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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT§ VOL. XLIL, NO. 6414, JUNEAU S TORES| T0 COMPLY WITH BUSINESS CODE “We Will —Su—l:;port Presi-} dent,” Declares B. M. Behrends, Voicing View That Juneaw’s merchants and; other employers of labor are whole- heartedly in support of the Presi- dent’s employment code anf will put it, or special codes, as in grocery and food retail stores, into effect, was made manifest at the meeting of the Chamber of Com- merce today. B. M. Behrends, banker and leading merchant, voic- ed the prevailing sentiment when he declared: “I' think we should all abide by it. We expect to, at least, and I am confident others; will support our President in like manner.” The President's voluntary code was explained by Secretary G. H. Walmsley at some length. He also cited the special code for grocers and retail food dealers which was made effective on August 1, throughout the land by its approval by National Administrator Hugh S. Johnson. Code to Be Adopted This code, said Mr. Behrends, Gunnar Blomgren and other mer- chants, so far as it concerns work- ing hours per day and week, and other conditions of store opera- tion, can be put in effect here im- mediately. The minimum wage Scales provided by it are much less than those already in effect here/ and will not be adopted. Other stores, which are not covered by special codes so far| adopted, will conform to the Presi- dent’s temporary code just as soon as the adjustments necessary can be worked out. Two or three| places have already signed this code and as a result four men have been given work, Secretary Walmsley said. “I don't see that it is going to work any particular hardship on us,” declared Donald Armour, head of the Alaska Piggly Wiggly chain. “We have already adopted it in all of our stores.” Here, he said, it meant the employment of one! extra clerk and adjustment of hours. W. S. Pullen, Manager of the Alaska Electric Light and Power| Company, said it meant putting on five extra employees for that firm, entailing an additional an- nual expense of $6,600. “We are| going to fall in line as soon as we| can work out a plan to cover the extra cost,” he said. Entails Some Sacrifice The prime purpose of the code, Mr. Walmsley declared, is to put more people to work at wages en- abling them to live comfortably. Undoubtedly this will call for sac- rifices on the part of some business men. “Some one has to be un- selfish in the matter for a while,” he said. “There are 250 unemploy- ed in Juneau today, and right here this is a great deal of destitution. If we could put 75 men to work under the gode it would mean quite a good deal to the com- munity.” * He read’ Gen Johnson's analysis of the code which emphasized the fact that just now the great need is for a greater aggregate payroll in the nation and a holding down of price levels to the utmost minimum until buying power has at least reached the selling prices. No Boycotting Planned Boycotting is not wanted by the Administration. Mr. Walmsley read a telegram just received by the Chamber from W. R. Scott, Acting Representative of the Se- attle Chamber of Commerce in ‘Washington, saying: “Because many. willing employers - are unable to comply at once with the require- ments of the voluntary code, the Government wants the Chambers of Commerce everywhere to urge the people to refrain from boycot- ting.” Gen. Johnson’s comment on the boycott, as quoted by Mr. Walmsley was brief. “We don't urge boy- cotting. We will ask the people to buy from those who do comply with the code.” For It Strong “Everybody in the States seems » NAMED lN CHICAGO RACKET lNDlCTMENT-\ Aaron Sapiro, New York attorney and labor organizer, Alderman Oscar Nelson (upper right), repub- lican leader of the Chicago city council; Dr. Benjamin M. Squires (lower right), University of Chicage lecturer and federal labor mediator, and Al Capone (lower left), were named in a Chicago blanket indict- raent charging 24 men with bombing, acid throwing and restraint of legitimate trade through terrore ism. Sapiro is shown center talking to reporters in a New York court after he had been arrested as & fugitive from Chicago and released on bail. {Associated Przzs Photos, ) \Trade Code for Grocers Has Special Provisions Secrctary G. H. Walmsley of the Juneau Chamber of Com- merce has received from Se- attle instructions on how re- tail grocers and food stores on the temporary 48-hour code thould fill in the NRA com- pliance slips they file with postmasters. They were in- structed to write in the fol- lowing words: “We have complied with certain designated provisions of the code of fair competition for the retail trade which has been substituted by consent of the NRA for designated pro- visions of this agreement.” Tae code that became effect- ive August 1, in grocery and food stores throughout the land carries