The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 30, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIX., NO. 5867. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1931. " MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS MISSING ALASKAN MISSIO PEACEPROSPECTS CHINA ACCEPTS PROPOSAL FOR NEUTRAL ZONE Japanese Forces With- drawing Along Peiping- Mukden Railway TENSE SITUATION IS NOW LESSENING Excitement Between Wash- ington and Tokyo Is Also Over LONDON, Nov. 30.—According to advices received here, the Nanking Government has announced im- mediate acceptance of the League of Nations’ proposal to establish a neutral zone between the Chi- nese and Japanese in Manchuria. Japanese forces are already with- drawing northeastward along the Peiping-Mukden Railroad, halted by Government orders on the march toward Chinchow. The action of the contending forces has brightened prospects for p2ace. Chinese Massing At the same time the troop movements are reported and a neutral zone is to be established, the spokesman of the Japanes2 Foreign Office at Tokyo said the Chinese are massing troops in Southwest Manchuria between Chinchow and Tahushan. The Japanese troops are nOW almost completely withdrawn from the recent danger zone and the Chinese are advancing to take over the areas as they are evacuated. SIGNS OF PEACE LONDON, Nov. 30. — Signs of approaching peace are seen in re- ports that raflway officials have announced they hope to resume through service on the Peiping- Mukden Railway. A train has left Mukden and moved southward for a survey and to repair broken telephone and telegraph lines. WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. — The t:nsion has noticeably lessened among officials here who have been keeping unceasing vigil on the Manchurian situation especially after the excitement with Tokyo's Foreign Office over statements wrongly attributed to Secretary of State Stimson and made by a Jap- anese News Agency. Japanese official circles are re- ported satisfied with the explana- tion of* the American Secretary that he did not make the state- ments. American officials are also able to look with more hope that the Manchurian situation will be bet- tered by the establishment of & neutral zone which has been agreed to between the Chinese and Jap- anese. The State Department be- lieves that an ultimate solution of the troubles between China and Japan will soon be made. -— Marooned Indians Are Hiking Back to Their Villages GALLUP, New Mexico, Nov. 30.— Aided by thawing weather and res- cue parties, hundreds of Navajo Zuni Indians are hiking back to their villages from the tabletopped Mesas, Mountains where they were trapped last week by blizzards. The Indians claim' 25 lives »were lost out of the 1500° caught in the storms. “How Are You?” Man Makes Reply By Taking Life Oregon, aged 29, Nov. d Wfie Cr{éé “Suicide” Charged with the fatal shooting of her husband, Justin L. Cobb., Jr. (jnset), Mrs. Emily R. Cobb (above), 26, beautiful and talented Mansfield, Mass.,, society matron and mother of two children, has frantically denied to police that she committed the crime. Her father found her trying to stem the flow of Cobb’s life blood while her two terrified chiliren looked on. Mrs. Cobb claims Justin, who was the son of the president of the First National Bank, Mansfield, ended his life |Chairman of after throwing her downstairs during a drinking bout 6.0, P. NAMES SNELL FOR THE SPEAKERSHIP New York _Dgeats Tilson After Hot Fight—Lead- ership in Question WASHINGTON ,Nov. 30.—Bart- rand H. Snell of New York, former the powerful Rules Committee, was today nominated for Speaker by the Republican Conference of House members, de- feating John Q. Tilson of Con- necticut, Republican floor leader in the last House, on the seventh ballot. The final vote was Snell 96 and Tilson 64. Snell lacked one vote of having a majority, but the election of Snell was conceded. The contest was hot and the bal- loting spirited. About twenty Republicans failed to attend the conference. The smallness of the cpnference became evident this morning as the thin- ned ranks converged toward the House chamber. The meeting took place behind locked and guarded doors. It was the belief in the beginning that the contest for Re- publican leadership was at stake and that the choice lay between Snell and Tilson. Snell will lead the Republicans next Monday in a contest against the Democratic majority. It is con- ceded that Representative John N. Garner of Texas will be the next Speaker and, probably, Represen- tative Henry T. Rainey of Illi- nois will be the majority floor leader. Tilson Led in Beginning After the seventh ballot in