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VOLUME 84., No. 37. » •» M K . ALASKA SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 198JI Singly copy 2acts, per mont^ fi.
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TARIFF T88UE PUSHED
ASIDE AT l/OMMW
LONDON, June 13 Tense
expectancy dominated the feeflings
of delegates to the World's Econ
omic Conference as they assembled
today in London for their second
pf-ssion. They were imbued with
euppressed excitement over pros
pects of a general European bloc
agaiimt payment of war debt in
jstulihnents due the United States
Thursday and were given a sensat
ional surprise when announcement
was made of the absence of the
.American Secretary of State, Cor
dell Hull, chairman of the United
States delegation, who was to de
liver today’s opening address. His
"place as speaker of the day was
taken by Premier Daladier of
France.
War debts, for the time being it
least, have submerged tariff ad
justments.
A meeting of the British cab
inet, held prior to the beginning
of the Conference session, failed
to remove the threat that Great
Britain would default in the pay
ment of the installment due Thurs
day on her war debt to the Unit
ed States, France is also likely to
default on her ThurstLiy install
ment as she did on last^December’a
imstaHsuftMt.' which, is st4ll unpaid.
Observers predict that a.n Euro
pean bloc of nations indebted to
the United States wtjl be formed
to force the Washington govern
ment to settile on their own terms.
Secretary Hull has repeatedly de
clared that war debts, which are
not on the agenda of the Confer
ence, should not he considered by it
at. all. His chief pupose is to ef
fect if possible a lowering of na
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tional tariff walls. ‘HIS" absence to
day, Other members of the Amer
ican delegation said, was due to
delay experienced by him in pre
paring his address. He intends
that his speech shall bear onto
the battle ground of the Confer
ence the banner of tariff moder
ation, for which he has fought
throughout his long career in Am
ei iean pubic life He is prepared
to strike against excessive tariffs
and new fangled trade barriers,
which he feels are choking world
commerce to death.
Premier Daladier’s address today
was short and direct. He rallied
for international calilaboration and
denounced what he characterized
as a blind rush for profits. Ha
said that it was necessary for every
nation to expand Into the interna
tional sphere of accords, particu
larly with respect to such Indus
tries a* steel, chemicalls and the
like, which are now organized or
being organized behind national
walls. Nations, he declared, must
avoid economic wait, which are al
ways bound to finish in the same
fashion as conflicts of arms, by im
periling civilization.
The French premier called for
currency stabilization, economic ac
cords and huge public works pro
grams to pull the world out of II*
present slump.
While delegates to the Confer
ence were in session today, repre
sentatives of British , French and
American banking interests discus
sed currency stabilization plans.
European financiers are said to he
exerting tremendous pressure on
Americans .to stabllze the dollar.
HULL TELLS WORLD
tONFERKNCK THAT
IT MUST NOT FA Hi
LONDON. June 14, (A*)—Plung
ed into discord at birth by inject
ion of war debt dispute® and by
caustic criticisms by European re
presentatives of United States pol
icies, the International Economic
t Conference in session in London
was told today It would ibe exec
rated for all time if it allowed
selfishness and jeolousies to de
feat it® purpose of lifting the world
from its present distressful cond
ition. The speaker who reminded
the gathering of its duty to remedy
current evils and who gave warning
of the peril of failure was Cordell
Hull, American Secretary of State
and head of the American dele
gation to the conference.
“The panic-ridden world is look
ing to this conference," he assert
ed. “for leadership and for a pro
gram of basic relief. Every part
icipant here must realize at the
outset that distressed peoples of
every land expect concord, cooper
ation and constructive results from
these proceedings.”
“The success or the failure of
this Conference means the suc
cess or the failure of statesnianslrp
everywhere. Failure at this cruc
ial time would he a conspicuous
Wot in history. -
If any nation wrecks this great
•Conference with short-sighted act
ivities for its favorite local inter
ests or for its temporary profit,
thus delaying aid for distressed
people' in every country, that na
tion will deserve/*the execration of
mankind.”
Secretary Hull pleaded for the
banishment of narrow self-defeat
ing selfishness.
European, South American and
South African delegates yesterday
criticised the United States atti
tude. particularly with respect to
war debts, which are not included
in the agenda of the conference
•and which Secretary *H ull , in re
peated statemen'ts just befoYe the,
tbeginning of the sessions, declared
■were -not proper subjects for con
sideration by the delegates.
