The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 6, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1931. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS GE WAR AGAINST ARMY REDUCES EXPENDITURES COMING YEAR Forty-four—N—li—llion Dollars Lopped from Bud- get for 1932 CIVIL AND MILITARY FUNCTIONS TO BE CUT No Lowerin—g;Wages,.Sal- aries Contemplated in Hurley’s Plan ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 6.— The Army stepped forward like a good soldier yesterday to say it would get along during the next fiscal year with $44,000,000 less than it received during the present fiscal year. Secretary of War Hurley said the reduction has been arranged with the utmost harmony between the War Department nad President Hoover's Budget Officers. The cut, Secretary Hurley said, would apply to civil. as well as military functions. This is taken to indicate less money would go for flood control and rivers and harbors improvements. This does not mean less work will be accom- plished as lower costs of materlak. have made the Army Engincers’ dollars go farther. Lower wages and salaries are not contemplated, the Secretary said. With the cut, the tentative Army Budget for the next fiscal year amounts to $437,565,000. el GARDINERIS SUPPORTED IN NAVY ATTACK Executive Committee of Navy League Is Be- hind Statements WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 6.— Full support to the statements of William Gardiner, in attacking the Administration’s naval policy, has bezn given by the Executive Com- mittee of the Navy League. ‘There was only one dissenting .vote. Gardiner is President of the Navy League and he charged President Hoover with “abysmal ignorance and effort to starve the Navy.” President Hoover took exception to the charge of the head of the militant navy organization and has appointed a committee to probe the charges. The President insists that Gardiner apologize, declaring the claims made are “untruths and a distortion of the facts.” The committee appainted by Hoover to investigate Gardiner’s re- marks is also in session here. ——————— OHLSON GOING T0 WASHINGTON General Manager, Alaska RR. Leaves This Month to Get Funds ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 6.— General Manager Otto F. Ohlson, of the Alaska Railroad will leave November 17 for Washington, D. C., to obtain funds for operation of the railroad for the next fiscal year. It is believed the General Manager will advise a downward revision of the present freight and passenger tariffs. Magruder, Critic of ~ Navy, to Be Retired WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 6— Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Ma- gruder, who in 1927 unleashed a storm by publishing severe criticism of the Navy, has been ordered re- tired for old age at the end of November. He commands the naval district and yard at New » Crleans, WAR DEP Jobless Relief—With an Axe exercising a little of the well woodpile, ective by the silk-hat ated ge i d T nts of Lincoln ng on the 'Who’s Her Hubby? There seems to be considerable doubt as to whom Aida Marie Polo (above), 22-year-old Los Angeles showgirl, married. A Detroit dis- atch says John Hopper, 27, who Sescribes himself as a millionaire Boise, Idaho, rancher, married the pretty stage girl. And from Boise comes word that Mrs. Angela Hop- r, City Clerk of the city, is being ept busy denying that her son, Johnny, 19, 1s any millionaire oz ranch owner. DEMOCRATS AT ANCHORAGE AR GETTING BUSY Name Delegates to Attend Divisional Conven- tion at Seward ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 6.— The Democrats of Anchorage, even though they are without a ~voice in electing a President of the United States met yesterday and started plans for an active campaign for Territorial offices in 1932. Ten del- egates were named to attend a Divisional Convention at Seward early next month. ). B. TREADWELL DIES IN SOUTH LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 6— John B. Treadwell, aged 84 years, drummer boy during the Civil War, and associate of “Lucky” Baldwin in the early development of the west in the most productive mining properties, is dead here. ——————— WALTER M'KINNON LEAVING Walter MacKinnon is leaving on the Northland Saturday morning for Seattle, where he plans to at- tend school, Here’s one way of solving the unempl: {) nown el 1 INEXPLOSION | The others killed were: IS QUESTIONED ON PAST LIFE Defense in i’;ages's Case i Takes Advantage of Granted Rights 'MISS PRINGLE HAS HARD DAY ON STAND ‘Attorney Giesler Attempts ' to Bring Out Repu- tation of Dancer ! LOS ANGELES, Calif., Nov. 6.~ | Defense attorneys of Alexander | Pantages, mllionaire showman, | gave evidence yesterday they in= itended to use fully their newly granted right to attack the con- duct, motives and reputation .of Eunice Pringle, who has charged {him with attacking her. 4 | Miss Pringle's answer of “no” It consists of became most automatic as defense : w grease on the community Attorney Jerry Giesler showered tlnnn ?tmy 32::]}:;3 l}}lfi}‘::‘see":':;fl‘:‘fe‘:: her with aggressive questions as e S R pes to her mode of living preceding a Park, Mich., until they were put to in August, 1929, when she civie woodpile. They draw a small 48y pport themselves and families. claimed Pantages attacked her in ——— his office while she was asking 4 MEiN KILLED him to book @ vaudeville act in which she was to dance. Questions Are Asked Attorney Giesler asked Miss Prin Attorney Giesler asked Miss Pringle if it were not a fact that she went to the office to put Pan- tages in a compromising position; if she had not spent a night in the apartment of Nicholas Deneau, ay- thor of the vaudeville act she sub< ON BATTLESHIP iLieUt- Bradford and Three not fooled her mother by attending | parties in hotels, drinking liquor. Seamen Dead in Acci- ! General Denial dent on Colorado | TTo all the questions Miss Pringle invariably returned a denial. |_SAN PEDRO, Calif, Nov. 6— Tpe gefense endeavored to place tiur men were killed, including i eyidence the $1,000,000 civil suit I1..Leul. Ralph F. Bradford, Jr, in the gir] had filed against Pan- an explosion of an anti-aircraft tageq The prosecution objected |gun yestatday aboard the battle- t5”this and Judge Clair Tappaan jship Colorado, off Santa Rosa Is- g4iq he would rule on the matter iland, 45 miles northwest of here. wyen the trial is resumed next Monday. —_———————— PROTEST FILED T0 CABLE SALE e ooe DY WICKERSHAM SAN PEDRO, Cal, Nov. 6—Clar- ence E. Swift, seaman, of the bat- tleship Colorado; J. J. Plummer, chief petty officer on the Mary-| land died today as the result of | | | | L. A. Clark, seaman of Los Gatos California; Maurice G. Hawkins, seaman, of Hastings, Mich.; and J. J. Schnur, seaman of St. Louis. Lieutenant Bradford, jr., lived at Pontiac, Tllinois. The cause of the explosion has not been determined. The explo- sion occured at 3:15 o'clock yes- terday afternoon. Delegate Advises Chamber He Will Fight Admin- istration Proposal mitted to Pantages, and if she had |" yesterday’s accident and two other officers and another seaman are reported dying. | The protest of the local Chamber i e |of Commerce against the sale of the Alaska cable and telegraph I'system, as proposed by the Hoover NAN BRIT | Administration, has been presented ito the War Department, according to advices received today by the LusEs AchuN Chamber. In a telegram to the local organization Delegate Wicker- \sham declared he would fight the |administration if the bill author- Federal Jury Returns Ver- :zing ine saie snould be introduced ' In the meantime he said he had dict that Author Was | 20 e e e seor- Not Libelled [tary of War not to have the bill iintmduced. He did not say what TOLEDO, Ohio, Nov. 6. — Nan response, if any, was made. Britton, author of the “President’s| The Fairbanks Chamber of Com- Daughter,” has lost her $50,000 merce has also taken an opposin; libel suit against C. A. Klunk, Mar- stand to the sale of the system to ion hotel operator, who helped dis- private interests. It, too, has tele- tribute a book entitled, “Answer to|graphed Judge Wickersham to pro- | the President’s Daughter.” test, and has asked all other Alas-| The Federal Court jury returned|{kan commercial bodies to co-oper- the verdict saying “she had no|ate With it in fighting the pro-| cause for action.” | posal. Miss Britton charged in her suit| The Territorial Chamber of Com- | that she was libeled because the|merce, it is understood, will pre-| book circulated by Klunk defamed |pare a referendum on the question | her character. |and submit it to all member bodies. - It is probable, if action on the| 1ds matter can be had in time, that| H the subject will be presented to the | ngll COIII.‘t Upho forthcoming meeting of the West-| Chain Store Tax Act|ern Division of tne United States| Chamber of Commerce at Spokane | WASHINGTON, Nov. 6. — The next month. | Supreme Court holds constitution-| Judge Wickersham in his tele- al the North Carolina anti-chain|gram to the local Chamber said: | store tax, under which every firm| “Have made a strong appeal to operating two or more stores under|the Secretary of War not to intro- one management must pay a $50|duce the bill in Congress author- annual privilege tax for each store.|izing the Secretary to dispose to The case was appealed by the|the highest responsible bidder tne Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea| washington-Alaska cable system Company, after the North Caro-|If decided to introduce the bill, T lina Supreme Court held the act{will use every effort to secure its valid, defeat in Congress,” | |charge the passengers. WORLD’S LARGEST SUSPENSION BRIDGE JAPAN ARTMENT SLASHES BUDGET OPENED Associated Press Photo New York and New Jersey Joined In ceremonies opening the new $60,000,000 George Washington bridge across the Hudson, world’'s longest suspension structure. The giant bridge connecting New York City and New Jersey will have a capacity of 30,000,000 automobiles annually through lts eight traffic Im:‘:..{\bove is an air view locking up the Hudson and below a view of the giant tower from the Ne Heart-Broken TAKE ADVANCE: METALS 50 1P Alaska Juneau Among Is- | sues Gaining Today— : Bar Silver Rises NEW YORK, Nov. 6—The man- ner in which the wheat market {was able to absorb a fresh flurry of profit taking prompted further |bullish efforts in stock prices to- {day. The stock market began the day Ifeebly and was then strengthened by the buying of nonferous metals food and merchandising shares as Ithe session wore on. The bond market siowed up some- vhat but gilt-edged bonds were 1 bought up. Early losses in the general trad- ing of stock issues were generally recovered. Issues rising one or two points over yester: s close were Anaconda, Kennecott, Alaska Ju- neau, American Metals, American Smelting, St. Joseph Lead, Inter- national Nickel, General Electric. Sears - Rocbuck, Woolworth, Safe- way, Drugs Incorporated, Corn, and American Sugar. Gains of A portrait of the beautiful Prin- cess Ruhie of Albania, sister of King Zogu I, who has just signed a contract calling for an engage- wment in a prominent Viennese eabaret. According to rumor, the girl, who is 25, was driven to take this step after her love affair with a young officer had been ended “as g matter of policy” by mem- bers of her family. A fresh stimulus was given all F I R E |metal issues by the further rise of § bar silver which added one and (cne-fourth cents over yesterday's close, bringing the price to 34 an ounce, the peak for the | year. : o ile B ol ity Passenger Aircraft Noses | CLOSING STOCK PRICES | Down Suddenly When Making Landing Tt e e A S | NEW YORK, Nov. 6. — oiosing jquotation of Aleska Juneau mine stock today is 15%, American Can 83%, Anaconda 17%, Bethlehem CAMDEN, New Jersey, Nov. 6.iSteel 29, Curtiss-Wright 2, Fox —Crashing to earth on a golf Films T%, General Motors 28, In- course as it attempted to land at ternational Harvester 35%, Kenr a nearby airport, a Washington cott 16%, Packard Motors Stan- bound passenger plane burst into dard Oil of New Jersey 36%, United flames, killing five persons | Aircraft 17%, United States Steel Those killed and whose bodies 70, were burned beyond recognition, | ——————— were, identified by the umpan).capt, Eaker to Wed records. The plane was apparently gliding Washmgton Woman to a safe landing when suddenly| i 9 i it nosed down and burst into flames, The plane was landing WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 6. |Capt. Ira Eaker, chief pilot of the to dis-}Army endurance plane “Question IMa and a figure in other no- |table Army Air Corps exploits, South China’s first long distance to be married early in December telephone line has been installed, |10 M Ruth Anderson of Wash- connecting Hongkong and Canton !3,,15:(;,,' ) —_—_——— three to five points,; L were made by International levcr" 'Homestake Mining, Federal Mining § and Smelting. STOCK PRIGES CONGRESSMAN - H.M.WURZBAC - PASSES AWAY |Texas Representative Dies Following Appendi- citis Operation SAN ANTONIO, T:xas, Nov. 6.— Representative Harry M. Wurzbach, the only Texas Republican in the National House of Representatives, is dead as the result of complica- tions following an operation for appendicitis. Congressman Wurzbach repre- sented thé Fourteenth Texas Dis- trict. The death of Congressman Wurz- bach further reduces the strength iof the Administration party in the House and the line-up now gives the Democrats 217 members, Re- publicans 214. Congressman Wurzbach was born in 1874. He was first elected to Congress in 1921. e e SUEZ TRAFFIC SLUMPS WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 6.— Traffic tnrough the Suez Canal for the first half of 1931 was re- merce as being more than a half million tons under the same period in 1930. The drop is belicved large- ly due to the world-wide economic 1 slump. ported to the Department of Com- ' APPEAL MADE TO WORLD WORKERS T0 FIGHT JAPAN Statement Issued by Ex- ecutives of Interna- tional Party 'LEAGUE MEETING CALLED BY BRIAND Fears Expressed War Will i Result Over Manchur- ian Trouble MOSCOW, Nev. 6.—An ap- peal tc the members to sup- port the “Chinese proletar- iat” against Japanese occu- pation of Manch uria, and warning that war against China “is a step toward war against Boviet Russia,” has been issued by the Executive Directorate of the Interna- tional Communist Party. The appeal was made on the occasion of the celebra- tion of the fourteenth anni- versary of the revolution in Russia, and says: | “Leaders of all capitalistic countries are wandering about and searching for an outlet, afraid of complete bank- ruptey, before the mounting swell of the proletarian class. | “The fight is becoming more acute. “Imperialists have already begun a war in the Far East in hopes of attaining this outlet. “This war is against the working class of China and is a war against us. Let us organize revolutionary bar- riers against it in the inter- est of the United Independ- ent Soviet of China.” The statement is addressed to “all workers of all coun- tries and to oppressed people of the capitalistic world.” | WAR FEARED | PARIS, Nov. 6. — Aristide \Briand, fearing war in Man- |churia, has called for a |League of Nations’ Council ‘meeting for November 17. He |is acting President of the Council. | PROTEST FROM U. S. WASHINGTON, D. C.,, Nov. 6.— |A renewed American protest against | Manchurian hostilities lies before | the Japanese. The contents of the note are carefully guarded. The note has been presented to the Japanese Government at Tokyo by United States Ambassador W.Cam- (Continneo o Paxe S1x) I Critics | WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 6— The American Red Cross replies to its critics on the drought work |of last year in 4an official report just submitted by Chairman John | Barton Payne. It sets forth the clow development of conditions caused by the drought, pointing out that the Red Cross “is always watchful of situations that call for relief.” The Red Cross disaster relief | handbook is quoted in citing the | organization’s obligation to carry lon relief work if continued drought conditions produce a famine situa- tion. As these conditions appeared it is declared, the Red Cross went into one county after another, its task difficult because of the varie- ty of measures required, outside the usual line of trained workers. Red Cross Defended The Red Crpss was criticized by some who, accustomed to city ourht of the money spent nswers on Drought Aid irur rations in terms of a city store restaurant,” the report states. To an unemployed laborer in a great industrial city a $2 or $3 al- lotment for a thirty-day food sup- ply for one person would have looked like a cruel jest. Yet in large drought areas it gave the re- icipient all the food he needed of | the kind to which he had been ac- | customed. f the unemployed city laborer ith a wife and two children had, instead of $8 to $10 in food orders, | received 125 or 150 pounds of food |for a thirty-day period, if he had no rent to pay and besides had jchickens and vegetables gardens, he would have thought himself in- deed fortunate. Net All Destitute | “In considering the feeding prob- {lem, it is important to bear in Imind that the drought was not like