The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 13, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALI THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIIL, NO. 5847. MI:MBI-R OF ASSOCIAT[;D PRI:SS PRICE TEN CENTS EXTRAORDINARY SESSIONBEING HELD IN GENEVA Conflict in—i'l—a nchuria Placed Before Council Meeting Today CHINESE DELEGATE PRESENTS HIS SIDE Japanese Delegate Will| Make Statement Dur- ing This Afternoon GENEVA, Oct. 13.—The Council of the League of Nations convened today in extraordinary session to consider the China-Japanese con- flict in Manchuria. The members of the Council listened to a statement made by Dr. Alfred Sze, Chinese delegate, and then adjourned until thisafter- noon when Kenkichi Yoshizawa, Japanese delegate will be heard. Dr. Sze denounced Japan's “vio- lenc: and military aggression,” and demanded the League direct im- mediate withdrawal of the Japan- ese from Manchuria. PACIFIC CONFERENCE OFF SHANGHALI, Oct. 13.—The Pacific Council, the governing body of the Institute of Pacific Relations, has definitely abandoned plans to hold a modified institute conference at Hang Chow and decided to at- tempt a full conference at Shang- hai on October 21. - Strained relations between Japan and China caused postponement of the conference which was set for October 2. SUCCESSOR TO COOPER BEING CHOSEN TODAY First Wisconsin District Goes to Polls — Com- munists-Cause Riot RACINE, Wis,, Oct. 13.—The First Wisconsin District is selecting a successor to the late Congressman Henry Allen Cooper, Republican. A Communist rally in Monument Square in behalf of the party can- didate, John Sikat, ended in a riot involving a score of police and about 300 civillans. Eight men and one woman were arrested for dis- crderly conduct. The other candidates are Thomas Amlie, Progressive Republican; C. J. Bouma, Socialist; Georgr: Herzog, Independent Democrat; Henry Tubbs, Independent Prohibitionist. KELSEYS WILL SAIL FOR STATES SUNDAY Mr. and Mrs. 8. T. Kelsey, who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. 1. Sowerby, will leave on the next southbound voyage of the steam- ship - Alaska, October 18, for Se- attle. From there, Mr. and Mrs. Kelsey will go to Northern Califor- nia, where they will spend the winter. Mrs. Kelsey is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sowerby. Siege; Local Efforts Stressed i HELPING THE IDLE OF NATION ‘When winter brings added hardships to the nation’s idle, relief forces will be found prepared. For they are planning aid measures now under leadership of Walter S. Gifford (right), who was named by Presi- dent Hoover (left) as chief of the jobless relief organization. Chairman John Barton Payne (lower right) instructed local Red Cross chapters to give aid if needed. GOVERNMENT ~ REGORD GITED EVIDENCE IN, ' AS DEFENSE IN CAPONE TRIAL Prosecution Rests Case— Former Gang Boss Not Called to Stand | CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 13. — The Government has completed its tes- timony in the Al Capone trial in which the gangster is charged with evasion of income tax for six years on at least $1,035,000. | 'Counsel Contends No At-| tempt Ever Made to Cover Up Activities MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 13.— Foshay trial cited the accounting records brought to the trial as gov- ernment exhibits as their main | reliance in seeking freedom for W. |B. Foshay and six of his aides, The Government rested after a having presented no testimony for handwriting expert testified signa- the defendants. tures on telegraphic money order: The defense counsel told the and other Government exhibils | members of the jury the records were written by the defendant. jshowed adequately that no attempt had ever been made to cover up |the activities of the various Fo- |shay enterprises. Counsel asserted the case against the seven defend- ants hinges on whether the values |given the properties by the group were honest. The Government contends. the Johnny Torrif, former Chicago gang boss who appeared before the | grand jury investigating the case! and who was subpoenaed as witness in the trial, was not called | to the stand. Educators to Make Plea to Congress for Larger Share of Broadcasting Privilege, WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 13— Education’s drive for a larger share of radio facilities will be carried to the new Congress which meets in December. Educators plan to seek enactment of the ®ill introduced in the last Congress by Senator Fess of Ohio which provides that 15 per cent of the “effective service” program broadcasting facilities be reserved for aducational uses exclusively. Under the Fess bill about 12 cleared channels would be allotted to “educational agencies of the federal or state governments and to educational institutions chartered by the United States or by the re- Y ! values were rapidly increased in or- (der to overcome the steadily in- | creasing deficit and if the de- :(endams had fixed the values, whlch they knew to be proper, no | one would have been induced to in- vest their money in the stocks. > Aviators to Use Oxygen Air-Mapping Rockies GUNNISON, Colo., Oct. 13.