The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 24, 1935, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLV., NO. 6944. 'ARMY AIRB EMPIRE R APRIL 24, 1935. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEDE WORK RELIEF | Navy Planes Coming PROGRAMNOW TAKING FORM President Appoints New| York Attorney to Pass ‘on All Projects FOUR BILLION DOLLAR | FUND WILL BE SPENT| Allotment Board Will Be Set Up to Segregate Funds for Work WASHINGTON, April 24.—Setting | up thachirery through which he| will feed all plans for creating jobs| out of the Four Billion Dollar Re-| lief Fund, President Roosevelt has moved a step nearer to the big spending stage of his program. The job of passing on all plans has been delegated to Frank C.| Walker, New York lawyer, furly years a close friend of the Presi-| dent. | ‘Walker will return to the post he} formerly held as head of the Na-| tional Emergency Council. | An allotment board will be set up within a few days to segregate funds for the projects to be ap- proved. It is not known definitely when the relief work will actually| begin. | Pig flying ship:, similar {5 ¢ summer. craft basc force. noca from Sen Diego. or five days before proceeding AGENCIES ARE NAMED ‘WASHINGTON, April 24—Presi- dent Roosevelt has. assigned the vast scope of the work relief pro- Jects 10 move- than 60 existing gov- t agencles and also organ-| INKEY POSITION ing grade crossing elimination; as- sistance to clerical and professional workers, loans or grants to political fubdivisions, rura: rehabilitation in drought stricken areas, housing CCC, eanitation, soil erosion pre- vention and reforestation. ' —————— espondence)—The National als Include Alaska, Hawaii WASHINGTON, April 13, — (Spe- | |to be held this summer. The Alas- i ka dirplay occupies the key position sion Indicated in Fed- Administrative Assistant to the eralReserve Report |Board, explained the reaton for |is turning more. to Alaska than slope as well as the country gen- i s crally is being gradually laid | 20V other possession of the Na- banks to near record levels. E This week's report of the Fed- BOCIAL SECURITY week, taking the total to the high- | Alaska and the Territory of Hawaii. est figure since May, 1931, wheni | total arcund $4,125,000,000. | mittee for the annual breakfast of —— .- of the Congressional Club, to be at the entrance of the section de- b gy | this choice position: “We put it through accumulation of liqu)d"’mn' Mr. Dickens resided in Cor- eral Reserve banks show the 33| The Social Security Bill to pro- the record was set. It is just $6,- MRS. DIMOND HONORED | | BLACKMAILERS | served at the Mayflower Hotel in honor of Mrs. Roosevelt, April 29. WANT A COPY? The Delegate still has the Agricultural several Year- to A laska heee above will partic:pate in ae cxtensive mencuvers of the United States Flect in the Pacific this The top plane is the patrol flagship which will bear the two-starred flag of Rear Admiral Johnson, commander of the air- The lcwer plane is one cf the twelve ships bound for Alaska. The twelve arrived at Sand Pcint, near Seattle, yesterday after- They will remain at Sand Point for four 0 the next destination. Members of the crews said they have not been informed where the fleet will go next on the northern cruise. / “Proseeution Rests” |Social Security Bill Propos- ; cf Harrison's nesgotiable bonds bonus 1 bonds to the veterans in place of - their i | Homer S. Cummings, attorney-gen- eral of U. S., rests at Pinehurst, N. C., untroubled by Washington rumors he’ll resign to be replaced by Frank Murp! resent ernor-general oi’ ’Pgilippings. . 35,000 JOIN UNION; STRIKE TALK TABOOED Maritime Federaticn .of Pa- cific Is Organized in Seattle ROV | A-) OPERATING | Increase 05%500 Over February Revealed in Monthly Report Operating profit of the Alaska | March reached $199,500, an increase ' of $40.500 over the previous month, according to the monthly report of L. H. Metzgar, General Superin- tendent. The February figure $1598,000. The report follows: Tons mined and trammed to mill—373.710. Opcrating . Revenue: | Gold at $35.00 per i ton $452,000 Lead and silver, less marketing costs 1,500 40 - —_—— Total $453,500 121.35 Operating o Expenditures: Mining and tram- ming Milling Capital expendi- stures at Juneau, labor and sup- plies All other Juneau operating costs $127,500 78,500 36,000 12,000 tal $254,000 | | | | | { | | | | | i | { To! Cperating profit .$199,500 PREDIGTS EARLY 53.38 | SENATE ACTION| ONBIGMEASURES Jam on Social Security, NRA and Bonus About Broken, Says Harrison WASHINGTON, April 24.