The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 14, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIX., NO. 5899. JUNEAU ALASKA, MONDAY DECEMBER 14 1931. CHIAN KAI SHEK IS FORCED TO RESI GOLD STANDARD NOW SUSPENDED BY JAPAN GOVT. Embargo oEEporlofGold Also Reimposed by New Cabinet MANCHURIAN ISSUE NEXT BIG QUESTIO} Tsiuyoshi Inukai Succeeds in Forming New Min- istry for Emperor TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 14— Tsiuyosh Inukai charged by the Emperor to form a new Govern- ment, completed the Cabinet Sun- day morning. The new Cabinet is composed entirely of members of the Seiyukai Party. The first official act of the new Japanese Government was to sus- pend the gold standard effective at midnight Sunday and reimposzd the embargo on the export of gold. Japan removed the embargo on gold exports in November, 1930, and since then the outbound gold shipments have been heavy. After the financial question, the Cabinet agreed that the settlement of the Manchurian question would engage the attention of the mem- bers as of next xmpartance CHURCHILL 1S HIT BY AUTOD | INN. Y. CITY Former Bnush Chancellor of the Exchequer Can- cels Lectures NEW YORK, Dec. 14—Winston Churchill, former Britich Chancel- lor of the Exchequer, was struck by an automobile on Fifth Avenue last night and his representatives announced teday that the lectures scheduled for New York and Chi- cago this week have been cancelled. It impossible to determine the exact extent of the Statesman’s condition as he gave orders against any news being given out. Hospital reports, however, said his injuries were not serious and it is be- ed he st ined only a sprained shoulder and lacerations on the face. This afternoon doctors said Churchill is in danger of develop- ing pleural hemorrhage. Further examination is proceeding to de- termine his chest condition. JANE ADDAMS RESTS EASILY BALTIMORE, Maryland, Dec. 14., —Jane Addams, International peace advocate and founder of the Hull House in Chicago ,Illinois, un-, derwent an operation last Satur- day. The attending doctor said' she stood the operation well and is resting comfortably. She will probably be in the hospital for eleven weeks at least. Miss Addams and Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Colum- bia University, were last week awarded the Nobel Peace Prlze for 1931 - i i | |Baker as she slept, HEIR I'O HEAVYWEIGHT THRONE? v sy GENE LAUDER TUNNEY Associated Press teleploto of the son of Gene Tunney, former heavyweight boxing champion. Th Nov. 18 and this is one of his first e baby was born in New York City pictures. ' SERVICE MEN, CIVILIANS IN SUNDAY FIGHT Rioting Breaks Out on Streets of Honolulu, Over Mistrial v HONOLULU, Dec. 4. — Fighting belween American service men, clad in dungarees, and gangs of civil- jans on the streets, forced the navy shore patrols and marines .into riot duty Sunday. Fighting broke out in eight sec- tions of the city. One man was kidnapped by a mob, beaten and whipped. All disorders are blamed by the police on the recent mistrial of five men accused of attacking th= young wife of a naval officer. The city is comparatively quiet today aft:r shore patrols arrested 200 participants in the rioting and returned them to their barracks. The major encounter was fought in the downtown section. The shore patrol began making arrests and 100 marines armed with rifles and backjacks were dispatch- ed but order had been restored when they arrived. GAS EXPLOSION WRECKS HOUSE; | WOMAN KILLED Fumes fromfialer Believ- ed Ignited by Elec- tric Bed Pad PASADENA, Cal, Dec. 14—Tue explosion which early Saturday morning wrecked the home of A. W. Baker, wealthy California and Ohio oil man, and killed Mrs. is attributed to gas leaking from the bedroom heater and not to dynamite as at first suspected. The police said they believed gas leaked from the heater and was - Iu;mted by an electric warming pad OPERATES 114-YEAR-OLD MILL in the bed, or the explosion might MANSFIELD, Ohio.