The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 30, 1933, Page 1

- T R 1 2 13 W b (LSRG 0 ST 1 oy N A A S THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIL, NO. 6482. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS __PRICE TEN CENTS U.S. T0 BUY GOLD, FOREIGN MARKETS RECOGNITION CONVERSATION ALL ARRANGED / President Has Completed His Plan of Discussion with Litvinoff CERTAIN DATA IS ALREADY ASSEMLBED High Spots Decided by Roosevelt — Hull a'nd Others Work Out Details WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—Vlrluill completion of the formula for Presi- dent Roosevelt’s recognition discus- sion with Maxim Litvinoff, Com- m of Soviet Foreign Affairs, who is now in Paris, enroute to the United States, are revealed although the exact course to be fol- lowed is guarded. No secret is made of the fact that there has been a final round- up of data for the convention. Both the President and Secretary Holl are silent on Litvinoff’s as- sertion that as far as he is con- cerned the matter may be settled in half an hour, Thorough Discussion It is known that the President| to take considerbly | has planned longer for what he termed a move 1o explore all questions outstand- ing heiween the two countries. Fresident Roosevelt has hit the bots and will leave the de- his assistants. who has post- will have a hand in this W Cenferences are expect- ed to beg‘m the first of next week.| v, ALASKA AND WASHINGTON IN LINE-UP Society Formed in Wash- ington, D. C.—Juneau Woman on Committee WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—More than 125 former Alaskans and Washingtonians met in the Capi- tal City and elected E. R. Carroll, President, and Senator C. C. Dill, Honorary President, of a society organized last March. Mrs. Robert King, of Juneau, Alaska, is on the social commit- tee. The society is stressing to the East the importance of the Alaska Territory and also Washington as a gateway to the North. —— YOUNG DUCK HUNTER SHOT Companion Falls, Guns Dis- charged, Bullet Enters Head WENATCHEE, Wash., Oct. 30.— Shot by his hunting - companion, Lawrence Lipp, aged 17 years, Wenatchee youth, died in a local hospital Sunday, one hour after the accident. Charles Grove, aged 18 years, said a .22 was accidentally dis- charged when he fell while he and Lipp were running after a wounded duck. Grove is held by the Sheriff pending a formal in- vestigation. Another hunting party found Grove kneeling over his wounded companion in a hysterical posi- tion. _ The bullet struck Lipp in the back of the head. — Shotgun Accidentally Discharged ;Man Loses " Right Hand, Right Eye BREMERTON, Wash, Oct. 30— Orvol Wilson, of Pearson, lost a right hapd and received a head wound nécessitating removal of his right eye when his shotgun was discharged accidentally. In Nazi Propaganda Probe = | N { | | llam PANKNOEBEL SAMUEL . | : DICKSTEIN | ! | . Seceemary Huny - 8 . @ AMBASSADOR LUTHER | | Charges that many Germans in the United States are being compellelt | to cooperate with Nazi organizers through threats of reprisals against | their relatives in Germany will be probed at the forthcoming Congres- | sional investigation sponsored by Representative Samuel Dickstein, of | New York, chairman of the Congressional Committee on Immigration. 1 Among those expected to testify is Heinz Spanknoebel, head of the | Freunde des Neun Deutschland (Friends of New Germany), Chancellor | Hitler's head man in the United States. Dr. Hans Luther, German | Ambassador to Washington, was also invited to testify, but it is believed his diplomatic status makes his acceptance impossible. Findings of the committee may be basis of representations to the German government by Secretary of State Cordell Hull. | | DELEGATION STRIFE STIRS URGES SPEED, IN HOLY LAND; . PUBLIC BLDG, ARABS ACTIVE 'Secretary Ickes Gives His'Demonstrations Against| Side — Estimates ] British Authorities— Are Too High Troops Ready ‘WASHINGTON, Oct. 30,—-Secre-{ JERUSALEM, Oct. 30.—The Holy tary of Interior Ickes Saturday af-| Land is in a ferment as the re- ternoon told a Delegation which!sult of Arab agitation against the urged the public building program, increase of Jewish immigration. be speeded that he was making Unrest has spread rapidly, not every effort to establish a “sane|only through Palestine but into national policy.” He took the oc-| Trans-Jbrdania and even Syria. casion’ to criticise the lavishness! Two clashes have occurred at of public projects and reiterated| Haifa between the police and Ar- that “we are perfectly willing tojab One Arab was killed and 35 build any building economically| injured after violent rioting. Jjustified.” | The nation is made more Maintenance Cost ::cx:\s by the declaration of a gen- | eral strike by the Arabs. To the contention of the leader Troops are held in readiness {of the delegation, Representative, | Crowe, that unemployment would be diminished and men would be, | removed from the relief rolls byi instituting a building program on, a large scale, Secretary Ickes said that does not justify the United and Royal Air force planes have left Cairo for Palestine where they will be employed if necessary. Sections of Haifa resemble a war zone. A mob of infuriated men screamed invecfives against the British Administration and at- States building program on a large v scale, and he directed attention to! ;';cdkeio“bc‘;mgtgggn rzxi\;aymafiat:zxj the cost of maintenance Which| ..o ¢ne " police fired on the would follow. Estimates Too High rioters. | The demonstration is not against The Secretary indicated he would | the Jews themselves but is direct- confer with President Roosevelt ed against the British authorities| this week and hoped a definite for allowing increases in Jewish| and new policy would be estab-f immigration. lished. He said he believed many | ——.