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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 58.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Cities Long Beaeh
and Los Angeles
Strewn Wreckage
THE NUMBER OF DEAD FROM FRIDAY’S EARTH
QUAKE IS PLACED AT 120 OR MORE; IT’S IN
JURED MORE THAN 4,000 AND PROPERTY
DAMAGE, TENS OF MILLIONS DOLLARS.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FELT A TOTAL OF
20 31AJOR SHOCKS WHICH STRUCK AT IN
TERVALS LAST NIGHT AND EARLY TODAY.
THE 20TH QUAKE WAS OF LESSER SEVERITY
THAN THE ONES IMMEDIATELY PRECED j
ING.
LATEST DISPATCHES
Long Beach, where ihe tremors
were hardest, reported at least 65
dead and about 1,000 injured.
Anaheim Boulevard, extending
almost two miles Eastward into tho
residential section, was the hard
est hit, scarcely a building there
escaping without damage
The rehabilitation work started
immediately; 2,000 men were call
ed to clean up the City of Los An
geles which counted five dead and
estimated 3,000 were hurt in the
collapse of many brick wails and a
few old buildings and appearance
of cracks in its new 28-storv City
Hall.
RELIFE FOR DISTRESS
From Washington came author
ity for banks to advance cash nec
essary to relieve distress caused by
the quake and if further assistance
is necessary it will be granted by
the Treasury.
Chairman John Payne oi the
National Red Cross, wired Gover
nor Rolf offering the services oi
the Red Cross to take charge of
relief.
Compton reported 13 dead and
150 injured. Ten other small
towns one dead in each.
Search continued thru the night,
and was speeded today. It is fear
ed the increase of deaths at Long1
Beach will be increased 100 or
more. Property damage there is
possibly $10,000,000; smaller build
ings were reduced to piles of bricks
and cement and sturdier buildings
cracked but did not fall.
SHOCKS CONTINUING
The shocks are continuing and
may continue for days or even j
weeks.
The earth shocks are believed i
to have centered in a great up-1
heaval in the Pacific Southwest of
Long Beach where the front of a i
two story hotel fell away almost
immediately, leaving bedrooms and
baths exposed.
Police were detailed to force oc
cupants of many apartment hous
es out and prevent others from en
tering. Fire added its menace to
the shocks from the quivering j
earth.
School buildings at Huntington
Park and Norwalk burned. How
ever, the far-famed skyline of Los
Angeles and Long Beach was un
marred by the catastrophe.
VOLUNTEERS RALLY
Police, Naval and Military units
and- other relief agencies quickly,
rallied around the whole stricken
front and thousands of volunteers,
were soon added to the regular
forces. National1 guard units, are
doing patroL duty. Sailors.were dis
patched from nearby towns and
others came ashore today.
The initial convulsion did the
major part 6f the dhmage "but lat
er shocks seemed more severe than
the first but actually, were not.
Reports of a tidal wave caused
wide-spread alarm but was totally
without foundation.
PLANE CRASHED
Frederick Porter, Chicago sports
man, pilot and owner- Capt. E.
Charles Town, Santa Monica Air*
EARLIER REPORT
LOS ANGELES, March 11.—
Two hundred were reported
dead and over a thousand
were injured in an earthquake
the most severe in 15 years,
which struck all Southern
California at 5:55 o’clock yes
terday evening.
Many other shocks followed
in rapid succession. The fear
ful earth movement extended
in great force from San Diego
to Ventura, damage in some
degree being reported by com
munities thruout the area.
Severest damage was report
ed in Long Beach, Wilmington
and San Pedro, surrounding
the harbor district. Two men
were killed in San Pedro and
the fice in the Southeastern
section of Los Angeles. A
number of the seriously injur
ed were treated in Compton,
a suburb between Los Angeles
and Long Beach. Another
earthquake of 30 seconds dura
tion. was felt at Los Angeles
last night.
port Field manager, and Police
Sergent Charles Morton of Santa
Monica, were killed when their
plane crashed enroute to Long
Beach to render aid to victims of
; the quake.
