The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 27, 1934, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE e “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL )\LIII.. NO. 6585. JUNLAU ALASKA TUESDAY FEBRUARY 27, 1934, MLMBLR OF AS”OCI/\'H D PRLSS PRICE TEN CENTS ALASKA CANNERS MEET WITH NRA CHlEF ARMY AIR MAIL PLANE JOHNSON BEATS CRITICS TO GUN FIRST SESSION NRA Administrator Sud-| § . denly Announces New | 12-Point Program REGULAR ‘FIELD DAYS’ FOR CCMPLAINTS OPEN Code Revision Covering | ;,,, Many Issues Proposed | | If Justifiable | WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. — Gen. | Hugh S. Johnson beat NRA's as- sembled critics to the gun by sud- unfolding a twelve-point pro- | for revising existing codes, the hundreds invited to make could voice a single den the left, Eastham, who was burn; NRA'S ‘Administrator announced a wide code revision will be ef- fected if possible by a Presidential mandate embracing individual in- dustrie Gen f those called into a conference | compiaints at his “field ox, criticism that there would | AID TO ALASKA llowed modifications only if | ication is shown in public ngs @én gode revision. Higger Blue Eagle The -WRA AdministrSior “furiher. this probable change m]l 'Ol n will be followed by a | agle compliance cam- hes that Total Nearly $6,- 000,000 for This Year lue to make the emblem in- dispensib! o all businesses. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—(Spec- We going on as we began.|ial Correspondence)—As the first These meetmgs are the first move {year of the New Deal draws near 1 an attempt to close up Lhe‘ns close the occasion is appropriate anks for a new forward movement | for summing up the effects of its by NRA so that no chance or cir-|extension to Alaska. nce may stop it,” said Gen.| 1t is not pretended here that Johoson. The Administrator said |one who has been absent from the that perhaps NRA has fallen short | Territory nearly a year, as the 1e respects but he is con-|present writer has been, can speak ent that the industrial program | with the authgrity which continu- march on. ious residence gives, but on the Twelve Corrections | other hand, the Washington ob- ministrator Johnson said helserver has access to facts and fig- has already gathered data which ures and implications of future would probably make twelve cor-|trends denicd those far from the tions necessary for a more uni-|seat of the national capital. And, form and equitable rule of price as was aptly remarked recently, stabilization, and prevention of | Washington has again become the cut-throat cgmpetition, a more ef-|national capital for the first time fe Administration Active The Roosevelt Administration |seeks not only to bring an end to |the business depression but to cure ferentials, providing further in-|causes of depression by widespread e in hourly wages, protection | changes in the body social. To ainst monopoly, improved meth-|date the first part of that pro- ods to secure compliance in code administration without racketeering, | aska. elimination of inconsistent and con-the policy will be directed north- flisting provisions in codes and an|ward in time is inevitable. Even adequate labor and consumer rep-|now the blue eagle is hovering for res tion in an advisory capacity |a landing, to bring for the indus- on code authorities, also wider use|trjes of the Territory better op- within the scope of groups for set- | portunity for permanent well-being tling of labor disputes. |and to give workers the same bene- bt T b 2 i |fits. Similarly, other agencies cal- c AN AD A VUTE s culated to alter the manner of liv T0 STABILIZE SILVER PRICE House of Commons Decides, to Approve Agreement Made in London OTTAWA, Feb. 27.—The world silver agreement negotiated in| London last June as a move to; stabilize the price of the metal was approved last might by the, Canadian House of Commons with- out a record vote. Under the pact United States,| Mexico, Peru, Australia and Can- ada agreed to withdraw from the world market 35,000,000 fine ounc- es of silver and not debase their of production, unifority of | 5 and hours in industries| which are competitive, uniform classification of areas for wage dif- tion has failed to find an even economic level will not be denied entarnce to the Territory. It is the estimate of the writer, ever, that the need for these {agencies being markedly less in | Alaska in its status of a compara- | tively new country from the view-| points of American settlement and economic development, they will