The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 6, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLV., NO. 6877. MORE ATTEMPTS * b * X » * * * “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1935 » * * * * * '\11 e * * MEMBm OF ASSOCIATED PRESS » * * » * » - PRICE TEN CENTY FREE HAUPTMANN il ‘i"'.~ RANSOM MONEY IN FISCH'S HANDS LABOR PLANS T0 ORGANIZE AUTO WORKERS Decision R:a_ched when President Defends Don- ald R. Richberg A. F. OF L. CRITICISM NOT GIVEN SUPPORT Roosevelt “Says Decision Is Up to Him Regard- ing His Board WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. — The American Federation of Labor has swung into a big push to organize the automabile industries after President Roosevelt had taken a step widely regarded as a defense of Donald R. Richberg, target of the Federation’s criticism . Letter Made Public President Roosevelt made public a letter in which he pointedly told the American Federation of Labor’s Counsel Charlton Ogburn that “it is for the President to determine” whether the Auto Labor Board, headed by Dr. Leo Wolman should be continued. Demands Made The American Federation of La- bor has been demanding this board e scrapped, charging the board’s employee electiofis. and method ‘of collective bargaining' has been il legal. Contention Explained Counsel Ogburn called the board completely unacceptable to labor and further said that when the American Federation of Labor with- drew from the agreement under which the board was set up, the board became legally non-existant. With this the President dis- agreed. DRASTIC BLOW NOW PROPOSED FOR UTILITIES Legislation Aimed at Put- ting Holding Companies Out of Business WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. — Public utility holding companies are fac- ing the prospect of an attempt to pass regulations frankly designed to put them out of business within five years. Legislation for regulation of hold- ing companies by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Power Commission has been whip- ped into shape and it is said this legislation will be introduced in both the House and Senate today. H. BALLAINE FOUND DEAD IN HIS BED Pioneer Rancher of Inter-| ior Dies in His Sleep on Large Farm FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 6.— Hampton Ballaine, aged 68 years, pioneer farmer, was found dead in his bed on his large farm near College on Monday. Heart trou- ble is given as the cause. Hampton Ballaine had lived here for the past 25 years. He was not married. Two brothers, John and Frank Ballaine, one time promi- nent in Seward realty and railroad business, survive. They are resid- ing on the Pacific Coast. BUNNELL RECEIVES WORD Dr. Charles A. Bunnell, President of the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines of Fairbanks, who is a Juneau visitor also re- ceived word that H. Ballaine had been found dead, | Senate Ladies Hold Luncheon With gavel raised, Mrs. John N. Garner, wife of the vice president, is pictured opening the first senate ladies luncheon in Washington following the re-convening of congress. At left is the wife of Sena- tor Royal Copeland of New York. 1} V:ery Busv ”Girl HUGE-REVENUE Plant Reductlon Men Slress Alaska Tax Sources The herring industry had its‘ day yesterday as representatives of herring reduction plants as well as those opposing them were heard by the House fisheries committee on the merits of House Joint Me- morial No. 5 which asks Congress to abolish the plants because they are depleting the fish supply. me Pacific Herring Packers As- | sociation and President of the Atlas Packing Company, and W. J. Imlach, | Bay Packing Company, principal witnesses appearing be- fore the committee. wspoke briefly in opposition to the| plants and both Poehlitz and Im- | lach came in for considerable ques- {tioning from committee members. TWO PROPOSALS . = == Glenda Farrell One of the busiest actresses fn Hollywood is pretty Glenda Far- rell, former stage star. She was listed with 456 others by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts | and Sciences as the players receiv- ing the most roles during 1934. The herring salting and reduc- | tion industry represents a capital ! investment of more than $2,500,000, | employing in normal years over | 2,000 people, Poehlitz told the com- HEHR'NG BRING |man, Francis Shea, Victor Rotnem and Gardner Jackson of the cod- | T0 TERRITORY : L. E. Poehlitz, Vice President of | ‘| Hearing on two House labor bills President of the Evans | were the |y act labor and limiting work un- Clash Between Left Right Wingers FOUR OTHER LAWYERS ALSO SLATED T0 G Victory for Farm Ad- ministrator ' Davis WASHINGTON, Feb. '6.