■*’V&
VOL xifl NO 7
TA-KOTNA ALASKA. SATURDAY. MARCH 4 n33
PRICE 25 CENTS
Roosevelt Seated;. 3-Day
Bank Holiday; Issuance
Of Scrip, to Protect Gold
NEW YOKEL*—Bankers anil, aivie
leaders met in Wall Street, the na*
turn’s greatest financial center, to
night,. seeking, some solution to New
York State’s .banking., situation. Gov
ernor Herbert H. Lehman issued a
statement which was interpreted-in.
finnaciai quarters as indicating' one
of two steps would be taken to relieve
the distress caused by. closing of all
the State’s, banks, in. a two-day holi
day, Saturday and Monday, These
were:. (1) Issuannee of scrip,;.and (2)
limited withdrawals permitted after
resumption of banking.
W ASHlNGTON^President < Roose*;
wait tonight proclaimed a national
three-day banking holiday, from Mon
dav tn Thiirsdav mornine.
WASHINGTON.—President, Roose
velt today summoned. Congress into
special session Thursday to enact
emergency legislation to deal with
the national banking crisis;, after a
Sunday, conference held here in al
most a wartime atmosphere..
Announcement of the special ses
sion followed a. hurried meeting of
President Roosevelt with his Cabinet
and Congressional, leaders. At the
Treasury across the street from the
White House, Secretary William H.
Woodin ndiscussed banking measures
with leading New. York and Chicago*
financiers and officials of the incom
ing. and outgoing, administrations.
WASHINGTON. — President-Elect
Roosevelt turned his attention to the
national banking situation today,, in a
series of conferences with congres
sional leaders. The total States in
which forced or. optional restrictions
on withdrawal of bank deposits have
been imposed was reported as 32.
Mr- Roosevelt, can, if ha so desires,
call a. special session of Congress to
11535 Lives
Wiped. Oat
BY EARTHQUAKE,,TIDAL'WAVE
AND FIRE ON ISLAND.OR
HONSHU..
TOKYO--—An earthquake^ followed
hyia. tidal-wave Jtnd fires, took a total,
of-1536 lives on. the northern.coast of
the. island of Honshu, it was an
nounced officially. today. . The. an
nouncement listed 338 injured and 948
missing.
Morioka, capital of the prefecture,
officially Reported 447 dead, with .355.
dead, recovered, 1004 injured and 59a
missing ip ;the prefectures of Iwate,
Miyagi, 4flW*ri end Hokkaido.
ScatterioglsSMualtiei .in other pre
fectures, dpnjilyuby, drowning and. fire
were, erpeqfcs&dp make the total far
hlghqr.
Mare thafcntftwn. thousand homes
were; washafenwagr. A total of four
thousand hafcmMMM reported demol
ished thraugjjgigUttfc-island
The citift&ef'&Qlpfriand Yokohama
were shalwgtrnvwRiltljr;. and great
w««<i«r y repetition of the
,.i. at within a t'6w Keurs. after- be
takes office aa President. He ma*
Vonvene the new Congress next month
to enact emergency, legislation having
to do with the banking situation,-ac
. cording to rumors here...
WASHINGTON. — The temporary
! appointment of Homer S. Cummings,
| of Connecticut, to be. Attorney Gen
eral wrs announced, today by Presi
dent-elect. Roosevelt. Mr. Cummings
I will fill the vacancy, caused by the
I death of Senator Thomas .k. Walsh..
I Mr. Roosevelt asked Mr. Cummings.
| to assume the post of Attorney Gen
eral for a few. weeks before going to
! the Philippines as Governor. General,
a statement said..
WASHINGTON. — Speaker Elect
Henry. T. Rainey, of Illinois today, pre
pared to. use strong-arm methods to
jam President-Elect Roosevelt’s pro
gram through the House in the com
ing special session. Firmly entrench
ed in control of the House, the new.
Speaker, elected late Thursday at a
Democratic caucus, announced that
legislation asked by Mr. Roosevelt
would be put through, quickly, and all
other matters ercluded.
HAVANA, Cuba.—A three-day
banking holiday, effective tomorrow,
was declared, today by President Ge
rardo Machado. The moratorium was
called after the president had. enn
gaged in. lengthy conferences with
bankers, members of the clearing
house and Finance Secretary Qctawio
Averhoff.. The decree was. issued at
the request of bankers whose institu
tions had been subjected to moderate
runs Satuday.
New York, Boston and Canadian
banks have manjl branches here. The
i National City Bank of New. York is
a $100,000,000 institution in Cuba,
with- mare than-' twenty branches on
i-the island.
great earthquake of 1923, swarmed
through, the streets in hysterical ex
citement* Electric lights failed in
Yokohama, but little damage waa re
ported. .
The modern industrial, cities ol
Kobe an d.Jhaka escaped serious dam
age.