—John Gfrer have been caused when a match operates an old stone burr mill that is 114 years old. It formerly was owned by Mordecai Bartley, who became governor of the state in 1845. The mill will grind seven barrels of flour in ten hours. was struck to light the heater. When Baker awoke in a hospital he suspected enemies had planted dynamite beneath the house and the police worked for severalhours ,on that theory. New Anesthetic, Minus Bad Effects, Found by Savants SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 14 —Development of a new general anesthetic through the purification ol divinyl oxide is announced as the work of members of tho staff of the University of California medical school. The new anesthetic is declared be quicker acting than older scheties such as chloroform, and other gases; its effect | s longer lasting and its use is foer from the objectionable path- ological effects. to It was the discovery of Dr. C. cology, and a number of asociates including ‘a Chinese woman, Mrs. Mei-Yu Chen Mai, now in Pei- ping, China; Dr. P. K. Knoefel, fel- low of the National Research Coun- cil, and Dr. A. E. Guedel, anesthe- tist of Los Angeles. Although clinical evaluation of the new anesthetic is still pro- cceding at the University of Cali- fornia Hospital, its asceriained merits already- have shown the discovery is one of the most im- portant of the year, in the opin- D. Leake, professor of pharma-|ion of Dean Langley Porter. 'STOCK PRICES 60 LOWER IN - SELLING WAVE Numerous Losscs of One to Four Points Sus- tained Today | | 1 | NEW YORK, Dec. 14. — Selling flurries swept through the stocks at the close today and new low levels were reached with numerous losses of from one.to three points. The turnover was 3,000,000 shares. The market had a brief but rather brisk flurry in early trad- ing. Some groups, notably rails, re- sistad selling throughout the day. General Motors and American Can closed fractionally up. Union Pacific was up a point. New York C ral was steady at the finish. United States Steel, American Telephone and American Tobacco B closed off as did Sears, Roebuck, ‘Woolworth and Consolidatzd Gas. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YCRK, Dec. —Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock tcday is 11%, American Can 61%, Anaconda Copper 10, Beth- lehom Steel 20%, Curtiss-Wright 1'%, Fox Films 3, General Motors 22%, International Harvester 24, Kenneco:: 9%, Packard Motors . United S'T Steel 417%. TWO ARKANSAS TOWNS STRUCK BY HIGH GALE Many Persons Are Injured but Only Five-Year- Old Girl Killed CAMDEN, Arkansas, Dec. 14—A | tornado struck Camden and the nearby town of Waldo on Sunday and killed a five-year-old girl and injured a number of others. death was here, Helen Colvert being buried beneath the wreckage of her home .Her father, Howard Colvert, and baby sister, were injured. Although Waldo was almost de- molished, only two persons, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. King wers injured. He is the Cotton Belt Road station agent. The station was half swept away. Rain in almost cloudburst pro- portions followed the storm and added to the general destruction. STEAMER AFIRE; The single 300 LOSE LIVES| SHANGHALI. - China, Dec. 14— Three hundred Chinese were drown- ed or burned to death Sunday when the small steamer Tate blew up in the Yangise estuary. Six hundred persons were aboard when the blast rocked the Ilittle ship and it immediately burst into flames. Many of the passengers ‘mmped into the icy river water. LOCARNO PACT MAY HELP IN DISARMAMENT Broader Interpretation Sought at Forthcom- ing Geneva Meet ALL NATIONS WOULD BE PLEDGED TO AID Protection Demanded in Case of Aggressive War or Invasion PARIS, Dec. 14— (Copyrignt by A: sociated Press)—A broader ver- n of the Locarno Pact, under which nations would guarantes cach other agai aggressive Wars, seemed certain to be pressed at the coming World Disarmament Conference at Geneva as practical- ly the only possible road to suc- cess. The conference meets in Feb- | ruary Pivotal Signatories Cermany and France would be |the pivotal signatories to such a pact. All nations woilld be pledged to aid any power which found itself menaced by an aggressive war or invasion. The Associated Press has obtain- ed this information from a check of opinion at the principal capitals of European nations. Two Viewpoints Germany and her former allies |believe they have unjustly been disarmed, according to further in- formation secured by the Asso- ciated Press. France and her, Belgium, Poland and Jugo-| Slavia, are convinced there will be no essential modification of exigi- ing armament strength untila plan is evolved under which all nations can count upon armed assistance when they are the victims of an aggression. An amplified version Italo-British guarantee would also be sought. e — Rum Runner .