The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 4, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” NO. 5891. VOL. XXXIX., JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1931. ’VILMBLR OF ASSOCIATLD PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS WETS ROUT DRY FORCES, 43 T0 36, IN 6.0.P. CAUCUS Anti - Prohil;;;nists Force Republican Members to Adopt “145 Rule” , DEMOCRATS EXPECTED| TO ADOPT SAME RULE Horr FilesElT to Repeal Jones “Five and Ten” Prohibition Law WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. — Dry forces in the House lost their first skirmish yesterday when the anti- | Prohibitionists in the Republican caucus routed them over the “145 Rule.” With the Prohibition rank- ers solidly opposing, the caucus adopted the rule by a vote of 43 to 36. Under it, compelled to vote on any subject, petitioned for by 145 members. It is expected the Democrats, who probably will organize the House,| will adopt the same or an almost; similar procedure. Prohibition is not the only ques- tion which is expscted to be brought to a vote by means of the “145 Rule.” The Norris “lame duck”| amendment to the Consmutxon' which would seat a newly elected Congress in January instead of the | following November, Child Labor, immediate payment of World War Veterans' compensation, registra- tion of all aliens, are some of the questions that have been pending for a long time and which prob- ably could muster the necessary 145 petitioners. the House would be) HORR FIGHTS JONES LAW WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 4— A Republican Representative from Seattle, the home State of Senator Wesley ' L. Jones; who ~sponsored th> five and ten Prohibition law, now proposes its repeal. Ralph Horr, Seattle, and a new. member of the Washington State delega- tion in the lower House, announced he has filed a rzpeal bill with the House Clerk. “In moving for repeal of the Jones Law, I have two purposes in mind. First, I am against the law itself. Second, I propose to disassociate our State from this fanatical relation,” declared Rep- resentative Horr. REFERENDUM ON PROHIBITION IN FINLAND ASKED Finnish Gove:menl Takes First Step to Rid Na- tion of Prohibition HELSINGFORS, Finland, Dec. 4. —Finland and National Prohibition, comrades for 12 years, are about to part company. The first steps looking toward their disassociation was officially taken here by the Government. In a formal communication to the Diet, it asked that a referen- dum be authorized to determine whether Prohibition be continued or repealed, or modified to permit To Wed Publisher s Pliote Edward B. MclLean, Washington, publisher, has announced he will, wed Rose Douras (above), sister of | Marion Davies, screen star, when he obtains divorce in Riga, Latvia. A Washington court recently grant: ed an order restraining him from pursuing a divorce action in Paris TRADING SHIP BAYGHIMO HAS BEEN LOCATED Disappeared Last Week in Arctic Storm — Was Given Up as Lost POINT BARROW, Alaska, Dec. 4. the Hudson's Bay Company, witich disappeared several days ago, has been located by an Eskimo trap- per, 18 miles south of here and about 45 miles north of where it was caught in the ice pack several months ago. The ship disappeared from where it had been in a heavy storm which swept this section for several days last week and had been given up as lost. The Eskimo said the ship appar- ently was not damaged and was surrounded by a large field of rough ice. Mariners believe it is impossible that the ship can survive the winter and the crew, camped on the shore five miles from the old anchorage, will take off the furs and other valuable cargo now aboard the ship. ——,— TURNS BANDIT; FATALLY SHOT, FIRST HOLD-UP Woman, Evicted for Non- payment of Rent, Takes Crime Path SACRAMENTO, Cal, Dec. 4.