the language of the President's agreement except for the follow- ing changes: Article L The term ‘‘food and grocery dis- tributors” as used in this code shall méan and apply to and In-f clude any person, firm, corpora- tion, partnership, association and any others wholly or partially per- forming the functions of whole-, sale and—or retail distribution ex- cept the farmer as a producer nor shall it be applicable to strictly manufacturing operations) engaged in the business of - assembling,' rates of pay herein set forth. Article VL Section 1. The maximum hours of labor shall be forty-eight hours | per week and no one shall be em- ployed more than eight hours in any twenty-four hour period, ex- cepting on the day preceding a le- gal holiday and on an additional twelve days (when the maximum hours in any one day shall not exceed ten hours) in any six months period. Section 2. The minimum hours of any store or service operation shall be fifty-two hours per week, | providing, however, that where store or service operations were less than fifty-two hours per week before July 1, 1933, this min- imum requirement shall not ap- ply nor shall such hours be re- duced. Section 3. The maximum hour: fixed in the foregoing paragraphs | shall not apply to employes in| establishments employing not more than two persons in towns of less than 2,500 population, which towns are 'not a part of a larger trade area, nor to employes in man- agerial or executive capacity who now receive more than $35 per week, nor to outside salesmen or | delivery men, nor to employes on emergency maintenance and re- pair work, nor to very special cases where restrictions of hours would unavoidably reduce produc- ~ FILMSTARS IN JUNEAU ABOARD PRIVATE YACHT Barrymores, Children and Guest Are Here — mor: Slripping'Planned Mr. and Mrs. John Barrymore, well known stage and film stars, their two children, Dolores aged 3, and John, Jr., aged 16 months, and | one guest, Miss Katherine Hunter, | arrived in Juneau yesterday after- noon in the Barrymore's private yacht Infanta. After taking oil at the Union Oil Company, the yacht came up the channel and is moor- ed at the Cole Dock. The Barrymores intend to spend few days in Juneau, where they ave many friends made on a previous visit. From here they will cruise slowly north, possibly mak- ing Skagway. No definite plans have been made as to stopping places except that the Infanta- will go to Icy Straits and Lemieusurier Island, where Mr. Barrymore wants to see his old friend and guide, Joe Ibach, They will also probably go to Glacier Bay. Many Bear Seen Many bear were seen on the way up at the various islands and coves where the Infanta stopped, and Mr. Barrymore reports much good s-TocK MARKET SPOTTY TODAY; ISSUES DROP Leading Shares Lose from Fractions to Around Three Points NEW YORK, Aug. 10—Erratic price movements made the stock t spotty today after a series lines and then rallies for g issues which however, fin- mled with losses from fractions to} around three points. hrl.y trading was fast, but the volume dwindled with the decline in prices. Transférs approximated 1,750,000 shares today. United States Steel's announce- ment of a larger unfilled tonnage than expected started a drop. Most of the distillery stocks were ‘heavy. Principal losers included United States Steel, Bethlehem Steel, United Aircraft, Case, Allled Chem- jcal, U. 8. Smelting and Amer- ican Telephone and Telegraph. of! CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—Closing quotations of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 25%, American Can 86%, American Power and Light 12%, Anaconda 17%, Bethlehem Steel 40%, City Stores A, no sale; American Telephone & Telegraph 127, Fox Films, no sale; American Smelting 34%, General Motors 31% Inberrational Harvester 36%, Ken- necott 20%, Missouri Pacific 6%, Packard Motors 5%, Radio Cor- poration 8%, Standard Brands 27%, United States Steel 54, Ulen 3%, Western Union 66%, United Aircraft 35%, Ward Baking B 3%, Curtiss-’ wngm 3%. HAPBURGS ARE NOW PLANNING NEWMONARCHY Family of 20-Year-Old Otto Claims Backing of Big Powers THE HAGUE, Holland, Aug. 10. —Otto of Hapsburg, 20-year-old heir of the royal house which used to rule the Austro-Hungarian em- pire, again has been projected in- to the European spotlight. Emissaries of his widowed mo- ther, the ex-Empress Zita, have been visiting - various European capitals and family sources hint that their plans for an Austro- Hungarian-Croatian empire, with the youthful archduke on the throne as Otto I, are going for- ward. Hapsbwg ntimates assert that four capitals would not consider such a development a mistake. In this category they list Rome, Vatican City, Paris and London. They hold further that four oth- i distributing and selling raw and- tion but, in any such special case, or prepared foods, and merchan- @t ledst time and one-third shall dise entering into or used in con-!be paid for Hours worked in ex- nection with or in the keeplng,‘,cess of the maximum. processing or preparation of the | fishing both for salmon -and trout.