The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 2, 1934, Page 1

N o " THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLIIL, NO. 6564. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1934. PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS U. S. PLANS T0 COLLECT ON WAR DEBT PRIVATE MONEY TALKS PLANNED BY GOVERNMENT Conference with Great Bri- tain Underway or About to Begin BOTH LONDON AND PARIS ARE WATCHED French Emgargo on Gold' May Hamper American Yellow Metal Policy WASHINGTON, Feb. A series of talks with Great Britain is icated authoritatively to be either under way or about in to begin as officials here in- vestigated the actions of Lon- don and Paris to determine| their ewn course in the intri- cate, web of European high finance. oI private money | | Far from Gotham Politics American authorities saw the pos- | that might determine the{ & fu dollar program of President| 3 R 1t in reactions abroad to| % devaluation and the new high| i pri 1d. The reactions are 1c d highly satisfactory| rue as he was the best-dressed man during his Mayoralty days in New h sources conceded the Roose- gold policy could be hampered a French embargo on gold would eliminate this heavy of the world market supply imultaneously act against Am- ced $35 an ounce price. watched particularly for € nts that might affect the standard of France, such as gontinued heavy drains of gold from Paris to London. e — GOLD ANGHOR KEEP FAST ON which ITALIAN LIRA No Change to Be Made in Monetary System De- clares Official By JOHN LLOYD ROME, Feb. 2.—Frank admis- sion that plans for a united front of European gold countries have gone amiss, has been made by fas- cist spokesmen. Yet Italy, they say, remains con- vinced that money depreciation would only add to the country’s difficulties; hence there is no thought of cutting the lira loose from its gold anchor. Looks To The Future Guido Jung, minister of finance, said to the Senate a few days ago: “When the series of monetary adventures ends and wisdom re- turns, the world will look to the monies that remained on the gold basis as the most trustworthy standards in the work of recon- struction. Speaking for Premier Mussolini before the mnational foreign trade council, Alberto Asquini, secretary of corporations, acknowl- edged that efforts to achieve a mul- tilateral agreement to solidify the gold bloc which balked the world economic conference at<London, had been fruitless. Paints Dark Picture Of the countries which were to form the gold front, Germany has (Continued on Page Two) -e- Aviation Progress Is Listed by Rickenbacker NEW YORK, Feb. 2—In the opinion of Capt. E. V. Rickenback- er, American world war ace, the three most imporiant advances in aviation during 1933 were the prac- tical application of acoustical en- gineering to air transport craft, the beginning of aerial sleeper serv- ice and the perfection of adjust- able pitch propellers. under- | be He York, Jimmy Walker seems to Moritz, Swiss winter resort. | Compton, are a happy~luo}<n | or a day the best-dressed sojourner at St. and his bride, the former Betty ng pair, as they swing over the snows bound of skiing. Spring Is Here? {Don’t Be Foolish! |Says Mr. Groundhog Keep your skiis waxed and the | galoshes handy, for winter won't ibe over at least until the 16th | of March, that is, if we are to be- | lieve Mr. Groundhog, said to have | arrived today to look the situation over. “No, sir! Not yet,” the easily| | frightened visitor is reported to| | have shrieked and ducked back in- |to his hole after spying his shadow over his shoulder this morning. Weatherman Mize is inclined to | agree with the groundhog legend, {that if the sun shines on Febru- ary 2nd, winter will remain for |six weeks longer, at least in Ju- neau. In fact he cynically observ- led that there would probably ‘e |six weeks more of wintry tempera- | tures and snow, groundhog or no | groundhog. “I believe the records will bear me out, however, that scientists Im the contrary notwithstanding, fthe groundhog theory is more of- {ten borne out than not,” he de- | clared. SEATTLE JUDGE RESIGNS BENCH Robert S. MacFarlane Quits | to Take More Lucra- [ tive Position | SEATTLE, Peb. 2—Superior | Court Judge Robert S. MacFarlane, aged 35 years, has resi | the [Northern Pacific Railway's |legal staff at headquarters here. { TIn his letter of resignation