The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 24, 1934, Page 1

THE DAILY VOL. XLV., NO. 6840. ALASK “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME’ JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 193 4, - WILL FLY OVER ALASKA DURING % WORLD TRIP Clyde Paggborn Wil At-| tempt Nonstop Flight Next Summer | SEATTLE, Dec. 24 —Clyde Pang- | born is here enroute to Wenatchee ‘[ to spend the Christmas holidays | with his mother, Mrs. F. O. Pang- | born. Pangborn announced he will | takeoff July 1 from San Diego on | a nonstop flight around the world, refueling over New York City, Moscow, China and Siberia. Pangborn said he expected to| make the flight of 17,000 miles in 114 hours. He expects to head for Nome, Alaska, from Siberia. He will follow the best air routes to the south. The flight will be in connection h the California-Pacific Inter- national Exposition at San Diego next summer. Pangborn will use a special “fly- ing wing” type of ship now under ruction in the east. He will be ompanied by Bennett Grif- {in, of Oklahoma City, as relief pilot; Reeder Nichols, radio opera- tor and alternate pilot. Nichols ac- companied Col. Roscoe Turner and Pangborn on the recent London- Melbourne hop. ROPER URGES LOCAL RELIEF INDEPENDENCE Cabinet mmber Asks‘ Communities Bear Own Economic Problems | | CHARLESTON, 8. C.,, Dec. 24— Secretary Daniel C. Roper urged the formation of a local organiza- tion in every community to sustain relief responsibilities, when he laid down a program by which individ- uals may aid economic, recovery in an address before the New England Society of Charleston. t He declared that for the Federal Government “to care for local so- cial conditions when and where the community can cope with them is to destroy local self respect, dis—) inherit states’ rights, and endanger the foundation of our democratic form of government.” He urged among other things that groups of individuals in the various communities study local’ conditions and create local em- ployment wherever possible. GAZETTEWILL | BE PUBLISHED | . FOR CITIZENS Those Having Business with Govermment Will Know How to Do It WASHINGTON, Dec. 24—A Ga- ‘The First Christmas This photo is a reproduction of the famous painting by M. Feinstein. FIGHT EXPECTED IN CONGRESS ON AGRIC. POLICIES One Principal Issue Is Singled Out by Sec- retary Wallace By HERBERT PLUMMER WASHINGTON, Dec. 24—A stiff fight is in prospect in the 74th Congress over the future of the nation’s agricultural policy. ' All sorts of ideas are being vanced, but the principal issue be singled out. It was expressed by Secretary Wallace in manner: Should farmers continue to hold | down production in order to hold | up prices and be financed in that | policy by processing taxes paid by | the consuming public? | Or, should farmers be told that| the sky is the limit in production, | with any goods that cannot be sold | within the country to be exporbed?i ad- can What to do with the surplus di-! vides the advocates of unlimited | production. | Marvin Jones of Texas, Chair- | man of the Agricultural Committee | of the House, would use processing tax funds to fi e the sale of surplus products® abroad. ! e o N { IS IT “DUMPING”? | Others say that Jones’ plan is| nothing more than “dumping.” Some would have the Government | meet the cost of dumping excess| goods. Others would fix definite | prices on farm products sold with- | in this country, letting the surplus seek a market abroad at’whatever zette which will tell the American price it would bring. Still others citizen what the Government says advise removing all controls and it can do for him and how he létting American agriculture com- | should go about getting its ald, pete with that of the worid for has been compiled by the Emerg- markets as it did from 1930 to| ency Council and will be distribut- ‘1933. { ed soon as possible after the first' The position of Secretary Wal- | of the year. |lace on the question is clear. He The book will be bound in a loose would continue the domestic allot- leaf system so it can be kept up to ment plan now in effect. The do- date by new insertions as needed. 'mestic alletment plan is designed The Gazette will be distributed to adjust farm production to the to 3,000 Governmental offices hav- | potential market. ing contact ' with the public, to} Wallace believes that any scheme city and county officials and 1,300 which would fix one price for the Red Cross Chapters where it can United States and another price Snappy Christmas Weather Predicted For Juneau Clear weather, with occasion- al gusts of wind, slight change in the temperature, which was 11 degrees above zero this fore- noon, is the prediction of weather man H. J. Thompson for Juneau's Christmas. - YUKON IS NOW BOOMING, SAYS HON. GEO. BLACK the following | % /Member of Canadian Par- liament Declares Coun- try Coming Back OTTAWA, Dec. 2¢—The greatest boom in the Yukon since the fa- mous gold rush, is reported by Hon. George Black who has