! Long Beach was calm this
; morning and operating under semi
martial law. The occasional quakes
have not increased the damage.
The weary people have grown ac
customed to the continued tremors
and took them as they came with
out excitement.
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GOVERNOR IN CHARGE
Streets are abandoned for the
i most part; thousands of people
j huddled under blankets on their
; lawns, in vacant lots and parks, all
j before the big fire. Many water
; mains were broken but only scat
! tered reports came of water short
! age.
Governor Rolf is taking personal
charge of relief workers; Pierce
Williams, field, representative of
the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration arrived by plane from.
San Francisco to cooperate with
relief agencies.
A prize fight was held in the
Hollywood arena as scheduled al
though shocks were frequent. ;
Hollywood felt the shocks but
movie stars escaped as the force of
the quake missed the*, city.
16th. SIJOCK vf
LOS ANGELES,- March; U—The
16th strong shock with a circular
movement,,<sw#pt Southern Califor
nia at 1:11 a. m. The kpown death
toll ^mounted to* 424 and 1*000 in
jured and millions of dollars in
property damage. >
The quake covered a coastal area
of 200 miles round ■■ and 30 miles
wide. More than 1,000.000 people
felt hte shock.
Another slight shock struck San
ta Barbara at'10:2Q. b. m.
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READY OPEN MONDAY
NEW YORK, March 11, 'This
j metropolis of big money was
j cheered by the signs of rebounding
confidence and is ready to throw
open the throttle of its banking
: machine Monday. Banks, mean
while, are taking care of vital
week-end needs. There is a stam
pede on to return gold and cur
rency to banks.
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NO EXTERNAL FORCES ARE
THREATENING STABILITY
OF TllE DOLLAR
LONDON, March 11,—Confidence
that the United States will solve
its banking problem satisfactorily
characterized European comment
on the financial crisis in America.
Commentators have agreed that
America will retain the gold stan
dard and be ready to cooperate
with other nations to restore world
prosperity.
“It would seem incredible that
America would deliberately turn
her back bn gold”,, one London
newspaper commented. “There are
tno external forces threatening the
stability of the dollar,” another
one said. World markets marked
time as the United States moved
rapidly towTard reopening soimd
banks on a normal basis. The dol
lar ruled firm and plans were
made tc resume official trading ln|
it on various markets.
Resuming Trading
The Paris Bourse voted 10 re
sume official trading Monday and
(in London a bankers’ committee;
decided to continue the ban on
dollar trading temporarily. Tne
dollar firmed up in private tran
sactions in Paris, London. Amster
dam, Berlin and Madrid and was
steady in Rome.
The London market closed irreg
ularly and the Paris Bourse closed\
lower. Winnipeg wheat closed
higher after receiving strong sup
port from Chicago traders- Closing
prices were May 52 1-4, July 53 3-8.
October 55. Liverpool wheat clos
ed firm.
ftOOSEKLT PUNS
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WASHINGTON, D. C., March 11.
—President Roosevelt is continu
ing his drive for “big stick" auth
ority to .deal with national emerg
ency asked Congress to grant him
; the powers of a dictator for ' a
| drastic retrenchment of govern
j ment expenses. The President
! proposed to attack “an accumulat
ed deficit of five billion dollars” by
i a reduction in payments to vet
! erans, repeal of the furlough plan,
: reducing government salaries, and
substitution-, of a broader plan foig
reduction .in pay of both-civil and
military^employee^
The program Would reduce gov
ernment expenses by about $500,
000,000.- • h V. «> I. "V..'
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President Roosevelt was prepar
ing another message to Congress
asking a $500,000,000 bond issue to
create employment. Of tbisy $200,*
000,000 would be needed for the
first year. This message was? giv
en to’ Congress today.
OFFICIALS WORKING AT TOP
SPLED; SOME EXPECTED
OPEN MONDAY
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WASHINGTON, March 11, —A
number of banks probably will
open for business early next week,
it was stated authoritatively. Some
may be allowed to open Monday.