—— proposed public buildings could be constructed for one-third of the.HEART BRoKEN present estimated cost. ! L] More than six million dollars! BIHL sUIclnEs were allotted for non-federal pro- jects last Saturday. i - TACOMA, Wash., Oci. 3.—Heart i broken over the recent death of —e Commissioner of King {her fiance, pretty Ruth Little, aged County A.g{un Free OM 129, suicided yesterday by shooting N.Y .Fugitive Compldint herself through the heart with a | shotgun. 30—John ©.! Casey Sparks, her fiance, died in ' “la logging camp accident two months sioner, was free last Saturday on|280. They were to have been a $5000 property bond on ay fu- | married on December 23, her birth- gitive complaint filed in a Justtcelday» Court after receipt of a grand lar-| Z ceny indictment returned in Bing- Production of Alaska hamton, New York, against “John LIHIII)EF SIIOWS D l. C. Stockman, alias John C. Ste- WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—Lum- venson.” i The indictment charges misap-, propriation of stocks in a swck‘w‘ber production in Alaska dropped transaction. Stevenson has denied about 20,000,000 feet from 1928 to SEATTLE, Oct. Stevenson, King County Commis- FREEDOM OF PRESS URGED AT MEETING Anniversary of Zenger's Reporting Epic Cele- brated in East MT. VERNON, Oct. 30.—Ameris can journalism celebrated last Sat- urday the 200th Anniversary of Colonial Assembly election. I was in St. Paul's Church in East Chester that.the election was held and here too was Zenger's trial on charges that the account was seditious and a libel on the Col= onial authorities. Right of Free Press Zenger was acquitted. His de- fense was that he reported the truth. Several hundred editors and pub- Jishers, descendants of the Colonial families gathered on the church green and heard Col. Robert R. McCormick, of the Chicago to follow in Zenger's footsteps linking the right of a free press with the forthcoming NRA code for newspapers. No Elimination The Chicago Editor and Pubs lished declared that ‘“American journalism does not wish to tri= umph over anybody. We only wish to be assured that our rights, so. hardly served, are not destroyed.” In negotiations looking toward | a permanent code for the news= paper industry, Col. ‘McCormick said the newspapers have been contending for “preservation and right of a free press as provided by the Constitution and upheld by the courts. The Administrator, I have understood, has been in- sisting upon s elminafion.” OPPOSITION FROM HEARST SAN SIMEON, Cal, Oct. 30.— william Randolph Hearst last Sat- urday night made public a letter to Howard Davis, President of the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association in which he expressed the opinion NRA ‘‘was obviously impracticable and if persisted will become universally detrimental.” The publisher said newspape “out to tolerate it ‘ess and ex- pose it more.” JAPANESE WAR MINISTER HAS GREAT SCHEME Wants Conference inTokyo of All Powers Regard- ing Far East TOKYO, Oct. 30.—War Minister Sadao Araki, now in Western Japan for the Army maneuvers Is quoted in newspapers as advocating a peace parley. The newspapers report he said he will advocatc a peace parley, making his pro- posal to the Cabinet for an inter- national conference in Tokyo fo: all powers interested in the Far East. According to the War Minister's statement, the conference will have an ultimate result of an under- standing between the great powers as to Japan’s reasons for her action in Manchuria, especially regarding Manchukuo. Man and Wife Trapped In Car, Burn to Death TACCMA, Wash., Oct. 30.—Tra ped in an automobile which over turned and rolled into a ditch, Mr and Mrs. Asel Larson, of Br erton, were burned to death car was hit by another. Occupan of the other car were injured Warned by “No destruction of property wil be permitted tonight or tomorrow night, Hallowe'en proper,” was the warning given out by Chief of Police C. J. Davis today. " I want the boys and girls 1 have a good time, but it is jus going to be too bad if they gel dstructive, and I mean it. There the charges alleging the whole|1932 the Commerce Department matter is a frame-up. survey showed. - will be an increase in the force tonight and especially 'tomorrov John Peter Zenger's reporting me{ Tri=| bune, urge the press of America won and so hardily pre=j Juneau Younger Generation | | HELD AS SUSPECTS IN O’CONNELL KIDNAPING Five men and two women arrested in New York in a police roundup were held as suspects in the kid- naping of John J. O'Conng¢ll, jr, of Albany, N. Y., who was abducted last July and held for $4C,000 ransom. Standing, left to right: Anthony Reino, Charles Herzog, Leonard Scarnici, Philip Zeigler and Fred Prentel. Seated: Mrs. Eleanor Scarnici (left) and Mre. Emm Russo. (Associated Press Photo) NEW FORESTRY SERVICE HEAD IS APPOINTED F. A. Silcox, of New York, l Is Successor to R. Y. Stuart, Killed in Fall l WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—F. A. Silcox, of New York, has been appointed Chief of the United !G.",,abes Forest Service to succeed TR Y. Stuart, who died Monday of {last week as the result of a fall | silecox has been Director of | Industrial Relations of New York |of the Employing Printers’ Asso- ciation since 1922 but is described by Secretary of Agriculture Wal- lace as a “professional forester.” | Sflcox will assume his office No- vember 5. Dr. Bunnell Is Enroute - To Outside Fresident of Fairbanks Col- lege Is Passenger on Northwestern ! ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 30.— Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, President of the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, is enroute | south aboard the steamer North- western. He reports the college has a banner enrollment The School of Mines is well at- tended, many taking the prospe tors’ short winfer course prepara- tory to gold search next season. Dr. Bunnell is enroute east to attend the convention of Land Grant Colleges. ——————— George Moore Denied New Trial for Slaying Immediately Sentenced SEATTLE, Ocl. 30. — Denied a new trial, George Moore, convicted of slaying Frank Ray in a night club® was today sentenced from 15 to 35 years. S AT N Indiana Now Widening All Highways in State INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. 30.— A milfion doflar highway widen- ing program is getting under way in Indiana, with pick and shovel gangs selected from local 1 rolls to build up the “should of paved roads. : Chief of Police night. T have enlisted certain Boy Scouts, known to me per certain High School boys several well-known citiz will take up a patrol over all parts of the. city. Prowler cars will be used by several of the patrol- men. I frust the younger gen- eration will respect the rights of citizens and that nothing unpleas v ant will arise” NRA Decree | fective | On Selling No Article to Be Sold for | Less than Cost—Prac- [ tices Banished WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—Effect- | ive today, a NRA decree provides | {that no merchant shall sell any | article, except a few specifically | exempt, for less than it cost him | tor what he could buy it for today, ! whichever is the lower retail. ( The code applying to most lines of merchandise went into effect to- | day and is broadly interpreted by | officials as singling out various | practices for bandishment, nams ly, price discrimination, commercial | bribery, breach of contract or inter- | ference of those or others through coercion by blacklist and other devices. PAUL PAINLEVE | DIES SUDDENLY, | HEART ATTACK One of Most Absent Mind- ed Men in France, For- mer Premier, Succumbs PARIS, Oct. 30.—Paul Palnlevz\,,| | former Premier of France, and Minister of Aviation in the Her- riot Cabinet, died “suddenly Sun- day following an attack of the heart. - Paul Painleve, born in 1863, son of a baker in the Latin quarter of Paris, a prodigy in mathematics at eight, a world famous scientist at forty, and Premier of France at 54, missed by a mnarrow margin becoming President of the French Republic at 61, in 1924. Few men took as active a part in the poli- tics of his country during the war and the reconstruction period. Absent-Minded He had the reputation of being the youngest man of his work in France, and the mostabsent-mind- ed. At 62 he had the hair and complexion of a twenty-year-old boy, while, like a great many men obsorbed In scientific and social problems, he haa difficulty in re- membering where has was to lunch or dine. Painleve always showed pride in his humble origin and shaped his political action to suit. A Re- publican, just on the edge of So- . cialism, he was dragged from his figures and equations into the po- litical arena by the Dreyfuss Af- fair in 1898. The vigor with which he advocated the revision of the trial brought him into contact with all the leaders of the Socialist and Radical parties and made him one of them. Never again was he able ' to get out of politics. Became Premier Deputy from the Sorbonne dis- trict in Paris in 1910, he became leader of the Repubfican Socialist group in the Chamber. His first executive post was that of Minis- ter of Public Instruction in the (conunued on Page Two) | out STOCK PRICES SLIP DOWN IN LATE TRADING from One to About Five Points NEW YORK, Oct. responded but momentarily to the new gold price announcement to- day and then a last hour selling carried numerous issues down one to about five points. The close of the market today was heavy. Sales totalled about 1,500,000 shares. Bonds were heavy. Grains Lose Grains finished with one to two cent losses. Other commodities were hesitant. The dollar was weak at one time but got back part of the de.'