to | Gov. C. D. Martin, Judge MacPFar- |lane said he regretted leaving the | bench but a greafly increased com- | pensation influenced his decision. TAX AGCOUNTS ~ REPORTED OFF SEATTLE, Feb. 2—Mrs. George | G. Wittenmyer, wife of King Coun- ty's treasurer, revealed upon her arrival here from San Francisco, that her husband, who is a ‘state examiner, said irregularities of $31,- 000 were found in manipulation of advance tax collection funds. He disappeared from the train some where between Seatile and Oak- land, | ment of the Union, the power o | ties. | when its populafion shall be LIFE AND WORK OF ). MARSHALL ARE EXTOLLED Judge Wickersham Deliv- ers Fine Address on Great Chief Justice The life and work of John Mar- shall, “Expounder of the Constitu- tion of the United States” were extolled today by Judge James Wickersham in a ceremony in the Federal Court room here com- memorating the 133d anniversary Falls, North Dakota, last night to stand trial for the kidnaping of Charles Boettcher, Second, Denver capitalist. | Sankey was taken to the train | guarded by five agents of the De-! partment of Justice headed by | Melvin Purvis, of the De- partment’s bureau here and who [ | | SANKEY IS NOT CONNECTED WITH LINDBERGH CASE Arrested Ki_d;pcr Grilled for Thirty Hours in Chicago NO EVIDENCE IS 1 SECURED, REPORT| Leader of Abduction Gang| Taken to North Dakota for Trial CHICAGO, Tl1, Feb. 2.—Attempts to link him with the fatal abduc- tion of the baby of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh were unsuc- cessful and Verne Sankey, captur- ed kidnaper, started toward Sioux captured Sankey in a barber shop last Wednesday afternoon. | | Grilled 30 Hours The move came swiftly |end of 30 hours of gri ing the Lindbergh kidnaping, Pur- vis announced nothing could bej {made public because his reports| | were being sent to We shington. | ®ankey confessed, Pur said.| {that he and his gang ki(ln-a])(‘di | Boettcher and also Haskell Bohn,| of St. Paul. | The chances of conviction in the| Boettcher case are better in South| Dakota, said United States Attor-| ney Dwight H. Green, and the| penalty is death in that state. San- key waived extradition. xhoi 1 vis ] L ! CAPTURE ANOTHER | | WASHINGTON, Feb. 2— The | Department of Justice has an-| nounced the capture in Chicago| last night of Gordon Alcorn, the| last of the alleged Charles Boett- cher kidnapers. | Alcorn is said to have confessed! and also said that after $60000| was received from Boettcher's fam-| it was taken from him by San-| of the day on which the great Virginia lawyer took the oath of office as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court The exercises were under the auspices of the local Bar Associa- tion and were a part of similar exercises held throughout the Na- tion by affiliates of fhe Ameri- can Bar Association Alaska Has Interest Alaskans should honer John Marshall, declared Judge Wicker- sham, for several reasons. "TFirst, that great constitutional expound- er, long before we were born had the unbounded courage and wisdom to declare: ‘The Consti- | tution of the United States con- fers, absolutely, on the govern making war, and of making trea- Consequently, that gov ment possesses the power of quiring territory, either by con quest or treaty, and of creating States in the Union ouf of such acquired territory as in ib Loui iana Purchase, and other territor- ies in the western co “Alaska is an organized Te tory; the Constifution is in force and effect over area; it has been admitted the Body of the United States full entire into and suf- admifted as one of the States of the American ficient it may be Union with all the Con: tional rights and immunities possessed by the people of New York or Vir- ginia. «It is the duty of every judge and lawyer, of the Governor of Al- cka and every member of its Leg- lature, of every businessman and citizen, to study the Constitution of the United States in ifs rela- tion to the embroyo State of Al- aska, that we may be secure in our lives, liberty and property, (Continued on Page Seven) MANIS SLAN CATCRAIG IS REPORT HERE Deputy Caswell Is Sent’ from Ketchikan to In- | vestigate Tragedy | Deputy U. S. Marshal W. H. | Caswell was ordered by the Mar- shal's office today to go from his station in Ketchikan, to Craig to | gather “details on the reported shooting and killing of a man there early this