The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 21, 1934, Page 1

! * HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLV.. NO. 6812, JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1934. JUNEAU IS TO HA MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS E LARGE AIRPORT U. S. LID CLAMPED TIGHT ON ALL DEVELOPMENTS Improvements in Sea Fight- ing Forces, Etc., Not to Be Made Public ONE NATION SHOWS UNOFFICIAL CONTACT Firms Constructing All De- vices Are Also Under Most Rigid Secrecy WASHINGTON. . Nov. 21.—Uncle Sam is reported in reliable sources 1o have clamped down the lid on information concerning new naval | developments. 1 Heretofore an exchange of naval data with other nations has been accomplished, ‘but one nation fe- fused to cooperate in such an ex- change, claiming it could get all NAVAL SECRE] the necessary informétion 'through | | so-called unofficial channels. Unofficial Channels Unofficial channels are describ- | ed as certain Congressional In-| vestigating Committees, of Navy's annual report to Con- | vices, and activities of considering Army and Navy Sup- | ply bills in Congress. 1 Report Is Purged Secretary of Navy Swanson's re- | port to Congress, now being pre- pared, is purged of all in(orma—' tion that might reveal new secrets | of developments. Particular secrecy | has been thrown around certain! improveménts in Naval construc- | tion, radio developments, gunnery, anti-torpedo and aircraft devices. | Firms constructing such devices | are also placed under rigid secrecy. | Although the Navy Department | has always taken certain precau- tions to guard secrets, under the London treaty, certain information was required to be made public. REVALUATION OF DOLLAR IS T0 BE URGED Sen. Thoma—s,_‘.liev. Cqugh- lin Arrange for Meetings | to Form Program | i DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 21.—As- | serting the paramount issue is the money question, United States Sen- ator Thomas, of Oklahoma, and the Rev. Charles Coughlin, will urge on the President and Congress a| further revaluation of the dollar and its subsequent stabilization at | the 1926 level. i Senator Thomas said he and the | Rev. Coughlin will work for the ultimate dollar stabilization at 100 cents which he said was the 1926 level. The two men plan a meet- ing in Washington next month of representatives of farm organiza- tions, a committee from the Na- tional Sound Money League and Coughlin’s National Union for So- cial Justice from which a program which will be presented to the President, will emerge. Kansas Lad Beats Girls for State Sewing Title PHILLIPSBURGH, Kas., Nov. 21. —The best 4-H Club sewing in- structor in Kansas is James Hesler, Phillipsburgh youth. At the 1934 Kansas State Fair he won the title in competition with 23 girls. Yqung Hesler, when he organized his first sewing class three years ago as a high school lad, could in- terest only two boys and a dozen girls. Now he teaches a full class of girls and another of 33 boys. Secretary | = Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, noted wartime flying ace, is shown doffing gress, motion pictures of naval de- | his hat to admirers as he landed at Newark, N. J., after spanning the | committees | continent in 12 hours, three minutes and 50 seconds—a new speed rec- ord for transport planes. The big miles an hour from Los Angeles, wi i refueling. (Associated Press Photo) COAST TO COAST IN 12 HOURS! UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE PLK PROPOSAL MAD President R—oosevelt P_(aées Subject Before S. E. State Governors EXECUTIVES APPEAR | IN PERFECT ACCORD e ] Taken Aimed ‘at Pro-. ductive Work, WARM SPRINGS, Ga., 'Nov. 21, | relief plans are occupying ' the &t= | tention of President Roosevelt has called for the fullest ‘co-op#ras tion by states. controlled unemployment insurance. proposal of the Administration { put before the Governors of | Southeastern States by the Presi= dent. He also disclosed definitely | that the Administration .is formus laing a new relief plan aimed af ! inuation of direct grants, | were withheld however. o The Governors, in an appareht, co-operative mood, told. the news- Details twin-motored plane averaged 221 th a single stop at Kansas City for | pressed” to the unemployment. in- | surance proposal. ‘Recommends Pardon for Tom | Mooney;Open Letter