make their influence felt there in | nowhere the same degree as the hard-presed industrial and agrarian ! sections of continental United! States. It would.secm, then, that their penetration into Alaska will come much more slowly and for that reason adjustment will be, in many cases, made much easier. Along the economic front a dif- ferent story can be told. An offen- sive by the Administration’s forces for recovery was made without Nearly $60 is being expended for each resident of Alaska—childre: and adults—under allocations from | Lt. James Y, Eastham of March Field, Cal. run in connection with the war department’s preparations to fly the mail. ADMINISTRATION L Appropriations . for Terri- e rule to prevent sales below |since the end of the World War.| gram has been chiefly felt in Al-l That the social aspects of| ing under which America as a na-| how- | delay. -.The figures tell the story.! Here is the wreckage of an army bombing plane near Jerome, Ida., following the crash which killed The plane narrowly missed the Barrymore meeting house at ed to death, was flying between Salt Lake City and Seattle in a trial (Associated Prass Phata} ——{roll. ARMY’S MAIL ROUTES IN WEST i When army pilots: started flying the air mail in the west, they | operated over the “primary routes”, shown in heavy black lines on this | map, with Sait Lake City as headquarters. The postoffice department | announced “secondary routes,” indicated by dotted lines, would be put iated Pre (Fram As: in operation at a later date. Hi/.{hm -up Kissing ALASKA GUUR (ames Investigation Tu Gu TU SEA |In California NEXT SUMMER (5525 ——mgmtarles of the Admi traiion have turned to inve tigate reports of promiscuous antsh Department of Justice, Coast Guard Will Co- operate, Dimond Told kisting in the State Printing Office. James Lyon, 64-year-old sup- ervising copy reader, has been accused of kissing feminine subordinates. Lyon replied he is not more guilty than 14 or 15 other male employees. During the legislative ses- sions, Lyon said, Senators and Representatives dropped in “for a kiss or two and maybe a date. Anyway there is nething wrong with it. The women are all married.” RALPH CAPONE OUT OF PRISON | WASH!ING'I'ON Feb. 27— The {Department of Justice and the| Coast Guard have assured Alaska | Delegate A. J. Dimond that the | |traveling court of the Third Di-’ (vision will go to sea again during {the coming summer. The Delegate said there was a possibility of 51", iminating the practice but the De-’ (partment of Justice has decided to continue the trip. | Most of the court session is devoted to naturalization of aliens on the Aleutian Peninsula and the Bristol Bay section. | The time of the voyage will de-1 pend on the convenience of the | presiding Judge and the Coast | Guard, which will furnish the vessel. Intends to Return to Chi- R0 d Enter Legit- Oldtime Resident of | €80 ar: B er Leg , Ketchikan Passes Away | mate business . o ~ 1 During Sleep, Sunday| LONG BRANCH, Wash., Feb. 27 |—Planning to enter a legitimate “#arsnow storm mear Laraine, Ohio, .GATASTRUPHES |Presi TAKE BIG TOLL OF U. S, LIVES WASHINGTON Delegate Anthony J. Feb Dimond pr . | sented a formal iny to Pres- Tiain Wreck, Plane CraSh'Jmum Roosevelt to visit Alaska on { &y Bus SmaShesv E‘C-v his proposed western trip gext summer. Deal OUl Death 3 Delegate Dimond quoted the e | President as saying it would be STORMS CONTINUE | impossible to go north on this trip | on which he intends to visit the OVER me SECTION‘Punama Canal and Hawaii but } T | would ~visit the Territory before ‘National Guard Lieutenanl his term is over. Is Killed in Plane Crash in Ohio | CHICAGO, I, Feb. 27. — Four {days of catastrophe, aloft and) aground, brought sudden death to| Iat least eighty-five persons in the| United States. | E A train wreck, plane crashes, bus | |@mash-ups, lethal, carbon monoxide (gas and winter storms swelled the {' Eight died in a plane crash in| Uthh, five are known to have been killed in a train wreck at Pitts- burgh, 20 are known dead in tor- nadoes in the south, 30 are dead in Eastern storms, six are dead at| Augila, Arizona, as the result of a bus wreck and nine died in Dart- mouth as result of coal gas asphyx- iation. Another plane carried a National . Guard Lieutenant to his death in} A train and bus smash killea three near Kethel, Kansas. Storms are still raging with snow covering a vast area. TRAIN IS WRECKED district and J. Charles Dennis, PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb, 27— With five bodies recovered and 