The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 2, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” /OL. XLIIL, NO. 6510. JUNI;AU ALASKA SA"IURDAY D[:CEMBER 2% 1933. MEMBER Ol F ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS - — VACATION OF ROOSEVELT IS NOW CLOSING President, Sun- lanned and Rested, Prepares to Return North WARM SPRINGS, Georgia. Dec. —President Roosevelt is prepared | to depart for Washington. He| remains silent and apparently is satisfied with the trend of his dis-| puted monetary program. Reviv- from abroad about of his new propos- fon of currency in| exchanges brought sident is sun-tanned ted as a result of his va- cation here STOCK SESSION QUIET; CHANGES | MOSTLY SLIGHT t De-| | |— Prediction Made tha cember May’ Be Dull— Liquidation Not Devised NI‘W YORK, Dec. 2. — SlOcLS\ ir way through another orous session at the short pe- The turnover was only | the smallest early in today. 000 shares, total since changes were limited to 4 The close was steady. uities did not receive any stim- | 7um» from either foreign exchange st the | The dollar moved up agains sterling which was off about three. | The franc was about .03 cu\t»‘ lower. | Wheat | bushel was off two cents a Bends Firm | Bonds firmed today. | The gene market was dull. Al-| lied Chemical was up one pom(‘ advances were made by 11\»1 dustrial Aleohol, Bethlehem S'MI‘ Dupont, National Distillers, Com- mercial Solvents and Chrysler. Slight Changes I that were only shghml cn‘mgnd were United States Steel, American Telephone and Telegrapn | and General Motors and a few others. | Observers predicted a dull De-| cember owing to the existing mone- | tary situation here and abroad. This might turn one way or the | other anytime with subsequent re- sult of exceptional burst of trade. Although clouds still hovered | over the trading horizon, leading | operators and the pubuc seem hesitant about extending commit- ments. Most of the statistical services are not advising liquida- tion. Minor START CLIMB TO SCREEN TARPOM ALASKA BflYS RECOMMENDED FOR SERVIGES Appointments to West Point, Annapolis Made, with Alternates WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.--Dele- | gate from Alaska A. J. Dimond has recommended John Enge. of Pet- ersburg, and James Sande, of Ket- chikan, for appointment to West Point, and Donald W. Linck, of | Fairbanks, and George Gilson, of Valdez, to Annapolis. Alternates named by the Dele- { gate are as follows For Enge, Richard R. Read, of Seward, and David Tewkesbury, of Fairbanks, For Sande, of Cordova, and of Anchorage. For Linck, Walter A. Herring, of |F11rbank= Clinton Gray, of Nome, and John McTa;uc of Ketchikan. For Gilson, Malcolm Radel, - of Juneau, Edward Bor;zon, of Ketchi- kan, and Theodore H. Hunsbedt, of Juneau. FACES DEATH ON SCAFFOLD, Woodrow Johansen, Roy H. Kinsell, Dorothy Short (left) -1d Jayne Shadduck, both 18, as they appeared in a Los Angeles court to have contracts with mction picture com- panies approved. They signed long term contracts after three months work on trial. (Associated Press Photo) i | | I)ato of Chamber of Commcrw Attack Very Historic One for s, .| in Colorado — Gas Present New Deal, I rltg(,lmm.s T e|Cable Slips, Hits ‘ o By ERRON. EEL ! caNoN cITY, Colo, Dec. 2— (Chief of Bureau, The Associated|Called the most composed prison- Wan in Neck; Press, Washington.) [er to face the gallows here, Wal- He Is D 4 When ory searches for alter Jones, of Flint, Michigan, was Dead a to mark the beginning of or-|calm to the point of detachment g 93 ganized counter-revolutionary ef-|He was hanged here this morning Bi(-T:‘:}A\T?LI:;I [.){:( o George | fort against the Roosevelt indus-|for the killing of Hartford John- R R o ke order, it may well be that|son, in a box car robbery. He) il e i ) -“f, S . 18, 1933, will emerge as ful-!js the last to be hanged in this i m:ua;,; ~luml|.:l'" \_"“'".‘k“m"; the requirements. state as gas supplants the gallows b Sopapy 3 that day the directors of the i mi s es cn his neck and broke it. Ml B_gixenang e! It took 14 minutes for Jones to A widow and a 4-ycar-old son survive. e Chiln\;m of Commerce of the Unit-| die. He refused the solace of ed States fired a shot which they: prayers, saying he did not want| hoped would be heard 'round the|to embrace religion before he died world. They asked for an end to!as he had gone so far through currency experimentation, for less | life without it and did not see Man Under Arrest for Mys- terious Deaths of Four Wives BULLETIN—ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Dec. 2.