Officials, working at top speed, de
clined to set a definite opening
date, saying that they would send
out authorizations as fast as pos
sible.
Meanwhile, banks are still allow
ed to keep partially open for pur
poses such as meeting payrolls, as
provided several days ago by or
ders of the Treasury Department.
The 12 Federal Reserve Banks were
ordered to open today to make
loans to member banks on govern
ment securities. This was done to
enable banks to collect cash pre
paratory to resuming business.
An Impossible Task
Emphasis is laid on the fact that
! it will not be humanly possible for
Treasury officials to send out au
thorizations simultaneously to
: every bank that is to be permitted
to reopen. Therefore, it is urged
that the country bear in mind that
the soundness of any bank is not
to be judged by the fact that it
may not be among th? first to re
ceive authorization to reopen. It’s
application to be permitted to re
open simply may be further down
the list waiting action.
In the meantime, new currency
is being shipped out in large
amounts. Treasury officials are
anxious that when the banks do
reopen there will be available suf
ficient cash to meet all possible
needs. Delay in reopening banks
is partly due to a desire in Wash- 1
ington to give independent State
banks an even start with mem
bers of the Federal Reserve system.
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GREATEST GOLD RUSH
NEW YORK, March 11, —New
York’s greatest gold rush is in
full swing at the Federal Reserve
Bank. In tin boxes, sacks, brief
cases and in pockets, gold was
coming back to the bank in quan
tities that astounded bank offi
cials. Long lines of men and wo
men stood in the bank thruout the
day.
In the panicky days which' pre
ceded the bank holiday, over $100,
000,000 in gold was withdrawn
from the banks. Virtually that
entire amount had been returned
at the close of business Friday.
Locksmiths were doing a rushing i.
business as people' came to them
with boxes containing gold, ex
plaining that the keys had keen
lost. Several large locksmith shops
had so,many boxes of gold that de
tectives were assigned to stand
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MURDERER ARRESTED
KALISPEL, Mon,t., March 11;—
Charles Kimzey, alias Tom Collins,,
aged 58, wanted for four murders,
attempted murders and other
crimes in Montana and Oregon,
was arrested here late yesterday.
! RETENTION OF TIE
SITKA PIONEER HOI
IS RECOMINOEE
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JUNEAU, March 11,—The Pion
eers Home commission unanimous
ly reported favoring retention of
that institution at Sitka when re
constructed but recommended that
rebuilding be deferred for at least
two years.
The committee estimated it
should have accommodations for
150 men and 50 women and esti
mated the cost at $300,000. The
building fund is composed of gov
ernment bonds and Wrangell
school bonds, totaling $208,000.
The commission was composed
of Governor Parks, Senator Hess
and Superintendent Kettleson of
the Sitka Home.
Outright repeal by the Alaska
Legislature of the Alaska Bone Dry
law was again sought by Hellerich
who, wiht Allyn of Nome, sponsor
ed the same movement twro years
ago. He introduced a repeal Fri
day which was expected to pass
without amendment.
Swanberg of Nome seems to
have a peeve against newspapers.
He authorized a House measure
making it unnecessary to publish
delinquent tax lists in newspapers.
Nordale introduced a bill re
quiring that all public school build
ings hereafter erected to house 100
pupils or more; must be construct
ed of reenforced concrete stone or
brick.
Taylor introduced a measure de
fining property rights of illegiti
mate children and another to
abolish the Territorial board of
law examiners and restore the sys
tem prevailing prior to 1929.
SEATTLE, GOOD LIST
j SEATTLE. March 11. —The S3.
| Northwestern, of the A. S S. Co..
! sailed for Seward today with the
following list of passengers:
M. Coonen, Fred Carlson, George
j B. Phillips, Ernest Peterson, F. A.
i Hammer, F. Callinatti, George L.
| Harris, George A. Boyer, Dr. F. A.
Carter, Geoi'ge P. Coughlin, Thos.
