The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 19, 1934, Page 1

THE DAILY VOL. XLIV., NO. 6758. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIR * MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS — FIRE GOVERNOR ASKS' GOVERNMENT TO START BUILDING. Temporary Relief Situation Well in Hand at Nome, Troy Advised TURNS ATTENTION TO REHABILITATION WORK Recommend"s that Federal Government Rebuild | Quarters for Agencies With adequate provisions already made to take care of immediate temporary relief needs at Nome,! Gov. John W. Troy today moved to initiate a permanent rehabilita- tion program by having the Fed- eral Government immediately bes reconstruction of quarters for agencies located in the stri Seward Peninsula city. He re mended to Secretary Ickes imm iate rebuilding of these quart and was seeking from Nome de-! tailed estimates on materials and supplies for the work. i “The Secretary of Interior is per- sonally interested in the situation and has .asked to be kept fully advised, expressing his deep pathy for the fire Troy said. “We arg§ keeping hjm informed of all developments.” Geis Relief Fand The Governor's inifial réquest for an allotment of $50,000 of FERA funds to take care of the immediate relief needs was ap- proved today, said an Associated Press dispatch to The Empire. “Fine for Mr. Baker. He's just grand!”, declared the Governor when he was shown the dispateh. He referred to Jacob Baker, Asgist- ant Administrator of FERA who spent two weeks in the Territory a short time ago and visited Nome with Hawley Sterling, Assistant Chief Engineer of the Alaska Road Commission, and H. G. Watsen, the Covernor's Secretary. Gov. Troy | wired him yesterday asking for an | immediate allotment of $50,000, and | advising him that much morel would be needed to take care of ! the situation. | Go\’-. | De VICTIMS SHIVER AS RAIN FALLS S. Ready to ng Pacific With Defenses TONS OF STOLEN E Nearly 14,000 pounds of d: said by police to have been was found by detectiv ict. Police detectives Pplosives. (Associated Pres % Seen as Béck Hofie, «“Broke”” XPLO £ | g | nds of black powder, ine near Newhall, atial Los Angeles ¢ of the recovered ex~ ceniralization Is Now ‘actor for Relief By HERBERT PLUMMER WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—With | the problem of relief for the des- The funds had not actually been | - received at. noon today but the Governor was certain they would | be available without delay. This, || he commended, would permit im- || mediate employment of a large} number of men to begin clearing | away the debris and get started o1 wontinded on Page Two) - DELEGATE IS AIDING TROY ANCHORAGE, Alaska. Sept. 19. —Delegate Anthony J. Dimond has radioed Gov. John W. Troy, at Juneau, suggesting that if it comes within his plans for aid to Nome, that the Coast Guard cutter Mor- ris, now stationed at Seward, might ke loaded immediately with sup- plies and disaptched to the stricken fire city. Several airplanes are giso lccated here which may be ilable in case emergencey relief is requested. RELIEF WORKER 1S SENT NORTH SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. 19. —Bowen McCoy, disaster relief worker, has been sent to Nome, Alaska, by airplane, to direct the Red Cross work. TACOMA OFFERS. T0 HELP NOME TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 19.—This city has wired the Mayor of Nome offering to give aid that is sug- gesteds~ " 71 ¢ }Iar distant future a change in en-| titute becoming more and more of vital concern to the Federal Gov- ernment, the question of what to do about it is occupying some of the best minds of the Adminis- tration. ‘Those officials directly charged | with giving aid to the hundreds of thousands who have been left | without opportunity for work he- cause of new developments in in- dustry are not the only ones try- ing to arrive at a solution of the problem. The cooperation of nu- merous other agencies has been en- listed in an effort to develop some sort of a program where the gov- ernment and private business to- gether can cope with the situation. ‘The answer, all seem agreed, lies in decentralization of industry— the setting up for small factories in the rural districts so that indus- trial workers may live in the coun- try and raise a large share of their food. Decentralization Seen Some visualize in the not too j Vironment for millions and a re-, {turn to the farm and factory com- | sivesFouno MORE DISTRESS, ADDED TO WOES NOME SUFFERERS | Relief Work Started Amid Scenes Blackened City —Hungry Being Fed FOUR HUNDRED ARE NOW IN NEED OF AID Ham and E;gs Are Gone— Remaining Stocks of Gro- cers Are Bought Up NOME, Alaska, Sept. 19.