence. He urged the delegates to surmount the obstacles in their path. The American chief delegate is now regarded “as the leader of the parley since he saved it last Thurs- day from adjournment. To Go Ahead | Secretary Hull said he had con-| ferred with heads of many delega- tions and was confident that the majority favored going ahead with the conference. The American Secretary said questions which should be consid- ered are “price levels, credit pol- icy, innumerable prohibitions and restrictions, strangling mutually profitable trade transactions, re- taliations and countless other war breeding trade practices and meth- ods.” PITMAN’S RESOLUTION LONDON, July 10.—United States Senator Key 'Pitman announced that the Conference Committee which is considering his resolution for rehabilitation of silver, has pro- grassed to a' paint where it will be able to give 4 full report be- fore the end of this week. MAY ADJOURN WASHINGTON, July 10—Louis All E is watching dramatic battle of diminuth e upper‘;nr:r‘:: 1‘1: Austria ind making it a vassal state of the Hitler (arrow), seen whth Britis{: ofchifil wdh% bid l:‘m] 'fo(oldyty)e. 7 arrest o rel rauenfel left) conferencefii&&ric:: such as the bombing of the Jewish store “Hak,” hurried bac! Premier Dollfuss to prevent Nazis from gainiu Austrian Nazi leader, after new outrages of IROOSEVELT IS " MDING FIGHT | | TOGETREPEAL | IPresident Throws Full | Strength. Behind Cam- paign Pledge FIRST - UTTERANCES 1 SINCE TAKING OATH Telegram Sent to National! Committeeman of Alabama ! ‘WASHINGTON, July 10.—With | three Southern states, Alabamia, Arkansas and Tennessee, approach- ing votes on repeal, President sevelt last Saturday put his behind the Democratic cam- | l gn pledge to expel the Eight- h Amehdment from the Con- . stitution. Pointing out that he had | eived inquiries from the three states and also Kentucky, the vPresi-! dent sent a telegram to Leon Mec-| ‘Cord, Democratic National Com- mitteeman of Alabama, repeating; his stand on repeal. 100 Percent vernment in Germany. ollfuss to Vienna from London economie in Vienna, shown here. PRIESTS MUST OUIT POLITICS, POPE DECLARES Concordant Entered Inte Between Vatican and German Officials —A new concordant has been ini- tiated between the Vatican and German officials, applying to all of Germany. TUnder the concordant the Church | has agreed to see that priests and ! religious associations keep out of | politics. | In return for the Vatican's or-| der, the German Government has agreed to continuance of the re- ligious associations provided the clerical lay confine themselves| strictly to religious activities. CLERGYMEN RELEASED BERLIN, July 1v.— Chancelior| Hitler, expressing satisfaction over| the concordant effected in Rome | whereby it was ordered that the; German Catholics abandon their political activities, issued an order| to release Catholic priests and; leaders arrested for political rea-| sons. The order also called for rescinding of the dissolution meas- ures against certain Catholic so- cieties and organizations. REPUBLICANS | WILL CONFER | ON CAMPAIGN Chairman Sanders to Meet! Party Spokesmen | on Tomorrow R———y | 'WASHINGTON, July 10.—Chief-| tains of the Republican Party are preparing quietly for a major drive aimed at regaining in 1934 some| of the lost G. O. P. power in Con- gress. | A conference will be held in! ‘Chicago tomorrow under the lead-| ership of Everett Sanders, Chair-| man of the Republican National| Committee with party spokesmen of the Midwestern States with a| Howe,; President Roosevelt's secre- tary, said he expects the World Economic Conference to take an adjournment until the su'b-oom-' mittees are ready to report back on things the conference is to con- sider. —lpl TERHUNE LEAVES TODAY TO TALK WITH SIIIJ"I?JDGI’.‘| H. W. Terhune, Executive Of-| ficer of the Alaska Game Com-| mission, left today on the steamer| Aleutian for will confer with W. R. Commission, relative to adminis-| view of lining up a drive for the| approaching Congre ssional cam-| paign. ¥ Regional meetings have previous- York and Boston. ‘The hope of the Republicans is a drive against the Roosevelt ad- ministration in national affairs. — e ————— OSCAR HART ON WAY TO KETCHIKAN ON STEAMER ALEUTIAN | Ketchikan where he Oscar Hart, well known merchan- isouth from making an extended | Selfridge, | dise broker, was a southbound pas- |trip by air to the Interior and ! leg was shot off last October b Chairman of the Alaska Game senger on the steamer Aleutian Westward districts. Mr. Freeman | spurned lover who later agreed VATICAN CITY, Ttaly, July 10.