—Officials this afternocn said Carl Wick- man confessed he killed his fourth wife. Last Hangir-lg_Takes Place By 2.—George less government competition with help now. cence of that action | ppears only when it is realized business. Hx.n the board which adopced‘SMALL AMOUNT these resolutions could make an| impressive eclaim to speaking for | the industrial wealth of the Unit- ed States. Virtually without ex- ception the great corporafions and | groups of corporations have their | spokesmen on the board. Of course the action of Nov. 18 merely gave a voice to more-or- less subued murmurings which had been in progress for some itime. And that is just the point; the murmurings now give way to| The fi Two Months After Re- peal, Is Limited CALMMANNER NRA control of business and for | why he should call of the Diety for | COME INTO U. . Importations Durmg First| HOTELS UNDER FLYING DEC MORE FURDS FOR ALASKA PROJECTS AND HANGA Plans for a lane of seadromes vision something like this as a aerial highway across the Atlantic. 30-hour route from New York to London. By HOWARD M. BLAKESLEE (Associated Press Science Editor) | hand, and the one-hop plane | NEW YORK, Dec. 2. — Their | vocates, on the other. The latt slogan “New York to London in | point to an order by one of the 30 hours’—the big seadrome men | big air lines for six planes with a have hopes of vietory in the first | 3,000-mile cruising radius. yound of a three-cornered contest| The seadromes, as modeled, re- for establishi xv;.,ul‘\r transat- | € cemble flat oval docks on {lantic flying se [ piers, their tops almost com- These hopes rest on the pletely bare steel flooring, under nouncement that the Public Works | which are two floors of hotel and Administration is considering the | hangars. This superstructure stands |granting of a $1,500,000 loan for |on hollow steel columns, with | immediate experiments on a quar-|buoyancy tanks at the bottom to | ter setion of a seadrome—a float- | keep the drome afloat. |ing island of steel. Tt is one of The flying dock is to be ‘1225 | five projected to be anchored feet long, 300 feet wide amidships, “\very 500 miles on a path across| 150 feet in girth at the rounded | the Atlantic. ends. The columns will be 300 The '.wo other conLcslant: are | feet long, holding [the a gible advocates, on one an- CABINET OF FRANCE NOW NEAR CRISIS J\ew Premier Makes First Appearance Seeking Confidence Vote BULLETIN—PARIS, Dec. 1. The Cabinet was accorded a vote of confidence by a huge majority this afternoon. Vian Who Crossed Bering Strait On Ice, Is Dead BOURNEMOUTH, England, Dec. 2—~Harry DeWindt, aged %1 years, explorer who once traveled from Paris to New York, afoot and on horseback, is dead here. On one attempt made for the Pall Mall Gazette, De- Windt tried to go by the same means from New York to Paris and nearly perished while crossing Bering Strait when the ice broke under him. He was rescued by the crew of a whaling ship. 3 ——,———— | | UNCERTAINTY PRE PARIS, Dec. 2.—Early th tall | the deck 100! sort of “tank town” stop on the There would be five such ocean landing places in a contemplated fect above the surface. | Cable Three s Long | The drome will be fastened by a three-mile cable to a 1,500-ton anchor, saucer-shaped and made | to float until inner chambers are | flooded with water. The anchor will be hitched to a buoy, from which the seadrome will swing by a cable. I expected to keep its head cor ntly toward the wind. Hundred foot waves, it is pre- dicted, will pass completely un- | der the deck. Down where the, buoyancy tanks are designed to float the water remains still. Edward R. Armstrong of Holy- Del, father of the idea, d making models in 1913. A, STEVENSON PASSES AWAY | IN SOUTHLAND Organizer of Chain of | Banks of Alaska Dies in Los Angeles | LOS ANGELES, Cal, D¢ Funeral services for Andre ev enson, aged 54 years, Presbyterian church leader, railroad man, bank- er and author of religious writings | will be held today. ’ Stevenson dicd Thursday founded last He 'TWO OFFICIALS, WITH DELEGATE, GET MORE CASH Governor Troy and En- gineer Taylor Have Successful Trip 'LARGE AMOUNT IS FOR CIVIL WORKS Plogram for Trail and Road Construction Be Prepared 2.— WASHINGTON, Dec. Ike P. Taylor, Chief Engineer of the Alaska Road Commis- sion, leaves for Juneau today to prepare his program for road and trail construction in ‘19.