arrived here for the Parliamentary session be- ginning January 17. Conditions in the Yukon are the best since '89, said Black. “Not so many people are engaged as in the old days but there is more money. This is, due to the price of gold rising from the aver- age of $16 an ounce to $35,” said | Black. B 2 Gov. John W. Troy Sends Greetings to Alaskans on Christmas Gov. John W. Troy sent a Christmas message, “To all of the people of the North, Christ- mas Greetings, and sincere wishes for a happy and pros- perous New Year” to the fol- lcwing newspapers to be made public today: Ketchikan Chron- be consulted by those having busi- ! ——— ness to do with the Government. ; (Continued on Pags Two) \ |SOVIET GIVES WORLD PEACE DESIRED;POPE - ISSUESAPPEA i 1W0uld Destroy Those | Wish War — Annual | | Message Delivered | % 3 VATICAN CITY, Italy, Dee: 24— | The Pope warned that the “elamor | of war is spreading” and urged tHe | world to pray for Peace, The warn- ing was given in the Pope's Ghrist- mas address to the Curia of Cardi- | nals. & = | “We seek a constant increase of | warlike arms,” said the Pope. “This |is a distracting element in which | the spirit seems to have no: part. We are on the eve of a day when the Heavens resound with ‘hymns of angels calling for peace on earth. Never has the chant had more reason for being than today. “We wish for peace, we bless"| peace, but if in the future-there will become people possessed of homicidal mania who wish to pre- pare for war, we shall have an- other prayer and this be to destroy, O Lord, those who wish war.” - OUT WARNING, ALL NATIONS, Republic Not to Permit of Any Price, Credit Term i Ch Discrimination MOSCOW, Dec. 24—The United | States and other foreign powers ' have been warned through the So- | viet Industrial Journal that the Soviet Republic “will not permit ! any discrimination against it in' prices or terms of credit.” | The paper said production of ten | million tons of pig iron this year, increased gold production, and the | success of the agricultural program, | has placed the Soviet Republic in | such a favorable economic and fi- | nancial position that “maneuvering | of possibilities in the field of fore- ign trade have widened.” | PRODUCTION OF BOLDIS peace and want to establish busi- 'Alaska’s Outpul for This; latiol ith us, will al 3 :::: «r::x: suxt:po:t.t" g P Year Is Eshmqte_cl at ! Seventeen Million ‘ o T THOUSANDS ARE | aur mscece o v TO CELEBRATE IN BETHLEHEM ed States, from the four greatest Air to Resound Tonight producing eras, California, Alaska, | | South Dakota and Colorado, poured with Age-Old Rites of Pilgrims out about seventy million dollars| of the precious metal this year, which is an increase over last year. {The four areas produce 60 percent lof the Nation's new gold annually. If other sections increased their | | output accordingly, the Nation's i total for the year would amount to | about $120,000,000 compared to $82,- | 300,000 last year. Alaska's production is estimated at $17,000,000 this year compared |to $14,000,000 last year | BETHLEHEM, Dec. 24. — Thou- sands of pilgrims, white and black, representing scores of denomina- tions, poured into this little mar- ket town in the Palestine Hills to observe the birth, nearly 2,000, anges in Régulat—ions ¢;f Alaska Game Laws Proposed; Commission’s Annual Reporti highway from Jerusalem, eight| miles away. ! Both here and at Jerusalem to- night the air will resound with the singing of carols and ringing of bells as the age-old rites begin. e Has Private Stamp CRACOW, Poland—A ‘“vox pop- uli” who didn’t like the arrange-; ments for the Gordon Bennett balloon race wrote to a newspaper about it, stamping the envelope with a neat home-made product in red and black inscribed “souvenir of the Gordon Bennet race.” The stamp went through the mails and is prized by the paper as unique. Many of the pilgrims are com- i ing by automobile over the broad BE SENT GVER AIR BY F. D. R, [ ] Ii WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.— From the man in the White House to| the buck private in China, the| Government took time out today to| begin celebrating Merry Christmas. | The President planned to cross| the street late today and give the season's greetings to the nation over the radio when he delivers a short speech @s the lights on the| LaFayette Park City Christmas tree | are turned on. J | mits. Recommendations for b oo wameolt i | (Continued on Page Two) The tenth regular session of the Alaska Game Commission, which convened at its Executive Office in the Federal and Territorial Build- ing on December 11, concluded its | eleven day session and adjourned | last Friday. Recommended changes in game, fur and other regulations when ap- proved by the Secretary of Agri- culture, will become effective on July 1, 1935 for the ensuing fiscal year. These changes will be an- nounced in detail in Game Law Circular No. 12, which will be pub- lished early next spring and dis- tributed throughout the