The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 2, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIX., NO. 5889. JLNEAU ALASKA WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 2. 1931, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS WEDELL MAKES FAST AIR TRIP, SOUTH TO NORTH | Encounters 5 now Storms| from Mexico to Brit- | ish Columbia { CAPT. HAWKS FORCED DOWN IN CALIFORNIA Famous Aviator Overcome by Dizziness—Is in Yreka Hospl!al VANCOUVER, B. C. ,Dec. 2—J. R. Wedell, New Orleans flier, land- ed here at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon, six hours and forty-tv and one-fourth minutes afier he took off from Agua Caliente, wex- | ico, intending to make a round | trip record flight. He decided to stay here last night because of | several snow storms encountered on | the northward flight. Wedell aim- | ed to make the round trip flight in about 10 hours. The distance is about 1,200 miles. | The previous record from Agua, Caliente to this city was made by James Hall, New York broker, last June, in seven hours and thirty- eight minutes. ! Capt. Frank Hawks left here at! 9 o'clock yesterday - morning Agua Caliente in an attempt to break a record, but landed at Pori-| land, Oregon, at 10:23 o'clock. At 10:58 o'clock he took the air again| for Oakland. The Oakland Tri-| bune, late yesterday afternoon, re-! ceived a call from a Dr. Hart, at! Yreka, saying Capt. Hawks had, been forced down by dizzinessnear | Granada but was not injured and his plane was not damaged. WEDELL w.u'nm} Dee. 2.—J. R. Wesfi sal hfi “morning he’ would wait here for a while to see if Capt. Hawks is well cnough to come back for a race to Agua, Caliente. Capt. Hawks, in Yreka, California, hospital, when asked about the race said: “I'm not in-, terested.” \ Goes Beyond Vancouver Wedell said he flew north by compass and had not checked it, explaining why he flew past here, adding nearly one hour of time to his flight. He said he thought he was passing over Bellingham | Washington, so kept on going. Then when he was over mountains | and saw no more towns until he picked up paper mills, he thought he must be going'in a wrong di-| receion and decided to back track.| It is believed he was as far as| Powell River, 90 miles north of here. | The friendship of Wedell and Hawks dates back to the world war days wheh both were flying in- stmcbora | LOWELL BAYI.ES MAKES RECORD | of lt By SUE McNAMARA WASHINGTON, D .C, D 2— ‘There’s a wooden donkey blue coffee pot in the OI John Garner Democrat who next Speaker o The donkey s fee-pol—smy o position of over ch al of the relal Vv s and home in She's bzen her y for 23 years— came to Con- v good me hi; ak heme-m, making lau to 'M:. Garner.” ever since they were marrieid. “He's head of our house ight,” she says, “though he s he isn’t.” Mrs, Garner, with her sieeves - for and c‘m' b cord of the blue cof: pvt office at 7:30 cvery morning. ¥Her fooisteps echo through t'~ vast empty corridors of the capl at that hour in the morning. body usually is there except “Unce Vic,” the elevator man. Sometimes she's even ahead of him. And while she works, papers, reading letter: } telegrams, she permits a to of what she will get for * year- md gxan.l daug Also, sorting as pcrhaps a thought of | he used to bake in her | Texas home. RADICALS TO AID PREMIER ON ONE ISSUE P - {Laval’s Foreign Pollcy Wlll Get Backing of Pow- erful Group By IILDSON HAWLEY PARIS, Dec. 2. — The powerful Radical-Socialist group in the Chamber of Deputies that hitherto has opposed Premier Laval bldw fair to be with him on at le the major issues of his foreign pol- icy during the parilamentary ses- sion just opened. For ex-Premier Edouard Herriot, elected by acclamation to the lead- ership of the Radical party at its recent convention, has gone on rec- ord in favor of the four fo]lowmg ! planks in the government progral Necessity for Franco-German un- | derstanding and collaboration. No one-sided disarmament France without guarantees of se- curity. Continued hostility to any project an Austro-German customs union. Oppos! | vision of the existing peace treal Pacific Patriotism On the first point, M. Herriot ex- claimed vividly: ‘If the ‘fatherland or Goethe cannot get together with untry of volt,axre cne may well despaxr of peace.” Of the second, he said that he jon to any ill-advised re- Politics Above Home for Mrs. Gamer, His Secretary, Slw Beats H usband at Work No- | a letter to his secc wife who “takes” it. Garner (abeve) gave up the life | of a homemaker to be his aid. A Noble V sitor i T Countess Bethiem, wife of the tor- | mer Premier of flun;nry, is shown ! &s she arrived at New York on the S. S. Aquitania. She will soon start on a lecture tour of the coun- try which will take her through 40 States, " WABASH RAIL - LINES UNDER REGEIVERSHIP Rallway Syslem Unable to!- Meet Operating Ex- penses—Action Taken 2.—F in| Garner is a good cake-baker e of her political work. Buf | she deplores the fact that tariffs ,and trade have interfered with her wfum\cr knowledge of cooking good | meat. “It takes continual practice to be a good cook,” she “Keeping house is a full-time job.” The Garners live in a Washing- ton hotel now. They don’t go if much for social life for two reass ons. They don't care for it and. t! haven't the time. | i | | for Mrs. Garner and Dicksns o Scott for Mr, Garner and the quise seclusion of their rooms—that' their usual nightly program. “ “At first,” Mrs. Garner says, made the usual round of calls likis all the rest of them, but I soo& found so many people ‘were calling nobody was left at home to get the salls, so I quit.” “At first I thought how grand it would be to get invitations to ali these brilliant affairs—but when| they came I was not interested im! going after all.” She turned back to her type. writer—this woman who takes th: probability of being the next Speaker's wife so calmly. Outside her husband's door—the one mark- “Minority Leader” — reporiers |and callers are milling. \ It was the busiest spot in the | big capitol—and likely to become | still busi That's why “Euty" Garner ers it. RUSSIANWHEAT 1S BIG THREAT |ed ORSERVERSSAY, Farmmg Methods Have Been Improved—Grain Planting Grows By FRANK 1. WELLER ociated Press Farm Editor) WASHINGTON, D. C., Deec. 2. !In view of the Soviet Government's export practice last year and its avowed policy of paying industrial ! debts from the sale of agricultural | commoditi=s, trade observers still see a threat in Russian grain. For one thing, the Russians seed- | ed 5,000,000 acres more spring | { wheat alone in 1931 than the year ‘before when they produced 1,000,- {000,000 bushels of wheat for the | largest yield in the world and ex- | ported almost 100,000,000 bushels. Spring wheat makes up three- fourths of the Russian crop and is |the chief source of Soviet export {grain. It is 1931 spring wheat | which Russia has been exporting and so far this year she has shipped out more than half the total amount last year. There has been drought in the f<p*1ng wheat area. Once that| {meant ruin in Russia, but the So- 2ts have applied scientific farm-| | ing methods—the deep plowing, cor- |rect fertilizing and proper cultiva- {tion depended upon to counteract dmu;,hl Their spring wheat area this year IDEMOCRATS WIN A book a piece, some light ficuan, FORMER BOXER WILL SUCGEED, | boxing champion of the world, was ®CONGRESSMAN INNEW JERSEY Overturning G. 0. P. 35,- 000 Plurality Democrats Carry Special Election ELIZABETH, N. J, Dec. 2- Overturning a normally Republic plurality o. 35000, Percy Stewart Democrat, and wet, was yesic elected to Congress from the Fifi h New Jersey Congressional District by a plurality of 1900 to succeec Ernest R. Ackerman, Republican Hlately deceased, defeating Donald McLean, Republican wet. With cnly one out of 298 election ng, the vote yesterday Stewart, 31.400; McLean, 29,500, | The vote was large for a spocia | election. DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY GROWS WASHINGTON, D. The Percy Demo New Jersey Ci at a special ele the Democrats a majority of five | in the Houce that will meet Mon- ) day. The party standings are: Democrats 219; Republicans 214; Farmer Labor 1; vacancy 1. e C., Dec. 2 Stewart | the th \ DWIGHT MORROW New Jersey Governor Names Warren Barbour Giving G.O.P. Majority TRENTON, N. J, Dec. 2—W. Warren Barbour, former Mayor of FKumson, wealthy thrrad