The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 4, 1934, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPI “ALL THE,NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLV., NO. 6822. JUNEAU, ALASKA, JAY, DECEMBER 4, 1934. AVIATORS ARE DOWN, @UT ON PACIFIC PLATFORM OF INDUSTRY IS INEW EVIDENCE IS DISCOVERED MADE PUBLIC PROBE HEARING Hand Extended to Admin-| istration to Coope.rate, New Deal Policies PROPOSALS GIVEN NATIGNAL COUNCIL Manufacturers Association * Submits Plan for Na- tional Recovery NEW YORK, Dec. 4—Industry has extended its hand to the Ad- ministration with a program of co- operation with the New Deal poli- This has been done by C. L. Bar- don, President of the National As- sociation of Manufacturers came in what he termed the “plat- form of industry.” In presenting the “platform” to the National Industrial Council, Bardon warned that stands at the threshold of public opinion. The public will either be pleased or would condemn the program for industrial recovery.” The National Association of Man- ufacturers advocates a balanced budget by adoption of policies which would stimulate business, rest re-employment, increase the national income, permit of cut- ting public expenses to fit rea- sonable taxes, opposes bonus pay- ment, until due and suggests the wilhdrawal of Federal aid from every state which does not reduce expenditures to at least the level of 1926. e BIG OFFERING OF GOVERNMENT WELL RECEIVED Finaocill Dvertinte sl Public Works Program Before Roosevelt WARM SPRINGS, Ga., Dec. 4— The excellent reception given the Government’s latest and biggest fi- nancial offering cheered the con- ferees about the table of President Roosevelt yesterday afternoon when the huge public relief work pro- gram was pondered. The financial proposal and the public works plans were side by side at the important meeting of the President with Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau and Secre- tary of Interior Ickes. The President kept his decision to himself but with every indi- cation, however, that the new Con- gress will be asked for a sizeable sum to provide public work jobs until private industry is able to take up the slack. The. gigantic offering of securi- ties to finance the Government has been well’ received, it was learned, by mveum EARTHOUAKE and | “industry | Senate Investigating Com- mittee Has Another Mass, Documents SECRETS OF MUNITIONS INDUSTRY ARELOCATED Profits of \erld War Con- cerned—Disarmament Plans Frustrated WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—A docu- ment indicating the munitions in- dustry looked forward to the World War with an eye on expected prof- its, is on top of a huge piie of evi- dence at the resumption of the hearings by the Senate Munitions Committee investigating the activi- ties of the munitions industry. The evidence is picked up where the committee left off several weeks names of kings and other world ago at which time testimony echoed | around the world includifig the | WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—Go PAUL DISCUSSES TRAP SITUATION {Concern Is Felt Among Cannerymen, Says Local famous figures. dence are other letters and files | which members of the committee said showed interference by the and other- peace negotiations. D BOLD STRIKE REPORTED AT MOJAVE, CAL. University Student, Orig- nal Locator, Gives Option, Large Sum LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 4— The Los Angeles Times says one of the richest gold and silver strikes since those of Goldfield and Tonopah, Nevada, early in 1800, has been discovered in the vicinity of Mojave, California. The original strike was made, the Times says, by George Holmes, aged 30, former University of Southern California student, who the newspaper says is ‘“rich al- ready.” It is reported he has sold his option to 36 acres of his claims lars. The Times says Mojave is now the focal point of the gold mining world. REVENUE FROM LIQUOR FALLS BELOW MARK Repeal's Fir_st—Birthday Finds Estimates Not Fully Realized WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—Repeal’s first birthday is tomorrow, and it TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Dec.|Will find the revenue yielding to 4.—Three towns with a total popu- |the Treasury in an amount Iar lation of 6,500 are reported probab- below some official estimates. 1y destroyed by a quake. The towns| Bootlegging is still the Govern- are San Jorge, San Ferdando. GOV. TROY RETURNS Encarnacion and meni's law enforcement problem. Estimates for the year are now about $350,000,000 in excise taxes or some $120,000,000 less than orig- biggest HOME AFTER SEVERAL |inany predicted. High prices, caused by “the high WEEKS IN SE ATTLE liquor taxes, is blamed for the low revenue, and the bootlegging ac- Gov. John w4 Troy returned to|tivity. Juneau today aboard the Yukon, g, g i pngescengmd improved in health gfter a rest| PWA OFFICIALS HAVE cure of several weeks at the Colum- bus Hospital, Seattle. Governor ‘Troy left the hospital a week ago today, and is still under doctor's TEMPORARY OFFICES IN FEDERAL BUILDING Ross A, (’)ridley, Engineer In- orders to continue his rest for [spector for PWA and