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GOLD Per Ounce Is Priced By The United States Treasury Department Today At AflKOcInted Preim latlg FARTHESl NORTH DALLY.NEWSPAPER IN THE WORLD MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VOLUME XXX. FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1933. PRICE TEN CENTS ROOSEVELT SCORES GOLD PLAN CRITICS Steel Industry Lauds Blue Eagle's Work EXTENSION OF NRA CODE IS GRANTED NATIONAL RECOVERY RSG- ULATIONS ABE SO i FACTORY THAT TEKMINA- TION NOW IS OPPOSED I WASHINGTON, Nov. sion until June of next year of tlie National Recovery Administration! Steel Code, which when drafted three months ago was to have tor- minated next month, has baen asked by the steel industry. In agreeing yesterday to make the request, representatives of the industry formally adopted a tion expressing general satisfaction PLOT TO KILL HUSBAND PUT TRADE TAKES SHARP TURN WHEAT BAN UPON WIFE IFOR BETTER B.

GARRETT, WAR VETEG- AN, SAYS LILY B. GAINES OFFERED $5,000 FOR MURDEtt OF HER SPOUSE COMMERCIAL SALES AKE GIVEN GREAT IMPETUS IN! PAST. WEEK IN BOTH RURAL DISTRICTS AND CITIES SPOKANE, Nov. NEW YORK. Nov.

sational testimony was submitted today against Mrs. Lily for the better, "the entire picture changed almost completely Gaines, 22 years old, on trial I in the past week." Dun and Brrd- first degree murder in connection with the shooting and killing last; summer in the driveway of her street, the commercial agency, says in its review of business con- i ditions. It adds: 1 Mary Dawson NEW YORK, Ncv. Mary with the effect of the c-n Dewson of New who had! the industry. Gives Enthusiastic Report home of her husband, Jarres "The beneficial change was cl- I Gaines, sanigractor and wen'thj i fected by the momentum gained In sportsman.

i retail distribution following ihe; vigorous movement which started SCORN FELT FORfAULT FINDERS Was Offered Willis B. Garrett. unemployed last week. "Earlier, in many cities the chargR of women's activities in disabled Woricl war veteran, terti- the Roosevelt campaign both be-j fjed that Gaines offered sales of Use season were ie- NATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE DIREC A URGES EARLY RETURN TO YELLOW METAL BASIS SAVANNAH. Nov.

was expressed for the "doubting Thomases" of the United Sfrites government's gold policy by Provident Roosevelt in an address today at Savannah. Striking out at. tue critics of his monetary plans, He said: "It has been remarked of late by Gov. William Longer certain persons that those who BISMARCK. N.

Nov. 18 are in charge of your national I Gov. William Langer of North Da- government are guilty of great kota declares his embargo on experimentation, if I read my his- spring wheat shipments from Nor- jQjy right the same suggestion was Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, National fore after the Chicago con- $5 to he her Recovery Administrator, yesterday sent to President Roosevelt an enthusiastic report on the; satisfactory operation of the Steel Code.

Today the President notified the American Iron and Steel that, its request for an extension of six months of the Steel Code, change, was approved. Other Codes Satisfactory Reports from the White House are to the effect that the President has received informal expressions of approval of the workings of National Recovery Administration Codes from the textile, lumber and other major industries. vention, was installed as director of women's activities of the democratic national committee. of bar corded. Stocks started to move atjth Dakota in an effort to raise 'heard when Englishmen, protesting BRITAIN WILL ACCEDE TO GERMANY husband.

Garrett also said that accelerated pace. The best attempt at suicide, which led Lo the "arrest of Mrs: Gaines, was faked. She was arrested after he was found apparently unconscious in a gas-filled room. To Knock Gaines On Head He then told of Mrs. Gaines' attempt to have her husband 1 of, Garrett raying that he I was to knock Gaines on the head and that she was "to do the res'." YUKON ON HER WAY TO ALASKA FROM SEATTLE VESSEL HAS EIGHTEEN CABIN AND ONE STEERAGE PASSENGER FOR SEWARD AND REPORT CURRENT IN LONDON THAT BERLIN THREATENS TO DENOUNCE VERSAILLES TREATY BLOND WOMAN HELPS 2 MEN TO ROB BANK INTERIOR POINTS FINANCIAL INSTITUTION IN VANCOUVER, B.

IS LOOTED OFS600 AND AWAY VANCOUVER, Nov. SEATTLE, Nov. fifty- five cabin and eight steerage engers, the steamship Yukon sailed from Seattle this forenoon for Southeast and Southwest Alaska ports. The vessel has eighteen (Ubin passengers and one steerage passenger booked for Seward and Interior Alaska points. These eighteen are: Mrs.

Peggy Markel, Laura Markel, Mrs. A. Bjeremark, Mrs. I). David, Mrs.

A. J. Valley, Morgan Edmonds, Elizabeth Edmonds, Mrs. M. C.

Edmonds, Sarah Edmonds, Mrs. J. B. Williams and baby, Mis. Boy Lund, Marigold Lund, Miss J.