manufact- urer, former amateur heavyweight appointed by Gov. Morgan F. Lar- son to succeed the late Senator Dwight W. Morrow as Senator | from New Jersey. He will serve until the next electioh. This appointment assures the Re-l publicans of a majority for the| organization of the Senate next; week. There will be 48 Republi- cans, 47 Democrats and one Farmer Labor Party member. In case of a tie vote, the Vice- President will give the chubllcn a majority | of one over all. Gov. Larson will retire from the Governorship the first of the year and be succeeded by A. Harry Moore, Democrat, elected last month by 254,000 majority. MRS. CARAWAY TO SERVE HUSBAND'S TERM LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Dec. 2.— Mrs. Hattiz Caraway, widow of the |late Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway, was nominated by the Arkansas Democratic State Central Commit- tee to serve out the unexpired term of her husband. The nom- ination is tantamount to election. The latter will occur in January EIGHTH ANNUAL EARNEST APPEAL ©sia /he engagement of Elizabeth Browning Donner of Philadelphia and Elliott Roosevel second son of Gov. and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, was announced recently by Mr. and Mrs. William H. Donner, parents of Miss Plans Lorw Hop i 1 .| | Shanghs here, cavalry clashed with the Japanese | Harbin and the Japancse were | nes pushed back. | sent Donner, GHIMESE ARE VICTORS OVER JAPAN TROOP Counter Attack to Re- gain Tsitsihar 2—A dispatch to reported Harbin, Mah Chanshan” Tom says Gen. The Japanese hav out a call for planes other reinforcements. Further Cabinet plans to me:t tonight to, reach a final League of Nations' tion. eig on ‘Ma Assocratea Press Photo Capt. Enea Silvio Racagno, noted Mtalian flier, visited Alaska and the northwest to arrange for supply Ma in 1932, or ing lor MEETING ENDED ' BY GAME BOARD British and French S uerlcll to be part of oV advices state the Tokyc decision The spokesman of the For n Offi said Japan will insis thg right to chase nchuria. T nchuria have disorders exist near Chinchow. No Negotiations The Chinese Government at Nan- w king has direct with . Nanki Gen. Mah's action denizd that any official the Japanese at lldlbu counte. near T driven in mid- 0 recaptur h his army wa 2mber. - > and on the peace resolu- bandits in observers in reported to the| bases for his proposed non-stop re- League's Council that no brigandag:? | fueling flight from Rome to Seattle, or Wash,, negotiations are pmcocd- BY WALKER FOR CONVICTED MAN Mayor of New York City Intercedes in Behalf of Tom Mooney PARDON 1S SOUGHT FOR BOMB THROWER Conviction Based on Per- jured Testimony, Gov. Rolph, Jr., Told SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. 2— With earnestness seldom displayed ¢ perhaps in his own behalf, Mayor Ja s J. Walker, of New York City, appeared yesterday afternoon be- fore his old friend, Gov. Jamea Rolph, Jr., and for an hour pleaded for the release of Tom Mooney. convicted of complicity in the bomb- ing of a preparedness day parade in San Francisco in 1916. The hearing lasted four hours. No decision is expected immediately and it may not be known for months. Believes in Innocence Mayor Walker submitted that the man once sentenced to hang, then the sentence commutted to life imprisonment, is innocent and did not have a fair trial. Both Mayor Walker and Frank |Walsh, who preceded him in a 'longer address, told the Governor, in their opinion, the records show | Mooney was convicted on prejured | testimony. Visit to Mooney Describing his visit to Mooney in San Quentin Prison, Mayor Walker said: “What I saw I can- | not describe but not in that face \‘,.u there capacity for such an | atrocious crime. Not in that clean, Gen. Mah Chanshan Makes sympathetic ana kindly blue eye did I find a mirror of a soul so |depraved as to be guilty of this jerime. I saw gentility and obvious | intelligence. It was a kindly man, grown old in appearance, inside those walls. I heard a voice that was sympathy itself.’ Believes Pardon Due Mayor Walker pointed out to Gov. Roiph, Jr., that the senfencing iJudge, nine living members of the Jjury and Charles Fickert, prose- , cutor of Mooney, believe thaf Mooney should be pardoned. “Your Excellency knows him who |addresses you. The world know his carefree side which is only his ex- terior. I have not been unhappy in criticism levelled at me. Your Excellency has dissipated all of | that. What difference does it make, if you please, from what state a man comes, if he comes with right- eousness in his heart and jusiice as \h‘s end,” Mayur Walker said. DR, SCHACHT i8 BADLY BRUISED WAAREN, Germany, Dec. 2.— Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, former Pres- |ident of the Reichsbank, was seri- (ously injured in an auto accident s e 17 1 inar frlJm i | today. FOR AIR SPEED Panama Scraps “Navy” for Three-Plane Force | ST. LOUIS, Dec. ng His head was gashed and his rg sprained. His son was also injured. Alaska Game Commission Ends Nine-Day Session The term for which Mrs .Caraway has been designated will expire She already had it] atriot, {was a pacifist yet withal ap: las tminute efforts to obtain finan- was larger than the entire acreage {hence his party demanded “in- i, he wabash Railway Com-!of all wheats in the United States. i Failure of Camera May, Prevent Time Be- coming Official DETROIT, Mich, Dec. 2. Lowell Bayless swooped four times over a thre kilometer courseatan| average speed of 28472 miles an’ hour for an apparent world record. | Faiflure of a camera, operated by an electric timing device, may ho ever prevent the time from becom- ing an official one. The shun,ert of the camera apparently hung up| on one of the eight exposures.' Camera records are necessary to, clinch records. | United States tanners are cred- ted with producing 30 per cent of the world's output of leather. creased security by given guaran- j tees and testimony of good will.” The Austro German customs union, a project interred with the | Hague court, Herriot combated dur- ing the spring. He reiterated this — time that it contained latent dan- gers for Europé’s equilibrium. (Continued on Page Three) | @hopping Daps to Chris LY aSdld Unlimited Power Granted to Bruening by Von H mdenburg BERLIN, Dec. 2—In the short- est decree ever issued, President von Hindenburg gave the Bruen- ing government practically unlimit- ed power to raise custom duties to a prohibitory point. During the Reichstag recess, un- til Pebruary 23, the decree empow- ers the Government, “in the event of stringent economic necessity” to! change the present customs sched- ule and to enter into a system of | bilateral treaties with foreign coun- | tries. This may be done without consulting the Reichstag. In some quarters the decree is regarded as empowering negotia- tions with England and to agree on tariff schedules without submitting the agreement for ratification. | pany is in the hands of a receiver. | {'This is the first major business: casualty in railroad circles since} the stock crash and subsequent | business lull. Unable to meet operating ex- | penses in the face of drastic cuts !in freight revenues, the railroad| officials con d to the appoint- ment of two receivers. This was ‘on a petition which claimed the | I railroad w. “completely insolvent.” | The action was taken on an 'unpaid $49.651 claim. ! The railroad has i faulted on large intere ————— {Kake Indian Dies Following Drinking Party Aboard Boat 1 payraepts. PETERSBURG, Alaska, Dec. 2.— |David Paul, Kake Indian, about 50 years of age, died in a hospital here after haying been taken from his gasboat. A coroner's inquest |revealed that a drinking party was |held aboard his boat last Friday night. 2 - ‘YSW. IS ‘MR’ TO YOU RUTHIN, Wales .—Englishmen, puzzled to find “Ysw.” after their |names on envelopes mailed tothem from Wales, have learned that it is just part of the Welsh nation- alist campaign. It's the Welsh equivalent for “Esq.” iland uses for “Mr.” ikewise de-| Soviet fall seeding of grain, which includes winter wheat, was esti- {mafed at 82,408,000 acres up to October 15. While that was bui| 78 per cent of the ambitious “plan” it was 82 per cent of last year's !total winter sown acreage. | If Russia follows her 1930 pro- gram she may be expected to ex- port from this crop. Winter wheat eround the Black Sea was of ex- cellent quality then and early 1931 'exports of 1t kept Russian grain ‘cnmmg into world markets for the entire year. | The enormity of Russian seeding {may be seen in the preliminary es- | jtimate of 235,443,000 acres of all |grains in 1931 compared with 213.