‘]4 in the Territory of Al- aska. Engineer Taylor and Gov. John W. Troy have been here more than one week seeking funds for Federal Govern- [ment and Public Works pro- ijects for relief of the unem- iployment situation. 1 Gov. Troy plans to remain a week or ten days before re- |turning to his Juneau head- quarters. Delegate Anthony J. Di~ mond said between $200,000 and $250,000 have been as- sured the Territory by the Civil Works Administration. About one third of this will be given to the Bureau of Indian Affairs to provide work for unemployed Indians. | TENTATIVE PROGRAM A tentative Civil Works program was telegraphed from here today to Gov. Troy by Acting Gov. E. W. |Gritfin, it was announced at the ‘lallcrs office. It is based upon | reports received from all four Al- (aska Divisions and a rough survey |of the present unemployment sit- uation. Projects suggested include many street and sewer improvement jobs, work on public buildings, play- grounds, parks, road and trails and oLher public betterments. Indian Program Starts The funds for Alaska Indians were allotted last week and already |about 175 persons have been put |to work, it was announced at local {headquarters of the Office of In- (dian Affairs. Projects have been started in 12 communities and others are being studied with a view of adding to the number of employed. Settlements in which work is al- ready approved and under way in- clude: Wrangell, Juneau, Douglas, Haines, Sitka, Yakutat, Cordova, WASHlNGTON Dec. Z—Impw'- ing the danger of being 0\“Hhmwn | after an operation. ations of about four million gal- hung over Cautemps’ Cabinet as lons of foreign liquor during the|the Premier faced Parliament on first two months after repeal is his first official appearance and| | planned by the government pend- read the Ministerial declaration of ing negotiations for reciprocal inteion to balance the budget. 5 articulations, hesitation to action. CLOSING PRICES TODAY S| NEW YORK, Dec. 2. — Closing 3 CRIMES CHARGED quotation ofv Alafka Jumtau mme1 AI:BUQUERQUF. [)Lzr:. 2—Carl; The alacri with which Mr. stock today is 22%, American Can|Wickman, Denver pharmacist, be-| poosevelt returned the shot- 98, American Power and Light 9%, ing questioned concerning the .o pefore it was fired—gives | the Banks of Alaska in 1915 with Unalaska, Tanana, Kotzebue, Sax- MBLTEN LAVA pranches in Skagway, Wrangell, man and Ketchikan. In all cases THE ANSWERING FIRE Anchorage and Cordova the program is designed to carry A widow, three sons a out useful improvements, and it is dAughLer su 3 the intention of the Indian Service |to put every dollar allotted to 1t £ and In the lobbies it was stated a| Anaconda 14%, Armour B 2%, |deaths of three former wives, Bethlehem Steel 33%, Calumet and Hecla, no sale; Colorado Fuel and Iron 4%, Curtiss-Wright 2%, Fox Films 14, General Motors 32%, In- ternational Harvester 40%, Kenne- cott 21%, Chicago and Milwaukee (preferred) 8', Standard Oil of | California 41'%, United Corporation 47, United States Steel 44%. ., — IRISH REPUBLIC IS PLANNED NOW 2—The Daily| LONDON, Dec. Mail today said President Eamonn de Valera is understood to have clearly declared to the British Government his intention of going forward with plans creating an Irish Republic. This subject will be brought up in the House of Commons on De-| cember 5. Elks Moving MISSOULA, Mont—Large herds| of elk are being driven down near here by heavy snows in the upper passes. Every year deer and elk come down from the mountain passes to lower valley to pasture. 4 D re-| further weight to the whole inci- mained in charge of officials today gent,. as an investigation extended from‘ Speaking in Georgia on the same here to Massachusetts. ! day, he branded as “tories” those The probe began after Wick- who opject to his experiments. man’s fougth wife, Mrs. Donalda’' mpat he probably prepared his Chicoine Wickman, died last Sat- speech before the board actually | urday night. Wickman sald she geteq is only of minor importance. died a victim of a hit-and-run g. kpnew what was coming. driver. | The police said Wickman admit- | ted it looked bad for him as re- gards two former wives. trade pacts with exporting com-| panies. For future quotas, allotments countries based on the average monthly importations from them between 1910 and 1914. When the time expired last night for filing applications for first allotments, importers had app! Washington did mnot doubt for‘ for entry of more than twelve mi a moment the earnestness of ‘he‘hon gallons of spirits and wines President’s utterance. Nor that; y Ry it was a deliberate and studied| Russian Travel Bonus statement. There was skepticism | in New York, wh one financial | Offered Swedish Reds wimar even 'sugaested that mr. Roosevelt may have been joking. Knowledge of what he still has in mind for the future hardly in- CODE IS SIGNED WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. The code regulating the amount and manner of liquor importation has been signed by the President. HANGS HIMSELF IN FARM BARN Py STOCKHOLM, Dec. 2.