The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 6, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE - “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e VOL. XLIIL, NO. 6513. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS PRESIDENT ASKS F OR LAW AND ORDER RR 'CWA WORK HERE IS AUTHORIZED BY WASHINGTON Gov. Troy Advises Griffin that 600 Men Can Go to Work at Once ARC WILL SUPERVISE ALASKA PROJECTS « | | Field Men Are Directed by| | § Radio to Launch Work Without Delay Authority to launch immediate projects on the Civil Works pro-| gram was issued today by Acting Gov. E. W. Griffin to 17 com- munities in Alaska, including Ju- neau, on which a fotal of 510 men will be employed, it was an- nounced this morning by that of- ficial. Authority was received from sv. John W. Troy, now in Wash- gton, to put on 600 men and additional projects in other towns Will be started as "soonm ‘as ap- is given. of ithe work, Mr. Griffin All said, will be under general super-{ sion of the.Alaska Road Com- mission. The projects, however, ‘will be handled through the Gov- ernor's office, and the four Fed- eral judges in the several divis- ions. Expansion Is Sought The number of men approved, 600, is insufficient to meet the de- mands for work that are coming into the Governor’s office from all quarters, Mr. Griffin said to- day. The allotment, he pointed out, is based on the first appli- cations received here, and an addi-| tional aTlotment has been sought from the Civil Works Administra- 600 MEN GO ON ALASKA CWA P he annual conference 9fhu€}ex lr‘:,ter American Commission of Women_ held in conjunction wit] e Pan- American Conference in Montevideo, Uruguay. Above left, Marta Vergara, Chilean journalist who is on the Qonsultahve Committee or. Nationality; right, Carmen Velasco Portinho de Lutz, B!‘B'ZI]'IIYI engineer; below, Doris Stevens of Nebraska, chairman of the conymission, who is a militant leader of the feminist eause. \These women are outstanding at tl THREAT MADE LINDBERGHS BY [TALY TO | OVER OCEAN, ~ QUIT LEAGUE NEAR BRAZIL Big Organizmn Must Be‘Flying Couple Crossing Thoroughly Remod- South Atlantic—Posi- eled, Says Il Duce tion Reported BULLETIN — LONDON, Dec. 6.—~The British Government is represented as regarding the | | | i | 6.—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and | his wife are flying across the South tion. It is believed that this will be forthcoming without great de- 1ay. ziw “(Continued on Page Seven) e FORTY MEN WILL BE GIVEN WORK ON LOCAL JOBS Mayor Goldstein Advised CWA Projects Here on Approved List Forty men will be put to work here under the first authorization for the Alaska Civil Works pro- gram, it was revealed today. That is the number of jobs allotted to this city, Acting Gov. E. W. Grif- fin advised Mayor 1. Goldstein to- day. The Mayor conferred with Mr. Griffin this afternoon regarding thes program. If possible, he said, work will begin tomorrow morning. While he has a number of pro- jects in mind to be carried out before the close of the work, May- or Goldstein said the Gold Creck improvement plan probably would pe given first call. This calls for the removal of all boulders and Joose material from the creek bed, clearing the channel, and con- " struction of rock walls on both banks of the stream. “If possible to do so, we can and will have a crew of 25 men engaged in that work tomorrow morning,” the Mayor declared. Atlantic #rom Bathurst, Gambia, land reported their position at 4 faAm. today, Pacific Coast Time, as 1750 miles northeast of Natal. ROME, Dec. 6.—Fascist Italy has| The two fliers unloaded addition- rallied around I1 Duce’s st.andard%al baggage from their plane yester- supporting his threat to leave the day and spent the day improving League of Nations unless it is giv- the condition of their low-winged en a thorough remodeling. fmnnuplane for the 1,870-mile flight Newspapers supported the de-|to Natal. cision of the Grand Council to put a stiff fixed price on the na-| REACH NATAL tion's continued support of the; NATAL, Brazil, Dec. 6. — The League. | Lindberghs have landed here after {16 hours and 10 minutes in the CONVERSATIONS STARTED | air from Bathurst. ROME, Dec. 6—The Associated Mrs. Lindbergh radioed pro- Press has learned from highest}gress the entire trip. quarters that diplomatic conversa-| The pair did not force the tions have begun with various'plane and the flight was made capitals in Europe seeking to re- leisurely at 120 miles an hour aver- form the League of Nations. | age speed. They struck some strong —_—————— | winds, but it was a fine trip, said BLINDED BY |- o o e RAIN;KILLED BY AN AUTO BELLINGHAM, Wash,, Dec. 6.