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The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-03-10
REFERENDUM ON
 DEFENSE TO BE UP FOR BALLOT
Territorial Chamber oi Commerce to Vote on
 Subjectin Short Time

The Board of Managers of the Alaska Territorial Cham Der of Commerce, at a meeting to be held here next week, will take up for consideration and vote a national referendum designed to develop a suggested policy on national de- fense for the United States, it was announced today from the offices of that body's executive secretary.
 If approved by the Board 1t will be submitted to the member Cham bers to ballot on as members of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. It is based on a report of a special committee of the National Chamber that has given many months of study to the subject.
 Proposals Are Listed
 The proposals to be voted upon are as follows:
 The United States should con- tinue support of the principle of limitation of armaments by agree ment.
 In agreements for limitation of naval armament the United States should obtain assurance of a fleet adequate to protect our shores, our territories and possessions, and our foreign commerce to an ex- tent equal to that enjoyed by any other power.
 The United States should main- tain it's fleet in relation to the fleets of other contracting powers at the ratio established in agree ments for limitation of armament.
 Within the terms of agreements for limitation of armaments the United States should systematical- ly program all naval construction and modernization.
 The United States should at all times maintain personnel needed for efficient operation of all com ponent units of existing naval vessels.
 The United States should con- tinue the policy of training reserve personnel sufficient to meet all demands for Navy personnel in the event of war.
 The United States should give continued support to the upbuild- ing and maintenance of an Amer ican-owned merchant marine suit able and adequate as a naval aux iliary in the event of war.
 Maintain Adequate Army
 The United States should main tain the principles of Army or ganization embodied in the exist ing national defense laws, calling for a small active mili tary force to serve, with the Na- tional Guard and the Organized Reserves, as the nucleus of a large citizen army in case of emergency.
 The United States should make provisions each year for Army personnel and reserves adequate to meet the objectives of the nation al defense laws.
 The United States should under take and maintain a systematic program for modernization of Ar my equipment.
 The United States should have systematic planning for reserves of war materials and for indus
 Continued on Page Seven)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-03-10
FIRE DESTROYS HOME

Early morning fire recently de- stroyed the home of A. Pasco in Hyder. The loss is placed at sew eral, thousand dollars. The family was asleep at the time of the fire but all were rescued uninjured. The building and its contents were destroyed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-03-10
PRESIDENT CURTAILS ARMY AIR MAIL FLYNN
Frmce Shffens Spying Penalties;
 Espionage Scare Includes Stapisky
By RICHARD G. MAssoCK

PARIS, March 10.-Stiffer pun ishment for spies has been voted by the French parliament, impelled to speedy action by revelation of alleged espionage rings involving a young American couple, Robert Gordon Switz and his wife, in one and Serge Stavisky, arch swindler, in another.
 A bill raising the minimum pri- son term from one to two or three years, depending on the seriousness of the offense, leaving the max imum at five years and penalizing a wider range of acts suspectible of endangering the state, was adopted after lying in a parlia- mentary pigeon hole more than 10 years.
 Many Post-War Cases
 Espionage throughout France since the world war has been So prevalent, senate committee found, that a more drastic law was urgently needed.
 Twenty-Five spy cases, with 27 arrests, IA convictions and three executions agitated Europe in 1883 Ten of the cases were in France alone, where 18 spy suspects were arrested and dozen convicted.
 State secrets have been stolen bought and sold, the authorities declare. The spy scare has been greatest in the neighborhood ot Frances new $3,O00,00O,0OO forti- fications on the German frontier.
 Women Agents Numerous
 Women, always glamorous fig ures in the mysterious shadows of espionage, have figured in the French cases. Half of the 10 sus- poets caught in the dragnet that entangled the Switzes are women.
 The mysterious Marie Louise of the famous Baillie- Stewart case of the Tower of London, turks in the background, with French police suspecting a connection between her and some of those arrested in Paris.
 La Belle Sophie" Drost, iron tier beauty, was sentenced recent ly to two years imprisonment. She was convicted, along with five men, of espionage on hte new forts.
 Clever Devices Found
 Secrets written on necktie-lin- ings, inscribed on cigarette paper and hidden in the imitation pearls of necklaces, or embroidered in a telegraphic dot-and-dash design on feminine handkerchief, have been discovered by the French police in some of their investiga- tions.
 Wrist watches which really are tiny cameras, and fountain pens used to pump up surreptitiously a 4CW QlOpo Ol litW CllcullCdl III o vargas laboratory, also have been seized.
 Here are some of the major of lenses of espionage punishable un- der the new French code:
 Obtaining, divulging or inducing others to obtain or divulge secret objects, plans, maps, documents or information of military, diplo- matic or economic nature which affect the national defense or safety
 Wall Scaling Penalized
 Making photographs Or drawings within six miles of a fertilization or other military establishment to which access is forbidden strangers.
 Scaling walls or otherwise forc- ing way into such places.
 Secret trial is provided for, if the authorities think the country's welfare would be endangered by publicity, and courts martial are given jurisdiction over all spies in time of war or state of siege.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-03-10
AGED PIONEER PASSES