—The gov- ernment council of Norrbo. a com- munity in northern Sweden, has dicates that he was joking. His| decided to help communist sym- advisers foresee the day when the pathizers visit the country whose name “tory” will be looked back praises they sing. iupon as a very mild expression of A bonus of 200 Swedish kronor Mr. Roosevelt's opinion of those (about $40) will be paid each big and once powerful business in- communist sympathizer who will terests which stand in his way. agree to go to Russia and stay there at least two years. ———e——— i Buys with Nickels PADUCAH, Ky.—Deputy Court Clerk William Landfear had to do a lot of counting when Alf Strauss, a negro, presented 1,040 nickels in payment of two State retail beer licenses. BELLINGHAM, Wash., Dec Alexander Robinson, aged 30 son of a prominent Lyman fam hanged himself in a barn on family ranch in Skagit Coun'y. Robinson was a former bank ¢ ploye and returned home last sum-| mer suffering from a mnervous breakdown. The father said his son had been despondent for some time. THE FIGHT'S IN THE OPEN If the signs can be depended on at all Nov. 18 meant the begin- ning of a new and perhaps decis- ive stdge in the struggle between two schools of industrial thought. The division has been there all along, but it now comes into the open. The couniry will hear, on (Continued on Pags Two) | iSan Salvador Volcano| will be fixed with various foreign| .| which keep me busy.” | vote of contidence would be given. | Erupts—Coffee Planta- Outside of the Parliament build-} 8, sed like | * ings, the police were masse! tions, Farms Covered soldiers while hunger strikers m-’ rade in the freezing cold and de-| manded work and bread “ Wild Birds Keep Police their cattle, were overtaken by the Bllilel’ thm DO Thleves\molwn lava and perished after the ! Cay, | eruption of Tzalco voleano. SAN SALVADOR, Dec. 2—Cof- | fee plantations and livestock farms) are covered with lava today. | | NORTH HOLLYWOOD Dec. 2.—Here is one duck who hunts in son and and gets paid for it. William Lawson, head of the lo- | cal police patrol, holds a Fede | permit and has instructions to| | shoot the wild ducks and mudhens | which find their way into Loluca | ‘lake and from there pm on the| e o TODAY' GOLD PRICE $34.01 . WASHINGTON, Dec. 2— Today’s gold price as fixed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is the same as yesterday, $34.01. The gold price in London is 3252 on the basis of the ster- ling which opened at 521!; to the pound. hunter | out, | ’ l"l{l’l”l'lON IN JAPA.\' TOKYO, Dec. 2—Ashes are scat- |tered over nearby villages in the |eruption of Mount Tarumae on lof the main ldnds of Japan. residents “Of course, I'm supp | | look out for burglars and the like| 100" said Lawson, “but it's thej wlld mallard, mudhens and teal| d to NEW RADIO MAN COMING William Griffin is a passenger aboard the Northwestern for Ju- neau where he will be attached 10| the local radio office staff. He| succeeds F. R. Griswold who will be stationed at the Seattle office. | . | \ Two farmers, attempting to save| | Hokkaido Island, the northernmost | FORD WINNER INBOUT WITH GEN. JOHNSON Award ! choml Cunl ract ed for 700 Truc for C. C. C. Dec. 2.—A de- Ford in his lat- with Gen. Hugh ndered last the award of a Fed- for 100 trucks to a land, Ford dealer. ad been held up be- Ford refused to sign up with NR% The trucks are for the CCC. -, ANCHORAGE WAY SOlTll WASHINGTON, I cision for Henry { est controvers | 8. John night throu \om' contract | Be N | | | | WIFE OF MERCHANT ON | Mrs. C. M. Eckmann, whose! jhusband is an Anchorage mer- | chant, is on her way south aboard | the steamer Yukon for a vacation | trip. by the Civil Works Administration lto efficient service, it was de= clared .- ARMY, NAVY OF JAPAN TO GET LARGE AMOUNT TOKYO, Japan, Dec, 2.—The ! Japanese Cabinet has agreed to preliminary outlines of the Budget alloting the Army and Navy a total of $281,000000, the largest amount ever set aside for their use in the history of Japan. This is about 40 percent of the total budget. | S %wpma H Days o . c()mtms