The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 22, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” L VOL. XLIL, NO. 6424. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS EXPOSURE PROMISED IN RACKET GAME .PRICE RAISE COMES UNDER BAN OF NRA “Administrator Johnson Tells Retail Dealers to Fight Jobbers CHEATERS ARE TO i LOSE BLUE EAGLES + Code for Bituminous Coal| Industry Expected Be Perfected Shortly WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—A dec- laratfon that NRA will not coun- tenance unreasonable price increas- es was made this afternoon by Administrator Hugh S. Johnson, addressing the retail dealers at the opening of the code hearings. The Administrator urged the re- tail trade to resist price increases in the near future from the job- bers who supply them with goods. “] say resist these price in- creases and we will support you,” Johnson said. Te Watch Cheaters The Administrator also said the Administration will move to take the Blue Eagle right out of the «windows of cheaters. The retail code for fair practice is one effecting more employees and workers in communities than “any other compact yet taken up by the NRA. Coal Industry Code Officials of NRA also seek to complete an agreement to cover the bituminous coal industry and hope the task will be accomplished vary shortly. The retail dealers hearing today covered virtually all store sales 2x- cept food and drugs. ' OREGON FOREST * FIRE SPREADS; MEN LOSE OUT .-Flames Ar(;_F—an ned by Brisk Winds—1.000 Fighting Blaze PORTLAND, Oregon, Aug. 22— More than 1,000 men are battling a forest fire advancing swiftly along a 10-mile front before a brisk wind. Officials said there is little pros- pect of controlling the blaze un-‘ 1gss the wind dies down and there is a heavy fall of dew. Efforts of the fighters to “ditch” the flames have been defeated | .. when the fire crowded into the " tops of the vigin trees. All men in five CCC camps have{ been dispatched to the fire line. | 1t is estimated that $1,000,000 is the damage done now in one of the worse fire in the history of Oregon. 54500 PELTS " OF SEAL KILL REACH SOUTH * Fortune Is Represented in| Shipment Sent from Pribilofs SEATTLE, Aug. 22.—Represent- ing a fortune, furs of the annual Government-supervised kill from the Pribilof Island seal herds, have| arrived here enroute to the St. Louis and London fur markets. The furs arrived here on the Navy supply ship Vega. There are 54500 pelts valued at more thsn' ‘31,500,00& USE GASOLINE TO START FIRE SALAMANCA, N. Y., Aug. 22— Gasoline poured upon a stubborn | cook stove fire in a cabin at State \®Bark is blamed for @ fire which fatally burned four Buffalo girls, Eileen Deinhart, Catherine Frank, Gertrude Sexton and Margaret ’- [ s | v | two points. | sale; Ducaimk;ma Shutting off of gas, electricity and telephone service in the ducal mansion is given as the reason for the Duch Deacon (right), of Boston, vacating the band, but gossips say “marital trouble. American wife of the Duke (cente bilt (left), daughter of Harry Morton Is Appointed R. F. C. Attorney ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 22.—Harry F. Morton, local at- torney, has accepted appoint- ment as attorney for the Re- construction Finance Corpora- tion with headquarters in Wash- ingten, D. C. Morton will report for duty in the National Capital on October 1. MOTORS, RAILS BOLSTER STOCK MARKET TODAY {Many Leaders Finish with Slight Advances, Last H@lf Hour NEW YORK, Aug. 22—Led by motors and rails, stocks rallied briskly in the final half hour to- day and many leaders finished with gains of fractions to arount two points. The market about on an range. Today's trading was small. The turnover was 1,800,000 shares. Secondary bonds firmed with the last hour’s upturn. The curb was mildly irregular and quiet. * Featureless Market Except for the firmness of auto- mobile shares and the late upturn previously mulled d ! extremely narrow, nce Coc;lit;g? ess of Marlborough, formerly Gladys London home of her noble hus- ” The Duchess is the second r). His first was Consuelo Vander- the late W, K. Vanderbilt, EAST COAST | ' HIT BY GALE; ~ NMISSING éTropical Disturbance from| { Bermuda Adds to Northwest Storm NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—Nine are | known dead and perhaps 20 erc} missing in the storm which began Sunday and battered parts of the Eastern seaboard with increased fury today. { A tropical disturbance is sweep- | ing from the Bermudas and in-| | creasing the menace of Northwest | gales. New hardest. The storm today record rains. HUMAN BLOOD | USED, SIGNING Jersey’s coast is hit the is bringing ~ OE PETITIONS One- Document Accompan- ied by Little Fingers f Cut from Hands TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 22—Peti- tions signed by 20,000 persons, many of the signatures written in NEED FOR WORK IS GREAT, TROY FINDS ON TRIP Governor Reviews Condi- tions in North and Inter- ior—Many Lack Work Impressed with the need for spreading employment on . gvery project financed by public funds, either Federal or Territorial, Gov. John W. Troy, who returned home last night after a three-week trip as far north as Nome, immed- iately turned