- Founders; 17 the peace of of [Liquor Craft Comes to Grief After Accidents, Norwegian , Coast OSLO, Norway, Dec. 14— Two men, almost dead, floated ashore last Saturday near the village of Maaloey in a life boat which also contained four bodies of their com- rades, all members of the crew of {the German trawler Venus, said to be a rum runner. Seventeen other members of the crew, are unaccounted for and are believed dead. The two survivors, from frag- mentary stories, said the Venus was disabled from two shots from a coast guard vessel and it went on the rock. The craft was got off and later foundered. The Venus sailed December 1 from the Shetland Islands with 5,000 gallons of ligusr aboard. Three thousand oallons had been landed on the Norwegian coast be- fore the vessel was sighted by a coast guard cutter. The cutter fired 20 shots, some taking effect. Soon after the Venus struck the rocks and was later refloated. The crew kept the boat afloat with pumps. Later the Venus uck another rock which ripped her bottom open and she sank sudden- ly. The crew hurriedly t life boats. S e GO TO SEATTLE FOR CHRISTMAS W. 8. Pullen, manager of the Alaska Electric Light Company, and Mrs. passengers on the steamship Vic- toria, which sailed from Juneau at midnight Saturday for Seattle. They will spend the Christmas hol~ idays there with their daughter and son who are going to school in the States. i took H. P. SULLIVAN BOUND SOUTH Harvey P. Sullivan, Unit Marshal for the Third T with headquarters in Valdez, ed Juneau friends Saturday the steamship Vietoria was in I He is one his way to the States on official business. e A goat in a park at El Tex. mothered a fawn and young antelope, Paso, a nations friendly to| Men Missing | STORM TRAPS PINU\J I‘HU' “MBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRESIDENCY PRESIDENT OF CHINA RESIGNS H1S POSITION Is Practicamorced Out Under Pressure of Canton Clique FINANCE MINISTER EXPECTED TO QUIT Further Changes in Cab- inet Anticipated With- in Next Few Days BULLETIN — Nanking, 14.—Reports that the Presi- dent has recigned are denied in cfficial circlcz. The Presi- @y spokeemen said he has Dec. more of them lost their lives. They we At the Fut only a fow miles from the storm’ the right. Lower: a brush sheiter of two Navajo families in New M gathering pinon nuts. CONGRESS FACES Pasaskss Flier Weds CRUCIAL TESTS OF ABILITIES Appointment of Commit- tees and Writing Party Programs Next Task WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 14— Crucial te: tien with upon Congress v cond week with sul .Xamy nothing done. The will come with the organ |a half hundred committees, a job that Democratic leaders strove to | complete while preserving peace in }!he party membe ip. | The Moratorium ratification con- } fronts the Ways and Means Com- | | mittee body; cne of the committees | already organized. Appropri bills for the various Government | Departments start now through the various sub-committees of the Ap- propriations Committee, which is| organi; ! The Democratic members of the| Ways and Means Committee are now faced with drawing up t.e party tax program. | | Democrat May Be Senate President On the Scnate side, troubles 1"- main with the Republicans. G. P. leaders proposing to get thc committees organized are ducking while the election of a President pro-tem is held in abeyance with d‘ deadlock over Senator George H.| Moses, candidate and caucus nom- | inee for re-election. The outlook | now is that the post may fall to| the Democratic Senator Key Pitt- man of Nevada, Dem c nol nee for the position. Postpone Debt Payments | Taking the silence of Congress | as the next best thing to consent, the Administration will allow with- out objection the pc $125,000,000 debt payments due to- | morrow. Associated Press Photo was married at Lexington, Ky. tc George Anthony Reginald Williams an Englishman. They werc In Lex: Ington to see the Prince of Wales steeplechase. It was her third mar rlns. LEGAL BATTLE IS BEGUN OVER AUK BAY TRACT Government Starts Fight to Preserve Public Recrea- tion Area There | The Government today opened |a legal battle in the Federal Dis- |trict Court, before Judge Justin | W. Harding to preserve to the local public the public recreation grounds at the north end of Auk Bay which |last summer was invaded by one |claimant to property rights and which descendants of the old Auk Bay tribe of Indians regard as theirs by inheritance William Murphy and his fam- ily, and some 10 others are named as defendants. Only the Murphys were in actual attendance and were represented by Frank H. Foster. Murphys Build Cabin Mr. Murphy and his sons moved ———— PETER RITMA FOUND DEAD DAWSON, Y. T., Dec. 14—Be- lieved to have killed himself be- cause of financial w the bod: of Peter Ritma, aged 55 year who had bcen missing since Octo- ber 22, was found ncar here last Baturday. A rifle t had been fired through the Ritma was an oldtimer in yukon and onto the trz last summer and Alaska. | partly erected cabin, and we 1 halted by a restraining order issu | by Judge Harding at the instance Ice Landing Field Is |of the United States Forest Service | which is seeking, through the Unit- Completed at L'awson; t ed States Attorney's offic to per-| Runaway Is ...