—Conflict between the' right andleft wihg camps of the AAA has resulted in the virtual ousting of 'Jerome Frank, known as the original brain truster, and four other officials, it became known :oday ] The shakeup, coming suddew after a period of friction, was de= scribed as a victory for the ymore ;canservanve school represented by |Farm Administrator Chester Davis. | Officials seid Frank expectéd fo \resign as counsel to the Adjust- ~ |ment Administration. Four lawyets under him are going too, Lee Press~ sumers counsel. They have ‘nformed “that- resignalions ace> order. It was said the action was taken by Secretary Henry A. Wallace at the instance of Davis, and came a complete surprise. Value of Industry to ’HEARING 0N 2 LABOR BILLS TONIGHT AT § Abolition of Contract Lab- or, Underground Work Limit to Come Up providing for the abolition of con- derground to six. hours in any Frod Sllvers,n will be held at 8 o'clock to- night in the House chambers, it is announced by William N. Grow- den, chairman of the labor com- mittee. Arguments on the eight- hour day, six-day week bill were heard by the committee yesterlay afternoon, Main exception arising to the eight-hour day measure is the six day week in some industries which claim they cannot operate in an | mittee, in explaining that in the HuusE SGHEDULE]M five years Territorial and Federal yearlv pack taxes and li- —_— | censes in the amount of $250,000 . . |have been paid by these plants, Educatlon Blll Tabled and!the tax at times amounting to 10 Unicameral Legisla[ure | per cent of the gross F.O.B. Seattle . | selling price of the product. Plan Withdrawn “Contrary to the general opin= ' |ion, the bulk of the investment in ‘Two proposair Which have been the herring business represents the flitting across the legislative hori- | savings of men formerly engaged zon since the start of the Twelfth Territorial Legislature apparently| in this and other branches of the fishing industry,” Poehlitz said. breathed their last today when one was tabled and the other with- “All of the active plants are op- drawn from consideration. erated by, and owned in whole or in part, by former fishermen, cur- They are the education bill and | ers, cpopers ‘or operators, who are unicameral Legislature plan. Wil-| | encouaged to invest their savings liam N. Growden, author of the in this industry upon the Terri- measure which would repeal the tory’s apparent sanction and en- 1933 school law, asked that his| couragement. It is very unjust for bill be tabled, the education com-|us to have to contend with ham- mittee having previously recom- | pering’ legislation beneficial to no mended against it, | and the House one and threatening the life of a unanimously agreed. A new mens—;well established and valuable in- ure aimed to remedy the existing | dustry.” statute and ~providing for local| school boards may result. Japan and Iceland, Poehlitz said, Drops Scheme {are subsidizing their herring reduc- The Green single house plan,|tion industry instead of endeavor- which last week was turned down ing to suppress it. He said Nor- by the Senate when it came up in| way, where herring fishing has the shape of a joint memorial, had | been carried on for centuries with been re-introduced in the lower| no apparent depletion, has in re- body as a House memorial to!cent years materially increased its Congress but this morning Joe| reduction plant facilities. Despite Green, the author, asked consent | a gain in reduction plants, salter- l- (Continued on Page Two) | (Continued on Page Three) Offers Comparison emergency under such conditions and that in some cases the work is seasonal. Others pointed the six- day arrangement would work out if the men took the day off on their own time when they wanted it, thus not disrupting the opera- tions and forcing a shutdown. Ex- emptions also were asked for skilled labor, bosses and CcoOKS. Among those appearing in opposi- tion to certain phases of the meas- ure were James Freeburn of the Chichagof mine, P. M. Sorenson of the Hirst-Chichagof, L. H. Metz- gar of the Alaska-Juneau, C. C. Gardner, representing the lum- bering industry, and M. J. Hene- ghan of Ketchikan. Ralph Bar- tholomew of Ketchikan also ap- peared, stressing the difficulty at times to get labor. B S John Barton Payne Leaves $1,100,000 ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 6— The will of John Barton Payne, late chairman ‘of the American Red Cross, left a $1,100,000 estate to be divided equally among the Red Cross and two other institutions. Equal shares went to Washing- ton and Lee University and to. William and Mary College. Payne’s first wife, Mrs. Kate Bunker Karpe, Los Angeles; received $5,000 Wallace Acllon Seen “»' At least one phase of the long waged “gold battle” has reached the United States Supreme Court. flHIGlNAI_ BMN Supreme Court Is to Decide on Gold Clause About One Year After Devaluatwn of Dollar That group is expected to rule very soon whether contracts with a gold payment stipulation may be paid in the current dollar or mi By DON JOSEPH NEW YORK, Feb. 6.