—Fly- ing 20,000 feet above sea level with oxygen bottles to sustain life, a overemphasis of commercialism in|pilot and cameramen will air-map broadcasting, with commercial sta- 700 square miles of mountain-stud- tions asking more power while ed- 'ded terrain. ucational stations are quitting. | Aerial photographsv wn'll be tak- Meanwhile the big radio net-|en to make a “grazing” f works have announced plans to ex-|the United States forestry service pand their educational broadcasts.|of a region cut by the continental CBS is enlarging its “University of |divide. the Air” programs and NBC is in-| The completed map will show augurating a series of weekly pro-|highways, drainage, wooded and grams featuring talks by educators.;cleared areas, spective states.” Several educators, including Dr. William J. Cooper, National Com- missioner of Education, have de- plored the decrease in the number of educational stations. They say there is an increasing FOSHAY'STRIAL The counsel for the defense in the| map for | Jobless Relief Army “Dlgs in” for Winter in Intensive Drwe Greatest Smce Days of World War KNatlonal 0 r ganization Set Up to Coor- nate and Help ! SLOGAN IS ADOPTED FOR AIDING DISTRESS {Many Organizations Jein i in Work Started by U.’ % i By Alexander R. George ‘WASHINGTON, D. C. Oct. 18— S. Government { A plan which utilizes machinery {of many years’ standing is being used by The President’s Organiga- tion on Unemployment Relief in the most concerted move to meet a national emergency sinee the World War. ; ‘A national organization has been !set up but its function is merely | to cooperate and help set in motion | the machinery of local organiga- |tions in more than 4,500 l'and cities throughout the country, 376 of which are of more than 25,000 population. I Heretofore such movements have |been operated on a national basis, with national funds and national | disbursements, but this winter every | effort for relief of the distress | which is expected as the result of | nemployment will be entirely local. The slogan might be “Local funds for local relief.” 5,600,000 Idle Now Last January the government gsti- mated the number of jobless.-at 6,050,000. William Green, president of the American Federation of La- bor, haspredicted that 7,000,000 will be idle the coming winter. In a re- cent statement, however, he said that the usual fall gain in em- ployment which he expected when he made that prediction had not occured this year. | Green estimated that on Sep- tember 25 there were 5,600,000 persons idle in the United States. ‘He sald prospects for the winter are even more serious. Other in- dications place the winter's job- less at between 4,000,000 and 8,000,- ‘The work of caring for this army of unemployed has been started on the new plan and early returns in- dicate successful operation despite lack of precedent. ‘The task of the national commit- tee which is headed by Walter 8. |Gifford as set forth by him is “to co- ordinate and strengthen the work of providing public and private re- lief funds, of administering those funds and of increasing and dis- m’butlng employment.” ' Local campaigns to raise funds, jthe most intensive since the Liberty {Loan days of the world war, will be waged throughout the nation from October 19 to November 25. PANGBORN AND HERNDON MAKE FLIGHT RECORD World Trip.—A_ccording to Figures, Beats Time of Post and Gatty NEW YORK, Oct. 13—The round the world flight of Clyde Pangborn and’ Hugh Herndon illustrates how fickle fortune plays hob with the best of plans. Harold Gatty and Wiley Post circled the world in eight days 15 hours and 51 minutes. Of that total, four days, ten hours and eight minutes time wore spent actually in the air. At first glance the Herndon and Pangborn figures seem to indicate they never had a chance to break the record but allowing them a generous 30 hours for a flight from Wenatchee, Wash, to New York, they would have a flying time of seven days, twenty-two hours and fifty-three minutes or seventeen hours faster than that of Post and Gatty. LOCAL EXHIBIT ATTRACTS MUCH NOTE AT PARIS Alaska Exhlblt at French Colontal Fair Throng- = ed at All Times Expressing his personal thanks to the Governor for the Alaska ex- hibit displayed at the International and Colonial Overseas