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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIL, NO. 6456. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS STRIKES SPREADING, COAST TO COAST | SWEPT TO DEATH FROM BOAT’S DECK WAVE CARRIES ONE FISHERMAN " FROM.“SCHOONER 3 Tom Olson Lose; Life in Ocean Near Seal Rocks to Westward OTHER CREW MEMBERS OVERBOARD,BUT SAVED Superior Limps Into Sew- ard for Repairs—Men Need Attention SEWARD, Alaska, Sept. 29.— Tom Olson, fisherman of Ketehi~ kan and Seattle, lost his life when he was swept overboard from the deck of the halibut schooner Su- perior while fishing last Wednes- day off Seal Rocks. Other members of the crew were also swept overboard but they were assisted back by their more for- tunate crew mates. Olson was carried away from the Superior and his rescue was impossible as the heavy seas smashed the life boats and the engines of the Superior were also temporarily disabled. The tide was running against the wind creating heavy swells. One swell nearly capsized the schooner and successive swells of water splintered the rigging and pilot house. Capt. Néls Ford brought his ves= sel into port yesterday as several members of the crew required med- jcal attention and the vessel needed repairs. e, BEAR ATTACK ON TELEPHONE; PRICES DROP Many Equities Lose Gains During Last Hour Selling Wave NEW YORK, Sept. 29. — Stocks ran into difficulties following a drive on American Telephone and Telegraph and many equities which were firm early in the day more than cancelled their gain in the last hour of a selling wave. Some metal issues held part of their advances. The close was heavy. Sales today were 1,500,000 shares. Four-Point Loss The bear attack on American Telephone and Telegraph drove that issue for a final loss of more than four points. The aleohol group was up around one to more than five points at one time but the finish was about even. Grains yielded early advances of one cent or more and ended around previous levels. . Inflation Again Inflationary uncertainties con- tinued to engender caution among most traders. United States Smelting halved an early six-point gain. Fractional gains were held by Commercial Alcohol, National Dis- tillers and Standard Oil of New Jersey. Losers of fractions to two points included United States Steel, Air- craft, Case, Western Union, New York Central, Union Pacific and Bethlehem Steel. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 25%, American Can 88%, American Power and Light 7%, Anaconda 15%, Armour B. 2%, Bethlehem Steel 33%, Calu- met and Hecla 5%, Colorado Fuel and Tron 6, Curtiss-Wright 2%, Fox Films 15':, General Motors 28'%, International Harvester 36%, Kennecott 20%, Missouri Pacific 4%, Packard Motors 3%, Stand- ard Oil of California, 39%, Chi- cago and Milwaukee (Preferred) 9%, Radio Corporation 7'z, Stand- ard Brands 23%, United States Steel 45%, United Corporation 6%, United Aircraft 29%, Ward Bak- ing B. 2%. ‘| this morning on the steamer Yu- When’s End of Prohibiton- - WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—At torney General Cummings is now studying his legal precedents ir preparation for a ruling on just when national prohibition vanish- es if 36 states ratify the Repeal Amendment. It's a knotty problem. Some contend that as soon as the 36th ratifying convention has formal- ly done its work, the Twenty-first Amendment is then a part of the C8nstitution — which means the Eighteenth Amendment is nulli- fied. But others argue that not.un- til the secretary of state officially proclaims ratification does repeal become part of the Constitution. This would mean an interval be- tween the 36th convention and the time required to transmit cer- tifying documents to Washing- ton. The State Department procla- mation probably will be given the same date as the 36th state’s cer- tification. In the interim between the last ratification and the for- mal proclamation prohibition ag- ents would “use common sense” in enforcement. Cummings has three months to decide the problem, for the ear- liest date for complete ratifica- tion is early in December. Pro jects Are Bigger than Nra Envisaged, Says Price; New Dollar, Price Fixing NEW ACTIVITY REQUIRED NOW RECOVERY PLAN Consumer Doing His Part,‘ Financier, Businessman | Must Get Busy i NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—Not only the consumer must do his part to produce prosperity, but the fi- nancier and business man must be stimulated to action, Wall Street economists say. Business in things the consumer buys normally totals only about one half of the business of the country and in depression the loss in these lines is small compared to the slump in producers’ goods sach as machinery and buildings. It is for this reason that Wash- ington authorities are expressing concern over the decided lag in such industries as building con- struction and are pushing the Public Works program. Some Wall Street economists say recovery to