The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 29, 1934, Page 4

Daily Alaska Empire GENERAL MANAGER | ROBERT W. BENDER - - Published _eve evening except Sunday by _the EMPIRE PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main Streets, Juneau, Alaska. Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. ! Deilvered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for $1.25 per month, aid, at the following rates: By mail, po: o i, $12.00; six months, in advance, f they will promptly failure or irregularity 374, | Subscribers w notify the Business Office of any in the delivery of their papers. Telephone for Editorial and Business O ices, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to th use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the d herein local news publis ALASKA CIRCULATION GUARANTEED TO BE LARGER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. CODE FOR GOLD MINING. ‘ Last Saturday, as guest of the local Bar Asso- ciation, Hugh Wade, Deputy NRA Administrator for Alaska, emphasized his purpose to bring gold mining, as well as the fisheries industries, under a code. He was hopeful of co-operation from the mining industry. He is already working on a salmon canning code and is getting fine co-operation from both the canners and their employees. { In his attitude toward the gold mining industry “|the National {said, produce the man. {has been noticeable effect upon deposits, largely accounted for by the fact that New York institutions had not _ | suffered as had many others through loss of public confidence. Bankers generally attributed the creases in deposits to the new law’s operations. Chicago banks reperted people taking money out in- |of safety deposit boxes and depositing it, and one bank of that city reported an increase of $7,000,000 in the first 10 days. Another one showed a gain of 100 per cent in the total amount in savings ac- | counts. Detroit, Kansas City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other cities gained, and in the State of Oklahoma an increase of 25 per ceént was noted The present system of insurance, which covers de- posits up to $2,500 will run only to July 1, when the permanent system which covers up to $10,000 will go into effect. It is reasonable to believe that there will be similar gains in deposits at that time So far no Court has held against the validity of Recovery Act. In that the Jurists human like most of the 122,000,000 cking President Roosevelt’s recov- seem to be people that are ba ery program. “Man With Five Wives Meets Sudden Death.” Empire headline. O Death! where is thy sting? Not long ago the country was full of men who claimed the world owed them a living. The Gov- ernment, willing to compromise, took them at their word and put shovels in their hands. ”» “Away Slight Men. (Daily Journal of Commerce, Seattle.) “Away slight men you are corporals of disaster.” After many a man had failed, stern visaged, hard-boiled, swearing, swaggering Gen. Hugh John- son stood up and with a wave of his hand and a pithy statement, relegated weaklings, cowards, grovel- ers and vacillators to the side lines while he took command with an iron hand that wore no velvet |glove Times and the exigencies of emergency, it is Always, one recollects there one man ready to servé and save his he is in complete accord with Delegate Anthony J. Dimond. The latler, in a radio address recently made over two Alaska broadcasting stations, by | electrical transcription, the Delegate expressed his| own views as follows: It should be borne in mind by the gold producers that all of the domestic economic policies of the Administration have one prin- cipal object in view, and that is an increase | in the purchasing power of the people. be- ! cause. this increase in purchasing power can | only result in an improved economic condi- tion. Therefore, under the principles of natural justice, the gold producers ought to ! take prompt and adequate measures to fairly distribute a substantial portion of the benefits which they are receiving from the increased price of gold. This can be done in one direction very readily by an increase in the wages of those employed in gold mining. It can also be done by an increase in the number of men employed. If the wages of the workmen are not raised, or if no additional people are given work, it is ‘plain’‘that’ the inereased wealth which ! is derived from the advance in price of gold | will go to the operators only and there will be little increase in the purchasing power of | the rank and file of the people. I there- fore sincerely trust that the gold mine op- erators will, without hesitation, see to it that wages are proportionately advanced or that i jof this man. |examining