K. N. Neill, awhile. PWA Project Auditor, have tem- He was accompanied north by |porary offices in the office of E. his daughter, Mrs. Robert W. Ben-|W. Griffin, Territorial Secretary, der, who preceded him to Seattle |until permanent quarters are found by two weeks. for them. Back of the World War document | in the committee’s mass of evi-| for three and one half million dol- | Attorney, After Meeting | “The fish trap abolition efforts lof Delegate Anthony J. Dimond coupled with the passing of Wash- iington State’s Initiative Number 77, munitions industry in disarmament {Which abolished the fish traps in ‘ashington, is .causing real con- cern among cahnery men who op- erate in Alaska,” William Paul, |said today upon his return from a |business trip from Seattle on the | Yukon. ! In addition to the representation |which Mr. Paul said the canners had in Washington, the Independent Canners Association |met last week and voted to send Karl Theile, owner of the Diamond K Packing Company, of Wrangell, former Secretary of the Territory, to Washington, D. C., Ibhem on the trap question. Trap Eliminations Estimated The Bureau of Fisheries, accord- |ing to Mr. Paul, estimates that 35| trap eliminations will be made for the coming season, and that no new locations will be opened or any transfers in location granted. Cannery men claim, Mr. Paul said, that they can’t stand the elimina- tion of any traps. Sufficient can- neries will be permitted to operate in the Bristol Bay area to take care of the local labor, Mr. Paul was told by the Seattle office of the Bureau of Fisheries. “Although the conditions are not entirely comparable, the effect on ithe salmon business in the State of Washington, through the elim- ination of traps will offer Ala.skan fishing interests an opportunity to | learn to a degree the effect of | trap elimination on the industry,” Mr. Paul said. New Buying Method “For a long time I have thought that the present method of pur- chasing seine fish at a stated price per fish was not satisfactory. After talking with cannerymen who lost | more convinced than ever that the on a pound basis. Frequently a case in estimating his costs, and that a considerable part of his case, and as a result he has lost money. Through buying en an equitable pound basis he would know in advance what his case cost of fish would be.” Mr. Paul said that He did not agree with J. R. Heckman of Ket- chikan, who recently suggested that one-third of the present traps be eliminated to insure improved con- ditions for the seiners and at the same time protect the salmon can- elimmdated at the start with en- largemens areas' and the continued exclusion | of l_n.rse size seining boats. CAPT, HALL DIES SEATTLE, Dec. 4— Dean of Puget Sound Pilots, Capt. Robert Hall, aged 70, died today after a long illness. larger | to represent | money on this year's pack, I am| more equitable method would be| canner will figure 17 salmon to the| Juneau Man First Proposed Alaska Colonization Scheme Says Dimond; His Comments at the end of the season find out| pack took 23 or 24 fish to the| ning industry, he believed that not | more than ten per cent should be! of authorized seining| Best Christmas Trade Since 1930, Prediction Made Today; People Are More O ptimistic vernment slatisticians have con- cluded that on the basis of official private figures, busimess will enjoy the best Christmas trade since 1930. Factors leading to this cheerful Yuletide outlook are im- * creased buying power of the farmers, higher factopy payrolls, increased Government emergency expenditures for job creating projects, mcre stable bank conditions and a more confident and optimistic frame of mind on the part of the people. Business Is Now Getting on ‘Inside’ with Administration; President Adopts New Tactics By Press, Washington). The really interesting feature of the current administration effort to reassure business lies in the fact that the most sweeping gestures of conciliation have come after rather than before, the election. No one was surprised when the closing weeks of the campaign saw Democratic leaders making obvious overtures toward the right wing. It was from that quarter the chief attack was coming. Mr. Roosevelt was being pictured to big and little business men as a dangerous character, a spendthriit and a radical of the worst It was only natural that the sation should be denied, and some tangible evidence offered that the | denial was bona fide. When the election resulted in the complete rout of this rignt- wing opposition, however, therc were many who expected the era of mollification to end. The Presi- | dent was seen as having received a clear mandate from the voters to go on and on, spending, experi- menting, riding roughshod over the‘ old conceptions of economics. What actually happened, how- | ever, represents almost the exact |reverse of that rather general ex- pectation. | SIGNIFICANT CONFERENCES ; Instead, of proclaiming a great | victory for liberalism, Mr. Roose- velt says nothing about the elec- tion but begins a series of signiri | cant conferences with busines men, Instead of announcing a sweep- | ing program of social legislation, | |ance only. Instead