The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 11, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXIX., NO. 5872. MORE TROOPS ORDERED = MEMBER OF PRICE TEN CENTS HOOVER GIVES WARNING NOTE, WORLD PEACE Says Confidence Must Be Established by All Nations PRESENT SITUATION, SECOND EMERGENCY Declares Armed Forces Greater Today than Before Great War WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 11.—- President Hoover to day warned the nations of the world that peace ‘“cannot be had by resolution and injunction alone.” This warning was given when the Chief Execu- tive dedicated the new marble tem- ple memorializing the District of Columbia’s participation in the ‘World War. The President said the world was moere heavily armed today than before the World War. He said confidence should be re-established not alone by each nation and its own institutions but among na- tions. The President said the backwash of the forces loosened by the Great ‘World War had grown until during the past two years stability of many nations had been shaken and this had weakened confidence throughout the whole financial and economic world which had added enormously to unemploy- ment and distress of business ev- erywhere but from it all “we have been passing through an emer- geney second only to the Great ‘War.” 3 DELEGATES ARE ELECTED T0 60 T0 CONVENTION Democrats of Four Pre- cincts Name 41 to Attend Petersburg Meeting Forty-one delegates to the Demo- cratic Divisional Convention, to be held at Petersburg, were elected last night by Democrats from four local precincts in a largely attend- ed caucus held at Moose Hall. Pre- cinct Committeemen were elected in each of the precincts represented and the framework for a permanent organization was erected. Former Senator John Ronan, who has resided at Hyder for many years, was enthusiastically applaud- ed when he asserted that in the Portland Canal district, the con- vention was strong that next year will be a Democratic year and that the party will carry that section. NEED FOR ORGANIZATION He stresed the need for an organ- ization throughout the Teritory. Hyder is already on a campaign basis, having perfected its organ- ization, and will remain that way until the votes are counted next November. Hyder delegates were elected before he left there, and he brought ‘the proxies with him. The delegates from that town were instructed to work for the nomination of a complete Division- al ticket by the Petersburg conven- tion, and if possible to do so, to obtain the selection of one man on the ticket from Hyder. Pranklin D. Roosevelt was favored for the Presidential nomination. Instruc- tions were also given relative to the Democratic platform. Go Under Unit Rule Local Democrats will go under the unit rule, and without instruc- tions as to Divisional nominations, each precinct voting to leave the selection of nominees to the discre- tion of the delegates. The delegates were instructed to work for an un- pledged delegation to be sent to the Territorial convention at Fair- banks. Precinct Committeemen elected were: No. 1, Frank Botelho, No. 2, Henry Roden, No. 3, Al Lundd- strom. Salmon Creek, J. P. Ander- son. , A committes composed of J. A. Davis, J. J. Connors, and Frank Botelho was appointed to arrange for transportation of the delegates to Petersburg. Delegates from Precinct No. 1, are: James McCloskey, W. B. Kirk, Allen Shattuck, J. A. Davis, Prank Botelho, W. E. Britt, M. E. Mon- agle, H. J. Turner, B. M. Behrends, Miss Violet Bourgette, Mrs. Rob- ert Coughlin, J. A. Hellenthal, H. e i (Continued on Page Seven) PANIC BLAMED ON REPARATIONS AND WAR DEBTS Premier MacDonald Criti- cizes Crazy Economic Principles DEPRESSION DUE TO FALSE ADJUSTMENTS Prominent _L;orite Flays Cabinet Head for His Present Position LONDON, Nov. 11. — Premier Ramsay Mac Donald criticised the “system of crazy ecoromy” on rep- arations and war debts, which he said had brought about the distres- sing economic situation into which the world has fallen since the World War. “As long as the will of man forces an unnatural economic ad- justment upon the world, it will never succeed or prosper,” said‘the Premier. The British Prime Minister said a world wide effort must be made to overcome the existing entangle- ments. He did not touch on the Sino-Japanese situation. ‘George Lansburg, Labor leader, lashed the new Government for the vagueness of its program and flayed the Premier for the role he was playing. BARON EIICHI SHIBUSAWA 18 Notable Career of “Grand Old Man” of Business in Japan Ended TOKYO, Nov. 11.—Baron Eiichii Shibusawa, Japan's “Grand Old Man” of business, is dead here. Baron Eiichi Shubusawa was a founder and uncrowned monarch of the Japanese business empire. He enjoyed an influence and fame quite as great as any minister of state. His career was so closely interwoven with the growth of modern Japan that his public life is in itself a history of the eco- nomic and financial growth of the country. The Japanese called him the Nestor of their business world. 