The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 12, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIX., NO. 5898. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1931. ~ MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRES 1l ~ PRICE TEN CENTS PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS TILT OVER DEBT REDUCTION Pfl]SflN w_ARflE_N [ Woric Sfitn)onfo Staft ;)n—Pan That Will Check Canal Flood [ ABDUGTED BY SIX PRISONERS Three Leavenworth Con- victs Recaptured— Others Suicide LEAVENWORTH, Kansas, Dec. 12.—Three of the six prisoners wno escaped from the Federal prison here yesterday morning by abduct- ing Warden Thomas White, were recaptured late yesterday afternoon a gun fight and returned to Three other prisoners shot them- selves to death in a farm house, where they held the owners cap- ve, as a posse of 500 men, soldiers, civilians and officers surrounded the house. The captured prisoners ht back in chains. All six were armed with shot- guns and pistols, when they es- caped. One of the prisoners captured was shot in the shoulder. were SEVENTH CONVICT MISSING LEAVENWORTH, Dec. 12—Tt was revealed late yesterday that seven convicts executed the daring plot to escape. Three are dead, three were recapturd but the sev- enth prisoner, a grey-haired Okla- homa mail train robber is sought by possemen. He is Earl Thaycr, aged 65, and disappeared under the noses of 500 soldiers, guards, civil- jans and other officers who cor- nered the four in the Salisbury farm house, eight miles west of the prison. It was in the farm house that three of the convicts were found dead. It is believed that Will Greet, alleged leader, killed his companions, Grover and George Curtis and then suicided.. The three bodies were found in the attic. The three . prisoners recaptured are Tom Underwood, Stanley Brown and Charles-Berta. Warden Is Shot In Arm ‘Warden White was shot in the flight with the prisoners. His left rm was shattered by shotgun fire when he attempted to escape from the prisoners. He underwent an operation. Efforts to learn how the con- victs obtained their weapons . have so far proved futile. ANOTHER BREAK CHILLICOTHE, Ohio, Dec. 12— Four prisoners who escaped from the Ross county jail after beating the Sheriff with their fists, have been captured in a farm house. s — RAILWAY LABOR NOT TO ACCEPT WAGE REDUGTION Further Negotiations Pro- posed—Men Urge Cer- tain Agreement CHICAGO, Tll., Dec. 12.—Organ- ized Railway labor yesterday re- fused to accept immediate volun- tary wage cuts as suggested by the railroads and proposed instead the men and the roads enter into fur- ther negotiations. It is reported the men are de- termined to exact some sort of an agreement regarding spreading oI work, preferably through a six hcur day before accepting a wage cut. The railroad heads have al- ready frowned upon this proposal. e — OPERATE ON JANE ADDAMS BALTIMORE, Maryland, eDe. . —Jane Addams, Chicago social worker, underwent a major opera- tion at an entrance hospital here today. The operation was delayed one week by bronchial trouble. Miss Addams and Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Col- umbia University, have just been awarded the Noble prize for 1931. dam. STOCK PRICES BIVEN BOOST, LATE TRADING Early Losses Cancelled or| Reduced in Final Min- utes of Upturn NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—Stocks were boosted by short coverings in the last few minutes of trading at the short session today after sinking to new low ground and losses of one or two points were cancelled or reduced in the final unturn. Several issues closed with gains of fractions to a point. The close was steady and sales totaled 1,- 500,000 shares. Bonds Weak There was further weakness in bonds. | Fairly wide breaks of several pre- ferred shares had a depressing ef- fect on the general equity of the list before the covering movement. Rails, on the whole, atracted considerable buying as the attitude of the union leaders in selecting a committee to confer further with the rail executives is regarded as TRAYLER HITS, SINKS RAPIDLY, NORWAY COAST British Seamen, Aboard German Craft, Are Believed Drowned OSLO, Norway, Dec. 12—Eleven British seamen, members of the German Trawler Venus crew which sank off the northwestern coast, are reported missing with Capt. Vis- naerotsky, the German member of “the crew. RAFT DRIFTS ASHORE MAALOEY, Norway, Dec. 12. raft bearing two desperate, hali- {frozen seamen and the bodies of four of their dead comrades, drift- ed