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The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-04-04
Today and TomorroU
The Reconstruction of the ". R. 4.
By WALTER LIPPMANN
Copyright, 1883, New York Tribune Inc.

Much the most fundamental criticism of N R. A. that has yet been offered is to be found in the report of the Federal Trade Com mission on the steel code. It IS, in substance, that the code has authorized system of price fix ing in which the United States Steel Corporation and Bethlehem nave a dominant position. The ef- feet, says the Commission, has been to.sraise- prices, give adyan- tages to certain large consumers, and create an artificial price struc- ture which favor some and handl- caps other industries and locali- ties. I have not seen the answer either of the steel companies nor of the N. R. A. to these complaints But it is not open to doubt that the steel code raises in it's most far-reaching implications are fun damental questions as to whether this country is to preserve the competitive principle in its indus trial organization or is to move steadily towards centralized mon- cpoly under government control. For nobody can suppose that the country will permanently agree to let a basic product like steel be managed by centralized monopoly under private control.
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NOTICE OF HEARING FINAL
 ACCOIINT

The undersigned having on the 9th day of March, 1884, filed her final account as administratrix of the estate of Gerald l. Protzman deceased, in the Probate Court of Juneau Precinct, Territory of AL aska, notice is hereby given to all heirs, creditors and other persons interested in said e est te, that Wednesday, May g, 1884, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day, at the office of the United States Commissioner, in the Federal and Territorial Building, in the City and Precinct of Juneau, Territory of Alaska, is the time and place set for the hearing of said ac- count, objections thereto and the settlement thereof.
 EMILY PROTZMAN,
 Administratrix of the estate of
 Gerald I. Protzman, deceased. First publication, March IA, 1884. Last publication April II, 1884.
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Church, State Tell Dutch
 to Shun Holland Fascisn

AMSTERDAM, April 4. The bishop of Utrecht has warn ed Roman Catholics throughout Holland not to join the Dutch fas- cist party.
 The warning was conveyed in a letter read in all Catholic church services. Holders of office in the church were expressly forbidden to join the movement.
 The government likewise has for bidden all state employees to be- come members of the party which is headed by M Mussert, It. recht engineer.
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Widow Died in Want,
 But Left $5,OOO Hoard

LAMAR, s. C., April 4. Mrs. Nell Rogers lived many years on charity, but after she died, $5,- 367.17 was found in the hovel she called home.
 The money was found hidden in a cowhide trunk. On every hand was evidence that she lived as a miser. She wouldn't throw away
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even an empty match box. Two thousand bottles and odds and ends of every sort were scattered on the floor.
 Tn the rubbish were two quarts of wfiskey bought by her husband who has been dead B years.
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STUDENTS ATTEND COURT

Mr. Wentland and his Civil Government class went to Juneau on the 9:30 o'clock ferry this morning to spend the day at the Federal Court. Those making the trip were. Alice Sey, Myrtle Fee
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Shop in Juneau
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF TEE INTERIOR GENERAL LAND OFFICE
 District Land Office

Anchorage, Alaska.
 December IS, 1893. Notice is hereby given that J. D. Roop, has made application for trade and manufacturing site, An chorage 07524, for tract of land embraced in U. s. Survey No. 1896, situate on the north shore of Ten akee Inlet on Chichagoff Island, containing 1417 acres, and it is now in the files of the U. s. Land Office, Anchorage, Alaska, and if no protest is filed in the local land office within the period of publica- tion or thirty days thereafter, any person claiming adversely will be barred by the Statutes.
 J. LINDLEY GREEN,
 Register First Publication, Jan 31, 1884. Last publication, April 4, 1884.
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TO, Glenn Edwards, Lloyd Guerin, Jessie Fraser, Bernhart Savikko and Mary Pearce.
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WARNING

Five dollars reward is offered for information leading to the ar rest and conviction of anyone breaking city street lamps.
 CHAS. SCHRANdM, adv. City Marshal, Douglas.
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5. P. o. ELKs