week, according to information from the U. S. Mar- | shal's office here. | Word of the tragedy was T ceived here today but the ma name or the details of the shoot- ing were not given. WASHINGTON, Feb. 21t Is| learned from an authoritative| source that $45,000 will be granted by the Public Works Adminis tion to continue the archaeol cal excavations on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, and Dr. Ales Hrd- licka will take charge of the work started some years ago by Dr. Otto W. E. Geist, under the auspices of the Alaska College at Fairbanks Skeletons several hundred years | escaped from the Department of ‘.mll at large. Excavations on Alaska Isle to Continue; Money Loaned by PW A:HrdlickainCharge STABILIZATION "FUND MAY NOT BE NEEDED NOW International Bankers Dis- cuss New Gold Bul- lion Standard SHIP SAILINGS ARE BEING INVESTIGATED Substantial Purchases Are| Made by Private Institutions NEW YORK, Feb. 2. — Dollar stabilization in the foreign ex- change market, now that it has been placed on a gold bullion stand ard, may not require the use of | the two billion dollar Treasury fund say international bankers. With normal international gold transactions restored, it is believed foreign purchases of gold by private bankers has replaced recent Treas- ury purchases which were made to keep the dollar from rising. Profits, Gold Transfer As soon as it was learned the Treasury would buy gold at $35 an | ounce purchased abroad by bankers | in normal foreign exchange trans. actions, leading Wall Street banks speedily began investigation of ship sailings calculeting possible profits | on gold transfers from London and Patgoto New:. York. Substantial purchases are unders stcod to have been made before| the close of business yesterday. Some exchange authorities, how- ever, point out the two billion dollar fund may become necessary if the demand for dollars reach unmanageable proportions. 1 Noted Xn | | archist I; Back in U. S. on Visit NIAGARA FALLS, Feb. 2 Goldman, —Emma, America’s most notori- hist, has come home to the United States after 15 years in exile, entering from Canada. She is enroute to Rochester to visit relatives. e KR Insane Convicts Make Escape, Still at Large Department of justice agents arrested Laurette Hasker (left) A 4 and Mrs. Emily C. Paddleford in Los Angeles on charges of conspiracy to defraud the federal government through “arranging” and charging “brokerage fees” or “commissions” ing the truckers CWA work orders. PIANO TICKLER, KLONDIKE DAYS, COMING NORTH Philip Gershel, Original; Ragtime Kid of Dawson, | Is to Visit Interior | 2— SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Feb. Three of four insane convicts who | Justice Medical Center here are| e | | Treasury Balance | Shows Finances In Healthy Shape Showing a total of $816,- 129.19 cash on hand at the close of business on Jan- uary 31, the Territorial Treasury was revealed to be in the best position for sev- eral years at corresponding dates. The figures were submitted in the monthly financial statement by W. G. Smith, Treasurer, to Gov. John W. Troy. The net cash balance after deducting for out- standing warrants, was $739,755.77, as compared to $482,723.95 on the same date in 1033, an increase of $275,031.82. e0ec0eesseecscsecsccee ® e 000000000 old, stone age implements and weapons have been unearthed on the Island. Informed of Alaska | the 1loan, Delegate A. J. Dimond said the| “excavations on the island are ex- tremely important scientifically as scientists believe they will obtain an insighi into the past centuries in Alaska and probably will shed light on movements of the Pacific Northwest natives and settlement| of Alaska.” | the Monte | Alaska REGINA, Saskatchewan, Feb. The man who tickled the ivories on the piano the night Dan Mc- Grew was shob in a Dawson cafe, has come here enroute to Alaska to look over the old scenes. Now 72 years of age, Philip Ger- shel declares he is the original Ragtime Kid, immortalized by Rob- ert W. Service. Gershel sald Service was then a clerk in the Bank of Commerce at Dawson and used to stand beside him and chat between piano selec- tions. Gershel that the “Lady known as Lou,” was “Queen of the Klondike. She was tough but big- hearted. She was a grand lady Gershel, who has wandered all over the world, makes his home in Minneapolis, “Minn. He said he eceived $50 a night in