ashore near here from the Ger- man trawler Venus which grounded early today and sank quickly. SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS MAALOEY, Dec. 12—A motor- boat was sent out to search for additional survivors. It is said that all of the crew, except the six on the raft, were packed into two bcats as the ship went down. distinctly conciliatory. | A lifebuoy has been picked up Steel Drops ibearing the name of “Venus” but Selling of steel was a major fac-'it is not known whether this is tor today in the general slump. the name of the vessel that went United States Steel dropped to 43 down or not. She probably was a and closed at 44, off 1%, Bethlehem |trawler with a cargo of fish from regained a point loss. | Iceland. American Telephone and Tele-| The two men alive on the raft graph converted a point loss into|which drifted ashore are the first a gain. ,officer and the engineer. Changes unimportant i Net changesof ahost of the pivo-| _ MAY BE RUM RUNNER tal stocks were inconsequential. | OSLO, Dec. 12—There are indi- Losses of a point appeared for Cations, local authorities said, that Allied Chemical, Santa Fe, Indus-,the Venus was a rum runner re- trial Alcohol, Johns-Manville. i ‘Those gaining a point were New York Central, Union Pacific, East- man, Loews. CLOSING PRICES TODAY ! NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—Closing| quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| stock today is 11, American Can| 63%, Anaconda Copper 9%, Beth-! lehem Steel 21%, Curuss-wflgmi 1%, Fox Films 3, General Motors | 22%, International Harvester 24%, | Kennecott 10, Packard Motors 4, United States Steel 44. Left-Handedness Shows | 2l Increase, Says Scientist; FREMONT, Neb., Dec. 12. Southpaws are on the increase, says Dr. George Mendenhall, psy- chology professor at Midland col-! lege here. Mendenball attributes the in-, crease in left-handedness to the | recognition of the theory that chil- dren forced to become right-handed after starting as left-handers often become stutterers. 1 Educators, he said, no longer ad- vocate that children be broken of left-handedness. Left-handed children being forced !to use their right hands, Dr. Men- denhall says, often start doing, something with their left hand, catch themselves, stop and start over, using the right hand. This stopping and starting carries over Jinto the speech act, by George cently reported to have sailed from the Shetland Islands with a cargo of liquor. ARMY DEFEATS NAVY 17707 The Army ivotball eleven defeat- ed the Navy gridsters in a charity game in New York City this after- noon by a score of 17 to 7. The last play of the game was a short’ passby tne Navy to the Army's 44-yard line. tne play of the final quarter. The result of the game was picked up Maki, of the Juneau Radio Service, on a Stewart-War- ner short wave radio. .- — MILLS’ SUIT TAKEN UNDER ADVISEMENT After hearing oral arguments yesterday in the suit of the Ju- neau Lumber Mills against Chese- bro Bros., Inc., et al, Judge Justin W. Harding took the matter unde: advisement. He gave attorneys for both sides 10 days time to submit written briefs. The mill company sued the Chesebro interests an dthe Alaska Leet for $2,200 for fish boxes fur- niched the brokerage her elast summer, Then the gun ended ! ama Dam Menace l By WILLIAM H. EWING PANAMA OITY, Dec. 12—Work lon Madden dam, the $15,500,000 | project which will provide an addi- | tional water supply for the Pana- ma canal and hold in check the roaring floods of the Chagres river, will begin the first of the year. When it is completed in 1936 {there will be less danger from the | floods such as those which recently | filled Gatum lake to the brim and | forced suspension of traffic in the ‘wn_erway until opened flood gates and lecks could carry away the sur- 'plus water. | The contract for actual construc- tion of the dam at Alajuela, 25 | miles in'and from the Pacific, hag (boen awarded the W. E. Callahan | Construction Company of St. Louis !and Peterson, Shirley & Gutnher, !of Omaha, at a point price of $4,- | 048,557. i Money Appropriated | The Madden bill, passed several | years ago, appropriated $15,500,000 for the entire work. Extensive pre- |liminary surveys were needed and ,as part of the project a concrete road has been built through the The beginniing of the new year will see the start of construction of jungle to the site of the dam from the $15,500,000 Madden Dam on the Chagres River in the Panama Canal Balboa. Zone. The project will assure