— Desperate and without funds, an the manufacture and sale of med- jum strength wines and beer. The Government's statement de- clared during the 12 years Pro- hibition has been in effect none of the prophesied and expected changes in the Nation’s habits have occurred. Contrarily, ,de- structive influences have been brought to bear against respect for law in general, the Government added, because violations of the dry law had become so common in addition to the prevalence of drunkenness. Considerabls increase in crimes of violence were cited by the Gov- ernment in support of this declara- tion and a declaration of the Ministry that the evils of Pro- hibition loomed larger than bene- fits that might accrue from in- creased sobriety. Sbopping Baps to Christmas attractive woman, who said she was Mrs. Mary Penfeld, aged 22, of Washington, D. C., evicted from her room for nonpayment of rent, accepted a ride in an auto made by an unknown man who per- suaded her to rob a service sta- tion. The man gave her a gun she entered W. J. Hasley’s sta- tion. She demanded money and Hasley refused. She fired but miss- ed him. Hasley returned the fire with a rifie shot and wounded her. The woman staggered out of the station to the waiting auto and the man drove her around for about 45 minutes, then dumped her out on the street. She col- lapsed at the doorway of Mrs. Nettie Shields. Mrs. Shielde called the authori- ties and the woman was taken to the hospital where she is near death. and — - PETERSON-JAMESTOWN Mrs. Alice Jamestown, Killisnoo, and Wilson Peterson, Yakutat, were married yesterday afternoon in the office of United States Commissioner, Judge Charles Sey performing the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Peterson will leave on the Victoria for Yakutat where they will make their home. —The trading ship Baychimo, of 1 6. 0. P, FIGHT THREATENS ITS SENATE CONTROL Five Senators | Stay Away from Caucus and Will Fight on Floor WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—In spite of the opposition of the Senate Republican independents led by Senator Borah of Idaho and Nor- ris of Nebraska to Senator Moses of New Hamphsire for President pro-tem of the Senate, both the Democratic and Republican Sen- ators today organized their ma- | chines without a hitch. Five in- dependent Republican Senators re- mained away from the caucus, in- | diéating that the Republican row over Moses, involving the possible upset of Republican control of the Senate, will be fought out on the floor, with the five nominal Re- publicans opposing the organiza- tion. Senate Monday with the same or- ganizations they had in the last Congress. Senator Watson of In- diana will lead the Republicans and Senator Robinson of Arkansas will lead the Democrats. Assistants Ready Senator McNary of Oregon was named assistant leader of the Re- publicens and Senator Walsh of Montana is assistant leader of the Democrats. Sznator Fess of Ohio, Chairman of the Republican Na- {tional Committee, will be the Re- publican whip and Senator Shep- pard of Texas will be the Demo- cratic whip. Senator Moses will be the regu- lar Republican nominee for Presi- dent pro-tem and Senator Key Pittman of Nevada will be sup- ported for that position by the Democrats. Defy Threats Senators Borah and Norris not only declared against the election of _Senator Moses..for . President pro-tem, but they defied retallation threats of Republican leaders to take their committee chairmanships from them by the Senator who termed the independents who join- eda coalition with Démocrats last term as “sons of wild jackasses.” Notwithstanding the action of the independent Republican Sen- ators in opposing Senator Moses and remaining away from the cau- cus, the Republican leaders today expressed confidence that all the 48 Republican Senators will be present Monday when the Senate organizes. On the other hand, the Democrats will be short two of their 47 members. Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana refuses to give up the Governorship in his State and Senator Hubert D. Stephens of Mississippi is absent on account of illness. G. 0. P. MAY BAR BANKHEAD WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—On the basis of reports questioning the legality of the election of Senator John H. Bankhead of Alabama over former Senator Thomas J. Heflin, Republican leaders have a move under consideration to deny Senator Bankhead his seat. {Mexico Lets Down Barrier to Tourists MEXICO CITY, Dec. 4—Tourists coming to Mexico in the future will not have to have their entrance papers examined at the border, the immigration department announced today. This work will be handled at the Mexican consulates issuing tourist cards. It also announced that an old law forbidding tourists from bringing cameras into Mexico had been annulled. - e Vatican Protests to Spanish Divorce Laws MADRID, Dec. 4. — A protest from the Vatican against a recent decree placing divorce questions under the jurisdiction of the civil courts has been lodged with the government by Papal Nuncio Tede- schini. He said the Vatican felt such action constituted an unwar- ranted departure from tradition. Bibulous Rookies Spell ‘Grief for Swiss Army ZURICH, Switzerland, Dec. 4.