George Stakemire, 80 years old resident of the North since 1898 died recently in Fairbanks of old age. He was among the best known pioneers of the Yukon country.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-03-10
DOGS DIE

Dogs are dying of mysterious malady along the lower Tanana River, according to word brought into Fairbanks from Nenana re- gently. Owners of dogs are warned to keep them tied up.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-03-10
JUNEAU SPLITS 1. OPENING GAMES AT KETCH|KAN
Boys Lose Football Game 22-23-Girls Smother
 Ketchikan 3l to 2
Juneau 22-Ketchikan 23-BOys Juneau 31--Ketchikan 2-Girls

 In what Coach Harold Regele described as a football game" the Crimson Bears lost the opener of a three-game series to Kayhi at Ketchikan last night by a score | of g to 23 In confirmation of this, at least partly, the Ketchikan Chronicle in a telegram to The Empire said "the game roughened in the second half"
 The local girls team had it's cas- fest victory of the year. scoring at will. They had the Kayhi maid ems blanked until eight seconds before the final bell when they caged their only goal
 Officials At Odds The boys game was heartbreak- ing affair, marred by extreme roughness on the part of Kayhi that Regele indicated went largely unpenalized. And the Chronicles report declared that Ray Varrall, Ketchikan, referee, and Alec Blan- chard, Skagway, umpire, were in apparent disagreement often"
 Paul Hansen, Juneau's first string center, and Buddy Lindstrom, star l forward of the Bears, were both injured early in the fracas Han sens shoulder was hurt, and Lind strom suffered a knee injury. Af- ter the game last night Regele said his greatest need was five 200-pound linemen for replace ments. He characterized the Ket- chikan tactics as disappointing and added that Blanchard was too good a sport to compete with Yer rall."
 Praises His Squad He complimented the local squad on it's showing. Our boys were wonderful sports" he asserted. 'fKetchikan and Petersburg warned me, but I didn't plan on such a game. Our boys are playing hard We will be back in there tonight" ]"
 The game was close throughout Juneau took an early lead with long, clean shots, but Kyhi closed the gap at the halfway post. The latter led there IA to 13. Checking was closer in the final half when each scored eight points.
 In the final quarter, the play was so fast that the $50 fans at tending were on their feet most of the time.
 Local Girls Class
 The Juneau girls were clearly the class of their division. They sparkled in every department of the game, passing, checking and shooting rings around the Kayhi team.
 Despite the one e-sided score, it was a treat. for the Ketchikan fans to watch their brilliant work.
 Both teams play again tonight.
 ARE SET TO GO
 This afternoon The Empire re- ceived a radio from Coach Regele that the Juneau team will probably lose the services of Hansen as the latter wrenched the fragments be- tween the clavicle and scapula. Behrends has a bad leg and Lind strom bad knee.
 we are set to go and take Ketchikan tonight. Juneau has never given up and we don't in- tend to start now" Coach Regele radioed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-03-10
JURORS DECIDE
 CHILBERC DEATH
 WAS BY SUICIDE
Body Identified by Nephew as that of Uncle Missing
 Since Last Year