| Amelia Beats Her Own Record on West to East Flight NEWARK, N. J, July 10— | Amelia Earhart Putnam land- ! ed her red monoplane at the airport here last Saturday night having lowered her own trans- continental recopd by flying from Los Angeles to this city in 17 hours and 7! minutes. Her old record was 19 hours I and 4 minutes. | LINDBERGHS START TRIP OVER ARCTIC Making Flight Over Pro- posed Airmail and Passenger Route SOUTH WARREN, Malne, July 10.—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife spent the night here and are preparing to continue to North Haven during today on their flying survey of a proposed northern air- mail and passenger route to Eu- Tope, via Labrador, Greenland, Ice- land and Denmark. Tramp in Proud Role The tramp steamer Jelling, which has knocked about the world for Inearly 30 years becomes a ship of |adventure and has shoved off from New York in the proudest role of | its career on the seven seas. Going Ahead The Jelling, which flies the Dan-i‘ ish flag, is plodding ahead to es- tablish bases and stock them with provisions and fuel for the fliers along the bleak: route. The ship was chosen as a courtesy to Den- mark, in recognition of the coun- try’s territorial rights in the area | over which the Lindberghs propose ito fly. She is of 1,900 tons register and is capable of making about 10 knots. TRAIN HITS AUTO; 2 DEAD EVERETT, Wash. July 10.—Mrs.' J. T. Hess, of Seattle, and 5-year- old John Stutsman were killed and her six-year-old sonisina crit- ical condition as the result of her automobile being hit by a train 1ly been held in Washington, New near Mukilteo. BRI S, . S JOE FREEMAN PASSED THROUGH JUNEAU ON STEAMER ALEUTIAN Joe Freeman, representative of through Juneau on the steamer Aleutian this morning on his way + “I have made it clear ever since fmy nomination a year ago that I| {subscribe to the Democratic Plat- form 100 percent.” { ‘This is one of the first utter- SOVIET, JAPAN ARE lN GRIPS ances President Roosevelt has made on Prohibition since he took his foath of office, quR KILLING The telegram sent McCord also | l fioted the section of the Demo- filc platform urging Prohibition al, | | ing for Anadir, Siberia, to return Ward Knisley, who chartered Mat Two fliers, Bill Alexander (left) and Fred Fetterman ( were in Juneau Saturday night and yesterday and left this morn- Associated Press photo was taken at Floyd Bennett Aviation Field, New York, before they took off for Alaska. They are shown with right) with Jimmy Mattern. The above ttern’s course. Other Recent Events Ad- i dog oG v (TEXTILE GODE R REV. HUBBARD'S SIGNED SUNDAY EXPEDITION IS LONDON, July 10.—The killing of three Japanese fishermen in Soviet waters on June 14, has | tests and counter charges between ,in the waters off Kamchatka Pen-| touched off a chain of events, pro- Moscow and Tokyo. Sericus Affair It is admitted the affair is ser- jous as the result of the Russians seizing a Japanese fishing boat, with a crew of 20 aboard last Sat- urday. Significance has been added to the recent events by the sending of a Japanese destroyer to the scene insula. Strengthen Garrision i Reports have also been received that the Soviet garrison Russian part of Sakhalin Islands| is being augumented and by recent | difficulties between the Soviet and Japanese governments over distur-| bances along the Chinese Eastern | [Railway in conversations about the sale of the railroad which is not| BY PRESIDENT Minimum Wage, Working| Hours Fixed — Child Labor Abolished WASHINGTON, July 10.—Presi- dent Roosevelt last night signed the Cotton Textile Code, the first un- der the National Recovery Act. The code fixes $12 and $13 as ‘the minimum wage in the south; and north respectively and 40-hour ees. One effect of the code is the abolishment of child labor in the textile industry. ‘““Child labor in this industry is hereby abolished after years of fruitless efforts on discussions of - GAUGHT IN GALE Reach! Sumn—:t—of Shishaldin —Thaw Out in Gas- sy Steaming Cone —— FALSE PASS, Alaska, July 10.