Fairbanks Daily News-Miner from Fairbanks, Alaska • Page 1

GOLDff Per Ounce, By The President's Order, Is Now Priced For An Indefinite Period At Iffatrhanka mrr FARTHEST NORTH DAILY NEWSPAPER IN TH WORLD MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VOLUME XXX. FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1934. PRICE TEN CENTS EIELSON SITE DEDICATION IS SUNDAY Gold Producers Not In Favor Of Any Code DEPARTMENT FOR MINES NORTH SHIPS TO BE FREED DIRECTOR OF THOUGHT, MOULDER OF CHARACTER IS WANTED JFROM STRIKE 'NO OFFICIAL ACTION HAS VICTORIA DEPARTS FROM 'BEEN TAKEN AT DENVER BY! SEATTLE AND OTHER ALASKA CONVENTION OF YELLOW VESSELS ARE NOW BEING METAL REPRESENTATIVES i LOADED ed generally by the yellow metal producers who are assembled in convention in Denver "to decide on DENVER, May gold gAN FRANCISCO, May mining, a Code under the National vessels operating in the Alaska ser- Recovery Administration is oppos- ivice -will be exempted by the Longshoremen's Association from -its strike against shipping lines now in effect in ports of Pacific Coast New Deal policies for their. Indus- i states, according to opinions ex- try. pressed this afternoon by both Although no official action has! longshore and shipping leaders.

I yet been taken by the Formal agreement between op- I Charles H. Segerstrom of Sonora, posing sides relative to the freeing chairman of the Code com- of northern craft from the contro- I mittee, said today that the com- versy is expected to be made this had given careful study to evening. all Code proposals but that he Mediation Favorable To Alaska. felt its report would be against the Favorable to the exemption of adoption of any of them. Stoess Represents Alaska Alaska is represented on the Code Committee by P.

C. Stoess, whose home is in Seattle. Apart from the Code matter, the most controversial Question before the convention is the proposed reorganization and rehabilitation of the United States Bureau of Mines. Proposed By Montana Represenative The question was injected into the convention by a resolution introduced by Carl J. Trauerman of Butte, president of Montana Mining Association.

"I want to see the Bureau of Mines replaced by a Department of Mines," Mr. Trauerman said, and he added: "A good Western man who knows his stuff should be placed at its head." BERTHA LEAVES NENANA WITH 14 CRAFT LEFT FAIRBANKS TUESDAY RESUMES VOYAGE 1 AFTER HER BARGE ACCIDENT NENANA, May fourteen passengers and towing two barges of freight, the power launch Bertha, skippered by George Black, left Nenana yesterday afternoon, ultimate destination being Betties on the Koyukuk. The launch and barges departed from Fairbanks Tuesday. On reaching the Nenana waterfront at 11 o'clock Tuesday night, one of the barges struck a snag and sank. With the exception of one ton of sugar, which was a total loss, its cargo was salvaged.

Some goods Alaska vessels is Charles W. Hope, executive secretary of the regional Federal Labor Board and his acceptance by both strikers and ship owners as a member of the Medi- Board indicates northern marine traffic will be at once released from the strike tie-up. David Beck, Northwest representative of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, who is in San Francisco because of the interest of truckmen in the longshore difficulty, telephoned Gov. Clarence D. Martin of Washington at Olympia last evening that at a conference in San Francisco of leaders of the longshoremen they had agreed to exempt Alaska shipping jfrom the strike.

Victoria Sails For North The Alaska Steamship Company's vessel Victoria, which had been loaded at Seattle by consent of the strikers, left that port last night for Southeast Alaska ports. The schooner C. S. Holmes, posted to sail from Seattle May 25 for Point Barrow and other Arctic ports, is loading at Seattle by agreement with striking longshoremen, and so is the motorship North Star, posted to sail from Seattle May 29 for Southeast and Southwest Alaska ports, Bristol Bay, Goodnews Bay, Bethel and 38 other places of call. All Ports Represented For the first time since Pacific Coast shipping was crippled by the longshoremen's strike, representatives of the Longshoremen's Association from every principal port in Pacific Coast States sat in conference in San Francisco today with power to negotiate peace To negotiate, however, does (Continued on Page 5.) JGROUND FOR JBE BROKEN PUBLIC INVITED TO EXERCIS- i ES AT 2 WITH JUDGE WICKERSHAM AS PRINCIPAL SPEAKER Ground will be broken tomorrow afternoon on the campus of the Al- damaged.