We, the jury, duly empaneled find that the deceased was Peter Chilberg and that he met his death at his own hands on or about the 10th day of July, 1883 by means of a A caliber revol- yer"
 This was the verdict brought in by the coroner's jury at the in- quest into the death of Peter Chilberg yesterday afternoon at 1 o'clock in the court of United States Commissioner J. F. Mullen The jurors were: Ike Sowerby, Joe Hill, Bert Bertholl, George Get chell, Jack McCloskey and William Sprigdale.
 Body is Found
 Pete Peeovich, the first witness at the inquest, told of leaving town yesterday morning at 9:30 o'clock for walk up the Basin Road, and of finding the body of Chil- berg just before noon. about 200 feet on the upper side of the road 200 feet beyond where the first bridge crosses Gold Creek in the little basin. Shortly after he met Henry Kuchen on the road and told him of finding the body.
 Kuchen, the next witness, said he arrived at the bridge about 12..30 and met Pecovich, who was accompanied by two dogs. Kuchen said he accompanied Pecovich to where the body was and stayed there until the arrival of Charles Carter, the undertaken who was called to care for the body. He described the position of the body, saying it was seated at the foot of a small spruce tree with the revolver in it's right hand and across the left knee.
 Gun Identified
 Mort Truesdell, who sold the gun to Chilberg, told of the trans action and identified the gun. He examined the revolver before the jury and found that two shots had been fired from it.
 Arvid Anderson, nephew of Chilberg, identified the clothing of the dead man and also the keys found on his person as belonging to his uncle. He also said the body was similar to that of Chilberg, although it was so badly decom- posed that positive Identification along that line was practically im- possible.
 Before the inquest at the Com missioner,s Court, the jury viewed the body at the mortuary of Charles Carter
 Countrywide Seach
 Chilberg. who was 80 years old. was the object of a countrywide search here after his disappearance July 10, last year. The search was conducted by scores of citi- zens and Boy Scouts.
 The body of John Carlson was found hanging to a tree about a quarter of mile north of the city limits, and about 100 yards from the Glacier Highway by sev- eral boys who were searching the woods for Chilberg on July l8.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-03-10
EXECUTION DATE IS SET

ANGELES l0.-H c. Brooks and William Tanner the galOw May II following conviction Bodin attorney last the fingers of BOdkns his money etc.
Evening star., 1934-10-04
SH0RT.TERM SECURITIES.

(Reported by Chas. D. Barney & Coz
Bid. Asked.
Evening star., 1934-10-04
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

