The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 25, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIX., NO. 5884. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1931. 1. MEMBER OF JAPAN MAKING PEACE MOVE IS LONDON REPORT Council’s Formula to Be Accepted but with Reservation CHINESE STUDENTS CLAMORING FOR WAR Small NalioEf League of Nations Champion China’s Cause LONDON, Nov. 25.—According to unofficial advices received here, the Japanese Government has instruct- ed its representatives in Paris to accept the League of Nations Coun- cil's peace formula, except for a reservation on “such military measures as may be required for protection of Japanese lives and property from bandits and other lawless element>" More than 8000 students &t Shanghai joined in a riot demand- ing a declaration of war against Japan and the execution of Hseuh Liang, charging him with failure to resist the Japanese in Manchu- ria. The students forced the rail officials to provide transportation for 5,000 of them and take them to Nanking. Russiap newspapers quoted Pei- ping reports charging the Japan- ese and White Russians with hav- ing formed a bloc to seize the So- ! viet owned Chinese Railway and set up a buffer state between China and Japan. CHARGES ARE MADE PARIS, Nov. 25.—Representatives of small nations in the League of Nations Council are reliably re- ported to have assumed the rol2 H aben F ouumilw by Foreigners in Hollywood Victims of Various Kinds | of National Strifes Join Colony HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Nov. 25.— | This city has proved a handy port | for foreigners tossed about by polit- | ical upheavals and wars. | A former General in the Rus- sian Imperial Army readily became |a Duke in a Hollywood film and bought for himself a cafe by the |sea. He is Theodore Lodijenski, who takes parts in pictures. Provisional President of Mexico for six months, Adolfo dela Huerta, friend of Caruso has been tutoring | Enrico Caruso, Jr., as a teacher in voice. Nicholas Salazar, former Director General of Immigraticn in the de- pos:d Legia Government in Peru, and Ivan Lebendoff, the Russian diplomatic service, are also here and the latter is one of the most dashing and polished Hol- lywood actors. There are also many prominent Mexicans here. ALF. A, TAYLOR PASSES AWAY IN TENNESSEE Former Governor, Colorful Figure in Politics, Is Dead former | of champlons of China. Unidentl- fied spokesmen are sald to have accused the big powers of letting the League's covenant go to pieces by unwillingness to exercise coerc- ive measures it provides. COLD WEATHER CONTINUES IN WESTERN U: . Some Crops Reported to, Have Been Injured— 4 Persons Dead SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Nov. 25. ASSOCIATED PRESS ALFRED A. TAYLOR JCHNSTON CITY, Tenn., Nov. 25.—Former Gov. Alfred A. Taylor, aged 83 years, for years one of the formerly in| —With little promise of immediate most colorful figures in Tennessee retreat, winter continued to hold politics, died here today as the the Western part of the United States in cold hands. Some crops have been injured and four per- sons are known to have died as the result of the cold. The Weather Bureau promised little relief for today or tomorrow. Snow continued in the Rocky Mountain section, Northern Idaho and Eastern Washington. Rain in Western Washington brought higher temperatures. — TWO UNDERGO OPERA{IONS Mrs. C. E. Sund and Helen Bol- yan, both of this city, successfully underwent surgical operations this morning at St. Ann's hospital. result of ureamic poisoning.. Among the few Republicans to be elected Governor of that state, he did not attain the office until 34 years after the famous “brother vs. brother” contest of 1886, in which he opposed his brother, the late United tSates Senator Robert L. Taylor. ! the contest for wue governorship of Tennessee, which came to be called “The War of Roses,” held the attention of the country throughout the campaign. H Brothers In Contest The two brothers campaigned to- gether. Alf, as he was familiarly known throughout his life, was the (Continued on Page Two) Bourquin Describes U. S. As Most TRENTON, N. J., Nov. 25.