an adequate water level during dry sea- | sons in Gatun Lake, which is part of the canal . Map shows location of Must raise its traffic of ships as:penditures.” Because it is mechanical and much as 85 feet, the Panama canal jconsumes water like a huge mill ) wheel. Passage of an ordinary ves- | sel means that 7,000,000 cubic feet |of water musi be poured into the | oceans. l Drain Tells Gatun lake, the canal’s regular {souroe of supply ,is the largest arti- ficial lake in the world, but this |drain upon it is bound to tell. In {addition, hydrographic engineers keep a close watch on evaporation. ‘[ Through the dry season from November 15 to April 15, the lake |dries up at the rate of 900 cubir |feet a second. Evaporation pro- |ceeds at about half that rate in !thc rainy season when there 1s less { sunshine;- the-air-is-coolor and il winds gentler. , There has never been a serious i shortage of water for the canal but {Madden dam will remove all such | possibilities. FREE TRADE IS ABOLISHED BY - GREAT BRITAI iNation Adopts Protective Tarniffs — House of Commons Adjourns LONDON, Dec. 12—The House of Commons adjourned yesterday |atter a session which was marked Iby the departure of Great Britain from the traditional free trade pol- icy and sent the nation along a path of protective tariffs under authorized “anti-dumping meas- ures.” The protective tariffs are aimed principally at luxuries and products which compete actively with Eng- lish industries. Adjournment ©of the House of Commons is until next February {but th eSpeaker has authority to |call the House members together | earlier if necessary. “Pmehgm Are Only Hurt in Train Wreck WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, Dec. 12—One trainman was killed, another was fatally injured and iseven passengers were hurt in the wreck of a northbound New York- Florida Limited. — .- | STENBRATEN BACK FROM SHORT KETCHIKAN TRIP Returning from a trip to the Ketchikan district, where he went to look over some mineral ground, J. O. (Stampede John) Stenbraten arrived her last night on the steamer Northwestern and con- tinued on that vessel to Skagway. He is enroute to Whitehorse and will spend the winter in the Whea- ton River district looking after mineral properties he has there P e WINS ° FIFTH GRID PARSONS, Kas., Dec. 12—Par- sons Junior college, winning the 1931 Kansas Junior college confer- ence football championship for its second straight title, has been victor in five of the nine seasons since the conference was organized. ———— SWIM IN PARIS FOUNTAINS TITLE PARIS—Fountains in the parks |+ may be thrown open to children as swimming pools next summer by -he municipal council, DEMOCRATS T0 PRESENT NEW TAX PROGRAM Oppose Many Items Pro- posed by Republicans to Raise Revenue SOLVE BIG DEFICIT hind Task Confronting Administration WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec, 12— Congressional Democrats plan to put their shoulders behind the task of solving President Hoover Ad- ministration’s deficit problem by slashing expenses and raising funds ‘through taxation and government borrowing. ‘The President has received as- surances from Chairman Joseph ! W. Byrns, of the House Appropria- tions Committes, that the Demo- crats will “do everything possible to diminish the government's ex- The tax plan of the Democrats will be put on paper sometime next week, possibly Tuesday. It is known the Democrats oppose a general sales tax and also disap- prove of the Administration’s plan to lower exemptions in order to |collect taxes on low salaries of many wage earners. ) FORMER DRY AGENTS GULTY OF CONSPIRACY IConvicted of Operati Giant Sixty Thousand Dollar Still TACOMA, ‘Wash,, Dec. 12.—Gra- ham Johnson and John Stickles, former Seattle Prohibition Depart- ment employees, charged with par- ticipating in the operation of a giant $60,000 distillery at Graham, near here, were yesterday after- noon convicted by a Federal Court Jury. The two former Prohibition em- ployees were charged specificauy with conspiracy to violate the Pro- hibition laws in operating a dis- tillery without bond, fermenting 1S SENTENGED T0 BE HANCED CLARKSBURG, West Vlrgmla.‘ Dec. 12--Harry Powers was today sentenced to die on the gallows on Mairch 18, by Judge oSuthern after overruling a motion for a new trial Powers was convicted Thursday of murder in the first degree inthe “matrimonial racket” for the slay- ing of Mrs. Dorothy Pressier Lemke, of Northboro, Massachus- etts, a divorcee, whom he lured here under promise of marriage. He posed as a weatlhy man. — e ORDER RUBIO 10 GO TO BED MEXICO CITY, Dec. 12.