s5E GH1GAGo ostoes5 e. u DoeDa55
Wednesday; 22O-290 pounds. 6.25a35; top.
$40; 17O-210 pounds, 5.50a6.25; light
lights, 450a5.50 strong weight pigs, 400
light good and Choice. 14o-I6o pounds,
4.50a5 so; igh: weight, 10000 pounds,
5.l5-635; medium weight.. 200-250
pounds, 6.15a40; packing sows. medium
and good. 275-55O pounds OO-5 65; pigs,
good and choice, 100-130 pounds. 3.OOa
Cattle, 6,OOO, all commercial calves:
1900. all commercial; better grade fed
steers and yearlings comparatively scarce
$3.50 downturn; lower grades, most steers
and light heifers and mixed yearlings mod
steer run Of value to sell above G .oo JUST other en-
killing classes mostly steady, although
yealerS and weighty. calves dull and weak.
Slaughter cattle and vealers--Steers good
pounds. 6.50a1O25; 1901 500 pounds.
peand sna psaie hsfsHs s5od s5S
and choice. ,55O-75O pounds, 5.25as 90;
common and medium, 2.75a5. rs; cows,
ss6. sso4d, 4i25a5 9S ,oa 20; common and medium
go; bulls tyeariines S exciuded}. ied5, 5000 sood
sbeeD. 300a75; cutter, common and me
6.50as .O0;. medium 5.O0a6.5O; Gull and
common. 4.00a5 90. Stocker and feeder
cattle-Steers. good and choice. 500-1 ,O5O
pounds 4.25a6 90; common and medium
Sheep, $4,000 commercial, 5000 Gov
ernment; opening generally steady; bulk
TAT lambs bid $50 down; asking 6.75 up
ward for best nativess slaughter ewes.
.50a2.25; medium to good range feeders
4;75a5.25: best held around 800: lambs,
20 pounds down. good and choice. 6.25a75;
common and medium. 525a635 ewes
90-15o pounds. good and choice i65a
2.50; all weights. common and medium.
.o0a2 90; feeding lambs 5O-75 pounds
good and choice. 5.35a6.1O.
Evening star., 1934-10-04
G. & E.
NET GOES DOWN
Declines IL Per Cent Below Year
Ago, Despite 2 Per Cent
Increase in Gross.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, October 4-Total gross
operating revenues of S96,537 ,666 were
reported for the II months ended
August 81, by the Associated Gas &
Electric System.
This is s1,784,043 or per cent above
the previous comparable period of
1888, due largely to increased sales
of electricity. Operating expenses,
maintenance, etc, rose to $40, 1872, ,086,
an increase of $3,322,74 or 7 per cent
above the same figure year ago. This
increase is due principally to increased
costs for fuel ard higher pay rolls
under N R. A. Taxes were S1C,813,-
I'll, % per cent increase above last
year
After deducting these items, net
operating revenue remained amount
ing to S36, 1892 ,4O9. which is 9 per cent
below the corresponding II months a
year ago.
Provisions for retirements (deprecia-
tom was S8,399.2O1, and after this
deduction operating income of s28,-
133,208 remained. This is the lowest
operating income ever reported for the
system as now constituted.
Evening star., 1934-10-04
STOCKS FOLLOW
DOWNWARD TREND
Drop in Some California Is
sues UnsettIes Rest
of Market.
BY VICTOR EUBANK,
Associated Press Financial Writer.

NEW YORK, October 4.-The stock
today and prices generally pointed
lower.
Weakness in some issues Of Cali
fornia corporations unsettled the list.
Other than fears of radical candidates
winning in the November elections,
there was no especial news to account
for the declining tendencies in most
groups.
Grains rallied at the start, but they
later turned reactionary despite i'm
provement in both Liverpool and
Winnipeg. Cotton was sit unsteady.
United States Government securities
again exhibited strength in the bond
market and other loans were fairly
firm. Foreign exchanges were quiet,
with sterling trif1e lower.
New lows for the year were recorded
by Safeway Stores, off nearly 4 points
and Pacific Gas, Union Oil of Cali
fornia and Standard Oil of California,
off more than each. Losses of around
4 were suffered by California Packing
and United States Smelling.
The oils were in supply, with Stand
ard of New Jersey. Texas, Gulf.
Socony, Soaboard and Mid Continental
Petroleum sagging fractionally to a
point. Others, down fractionally to 2.
included United States Steel, American
Telephone, General Motors, Chrysler,
Consolidated Gas, Case, Loew's, Santa
Fe. New York Central, Pullman, Amer
lean Smelling, Alaska Juneau, Allied
Chemical, Goodyear, United States
Rubber preferred, Pacific Lighting and
American Tobacco B. Some resistance
was shown by the alcohols, such as
National .Distillers, American Com
mercial and United States Industrial.
Selling in the oils was attributed
to doubts that the industry could
hold its price structure during the
seasonal tapering off of heavy de-
mand.
While pointing out that the internal
condition of the equities market had
been greatly strengthened since the
beginning Of the week, commission
house prognosticators continued to
display considerable timidty in their
views of near future trends.
Brokerage firms, still operating in
the red" were wondering if they
would ever see another million-share
day. The last one was on August %.
Evening star., 1934-10-04