Past Exalted Rulers Meeting, Wednesday, April 4. Initiation. Lunch. Refreshments. Nominations open. --adv.
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sumers which permits them to growl.
 But the principle had not been thought out. Then the Admins tration became possessed with the idea that recovery depended upon hustling everybody into code. There began mass production of codes. In the heat of the Washington summer, with every body over worked and nervous, hundreds of codes were put togeth- CT slapdish somehow. Speeches, regulations, statements, personal assurances followed one another in torrent of excited good will. The price of all this hurry was that there was no time to settle the vital issues. no time to work out what the labor sections ought to mean, no time to work out the basic problems of competition and monopoly.
 it was not the original intention to proceed in this fashion. The original idea was to work codes for a few industries, like coal, oil, textiles, steel, to work them out carefully and with a recognition that as the conditions are radio ally different, the codes must be radically different. To have made half a dozen good codes would have been great contribution to reconstruction. But the N R. A. had to have several hundred codes right away on the theory that it was promoting recovery. It was this desire to do the thing whole sale and in hurry which is the root of the trouble. It is at the root of the whole problem of com plance. For the N. R. A. has made more rules for more people than it can possibly remember, much less enforce. It is at the root of the labor problem For in- stead of working out method of collective bargaining in a few in dustries, the N. R. A. has promised collective bargaining to everybody immediately, and it cannot make good it's promise. It is at the root of the enormously disturbing interference with the natural or der in the reflation of prices of which the N. R. A. is in part the cause and in part the pretext.
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under private control.
 The real issue has been much confused by the current talk about rugged individualsm on the one hand and a planned collectivlsm on the other. Neither of these catch words correctly describes the real situation in the steel industry. In respect to prices, which is, after all. the crucial point, the steel in dustry is and has for many years been. quasi-monopolistie com bination. The N. R. A. code adopt ed last summer recognized for all practical purposes the monopolistlc practice which the government had for many years tried, on the whole ineffectively, to stop. Having rec ognized a system of price-fixlng, the N. R. A. did not, probably be- cause it could not, do anything to regulate that price-fixing in the interests of the consumer. The President did make personal bar gain with the steel companies, Tn which he persuaded them to re- duce the price of rails. It appears that the Michigan automobile companies also made their bar gain with the monopolistic power. But these exceptional and incl dental targains merely demon strate thc general fact that the N. R. 4. suspended the antitrust laws with eut establishing an ef- feetiva substitute for them. This is not ;a as..lv.Llalisrl and it is not cole. sivisnl. It is simply our old fir. nd rr,gsts monopoly.
 Th2 .----ue which has now to ae dcc.6ud is whcther the government will ct slspt to restore competition Or whether it will approve combin- ation, which must lead inevitably and directly to regulation as com- prchens.ve as that imposed on other monopolies like the railroads and the public utilities The trade co-nrsission unmistakaoly prefers a return to competition, and without muca doubt the mass of the people would prefer it if the choices were clearly presented. The steel companies would natural ly like to fix prices without gov- ernment regulation. And those who have enthusiasm for col- lectivist order would like the mon- opoly to exist but to transfer it's control to the government. There is thus a triangle conflict of old fashioned trust busters, old-fash- toned private monopolistic and new-fangled collectivist planners.
 In this conflict N. R. A. does not seem to know where it stands and what it thinks. It is impossible to find out definitely where the Ad- ministration stands. When the Recovery Act was before Congress last spring, Senator Borah tried to find out by raising the issue squarely as to whether it was pro- posed to resist or to tolerate mon- opolistic combination. From Sen- ator Wagner, who undertook to answer him, he got well-meant but vague assurances which indi' cated clearly that the matter had not been thought through to a conclusion. When the bill became law, both the President and Gen eral Johnson issued sincere ap- peals to industries not to exploit their new right of combination to raise prices. The N. R. A. has continued intermittently to growl about the rising prices of manu- ] factured goods, and it has even set up representations for the con-
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It is not pleasant to have to criticize men who have worked as hard, as distinterestedly, and with such fervor as General Johnson and his aids. They have performed miracles of organization and dip- lomatic negotiation, and General Johnson particularly has a vitality, a rough good humor, and a capa- city for getting a result which are altogether extraordinary. Prob ably no other man could have done what he has done, and though it has seemed to me ever since the Blue Eagle campaign was started last summer, that the N R. A. is distorted in it's execu- tion, for General Johnson as a person and as public figure it is impossible not to have the utmost respect and admiration. <
 He has proved himself to be a field officer of genius. He has not been, I think, wise staff officer. He is in grave danger of losing the war. I do not mean the war against depression. For that was never more than a minor part of the task of N. R. A. I mean the war against industrial anarchy which it was and is the task of N R. A. to win by working out a system of constitutional govern ment in the basic industries. By failing to concentrate on a few in- dustries and working out the prob-
 lem thoroughly there, the N. R. A. has scattered it's energies all over the place, and has raised more troublesome issues than it has set- tied. This will provoke against it most formidable opposition; from labor which is bound to be disap- pointed, from employers in rebel lion against bureaucracy, from conusumers faced with monopolies. The portents are already here in the strikes, in the solidifyjng of the resistance of business men, and in the discontent, which is voiced by men like Senator Borah and Senator Nye, and now fortified by the Federal Trade Commission.
 The sensible thing to do would be to start new chapter in the administration of N. R. A. Con- centrate on the steel code and a few other important ones. Try to revive them with a view to re- storing competition, within the limits of a code of fair practice. and to establish system of col- lective bargaining. If it turns out to be impracticable to do this. can- eel the code in accordance with
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-08
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES =

French Lick Springs hotel, who
urged that by-the-drink sales be al
lowed at bars and dining rooms in
hotels and also sales in bottles to
the rooms.
After receiving the petition, Mr..
Fry conferred with Governor Paul
V. McNutt and the Governor later
indicated that the rules might be
extended to cover package whisky
sales in hotels. Blythe drink sales
will continue to be banned, he in
timated.
1--WE have gone about as far as
we can go in making whisky sales, :"
Mr.. Fry asserted. LAS matter Of
fact, the Indiana law really pro-
vides only for the sale of whisky
for medicinal purposes. 1t could not
be pushed to the point where excise
rules could be nberalized to permit
by-the-d drink sales. If that is ever
done in this state, it must be by
a new statute"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-08
'BY-DRINK' SALE
OF LIQUORS is
HELD ILLEGAL
Fry Tells Hotel Men He Can
Find No Way to Cir
CumVent Law. g.

There is no way in which by
the-drink liquor sales can be made
under the present law in Indiana"
This was the final decision in the
matter announced today by Paul
Fry, state excise director. 1t came
on the heels Of a petition to him
from the Indiana Hotelmen's Asso-
citation, asking that the excise rules
be nberalized
The hotel men still are for the
original plan advanced before the
state liquor control committee by
Harry Fawcett, manager of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-08
DELAYED
IN $40 MURDER
BY GRAND JURY
10 Indictments Expected
Before Saturday,
Wilson Says.

Delay in action by the Marion
county grand jury in the murder
OF the Rev. Gaylord V. Saunders
last Friday was announced today
BY Prosecutor Herbert Wilson.
No indictment in the case will
be returned before Saturday, he
said, the delay being decided on in
order TO permit further investiga-
ton Of the many ramiflcstions Of
the sordid case.
Three Face Murder Charge
II was announced that first de-
gree murder indictments would be
sought against the widow, Mrs
Neoma Saunders, charged with plot
ting the murder Ito keep her hus-
band from Staying her and their
two children; and against Theo-
dore Mathers, Mr.. Saunders room
mate, and Masil Roe, business col
lege student.
No indictments will be sought
against Mrs Mabel Bake, 81, Wa
bash, friend OF Mrs. Saunders, or
Ross Curtis. 10, former Wabash high
school athlete, held on charges of
helping conceal and destroy the
death revolver and other incrim-
mating evidence, it was said.
Three Arraigned Today
Mathers, Roe and Mrs. Saunders
were taken before Municipal Judge
Dewey Myers today for arraignment
on affldavits charging murder, but
the case was continued until Feb.
IS. The municipal court charges
we're filed in order to hold the trio
pending grand jury action.
Attorneys retained by friends of
the defendants today we're busy
outlining the defense plans, which,
IL is expected, will be on the basis
OF insanity or temporary mental
arrangement.
Judson L. Stark, former prose-
cutOr, attorney for Mathers, said
yesterday his investigation has
caused him to believe Mathers in
sane.
The boy is suffering from an
incurable case of heart disease,
knows he has not long to live and,
as a result, suffered from despond-
ency," Mr.. Stark said.
Suicide Attempts Revealed
MatherS thought more of the
Saunders children than he did of
his own life and he felt the only
way to keep Saunders from fulfill
ing alleged threats to kill the chill
dTen and Mrs Saunders was to kill
Saunders.
Also, the unnatural attachment
that is alleged to have existed be-
tween him and the slain man proba-
bly, had an effect on his mental
balance" the lawyer added.
The attorney said Mathers told
him that a petition to have Saun-
derkE declared insane was dropped
because it was feared his "convinc-
ing way of talking would result in
his being adjudged sane, and that
then he would be certain to kill
Mrs. Saunders and the children.
Three attempts at suicide have
been made by the prisoner since
last August. Mr.. Stark said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-08
PHYSICIAN AND NURSE
ARRESTED BY POLICE

