The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 2, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIX., NO. 5864. " JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1931. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS " PRICE TEN CENTS PLANE CRASHES IN MOUNTAINS; HUNTERS KILLED | JAPAN MAKES P TROOPS BEING MOVED FURTHER INTO MANCHURIA Forces Are__Also Pushed Forward Into Mon- golia Territory ] SECRET AGREEMENT IS REPORTED MADE China and Russia Involved in Dealings, Says Tokyo Reports TOKYO, Nov. 2—Japanese troops are being pushed farther west and north into Manchuria and Mon- golia and are occupying more ter- ritory while persistent reports that China has entered into a secret agreement with Moscow for Rus- sian assistance are being investi- gated by the Japanese Cabinet. The Japaness Government is deeply concerned by conflicting re- ports of Russian mobilization along the Siberian-Manchurian borders. Reports of concentrating forces were denied last” week by Moscow authorities, however. The Japanese Government is 2is0 concerned in reports that the Unit- ed States has sent, or may send, George Hanson, Consul General at Harbin, into Northern Manchuria to investigat: troop movements. Japanese troops are edging farth- er into Chinese territory, closer to the Rissian de | Northern Manchuria but t g not yet reached térritory in which Moscow is primarily interested. o c— FOUR SPEAKERS ARE BILLED ON CHAMBER LUNCH Seward Newspaper Man and Three Others Are on Program Temorrow The objectives of the Juneau Chapter of the American Red Cross in the Roll Call drive which opens November 11, will be outlined to the Chamber of Commerce when that organization holds its weekly noon luncheon meeting at the Arcade Cafe tomorrow. B. D. Stew- art, Roll Call Chairman, will dis- cuss the drive and what is ex- pected of the Chapter this year. E. F. Jessen, Managing Editor of the Seward Dally and Weekly Gate- way, who is visiting the city for a few days, will be & guest of the Chamber tomorrow. It is his first visit here in several years. Charles W. Hawkesworth, Acting Chief of the Alaska Division of the Office of Indian Affairs, re- cently returned from a trip to Washington and a conference with bureau chiefs there, and Dr. H. C. De Vighne, Territorial Commission- er of Health, who is just back from an extended trip to the States are slated for talks on topics of resigent 'V F. S*one, Pierce Wendell Hugl bitz 1 Paying their annual group visit to President Hoover, the Supreme Court Justices of the United Sta comprising the greatest legal minds of the countr are shown above on their arrival at the White House. Left to right, they are: Justices Harlan tices 1éxtcd byh Law WS(.)lbns 7 Holmes, Butler, George Sutherland, Oliver ef Justice Charles Evans Willis Van Devanter, Louis Dem- 'x-xdvis, Owen P. Roberts and Attorney-Gen- eral \’illiam D. Mitchell RACKETEERING AFFRAY BEING INVESTIGATED One Man Is Killed, An- other Wounded in Se- Q&%& Apartment R XL il i SEATTLE, Nov. 2—The Seattle police are investigating an alleged liquor racketeering affray which resulted in the fatal shooting of Paul Long and the wounding of J. O. Collins. The affray took place in a First Avenue apartment last Baturday night. | William Ingram, occupant of the apariment, who the policz said ad- mitted the shooting, is held in' the city jail. i The police said they believed the shooting resulted in an attempt to ' hijack from Ingram who admitted | he was engaged in bootlegging. | Collins is dangerously ill at his home and is under a police guard.| By e e ] PRISONERS FOR M'NEILS TAKEN blood-stained traces of the killings Police of Phoenix, Ariz., are shown examining ashes In the fireplace >f the bungalow in which two women were killed by Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd, and their bodies shipped to Los Angeles. A piece of a bedroom rug and bed clothing had been destroyed in an apparent effort to ramove SEEK CLUES IN TRUNK MURDERS VE M-..