his attention to the public works relief program with that end in view. “Right now the crying need is to get men to work in as large numbers as possible on all projects that have merit,” He declared. He was greatly impressed with the spirit of co-operation he found everywhere he visited. Each mu- nicipality, through its Mayor and City Council, and all Chambers of Commerce pledged their best of- forts to aiding the Governor in his administration, and toward solving the problems caused by widespread unemployment. Demands Real Effort That a real effort is demanded on the part of everyone in a po- sition of responsibility in order to .prevent some very real suffering during the coming winter, the Governor is convinced. “The gen- eral situation in Alaska is one that makes it encumbent on the people| in charge of the government to| take into consideration in approv- ing public works the extent to which any and all projects will re- lieve unemployment,” he declared. This factor, he added, would be given due weight in the expendi- ture of all funds in his charge, and he was certain that munici- palities would adopt the same policy in their local work. “I1f we all work together, in harmony and to the same objec- tive, the difficulties confronting the Territory can be surmounted. I am confident that this can and will be done,” he declared. Drought is Complicating The general situation has been seriously aggravated by drought that has prevailed throughout the entire summer in practically all of the placer mining regions of the Territory. Nome has been hit hardest of all. Hundreds of min- ers, accustomed to earning enough money in the Nome placer fields to keep them throughout the remain- der of the year, are practically destitute today. Lack of rainfall,| causing a shortage of water that prohibited many operations in the| district, deprived them of any em- | ployment whatever. | The Iditarod, Kuskokwim, Ruby-| Poorman and Fairbanks districts| were similarly affected, although not to the extreme degreés that Seward Peninsula was hif. Conse-| quently unemployment is larger in | those sections than for many years. Gets Fine Reception | “The Governor and his party comprising his daughter, Mrs. H E. Morgan, Collector of Customs and Mrs. J. J. Connors, and M H. Sides, Deputy Collector of Cus- toms, returned home yesterday ev- in rails, the market was virtually|blood, have been received by "he‘emng on the . steamer . Aleutian featureless. Chrysler and General Motors were given a run, Chrysler reaching the highest point of the year. Both were up two points. Nash was up 1'2 points. Other Gainers Erie, Lackawanna, New York Central, Santa Fe, Pennsylvania, and Union Pacific gained one to Dupont was up three points. Up one point or more were Amer- jcan Telephone and Telegraph, United States Steel, Western Un- jon, Aliled Chemical and alcohol shares. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—Closing quotations of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 27%, American Can 89%, American Power and Light 12%, Anaconda 17%, Armour B. 4, Bethlehem Steel 40%, Calumet and Hecla 6%, Colorado Fuel and Iron 6%, American Telephone and Telegraph 128, Fox Films, no American Smelting 36%%, General Motors 33z, International Harvester 38%, Kennecott 21%, Missouri ‘Pacific 7%, Packard Mot- ors 5%, Radio Corporation 9, Standard Brands 28%, United States Steel 55%, Western Union 68%, United Aircraft 38%, Ward Baking B 3%, Curtiss-Wright 3%. e The University of North Caro- lina this year sponsored the state’s Sexton, first dogwood festival. | War Office asking leniency for the | eleven cadets facing court martial for the assassination last year of Premier Inukai. The most gruesome petition con- ’talned nine bloodstained little fing- |ers cut from the hands of the | petitioners and packed in a box of native paulowina wood. The peti- ! tioners ranged in age from 27 to 37 years and declared their will-| ingness to lay down their lives for| gthe sake of the cadets. | BARANOF OFF WITH { PASSENGERS, MAIL The seaplane Baranof left at 3 {o'clock this afternoon for Hawk | Inlet, Tenakee, Todd and Sitka, | with Pilot Meyring and Mec:hamr:l | Hicks. J. B. Caro, Jr.,, was a passenger ifor Sitka; and R. H. Corbett and |H. O. Low wers passengers for ll-[flwk Inlet. Mr. Low is general purchasing agent for the P. E. Harris Company. The Baranof carried first class mail and several express shipments to the different points. ————————— |Mahatma Is Reported To Be Growing Weak | POONA, India, Aug. 22—Ma- hatma Gandhi, on a death fast, is weaker but his condition is not They reported a delightful trip land a genuine, Alaskan welcome wherever they went. At Skagway, Dawson, Fairbanks. Nome, Anchorage and Seward, the |only places where extended stops were made, they were recipients of many courtesies. Nearly every com- munity gave banquets and public receptions in their homes. The Governor eddressed several Chambers of Commerce at specia meetings, conferred with busir men and local and other official (Continued on Page Eight) BERLIN, Aug. 22—Germany's interest is beginning to center or mid-September when the Duic Communist, Marinus van der Lu be, Will be sent to