Carr, J. G- Irving, B. O. Martinson,
i Wm. Shields, Peter and Fred Nel
ton, Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Eggleston,
son, Mrs. M. Kj els tad . F. H. Maple -
Willis Eggleston. Lily B. Hoehn.
F. E. Clark, Ralph Reed. Ed Wil
son, U. G. Crocker, Mr. and Mrs.
F. W. Jenkins, E. W. Wolcott, J. D.
Chamberlain, Wm. Basham, Miss
L. Gill, Mrs. A. Anderson, Victor
Sorensen, Carl Newcomb. Mrs. A.
Nerland, Mrs. Charlotte Potter, M.
and N. Siglio, Raymond Capastro.
Edw. Siglio, Orville Englehorn, F.
W. Englehorn, K. S. Sheggeby, W.
Murray, C. Chamberlain, O. Engle
horn, O. Morgan, F. Englehorn, G.
Granlees, F. E. Whiting, R. Max
well, W*. Ryning, J. B. Parsons and
J. Winzenreen.
STRONG SPIRIT TO CARRY ON
NEW YORK, March 11.—A strong'
.■spirit ;to “carry on”,, in the face of
th£ banking crisis caused only a
minor setback to general business
during the last week Dun &
Bradstreet, Inc.., reported today.
Optimism became more pronounc
ed when it was realized that the
suspension of banking facilities
would result in no devaluation of
the Omerican dollar, the reviewer
said.
i WITH CONSENT OF OFFICIALS
CHECKS WRITTEN PRIOR
MARCH 6, ACCEPTED
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 11,
i—On the seventh day of the Na
j tion-wide bank holiday President
| Roosevelt pressed for gradual op
| ening of sound banks which will
! probably start Monday. Federal
j Reserve banks were ordeied to
open today for loans to help the
quick return to normal banking.
The Treasury authorized any
bank, on consent cf local officials,
to pay checks issued before Marcia
6 by charging the amounts to the
drawer’s account.
Program Ready
The President’s half-billion econ
omy plan faces the Democratic
caucus today after the unanimous
approval by the special House com
mittee.
The half-biliion jobless relief
program is ready for transmission
to Congress but will be presented
apparently after he learns the
Congressional Intent on economy.
The President directed all banks
to continue to meet the vital needs
of today and he expected to retain
firm command of National banks
until the adoption of a permanent
device for a reorganization pro
gram.
He asked depositors not to be
concerned if banks did not open
immediately for the determination
of their soundness takes time.
The Treasury rushed $2,000,000,
0C0 in new Federal Reserve cur
rency to banks in the controlled
expansion; exchanges still closed
were ordered to open today.
It is estimated that during this
week $100,000,000 in hoarded gold
has been returned to banks. Fri
day between 7.500 and 8.000 people
brot gold to banks valued at $30,
000.000.
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WASHINGTON. D. C-, March 11.
—Following is President Roose
! velt's budget message to Congress
i today.
“The nation is deeply gratified
| by the immediate response given
Thursday by Congress to the ne
cessity for drastic action to re
I store and improve our banking sys
; ter. A like necessity exists with
j respect to the finances of the gov
; eminent itself, which requires
| equally courageous, frank and
| prompt action. For three long
j years the Federal government has
I been cn the road to bankruptcy.
j For the fiscal year 1931 the deficit
was $462,000,000. For the fiscal
year 1932 it was $2,472,000,000. For
the fiscal year 1933 it will probably
exceed $1,200,000,000. For the fis
cal year^ 1934,. based on the appro
priations bills passed by the last
Congress and the estimated reve
nues, the deficit will probably ex
ceed $1,0001000,000 unless immedi
ate action ,13 taken. Thus we shah
have piled up an accumulated de
ficit of $5,000,000,000.”
CATTLE MARKET CLOSED
KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 11.—
The cattle market closed Friday
morning but announced it would
reopen today on a smaller scale.
PUBLIC DANCE TONIGHT I. 0. 0. F. HALL