The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 29, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE- “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLI[., NO 6430. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRIC E TEN CENTS 'WASHINGTON VOTERS BALLOT, REPEAL AGREEMENT REACHED ON COAL CODE NRA ACHIEVES ; GREAT ADVANGE BY COMPROMISE Permanent Coal Code Be- ing Perfected on Basis New Agreement RETAIL CODE IS ONLY | BIG ONE NOT szmm Victory Regarded by Gen.' Johnson as Most Signifi- cant in Campaign SHINGTON, D. C., Aug. —The covery Administration today| worked swiftly to clinch with a permanent code the basic agreement finally obtained| from the coal industry. This victory was regarded by Gen. Hugh S. Johnson as| one cf the most significant phases in the skyrocket career of the industrial contrel en- terprise. The final nature agreement is in the and union labor. The Administra- tion is declared to-be satisfied with the compromise plan, and is ready to approve the code as soon as it| is drafted. This spectacular accomplishment leaves but one big code to be con- | cluded ministration. tire retail trade. - ,,——— PRESIDENT HAS 2 CONFERENCES and submitted to the Ad- WITH HIS AIDES Discusses Domestic Cam- paign with Farley, Ickes —Goes to Albany HYDE PARK, N. Y., Aug. 20— President Roosevelt spurred on his domestic rehabilitation campaign before leaving here for the State capital, Albany, where he will in- spect bridgés sponsored by him when he was Governor of the State. Night conferences held by him with Postmaster General Farley and Secretary Ickes helped put the ‘“new deal” far on its way. Cheered. by the news of an agreement of the code covering the great coal mining industry, he an- nounced definitely his plans to re- turn leisurely to the national cap- ital by sea. The bugaboo of stabilization of currency and foreign exchange was very quietly laid by him last night as Montagu Norman, Gov- ernor of the ank of England, and George Harrison, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, were told the President was not ready just now to talk about stabilization. KLAWOCK INDIAN DIES Willie Thomas, 18, Indian, of Klawock, died the Government hospital after a long illness. - —,,——— Gangsters Spatter Street Crowd With Machine Guns CHICAGO, I, Aug. 29.— Four gangsters in an auto- mobile spattered a crowd- ed South Side street with machine gun bullets, en- dangering the lives of many, including numbers of women and children. John Scalzititty, said to be an alcohol peddler, was wounded. Physicians said the wounds probably are fa- tal. National Re- I of a compromise between | the demands of both the operators| This covers the en-| here yesterday at| { Seven Indian Sci ]wols Alaska Among I’l ojects on Program WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 29.—New buildings for seven Indian schools in Alaska are carried on the list of projects covered by $2,000000 allotted from emergency funds under the National Recovery Act to the office of Indian Af- fairs. The plants covered in Al- aska are: Buckland, Dio- mede, Tetlin, Unalakleet, Quigillingok, Ugashik and Douglas. The estimated cost of construction range from $,500 to $15,000. AGRICULTURAL CACT IS VALID, STATES GOURT {Supreme Court of District of Columbia Dismisses Injunction Suit WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 29.— Justice Daniel O'Donoghue, of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in a decision handed| down today, upheld the constitu- tionality of the FederalAgricul- tural Adjustment Act, one of the main supports of Presldent Roose- | velt’s emergency program. The court dismissed a suit for a temporary injunction that would have restrained Secretary Henry A Wallace, Administrator of the Farm Act, from enforcing the Chicago milkshed agreement. national emergency justified the law. An appeal will be taken from his decision. The plaintiffs contend that the agreement, a quart as the price of milk, would | ruin their over-counter cash busi- ness as they now sell milk for si NRA Firms to Get Aid from Gov’t. Funds President Directs RFC to| Establish Medium for Quick Temporary Aid HYDE PARK, N. Y. Aug. 29.