Pair Accused of Performing Illegal
Operation in City.
DR.. Tell c. Waltermire, 50, and
Marie Winningham, 80, a nurse,
were arrested at a Massachusetts,
avenue address late yesterday on
charges of performing an illegal
operation on a young woman, &C
cording to police.
DR.. Waltermire, police say, was
released on bond several months ago
following his arrest on similar
charges.
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Church Open Forums to Begin
Miss HyIa Jane Hadley

DR.. George Arthur Frantz. First
Presbyterian church pastor, tonight
will open a new series Of open for
ums in the church on the subject,
The Consistency of Christian
Thought"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-08

Birthday greetings sung
over the telephone by messen-
ger boys are not so bad but
wait until Western Union
starts to deliver Love and
Kisses" in person.
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French investors lose Forty
Million and start a revolution.
Americans lose Billions and
are satisfied with an investi-
cation.
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In Miller Geared-t to the Road
Tires you get real 1884 tire
that embOdies the ultra -smart-
ness and stamina Of the new
1894 cars. Millers are built for
motorists who want tires that
will stand the punishment of
high speeds, fast braking,
treacherouS weather, and I'M
paved roads. Whether your car
is new or old you need Miller
security for this extra SAFETY
means not only more depend
able service, but more miles.
MiIlers cost no more at the
start and much less in the end.
Convenient terms gladly and
quickly arranged.
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and his description is given as:
about 27 years old, about feet tall,
10000 pounds in weight, eyes blue
grey, hair dark blond, complexion
medium, build heavy set, wears
glasses, speaks in a boastful manner,
is of untidy appearance, and claims
to be a musician.
SOLOMON H. DEISCHEN, of
New York City, has been expelled
from the Communist Party and
from work Ex-Servicemen's
League Post 19D for appropriating
funds belonging to the last named
organization representing collec-
ton at an open-air meeting) and for
swindling worker out of $11, under
the despicable pretext that he
needed this money for stopping an
eviction.
Description About feet, 10
inches, tall, heavy set, weighing
about 200 pounds, has chubby face
and shifty look in his eyes, is
fair speaker on the platform. All
workers and workers organizations
should beware of this swindler, as
he may attempt to continue his
thievery elsewhere.
The daily worker., 1934-03-26
IaGuardia Silent
On Workers Social
Bill
Does Not Answer Letter
Of Fraternal
Federation


NEW YORK, N. Y-The Fra
ternal Federation for Social Insur-
ance, 80 Fifth Ave, has received no
reply to its letter to Mayor F. La
Guardia, demanding that the Mayor
endorse the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill CHR 1898. The let
ter, dated March Is, and signed by
George Primoff, secretary of the
federation, calls attention to La
Guardia's statement of March IL
that he favors "a permanent system
of unemployment insurance"
Workers Bill
The letter of the Fraternal Fed
Grafton for Social Insurance, repre-
senting organizations with more
than $4,000 members, declares that
with the liquidation of C.W.A. on
April l, the burning need of the
starving unemployed for unemploy-
ment insurance is even further in
creased.
The letter to the Mayor declares
why the fraternal federation en-
dorses HR 1898. that it applies to
all jobless without discrimination
that it does not limit the period of
benefits, that the funds are admin
istered by the workers organiza-
tions, and that the insurance is
without cost to the workers.
The daily worker., 1934-03-26
Canadian Lumber
Men Solid as Strike
Enters Fifth Week
Other Unions Giving
Strikers Strong
Support