- '496000 in 1930, an increase of 10 | per cent. Russian wheat in itself is nob| considered sufficient to break the {world market. | 1Its threat to the Unlted States and other exporting countries is (that it takes up the slack when there is a crop failure elsewhere and dams back its own weight i the exports of other countries chiefly the United States and Cs 'ada. Since Russia has heen shipper of grain unsold to t United Kingdom recent cancella- tion of forward commitments not always/considered significant a huge {Murray Butler, {Pass this year, will spend most of March 4, been appointed by Gov. Harvey Parnell to serve as United States Senator until the special election. Mrs. Caraway says that she will not under any circumstances be a candidate for Senator to succeed herself. TWO AMERICANS MAY BE HONORED OSLO, Norway, Dec. Adams, o fChicago, Dr. Nicholas President of Col- |umbia University, and Count Cuu-‘ |denhove Kalergi have been men-| tioned by Norwegian n< apers | as possible recipients of the Nobel Peace Award to be announced on| December 19. ——————— TO VISIT OLD HOME Robert E. Willis, forsman for the Bureau of Public Roads at Moose | 1 | 2.—Jane | | his urn the winter in Cincinnati, mer home. He will T Alaska in the work Reads. for- to| He left She frequently withdrew the market last year only to c n“\ which Eng- back when her boats and storc-|eénd at Virginia Polytechnic Insti- houses cleared, | | Princess Norah. e Benny Palmer, who right | | for | Frank P. Williams » | Spring. Here This P. M. After having been in session here nine days, the Alaska Game Commission today adjourned its eighth annual meeting. The mem- bers will be if eral days awaiting transportation to their respective homes. The Commission spent today go- ing over the minutes of its sessions and preparing its report ar rec- ommendations to the Secr of Agriculture. A summary 1ese wil 1lbe announced lat Two of the Con sail on the Victoria Fr urday. Irving McK. Ree drew Simons will take | that ship for Sewar proceeding directly to | Fairbanks, and the latter ren ing at Seward where he reside President W. R. Selfridze, and| will sail next| on the Steamer Adm Evans. Mr. Selfridge goes to Ket- chikan, his home, and Mr. Williams to Seattle. He will spend tt ter in the States, returning Michael, where he res irst salling of the Victoria will week, - ADDIS ABAB.—The emperor for. foreign visitors ion a year ago. Busi are high. at | coron; tute, weighs only 143 pounds. slow because prices ! corps PANAMA, De 1 —Panama has ! scrapped its “na’ for an air force. The single gun boat which was used for the enforcement of re nue laws has been decommissioned and three planes puu ased as a| nucleus for an anization. Captain C. K former air corps officer in the U. S. army, has been ged as chief pilot and two Panama ted to re- ceive flying instruc post, France - > o> Dr. J. ©. Futrall, president of the - tball coach in 1836 - eee FOIL PLANS FOR ELOPING PARIS, Dec. 2—Plans of Don Jaime de Bourbon, second son of former King Alfonso, to elope and my y an unidentified Spanish E: thwarted by his as anncunced here to- Olympia, rated second to Seattle, Washing- golf champiom Johnnv Shields, ton State amateur (;ovornor M urray Plans to Ease Farm and Home Taxes OCKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Dec An unusual tax reform experi- s atempting t the tax burden from the shoulde: me and farm owners to co: and men of large incomes rapidly in Oklahoma ndonment of the ad valorem system, which has been in e statehood, is one of the chief aims of the governor. Campaigning in 1930 among de:-, te farmers and men whose busi- ad already felt the sting of , Murray promised that ected he would reduce the ad tax on farm lands and per cent within a year: of the 1931 legislature to ¢ his full program has kept mm from fulfilling his promise, the governor says, but some of his pro- ave gone into effect and the remainder he has taken to the (Continued on Page Seven)