The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 12, 1931, Page 1

it i 8 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “4ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIIL, NO. 5846. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1931. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS CHINA MAKES THREAT OF PECLARING WAR ON JAPAN FEDERATION OF LABOR WORKING UPONPLATFORM i Many Planks Covering Wide Range of Subjects to Be Lad TROUBLESOME ISSUES FOR CONSIDERATION Delegates Observe 5 - Day Week — Study Prob- lems Over Sunday VANCOUVER, B. C, Oct. 12.— ‘With an arduous week behind and a busier week ahead, the Ameri- | can Federation of Labor paused last Saturday in the midst of the Fifty First Annual Convention to observe a five-day week and study planks to be laid in the platform during the present week. Troublesome problems, like Pro- hibition, Philippine TIndependence, labor conditions at the Hoover Dam, unemployment and other is- sues are to be settled this week. Many Prominent Speakers ! Speakers during the past weel included President William Gteen, of the American Federation of La-| bor; Senator James J. Davis, and | former Secretary of Labor; Edward Keating, Editor of the Labor Mag- | azine; Frank Brooks, Vice-Com-| mander of the (American Legion and others who outlined labor's ideals, The work this week will be to approve many of the ideals which will be expressed in forms of reso- lutions. Platform Planks According to indications, planks to be accepted for the platform will include opposition to a sale- tax, advocacy of a universal adop- tion of a five day week, dflmmds‘ for extention of the prevailing; wage scale on all Federal projects| and requesting changes in the tariff laws. The convention leaders expressed conviction that Labor still adhers taken several years ago. —————— TOM MOONEY ASKS BOYCOTT OF CALIFORNIA Makes Suggestion from San! Quentin Prison to Sympathizers SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. 12. —Tom Mooney, convicted Prepared- ! ness Day bomber, has advanced the | plan for a world wide boycott of California products and a sugges- | tion that tourist travel to this state| be discouraged until he has been granted a pardon. The plan is outlined in a letter sent sympathizers at a “pardon conyention” held in the Auditorium | here. Mooney, from San Quentin Pris- on, suggested an “intensive warldi wide agitational drive be set in mo-| tion at once.” ——————- EDISON KEEP ON DEGLINING WEST ORANGE, New Jersey, Oct. 12—~Thomas A. Edison is said | i Max Bichop, lead-off man for the Philadelphia Athletics, is shown in this First Wbrld Serws Batiéf F afined by "Cards s Associated Press tele- photo at bat in the first inning of the first game of the 1931 World Series in St. Louis. He struck out. VCardin&l Centerfielciér Out dt Siecond Associated Press telephoto of Pepper Martin, St. Louis centerfielder tagged out at second by Bishop to the stand for 2.75 percent beer |in a daring bit of action during the fourth inning of the first World Series game in St. Lounis. After dis- posing of Martin, Bishop threw home and the camera caught the ball in the air. Philadelphia, the favor- ite, won 6 to 2. PANGBORN AND HERNDON SLIP FROM CROWDS Leave on Fishing Trip— Expect to Fly Again Tomorrow SEATTLE, Oct. 12—Slipping from the University of Washington Sta- dium last Saturday afternoon where they watched the Oregon and ‘Washington football game, Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon end- ed a three-day tumultous acclaim’ to seek rest and quiet by fishing in the mountains near Wenatchee. ‘They were the guests on Satur~ day of Gov. R. H. Hartley and Dean Spencer, President of the University of Washington. ‘The plane of the two fliers will be outfitted with a new landing gear and will be ready tomorrow for a flight to New York city by easy stages. A ————— La;al Has Firm Stand on Defense| French Premier Makes Known Nation's Posi- tion on Armaments MOYLE, ALLEN FINALLY END LONG FLIGHT Make Daylight Trip from Tacoma, Wash., to Los Angeles, on Sunday LOS ANGELES, Cai. Oct. 12— Don Moyle and C. A. Allen ar- |rived here Sunday from Tacoma, Wash. completing their flight, after |many hops, from Japan, via Alaska, PARIS, Oct. 12—When Premier Laval meets President Hoover in Washington, D. C., it will be with a firm stand on armaments, The French Premier’s mind is still open but he will reiterate France’s old position that reduction | of armaments depends on assur-' ance given regarding the nation's security and mutual assistance in time of aggression. — e — MEDICAL CHIEF 70 BASE PLANS { | ON OWN SURVEY Dr. Fellows, Director of Medical Relief, Plans N. Y. EXCHANGE to this city. Six army ships escorted the two fliers to the landing field. Moyle and Allen have been pre- sented with the consolation prize of $2500 for making the flight. Moyle will appear in court to- morrow on an old charge of driv- ing while intoxicated. The two fliers planned to leave Tacoma last Saturday but a heavy fog completely shrouded the Tacoma field and extended far south. The weather cleared Sunday and the two men took the air. DIVORCE ACTION IO3 ANGELES, Cal. Oct. 12— Mrs. Mary Alen, wife of Cecil (Allen, who after the fliers took by his attending physician, Dr.! Howe, to be definitely failing day by day, although each day's loss is| CLOSED TODAY NEW YORK, Oct. 12—The New (off from Japan for the United | States, said she and her husband { Survey of Territory ] “My first job is to get acquaint- ed with the medical relief organi- very small. He has had no fluids York Stock Exchange is closed to-|zation of the Office of Indian Af-' for almost a week and does not day as Columbus Day is being ob- fairs in Alaska, to study conditions even recognize his wife now. served as a holiday. Federal Control of Iliqubr Given Jolt; W arrant Issued for Colorado Postmistress CROSSONS, Colorado, Oct. 12— Federal control of the liquor busi- ness has been a failure at Cros- sons because Federal dry agents wondered why the post office had so many customers. Furthermore & warrant is out for the arrest of the Postmistress. Her son is already .in jail charged with violation of -the Prohibition laws. Crossons is an isolated mountain resort west of Denver, and has had an unusual influx of persons. Federal agents wondered why fishermen brought snowshoes and stayed close to the post office. affecting its work and the facili- i ties and personnel doing that work,” ! declared Dr. F. S. Fellows, Director !of Medical Relief for the bureau |in the Territory, who arrived here late last week. He was accom- ;panled by Mrs. Fellows and their| three children. “Until T have been over the field jand familiarzed myself with thei entire situation, necessarily noj plans can be drafted nor no poli- | cles formulated,” he responded to a question regarding his program. |He expects to start his survey of | conditions as soon as he is settled | had - become reconciled after an estrangement, said she planned to start a action for divorce. “I wish Cecil all the success in the world. I wanted him to get a break but it's just one of those things that is inevitable,” Mrs. Allen said, BREAT PROTEST MADE AGAINST WAGE REDUCTION Peaceful Demonstration [s Staged by Great Bri- rain’s Civil Servants UNDRED THOUSAND IN LINE OF MARCH Parade Requires One Hour to qus Given Point in British Metropolis LONDON, Oct. 12—The peace- ful demonstration of Great Brit- ain's clvil scevants against reduc- tion in thelr salaries is described by the police as the greatest within memory. It is estimated that 100,000 per- sons, men, women and children, in orderly parade, moved along the banks of the Thames to Hyde Park to listen to a dozen addresses. The parade required an hour to pass a given point. Hundreds of mounted and foot police were needed to regulate tratfic. The demonstrators marched to the music of 20 bands. The marchers carried and waved hundreds of banners. Following the parade and ad- dresses, one thousand radicals and unemployed sang of a world revolu- tion outside the walls of Wormwood and Scrubbs prisons. Inside, the convicts took up the chorus in an- swering the refrain, ——————— BAYGHIMO MAY BE CRUSHED OR 'DRIVEN ASHORE Ice Packed Solid Around Trading Steamer Near Point Barrow POINT BARROW, Alaska, Oct. 12.—Practically all hopes have been given up by the Baychimo, Hud- son’s Bay Company’s trading steam- er, of getting out of the ice. Con- tinuous southerly winds have pack- ed the ice in solid for miles around the ship. The first southerly gale will either carry the ship on the beach or crush it. 8Some of the passengers have been taken by dog team to Wain- wright to spend the winter. Others will fly out to Nome and make connection with the last trip of the steamer Victoria. Tt is understood here six air- planes have been contracted for to carry passengers and freight to Nome. Preparations have already been made to build a suitable house on the beach to house the crew for the winter. JIM MEEHAN IS ARRESTED, RAGE FIXING Negroes Poofess They Were Paid for Tampering with Horses MINEOLA, N. Y., Oct. 12.