The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 13, 1934, Page 1

THE DAILY ALAS KA EMPIRE _ “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” "JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY ]AI\UARY 13, 1934, MI:MBLR OI ASSOCIATED PRESS WALL STREET KEEPING EYES ON WASHINGTON Stock Speculation Most Discreet Today — Price | Mocvements Indecisive | NEW YORK, Jan. 13. — Wall Street watched Washington for! further indications of something | abcut what will happen in the gold and monetary situation and! as a result stock speculation was highly discreet. Price movements were indecisive. The close was ir- regular. Sales totaled 700,000 shares. were ir with Gov- ernme “el:ll‘ | Steel and equities were in fair| demand. There were moderately| improved quotations for wbwcas} Metals eased. Grains were qmel Cotton was strong. United States Steel, Youngstown' Sheet and Tube and Bethlehem Steel were up one point or more. | Allied Chemical was off three points and Un::(d States Smelungw SWhila sl connatinia bl the Strnct | seemed to be some definite move | is to be expected soon in Lh:*, monetary policy, opinions varied | as to the effects on stock of | curency stabilization, revaluation | and gold impounding. slightly lower and CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Jan. 13. —Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau min stock today is 2112, American Can 95%, American Power and Light 7, Anaconda 14, Armour B 2%, Bethlehem Steel 387%, Calumet and Hecla 4, Curtiss- Wrxgm 2%, Fox| Films 13%, General Motors 3;& International Harvesfer 391, necott 18%, North American Avxa | tion +5!%, Monigomery-Ward 23, Standard Oil of California 38 United States Steel 487%. e ——— WARRANTS OUT FOR SCORES OF CIVIL WORKERS Earning Family Heads Spend Their Money For- | getting Dependents | | | | | i | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 13.| —Warrants for the arrest of 100| Civil Works employees, charged with fergetting their families after pay, are in the hands of the police. The warrants charge nonsupport | of the defendants and were issued | at the request of Charles Wollen-! berg, city relief head, who said| the wives and children were left| destitute while the money earn- ing family heads spent their pay. Many men received groceries and | relief supplies instead of money! and they are considered good hus- bands and fathers, Wollenberg said. | -ee SHIPPING IS DISRUPTED IN VARIOUS AREAS Gale SweepEPortions of Pacific Northwest— Tides Are High ‘ PORTLAND, Oregong Jan. 13.—| Shipping activity at the mouth of the Columbia River was almost at a standstill during the morning as a south gale swept the coast carry- ing heavy rain. Aberdeen, Washington. reported a gale, estimated by the Coast Guard, at 75 miles an hour, halt-} ing shipping and doing ‘minor damage in the cities in that dis- trict. The morning tide rose n’arly three feet above the predicted height of 10.8 feet, flooding a few sections. Storm warnings have been flown from coast points. The gale and force of the wind is expected to abate by night, | | 1 _Esnmaled Yield for Janu-| 1100 percent the liquor imports al- | trade agreements. Plant Is Wrecked in East! The Hol]vwnnd filta colony is more than usually interested in the suit recently filed in New York Supreme Court by Sam Kosow (inset), father of Sylvm Sydney (above), lovely film star, in which he seeks to have the star’s adoption by Dr. .,!gmuud Sydney, of New York, voided. Miss, Sydney’s mother married Dr. S)dney after sh hnd divorced Kosow, who, she says, dezerted her after Syivia’s birth. Both Houses of LIQUOR REVENUE 2o foves 1 BEGINS POURING o "e:tnt INTO TREASURY 13— Both Houses of Congress are taking a week-end recess. The House is still on tax matters and the Senate is de- bating the St. Lawrence Water- way Pact. e DIMOND IS TO y Alone Will Be $20,000,000 WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.— The‘ new liquor tax law completed the | lflrst day of operation yesterday [with an in-pouring of revenue es- timated at upward of $645,000 and: an estimated income for January ' under the newer higher revenue rates, will amount to at least o twenty million_dollars. ADelé?gflleHWfl}l‘l Sozn Intro uce 1S ighway The Federal Liquor Control Com- mission announced it has increased | Measure in Congress lowed from the United Kingdom | E with the provision such import WASHINGTON, Jan. 13—With must clear forcign ports bef approval of five Oregon Coast high- midnight January 27. Increases are ' way bridges as Public Works proj- the result of recent revamping of | ects, Alaska Delegate A. J. Di- |mond said he took new hope for | his plan to build Alaska’s portion \or the proposed extension of the | Pacific Highway from Seattle. to | Fairbanks. The Delegate’s bill $2.000,000 for constru :ml!es of roadway from Fairbanks to the Alaska-Yukon boundary will soon be ready for introduction in Congress. — et PROTEST MADE BY SEINERS TO NEW PROPOSALS Kytchlkan Association Send Complaint to Washington —r—— 6 DIE, MANY ARE INJURED IN EXPLOSION almost of 174 ing ion —Debris Scattered Over 100 Feet HARTFORD, N. C, Jan. 13.