which Snell led Tilson by 32 votes and was within one vote of a majority over all, Tilson moved that his nomination be unanimous. Tilson led in the first two bal- lots, Snell overcoming the lead when State delegations gave up hope for favorite sons. The Republicans now have a question before them as to whether or not Snell’s nomination for Speak- er will carry with it the minority leadership against the Democratic majority if the latter organizes the House. Tilson maintains since he was named for floor leader at| a House Conference in February | h2 would retain the post. Rabbit Has One Ear, in Center Of Forehead KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 30. CURTIS WIL e RUN AGAIN FO WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 30.— Vice-President Curtis announced this morning that he will not be a candidate for Senator from Kan- sas next year but would accept re- nomination for Vice-President if it is tendered to him. It is believed by those who claim to know that Vice-President Curtis has cast his lot with President Hoover although he said nothing about the President in his an- nouncement of his candidacy for renomination. The Curtis an- nouncement is accepted by Repub- lican leaders as assuring him the post. It is regarded as unlikely that any Administration Republi- can would contest him without the support of President Hoover. A Free For All In Kansas The withdrawal of Vice-Presi- dent Curtis from the field leaves a free for all contest for the Re- publican nomination for Senator in Kansas it is believed. The be- lief is general that former Senator Henry J. Allen, friend of President Hoover, will be among those who will seek the nomination. Senator Allen was defeated for re-election to the Senate in 1930 by George McGill, Democrat, by 18,000 majority. Secret Trucking Routes Foil Chicago Hijackers CHICAGO, IIL, Nov. 30.—Hijack- ing the hijackers is the new game Chicago police are playing. Twenty-one streets radiating from the city's 27 principal railroad freight stations have been secretly designated as “protected routes”, |over which merchants and truckers will route their goods with assur- ance of protection from special police details. Confidential route maps showing the “safe ways” have been pro- | vided hundreds of the city's heavi- est shippers and to all police* cap- | tains, squad cars and motorcycle patrols. Road House Operator Claims to Be Nephew CORDOVA, Alaska, Nov. 30. — |'Charles H. Johnson, Tolsona road- house operator, claims to be a nep- hew of P. A. Johnson, who died last Tuesday in Tacoma, Wash., supposedly a pauper, but who left i VICE - PRESIDENT Veteran Kegn Will Not Race for Senator — Be- lieve Renomination Sure of Deceased Alaskan| ADAMS URGES LARGE AMOUNT FOR U. S. NAVY Secretary Expresses Senti- ment of Experienced Officers FLEET MUST BE KEPT | READY, TWO P Appropriali;Soughl Not Excessive — Sum Be Used Advantageously e WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 30— Secretary of Navy Charles’ F. Adams has directed the Admifis- tration anew to the sentimend in the Navy for larger appropriations. This was in the forefront of Hhis annual report made public today. The Secretary told President Hoover, in his report, the Navy has to be kept in tiptop shape not only as a deterrent to war itself but adequate for combat if necessary. “It should be borne in mind" the Navy Secretary says, many of the most experienced and | ~ Where Jépsfiw_(;n Decisive {’A street scene in the ancient walled city of Tsitsi- har, capital of the province of Heilungkiang, in Northeastern Manchuria, which Japanese troops captured with airplanes, artillery, infantry and cav- | alry from General Ma Chan-Shan’s Chinese army in “that| gne of the most decisive battles of the Sino-Japanese RIES ARE LOCATED ALIV SIBERIA “war.” Once in command of Tsitsihar, the victor- ous Japanese pursued the fleeing Chinese fariher north into territory under the wing of Soviet Ruscia. The battle which won Tsitsihar for the Nipponese was fought in frigid sub-zero temperatures. Map indicates location of city, and Mukden, where war fare originally centered. FIVE HUNDRED MARCHERS ASK FOR HOT LUNCH far-seeing officers feel the amounts are reasonable and not in excess of those being annually appropriated and will be used advantagepusly., In fact the amounts requested are essential to provide adequately for, the navy's minimum requirements/ within treaty rights.” Secretary Adams repeated his | recommendation of Jast .year . higher pay, when economic eendis: tions warrant, as an incentive for' younger men to join the_nnvy. ;Unemplo),ed from Pacnfi i Coast on Way to Con- Dawes Not | fer with Hoover in Politics, {500 HUNDRED He Claims Comments on Efforts to Have Him Run with | Hoover in '32 cl 1 UNIONTOWN, Pa, Nov. 30.