Exposition at Paris, C. Bascom Slemp, Com- missioner General for the United States in a letter just received by Gov. Parks, said it had attracted a great deal of attention and was at all times thronged with visitors. The exhibit was collected in the Territory last winter under the di- rection of the Governor who had the co-operation of commercial and civic organizations, schools and many individuals. Mr. Slemp sug- gested that the entire display be shipped to Washington and retain- ed there to become a pant of the Alaska exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933, and this plan will be adopted, Gov. Parks said to- day. Text of Letter “I want to thank you personally for the splendid exhibit from Alas- ka which is being displayed at the International Colonial and Over- seas Exposition at Paris. It has a great deal of attention and is at all times thronged with visitors. “In addition to the material col- They will not be campaigns for (Continue\l on Page Three) —————— CHARGE NEGRO 'WITH MURDER OF 4 PERSONS Bodies Arefind in Farm House—Victims Blud- geoned, then Shot BERLIN, Maryland, Oct. 13.—A sixty-year-old negro, Orphan Jones, is held for the shotgun and ax murders of the Green Davis fam- ily, Davis, his wife and two daught- ers, on their farm. | Jones worked three weeks for Davis, up to last Saturday night, then they quarreled and Jones was discharged. ‘The body of Davis, aged 55 years, was found yesterday in his bed beside the body of his wife, Iva. aged 45 years, on the second floor of the farm house. The bodies of the two girls, Eliza- beth, aged 15, and Mary Lou, aged 13 years, were found in their bed in an adjoining room. Shotgun slugs had been fired into the bodies. The victims had also been unmercifully bludgeoned with an ax. The authorities say they found property belonging to the Davis family on the negro’s person. lected under your supervision, we made some additions to the display here which have, I feel, heightened the artictic value, as well as the general interest. Among these addi- tions are a small display case con- taining models of igloos and Eski- mos; various large colored trans- parencies of Mt. McKinley, Ju- neau, Sitka and a glacier; various photographs of seals, supplementing an excellent display of sealskins, as well as two seal coats especially designed by noted French coutou- riers; and three dioramas made in Chicago relating to agriculture, sal- mon fishing and placer gold min-|e: ing. Suggests Further Use “I am sure that both you and the Curator of the Alaska Histori- cal Library and Museum would be well pleased with the showing made, and I want both of you to know how very much your splen- did cooperation is appreciated. “It has occurred to me the dis- play is of so much interest that it could well be used at the Chicago exhibit in 1933, and that the mate- rial, including the totem poles, could be held in Washington with that in view, instead of being re- turned to Alaska after the termi- nation of this Exposition on Oc- tober 31.” ——eeo———— TRY FARMERETTE SYSTEM SYDNEY, Australia — Influential women here are backing a scheme whereby unemployed members of | their sex would be housed in set- tlements, each worker in a fur- nished hut on a small plot equipped for gardening and chicken misim’.‘ LAY Ja.: hlsCUN flood zone. Bhanghai for repairs. Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh escaped injury when they were pltched from their plane as it capsized in the Yangtze river near Han- kow, China. They were taking off on a flight to survey the Chinese Sailors from the British aircraft carrier Hermes, shown below, rescued the fliers and carried their damaged plane An1E® SPILL Wt rress Puoto ack to STOCK PRICES ARE SLIPPING; Today's Sales Only Abou Million and Half— Rails Heavy NEW YORK, Oct. 13. — Share prices slipped backward today rath- er rapidly although trading was the quictest in a fortnight, the sales being only about 1,500,000 shares. Rails were heavy as expectations of the announcement of the Inter- state Commerce Commission’s de- cision on the freight rate lncrca:-,c appeared premature. Loses of three to five points ap- peared for American Telephone, American Can, United States Steel, Baltimore and Ohio, American To- bacco B, Sante Fe, Southern Pa- cific, New York Central, Pennsyl- pont, Consolidated Gas, Allied Chemical, Woolworth. Auburn dropped more than eight points. CLOSING STOCK PRICES . NEW YORK, Oct. 13~—Clein.g quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 12%, American Can 76, Anaconda Copper 147, Beth- lehem Steel 28':, Checker Cab, no sale; Curtiss-Wright 2%, Fox Films 7%, General Motors 25'%, Inter- national Harvester 26%, Kennecott Copper 20%, Packard Motors 5, Standard Brands 147, Standard Oil of California 30%, Standard Oil of New Jersey 30%, United Aircraft 15%, United States Steel 68%, Fox Theatres, on curb, 1% Suspended from N. Y, Exchange; Insolvent | NEW YORK, Oct. 13.