The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 20, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIX., NO. 5880. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1931. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ARMISTICE STOPS ARMED CONFLICT IN MANCHURIA GALES SWEEP PACIF 'FOOTBALL STAR’S FIANCEE SECTIONS FROM CANADIAN LINE SOUTH ARE HIT Blizzard Desz;lds, Snow| Is Piled in Drifts— Traffic Delayed TWO DEATHS REPORTED FROM SEVERE WEATHER Thirty Road Workers Are Caught in Cascades— Fears for Safety Felt SEATTLE, Nov. 20.—Snow lay today in various sections of the Pacific Northwest in the wake of blizzards which swept over a wide section from the Canadian line to Southern Oregon, Southern Idaho, the Inland Empire country in East- ern Washington, and throughout the Cascade Mountain sections. Washington and Oregon were hit the hardest. At Wallace, Idaho, 18 inches of snow fell and was then blown into DEMOCRATS AT _.,.Pou PETERSBURG LAY PLANS FOR 1932 |First Division Convention Is Characterized by Harmony 'S. HELLENTHAL MADE ITEMPORARY CHAIRMAN |Appointments Are An- nounced to Various Im- portant Committees PETERSBURG, Alas] —Under the slogan that 1932 Is | “Democratic Year,” delegates of tha | party from Hyder toSkagway ar/ ' | Sitka, covering the entire i\ ! | Division convened here today M | perfect a militant organizatior | for next year's campaign, to draff a platform and elect 15 delegates | |to the Territorial convention &' Fairbanks next January and poss sibly nominate a complets division: IC NORTHWEST ING SURF BREAKS UP GROUNDED VESSEL - 1 Assoctatea Press Photo al ticket. S. Hellenthal was elected tem- porary chairman and J. A. Davis 1 Hard on the rocks of Pt. Reyes, Cal., the coastal freighter, Munleon, was aband i ) by . i oned as a total loss i and slowly broken up by the waves. A crew of 30 was taken off by a coast guard cutter. The captair blamed the third mate for the accident. Photo shows the traarhariie chavalina and danmad <hin i paralyzing stage and rail weather, have been reported. Concern is felt for the safety of 30 road workers caught high inthe Cascades in Oregon. The road workers were attempting to break a trail between Blue Lake and Suttla Lake. The property loss over the bliz- zard swept area has not been es- pacially severe ‘and the damage caused included wires down and numerous buildings wrecked by the high winds. Highways are blocked or made dangerous to travel. Two Oregon rivers swollen into flood state. - S.0. TANKER WRECKED BY TWO BLASTS Five Men Reported Killed, Ten Injured — Acci- dent Occurs at Pier have been SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. 20. —The Standard Ofl Company's tanker Charlie Watson was wrecked by two explosive drafts today at Pier 43. First reports said five men were killed and ten men were injured. The injured have been rushed to hospitals. " It is estimated that from 25 to 30 men comprise the crew. The cause of the explosion has not been determined. Assoctated Fress I'hoto Orville Mchler, University of Southern California quarterback, has | scored again with Dan Cupid running interference. Mohler and Ber- nardine Olson, sophomore at Southern California, recently announced their engagemen* IMONY IN'S. J, CHADWICK, TEST CONTEMPT GASE FAMED LAWYER, COMES T0 END DIES IN | SEATTLE Woman Juror at Foshay Death of Prominent Demo-| | Trial Denies She Had crat at 69 Follows Interest in Outcome MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, Nov. 20 —A denial that she had any special |interest in the outcome of the mail {fraud trial of W. B. Foshay and six associates, was made here yes- terday by Mrs. Genevieve A. Clark ,the only woman juror in the trial ,and whose insistence for acquittal resulted in a hung jury. | Mrs. Clark is being tried for ontempt of court in connection |with the case. She admitted she |had been employed but a short | time in 1929 with the Foshay Com- | pany but denied this had any bear- ing in her decision. ‘Testimony in the contempt hear- {ing was completed yesterday as |were most of the arguments of at- | torneys. ! In qualifying as a juror, Mrs. Clark denied she knew any of the ! defendants. | — - — | CO-ED BEAUTY COSTS $3.64 | TUSCALOOSA, i { | The Charlie Watson wasa tanker Ala.