—A! demand for a hot lunch for 500 | marchers -scheduled to stop here| next Saturday, on the way to, ‘Washington to seek an audience with President Hoover, is before the county commissioners. The request for the hot lunch was made by Miss Rebecca Grecht, representative of the National Hunger March Committee. PARIS, Nov. 30.—United States he Commissioners granted pre- Ambassador Charles G. Dawes, miggion to the marchers to meet on commenting on dispatches from tne court house steps. Chicago that the Republicans of e caravan, originating in Se- the Middle West are boosting him gepie wash., travels in trucks, ad- as a running mate with President ging numbers as they go. The Hoover in the 1932 campaign, said: mgarchers expeot to_reach Washing- “I'm not in politics, and I'm not o5 on December 12. LOUGR TG SEGRET SERVIE KEEPING WATGH M[E;:]‘!}(E]R;RISBUNUPGN M_AHGHERS ; T ‘Caravans Enroute to Wash- Five Are Sentenced at Ta-, ington from East, coma, Following Con- | ““North and West spiracy Convictions | < el | WASHINGTON, D. C,, Nov. 30.— TACOMA, Wash., Nov. 30.—Mike Unflurried but watchful, Secret Ruvo, aged 35 years, leader of an Service Headquarters is keeping tab alleged liquor ring, has been sent- on advancing caravans of “hunger enced to seven years at McNeil marchers’ bound here from the Island and to pay a fine of $500 East, North, and West. When the in the Federal Court. marchers get here, said W. H. Frank Norton, aged 31, and Jack Moran, Chief of the Secret Service, Baer, aged 27, were given the same: they will be handled in a “manner sentence. | satisfactory to all.” Joe Wharton, aged 26, and Fred| Secret Service agents said they Janevi, aged 18, were sentenced to have found evidence that Com- two years and also fined $250 each munists have an important hand The five were convicted at two in the movement. trials for conspiracy against the, liquor laws and resisting an officer. They were arrested in August as a prelude to the seizure of a $50,000 still near here said to have been the main plant of a Puget Sound and Oakland, California, li- quor ring. { Nine others, indicted as being involved in the operation of the still, face trial on December 8. Injunction Sought to Prevent Construction of Golden Gate Bridge S8AN FRANCISCSO, Cal, Nov. 30.—A suit for an injunction to prevent the building of the $35-, 000,00 Golden Gate bridge has been filed in the Federal Court. " The suit alleges the bond issue .subjects the taxpayers of San Prancisco to discriminatory, unfair "and fillegal bonds. A + The questions involved are simi- ,lar to those passed on as legal by Rain Digs — INCREASE IN Channel in Cordova St. {Stores and Basements Are Flooded—Property Dam- age About $15,000 CORDOVA, Alaska, Nov. 30.— Torrential rains sluiced a channel 12 feet deep in Main street here Satyrday doing property damage estimated at $15,000. Merchant, lost heavily as stores and base- | ments were flooded. PR AT e PIONEER OF NORTH DIES AT WRANGELL E. P. Lunch, Who Came to| Alaska in 1873, Strick- en with Pneumonia WRANGELL, Alaska, Nov. 30.— E. P. Lunch, aged 96, Pony Ex- press rider and pioneer Alaskan is| dead here as the result of pneu- monia. Born in Cork, Ireland, the family BUSINESS 1S - NOW EXPECTED iBulging Warehouses Being | Relieved, Declares Sec. Lamont WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 30.— President Hoover received the heering word today that America’s bulging warehouses are being re- | lieved of the glut of overproduction of manufacturers. ‘This was shown In Secretary La- mont’s annual report. Stocks of manufactured goods had dwindled 50 at the end of the fiscal year that the situation was akin to 1928, !g1v1ng reason to expect increased | business. As to raw materials, however, the Secretary of Commerce was unable to say the same. Surpluses in lgeneral were undiminishted. | Mr. Hoover heard again that his | moratorium proposal of last June “had a salutary effect on business sentiment in this country and abroad which was promptly re- | flected in an upturn in commodity and security values.” Reserve Board's Index To measure industrial activity in | this country, the Commerce De- partment Chief selected the Fed- eral Reserve Board's index of pro- duction. It averaged 20 per cent moved to New Orleans when he was four years old, thence to Ken- less last fiscal year than in the tucky several years later. Lunch ' °he before, and 25 per cent below came west and became a pony ex_‘the unprecedcnted volume of 1928- press rider. He came to Alaska in 1873 and engaged in transportation| But despitc thg