The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 13, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS = PRICE TEN CENTS SEVEN DEATHS REPORTED ONE SECTION, EAST Middle West Pelted by Dirt Driven Eastward at Terrific Speed PRGPERTY DAMAGE IS REPORTED LARGE Barge Founders on Coast Mountain Climber Perishes, Exposure CHICAGO, I, Nov. 13.— Heavy snowstorms in portions of the East and a blinding hard driven series of freakish dust sterms that pelted Mid-| dle Westerners with dirt, have caused one dozen or more deaths and much prop- y damage. n deaths occurred at Roches- Y. The region there is ceted by SnOW. A barg nk off the New Jersey coast carrying one man to death. Others were drowned at Leam- ington, Ontario, while in New Hampshire a young mountain elimb- pe! ed from exposure in a Trappers Die Two trappers lost their lives near Republic, M gan, while two duck re missing on Lake St. high winds originat- katchewan the Midwest suffered a deluge of dust apparent- sweeping toward the East where expected to spend itself in rain. The winds reached gale like proportions in South Dakota and| Minnesota causing much property‘ damae. ——————————— MONEY POLICY WILL NOT BE CHANGED NOW President Calls Aides to Meeting — Caution in Bond Prices WASHINGTON, Nov. 13—Presi- dent Roosevelt, who created the gold buying and price lifting mone- tary policy, called his aides to a special meeting in the White House last night. It is stated he is not proposing any changes. Although those at the White House confer- ence refused to talk they did indi- cate no new money move is in prospect. President Roosevelt is represent- ed simply as wanting to talk over developments with the men who have been watching the program. 1t is understood he has asked cau- tion so bond prices will not be materially depressed as they were last week so ‘that other countries will not feel compelled to start a currency depreciation race match- ing the dollar’s fall. ———aee is CHIMNEY FIRE SATURDAY NIGHT WAKES NEIGHBORS WHO CALL OUT FIRE DEPT. At 12:30 o‘clock Saturday night a chimney fire at the residence of James Ramsley at 10th and D. Streets awakened Mr. and Mrs. Chris Crone, who live next door. Worried because of the high wind, Mrs. Crone turned in fhe alarm while her husband attempted to wake the Ramsleys, who were not roused until the Fire Department members arrived and were about to break down the door. Though sparks were flying, the boys extinguished the fire witn expedition and no damage was suf- fered. ‘Speml What W e Cun Wiselv. Mrs. Roosevelt’s Book Ur oes By JOHNM ELBY NE WYORK, Nov. the NRA the slogan should be ‘Deal with fair people and make sure that they are fair with their employes and to their stockhold- ers; spend what you can but spend it wisely and do not mortgage your future!'” The words are those of Mrs. Pranklin D. Roosevelt in “Is Up To The Women," just published. The book is a prolonged chat, in which the President’s wife gives the women of the country advice pased on experience gathered through years of contact with| public affairs and people of all types. Advises Against Hoarding “This is no time for the hoard- ing of money simply because we are ing to the dogs,” she adds: does, our money Wwill do us good so we might as well spend what we can wisely. “We women in the home have another great responsibility. Had we always insisted that the men take into account the human element that entered info business there would not be the fight there is today over what is this country.” Mrs. Roosevelt considers most of the phases of life affecting wo- men in her book. Suffrage she| believes is only beginning to show | its possibilities. Believes ]lomcmn.klng Paramount She declares that ““I never like to think of this subject of a wo- man’s career and a woman's home as being a controversy. It seems to me perfectly obvious that if a/ woman falls in love and marries, of course her first interest and her first duty is to her home, but 13.