—Fed- eral Judge George Bourquin of Butte, Mont., filed an opinion in which he characterized the United States as the most lawless nation in the world with the most badly enforced laws and the poorest ad- ministration of justice. The criticisms were penned in finding eight men guilty of liquor law violations. Judge ‘Bourquin has been sitting here to help clear a crowded docket. «If America is the most criminal country on the earth—and it is— if the laws are most poorly &n- forced, justice most weakly admin- jstered—and they are—the repre- treatment of officers of law is a large contributing cous he said. «It must bs remembered not the innocent but the guilty complain of official efficiency. Never are the guilty satisfied with official meth- ods, which unmask and bring them to acceunt. So Lawless Nation of the guilty is to divert attention from themselves by putting the of- ficers on trial. “In these prohibition, or at least, Volstead days, that is the favorite indoor sport of Old John Barley- corn. A great lover of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments is Old John He has become (God Help Us) the principal champion of them. “In forty years of bench and bar the writer has never known an in- nocent man to appeal to the un- reasonable search and seizure clause of the Constitution. That is true of the cases in general. But now, constantly and vociferously. does Old John invoke and demand its vindication in his behalf. “It was designed to be a shield of defense for the innocent; Old John has converted it to a spear of aggression for the guilty. And the amount of judicial sanction his arrogance has received, is one of the most shocking and alarmin: developments of the prohibitior experiment,” APPEALSBOARD REVERSES COLE * OVER 11 CLAIMS |Important Points Covered in Territorial Board's \ First Actions | Declaring that no shortage of | Territorial funds is eminent, and that the Territorial Auditor - has no authority to t in roview on any decision within the pruperg functions delegated to other offic-| ials or boards,” the Territorial Ex- |amining Board yesterday overrode | Territorial Auditor Cash Cole and |ordered the payment of 11 claims | against the Territory which he had previous'y rejected. Eight of the claims originated with the Territorial Board of Road Commissicners, two in the office of | Education, and one from the Ter- itorial Legislature: The sum in-| ed was inconsiderat2, aggregat- ing but $1,974.90. Claims Are Upheld The Examining Board, which is| 'composed of Gov. George A. ‘xarks“ | Chairman, W. G. Smith, Treasurer, | jand Attorney General John Rust-| ’gard‘ Secretary, was unanimous in| |its opinion upholding the validity of each and all of the claimsj |before it. The Board was created | | the 1931 Legislature for the| ourpose of passing on disputed claims. This is the first time it] has been called into action. { All of the opinions were written | by the Attorney Gencral and copies | have been forwarded to the Auditor | ind to those appealing to the| | Beard. Hesse Initiates Action Highway Engineer W. A. Hesse, | member of the Territorial Board of | Road Commissioners, acted for eight claimants for moneys dus them under contracts with the Commission for work done in re- pnmgg and maintaining the tele- phone line between Tanana and! Unalakieet. The amount involved was $1,408.90. | Mr. Cole had disallow>d the | claims on November 6, ‘“not be-} ] |cause thcy are not just and true |claims against the Territory” sald{ the Board's ruling, but, quoting| from the Auditor's own decision in the matter “because these claims have b:en classed in this office as secondary, and just as soon as there is sufficient money to pay all the prior claims contracted the claims in question will be paid.” Money Is Ample The Territorial Treasury may not be exactly flush with coin just| now, but the Board found it wasn't as bare as Mother Hubbard's cup- board. It said “At the time of the hearing be- fore this Board nothing was pre- | sented to the Board to indicate that the finances of the Territory are such that these claims are not legal charges against revenues for the present year, and the Board finds that the resources of the| Territory for the present year are| ample to take care of the claims| in question as well as other claims' incurred during this year.” Other objections raised by the| Auditor were declared by the Board ‘0 b2 not well based. It found the| contracts were faulty but that the work had been performed, mater-| lals furishned, and