— President Roosevelt yesterday di- ber firms of NRA to span them overhead and later returns. ‘While there have been no gen- eral demands for increased credit some communities reported com- demands available. WALLACE FIXES WHEAT SLASHES Calls for Reduction of 15 Per Cent in Plantings by Wheat Growers A fifteen per cent slash in wheat plantings by farmers joining the Government’s crop reduction plan was called for Monday night by Department of Agriculture, The farmers will receive pay- ments for the crop thereby elim- inated from the processing tax on wheat products. It is estimated the cut will cause a retirement | fee for 1600,000 acres of wheat plantings. B S J. E. Most, one of the owners of the Copper River Packing Com- pany at Nellie Juan, is on his way to Seattle aboard the Yukon. Justice O'Donoghue declared the! which places 10 cents| and one-quarter cents per quart.| |rected the Reconstruction Finance | Corporation to establish a medium_ for quick temporary credit to mem- | over the period between increased | plaints that credit to meet the new | upon business was not| WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 20.—| | Secretary Henry A. Wallace of the| ROOSEVELT LIFTS BAN - ON NEWLY MINED GOLD 1 APPOINTMENTS ARE ANNOUNCED :BY ALEXANDER IR C. Coughlm, Clerk of Court; J.F. Mullen, Com- missioner, Head List The first appointments to Fed- eral Court positions were announc- | s {ed today by Judge George F. Al-| exander, Federal district judge. Seven positions in all were in- ’\ol\ed all local except one at chh kan. All are effective Fri- (uy Sept. 1 Robert C. Coughlin, Juneau, was | named Clerk of Court; J. F. Mul- ilen, Juneau, United States Com- | | missioner of the Juneau precinct; | Miss Venetia Pugh, Deputy Clerk of Court; John H. Newman,| | Court Reporter; Frank Botelho, Court Bailiff and Acting Librar-| jan; H. R. Shepard, Jury Com- missioner; and E. C. Austin, Unit- ‘ed States Commissioner, at Ket- | chikan, Ali Well Known Here | JAll of the appointess are Dem- | ocrats of long standing and most many Un- | | | of them active workers for ears, except Mr. Shepard ‘| der the Territorial statute the jury commissioner must be of the poli- tical party opposite to that of the Clerk of Court. Mr. Shepard is a lifelong Republican and has held Territorial and Federal positions | as such. Mr. Coughlin has been purser lon the motorship Estebeth for seven years, was emniployed in a similar capacity on the Margnita for two years and has resided on | Gastineau Channel almost contin- | uously since 1902. He is one of the best known athletes in South- | eastern Alaska, a baseball player of note, and is prominent in fra- | (Continued on Page Two) e MOLEY DENIES RIFT CAUSE OF " HIM RESIGNING Interestlng, But Unl.rue, [ He Says, Commenting | on Press Reports | NEW YORK, Aug. 29 — Prof. Raymond Moley, whose resignation | as Assistant Secretary of Treas- ury was announced Monday from Hyde Park, today denied reports that his action had been caused by a rift between himself and Sec- retary of State Hull He is to become editor of a magazine short- 1y to be published by Vincent As- tor. Commenting on the reports of alleged differences that caused him to resign, Mr. Moley said: “Inter- esting, but just not true” 1In Washington, Secretary Hull said | he had not asked for the resig- | nation of his chief assistant.. Mr. Astor, who is a close per- sonal friend of President Roose- velt said plans for the magazine are nebulous but promised it would | be “an adventure in national po- ihuca] journalism.” | | |Tennessee Town Obesrves Own Century of Progress LIVINGSTON, Tenn., Aug. 29.— Livingston and Overton County have celebrated a century of pro- gress all their own. Just 100 years ago this summer Ambrose and Joseph Gore deeded 40 acres of land to seven com- missioners to found a town, and residents of Livingston have cele- brated the community’s hundredth birthday anniversary. | more | with | Commission against | wasn't needed; Cannorv Workers Jam Court In San Francisco Hearing | Involving Labor Contracts SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 29. —Men who have toiled in the salmon fisheries of far Southwest- ern Alaska jammed the municipal courtroom here Monday heard themselves described in turn as victims of a “million dollar racket” and beneficiaries of an easy credit ystem The men alternately as cheered and jeered | opposing attorneys | clashed over complaints filed by| than 100 of their number the California State Labor Emil Mayer and Sam Young, defendants, who operate a clothing store. Scheme Is Outlined The complainants