Appears | in Magazine Edited by Mole MOLEY IS BACK AGAIN ADVISING PRES. RODSEVELT Original “Brain Truster, Number One” Active as Counsellor WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—Ray- mond Moley is reported in high |of Anglo-American traditions and quarters to have returned as the right hand of the President. The onetime Number One,” whose star ascend- ed speedily only to lose color a year ago, has returned in recent months to become the right bower among the Chief Executive’s ad- visors on things politic and econ- omic. Truce Originator The inner Administration cir- cles are giving the former Under Secretary of State much credit in originating the idea of the re- cent truce that brought big busi- ness and the New Deal together as a united move for recovery. Unannounced Sessions Moley now slips into Washing- ton a couple of times a week and confers with the President at the White House on unannounced even- ing sessions. It is also reported that Moley has done much re- search and preparing of material for the President’s radio fire- side chats and other speeches. Moley is compared by some to Col. E. M. House, the late Presi- dent Wilson’s close and unofficial adyisor. - Anti-War Drive Started by Canon Of St. Paul’s LONDON, Nov. 21—A call to all British men to pledge themselves never again to support a war, has been issued by the Very Rev. H. R. “Brain Truster, | R o/ NEW YORK, Nov. 21.—Raymond Moley in an open letter to Gov.- | Elect Frank E. Merriam, of Cali- | fornia, recommended a pardon be issued to Tom Mooney ‘“before the }MOCkery Murder Case BC‘ Supreme Court is compelled to en- ter upon the task of establishing legal justification for a review of | the case.” | The letter appeared in the cur- | rent issue of the magazine. Today | edited by Moley. Moley said: “As a professional student of criminal justice, I am forced to the belief Mooney's | trial was tainted with perjury to | such an important degree that his conviction was unfair in the light Killed by Landlord SEATTLE, Nov. 21.—The final state witnesses have been heard and the case in the mockery mur- der trial bf Charles Duke, elderly tlandlord, neared the end with a | visit to the scene of the shooting planned for the jury. The state expects to close the | case, probably late today, in which it seeks to conviet Duke for the | jurisprudence. lalleged slaying of Dr. Leon W. “I believe you should pardon | Squier, osteopath, after a long | him because it is more important |feud. They had been bitter ene- mies for months over thé doctor’s that processes of Justice be main- 3 tained on an -elevation untainted {unpaid rent and mimicked and |mocked each other publicly. by error or corruption than that a ‘menace of the peace of. the 3 Phantom Slugger state’ be kept behind bars. Sus- |'picion is aboard in the land that ! Justice is tainted and more dan- | gerous to the public peace than the liberty of a thousand bad ‘ - NEARING CLOSE iy awicd EXEC, BOARD, S TO BE GUA i | | lNew Relief Measuves2 to Be# '3 —Unemployment insurance ‘and new {- A Federally fostered but state. R productive work for men and dim- | | men that “no opposifion was ex- ‘, SLAYING TRIAL ™ | President Roosevelt’s Georgia home was all in readiness fcr his annual Thanksgiving holiday | when he arrived there last Sunday night. At top is shown his little “winter White House” and in the center is Dowdel's Knob, a wooded peak, 1,400 feet above sea level, where the first family holds picnics and-cooks over an open fire. Below is Georgia Hall, headquarters of the Warm Springs Foundation.-- ! (Associated Press Photos) SEASCIST” PLOT 1S REVEALED BY GENERAL BUTLER {Just “‘Publicity Stunt” Is Declaration—Investi- gation Continues | | Sentenced to Jail; Uses Belt o Hang Himself SEATTLE, Nov. 2l1.