The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 11, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRKE VOL. XLV., NO. 6933. “ALL THE NEW S ALL THE TIME” Y, APRIL 11, 1935. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDA MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS WORLD WATCHES LATEST PEACE MOV SILVER PRICE = Won't Say Yes, Won’t Say No |GUILTY PLEA IS INCREASED BY PRESIDENT White Metal Will Now Be Bought for Seventy-one Cents an Ounce ANNOUNCEMENT MADE BY CHIEF EXECUTIVE Means Nation’s Additional Outlay Will Be Over $100,000,000 WASHINGTON, April 11.—Presi- dent Roosevelt . Wes increased the price the Treasury will pay for newly mined silver from 64 cents to 71 cents an ounce, effective on production dating from April 10. The move was taken by the President because the world price of silver has ipcreased. The in- crease announced by the President will' mean an additional outlay of more than $100,000,000 to the Unit- ed States in fulfilling the provisions of the Silver Purchase Act which requires the silver monetary base equal to one third of the Gold re- serve. Under the act the Nation will eventually acquire approximately $1,951,000,000 worth of silver. WHITE METAL MEASURE APPROVED BY COMMITTEE WASHINGTON, April 11.—. The Senate Agricultural Committee has approved the mandatory sixteen to one silver purchase bill designed to inflate currency and speed attain- ment of the metallic currency re- serve, one part silver and three parts gold. The committec action was taken without a record vote and spurred silverites to’ fresh activity. The bill faces a doubtful future in the Senate. Democratic leaders ex¥pressed confidence it will not pass but Senator Wheeler claimed the bil! has gained votes since the test on the issue last session. GEE 2. § B NS CAPT. LATHROP IS DIRECTOR OF BREW GONGERN Is Elected at Annuai Meet- ing Yesterday of Olympia Co. OLYMPIA, Wash., April 11—Capt. Austin E. Lathrop, of Cordova, Al- aska, was elected a director of the Olympia Brewing Company at the annual meeting yesterday. The net profits of $162,079 was reported for 1934. ‘The company paid $470,000 in TFederal, state and county taxes last year the official reported. ANNA K, GREEN DIES IN EAST Noted Author of Detective Mystery Stories asses Away o A BUFFALO, N. Y, ‘April 11.—An- | na Katherine Green, aged 88, noted author of detective mystery stories is dead here after several months of illness. In private Jlife she was Mrs. Charles Rohlfs, wife of a widely ‘known furniture designer. She was the author of 27 novels, the first, “The Leavenworth Mys- tery,” having been published 56 years ago. e ® 00 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 L STOCK QUOTATIONS . { | NEW ‘YORK, April 11— Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 17, American Can| 118%, American Power and Light 3%, Anaconda 11%, Armour N 3% Bethlehem Steel 25, Calumet and Hecla 3%, General Motors 287, In- ternational Harvester 36%, Kenne- cott 174, United States Steel 30%:, Pound $4.84%, Bremner 58 bid 63 asked, Nabesna 70 bid 85 asked. | tively trying Returning to New York from an African jungle hunt together, George Vanderbilt of THE Vanderbilts, and Lucille Parsons, refused to answer ¥es or no to questions concerning rumors they will wed. She didn’t shoot the leopard she’s wearing. Pricé Now Sees Gathering Storms Clouding Capital; NoneCan Guage Magnitude DIMOND ASKS LOAN SYSTEM with clarity until executive, legis- . lative and Judigial attitudes have Extension of Farm Credit|been developed more tuny, Ad Al k I For two years the national capi- m., to Alaska lIs tal has been riding along on a Being Sough[ wave of enthusiasm and hopeful- n Mr. Roosevelt has launched 1certam vital experiments. The dull WASHINGTCN, March 30— |weariness induced by the depres- (Special Correspondence)—Delegate | sion had given way to a revived Anthony J. Dimond has been ac-|sense of motion. to have the Farm| Everyone was Credit Administration extend its|Con By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Wachington There is only one way to de- scribe accurately . the situation | ‘Washington today. That is by interested again, rezs was amiablie, popular sup- 3| in recognizing frankly that it is a sit-l functions to Alaska for the purpose | of making loans to farmers for the crt for the President was over- helming, and the day of reckon- purchase of farm implements, hvc-ling in the courts seemed far away. stock and machinery. The Farm Now the atmosphere has changed. Credit Administration has, how- Tk is doubt and controversy ever, stated that it is impracticable | w} to include Alaska as such )ouns}chvex'iul concord. Congress has would have to be through a Federal |grown quarrelsome and hesitant. Land Bank, and the expense of es-| The courts. are approaching final tablishing the bank in Alaska would | judgments. Conservatism has re- be too great in comparison with the 1 asserted itself on the one hand, and probable amount of business that|a bewildering swarm of radical