—Presi- dent Pascual Ortiz Rubio has been ordered to bed and all engage- ments have been cancelled. Physi- clans said the Mexican Executive has a high fever. 60-Year-Old Cake Has Been On 10 Bridal Tables N. Y, Dec. 12—~A wedding cake 60 years old that has been on at least 10 bridal tables has not yet been cut is the possession of Mrs. William Snell. It was made for the wedding of Mrs. Snell's parents in 1871 and among the wedding din- mers it since has graced were these of Mrs. Snell in 1902 and her brother, R. J. De Voe, of Rochester, in 19 A fruit cake, it still has the original decorations of silver Plan to Put Shoulders Be-! mash and maintaining a nuisance. | roses and leaves, W ¥ Assoctated Press Photo By virtue of his victory over lac| Thompson, Lou Brouillard (alcve of Worcester, Mass., now wears t crown of welterweight champion ¢ the world. DAILEY KILLED WOMAN,ASSERTS CORONER'S JURY Ketchikan Man Murdered Helen Williams then Committed Suicide IIgicn W.iilams, wnose dead body and that of Jack Dailey were found at Ketchikan Thursday, was shot and killed at least one day before Dailey took his own life, said a verdict returned there yesterday by a coroner’s jury called by Judge W. C. Arnold, and which conducted a searching inquiry into the two deaths. The woman, whose true name was Catherine Mooney and who was also known as Helen Dempsey, was instantly killed last Saturday. Dailey's death, the jury said, prob- ably occurred Sunday. The man evidently undertook to cover up all marks that would lead to any suspicion of murder. The official investigation disclosed he had concealed a bullet hole in the wall with a calendar, and had taken other precautions to avert suspicion from him. Then he prepared the note say- ing the woman had committed suicide and because he had feared he would be accused of the killing, was taking his own life. Evidence was also submitted to the jury showing that Dailey had previously threatened to kill the woman. NEW CABINET FOR JAPAN IS BEING FORMED Head of Opposition Party Expects to Organize Government TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 12—Tsu- yoshi Inukai, head of the opposi- tion party, has started organizing a strictly Seiyukai government to succeed Wakatsuki's cabinet, which resigned yesterday. The Japancse military authori- ties have decided to submit to the new Cabinet, as soon as it is form- ed, a proposal to send 15000 more soldiers to Manchuria to be used as a threat against the Chinese at Chinchow. This is expected to be one of the first major problems of the new Government. - - Four C;lcumber Seeds Start Farmer’s Income HOPETON, Okla., Dec. 12. From four small seeds sent him from Syria seven years ago Simon Bouzidon, 53, Woods county farm- er and former peddler, has built an inceme of $100 a month. g four seeds of Syrian cucum- were planted in fertile soil by the second year yielded ral bushels of seed. Bouzidon has sold his crops for n average of $250 a bushel, e and NEW PROPOSALS TOAID NATION 'Domestic Program for Liconomic Recovery Is Outlined ASKS ALL TO HELP IN PRESENT CRISIS ‘Plan WoulflYSlért Country | Forward in Every Industry WASHINGTGUN, D. C, Dec. 12— iE:.vmy shoulder is wanted at the “ 21 by President Hoc in en- ing, on a monparti basis, entire twelve vam for €oor ad of crea- p the worker at the ing a made job; I the desk as w a; rostore the 2 power farm " products, the pro- 25 of liquidation and defiation | 1nd start the country forward, all lalcng the line.” The twelve point program in- | 2ludes reduction of Federal expen- | temporary tax increase. ] unemployment relief, tim2 employment, - 1 return of deposits in closed enlargement of tne Federal discount limits, aid to rail- to home builders, a law to safeguard de- and credit safeguards to maintenance of individual ive and individual and com- 1y I ility. PARKS T0 JOIN "IN CHRISTENING OF NEW VESSEL Leaves Tonight ior Denver —Will Attend Ship Cere- monies in January ov. Goorge A. Parks, who will tonight for Seattle on the steamer Victoria, will participate n launching and christening ceremcnies for the new service ves- sel of the Alaska division of the Office of Indian Affairs, it was made known today. The Interior Department will also be represented by W. K. Burlew, Administrative Assistant to the Secretary. banks, | Rezecv , credit 1 Wetterwisht cre--» PRESIDENT HAS HOOVER FACING BITTER BATTLE * WITHCONGRESS \President and Cabinet Ar- | raved in Fight