Today Neville Cham'berlain, Brit
ish Chancellor of the Exchequer
and Adolphus IWllfus, Austrian
premier, were the principal speak
ers aside from Secretary Hull.
Mr Chamberlain, like virtually
all other speakers, excepting Sec
retary Hull, declared that settle
ment of war debt and reparations
issues was essential for world eco
nomic recovery. He also asserted
that a policy of cheap, plentiful
money must be adopted by central
banks and that liberal credit must
be made available and must be em
ployed ^to revive commerce and In
dustry. He pointed out, however,
that no doubt the gold t standard
was most generally acceptable. He
denounced excesaive tariffs and in
slsfed fahflfs WusC bd reduced,' ind
not merely held at their preset
levels.
Chancellor Dbllfus Joined the
cry of the European bloc for set
tlement of war debts, ‘‘but,” he ad
ded, ‘‘every country must set Its
own house In ordeff.”
The United States has lost two
of the immediate objects that it
hoped to achieve at the Cpnfer
ence order'to give practical sup
port to President Roosevelt’s pro
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jgram for world recover}.
One of these objects was the
elimination of war debts front Con
ference discussions and the other
.'involved the chairmanship of the
all-'imipoiJVint economic .monetary
t committee.
Scarcely anything but war debts
lias been discussed so far.
The United States proposed that,
James M. Cox, fortner (lovernor
I of Ohio - and Democrat ic m-esiden
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, tia 1 candidate in 1920, lie chairman
of the economic monetary com
I nrittee. France objected, thus de
|feating his election.
France, however, announced her
'adherence* to President Roosn
j velt’« plan for a tariff truce, which
provides that no country shall
praise its tariff barriers during the
(life of the Conference.
; Four other nations today an
jnounced adherence to the tariff
j truce. They were the Netherlands.
i Finland, Denmark and Rumania.
making a total of 1 !> now in favor
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I of the agreement.
! Premier Ramsay Mac Donald of!
itireat Britain appealed to the del-[
! egates .of the remaining countries I
I to announce their tariff truce ad
herence by Friday at the latest. 1
Outside of the Conference prop- i
|er, baYikers and treasury countries
I of the world continued today ne
gotiations for stabilization of .
major currencies.
BRITISH Will, PAY
10 PKR OK.NT ON DEBT!
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LONDON, June 14, (JP)—Great'
Britain will make a “token” pay
ment of 10G on the installment
that is due to tomorrow on her war1
debt to the United .States. The I
British cabinet's decision in this1
respect was reached after inform- j
ation had been received from the!
Knglish embassy at Washington, 1).
that President RoosTevelt would
accept this payment insofar us he
himself was officially concerned
hut that he could not pledge ac-!
ceptanee by Congress. The presl- j
dent is said to have stated further
that he does not regard 10 per
cent as a basis of settlement for
the entire debt
The British cabinet is declared to
have decided on the 10 per cent
rate because that is the basis of
tthe reparations settlement accorded
j Germany at the Lausanne Confer
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AWAITING WASHINGTON
APPROVAL
LONDON. June ltl. </P)—T!ie
World's Economic. Conference after
important meetings of its mone
tary economic commissions, decid
ed virtually to mark time on the1
major problems over the week end
pending definite word regarding
the Washington attitude towards
currency stabilization. The gold
standard countries, it is said in
French quarters, did not intend to
budge unttl ^he approval oir the
stabilization project was received
from Washington.
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JLV DIVOIMfE COI RI
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S WATTLE, June IS, (/p)—-Mrs
i Anna Frieda Greenberg, knofvn as
a poetess under the name of Jo
ban lift Frada, wants a divorce from
Herbert Greenberg, the None
j miner and business man. She
'testified in court Wednesday that
j her business-like husband injected
| a note of discord into her circle
| of artists, musicians and writers
who gathered in her tastefully
furnished saloon.
She also testified that Green
berg spent mopev freely upqn ac
quaiiitences, but was penurious to
her He failed to support her in
her t i.'n room twenty-five thou
sand dollar home here “in the
state of comparative luxury in
which she had always maintained."
She also asked for a share in his
mining claims which she said earn
ed Greenberg the reputation of
being a millionaire.
Greenberg said some of the
claims were worked out to the
point where the bunks will not
lend _ money on them, while the
others are of undetermined value.
He added that he lived in Alaska
for the past thirty years in a
cabin worth two hundred dollars.