28| gjated Press Photos) persons in hospitals, fear is ex- — POSSIB! E FEDERAL JOB APPOINTEES | become United States district attorney in the near future. Both have been recommended for the positions by Senators Dill and Bone. (Asso- ident Roosevelt to Visit Alaska Before Term Is Over He Informs Delegate Dimond The Delegaté said the President is greatly interested in the pro-| posed International Highway from | Puget Sound to Fairbanks and re- quested him to return for a Ln«)h‘ ough discussion of the problems which will be included in the con- struction, The Delegate has a bill pending in Congress asking for two million | one hundred thousand dollars for the construction of the - Alaska| portion of the proposed Interna- | tional Highway. i ~ 'CANNERS ACGEPT PAY AND HOURS FOR FISH CODE Alaska Salmon Workers Demand Better Condi- tions as Provision |GOOD HOUSING AND COMPENSATION ASKED Final Administration Post« poned to Allow Both Sides to Testify SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., ¥Feb. 21. —More favorable provisions for the employees under the proposed NRA code for the Alaska salmon indus- try was urged in the hearing be- |fore Paul Eliel, Deputy NRA Ad- | ministrator yesterday. Representatives of the Alaska salmon cannery workers declared they had been employed under “Chinese contract system” for years. The proposed code calls for col- lective bargaining and 35 cents an hour as the minimum wage. H. B. Friele and A. B. Wolf, presidents of the Association of John C. Bowen (left) of Seattle, collector of intern the district of Washington, is slated to become federai juage or that Tacoma attorney, is expected to pressed that the death list of last night's wreck of a New York bound | Treasury Issue Pennsylvania train may be doubled. |y 3 - The engineer and fireman are ‘l‘\ ()v(’r.subscnbt’(l missing. INearly Six Times Officials said three passengers | are not accounted for, ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 27— Several of the injured persons| Treasury Secretary Henry are reported in critical conditions. The train, ten minutes behind time, ploughed down a 20-foot em- bankment. Morgenthau, Jr., announced last night that the $75,000,000 is- sue of 182-day Treasury bills, dated February 28, were over- subscribed mnearly six times. The average interest rate was one per cent, with a discount basis of sixty-two hundredths of one pel‘ cent a ynr PACIFIC COAST TRADESTEAMS UP IN JANUARY Healthy Condifion Shown| in Monthly Report, Federal Reserve DEATH LIST GROWS PITTSBURGH, Feb. 27. — This latfernoon the train wreck death | list grew to nine. The bodies of the engineer and fireman have |been recovered. DEMOCRATS TO - BE LEFT ALONE FOR CAMPAIGN |National Committee Adopts | Hands Off Policy, De- clares Farley SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27.—The industrial activity of the Far West put on a little more steam in Janu- ary then in December. Trade held relatively steady ex- cept for retail sales in eclothing and similar lines which had been boosted by the lively Christmas trade of the preceding month. Confirmation of these statements are found in the monthly report from the F‘edernl Reserve Bank. PAY CUT IS WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. — ‘The | Democratic National Committee ‘has declared a hands off policy !toward Democratic candidates in !the coming primary elections, ;Chalrmnn James A. Farley said today. The committee will take no part (for or against any Democratic can- }didate and this presumably will |make some Democrats who are |opposed to some of the Roosevelt policies, breathe easier but the full portent is yet to be assayed. MBS LEE DOLAV AVE ON PRIN. NO FOR SEATTLE WEDNI } I \ | Senate has voted to continue the 15 per cent pay cut for all gov- ernment employees drawing more than $6,000 yearly, including mem- Mr. and Mrs. Lee Dolan will be passengers for Seattle on the Prin- cess Norah when it leaves for the south tomorrow morning. Mr. FOREIGN TRADE UP IN SENATE WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—The | White House last night. currencies, Canada’s share was put at 1.-| 671,802 ounces but mo steps have| been taken to buy this from Cam-i adian mines. ———————— A will covering a piece of paper cet long s incles wide ¢ led it uneds %y | o of the Roosevelt emergency adminis-, KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb. 27— trations. This, of course, does not' Joe Atkins, aged 64 years, died take into account the regular ap- in his sleep Sunday after an ex- propriations from the Federal Gov- tended illness. He had been a ernment. resident of Ketchikan for 25 years, Alaska Gets $3,571,050 working as a machinist. For the fiscal year 1933 the Con-!