The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 4, 1934, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIIL, NO. 6538. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1934, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NATION'S BUDGET PRESENTED CONGRESS COMMITTEES OF CHAMBER NAMED FOR THIS YEAR New Water Study to Be Made — May Seek Tun- nel to Evergreen Bowl The personnel of nine regular standing committees of the Cham- ber of Commerce was announced today by President C. T. Gardner, and two others were left open un- til next week's meeting. This delay was occasioned by the fact that the members selected for chairmen | of them declined the appointment,| owing to the pressure of other business. Coach Ryan and his basketball squad of eight men were gussts of the Chamber today. Mr. Ryan was introduced by President Gardner and presented his players fo the ‘Chamber. Take Up Two Matters It is of paramount importance to the community that an adequate water supply be assured at all times, declared the report of the Executive Board. It said ther were three possible forms of get- ting this—development of Granite Basin by the company, bringing Salmon Creek to town for distri- bution, or by installing water met- ers to prevent wastage. There was no general discussion ! of the matter. It was referred to“ the Local Industries Committee! with instructions to confer with, Arvro JacossoN Americans Held as Spies Roserr Swrrz the City Council and co-operate| Discovery of an alleged espionage ring in Paris, which resulted in the with it in an effort to arrive at arrest of Robert Gordon Switz, of East Orange, N. J., and his wife, the some solution. Suggests Driving Tunnel Driving of a tunnel between the Public School grounds and Ever-! | former Marjorie Tilley, of New York, who are accused of complicity in | & plot to secure French military information for the Soviet, is linked to | the recent exposure of a similar plot in Finland. Arrests in the latter | case, last October, numbered twenty, two of the suspects being Ameri- 4 cans. They are Arvid Jacobson, former high school teacher at Northville, green Bowl, where @& model Tecre-| Mich., and Mrs. Marie Louise Martin, who claims American citizenship, | ation park is being created by C..but police believe her to be the member of the spy ring known as “Mme. W. A. workers under the direction Stahl.” Switz, an aviator, is registered at the University Union in Paris of the Forest Service, ed today by the Executive Board. This, it was said by R. E. Robert- son, member of the Board and! School Director, would give much| additional playgrounds for the| TWO CHILDREN was advocat- | 8s a Yale graduate, while his wife is listed as a former student at Vassar College. schools and fill a much-needed want. He said it was estimated that the lenzgth of the tunnel would be about 300 feet. It would prob- ably be six feet by eight feet inside measurement. He had been ad- vised. he said, that CWA labor probably would be available for the project if it were decided to under- take it. The only obstacle in the way, he said, was ‘n obtaining material for lining the tunnel. It would have to have a concrete lining. The mat- ter was turned over to the Civie Improvement Committee with au- thority to confer with Gov. John W. Troy upon his refurn home. Tacoma Sends Greetings The season’s greéting and wishes; for a prosperous New Year to the Chamber and the community gen- erally were received from the Alas- ka Committee of the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce. Sixty-four letters seeking infor- mation about Juneau and vicinity were reccived and answered during the past two weeks, Secretary Cur- tis Shattuck reported. A request was received from the University of Oregon for an Alas- ka Exhibit to be used in connec- tion with its summer floating school which comes north each summer. Up to noon 'Tuesday, Secretary (Continued on Page Two) - $50,000 ALLOTTED T0 ALASKA FOR MINING SURVEY PWA Gives:—ceolo gical Survey $299,000—Al- aska Will Get $50,000 WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—The Public Works Administration has announced the allotment of $209.000 to the United States Ceoclogical Survey, Interior De- partment Bureau, for mineral resource surveys and land classificaticn in 18 Central and Southern Statcs and Alaska. For the survey in Alaska the sum of $50,000 has been allot- ted. Tt was anncunced that the fotal allotment would give em- ployment to more than 100 en- gineers and technicians now out of work. SLAIN; MOTHER IS BEATEN UP {Man Also Said to Have Killed Roomer in House | —Makes Confession ’ | CHICAGO, T, Jan. 4—The po-| lice are holding John Piotrowski, | aged 27 years, as the slayer of his; two children, while searching for| John Panfield, a roomer, allegedly; beaten by Piotrowski and left for dead in a patch of weeds. 