the gold rush days for playing the piano in Carlo Cafe. said - R e N. L. TROAST LEAVES ON SEAPLANE TO N. L. Troast, Architect for the Division of the Bureau of Indian Affa left this morning on the Lockheed seaplane of the Alaska Air Express for a trip of jon of Bureau projects which g done under CWA ap- propriations. On the trip, which will take two days, Mr. T v visit Hoonah and Sitka, remain at the latter overnight and retu to Juneau with stops at Kake and Angoon, tomorrow. Projects which Mr. inspect are the rebuilding of teachers’ quarters and a nur clinic, in Hoonah, road work and the excavation for the government school, in Sitka; and the work which has been done to augment the water supplies of Angoon and Kake hast _armesepicwa ararterose GOVERNMENT TO APPLY PRESSURE DERTOR NATIONS | Dollar Devaluation Makes || Great Reduction, Theoretically { HOUSE, SENATE ARE " STRONG FOR ACTION |State Department Gives | Approval to Amend- ‘ ments in Measure || WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.— | |The Administration appear= ed today to be ready to ap- ply pressure to delinquent Eurcpean war debtors, peint- ing oul that America’s dollar devaluation has wrought at least a theoretical reduction lof 40.96 per cent in sums Lowed. | Sentiment apparently ruled strong in both the Senate and House in favor of some res' taliatory action against de- ffflulting nations. | Half a dozen moves in the past were halted principaliy by lack of avgaiescence by th mpisgd. | Senator Hiram Johnson, of California, had the approval of the State Department to certain amendments of his measure to further credit to nations now | deny to truck owners in return for give |popo e S aenls (Associated Press Photo) OV, TROY MADE PWA CHIEF; GETS - | United States expects payment of all war and post-war debts over- due. The measure was given quick approval and sent to the House without a record vote. The bill forbids any person or corporation to buy or sell any new of all Federal|securities or loan money to any v Public Works Adminis-|foreign government or its subdivi- tration activities in Alaska under|sion which default in whole or Gov. John W. Troy was establish-|in part its obligations to this Gov- ed yesterday by Secretary Harold ernment. JOHNSON BILL PASSES WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. — The Senate this afternoon repassed the Johnson bill, this time with the Administration’s support, to deny new credits by this country to all nations behind in debts to the Dr. Smith Transferred to Washington and Gover- nor Takes Over Work Cc Emergen 1solidation L. Ickes, National PWA Admin-| - e o> ator. The change was m: by transferred Dr. Philip S. Smith| back to the United States Geologi- | cal Survey, and turned over m‘ RAG 5 e Gove the work he hasbeen | ] handlir for the PWA. | In a radiogram to the e nor yesterday, the Secretary not fied him of his appointment as representative of the Federal fogac Emergency Administration of Pub- Slight Advances Made by Geological| Some Issues — Others | Off—Bonds Strong NEW YORK, Feb. 2. — Stocks {were somewhat noncommittal today lic Works,” vice Dr. Smith whu[ nsfers back to the it was also announced. aska e ]“‘ s as the new and lighter American Dr. Smith )(‘f)uu.)(l(‘(l upward in foreign J‘:‘,’F_H s mmodities failed to display itive Pl T p ch enthusiasm for the advance. “ y . Metals and specialties resisted thon 3B Alaska profit taking find regsonaijle: ohe called stock leaders were a to. eliminste oonlu ragged the entire session. oo ency,” T close was irregular and gpred today. Tt 50,000 shares. pressed his re a Bends Strong Smith from June; b undercurrent of bonds was rea]:7{'d that the latter w but late trading brought at this time to prepare for 8 some recessions. The curb was mented program in the Tern y 9 during the coming seasor . British pound dropped al To Leave Soon ] RS As soon as the affairs of twonunued on Page Two) office can be closed up and a e 5 transfer affected. Dr. Smith will| Halibut Season leave for Washington to ne the duties of Chlef Alaskan Geol-|Opens on / t. He has bee leave frc V\March First that office since was Alaska represenattive of the The Geological Survey alloted $50.000 of PWA mineral investigations in ritory nam The halibut season/ will cpen on March/ according to advi/ today at the Unite/ toms office from, icnal Fisheries / vith