The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 4, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ' E’ VOL. XLIL, NO. 6409. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY TEAR GAS FUMES CLOSE N.Y. EXCHANGE PRESIDENT IS MAKING MOVE IN TROUBLE IN PENNSYLVANIA Besis for Settlement Nearly Reached—Thirty-five Thousand Miners Are in Walkout WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—| After one man was slain and dezens injured in the strike in the Pennsylvania coal| fields, President Roosevelt| has stepped into the picture.; A basis for a settlement| of the walkout has nearly| been reached, it is said. | The definite agreement is! held secret as it is still in the formulative stage. Thirty-five thousand men are on strike, 5,000 miners joining the walkout yester- day to secure recognition of the United Mine Workers of America. — MRS. ROOSEVELT T0 BE HEAD OF RELIEF DRIVE Presidents’ Wife Accepts Chairmanship, Wom- en’s Committee NEW YORK, Aug. 4 Mrs. Franklin D." Roosevelt has accept- ed the Chairmanship of the Wom- en’s Committee on Mobilization for| Human Needs which directs the annnal relief drive of 34, national welfare organizations. Mrs. ‘Roosevelt will be the first President’s wife to head actively a national committee devoted to wel- fare activities. Several other First Ladies have served in honorary capacities. . GANDHI SENT T0 JAIL FOR ANOTHER YEAR Mahatma Sentenced on Eve of New Disobedience Campaign POONA, India, Aug. 4—Mahatma Gandhi has been sentenced to one year in jail on charges in con- nection with the proposed civil disobedience campaign. Gandhi was rearrésted ‘shortly after his release from jail and was immediately sentenced. His rearrest resulted from his refusal to call off his new disobedience campaign and refrain from further activities along that line. Gandhi was recently released from prison where he had served a term. s " IRISH TAKE IT ON CHIN Amateurs Lose Interna- tional -Matches to Americans CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 4—The real fighting Irish took it on the chin in their international amateur bat- tles with the American golden glove champions here last night, a fistic feature of the World's Fair. The Americans won six of the eight bouts. Fifty thousand fans witnessed ROOSEVELT TAKES HAND, CO Wedding bells will ring soon for Frances Dee and Joel McCrea, lead- Miss Dee is a former newspaperwoman ing piayers, Hollywood hears. making riews now instead of writ- ing it. . Japan NORTHWESTERN FLOATED FROM BAR; IN JUNEAU Vessel Brought Here Under, Own Steam by Capt. John Livingstone | Steamer Nortnwestern which ran| on a rock on Sentinel Island at| 25, was backed off and beached on the Eagle River Bar, came into port at 9 o'clock this rhorning un- der. her own steam, with Capt. John Livingstone on the bridge. The Northwestern was success- fully pulled off the bar at 11:15 o'clock last night, at high tide, the tugs Georgia and Akutan as- sisting. The two tugs convoyed the Northwestern dinto port this morning and remained until the steamer was safely docked at the City Dock. The steamer sails during the aft- ernoon or evening for Seattle where she will be drydocked and re- paired. Cargo Discharged Perishables and cold storage car- go were taken off during the week with the assistance of the tug Akutan and the gasboat Alaskan and brought to Juneau for delivery. The remainder of the cargo was being unloaded today and will be delivered to Tenakee, Sitka and Douglas, for which ports ti was consigned. No cargo will be taken for the southbound voyage. M. J. Busey, wreck superinten- pany, supervised the pouring of over 320 sacks of cement into the bottom of the Northwestern, in ers were at work this morning alongside doing the outside patch- ing, and when that is accomplish- ed, the salvage company has full confidence that the Northwestern will be delivered safely to her owners in Seattle. Appreciation Capt. L. H. H. Jennings, presi- dent of the Alaska Salvage Com- pany, ,expressed the greatest ap- preciation for the cooperation and efficiency of Capt. Livingstone and the crew of the Northwestern, say- ing that he has never before worked on a job where everything was so well handled. He also com- mended 'Chief Engineer Ellis and Pirst Assistant Engineer Hooker the fights, 3 o'clock on the morning of July| dent of the