5 91 Years Of Age He was 91 years old, born Febru- ary 13, 1840, the son of an indigo merchant, in a small village near Tokyo. He received a thorough education in Chinese classics in his boyhood and later finished his studies in Tokyo, while the country was still under the Shogunate re- gime. Inspired with a patriotic zeal, he went to Kioto, the then imperial capital, where he entered the service of Lord Hitotsubashi, the influential branch of the Bho- gunate Tokugawa family. In 1867 a year before the downfall of the Shogunate, he was sent to France with one of the Tokugawa princes, but on the establishment of the Imperial government in 1860, he was appointed a high official in the finance department holding the post of junior vice-president, and rendered valuable service to the state with the then senior vice-minister of the department, the late Marquis Inouye. In 1873, he left the government on account of difference of opinion on the question of budget estimates, never to return to the government serv- ice though he was often offered the portfolio of the exchequer. Establishes Pioneer Bank Soon after his retirement from official life Mr. Shibusawa estab- lished the First National Bank, the pioneer of National banks in Japan in 1873. Afterward he identified himself with the commercial and industrial progress of the empire and took the lead in almost all important business enterprises in- tended for the development and expansion of the country. Among many achlevements which were undertaken on his own initiative are the Tokyo Chamber of Com- merce, the Tokyo Bankers' Associa- tion, the Bankers' Clearing House, the Tokyo Stook Exchange, and the Tokyo Savings Bank, which was the first establishment of its kind in Japan.. He was also foun- der of the Tokyo Marine Insurance Company, the Nippon Yusen Kai- sha and many industries. Directly or indirectly, he assisted in the establishment of more than eighty influential banking and other busi- (Continued on Page Two) .over thousands of .miles of walting wires that the World War Peace Story Made History 13 Years Ago (This Armistice Day story is written by Kirk Simpson, Asso- ciated Press staff writer whose series of stories on “The Un- known Soldier,” in November, 1921, won a Pulitzer Prize as the outstanding reportorial work of the year.) By KIRKE SIMPSON WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 11.— Armistice day, 1931! Thirteen years ago today official word came was ended—the armistice signed. Three hours later, at 11 o'clock am. Paris time—8 o'clock for a vast army of sleepy war workers in Washington—the last gun roared on the western front. The carnage had ended; the post-war chaos be- gun. One moment, as that fateful message came in over wires held idle for hours to receive it, the nation was girded for war. Virtually in the next instant all was changed—as if a control lever in some titanic engine had been set over. The nation was in re- verse from its war effort. Nowhere is the American swry! of that 24 hours of the first Ar-| mistice day told more graphically, more succinctly than in the minute ! by minute report that went from Washington over Associated Press wires that day. It takes more than 100 pages of closely-written newspaper ‘flimsy” to tell it—pages now drowsing, un- touched for years, amid files of the Washington office. There must be nearly 20,000 words of that day's “story” out of Washington—a book in itself. Yet it could only mention briefly hap- penings of utmost importance to| the whole nation. Recreate from the files the scene of that November night in the As- sociated Press bureau at Washing- ton: Midnight of November 10 has 13 YEARS AGD | | WILSON ISSUED GREAT MESSAGE Today Others Involved in! World War Made Peace- ful Observance ! ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 11.—( Thirteen years ago, Woodrow Wil- son, then President of the United | States, was up before daybreak and | wrote with a pencil on a half sheet of stationery, a message beginning: “My fellow countrymen—the Arm- istice ‘was signed this morning.” Today President Hoover and Mrs. | Hoover , accompanied by Gen.| John J. Pershing, went to Arling- | ton cemetery and placed a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Sol- dier. Thirteen years ago, Gen. Persh-| ing seized a telephone in a French chateau and gave the order that stopped half a million Americans still pressing on. Thirteen years ago Hoover was carrying on in England and Bel- gium little knowing the road he followed would be to the Presi-| dency. Today, perhaps, he listened in fancy to the guns in Manchuria. speeding the story of that day to morning papers of the far west. ‘The last regular news story of November 10 out of Washington was “cleared” at 1:15 a.m., Novem- ber 11. It was a battle commuique from General Pershing’s head- quarters in France. “A series of local operation by the first and second armies resulted | in considerable gains today——— between the Meuse and Moselle.” it said- In