The damaged oats were sold at Nenana. The barge was raised Wednesday and repairs to it were completed by Friday forenoon. aska Agricultural College and of Mines for the Eielson i Memorial Building. The site for the Memorial has been chosen by the Board of Trustees of the education- jal institution. Exercises will begin i promptly at 2 o'clock.

Address By Wickersham i Hon. James Wickersham, former JTJnited States Judge and former Delegate in Congress will make the address. The College military unit jwili be jut-attendance along with Graduating The occasion will be eventful in the history of the College. All are cordially invited to be present. fact that actual construc- on page B.

DR. CHARLES E. BUNNELL MARTIN AND DUNNENAMED IN PRIMARY DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN PRIMARD5S ARE HELD AND VOTERS DEFEAT PROPOSAL FOR SALES TAX PORTLAND, Ore, May Maj. Gen. Charles H.

Martin of Portland, who was graduated from West Point with the class of 1887, who after 40 years of servjce retired from the Army in 1927 and who now is completing his second successive term as Representative in Congress, was nominated in the Oregon Democratic primary yesterday for Governor. Far In Lead With returns from 838 ijrecincts out of 1,650, he has 22,781 votes against 15iW6' for Willis E. Mahoney, Mayor of Klamath Falls. Both Major Gen. Martin and Mr.

Mahoney supported. President Roosevelt's New Deal policies. Joseph Dunne of state senator, received the Republican gubernatorial nomination. -In the "Hrst District, the Democratic congressional (Continued on Page 8.) Troops Name Dictator For Bulgarians DEGREES TO BE AWARDED NEXTMONDAY KING BORIS RETAINS THRONE AND SIGNS DECREES DISSOLVING PARLIAMENT AND STOPPING ELECTIONS SOFIA, Bulgaria, May a coup d'etat a military dictatorship was established today over Bulgaria. The- purpose of the movement is to combat the growing power of Communists.

The new regime has the approval of King Boris, who retains his throne. Troops Occupy Public Buildings With a cabinet crisis prevailing, due to the inabilty of the ministry to command the confidence parliament, troops rushed from the Sofia barracks this forenoon and occupied all government buildings in the capital city. Outgoing members of the cabinet were put under military guard. The public was kept indoors. Kins Iwues Decrees ''At the" King Boris issued decrees.

dissolving, parliament and approving the nomination of Kimon Gueroguififf as premier. By another decree, the King put an end (Continued on Page 8.) APPROACHING COMMENCEMENT WITNESSES LARGEST NUMBER OF GRADUATES IN HISTORY OF COLLEGE Twenty seniors will receive their diplomas at the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, Monday at 10 when degrees will be conferred on the members of the Class of 1934 during the twelfth annual Commencement Exercises. The largest graduating class in the annals of twelve years of college progress will march decorously in cap and gown in the processional to take their places on the commencement stage in the College gymnasium. The principle speaker on the well arranged program will be the HOB. James A.

Wickersham, instrumental in the establishment of the College in 1822, former District Judge in Alaska for -several "terms Alaskan Delegate to Congress. Presentation Of Diplomas The following graduates -will receive their will be presented by the President of the (Continued on Page 6.) WEATHER WITH CONGRESS PUTS HALT ON TRADE SUMMER LET-DOWN WILL NOT BE AS PRONOUNCED AS WAS EXPECTED AND FALL WILL SEE REVIVAL NKW YORK, May unseasonable weather and the undetermined outcome of pending legislation at the national capital, Dun and Bradstreet, the commercial agency says in its review of trade conditions for the past week, "left in their wake instability of prices and a less insistent demand for merchandise, which, were accompanied by the gathering of labor clouds over some of the chief centers of production. Result of Transitional Work "Complications now arising are doubtless the first direct result Of the transitional work, necessary while the recovery movement is being extricated gradually from government guidance to private initiative. "Trade in the past week was at. its lowest ebb in the corn belt in the Northwest where precipitation in the last four months has been the lightest in nearly a quarter ol a century.

Less Marked Than Expected "The majority of reports stress the certainty that the summer let down will be less marked than was anticipated a few -weeks ago and that it win be followed by a general expansion in the fall, however." Join The Big Parade Of Civic Pride Clean Up And Paint Up.