The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 31, 1933, Page 1

- ’ * upon THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIL, NO. 6432. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1933, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT§ WETS PREDICT REPEAL BEFORE DEC. 6 WRANGELL NARROWS GIVEN $142,000 PUBLIC WORKS BOARD ALLOTS $10,000,000 MORE Given to War Department for Approved Rivers, Harbors Work WRANGELL NAROWS IS ONLY ALASKA PROJECT| Money Alloted to Improve- ment of Channel for that Waterway | WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 31.—| To improve Wrangell Narrows, one of Alaska’s most important inland | waterways, the sum of $142,000 has | been allotted by the Public Works | Administration, it was made known here today. This is the only Al-| aska project on the list covered by the general allotment. The total amount turned over to the War Department for Rivers| and Harbors projects, of which the | Alaska job is one, was $70,0600,000. Ninety projects are on the list. Em- | ployment will be given to 40,000 men on these, it was announced by | the Department. i The Wrangell Narrows work in-| cluded widening of the channel,| deepening the entrance and re-| moving_ rock from some of the| turns and at points in the passage- | way. Several other Alaska projects have been approved by Congress and the Department, but they were not put on the list for immediate work. Among them are improve- ments at Wrangell, Dry Pass, Ko-‘ diak Harbor and others. e EPIDEMIC LIST OF DEATH NEAR T0 FIFTY MARK Victims of ge—eping Sick-| ness Number 47—Com- plications Revealed ST. LQUIS, Mo., Aug. 31.—As the sleeping sickness epidemic entered its second month, with 47| deaths and 362 additional cases, a post mortem examination of one| case disclosed that 80 per cent of | the fatalities resulted when the| victim had other health complica- tions. During the past day only two deaths were reported. Forty-two additional cases have been noted. In & special story written for the Associated Press, Surgeon General | Hugh Cummings, United States| Public Health Service, has describ- ed the disease as inflammation of' the brain itself with a moderate involvment of meningitis, or cov- erings of the spinal cord. Deaths from the disease are reported in more than half a dozen States from Florida to California. e, PURPLE IS PURPLE VATICAN CITY, Italy—Varia- tions in the shade of purple worn by high Roman Catholic church- men are eliminated by a decree of the Vatican's congregation of cere- monials. Samples of the shade selected have been sent to all pre- lates. Base Gasoline Price Of 5 to 6 Cents Planned Under Code WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug., 31.—A base price of betwcen five and six cents per gallon for gasoline at wholsale refineries is un- derstood to be planned by the Administration under the oil code. This is one of the first major steps toward the stab- ilization of the oil industry under the NRA code and the | clared, explaining that the separa- Oil Adminstration that is headed by Secretary Harold L. Ickes of the Interior De- partment. @ceoc0ovsscoconsoe @0seecesccccccce Explorer’s Wife Prefers Home Dxpeditions to the north and south poles are thrilling, but Lady Hubert | Wilkins, wife of the famous explorer, ch[ers the less adventurous joys of domestic life. She is in New York while her husband is with the Ells- | worth Antarctic Expedition. Lady Wilkins plans to accompany her hushand on one’more-polar trip and then settle-down to:veal home life, Miss Liberty Is Divorced Army After 47 Y ears Union; Int., Department Guardmn FISHING, MINES ARE DISCUSSED BY C. 0. C. TODAY o8 \Metzgar Talks on Effects Forty-seven years ago, on Oct} of NCW Gold Order—Bez 28, 1886, Miss Liberty was given away at a touching ceremony, at- and ngard on th tended by thousands. Major Gen.; John Schofield, commanding the| mpoqay's meeting of the Juneau Division of the Atlantic, United | Chamber of Commerce in Bailey's States Army, unvelled the bride,| Gafo