of intensifying govern- ment spending he drops repeated hints that it is timé to curtail. Instead of bringing forward some new breath-taking proposal which might frighten capital, he cements |a sort of entente grith both bank- |ing and industry, leaving organized |labor puzzled and wondering. In short, the developments at Washington and Warm Springs since the election have represent- ed a continuation and acceleration of the trend which became so ap- parent a month before election day. | That circumstance is not lost on business leaders. They are not so e T BYRON PRICE ¢ (Chief of Bureau, The Asseciated |he asks for unemployment insur- | THREE FLIERS FORGED DOWN OCEAN FLIGHT —Army, Navy Planes Making Search BULLETIN — HONOLULU, H. I, Dec. 4. — Gasoline ex- hausted and off their course, Capt. Ulm and two companions "have landed in the Pacific Ocean near heére. Messages from the plane’s wireless to the Globe Wireless Station here, indicated the plane reached the surface with- out mishap. The exact location is not known. United States Army and Navy planes are making a search. Before and after going down, Ulm sent a continuous stream of SOS messages. It is believed the plane is south of Honolulu. Ulm said he believed the plane will float for a couple of days but asked for assistance at once. As far as the messages indi- cate, none of the crew sighted land. The fliers were unable to pick up Makapua Point and passed over the steamship President Coolidge at 4 o'clock this morning 500 miles out at sea. HOP FROM OAKLAND | OAKLAND, Cal, Dec. 4—Flight | Lieut. Charles T. P. Ulm, George | Littlejohn, copilot, and J. L. Skill- ing, navigator, took off at 3:41 o'clock yesterday afternoon on a flight to Australia, via Honolulu. Ships at sea reported early this |morning at Ulm was about 400 miles from Honolulu. The plane, Star of Australia, had 600 gallons of gasoline aboard when |1t took the air. | The fliers had two baskets of food in the cockpit, containing eleven chickens, eleven ham sand- wiches, along with a gallon of hot | coffee and six oranges. ‘The flight is an experimental one being made for the purpose | of determining a trans-Pacific air | route frém the United States to | Australia. i“Sleeping Beauty” |Responding to Mother’s Word CHICAGO, 11, Dec. 4—Pa- tricia Maguire, known as the “Sleeping beauty,” victim of the ¢leeping sickness for 33 months, responded again today to her mother’s spoken word showing further improvement. Yesterday Mrs. Maguire wrote on a pad for her daughter to raise her index finger. The sleeper glanced at the pad and then slowly responded, moving a finger. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4— The idea of colonizing Alaska lands with farmers came up first, Delegate Anthony J. Dimond said yester- day, during the Wilson Adminis- tration when John Ronan, mining engineer, formerly of Fairbanks, now of Juneau, Alaska, urged the course to PFranklin K. Lane, then | Secretary of Interior. Ronan suggested that Scandi- navian farmers be imported to set- | tle the lands adjacent to the Alas- | ka Railroad. However, the plan | which was favored by Lane, went |into the discard somehow. The new idea to send families from the northern states, to Alas- ‘kn because of unemployment in | those states, as now being studied by the Relief Administration and Interior Department, means hard work will be ahead for such set- tlers but once -farmers. are oper~ ating, they should be successful. “Alaska, however, is no place for weaklings, and unless the settlers are picked with care as to their farming ability, initiative and wil- lingness to work hard and long, there will be a great amount of disappointment,” said Delegate Di- mond, The plan being studied in Wash- ington, according to Associated Press advices received by The Em- pire, is focused on the first group for migration, which may be made from the copper mining area of northern Michigan, those on relief rolls and where little chance is offered for reemployment. It is sug- gested that they be transferred to some 'mining ‘project in Alaska where the families could grow part. of their own food. Lieut. Ulm Sends Out SOS; Housing Dictator’s Bride James A. Moffett, Federal Housm? d Adelaide Moran, whom he marrie wife jumped from a | FOUR TAKEN TO HOSPITAL AFTER NIGHT DISASTER Plane, Making Forced Landing in Darkness, Hits Telephone Pole 'BOTH WINGS TORN AWAY IN IMPACT W. J. Douglas, J. E. Drain, Two Awiators Sustain Serious Injuries STOCKTON, Cal, Dec. 4—Four | Seattle men are today under medi- cal treatment for injuries incurred ! when a plane crashed into a tele- phone pole last night while waiting ® for the lights to be turned on at Administrator, with his bride, Mrs, two weeks after his e:trflnged first New York apartment. , | WON'T RESIGN SAYS FLETGHE TOHIS CRITICS G. 0. P. Chairman Comes‘ Right Back at Senator Borah and Others WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—Henry P. Fletcher hit back last night at critics with the assertion he had no intention of resigning as Chair- man of the Republican National Committee because to “do so at this time would plunge the orgamzauon into confusion.” At the same time, Fletcher