The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 9, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIL, NO. 6439 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SWEPT DOWN MOUNTAINSIDE T0 DEATH T0 OVERTHROW FOUR - DAY-OLD JUNTA' REGIME Third Revolt Planned in Havana—Precautions Are Being Taken 200 OFFICERS ARE HELD AS PRISONERS Several Arrests Are Made| in Connection with An- other Rumored Plot HAVANA, Cuba, Sept. 9—Rumb- lings of a possible coup against the four-day-old Cuban Junta, it- selt a product of a revolt, grew as 200 Army officers were held vir- | tual prisoners in the National Ho- tel today. The officers, leaders under the deposed de Cespedes regime, had convened to consider their course when several companies of heav- ily armed soldiers swooped down on the hotel and surrounded it with machine guns. Batista Command Fulgencio Batista, one-time top- Sergeant, now in command of the Army, gave the officers a certain number of hours to obey his or- ders that they return to their posts from which they were evict- ed last Monday when he lead the revolt that established a Com- mission form of Government. The officers said: “We do not recognize this government and let the Commissioners get out.” Officers Defiant were received by the ssion that the officers, some of whom still count on the loy- alty of their units planned to at- tack the Presidential Palace. The officers said they were prepared to szll their lives dearly if efforts were made tc arrest them or send them back to duty at the points of guns. Another Plot Other rumors, generally taken as explanations for the course of events, were that Horacio Ferrera, Secretary of War under de Cespedes; Julia San- guilly and other of high rank, plot to unseat the Leftist Com- mission and replace it with de Cespedes and his Cabinet or by some concentration of government. Several arrests are reported, in- dicating that other plot to over- throw the present Government. These plots are acting, it is said, on behalf of former President Mario Menocal. FISHING TRIP IS CANCELLED BY PRESIDENT Roosevelt Remains ‘at White House, Watching Sit- uation in Cuba ‘WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—Presi- dent Roosevelt remained .at the White House today to watch the swiftly moving events in unsettled Cuba. X The President cancelled plans for his fishing trip down the Po- tomac. The Chief Executive hoped against hope that the serious step of intervention will not be forced upon his Government. In high quarters it is said the Administration will withhold land- ing forces {from Cuban shores as long as no serious rioting threat- ens American lives. FISH INDUSTRY PREPARES COD WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.— The fishing industry has presented a code governing wages and hours. The code proposes a 48-hour maximum week and 25 cents an | not verified, but | | | | 1 | | | | { | | | | A GREAT” ADMIRER & FREDRIC MARCH s2IDA LUPINO °° Having attained a leading place in British motion pictures at the age of sixteen, Ida Lupino, of the famous English stage family of that name, is invading Hollywood, where her first role is ex| to be that of “Alice” in the film version of “Alice in Wonderland.” She keepe her weight down to a little over a hundred pounds by constant gym exercises. On arrival at New York she announced the big thrill of her life is due when she meets Frederic March, American movie hero, But she sighed: “He's married and in love with his wife. I'm heartbroken.” STOCK TRADINGTRAIL WORK ON ON SATURDAYS ADMIRALTY HAS RESUMED TODAY MOVED RAPIDLY Two Reach Hasselburg Lake from Coast—Wind- ham Crew Builds 5 Miles Substantial progress has been made on the network of trails op- ening up the middle areas of Ad- | miralty Island and on the trail Some stocks dropped to the low- at Chuck River in Windham Bay, est level of the year. reported Wellman Holbrook, Na- Professionals passed a few equi-| tional Foresi Examiner and su- ties back and forth, but price pervisor of thal work, who return- | fluctuations were unimbortant. |ed home Friday after an inspec- Today's close was fairly steady.