charged, also, that the two men conduct an em- ployment agency but without the license required by the State. They are further charged with forcing men to purchase clothing, that didn't fit, at high prices, and that in erder to cbtain employment in the canneries. Most of the first day was occupied | by clashes from the opposing coun- | sel over points of law. Only one complaining witness, Juan Morena was called to the stand Monday. One Witness Called He testified he was forced to purchase an entire outfit of cloth- ing that he didn't need; that he went to Alaska and worked 12 to 15 hours daily at a wage rate of nine cents per hour, and that he was refused part of his wages when he returned to San Prancisco. The attorneys for the defendants said they had nearly $10,000 in un- paid bills left by the fisheries workers at the end of the season The case was still in progress today. — e GANG WARFARE FLARES INL. A.; TWO ARE SHOT Los Angeles Police Credit Gang Strife for Kill- ing of Two in Cafe LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 29— i Two were shot and killed here last night by three gunmen in a popular Italidn cafe at the edge of Hollywood where one of the victims had resided. One of the men killed was identified by police authori Harry Mackley, who carricd five police identification cards in coun- ties adjacent to New York City The police described the shoot- ing of a vicious outburst of gang warfare. Later today Mnck]eys companion was identified by attaches of prominent - local hotel w and Mackley have reside about August 9, as F. Ke lice authorities said they found addresses of a number of Los An- geles and Hollywood mbling houses in Keller's pock 0! later 5 as Nature Comes to Aid of Forest Fire Troops PORTLAND, Ore., Aug ture early today came 1o of firefighters along the 40-mile front when a heavy fog ! n to overcome blazing forests. Wind sub= sid=d and the humidity high- er. Twelve hundred squa i of forests have been black Providential showers c: aid of weary men ba 29 —Na- e aid flames. Other Listed Gold Stocks Respond with Raise | HYDE l’ARl(. N. Y., Aug. 29.—President Roosevelt this | bargo to permit the sales of Secretary Ickes | Cots Goribior | newly-mined gold abroad and e g [tightened the restrictions Of Oil Industry | against hoarding. HYDE PARK, N. Y., Aug. 29. — Secretary Harold L. Ickes of the Department of Interior was today desig- nated by President Roose- velt as Administrator of the new working agreement for the oil industry of the Unit- ed States. Mr. Ickes for several weeks has been in charge of the Administration’s pro- gram to assist the several oil-producing states in en- forcing the regulations cov- ering the industry. His selection by the President to have charge of the general code was no surprise. From the first it was generally understood that this was certain to be done and it is said to be satisfactory to virtually all oil producers. of. o issued suddenly putting into o | the hands of the Secretary of ® Treasury authority to license all gold sales abroad and all holding of gold in this coun- try. 15 Days Time Within fifteen days every per- gold certificates are required to file a statement to the Govern- ment of the amounts in excess o' .JS]OO. Within 30 days, all holdings| o | Of more than $100 are prohibited. News of the President’s unexpect- ed action lifted gold mining shares| on the New York Stock Exchange. | Homestake was up 15 points .[Gold Mining Company, Noranda. e McIntyre, Porcupine, Dome and Treasury officials saw increased | profits of more than 315000000 yearly to American gold mines and renewed activity in that industry as the direct result of the Presi-| dent’s order, Interpretation Given They interpreted the order | meaning newly-mined gold can be sold on the markets of the world at the prevailing price which is now around $30 per ounce in con- trast with the fixed price of $20.67 in the United States they have been forced to accept from the mint These officials said there is no way to guage definitely the amount Postoffice Department of production to be expected from today's action. They agreed, how- Under J. A. Farley ever, it would prove a powerful WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 29.