— Limited relief work is now under full sway in the wake ofy the disastrous fire which laid this Northern Alaska city in ashes on Monday. The relief work is being done under severely cold| weather. Rain is falling and this further complicates the situation amid the scenes of the blackened ruined city. City and Federal agencies worked tirelessly in arrang- ing more permanent places for the 100 homeless in which to live. The fopd “supply is befiig rapidly depleted. Two resaurants, with sal- utensi were hurriedly set up in shacks and the supply of ham and eggs was soon exhausted and sourdough hot- cakes, reindeer steaks, etc., are now on the menu. Yesterday people stood in line buying the remaining “(Continued on Page Two) NOMEITES ARE CHEERFUL; NEWS OF AID GIVEN | Two Supposed Eskimo Dead| | Are Alive — Food May Last for Five Weeks NCME, Alaska, Sept. 19.— The tions in Hawaii and the bases su; Navy has perfected plans to establish air bases on Guam, abandonment of British-Japanese-United States Naval Tre: 9 HAWAIIAN 1s. ) aty in 1936. in recent aerial and submarine rveyed Islands off Alaska, will enable United States to ring the Pacific with defenses Japanese cabinet has approved new naval policy laid out by Admiral Minso Osu 12 ing for & navy second to none. { DEMOCRATS vaged stoves and cooking | ARE AHEAD | ’ ~ WISCONSIN | [New LaFollette Progres- | sives, Republicans Be- hind—Early Returns | | MILWAUKEE, Wis,, Sept. 19. | —The Democratic State ticket, | strongly supporting President | Rocsevelt's New Deal, has ap- parently polled the biggest vote in the Wisconsin primary leav- ing the new LaFollette Pro- gressive Party and Republicans behind. § This is indicated by the re- turns frem more than half of the State precincts received up to this forenoon. e o o SINCLAIR WILL ( New Pouer to Be Launched UU"}K A[}TIUN’ : Into Recovery Drive; Plans Are Reported to Be Forming | { | | By BYRON PRICE i (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) | Hints thrown out in many quar-| ters indicate that Washington is! cogitating the possibility of a new| economic coup of major propor- | | tions to put more power into the| |recovery drive. | What it will be evidently is not yet known even in innermost ad- | ministration circles. Various propos- als are under study, and the brain itrust is burning midnight oil. | One suggestion, possibly put out | |as a trial balloon, is that instead | $ | .of further restricting industry, the NRA now urge every factory to op- erate to capacity, reemploying mil- lions of workers and getting hun- dreds of millions of new dollars into circulation. Another is that a ffesh attack be made on the debt problem, in the form of projected legislation to scale down all indebtedness ex- cept that of the federal govern- ment. There are others, with no sign yet that any one of them is near adoptyrn. But the fact that so many remain unemployed — that the relief load promises to be so great unless something is done is spurring oficials to the search Wake and Midway Islands in anticipation of 'SUGBESTION OF GOVERNOR TROY 1S ACTED UPON Funds to Aid—Northern City Will Be Disbursed Immediately \FEDERAL BUILDINGS MAY BE CONSTRUCTED Appeal Made by Alfred Lomen Is Quickly Taken Up by Treasury Dept. BULLETIN — WASHING- TON, Sept. .19.—FERA has informed Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond that $50,- 000 will be made available immediately for relief of Neme. The funds will be ad- ministered by Gov. John W. Troy, S Gev. Troy \ dation for relief of the stri en Alaska city made his'fis suggesticn that FERA make an immediate allocation of the $50,000. TO CONSTRUCT FEDERAL BLDGS. These, with the present fortifica~ concentrations in the Aleutian for her coast. Meanwhile, mi (inset), naval minister, RELIEF FUND BY. THEATRES Percentage of Receipts at Coliseum, Capitol Will Go to Nome —Plans for Immediate re- construction of six Federal buildings at Nome, Alaska, are under consideration by the Treasury Department fol- lewing an appeal by Carl