|er countries, Czechoslovakia, Ru- While here, he is going to try some ‘r mania, Poland and Yugoslavia, salmon-stripping, He says that. mu‘ would acquiesce provided that prop- is the only place where he has ever | er econdmic compensations are of- to be 100 per cent for the ‘new deal’ and are enroling under the ¥ President’s code,” declared Oliver (Continued on Page TWO) same for use or consumption; and| such other merchandise as is byx custom classified and commonly re- ferred to as part of a grocers! stock. | Article IIIL Section 1. All employees of food and grocery distributors shall have the right to organize and ba.rgamf collectively - through representa- tives of their own choosing, and shall be free from interference, re-| straint or operation of employers | of labor, of their agents in the designation of such representatives or in self-organization, or in oth- er concerted activities for the pur-| pose of collective bargaining, or other mutual aid or protection. I Section 2. No employee and no one seeking employment in the food .and grocery distributors shall have the required as a condition of employment to join any com- pany union or to refrain from i Jjoining a labor organization of his . own choosing. Section 3. All members of the food and grocery distributing trade shall comply with theé maximum hours of labor and the minimum Minimum Wage Set Section 4. The minimum wage for ‘all classes of employees- shall be as follows: Not less than (A) $15 per week in any ecity "of over 500,000 population or in the immediate trade area thereof. Nor less than (B) $14.50 per week in any city | between 250,000 and 500,000 popu- lation, or in the immediate trade area thereof. Nor less than (C) $14.00 per week in any city of between 2,500 and 250,000 popu- lation or in the immediate trade area thereof. (D) Employees with less than six (6) months’ experience in tmsi trade may be paid $1.00 per week| less than wages hereinbefore pre- (C) The minimum wage which shall be paid by employers in this trade to any employee shall be at the rate of $1.00 per week less in the southern section of the trade than the rates specified in para- graphs “A” “B” and “C” and —_— e (Continued on Page Seven) done any of that kind of fishing. [ terea. «(Continue; on Page- Two) (Continued on Pageisreivéh; Legion Cor By JUDGE PHILIP L. SULLIVAN Circuit Court of .Cook County, Illinois CHICAGO, Aug. 10,—The av- erage American citizen will display himself, publicly, in the act of ac- cepting his responsibilities of cit zenship, in Chicago, the first weet of October. He will come from every state in the Union; from Alagka, Port Rico and Hawall, as well as fror the Philippines, away on the oth- zrb side h:‘ the earth—not to me: n the transplanted America In Canada, Mexico, the Cancl Zone or’ in_Prance or Italy. . Visible Force It will be the first public di- Average Americ Will BeSeen and Heard When an Citizen wention Is Held of the visible voice of Amer- speaking its opinion and its since the last Presidential tion. The Fifteenth Annual Conven- m of The American Legion ns Sunday, Oct. 1, with a great religious and memorial service “for God and Country,” and with an vasion by bands and drum corps into_a hundred local communities in Cook County. Sobered, with other home own- s of the Gountry, by a national tuation ‘whi¢h submerges pri- vate comsiderations into' the call a, Mediator in Cuban Trouble Sumner Welles (center) American Ambassador, is trying to mediate in the political and industrial strife in Cuba. President Gererdo Machado (upper left) seems to be the storm center. Dr. Carlos de 1a Torre, (upper right) leader of a New York junta is at- tempting to bring political factions together but with Machado's resignation as a starter toward a settlement. The intervening photograph shows an- air view of the capitol at Havana. GUVERNOR TROY | AND PARTY OFF ON NOME VISIT [Executive Makmg Thor- ough Inquiry Into Work to Aid Unemployed Five Dollars, Day Wage, Is Demand Made by Miners ° WASHINGTON, Aug. 10— The United Mine Workers, through President John L. Lewis, have made a demand for a guarantee of $5 a day basic wage for a 30-hour week in the bituminous coal fields. President Lewis presented his demand at a hearing today. ——————— MINE TROUBLE FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 10.