1 Piotrowski, the police said, con-| |fessed he beat his wife and also| with the barrel of a gun, then drowned ‘his infant son John in a} tub of water in their home. The| girl died later. | | The authorities quobzd Piotrowski | as saying the motive was the dis-} with Panfield. Boy, Fearing for Life of His Dog, i i Dies of Fright | i PORTSMOUTH, Ohio, Jan. 4— Collapsing from fright caused by Kenneth Colley, aged 14 years old, died suddenly. The boy was playing with his dog other dog suspected of having rab- ies. The Scioto County Dog Warden killed the afflicted dog. Seeing the! killing, Kenneth collapsed and died. Coroner Ross Mcore Gault said jthe child died of acute dilation of | |the heart brought on by fright. | Sister of Nome Woman | Dies Suddenly, 1 ! Jones, aged 40, Assistant Recorder of jthe King County Auditor’s Office iwhere she was employed for the !past 14 years, died suddenly at her! home Tuesday. She is survived by | six sisters, including Mrs. Harvey Grant, of Nome, Alaska. e — jlar aerological work. [s0e00e0eansacse PRICE OF GOLD UNCHANGED TODAY ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 4— There is no change in the price of gold today, the Re- construction Finance Cor- poration and Treasury De- partment announced. The price remains at $34.06 an ounce. e ceeersnscooe ONE HUNDRED TWENTY MEN ARE TRAPPED his three-year-old daughter Annp Flame s and Cu’iS Mean Death to Miners Caught by Terrific Blast CONGRESS 1S " GETTING DOWN TO HARD WORK Speed Records Being Set | —Committees Getting i Into Action | | WASHINGTON, Jan. 4— Con- | gress broke spesd records and up- | set tradition in true Rooseveltian | style by swinging into legislative | work on the second day of the session without even waiting for the reading of the President’s Bud- get Message. Administration Leaders to Try for Short Session; Heavy Legislative Program A , . BILLIONS ARE head "o 0111RED FOR | GOV, EXPENSE |President Submits Message | Regarding Estimat- | ed Outlay | BUSINESS OUTLOOK LOOKING MOST ROSY § No New Taxes Recom- mended—Part of Pay b Long before the tensely awaited Budget document was received com- mittees of both Houses sef to work | !as though determined to Tive up | to predictions of the leaders abaut a short, snappy session ending %n! May. | The House prepared to plunge. | directly into debate on the new, liquor tax bill after receiving the Budget Message and action. is u-“ pected by the week-end. The Senate prepared to make ' the Budget Message its chief point of business. | MANY MEASURES INTRODUCED BY ALS. DELEGATE Dimond Introduces 11 | More Bills—Seeks El- ection Date Change | WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—In ad- dition to the bill for repeal of the Territorial Prohibition law, ' Delegate Anthony J. Dimond oL‘ |Alaska has introduced 11 other | { measures, including one to amend| the Organic Act as to the date for holding elections and the conven-| \ing of the Alaska Legislature. { Some are private relief bills, one ® liberalizes existing leasing laws af- fecting public resources and an- ® other clarifies the laws relating to ® the school lands of the Territory. . Election in September The Delegate’s bill proposes to change the general election date (from the first Tuesday in Novem- ‘bvr to the second Tuesday in Sep- | !tember, effective this year. It also |advances the date for the Alaska | Legislature from the first Monday | /in March to the second Monday | are ‘in January. | | Other measures proposed by him | 1. To provide payment of dam- ages to a resident of McKinley National Park whose property was !taken into the park, appropriating 1$15,000. i 2. Provides that the Secretary |of Interior be given power to con- |sent to the extension of operations jon Alaskan coal lands and to sus- {pend payment of rentals on such DUCHOZ, Czechosiovakia, Jan. 4.'lands during periods when the | covery that his wife. who is seri-: —Fire and poisonous gases swept mines are not in operation. | lovsly injured, had been friendly @ dual threat of death toward 120/ 3 Authorizes the Secretaries of men trapped by a terrific blast iniinterior, Commerce, War and Ag- a coal mine here. Rescue workers have been beat-|aska and expend them en back By flames. It is feared all of the trapped Territory. not already men are doomed, if dead from gas. !riculture to regeive funds for Al- in co- | operative enterprises within the Provides for Appeals | i 4. Provides for an appeal on a‘ Cut Be Restored WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.