it would do. | movements has developed on the Sec. 1. (6) of the Emergency Re-|other. lief Appropriation Act reads as| Washington is puzzled. It would follows: {be thankful, indéed, if someone “Funds made available by this | would tell it where it is and where Jjoint resolution may be used, in the | it is going. re re for two years there had been discretion of the President, for the| purpose of making loans to finance, in whole or in part, the purchase | of farm lands and necessary gquur! ment by farmers, farm tenants| croppers, or farm laborers. Such loans shall be repaid in equal an-| nual installments, or in such other; manner as the President may de- termine.” It is not known whether this pro- vision will remain in the bill when it is finally passed, but as it stands it would largely take care of the requirement for farm loans in Al- Roccevelt Silent The general feeling of transition and uncertainty is increased by the silence of the President with respect to many of the controver- sies which are raging about him. It always has been Mr. Roose- velt’s habit to bide his time. It is his practice not to reveal his hand until he thinks the psychological moment has arrived. He makes a game of it, and likes to keep even some of his closest advisers guessing. In the present circumstances that method is keep- 1S MADE BY F. DORBANDT Fur Case of Alaskan Flier and Seattle Trader Up at Ketchikan KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 11, —Frank Dorbandt, Alaskan flier, and Lyman DeStaffany, of Seattle, trader, yesterday pleaded guilty to. a misdemeanor. Sentence was de- ferred by District Judge George F. ‘Alexander. { The plea was the outcome of an indictment charging violation of the Alaska game laws. i Last fall the case was continued to the present spring session u] motion of the Government because of inability. to obtain. witnesses. Neither defendant. was* in_cours, the pleas being entered through at- torney Harry G. McCain. HUNDREDS OF POWER SITES UNDEVEL OPED National Survey Is Made— More Electricity Can Be Obtained WASHINGTON, April 11.— | Federal The Power Commission has re- ported 1,883 undevs | power sites in 3 which engineers of the National | Power Survey class as “economical- ating 31,588,000 kilowatts. The Pacific Northwest area is said to be the richest field for | future electric generation with 41.4 percent undeveloped potentialities in Washington, Oregon and Idaho in the Columbia River Basin. STATE AAAIS HELD INVALID IN WASHINGTON Supreme Court Rules Out Legislative Act on Price Fixing OLYMPIA, Wash., April 11.—The State Supreme Court here today held the 1933 Agricultural Adjust- ment Act unconstitutional on grounds that the provisions em- powering Director of Agriculture Walter Robinson to set up market- ing agreements to enforce price fixing violated constitutional pro=- visions which prohibit the Legisla- ture from delegating its powers. Chief Justice William Millard the United "smeJ' ly justified” and capable of gener- o. | A wholesale shift in commands of the U. 8. fleet took place aboard the U.S.S. California at Los An- geles. Some of the offic and their new ranks, left to right: Vice Admiral Henry V, Butler, command- er fleet air force; Admiral Harris Laning, commander battic force; Admiral Joseph M, Reeves, who will act as commander-in-chief of the fleet for a second year; Vice Admiral Thomas T. Craven, commander of battleships, and Admiral A. J. Hepburn, scouting force commander. (Associated Press Photo) REV. KENDALL ADMIRALS ARE TELLS CHAMBER CONFERRING ON OF AIM HERE FLEET PROGRAM New Methodist Pastor En- Secret Session Held Aboard thusiastic Over Appoint- | Pennsylvania Regard- ment to Juneau Church ing Maneuvers Granted Di;orce | | | | 1} Speaking of the realization of his dream to come to Alaska, Rev. L. Kendall, newly appointed pastor for the Metropolitan Metho- | dist Church, made his Juneau | speaking debut at today’s luncheon meeting of the Chamber of Com- merce at Bailey's Cafe. Rev. Kendall, formerly of Buhl,; Ida., and who, with his family, ar-| rived here earlier in the week from Seattle, told of his “long-felt en- thusiasm for the Territory” and his SAN PEDRO, Cal, April 11— Secret plans for six weeks of naval maneuvers of the United States Fleet in the North Pacific starting next month was the subject of a conference of seventeen Admirals of the Fleet’s units who were called | aboard the Pennsylvania today by | Admiral Joseph M. Reeves, Com- | mander-in-Chief. The maneuvers will witness 151 vessels in action in the first phase, others joining later. There also desire to come here for sometime. “Your hospitality to me since my | arrival is deeply appreciated. The ) will be 463 naval planes in the maneuvers, Virginla Cherrill, film actress, as she appeared in a Los Angeles Sourt where she was awarded a Among the vessels in the maneu- vers will be 12 dreadnaughts, six light cruisers, four aircraft carriers, 26 destroyers and 25 submarines, | as one unit. SEARCH MADE FOR BOY WHO divorce decree