—Almost ex- actly a year after President Roose- ating on validity of the congres- sional acts on which his decree was based. The President gave as his rea- sons for devaluing the dollar, the necessity to protect our foreign trade from the 'effects of the de- preciated currencies of competing nations, and the expansion of cred- it called for by domestic condi- tions. A rise in domestic prices was desired by the administration, The fixed weight of gold sup- porting the dollar was thereupon changed from 25.8 grains to 15 5/21 grains of gold; an ounce of gold was given a value of $35, instead of $2067; and the dollar conse- quently declined to a value of 59.06 per cent of its former self. The Presidential decree, which was an- nounced on January 31, 1934, was based on powers granted by the Thomas amendment to the farm relief act and the gold reserve act of 1934, Dollar ' Declines By the end of 1934 the purchas- ing power of the dollar had de- clined, on the basis of 1926, 13.8 per cent, or from 1517 cents in 1933 to 130.7 cents in 1934. Economists close to the Presi- dent, notably Prof. G. F. Warren, and those in sympathy with him, believed that depreciation of the dollar, making it worth less in terms of gold, would raise the price of domestic goods. Calculations made by the Na- tional Industrial Conference Board, recently show that with the de- cline of the purchasing power of the dollar, prices increased 16.1 per cent at the end of 1934. Professor Warren argued: “In 1920, anywhere in the world, gold would buy less than half as much of other commodities as it would have purchased before the war, This was the lowest value for gold that has ever occurred. “In 1934 gold reached the high- est value ever attained since the establishment of the Uniter States. No civilization can function suc- vessfully with such violent fluctua- tions in the value of money.” ‘By making American currency worth less in terms of the cur- rencies of other countries, it was planned to give American produc- ers an advantage in the inter- national markets. In other words, after devaluation a bushel of wheat should sell for only 60 percent of its former price in terms of francs. This would ust be paid in gold or its equivalent, Left to right, standing, Justices Roberts, Butler, Stone and Cardozo. Seated, left to right, Justices Brandeis, Van Devanter, Chief Jus- tice Hughes, Justices McReynolds and Southerland. (Photograph Copyright Harris and Ewing,) National Emergency Is to Be Declared if Hi gh Court Rules Against Government Pending Gold Clause Cases WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—A Presidential proclamation, de- claring a National Emergency, and bringing sweeping Executive powers inte action to steady conditions, is reported authorita- tively to he the first Administration move planned if the Su- preme Court rules adversely on the gold clause cases. Such a proclamation will follow the court’s decision within a few minutes and clamping on emergency restrictions to stabilize the markets pending legislative remedies. DESPERADO IS BEING HUNTED BY OFFICERS Raymond H?m_ilton Escapes Trap—Brother Found —Under Arrest DALLAS, Texas, Feb. 6.—Ray- mond Hamilton, desperado, is sought with renewed vigor as officers The ' treasury now has approxi- |captured his brother Floyd at mately eight billion dollars in gold. | Shreveport, La. |Devaluation gave the government| The officers have found a truck a “profit” of $2,792,940,577, of which |in which Raymond escaped from a two billion dollars were ea.rmarked.n-p,p vesterday and there are blood- 85 & stabilization fund. This fund, stains about the driver's seat. supposedly used to buy dollars abroad when they are plentiful | our exports amounted to $1,482,- 355,000, and our imports to $1,- 305,843000. In the first eleven months of 1934 although devalua- tion occurred at the end of Janu- ary, our exports had risen only to $1,962,731,000, and our imports to $1,508,640,000. In brief, the excess of imports over exports gained in the first 11 months of 1934 only $2173,610,000. The reason this increase was not greater, Dr. Marcus Nadler, prof- essor of finance at New York Unt- versity, says, was that foreign trade is now so governed by agree- ments and tariffs that compara- tively- few commodities were af- fected. OFFERS TO SURRENDER there and to sell them abroad when | pALIAS, Texns, Feb. 6.