—Lupe Hamier, aged 39 years, hang- ed himself in the city jail last night by using a belt. He had been sentenced to 30 days after convicted of being drunk and disorderly. ——e———— * FED, HOUSING, - HAS MEETING |Session Held at Noon—| , Additional Workers, | NEW YORK, Nov. 21. — Geg. |Smedley D. Butler's story of a , Plans Are Made HUME BWNERS | Plans formulated today at the | meeting of~the Executive Board 11 » X “Fasci plot to make him Dicta- tor in the United States, is labeled eral Housing Administration, held as a “publicity stunt” and devoid at noon today in ‘Bailey'’s Cafe, VIA NEw DEAL;ur truth by Gerald C. MacGuire, under the chairmanship of James |bond salesman who was named by J. Connors call for the immed- iate startipg of the campaign of the Juneau- Better Housing Campaign Committee for the Fed- the fc Marine Corps head as the man who urged him to head men.” REBUILDING OF NOME NOW UP 70 SEC, IKES ‘Recommendations Are | Presented to PWA Ad- | ministrator by Clark_ | WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 10— ltSpecxax Correspondence) — Rec- ommendations for the recomstruc- ! tion of Nome, insofar asghe Pub- |lic Works Administration is con- !cerned, have been placed on the desk of Administrator. Ickes by {Col. Elmer W. Clark. Col. Clark, who is an Executive Assistant of PWA, believes $275,- 000 ought to be expended in con- | struction of a . PFederal building. Arrested High School Student At- tacks Co-eds to Hear Girls Squeal BOULDER, Ool.,, Nov. 21.—Jack Churches, 18-year-old high school Jjunior, has been named by Chief of Police ‘R. C. Prater as the phantom slugger who attacked co- eds of the University of Colorado here last week. Chief Prater said the youth said he did the slugging “for the fun of it, to hear the girls squeal.” Churches is held in the city|Connors, General Chairman, John | jail following his arrest in the in- vestigation of a radio theft. Chief Prater said Churches told him and other officers that he struck the girls with.his fist but did not intend to injure them seriously. He made no attempt to .molest the girls otherwise. Loaded School Bus Hits Auto;Occupants | which it is anticipated will result 'in general home modernization in Juneau and vicinity, with the many economic benefits that have ac- companied similar campaigns throughout “the country under the stumulus offered by the loan fea- tures of the Federal Housing Act. The Executive Board consisting of Allen Shattuck, finance com- miittee; Robert Bender, publicity | committee; Henry Roden, loans committee; Robert Sommers, build- ing industry. committee; John Jones, Mrs. Emil Krause, women's com- mittee, registered a 100 per cent attendance and in addition, J. J. E. Pegues, FHA Director for Al- aska, and his administrative as- sistant, Harry Lucas, attended the meeting. The work of the several com- mittees wag coordinated, and the chairman advised that the names) of additional members to their| committees would be released for| publication tomorrow, as will be| further details of interest to every property owner, geéneral industry committee, and | {President to Recommend Big Increase in Hous- | ing Projects [ (By HERBERT PLUMMER) WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—Presi- {dent Roosevelt’s announcement that he will recommend a big in- | crease in housing projects to the | next Congress may give home own- | ers one of the biggest "breaks"} in the ‘“new’ deal.” | Within the comparatively short time of three and one-half years! |Uncle 8am has set up machinery | {to aid home owners rivaling any| lof the other vast and intricate governmental mechanisms. And apparently the end is not yet in| sight, Literally billions of dollars governynment and industrial money have been made available. | Uncle Sam took the first step | in this direction in the latter par of the Hoover Administration w. Congress passed the first Federa home loan act—the ‘father of the numerous similar acts now on the statute books. of |gation into the charges of Butler "y ciple a Fascist Army Nevertheless the Congr t:s‘sxonnl! Committee on Un-American activ- ities today continued the investi- that he was approached by certair Wall Street brokers to head an army of half a million former solciers, and others, to march on Washington and seize control of the Gov TEPPELIN MAY FLY ATLANTIC, REGULAR TRIPS FRIEDRICHSEAFEN, Nov. 21.