serv» ed notice on United States Senator william E. Borah and others who demand a complete reorganization of the Republican Party, that they could achieves the goal by pre- senting a concrete legislativg pro- gram to Congress, also by obtain- ing the signatures of 16 National Committeemen from as many states for a meeting of the National Committee. Senator Borah suggested a re- volt to young liberal Republicans to bring about reorganization of the party if those in control are not willing to call Committee session for this pur- pose. Fletcher's statement revived the intraparty furore which raged after Senator Borah made his statement last Saturday ARE OUT TO MAKE RECORD - Two Women on Fliers Trying to Beat 239-Hour En- durance Flight OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Dec. 4—One third of their way to the time goal of ten days and a new endurance flying record for wom- en, Jean LaRena and Henrietta Sumner lolled in the aerial merry- go-round above the Wiley Post Airport today. They took off at 4:42 pm. last Friday afternoon They must remain in the air until next Monday at 4:42 p.m. to equal the present record of 239 hours. a National | 1[1[1[(11) Training i In Land Grant | Colleges Approved WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—The vight of the University of Cali- fernia, or other Tand grant col- leges, to compel studeats to take military training is upheld by the Supreme Court. The court sustained the action of the University in suspending two students- who declined to take the training because of conscientious objectlons‘ ITALY, FRANCE TURN AGAINST JAPAN'S MOVE Neither NatfiWi" Join in; Denouncing Naval | Treaty ROME, Dec. 4—Italy has flatly refused to join Japan in denounc- ing the Washington Naval Treaty. France had previously taken sim- | ilar action. | The two nations were last week | urged by Japan to join the Jap- anese Government in the move to ‘abrogaw the chaty. NLRB DECISION IS CHALLENGED WASHINGTON, Dec. 4— The National Labor Relations Board | ruled it can exercise jurisdiction |over disputes involving Newspaper Guild activities and the ruling has been challenged by Howard Davis, President of the American News- paper Publishers Association. The ruling was given in the case of Dean Jennings wha said he was forced to resign as: rewrite man of the San Francisco Call-| Bulletin, because of his activities in behalf of the Newspaper Guild. Davis claimed the ruling was a threat to a free press. e Seattle Man Not to Be Tried for Old Slaying W hich He Has Confessed CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 4—The authorities said the records show Luigi Massimno” shot a man by the name of Rossi in 1913 and it is doubtful if they will prosecute the Seattle man, who confessed yesterday to the slaying. The re- cords here indicate Rossi was the aggressor. Also it is said it would {of the Seattle Musicians’ the airport here. The plane had run short of gaso- !line and was circling the field in the dark, preparatory to landing. The plane hit a pole and the im- pact tore away both wings. The injured persons are: W. J. Douglas, former President Union, compound leg fracture. J. E. Drain, aged 50, broker, broken nose and severe cuts. Eddie Rasmussen, Boeing PField instructor, piloting the plane, pos- sible leg fracture. Dustin Barnes, aviator, bruises. The four were returning from a pleasure trip to Southern Cali- |fornia and Mexico. T INDICTMENTS, ARE RETURNED SHIP DISASTER Federal Gramury Acts in Case of Burning of Morro Castle NEW YORK, Dec. 4—Seven in- dictments growing out of the Mor- ro Castle disaster, in which 134 persons lost their lives in the fire aboard the ship off the Jersey coast on September 8, were handed in last night by the Federal Grand Jury. Indictments were against Acting {Capt. William F. Warms, Chief En- gineer Eben S. Abbott, Henry E. Cabaud, Executive Vice-President of the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company, and the Com- pany itself. The defendants are accused of misconduct, negligence and inat- tention to duties which resulted in the heavy loss of life, and also with fraud, neglect, connivance, miscon- duct or violation of the law. The Government announced the defendants will be placed on trial as soon as a Judge is available. If | convicted, the defendants will be subject to heavy prisonment. fines, also im- 'RAIL SHARES RALLY TODAY; PRICES 60 UP NEW YORK, Dec. 4. — Stocks rallied quietly today as the tardy rail issues came to the front. The aviation group led the uptura early but the carriers passed the air issues with flying colors. Scattered speciaities also exhibit- ed strength. Today's close was firm. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Dec. 4. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 17%, American Can 106'%, American Power and Light be difficult now to find witness- | es. Massimno made his confession in Seattle because he wanted to elear his record in order to secure final citizenship papers. 4, Anaconda 10%, Armour N 5%, Bethlehem Steel 31%, Calumet and Hecla 3, Curtiss-Wright 3, General Motors 32%, International Harvest- er 38%, Kennecott 17, United States Steel 38, Pound $4.95.