| Atkins is survived by a brother epropricied directly for Al- Fred, at Owen Sound, Ontario, 1 of $3571,050. That and a sisier, Mrs. Bertha Lyne, nued on Page Seven) of San Jose, Cal i gress left McNeil Island Prison today 2 free men after serving two years and five months for income tax evasion. Capone paid his $10,000 fine and declared he felt no bitterness over his term in the penitentiary. He said he might enter the horse racing business. siness in Chieago, Ralph Capom-l 1also been prominent as a match- | maker fer American Legion smok- |ers, was required to go south be- Jcause of il health. e i - — A reptile in the California desert lives under the sand and moves through it with a swimming mo- tion. bers of Congress but excluding Dolan, who has been employed at Judges. ol the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining L R Company for several years, and has| JOHN G. JOHNSON FRANCEIS TO - GET READY FOR | Air, Sea and Land Forces to Be Reorganized— Tentative Plan PARIS, Feb. 27.—The air, sea |and land forces of France are to ‘h(v reorganized. This is the plan Ito strengthen the nation’s defenses | in case of trouble in Europe. The plan will be presented soon dL a special session of the French ! Ccabinet by Premier Doumergue. The program has been tenta- tively approved and embraces a| |vast military and economic re-| | habilitation scheme envisioned as aiding the economic situation while | strenthening the armed forces of| [ the country in the face of Hitler's rearmament demands. | General unrest prevails. One { Communist has been slain and three injured in rioting which rag- |ed for a short time on the streets | while Communists attempted to break up a NnLiunulist's meeting. THREE BANKS TO BE FORMED FOR New Financiai Establish-| ments to Be Headed by George N. Peek | WASHINGTON, Feb. 27— The | establishment of three banks to, aid in expanding American foreign trade, 5all headed by George N. Peek was announced from the| In addition to the Import-Ex- | dependent. HOSPITAL FOR CARE port Bank announced two weeks ago to trade with Russia, one| John G. Johnson, of Douglas, new one will be organized to trade| entered St. Ann's Hospital last with Cuba and the other to facil- night to receive treatment for an itate trade with other foreign infected hand as the result of an countries. accidental cut received while at, The Reconstruction Finance Cor- work in the shops of the Alaska poration will provide funds for Juneau Gold Mining Company. Ithe banks, Pacific Pisheries and the North- wast Galman Manm A sanatatlan 1 i &rous oL Other Jiat ot fec matbe: w alid pay s must be considered. They listed these as transportation pay, prop= er housing and payments under the workmen's compensation Act of Alaska. Both sides presented brief argu- ments in support of these views and expected to continue for sev- eral days. Given More Time Final administration of the code, originally set for March 1, Elel efirvsents addiuol Livuls | EUHUPEAN WAR said, would be put over until such time as the employers and work= ers have had full opportunity to be heard. Meanwhile President Roosevelt approved the master fisheries code in Washington, but wages and hours remain to be fixed by the various regional codes. - VETERANS GET $60,000,000 IN SENATE VOTE Roosevelt S:n—ds Warning to House He'll Veto Bonus If Passed ‘WASHINGTON, Feb, 27—Sixty million dollars in Economy Act savings were voted back to veter- ans yesterday by the Senate. At the same time President Roosevelt sent a new warning to the House he'd veto the Patman Bill if it passed. A Senate Republican-Démberatic coalition put thyough the amend- ment to restore to the rolls with 90 per cent of their former pen- sions, a thousand Spanish-Ameri- can war veterans removed by the Economy Act for their disabili- ties. ‘The President’s warning was in a letter to BSpeaker Henry T. Rainey. MORE ACTION TODAY Today the Senate rejected im- mediate cash payment of the sol- diers bonus which would cost §2,- 400,000,000, after adding more than $50,000,000 for veterans to the in= offices appropriations bill, This brought the total in the bill to more than $100,000,000 beyond Administration desires by adopting an amendment restoring to the rolls 29,000 veterans whose disa- bility is presumed to be of ser- vice origin but who were taken off the rolls a year ago by the ‘Economy law.