Lomen to the Treasury De- partment and Coast Guard for relief for that city, now in ruins. It is indicated at the Treas- ury Department that the Public Works Administration funds will be available for this work. Lomen asked the Government to rebuild the court house, jail, Alaska Road Commission offices, Coast Guard headquarters, offices for the Customs House, Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Post Office at once and without delay of contracts. Treasury officials are “all for the plan,” and Dr. Ernest Gruening, Director of Territories for the In- terior Department has wired Gov. To aid in quick action for the Nome Relief fund, Manager ClLff Daigler of the Capitol and Coliseum theatres will give a percentage of all receipts tonight from both the- aters to the fund, according to an announcement made by him today, and the proceeds will be turned over to the relief cdmmittee tomor- Tow. Excellent entertainment is of- fered at both theatres tonight. Marian Davies and Bing Crosby make their debut as a new ro- mantic and comedy team in their latest Metro-Goldwyn release, “Go- ing Hollywood,” which is said to be one of the most thoroughly de- lightful musical comedy productions of the current season. “Golden Harvest,” the feature picture at the Coliseum theatre, features Chester Morris, Richard CWASAINGTON, Sept. 19. %0, Arlen, and Genevieve Tobin and has received excellent reviews wherever it has shown. “In addition to the percentage Troy to estimate materials that would have to be shipped immed- iately to construct the Government {for something, somewhere, to turn buildings. \More Horses in |Alaska than in IN. Y., Says Miss s | Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart, pro- lific producer of best-sellers, an- nounced she was “flat broke,” when she arrived in New York from two- month stay in Europe, where she recuperated from serious illness.! Feels fine now, and expects to turn out another novel soon. bination of a century ago. The latest census figures show that two-thirds of all factory wage i jobs today are to be found in three per cent of tion. the land of the na- decentralization begun on a large cale. Now it is estimated that some five million workers are em- ployed in mechanical and manufac- {in towns of less | lation. The nucleus around which the igovernment is cemtering its eflort lin this direction is the $25,000,000 subsistence homesteads program. The FSHA, however, is primarily experimental. Other recovery agenci than 2,500 popu- are lend- (Continued on Page Three) NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—Ten vear cld Elsie Geise, of Fair- banks, Alaska, arrived here by airliner yesterday from Seattle enrcute to Newark, New Jer- sey, to meet her grandmother, Mrs. John Ness. Asked if she was bored by the long trip, she replied: “Oh, no, I have often made long air trips in Alaska but New York seems a swell place; but we have more horses in Al- aska than you have” CHITINA MAN PASSES ON Word has been received of the death of Jack Nelson, of Chitina, at Poriland, Oregon, on August 26. Only during the last 10 years has: turing industry in the country or| | morale here has been restored by ! messages of cheer from the outside and the discovery that the two Es- !kimos, supposed fire victims, escap- ied to their cellar and are very much alive today. Temporary stores have been op- ened by the merchants who sal- vaged some of their goods. A check of the food stocks, and drygoods show that there is enough !food to last about five weeks. The shortage of meat will be re- lieved by the arrival of the Ar- thur Baldwin with a cargo of rein- deer meat. A temporary dormitory has been set up to care for the homeless. Two community meetings are be- ing held today to prepare official reports on the damage and make ,requests for Federal and Terri- torial aid. Italians Are to Be Trained in Military Beginning at A ge of 8;Compulsory Law Passed ROME, Italy, Sept. 19.—Com- pulecry military: service for Italians beginning at the age of 8 and continuing to the age of 33 years, has been decreed by the Council of Ministers in probably the mvst sweeping military law ever passed in history. The law declares that' the “functions of a citizen and a soldier are not dividable in i the Fascist State.” The Council created the three fcllowing categories in the compulsory military train- ing: 1. Preliminary training to begin at the age of 8. 