evolved into an interesting| who weighed 225 tons. ‘ruund robin of discussion in which For many years the army andimany speakers took part and the Miss Liberty were happy together. ‘kuhjec(; ranged from the NRA, But in 1931 Miss Liberty, Who|tnrough fishing, mining, to the had guided thousands to the free-|prooress of plans for a Juneau air- dom of the New World with her|pory beacon, began to get ideas ‘"‘h"“'n L. H. Meizgar, general superin- freedom herself. Probably it Wasitendent c. fthe Alaska Juneau, in- part of the modern woman move-‘ formally talked about the gold ment. Anyway, there seemed only, price situation explaining that one way to appease her. | changes were being made daily Is Decorated Anew land at the*present it was impos- So the army spent about $40,000 siple to say Just exactly what effect on her personal adornment and she | the new zegulations would event- shone forth to the world in new, yally hr.ve upon the industry, but and dazzling brilliance in the form; that if a proper balance between of floodlighting. | rising prices of supplies and the The army’s announcement that!increased price of gold was main- “Miss Liberty and her soldier| tained he trusted conditions would guardians are parting company,”|lead to increased employment. was understood simply to mean! No Code Adopted that “it's a divorce, just another| He pointed out that through American divorce, where the parties! development and maintenance work give out statements that they arz|10 per cent more men were working still the best of friends, and 50 in the local mine now than at this on.” | time a year ago. No national NRA Has New Guardian | code has been adopted as yet for Her new guardian is the Depart-| gold mines, he said. ment of the Interior and from now | Wingard On Fisheries on the unenlisted employees on| L. G. Wingard, Alaska agent for Bedloes Island will be under its, the Bureau of Fisheries, explaned Jjurisdiction instead of that of the how Commissioner Frank T. Bell War Department. | was endeavoring to bring the fish- The grounds are economy. ing industry under the NRA as Interior Department won't rapidly as possible. To accomplish the way the army did. It is just|this it is the hope and efort of part of the President’s recove: e Bureau, acording to Mr. Win- program, but is understood that|gard, to stabilize the price of fish Fort Wood Garrison, including theiso that the individual fisherman First Division Headquarters and in all Alaska areas will get a fair Military Police Company, will re-|price sh. main on Bedloes Island anyway. | * To assure this it is essential that PTG | the canners have an established market price that will permit them ANTS OUTFIGHT HORNETS to earn a reasonable return. With MONTEREY, Cal. — Black ants, tye successful development of such won a victory over a nest of hor- 5 program as the Commissioner nets in a two-day Dattle near hereflms outlined, Mr. Wingard predicted NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—The Uml- ed States Army and Miss Liberty, the statue, have parted company after forty-seven years of happy union. “The army and Miss Liberty mll | continue to enjoy close associatio a statement from the former dc tion was solely an economy move.} Evasion of Facts ! The spend STRIKER KILLED, lor less seriously. Several shots were SCHOOLS UPEN}, DOZEN WOUNDED, IN MILL RIOTS Use of St:i—l:e-breakers Causes Battle Between S_tn'ke rs and Police PHILADELPHIA, Pa., and Eighteen persons were hurt and a dozen persons were hurt when rioting silk hosiery strikers and sympathizers clashed today with a squadron of police at the | Camria Hosiery Mills. Norwood was shot in the head during a melee which followed an| attempt of 12 workers to enter the plant in a truck. The strike pickets rushed the machine and upset it. A number of the occupants were injured more Aug. 31.