— Gov. John W. Troy and the mem- bers of the official party, left here for Nome yesterday. A dinner was given in the Gov- ernor’s honor Tuesday night and before a large attendance, he said: Wmle I am Govemor, no per- 1S PATCHED UP National Labor Board The Governor 15 making thor- Quickly Adjusts A“ {ough inquiries into unemployed conditions with a view of making Dafficulties | recommendations to the Federal Pl Government for public works pro- WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. — The Jects for the Territory. - ee— — National Labor Board yesterday brought the employers and miners together in the Pennsylvania coal strike, settling the matter of em- ploying check weighmen to the satisfaction of both sides. The National Labor Board has called the employers and employees mvolved in the Reading hosiery, strike to appear today for a hear- ing while the hearing in the Potts- ville shirt mill eontroversy, another Pennsylvania industrial trouble, will be held Friday. ——e TRANS-PAGIFIC AIRMAIL ROUTE T0 BE STARTED Thies - Auercadt Fles to Be Used — Probably Means New System SHANGHAI, Aug. 10. — As the first move in the establishment or a Shanghai-Manila airmail and | i | 300 VILLAGES | pn&senger service, three American fllers. representing the Pan-Ameri- Thousands of Chinese Are can Airways, announced they would 1take off Saturday for Hongkong Reporled Dead. Alo"g land Manila in seaplanes. Yellow River !""The fiiers are H. M. Bixby, W. 5. { Grooch and William Ehmer, all of- SHANGHAI, Aug. 10. — Three ficials of the Pan-American Air- hundred villages on the Yellow Wavs. | The fliers said the route will River in North Honan Province' are flooded and thousands are Probably become a unit in a trans- dead. Pacific route, probably via Hono- Dispatches received here said the lulu. river has been at a flood stage for| ENCOUNTERS JINX several weeks and still continues.| Heavy rains prevail. i —— BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug. 10.— FORMER EMPIRE “BOY” | After setting an all-time medal 1S NOW ABOARD INFANTA record of 70 for the Alabama State —— amateur golf championship, Sam Lester James, Chiéf Engineer on , Perry, former State and Southern for service to the nation not un- (Continued on Page Seven) the yacht Infanta, formerly Hved‘cmmpmn was beaten in the first in Juneau and sofd*papers for The round by Walter Shearer of Mo- Empire when he was a boy. bile. DECREE ISSUED BY MAGHADO IN PRESENT CRISIS President l.);l_ares Strike Paralyzing Industry and Trade PUBLIC TENSION INCREASED TODAY Protests Are Made to Kill- ings—Food Shortage Now Indicated HAVANA, Cuba, Aug. 10.—A state of war gripped Suba today follow- ing a decree of President Machado who said the general strike was paralyging indusiiy and trade and had ecrpated a revolutiongry state in the country. Conflicting and unyielding atti- tudes of numerous elements are involved In the growing crisis and this has increased the public ten- sion. Grave Concern Grave concern is expressci the’ welfare of the citizens unic the strike is terminated. There is now little bread and milk and distribution is under armed guards. Foodstuff stocks are rapidly de- creasing. Numerous conferences are sched- uled for today. Protest Killings The Spanish Ambassador has protested to the killing of . two Spaniards last Monday and the British representative has done like- wise, but this is not confirmed. Advices from Washington are that President Roosevelt is urging politicians to forget their differ- ences for the good of the country. AID IS PROMISED HYDE PARK, N. Y, Aug. 10— President Roosevelt was assured by Representative Pish, of New York, ranking Republican member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee that united support will be given him in whatever action he deems necessary to restore order in Cuba. CONFERENCES HELD WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—Cuban Ambassador Oscar Cintas conferred an hour and a half today with Secretary of State Cordell Hull and other officials about the situation in Cuba. The Ambassador said he came to the Department to report on the conference he held yesterday with President Roosevelt. It is said at the conference econ- omic matters were discussed but there is & rumor, however, the Am- bassador conveyed to Secretary Hull the reaction of President Machado to the plan for his retirement. TWO BUREAUS ABOLISHED IN ECONOMY PLAN Part of Reo;fiza!ion?ro- gram Went Into Effect at Midnight WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—~A new alignment of = Federal agencies, which abolishes such familiar fig- ures as the Piohibition Bureau and Shipping Board, went into effect at midnight last night under the President's economy and re- organization program. No responsible official could esti- mate how many workers lost their jobs and a majority felt thc num- ber would be less than 2000 and the annual saving is estimited at Today is was said that 10,000 employees were involved in the re- organization. * ¢ It s estimated that around 900 are out of the Prohibition unit, 275 cut from the Bureau of Inves- tigation of Naturalization. Numerous small agencies hAve § been merged or abolished cutting more from the payrolls. e ———— Executions for capital crimes in Ohio were carried out at the county jails until 1885,