The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 31, 1934, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1934. PRICE TEN CENT§ PRESIDENT AND | BOSTON BOY IN OFFICIAL PARTY Nine- Year-Old Lad Seeks Special Privilege Which Is Granted NINETY-SIX VESSELS SAIL UP HUDSON RIV. Planes Fly_Overhead in New Formations and Thrilling Maneuvers NEW YORK, May 31.—Ninety- six vessels of the United States Bettle Fleet steamed in from the this morning to be reviewed Ly the Commander-in-Chief, Presi- dent Franklin D. Roosevelt. President Roosevelt was aboard the cruiser Indianapolis and with him was Frank Nichols, Jr., nine- year-old Boston youngster. “Bid” Accepted Young Nichols watched from the Indianapolis with the President as the great armada passed in review as the result of a letter to James Roosevelt soliciting his “influence for a small corner on the flagship with the President.” When the President was told, he cuickly and pleasantly replie “Tell him to be my guest.” ~oung Nichols was ready and escorted to the Presidential party and enjoyed the day at the side of the Nation's Chief Executive. Spectacular Review Today's review, the first since 1930, was most spectacular because it included scores of naval planes which came over the eastern hori- zon in new and breath-taking maneuvers. : Crowds lined the shores and were seen in all windows of the sky- scrapers. P! ure boats by the scores were crowded and lined the course over which the great fleet passed. STOCK PRICES TAKE FURTHER - DEGLINE TODAY Threats ot Strikes Depress-| es Market—Steels Es- pecially Hard Hit NEW YORK, May 31.—Stocks| were depressed today by renewed | threats of strikes in the important | steel and textile industries. | Prices declined fractionally to around two points in a dull session, ! steels leading the downward move- | ment. Today's market close was heavy. Cereals Advance May and July wheat climbed the | full allowance today, a limit of five | cents a bushel. Oats reached the| three cent limit and advance of remaining cereals was almost as strong reflecting the serious drought damage to crops. Although the House passed the silver bill, silver futures and bar metal eased. | Bonds were irregular, | Steels Decline Bethlehem, National Steel, Unit- ed States Steel and Republic pre- ferred dropped about two points. Both U. 8. and Bethlehem regis-| tered new lows for the year. Losses of fractions to around one | point included such shares as Gen- eral Motors, Chrysler, American Can, American Telephone, Allied | Chemical, Dupont, Howe Sound,| American Smelting, Kennecott and | many others. ! CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, May 31.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 19%, American Can CARNER MISSES Quintuplets Born to Canadian Woman;Are Alive and Gaining CORBEIL, Ontazio, May 31.—Quintuplcts born to Mrs. Olive Dicnne are ctill alive and gaining strengih. They are cared for by a country deetor. It is believed all will ilve. The babies are being fed by an eye drepper and the feeding process takes so long that by the .ime all are fed, the first one is hungry agian. Chiefs Review Soviet Might ,Commissar K. Voroshilov (left) and Josef Stalin, Army Chief an itator respectively of Soviet Russia, pictured as they reviewed the gi,-antic May Day parade in the Red Square, Moscow. At top a view of a section of the parade, showing Lenin’s tomb in center, CONGRESS IS " BUSY ON FOUR MAJOR ISSUES !Silver Bill Comes in for Attack in House from Both Sides of Aisle Spider-bitten Doctor Still Unconscious BOISE, Idaho, May 31— There is a slight improvement in the condition of Dr. William Erkenbaeck, uncenscious frcm a black widow spider bite. He has been unconscicus since May 20. CHANGE Tn PAY | WASHINGTON, May 31.—Con- | gress turned on the heat this after- M'ADOO FAVOR | noon with expectation of acting on Ifour major proposals within 48 Absent from Senate when Vote Would Have Clinch- hours, tariff, silver and stock mar- ket bills, and Senate ratification of . 9 ed Friend’s Measure the new treaty with Cuba. From both sides of the aisle, the Administration’s silver bill was a | target today for invectives as it {moved toward apparently sure pas- ! merchandise. By HERBERT PLUMMER WASHINGTON, May 31.—Vice- sage in the House today. President Garner missed an oppor- tunity in the Senate recently to pay something “on account” for political favors received from his good friend, Willilam G. McAdoo. ‘Whether he purposely passed up TRIPLE AUTO COLLISION; 3 the chance only “Cactus Jack,”, I | himself, knows. i It happened this way: ! Senator McAdoo has been absent from tlie Senate for some time due to illness. When the bill author- WOODBRIDGE, N. J., May 31.