— President Franklin D. Roose- velt frankly reported to Con- gress today a prospective nine billion dellar recovery cam- paign deficit for the next two vears and asked the lid be clamped down to put the Government on a pay as you go basis by 1936. This report was in a mes- sage transmitting the Budget with estimated expenditures, chargeable entirely to the re- covery effort, of almost seven billion five hundred million dollars for this fiscal year ending Jure 31. The President asked for a itwo billion® dollar war chest to continue and taper off this Senator Harrison (left), Chairman of the Finance Committee; Representative Doughton (right), Chairman ¢f the Ways and Means Commitiee and Speaker Rainey (standing at restrum, background,) BRIDGE SURVEY | STARTED TUDAY drive the followin, | BY SMALL GREW: The President ssid all this involves the Government bor- Detailed Study of Site of rowing ten billion dollars dur- ing the next six months but Channel Bridge Be- gun by Stratton WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—As Con gress returned to its labors at noon yesterday faced with the prospects of a heavy legislative session, ad- ministration leaders are determined | SIX ARE HELD Cne-third of the Senate and the 5 entire House will be up for Chfll'ges Filed Agamst lection latef in ‘the year. That Railroad Men as Re- sult, Train Crash ‘ By HERBERT PLUMMER re- e fact is countéd upon by both the President and his leaders on Capi- tol Hill to hasten the day of their departure from Washington. After Vice President Garner's expressed no doubt in meet- ing this problem. MEAUX, France, Jan. 4—Charges of homicide through negligence have been filed against six em- ployees of the East Railway as the result of the magistrate's investi- gation of the wreck of December 23 in which 200 persons were killed. The defendants are four technical executives of the railway and two are members of the train crew. One train crashed into another near here on the night of Decem- ber 23. The victims were mostly students from Paris returning home for the Christmas holiday. FIND POWELL - T0 BE INSANE Chief Conspirator in At- tempted Seattle Kidnap- ing, Dangerous Man SEATTLE, Jan. 4. — George E. Powell, charged with conspiring to abduct the son of theatre magnate Von Herberg, and hold him for ransom of $50,000 last month, has been termed insane and dangerous |to ke at large. This report has been filed by the examining alienists and Super- The bodies of 16 men Were re- writ of error from final judgment ior Judge John Frater is expected covered before the flames and €3S or decision of the United States to assign Powell to the Hospital beat back the rescue workers. Four miners managed to clam- fear his pet dog would be Killed, por 1000 feet to thge e B in a stupor from| afety, arriving gas and exhaustion. Another body was recovered lat- when the animal was bitten by an- o that of a washer-woman. who, worked in the shafthead of the mine. Income Tax Evader Gets 2-Yr. Sentence | ST. LOUIS, Jan. 4 — Francls?l | Campbell, former head of a firm/| |of accountants and a specialist in Seattle income tax matters, has been sen-| {tenced to two years in prison and { SEATTLE, Jan. 4. — Ma,guet‘flned $2,500 for income tax evasion. | Negro Gets 99 Years On Charge of Assault| WAXAHACHIE, Tex., utes, ally attack a married woman. Jan. 4— Convicted in less than three min-. William Rankin Jackson, Moffett field, California, has been negro. was sentenced to ninety-nine equipped with a $70,000 hangar to years' imprisonment on a charge house a Kkite balloon maintained of assault with intent to crimin- | (Continued on Page Three) Rising Prices to By CARL C. CRANMER WASHINGTON, Jan. 4— The | twin problems of agriculture, deb! !and commodity surpluses, bore the ;brunt of government attack ir To solve the surplus problem. the Agricultural Adjustment Act was passed, provided for crop con- trol and marketing agrecements. To meet the debt situation, the Farm Credit Administration was set up, and lending agencies that had been scattered under the old !Pede'ral Farm Board, Treasury, Re- construction Finance Corporation, and Department of Agriculture, ‘were grouped under one head and broadened. 4 Four Types of Credit | Department of Agriculture fiz- ures show that in 1932 farm mort- gage indebtedness was about $8-| 500,000,000. For the year ending for the Insane, F oilow érop Cuts, Also Debt Relief last March approximately farms out of every 1,000 were in- volved in transfers for debt. Four types of credit are provided under the nmew s:t-up by the fed- eral land banks, production credit corporatigns, intermediate credit banks afd banks for cooperatives in each of 12 regions. By issuing $2,000,000,000 in bonds, with interest guaranteed, the fed- eral land banks were permitted to assume farm mortgages held by private agencies in ordér to stop foreclosures. Nearly half a million farmers ap- plied for $1,700,000,000 in mortgage loans between May 12 and Decem- ber 1. Geared to grant loans which amounted to only $27569,000 in 1932, the land banks sfepped up their lending from $3985.000 in (Continuea on Page Three) i gavel fell in the Senate and Speak- er Rainey’s in the House at noon yesterday, machinery was set in motion for levying a liquor tax Veterans in Fight Leadership in this move rests on the shoulders of two Congres- sional veterans. Senator Harrison of Mississippi, Chairman of the TFinance Committee, will direct the fight in the Senate. Representa- tive Doughton of North Carolina, Chairman of Ways and Means will be the guiding force in the House. Budgetary matters occupy the attention of both Houses almost from the starf. The various ele- ments of this fight can't be defin- ed clearly in advance. As chairman of