Allis- Chalmers Co. 5s 1897. 81 97N
Amer. Beet Sugar 6s 1885,. 100A 101
Am. Te. g. Tel. 512s 1943.. 111b 111A
Atlantic Refining IS 1897. 1862 10Y
Bethlehem Steel 5s 1896. 4. 1O3b 103%
California Packing 5s 1910. 1924 1924
Canad. Nor. Ry. 4l2s 1885. 1925 1925
Ches. & Ohio Ry. IS 1890. 1093s 1O974
Chi. Gas 1t. & Coke 5s 1887 1O3 1O3h
Chi Northwest. Gas 1885,. 72h II
Colorado & So 412s 1885,. 93 93h
Delaware & Hudson 5s 1885 1O1b 1O2S
Den g. Rio Or. 41as 1885,, AZ 43h
Edison FL. Illum. As 1899. 1861
Gen. Pet. Corp. 5s 1910. -. 104S 104A
Gen. Pub Service 51as 1899 SO 90
Gotham Silk Hos. 6s 1896. 49,, 81
Grand TT. Canada 6s 1885, 1899 1854
Illinois Central Gas 1886. 100 10ON
init. Tel g. Tel 4las 1899. "a 65
Keystone Telephone 5s 1885 793s 81
Lake Erie & West. 5S 1887. 98 99A
Louisville & Nash 5s 1887. 1861 1861
Michigan Central As 1940.. 100 -.
New York Central 6s 1895. So 81
N Y, Chi. g. St. L. As 1887. 9Sz 9SA
Ohio River R. r. 5s 1886. 104 104N
Penna. r. r. Co. Gas 1896. 1854 105A
Portland Gen. El. IS 1885,. SSA S9N
Pure Oil Co. 51zs 1887 100h 100ss
Rep. Iron & Steel 5s 1940.. 1924 102ss
Sinclair Cons. Oil rs 1897. 1929 104
Vanadium Corp. 81 1941: S3h So
Wabast Rwy Co. IS 1939.. "a s6k
Warner Bros. is 1939....s bo 60H
Evening star., 1934-10-04
QUARTER BRINGS GAINS
FOR PRIVATE BANKERS
special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, october 4.-The
financial statement of Brown Bros,
Hartman & Co., private bankers, as
Of September 80, reveals increases in
total assets and in deposits as COM
pared with three months ago.
Total assets are placed at $54,-
$685. 1924, against s4s,O57,014 on June
80, while deposits have risen to $685.
862, 1893, as compared with $22,177,-
678 on June 80.
The statement shows that a high
degree of liquidity has been main
tanned. The firms holdings of cash
amount to $9,582,805 compared with
$9,434,218 on June 80; United States
Government securities valued at
lower of cost or market) total
$3,251 1923, against s3,708, 400, and call
loans and acceptances of other banks
total $9,803, ,529, against $6,250,0O0.
Evening star., 1934-10-04
Chicago Grain
Nv the Associated Press.


CHICAGO. october 4.-Upturns in
Chicago grain values took place early
today, responsive to a firming tend
ency shown in the Liverpool wheat
market.
It was also asserted that the wheat
market here was in a sold-out condl-
ton and that a price recovery was
overdue.
Opening sails higher, December
new 96Aa12, wheat afterward rose
further. Corn started 3s of to Ss
up, December new 74a74k, and sub
sequently scored general gains.
Friends of higher prices for wheat
put much stress on an announcement
that the Canadian government mar
keting agency would no longer sell It's
holdings until actual consumers
wanted the wheat Notice was also
taken of statements by Chicago trade
leaders that the wheat trade of the
world evidently has had bad case OF
nerves" and that, in any event, the
drastic recent decline of prices and
heavy liquidation had greatly i'm
proved the technical position OF all
markets.
With active buying on the part OF
commission houses, the Chicago mar
ket soon climbed more than 4 cents
over yesterdays finish.
Houses with Eastern connections, as
we'll as cash interests, were among the
chief buyers of wheat futures.
A circumstance deemed significant
was that many of today's purchases
had been conspicuous yesterday on
the selling side of the market. Argen-
tine shipments of wheat remained
large, being estimated at 3,859,O00
bushels for this week, against 3,785, 900
last week and but $4,000 year ago.
Corn and oats traders took their
cues mainly from the action of wheat.
Despite upturns of hog values and
Of grains, provisions were easy in the
absence of any aggressive new buying.
Evening star., 1934-10-04