— izing federal loans to industry A man, with a summons for reck- came up for consideration, he less driving in his pocket, drove a called on his colleague, Hiram car into a triple collision today in Johnson, to pinch hit for him in Wwhich three women were killed, two an effort to obtain adoption of an being decapitated by heavy truck 93%, American Power and Light 7, amendment in which he was par- ticularly interested. A California Rider It seems that in a certain part of the city of Los Angeles there is la privately owned utility supplying power and light in direct competi- tion with the municipally owned plant. It is the desire of the city to wheels. Six others, including a little girl, were seriously Injured and two of them may die. FORNANCE IN PORT; NORTH TOMORROW { The Fornance, harbor boat of Chilkoot Barracks, Capt. Garfield, Anaconda 13%, Armour B 2%, Ben- purchase the privately owned commander, arrived in Juneau at 1 ’ . plant 5 dix'Avmnon 14%, Bethlehem Steel not only to eliminate controver- ° o'clock yesterday afternoon from 31%, Briggs Manufacturing 16%.,|sies which have arisen «continually, S\tk, where Col. William C. Miller, Calumet and Hecla. no sale; Chrys- | ler 39%, Curtiss-Wright 3%, Fox' Films 14, General Motors 31%,' Standard Oil of California 32%,’ Ulen Company, no sale; United Air- Warner Pictures 5%, Pound $5.06%, Nabesna bid 102, ask but also because cheaper rates can be given the people than those they are now paying. McAdoo wanted an amendment commander of the Barracks, in- spected the National Cemetery. The Fornance will be here until BARRED OUT OF ALASKAN TRADE H. R. Shepard Tells Cham- ber of Barriers Prevent- ing Service by Them Two handicaps imposed by law render it impracticable if not alto= gether impossible for Canadian- owned steamships to serve Alaska’s transportation needs, the Chamber by H. R. Shepard, local agent for practically so. Mr. Shepard said he had tried to arrange for his company to put two vessels on the Alaska run but after inquiries were made he found that this would not be of any as- sistance in bringing relief from the conditions imposed by the Pacific Coast longshoremen’s strike. Jones Law Handicap The barriers encountered by Ca- him as follows: 1.—American goods and produce cannot be transported between Canadian ports and Alaskan ports in Canadian-owned and operated vessels. 2.—Import duties on Canadian stances. 1920, the so-called Jones Act, abso- lutely prohibits the use of foreign shipping in the coastwise trade be- tween Alaska and British Colum- bia in the haulage of American Thus, if foodstuffs grown in Washington, Oregon or California Vancouver for transport to Alaska, it could not be moved out of Van- couver except on an American bottom. The same applies to manu- factured goods. No Remission of Duty There is no manner in which im- port levies on foreign merchandise can be set aside by executive order or other administrative action. Sev- eral days ago the Chamber of Commerce sent a radiogram to Delegate Dimond asking him to re- {quest the President or the Tariff Commission to waive duty during the current crisis. Early this week it received a relief sought could not be outained except through a -special act of Congress. It is to late now, he add- tion in time to be of any benefit. The president has not the power the set aside the duties and the Tariff Commission has - advised the Delegate that it can not leg- thought when I started out that relief, but I find I'm all wet,” Mr Shepard said. No. D. S. T. Recommeéndation After it had been informed that the Alaska Juneau and the Juneau Lumber Mills would not adopt that system even if the City Council should formally adopt Daylight Saving Time, the Chamber of Com- merce today declined to adopt a (vontinued on Page Two) ENDS FIFTEEN YEARS' SUITS WITH SUCCESS Mrs. Minnie Mead May Is Given Judgment Against Gibson Mining Co. VANCOUVER, B. C., May 31— Culminating 15 years of ltigation in the courts of British Columbia, ‘Washington, and Oregon, judgment was handed down yesterday by Justice D. A. McDonald in favor of Mrs. Minnie Mead May of Van- of Commerce was informed today! the Canadian National Lines. One [:§ is insurmountable and the other |’ nadian shipping were stated by | products are prohibitive in most in-!