«( Associated Press Pbote OUT BY BROWN Four Prisoners Are Taken South Today by Deputy Marshal C. V. Brown With four prisoners for Mec- Neil's Island Federal penitentiary ORGANIZE AND poperoie OALL CAUGUS United States Marshal C. V. Brown' . left here today on the steamer Drive for Charter Members ‘Alameda for Seattle. He was a pas- Starts i s Meeting Call- ed for Tuesday Night DEMOCRATS TO | senger on that steamer from Sew- ard, after a trip to Anchorage and Fairbanks. { He picked up here: Hugo Berg-| strom and Harry Johnson, sent- enced to 14 months, John Pollok, 18 months, and Bill Keene to one usual terest both Joee. Soa, B year and one day all in the Mc- To launch a drive for charier| members and make definite ar- rangements for holding a caucus nexf week, a mecting of the Ju-| neau Democratic Club will be held 6OV, PARKS AND ATKINS ARE T0 LEAVE TUESDAY Will Visit Petersburg, Wrangell and Ketchikan, Returning Soon Unless prevented by severe wea- ther, Gov. George A. Parks and Maj. L. E. Atkins, Engineer Officer of the Alaska Road Commission | Territorially and locally. — BORE TUNNEL IN GRANITE SALT LAKE CITY — To avoid two railroad crossings the Utah Highway Department bored a tun- nel 410 feet long through granite. Construction cost of the short strip of road was $83,000 a mile. Neil's Island institution; and Al-| fred Willard, Sitka, who is under: a three-year sentence to the Elko' reform school. All of the five men were recently sentenced here by Judge Justin W. Harding. | Norway's first factory for the i manufacture of toys has been open- ! edat Trondheim. Condemned Y outh Makes ! Plea to Have Pet Dog in | | | Cell; Request Is Grante » ROCKFORD, Illinois, Nov 2.——| Russell McWilliams, aged 17, con- demned slayer, had company in his | solitary cell in the county jail last night. | The youth, sentenced last Wed- nesday to die on December 17, for the slaying of Willlam Sayles, a street car motorman, during a noldup, asked that he be permitted to see his pet collie before being taken to Joliet Prison where he is to be electracuted. 3 The boy and his dog were to- gether in the cell while a guard sat outside. Occasionally McWilllams leaned down and stroked the dog. The parents sald they have lit- tle ‘hopes of commutation of sen- tence from the Governor. and Acting President, will leave here Tuesday morning on the Fisheries boat Kittiwake, Capt. at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Council Chambers at City Hall building, it was announced today by Allen!cioweord for Pete: ol Shattuck, President pro-tem. It S|4 etchikan., “b;rgim;wr:)ngre- expected- that the club will perrect.tum here abo: the its organization at that time, he|gec oDy of said. { w | The Governor deslres to look in- Bip have kal specia:hcon;‘r:lt:ee‘giim conditions in the communities some 45 working on the charter IS ¢ pe visited, and to inspect the :fie tll:efi :x&rel;n:lg' ::couzagtng‘y"'bundxms now being erected at the Mo, BhAGOK sl “The respotisei| o - UOUNIEL, sohaal &t s:‘fl":; maker Bay, near Wrangell. ::lcl;;:?e;"”en better than we m!ALkms is to inspect a dredging project recently completed at Pet- All Democrats =re urged t0 at-/erchurg, the Wrangell Breakwater, tend the meeting tomorrow night. and the Thomas Basin improve- | Officers for the permanent organi- | zation will be elected. A date will |be fixed for holding the local cau- ment project at Ketchikan. — e ieus to elect delegates to the di-.HERMANN ol.'l'.‘ FOR 'visional convention at - Petersburg on November 20. Other matters of interest to the party will be dis-| | cussed. | - | FARMERS HAVE DEER SLAIN | | MATADOR, Tex.