— Elmer L. Wilson, President of th First National Bank of Burlington, | was killed instantly last ‘night as he stepped in front of an automo- Italian propesal for reforma- ticn of the League of Nations as subordinate to disarmament. stores closed to greet the flying couple. Col. Lindbergh and his wife ill return to the United States from here. — OLD ALASKAN "~ DROPS DEAD RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Dec.| Mrs. Biddle Is Divorced, Then Reweds Society Matr—on— Who Stud- ied Alaska Women in Second Romance FESTIVITIES OVER COUNTRY MOSTLY MILD Few Citizens Awake This Morning with *“Night After” Feeling PRESIDENT’S LEAD WILL BE FOLLOWED States Are Working to Ad-| just Themselves to New Conditions STOCKS RULE IRREGULAR ON N.Y. EXCHANGE Rails and Specialties Re- main Firm — Bonds Are Fairly Steady RENO, Nevada, Dec. 6. — Mrs. L Mamie Dale Biddle, Philadelphia NEW YORK, Dec. 6. — Stocks sotiety matron who a year ago were irregular today and trading spent some time in Alaska study- cooled but rails and some special- ing the conditions of women living ties remained firm on the New in isolated sections, married Will- York Stock Exchange. Most of the jam Starling Burgess, New York leaders held around the previous yacht builder, yesterday shortly levels but mixed prices ruled uuv after she secured a divorce from the close. {Biddle. The couple left immediate- | United States Government se-{ly after their marriage by plane curities lent a touch of heaviness for New York City. |to the bond market. Otherwise/ : bonds were firm. { DR. WIGHTMAN ! I WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—The Na- | tion worked hard today to adjust| !iwelf to the new order of things| |as repeal of Prohibition went into, | force. Neither grains nor foreign ex- | changes furnished, especial stimu- {lus for equities. Transportation | | . ; Surprisingly to some of the eigh- s i the sale of hard liquor, they had Owens Illinois Glass, Johns-Man=, |ville and some other improved. | National Distillers and United States Industrial Alcohol lost a point or so each. United States | Smelting and Refining, McIntyre ‘Mines‘ and Alaska Juneau yielded |a point or two. American Telephone jand Telegraph and United State ! Chemical sagged about two points few citizens feeling the worse as the result of celebrations. Throughout the country the fes- | tivities seemed to lack the fervor | |some ' forecast. | In many cases liquor was scanty. ¢ There are also indications that a number of States will follow the | President’s lead, who proclaiming |repeal of Prohibition stated the |future aims and “policy of the |Government is to see that social| land political evils existing in the | pro-Prohibition era shall not be PALATIAL HOME jA{lr;iclive Wife Is Taken | Into Custody by Los Angeles Police the supply of | BULLETIN — LOS ANGE- 1LES, Cal, Dec. 6—Keeping a threat to blow his head off, Dr. Wightman, aged 66, killed himself after a quarrel with his wife because of his atten- tion to a woman patient. This statement was made late this afterncon by the police. | CLOSING PRICES TODAY | NEW YORK, Dec. 6. — Closing !quotation of Alaska Juneau minc’ |stock today is 21%, American Can| 198%, American Power and Light| 67%, Anaconda 14%, Armour B 2%, | | Bethlehem Steel 35%, Calumet and | {Hecla 4%, Colorado Fuel and Iron| |4%, Crutiss-Wright 2%, Fox Films| {14, General Motors 337%, Interna-| | tional LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 6—Dr. it Harvester 42%, Kennecolt w pewey Wightman, prominent 123%, Chicago and Milwaukec (pre- ppnysician and anesthetist, was shot |ferred) 8%, Standard Oll of Cali- /3y peaten to death in his palatial CHILD LABOR | | ) | | DES MOINES, Iowa, Dec. 6— {The State Legislature has ratified | ithe Child Labor Amendment, mak- | {ing the sixteenth State giving ap-| revived nor permitted again to exist.” i PR e |fornia 42%, United Corporation 5, | (home during the night. | Unitad States Bioel 9%, | Detectives took into custody, for i — P " | questioning, the doctor’s attractive | {er nurse. i [ “I did not'hear nor see a thing,”| SEWARD, Alaska, Dec. 6.