VANCOUVER, Canada, March 25
Fifteen hundred loggers, under the
leadership of the Lumber Workers
Industrial Union, are still out as the
strike in the British Columbia lum-
ber camps entered its fifth week.
The strike is spreading to other
camps, and the men are solid in
their demands after all attempts of
the government to behead the strike
had failed.
The workers voted 800 to 40
against the government proposal for
a $245 wage, and demands are COM
ing in from all over the province for
a $500 day minimum wage. The
men are demanding the $500 a day
minimum wage, recognition of the
union, and the settlement of local
grievances. Ather unions are giving
the men strong support.
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LOggerS Win z pc.
Increase After
l2-Day Struggle
Strikers, Unempl y e d
Picket Together;
Joined MI u.
DEMONSTRATE IN LONDON

SEATTLE, Wash. (By MaiD.-
Reports from the strike committee
at Portland, Oregon, state after IL
days struggle the Grosset- Western
Log Co. has been forced to pay a
% per cent increase in wages. The
fallers and buckers of the Big
Greek camp at Knappa, Ore, struck
Feb. 26. After presenting their de-
mands to the company, who rejected
them, these loggers declared their
strike under the leadership of the
National Lumber Workers Union.
Picket lines of strikers and un-
employed union members of Astoria
local were formed at two approaches
to the camp. The national office
of the NL.W.U. was Immediately
notified Of the strike being called.
Immediately put pickets with ban
ners and leaflets on the streets of
Seattle and around the shipping Of
ficeS informing the loggers of this
strike action. The strike commit
tee then proceeded to Portland.
Ore, where they were organized into
departments by Roy Brown, chair
man of the National Lumber Work
erS Union.
The daily worker., 1934-03-26
IA Die, Is Injured AS Fire Sweeps
Lynchburg Jim-C Grow Transient Home;
L.S.N.R. Scores City Firetrap Houses
Windows Boarded; Fire
Extinguisher in Locked
Room in Fed'I Firetrap

LYNCHBURG, Va, March 26.-At
least IA homeless unemployed work.
ers were dead, and rs seriously in
jured as fire swept through the jim
Crow Federal Transient Relief Bu-
reau f1re-trap here at dawn Satur-
day. The floors Of the building IN
which the jobless workers were
housed, a fire trap of the worst sort.
collapsed within ten minutes after
the fire started.
Eight Of the victims of the gov
ernment fire trap were white. five
were Negroes. The race of the other
charred victim could not be deter
mined. No fire escapes were on
the government fire-trap in which
100 homeless unemployed workers
were housed: the stairs were wood
en-; and the five fire extinguishers
in the building were locked in a
separate room. Upstairs, where the
men slept in cots a few inches apart
in Jim-Crow dormitories with sepa-
rate entrances for Negroes and
whites, the windows were boarded.
The fire started in the morning
as a pail Of grease which the cook
was making into gravy" boiled over.
The flames swept upward, quickly
igniting the timbers and floors Of
the old three story building.
Panic stricken, the trapped work
ers sought to tear down the high
board wall that blocked exit through
the windows. The men leaped from
the windows, their bodies already
scorched by the flames, and scores
broke arms and legs on the snow
covered pavement below. Others
grapsped sleet-covered wires that
swung to the streets. Still others
fell on the trolley and telephone
wires, were suspended for a moment.
and crashed to the pavement. Naked
and barefooted, the workers burned,
bleeding and with broken limbs
awaited the arrival Of the in
adequate number of anbulances and
trucks which carted them to the
hospitals.
one hospital where 10 were admit
ted for treatment reported that at
least one-third were seriously burn
ed, although the full extent Of injury
could not yet be determined. Seventy
of the victims Of the government
housing were taken to Lynchburg,
and fourteen were carried to Vir-
ginia Baptist Hospital. At the other
hospital power was off and the in
jured could not be treated.
In addition to those taken to the
hospital, practically all who made
their way down the wooden stairs
suffered minor burns.