—“Under ; afraid that the country is go-| “If it} no the fair | standard of living for everyone in | Ik | | | MRS, FRANKLIN D, ROOSEVEL In her new beok, “I¥’s Up To The Women,” Mrs. Franklin D. Rcosevelt chats with members of her sex on economics, the virtue cof spending wisely, and the necessity for bringing the human elcment into business. | her duty to her | necessity preclude her having an-| | other occupation.” “Society” as it exists today, | of little importance,” Mrs. Ro0s velt feels. Jonesses” ant, becau: | are apt not to be very s \Iung they can continue doing W] they have always done.” is no longer so import- se Mr. and Mrs. Jones ure how hat Gold Price Reaches New High Today WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. —The price set today for the purchase of newly-mined gold is $3345 an ounce. This is 13 cetns higher than last Saturday. Today's gold price is 45 cents above the London gold price which was advanced 30 cents today. o0 00w 000 ———-———— DAVE DUNBAR PASSES AWAY Manager of “Alaska Depart- ment, National Grocery Co., Dies in Seattle SEATTLE, Nov. 13. — Dave E. Dunbar, aged 66, Manager of the Alaska Department of the National Grocery Company, died at his home here on Sunday. He came to Seat- tle with his parents at the age of 10 years and has been with the grocery company for 30 years. He made trips to Alaska practically twice a year. He is survived by his widow, daughter and son. Ten Thousand Attend Funeral of “Texas” Guinan NEW YORK, Nov. 13. — A crowd estimated at 10,000 mass- ed outside a tiny upper Broad- way chapel yesterday for the funeral services of Mary Louise Cecilia Guinan, better known as “Texas” Guinan, former night club entertainer, who died suddenly in Vancouver, -B. C., a week ago yesterday, follow- ing an ocperation. She was borne to her last resting place in Heaven Cemetery at White Plains. e Adolph Arkans, aged 71, born in Belgium, residing in Alaska 19 years at his home on the Richard- son Highway, 4% miles from Fair- banks, recently died in St. Joseph's l Hospital. WALLACE TALKS 'RIGHT 0UT TO OWA FARMERS Agrlculture Secretar) De- nounces Holiday Move- ment in Des Moines WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—Secre- tary of Agriculture Wallace, back home in the city that is the cen- | ter of the area of farm unrest,| | called upon the corn belt farmers to co-operate in the Administra- tion’s farm program. The Secretary denounced the Holiday vigorous explanation of the Ad- ministration’s farm policies and as- serted that the Administration has accomplished more in eight months than in the twelve preceding years. Secretary Wallace told his 7, 000 auditors, including numerous delegations of dirt farmers the success of the Administration’s ef- forts to aid the farmers but said themselves. Meanwhile the holiday move- ment is apparently breaking down as more centers voted to discon- tinue the farm strike. —————— 3-Year-Old Boy Crusked to Death By Football Crowd PRINCETON, N. J, Nov. 13. —The authorities are seeking a solution of the strange death of Ray Towner, Jr., but still held to the story that the 3- year-old youth of Perryman, Maryland, was fatally injured in the crush of the dense crowd leaving the Palmer Stadium after the Princeton-Dartmouth game last Saturday afternoon. The fatality is unique in foot- ball history. ————-———— MRS, E. WILSON DIES Mrs. Ella Q. Wilson, aged 60, resident of Fairbanks for 25 years, ill for a long time, recently died at her home on Fourth Street in the interior metropolis. movement and made a! further aid rested on the farmers)s. SNOW STORMS, DUST GALES, ILIQUOR CONTROL " WOULD BE PUT IN STATE HANDS Gov. Martin's Special Com- mission Makes Re- port, Regulatiors Olympia, Wask | plan of vesting exclusive control over strong and mild liquor in the hands of the state is recommended by a commission appointed by Gov. Clarence D. Martin, to regulate | the sale of alcoholic beverages in Washmgton after repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment becomes \ effective. The commission made no rec- ommendation to call a special ses- | sion of the Legislature to enact the | Liquor Control Law. The Legis- {lature does not meet again in reg- | ular session until January, 1935. Alcoholic Strength The Commission recommendesd the sale of 4 percent beer, instead of 3.2 percent brew, and wines up |to 14 percent in restaurants and similar places but the sale of hard ! liquor would be confined to state dispensaries. Drug stores could sell ihnx'd liquors on prescription, pro- | vided it was purchased from the | state stores. | Intoxications would constitute | an infraction of the law, a penal- home doss not of |ty for first offense being $25. Restriction There are a number of restrict- «js' tions both as to sale and use of {liquor but the whole purpose pro-| “Keeping up with the| pPosed for liquor control, as one member said, is to ‘‘promote mod- ; | eration in drinking and make it| \poss\blc for those who want hard ¢hquor to get it cheaply and easily [so they can take it away aml | drink it as they