—Chair- man Harrison predicted tcday the early breaking up of the jam in his S2nate Finance Committee which has teen holding up the sccial security legislation, NRA measure and the bonus. The trend seems to be, in favor bill in preference to either "the Patman or Vinson proposals. Harrison’s bonus measure would advance the maturity date of the service certificate from 1945 to 1938 and would provide for issuing certificates, These bonds would be readily negotiable. Those keeping their certificates would be paid compounded interest. KIDNAPED, HELD FOR RANSOM BY ' CHINA BANDITS ‘T,wo British Missionaries { Face Death Unless Money and Guns Delivered | LONDON, April 24—The China Inland Mission has been informed that two British missionaries, Ru- dolph Boschardt and A. Hayman, have been kidnaped by Chinese bandits and face death on May 9 unless demands for their ransom| - | | \ Former M1d west Under- Juneau Gold Mining Company. for' | The Pan-American clipper ship completed the fiist aerial roundtrip between olulu yesierday afternocn at 2:58 o’clock, making the fiight tc Alameda from the Hawaiian Islands metropolis in just one minute less than 21 hours. Nc effcrt was made tc break the speed reccrd as Headwinds imp:ded the proached the Alameda base from 'the hills south o7 San Franciceo instead of through the Golden Gate. shown heading for Henclulu on the flight 4nd pascing over the east bay section of the San Francisce-Oakland bay bridge, revealing some cf the steel viaduct. A trans-bay ferry boat is shown belcw the mid-Pacific bound aerial ship, Capt. Edwin L. Musick was in command of the flight. The clipper carried a crew of six men. the trip was devoted to aerial exploration. In the picture above, the 19-ton flying boat i (Enlisting in IS BETRAYED “-/' _ BY HIS SON The War Department officials announced {cday that enlist- | ment of 31,000 men will begin July 1. This is a drive to double the actua)l fighting strength of the United States Army. | { | world Character Arrest- | ed in Portland, Ore. | PORTLAND, Oregon, April 24— Rocco J. Degrasse, aged 49 years, onetimé big shot in the Midwest underworld circles, has been jailed after his four-year-old son Julian directed the police to an apartment in which he was sleeping. Degrasse is wanted in’connection with a mail robbery in Chicago involving almost half a million dol- | lars. The robbery occurred in De- cember, 1932, —————— P. 0. SUB-STATION SEARCH ON SEATTLE, April 24—About 25 friends of Hugh Andrews, Peter Ferry and Alvin Erickson are re- ported to have left aboard a patrol boat to search the shores of Whid- by Island for the youths. They rented a motor boat for a cruise ‘and the boat has been found wrecked on the island ——— MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ANDED FOR ALASKA PRICE TEN CENTS Ship Returns to Alameda from Vfibnolulit%HflUSE —A_I]WSH] T0 ACT QUIEKLY ON LEGISLATION Military Affairs Committee Gives Formal Notice to Members |OVER NINE MILLION FOR DEFENSE, NORTH {Important Chain Is Recom- mended — Other Amounts ! WASHINGTON, April —The House has been advis ed formally by its Military Affairs Committec to speed enactment of legislation to sct up a chain of strategic {Army air bases because |ccears canm no longer serve 28 berriers to foreign attacks. Bases under consideration linclude onc in Aloska. Y | Tentative amounts fixed the preposed mew bascs and }invlud(d Alaska for $9,629,- 11100. Pacific Nerthwest $7.- {141,000 and the Rocky Moun- [tain area at $6,000,000. - CHANGES MADE | N TERRITORY | LIQUOR RULES {Age Limit Changed to 18 for Those Permitied in Liquor Dispensaries Alameda and Hon- return trip. The clipper ap- Two changes in the liquor regu- lations were announced today by the Board of Liquor Control. One |eots the age limit as 18 instead of {21 for persons who may go into |liquor dispensary but sales must as before not be made to anyone un- der 21 years of age. The change will permit young people over 18 to go into pool halls, candy stores or such places conducted in con- junction with liquor dispensaries but they can not buy liquor’ uniless. they are 21. n “We feel that young fellows of 18 should be allowed to play pool if they want to,” said Frank A. Boyle, Secretary of the Board, ‘‘but we ask the full co-operation of persons operating these places to see that no liquor is sold to them.” In making the change it was pointed out that there was virtually no places for boys to go for amuse- ment if they were barred from re- creation parlors. The second change in the regu- inaugural UNEMPLOYED "IN VANCOUVER PULL OFF RiOT Store Windows, Mirrors, Showcases Smashed— 16 Under Arrest VANCOUVER, B. C., April 24, — Unemployed rioted yesterday at |the Hudson's Bay Company’s store and broke showcases, smashed mir-|)ations prohibits the granting of a |rors and plate glass windows €aus-| wnolesale or retall license to, com- ing a damage estimated by the|mon carriers in the Territory. The company officials to run into the | new ruling is aimed particularly at thousands of dollars. |boats who take aboard cargoes of Sixteen were arrested during yes- |liquor in the states and make terday’s riot. It is estimated that|Alaska ports, peddling from the 2,000 were in the parade but only|ships, often underseling local a few hundred took part in the|wholesalers. The board felt: it was brawl at the store. |unfair competition. . Boat. licenses The unemployed who left their for the dispensing of liquor aboard labor camps recently as a protest the $hip, however, will: cortinue to PROPOSALS ASKED! Albert Wile, Postmaster, an nounces that proposals will be re- ceived up to April 27, next Satur- DISHES RATTLE; against camp conditions, have been staging what they termed ‘nuisance| parades.” The men have marched! through the streets stopping in{ front of stores and drawing aiten- | tion to their condition. Formerly be grantéd. - e ee - GREAT BRITAIN Eoples, 9t SEATTLE, April 24 — Having are met. day, for a Post Office sub-station' { lcial Co Is HEFLEGTED IN | Rescurces Board has completed the | diagramatical plan of their ex- BANK RESERVES‘NM: for the San Diego Exposition 5 | X i voted to Territories and Island Pos- Foundation of Vast Expan | sessions of the United States. | And as George Clarke Dickens, FSAS‘ LAPR..