—Freshmen of 1,700 tons, 250 feet long and co-eds at the University of Ala- 37 feet beam. The craft was built bama spent an average of $3.64 in Oakland in 1920. ,each the past year for beauty par- X ————————— lors. That's about three shampoos Mrs. Margie Crowley, of Madi- and finger waves with a manecure sonville, Ky., died at 96, leaving 215 thrown in, according to a survey descendants. made at the institution. Department Store Buying Rush Starting in New York NEW YORK, Nov. 20—The an- nual department store buying rush which promises to put millions of dollars into circulation, has begun in the world's largest shopping center. The first spell of wintry weather ccupled with the lowest prices ina decade has sent people swarming into aisles of larger stores, they re- ported. A canvass of the leading stores serving the New York district led to predictions that the volume of sales this year may exceed last year. The best news comes from Wil-| liam H. Howard, advertising man- ager of R. H. Macy & Co., largest cash retailer in the world. Howard, | said that with seasonable weather, the purchase of winter garments for men and women has resulted in an exceptional increase in sales during the past week. said sales during the past two weeks had, for the first time in !venising manager of Wanamaker's, of returning to a normal basis. An official of McCrory Stores | Corporation, large retailers of low- |er-priced merchandise in the Met- ropolitan area, said the holiday trade has started, and “happy | days” are.here again. Officials of Saks’ Fifth Avenue ]beneve things “look very encourag- {ing,” while a spokesman for Fred- lerick Loeser, large Brooklyn dry goods house, noted stead improve- jment, part of which he attributed | to individual sales campaigns. Similarly optimistic reports were received from other store heads. Consensus was that as soon as the initial boom incident to the ‘sudden change in weather falters, |stores will begin to feel full ef- | judge of the two years, shown encouraging signs ' Operation SEATTLE, Nov. 20.—Stephen J. Chadwick, 68 years old, renowned as a lawyer and as a leader in the Democratic party in the state of Washington, died in Seattle yes- terday following a surgical oper- ation for correction of an intesti- nal ailment. His death removes one of the most prominent resi- dents of the city and common- wealth. Judge Chadwick was born in Roseberg, Ore. He was educated at Willamette University and at the University of Qregon. From the latter institution, he received the degree of Doctor of Laws. He was married to Miss Emma Plummer of Portland, Ore, in 11887, One Son, Three Daughters They were parents of one son and three daughters, Stephen F. Chadwick, who was associated with his father in the practice of law in Seattle, Mrs, Maury, Mrs. Arthur Thompson Karr and Elizabeth Chadwick. After having been admitted to the bar in 1885, Judge Chadwick began the practice of his profession at Colfax, Wash. He mayor of Colfax from 1831 to 1893. |He was a member of the Board of Washington State Land Commis- sioners from 1894 to 1897. He was superior court of Whitman county from 1900 to 1908. He became a member of the Wash- ington state supreme court in 1900 and served on that tribunal eighteen years, the last six as chief justice. He resigned from the supreme bench to engage in the practice of law in Seattle. Urged for High Office He frequently had been urged by Democratic leaders to seek the governorship and the United States senatorship. He entered his party’s primaries for the gubernatorial nomination a few years ago, but was unsuccessful, the honor going to A. Scott Bullitt Judge Chadwick was prominent- 1y mentioned as a likely Democra- tic candidate for the United States senatorship held by Wesley L. Jones, whose term will expire in March, 1933. - GETS FINGER PRINTS BACK LOS ANGELES—A suit filed here to determine the rights of an in- dividual to his finger prints, when arrested for a crime and subse- geuntly released as innocent, re- sulted in the police department re- Herndon Jansen | temporary secretary of the conven- —— ALSO LASHES, IS SENTENCE The following committees were Harrison Hot Springs Hotel appointed: i Resolutions and Platform—John | Robber Convicted in B W. Troy, Chairman; N. R. Walker, |J. P. Anderson, John Ronan, J. J. Connors. Credentials—Judge W. A. Holz- heimer, Chairman;. ¥rank. Rotelhus and James Brennan, the latter of Petersburg; Harley J. Turner and H. L. Bahrt. Permanent Organization and Pro- cedure—John E. Pegues, Chairman; | Thomas B. Judson, Albert Wile, A. H. Ziegler, and Christ Christianson. Nov. 20—William Bagley, aged 42 years, was yesterday sentenced to 14 years imprisonment and to re- ceive 15 lashes following conviction of robbing the Harrison Hot Springs Hotel last April in com- pany with two others, and obtain- ing $700. The trio dynamited a bridge, to delay the police, while making their getaway. Bagley was caught at Sumas, | Washington, later. The two others Delegates Welcomed have never been apprehended. Petersburg welcomed the dele-! Bagley previously served a term idates with open arms and With in the Provincial prison for com- traditional hospitality. plicity in the Nanaimo bank rob- | The permanent organization will pery in 1925. be effected late today and commit- | —— .