Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (Newspaper) - November 16, 1933, Fairbanks, Alaska GOLD Per Ounce Is Priced By The United States Treasury Department Today At FARTHEST NORTH DAILY NEWSPAPER IN TH WORLD VOLUME XXX FAIRBANKS THURSDAY NOVEMBER 16 1933 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRICE TEN CENTS NEW FAVORS GOLD Johnson Says NRA Needs Enforcement CUT POLITICAL PIE MORGENTHAU METHODS OF CORRECTION KEPT QUIET BLUE EAGLE TOR GAINS INFORMATION ON WESTERN AND CON- FERS WITH PRESIDENT Chamber AND All Are SLATE If if I For Miners Continuation in office of all Nov present officials of the Chamber must be taken quickly to secure j Of Commerce endorsement of a more thorough enforcement of I proposal for establishment aid tional Recovery Administration maintenance in the Territory by Codes Gen Hugh S Johnson federal government of an tional Recovery Administrator late j ency to assist miners and yesterday told President with advice and Gen Johnson reported that connection with their problem with the Codes and with i relating to the mineral industry the Blue Eagle employment j and approval of a report on yearly ments is not satisfactory He receipts and expenditures comprised Pears to have clear and definite the matters determined at the ideas on how to correct the meeting last night in the but he declines to make Agency of the Fairbanks public any of his plans Chamber of Commerce I Gen Johnson's opinion no ing the unsatisfactory working out office were submitted at ast night's of the Codes was formed after meeting members present con- a trip through the Mid- eluded to defer the annual until the regular ing of the Chamber which will be subject tu the call of the List Of Officers In the meantime present ers will continue in their positions They Paul J Rickert farmer president Davis manager of Brothers Company vice ident George W manager the Northern Commercial Com- treasurer J G Rivers lawyer secretary John A of druggists Clark of the Red Cross Drug Store Arthur S Brown jeweler Martin Continued on Page 4 ELE SLAIN BY HIS ABDUCTORS PLANES BROOKE HART KILLED FORE DEMAND FOR RANSOM j IS RECEIVED AND j ERS ARE IN JAIL i SAN JOSE Cal Nov GOVERNMENT TO SPEND ON FIRST STATION 500 MILES AT SEA AS MENT WASHINGTON Nov mediately after having been j while fantastic dreams of ocean naped in San Jose last Thursday i air travel by means of man-made Brooke Hart 22 years old son of j islands achieved the basis of a wealthy San Jose merchant was i ity yesterday with the beaten almost to death and by the Department of thrown into San Francisco Bay j merce of plans to build one island near San Mateo according to a immediately and perhaps four confession that is said by ers in the near future in an ney Louis O'Neal of San Jose to j fort to facilitate and speed aero- have been made today by the ab- j nautical crossings of the Atlantic ployment enough money will be allotted to Alaska to give work to 1500 men Harry L Hopkins Civic Works Administrator an- Administrator Hopkins declared that unemployment follows He explained that the in San Jose Thurmond is de- nautics Division pi the ic Works fund was sufficient to clared to have admitted doing the ment of Commerce to construct create or jobs in actual silling while Holmes is i the first island about 500 miles off states and territories and that rne asserted to have acted as an the United States coast as an jobs would be apportioned ha nf Thomas Thurmond and ocean The Public Works Administration Both the kidnapers are in jail has allotted to the Aero- John Holmes to the confession Hart over the head plice According Holmes hit with a brick when he yelled for help Hart was hit again and then was taken to a bridge near Sin Mateo and was thrown into the toay Hie struggled some as he was hurled into the water The homicide Is alleged to have been committed before the receipt last Thursday evening at the Hart residence of a telephone message from the abductors demanding 000 ransom Attorney connection with the case resulted from having been engaged by the Hart family to contact with the abductors Police are dragging San cisco Bay near San Mateo which periment MEN IN ALASKA WILL GET JOBS CIVIC WORKS FUND OF WILL BE ED ON BASIS OF TION Nov expenditure of the Civic Works Ad- ministration fund of re- cently authorized by President Roosevelt for reduction of on the basis of population 011 LUE UA If the island plan proves In addition about jobs ible this initial island will be the first stopping place going east on a air route between the United States and Spain Tlie total cost of the seadrome project if carried to completion ter the feasibility of the first ned island is is mated at is north of San Jose for trace of young Hart's body Attorney O'Neal was authorized to make his statement by the Chief of Police of San Jose after the latter is declared to have en down the confession of the abductors