—| Hugo Eckener said today he| ched .an agreement, in prm~i with American officials for a| regular Zeppelin service between | Germany and Lakehurst, N. J., or| Miami, FI | Dr has re: RDED ILAND PURCHASED FOR AIR FIELDS ANNOUNCESPECK |Approximately Seventy-five Acres Secured from Kendler Dairy DEVELOPMENT WILL BE PUSHED AT ONCE Regular Air Service Be- tween Juneau and Fair- banks Next Spring Lyman S. Peck, Vice-Presi- dent and General Manager of the Pacific Alaska Airways, now enroute to Fairbanks, an- nounced last night while the Yukon was in port, that his company had exercised their opticn on approximately 75 acres ‘of land owned by Joe | Kendler of the Alaska Dairy, for the development of an airport, and that as soon as the final papers are drawn up and signed the deal will be closed. “Barly next week we plan |to start the development work which, as planned, will | résult ‘In ‘one-of the fimest air ports in Alaska,” Mr. Peck said last night. “As much work as possible will be done this winter, and all of it with {local labor. Most of the work laid out for now will be the filling in. of the largest de- pressions in the terrain, and general leveling of the land. “The grading and surfac- ing will not be done until next spring because the ground is already somewhat frozen and it would be impractical to at- tempt ths final surfacing until all frost is out of the ground.” The plans call for a two- way runway, Mr. Peck said. The site was selected after care- ful surveys of the country sur-s rounding Juneau during the past year, and Mr. Peck is particularly enthusiastic about the location be- cause of the long open approaches |to the field, which are free from trees and hills, a most desirable condition. Both Army and Navy fliers expressed the same opinion this summer when they viewed the proposed site, as did Robert Thach, Vice - President of Pan - American Airways, who made a tour through Alaska and to Siberia this summer, in company with Harllee Branch, Second Assisant Postmaster Gen- eral. In addition to the filling-in work, it is possible that some building construction may be started this winter, according to Mr. Peck, Confirms Plane Deal The air official, also definitely confirmed previous reports that the Pacific Alaska Airways had pur- chased the Alaska Southern Air- ways, of which Nick Bez, well- known canneryman was President. A. B. Hayes, who has been ap- pointed Manager for the Pacific Alaska Airways in this area, for- (Contiued on Page Two) e ALASKA STEAMSHIP OFFICIAL IS HERE C. C. Nelson, purchasing agent and port steward for the Alaska Steamship Company, with head- | quarters in Seattle, arrived in Ju- | Estimates are that the municipal- |neau on the Yukon last night, ‘ny will require $150,000 in the Judging from the enthusiasm From then on alphabetical ag- p Regular and sincere interest in the project | encies created to help the home " Atlantic, L. “Dick” Sheppard, recently ap- pointed canon of St. Paul's. 1ts over the North which Dr. Eckener said|making Of Latter Injured SEATTLE, Nov. 21.—A school a Lady Margaret Stewart Weds Flying Instructor LONDON, Nov. 21.—Despite pre- vious objections of her father, Marquis of Londonderry, PBritish Minister of Aviation, Lady Mar- garet Stewarft, was today married to a flying instructor, Alan Muntz. He has sent thousands of letters to all parts of Great Britain, sug- gesting mass meetings at which men would vote for the following resolution: 3 “We renounce war and never again directly or indirectly will we support or sanction another.” form of a loan and grant for var- | ious- projects. 5 3 Delegate Dimond is actively co- ! operating with Col. Clark and other PWA officials so that ap- proval of the program may be ex- peditted. (Continued on Page Seven) bus carrying 25 Everett boys and girls to their classes here, collided with an auto this morning causing critical injury to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jacobson, occupants of the auto. The students escaped how- ever with a shock and slight bruises. by the representative group at- tending the meeting the Adminis- ration’s Better Housing plan will have the full support and coopera- tion in this area. .- is the chief product of Tonga (Priendly Islands.) Dyner’ SISO Jof0n - and d for next summer, will | | bounds. k 3 the LZ-129, a new and | mu;r ship of the Graf Zep- NEW ALPHABETICAL SET-UP RFC came along to do its share b, s n gy | by expanding its powers to include | Dr. Eckener has jusf: returned | |from the United States where he issuance of bonds to finance 1;-?- has been in his Zeppelin promotion flight service. (Continued on Page Two.) tour of Southeast Al- aska in the interests of his com- pany. k Mr. Nelson will leave tonight on the Kenai for a round trip vis- iting the 'various ports of call. According to present plans he will leave for the south on the Yu- kom,