-hne’ in foreign exchanges. The break in stocks is attributed partly to reports that steel oper- ations have sagged. Shares Off Stocks off three to five points were Union Pacific, American Can, American Telephone and Tele- graph, National Distillers, Case, U. S. Industrial Alcohol, Allied Chem- ical, and United States Steel PRICES TODAY 30.—Closing ne Jan CLOSING NEW YORK, Oct quotation of Alaska Juneau stock today is 26'%, American 87, American 7%, Anaconda 13%, Armour B 2%, Bethlehem Steel 27, Calumet and Hecla 4%, Colorado Fuel and Iron 4, Curtiss-Wright 2%, Canadian Pacific. 12%, Fox Films 15, Gen- eral Motors 26%, International Harvester 35'4, Kennecott 20%, Packard Mofors 3%, C o and Milwaukee (preferred) 7, Standard Oil of California 39':, Radio Cor- poration 6%, United Corporation 5%, United States Steel 367(, Ward Baking B 2% SOONG IS 0UT: KUNG SUCEEEDS 30—Dr. H. H. of Industries for Government, was to succeed T. V. re: ation as Min- been ac- NANKING, Oct Kung N ned inday whose of Finance oong has Soong offered his resignation last week presumably on account of the mounting financial difficulties of the Government . L Ot FREIGHTER DEPERE LOADS LUMBER FOR THE SOUTH To load lumber at the Juneau Lumber Mills, the Alaska Steam- ship Company freighter Depere, Capt. O. C. Anderson and Clyde Gu, well-known purser of the line, in the office, arrived in port at midnight last night. After tak- ing on lumber the freighter pulled for Seattle at 10 o'clock this morning 30.—Stocks Power and Light| PRICE LIFTING CONTROL PLANS EXTENDED NOW President Roosevelt Makes Announcement of New Campaign 'MANAGED CURRENCY GOAL BEING NEARED |Wall Street Financial’ e | terests Express Views of Situation | WASHINGTON, Oct. 31— | With fereign quotations. curging upward in response to Presi- { dent Rocsevelt’s decision to in- ! vade world gold markets, the Administration teday pushed i the demestic price of newly { mined geld to a new high fig- | ure with a rate of $3195 an | ounce, 14 cents higher than { Saturday. | ON WORLD BASIS WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—Presi- dent Roosevelt decided last night to :extend his price lifting gold control | campaign to a world basis through early purchase of the precious metal on foreign markets. “ In going into the international ‘gold market it is apparently the | President’s intention to assure a | greater control over the monetary | situation to stimulate commodity !Some Issues Carried Down prices and bring nearer his goal | of managed currency. i Details of the purchase plan, Imvhnl‘c worked out, are kept a secret.” | WALL STREET REACTION NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—One Wall Street reaction to President Roosevelt's move to buy gold abroad |is summed up in the opinion it is a logical but an unavoidable step |in his monetary policy on which he (has embarked., | Some financial observers express- led fear of a currency contest be- tween nations which they felt might end the international gold standard, as it previously existed in retaliation by other nations, which if carried to extremes, might bring ichuus to the international money | situation. | These financial observers said |and expressed the hope that this {will not eventuate. Abandon Gold Standard Other economists urged the gen- |eral abandonment of the gold stand- :ard and revaluation of currencies on gold, the primary point involved. | Some quarters felt there is dan- (ger that Great Britain, in order |to defend her trade position, might |be compelled to compete with the | United States for gold if the Am- |erican policy resulted in sharp de- preciation of the dollar. | FRANCE HAS FEARS | PARIS, Oct. 30—Danger to the Bank of France's gold is foreseen |in United States gold purchases by |financial experts, some of whom urge defensive measures or a boy- cott. | Holland is also unfavorably im- |pressed by the announcement of the American President of his in- | tention to buy gold on the foreign | market which is regarded as an indication that inflation will follow. e et Johnson Making Personal Boycott On Ford Products WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, NRA Adminis- trator, has made good his prom- ised personal boycott on Henry Ford’s products by trading his Lincoln, placed at his disposal, for another governmental machine of comparable quality and price, S e Home Owners Loan Corporation Doing Splendid Work Now WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. — The Home Owners' Loan Corporation officials said activities to date had prevented 2,589 foreclosures on ur- ban properties to the value of al- most $10,000000 up to the week ending October 20. e MISS ELEANOR JAHNKE LEAVES HOSPITAL SUNDAY Miss Eleanor Jahnke, who under- went a major operation at St. Ann's Hospital two weeks ago, left the hospital yesterday to return to her home, ¢ ¥