—Jim- my Meehan, former gambling house partner of ‘Arnold Rothstein, and who was held for a time in con- nection with the gambler chief’s murder, has been arrested for con- spiracy in a wholesale fixing of horse races. Meehan, who was one of the players in the high spade game in which Rothstein lost $300,000 short- GOLD STANDARD OFF IN FINLAND HELINGSFORS, Oct. 12.—Fol- lowing the lead of other Scand- inavian countries, Finland has sus- pended the Gold Stndard. —— - WORTH WEIGHT IN BUTTER The Federal agents investigated yoro and has studied the more im-| DEFRFIELD, Ill. — Lora Violet and found three kegs of whiskey mash, two gallons of wine mash portant records of the bureau. ! Dr. Fellows is the first Director Hengerveld, a mature Holstein cow in the Elmwood Farms herd, has and five gallons of wine among/.r \ogical Relief ever to serve the produced 1,054 pounds of butterfat the mail sacks in the postmistress'cyrica of Indian Affairs, or its pra- |in 27,617 pounds of milk in a year. cage. new still. They also found a brandd __ 1™ (Continuea oz Page Three) | Her production of butterfat was seven-eights of her own weight. 1y before he ‘was slain, was arrest- ed as the result of the confession of two negroes who said Meehan pald them to tamper with horses. American Minister to China Is Married to Girl from Wyoming PEIPING, China, Oct. 12—Nel- son T. Johnson, American Minis- ter to China, was married last Saturday to Miss Jane Beck, of Cody, Wyoming. A brother, gave the bride away and Frank Lock- hart, American Consul General, was best man. American Peer afld,Bride ULTIMATI]M IS the former Ruth Gill, following th well known in New York and Bost being born one minute ahead of his twin brother. Lord Fermoy, christened Edmund Maurice Roche as the first of the twin sons born to the former Fanny Work, of New York, and James Burke-Roche, an Irish nobleman, and rai leaving the church in Bieldside, Aberdeen, Scotland, with his bride, d in America, is shown eir marriage. Lord Fermoy, the only member of Parliament to graduate from Harvard University, and on, won the right to his title by SALMON CHIEFS URBED TO WORK WITH ALASKANS RE. Roberl;:Embhasizes! Need of Cooperation’ in Great Industry I{ Members of the Salmon Packers Association take a hopeful view of the future of the salmon industry, said R. E. Robertson, Juneau at- torney, who returned home yester- day from a business trip of four weeks to British Columbia and the States. He addressed the meet- ing of the association recently held at Harrison Hot Springs, not far from Vancouver, B. C. “Salmon packers are trying to formulate a plan that will stabil-! ize the price of their product,” Mr. Robertson declared. “A good feel- | ing pervaded the Harrison Hot, Springs meeting. While no definite policy was outlined, the discussions were enlightening and dealt with difficulties common to all the sal-| mon packing interests. ! “In my talk, I emphasized the| il (Continued on rage four) WITNESSES SAY PAID IN MONEY Appeared to Have Plenty of Cash — Testimony Given at Tax Trial CHICAGO, Il., Oct. 12— The butcher, the baker, and candle- stick maker, who served the needs and fancies of Al Capone, were pa- raded last Saturday in the trial of the gangster on charges of de- | come taxes. plenty of money, paid his bills promptly by cash. Telephone bills, meat bills, hotel bills and labor charges were read into the records and identified by tradespeople and business men, most of them from Florida, where Capone owns a $40,000 estate. The Government traced $80,000 sent Capone in 1928 from Chicago. The defense objected to the evi- dence, CAPONE’S FRIEND JAILED ‘CHICAGO, IIL, Oct. Dandrea, Capone’s personal friend and constant companion at the Wilkerson to stand trial for carry- ing a pistol in the courtroom. Dandrea was seized as he left the court room late last Satur- day afternoon by Marshals who found a .38 calibre pistol under his belt. Capone pleaded for his release lbu: Dandrea was taken to jail. CAPONE ALWAYS GLORIFICATION OF GANGSTERS IS CONDEMNED Hoover UrgeTChange of Sentiment “of Popular Hero Roles WASHINGTON, D. C,, Dct. 12— A change in public sentiment, that of shifting the role of popular hero from the criminal to the policeman, is advocated by President Hoover as one means of stamping out ex- cessive crime. The proposal was made in a ra- dio message at the opening of the meeting of the International Asso- ciation of Chief of Police at St. Petersburg, Florida. The President condemned “glor- ification of cowardly gangsters.” e e 12 DIRECTORS T0 BE NAMED, CREDIT BANK Half Bllion Dollar Corpora- | tion Formation Is Nearly Ready NEW YORK, Oct. 12—Tht com- mittee which is setting up the half billion dollar banking credit cor- | poration met last Saturday and an- nounced it expected to shortly an- | nounce the names of the twelve di- | rectors, one from each Federal Re- | serve District. It was explained that the cor- poration funds will be reached en- tirely through banks and possibly DELIVERED BY - CHINESE GOV, {Problem Placed Squarely Before League of Na- tions at Geneva |ELEVENTH HOUR IS - | REACHED IN CRISIS Grave Concern Expressed by United States— Decision Awaited WASHINGTON D. C. Oct. 12.— 1 The gravest concern is expressed jby the State Department over the ithreat of President Chiang Kal Shek, of China, that war will be declared if the League of Nations, |at the meeting tomorrow, does not | settle the Manchuria dispute with Japan satisfactorily. President Chiang Kai Shek's statement was laid before Secrat- ary of State Stimson, Under Secret- jary Castle and Dr. Stanley Horn- |beck, Chief of the Far Eastern Division, Secretary Stimson and his aides (took up the Manchurian question to the exclusion cf all other busi- ness but they are faced with the necessity for a decision to await |the outcome of the League of Natlon’s session tomorrow or invoke immediately the treaties of war to ‘which the United States is a party. U. 8. SENDS NOTE WASHINGTON D. C. Oct. 12— It has been revealed here that |Secretary of State Siimson, fol- {lowing a Cabinet meeting last Fri- |day, called by President Hoover, dispatched a message to Eric Drum- mond, Secretary General of the League of Nations, urging the League to “assert all pressure and |authority within jts competence” toward settling the Manchurian problem. The note said the United States reserves the right to act independ- lently in supporting whatever action |the league may take in invoking |the Kellogg-Briand pact for re- nunciation of war or the Nine Power Treaty of 1922, War Cloud Hangs Low Last Saturday it was _announced that a sinister cloud was threat- ening peace in the Orient as the Iresult of Japan's occupation of Manchuria and moves were quiet- ily being taken by the League of Nations to dissipate the clouds. China observed the Twentieth |'Anniversity of the birth of it's jRepublic with an impressive mili- tary display. President Chiang Kai Shek plead- jed for national unity and strength to resist foreign invasion. | The Japanese War Office in- ‘formed President Hoover that it deplored any action by the United States, declaring information from Chinese sources was misleading |and was propaganda. | Japanese Note ’ A Japanese note was made public |at Geneva declaring military op- | erations in Manchuria were" solely ithe result of anti-Japanese senti- yment in China.” | The note was in reply to a Chinese message published by the ’Secreury of the League of Nations in which the Chinese Government announced it again demanded Jap- 'an evacuate places in Manchuria | immediately. ' NATIVE WOMAN DIES IN FEDERAL HOSPITAL other financial institutions. Deben- | tures on which funds will be rals: | ed will be a desired form of invest-| Mrs. J. Martinez, a Native, 38 ment for banks as the corporation years old, died last evening in the All the witnesses said Capone had | 12.—Philip | trial, has been ordered by Judge | some cases, not readily marketable assets. —e,——— NEVADA USING GARDEN MULCH | ! RENO, Nov.—Mulch paper, for use in vegetable gardens to in- |crease bacterial action, save water land keep down the weeds, is being tested by a number of ranchers ir | Washoe County. frauding the Government of in-|Will loan on a basis of sound, or,in | Government Hospital. The remains the Charles W. Carter Funeral ‘are at | Mortuary. arrangements |await the arrival of the husband, who is in Petersburg. ——————— FEW CARS IMPORTED i CHICAGO. — Only 750 foreign cars were imported into the United | States last year, while 546,202 American cars were exported, ac- cording to the Chicago Motor club. ' All Worked | NEW YORK, Oct. 12.—George |Bernard Shaw’s voice came over the radio from London saying “Hello, America,” and “all your dear boobs |who have been telling one another |I've gone dotty about Russia.” | Russia, Shaw said, has the laugh ‘cn the United States where there George Bernard Shaw Is Up; Message Given America by Radio is “hunger, bankruptcy and unme- ployment while Russia is carrying on her wonderful experiment.” Shaw declared that Russia’s ideas |are nothing more than he and | many Americans suggested years | ago but were laughed at for ad- ;vflncing.