- tees, except the platform commit- tee, will report then. The platform committee is ex-| pected to finish its work late Sat- | urday. | |Six-Months-Old Bread “Harmony for Victory” Some Democratic conventions may have earned a reputation for | friction and party strife but this |one won’t. { The convention keynote i s“Har- {mony for Victory,” and there are no signs of any clouds on the horizon to mar contentment of party leaders who plan to lay the ground work for a successful cam- paign next year. } | SYRUP FROM WASTE CANE RESULT IN NEW PROCESS WASHINGTON, D. C. Nov. 20 Methods of extracting rup from hitherto wa: portions of sugar cane are reported to the American Chemical Society by R. T. Balch Strengthens Swiss Teeth ¢ For: ana 7. Hamition of the S. Bureau of Chemistry and U. LOETSCHENTAL, Switzerland, gojjs. ste NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C,| ON TERM, STOCKS FALL IN HEAVY CUARD SYMPATHY WITH SURROUNDING DROP IN WHEAT N, Y. DISTRIG B N i s A Bar Silver Advances and Police on DulyflToday Over | More Activity Is | Financial Area—Threats Seen in Bonds Are Received NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—The en- | tire. New York financial d ct and the office of the J. P. Morgan Company particularly, is unler one of the heaviest police guards ever assigned to such duty. The extra guards werc detailed A following a series of threatening The backward movement in | letters signed “Communist.” stocks was accompanied by in-| The letters were not only creased activities in some c! ©S | ceived at the J. P. Morgan Com- | of bonds. | pany offices but also by Harvey D. { A break in wheat quotations con- | Gibson, chairman of the Emergen- tributed to the speculative gloom.|cy Unemployment Relief Commit- Bar silver was up a fraction t0|tee, officials of the 30% cents an ounce. After a heavy opening, the sto market made some partial rec eries. The decline was resumed on the receipt of news of depressed condition in world wheat pits. Many of the so-called pivotal stock issues lost from one to five points Several others dropped to new| lows. | Steel met insistent pressure, de- | clining more than two points. Na-| tional Biscuit, Coco Colo, Tele-| Gotoctive bureau automobile detail phone , International Harvester, a busy fellow, he often told Air Reduction, Columbia Carbon, pis wife. All day he chased auto- McKeesport and —Lambert 105t/ mobjle thieves and then, when din- from two to three points. New York ner was over, he explained he had NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—Most fi- nancial and security markets e: | perienced declines today immedia tely after the opening of the trad |ing. Some slight recoveries were made toward the close, but for the most part prices were down- | ward. Company. C AN SR Detective’s Wife Suspects Him., So Deotects Triangle CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 20.—Police- man James J. McLaughlin, of the re- | New Yark‘, Stock Exchange and Bankers Trust | |Nov. 20.—The population of this In four seasons of laboratory ex- served as| valley town in the central Alps has periments in Louisiana, they state, |the best teeth in Switzerland and an excellent syrup has been pro- | medical authorities say it comes gyced from this source. from chewing stale bread. | The syrup is obtained from subs- | The people bake their bread only tances left after the sugar has |twice a year in the communily's peen extracted. Last season more | bake-house and even children are tnhan 11000 gallons of the blended {soon obliged to chew their hard cymyp was obtained with the gov- Ibread bit by bit, strengthening erymental experimental equipment. their teeth from childhood. : Ribbons, Metal Spheres Revolutionize Electricity | NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—A revolu-| The first small exhibition model tionary electrical discovery an-|of Van de Graff's m nounced as promising sufficient|the power of nearly power to realize the theori X-ray outfits. Its acular parts dream of commercial transmuta-|are merely some five and ten-cent tion of the elements has been made | store silk ribbon and two metal public by the American Institute |spheres no larger than bushel b of Physics. gkem. These are used to “step up” |the power from a comparatively With apparatus costing only $90 |small electrical generator. this discovery produces 1500000 The riphons are made into two volts of the same kind of electricily |endless belts and carry electricity as lightning. Tt will be built up 0| from the generator. One sphere 15,000,000 to 20000000 volts im-|hujlds up a positive charge, the mediately and has ultimate possi-|othar negative, until at 1,500,000 bilities of a 50,000,000-volt energy. | volts they discharge in a light- The discovery is an idea of a ning flash between the two globes young scientist, R. J. Van de| The experiments the Graaff, who was graduated from voltages are limited on the the University of Alabama in 1922. 'size of the spheres F. the He has joined the staff of the 15,000,000 to 20,000000 volt experi- Massachusetts Institute of Tec. ments by Massachuseits I tute nology, Central, Union Pacific, Nickel| Plate, Delaware and Hudson, Chi-| cago and Northwestern Preferred,, and Tllinois Central, reached new | minimums on losses of one point! to four points or more. | to hurry away for duty. After four years of that his wife became suspicious. She inquired around and d vered McLaughlin was spending his evenings ecial night . " . , Mrs. Ethel Beaudeau, accordir CLOSING }’RFCE.