that it “seems just and right that the work per-| formed should be paid for on the Jasis of quantum meruit. | “The claims presented being in conformity with that basis, it is| the view of the Board they should be paid.” One of the claims was oy the Northern Commercial Com- pany for freight charges prepaid at the request of Highway En- gineer Hesse. The Board found this to be “undoubtedly a just| claim.” - It concluded: “The de-| cision of the Audditor is reversed and the bills in questions ordered paid.” School Bus Claim Two of the with the Board by Bert Johnson, contractor operating the school bus between Juneau and Fritz Cove on Glacier Highway. Thé September bill, approved by the Commissioner of Education and Governor Parks on October 2, was for $187. The sther, for October and approved by the same officials, was for $231. Both were disallowed by the Audi- tor on November 2, and 3, re- spectively. Mr. Cole raised the point before the Board that neither claim had been disallowed and that appeal was premature. The Board found | that he had returned both vouchers to the Commissioner of Education | with the notation that “the allow- ance per day noted on the voucher | is not the amount set forth under Mr. Johnson's signature in the original bid.” He had also stated that “with the information now (Continued on Page Eight) claims were filed \ i Forward Passing in Tomorrow’s Big Game--- | his friends. |back at work compiling and codi- OM ‘MOM To POP; WITH PERFECT INTERFERENCE ,THE TURKEY'S DEFE! RODEN FINE 1S PAID TUESDAY | GETS LIBERTY T0 BE SOUGHT Friends from Ketchikan to Nome Contribute to Fund to Pay Fine Henry Roden, prominent attor- ney, who went to jail Monday evening rather than pay a §200 fine for contempt of court, w released s rday afternoon ly before o'clock upon payment of the fine, not by himself, but by Mr. Roden was today | fying laws of Alaska. Without his knowledge, when it was learned that he had elected to serve out the contempt fine, local friends immediately started a fund to pay it. The movement did not begin until Tuesday morning and' by 3:30 p. m. more than enough money had been contributed to cover the fine and costs of the ac- tion. While the major portion of the money came from Juneau, friends | throughout the Territory from Ke chikan to Nome telegraphed th contributions, Territorial Re| sentative Frank R. Foster took charge of the fund and made the payment in the office of the Clerk of the District Court. LR CLAIMS BIG EGG RECORD SOUTH HADLEY, Mass., Nov. 25 —Albert F. Wilkinson says a pullet at his poultry farm laid an (4 9 inches long, 7% inches in diam- eter and $'. ounces in weight. Shopying Bays to Chrigtmag Homeowner Bel Costs Declared Too High WASHINGTON, D. C,, Nov. 25.— Poor home owner! His pride and | joy now appears to be a thing of | pensive for two-thirds of the popu- herror, obsolete and discredited. This verdict has been pronounced | on the bulk of the country’s houses by a committee of President Hoov- {er's conference on home building | standards of sanitation be and home ownership. The home, contends the comm: tee, has not kept up to the advance in America’'s standard of living. Automobiles, radios, and other modern blessings have outstripped the dwelling place. The cause of the home’s backsliding is found by the report to rest on too high cost | committee on large-scale opera- J has been completed and the poju- of building. | NQE \ ‘/ WILL BE ToRN To SHREW DAMAGES FOR TWO KILLINGS kMexico Wiil—l\_'lake Claim | Against United States, | Estrada Says | MEXICO CITY, Nov. 25.—For- jeign Minister Estrada last night said Mexico would claim damag:s ageinst the United States as the result of the killing last June of two Mexican students at Ardmore, | Oklahoma. William E. Guess and Cecil Cros- by, former Deputy Sheriffs, were (eequitted at Ardmore last Sunday on chargss of murder which fol- lowed the fatal shooting of Emilio Cortes, kinsman of President Rubio, and Manuel Garcia Gomez on June 7. The two students were slain after they had been halted by the peace officers. Ordinary Broadcasters Doomed, Asserts Expert BERLIN, Nov. 25.