Territory. Migratory Bird Recommendations The Commission adopted a reso- lution asking the Advisory Board for the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Department of Agriculture to divide Alaska into three zones for separate open seasons on mi- gratory birds. The zones recom- mended are in keeping with recom- mendations of sportsmen and ‘Chambers of Commerce in the sev- eral sections; zone one to include Southeast Alaska east of the 141st meridian; zone two, the remaining portion of the Territory soeuth of the Alaska Range; and zone three, all the region north of the Alaska Range. The Chambers of Commerce and sportsmen’s organizations of the two southern zones are heing asked to submit recommendations for the open seasons they wish. The peo- ple of the northern section of the Territory in proposed zone three are already on record as wishing an open season to begin with the earliest date permitted under the Treaty—September 1. The opening date of August 15 is desired for zone three, but cannot be granted until a revision of the Treaty per- this change in the Treaty were sub- mitted by the Commission several years ago, but no change has yet been made. In an attempt to improve migra- tory bird conditions along the south coast and in parts of the In- MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS " pration of King Zog's ascension. PRICE TEN CENTS i TOLL REACHES * NEW HIGH FOR KING COUNTY One Hundred and Seventy- three Victims Up to Last Night TWENTY-THREE ARE DEAD IN CALIFORNIA | Two Planes-—Cras'h, One | Near Elko, Nev., Other Near Ventura, Cal. | SEATTLE, Dec. 24—The grim | death toll of traffic fatalities in King County for the year stood at 173 compared to the previous all time record of 145. The toll of 173 was reached with four deaths over the week-end. The dead are: Guy Johnson, aged 51, City Light Engineer. Johm Hartzell, aged 82 years. Frank Nerthey, aged 23 years. An unidentified man. The coast's total over the week- end was 23 deaths, most of them in California. Planes - are. reported to have crashed near Ventura and near Elko, Nevada, where a pilot and his three passengers are believed injured or killed. It is not known how many persons were aboard the plane that crashed near Ventura. STOCK PRIGES SHOW TONE OF 'RIGHBERG GIVES | CHEERFULLNESS NEW YORK, Dec. 24. — Stocks resented a fairly cheerful appear- ance today. Trading was slow and many issues failed to move far. p STURY WARNING.‘TI"‘. were a number of firm IGRA S Sp0 The close was comparative- NRA Boss \;’rites Post that sirm. oL General Johnson's | CLOSING PRICES TODAY Articlo Lital | NEW YORK, Dec. 24—Closing rticle Libelous | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine B | stock today is 19'4, American Can WASHINGTON, Dec. 24—(COPY- 111, American Power and Light 3%, right by Associated Press)—Donald | enaconda 10%, Armour N 5, Beth- R. Richbe itional Recovery Co-|jlefem Steel 30, Calumet and Hecla ordinator, has written the Saturday 27, General Motors 32', Interna- Evening Post that it “must accept tional Harvester 39'., Kennecott full legal responsibility” for any 161, United States Steel 37. Pound derogatory statements contained in'gqgqy, the forthcoming series of articles | by Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson, who re- | 15 head of the NRA after - SMALL ROOF FIRE signed i an extended dispute with Richberg,| The Juneau Fire Department was it was learned here today called to the home of John Hermle In a letter written December 14 on Seventh Street at 11:15 o'clock to George Horace Lorrimer, the|last night to extinguish a small editor of the magazine, Richberglmol fire. said that he had been “told by, The conflagration was quickly several persons seeming to h‘lve)brouzht under control, with little sources of accurate information” |damage.. that the book from which the ar- | ticles are to be excerpted “includes | . Q e certain definitely described attacks ’:res“l(:"’ baml:s upon me, which, if made, will be Season’s Greetings untrue, maliciously libelous, and To Gov. Troy ‘0 'Gov. designed wholly for the purpose of doing me harm.” ) p ) Beyond saying that he wrote ‘thé|-: °Juneauites’ today are receiv- letter, Richberg would make no 1§ Christmas greetings from statement. His differences with &ll over the world. Of interest General Johnson® which preceded, WA @ message from President the latter'’s Withdrawal from the :‘:‘:;":&:;’;’:’fi:‘g:;"‘“ W NRA, were long a matter of eon{ ; ge ‘and Nesl Widhide "u‘:“. ( merry Christmas and a happy ] New Year.” | Ancther wire to the Governor | | (vonunued on Page Two) —— - brought “Best Aloha and Christmas greetings” frem Gov. REPORT REVOLT | i bcuct'ina ¢ OF ALBANIANS | e TIRANIA, Albania, Dec. 24.—The Government denies reports from Athens of a revolt saying there is a complete calm throughout v.he‘ country. The announcement said | false reports concerning an uprising | in the Debra region have been c"'l culated in Athens with the appar- ent purpose of marring the cele- S