please in private. Not in Public Returns to the state Would b(‘ realized from license feesand | its on sale. The net annual pxof— it is estimated at five million| dollars, half to be retained by the | | state and half to the political di- visions. Would Borrow Money All members of the commission | were agreed upon the proposition of dispensing liquor through state-| owned and state-operated stores. | Tt was estimated that it would r(‘—l quire not less than $1,500,000 capi-| tal to stock the stores and ware-/ houses and that this sum could be borrowed from the banks on the | state commission’s bonds. Those Who Reported The members of the tSate Ad- visory Liquor Control Commission are Robert Evans, Tacoma, chair- man; Timothy Paul, Walla Walla, Alfred J. Schweppe and Miss Au- gusta Trimble, Beattle; Harry Av- erill, Mount Vernon; Reno Odlin.| Olympia, and Dr. F. G. Sprowl, of | Spokane. SPECIAL SESSION OF LEGISLATURE PROBABLE | OLYMPIA, Nov. 13. — Having Gold Fever Rages Again on Comstock Lodc VINTOIMVD oVIRGINIA L CJ(ITY @ CARSON CITY, A I 1 | KILL MANY IN U. §. 'RUSSIA READY FOR ACTION IN FAREAST AREA ‘Manifesto—-lssued from Abandoned when “pay dirt” pegan | | anese Imperialists Moscow Addressed to Japanese Regime 'SOVIET AIR FLEET PREPARED TO STRIKE Declares Decisive Blows Can Be Struck at En- emy Populations MOSCOW, Nov. 13. — Jap- are charg- ed with creating an armed base in Manchukuo in a mani- | feso issued by the Far East- ern section of the Communist | Party. The manifesto contains a warning that Russia is pre- to run low, the famous Comstock Lode, the gold mine near Virginia City, Nev., where a score of huge American fortunes yere founded in the last quarter of the 19th century, . is in the throes of a renaissance as a small army of unemployed resume the search for the precious metal. At top, the main street of Virginia ( iLv once more becoming the scene f bustling activity; below, miners M. the shaft of one of the diggings in the Comstock Lode, and right, Cecil Morrison, official yer for the district, through whose hands GENERAL DENIAL OF TWO RlIM[lRS ANOTHERSTUDY Depriment ot Oping S BEING MADE - OFLIVINGCOSTS Gold Purchase—He Is Not Going to Quit WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—A vig- orous denial that the Treasury De- partment is opposing the gold buy- ing was made this afternoon by Secretary of Treasury Woodin who was going to resign. — e — MRS. LAUGHLIN LEAVI FOR HER SEATTLE HOME Mrs. Alice Laughlin, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Addie McKinnon, and other local relatives for several months past, left for her home in Seattle last nxgm on the motorship Normland (Continue& on Page Two) NEW YORK, Nov. 13.—Accord- f ing to an Associated Press sum-| mary, solemn ceremonies, riotous disorders and fears of an impend- ing conflict mingled last Saturday as the world remembered those who died in the World War. | At Cambridge University, Enz-| land, demonstrating students, in an anti-war group, raised a dis- turbance. At Paris, warnings of war sound- ed amid pleas for peace. In the cold grey fog, Londoners paid to tribute to the Empire’s fallen. America paid a silent tribute at 11 o'clock to the heroes in the conflict which ended 15 years ago Roosevelt Pays Respects In Washington, President Roosc- velt and a distinguished audience stood with bowed bared heads at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery to symbolize respect of the Nation lm he who gave his life in France. Solemn Ceremonies, Riotous Demonstrations, War Fears Mingle on Armistice Day In Wellesley, Massachusetts, a | group of Wellesley college girls car- ried anti-war placards in the an- nual Armistice Day services on Wellesley Green. American Legion officials expressed indignation. Peace Parades Several other colleges peace parades. Gen. John J. Pershing made a pilgrimage to the graves of Amer- ica’s war dead in Paris and then sailed for Washington. The police quelled a disturbance of students of a “No More War organization in Cambridge, Eng- land, but not before they received a pelting of eggs and tomatoes. Berlin Observance put on o| Should Be Made Here lalso denied new reports that he | | all “pay dirt” passes ; W{](]mN MAKES Shower of Shootm o Stars Due During N(*xt 3 Nights \Dimond Gathers Data to | Show Separate Study WASHINGTON, wUce. 28.