—Mrs. ;was the only statement the police Dorothy Minxiesheimer Urbach { {have been able to get from Mrs. aged 33 years, former New York [] ;Wightman society girl who came here in 1919 ! ! SHOT HEARD result of pneumonia. | | Neighbors said the Wightman Survivors are the widower, Leon | couple returned from a social visit Urbach, President of the Seward B ERE |late last night and a short time Chamber of Commerce, and mer- NEWPORT, Wash., Dec. 6—A after they heard a shot and no- chant, two sons, Kenneth, aged 13 quarrel over a jug of moonshine tified the police. and Lawrence, aged 11 years. | | Amendment was repealed, caused 1y clothed, lay a rifle, its stock !the death yesterday of W. H. Head- broken. A bullet pierced the body. rick, aged 54, a farmer living near; here. | . | Ernest Nueske, aged 54, the Chw} Executive | Headrick, a stranger to him. , | 1 Nueske said Headrick retused to Address Tonight igive the jug back to him after| ’ {being given a drink when the two men met on the highway. !red-haired wife Josephine, a form- | ONE DRINK, and married, died yesterday as the 'a few minutes atter the Eighteenth| Beside the body, which was ful- —————— | ing Tp/: !authorities said, admitted shooting Wlu Make Nueske said Headrick shot at ke WASHINGTON, Dec. 6— President Roosevelt speaks to- ! night to the Federal Council of | | | him twice, the bullets missing both| Churches of Christ. There is proval. | {times, then Nueske went into ac-| no indication as to what the | tion, shooting and killing Hend»i President will discuss. He goes | ‘I]flll M.n jrick. | on the air overa national hook- @Ket(:h » to, wed | Nueske is held on an open wup at 7:30 o’clock, Paciic | Florence Girl in Seattle charge. Time, 1 4 | | | SEATTLE, Dec. 6. — A marriage President Roosevelt Is to e TR | |kan, and Viola M .J. Knudson, {and labored to please all ETURN: FERVOR LACKING Prohibition Was Nearly 14 Years '()h[. Time of Death NE WYORK, Dec. 6— o National Prohibition went e into effect on the midnight e that ushered in January e 16, 1920. . Utah voted it out of ex- istence at 5:32 o'clock, East- e ern Standard Time on the e afternoon of Tuesday, De- e cember 5. . Thus, measured in East- ® ern Standard Time, Prohi- e bition was in effect 13 years, o 10 months, 18 days, 17 hours, 27 minutes and 30 seconds. e esessesan e - NEW YORK CITY | CELEBRATES IN ORDERLY STYLE Not a *“Drunk” Found on Broadway and No Roistering Reported NEW YORK, Dec. 6—Taxis choked the Forties and Fifties un- til 3 o'clock this morning and la- ter and lights burning in the Six- ties and Seventies until dawn. There was not a “drunk” on Broadway and not a roisterer any- where in the great town. Really legal speakeasies said | “no” to customers and sent them | to licensed restaurants and hotels but asked them to come back when they sccured their licenses. Hotels served capacity crowds tastes, but they closed promptly at cur- few and restaurants did the same, SEATTLE IS DULL SEATTLE, Dec. 6—This city had one of the dullest of nights known to the police and what celebrating there was, was done quietly. CHICAGO JOYOUS CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 6.—Joyous crowds surged through the Loop last night in a carnival spirit and went home to awaken today with that “morning after headache.” The festivities here resembled a New Year's Eve celebration. IOWA AGAINST MINE RECORDS ARE DESTROYED INTERIOR FIRE FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 6.— Fire destroyed all court and mining vecords in the Livengood Mining District yesterday, United States Commissioner Lee Merry reported. Merry's residence, with the of- Itice in connection, burned to the ground. ROGRAM PROCLAMATION ISSUED, REPEAL EFFECTIVE NOW {President Plainly States What National Pol- icy Is Aimed at {SALOON NOT TO COME BACK IN ANY GUISE |Purchase olecoholic Bev- erages from Legiti- mate Sources Only WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.— A doubly purposed proclama- tion putting the official end to Prohibition and calling on the American people to help restore the respect of law and order was issued last night by President Roosevelt. The President made a spee- ial plea that no State author- ize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in a new guise. The Chief Executive said the objective being sought through the National policy was to educate every citizen toward greater te m p erance and asking cooperation of the Government’s effort to restore the respect of law and order. Buy Legitimately The President enjoined all citi- zens and others of the United States to confine purchases of alcoholic beverages solely from li- censed dealers. In conclusion the President said: “I trust in the good sense of the American people that they will not bring upon themselves the curse of ex- cessive use of intoxicating liquors to the detriment