— One lone drunk In a Swiss army recruit company —means punish- ment for his whole outfit. Every time a rookie shows up with a supercargo of kirschwasser, the potent Swiss ‘“schnapps,” his whole company is held in barracks. Moreover they must all assem- ble and watch the “horrible ex- ample” film of the Swiss Anti- Alcoholic League. The two parties will go into the | GAS EXPLOSION KILLS ONE AND INJURES MANY Blast from Q&y Gas Main Scatters Burning Timber Over Two Blocks BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. ¢—One person was killed, six critically in- in a gas explosion that hurled the man L. Saunders afternoon. But for action by Fire Chief fire fighting in the house, the cas- ualty list would have been larger. and ordered the men out of the house just before the explosion o¢- curred. The fire was almost under con- trol when the flames reached & plosion hurled burning timbers high in the air for two blozsks, scattering over the closely packed spectators. Sherman Pepper, 16-' year-old boy, was killed. Saun- ders, who was not at home when the fire was discovered, was in- jured when he rushed building on his return. The explosion came just as the ing. Ambulances were hurried to the scene and the process of re- moving the injured to hospitals began. Many children were num- bered in the injured. Students from the University of California aided the police in bring- ing order out of the milling mass of people. Firemen, unable to shut off the gas for sometime after the blast, refused to permit smoking or the use of flashlights in the vicinity. Saunders caid that the gas fur- nace was installed in his home on Wednesday, only the day befors ably, for the leaky gas pipe. cause of the original fire was not determined. SAN SALVADOR REVOLT ENDED President Flecs. fyne fun- try—Military in Com- plete Control SAN SALVADOR, Dec. 4. — A Military Junta is governing this Republic today following a short lived revolt which resulted in sharp fighting and the flight of President Arturo Araujo frem the country. ‘The Military Junta has assumed complete control and is prepared to obtain ratification from Congress until the elections which may be held within the next 48 hours. MISS PRINGLE T0 GET $2,100 LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 4— Miss Eunice Pringle will reccive only $2,100 of the $3,000 settlement made out of court of her $1,000,000 suit against Alexander Pantages. She appeared in court yesterday and attorneys announced the suit had been settled soon after the acquittal of the theatrical man last Friday on a criminal charge. jured and 69 suffered lesser hurts . roof off the burning home of Nor-' late Thursday Haggarty, who who directing the Haggarty detected the odor of gas, leaky gas main. The resulting 2x-' firemen were leaving the build- ‘the fire and was résponsible, prob- ' The Historic Shlp to Be Scre appe D i e — The cruiser U. 8. S. Rochester (ab known as the New York, served {inset). siago, and is the oldest fighting shi Navy, is to be scrapped as part of the new economy y President Hoover. The Roch- program lpomored as his flagship during the Buitle of San- ove), which, when Admiral Sampson | p in the American The be retired unde Opera Singer W eds G.P.R. PROMOTES - W, L. COATES TO RUPERT AGENCY V.S Mulvxhlll Now at Skagway, to Be Ad- 1 vanced to Juneau | William L. Coates, Juneau agent of the Canadian Pacific Railway, which operates Princess steamships between Vancouver, B. C., and Skagway, has been promoted to the agency of the company at Prince <ipért, B. C, one of “the most important “‘of “all the*company’s jagencies. Accompanied by Mrs. | Coates, he will leave for his new post on the next southbound voyage lof the Princess Norah, which will |be December 19. Mulvihill to Come Here Mr. Coates will be succeeded here by Vinesnt S. Mulvihill, at present ) assistant Canadian Pacific agent at Skagway. Mr, Coates is a veteran in the service of the steamship depart- {ment of the Canadian Pacific. For ;years, he was purser on Princess {vessels. He relinquished the posi- !tion of purser to accept the Juneau |agency seven years ago. Prominent in Civic Affairs During his residence in Juneau, Mr. Coates has always taken a {leading part in civic affairs. Mrs. Coates has been prominent m social affairs and church circles.