the Woevre, despite stubborn resistance —— the towns | of Marcheville and St. Hilaire were taken and Bois Dommartin cleared of the enemy.” Then a halt hour’s pause with ‘Washington silent. At 2:45 a.m. comes this mesage: FLASH: ARMISTICE SIGNED.” At 2:52 this follows “Washington, Nov 11 —The ‘World War will end this morning a* 11 o'clock, Paris time. This an- nouncement was made by the state department at 2:50 o'clock this morning.” Then in brief “bulletins” follows a summary of expected terms of the armistice, as yet unknown. They were strikingly close on later com- parison with actual stipulations of Marshal Foch. For almost 24 hours thereafter, at intervals of a few minutes, fol- lowed such developments as these: No Jubilee Celebrated at Geneva League of Nations Facing Gravity of Manchur- ian Situation GENEVA, Nov. 11.—On Armistice Day there is no jubiliation here but instead a profound sense of the gravity of the Manchurian situ- ation and necessity for bringing about peace in a world already burdened financially and economi- cally. The threat of war in Manchuria and the official notification China will begin an armament expansion program unless the Manchurian settlement is effected, was before the League of Nations today. King Albert Pays Respects to Day BRUSSELS, Nov. 11.—King Al- bert, of Belgium, today placed a wreath on the tomb of the Un- known BSoldier. He was attended in the short ceremony by an of- ficial party, ASSOCIATED PRESS ROM JAPAN T0 MANCHURIA FIRST ARMISTICE DAY, UNITED STATESF|GHTING IS | be made public after 8 am.” 7:38 a.m.—“The World war ended at 6 o'clock this morning, Washing- ton time, with revolution in Ger many and Willlam Holenzollern, former emporer, a fugitive from his native land”—this a “general lead” of several hundred words rounding {up the whole situation at that hour. | 8:43—By that time a column and |a half story on probable steps in |civil and military demobilization had been sent. 9:11—“Washington’s joy———— | quietly manifested”—the first item | on popular reception of the news. 9:25—Preparations to cancel idran calls for 300,000 men during November, “f®me of them moving to the camps this morning.” 9.52—President Wilson November draft calls. 10:06—Text of President’s proc- lamation of announcement to “My Fellow Countrymen.” 10:13—President to read terms to joint session of congress at 1 p.m. 10:28—Secretary Baker outlines draft cancellation plans; Secretary Daniels says navy calls stand tem- porarily. 10:37—Probable place, time, com- position in personnel and outline of major problems of peace confer- ence—a full column of this. EUROPE JOINS IN OBSERVANCE. ARMISTICE DAY \Honor Is Paid to Those Who Died in Great World War LONDON, Nov. 11.—Troops are on the march again across Europe but it was the shuffling half-step of companies and regiments whose battles were fought 13 years ago. In Paris, Brussels, here and in every little town on the continent, Armistice Day brought out the solemn ritual and the day is dedi- cated to the memory of those who died in the great war. cancels Ambassador Daw: Ordered to Attend Council Meeting| WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. ll.i Ambaassador Charles G. Dawes, in London, has been ordered to attend meetings of the Council of the League of Nations on the Manchu- rian question. The Council meets next uOMI’. gone, and still wires are| 5:11 am—“Armistice terms will| 10:46—Text of telegraphic can- cellation order to 4,500 local draft boards. ’ 10:51—Rallroads to continue under government two years by law. 10:55—Department of Jjustice warns its agents against relaxing vigilance on enemy aliens. 11:09—Government control of telephone and telegraph to continue one year. 11:15—Government to avoid un- employment due to “too sudden transition” from war to peace. 11:50—Shipping board stops Sun- day and overtime work. | 11:556 am.—Secretary Lansing| denies United States opposed easier armistice terms to Germany. 12:15 p.m.—President greets war workers parade at White House— drives to capitol through cheering crowds. 1 pm.—No immediate let-up for, food and fuel administrations and war industries and war trade boards. 1:03—President begins address to congress. Eighteen brief bulletins skeletonizing armistice terms fol- | low, cleared on wires by 1:38 p.m. 1:40—Full text of armistice. 2:00--Descriptive lead joint ses- sion. 2:50—Election of Professor Mas- aryk as head Czechoslovkian W ashington Attempts to Seek Truce New Angles_Being Consid- i ered in Sino-Japanese Controversy WASHINGTON, D. C. Nov. 11.— The prospects that Japan intends | making no concessions forces offi-| cial Washington as new avenues| are sought for an approach on the| Chinese-Japanese truce in Manch- | uria. ! Secretary of State Stimson andi President Heover have before them | a memorandum from Tokyo rei-| terating condition under which the| marching troops of Nippon will be‘, recalled. | Washington is still insisting or,{ demands that the Kellog-Briand treaty be observed. | French President Honors His Sons PARIS, Nov. 11.