|tion trip. Sales were only 250,000 shares. { The work is being done by three Some Small Gains {of the Emergency Conservation Small gains were recorded by| Work crews. Loewe, National Distillers, Chrys: The crew under Foreman Tilson ler, New York Central, Commer- has completed the trail from Wind- cial Solvents, American Telephone fall Harbor, Seymour Canal, to and Telegraph and Case, butthe north end of Hasselborg Lake, Homestake mining was off two, five miles, and has started across, and one-half points. | from there to Lake Thayer. | Fractional declines were suffered! Foreman Smith’s crew, building by -Allied Chemical, Alaska Ju-'from Mole Harbor, is now camped | neau, United Aircraft, Goodyear,' near the south end of Hasselborg Dupont, Consolidated .Gas and Lake. Work has been started on Sears. the connecting trail to Shields Many issues were unchanged. |Lake. Freight carloadings gained. Erection of shelter cabins on Unfilled steel orders decreased. | this trail system has also been | launched. Bill Fromboltz with a/ | small crew has completed one ca- CLOSING PRICES TODAY | =" . Shields Lake, and is now| NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—Olosing| 2 s second one. quotations of Alaska Juneau mine| w;;)l:nvgwg:h:m Bay crew has con-| stock today is 20%, American Can| i ieq five miles of trail up| i Power and Light, oo river and will continue up| “"‘dv Al’:f“":" Smel'i;nng'l, BA?;. that stream until forced to sus- conda 16%, Armour B. 2%, Beth- oy “herations by the snowfall.| lehem Steel 37%, Calumet and Hecla 5%, Colorado Fuel and Iron' 6%, Curtiss-Wright 3, General Mo- TURKEY RESUMES tors 322, International Harvester 38%, Kennecott 21, MissouriPa-| CAPITAL BUILDING| cific, no sale; Packard Motors 4%,| ANKARA, — After foreswearing Chicago Maliwaukee, |No Enthusiasm Shown First Session—Some Small Gains Recorded NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—Resump- | tion of Saturday trading failed to, arouse even a faint glimmer of enthusiasm. | preferred, | construction for some time as an 13%, Radio Corporation 8%, Stan- economy measure, the Turkishj dard Brands 27%, United States government has resumed work on Steel 51%, Western Union 64%,|the project for making this town United Aircraft 36%, Ward Bak-|into a modern capital. Work has ing B 3 begun on a Hittite museum, a na- - | tional library and an academy of | science. WRANGELL MAN SENTENCED | i s TO A Exports Drop ! WASHINGTON—Exports of leaf Joseph Johnson, convicted at Wrangell of petit larceny, was yes- | tobacco from the United States | during. the first six months of terday sentenced to serve SiX; months in the Pederal jail by|1933 were within approximately SIX MONTHS IN JAIL ! waters open to fishing. Land Surveys to Be Continued In Alaska WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. — Secretary of Interior Ickes has been alloted one million dollars in the Gen- eral Land Office for con- tinued surveys of Public lands in eleven states and Alaska. Details are not specified. o0 000000 —_——eto——— EXTENSION OF FALL FISHING T0 BE STUDIED Wingard May Recommend Additional Time — Re- views Major Activities Although the major " activities of the salmon fishing industry for the current year are definitely ended, canning probably will be resumed by a number of canners during the Fall season that opens October 1, and is slated to end 15 days later. This was made known today by L. G. Wingard, Alaska Agent of the United States Bu- reau of Fisheries, who said sev- eral Ketchikan plants plan to op- erate then, using almost ex- clusively. logal.cannery laber and fishermen. Owing to the fact that the sea- son is too short to make such operations profitable, Mr. Wingard has under consideration recom- mending an extension, he said, “I feel, and am making a study of the situation at the presemt timé,” he said, ‘‘that a longer season might possibly be granted partic- ularly for the benefit of local la- bor in the plants and for local fishermen.” Chums and Cohoes By the first of next month, the pink run will have cleared the This will make it feasible for the seiners to take the late run of chums and | cohoes, without affecting the hum- | ples at all. An extention of the Fall season would be of material benefit to hundreds of local resi- dents. So far as is known none of the operators in this district contem- plate fall canning. Pack Is Short The pink salmon pack of the entire Coast is under the average this year. The Alaska pack is several hundred thousand below 1931, about 200,000 cases below last year. The Puget Sound pack is probably 500,000 short. The carry- over from last year was wiped out when the new pack reached the market. It is estimated that the pink supply on hand for market- ing now is at least 1,000,000 cases below normal. In view of this condition, reports to the Bureau of Fisheries said, many of the packers are not put- ting pink fish on the market. Opening prices have been delayed. Current quotations are around (31.20 a dozen and the opening price is expected to be $1.25 for the more widely advertised brands and possibly five cents lower for the