boards. {Hugh Johnson and said: ison_came. country in emergency; eevry emergency has found the man and every man thus found conquered Ithe obstacles he has been fofind and raised up to conquer. Such men do not fail. When the United States found itself in the World War and faced with the task of raising an {army overnight, a man was needed who could ‘raise | Ithat army and devise a system by which hundreds | tof thousands of men could be gathered into training | camps. There must be no mistake in the selection A slip would mean disaster. Hugh Johnson, unknown, unheralded and un- colors. Overnight he devised system and organized regional The system worked. were enrolled. Johnson stepped aside and the war went on, ended and he remained in obscurity. He had completed his job. The emergency had pro- the selective draft |duced and used the man. Years went by. There was another emergency. Many men had failed. Another slip would obviously be fatal. President Roosevelt sought out Gen. “Come, I need you.” John- Johnson came the nation’s New Deal flag and gave it the NRA flags of the World War days. this time in an economic war, difference with Johnson, as war and dealt with it in the only way he had known. He was engaged but it made additional men are employed so that all | 1Irked by weak-spined men, he cried: “away slight engaged in the industry may share in the jmen . . . you are corporal's of disaster.” There benefits derived from the gold policy of the |is no room in Johnson's conception of war for slight Administration. This is particularly ap- mens He is an army man with army style. plicable where wages have been reduced | during the depression. Anything less than this will run counter to the plans of the President, and moreover, as I view it, a denial of this relief to the workers is a denial to them of what they are entitled to under the principles of justice. We do not believe that any such disposition will be found in the Alaska gold mining industry. Last November, during a visit here, P. R. Bradley, President of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Com- pany, elihough doubtful of the workability and practicability of NRA, the operation of which he caustically ciitic.sed, voiced for his own organiza- tion what w¢ are confident will be the view of the entire industry when he said: If the NRA is brought to Alaska and a mining code is approved, the Alaska Juneau will adopt its provisions gracefully and abide by them cordially. However, it must come in an orderly manner and from the proper authority. NRA has now come to Alaska. It has come here as it did to every other section of the country —by virtue of the authority vested in the President by Congress under the National Recovery Act. It is represented here by Mr. Wade and we know he can count on the Alaska Juneau and other companies to co-operate with him in his work. THE DEADLY TOLL. The National Safety Council announces an in- crease of about three and one-half per cent in 1933 in motor vehicle accidents over those of 1932. The toll of death taken last year, according to the find- ings of the council, totals 30,500 persons. These fatalities were due to various causes, but a considerable number has been traced to driving by drunken persons. There can be no excuses offered by intoxicated drivers. Drastic punishment should be meted out to such individuals. Repeal of the Eighteenth Amend- ment must not be rendered odious by drunken driving. There was too much of it during the Prohibition era. Regulation of driving by persons under the influence of liquor must be undertaken with new severity as one of the obligations of social control of liquor. The drunken driver, potentially at least, particu- larly in crowded cities, is as dangerous as the drug- crazed gunman. BANK INSURANCE BOOSTS DEPOSITS. Those who criticised the Federal bank deposits insurance law as having little practical value, and unsound financial scheme, should be pleasantly ted by the deposit statistics from banking houses throughout the country since the law became 4 effective the first of this year. They have shown increases ranging upward as much as 50 per cent. In places there have been some withdrawals from nolt-l-l savings institutions and commercial banks to transfer accounts to insured banks. Only in New York City was there but little The magazine Time has named Johnson as the “Man of the Year.” Of course he is. Emergencies produce the man to deal with them. There is always one man at one time for one thing. Today it is Gen. Johnson. Buying Lean Acres. (New York Times.) Among other allotments made last weck by the Public Works Administration was one of $25,000,000 for the purpose of withdrawing “submarginal” farm land from cultivation. This