—Farmers near Matador were so annoyed by t.hel depredations of two deer, 3 bucks, that they had the animals Jkilled by & State Game Warden. | SOUTH; SHORT TRIP R. R. Hermann, ‘of the Juneau Drug Company, left for the South on the Alameda. He has not been feeling right up to his old time strength lately and will receive a both thorough medical examination while in the States. He expects to re- turn to Juneau about November 14. MRS, JUDD 1S " UNDER GUARD PHOENIX JAIL Closely Watched Fearing She May Attempt to Take Her Lite ERIFF M’FADDEN ANNOUNCES PLANS 'Woman May Be Taken to Murder Bungalow to Re-enact Crime PHOENIX, Ariozona, Nov. 2—As the State speeded plans to bring Mrs. Winnle Ruth Judd to trial within the next 60 days for the trunk murders of Miss Hedvig Sam- uelson and Mrs. Agnes Leroy, Sher- iff McFadden revealed that he is keeping a close watch over her to prevent any attempt she might make to commit suicide. Sheriff McFadden announced that he planned to question Mrs. Judd thoroughly and he saiu it is pos- sible she may be taken to the murder bungalow, where the slay- ings took place, to re-enact her story wherein she claimed self-de- fense for killing her two friends. STOCK MARKET STARTING OFF Oil Issues AEnce Slightly —Steels Are Showing | Improvement NEW YORK, Nov. 2—The Stock Market began the month with a firm tone. Olls were helped by higher crude prices. Steels profited by a more encour- aging outlook noted by week-end reports. Rails were sluggish and quickly ! surrendered to moderate early ad- vances. American T:lephone and Tele- graph, National Biscuit and Case 1allled a couple or more points. Bethlehem Steel, Westinghouse, General Electic, Dupont, North Am- erican, Allied Chemical ross from | on: to one and one-half points.| Standard Oil of New Jersey, on which a regular and extra dividend were voted, advanced a point. Stan- dard Oil of California also made a similar gain. —————.——— e T "o | CLOSING STOCK PRICES ! 3 NEW YORK, Nov. 2—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14, American Can 80%, Anaconda Copper 157%, Beth- lehem Steel 26%, Curtiss-Wright 2%, Fox Films 7%, General Motors 26%, International Harvester 31%, Kennecott 13%, Packard Motors §, Standard Oil of New Jersey 34%, United Aircraft 15%, United States Steel 66%, Fox Theatres, on curb, 1%. DON MOYLE 1§ N IAL Flier Starts Serving 30-day Sentence on Intoxica- tion Charge LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 2— Don Moyle, who with C. A. Allen made an airplane flight from Jap- an, via Alaska to California, after| many stops, surrendered today and began serving a 30-day jail sen- tence for driving an automobile while intoxicated. The offense was committed prior to his leaving for Japan to make the flight. e TIN DEPOSITS EXPLORED CASABLANCA, Morocco, Nov. 2. —Exploration of tin deposits be- lieved to have been worked orig- N FIRM TONE| PRECAUTIONARY MOVES TRUNK MURDERESS UNDER QUIZ 395 2 Associated Press Photo Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd, confessed slayer of two women whose bodies were shipped in trunks from Phoenix, Ariz., to Los Angeles, is shown leaving the emergency police hospital in Lcs Angetes after a bullet was removed from her left hand and her arm placed in a sling. At ‘right Is Joseph Taylor, Los Angeles chief of detectives. Behind (ce 18 Wrs. Judd's hisband, iy e e SCENE OF TWO TRUNK MURDERS AV Was I ULS DUNgaow AN ruoen Samuelson and Mrs. Agnes Leroy were murdered and their bodies shipped in trunks to Los Angeles. Curious passersby are shown exam- ining the rear stoop of the murder cottage. ann STURAGE ‘ COOPERATIVE CHURCH PAPEETEE, Tahiti — Residents’ i 2 iy | church, the foundation for which | was laid in 1916. Carpenter and of Taega, a small coral atoll with a population of about 40 people, 1 = | construction work was done by per- Securmes TOIahng $lo’—‘sans of various denominations. have completed the building of a 000 and Accumulated | Interest Redeemed Ten thousand dollars in bonds, | bearing 7 per cent interest, were called today by the Juneau Cold| Storage Company, announced Wal- | lis 8. George, President. This is the fourth redemption made by the company on its issue of $70,- 000, reducing the amount outstand- ing to $45,000. Nearly all the $10,000 and ac- cumulated interest paid out today g0 to residents of Juneau. Only a few of the security holders live outside the city. RALPH CAPONE DENIED REVIEW WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 2.— Ralph Capone, brother of “Sc face” Al Capone, has been refused a review by the Supreme Court of his conviction of having made fals income tax statements. Following inally by the Romans is under way in the plateau region, nearly 120 miles east of Casablanca. ¢ his conviction he was sentenced to three years and to pay a fine of $10,000. lpussxbnll’.xus but neither of the FIVE SEATTLE MEN ARE DEAD AR ACCIDENT Bodies Are Burned When | Gas Tanks Explode Spread Flames FORCED LANDING IS CAUSE OF DISASTER |Son of Former Alaska | Banker, Pilot of Plane, Among Victims SPATTLE, Nov. 2. — A plane piloted by John Blum, Seattle av- iator, returning over the Cascade | Mountains from a week-end hunt- |ing trip, crashed near the summit of Snoqualmie Pass last Sunday |and five persons were burned to | ceath. In addition to Pilot Blum, jothers killed were: Arthur D. Hoge, proprietor of the Hoge Piston and Ring Com- | pany. Dr. Russell J. McCurdy. Ray Sutherland, real estate man. Harold Despain. Those killed were | men. The crash apparently occurred when Blum attempted to make a forced landing on the highway. An explosion of the gasoline tank spread a circle of fire about the | plane, preventing motorists, who soon gathered, from attempting | rescue of the victims. Blum was . unmarried and 32 years of age. He was President of | the Northwest Air Service and was | the son of a former Valdez, Alaska, ;b&nker who died s:veral years ago |and reported to have left his son {a considerable estate. Blum took ,up aviation first as a hobby then {devoted all of his time to it and |galned prominence a year ago (when he won the cross country |air derby from the Northwest to Chicago. MURDER IS " CONFESSED BY INDIAN Killing of Columbia Uni- | versity Research Work- er Is Cleared Up WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 2— The Department of Justice an- nounces it has obtained a confes- |sion from Golney Seymour, Apache Indian, that he killed Miss Hen- rietta Schmerler, - on the White |River Indian Reservation in Ari- 'zona last July. In the confession ;»he admits assaulting, then killing ithe young Columbia University re- | search worker. Seymour will be tried in a Fed- eral Court. the all Seattle | A drop of oil will give new life to the windshield wiper. League of thions’ Ghost Stalks in Ranks of G.O.P.; Politicians Watch Polls WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 2.— A ghost of other days, the League of Nations, made a Hallowe'en re- turn in the whispering galleries of politics last Saturday as President enemies measured the gth of both Senator William Borah, of Idaho, and Senator Hiram Johnson, of California, as ble candidates against him. Th wo Senators back in 1919- among the leaders in the 20 Senate’s revolt against then Presi- dent Wilson's efforts to take the United States into the League of Nations. Observers would not be surpriszd if they launch an attack when Congress meets next month t Hoover's co-operation ague in the Sino-Jap- believe hoth Johnson ave becn listening to on their Presidential and Bora speculations Seg, fames | v e B4 q prospective candidates have com= mitted themselves. Meanwhile, Democratic or Re- publican control of the new House depends largely on the outcome of the approaching special elections for filling vacancies. These elec~ tions are tomorrow. The House now has 214 Demo- crats, 213 Republicans and one Farmer-Labor. The Democrats assert they will capture seats in Michigan, Ohio and New York. ‘The Republicans count upon re- taining the seats in Pennsylvania and capturing the Michigan and Ohio vacancies. ‘The Roosevelt-Smith controversy 1is watched with interest where & | constitutional amendment s to ivoced upon tomorrow relative QQ | forest conservation. Prohibition is an issue in sev~ eral of the elections.