unadvertised goods. Escapement Is Adequate “The short pack in Alaska does not represent any shortage in fish, but rather is due to the fact that a large number of canneries did not operate at all,” Mr. Win- gard pointed out. The escape- ment generally was described as “satisfactory” and adequate for the opening requirements for two years from now. Personal surveys of streams were made by Mr. Wingard in several of the more important streams in .the Icy Straits region, the Western district, the Southern dis- trict and North Prince of Wales Island district. He found spawn- ing fish in abundance. Wardens and other Bureau employes, mak- ing similar investigations in oth- er localities found identical con- ditions to exist. “Unless we have some unusually heavy freshetsdur- ing the early Fall months, Wwe ouglit. to have a very efficient re- turn in ‘1935 from this season's (UNITED STATES | NAVY AIRCRAFT MAKE RECORD Longest Nonstop Formation| Flight in History Made by Six Planes HOP FROM VIRGINIA TO COCO, CANAL ZONE Eleven Officers and Twen- ty-five Enlisted Make Successful Jump WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. — The United States Navy wrote a new achievement in its crowded annals | for the longest non-stop forma- tion flight in history. Not checked by storms nor winds six planes winged in a single hop 2,059 miles, from Norfolk, Vir- ginia, to Cocoa, Canal Zone. Land Last Night The six planes landed last night at 6:25 o'clock. Five of the fleet made the jump | in 24 hours and 556 minutes. The | sixth plane dropped behind yes-| terday afternoon but soon joined | the flotilla at Coco. Crews on Trip Eleven officers and 25 ed men made the trip. The flotilla left Norfolk Thurs- afternoon at 5:30 o'clock and b over Ouba. The longest previous mass flight, non-stop, was made by Bal- bo's planes to Brazil, in 1931. PRICE OF GOLD ' NEARLY THIRTY DOLLARS TODAY Treasury Departmennt to Act as Agent for Mner —Domestic Purchasers enlist- WASHINGTON, Sept. 9— Today's gold price went to $29.12 an ounce, off 50 cents overnight. The decline is due to a drop in the price in the world’s market. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. — The United States Treasury tried| something new yesterday and the American gold miners’ remunera- tion for his product jumped more than 43 per cent to almost $30 an ounce all as the result of the recent Executive Order from Pres- ident Roosevelt. Acting under the President’s edict in releasing newly mined gold from the rigid order forbidding exports of the precious metal, the Treasury Department officials ob- tained quotations from the world's principal markets, filled several sheets of paper with figures and emerged ‘with the announcement that “domestic arts and crafts” industries and professions ilcensed to receive gold for use in their business may buy it today for $2062 an ounce.” This was a gain for the gold miner as previously he had only one market for his product, the United States Mint and there had been a set price for years of $20.67 an ounce. Before America dropped the Gold Standard the world price hovered in the vicinity of the U. S. Mint's price, but since the decline in the dollar’s value abroad, the price of an ounce of gold in foreign markets fluctuated in the neigh- borhood of $30. Has First Call The domestic market has the first call on the free gold supply and the highest current work price is taken as the basis. From this figure, shipping charges, assay fees, Insurance and cost of hand- ling will be deducted and the re- sult is the gold price. —ll - Residents near the Newton Woods, Cass County, Michigan, be- lieve an elm 150% feet high and D Princess for' Pique Penitent T LOVE ANOTHER MAN. Zve Lovep Him FOR YEARS - LAST WEEK | LEARNED HI5 AFFECTIONS HAVE fl%»/so VHE PRINCE YOR SPITE, NOT LOVE " N % - Z SURELY D10 &4 Princess CARAVITA << Married in haste, the former Janet Snowden, Newpo: waited only five days before sta husband, Prince don Caravita, of [havinx the_m 5 Prince rt, R. L., oil heiress, She left her titled rting to repent. tion of Naples, Italy, with the inten marriage abrogated, asserting that she only married the to “spite” the real object of her affections, SIX FORGED T0 BAIL OUT WHEN GASOLINEFALLS Army Men Jump When Unable to Find Safe Place to Land Planes NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—Six Ar- my men in three planes, flying back from Chicago last night ran into a heavy fog over here and bailed out after thelr gasoline gave out trying to find an opening. All fliers came, down safely. Major John Colgan, Squadron ‘Commander, sprained an ankle in landing. Four