2. Military training to be- gin at the age of 21. 3. Post military, continuing for ten years after the mili- tary phase is concluded. FACE BIG TEST AT CONVENTION Will Ask Democratic State- ment of an “EPIC » Plan” Tomorrow SACRAMENTO, Cal., Sept. 19.— Upton Sinclair's claim that the Democratic Party platform be a | “Democratic statement of an EPIC plan,” will meet the test on a convention proving floor tomorrow., The crusading Socialist, now the Democratic candidate for Governor, has already announced he will be in control of the convention which offers the first trial of his lead- ershipsof the nmewly adopted party. Democratic delegates are gath- ered here as are representatives of each of the other seven Cali- fornia parties. All will write plat- forms and sélect State Central Committees. PSR ISR ROBERT E. M'CLAIN LEAVES FOR SOUTH TO ENTER SCHOOL Robert E. McClain, son of El- wood McClain, Cashier of the First National Bank, left on the Yukon on his way to Tacoma where he will enter the Senior class at the Lincoln High School. He will make his home with his grandparent.‘ there during the year, the trend definitely upward again. Speakership Battle Angles Best opinion is that the struggle over the vacant house Speaker- ship will continue to be sharp and indecisive for weeks to come. Some- | thing definite may develop soon | after the November elections. The outcome hardly seems likely to make much difference as be-| legislative influence on Capitol | Hill. Tt is improbable any candidate | can be elected without pledging | himself directly or indirectly to go| along with the Roosevelt adminis-| tration, whichever way it turns. | That the dispute will accentuate | divisions already existing among'w House Democrats, however, cannot | |be doubted. In other words, while | the Administration forces are rated | certain to win, the victory prob-| ably will leave new estrangements in its wake. | Tn some respects, the job of floor leader may be, for this reason, ac- | tually more important than that of speaker. That position is the real objective of several who have an- nounced for Speaker. Attorney General Boom ‘ A Donald Richberg-for-Attorney- General boom is one of the off- shoots of the recent flare-up in NRA between Richberg and Gen- {eral Johnson. High up in oficial circles. there has been speculation like this: Governor-General Murphy is said to want to come home from the (cvnuu\;e; on aie ;two: BILBO WINNER, Itween “right-wing” and “left-wing”| Gehee. | which we will turn over to the re- lief fund we will present our own donation to the fund to Chairman W. B. Kirk, tomorrow morning and we trust that both will help con- siderably 'to swell the emergency chest to relieve the homeless Nome people,” said Mr. Daigler. PRIMARIES IN MISSISSIPPI Former Governor Nomin-| ated for Senate Over Incumbent Stephens JACKSON, Miss. Sept. 19 —The | Democrats nominated former Gov. Theodore Bilbo for United States Senator, over Sen. H. D. Stephens in yesterday’s runoff primary. The | nomination is tantamount to an| electign. Bilbo received 95,500 votes to 91,- 000 for Stephens. Bi pledged himself to the New Deal and Stephens ran on “Stand | by Roosevelt and the New Doal”| platform. Two incumbent Congressmen, Jeff Busby and Russell Elzey have| apparently lost their seats to Al| Ford and State Senator Dr. Me- : | Later Lomen intended to ask the Government“for advances for resi- dents’ homes who cannot arrange credits in time to obtain materials and rebuild their homes before winter strikes. This money will be paid back. The new buildings proposed arg to be of frame construction. JUNEAU RELIEF DRIVE STARTED FOR NOME FIRE Firemen Start Nome Dis- aster Relief Fund with $150, Response Generous Although workers had been busy but a few hours, at noon today Juneau's response to the call for local financial aid to the Nome dis- aster relief cause hed touched the $1000 mark, according to W. B. Kirk, Chairman of the Red Cross Relief Committee appointed yes- |terday by B. M. Behrends, chair- man. The drive was expected to be completed by tomorrow. The Juneau Volunteer Fire De- partment, in a special meeting last night that was assembled by the famous “2-9” alarm, headed the list with a contribution of $150. It was R g PR tContinued on Page Three)