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FARTHEST NORTH DAILY NEWSPAPER IN TH-E WORLD "FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, MEMBER-OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PRIGE TEN CENTS VOLUME XXX. OATH GIVEN BY DEVANE OF RUBY VF TERRITORIAL EXECTJ- HE CONTEM- A ftP- IN APrOINTVE OF- JDKEA.U,- April a joint (session of the House and Senate of the Alaska Legislature at 10 o'clock this morning John W. Troy, democrat, newspaper publisher 01: Juneau, was sworn in as Governor of the Territory, succeeding A. Parks, Republican, who has held the office since 1925. The oath was administered by Senator Thomas J.

DeVane, Democrat of Ruby, who had with liis seal as notary public. Parks Congratulates Troy The inaugural exercises took place in the House chamber. Besides legislators, who occupied seats on the floor, the galleries were crowded with spectators. After the oath had been ad-. ministered the first to congratulate inccoaing Gov.

Troy was retiring Gov. Parks. The new executive a reception and then was taken to the gubernatorial offices to begin Tiis duties. No Immediate Changes The new Governor announced hz contemplated no immediate changes in any of the appointive offices his jurisdiction. Gov.

Troy arrived home yesterday from Washington, D. where ne had attended the inauguration, of President Franklin Rcotsevelt. The Governor said the President is sympathetic wttj? Al- desire for and thalc the nation's Chief Executive -would be receptive to a legislative to that end. Delegate Makes Impression T.be Governor declared that in Congress Anthony Dintond was making a fine impres- sio in Congress and elsewhere in the capital and that he is working hard to represent Alaska competently. Soon after arriving in Juneau yesterday Mr.

Troy conferred with Gov. Parks and with members of the: Legislature and arranged for assumption today of the gubernatorial office. Alaskan" BLESS HOPING LAGER, FLOWS TO THEIR MUSIC COMING AND GOING BAD CHECK ANCHORAGE Connors Urges Pratt For Judge; MacDonald Marshal, LEADS TO JAIL And Ralph Rivers, Attorney D. H. BIBBS IN CUSTODY IN LOS ANGELES HAS $63,000 IN SECURITIES BELIEVED STOL-.

EN IN NEW YORK Gov. John w. Troy Ex. Gov. George A.

Parks WINNIE JUDD NOT TO HANG THIS WEEK DATE OF EXECUTION WILL BE DEFEB-ED ONE WEEK TO GIVE TTME TO COMPLETE INSANITY HEARING ST. LOUIS (ffh- Beer will bring back beer gardens, and beer gardens will bring back employment ten 100 or 150 St. Louis'musicians, officials of the musicians' union here believe, Of the 1,150 union musicians in the city, about 250 have been employed recently. Before prohibition, a union of- ftoial said, beer gardens provided one of the greatest sources of employment for their members. "Buy Alaskan" Levi Coffin's house which became the "dispatcher's office" in the Cincinnati underground railway system before the civil war, is now I eing used for a fruit stand.

April Winnie Ruth Judd's date of execution for the murder last summer in Phoenix of Mrs; Agnes Leroi, a nurse from Juneau, Alaska, is expected to be postponed by the Arizona Board of Pardoas to April 28 from April 21, the date originally set by the trial court. The postponement will give opportunity for completion of the inquiry now in progress before a jury in a court in Florence into the sanity of the condemned woman. Unoffcial advices were received in I postponement were received in Florence today from the Pardon I Board at Phoenix. Testified To Insanity Although Mrs. Judd refuses to permit psychiatrists to question o' her in their efforts to determine her menal condition, Dr.

Harry pinkert, alienist, late yesterday testified he was convinced of her insanity. He declared he 'was aided in reaching this conclusion by observing the behavior of her aged mother, Mrs. H. J. McKinnell and by questioning the elderly parent about the taint of insanity present in her and her forebears, and also by ascertaining from Mrs.

McKinnell facts in relation to the conduct of Mrs. Judd sonce she was a child. Mrs. McKinneU Monday testified in court that her ancestry was af- on page 8, LOS ANGELES, April Danridge H. Bibbs, reputed scion of a wealthy San Irancisco family, was arrested in Tucson, for having passed on a Los Angeles jeweler a worthless check of 800 drawn on the First National Bank of Anchorage, Alaska $63,000 in securities, believed to have been stolen, in New York, were found in his possession.

He has been brought to Los Angeles. Check Given Last December The check was taken by the Jeweler last December in payment for a diamond ring and was sent to Anchorage for collection. The check was returned as worthless by the Anchorag-e bank. I Bibbs said that he won the se! curities in gambling and that he believed they had been stolen in New 1 Wanted In New York When New York authorities were notified that Bibbs was in custody in Los Angeles, they asked that he be held for them on charges of forgery and grand larceny. Los Angeles police declare they will not turn over the prisoner to New York officials until disposal is made of the swindle in obtaining the diamond ring on the worthless check.