other planes of the squad- ron finally found safe landing at airports, ———vo——— WIDE SEARCH STARTED FOR THO BALLODNS Navy Dirigible Macon to Be Sent Out for Four Missing Men WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. — The Navy plans to send the dirigible Macon to the New England States and probably Canada to join in the search for the four missing) men in' two balloons. The four men hopped off from Chicago last week in the Inter- national James Gordon Bennett balloon races and have not been reported since. The balloons missing are the Goodyear Ninth and the Polish entry. It is believed they have drifted over the Atlantic to their doom or else into the far north regions. Coast Guard cutters and Navy craft on the Atlantic and Great Lakes are already making a searcit for the missing. S RETAIL SALES PROCEEDING IN EXCELLENT WAY Broad Advances in Com- mercial Activity Says Weekly Review NEW YORK, Sept. 9—The up- ward ‘trend of retail sales pro- ceeded unmindful of the general lifting of price levels and the fall buying season has stimulated commercial activity into broader advances, according to the weekly review issued by Dun-Bradstreet, Inc. The review said the slack that appeared in mid-August in the upward line of business gradually tightened toward the close of that month and the impetus was strong seasonal expansion proving in restoring its con- for propitious tinuity. CAPT, KOENIG PASSES AWAY, " GERMAN LAND Commander of Deutschland| During World War Dies at Gnaudau ] | GNAUDAU, Germany, Sept. 9.— Capt. Paul Koenig, aged ‘66 years, | Commander of the German sub- marine Deutschland which made two crossings of the Atlantic in 1916, one to Baltimore, Maryland( and the other to New London, Connecticut, died here today. | Capt.- Koenig had been in ill- I health for some time, hence did not participate in the ceremony commemmorating the seventeenth anniversary of the Deutschland’s return from America, on August 23. —— Utah Natural Resources Associa- tion is waging a campaign for an CUBA Judge Chisholm, after a hearing hour minimum wage, overtime at 33 1-3 cents an hour. in the United ‘States Commission- er’s Court there. (6% per cent of the volume ex-|escapement,” he declared. “Con= more than 24 feet in circum!crence three feet above the ground s the ported during the corresponding period of 1932, (Continued on Page Six) largest in the State. Fifteen plow points were found embargo against removal of cactus in a pine stump on one Missis- plants from the desert. Members sippl farm. | consider cactus a natural resource. PORTLAND MEN KILLED WHILE ON PEAK CLIM Are Victims of Avalanche On Icy Slopes of Mt. Jefferson BODIES ARE FOUND: NECKS ARE BROKEN Heroic Searchers Make -Discovery in Crevasse —Are Taken Out PORTLAND, Oregon, Sept. 9.—The bodies of three prom- inent Portland men, appar- ently victims of an avalanche on the icy slopes of Mount Jefferson, will be brought ! here as the final episode in one of the most heroic search- es ever conducted in the { mountains of Oregon. The bodies are those of Davis McCament, aged 37 years; Don Burkhart, aged 23 yeors; and John Thomas, aged 19 years. The three men attempted to scale the 10,000-foot peak on Labor Day and died as they were swept down the mountainside into a crevasse by a rush of dislocated rocks and snow and ice. The discovery of the tragedy was made late yesterday by eleven members of approximately thirty experienced mountaineers who ex- plored the last of the many danger- ous crevasses that dot the moun- tain side. The bodies were found huddled on a crevasse shelf. Each had a broken neck. McCamant's father was a former Oregon Supreme Court Justice. - e, MAINE VOTES NEXT MONDAY REPEAL ISSUE Three Other States Will Make Decision at Polls Tuesday WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—Maine, the cradle of Prohibition, the state which went officially bone dry in 1851, votes next Monday on repeal. On Tuesday, Maryland, Minne- sota and Colorado vote. By November 7 thirty-nine states will have voted on whether to continue the Eighteenth Amend- ment or oust it from the Con- stitution. Not a state so far has in favor of retention. —————— JUDGE KENYON DIES IN MAINE, HEART ATTACK Member of Circuit Court of Appeals Dies at Summer Home SEBASCO, Maine, Sepf. 8. — Judge William 8. Kenyon, aged 64 years, of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, died at his summer home here. Judge Kenyon was stricken by a heart attack five weeks ago. Judge Kenyon resigned from the United States Senate in 1922 to accept an appointment to the bench made by Warren G. Hard- ing when - President.