—At least six persons were killed and seven injured this afternoon in an explosion of the boilers at the East- ern Cotton Oil Company’s plant in! the heart of the city. The plant was wrecked and me damage is estimated at $50.000. ; Debris from the brick boiler| room was scattered more fhan 1001 feet. The entire town was shaken.| KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. 13.— R et jCondemning the action of the {Bureau of Fisheries in extending the length of the trap leads, also {criticising the Bureau for closing alleged non-productive traps, the Alaska Seiners Association Thur: |day night voted to send protests to Washington. to French Women May Fight Taxes to Win Franchise PARIS, Dec. 13—“No vote, no The recent regulations opening BEER AND WINE SOLD BY GLASS IN WASHINGTON fard Liquor to Be Sold in{. State Stores—Legis- lation Completed | oLyMmPIA, Wash, Jan. 13—Beer {and wine by the glass and hard | liqudr by the bottle in state stores | is the set-up for Washington state | citizens as the final outcome of the | 40-day fight over liquor control leg- { islation of the special session of the State Legislature. | The Legislature put the official stamp on the new liquor control bill late yesterday then quit work |to close the session | estimated that it will take twelve hours to prepare the bill for final ‘p.evenmunn to the Governor, i 'ommission’s Plan !C’Lironcn *D. Martin's special Ad- i visory Liquor Commission. ! The law permits the sale of 17 i per cent wine by the glass. | Control of the law will be ad- ministered by three Commissioners at an annual salary of $4,500 eagh. Revenue Division The revenue will go as follows: 30 per cent to the state, 20 percent to the County Old Age Pension fund and 50 per cent fo cities and counties. .- — AUTO ACCIDENTS TAKE LIVES OF TWO IN TACOMA - Record of I\I)_Fatalities for| First Eleven Days of Year Is Broken TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 13.—With a record of no fatalities for the first eleven days of the New Year, two automobile deaths were record- ed yesterday. Ear]l Ziegar, aged 13 years, was killed instantly when run down by a car driven by C. E. Talbot, City fireman. Mrs. Mary Hannah, aged 70 years, died after being struck by a truck driven by ham. Both drivers said the accidents were unavoidable but the police and Prosecuting Aftorney’s office | is makmg an investlganon SIX NARROWLY ESGAPE DEATH NEAR CORDOVA The plan was outlined by Gov. | Frank W. New- | |tories wrung from the Chamber of | Pile Driver Turns Over and| Sinks—Crew Forced to Make Quick Get-Off CORDOVA, Alaska, Jan. 13.— Contractor William King lost his| pile driver yesterday while en- gaged in getting out logs for local canneries when it turned over and | peen serious, went down in 18 feet of water St. Mathews Bay. i3 The crew of six men narrowly es-| required tb wear caped drowning by taking to skiffs and a gasboat nearby. King estimates his loss at $10- , 000, —eto—— e 0 00 c 0 00000 GOLD 1S WORTH $34.06 AN OUNCE WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. —No change was made in the price of gold today and the yellow metal is still quoted at $34.06 an ounce. 000000000 ) . ° . . . 3 . | e . . taxes,” may be the threat of fem- iinists if the Senaté remains obdu- rate to their petition for.franchise, according to M. Louis Martin, who wrrequemly has tried to induce the| Senate to grant votes to women. “At a time like this,” he says, T“when new taxes are looming in 'the offing, this matter is of vital] importance,” If the vote goes " against him, M. Martin maintains that he will fall back on an amend- ment giving women the right to ivote at municipal instead of Parlia- Imentary elections, ) | {dusrrlal union. | more bays and inlets to seiners is, described as a useless gesiure on the part of the Bureau of Fish- eries. Should need arise for a seiners' strike the association con- templates affiliation with the fish- ermen, cannery workmen and in- ’ AIMARO SATO At the request of Delegate Di- nIEs’ ToKYB mond, the Trellers’ Association vot- o Ao 4 ed to support the trollers’ program| TOKYO, Japan. Jan. 13.—Aimaro calling for abolishment of all her-|Sato, Japanese Ambassador to the ring reduction plants, herring fish-| United States, 1916 to 1918, dicd I |Fiber Cap Saves Head "must g0 “back to the ing or unseasonable impounding in!today, a victim of arteriosclerosis.