abnormal busi- on the Stikine river using dugouts Ness situation, Mr. Lamont empha- and Indian crews. He mined mlsxud. indusirial production for the the Cassiar District and was later Year ended June 30 was of greater interested in the salt fisheries bus- | Volume than in 1920 and 1922, “and iness at Karta Bay. He was gen- |31 pPer cent more than in the de- erally identified as a pioneer in in- ' Pression year 1921.” dustries of Southeast Alaska for During the past fiscal year the more than 50 years. During the Department of Commerce index of past years he has lived with ths domestic raw material stocks aver- family of his son-in-law, J. C. aged 7.4 per cent larger than in Grant, of the Wrangell hotel. He the preceding year, while the index 1929-30, the index has since | ‘1 Situation Satisfactory year although the weapon was fired at The Secretary found foreign trade of the Depariment showed that the the State Supreme Court. >oo—— | Chicago to Los Angeles train, left is survived by six daughters and for June 1931 was 17 per cent “The situation with respect to stocks of manufaotured goods is much more satisfactory,” the re- ST. LOUIS, Nov. 30.—A bullet turned downward and at the end from a .45 calibre automatic in the of the past fiscal year was about hands of a bank robber was de- § per cent below the preceding year pointblank range. not so bad as indicated by dollars 3 and cents values. Exports were 34 Train IMVCC Tnck; per cent lower in dollar values and Passengers Bruised 1al volume of exports was down Mrs. P. C. Mahle, wife of a the track near here but passengers veteran craneman in the service escaped with only bruises. No cars of the Alaska Railroad, died at overturned. A broken rail caused sons. ,above that of the same month of s 1 1930. port said. “After rising above pre- depression levels during the fiscal flected by a button on the vest and at the same level as in June of L. G. Dowling, vice president, 1g92g" imports 37 per cent under the pre- vious year on June 30, but studies LOGAN, New Mexico, Nov. 30.— |Nine coaches of a Rock Island, Anchorage. She is survived by her the accident. Trains wer re-routed busband and several children. through Amarillo, only 29 per cent. Despite the de- above the 1922-26 average. - ees Mcasles caused the closing for a while of schools at Seldovia and Kenal. ases exports were two per cent 4 OM IN MANCHURIA TWO BROTHERS SIGHTED FROM SEARCH PLANE {George Feltes and Martial LaPeyre Camped on Interior Creek DOG TEAMS TO BE SENT TO THEIR AID Pilot Harryfiunl Dr. Food—Mission Planeops Was Forced Down MCcGRATH, Alaska, Nov. 30— The two missing missionaries, Brothers George J. Feltes and Mar- tlal LePayre, were located last Saturday from the air, camped at the head of Ganes Creek. The two Brothers left here a& week ago yesterday to fly to Holy Cross, The two were apparently forced down, wrecking the. landing gear of the Mission plane. Harry Blunt and Deputy Marshal g'l.un]ey J. Nichols reported finding e two Brothers on t] ol heir return “We circled their camp a number of times and dropped a sack of food to them,” said Bunt. “Both Brothers walked around their plane, They waved to us. They had a fire going.” Nichols said plans are underw: to send dog teams from Taem" ————— DESPAIRING OF HOPEMAHATMA 1S GOING HOME Gar}.dhi Predicts it Will Be Hell and Probably Jail” for Him LONDON, Nov. 30. — Mahama Gandhi, despairing of independence for Indla, which he came here to seek, is prepared to sail for home next Saturday to what he predicted was going to be “hell and probably jail” for him. “We shall take up again our weaponless battle against England. Even if I go to jail again or they deport me, the fight will go on Just the same,” said Gandhi. BOYS DIE IN. AUTO PLUNGE SEATTLE, Nov. 30.—The drowne ing of two Seattle school boys, when their automobile plunged through a barrier on a drawbridge into the water, made six fatalities in this State over the week-end. The boys drowned were Richard Gelinas, aged 16, and his cousin, Earl Barber, aged 8 years. GAS EXPLODES: " MAN IS KILLED | SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 30.—A terrific gas explosion in his room |fatally burhed George E. Isham, aged 55, a restaurant worker, on Sunday. Gas had accumulated from lan open jet and exploded when Isham struck a match. He died in 2 hospital five hours after the | explosion. Did Not Trust Banks; Robbers |Secure $16,000 CAMBRIDGE, Ohlo, Nov. 30. —Fcar to trust their money with banks caused three farm- er brothers, L. R., W. A, and F. M. Barnes to lose $16,000. Five robbers entered their heme and forced the three brothers to give up their sav- ings which were hidden about the house. -