‘;NCXSCOL Ap;:llfl ?‘;"there because we had to.” Which is b::l:z:sml:hrz;:hz:: et‘;\‘; cmmcloertmnly logie, for public attention Aok dova and Seward for some time, and gmfl;hzl: :::’;; v?:::s ag::imgglwas formerly with the Alaska Rail- the coast funds are piling up inimfld' bt weekly reporting members had to-|Vide for Federal assistance to states tal deposits of $1,833,000,000 on!in providing for old-age benefits, April 17, a gain of $10,000,000 in a|as now before Congress, includes 000,000 higher on basis of this| Mrs. Anthony J. Dimond, wife of report and indications are aggre-‘me Delegate, has been appointed gate funds in Pacific slope banks a member of the Hospitality Com- ! books of 1933 and 1934, and will be — ;glad to send copies to anyone in- 3 | terested. Prominent Women Intend-|* ed Victims in Photo- graph Racket ANNUAL REPORT DELAYED The Annual Report on the Min- ;er.li Industry in Alaska will not be | available for some time, but an ad- NEW TORK. Aol 2. — Three, vance statement has been prepared men have been arrested after de-|py the Geological Survey and may tectives sald two admitted attempts pe ghiained from Delegate Dimond. to blackmail prominent women by | the use of photographs faked to BOND ISS show their intended vietims in| rne senate Committee on Terri- ¢ompromising positions. }tories held hearings Mcnday on the The women mentioned as intend-| pijls to authorize the cities of ed victiths were Mrs. Doris Duke Ketchikan, Seward, Petersburg, Val- Cromwell, Mys. George Upham Har-| ge; and Nome to issue bonds for tis and Fay Webb, the latter es- the construction of certain muni- tranged wie of Rudy Vallee. cipal public works. The Ketchikan The men are held on charges of | and Seward Bills have passed the attempted blackmail of $5,000 from | Mrs, Harris, (Continued nn’gxzis'evw adopted a constitution binding eight unions and 35,000 workers into The Maritime Federation of the Pacific, |the convention met today to elect officers. The convention also crushed an attempt to put organized labor into | national politics, | Officials of the convention said ithe workers were just organizing and were not talking strike. - HULZ ON NORAH Traveling from Skagway to Van- couver, B. C., as a passenger on the Princess Norah is Louis Schulz of Atlin, B. C.« He is known in the | British Columbia city as a promi- inent hotel aid mining man. He is on a business trip and plans to (return north s00m, The demands are for a certain sum of money and also anti-air- craft guns. Alaskato BieAS-u_r;E&od for ' Tin Deposits; Territory Has | | | | | | ; i 1 i ; ; in Juneau. Further particulars | LSES PEOPLE SCARED master. | PROVINCETOWN, Mass, April 24 ,—An earthquake rocked this town on the tip of Cape Cod last night. Dishes rattled and the inhabitants were terrified. No damage has been reported however. |- S e fficial Report on Formosa Earthquake Announced by Japan ) Q 2o Promising Area, Report Says o WASHINGTON, April 24, — Because the United States is dependent upon imports for tin, the House Fereign Affairs Com- mittee has recommended a broad plan designed to stimulate preduction of that metal. The e¢camittee has recom- mended a survey with an ap- propriation of $175,000 yearly for three years. The committee suggests that studies be directed primarily at reports of tin deposits in the States and Alaska. Alaska- is among the areas where occurrences of the metal ! “seem to be the most promis- ‘.ing” the committee reports, TOKYO, April 24—An official re- port from the Formosa earthquake ,zone said the dead numbers 3,185, seriously injured 9200 and slightly injured between 14,000 and 15,000 Fifteen thousand houses were de- stroyed and 22,000 damaged the parades have been orderly. > “Werk or Pay” Edict On Poland’s Program 'NOW PLANNING MORE DEFENSES 1 i WARSAW, April 24—Poland 15/ Prime Ministers of All compelling citizens who refuse Jubs; “ e on public works to pay an equiva- Dominions to Meet British Cabinet lent in cash. | Parliament approved a bill per-| 24 A "high as official disclosed A today mitting rural and city communi- s that Prime Ministers of all Domin= ties to force residents to help build roals, construct: schools, plang forests, improve the so ad 50 on, [ions will hold an important meet~ all of which Has long been neglect- ing with the British Cabinet with- ed. in the next few weeks. Community will | 'The conference is said, will year szms'be for the purpose &f discussing ill have to devote to these pro-|tightening @f the Empi¥e's defenses many days e {in "all parts of the globe! LONDON, April councils decide 'Jects,