trial at Leipz charged with setting fire to Reichstag building February 27 week before the elections wn put Hitler in power. Along with van der Lubbe, 'h¢ government says, a number ‘German Communists also wil tried. Although the names not been announced officiall is expected that Ernest To yet critical, ¥ Communist whip in the Reichs' FRANCE WILL I{e;lrictions Are to Be Lift-| Dutch Communist to Face Trial for Reichstag Fire Quits as Artist’s Wifefl," But Sté;r_s VésMHisfllq(i)'del‘ 7 Gloria Stuart prefers being Blair film actress and her sculptor husband live ap: Gordon Newell's model to being his wife—and she is Mrs. Newell! The shows one of her artistic poses, art, but she continues to pose for his works of art. Pho'o RELP AUSTRIA IN DEPRESSION ed — England and Italy May Assist PARIS, Aug. 22—Immediate B,id‘ for depression-stricken Austria by lifting restrictions against exports of that country, is being arranged' by France and England. Probably Italy will also join in the move- ment. France proposes to remove or re- adjust her quotas of goods from| Austria, pending consideration of a vast economic reorganization in Austria and Hungary. Prompt Aid The French plan contemplates prompt aid as an essential remedy in Austria’s grave situation. It is believed here England and Italy will take the same view. Meantime, German threats will| be met by authorizing Austria to' increase her armed forces by 8,000 men to treaty figures of = 30,000. These new men will be used as gendarmes and will . guard the frontiers against German Nazi ac- tivities. Austria has set herself resolutely gainst the Nazi movement within Austria. - e, 1S KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT Prominent Tacoma Attor- ney and Lumberman Dies from Injuries OLYMPIA, Wash., Aug. 22.—Her-! bert S. Griggs, aged 72 years, prom- | inent Tacoma attorney and lum- berman, died as the result of head! injuries received in an auto acci-| ent near Shelton. His broth(-r.l Major Everett G. Griggs, was in- jured, but is recovering at his »me here. “Giaci;’r Pl:ies£’; H ubbar;l Notes Interesting Changes On Great Alaska Peninsula Returning to Juneau from his seventh annual exploration of un- explored sections of Alaska, Fa- that Bernard R. Hubbard, 8. J., gives his first exclisive interview to the Daily Alaska Empire. “After the almost extraordinary success of our explorations for 1932, when we left Seattle this year we expected adventures almost tame in comparison. Although we did no air reconnaissance, the ad- ventures of the 1933 season sur- passed our expectations. The Al- aska Peninsula is going through, geologically speaking, a number of rapid changes. Both from the air, on sea, and especially on foot, we have noted in the past several years that the Peninsula is ex- tending itself into the Aleutians. Unimak Island, first of the long chain of the Aleutians, has in re- cent years both biologically and geologically become part of the Al- aska Peninsula. ¢ “Particularly in flying over the region, one notices that the lower half of the Alaska Peninsula is made up of several groups of vol- canic mountains of the sea, joined together by sandbars on the Ber- ing Sea side to form one contin- uous land mass. Since the Rus- sian occupation of Alaska, Tkatan has become part of Unimak Is- land, although formerly Russian ships could sail between the two. Unimak Island is separted from the Alaska Peninsula by a tide- swept, shallow strait, called False Pass, that is being closed up more and more every year. Within the past two years our party has not- ed that the huge brown bears mi- grate back and forth and caribou likewise go from Unimak to the mainland and back. It is not un- reasonable to expeet that in the lifetime of the present generation Unimak Straits and not False Pass will be the end of the Alaska land mass. Even the large runs of salmon no longer go through False Pass into the Bering Cea. Fish Controversy “This is particularly interesting in view of the fact that our party which has come in contact with practically all of the important canneries in Bristol Bay and the Alaska Peninsula, has noted the erroneous propaganda emanating from the Northern section that the runs of fish to the Bristol Bay x vill be among the defendants Van der Lubbe, a chunky, beetle browned man, was found, officials charge, in the Reichstag building the night of the fire. He was bare to the waist and the govern- ment charges he was firing the puilding. Examinations indicated the struc-' ure had been ‘fired in 14 places. Torgler's connection with the so far as it has been pub- y announced, rests on the fact t he left the building about 20 minutes before the fires broke out, 5 ase, | servation of the huge runs of fish | North of the Aleutian Islands to section have been interferred with by canneries operating on the low- er Pacific Ocean side of the Al- aska Peninsula. From close ob- that migrate in the waters around Shumigan Islands and False Pass, no convincing information exists. It seems very probable, though, that the fish that are not caught there go along the great shoal Kamchatka, where they are caught by Japanese and Russian fisher- men. Only recently a fish tagged| in False