— z ‘Woman has come to her own un-|Stimulus to the industry as a der the “new deal,” at least in the: Whole. | field of politics, it was indicated| The Executive order stipulates: | | “Gold recovered from natural de-| here today by a study of the ap-| pointments under Postmaster-Gen- Posits in the United States may| " (Continued on Page Two) ° . “ . . o B . . . . . - . . . B . . B - . . . . . . WOMEN GET NEW POLITICAL DEAL INNEWREGIME Come Into, Their Own in eral James A. Farley. Consider these figures: Since! oo Nellie Dougherty was named by | the new Roosevelt Administration last March as Acting Postmaster at Minot, North Dakota, 269 other | CAUSE OF STIR women have been put in charge; of the United States ma)]s in thl’ll" Premier Declares France to i Back Decisions of Euro- home towns. pean Organisms And they're not “Postmistress-| es.” The Postal authorities stress| the fact that each one has Lhe. same title—“Postmaster” — that a| man would have. They have the prefix “acting” because allof them are serving under recess appoint-| ments, subject to confirmation by: the Senate. Yourteen of them| were appointed av the head of of-| fices in cities of the first class. | —————— TREASURY 90 DAY LOAN OVER-SOLD Ninety-day Notes for $100,- 000,000 Oversubscrib- ed Four Times WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 29.— The Treasury Department an- nounced last night that its latest| offer of short term notes had been greatly oversubscribed. The offer was for $100,000,000 in' 91-day treasury bills dated Aug- ust 30. The public's acceptance bl aggregated amore than four times tration, are observed and main tained.” the sum called for. i While this statement was being —————— \discussed in interested wuarters, sev- Mr. and Mrs. George Steele, of eral Socialist members of the Cordova, are passengers on the Chamber of Deputies xaid they PARIS, Aug 29.—Keen interest | has been aroused in political cir- cles by the current visit of Pre- mier Daladier to the intricate sys- |tem of fortifications that line the| Franco-German frontier, after he had proclaimed that France had| resolved w guarantee Austrian in- In an omclal statement just prior | to his departure to inspect trenches jand dugouts stretching over a front jof 125 miles, the French Premier declared France woants peace but (it is “a duty to assure our own |liberty ‘which will be better re- spected when it is known we are capable or guaranteeing it.” In addition Deladier said: “We ,must also be on guard to see that | | the decisions of regular organisms | of European life, the League of| Nations, the Hague Court of Arbi- Oregon and . Washington Fire lines are being held without | difficulty. Alaska Juneau and All| afternoon lifted the gold em-| Two executive orders were| son holding gold coin, bullion or| | more than 300. The Alaska Juneau | United States Smelting made gains. | as| |Jugoslav Red Cross Gets : King Fish Is Punched,Says New YorkSun in Fashionable Spot for Insult, It Says NEW YORK, Aug. 29.—The New y York Sun yesterday said United | States Senator Huey Long of Louis- |iana was the object of a punching last Saturday night at a fashion- able Long Island spot | Washington | The Sun did not give the name of Long's assailant or any details except to say the man was gravely insulted by the Senator and that the latter made no effort to defend himself. Atendants of the fashion- | | able spot placed him in a car and (sent him away. LONG GIVES VERSION | MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. 20.—| Senator Huey Long, Louisiana, in a written statement issued here last night gave his version of the “punching” stery carried by the New York Sun. {Senator Long Gets Beating| near Port ivcte were balloting on the repeal BOTH WETS AND DRYS GONFIDENT THEY WILL WIN Both Wonder—How Peculiar Method of Voting Will Affect Outcome 300,000 EXPECTED TO CAST BALLOTS Farley Issues Last Minute Appeal to Democrats to Redeem Pledges SEATTLE, Aug. 29.