| stricted areas, He was 77 years old. | would' pay for their keep. REUMANN today. Tt is (£} PRINCE ALEXANDER CHANCELLOR HITLER sAccording to Berlin reports, Chancellor Adolf Hitler has selected Prince Prince August Wilhelm, fourth son of the former Kaiser, to succeed him 10 longer can carry the torch. The Prince, who is 21, is a member of Hitl turned in his brown shirt te become a private in the ‘German regular arm; Regent, Alexand mother, Princess Alexandria, divorced his father in Reumann, naval officer, she took up residence in the United States. Opposi lis expected from Herman Goering, the Chancellor’s chief aide, who, it is (mlmnny after Hitler. Rudy Vallee Counters with Charges Against Wife,' He’s Allowed Divorce i in. Mexu'o BUNFIDENGE 1S VOTED PREMIER, = - FRENGH NATIUN‘CHIM “dear darling.” The counter NEW YORK, Jan. 13— Rudy | Vallee, accused by his estrangsd | actress wife with associating with | other women, countered .with the from home, she planned a ren- { assertion was made hefore the Ap- | pelate Court which upheld the i singer’s right to seek a Mexican % . |divorce from Mrs. Fay Webb Val- | Government Scores injee. 4 s Valke made public documents HOUSC 0f Deputles n | purporting to be recordings made Scandal Case on a hidden phonograph of tele- phone conversations with “Leon.” PARIS, Jan. 13.—Despite two vic- Vallee identified the man, in an affidavit, as Garfleld Leon, a danc- er, whose wife named Mrs, defendant in an alienation of af- fections suit. The decision yesterday affirmed the lower court’s ruling that Mrs. Vallee could not restrain her hi band from going to Mexico for a divorce. Deputies over the Bayonne pawn- hop scandal, the Government is 1l on an uncertain footing, ob- viously shaken by the washing of much dirty linen. Premier Chautemps scored a per- onal triumph in two. smashing otes of confidence on leaving the investigation of the forty million frane. financial fiasco entirely in IhEESN 0= She Cabihel, LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 13— Those in the lobbies are m(lumd‘B’_" Comen,” Mrs, ‘VaTlee's attor- o doubt whether the Premier can|jov said that if Rudy Vallee at- succeed again in wielding majority | iempteq to use any conversation in upport in the formidable troubles|y i< honding separate maintenance awaiting the Government in the lie i ANt e dha. e near future, principally the huge ’“ré conversation being produced butiees. fask. | which would clear Mrs. Vallee and | i cause a sensation. TO CAUSE SENSATION s A SHE STRIKES BACK LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 13— | Secluded, and under the care of physicians, Fay Webb Vallee struck back at assertions she held ro- mantic conversations with Gary Leon, stage dancer, while her hus- band, chestra leader was absent their New York apartment. of Wilhite in Tumble NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 13.—Un- scathed in a spill that might have Elbe Wilhite has become an enthusiastic champion of the fiber caps all jockeys ar at Jelf from Park race track. The 92-pound star rider. who! hails from South Dakota \u-iVuIle(: for separate maintenance thrown from his mount the other|in which she accuses him of in- day and fell un flying ho discretions with other women, The sharp rim of a horse sh ,uowld see no one. Her father said cut the fiber gap in two, but spared |she was ill and had dropped from Wilhite’s head. Veteran turfmen|115 pounds to 97 pounds. said he would have been seriously! injured if not killed, but for the| cap. ‘Dutch Forbidden to Bet; q Checkers on’ “Taboo List Boys Do Farm Work 4 THE HAGUE, Jan. 13— The Dutch government, a month after Under Prussian Edlct | ordering the closing of all gambling BERLIN, Jan. 13—Two hundred | houses, decided to outlaw all bet- thousand Prussian school boys!ting games, either of skill or of farm" | chance. a year of labor, after graduating| The move is officially stated to from ecity public schools in June. be dictated by the growth of the The idea sponsored by Bern-| gambling craze among Dutchmen hard Rust, Prussian minister of since the introduction of “strap-| culture, is, as he explained it in erlo und spiralo,” a Dutch form of nazi - terminology, “to show the roulette. alllance between blood and soil in' 1In a village near The Hague the thé new German community.” | council has even prohibited all The boys' work, Rust | dominoes in the inns, | assertion that during his absence | she | Vallee | Rudy Vallee, singer and or-| The former actress, who is suing | HERMAN GOERING Alexander Ferdinand, only son ot as head man in (-mm.m\ when he er organization, Recently he y to be trained for the post of Reich 1920. Later, ns the wife of Arnold tion to Hitler’s plans for the Prince said, is looking forward to ruling HIGHER-UPS ARE HIT IN INCOME " TAX CHECK-UPS \Special Senale