of health, morals and social in- tegrity.” Government Ready Repeal found the Government prepared to control the flow of liquor in wet States through a vir- tual dictatorship over the industry, and to protect arid States. = Liquor, at present, can be sold legally in only eighteen States be- cause local Prohibition laws still stand on the statute books and the Eighteenth Amendment must first be ejected from the Constitution. Against Bootlegger Attempts are being made to keep bootleggers from profiting by the expected increased demand for legitimate liquor. Release of the medicinal Govern- ment supply of liquor continues and negotiations with other countries for trade pacts whereby their spirits and wines might be ex- changed for American farm sur- pluses are underway. bile driven by Marion Peterson, Burlington bookkeeper. Officers believed Wilson’s vision FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 6—| John Cavan Thompson, aged 65! {years, dropped dead last Saturday ! Hang Stocking on Christmas, 6.—Santa aged 22, of Florence, Wash. — | 'Protest to Repeal at Tanana according to a report| WASHINGTON, Dec. ireceived here. Heart trouble was Claus this year will find Frank- ithe cause. Thompson has lived in lin D. Roosevelt's stocking hang- iAlaska for the past 35 years. |ing high in front of the Presiden- ———— tial fireplace. JOSEPH STERLING HAS “Santa always has filled Frank- MAJOR OPERATION 'I'UES.‘]m's stockings,” Mrs. Roosevelt told her press conference, “and | Joseph Sterling underwent a ma- | the rest of the family always hanz | jor operation at St. Ann's Hos-! their stockings in Franklin’s room, pital yesterday morning and is'about the fireplace.” progressing nicely, according to| In fact, as Mrs. Rooseveli de- was obscured by rain. » A coroner’s jury exonerated Pet- erson. HOLDS UP BANK, ALSD CUSTOMER from a customer. Another customer major operation about iwo weeks Carol® to the family group on escaped and gave the alarm but ago, left St. Ann’s Hospital for his| Christmas Eve, finishing before the gunman disappeared. lham yesterday. Jm_ He directs the trimming of the tree, after the children are in bed. To his bed the grandchildren | come on Christmas morning, and | are allowed to sit closest to him,| and to open their stockings first.| And use he doesn't like, electrically lighted Christmas trees,! the Roosevelts plan to have theirs in the upper halls of the White! House, lighted by reai candles. | “It makes Franklin so much| ! dancing party December 30, and a party for the children at 4 o'clock | the day after Christmas. { Proclamation Is Knocked Out WASHINGTON, Dee. 6.—The effort of Canen W. Chase, of Breoklyn, and George Duncan, of Washington, to prevént is- suance of the proclamation an- nouncing ratification of the Prohibition Repeal Amendment was rejected yesterday by the SPRAGUE, Wash,, Dec. 6. — A hospital authorities. }lcrlbed the traditional family| happier,” said Mrs. Roosevelt. | lone gunman held-up the .First T 1 P Christmas occlebration, the whole| The President’s mother will| District of Columbia Supreme National Bank here yesterday, LEAVES HOSPITAL | White House® party ~will center|come from Hyde Park, the two| Court. afternoon and escaped with §1,200) e | aiout the President. younger boys will be home from| The two men contended the of the bank’s funds and $5 he took| Sam Sheary, who underwent a| He reads Dickens' “Christmas| school, there will be a young folks'| amendment had been illegally ratified by several States. The Court held there was no basis for such acticn. { | | 20LD PRICE HISTORY IS MADE WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—For the STILL $3401 Treasury D;p—artmenl Mak- ing Plans for Mid-De- cember Financing WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. — The price of gold 'is unchanged to- day, $3401, the same as for the past five days, as the Treasury | polished plans for a big mid-De- cember financing operations. The London price for bar gold today is $32.64 on the basis of to the pound. first time in the history of this Republic, an amendment has been wiped from the Constitution. SOME TAXES ENDED WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. — The Presidential proclamation of repeal of Prohibition ended taxes which the Treasury figured would bring in around $212,000,000 yearly to be repiaced by special taxes on legal- ized liquor. e ———— RETURNS HOME Mrs. A. B. Clark, who underwent: a major operation at St. Ann’s | the opehing of sterling at 5.11'-_»Ih'ospzml. is convalescing at her home.