The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 18, 1934, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME’ JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1934. VOL. XLV., NO. 6834 MOBILIZATION | PLANS GAUSES TWO OPINIONS Army’s Scheme, in Case of War, Causes Discussion Over Publicity SENATE PROBERS TAKE UP SUBJECT Objections Made to Delay- ing Action Until Strife Actually Comes WASHINGTON, Dec. 18— The Senate Munitions investigating committee takes issue with the Army’s idea that the long secret war mobiiization plan should not be sent to Congress until war ac- tually comes. The investigators today scruti- nized the plans which include a six per cent limit on supply prof- its and ‘“‘voluntary censorship” of the press in case of war. United States Senator Bennett Champ Clark, of Missouri, suggest- ed the plans be sent to Congress in peacetime for leisurely debate. Senator Clark protested to the Army plan that eight bills embody- ing the scheme to mobilize the na- tion's resources would be rushed to Congress. He said this would be to rush the plans and have them passed “under whip and spur’ without consideraticn. War Department witnesses re- plied that the War Policies Com- mission believed certain legislation might be held unconstitutional in péacettme but legal in war emerg- ency. ———-————— NEW FREEDOM IN BANK GREDIT SEEN AS B0O Secretary Morgenthau Flays Banks, Examin- ‘D 0 ers as ‘Righteous WASHINGTON, Dec. 18—A new freedom in priming business witn bank credit, together with the cre- ation of a nationwide network of direct Fede:.: lending agencies, has been urged by Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau to a group of special investigators of credit conditions. In a report, ordered hy the Treasury chief himself, bankers and bank examiners were flayed alike for a wave of ‘“righteousness.” ‘The study was based on condi- tions in Chicago’s Seventh Federal Reserve District, selected as typical of credit conditions throughout the country. Continuance of Federal loans to industry until the banks loosen their credit policies was urged, but with the recommended alternative of centralization of the Federal Loan practice in the RFC or creating a new intermediate credit system. The inquiry was launched when the feeling prevailed that banks were too severe in credit require- ments, thereby deterring recovery. ‘The investigation found that while banks were restricting cash ad- vances there was not so large a demand for credit as had been pop- ularly believed. PARIS INN CLOSED BY U. S. MARSHALS ; PROPRIETORS HELD; Upon complaint issued by the United $tates Attorney’s office, Deputy United States Marshals Nate Hardy, John McCormick and Walter G. Hellan closed the Paris Inn on the Glacier Highway at 3 o'clock this morning and arrested Curley Fraser, Harry Bunger and Holly Evans, who were charged with selling intoxicating liquor and operating an establishment with- out licenses. The information was filed in the United States Disctrict Court this morning and the bond was fixed at $1,000 each, by Judge George F. Alexander, - WINN GOES SOUTH On legal business, Attorney Grov- er C. Winn is @ passenger -for Seattle dboard the Alaska. He ex- pects to returngsoon after the first of the year. ’ | Fnll blue-eyed, F Ison and m sentenced to se v\. Va., for' violation of women to go to consin. (Associated Press Photo) $t. Nick Coming at 9:30 o morrow Morning sters to meet the Yukon sonally find out for . th about this Santa Claus So at 11:30 o'clock the fll* mar school will be dismissed" trip to the Pacific Coast Superintendent of Schools . | Phillips said today. Similar p sion was granted children in ‘parochial school. tlohotnndeuulynnd anuny'c two ch llnn ll court In Madison, Wis., where da! |n prison at Alderson, last of four | ‘parole. 8| as t! ating with the Dllllngor mob in Wie- HIGHEST GUURT rivate Enlerprises Are Given Warning—Memor- ial Starts Something WASHINGTON, Dec. clouds began to gather again around the power issue after the Roosevelt Administration turned thumbs down on the plea it co- operate in putting its power poli- cies into effect. A quick and final test in the Supreme Court may result. The Administration has demand- ed that the power industry “clean house.” 18. — War ‘ Man - Dies ‘A fler ou — SEATTLE, Dec, 18—Kenneth Kinney, aged 20, Bremerton ' mechanic and boxer, told offi- cers here he struck C. D. Lewis, aged 38, who died Sunday after a beer parlor fight, but left in the belief he was not serious- ly hurt. Kinney surrendered when he saw accounts in the newspapers of Lewis's death. — e, — FRENCH ARMS POLICY GIVEN ENDORSEMENT This was the answer that came Chamber of Depuues a few hours after Thomas Mec- | Arthur, President of the Edison Votes Large Appropria- tion — Larger Navy Electric Institute, and leader in PARIS, Dec. 18—A strong French the attack on the Roosevelt plans | to use power experiments as “yard- | arms policy received an overwhelm- sticks” to force down rates, had | called at the White House with a s.nucuu.nurumw, and a program for those beyond grammar school® still believe in old S. Alaska Steamship ficials explained today h late arrival of the Yukon, b fly due here on Tuesdays, Was caus- ed by the giving of similar Christ- MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS mas programs in other swthelfl - SENATORLONG | PLANS ANOTHER | DICTATOR MOVE Fifteen Tho:s?nd Louisiana Teachers Will Be Under His Control BATON ROUGE, La., Dec. 18— Fifteen thousand teachers will be drawn into United States Senator Long's dictatorship if 33 bills he sponsors are enacted at the special session of the legislature. The bills will be in effect 20 days after passage. A “joker” in on® bill, placing t.he jobs of all teachers in the state at the whim of Senator Long and his controlled board, went un- noticed the first two days of the special session and the State House buzzed over the measure as the House prepared to pass all bills A general view (top) of the Hotel Kerns at Lanslnt, Michigan, in flames. At last reports the victims numbered 30 persons. They lost their lives when the hotel burned to the ground. Among the victims were State Legislators who wer were killed when they leaped to the ground or into the river at the rear of the hotel. is a view of the smouldering ruil ins of the hotel after the fire. in Lansing to attend a special session. PRESIDENT OF GERMANY HIT, WOUNDED BY PISTOL SHOT Would-be Assassin and Her Taxi Driver Are Im- mediately Killed by Guards, Report LINZ, Austria, Dec. 18.— Local newspapers carried a story today saying President- Chancellor Adolf Hitler, of Germany, was wounded by a revolver shot fired by a girl. The girl fired at Hitler as he was in his auto and as she drove by in a taxicab. The newspapers claim the girl is the daughter of Lead- er Brueckner of the Silesian Provincial Nazi Party. She went to Berlin after the ar- rest of her father. The report further says the girl and her taxi driver were killed by Hitler's guard after the first shot was fired. s >oo NOME RESIDENTS HAVE QUARTE AND SUPPLI Rehabilitation Work Ac- complished Remarkable, Says B.'D. Stewart Amazing progress has been made in the rehabilitation work at Nome since the disastrous fire of Sep- tember 17 and many merchants are now doing business in new perma- nent establishments, according to Some of the victims At the bottom ARMY PROJECTS NOW UNDERWAY ON WATERWAYS Construction i Inland| United States Push- memorial which spoke of “strangu- lation” of private enterprise by Government compemion ing endorsement in the Chamber of Deputies this afternoon. The | Deputies approved appropriations for about $52,000,000 to - reinforce and send them to the Senate. The Senate will send all the bills to a committee before it considers them, which will be Thursday. The WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Pictur- ed by Engineers ZE e e France's fighting machine against any possible attacks by Germany. Navy building was also urged to SALMON BRUKER,‘W PACKER PASSES AWAY, ASTURIA JIIUS ?“Em"{un COURT DIES ASTORIA, Oregon, Dec. 18— | Byron F. Stope, aged 88 years, dean House is to concur in all amend- ments the same day and another of Long's special session, the third this year, will be finished. FORMER JUNEAU RESIDENT DIES George E. Brown Passes ing the United States” with the most magnificent system of im- proved inland waterways in the| ‘world,” Secretary of War Dern an- nounces that the Army Engineer Corps is spending $343,000,000 on them and ‘he has plans, to spend lelght billion dollars ‘more, if ap- proved. There are now 126 projects un- der way and 1600 others are plan- ned, MAJOR CARRUTHERS of the salmon packers and brokers fon the Pacific Coast, is dead at his home here. | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 18. Away at Ketchikan as ON INSPECTION ‘TRIP Stone was born in New York —dJustice William H. Sawtelle, aged State in 1848, crossed the plains to 66, member of the Ninth United | California and became associated |States Circuit Court of Appeals, is with George Hume in the first sal- |dead as the result of a fractured mon cannery- on the Sacramento skull received in a fall down stairs River. at his home here. Stone came to Astoria in 1886 | After hearing three cases, Jus- when Hume established the first |tice Sawtelle complained to his as- Columbia River ‘salmon cannery.|sociates that he was not feeling Later he went into business for well and believed he had a touch ‘himself. |of the flu. He was taken to a Stone was President of the Port hospital where it was found his of Astoria Commission for 16 years, |skull had been fractured. He died He is survived by two sons and |500n after. two daughters. | Justice Sawtelle was appointed o i Al 50N | the Circuit Court of Appeals in FAIRBANKS T0 . { ———.———— | WARRACK GOES TO SEATTLE | J. B. Warrack of the Warrack GET cITY HAL ‘Consv.rucnon Company, is a pas- senger on the Alaska for Seattle. return to Juneau euly ln January. WASHINGTON, Dec. 18— The e TR R Public Works Administration an- | Travel by railroad to Yellow- nounced today that an allotment of | Stone National Park increased 130 per cent during the 1934 tourist $50,000, loan and grant, has been made to the city of Fairl Result of Paralysis KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Dec. 18— George E. Brown, aged 58 years, is dead here as the result of pa- ralysis. He was afflicted several years ago and had been bedridden for the past month. Brown came to Alaska in 1899 as a carpenter and was engaged in many northern mining camps, later residing in Juneau and Douglas be- fore coming here. Survivors are his widow and brother Fred, here, and