One of the hardest-hit towns was
Kamaishi, 300 miles northeast of
Tokyo, in the Iwate prefecture. Mere
than one. thousand of the imflsy bam
boo and paper constructed hawses
were swept away there by the tidal
wave and three thousand wore- de
stroyed by fire that broke o*tLtajaom
plete the destruction, aeconHng,;to 'Po
lice reports. The tidal wMsoako en
gulfed the towns, of Mmanogyway, in
the Miyagi prefecture,., where v 1246
houses were reported, under--water,, _
Serious damage to- ships.' was re
ported. The-, tidal wave swept away
boats at the port df.tMiyak»>,
"scores of fishing boats were, sunk.-at
Fukushima.
HONOLULU.—=-A ft nine-dofi* <i tidal
wave sweeping were the \ constat at
Kona, in HawaxUqvas repontad^bete
today by the wear hah hiitoni*: l^whalh
believed it was a watkwafdfc»nf.u the
wave accompasjoga^tthe i Tnjnyiesn
earthquake* .
Charlie Goebel was’ttJnont t> y enter -
day. arrivals ier a briafiJMQfMriajfe.
ANTON J. CERMAK, VICTIM
OF ASSASSIN ATI AlIASI, *
FINALLY TAKEN BY.DKA.TOk
MIAMI,, H«l—A a Urn. JQ.. fi’srmsh.
mayor «f Chicago,* who • mi* stwciea
here on February 15 whan Guises®*
Z am i^ara fired a volley of, adsvta> I4t
Pimideot-ebet Roosevelt* dip<L,*L.thn
Miami hospital at 6:57 this muraing
Imnwiiatt death waa due U> a.oomqlii
cation uf causes, but principally due;
to the fact that gangrene had set. its
in the wounded parts.'
Several members , of. bid fbnyhy
were at the bedside, when the. end
The body df .the .late:msjraa is* ex
pected to arrive at-Chicago. on Wtdr
.lesdny forenoon.
Mrs. Gill, another member of. the
party who aaa injured. at tfcw same
time, is also in the hospital, sufferipg
with, abdominal; inivnea reaeiVedi at
the same time. Her case is declsued
most serious.
Zamgara. who.recently was. sen
tenced to 80 years in prison,,will now
be confronted with an indictment* of.
murder, the penalty o fwhich will- he
; death*.
Japanese In
Control* JehoL
RGUHON8 SAID NOP SEVERER,
THOUGH AMBASSADORS BOTH
COUNTRIES ON WAY HOME.
T90CL—Akirariynshi. Japanese
minister to China, will be ordered
home, it was reliably reported today.
Observ.es. noting that Ghieang Tho
Pin. Chinese aniniste to Japan, waa
likewise leaving for his own country,
wene and completely reassured by
'government statements that both di
plomats were merely being summoned
to make important repeats.
Diplomatic relations between the
countries have not been severed,
spokesmen said.
The Japanese are in complete con
trol of all important Jehol provinces.
Cities devoted themselves today to
consolidating their positions against
possible by Chinese irreg
ulars- —
SHANGHAI. — General tenseness
was evident today as the conviction
grew that Japanese forces invading
Jehol gwiMe. of Manchuria would
not slop at.the Great Wall, but would
push koto. China proper, endangering
.the Peiping and Tientsin nareas. It
was rumored here that the Chinese
nationalist government was consider
ing moving its capital from Nanking
:to. Chanaha, establishing a strong de
fease Mae —the Yangtsze river.
.Unseat te» was further heightened
by r*j*art» Chat Japanese warships
were searching Chinese vessels off the
mouth pf the Yangtsze. Chinese res
idents faersd possible attacks on
Shanghai aod Nanking should Japan
ese. wmoBtfqps aacree up the river when
troops ana the Great Wall.
mBML—Chinese troops, strugn
giianU*>3*sek tie Kupeikow and Hisi
fengfraao j—, ssn bombarded to-,
dayjSbjr-. Tnpannc.with losses exceed
ing, imp fhto— nil, dispatches reaching
:Pespsn«: said More than one tha
wmVued. wounded Jrmn mm**.
hndsakSM being directed at di
iw tlin.f>AM^ jkcmo^111 " j
Items of Importance
In Recent News Events
SAN /FRANCISCO. — Legislation ]
lgu being drafted Here and in Sacra- j
„nT*-T today to speed the reopening
si.the State’s banks, closed for three'
day* by proclamation of Governor
Jamas - Rolph, Jr. The Governor’s!
edict, issued at 10:40 Wednesday af
tej secret conferennnces at the State |
capital, ordered a legal holiday for;
today .-Friday and Saturday to protect |
deposits** and preserve the public
welfare.
HONOLULU.—Immediate appoint-,
meal of a Governor for Hawaii after
President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt
o®ce was prged by the Ter
ritorial legislature today as members
recess.
« ——- ■■—
WASHINGTON.—The House today
igasre final approval to the conference
report on ihe $3604)00,000 Navy De
partment-^PPropriatiop, kill and sent
tRa. xaaasura.-to President Hopver for
j signature.