marks a new policy by the Government. The Administration is said to have under consideration a plan calling ulti- mately for the retirement of some 50,000,000 acres, at a total cost of $350,000,000. The land described Two advantages are claimed for the policy of taking these lean acres out of cultivation. It would greatly aid the Government in its present effort to curtail surplus farm production. But this seems to be somewhat overrated. Land which can be purchased at $7 an acre can scarcely be con- tributing heavily to the existing surpluses of wheat, cotton, corn and tobacco. Secretary Wallace notes in his annual report that the “submarginal” tracts include “areas most subject to water or wind erosion,” as well as “lands that serve as breeding grounds for insect pests and plant diseases.” Sich soil does not produce rich crops. Nor is the clean- ing-up of breeding grounds for insect pests and plant diseases likely to have a restrictive effect on the total volume of farm production. Much is to be said, however, for the second claim: |that in the long run it is socially desirable to con- vert these unpromising tracts into national parks jor forests. Poor schools and poor# roads usually characterize areas of poor farm land. The same areas are frequently dependent on seed loans and relief funds. There is a clear social advantage to be gained by taking such districts out of cultiva- tion. But this is a project ostensibly to be planned over a considerable period of years and to be push- ed no more rapicly than circumstances permit “sub- marginal farmers” to find employment elsewhere. In the matter of actual farm relief, the Administra- Ition has other and hotter irons in the fire. The Republican younger element is urging the Old Guard to come out of its trance. Git along little fogie, git along.—(Detroit News.) Some medical snooper into the habits of bugs finds that a high-pitched noise gives them the jim- jams and sends them kiting. Maybe in time jazz will justify itself.—(Philadelphia Inquirer.) Events appear to prove that the only thing the matter with John Nance Garner’s public works bill back in 1932 was that John was just a piker —(Louisville Courier<Journal.) “Pretty much of an understanding exists in the new Congress. It is expected that our Legislators draft and | The men and hoisted the Blue Eagle as| zh | as “submarginal” consists largely of arid tracts| and cut-over timberland which is unsuited for agriculture. | because t. | gaging Free Lance F ighter Is Pining in Penitentiary The planes that Bert Hall medals and exploits, all give cclc hot down in the Werld War, his to a carcer now interrupted by a prison sentence, this last, he explains, because his method of col- lecting his pay as a Chinese General irked his supericrs. threugh with war? By CLEVELAND WILLIAMS McNEIL ISLAND FEDERAL PRISON, Wash.,, Jan. 29— He's been a general in China, a com- mander in Russia and France, a decorated hero and a fighting man in other countries, but today Bert Hall—number 10,661 in prison—is | just a business man anxidus to gelj back to his business or battleplanes and bombs, “General” Hall, world famous soldier of fortune, in his first in- terview since he was sentenced in China to serve 2% years in the federal penitentiary, said he’s here isn't enough honesty | |in the fighting business. |sung, was given the task of getting this army to| | the Explains His Arrest Fighting men and diplomats of many countries were startled to learn that “General Chan” Hal’ was imprisoned on a charge of en- in fllegal importation of arms into China. Nobody knew exactly why. Today Hall told why he’s here, what he’s going to do when released and described the emblem to hang in windows instead of the service | no | he recognized the situation | family and books to which he’ an‘(mus to give his attention. “It's all in the game,” he “I can take it on the chin still smile. The circumstances rounding my ir ation where that I had a contract with North China clique of generals and they did mot pay up. They neede arms and ammunifion and came t me to purchase them for them. ) vas trusted by the Chinese genera a sum of money to purchas arms and retained this money fo my own personal use. His Cellection Plan Worked “My claim for $34,000, due m on a contract with the governo of Hopei province, had been place’ in the hands of the American con sul-general at Tientsin. He finallr informed me that he could rende me no assistance. Consgquently 7 applied my own methods of collect- ing, L “If the American authorities fee that is a crime under the circum stances, all right. But now that ] am here I regret very much that I was not able to collect the entirc sum due me, as Chinese general said. and obtain their money from