— {The Rev. Bernard B. Hubbard, known as the Glacier Priest, is here after an ascent of Shishaldin during which winds and cold nearly wiped out the expedition. All members of the expedition are safe however and several are en- in the working week for all mill employ-!route to the states now. 80 Mile Gale The Rev. Hubbard said the gale raged at 80 miles an hour and swept the party off their feet and |blew the men helpless along with the swirling snow. They finally managed to get a fly tent over progressing. Ithis ancient atrocity. It went outtheir heads in the lea of an ice /in a day because this law permn,sipxnmcle. ALASKA FERTILE ;employees to do by agreement that |which none of them could do sep- Crouch, Freezing Four men and three pack dogs SECTION ls HlT ‘arrdt.elz'h an;re;i:e ;n competition,” cmn;gh:d][reeleng Lt:rml:our; unL]il " sal e ent. a slight lessening e gale al- WIT'H J- Q- ADAMS‘ lowed them to get to the bottom. 400,000 1 ‘When the summit was finally J. Q. Adams, an American of I OB reached, another gale forced them Welsh descent, bearing the same name and initials of one of our Wards of 400,000 employees of the early presidents, passed through Juneau on the steamer Aleutian enroute to St. John, Kansas, where he has farming interests and in-| tends to locate for the balance of the summer and winter. Mr. Adams has been engaged in hunt- ing and ranching in the Matanuska Valley, and is an enthusiast over the farming possibilities of that fertile section of Alaska. .- COUPLE FROM COLORADO TO VISIT IN DAWSON . Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Cribbs, of Colorado, are morthbound passenz- ers on the Northwestern on their way to Dawson, Y. T, where they| will visit Mr. Cribbs’s brother. I WASHINGTON, July 10. — Up- cotton textile mills will next Mon- day begin working with the approv- al of the Roosevelt textile code. Foreign Countries Are Calling Home Gold, from N. Y. NEW YORK, July 10—De- preciation of the American dol- lar to around 70 percent of its gold standard parity is the major reason, bankers state, for the decision of foreign countries to call home the re- mainder of their ear-marked gold mow in the New York Federal Reserve. LAST CHAPTER IS WRI' I'TEN IN LIFE OF GIRL, GIVEN IN MARRIAGE AT 13 FOR TEAM OF MULES, THEN HAD LEG SHOT OFF HOPKINSVILLE, Kentucky 10—Death. has written the Green, eighteen years, who at ‘1| age of 13 years was given in mar- riage for a mule team, and whose after making a trip to the Inter- covered Yukon River points and marry her. g ud;ior on business. Mr. Hart is on his |with Gil Rich made the trip to| trative problems. He is expec to return during the week by plane. ‘ way to Ketchikan, | Unalakleet, | ‘The girl died Priday night at the home of relatives, BY MAN SHE SPURNED She married Green five years Legal fights followed when it was admitted she had been traded for mules and & wagon. William Perrigo shot her leg off when she spurned him and refused to marry him after she recovered. ‘The cause of death has not been | steamer Northwestern from a busi- Will return on the same steamer ness trip to Petersburg. ‘ revealed, to enter the gassy, steaming cone at the top to thaw their clothes and freezing fingers. {MATT CARLSON TO LOCATE IN SOUTH Matt Carlson, who has been a popular chief deputy in the U. 8. years, has retired from the exact- ing duties of that important posi- tion and is now enroute to Seattle on the steamer Aleutian, where, after a brief visit, he will go to California with the intention of locating there. Matt has a host of friends throughout Alaska who wish him success in his new loca- tion. —— e —— HOWARD WALKER BROUGHT IN FROM ISLANDER WRECK TO ENTER HOSPITAL HERE ‘Howard Walker, who is with the Curtis-Wiley Sdlvage Co., opera- tions at the Islander Wreck, off the southern end of Douglas Is- land, was brought in from there yesterday on the tug Georgia to : and t] A Y 3 |the Seattle Hardware Co. passed |chapter in the life of Louise Gibb 1.300 hen Tan away from him. enter St. Ann's Hospital for treat | ment for influenza. ————— HENRY RODEN RETURNS | FROM PETERSBURG TODAY Henry Roden, prominent local at- torney, returned today on the Marshal’s office in Fairbanks for | STOCK MARKET IRREGULAR IN TRADING TODAY Grains and Cotton Rallies Have Little Effect on Pivotal Issues NEW YORK, July 10.—Irregular price movements tended to cloud the market today despite sharp ral- lies of grains and cotton and an- other slump of the dollar abroad. Trading speed slowed and thel closing was moderately irregular. Several utilities drew a follow- ing and some amusement shares rallied but most of the pivotal issues followed a narrow range. Wheat, Cotton Up Rye spurted seven cents a bushel| and wheat and cotton were up around one to two. Cotton soar- ed $2.50 a bale. Bar silver was firm. was steady. The pound sterling was up about ten cents and other European cur- | rencies were equally as strong. Some Gainers Shares up fractions to about one point were North American, Public Service of New Jersey, Consoli- dated Gas, American Power and |Light, Standard Gas, Columbia Gas. Up one to two points were Fox Films, Warner and Loews. Some wet issues boomed with Na- tional Distillers, United States In- dustrial Alcohol, American Com- mercial Alcohol gailning two to six | points. | Most of the rails sagged frac- | tionally to more than one point. Copper CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, July 10. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 23%, American Can 93%, American Power and Light| 17%, Anaconda 20%, Bendix Avia- tion 197%, Armour B 4, Bethlehem Steel 46%, Calumet and Hecla 8%, Ward Baking B 5, Radio Corpora-l tion 12%, Fox Films 4%, General| Motors 32%, International Harvest- er 42%, Kennecott 24%, Packard Motors 5%, Standard Brands 27%, | United States Steel 65%, Union Pacific 125%, American Cyanide B 14%, Ulen 4%, United Aircraft 37%, North American 35%. ceee — | ELDRED IRELAND LEAVES ON NORTHWESTERN THIS MORNING FOR SKAGWAY Eldred TIreland, representative of Trick and Murray of Seattle, left Juneau after spending several days here, on the steamer Northwestern for Lynn Canal ports. Mr. Ireland CHARTER PLANE HERE T0 60 TO ANADIR, SIBERIA Three Members of Expedi- tion Hop Off Early This Morning ROBERT ELLIS IS PILOT ON FLIGHT Plans Are Made to Bring Solo Flier to This City Enroute East Juneau, last Saturday night, Sun= day and up to early this morning was suddenly and unexpectedly the chief center in the movements of the relief expedition enroute to ald Jimmy Mattern, world solo flier, who crashed in Siberia, and is now waiting for assistance at Anadir. Saturday night, William Alexan- der, leader of the original party sent out from New York City to search for Mattern; and Fred Fet- terman, mechanic, arrived in Ju- neau on a Junker plane piloted by W. R. McCluskey, from Prince Ru- pert. Last night Thomas Abbey, the third member of the relief ex- pedition, arrived here from Prince Rupert in the seaplane Chichagof, piloted by Robert EilMs. This morn- ing at 4 o'clock, Pilot Ellis, with Chandler Hicks, mechanic, in the Chichagof, hopped off for Siberia, with Alexander, Fetterman and Abbey. Plans called for refueling at Fairbanks and Nome, then the flight across Bering Strait, to Ana- dir, Siberia, will be the next leg of the flight. Nome In 10 Hours It was expected that Fairbanks would be reached within five hours, and 10 hours after leaving Juneau, weather conditions being favorable, the Alaska-Southern Airways' plane should be at Nome, or about 4 o'clock this afternoon. Harold Pearson, of the New York relief party, the fourth member, remains with the big Bellanca plane at Terrace, British Columbia, and will have it tuned up ready to take all. members of the expedi- tion back to New York with Mat- tern. Gets Juneau Plane Alexander and Fetterman came to Juneau to make arrangements for securing a lighter and faster seaplane for the flight to Siberia, and immediately entered into ne- gotiations with A. B. Hayes, mana- |ger of the Alaska Southern Air- ways with his headquarters here. It took about half an hour to make the arrangements and contact with 'Pilot Ellis instructing him to go to Prince Rupert for Abbey. come to Juneau and prepare for the dash to Siberia. The sudden change of the reliet expedition in making Juneau the center of new activities resulted in various newspapers and press associations from all over the na- tion sending queries to The Em- pire for latest developments and incidentally the Associated Press kept The Empire well informed on all news from Mattern and also sponsors of the relief expedition to give to the members of the party in Juneau. Northland Not to Aid Yesterday morning information from Washington, Coast Guard Headquarters, said the coast guard cutter Northland had returned to Nome and was “standing by” for arrival of the American relief plane expected to fly thence to Anadir to pick up Mattern. Short- 1y afterwards Alexander received a (Continued on Page Two) B TALIAN FLEET HELD UP, CELAND Wiley Post Is Waiting for Good Weather to Hop Off on Flight NEW YORK, July 10.—Accord- ing to radio advices, bad weather still holds the Ttalian armada, bound for the Chicago fair, at Reykjavik, Iceland. ‘Wiley Post is ready for his take- off on a solo world flight as soon as weather permits. Two Frenchmen are poised for & jand continue to Seattl> on it. | long distance flight from New York,