— fired and 2,800 pickets thrown into wild excitement. Frank Milnor, another pickét, died while he was enroute from | the scene of the riot to a hospital | for treatment. | - - — - VACATION DAYS END NEXT WEEK; Prof. Albert policies, may become a B naturalization proeess. nstein, a man without a country since he re- nounced German citizenship in the face of Hitlerism’s anti-Semitic h citizen, friends of the world-famous scientist are trying to speed up the Qluck Naturdlization of Einstein Is Now Soug ht by Savant’s English Friends | By OSCAR LEIDING ‘ LONDON, Aug. 31.—Steps are | being taken here to obtain for Prof | Albert Einstein — citizen of the |world but of no country—rapid | natu zation as a Fritish subject | The champion of the famous | German Jewish savant, who lodged B at the 4§ |notice \Ruw' renouncing his German | nationality, is Commander Oliver | Locker-Lampscn, a member of Par- | liament Search Commander who was Prof. for Short Cut Locker - Lampsor, Einstein’s host on his recent visit here, introduced bill in Parliament just before adjourned which was designed it] 10 TURKEY WANTS EINSTEIN | ISTANBUL, Aug. 31—Al- | bert Einstein is one of a | | number of German Jews of- ferred chairs by the Turkish | Government in the newly re- | formed Istanbul University. Reports from Ankara state that Prof. Einstein has agreed to lecture at the- university this winter. | | | permit citizenship in Palestine for| | Jews deprived of citizenship else- where. But for the scientist, mander believes, this would be neither adequate nor sufficiently| prompt. So he is seeking, through the Home Secretary, a more rapid naturalization process. Prof. Einstein himself sat in the distinguished * strangers’ galfery in the House of Commons just before the Com- Politically powerful English Young Juneau's Playtime Almost Over Public e O o E num(,law M an, Only four more days of vacation are left for Young America in| Juneau. Tuesday morning they wnllfl haul out their school books, pen- cils and tablets, lay away their| sunsuits, overalls and whatnots they have been wearing since last June and hurry to the two big buildings on the hill to .beat mc, 9 o'clock bell. Which is just one way of saying SALES DWINDLE oo o e okt a x-jj, HELD STEADIER o'clock Tuesday morning, it was announced today by G. C. Winn,| Secretary of the School Board. | Office Open GSalurday | To accommodate new students enter the High School, A. S. Dun- ham, Principal, will be in his office | Saturday morning between the| NEW YORK, Aug. 31. — Stock hours of 9 and 11 o'clock to fur-|trading dwindled under the influ- nish them any information ‘hey,‘ence of pre-holiday inertia most may desire to obtain. New students|prices having been content to hold for the grade school will enr | fairly steady with the course of the office of Miss Etta Shaw, Prin- some alcoholic and oils improved. cipal, at 9 a. m. Monday. Numerous issues fluctuated in un- Five new instructors are on this|important fractions, minor gains year's faculty, it was announced|and losses about even at the close by Mr. Winn: Harold Regele, MisS|of the day which recorded about Alice Livengood, William Pelley, |1 000,000 sales. Miss Schwam and Miss Katherin€| There was a mild rally during Long. R. S. Raven is back ag Superintendent of Schools faculty consists of: High School—A. 8. principal and Manual Pre-holiday Influence Ac- counts for Inertia in Trading for Day as The and sellers soon lost enthusiasm. A majority of the quotations fell back to around the final levels of yesterday. Wheat fell more than two cents Miss Margaret Yeakey, _|but_rallied near the finish. The d‘i]" Nflss Shewam, Languas dollar was lower abroad. National ]"‘“5“ Katherine Long, History: Har-| pigtjijers retained about two and old Regele, Science and one half points of an early gain Miss Alice Livengood, Gi ~|of four. Up fractionally to a point letics and General Science; were United States Alcohol, Johns- Erickson, Engllsh;.MlSS Helen " '| Mansville, McIntyre, Standard Oil f‘r‘g;‘;;ofc‘;‘:gf;‘-am"s‘f‘v e | of California and New Jersey, Gen- Pa]mér o pre Voca]v‘VAl‘ \nd | €al Motors, while United States Miss Paulina Rhienhart, Iistru- FPoel- TR Berro DeFasio, A mentel Ml erican