the poo pecple by force. T do mot feel a though taking money owed to yo is' a crime, even though you us trickery to obtain it. There is stil' a balance of $24,000, which I may be able to collect in the future. “Fighting is a business, you know and should carry the obligatior of paying honest debts, like any other business. Whenever I car make more money at some other | sur- 4 the | at each other. But is he No, says Hall—priscncr 10,661 in McNeil Island Priscn—it's a business, and one (o which he’s cager t¢ return. of France, England, Russia and the Balkan countries. My work in China recently,’ said the sturdy, blue-clad Hall, ting p: work good in the warden's offic flying and part orga And so here I am, with a war starfed in China right now. It's not so bad, fhough. War- den: Finch R. Arches is a fine| man. T have been doing clerical | work in the captain’s office, and there is plenty of fime to tinker | with engines—I Tike that.” Has Wife and Family stared out across the bluc| that surrounded McNeil to where the gray prison | He j waters island { boat chugged at the dock | “I have a wife and three fine sons at a military academy in Los Angeles. T would much rather be with them #General Chan" reached into potket and found a snapshot. “I sent them each a real gun,” he smiled, ‘“and told them what-| ever they did not to point ithem Look what they sent | a| mgl” The photo showed ffiree hand- some youngsters in wild-west cos- tume, pointing the self-same re- volvers at each ot “Too Much Exaggeration’ “A fighting man, an orga 'earns a lot about what is civilize: and what isn't. There is a lot of| tearing down'and building up to| be! done in this world before it| vill become civilized.” Hall doesn't care for reports tha | a2 soldier of fortune is necessarily| ed adventurer. | s too much exaggerat: about my business,” he said “So when I finish here I'll look | out for my family, attend to the books and go back to work.” | His place of business, he plained, will be wherever there i « “satisfactory” war going on. R T PUBLIC CARD PARTY The WOMEN OF THE MOOSE il hold the first of a series of| sard parties at the Moose Hall Thursday, Feb. 1. Bridge, whist ind pinochle will be played. Good Jrizes. Refreshments. Public in- vited. Admission 50 cents. Play tarts promptly at 8 o'clock. adv. ——.e— FOOD SALE ‘The Ladies Altar hold a food sale on Feb. 10. The place will be announced later. adv. Daily Empire Want Ads Pay business, I'll quit the one T have Dmk Water Wlfll Meals known best so far.” He should know—one of the charter members of the TLafayette Escadrille, a daring aviator in the Chinese wars, with a record of having fought or organized armies in France, Greece, Turkey, Bulgar- ia, Russia, China and Manchuria His score includes nine German Good for Stomach Water with meals helps stomach juices, aids digestion. If bloated with gas add a spoonful of Adler- ka. One dose cleans out poisons and washes BOTH upper and low- r bowels. Butler Mauro Drug Co., planes downed during the world |in Douglas by Guy's Drug Store. war and the glittering decorations —adv. THE HOTEL OF ALASKAN HOTELS * The Gastineau Our Services to You Begin and End at the Gang Plank of Every Passenger-Carrying Boal . Society will| & THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JAN. 29, 1934 v | a y, 7 T . . PROFESSIONAL s raternalogocwues | 1] o GO ¢ i gl i 2 YEARS A +————————=|| Gastineau Channel Srod The Empite Helene W. L. Albrecht | |z S g ] S LSS PHYSIOTHERAPY * | Massaze, Electricity, Irtra Red | (B P O‘;VE;K;:‘“: JANUARY 29, 1914 Ray, Medical Gymnastics. 1 | €vrY e n‘e ny;n China Joe, one of Juneau's old- 30;1 Goldstein Building 8 p. m. Vis [ g est inhabitants held open house brothers welcome. 2 . e Office, 216 in honor of the beginning of the E‘,(____P_’f"________,fl L W. Turoff, Exalt- New Year in China at his little T ———————""2 esd::;xlen M. H. Sides, place on Third and Main Streets, ®——— — ~— ecretary. where he lived quietly and unob- Rose A. Andrewa —Tm—dlfis—mfl strusively cultivating the little plot, } Graduate Nurse Bighits el No. 1760. of ground that had surrounded his Flectric Cabinet Baths—Mas- Meetlngscmnucandlndhll place since 1881. For more than sage, Colonic Irrigations Mondly REND thirty years Joe had held -open | Office hours 11 am. to 5 pm. ratiklras teobiites GE \ house on this occasion and had Evenings bv Appointment s e welcomed old and young with Second and Main Fhone 259 O G Fith Btrmoaln candies and fruits Trom his home- it TOBh ¥ MUTEN. & & Jand for the women and children Kty b H J TfiRNER & % and something more cheering for g sy = tary the male adults. Always friendly E. B. WILSON‘;"“ TS e AR T with the whites, ahd kind to t Chiropodist—Foot Spec! | T Our truks go any place “—'y‘ needy, China Joe had endearcd 401 Goldstein Bullding |} | (jme A tank for Diesel Oil himself to the pioneers and resi- | PHONE 9 4! | and & tank for crude ofl save ' denfs in many ways. On one occa- = i o burner trouble. G sion, when he had a monopoly on w =e . PHONE 149, NIGHT 148 i flour during a winter when boats | were months apart, he kept the | DRS.KASER & FREEBURGER RELIABLE TRANSFER price of bread the same, instead | DENTISTS | of realizing a handsome profit as | Blomgren Building | | PHONE 56 many merchants had been known to do in the northland. Fe was the only Chinese allowo*%> remain Hours 9 am. to 9 pm. in town when the great Chi exodus from the Pacific Coast ce to have | ;{1 in 1885. He was said ( DENTIST st come north in 1874. | Rooms 8 and 9 Valentine i Bullding | ‘The bankers, bowlers, who had | Telephone 116 gained a victory over the “over- g —0 —————— W drafts” several days previously. '-Ll Dr. C. P. Jenne were to defend their honors in B another match. The overdrafts had secured attorneys and the lawyers | re to meet the bankers in mor- ' | combat some evening during tal the week. Guy McNaughton, J. R Willis and Harry Lucas represent- | Phone 321 ed the bankers and while the law- I vers had mot decided on their = teams, except that Judge John R. QG Winn was to be one of the per- Robert smpsea sonnel, Z. R. Cheney, Judge Grov- 0 t. D‘ er C. Winn, Judge R. E. Robertson Greduate Angeles Col- and Judge J. B. Marshall were be- lege of Optometry and ing considered. ©pthalmology Juneau high school basketeers defeated the Douglas high school At Dr. J. W. Bayne DENTIST Rooms 5-6 Triangle Bldg. | Oflice aours, 9 am. to 5 pm. evenings by appointment, Glasses Fitted, Lenses Ground team 20 to 15 in the basketball FF———r game played at Jaxon’s rink in a DR. B hard fought tussle. The exhibi had been thrilling from start to finish. . SOUTHWELL Optometrisi—Optician Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted Room 17, Valentine Bldg. Office Fnone 484; Residenoe | Phone 238, Office Hours: 9:30 ‘WeathnY for previous 24 hours: to 12; 1:00 to 5 Cloudy with light snow; maximum /, N ' 20 above; minimum, 10 above. 3 - ,,,,, o it s T e - Dr. Richard Williams DENTIST OFFICE AND RESIDENCE | Gastineau Building, Phone 481 | 1 1 e - - S Dr. A. W. Stewart | DENTIST [ Houvrss 9 am. to 6 pm. | SEWARD BUILDING | Office Phone 409, Res. | Phone 276 - ——8 Jones-Stevens Shop JUNEAU SAMPLE SHOP The Little Store with the \ LADIES’—CHILDREN'S READY-TO-WEAR } PG NALESS Seward Street Near Third | . S K o C. L. FENTON FIN’E [ CHIROPRACTOR | Watch and Jewelry Repairing ' Botun, Sxuns B s 10 ! Brownle’s Barber Shop I4 20 TR et ) orfice Hours: 10-12; 2-8 WRIGHT SHOPPE | Evenings by Appolntment | PAUL BLOEDHORN . o= = i ,_;__I{I HI-LINE SYSTEM | Groceries—Produce—Fresh | PIONEER CAFE || and Smoked Meats ‘ J. K. Paul Nick Novak | Front Street, opposite Harris “THE HOME OF EEY Hardware Co. | | GOOD EATS” il CASH AND CARRY | Juneau Will Profit Largely [ R B — PHONE 549 | l IDEAL PAINT SHOP If It's Paint We Have It! Wendt & Garster FRYE'S B “DELICIOUS” H will see aye to aye with the Chief E.’xecucive.—l (Buffalo Courier-Express.) Y BEEF and BACON Frye-Bruhn Company Telephone 38 L Prompt Delivery by the upward trend of business in the States, for the mining, lumbering and fish- ery interests of the district will not fail to respond to improved conditions there. This bank has developed its facilities and shaped its varied services to meet the stead- ily expanding requirements of these indus- tries, working alike with management and with employees. Conservative management adequate re- sources and an experience which covers four of the five decades of Juneau’s history make this institution a dependable depository and business friend. The B. M. Behrends Bank JUNEAU, ALASKA ) b Wise to Call 48 Juneau Transfer y Co. when in need of MOVING or STORAGE Fuel Oil Cosl Transfer & ot e e it i Konnerup’s | MORE for LESS . | | JUNEAU-YOUNG | l | Funeral Parlors Livensed Funeral Directors and Embalmers Night Phone 1851 Day Phone 13 | SABIN’S | TeE JuNeau LAunDRY / Franklin Street betweem ; Front an? Becond Streets | | PHONE 35 4 el e ——— JUNEAU FROCK I SHOPPE “Exclusive but not Expensive” HOTEL ZYNDA Large Sample Rooms ELEVATOR SERVICE 8. ZYNDA, Prop. "CARBAGE HAULED | Reasonable Monthly Rates E. 0. DAVIS TELEPHONE 584 Day Phone 371 ' 2 7 s o epian | , GENERAL MOTORS 1 and ! | MAYTAG PRODUCTS W. P. JOHNSON ——— | 1 McCAUL MOTOR | COMPANY | r\ Smith Electric Co. Gastineau Building EVERYTHING | — S — = —_— ! | BETTY MAC | BEAUTY SHOP | I 102 Assembly Apartments P . o 3\“__‘ TYPEWRITERS RENTED $5.00 per month I J. B. Burford & Co. “Our doorstep worn by satistied customers” ] “The world's greatest need “° Le ¥ 4