OnueEWTitcTS open ScdSuH.
Members of the District of Colum-
bia Underwriters Association held
their first Fall meeting and luncheon
at the Willard Hotel this noon. NAL
colin Adam, high official in the
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co., was
the guest speaker. President F. George
Clendaniel made several important
announcements regarding plans for
the coming year. There was large
attendance.
The Washington Stock Exchange
witnessed another busy trading session
today. Washington Loan & Trust Co.
stock sold at 181, and Bank of Be-
thesda again sold at 25.
Washington Railway & Electric
common stock appeared on the board
at 800, the highest priced stock on
the list. Twelve shares changed hands.
Washington Gas Light SIS sold at
1862. Two shares of Potomac Elec-
trio Power 512 per cent preferred sold
at 1882 Capital Transit closed at
281a. Other prices we're practically
unchanged.
Evening star., 1934-10-04
FOREIGN MARKETS.
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON-Business was inactive on the
Stock Exchange today. owing to the ,ap;;
preaching end Of the account. Gilt-edged
Transatlantic issues and mining shares
eased. while German bonds were firmer;
Leading home industrials weakened ana
market closed dull.
PAR1S.-.In q quiet session on the
Bourse today rentes and French indus
trials improved. but foreign industrials,
particularly rubber stocks. weakened. The
closing was iregular.
of business transacted trading was very
quiet on the Boerse today Bonds i'm
proved. but the market closed weak.
Evening star., 1934-10-04
TRANSACTIONS ON THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
2:30 pm.
60
2:30 pm.
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Received By Private Wire Direct Evening
Evening star., 1934-10-04
U. S. TREASURY POSITION.
BY the Associated Press.

The position of the Treasury October Q
lures, ss4.7SS,95@6o2; @ Balance Balance, Spfsa,- sa,fsa,-
7O7.446, g; customs receipts for the
Receipts for the fiscal year (since July ~,
2272, 90; expenditures, S1,532,-
7S9.739.99 Gncluding Ss50,S11 .295.4S of
emergency expenditures; excess of ex-
penditures. S55O,517 .247.04: gold assets,
$7,97S,724, ,649.O3.
Receipts for October 2. 1888 (compar-
able date last year,. s2O.455.101,9s; ex-
penditures. S14,742,840.64 net balance,
S1,151, ,267, ,024.75: customs receipts for
the month. sI,19I ,63346.
Receipts for the fiscal year, S6Ss,775,-
S37;4 expenditures, S923, ,362.927.0 .03
expenditures); excess Of expenditures,
S234,5S7, ,0S9.56.
Evening star., 1934-10-04
7O.818 HOLDERS LISTED
BY NATIONAL DAIRY

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, october 4.-Common
stockholders in the National Dairy Co.
numbered 70,S18 on September 30,
compared with $500 on December 81,
1888, and 66.366 on the same date
year ago.
Evening star., 1934-10-04

Sales Of Stocks the New York Exchange
11:00 A.M....... 100000 1900 Neon..... 10000
PM. 100000 900 P.N....... 47OOOO
Dividend rates the annual
declarations -
., Unit Of trading than 100 tpart,
n stock PayaDe IN cash stock PINS 81 in special
lated dividends paid this kconpanle. reported
Evening star., 1934-10-04
325 TONS OF LEAD SOLD.

NEW YORK, October 4 0P.-The
st. Joseph Lead Co. reports that 225
tons of pig lead was sold yesterday at
$3.50 per 100 pounds. st. Louis, and
100 tons at $365 per 100 pounds, New
York.
Evening star., 1934-10-04
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