} should be shipped to| reply from Mr. Dimond saying the! ed, to attempt to get such 1emsla-f ally take any remedial action. “I| I could get our company to put| on two vessels and give us some erica’s great wheatlands. try. grain of wheat. By CARL C. CRANMER The Merchant Marine Aci o WASHINGTON, May 31— The twin scourges of mankind—drought and insects—threaten to wipe out crop prospects of thousands of western farmers this year. Despite their merciless destruction, how- ever, they may make the job of AAA easier and shorter. For the second consecutive year, Nature may act more effectively than the government in forcing down the wheat surplus, while agri- | cultural adjustment officials are | pointing out that the drought may impress upon farmers the “crop in- | surance” feature of AAA contracts in the future. The April 1 crop report forecasts a harvest this year of 710,000,000 bushels. This would have been lar- |ger tdan the 527,000,000 bushels raised last year when drought caus- ed one of the smallest ciops in many years. But it would have | been smaller than the 1928-32 aver- age of 844,000,000 busheis. o No Famine Danger Now after a month of dust storms and scorching weather in (the wheat country, the crop report- | Ing board forecasts a winter wheat {crop of only 461,000 bushels, a drop of one million bushels a day for a month Jor winter wheat alone, and the report does not take account of the greater damage that may have been caused since May 1. In the northwest as much as one | fifth of the spring wheat seeding|vators and graneries from bumper mainder will go out this summer. in some states is reported not yet done, while the drifting of soil has uncovered jmuch seed already in | the ground. | But unlike old times, there is little danger of famine for the | country es a whole. With a spring | wheat crop equal only to 1931, the FOREIGN SHIPS [fi)rought, Insects Give Unasked Aid in Cutting Down U. S. Wheat Surplus The result is wheat crop reduction—and better hatching season for grasshoppers. agreed to waive part of its contract with farmers in the most severely drought-stricken areas (shaded porticns of the map above), allowing them to collect benefit payments whether or not they produce a Day after day a merciless sun has beaten down from cloudless skies, sapping moisture from Am- Thick clouds of dust have been spread across sections ¢f Western farm coun- The AAA has MILLIONS OF - CATTLE WILL BE MARKETED Government Sanctions Slaughter Owing to Feed Shortage and Drought KANSAS CITY, Mo, May 31.—A | blazing sun mocked the water-hun- |gry wheatlands today, condemning millions of ecattle for premature slaughter and burning down anoth- er million bushels of wheat. ‘Temperatures as high as 106 de- grees doomed the cattle and the Government announced they will be slaughtered to relieve the farm- 1ers of Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Texas and other states where feed shortages prevail. i smallest in recent years, and a winter crop as forecast, there would be a total yield of about 575,000,- 1000 bushels, ! Huge Supplies Stored ! This is abcus #5.000,000 bushels less than the country normally uses in a year. Stored away in ele- years, however, is a carryover esti-| mated to be 270,000,000 bushels by July 1. With such a crop and carryover, | els by July 1; 1935, This would be Just about the normal carryover that existed from 1922 to 1928, com- pared with nearly 400,000,000 bush- els in 1933 when more than one- half of the world’s surplus was stored in the United States. ‘Thus, the intention to get rid of the surplus which has held down prices would be very nearly accom- plished—by the aid of nature and at the expense of thousands of farmérs in drought-blighted areas. War on Grasshoppers First action of otncials to meet the emergency has been to desig- nate 355 counties in 12 states where wheat conditions are the worst. Nearly 70 per cent of the farmers signing up to reduce acreage are in this area. The contracts require a farmer to plant at least 54 per cent of his base acreage in order to col- lect his benefit check. In the desig- nated counties where seeding would be a waste of time, the farmer may obtain a waiver on this require- ment from his local control asso- ciation. In that way, many farmers eo- operai'ng with the AAA will have their benefit payments as a sort of crop insurance, even if the drought destroys their entire crop and they do not raise a grain of wheat. To- tal benefit payments will total about $95,000,000, of which $66,000,- 000 already has gone out. The re- Drought also increases the hatch- ing of g hoppers, aggravating the farm menace. The government is shipping 50 catloads of poison the United States could export its bait each day inlo western areas quota of 90,000,000 bushels under where infestation is expected to be the world wheat agreement and the worst, with the first shipments have a surplus of 155,000,000 bush- going to Montana and Idaho. ki ;Governor Rolph Jr., -|Still Hovers Between Life, Death SAN JOSE, Cal, May 31— Gov. James Rolph, Jr., today still clung to the spark of life which physicians said may flicker out at any moment. FRANCE DEFERS T0 AMERICA ON CHINA POLICY By M. K. WHITELEATHER PARIS, May 31—The French government wants Uncle Sam to s ol AN O il OR. L. P. SEIG, 11 ] [] ] | lead