The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 20, 1934, Page 1

| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLV., NO. 68‘AI 1. WARFARE SPIRIT i FERA PROJECTS DEAL BLOW T0 CITY JOBLESS 70 Men Working on Var- ious Projects in City, Watson Reports ©Old Man Depression was dealt a hard blow today with the an- nouncement from Federal Emer- gency Relief Administration head- quarters that at least 70 hither- to unemployed men were at work on various improvement projects throughout the city. H Harry G. Watson, deputy FERA | administrator, joined with Mayor Isador Goldstein in declaring that the number of unemployed men in Juneau had been appreciably cut down with the work now be- | inz undertaken. The projects are all FERA works which the city, through its Mayor and City Council, have selected'\ with the approval of the Gover-| nor's office. The latest of these | was the Gastineau Avenue im- provements between Rawn Way and Ewing Street. This proje:n“ was approved by the City Council | at its meeting last week. | At first, a cement bridge had Leen suggested, but the City Fa- thers agreed with the Mayor that | more men could be employed with | a greater saving of money if a dirt | fill was used. Seventeen'men are | being used on Gastineau Avenue. )| Administrator Watson announc- | ed that work had started this morning on the construction of a | slide for sleds and skis under the | direction of J. G. Shepard at Ev- ergreen Bowl. Levelling work also will be done with idea of con- | structing a skating rink. Two rock retaining walls, one at Ninth and the other at Elev- | enth Streets are using 20 - men. | A new sewer being constructed at | Eleventh Street is - requiring five | men., Numerous other minor pro- | jects scattered throughout the city bring the total up to 70 men. | The men are being paid the National FERA pay schedule of 50 cents an hour. One may may not | work more than 30 hours a vmek,i —— e —— NEW PLANTO GIVE JOBS IS TAKING FORM Elimination of Grade Cross- ings Will Employ Thou- sands of Men ! WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. — The | grade crossing elimination plan, costing upwards of $250,000,000 | and capable of putting thousands | of men to work, took on a more definite form yesterday as a new Public Works program. Just how much money will be required to eliminate all grade crossings is problematical but the Bureau of Public’ Roads has fur- nished plans which will call for the expenditure of one quarter of | a billion dollars. Secretary of Interior Ickes Joseph B. Eastman, Federal ordinator of Transportation, heartily back of such a plan. About 35 percent of the cost will go to labor and the remainder for material in grade crossipg elim- ination to render the highways safer. During the first seven months of this year, 827 persons were killed and 2313 were injured in 20,063 avcidents. HITCH-HIKER TURNS SLAYER LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 20.— William C. Williams, of Kirkland, Washington, an attorney, is dead as the result of injuries received when a hitch-hiker attacked him after the attorney had given him a lift in his automobile. —_—r— e Cuba Tourists Decline WASHINGTON—Tourists in Cu- ba dropped from 86244 in 1930 to 26,000 in 1933, the Commerce De- partment reports. Tourists spent $15,237,000 in Cuba last year, es- timates say. and Co- are U I Superior Judge Guy F. Bush of Los Angeles and his bride, the for- mer wife of John H. LeGrand, sentenced to jail by Judge Bush on a | grand theft charge. The marriage took place in Tijuana, Mexico. | (Associated Press Photo) | Marketdble Crops Bigger Next Yearin New AAA Plan [Seek Laws to | crops for market, with little change | about by Juneau property ownl CONNORS NAMED FHA CHAIRM FOR GITY DRI Six Other Leaders C]1€§€l? as Better Home Cat paign Starts Rumor became reality in last night when the backbons a strong local organization for' was set up. J Long “awaited and much the FHA .took definite form night when John E. Pegues, " director for Alaska, met with I | business and civic leaders in Federal @hd Territorial Buildix A gengral committee chairman mmmnwe chairmen WeF appeinted. ' & James J. Connors, United S Collector of Customs, was nomix ated by Pegues for the gel chairmanship. Connors the appointment and named his Executive Board of assistants. Executive Board These six appointees inclue following: Allen Shattuck, nance committee; Robert B publicity committee; Henry loans committee; Robert S building industry committee; John Jones, general industry committee; and Mrs. Emil Krause, W committee. | i Chairman Connors announeed | WASHINGTON, Nov. 20—BIBZeT | nat he would meet with his Exe= cutive Board members JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1934. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS HUEY, FACING LIBEL TRIAL, DISCOURSES ON ‘UTOPIA’ Immediately after the Supreme court had ruled that he must face trial on charges of libel for remarks he hurled at Gen. Samuel T. Ansell (right), Senator Huey P. Long (left) started lengthy discourses about the advisability of Louisiana’s secession from the union. He mentioned plans for setting up.a “Utopian heaven”. in an independent state. Long had no comment about the libel trial, but General' Ansell,. shown after he heard the news, expressed pleasure at the ruling. (Associated Press Photos) New French Premier |y mercial Airlines in U. S. i |in benefit payments going t0 far- noon for a luncheon ory | % ‘ganization | mers, probably will be the general|jeating at Bailey's Cafe. At that trend of agricultural adjustment iine it is expected that each in 1935. | comn a Limit Utility Holding Concerns Top World in IRecovery Chieftain Gives WASHINGTON, Noy, 20.—An | . Although - adjustment ~officials | coger oty Talrman will. appging autheritative scurce discloses { haye not completed their program ! that laws limiting the might of | for next year, parts of it have, giant helding companies in the | been annouhiced or indiceted in a | pewer business will probably be | general way, so that it is fairly| rcecemmended tc the President | certain contract signers will be | by his power experts. permitted to plant more ootton.i Regulation of holding com- wheat, corn and certain types of | panies and corporations which | tobacco, and to feed more hogsi hold shares of operating w |than was allowed under 1934 con- itiez and usaally ccntrol these |tracts. utilities, is the objective of the On the other hand new adjust- Naticnal Power Commission ap- | ment programs are in the making peinted to recommend a power |Wwhich may curtail such crops as policy to the President. peanuts, and hold sugar beet acre- |age below the peak. Farm Picture Changed .- N I N LATIUN | Drought and acreage restriction | | have drastically changed the farm | picture that greeted the “adjust- | ORGY PLANNED ers” when they began !ormulaung] their programs in the early sum- mer of 1933. Then they were faced with a wheat surplus nearly 400,000,000 | bushels,a world carryover of cot- ton equal to a year's crop, two or three years of tobacco supply in | advance, a cattle population rapid- ly approaching the peak of a new six-year cycle, and a mounting hog surplus. ! Today, as the “adjusters” prepare | their plans, they find surpluses about normal, or greatly reduced. They are emphasizing the adjust-| ment contract as an instrument to | hold production in step with con- sumption or demand, rather than as an instrument of continued re- | striction. Planting Increase Seen Cotton growers under voluntary Assurance to Nation’s Industrial Leaders ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. 20.—Indus- trial leaders of the nation were assured by Donald R. Richberg, Recovery Chieftain, there will be “no orgy of inflation,” but he warned private enterprise jobs must be found for four and five million workers. Richberg spoke before a mass!| meeting of the Southeastern De- | velopment Board. agreement will be permitted to The Recovery Chieftain said|plant at least 6,000,000 acres more NRA and other cooperative efforts/than in 1934. must be continued, improved and| Wheat growers under contract classified. ymay expand plantings by about Regarding inflation, Richberg 2500,000 acres. said it is the “worst” of quack Corn-hog producers probably will remedles offered as a means ‘of be permitted by their voluntary recovery. ’contracts to make a moderate in- | crease in hogs, and perhaps plant HEN‘N[NG TO SEE '2,000,000 more acres of corn. There may be an increase in GAME ON VACATION acreage of such types of tobacco | L as fine cured. Off on a two-week vacation in: Cotton growers planted only 28,- Seattle, A. W. Henning, City Clerk 000,000 acres this year, compared and Magistrate, left Juneau south-| with an average of 40,000,000 acres bound on the Alaska yesterday from 1928 to 1932. Contract sign- afternoon. 455 Although Henning will attend to several civic duties while in Seat-| tle, he smilingly admitted, before . “@ 2 leaving, that one of his main cb-iEx'cson“;' bNew Deal jects wouid be to attend the Wash-| ington-Washington State football| oug t y Okhhom game in Seattle’s University Stad-| McALESTER, Okla., Nov. 20. — fum Saturday. !A “new deal” for the ex-convict However, while South, Henning s the goal of C. E. B. Cutler, Ok- plans to investigate certain phases!janoma state pardon and ;;arole of the building inspector plan now | gefjcer, being considered by the City Coun-| Cutler has started a financial cil. Henning also will report back foundation for a proposed state- on the safety factors of the grav- sponsored agency to help former ity-flow oil tank method of heating prisoners get a new start in the o oot . | world. This agency would give en- In Henning's absence, City At- couragement to the men and in- torney H. L. Faulkner will hold the formation to prospective employers, post of City Magistrate. Faulkner{of whom Cutler said he believed was appointed at Friday's City at least a score in the state would Council meeting. ‘cooprgm. aides t0 his particular group. Juneau's FHA organization megt- ing last/nigty arter la'dw " been aroused by the coming‘ of | tuonrinued on Page Two) 77777 > TREKKING BACK ONGE MORE T0 CAPITOL HILL Senators and Representa- tives Return to Washing- ton After Election By HERBERT PLUMMER | WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. — With elections out of the way, Capitol Hill, out of the news limelight for weeks, may be expected to come into its own once again. State and Congressional distric returns hardly had been tabulat- ed, before the eyes of the success- ful turned toward . Washington. | January 3, 1935, the day the 74th Congress will be convened, still is weeks off, but those destined to take part in what has been her alded as the most important ses- sion in history have arrived early. Time was when a member of Congress looked forward to the day when a Congress was adjourn- ed sine die and he could go home. In those days (before the ‘“new deal”) the political community of the capital disintegrated when a session was brought to a close. Senators and Representatives caught the first train out of the city. Within a week or so even the press galleries “on the hill” closed down and newsmen assign- ed there were transferred to down- town coverage. A “PEACEFUL PLACE” It's a different story now. Only the necessity of taking the stumbp this fall to save their own jobs or that of. a colleague to whom they were indebted could in- duce many members to return home at the conclusion of the last Con- gress. Even then they delayed their de- parture as long as possible and whenever opportunity permitted returned to. their offices here, if only for a few days. Little pub- licity attended their movements either here or back home.In Wash- ington they preferred to go un- noticed. At home questions as to their whereabouts were answered with a meaning expression and a state- ment from their secretaries that “The Congressman has been call~ ed to Washington on official bus- iness.” (Continued on Page Two.) | | Pierre Etienne Flandin (above), 45-year-old French financial expert, aviator and diplomat, agreed to as- sume the premiership of France following the downfall of the Dou- mergue cabinet. F.andin is a mem- ber of the left republican party. | (Associated Press Photo), TO ESTABLISH MINES BUREAL, Secretary Ickes Makes An- nouncement—More Money Is Needed WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—Secre- tary of Interior Ickes said he be- lieved the Bureau of Mines needs more money and should be built up again to its former standard of efficiency. “We: are going to make the Bu- reau a sclentific organization in- stead of political,” said Ickes. eyl U. 8. DEPUTY MARSHAL RAPUZZI ARRIVES WITH F. RICON IN CUSTOD Louiy Rapuzzi, Deputy U. S. Mar- shal at Skagway, arrived here on the steamer Alaska yesterday after- noon with Frank Ricon, in custody. Ricon was bound over to the Grand Jury on a charge of burglary by United States Commissioner Can- vass White. Mrs. Rapuzzi accom- panied her husband to Juneau. — .o DEPUTY U. 8. MA HAL MARK CALLIM ARRIVES Mark Callim, Deputy U. S. Mar- shal at Haines, arrived here on the steamer Alaska on business in connection with the present term of the United States District Court. MAN KIDNAPED ON OCTOBER 2 STILL MISSING .‘Abduclion of Prominent Philadelphia Night Life Figure Unsolved PHILADELPHIA, Pa.,, Nov. 20.— The 24-day old kidnaping of Will- jam Weiss, prominent night life | figure, is still kept a family secret but Department of Justice Agents ‘are now working on the case.. " | The agents are piecing together facts obtainable since Weiss dis- appeared after leaving his home for his downtown office on Octo- ber 26. i Notes demanding $100,000 ran- some from the family followed his | disappearance but his present | whereabouts remain a mystery. The contents of the ransom notes have not been revealed. | ——————— | SUIT BROUGHT OLD STANDARD FOR RECOVERY SIXTY MILLION 'RFC Takes Step to Collect | Unpaid Portion of | 1932 ‘Dawes Loan’ | CHICAGO, T, Nov. 20.—Recov- |ery "sixty million dollars, un- i paid portion of the minety million | dollar so-called “Dawes Loan of 1932, is sought from 4,000 stock- ,holders of the Central Republic ‘Trust Company in a suit filed in | the Federal Court by the Recon- | struction Finance Corporation Although ‘the suit is to recover | $60,000,000 allegedly unpaid, the question 1is asked regarding the stockholders’ liability and this mat- tér be determined under the statue providing for double indemnity The suit places the amount of such stock at $14,000,000 while the original loan amounted to $90- 1000,000. Ten million of this credit {was never claimed. o 1' Eickk to It | BRITTON, Okla.