Telephone and Telegraph Crade SCho‘o]~M‘lss Eita and Americin Smelting, eased off. Principal, Eighth Grad«j Closing prices on the New York Pelley, Eighth Grade and Boys Stock Exchange were as follows: Athletics; Mrs. Josephine Tupper, A‘Iaska Juneau 30';, American Can Seventh Grade: Miss Ann Easton, Clampany 92, American Power and Y = Light 13, American Smelting 38%, “(Continued on p;ge American Telephone and graph 126%, Anaconda - imour B 3%, Bethlehem Suit Filed for Six Sailors Lost at Sea Calumet and Hecla 6', Colorado Fuel and Iron 6%, Curtiss-Wright 3%, Delaware and Hudson T79%, Fox Films (new) 147, General 31. [ Motors 33%, International Harvest-| was > ad- six sailors who lost their when er 40 Kennecott 21%, Missour the Steamship South Coast Was Pacific 6%, Packard Motors 5%, Radio Corporation of America 8% lost off the coast of Oregon i September, 1930. The fendants Standard Brands 28%, Chicago and are Hoggs, Wall & Co Dunham, T Shaw, william %, Ar- eel 39%, SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. Auz —A suit for $300,000 d € filed here Wednesday minstrators of the estats 68, United Aircraft 38%, Ward Bak- ing B, no sale; N at and left carrying away hornet 2ggs, ] rConzinucd on Page Two) Milwaukee (preferred) 14%, United States Steel 54%, Western Union The South Coast wen! sea following an explo tional Nickel 20%. Puzzles leszcmn Taken to Los Angeles S pecmhst the first hour's trading, but buyers! Tele- | Montgomery Ward | 26%, Firestone Tires 26%, Interna- | adjournment and listened to his host plead for the extension of opportunities of citizenship for Jews resident outside the British Em- pire. Parliament Cheers Einstein “I feel the great German people have been misled by their leaders,”| the Commander said. “Germany; has not driven out her cut-throats and blackguards. She has selected the cream of her culture and sup-! pressed it.” There was great applause from the floor for the scientist when bh"l | | ‘H uman Radw Scwnusts TACOMA, Wash.,, Aug. 31.—The strange case of Martin Bodker, dairyman of Enumclaw, near here, known as the “human radio,” has been placed before Los Angeles physicians and scientists. Efforts of local experts to solve his peculiar condition have proved futile. Some years ago Bodker had a radio installed in his home. At once he began to suffer intense | pain but no examination could de- termine its cause. It was accom- panied by severe twitching. One a; Bodker put his hand on a water faucet in his house and the pains vanished. They re- turned as soon as he took the hand away. It was then reasoned thal radio waves caused the trouble, so|to he grounded himself by means of |a cane wrapped with copper wire which connected with the ground| through the floor. Local physicians after long study, | admutted themselves baffled. Los| Angeles physicians and scientists; | expressed a deep interest in the case so he has gone there for treatment and observation. MISS THURMAN AND MR. FORTNEY TO WED SOON| Alice Thurman :and Allen T. Fortney will be married in a quiet ceremony at the home of the| Rev. John Glasse Satur even- | ing. The bride is -known in| Juneau, as is the groom, who is employed at the Thomias Hard- ware Company. speaker added: “She even has turned upon her| most Prof. Ein- stein On his visit here, the savant dined with David Lloyd George, war-time Premier, and like all| guests was given the visitors’ book to sign. Under the space reserved for his address he wote “ohne”—the Gen-| man word for “without.” May Use Rare Power Discussion is now proceeding as whether the Home Secretary (Commued on Pags Two) July Consumption of Crude Rubber Is Ahead BOSTON, AHHV 31.—Consump- tion of crude rubber by manu- facturers in the United States for| July amounted to 50,184 long tons, | compared with 51,326 long tons for June this year, a decrease of 2.2 per cent under June but 674 per cent over July a year ago, accord- ing to the Rubber Manufacturers | Association. Consumption for July, 1932, was reported to be 29,976 long tons. Consumption for the first| seven months of 1933 amounted to 234,908 long tons as compared with 220900 long tons for the same ipenod 1932, ! — | The association | domestic stocks of crude rubber on | Co")rado U S Attomey |hand July 31 at 326,609 long tons, Reports NRA Vlolatlom which compared with June 30 stocks ol 333,954 mg tons | glorious citizen, estimates total DENVER, Colo., Aug. 31.