Alaska Salvage Com-| order to make her seaworthy. Div-| ese Plot on Chaplin, ToGet U. S. in War, Bared TOKIO, Aug. 4— The “Blood Brotherhood” of Japan's young Fascist naval officers planned to assassinate Charlie Chaplin, Holly- wood film comedian, during his visit to Japan last year for the purpose of starting a war with the United States, it was disclosed here. The sensational revelation was made by sub-Lieut. Kiyoshi Koga, leader of the na¥al officers who assassinated former premier Ki Inukai on May 13, 1932. The gov- rernment is now conducting the trial of ten officers. Lieutenant Koga testified at the court-martial that his group had planned to blow up the home of Premier Inukai during a reception for Chaplin, thereby “causing a war with America and enabling us to kill two birds with one stone.” ‘The naval officer said the scheme had to be abandoned before Chap- lin's arrival because of the "need for haste’ Chaplin arrived here with his brother Syd on May 14 and Premier Inukai was assasin- ated the following day. It was not brought out that the Blood Brotherhogd did not con- sider the fact that Chaplin was a British subject, ———.—— WORLD FLOOD IS PREDIGTED WASHINGTON, Aug. 4— The theory was advanced before the international geological congress that the earth is due for another flood—or a whole series of them —if past behavior of the oceans continues in the future. Dr. A. W. Grabau of Peking said that since as far back as ine Cam- brian age, more than 500,000,000 years ago, the level of the sea has {risen and fallen in regular rhythm every few million years. The cause of these periodic floods is not known for sure, but may be linked up with the generation of heat by radium in the interior of ithe earth, he added. { -, — 10,000 DROWN CHINA FLOODS SHANGHAI, China, Aug. 4—Ten i thousand persons have been drown- ed and a like number are home- less as a result of floods along the Chang River in North and (Continue; on Page Two) Central China, AMER, LEGION NOW RALLIES BEHIND F. D. R “Battle Orders” for the *“Argonne of 1933” Are Issued INATL. COMMANDER PLEDGES SUPPORT Ordered Into Immed- iate Mobilization HYDE PARK, N. Y, Aug. 4— The American Legion rallied he- “hind President Roosevelt last night |in the fight in the Economic War | of 1933. { Louis Johnson, National Com= | mander of the American Legion, 'made this public through an an- nouncement made by the Presi~ dent. “Battle Orders,” summoning 10,~ 760 Posts into immediate mobiliza~ tion for the were received by President Roose= velt in a special message and the Chief Executive replied as fols low: 7 “I have just received your battle orders. I have supreme faith that the loyalty of the Legionnaires will manifest itself in this crisis just as it did a decade &nd @&, hwif| ago.” ‘The American Legion war cry was sounded the loudest of any so far for the all American offensive against depression and President Over Ten Thousand Posts| “Argonne of 1983"| Roosevelt was quick to welcome it., President’s Just Welcoming Him On H yd When President Roosevelt NEW PROGRAM WORKING FINE OFFICIALS SAY Movement for Higher Wages, Shorter Work- ing Hours Develops WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—The six weeks' old industrial control move- ment for higher wages and shorter working hours has spread so far over the country that officials dir- ecting it admit it has outrun their expectations and are planning some stock taking to measure the term New. jobs have been made and wages have been increased for those now at work. This is actual result so far. Few Agreements Binding Only a handful of binding pe manent codes for fair competiti have been put in force by the Ad- ministration and the spread of the program has come partly through voluntary presidential agreemen now hbeing signed by individual emplovers, pending hearings. Exempuons Executives whose salaries ox ceed $35 weekly, registered pharma- cists or other professional per employed in their profession gether with outside salesmen, ar specifically excluded from the pro- visions of the temporary code of wages and hours approved by ' Administration for retailers The way is now cleared for employers of labor under contra to join the NRA program withoi altering their existing wages © ‘hours. the WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. — Ad- ministrator Johnson announce