Pass was found on sale in a fish market in Japan. “No pink salmon tagged in False Pass were, to common knowledge, ever recovered in any American i fishing grounds, so probably they 80 enmasse to Asl Of the tagged red salmon a small eight percent. were recovered in Bristol Bay. Very likely the new geological sur- veys planned by the Government during the next few years in the Aleutian Islands will shed more| light on these puzzling problems. The closing of East Anchor Cove| trap in Ikatan Bay this year,| whereas no other traps in the areai were closed, was deemed by lo- cal residents to be based on the erroneous conception that False Pass, geologically speaking, is the great fish highway today that it | was about a half century ago. The poor fish would scrape their belly fins off on the sand if they had to crowd through in schools now, and what an easy time the bears would have. The Silver Horde “Constant bad weather allowed us to learn all of this locally in- teresting information about the great silver horde, but our main work for the summer was to con- tinue our studies of the huge vol- canoes, so we took the first oppor- tunity to leave the last outpost of civilization and get into the heart of Unimak Island. We had| climbed Shishaldin Volcano last | year when it was in violent erup- tion. Owing to the terrific out- pourings of ashes, smoke bombs and gases from the open crater, as will be conclusively shown in my lecture tonight, we could no more than stand on the crater edge gazing at the living inferno. Ferret, and others, have made re- markable observations on the caus- es and operations of volcanos. It was mainly to apply the discover- ies of these great men to- Alaskan volcanos that we again climbed Shishaldin this year. “We wanted to see whether the volcano was hollow on top, like a smokestack, with the possibility of its eventually callapsing and building up a great open pit like Crater Lake, Oregon, or was plug- ging itself up with lava and ex- plosive gases to again erupt. We had a tough time, though, gain- ing the windswept summit, which is 9,380 feet above sea level. Week after week the wet Westerlies kept drenching us with rain and mist. We made two ineffectual attempts on the mountain, the second one almost resulting in a tragedy. Al change of wind had led us to hope that the weather would be clear, so we set off at dawn to make the ascent. We had gotten well up on the cone, after about eight hours of climbing, when suddenly and almost out of a clear sky, came one of the worst storms I have ever experienced Some idea of its velocity can be judged from the record of this gale made at the nearby station at Scotch Cap, where it att@fined a maximum of eighty miles an hour. This meant that on the exposed slopes of the mountain it was close to a hun- dred. wn la POLITICIANS IN NEW YORK IMPLICATED County Grand Jury Takes Quick Action on Var- ious Reports POLITICAL FIGHT STARTS IN EARNEST Efforts BeingWade to Drive Tammany Out—Fusion- ists Are Involved NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—A showdown on the charge that some politicians work hand and glove with racketeers and gangsters is due today on the eve of the campaign in which the embattled fusionists, led by Fiorello LaGuardia, will seek to drive Tammany from the City Hall. Today the County Grand Jury took matters into its own hands inviting George Medalia, Federal Attorney and a prominent Republican, and Judge Frederick Kerno- chan, Democrat, who recently broke with Tammany, to ap- pear and name politicians who they charge are in league with gangsters and racket- men. EPIDEMIC IS TAKING TOLL IN ST. Louis Special Doctor Sent from Washington — No Cause for Alarm ) ST. LOUTS, Aug. 22—The epi- demic of sleeping sickness in this vicinity, took two deaths during the past 24 hours, bringing the victims of this strange malady to 14 while 149 are reported ill. The epidemic is said by Public Health officials to be far the most serious ever known. Dr. J. P. Leake has been sent here from Washington, D. C., and after reviewing the situation, said there is no danger from the plague. He said there should be no cause for alarm, although the situation is serious for the rea- son science knows little about the disease. WANTS HOOVER 10 TESTIFY IN BANKING PROBE Senator Couzens Aroused at Statement Made by Former President DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 22.—For- mer President Herbert Hoover will be asked to testify in the open grand jury investigation of the closing of Detroit’s two big na- tional banks, the First National of Detroit and the Guardian Na- tional Senator Couzens has demanded Hoover's testimony when in a hear- ing he quoted an unnamed bank director, that Hoover, when Presi- dent, declared Couzens was a “‘very dangerous man.” Senator Couzens said he wanted Hoover to explain this to the bank robbers. DETROIT, Aug. 22.—The offic- jals of the bank probing grand jury have dispatched a letter to Hoover asking Iim to appear as a witness before the investigating body. A decision as soon as pos- sible is asked of Hoover. -, Mississippi river crevasses fre- quently start from small holes rCom'influM' on P&u."T burrowed by crawfish,