Gold Bloc
Finally Yields
BOSS THEIR FIGHT FOR EXCLU
SION. OF MONETARY* Qt'ES*5
TI0N& IN CONFERENCE.
LONDON—The European gold bloc
• tank, theirs fight- for the-exclusion ' of
monetary questions from tbs. reno
J vatad agenda of!, the world economic
conference when the subcommittee
on (immediate-, measures for financial
reconstruction. voted to continue the
discussion .of monetary, problems. .The
piob'eni finally will be threshed out
tty the steering committee.
TIh*»French!: feared Britain was; on
thfe verse of. hrealsing; openly witli'
the gold bloc and casting its lot with,
the American inflationary program*
The British deaorted': the- French. yes
• tterdhys on this question of adjourn
ment.
The Freacft’. today found the Eng
lish pound falling on- thte- Paris ex
change for-the ffifsttime immonths..
Deputy U. St Marshal Stanley J.
Nichols left, yesterday for; Fairbanks,
having in chargeGtorgr W. Ktisoeq.
a., somewhat recent arrival at Flat,,
who recently became mentally de
ranged.
The steamer Tana* Captain- Frank
Murray,, is scheduled to leave Mc
CratH for Bethel on its second trip*
about July 25.
Alaska Will
Get Millions
|
ALLOTMENTS ARE MADE FOR
| R AiLW AY, ROADS OTHER
[ PROJECTS. ..
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WASHINGTON, D. C.—AJaska e,i
j terprLses and projects, including the
A laska Railroad, high ways.-,in general,
Las well as the Territory’s part of the
[ International highway in purticulir;:
, river, harbor and flood control im
provements; fisheries undertakings
and Indiana establishments, are pro
vided,for in the ;■ bfllion.id611ar. public
works program that was approved
that was approved late yesterday, by
| members otf the GAbinet and.’ admist
istrators of the Government’s various,
recovery‘departments,, and that only '
Await now. thee ratification of Presi
dent Roosevelt to be made effertive..
Items Pertaining to> Alaska*.
Details haw been made public of
items covering allocations aggregat
ing $64,000,000,
Among the Alaska items are;
Alaska Railroad, reconditioning the
entire system, $210,000,
Alaska* Road Commission, $1,000*
000 for highway construction. :
International Highway Commis
sion, $1,500,000 for work on northern
end of International Highway to the:
boundary between Alaska, and Yukon.
Territory. '
Air fields, $96,000.
THE MUKLUK TRAIL
By E. L. Bartlett
* WASHINGTON, June 24.—With
the: special session of the Seventy*
third Gbngres sadjoumed, it will be
well to see what bills introduced by
Delegate Dimend are now before the
national lawmakers
H. S. 6013. is a measure which,
weald permit Alaska Railroad, em
ployees at Anchorage- to purchase
government houses which heretofore
tbey have only been able to rent. The'
Department of the Interior approves
this legislation.
H. R. 5745 would transfer title in
tha land occupied hy the Pioneers.’
> Home at Sitka from the Federal to '
the Territorial government.
H. R. 5704 would extend the act 1
providing for compensation Tor in
juries suffered by United Stater em
ployees to Frank A.. Boyle
injured while United States
sioner at Juneau.
H. R. 5253 m a measure
. to increase the pension of James H. *
Anderson to |75 per month. Long a 1
member of the United States Signal 1
Corps in Alaska and also a Senator 1
from the Second division. Hr. Andes* 1
son has been hospitalized in the 1
States for many months past..
H. R. 5665 provides for prevention *
and control of floods in the Salmon
river at Hyder.
H. R. 5209 la drawn, to provide for 1
extension of the legislative power of !
the Territorial Legislature to include 1
game laws and laws relating to fur- I
bearing animals. I
H. R. 5205) is the companion meas- *
to H. R. 5209. It provides for trans- *
tarring the contest, of ..Alaska fisher- 1
iea, with the exception al fur seal and 1
aea otter fisheriesj^froin^ the Depart- 1
ment of Commence, to .the Territory .
Ha was l
commis* t1
h
designedI
H. E. 4975 authorizes the entry of
fur-bearing homesteads on the public
lands of Alaska. This bill would
make it possible for any person who
is entitled to enter a homestead, wbo
lias held a lease for fur farming and
who has; resided on the land as.lessee
for two years or more, to acquire pat
snt for up to 160 acres of land.
H. R. 4808 would grant citizenship
lo the Metlakatla Indians.
H.R. 3448 is the bill for the repeal
>f the Alaska bone dry law.
H. R. 3843 would repeal the act
modifying the minin glaws insofar as.
heir application to Alaska is con*
:emed and would place in full, effect
tnd force the general mining laws of
he United States.