from Cary Grant. | spirit of welcome here is wonder- (Associated Press Photo) ful,” he said. “My one ambition {1s to be of service to Juneau.” | Carruthers Talks | Other religious leaders figured | prominently on today's speaking program, One of the first to be intro- duced by President R. E. Robert- son was Maj. W. J. Carruthers of the Salvation Army. In speaking of the advancements which he had noticed in Juneau, he told of the coming tomorrow of Ensign and Mrs. George Tan- | DEATH LEAP IS TAKEN; PRETTY " GIRL IS DEAD ner from Vancouver, B. C. They Lesher who are taking a one-year furlough. Another pastor to make a brief talk was the Rev. John A. Glasse, who introduced two ministers who had attended the recent Alaska Presbytery at Klawock, will replace Capt. and Mrs. R. B.! i Blighted Romance Believed,| Revealed in Tragedy in New York NEW YORK, April 11.—A blight- ed romance is blamed for the death plunge of pretty Betty Hamilton, | { IS KIDNAPED Lad Missing for One Week —Organizations Are Joining in Hunt CHICAGO, I, April 11.—An un- the Rev,|28€d 21 years, of Meadville, Pa, rqenting search is being pushed for expressed the opinion the 1935 act, Ralph Wheeler of Haines and the which became effective March 13,|gey preq Kierepoter. would not be affected by the des Shattuck Describes cision. A case is now in the Super-| apen ghattuck, the official rep- lor Court in King County testig|resentative of the City of Juneau the new act. and the Chamber of Commerce on who rose to fame in British mo-|pichard Perrott, aged four years, | tion pictures, whose father said a ransom has Miss Hamilton leaped from the peen demanded for the boy's re- {eleventh floor of a midtown hotel,|jaqce The lad has been missing for ;chd only in silk pajamas, and ..o week, her body hurtled to the roof of 2 Max Perrot, father of the boy, | four story building adjoining the! ,iq e expected his little son aska except as to loans for the purchase of livestock. ministrative posts on the anxious Delegate Dimond is now working | seat. to have a special Farm Credit| The fortunes of key men within Agency established in the Division the gdministration circle are un- of Territories and Island - Posses- | dergoing constant change. A few sions to handle such loans to iarm-{weeks ago Dr. Tugwell felt so dis- ers in Alaska. If this arrangement appointed he was considering re- can be worked out, it should prove'signing Now his responsibilities have much better than if the Farm been enlarged and he seems quite Cyedit Administration were super-|happy. vising the loans, as the agency op-| Others have had the same ex- erating undér the Division of Ter- perience. There are quite appar- ritories and Island Possessions|ent differences of opinion now with- could be made to harmonize with|in the cabinet itself, and Wash- other plans for the development ington again is filled with rumors of the Territory. |of a general shakeup. Program Changed JONES ARE IN EAST The Administration’s legislative Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jones, of | program has been subject to con- Nome, arrived in Washington on stant flunctuations. Monday. They are enjoying the' About mid-March Congressional kind of winter vacation that Jules{leaders received what they thought Verne mighf describe, for before it was definite word that the Presi- is finished they will have tried all/dent wanted all his major bills the means of transportation that passed before adjgyrnment. A week we can think of except the sub- later Senator Robinson emerged marine. Mr. and Mrs. Jones arrived from a White House conference ing many in Congress and in ad- : in Seattle early in November last anncuncing a policy which would | 255 fall on the boat from Nome. From cut the calendar in half. Seattle they drove south to Los-, Today, no member of Congress Angeles where they took a steam- conciders himself wise enough to er for New York via the Panama predict just what will happen. The wonnnued op Page Two) “(Continued on Page Five) o The high court affirmed the de- the receni qural flight of the cision enjoining the enforcement e % of melon and tomato marketing agreements against Spokane com- mission merchants. R ANOTHER NOTE IS GIVEN U. S, FROM JAPANESE Third Prote—s; “on Manchu- kuan Qil Policy Is Answered TOKYO, April 1l1.—Japan has told the United States, in effect, that having ignored Manchukuo's profers for- diplomatic relations, she cannot expect the benefit for lanchukuo's declaration of willing- to maintain the open door policy. The attitude is expressed in the note handed to United States Amw ‘bassador Grew in reply to the third American protest against the Man- chukuan oil monopoly. Pacific Alaska Airways plane r,o|h°"°1' | would be returned before Sunday, Fairbanks, made an interesting re- | The engagement of Miss Hamil- |y, gi0ating the demands for a ran- port of his trip. iton and Fred Levy, radio station oo have been met. “The thrill of the trip, coupled OWner, was recently announced. A| e bhoy, a mute since birth, with the warm and hearty welcome 'dispute between the two is believed pg)i0veq to be the victim of tended us at Fairbanks, made the ' have arisen and the girl became yqpon, Jjourney one which 1 will be'a long | Morose. Neighbors, boy scouts, guardsmen time in forgetting,’ Mr. Shalluck‘ said. } i combing the\cn,y with the police for siness manager of| BASEBALL MAGNATE Key Rowan, bu the boy. the Navy News of Szn Diego, Cal.