—Name of twenty firms charged with vio-| lating the recovery code were sent OUR VESSELS SEu today to Wushxxxgioll by Thomas J.! lN SEATTLE MARKET | Morrissey, United States District | :Altm'nl’,\ Morrissey said the firms, SEATTLE, Aug. 31.—Fish sales | failed to reduce hours or raise today were as follows: from the | wages, or both, after signing the Western banks, the Venture with | recovery code. 34,000 pounds of halibut at 7 and -—_— 6': cents; the Lituya with 86,000 pounds of halibut at 7% and 6% {Machado and F“g't've cents; from the local banks, the | Officers Ordered Back omaney with 40,000 pounds of hali- HAVANA, Aug. 31. — Former but at 10% and 6% cents; the President Machado and six other Lane with 3,000 pounds of halibut retired oficers of the Cuban Army and 11,000 pounds of sable at 7%, under orders to return from 6%, and 3% cents. or hiding places for active - e e e — are exiles German Embassy in| | production of STATE CONTROL LAW PROMISED Wet Leaders Look For: ward to Control of Li- quor Traffic in State EXPECT REPEAL TO BE EFFECTIVE BY DEC. 6 Final- Results Shew Two Districts Only Have El- elected Dry Delégates SEATTLE, Aug. 31.—Washington Anti-Prohibition leaders today be= gan to look forward to State con- trol of the liquor traffic and took steps to assure the people of the Stete that proper regulation would be arranged without delay. They expect that repeal will be accomplished by December 5, or # day later, and they have pledged themselves to work for a new State liquor control law. ' The old con- trol law was repealed in last Fall's election. Decisicn Is Made The repealist forces are gratified over the outcome of the election Tuesday in which the drys were able to win only four out of 99 delegates. With scattering returns 1irom outlying precincts creeping in, but having no influence on the final decision, only two of the State’s 49 districts chose dry dele- gations. The vote stands: 160; for repeal, 264,~ against, 159,920. Fifteen to Vote Flfteen or more States will vote on repeal before November 8, pro- viding a minimum of three more than are necessary for repeal (Continued on Page Eight) INFLATION NOT EXPECTED FROM NEW GOLD MOVE Experts Ag;ejl Will Have No Inflationary Effect —Corrects Evil NEW YORK, Aug. 3l1.—Leading economists and foreign exchange experts here and elsewhere are practically unanimous in the beliet that the new gold order of Presi~ dent Roosevelt will have no infla~ Liuna.ry effects in this country. Bankers and counsel look on the ruling as an effort to correct the inequities that have heretofore sur- | rounded the important gold mining industry since the Presidential order putting an embargo on gold ship- ments, issued last April. GOLD OUTPUT UP YORK, Aug. 31. — Gold the world in July 1,962,000 fine ounces, an N totaled |increase of more than 38,000 over June. The production of the United States in July was 176,000 fine ounces as compared to 143,000 for the preceding month. .~ PARIS WRANSIT LINES LOSE PARIS, Aug. 9. — Transporting |Parisians is a losing proposition according to official figures which show that out of 281 omnibus and street car companies only 46 make | money. e Alastca Air Express Organized by Barnhill, Cushen SEATTLE, Aug. 31.—The Alaska Air Express has been incorporated here for $40,- 000 by M. C. Cushen and H. W. Barnhill. A meeting was held today to work out details of the company’s operations. Barnhill is an experienced duty. If they refuse, or ignore the Sheets of copper one twenty- ord they will be le for pros- thousandths of an inch thick can tl‘f‘!l' on as deserters. be manufactured. | Alaska pilot. He has flown out of Nome, Fairbanks and Anchorage,