H. R. 3824 is a bill entitled “To
tmend Section 6 of the Act of Con*
;res8 entitled ‘An Act for the pro*
ection of the fisheries of Alaska, ^and
or other purposes,’ approved^June C,
.924.” It provides that no boot* trap
ir other property used in fishing shall
>e summarily seized and heltkfor fbr
eiture for alleged violations of the
ishing laws until and unless the per
on charged with the violation, shall
tave been convicted.
There are also bilk forrthd relief
>f Erik Nylon and Joe Resort.
Since adjournment kf Congrpss the
)elegate has been wozking^at top
peed to draw up a program of tmhlic
forks for Alaska. Thd^prpgram -was
resented several dajrspsiasai to -.CoL
>. H. Sawyer, tempofary ydaunislra
or of public works 4 undecv Ike - na»
ioaal recovery aet, {andvto* (depart*
lental officials. .1. qaild foi^the im
lediate expenditure of several kit
on dollars for roads, rivers mod karw
jContineed on Page 8) V
National Park Service, $1,250,000
for alL parks.
Forest,, parks and Indian, reserva
tions roads, $516,000;.
Burea uof Fisheries, $150,000 for
reconditioning, repairing hatcheries,
buildings and vessels;
- Burea uof Indian Affairs, more
than $2,500,000 for schools, hospitals
and equipment.
Otther Allotments,
Allotments for rivers, harbors andi
If bod control improvements have not
yet been made public. Mohst of the
bood control fund is allocated for the
Lower Rio; Grande, and it is depend
ent on similar expenditure byvMexicoi
Generally speaking, from the bill
ion-dollar allocations for the nation,
forest highways- will receive $15,000,
000; forest roads, trails-and bridges,
$10,000,000; national park roads, $16,.
000,000; Indian reservation roads,
$4,000,000, and public domain' roads
$5,000,000.
Every State and Territeryvaad the
various island possessions are includ
ed in. the present allocations;.
CHINESE RENEW HOSTILI
TIES. >IN MANCHCH'L' O
SHANGHAI.—General Fung Yu
Hsiang, who engage din the. campaign
to recover Jehol, the lost province of.
China that Japan organized into the
puppet state kingdom of. Manchuku*
has again become active, and in a_
clash i. with.i Manchukuaa . boundary
guards defeated them and., occupied,
'the town .that had been, held .by./them.
This defeat of Manchukhans is ex
pected i to revive hostilities sHrtweesr
Chinese and Japanese, which recently
were ended by the signing of .a truce
An engagement, is adeemed; certain, im
the near future.
ECONOM1 COQMF ESSENCE TO
TAKE J?BE®S3 «N>. JULY 27
LONDON.—Recess.will hie taken by
the World Economic Conference on
July STL the steering committee of the
conclave announced today. The date
of the resumption of sessions has not
yet tnas determined,. but: the-time he
expected to be fixed next week.
During the racesa the; tariff truce,
which forbids tbfe raising, of tariffs
during th eliffc -of, the. conference;, will
-.remain in -force.
All eonunifetaes were, notified today
to> have their reports ready for* sub
mission next Tuesday;
The water imTototha river' at this
time is, the, lowest, ever, recalled by
oldtimers, sad it 16oka as though it
wifltSker a downpour of many days
befmw.it will reach a point where
►freight in any worthwhile quantity
can. he moved' up river. Planes have
-been, utilized to bring up many short
ages from McGrath: Gil and other
supplies, are needed for the dredges
now operating at. Little and Ganes
creek; the supply on hand being very
limited.
Visiting Ophir and Little creek on
Sunday, with Joe Oates, were Mr. and
Mbs. Warren Alford, Mrs. Joe Oates,
Mian Bezrae Boyd; Jean Alford, Chris
Petersen, Frank Gusftey, William
T,phwia«ti>
Mias, Helen Rieck, after- a visit at
Ophiriof two at three days, returned
to ha home here yesterday..
CharBw Baker, Ganes creek, was a
ysntaoday town visitor, coming over
with E. W. Gar Ison.
TUnsteamer W. H. Tupper issehad
■U to teave Seattle on August 5 on
Hw ascend trig to BetheL
Items of Importance
In Recent News Events
WASHINGTON.—At an end is the
lull that fell over elforts to put into,
effect President Roosevelt’s recovery
program.
From the middle of next week there
will be an unending succession of
hearings for expanding employment,
increasing wages and lessening hours!,
of work, in industries large and small.
Two reasons virtually guarantee
this continuity of hearings.
In the first place industrial leaders
are getting down to brass tacks on
the formulation of voluntary agree
ments and the fixing of terms as the
foundations of proposed codes which:
have been wanted by the President
during the three weeks or so that i
have elapsed since the enactment of!
the industrial control law. Many bus
inessmen,. who have been hesitant, are
convinced, that the thing to do is to i
go ahead willingly with those busi- j
nessmen. who have had skull-cracking .
problems but who nevertheless have j
shown, a disposition to cooperate with >
the Government in its efforts to re
store prosperity.