Investigat- ing Committee Sends Out Questionnaires ‘ WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—An in- |come tax study touching Col {Charles A. Lindbergh and a host |of others in the air mail field was ‘l»()d(ly revealed as going forward | under direction of the Senate com- mittee. [ Members of the Senate Air Mail | Investigating Committee, who have |already caused a sensation, disclos- |ed they have ordered income tax check-ups also on Walter Brown, ormer Postmaster General during the Hoover Administration and also | Herbert Hoover, The investiga s explained they sent out 200 questionnaires to men rominent in companies carrying ail and those who took part king contracts for this work during the last Administration. R START ACTION FOR ELECTION OF Congressional Committee to Plan Fall Cam- paign Next Week WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 The atic Congressional Commit- to start a concerted rats-to-the-House move | reeting also de- | |signed to settle the chairmanship| question for r fall's campaizn. The committee is confronted by | the expressed desire of Represen- tative Byrns of Tennessee, Party| "loor to be relieved of the Chairman p of the Congres ional Committee because of hh many other duties To Draft Byrns The members of the committee are casting about for a successor |but many feel Byrns should be tained because of his prominence There is already a move to draft| him as chairman for coming |campaign and give him an st- |ant to carry on the detail work | The Repuhblican Congressional | Committee has already been or- |genized with Representative Bolton, of Ohio, as Chairman, under the | guidance of Represent Snell, of New York, Party r Leader. It has been a u militant next the trnr the campaign. ALL DEMOCRATS ALL RESERVE T0 50 Tid TREASURY INDICATED NOW Move Preliminary to Even- tual, Permanent De- valuation of Dollar PRESIDENT KEEPS SECRET, NEXT MOVE Step Regard;;]_ “as Forestall- ing Any Profit, Yellow Metal Holdings WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.— President Roosevelt is pre- pared to take over the Na- tion’s largest heap of out- standing gcld, that held by the Federal Reserve Board, as a preliminary to eventual and permanent devaluation of the dollar. It is believed the President vants to take this gold over to have all this basic mone- tary commodity in the Treas- ury along with the proper porportion of silver to insure power of his new moves ef- fecting the Nation's gold monetary policy. Just when the next step in the national emergency cur- rency program will come, the President is carefully keeping to himself. . One thing is cer- tain, he intends tc manage the new money program him= self. Arguments as to whether the Administration could call in the Reserve System’s gold was answered calmly by the President with the declaration he had the power under the Thomas amendment to order ithe entire three billion six hun=- jdred miilion dollars held by the {Federal Reserve back into the Treasury vaults. This step is regarded as neces- sary by most monetary experts in order to insure that no outside profit would result from the perm- anent devaluation of the dollar. This of course would result in an increased price for all gold out- standing. CAREFUL PLANS CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 13.— Postmaster General James A. Far- ley predicted before the annual | Automotive Luncheon this noon, {that President Roosevelt will not “spread the sails before an in- | flation gale with all the perils that | beset such a course, neither will the President sacrifice advances which have occurred in commodity prices by taking the views of in- ternational bankers. JAILS BULGING WITH STRIKERS LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 13.— | Jails in the Imperial Valley bulged lboday with 200 men under deten- tion as officials sought to bring about order in labor disputes in | the vegetable fields. Peace prevails in some sections | beset by strikes in various food | industries. l’ln!adelphm Seeks |‘ C.W.A.-Pied Pipers PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 13.—Lack- {ing a Pied Piper, health authori- | ties have asked for 900 men. They requested the Civil Works Adminis- tration to provide the men to st traps in a drive against Philadel- | phia’s rats. The rodent population is estimated at 2,000,000. - Duke of Westminster Sues Kin for Libel LONDON, Jan. 13.—The Duke of Westminster, who owns 600 acres of land in the heart of London, be- sides 30,000 elsewherz, has brought suit for alleged libel against his niece, Lady Sibell Lygon. The duke complains of an ar- said, | card-playing, chess, checkers Anl!r"“‘m now scouting about for Issues | ticle written by Lady Sibell in the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine,