The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 7, 1931, Page 1

'THE DAILY VOL. XXXIX., NO. 5869. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1931. * MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PRICE TEN CENTS - TWO BOYCOTTS ARE PROPOSED AGAINST JAPANESE REPUBLICANS MAY CONTROL NEXT SENATE Alignment ;Far Settled Unless Further Deaths Intervene WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 7— The fate which for months has disturbed the alignment of Con- gress seems settled upon Republi- can control of the Senate with Democratic organization in the House. The death last night of United States Senator T. H. Caraway, re- stored the Republican plurality in the Senate lost by the death of Senator Dwight W. Morrow, with a Republican likely to be appoint- ed to fill the vacancy in New Jersey. A special election is necessary after the first ¢f the year in Ar- kansas to elect a successor to Sen- ator Caraway. Republicans hold a two vote sway over their rivals in the Sen- ate unless further deaths intervene. The line-up in the Senate is 47 Republicans, 46 Democrats, I Far- mer Laborite and two vacancies. ——— COL. LINDBERGH IS PROMOTED BY PRESIDENT Appointed to National Ad- visory Committee on Aeronautics Big Cut in Department Estimates President Hoover An- nounces One Slash of at Least $350,000,000 WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 7— The Executive Departments of the United States Government have at least $350,000,000 less to spend during the next fiscal year than expected, President Hoover stated in his first public announce- ment regarding curtailment of ex- penses. The Budget is now being | thoroughly estimated to be pre- | sented to the next Congress which convenes next month. ‘The President did not make any statement regarding proposed tax ilncreases, at this time. T. H. CARAWAY, U. S. SENATOR, PASSES AWAY Fighter from Arkansas Dies in Hospital Fol- lowing Operation WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 7—' Col. Charles ~ ‘A:~ ‘Lindbergh - has been promoted by President Hoov- er to a position where he will aid in supervising the destinies of avia- tion in America. Col. Lindbergh has bzen appoint- 1 ) ed to the National Advisory Com- | mittee on Aeronautics. This com- mittee is composed of those high in aviation development in the country, who have been fostering and stabilizing America’s conquest of the air since 1915. ———————— LEWIS MARKS DIES SUDDENLY Man Well Known in North- ern Mining Camps Goes on Last Trail VICTORIA, B. C, Nov. 7. Lewis Marks, District Manager of the Canadian Tndustries, formerly the Canadian Explosives, died here suddenly from an attack of the heart which occurred yesterday. For more than two generations Marls was known intimately in the mining camps of British Col- umbia, Alaska and the Yukon. ————————— ). WILL TAYLOR OPERATED UPON MEMPHIS, Tenn., Nov. 7—Rep- resentative J. Will Taylor, Repub- lican, Second Tennessee District, is said to be doing splendidly today following an emergency operation for appendicitis. His physicians said his recovery is practically certain. A dog, a cat and a rabbit are playmates on the farm of Henry Mahoney, near Shallowater, Tex. ! ; ASSOCIATED PRESS H U S. SENATOR, | 7T A CarawAY i LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Nov. 7~United States Senator Thad- deus H. Caraway, junior Demo- jcratic Senator from Arkansas, died iln a hospital her last night. He underwent an operation for a kid- ney ailment several days ago. | “Everything comes to him who {watts—and fights,” was the phil- josophy of Thaddeus H. Caraway, from boyhood. The warring spirit born in him ‘was manifest in his rise from farm boy, faced with numerous disad- vantages, to United States Senator from Arkansas. In the years be- tween, Caraway was a railroad sec- tion worker, a book and patent medicine salesman, country school teacher, lawyer, prosceuting ettor- teacher, lawyer, prosecuting attor- Always a Fighter | Caraway was always a fighter, it was his battles in the Senate, in which he gained the reputation of being one of its most fiery and vitriolic ‘speakers, that he was per- haps best known. Presidents, cab- ,inet members, fellow senatorsand others, mostly Republicans — for Caraway was a Democrat through and through—were not spared the tongue-lashings this Arkansan was able to administer. A bitter attack upon the floor of the Senate upon Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall for his leasing of the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills naval oil reserves to the (Continuea on Page Three) Girl Released from Closet Prison in Home of Parents for First WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 7.— Thirteen-year-old Edith Riley 1s out from a windowless closet prison in her parent’s home for the first time in four T The girl weighs 38 pounds and has the growth of & five-year-old child. Her father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Riley, have been charged with cruelty and released on $1,000 bonds each. The girl 8 being fed in a hos- pital. Time in 4 Years The girl was found crouched on the floor in the dark closet amid filth, the police sald. ‘When removed from the ,closet she could see with difficulty and could hardly articulate. She had been fed little but liquid foods and was clad only in a shirt-like garment. ‘The father, aged 49, a plasterer, only replied to police questioning IBULL FORCES will | STAGE DRIVE; PRICES GO UP ‘Many Shares Are Boosted to New Highs for Aut- umn Recovery NEW YORK, Nov. 7—The bull |forces today launched the most aggressive drive in several months boosting shares from one to more than five points to new highs for autumn recovery. Reports of a sharp increase in steel mill output in the Youngs- town area, indications of early ac- celeration of production by some |of the leading automobile makers with firm gasoline prices, added fuel to the speculative fires. Wall Street also buzzed with rumors and reports of pool manip- ulations and the bulls had to con- tend with a large volume of week- end profit taking which persistent- ly absorbed heavy trading. Prices generally closed near the top point or so. American Telephone and steels finished the short day's trading with net gains around two points. Allied Chemical gained five points and Dupont six points. Santa Fe went up five points. Other issues up one or more {points included General Motors, General Electric, American Smelt- ing, American Can, Pennsylvania, !'Standard Oil of New Jersey, Beth- |lehem Steel, American Tobacco B., Southern Pacific, New York Cen- | tral, American Sugar, Purity Bak- ing. C LOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Nov. 7.—Closing quotations of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 15, American Can 86, Anaconda 177%, Bethlehem Steel 317% Curtiss“Wright 2%, Fox Films 8 %, General Motors 29 %, Inter- national Haryester 36%, Kennecott no sale; Packard Motors 5%, Stan- dard Oil of New Jersey 37'%, Unit- ed Aircraft 18, United States Steel 2%. s — THREE FORMER OIL OFFICIALS ARE INDIGTED Each Are Charged with Thefts of More Than $100,000 LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 7— Charged with thefts of more than $100,000 each, three former high officials of the Richfield Oil Com- pany, have posted individual bonds of $25,000. C. M. Fuller, former President, R. W. Keen, Assistant to the| Chairman of the Board, and J. A. Talbor, former Chairman of the Board of Directors, are the men ‘accused. The charges were made by the County Grand Jury. The indictments were .returned last Thursday. The Richfield Oil Company col- lapsed last January with an ap- parent loss to the stockholders of $54,000,000.. The firm has been op- erated since then by a Federal re- ceiver. RALPH CAPONE OFF TO PRISON AS TAX DODGER Brother of "Scarface’ Will Serve Three Years at Leavenworth CHICAGO, Nov. 7—Ralph Ca- pone, public enemy No. 3, of Chi- cago, also the older brother of “Scarface” Al Capone, left last night enroute to Leavenworth pen- itentiary, as an income tax dodger, to serve a three year sentence. Capone left for the penitentiary in company with sixteen narcotic peddlers, bootleggers and counter- feiters as his berthmates. —_———————— There are about 12,340 building and loan associations in the Unit- ed States. —_—————— 0 Wreckage b?Plfine and Five Victims Who Died When It Crashed in Snoqualmie Pass, Cascade Mounta Carrying five Seattle men, on their way home from a pheasant summit of Snoqualmie Pass about 60 miles from Seattle, in the evening of November 1. ms —Associated Press Photo. hunt near Omak, Wash., a six-passenger monoplane crashed near the The plane burst into flames when it landed and all five were burned to death in their seats. Motorists who saw the plane shortly before it fell said the pilot, John Blum, seemed to be seeking an emergency landing place. Weather in the Cascades is frequently stormy in the fall and winter. of a high cliff alongside the road. On the other side of the highway was a deep ravine. The victims are from left to right: Dr. Russell J. McCurdy, President of the King County Medical Scciety; Arthur D. Hoge, manu- facturer; John Blum, pilot; Harold De Spain, and (below) Ray Suth erland, real estate salesmen. DINO GRANDI LEAVES ROME FOR U. S. TRIP Italy's Foreign Mnister Is Coming to Discuss Europe’s Problems ROME, Nov. 7.—Dino Grandi, Italy's Foreign Minister, left Rome today for Naples from where he will sail for the United States as a Lieutenant of Premier Benito Mussolini. Grandi wil aiscuss Europe’s problems with President Hoover. ‘The Italian Foreign Minister ex- pressed the wish that he be re- garded as an European neutral during his stay in the United States. It is explained that he in- tends to carefully avoid giving any impression that his mission is to balance that of Premier Pierre Laval of France. Six Official Dialects Making Spain a Babel MADRID, Nov. 7—Six languages are being used for official com- munications in Spain — Spanish, Catalan, Mallorquin, Valencian, Basque and Galician. The Mayor of Barcelona sends a telegram in Catalan to the May- or of Valencia. The latter retal- iates with a reply in Valencian. wild-eyed and the Federal com- ing about decrecing that inter- state messages must be in Span- ish, although each Province may use its own tongue within its own borders. —— -, — California dairies chip butter val- ued at more than $1,000,000 to for- Ieign ports annually. Pinevillgz, Kéntd;ky, Citizens Threaten An Investigation of New York; Protection Asked PINEVILLE, Kentucky, Nov. 7.— “The Sidewalks of New York" are threatened with an investigation by a group of citizens of this moun- tain town as the result of a com- mittee of New York writers, head- ed by Theodore Dreiser coming to the coal fields to inquire into reports of the “Reign of Terror.” Dreiser nad his group arrived investigate his charges of Between 90 and 95 per: cent of the watches made in Switzerland “Blackjack Rule over the striking that the child had bad habits and |are exported, the United States miners by the Harlan County of- had to be locked up. 2eing that country’s best market. ficials.” Pineville citizens, calling them- selves the “Society for the Pro- tection of Defenseless Children,” retorted by proposing an inquiry into the slaying of children by Believes World War Still Continues; German Officer Keeps on Fighting French ‘Telegraph operators are “getting munications authorities are think-| RIO DE ORO, Spanish Africa, Nov. 7.—Orders are orders to Lieut- Erich von Stazen in the desolate wastes of France's African frontier. He is still carrying on his share |of the World War, which ended 13 years ago. reached him. “Tell the people back home, Lieut. von Stazen told the second white man he saw in 15 years, “I was sent here by the Imperial Government in 1916 and forgotten by the new Government. I am still obeying orders and doing my |duty., I am still fighting the | French.” The German ileucenant was sent into the African frontier to or- ganize the “Blue Tribes” to fight the French Foreign Legion. He trained the tribes and with a Turk carried on the fight. In 1920 he heard from a German ex-officer {whom he captured in an attack |on the French Foreign Legion, of the Armistice. Lieut. von Stazen | | disagreed about the Armistice and | |ordered his force to continue to No order to cease hostilities has |/ fight the Prench until he had re- |ceived direct word. No word has | come and the war goes on | far as he is concerned | | as :Pioneer Woman of : f Alaska Dies in South| | SEATTLE, Nov. 7.—Friends have The wreckage is shown against the base EXONERATED IN SHOOTING CASE, MAN IS KILLED Detroit Saloonkeeper Is Shot Down by Ma- chine Gun Squad DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 7.—Thirty hours ter a coroner’s jury had exonerated Joe Livitt, 60-year-old saloon keeper, of blame for the killing of Joe Evola, notorious down-the-river liquor operator, a machine gun squad opened fire in gangsters on the New York streets. received reports from Portland that the Wyandotte saloon last night Dreiser has asked the Governor| Mrs. Clara Hiscock, aged 66 years, | killing Livitt and another man and for protection while in fields, Herndon Evans, editor of & newspaper, and also chairman of the citizens group has asked Gov. Franklin D. Roosevel: for pr Yection while probing New Yo City. of Seattle since 1902, has passed away there. Mrs. Hiscock, with her husband | Arthur, followed the gold rush to| Alaska and resided there from 1898 | “to 1901, t the coal pioneer of Alaska and a resident|¥ounding a customer. Livitt and Evola engaged in a quarrel three weeeks ago and Evola was killed. The police said the quarrel resulted from Livitt's re- fusal to sell Evola’s beer in his saloon. DRASTIC MOVES NOW SUGGESTED ORIENTAL CASE ering Possible Action to Be Taken OMATS MAY BE RECALLED, JAPAN |Economic Boycott then Planned If Nation Re- mains Unbending GENEVA, Nov. 7. — Pres- sure of economic and diplo- matic beycotts against Japan by the rest of the world’s powers, who are member of the League of Nations, is under consideration as a pos- sible next move in an effort to settle the Sino-Japanese conflict in Manchuria. The legal section of the League’s secretariat is now engaged in a study of Article 15, League of Nations’ Coven- ant, to determine whether members of the League can be asked to recall Ambassa- dors and Ministers from Tokyo if Japan continues to reject arbitration measures. The decision will be present- ed to the Council of the League meeting on Noveme ber 16. Studies are aiso being made, it is understood, to de- termine the practicability of an economic boycott. Any such action remains in the background for the present. Another effort will be made to induce Japan to adopt a more conciliatory attitude to- ward China. If that fails, the Council of the League will probably call on the mem- bers to recall their envoys and if Japan is still unbending, then an economic boycott is planned. JAPAN TROOPS MAKE READY T0 REPELATTACKS Reported Chinese Armies Moving on Invaders Near Tahsing DIPL TOKYO, Japan, Nov. 7—In the face of reports that scattered Chi- hese armies are moving toward Tahsing to meet the Japanese forces which routed the Chinese forces under Gen. Mai Chan Shan, hurried preparations are being made by the victorious invaders against a possible attack according to official advices received here. While the reports of the Chinese troop movements are not confirm- ed fully, the Japanese deemed it wise to take precautions to pro- tect the force of more than 1,000 soldiers at the Nonni River bridge- head, near Tahsing. Japanese authorities said the Japanese troops have no intention of proceeding north of Tahsing unless of unexpected developments, Should the troops advance much farther northward they will enter he Russian area of influence in Manchura. H T. 'l_'ripp Honored Again by Masons WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 7— Herman T. Tripp, prominent resi- dent of Juneau, has just been re= ippointed deputy for Alaska of the Supreme Council of Thirty~ third and Last Degree of Masons. This is the seventh time, the honor, the highest in Scottish Rite masonry in Alaska, has been con= ferred on Mr. Tripp. This appoint~ ment, like each previous appoint- is for the duration of two Tripp’s selection was an- nounced by John H. Cowles, Grand .ngton, D, C, Commander of the Council, Wash~ |