| They have a host of friends who while glad of Mr. Coates’s advancc- ment in the business of the com- pany, regret that the promotion takes him and Mrs. Coates fron Juneau. CLARA BOW IS MARRIED LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Dec. 4— Clara Bow and Rex Bell, cowboy friend, were married last night. She gave her age as 26 and his age was |given as 28. The wedding took iPlace at Bell's ranch, near Search- | light, Nevada, where the film ac-| tress has been for some months recuperating from a recent break- down. t Cars, Says WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 4— Motor transportation of the Army field artillery will be fitted so far as possible to types of cars and trucks produced commercially, says | of Field Artillery, in his annual report to the Secretary of War. Gen. Bishop declares that while cially developed for fleld artillery and its production may be war- ranted in peace time, the mecessity for mass production in an emer- gency makes it advisable to have the commercial product in use and ready for rapid expansion. “If the situation requires it,” said General Bishop, “I want to be able to fill all motor requirements in the | Field Rrtiller from vehicles which Maj. Gen. Harry G. Bishop, chief | a more ideal product may be spe- |be Army Field Arullery Mu ust Be Fitted for Commercial General Bishop | may be found on the strects of any | American city and whose spare parts and accessories are found in & multitude of repair shops. “To my mind it is mos timport-| ant that as many as possible of the Field Artillery motor vehicles in a mechanized force should be of the common clal types, as such a force cannot encumbered with spare vehic: special spare parts and rolling re. pair shops, but but should be equip- bed so.as to get such replacements by foraging. “It s true that commercial ve- hicles rapidly produced form the existing stock in the country would probably not be as efficient for the particular purposes desired, but there would not be a total absence Of necessary vehicles.” ‘ and numerous commer- | Associated Press Photo .Eleanor Painter, prima donpa of the Philadelphia and San Frar.:isco opera companies, was married in New York City to Charles Henry FRIEND GETS - MONEY LEFT | BY ALASKAN Will Left by P A. Johnson, i Who Died in Tacoma, | Is Discovered TACONA, Dec. 4—The estate of | P, A. Johnson, recluse, and former i Alaskan, who died here last week |today is in process of going to a friend, Raymond E. Gleason. Al- |though it was thought Johnson died without funds, bank books were found showing he had depos- its in Seattle banks and also a | Cordova, Alaska, bank, amounting ito over $10,000. A brief will has been found. The will said: I “I, P. A. Johnson, will all my | property to my friend Raymond E. | Gleason.” | The will has been admitted to | probate by Judge Fred G. Remann. /Tt was signed by two witnesses. The existence of the will was not disclosed until yesterday. .. — GOVERNMENT ~ CRITICISED Lack of Baikbone. Causcd Breakdown in Indian Conference LONDON, Dec. 4. — Winston Spencer Churchill declared today in a speech in the House of Com- mons that the collapse of the In- dian Conference had revealed the Government's complete lack of backbone. A courageous handling of the situation, he asserted, would heve averted the breakup and pre- vented further difficulties in India. ) P Rochester p‘ ml ng disposal as junk. Sixteen other craft are to 'in attempting a solution. d by ] u[\ku‘p has averaged about $770,000 annu- been listed as obsolete since before been serving as flagship of Squadron in Central American will be decommissioned r the naval economy |l.m STOCK PRICES DROP FURTHER; SELLING WAVE Numerous Issues Close with Net Losses of One to Four Points NEW YORK, Dec. 4—An active | se 1ling flurry swept the stock mar- | ket in late trading but subsided shortly before the close and final prices were somewhat above the | lowest although net losses of one | to four points were ~numerous ‘among various ‘fsues.. The closing tone was heavy. Two million shares were sold. Trading today became unsettled |early in the day and gains made | were quickly lost. { The slump in German bonds is | regarded as contributing to the | gencral