three sis- ters, one in Seattle and two in Canada. Brown was born in Ontario, Can- ada. ———rl s LICENSE PLATES READY Automobile license plates are ready for distribution, City Clerk A. W. Henning announced today. The license fee is $15, with $10 going to the Territory and $5 to the city. is estimated at $230,000,000. Major W. J. Carruthers, of the Salvation Army, who has been on his first official inspection trip in this section of Alaska, returned on the Kenai and left for his head- quarters at Wrangell aboard the Alaska, Major Carruthers visited Angoon, Tenakee and other localities in the | interest of the Salvation Army and | was well received by his former | friends. The Major was previously ' in charge of the Southeast Alaska District before transferred to Al- berta. — . — CARLSONS TRAVEL Mr. and Mrs, W. O. Carlson, ac- companied by thelr daughter, are southbound passengers on the Al- aska. Carlson is buyer for the New England Fish Company here, s e RANGER YISITS For a brief visit to Seattle, Har- old E. Smith, ranger in charge of the government forest near Cor- ::’l. is a passenger on the Alas- Townsend Plan Leader Makes His Threat ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Dr. F. E. Townsend, who has ar- rived here, threatened to ‘lick the hide off Congress and send ‘em home for good” if his old ‘age pension plan is not adopt- ed. STOCK MARKET IS DULL TODAY, LITTLE DOING: Metals and Utilities Heavy —Some Issues Climb Out of Rut NEW YORK, Dec. 18— Stocks were sleepy today and there were no definite trends in dull trading. A few merchandising issues and scattered specialties climbed out of the rut but most of the leaders did little. heavy. Today's close was irregular. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today ‘is 19, American Can 107%, American Power and Light 3%, Anaconda 11%, Armour N 5%, Hecla 3, General Motors 31%, In- ternational Harvester 38, Kenne- cott 17, United States Steel 37':, Pound $4.94%. - .- FORMER GOVERNOR LEAVES George A. Parks, former Gover- nor of Alaska, is a. southbound pas- senger on the Alaska, bound for Denver, ; Christmas with relatives. — e HOTEL LOBBY CLEANED A complete renovating job, in- cluding cleaning of the walls and ceiling, is being done to the lobby lot the Gastineau Hotel. B. D. Stewart, Supervising Mining Engineer and Ex-Officio Federal Inspector of Mines who returned to Juneau on the Alaska after a five months’ absence. Mr. Stewart has been actively as- | sisting in the rehabilitation pro- gram and planning of the city im- GAS STATION OPERATOR IS SHOT, KILLED Two Men, Believed in Stol- en Car, Sought—Sus- provements to be carried out in the burned city since the fire, under the Federal Emergency Relief Ad- ministration in conjunction with PWA. Among the merchants who have already constructed their new quarters and are now in operation are the Lehmann Department Store, V. O. Seidenverg and Son; PE ELL, Wash,, Dec. 18 —Willlam | Jack Seidenverg Clothing Store; pect in Hospital Walker, aged 36, service station op- erator two miles north of here, was shot and killed in a midnight battle with two men who appar- ently refused to pay him for gaso- line. The authorities believe the two men were in a car stolen from Raymond Lewis, of Raymond. A suspect who refuses to answer questions is in a Chehalis hospital with a bullet wound in his chest. ‘Walker is survived by his widow and one child. Walker’s father, who answered Ira Rank; Lichtenberg Hardware 'Store; Harper and Allyn Garage; North Pole Bakery and Cavey's. | The latter two, both bakeries wita cafes in conjunction, were just be- ing opened for operation shortly before Mr. Stewart left for Ju- neau. Previously, one of the diffi- culties had been to obtain suffi- cient bread, as only ordinary house ranges were left following the fire, Mr. Stewart said, A Polet, one of Nome's princi~ pal merchants, had opened his re- tail store in a portion of one of his the call for gasoline, sent his son | warehouses, all of which had been down from over the station whece;saved; and is planning the con- they lived. Later he heard two struction of a new retail store in Some metals and utilities were | Bethlehem Steel 30%, Calumet and ; | writer dealer of this city. where he will spend] shots followed by several more. He went down and found his son shot in the abdomen. EXPERT OPERATOR JOINS STAFF OF J. B. BURFORD CO. L. A. Shenk, expert service op- erator, who has been connected in a like capacity with the L. C. Smith and Bros, typewriter firm in Seattle, has recently joined the J. B. Burford and Company, type- The typewriter repair department will be in charge of Mr. Shenk who was accompanied to Juneau by his wife and they will make their home here. ——..— TO ATTEND COURT For the purpose of protecting his interests in a court case in Seattle, August Pritsche, mining man rmm the Porcupine district near Haines. | is on the southbound Alaska. the spring, Mr. Stewart declared. A brand new motion picture the- ater ‘with new sound equipment, of '| which the Nome residents are very proud, is already in operation as is the amusement hall conducted by Henry Burgh. The latter is more or less used as a club by the men of the town, as all amusement places were burned when the town was destroyed. Possessions Burned Mr. Stewart, who was headquar- " (Contisued on Page Two)