afternoon that two weeks' will be allowed before he will s tion pressure on business and dustry to comply with the blank wage and employment agreemen’ He said: “It is a dead o that the teeth of the law will ¢ used against the recalcitrant minority in efforts to hold up recovery program.” —_————— The California fish and commission plans to plant salmon in the Salton sea sea-level lake in Southern Cill fornia, F be 1 velt welcomes. It was a sufprised ; claimed him as an assistant sec- Frank ” to Neighbors e Park Vacation o ——— marked ‘“vacation” on his August calendar, Krum Elbow (photo), an- cestral Roosevelt home at Hyde Park, N. Y. began preparing for his first visit since he was elected to the Presidency. Here he is shown busy at his White House desk, in Krum Elbow's swimming pool and on one of his drives through the estate at Hyde Park. But all will not be rest and play—for an office staff was instructed to leave Washington for Hyde Park with the President, who plans to alter- nate werk with rest and recreation, returning to his desk greatly refreshed. By WALTEx T. BROWN ‘HYDE PARK, N. Y. Aug. 4— The world at large calls him “Mr, President,” but to Dutchess coufi- ty he is “Frank” Roosevelt. It is as “Frank” rather than as “Mr. President” that his home town and home county prepared 0 welcome him when they learn- ed of his plans to leave Washing- ton during the last few days of July for a 10-day vacation at Krum Elbow on the Hudson, an- cestral seat of the Roosevelt fam- ily for a couple of centuries. Neighbors looked forward to the August visit, Mr. Roosevelt's first to his home since he became Presi- dent. They arranged for a couple of bands, the American Legion- naires in uniform, the Roosevelt home club to meet him—but knew that chiefly neighbors and friends would be there to welcome “Frank.” Many Roosevelt Welcomes Hyde Park has had many Roose- and somewhat unbelieving crowd that called on him 22 years ago| DENVER MAKES SURVEY, FLOOD one his office at the north end of | the building and a desk at one end of the hugh library on the south | side of the house. Swimming on Program House guests of the Roosevelts | |always are taken to the “cottage” | for tea. The cottage is a small| house on the estate adjoining the DENVER, Colo., Aug. 4—Cherry Val Kill furniture factory, a pro-| Creck flows docilely today in its | ject begun by Mrs. Roosevelt to channel bearing no resemblance to provide work for the jobless of the the roaring torrent of yesterday Hyde Park vicinity. In front of which took three lives and did the house is an outdoor pool. The damage. possibly in excess of one shady banks of the pool are ideal million dollars as a result of a for tea. cloudburst in the plains country, After all of the Roosevelts and which caused a dam to break and their guests go swimming, includ- pour down sufficient water to cause ing Mr. Roosevelt. A polo game the extensive damage and frighten marker bears the legend “F. D. Roosevelt.” The home is on a high hill above the Hudson river. From the south side of the house one may see the stretch of the broad river over which is held the famous college regatta. Caretaker of Dam Proves to Be Hero—Warns Persous in Danger when he won his first political of- \terminates the afternoon’s fun. Us- this city almost out of its wits. fice, a state senatorship Dutchess county had been so overwhelmingly Republican that a Democrat run- ning for office was believed to be wasting time. Mr. Roosevelt's neighbors ac- retary of the navy during the world war. They gave him lots of | cheers but comparatively few votes when he was James M. Cox's vice presidential running mate in 1920. Tears, not cheers, marked the sad home-coming after infantile par- alysis had stricken “Jim's boy, Frank.” Twice as New York's elected gov-| ernor, Hyde Park shouted a wel- come, and last year there were two homecomings—one when the| ually “F. D.” i one of the players.! Twelve Denver bridges were tak- In the past Mr. Roosevelt has en out. drtiven his own car around lhl." The caretaker of the dam, Hugh estate. Paine, averted a heavy death toll The Roosevelt family attends the when'the storm knockzd down the church services at the St. James' telophone lines and he rode horse- Episcopal church, an ancient ivy- pack 13 miles and notified the covered structure of English desih,’ penyer police the