unsettiement. United States Steel dropped to a new low at 51 but came back |a fraction. American Can dropped to 61 but rebounded to 63. American Telephone and Tele- graph was off four points but recovered more than one point at the close. " CLOSING PRICES TODAY | s ool ey NEW YORK, Dec, quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 1 American Can 63, Anaconda Copper 12, Bethlchem Curtiss-Wright 1%, Fox General Motors 23'%, 1 Harvester 2§'4, Ken- Packard Motors 4%, Standard Oil of New Jersey 31% United Aircraft 122, United States Stesl 51% e - GIVES MOTHER MEDIGINE THAT ENDS HER LIFE Daughter Asrested After Making Confession— Murder Charge COPENHAGEN, Dec. Elsie Bang, aged 32, told the police she gave her mother, the Baron 4. Closing von Bueben, an overdose of medi- | cine knowing it would kill her. The Baroness had been suffering for years and died last week. Mrs. Bang told the Rev. Engel| how she administered the medicine He and the woman’s father ac- companied her to Police Headquar- ters, where she repeated her story, was then arrested and charged with murder. 1S HANGED _FOR MURDER SAN QUENTIN, PRISON, Cal, Dec. 4. — Clarence King, former rancher of Corvallis, Oregon, was hanged today for the murder of his sweetheart, Minnie McCoy, last February, at Crescent City, Cali- fornia JAPAN ASSERTS WILL TOLERATE NO ASSISTANCE Instructs League Council Member to Take Most Positive Stand NO INTERFERENCE IS WANTED IN CHINCHOW Shidehara Says League Acs | tion Taken Without | Japan's Knowledge | BULLETIN—PARIS, Dec. |4, — The League of Nations |found the neutral zone situa« |tion so cenfusing that it has |decided to seek assistance of the American, British and French Ambassadors at Tokyo TOKYO, Dec. 4—The Japanese | sovernment has boldly asserted its right to freedom from interference |by the League of Natlons or any | third party in establishment of the | proposed neutral zone and its ad- | ministration. It has instructed its League representative to lay its views in most positive form before the League Council meeting in Paris. This action by Japan admittedly complicates the Manchurian situa- tion and withdrawal of her troops and amicable settlgment of the situation there scemed further away today. Intervention Not Acceptable Baron Shidehara, Foreign Minis- ter for Japan, announced hs had instructed his Government's repre- sentative on the League of Na- tions Council that Japan does not propose “to accept any third party lm.e'rvemlon in the Chinchow neu- tral zone “In” ‘Manchuria. That 1§ positive.” He said that the Japanese repre~ sentative had been further in= structed not to consider the sugs gestion made by Dr. Alfred Sze, Chinese member of the League Council that neutral observers be authorized to participate in any Sino-Japanese negotiations over the zone limits and methods of policing it. Dicclaims Any Knowledge The Foreign Minister's statemenf added: “The League appears to have taken up the question without our knowledge.” Newspaper despatches represents ed the situation in South Man- churia as increasingly threatening, Japanese withdrawal, they said, was looked weakness. Japanese troop move= ment was reported on the Tahus shan Tung Liao Railway. ————— FAILURE LOOMS PARLEY FOR 1932 Inability of League Council to Bring Peace in Man- churia Is Bar PARIS, Dec. 4—On the frozen Manchurian plan, over which many weeks of effort have been spent to bring peace to Japan and China, many observers of the international situation fear the world's dream of disarmament may die. Even the news that the heads of three Governments—Great Britain, France and Germany—will attend the opening of the Geneva Disarm- ament Conference in February has Inot served to dispell the clouds of pessimism. It is felt here that the persist+ lent streined conditions in Man= churia create an atmosphere hoss tile to arms reduction. Manchurian developments are also looked upon as providing sup- port for the French contention that further guarantees of secur= ity, other than the League coven= and the Briand-Kellogg treas ties, are essential before the re= duction of armaments may prde perly begin. ——e——— — MILLS GOING TO SEATTLE “Smokey” Mills' will be an out= going pasenger on the Admiral Evans for Seattle where he will seek medical aid in one of the hospitals there. He expects to re= turn to Juneau in about three weeks. upon as a sign of By IN DISARMAMENT +