—President Paul! Doumer, of France, who lost four sons in the World War, placed a! wreath on the Unknown Soldier| slab marking the tomb as bands| played, J Maz‘e bf Newsw Retells Tempo of ‘Day After’ government ‘by radio to Washing- | ton). 3:20—General story rounding up all angles to that hour. 3:45—Danicl’s message navy. 4:00—Intercepted German radio confirms kaiser -in Holland, von Hindenburg still in Germany. 5:16—Daniels ( ordeys cestation convoying. G:58—List American prisoners in German camps. | 8:20—Senate Leaders discuss post-war appropriaviuns program. 8:30—Food Administrator Hoo- ver says no immediate drop in food prices. | 8:35—Secretary McAdoo says financial aid to allies will continue. 8:47—President and Mrs. Wilson drive in Pennsylvania avenue throngs celebrating armistice. 9:05—Analysis of armistice to all by | military men to show resumption of war impossible. 9:15—Baker says army totals 3,764,677, with 2,200,000 overseas. 9:21—George Creel recommends to President abolishment news cen- sorship. 9:30—Full story Masaryk's elec- tion (by radio). 10:25—General lead day's events —two columns. 11:30 p.m—Russian situation with speculation as to retention allled and American troops in Siberia indefinitely. 12:17 a.m.—President attends re- ception in honor king's birthday at Italian embassy. And that is the story of the first Armistice day in Washington as told by The Associated Press when it was not history, but news still hot in the molds of time. PREMIER LAVAL MUST EXPLAIN HIS U. 8. VISIT 'Pact Made with President Hoover Faces Stern Test in Chamber By HUDSON HAWLEY PARIS, Nov. 11.—Premier Laval, cleven days after his return from America, will again havea parlia- ment on his hands. To it he must explain just what he did in Washington as well as on his earlier visits to Berlin and London. From the little front bench in the sizable amphitheatre that seats the chamber of deputies, or from its counterpart in the senate, the premier, beginning tomorrow, will have to defend the policies of his government in those terse, driving debates at which he is a master. M. Laval closed up parliament early in July by a brusque reading of the “decree of cloture,” as was his constitutional right. But the opposition of the Chamber, com. mostly of Radicals and So- (Continued on_l;:ge —Two) REPORTED IN NEW SECTION Battle Breal;s—(—)ut Between Chinese, Japanese— Casualties Heavy [FGUR DESTROYERS ORDERED TO KURE Cruiser Sent to Sasebo— Eml?eror to Rush Fresh X orce from Japan Copyright, 1931, by The Associated Press. TOKYO, Nov. 11.—A fresh bris gade of Japanese troops, has been ordered from Japan to Manchuria following news of a battle on a new front when 300 Chinese and thre2 Japanese were reported slain. The fresh troops have been or- |dered to Manchuria by the Em- peror upon request of the Chief of the General Staff. Tt is said the new troops will replace the Korean brigade on constant duty in Man- churia since September 18. No orders have been issued, however, for sending any of the Japanese force now in Manchuria back to Japan. Four Japanse destroyers have been ordered from Port Arthur to Kure, because of the increasing gravity of the situation. One cruiser has been ordered from Kokosuka to Sasebo to await further orders. ——-—e—— BRITISH 60 " T0 TRENCHES INTIENTSIN International Complica- tions May Result from New Strife TIENTSIN, Nov. 11. — British troops went into the trenches to- day to celebrate Armistice Day as renewed firing between the Chinese City and the Japanese concession threatened a battle in which in- ternational complications might re- sult. Bursts of fire at the boundary between the Chinese and Japanese parts of the city were renewed with the Japanese garrison giving evidence of feverish activity. The British entrenched them- selves around the barracks in the adjacent village of Lao Shihkal. The French forces have estab- lished a strong patrol around its area fearing the Chinese, in at- tempting to reach the Japanese with guns, might fire over the French territory, which would lead to grave complications. MRS, HANSEN LOSES SUIT FOR §39,581 Pioneer Alaskan Woman Fails to Obtain Money from Estate SEATTLE, Nov. 11.—Mrs. Fanny Hansen, now of Tacoma, said to be one of the few women to seek gold in the North in 1897, has lost | her suit in the Superior Court here |against E. H. Stokes, of Renton, executor of the estate of her sister, the late Mrs. Anna N. Hall, for i839.581. Mrs. Hansen represented that the money was due her from ‘Lhe sale of her gold dredges and the wealth taken from her mines. Mrs. Hansen testified she had a contract for carrying mail by dog {team from Nome to Council City (under a man’s name, explaining that women are not supposed to be |awarded mail contracts. |Prince of Wales Places Wreath on Tomb of Unknown LONDCN, Nov. 11.—The Prince of Wales laid a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier to- dya as the Queen watched from a window. The King staye dinside the Palace,