\ TODA a bill for separate maintenance (]‘fiF‘L’V an:)rR[:;i io"-]20‘>~C103*"giMrs. McLaughlin filed. tatios aska Juneau mine L J stock today is 14%, American Cu“lhuMnand “;;’a‘“;’:’xi"m“";il’l’nfimhof ']“ %, Anaconda Copper 14%, Beth-|y\p. “noqydeny for sixteen years. lehem Steel 26, Curtiss-Wright 2%, Fox Films 6 General Motors | 25%, International Harvester 31%,/ Kennecott 12, Packard Mo Standard Oi lof New Jer: United Aircraft 147 Uni Steel 61. 5 5% i 32 ——-—— By GEORGE M. JOH} MADRID, Nov —Calling for 4 | constitutional reférm before the | constitution is completed, Catholic i z :of Spain are organizing a coalition | party to scek repeal of the clauses {on religion in the new basic law | code. heavy-| Non - Catholic Monarchists are weight, has signed to meet Les| joining the crusade which prom- Kennedy, Long Beach, in a ten-|ises to unite half a dozen sizeable round fight here, it has been an-|factions of the Extreme Right intc nounced. The bout, accord shting unit for the first Cham- present plans will be stage r of Deputies in the New Repub- vember 25. OAKLAND, Cal, Nov. 20 Baer, Livermore, California Max D SILK FACTORY TO MUS MANSFIELD, Conn.—The lit- tle structure ch was the olde: silk mill in Ame is being ta Leaders of these. factions have gun a nation-wide speaking cam- paign, denouncing the ne relig- laws as “persecutions.” of the knotty problems now JAPAN, CHINA - ARE T0 STOP FIGHTING NOW | Agreement, in Principle Is Reached, Is Report from Paris HOSTILITIES ARE TO CEASE AT ONCE International C o m mission to Investigate Whole Situation BULLETIN—PARIS, Nov. 20. — Japan and China have agreed, in principle, to the Japanese proposal for an arm- istice in military activities in Manchuria and cessation of hestilities. An international commis- sion will investigate the whole anchurian situation. The League of Nations considers the decision a vic- tory for itself. The proposal for the arm- tilities does not bind the Jap- ;tillies does no bind the Jap- anese to withdraw troops |during the pericd of inquiry. | | LONDON, Nov. 20.—News from the battle- zone in- Manchuria is searce today. A report from Tokyo |said the field radio accompanying |the Japanese troops there has broken down and no developments |in the Tsitsihar region have been reported. Dispatches from Mukden said the |total casualties reported in the | Anganchi and Tsitsthar fighting | was 49 Japanese killed and 155 | wounded. Wesping women greeted the arrival of 19 Japanese dead in the train wreck at the Nonni River Bridge troop train wreck. Dawes, Briand Confer In Paris, American Ambassador Dawes and Aristide Briand, Acting | Chairman of the League of Na= | tions Council, concluded a confer= ence at which it is understood the attitude of the United States on the Manchurian question was dis- cussed and from which League circles hoped might provide a new course of action. Council Meets The Council expected to meet |in a private session this afternoon |but Ambassador Dawes stated the ‘Amcncun representative would not |be present. | A group of American, British, | Polish and French military attacheg |at Tokyo are expected to leave to |investigate conditions in Manchuria, the Japanese Government has an- nounced. | No Ccmment at Moscow Moscow newspapers carried the ne' today of the occupation of | Tistsihar by the Japanese troops refrained from making any | comment, Washington has been informed the Japanese will retire from Tsitsi» |har, barring unforeseen develop+ ments, as soon as they finish de- «Continued on Page Eight) Catholic Bloc Being F ormedi to Fight New Spanish Laws recognized ment as head of the move- New Orator Fiery Deputy Gil Robles, 32 year old newspaperman and agrarian leader from Salamanaca, is regarded by many the coming boss of the | Rightists. He is one of the out- | standing figures developed in the ient Assembly’ where his cpeeches attracted much ate tention Another leader prospect is Angel ra, 45-year-old managing edi- tor of Madrid's Catholic newspaper El Debate. He is active in the Monarchist faction called “accion- | nacional,” which counts among its | members many who sympathized | with the methods of the former as where he hopes to de- of Technology it velop sufficient power to disinte-|build spheres fifteen feet in diam- grate atoms, eter, is proposed 10|apart for tranference to Dearborn|stan for the Henry Ford industrial mu-|coal ) seum, ship. ' Equally optimistic news came | fects of the holiday buying season from John Wanamaker & Co., vet-iex'pected shortly with Christmas eran retallers. Joseph 'Appel, ad- Jon!y a few weeks away. g in the of proposed Primo de Rivera dictatorship. n is the question of leader- | Those planning the coalition be- Each [faction wishes to be | (Continuea or: Page Three) turning the finger prints and re- /moving them from the records