In the second place Hugh S. John
son,, industrial recovery adminjstra-:
tor, realinzing how essential is spee^l1
if workers’ purchasing power is to be!
ingneaaedi before winter, decided to j
open the throttle with respect to the j
hearings on proposed codes. He is-1
sued orders today for hearings to be- j
gin immediately. If the terms of;
proposed codes are unacceptable to |
the government, he will set dates for:
thing suitable will be worked out atj
the hearings.
Lumber, shipbuilding and electrical !
manufacturing codes have already j
been submitted to the government. A
steel code is epected shortly. Codes
for coal, building contractors and.
many other industries pre almost'
ready. The cotton and textile code!
has been adopted and will go into ef-j
feet Monday.
WASHINGTON—The nation’s mer
chandisers were told last night by
Hugh S. Johnson, director of the na
tional recovery administration, that
“any wildcat price lifting at thisatime
is not to be tolerated.”
In a. vigorous appeal to the public
to support the industrial control leg
islation, the administrator said:
“Our best people should understand
that this is no time to get rich quick.”
Johnson added that the , nation’s
empoyers are wanted to cooperate
more now than at any time since the
war. His address signalised the start
to push and remove obstacles in the
path of the recovery act and qpur
agreements within industrial circles
designed to increase wages and con
suming power.
Commenting on the reputed ten
dency at price hoisting, Johnson de- |
dared:
"This administration simply will
not stand for that, .and we do not ex
pect to have any trouble about it.”
JUNEAU—Governor John W.. Troy
today issued a formal order- permit
ting a Russian plane to land at Nome.
The governor’s order is the result of
advices that Soviet Pilot Levanetsky
will soon bring in .a Russian plane
from Anadir, Siberia, to Nome James
Mattern, American flier, who crashed
Jane 14 near Anadir on his attempted
round-the-world flight.
FISHERS ISLAND, N. Y.—Colonel
M. Robert Guggenheim and five other
persons were forced to leap into Long
Island Sonud yesterday when Gug
genheim’s yacht was swept by flames.
He was badly burned after an explo
sion that followed the overturning of
an oil stove. Guggenheim is a son of
the late copper magnate.
NEW YORK.—J. P. Morgan, head
of the New York banking firm of J.
P. Morgan and Company, sailed from
New York.today for England. While
abroad he; will hunt grouse on his es
tate in Scotland and read two cases
of detective story books that he is
taking with him. Despite the fact
that he looked well, he said he really
needed a rest.
NEW YORK.—The widow of Jack
“Legs” Diamond was found shot to
deat hin her Brooklyn apartment last
night. The medical examiner said
she had been dead for three days. Her
gangster husband was killed in an Al
bany hotel a yea and a half rago.
Mrs. Diamond had lived alone in
her apartment under the name of
Alifce Kenny since last August. Her
name was seldom linked with that of
her husband, aa he was generally seen
in public with l£iki Roberts, a show
girL
' The .police' have been unable to find
any clew to the killer or killers. There
were three coffee cups on the kitchen
ette table, which indicated there were
two others pi-esent at the time of the
killing.
DETROIT.—Herbert Wilkins, De
troit banker, said to the grand jury
which is probing the closing of two
national banks here: “The sole rea
son for closing the banks, in my opin
ion, was to ‘get’ Henry Ford. Wall
Street believed it had a chance of
tying up Ford’s deposits in the banks
so as to deplete his working capital
and make it so that he would have to
deal with them or go broke. Wilkins
said that Ford had $66,000,000 on de
posit in the Detroit banks at the
time.
VATICAN CITY.—A bomb which
exploded in the portico of St. Peter’s
was manufactured in Spain and
brought here- by Demetro Solomon,
who carried a Spanish passport. He
was arrested and charged with plant*
ing th eexplosive, which caused a
panic anjl injured four. Little dam
age wa sdone.
The. Pope recently issued a decree
excommunicating the Spanish gov
ernment because of passage of certain
taxation laws imposed last month
upon Catholic churches, relics and art
treasures,and other., levies which the
Vatican claimed were discriminatory.
It is thought by, some that possibly
this had somethjng to do with the
bombing.
SEATTLE.—Three million dollars
in gold from the Fairbanks district
went through the United States assay
office at Seattle in the fiscal year
ended last June 30, according to a re
port issued yesterday by the office.
More han $7,000,000 in gold and
silver was the total sent by all of
Alaska to the assay office during the
year.
An aggregate ,of 19 1-2 tonjs of gold
md silver bullion, valued at almost
(10,000,000, constituted the entire re
:eipts of -the assay office from every ,'
place, during,; the^fisoal year.