Over . i Further Debt Cuts G.O.P. STALWARTS AND DEMOCRATS COMBINED Mellon Issues Statement | Assailing Opposition to Hoover's Plan i L | | WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 12— { Inter: ional finance looms today as the ue around which one of |the greatest struggles between the on's Chief Executive and Con- be stagad is Winter. battle lines are forming, nt and his Cabinet st a Congressional phalanx composed of both Demo- crats and Republicans. The contest is one of the most spectacular in years between the White House and Con, Pres- ident Hoover has thro every energy into the fight to bring a hostile Congress around to a re- vision of European war debts and an extension of the moratorium. Party Stalwarts Rebel In this struggle, the President will not have the united support of the regular Administration support- ers, for Republican stalwarts have joined with the Democrats in the spontaneous outburst against fur- ther relief for Europe at the ex- pense of this country. Undismayed | by such fermidable opposition, Mr. | Hoover is standing by his program | without faltering. | ©One of his first steps was to | bring Secretary Mellon into action. | The Secretary of Treasury picked {up the Hoover cause last night with jan answer to Congressional cri- |of his chief’s plan—a reply a sse- |vere as any he has ever made in his 11 years of tenure of office which have been marked by fre= | quent exchangzs with hostile cri- tics in Congress. | Striking back at Congress for re- {fusal to consider at this time the question of revising European war | debts, Mr. Mellon said: “What intelligent business man or banker would refuse to investigate or con- sider altered circumstances of a debtor whose unsecured obligations ’\he held?” | Mills Gets Consideration Mellon’s aid2, Under Secretary Ogden L. Mills, who was rushed to Capitol Ell with a sheaf of papers bearing on the situatiom, ‘gc: one concession from Senate [ W. Hawkeswort! Scnator Wesley L. Jones Wachington has n invited to at- | main main. tend, but it is probable he will be| -~ — unable to be absent from the Na-| (Continued on Page Seven) b " | e — ional capital at that time. Charles| Acting Chief of The Governor will spend a few| days in Seattle enroute to Denver, where he will spend the holiday, vacation with his parents, Mr. and of leaders even if he failed in his His documents dealt the Alaska Divisio ent. Mrs. James Parks. He will return| to Seattle following the New Year,| and remain there for the christen- | ing on the new v 1. No date has been set for the seremonies, but they will take pla thortly after January 1, depending largely upon the time of Mr. Bur: lew’s arrival. The vessel will re- place the Boxer, operating between Seattle and Alaska ports to Point Barrow. -+ MRS. STEINBECK RETURNS Mrs. Willlam Steinbeck, who has been visiting in S~attle and Ta- coma for several weeks, returned home tcday, a passenger north on the motorship Norco. LONDON, Dec. 12. — Everybody ought to live to be 100, d Ma- hatma Gandhi, when he here in London. People kill themselves according to the hardy rebel, by worry, over-eating, medi- cines, immorality and drink. Nobody who observes tae simple life, prays, meditates and fasts oc- casionally, he said, has any excus for dying before he reaches century mark. His equation for cheating old age, and under- aker is this Prayer, plus 5 hours sieep, let of goat’s milk and fruit, ntented mind, equals 100 years w o The 63-year-old nationalist lead- r, who weighs only 93 pounds, has mmazed his physicians by his e Gandhi Has Reci pe for Living One Hundred Y ears Hindu | the | November Exports Larger than Corresponding Month in "30 | SEATTLE, Dec. 12—An increase in shipments of cannod salmon from Puget Sound ports in Novem- | ber compared to the corresponding !m*n:h last year is shown in a re- port made by the Seattle Mer- chants Exchange. Exports last month totalled 222, 403 cases as compared to 144,856 cascs in November, last year. gy and endurance. He can oute {walk or out-work a person one= | third his age. He accomplishes in 24 hours what it might take a week for the average person to do. This is how the mahatma allots | each 24 hours: Sleep Prayer Eating Meditation Spinning -~ 1 hour Work 14 hours India’s holy man never touches 5 hours - 1 hour 1 hour 2 hours meat, poultry, fish or eggs. He has | s a horror of medicines, drugs and alcohol. He attributes his longevity and endurance largely to his res stricted diel and self-denial. Althcugh the restless little agie