—Despite a 1934 crop of only a peck from 20 trees, Fred Groff, believed to be Okla- homa's only lemon grower, plans to set out 700 trees from cuttings __ of the original 20. Mileage, Mail and Number of Passengers By CARL €. CRANMER | "WASHINGTON, Nov. 20/Amer- ica leads the world In commercial aviation. This fact, dramatized when two American transport planes finish- ed second and third to a racing plane in the London-Australia air der is supported by figures col- lected by the Department of Com- merce, Out of a total of 213,000 miles of commercial air lines in the world, 50,000 miles are flown un- der the United States flag. There are only about 1,500 miles of lighted airway outside the | 'United states, 19,000 miles inside. | Leads in Mileage Comparative information obtain- 'ed from the principal aeronautical | nations of the world on scheduled miles flown, number of passengers carried, pounds of mail and ex- press carried, shows the United States leading in all except ex- ip}'(‘\}h carried in 1933, | Some phases of commercial- avia- tion, however, are as carefully guarded by nations as are military ‘;md na secrets. The number |of pilots and planes in civil air J:; vice are facts withheld by some | Comparative technical advance- Iment is something else about !'which a cloak of mystery is wrap- per, but American aviation inter- ests have taken more of recent buying of American planes, en- gines and equipment by Eurgpean air lines as one of the surest ways that this country is well in the van. | Buy American Planes | The Netherlands, Switzerland and Sweden have purchased Amer- |ican planes for their air services, land made arrangements to buy or build more. Some of them al- ready were using American engines and equipment. i | In 1933 the United States was operating 50,000 square miles of commercial air line. France, Ger- many and Russia about 23,000 miles each, Great Britain 14,600 miles. The Netherlands 11,000 miles, Italy 10,500 miles and Japan 3,200, according to Department of Commerce estimates. e far-fling Pan American ys system of 25000 miles in Airw. South America and Central Amer- ica and Alaska is the world's catest. The same system oper- a about 800 miles more with the Chinese Government in China, not included in United States mileage The 1933 figures do not include approximately 4,500 miles added to German mileage when a fornight- ly seaplane service was started last summer to Latin America. Trips of the Graf Zeppelin supplement this service in summer. In com- petition s the French joint boat- (plane weekly service. (Continued on. Page Two REAKS OUT AGAIN AUSTRIA MAKES 'NEW DEMANDS, - LARGER FORCES Appropriations, Fears German Attack JAPAN LAUNCHES {"" NEW TYPE CRUISER United Staig—Ma kes - Pro- ! posal to License Manu- facture of Arms GENEVA, Nov. 20.—Warfare and mankind's right to fight as it pleases came directly before var- ious {International organizations | connected with the League of Na- | tions .and Disarmament Confer- ence now in session or about to {meet in this neutral city or else- where. Ausfria has. demanded of the Disarmament Conference the right to bujld up her fighting power | saying she’ is too weak to protect her independence against aggres- sion. U. S. Proposal ‘The United States has propos- ed that the manufacture and sale or arms be licensed and inspected by an International Commission which will make public just who is arming for war and to what ex- tent. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, Japan launched the newest cruiser in heavy armaments Deadlock in London In' London, the tri-Power con- versations are still deadlocked af- ter Japan's refusal to Great Bri- tain’s compromise that Japan be granted equality in principle but not in tonnage. Jeparn is still de- manding tonnage parity. France For Preparedness France has increased her mili- tary appropriations saying she feared a German attack. The French government an- nounced it has reason to believe Germany will have an army of five and one half million men ready to take the field in 1935. Views on License France and Great Britain are said to be sympathetic to the American proposal that the manu- facture and sale of arms be li- censed by an International Com- mission, Spain and Sweden have given approval. Italy is understood to consider the proposal all right in prinei- ple but it is impossible of execu- tion, AND JAPAN SAYS LONDON, Nov. o 20—An authori- tative source revealed that Great Britain proposed to the Japanese that they make a new pact guar- anteeing integrity of China, sep- arately from the proposed naval treaty, but the Japanese declined. MRS. V. HAINES DIES, SEATTLE SEATTLE, Nov. 20.—Mrs. Verna Haines, aged 47, wife of Capt. Henry L. Haines, master of the shrimp fishing craft Audrey, died today after a ftwo months ill- ness. One of Seattle’s sea-faring wo- men, Mrs. Haines was mate, en- gineer, steward and cook aboard the Audrey. UNEMPLOYED ~ GETBIG SUM NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—William Hudson, commissioner of Public welfare, reports that 189,636 per- sons were given eniergency em- {ployment in New York City from September 1, 1933 to September 1, 1934. They were paid $68,984,005. - e Plane Used in Rescue in Arctic, on Exhibition MOSCOW, Nov. 20.—The plane which Soviet Flier Molokov ef- fected the rescue of 36 members of the scientific expedition aboard the steamer Cheluskin, locked in the Arctic Ice floe early this year, has been sent as an eXhibit to the Fourtheenth International tion in Paris. France Increases Military Avia-