—The end of the ordinary broadcast station is drawing near in the opinion of Count George Arco, German radio expert, and it won't be long before there will be only as many broad- cast stations in all Europe as the continent has nations. “There is no doubt,” Count Arco says, “that in about five to ten years the whole European radio and broadcasting system will be !entirely reorganized. A few giant senders with energies up to 10,000 ‘kilowatts will supply the whole European continent. This arrangement will automat- ically solve the big problem of the proper distribution of wave-lengths. “There will be no d lties at all in receiving these s ns with even little means, because the ex- istence of a few high powered sta- | tions permits a wide enough marg; ji{l the distribution of wavelengths.” vind Times! | “New houses meeting an accept- able standard of living are too ex- |lation of the United States” it said. Many families must continue liv- | ing in houses far below present-day 5 no RAIL SELLING DEVELOPES ON STOCK MARKET J [Many Issues Carried Down with Carriers—Steels Also Decline NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—Renewed selling developed early today in rails and spread to other stocks, causing sharp declines, the market closing with numerous Jos of from two to four points. Carrier issues, in nearly all cases, reached new lows for the bear market ac- tivity which was the greatest this week. Shares sold totalled 1,500,- 000. The sharpest rail declines today were in Atchison, and Union Pa- cific, off nearly five points. New York Central, New Haven, Penn- sylvania and Southern Pacific also reflected disappointment over th: inability of the Brotherhoods and rail executives to reach an agree- ment on wages. Steels suffered today. American Can, Westinghouse, Al- lied Chemical, Woolworth, Eastman Kodak were off sharply CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Iiov. 25—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 137, American Can 71%, Anaconda Copper 13%, Beth- lehem Steel 18! Curtiss-Wright 1%, Fox Films, 6%, General Motors 24%, International Harvester 29%, By P PRICE TEN CENTY ASSOCIATED PRESS cte Witamn: SEARCH STARTED FOR 2 BROTHERS FROMANCHORAGE {George J. Feltes and M. | LaPeyre Are Not Re- | ported, Holy Cross TCCK OFF FROM M’GRATH SUNDAY 'Pacific Interational Air- ways Sending Out Planes —Blunt in Air | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov, 25.—Brother George J. Feltes _|and Brother M. LaPeyre, fly- DEMOCRATS WIN e i & MAJORITY OVER ALL IN HOUSE The two Brothers left An- chorage several days ago. They arrived safely at Me- Grath where they were de- layed by unfavorable weath- er. Texas Democrat Replacvs‘ e N Republican in Congress {r¢sumed their flight but have el Pariv Cantenl |not :lrnved‘ at Holy (rOS§. s AERY SO The Pacific In t ernational SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Nov. 25— Airways is sending two M. Kleb: of Corpus planes from McGrath to stl, Democrat vesterday | geareh for the missing plane elected Representative in Congri < from the Fourteenth District, m“‘“d Brothers. succeed the late Henry M. Wurz-| £ bach, Republican, recently deceased. | WORD RECEIVED HERE Kleberg's nearest opponent was al-| Bishop J. R. Crimont received a so a Democrat, Carl Wright John- night cable message, from Anchor- son. Kleberg's plurality was more | age, saying the Mission plane with than 5000, The Republican was the two Brothers has been missing far in the rear, sinc: Sunday. Pilot Harry Blunt The Democratic victory in the Started a search but no word has {Fourteenth - District practically been received at Anchorage from clinched the party’s control over him up to last night. Other fliers |the organization of the incoming Were to join the search, leaving | House of Representatives, It gives' Anchorage late yesterday and to- {the Democrats a clear ~majority day. ovar all regardless of what might be done in the two unrepresented districts. The total House mem- bership with all seats filled is 435. The Democrats have 218.| | Therz are 214 Republicans, one Farm Laborite and two vacancies. MARQUAM DIES INEAST; CAUSE 18 NOT KNOWN ally the two Brothers org il i Raskob Clarifies Wet and Dry Stand WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 25.