ME A MI r—JVfavn Anton J. Cermak
•'of Chicago was given a, second blood
{transfusion today, physicians hoping
would enable him toinjaiptain the
[slight .gain he has made in the last 37
hours. The pint of hloo£ given him
;today was from, an unnamed donor.
He was suffering from a peritoneal
| condition, a morning bulletin said, but
! peritonitis had not developed.
! PHOENIX, Am>—Five hundred
farmers, incensed over the failure of
the LegisJatue to grant, them aid, to
day invaded the.Stat*.Capitol, de
manding, passage of * tvjo-ye*r mort
gage relief measure.-yiArmed deputy
sheriffs and police officers, rushed to
the scene after frantic, appeal* by
State officials for help, subdued the
more boisterous farmers.
WATERTOWN* N, Y<—A . letter
threatening to kill all presidents, gov
ernors, millionaires^ ami policemen,
the handwriting identical with that
on-a bomb pac^age-juailed to Presi
dent-elect Roosevelt„-has - been re
ceived by Watertown, police, it was
revealed today. . It is believed to be
the work of a crank.
BELFAST, Ireland^—Thirty per
sons were injured J^>day in the delib
erate wrecking of .a Belfast-London
derry train near. Qrpagh. It was dis
covered that thetjcajl. joints had boen
Umpered with. .^.Jhe entire heavily
loaded tram, except the enginf, left
the track.
WASHINGTON—Emergency relief
loans" were grafted today by the Re
construction Finance Corporation for
the relief of six .States. They includ
ed California^. $4,196,854, for use in
12 counties, during March and April.
. -
WASHINGTON—The Veterans ad-'
ministration announced today it had.
made arrangements for Federal Re
serve .banka, juid their branches to
cash jGovermnennt checks received by
veterans, in* eases where local bank
£acilt£sec3. 4UM not available.
LOS ANGELES.—Charles Dodge,,
president of the Beverly Hills!
| ksstl of the Security First National
Xaafcy .wasArrested today on a Fed-;
«jx|LjpuHejd |ory indictment charging |
Aim w'.th misapplication of |69,000 of
JAa.AmkA finds. He was jailed when
harwas enable to fdrnish fgfcflpp bail.
WASHINGTON—President Hoover
today signed the appropriation bill
for the Agricultural Department to
provide funnds for the Depatment
during the fiscal ye«>- ending June 30,
1934.
MACKINAW CITY, Mich.—Albert
Brown, a farmer, was knocked cold
while cleaning the windows of his
shop today. He was struck bl a fall
ing icicle, which rendered hi muncon
scious. %
MIAMI.—Mayor Anton J. Cermak
of Chicago felt so much better today
that he asked hi$ doctor for an order
of ham an deggs. He awoke in his
oxygen tent at Jackson Memorial hos
pital after what physicians said was
was the best night since he was shot
last month by Guiseppe Zarnara in
WASHINGTON.—The Senate to
day agreed to take up impeachment
proceedings against Judge Harold
Louderback, of the Northern division
of California, at 2 p. m. on the first
da yof the forthcoming special session
of Congress. The date of the special
session has not beenn fixed, but it is
expected to be in mid-March.
—-uoi if |nupuDai
of a plan to permit a vote on the pro
posed repeal of the 18th amendment
was seen by Senator Herbert W. Sla
ter, of Santa Rosa, today after he had
received a telegram which said twenty,
thousand citizens and voters of So
noma County Grape Growers’ Asso
ciation protest waiting until August
hext year as proposed in the Horn
■blower bill. Senator Slater said he
believed referendum action should be
taken as speedily as possible.
CLIFFIELD, Pa.—Eight men, one
a private detective, were convicted to
day on charges of kidnaping conspir
acy in connection with the abduction
of Garrett Schenck, Hopewell, N. J.,
f}sh peddler, as a suspect in the Lind
bergh kidnaping.
WASHINGTON.—Roosevelt Thurs
day night annohnced the selection of
Henry Morgenthao, Jr., New York, as
chairman of the Farm Board.
BERLIN.—Adolf Hitler’s national
socialist government, aciorded wide
spread pophlar shpport in today’s
today’s eleitions, tonight seized the
government of the free rity of Ham
burg. With indirations that the
Nazis would pol la rerord vote in
spite of the government’s determina
tion to disregard the election result in
the event it proved unfavorable, con
trol of the Hamburg government was
turned over to local police and Hitler
ite storm troopers. Brownshirted
Nazis invaded the Hamburg city hall
after members of the free city gov
ernment had been in conference all
afternoon, Lord Mayor Carl Petersen,
of the constitution party, resigned.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—Sir Mal
colm Campbll, British race car driver,
cracked the world’s auto speed record
wide open in a thrilling dash over a
sandy speedway in two blistering
srun.
He attained a speed of 272.108
miles an itftur over an officially mea
sured .wUe-spurse, exceeding hy 18.140
mil*i^*n.haajr his old record of a _ye*r