—Ray- they are scagce, strives to keeP mond Hamilton has offered, the currency Bt the value set by |through his captured brother Lloyd, the President. to surrender to the Federal agents COURT CASE HINGES ON and accept a long term at Alcatraz PAYMENT OF CONTRACTS provided they save him from death The ' argument before the Su- in the electric chair for murder. preme Court, on four separate cas- The offer has been refused, it ‘is es, involves the right of the gov- sald. ernment to prohibit payment of contracts iIn gold, despite agree-| ments to pay jn that metal. GEn H BBARD The plaintiffs are seeking pay-| ¥ ment in gold or in its equivalent in | give the French importer the|than 50 per cent of its then weight. Law. chance to buy more wheat for the same number of francs he had paid before, or to pay fewer francs for/ the same amount of wheat he had| bought before. Foreign Trade Gains these two acts of Congress. It set forth the conmditions under which Newly elected officers of Pioneers gold must be turned-over to the of Alaska, Igloo No. 6, will be treasury and devalued the dollar installed at the monthly. meeting Export and import figures show,to 59.06 per cent of its former and social session Friday night in that.in the first 11 months of 1933 value, 0Qdd Fellows” Hall at 8 o'clock, (TESTIMONY 18 SPRUNG ALONG NEW CHANNELS Shoe Box Traced Down— Radio Repair Man Placed on Stand POLICE INSPECTOR DISCUSSES LADDER Defendant’s Finger prints Not Found Among One Hundred, Twenty-five FLEMINGTON, N. J, Feb. 6— The defense in the Bruno Richard Hauptmann trial promised this morning to put fat packages of ransom money inte the hands of Isadore Fisch and thereby exoner- ate Hauptmann from all guilt in the payoff transaction. There was an intimation this . morning that the defense might rest today and in that event the case might be in the jury's hands before the week-end. The latest interest in the defense centered in the testimony of Ben- Jamin Heier, who yesterday identi- fied the man he saw jumping over a wall at St. Raymond’s Cemetery on the night the ransom was paid as being Isadore Fisch. The defense today offered testi- mony through Sam Streppone, Bronx radio repairman, that in"the early part of 1033, Isadore Fisch carried a shoe box, such as the ransom “money box 'the defense contends he gave Hauptmann for safe keeping. On cress examination the wit- ness acknowledged he had been in an institution for repressive phycho- sis. Streppone said Fisch brought him a radio to be repaired and carried a shoe box also. He.sald Pisch left the box in his shop for about six hours and then returned for it. Kidnap Laddier Again Lieut. Paul Sjostrom, investigator of the State Police, was next called to the witness stand. He told of . photographs of the kidnap ladder which showed approximately 125 fingerprints and none of them compared with those of Haupt- mann’s, No Positive Fingerprints The defense brought out that if Hauptmann handled the ladder with gloves his fingerprints would be found. Testimony also given said the fingerprints found were pro- duced by the silver nitrate method and were discovered after the kid- naping date and several police tes- tified no fingerprints of value were found on the ladder immediately after the crime. That Missing Board Gustave Miller, Bronx plumber, testified that the attic floor board which the State contends was used in the kidnap ladder, was not noted by him to be missing when he investigated a leak in August last year. He said he examined the attic in Hauptmann's home for a leak in August last year. He sald he examined the attic in Hauptmann’s home for seven inin- utes or so and remembered no boards were missing. The State had produced testimony that ofter Hauptmann's arrest, the police found a board missing and one upright of the ladder fitted into the vacant space. Miller also supported Haupt- mann's story of a leak in the money, $1.69, | closet which dampened the ran- The gold reserve act of 1934 som note shoe box. provided that the entire stock of Mrs. Henckle Testifies monetary gold in the United! SEATTLE, Feb. 6—George Hub- Mrs. Gretta Henckle testified States should be vested in the bard, former United States Collec- government. tor of Customs, has been sentenc- (Continued on page 7 The Thomas amendment to the|ed to eleven months in a Federal | farm relief agt provided that the Road Camp and fined $1000. He|Defendant Appears weight of gald in the dollar be|was convicted recently of embez-|J 5 fixed by the President at not zling liquor seized by the Gov- Listless; More more than 60 per cent nor less ernment under the old Prohibition Abstracted Now | The President’s proclamation on A e T TP FLEMINGTON, N. J., Feb. January 31, 1984, was based on PIONEERS TO INSTALL 6.~Bruno Richard Hauptmann came into the courtroom teday very listlessly with his guards. The defendant seemed more abstracted than usual even when he held his usual morn- ing conversation with his wife, *