date, inasmuch as it has been largely along consumers’ lines, has reversed the process experience, toward the end of past depressions and cheap credit and are urging Washington to announce a definite monetary program to give an impetus to general re- covery. - DETROIT FISHERMAN HAS FINE OUTING AT YAKUTAT George O'Neill, Detroit sports- man and fisherman extraordinary, who has fished in this vicinity in former years, has just finished a most successful and enjoyable fish- ing expedition at Yakutat, and is headed back home to await the coming of another summer and another Alaskan visit. He is a passenger on the steamer Yukon for Seattle and visited local friends while the steamer was in port this morning. ————— ALEX 1. WHYTE LEAVES TO VISIT SON WHO IS IN RIVERTON SANITARIUM To visit. his son, Charles Whyte, who has been in the Riverton San- jtarium near Seattle, receiving treatment for tuberculosis for sev- eral years, Alex I Whyte left kon. — -~ MRS. LYDIA FOHN-HANSEN /ARRIVES HERE ON YUKON Mrs. Lydia Fohn-Hansen, who is in charge of the extension branch of the Home Economics Department of the Alaska Agricul- tural College and School of Mines, arrived in Juneau on the steamer Yukon this morning. Mrs. Fohn- Hansen is staying at the Zynda Hotel. g — At 78, Jose Quidada of Reno, Nevada, who once made a saddle for Theodore Roosevelt, is engaged in making a saddle for Governor Fred Balzar, PRICE (Chief of Staff, the Associated Press, Washington) Projects regarded by economists as bigger than the NRA, bigger than anything the government has undertaken thus far, are under discussion in confidential confer- ences in Washington. Among them s a plan for cur- rency adjustment, probably on the general idea of the ‘“commodity dollar,” which would recast values all ‘along- the line. Accompanying that, and in some degree coupled with it, is a pro- posal to greatly expand govern- mental price-fixing, perhaps en- compassing all the principal com- modities, One feature of the new pro- gram is a possibility that it may become a world program, providing a continuing but flexible basis for both curren- cy and prices in the interna- tional markets. Details have not been settled, but it can be said positively that in the present stage no serious thought is being given to the is- suance of “printing press money.” with no definite backing. That Mr. Roosevelt has been listening to Senatorial advice on that sub- Jject does not mean he agrees with it. He tried to pacify the Senators who recently called on him by promising to .take some action as soon as the time was ripe, but he promised nothing more. By BYRON COMMODITY DOLLAR IN FAVOR ‘The “commodity dollar” method of dealing with the currency is looked upon with much favor in high quarters, although it should be borne in mind that actual de- cisions remain to be made. As it now is under discussion, the plan would be to fix the value of the dollar every thirty days by Presidential proclamation, on the basis of the current value of all commodities, for which a con- solidated index figure would be kept by government statisticians. This value would have a rela- tion not only to gold, but to sil- ver. The actual operation of the plan, as now envisaged, probably would mean the coining of curren- cy on a basis of three parts gold to one part silver. That, as the economists ex- plain it, would mean in effect the revolution of the dollar, but along lines not hitherto widely discussed. Under present legislation, the President has authority to order revaluation, and some of his legal advisers, at least, think the au- thoriation would permit revalua- tion every thirty days if found desirable, That would mean that the “commodity dollar” could be set up without further action by Congress, and prior to the meet- ing of Congress in late January. IT'S TECHNICAL The whole project is so im- mersed in economic technicalities that only the experts pretend to understand just how it would work out, and they do not agree. Perhaps the nearest anyone could come io explaining general terms would be to say that whereas money has been more or less valuable in the past in (Continued on Paga Two) INDUSTRIAL Ratification, Proclamation? RECOVERY IS ACCELERATED September Closing Better than Opening—Good News for Fur Men NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—Today’s review of Dun-Bradstreet, Inc., said September is closing better than it opened and under the acceler- ated industrial recovery there. is a more vigorous consumer buying. “The desire to build inventories in advance of rising markets is virtually ended, giving a steadfer tone to buying movements and a former base on which to plan for future operation. “The demand for high grade furs is expected to be the best in years. “A few leading industrial in- dices are beginning to turn up- ward again and others are moving downward sluggishly.” ——————— SUBGOMMITTEE | CANCELS TRIP FOR THIS YEAR itk Group Un- able to Make Proposed S. E. Alaska