—The of this State today of the Eighteenth Amend- ment, in the first Statewide vote on National Prohibition | since Statehood. Both sides were wondering how much He declared he had a stab- wound in the forehead that he re- ceived last Saturday night. A man jhad atfacked him in a washroom |at a charity benefit at Long Is- | land. The Senator called the attack | (a ganging by three or four men |v\h0m he didn't know. He said | he had been invited to the beneit | | by persons connected with mu»Ac composers and publishers. He at! | first declined, then later, consent- ed to attend. He added he had | been personally threafened re- catedly and considered himself | lucky to escape with such a trivial ‘m)ury. Long is here to attend the Na- | tional Encampment of the Vet-/ erans of F‘urelgn ‘Wars. GERMANS HINT AT RETURN OF THE MONARCHY [Hindenburg Hints at Re-| | storation—Hitler Says | Saar Be Regained BERLIN, Aug. 29. — Germans} generally regarded as handwriting! storation of the monarchy and Lhe‘ Reich’s claims to the Saar territory ceded to France by the Treaty of Versailles. One came from President von Hindenburg. The other was an ex- pression voiced by Hitler. The venerable German President said he was thinking of the “Kais- er, King and Lord,” when he ac- cepted as a gift from East Prussia of a forest estate adjoining the Hindenburg ancestral home at Neu- deck. | Hitler, speaking here before a| crowd of 200,000 persons, declared that Germany, without wanting a| new war or proposing to annex anything foreign would never re- nounce her claims to the Saar re- gion. AL RN Special State Privileges BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, Aug. 29. The Red Cross of Jugoslavia has been granted freedom from all taxes on property owned and funds held in Jugoslavia banks, the right to frank letters and many other extraordinary privileges by a law passed in a short summer session of Parliament. The draft of the law was sub- mitted to Parliament by the Min- ister of War, who pleaded for these special aids for the Red Cross work on the grounds that the organization was to be regard- ed as a subsidiary of the Sanitary Corps of the army. e L Alexander Mayer, of Mayer Brothers, wholesale jewelers of Se- Yukon for Seattle. Mr. Steele is feared war would break \ritrin a the owner of the Imperial Pool few weeks if Fascist control should Hall at Cordova. Ispre.xd into Austria. S atfle, arrived in Juneau last night on fhe Yukon, after visiting interior and western Alaska points. Washington’s peculiar elec- tion system would affect the balloting. The vote is by legislative districts and the Statewide | count, no matter how large a majority might be given tao | either side will make no difs | ference in the outcome. Qualified Vote Large More than 750,000 voters hava qualified to vote by registrations, But less than 300,000 are expected to march to the polls despite the fact that both wet and dry cam- paigners have stumped the State strenuously. Democratic National Chairman James A. Farley closed the party’s {drive last night with a second ap- | peal directed not only to thd Democrats but to the members ot all parties. He reminded members of his own party, which swept the | State last November, that they are pledged both by the National platform and by the campaign promises of President Roosevelt and other leaders to vote for re- peal. Both Claim Victory Both sides claim victory for their respective causes. The drys prom- ised a surprise if the voters turned out in any considerable number, Last minute wet predictions were |that “it is in the bag.” Mr. Farley sent some last minute letters and telegraphic appeals in |on the wall broad hints from two“"'mch he asked for a strong vote | national leaders regarding the re-|'0 “back the recovery program and carry out the Democratic platform promise.” Scents Saloon Return Dr. Clarence True Wilson, lcads er of the Dry Emergency Coms mittee, pleaded for a dry vote. The dry contention is that if the Eigh- teenth Amendment is repealed, Washington State will have no constitutional State regulation ta control or prevent liquor sales until the next Legislature meets in 1935, The legislative district system of voting was declared by wet leaders to have been arranged because the dry bloc in the State Senate feared a Statewide popular vote. Under the system used 99 delegates to a Constitutional convention, to be held October, next, will be chosen from 396 candidates running in 46 legislative districts. WAL AR (el party’s Father of Twins at 80; He Is Still Hale and Sound at 109 ® + DAVIS, Okla, Aug. 29.— ® J. J. Allen, for whom the claim is made that he is 108 years old, is an unusu- al “oldest inhabitant” in more ways than one. At a birthday party for him recently, friends and relatives recalled that he married his second ,wife when he was 80 and be- came the proud father of twins. Allen milks cows and helps with chores around the farm. His eyesight re= mains good and he has never worn glasses.