— Democratic National Chairman | John J. Raskob, clarifying his po- | sition of yesterday as -criticism | mounting against his insistence in | thrusting the wet and dry ques- jtion forward, declared that he 'mink: the Democratic Party ought jto favor a resubmission of the Eighteenth Amendment to the peo- ple and make its position -clear, | but that it may take a stand for j or against Prohibition. ! —— {Prominent Interior Repub-| | find if he left any lican Leader Passes Away in N. Y. Thomas A. Marquam, prominent Kennecott 11%, Packard Motors 5, | standard Ofl of New Jersey 32%,| United Aircraft 13%, United States | Steel 57%. | P, A, JOHNSON, SOURDOUEGH, IS DEAD, TACOMA Was Supposed to Have Been a Pauper—Cash and Securities Found | leader years, died last Monday in Press dispatch The Empire. | not given. (Contnuec Page Twoy | TACOMA, Wash, Nov. 25—P. A.| NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—A 73-year Johnson, Alaska sourdough, died|old skipper who once bossed Jack here a supposed pauper. Yesterday |London in repairing his forty-fool it was disclosed he had approxi-| Yawl at Annapolis, Md, after a mately $10,000 in cash and securi- | terrible adventure in which he lost ties and investigation may disclose | Ris sight, ‘sailed blindly through further wealth, |a heavy and finally wrecked A - aatiac i his craft on a fish trap He is Capt. H. E. Raabe a slave and ebony trader Solemon Islands half a ago. When Jack London as a member of the ¢ of the Glenora, Raabe was its skipper. The ancient mariner left | Washington, Long Island, several weeks ago, alone in his small craft, the Spendthrift, bound for South Seas. Nothing was heard o him until a letter, dated November 6, was received by a friend, Georg? O'Brien, of Jersey City, N. J. OniNovember 2, he said, he was are trying to relatives. A Deputy of the County Clerk went to Johnson's room and found $2,000 in bonds and four bank books on Seattle and Tacoma banks | showing deposits of $6,935 and an- other bank book on a Cordove bank showing a deposit of more than $4,000. Johnson was about 70 years old He is supposed to have made his money in Alaska. If no heirs are found, the money reverts to the State. e who was in the century shipped for | Way has been found for | the old ones at a cost as low was twenty or fifty yea The solution, rey holds, , lies in mass pr ction of houses. {It was turned in by Alfred K.| | Stern, director of the Julius Rosen- | wald Pund, as cha an of the replacing | as it | tions, '3 under a half gale from the north in Chesapeake Bay Sun’s Glare Blinds “The sun was sinking,” the letter To my surprise the glare o1 water became unbearable. I oked up at the mainsail. What & shock! It had turned from white to ick. An optical illusion of } eourse. Population of Rome Reaches Over Million ROME, Nov. 25.—This city is the the first in Italy .o attain a population | of over a million., Census taking lation 1s g at 1,128,0%. | Fairbanks attorney and Republican President in the Interior for many pointed Robert Jack London’s Old Skipp Battles Storm, Goes Blind Port | the | | 'Boston Publisher Heads Commission WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 25— Hoover yesterday ap- Lincoln O'Brien, New Boston publisher and editor of the | York, according to an Assoclated Boston Herald, chairman of the from Fairbanks to Tariff Cause of death was Henry D. Fleicher, resigned. Commission to succeed O'Brien is 66 years of age and Mr. Marquam left Fairbanks some was personal secretary to President three years ago%and has resided Cleveland during the latter's sec- ond administration. er “The sky, too, had turned black. Another glance at the sun, and while I' was looking the bright orange orb turned to green. Then no matter where I looked in other directions, I saw nothing but a bright green disk. Of the salls, the boat, the compass or the water, T saw nothing.” Groping, he managed to také mn the mainsail While the wind howled, he tried to light his lamps, but he couldn't see th2 matal flames, the attempt was a failure. Then, steering by the wind, he | went close-hauled on the s¥arboard | tack, and headed for Annapolis, | holding to the tiller. Hits Fish Trap Finally his craft was tossed up | against fish trap piling. Desperate- ly trying to save the vessel, he, pumped water out of its hull, broke the crystal of his watch to feel the hands, and hoped. Then, after broad daylight had come, the wind abated and slowly his sight re- turned. “What in the world,” he asked, “could have been the cause of my eyesight failing and at such a crit= ical moment? Is it likely to ha | /i pen again?”