dam had col- a dozen rods back from the post janceq road and a few miles north A dozen police cars with sirens Hyde Park. Generations of Roose- shrieking went through the low- velts and other pioneers of the up- lands and warned the residents per Hudson have worshipped there. to flee. | Mrs. Claude Hill, and Tom Casey - ... GURDUVA MAN iwere drowned in the flood waters. Two miners are still missing. | | Two women, Bertha Catlin and master of Krum Elbow returned as the party presidential choice Al\dé again, on a rainy night in Novem- ber, when Mr. Roosevelt motored up from New York just after he had been elected President. Sign Out When He’s Home The Roosevelt home is a mile| south of the village of Hyds Park | and four miles north of Pough- keepsie, county seat of Dutchess It sits well back from THe" Albany Post road, hidden in summer by ME trees along the driveway and on ' the lawn. When Mr. Roosevelt is “ at Krum Elbow, his mother so no- tifies his friends by raising a small marker at the estate entrance. The LOSES MATCH yayy cannRy 70 BE REBUILT The steamship Otsego, now due at Seattle with 125,000 cases of salmon from the Libby, McNeill and Libby canneries in Alaska, will ten;round decision last night discharge and then take on a over Georgie Anderson 151-pounder €argo of materials for use in re- of Cordova, Alaatee! | building the salmon cannery at | s 5 y ¥ Taku which was burned about a McGale won five rounds, Ander- year and a half ago. This is ac- | son had three and two rounds were cording to advices received in Ju- neau, Seattle Negro Boxer Gets Decision Over Georgie | Anderson I i SEATTLE, Aug. 4—Frisco Mc- | Gale, 154-pound Seattle negro, won a even, L STRIKE EXCITING TIME IS EXPERIENGED FINANCE STREET AT NOON TODAY Scores of Workers Forced to Flee to Sidewalks —Stock Prices Go Into Decline NEW YORK, Aug. 4.— Fumes, which officials said were from a cylinder of tear gas, swept through the New York Stock Exchange at noon today and compelled a sus- pension of trading. The incident gave the dis- trict one of the most exciting affairs since the explosion of a bomb outside of the J. P. Morgan and Company’s of- fices, years ago. No one was hurt but scores of workers suffered severely from irritated eyes as they groped their way to the side- walks. The reason or by whom the gas cylinder was placed in the intakes of the ventilating system is not known. Prices Lower Prices closed one to two points lower and trade was slow and un- inspired. Sales today were only half a million shares. The Stock Exchange will be clos- ed tomorrow under a recent ruling. Losers Losers of one to two points in- cluded Commercial Solvents, Con- solidated Gas, Alaska Juneau, Western Union, Bethiehem Steel, U. 8. Industrial Alcohol, Case and U. S. Steel. There were numerous fractional declines. Brakes Are Put On A jack-up of margin require- ments seemingly put a further brake on speculative enthusiasm of the little fellow but the new rules proved highly beneficial to the investor who generally buys stocks and bonds outright. An increase in cash selling yesterday and today is reported. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Aug. 4—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau miné stock today is 23%, American Can 84%, American Power and Light 12%{ Anaconda 16%, Armour B 3%, Bethlehem Steel 38%, Calumet and Hecla 6%, City Store A, no sale; American Telephone and Tele- graph 123%, Fox Films, no sale; American Smelting 33, General Motors 29, International Harvester 33%, Kennecott 19%, Montgomery- Ward 20%, Missouri Pacific 6%, Packard Motors 47%, Radio Corpor- ation 7%, Standard Brands 26%, United States Steel 51'%, Ulen 3%, Western Union 597, United Air- craft 31, Ward Baking B, no sale; Curtiss-Wright 3%. SECRET TREATY BETWEEN CHINA U. S, REPORTED Conservative Tokyo News- paper Is Alarmed at Possible Results TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 4 — The usually conservative Tokyo news- paper ‘Asahi today gave a promin- ent place to reliable reports of a secret Chinese - American aviation treaty which it said was recently negotiated in Washington by Dr. Alfred Sze, Chinese Minister to Washington, and the United States Department of State. The Asahi said: “It gravely men- aces Japan's national defense wherefor reports are claiming se- rious attention of the Imperial Army."