the diplomatic fight against Japan’s “Asia for Asiatics” policy, PRESIDENT OF (s e 2 | lose than other countries. | France wants Asia's door kept | open, and in that she agrees with | the United States and Great Brit- | ain, but she is afraid to say so in SEATTLE, May 31—Dr. Lee Paul | @ loud voice lest the Nipponese Seig, Dean of the College of Arts| take offense and pounce on her and Sclences of the University of Tich Asiatic colonies. Pittsburgh, has been 'named Pre.sx-: Fears for Colonics dent of the University of Wash-| ypcle Sam's interests, officials | couver, and her husband, D. K May, of Thompson Falls, Montana. Her suit was on behalf of the ngton. | say, are not as important as are Dr. Seig succeeds Dr. Hugo Win- |y of Prance, Holland and Great kénwerder, who has been Acting mutain so he can afford to “take Two Songs About Ala By Nan Noonan ca Written SEATTLE, May 31— D. A. Ncoenan, steward on the motor- ship Northland, has turned songwriter, having just pub- lished two songs with an Alas- kan theme, “Daytime in the North Time” and “The Blue Forget-Me-Nots of Alaska.” FOUR MEN SAFE FROM LYNCHERS MARYSVILLE, Kansas, May 3l. —Brought to jail here for safe keeping after a mob formed at Blue Rapids voicing lynching threats, Police Judge L. L. Russell and three other men are held on tomorrow morning, when the re-|shareholders in the Gibson Mining|President since the resignation . ance for he risks less” The c¢harges of seducing three girls, attached ‘bo'sthe’ b hich would turD to Haines will pe made. The Company, Ltd. craft 20%, United States Steel 30, nave authorized the reconsiruction Y03l has been away from Chil- : koot Barracks since Sunday morn- and Mr. May were awarded Mrs. seven iaims including the Gibson ' Mine and two lots in Kaslo, B. C. - more than one year ago of M. prench fleet in eastern waters, of- Lyle Spencer. ficlals say, s merely a “police force” Dr. Seig assumes his duties Aug- | _ Auy' it R | (Continued on Page Three) from 13 to 15 years of age, after luring them to secluded places by gifts of candy, ice cream and money. MAYOR CARSON SEEKS T0 GET FEDERAL HELP Asks Governors and May- ors to Join in Strike Appeal to President NORTH WINDS SAILS LATE WEDNESDAY Will Be Last Seiling from Seattle Except for Gov- ernment Vessels SEATTLE, May 31. — A movement was launched to- day in Portland, by Mayor Joseph Carson, to induce the Federal Government to as- sume the entire jurisdiction of all negotiations in the Pa- cific Coast longshoremen’s strike, taking the matter out of local authorities. Forty vessels are lying idle at the docks as the strike deadlocked Puget Sound and virtually all coast ports’ steamers. Both strikers and employers held their fire and awaited possible Government mediation. Carson Takes Lead Mayor Carson of Portland this morning assumed the leadership in seeking Government intervention. He has formally requested the Gov- ernors of Washington, Oregon and California, and the Mayors of all seaport cities on the Pacific Coast tu unite with him in an appeal o the National Administration to assume complete jurisdiction over the controversy. There are no indications of any break in the deadlock which finds the strikers and employers farther (Continued on Page Two) DR, HROLICKA HERE ON WAY T0 KODIAK S, Accompanied by College ‘Men — Conclusions Made from Studies Dr. Ales Hrdlicka or tne Smith- sonian Institution, who has been making anthropological studies in Alaska for several years, accompan- ied by five young college men from various schools, is in Juneau on his way to Kodiak, on the Patrol Boat Morris, to continue excavation work there which was begun late in 1931. ‘The young men, who are paying all their own expenses on the expe- dition, and will work on the exca- vation work are C. T. R. Bohannan of the University of Maryland, Rob- ert T. Heizer of the Sacramento Junior College, Thurman MacRae of George Washington University, Iver Zarbell of the University of Louisville, and Harold E. Zicke- foose of the University of Iowa. Important Excavation The entire summer will be spent in excavation work on what Dr. Hrdlicka terms one of the most important sites yet found in the ‘Territory in terms of cultural evi- dence regarding the primitive groups which once lived there. These studies and excavations are being carried on in an effort to get information not only on the tools and implements which the ancient inhabitants of Alaska used, but also about who they were, where they came from and what degree of civilization they had at- tained. ‘When questioned regarding the finding of evidences of Eskimo ‘set- tlements around Prince William Sound by the Danish National Mu- seum expedition last summer, Dr. Hrdlicka stated that in his opinion, the Eskimos reached that point