—The New | Vork Stock Exchenge announces |the suspension of the firm of Kountze Brothers because of in- |solvency. The firm has ‘been member of the Exchange since 11927 and is one of the older houses of Wall Street. It was founded in 1870 and was prominent in bond dealings. TRADING QUIET vania, Union Pacific, Eastman, Du- ! WRECK BANK ~ ININDIANA Two Auto Loads of Bandits | Pull Off Raid in Small Town | LIZTON, Indiana, GCut. automobile loads of bandi this town today from outside com- munieatiory, wrecked (he State Bank Building with a dozen blasts of nitroglycerine, shot up the town | and then escaped with about $500. The attack started at the same time a freight train passed through the town. 'FUTURE POLICY. IS MADE GLEAR- ' BY CHANCELLOR Bruemng Makes Statement in Reichstag, Recon- vening Today 'SAYS GERMANY HAS HAD MANY TROUBLES {Salvation Not E Expected Solely Through Inter- national Aids BERLIN, Oct. 13. — Germany's foreign policy is unchanged, Chan- cellor Bruening told the reconvened Reichstag today immediately after presenting his new Cabinet. | The Chancellor said the “German | Government does not expect. salva- | tion solely through international | negotiations or from the aid of | foreign countries.” The Chancellor said Germany, | during the past decade, has ex= perienced troubles greater than all | of “her neighbors and these show how unsolved are the problems of | the world. Thes: tronbles have increased domestic distress to the limit and despair has grown among the people in all sections.” Chancellor Bruening said he would continue the Franco-Gera man conversations. _HAVE NARROW ESCAPE FROM WATERY GRAVE Three Kelcl'rka-n Men Pad- dle Four Hours on Overturned Boat KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct. 13.— Harry Elliott, Henry Henn and William Ham have been brought here after a small outboard motor= boat in which they were going hunting overturned. | The three men clung to the boat and used boards from a sal- ‘vs.ged box for paddles. Four hours later they landed on a rocky shore where they built a fire to revive themselves. Later they walked to la nearby fox farm and were brought here by boat. g i LETTER FOR LOOCK HELD BY GETCHELL For Willlam iLoock or Loach, an important letter is held by | Chief of Police George Getchell. “I think Mr. Loock or Loach is in Juneau,” said the Chief. “I have heard that he worked for one of the dairies. Bigger and Better Dollar Is What Agriculture Will Seek from Coming Congress i By Frank I. Weller WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—Agri- culture is golng to ask congress for a bigger and better dollar. In fine, it wants the general commodity price level inflated to the point reached in 1926 and the monetary unit of value stabilized on that basis. One suggestion is that Federal Banks buy $500,000,000 of gov- jernment securities, the money to go fon deposit for commercial loans and the forms of financing that | stimulate industry. | Too rapid inflation, if it occured | could be halted by the sale of part ‘ur the securities. [ Would Need New Board Once the gold dollar had resumed the 1926 parity with commodity val- ues, the position would . bs main- tained by daily variation of the weight gold behind the dollar. The fluctuation would reflect th and fall in prices. To do this Congress would have up a board to ascertain each e corresponding market viaue ar in percantage on the {s of 500 leading commodities. 'Ihiw would be made to set ‘()I a matter of record and in paying obligations the debtor would pay on the date his paper became due a percentage more or less accordingly as the value of the dollar was above or below where it was at the time the obligation was incurred. It is argued that if the govern= ment varied the amount of gold re= deemable by a dollar according to the average price of commodities, potatoes or corn or lettuce would have a constant purchasing power. Bill Prepared ‘ Represéntative Burtness of North Dakota has prepared a bill which seeks to hold the price level steady by varying the number of grains of gold in a dollar. Questions of the effect on foreign trade and almost certain opposition from interests which profit by the | fluctuation in gold are being stud= |led by the American Farm Bureau | Federation, The National Grange |and The Farmers’ Union. The proposed $500,000,000 bank= credit corporation, recently suggested by President Hoover and now in course of formation, may be one of the functions to hold up the agricultural dollar,