THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. XUL, NO. 6386.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1933.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
MATTERN CRASHED, SAYS ONE REPORT
ROOSEVELT PLANS FIOTT, WORLD PRICE RECOVERY
PROGRAM GIVEN
TO DELEGATION
LONDON SESSION
More Ammunition Is Pro
vided for Success of
World Parley
GREAT BRITAIN HAS
DESERTED GOLD BLOC
France Admits Defeat m
Trying to Limit Work, j
Original Agenda
LONDON. July 8—After having
saved the life of the World Econ
omic Conference by an order to
fight to a finish against adjourn
ment. President Roosevelt has pro
vided his delegation with more
ammunition to strive for the par
ley’s success.
For Original Agenda
A message, carrying the Ameri
can campaign for world wide price
recovery, has b*en received by the
delegation and the members are
jubilant at the prospects of being
able to present concrete proposals
to the parley to support their de
sires for full treatment of the
original agenda.
New Bloc
The gold leaders, however, de
clare the President’s program is de
signed to solidify what they char
acterize as the dollar and sterling
bloc, comprising the United States,
■British Empire and a number of
smaller States, and assist it to op
pose the European gold standard
nations.
The French concede defeat in
trying to limit the work of the
conference.
MESSAGE OUTLINED
WASHINGTON, July 8. — The
message outlining the plan of this
Government for an endeavor to
raise world prices as the immediate
objective of the London Economic
Conference was drafted last night
by President Roosevelt for dispatch
to the American delegation.