Study The proposed investigation of conditions among the Indians of Southeast Alaska by a subcommit- tee of three of the Senate Com- mittee on Indian Affairs, slated !to have been made this Fall, has been postponed until next year, ac- cording to a telegram received to- day by United States Marshal Al- bert White from Delegate A. J. Dimond. The personnel of the subcom- mittee, as announced several wee ago, was, Senator Burton K. Wheel- er, Chairman; Senator Elmer Thomas, Oklahoma, both Demo- North Dakota, Republican. The original plan of the subcom- mittee was to have sailed from Seattle on September 10 on the Bureau of Fisheries flagship Brant, for Juneau. A day or two prior |to that date the bureau was ad- vised that the trip had been post- poned for “two weeks, and since then the members found it impos- sible to get away from Washington at this time. VICTORIA, B. . HIT BY STORM Small Boats Run to Shelter —Fruit Sections Dam- aged, Minor Nature it VICTORIA, B. C. Sept. 29— A storm whicn at its height reach- ed a velocity of 44 miles an hour, struck this city late yesterday and drove small boats to shelter. Mi- nor damage was done to the fruit districts and to ornamental trees ———eo Older Students Speedier In Learning Languages MADISON, Wis., Sept. 29. ‘Where foreign languages are con- cerned you can teach old dogs new tricks more speedily than pups, says Prof. F. D. Cheydleur of the University of Wisconsin French department. The professor conducted a three- year experiment in comparing the adult learning abilities with those of students of high school and college age and reported he found the adults learned more and with seemingly less difficulty. Former Nome Sourdough Passes Away in Seattle SEATTLE, Sept. 29.—Charles Knapp, aged 71 years, former Nome, Alaska sourdough, is dead here after a long illness, crats, and Senator Lynn J. Frazier, . Pictori;ll Intefview With ;‘Miés Américé 1933” N Although it is a plain ease of gild- ing the lily, Miss Marion Bergeron apparently could mot resist the temptation to add Just a little touch of makeup to her fi§wless features afer she had been déclared ‘‘Miss America” at the Atlantic City, N. | J. beauty pag- eant, At right she is shown with her Elmer Ber- geron, of West Haven, Conn, where her father is a policeman. In center, the meas- urements of the national beauty queen are shown. Bhe is sweet 16, a platinum blonde, does not drink or smoke and is pleased no end to Mrs. get away from | stenography and into a stage or screen career. wrrents, Mr. and WARCLOUDS | ON HORIZON IN FAR EAST Japanese Flayed, League Scored for Winking at Aggression | GENEVA, Sept. 20—All signs in the Far East point to a ma- | jor conflict within the next few) years, Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo, Chinese Minister to France, said in an address before the League Assembly today in which he flayed | the Japanese invasion of Man- { churia, Dr. Koo said the strongest pres-| | sure was brought to induce China to abandon co-operation with the west through the League and to, fudopt a principle “Asia for Asiat-| | ies.” Dr. Koo insisted that in the absence of effective measures by the League, a premium has been placed upon aggression and this system has been strengthened “There is an ominous cloud ris- | ing on the Far Eastern horizon,” ‘concluded Dr. Koo. CRANE SAILS TODAY FOR STREAM PATROL To examine streams to determ- ine the need for the clearing out of obstructions to ascending sal- | mon on their way to the spawn- |ing beds, the patrol vessel Crane, | Capt. O’Donnell, was dispatched from here this afternoon to Icy ‘Smms and northern Chatham | Strait areas. It will be absent a | week or ten days. | It will cover the mainland | west to the outer end of Icy Strait |and the morthern and northwest- ern end of Chichagof Island, then | cross to the northwest shore of | Admiralty Island. | e —— PACIFIC COAST CO. OFFICERS| LEAVE FOR SOUTH ON YUKON D. E. McConnell, engineer with the Pacific Coast Company, who has been in Juneau for the las |week on his annual trip to esti- mate necessary repairs to the Pa- cific Coast Company dock and let contraets for the work, left for Se- attle on the Yukon this morning after arranging with Robert Keeny to take charge of the repair work A. G. Sampson, traveling auditor for the Pacific Coast Company, also left today for his headquarters in Seattle after completing his an- nuel audit of the Juneau branch. McKee Announces Candidacy, Mayor Of New York City NEW YORK, Sept. 20.— e Joseph McKee, blistering Tammany and Republicans alike with barbed phrases directed against the “arro- gant leadership of stupidity and corruption,” this after- noon announced his candi- dacy for Mayor of Greater New York City. Only Thirty Thousand to HearF.D.R. Attendance Restricted, When President Talks, at Veterans’ Meet CHICAGO, Sept. 29.