| TO HUNT BROWN BEAR | The child's mother, who collapsed was introduced and spoke of Lhe: lN “-“Q VlClNlTY twice, apparently has renewed hope > coming visit of a portion of the her son will be returned alive. Pacific Fleet and the large number | - , of persons whom that visit would| Tom Yawkey, owner of the Bos- WILFRED NEILLY ON WAY attract. |ton Red 8ox, American League TO NOME FROM TRIP SOUTH Drive Result Told ibaseball “team, with a party of Wilfred Neilly, son of B. W Secretary Curtis Shattuck’s read- friends will arrive in Juneau the Nejlly, Deputy U. S. Marshal at ing of the Executive Board report latter part of April aboard one of Fortuna Ledge, passed through Ju- was interesting in the fact that Campbell Church Jr’'s charter neau this week on his way to his 174 memberships in the Chamber |yachts to spend several weeks inihome in Nome after a visit of had either been taken or pledged. Southeast Alaska on a bear hunt. |some time in the States. Mr. Neilly { His report, prepared in conjunction! Ed Jahnke, well kncwn gulde is a nephew of Thomas Gaffney, {with W. &, Pullen, membership and proprietor of the Auk Bay United States Marshal at Nome. | committee chairman, showed that Inn, has been engaged to arrange $2470 either had been pledged or the hunt for the Yawkey party. collected. i - B Letters from both Seattle and Tacoma Chambers of Commerce moving to their summer home al | were read. The Seattle letter told G. W. Samples, deputy United|Lena Cove on the Eagle Rn";r of the annual 15-day journey of States Marshal at Tenakee, is re- | Highway and E. H. Boyer and hi | Seattle business men Alaska. turning to that city on the Kenai. family will occupy the White resi- ” — — He cpent a fow days here after lence in Juncau during the sum- b}xngipg & prisoner to Juneau. {mer menths, [ is a | e - - MR. AND MRS. ALBERT WHITE MOVE TO HIGHWAY RESIDENCE SAMPLES RETURNS Mr. and Mrs, Albert White are o \Wolianued v Page Eight) v 4 and the American Legion have been | PRICE TEN CENTS! THREE POWERS "IN CONFERENGE OVER GERMANY European Destiny May Rest! on Outcome of Stresa Deliberationis |BERLIN DEMANDING ARMS EQUALITY Great Britain, France, Italy Taking Part in Secret * Discussions’ e STRESA, Haly, April 11.— Premiers of three European nations, Great Britain, Fran and Italy, went into seclusion hcre today to discuss Eurs ape’s peace problem while the | rest of the world looked om with varying emotions. Nzt sinec the Paris Pe: Conference has there been such a meeting between the heads of three governments. Advices received here from Jerlin state the German ofs ficials there are maintainin ironic pessimism and express-. ed the view that the next move regarding Germany's) rcarmament is up to the con- ference. . Germany is demanding equality without any String attached, the German spokes- man is reported as saying, and unless equality is grants ed “we cannot discuss furthe er conferences.” & ; The first concrete probl taken up at the conference here today was France’s ap-| peal to the League of Nations against Germany's repudias’ tion of the military clauses of the Versailles treaty as en= dangering Europe’s peace. ¢ The Premiérs of the thre nations meeting here are at- tended by other high officia of their countries. | FRANCE'S DEMANDS STRESA, April 11.—An authori~ tative source, late this afternoom, sald France has asked Italy M Great Britain to support her im defending the sanctity of the| treaties against Hitler’s repudiation, at the forthcoming League of Na~ | tions' Council at Geneva. - . Although Premiers = MacDonald, | Flandin and Mussolini conferred tive and one-half hours, talk of the general security pact, subordi- nate military agreement, mutual] assistance and reinforcement Of | the League's covenant was shelved | until after discussion of the mems orandum which France intends 0 file with the League. k. It was reported the delegates are hopeful an agreement will be reached on the general pact fol= lowing what authoritative qui 't called a change {n Ifalian opinion away from opposition to En policy. A SR ATS A SRR PATROLS SENT | OUT IN MEXIC incipal Cities Are Guard ed in View of Threat- ened Trouble MEXICO, April 11.—The Genera Federation of Workers and ants, which claims more than ,members, has voted to call a | tionwide general strike. Reinforced patrols have |poted in the principal cities ‘M:xico to prevent disorders. i Fresident Cardenas asserted Government (has already 1:,ympamy in helping the (classes to attain their “just ¥ Ivut warned the present atfity |~aling a gencra] strike is er display of appreci l he Government's n !Pr |