He is seventv-one.
GKKEMIKKW S t Vs HE
H\n MTT/rrAKV \VFIHH\G
SEATTLE. June 16, OP) -Her
bert Greenberg, aged seventy-one,
the Nome merchant and miner,
testified that the poetess Johanna
Frada. compelled him to marry
her at the point of a pearl handled
pistol, in the divorce court, Thurs
day, Greenberg testified that, she
said; “If yon don't marry ne I'll
kill you.” A-nna said she tried to
evade the ' wedding by jumping
out of a window, but her father
caught her too quickly. She de
nied the pistol episode, also that
she married him for his money
and squandered funds on clothing.
She also denied that’she gave all
night liquor parties to literary art
ists.
At One point she testified that
Greenlberg “Thumped l ie on „ the
hack with his fists because a five
cent can of cream went sour. The
couple were married and went to
Nome Jn 1922.
I,OS ANGELES: In a during day
light hank hold-up yesterday, the
bahdit got away with $8,000 from
a Pasadena bank
PRESIDENT JjEAVES
ON VACATION
WASHINGTON. June 17. t'/P)—
The Presiident left on a special
train at eight thirty Friday night
for a vacation. He will call at
Groton School, Massachusetts
•where his younger sons are attend
ing. He_ wi 11_board/ the schooner
AmerJack the Seccnd on a cruise
off the New England coast.. Most
of his two weeks vacation will he
spent at sea
GIVEN ADVICE TO TRIAL JUDGE
SEATTLE, June 17, j'/P>—Judge
Malcolm Douglass, presiding at the
trial of sixteen unemployed men
charged with rioting during evict
ion proceedings, said he received
threatening * letters telling him
how to conduct the case.
! It-'V WISH Sl’KS ton I>I VORCK
JA>S ANGKL.KH, June 16, (/p) A
divorce suit was started here by
Raw Wine against his wife, Gert
rude. She filed a cross complaint.
Both 'are native: Alaskans. They
I were married in Nome last F'eib
run rv. He charged his wife with
having a quick temper, being ex
travigant, and creating an unplea
sant atmosphere. She charged
him with being under the influence
of Mrs. Elmer George, at whose
apartments he lived as a spirit
ualist medium. Mrs. .Geortge sub
sequently controlled Ray’s finan
ces.
< OMJKKSS A^KH KNS SIN K DIR
WASHINGTON. June 16, (A’)—
Capitulating again to the President
on Veterans Compensation, after
having bestowed on him virtually
all the powers asked, Congress ad
journed sine die at one-twenty
a.in. Eastern Standard Time, in
less than an hour after the Senate
yielded To the suasion of the Pres
ident Tile House wanted to re
duce some of tiie veterans rates iq
tlie interest of economy.
I KwseveK sent wora to
'that there was uo need appoint
ling .committees telling him they
; we- * ready to adjourn, thereby
«‘*»4 '^in* the proceedings */V. a
ing u*p the session. - < + J>
Among the momentous measur
es passed in the special session
were the three billion, three hun
dred million public works pro
gram to coni bat unemployment;
the Home Loan bill, setting -up at,
fund of two trillion to aid dis
tressed home owners: the Glass
Steagull Banking Reform Bill,
with provisions insuring bank de
posit, s; the Kail road Bill. creat
ing a co-ordinator with powers to
make numerous economies in the
railroad systems; the Public Works
bill, which gives the President
wide powers over industries, es
pecially the protection of lig'ht and
power.
The last act accepting terms on
the Veteran's expenditures, was to
safeguard the President’s economy
program, but fhe -Senate fought to
the last, but was blocked by th«
bitter refusal of the House to ac
cept enlargement of expenditures
for former soldiers.
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be 1 lie Hause quit after cheering
and yelling applause At the last
minute a letter was received from
the President thanking the Sen
ators and Representatives “for
making possible, on a broad ’aver
age, a more sincere and whole
hearted co-operation between tho
legislative and executive branches
of the United States government
than was witnessed by America in
many years.”
For the first time in history.
Congress misses its Fall meeting,
jit conies together again^next Jan
uary,Under the Laine Duck a
mendunent to the Constitution, both
houses started oil a six months
vacation, the twentieth amendment
providing that the new Congress
convenes on January third Instead
of December first.
HARVARD CRFW WINS
iNBW LONDON, Conn., June 17.
(ff*)—The Harvard varsity elglit de
feated Yale.