be left open to take care of men on federal projects that will be supervised by the Civic Works administration The arrangement he added is subject to modification Jobs In Washington SPOKANE Wash Nov rections for putting to work meii with the least possible delay were received today from the ic Works Administration at ington D C by the Washington State Belief Director Thirty-eight thousand jobs have teen allotted to Washington State by the Civic Works A and that many men be put to work im- mediately EX-GOVERNOR TO GO TO SENATE TO HEAD TREASURY AND FARLEY TO SUCCEED LEHMAN NEW YORK Nov the meeting yesterday at the 1 House in Washington between for- mer Gov Alfred E Smith of New i York and President Roosevelt the New York Daily News in a righted article today says following shifts in national personnel and the j ing appointments were and their advisability agreed Resignation of Secretary of the Treasury William H Woodin the appointment as his i in the near future of John J kob of N Y millionaire banker and industrialist chairman of the Democratic tional Committee in 1928 when Gov Smith was a candidate for president Resignation of Jesse Isidor Straus as United States dor to France and the ment as his successor of Senator Royal S Copeland Democrat of New York Straus recently ed to New York from Paris and is said to have been advised by ais physicians to give up the cares of public life Smith To Go To Senate Appointment by Gov Herbert H- Lehman Democrat of New Yort of former Gov Smith to succeed Senator Copeland in the United States Senate Designation of Postmaster al James A Farley as the cratic candidate for next Governor of New York to succeed Gov man who will not seek a nation The Daily News quotes as its authority for what took place at the White House conference be- tween Gov Smith and President Roosevelt a person high in party circles The proposed changes and the News says are ex- to circumvent the tages gained by the in New York city in the recent election which resulted in the selection of Fiorello H Guardia for mayor and to rebuild the machine in New York City The News adds that the con- arrangement would mean the ouster of John P Curry as leader of Tammany and the in- of a successor approved by Gov Smith who is one of the Sachems of the organization INDIANS ASK FOR SALE OF S TAKES TOMORROW WOODIN AND ROOSEVELT DECLARED TO HAVE DIS- AGREED OVER MONETARY POLICY OF GOVERNMENT WASHINGTON Nov wavering support to the ing- plan of President Roosevelt will be given by Henry Morgenthau Jr who tomorrow will become ing Secretary of the Treasury Mr Morgenthau is also a close friend of the leading commodity dollar advocates Despite the President's letter w j Secretary of the Treasury William H telling him to take a complete leave of absence and the Secretary's resignation with the statement need you back again many prominent officials in Washington regard present developments as indicative of a rift between the President and the Secretary who once when I asked about inflation exhibited a German note Inflation Predicted Soon In many quarters in the al capital the belief is ed that the administration soon enter upon an inflationary 1 policy In announcing yesterday that Secretary Woodin had been given a leave of absence that of the Treasury Dean eson had resigned and that had been appointed Un- President Roosevelt offered no explanations but what are said to be his reasons are Continued on Page 4 Students at Texas Tech bock Tex hold an annual rodeo finance trips of teams More applications were filed for 60 positions on the newly organized Ohio state highway trol NATIVE BROTHERHOOD AF JUNEAU SAYS CANADA TREATS ABORIGINES BETTER THAN UNITED STATES TO BE MENACE TO AMERICA JUNEAU Nov by the United States of the Southeast panhandle of Alaska to Canada is advocated in resolutions that were adopted yesterday at the annual convention in Juneau of the ka Native Brotherhood The membership of the is composed of Indians Its resolution sets forth that the minion of Canada takes better care of Indians than the United States does MYSTERIOUS WITNESS DE- CLARES FRIENDS OF MANY SPREAD NATIONALIST SOCIALIST DOCTRINE When elective officials of son county Missouri did not go along with employes in salary cuts the county court abandoned the economy move Nov into asserted introduction into the United States of German Nationalist Socialist propaganda was begun late yesterday by the Immigration Committee of the House of Representatives The identity of the fust witness was veiled in mystery He was in- as Mister He de- clared that in the United States an organization called the Friends of Germany has been formed and that it was to spread the ideas that Chancellor Adolph Hitler of many is putting into force in that country The witness stated that Tie was on the German Nationalist Socialist blacklist and that bis life would be in danger if his name were made public