Alaskan" CROOKS AID IN SEARCH FOR KIDNAPPERS BRITISH PUT EMBARGO RUSSIA DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN FOR TERRITORY TELLS OF RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FEDERAL OFFICES IN FOUR DIVISIONS AND LAUDS APPROACHING "NEW DEAL" MOSCOW COURT IN SENDING TWO ENGLISHMEN TO PRISON FOR SABOTAGE CAUST.S RETALIATION TRAILS OF POLICE AND UNDERWORLD CHARACTERS CROSS IN CHICAGO IN HUNT FOR JEROME FACTOR CHICAGO, April fo Jerome Factor, 17 years old, the kidnaped son of John Factor, known as "Jake the Barber," widened today and police and tinder- world agents, working on the case, crossed each other's trail. Police in the raid of a down town hotel for suspected kidnapers found six men whom the officers identified as former henchmen of Al Capone. Three of the men are suspected of membership in an Illinois kidnaping and extortion ring. Father Offers Bail As the police were about to take the men to jail, the telephone in the room rang, and a man who said he was the father of the kid- naped youth declared he would furnish bail for the men suspected by the police if kidnaping charges were preferred against them. Demand $50,000 Ransom LONDON, April 19 With the conviction late yesterday by a soviet court in Moscow of five six Englishmen for sabotage in onnection with their employment icfcers Electric Company of Mos- Great Britain today armounc- a commercial embargo against to take effect April 26.

The official announcement enumerates some commodities which will not be affected by the embargo, their mportation is deemed essential, bu it will include grain, butter, raw cotton, petroleum and timber. Eighty per cent of the usual imports from Russia will be stopped. Two Sentenced To Prison Of the five Englishmen convicted, only two were given prison terms, the three others being ordered deported. After" the'issuance of the embargo proclamation, it was authoritatively said the embargo would oe withdrawn if Russia would commute the prison sentences and allow the two imprisoned Englshmen to leave Russia. Great Britain takes the attitude that the sabotage charges against the six Englishmen were not based on facts but that they weve made to give the soviet government an excuse to violate its agreement with the Vickers company, which SEATTLE, April Franklin D.

Roosevelt's "new deal" insofar as it will concern federal offices in Alaska will be completely in effect within a month, in the opinion of James J. Connors of Juneau, Democratic national committeeman for Alaska, who is in Seattle on his way home in the North from a trip to Washington city where he of witnessed the President's- inauguration and where he in submitted to the new Chief Executive, recomend- ations for federal positions in the Territory. Candidate For Customs Collector Mr. Connors, who is candidate for United States customs collector, with headquarters at Juneau, sad he had made the following recommendations: Fourth E. Pratt, judge; Ralph Rivers, attorney; Joseph McDonald, marshal.

Third Division Recommendations Third Morton, judge; William Whittlesey, attorney; C. J. Cobb, marshal. Second D. Cochrane, judge; Hugh "VKT oM-rti-fijwr- Thrkmas PRESIDENT IS BATTLING ON TWO FRONTS ROOSEVELT ATTENDS TO FARM RELIEF AND PREPARES FOR CONVERSATIONS FOREIGN ENVOYS WITH Kidnapers of young Factor mand $50,000 for his release.

de- The father, is fighting extradition to England where he is accused of having swindled investors out of $8,000,000, declares he cannot pay such a high ransom. is an English company, with its- Moscow branch operating on soviet contracts under soviet supervision and management Embargo Power Given King Recently, parliament passed a law empowering King George to declare a commercial boycott against Russia in the event that Russian authorities continued their secution of the six accused Englishmen. Great Britain had official observers at the trial in Moscow and these observers have confirmed the previous belief that the charges were fictitious. The observers reported the trial to be unfair. The embargo proclamation signed by the King, was therefore issued early today.

Nature of Sentences MOSCOW, April the six Englishmen who were tried in a soviet court for sabotage in connection with their engineering work in the Metrcpolitan Vickers Electric Company in Moscow, one' was acquitted and five were found guilty in varying degrees. Of the on page 4. OFF GOLD STANDARD WASHINGTON, April 19 The United States swung away from the gold standard today as President Roosevelt prepared to ask Congress tomorrow for new power to effect controlled inflation. Withdrawal of gold support to the American dollar on foreign exchanges by President Roosevelt is interpreted by Secretary of the Treasury William H. Woodin as meaning temporary suspension of the gold standard.

WASHINGTON, April On both domestic and international fronts, President Roosevelt moved today in his campaign to rehabilitate national and world economic positions. He conferred with Senate leaders and was informed that the farm relief bill was near a final vote in the upper branch of Congress. Disposal having been of all monetary inflation amendments to the measure, hopes are entertained that its varied provisions will on page 4. attorney; Thomas ney, marshal. First Hellenthal, tudge; William Holtzheimer, at- lorney; William T.

Mahoney, marshal. Mr. Connors said that President Roosevelt's "new deal" includes a more sympathetic attitude toward Alaska's development, than was manifested by President Herbert Hoover's administration and that gain would result to the entire North Pacific Coast. The Territorial Democratic leaders that with tower. oomaodKr gold has greater buying value.

prospectors Are Busy Alaska prospectors, he stated, who have been inactive for years are planning intensive prospecting campaigns. "We also expect," he asserted "that better business conditions generally will create higher values for fish, furs and other Alaska commodities. Business Men Hopeful "Business men in Fairbanks, Valdez, Nome and Juneau foresee better trade conditions and are expecting to share equally in the nation-wide betterments resulting from the President's Democratic 'new After giving the names of persons whom he had recommended for appointment to federal positions in Alaska, he said: "I expect the President to make the nominations within a Alaskan" UNIVERSITIES BAN JEWS BERLIN, April of the socalled Aryan law, which bars nearly all Jews from civil service positions, is being invoked 1 as to faculty positions in universities..