—(Spec- ial Correspondence)—A new study is being made of living costs to| ductions now in effect should be| abandoned in whole or in part. Delegate Dimond 1is gathering further arguments to show why a separate study should be made with respect . to Federal employees in Alaska. Last spring, it will be re-| membered, he urged a separate| study but was informed that there| was no authority in law to make it. | The Delegate is not convinced of | the soundness of that mwrprela—‘ tion and once again he will present | a demand for an entirely distinct | survey in Alaska. An inspector for the Aeronautics| Division of the Department of Com- | merce was to have sailed for Alaska today to examine airplanes and pilots throughout the Territory. This will be the first inspection since early last spring. It was at the instance of Dele- gate Dimond that the inspector was authorized to make the trip. The Delegate called upon the chief of the inspection service in Washing- ton and prevailed upon him to) assign a member of his staff to the job. Mr. Dimond endeavored tn’ "'hm( an inspector stationed perma-| nently in Alaska, but was informed | that lack of funds would prevent | {that at this time. However, he| was fold that every effort uould* In Berlin, fifty exchange stu- '\bv made to bring about the desired | dents from the United States de-|result next spring. posited a wreath on the Memorial | to Prussia’s war dead in p*obnbly‘ Armis- since he was last in the countr - G. P. lJirryl Courmcy mmmanm the first observance of the tice in Germany since the Ge¢ mans regard the day as commem- | orating the Reich’s humiliation. J " (Continyed on Page Two) ars | isd! Although it is nearly 10 ye: ) | hourly counts, plots and cours PHILADELPHIA, Penn, Nov —Astronomers expeot a great ~)mw- er of Leonid shooting stars Tues- day, Wednesday and Thursday with probably the greatest display being on Wednesday. The Leonid meteors appear mostly after midnight in the northeast sky. They occur three times a century and are now over- due according to calculations of Dr. Charles P. Oliver, of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. He re- quests amateur astronomers to make ses of sky if the meteors the possible. Across BOMB EXPLODES jdetermine if the Federal pay re-| IN NEWS PLANT Racketeers Are Blamed for Latest Outrage in State of Ohio MANSFIELD, Ohio, Nov. 13. plant of the Mansfield News- Jour— nal was bombed early Sunday morning, it hours after the editor, J. Kochenderfer, received a racketeer warning to “Lay off or| you'll get yours.” The bomb exploded in the mail- ing room and the floor was np- ped up. Kochenderfer sistent crusader ing of all kinds. John Richards, night watchman, had just passed through the mail- ing room when the bomb exploded. He escaped Injury but suffered {from the ‘lmck GOES ON TRIAL, MURDER CHARGE SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 13.—Ac- cused of the mysterious shooting of her husband, Dr. James Gaines, sportsman, aged 27 years, Lillie has been a con-! against racketeer- *|Bank Gaines went on trial today on a charge of first degree murder. pared to act quickly in the ‘event the Japanese attempt aggression in the Far East. The manifesto also said: “QOur air fleet is prepared to deal decisive blows at the enemy centers of population and with such an array of terrible armament, the Soviet Union readily can kill any de- sire to compete against our program of peaceful labor.” The manifesto also empha- zed Russia’s desire for peace but added that Japan will lay herself open to an immeasur- able catastrophe if her Im- perialists put their proposed policies into effect. ——,—— — HITLER, NAZI REGIME GIVEN ENDORSEMENT Affiraagive Votes Siid ‘1o Exceed Forty-five Million BERLIN, Nov. 13.—An over- whelming endorsement of Chan- cellor Hitler’'s foreign policy and the Nazi regime generally came in returns Sunday from the German electorate. Final votes reported by the Wolff Agency showed that well cver 90 per cent of the ballots favor the Nazi. The affirma- tive votes on the national pleb- iscite exceeded forty-five mil- lion. INTEREST ON R. R LOANS IS CUT 1 PER CENT Proviso Is Made that Sav- ings Be Used to Em- ploy More Men | WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. — The Reconstruction Finance Corporation has reduced interstate loans to railroads from 5 per cent per an- num to four per cent for the year beginning November 1 with the understanding the carriers use the savings to employ additional men during the coming winter. —— IS VISITING PARENTS Charles W. Fredrickson, relief member of the Ketchikan Police Department, and a long time resi- |dent, is on a visit to his parents Jin Richmond, Virginia.