M. WJspn, J. D. Beach, Dewey Steele, Axbi Carlson and A. Woodley.

Slabs and markers erected on graves of Kentucky pioneers at Harrodsburg are still decipherable. LONDON, Nov. selection of a place agreeable to Germany for the holding of a new international conference of representatives of leading nations on armament reduction is urged Great Britain. To her delegates at Geneva, Switzerland, instructions are on the way advising them of the British government's willingness to consider concessions to Germany in the matter of armament. Threats As To Treaty Meanwhile reports are current in London that Germany threatens to denounce, the Versailles treaty unless she obtains armament concessions and that this threat is one of the reasons for Britain's urgent desire for immediate arrangement for another conference at which Germany will I Confesses To Bank Robbery With a blond woman as an accomplice.

two bandits yesterday afternoon held up the Vancouver branch of the Royal Bank of Canada and fled with $600. The blotid woman drove one of the automobiles in which the robbers made their escape. The police believe the bandits are the same two that escaped last Monday after having robbed the Vancouver branch- of 3he Panic of Montreal of $3,590. ports are received from widely scattered agricultural sections where the distribution of government bonus payments have been turned into merchandise and in urtnn centers where sudden lowering of temperatures almost cleared low-price clothing, rubber footwear, automobile accessories and hardware. "The trend of industrial indices, recessions in several of which checked a week ago, is now definitely upward.

FORMERJUDGE IN ALASKA DIES IN MILWAUKEE KUSKOKWIM HAS HERD OF 100 MOOSE prices and center attention on the vain, against intolerable condi- farmers' plight. Is meeting with tions at home, found new coloni- 'in the American wilderness, and when Washington, Aciams and tile Bullocks conducted another experiment in 1776. Saving Grace of America "The saving grace of America lies in the fact that an overwhelmirxg majority of her people have two great sense of humor and a sense of proportiua, "With our sense, of humor, we smile at those who would divide up all the money of the nation on page 5 ANTLERED ANIMALS ARE REPORTED BY AVIATORS TO BE MORE NUMEROUS ON SOUTH FORK THAN CARIBOU FRANK VILLA, WHO WAS ITALIAN CONSULAR AGENT AT SEATTLE SUCCUMBS TO HEART ATTACK be represented. Reports Not Confirmed There is no confirmation of the reports that Germany has threatened to denounce the Versailles treaty. Rift Develops Apparently GENEVA, Switzerland, Nov.

Possibility of a rift between Prance and Great Britain on disarmament has developed apparently. Apprehensive that Great Britain might withdraw from accords concerning (Continued on Page 8.) CALGARY, Alberta, Nov. George Crowley, 22 years old, of South Vancouver, and Kenneth Feakis of Vancouver were arrested late yesterday in Calgary in connection with the holdup of the Vancouver branch of the Bank of Montreal. Chief of Police David Ritchie of Calgary said that Crowley first admitted and then denied and f-'u- aliy admitted again having participated in the Bank of Montreal robbery. MILWAUKEE, Nov.

Frank Villa, 62 years old, who early in the present century held a judgeship in Alaska and who formerly was Italian consular ag''iit in Seattle died in the United States Soldiers'- Home hospital in Milwaukee of heart disease. He had been ill two years. When a student at the University of Michigan, Villa was.a star football player. ANCHORAGE, Nov. hundred moose, which usually do not go in large bands, are reported by fliers to have been seen in one.herd on the South Pork of the Kuskokwim River.

The aviators report that in the area of the South Fork of the Kuskokwim are more numerous than caribou, which are plentiful in that region. KIDNAP RECORD IN LINDBERGH CASE EXAMINED ROOSEVELT SIPS TEA WITH MORGAN WASHINGTON, Nov. teacups, at the White House last evening, President Roosevelt chatted with J. Pierpont Morgan, head of the" New York banking firm of J. P.

Morgan and Company, and Myron C. Taylor, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Uni cd States Steel Corporation. The meeting was described as entirely social. MORGENTHAU IN WASHINGTON, Nov. Morgenthau, yesterday took the oath of office of undersec'-e- tary of' the Treasury, succeeding Dean Atcheson.

Morgenthau will become Acting Secretary of the Treasury as soon as Secretary of the Treasury William H. Woo Jin begins his "complete leave of absence." He is expected to go with the close of business today. BOAT IN SEWARD THIS MORNING- TRAIN HERE MONDAY The Alaska Steamship Company's liner Northwestern arrived in Seward from Seattle at 3:15 o'clock this morning. The regular weekly passenger train of the Alaska Railroad will arrive here from the coast with passengers, mall and perishables at 4:15 Monday afternoon. ATTORNEY GENERAL SAl'S EXAMINATION OF PAPERS WILL DETERMINE NEXT STEP OF GOVERNMENT WASHINGTON, Nov.

study by the Department ol Justice will be made of the records of all federal activities in connection with the kidnaping March 1, 1932 near Hopewell, N. of the 19-months-old son of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh.

The federal records, which had been in custody of Internal Revenue Bureau, were turned over to the Department of Justice yesterday. They will be closely scrutinized, Attorney General Homer- S. Cummings said, before the r.ext step to be taken in the case by the government is determined on. Case Is Never Closed "That kind of a case is never closed," the attorney general declared. The body of the Lindbergh baby was found May 12.

1932, in a et less than five miles the scene of the kidnaping. Miners Dance at College Gym. Tonight. Free Bus.