—Only thir- ty thousand persons will be priv- ileged to hear President Roosevelt address the National Convention of the American Legion in Chi- cago next week. As a consequence, official regis- tration of members of the organ- ization, which carries with it the official badge and a long list of special entertainment for those who register in advance, will be restricted to 30,000, nearly two- thirds of which already have been received. Announcement of restriction of this opportunity was made by the convention headquarters, which foresaw in the flod of reserva- tions now being received, grave disappointment for many who might register 1gte, and then learn they could not hear the Chief Executive speak. Must Register Therefore those hoping to hear Mr. Roosevelt renew allegiance of the Veterans who in 1917-18 pre- | served the nation, will be requir- ed to register in advance of the convention, before the available seats are disposed of. (wonunued on Page Two) — e e—— GOLD PRICE . — . WASHINGTON, Sept. 29— ‘The price of gold today, as announced by the Treasury Department, is $31.33 an ounce. . . 90000000000 BEER FLOWING DOWN THROATS AT 600D RATE Nearly Six_BiHion Glasses Consumed—Revenue Runs Into Millions [ NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—C. D. . Williams, Secretary of the United | States Brewers' Association, report- jed that 1144,700,000 eight-ounce glasses of beer were consumed in | August, bringing the total con- ) sumption since April 7 to nearly 6,000,000,000 glasses. ! The Federal revenue for the 20 | weeks since beer has been legal- ! ized totaled $71,177,539. | s S-HOUR STRIKE CALLED, HAVANA Communists Project Them- | selves Into Political Cuban Troubles HAVANA, Cuba, Sept. 29.—An- | other element in the complex Cu- ban political scene has besn pro- Jjected into the foreground as Com- | munists called a six hour general strike here. Other questions were shunted aside after the new la- bor trouble and reports of racial and revolutionary troubles in the Interi THREE KILLED H HAVANA, Sept. 29.—At least three persons were killed and elev- en wounded when soldiers opened fire late this afternoon on a throng of Communists demonstrat- ing in honor of Julio Mella, stu-| dent Communist leader, slaln in| exico. The soldiers apparently intend-| ed shoot over the heads of the| crowd to disperse the demonstra- tors. | | The Communists huddled togeth- | er holding their banners. The po- !lice stormed them and took the| banners away, then cursed the ® Communists who opened fire, but| Mmore did no damage. | ,KING ZOG FOUNDS SCHOOL | | TIRANA, Albania, Sept. 20— | e King Zog 1., ruler of this smallest | THREE PLANTS OF FORD TIED UP BY WORKERS Strikers Threaten to March to Dearborn and Picket Factory MINERS, STEEL MEN HAVE LEFT JOBS Bakery Drivers Out in Phil- adelphia — Silk In- dustry Throttled WASHINGTON, Sept. 29. —Strikes today dotted the country from coast to coast. Henry Ford, for many - years free from strikes, is be- set by labor troubles in as- sembly plants in Chester, Pa., | Edgewater, N. J., and Rich- {mond, Cal. There are even threats by the Chester strikers to go en masse to Michigan and picket the Ford Dearborn plant. The Ford officials have | withheld comment on the de- mands, including a $5 daily minimum and seven-hour day, also union recognition which would complete reversal of the Ford policies. Other Troubles Other strikes included the Pennsylvania miners walkout, steel workers in Flint, Michi- gan, auto and die makers and bakery drivers in Philadel- phia, silk industry in Pater- son, N. J., and knitting work- ers in New York. Labor Threats Meanwhile organized labor threat- ened to appeal from NRA to Con- gress to obtain a 30-hour work week in the recovery codes. NRA Viewpoint President William Green, of the American Federation of Labor, has given such notice while NRA of- ficials are considering the possi- bilities of temporarily relaxing the present standard of wage raising and hour shortening efforts so far as affect construction and allied industries. Green said the slack is not being taken up as rapidly as it should be and the one remedy is for a 6-hour day and 5-day week. ———— ALASKAN LEADS LEGION PARADE INTO' CHICAGO A. B. Hicks First Veteran to Reach Convention City, Distant Point CHICAGO, IIl, Sept. 29.—A. B. Hicks, aged 54 years, an Al- askan, is one of the first to ar- rive from far away points to at- tend the American Legion Con- vention beginning next week. Three hundred thousand are ex- pected here by Sunday. Hicks traveled by boat to Ha- vana, flew to Miami and then came here by train. More Swedish Banks Cutting Their Rates STOCKHOLM, Sept. 20.—Two large Swedish banks, the Svenska Handelsbanken and the Goteborbs Bank, have followed the example of the Stockholms Enskilda Bank by reducing the interest on deposit and capital accounts by 1 per cent to 2% per cent, because of large cash e European kingdom has presented surpluses and the announced dif- e his villa on Lake Skutari to the|ficulty of finding satisfactory Tn- o 'ministry of education as a school.’ vestment possibilities,