the two com- mittees, however, which handl® such legislation, Harrison and Doughton naturally will take the lead. On the Republican side of the aisle wil] be found David Reed of Pennsylvania, ranking Republican on the Finance Committee. Cou- zens of Michigan probably will fie- ure prominently in these debates as will “Young Bob” LaFollefte. In the House, supporting Chair- man Doughton, perhans Hill of ‘Washington and McCormick of Massachusetts will figure as promi- nently as any. Treadway of Mas- sachusetts and Bacharach of New Jersev will bear the brunt for the Republicans. Mcnetary Policy Debates In connection with ths whole question of the budget there 1s certain to be canvassed thorough- ly the Tlelds of “sound money,” in- flation and the administration’s gold policy, which at the end of the year are subjects of public de- bate. In the Senate Thomas of Okla- homa is likely to continue fhe cru- sade for inflation he has pushed so vigorously. Advocates of remone- tization of silver already claim a victory in the President’s new sil- ver purchase and coinage policy. announced late last month. In the House, with the blessing and support of Speaker Rainey, a large bloc of Western representa- tives are prepared for a struggle. Diametrically opposed to both of these groups stands the senate’s ‘“giant of finance,” Carter G of Virginia. Stubborn opposition may also be expected from the con- servative Republican group in both 8erate and House. Sandwiched between monetary debates probably will come attacks " (Continued on “l"aze Three) A detailed study of the site for the Juncau-Douglas bridge over Gastineau Channel was started this morning by O. H. Stratton bridge engineer just added to the staff of the Alaska Road Commis- sion, it was announced today by Ike P. Taylor, Chief Engineer. The new engineer arrived from Seattle on the steamer Yukon yesterday morning. A crew of four men was signed up yesterday, This morning the survey was launched. The study will cover all of the area between Ninth and Twelfth streets; Mr. Taylor said. It is hoped that a more advantageous site can be located than the one tentatively selected some time ago on Ninth Street. spot is determined a will be established and test borings for pier foundations made. ‘When this work is completed, the piers will be designed and let out on contract. While they are being constructed, the span and ap- proaches can be designed and ad- vertised for contract so that when the piers are in place, everything will be in readiness to go ahead with the rest of the bridze. The preliminary work, Mr. Tay- Tor said, will necessarily require several weeks. It will be pushed as rapidly as possible but it cannot be forced at a sacrifice of economy or stability of the structure. e GLEN BARTLETT RESIGNS, HOTEL SEATTLE, Jan. 4—Glen C. Bart- lett, widely known hotel man who is said to know more Alaskans per- sonally than anyone else in Seattle, has announced his resignation as manager of the Frye Hotel - Fairbanks Man Is to Wed Seattle Woman SEATTLE, Jan. 4—A marriage license has been issued to Richard P. Dasher, of Fairbanks, and Mae/ M. Orton, of Seattle, both of lezal age. N. G. e SRS GRS NELSON RETURNS N. G. Nelson. property owner and business man of Juneau, returned from the south on the steamer Yukon: When the most likelyjt center line| The nine billion dollar de- ficit which would swell the public debt to an all-time high of thirty-one billion eight hundred and thirty-four million dollars, does not take into account the prospectiva new taxes from liquor reve- !nue nor from plugging in- come tax loopholes. N> New Taxes There was no recommendation for new taxes in the Budget message. The President did recommend re= storation of one-third of the fifteen per cent cut in pay of Federal employees to be effective July 1. The President also favored cons inuation of the three-cent nons local mail rate. Optimism As in his personal address in the Chamber of the House yester- day afternoon, President Roosevelt spoke optimistically of the business outlook and said if the course out- lined is maintained “we can con- fidently look forward to cumulative and beneficial forces represented in jan increased volume of business, more general profit, greater em- iployment, dimunition of relief ex- penditures, larger governmental re- |ceipts and repayment of greater human happiness.” Reduction Shown In the message noting the Budget ilor the new year, the first he has |cubmitted to Congress, there. is 'shown a reduction of nearly six hunded and eighty-five million dol- ‘lars in regular and ordinary ex- penditures over the budget sub- mitted a year ago by the outgoing | Administration. | The huge Reconstruction Finance Corporation, called upon to finance {much of the business and banking !structure of the nation is charged |with almost four billion of the {Democrats W. armly Praise Message 'Read by Roosevelt WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—The | big Demccratic majority in Cengress remained warm in | | given details of “where we