-~)UU Feet| manently enjoin all the defendants | from interfering with pub use | of the land: head the -+ > % c. 14—A large ice landing field has been com-| Mr, Foster undertook to have pleted here on the Yukon River the case dismissed against all the with a runway over 2500 feet long.|defendants except the Murphy fam- The field is being used by planesiily on the ground that none of of the Alaska Airways Company.|them had been served with a no- - S tice of the action. United States 9 | Attorney H. D. Stabler opposed the motion, and pointed out that an 5'}09‘1!"( answer to the complaint had be led as coming from all of them Days | ;m,‘. Harding overruled Mr. Fos-| ter’s motion W. H. Staley, representative of the Solicitor of the Department Wy | of Agriculture, was entered as as- {{sociate counsel for the Government, Scores of Navajo Indians were caught in the mccas of New Mexico by a cudden ctorm on v/hile a brave is shown with Lady Mary Heath, English flier |’ |did not indicated in any way his a to step cut. Despite als, the belief prevails that Chiang and other high officials arc likely to retire scon. Assocrated Press Photo and 10 or s a Navajo hojan or eack of pinon nuts at t upper | exica. Deadlock Continues but|: Committees Named After Warning from Robinson SHANGHAI, China, Dec. 14. — T. V. Soong, Finance Minister of the Nanking Government is also PRES. P ROTEM" 1 the Cabinet are anticipated. | President Chian Kai Shek was que and the popular agitation | expressing disappointment at the G fl P URGAMIZES&TAHJH Kai Shek, Prezlfienb of }Chma has resigned and his resig- SENATE wITHOUT‘“m has been accepted. expected to res few days and several orced out apparently under pres- exerted by the Cantonese | Manchurian settlement arrived at by hte League of Nation's Council, WASHINGTON, D. C,, Dec. 14— 1 UP AND DOWN CAREER Chiang Kai Shek is 46 years of agze, a Canntonese, who has been < over tne|Commander-In-Chief of the Na= George H,|tionalist forces m the Chinese Civil | War, He was ted President of n of | the Nationalist chornmem the forced | first time in Ociober 1928 and re- when |€lected in June, 1931 His career has been marked by | many ups end downs. He was ould | studying in the Tokyo Military o to press it|College when the revolt began. He tion of a Presi-|abandoned his studies and became | secretary to Sun Yat Sen, later Lmnu ining the troops in the field in me to participate in the storming Shanghal. Then for a few he sank into obscurity but in 1923, reappeared as Chief-of- Staff to Sun Yat Sen and three years later emerged as Comman= dor 'ln Chief of the Northern Ex- He re- all offic and r*zu'ed to life in 1927, only three months later to come back into the ring and ever since has been leader in the Nationalist drive for power. Josepn tracking of the t Senator Moses will bo E made nomo zainst the in- dependents. They were given their | chairmansk Serator Washingten Finance Commitiao Inve tigaticn of Manchuria Scnator Hiram E. Johnson of Cal- ifornia introduced a resolution calling upon the Administration for all notes and papers exchanged relating the Manchurian dis- pute. of the L. placed Jones on to Hoover Asks for Money Prasident Hoov VJ\kA,d Cunm'o»s’ MURDER CASE A crackling d burst forth in both houses ¢ the Morator- fum. Rey ative James M.‘ Bird May ldentlfy Slayer of Man and Woman of Minstrel Show Back, Repu of Pennsylvania called upon the House members to NEW CANEY, Texas, Dec. 14— h lution of the axe slaying last support the President’s proposal. and woman, of & Senator C. C. Dill, Washington, spes in the Sen- , may hinge on er, with Ricks Hill, ate, declared t revision of L‘]t‘ picture operator, ..,, war debts means canc “a revicval of the War Debt Com-| mission was a ')un to balance H\e British budget. He continued “The American people have con- sented to all the cancellation they should concent to.” -eo SEATTLE BANK CLOSES BBURS SEATTLE, Dec. 14—The Ameri can Exchange Bank of tle we closed Saturday and taken over by the Sta Bank! Ll September 29, ac bank’s financial s posits e $1,561,750 stock was $300,000. have provided the half starved a cage near the Brownlee, aged 58 how, and Mar= special care for bird found in - | bodies of L. H. | years, head of the Smith, aged 35 ording of Houston, aid the parrot might identity of the “slayer aroused. Loin Cloth Prevents Gandhi from Audience with Pontiff ‘Texas, wer and capital | ROME, Italy, D2c. 1t.—Mahatma ndhi n d an audience with Pope lasi Saturday, appar cause of his odd costume s had other press= It was learned, Gandhi’s loin cloth to be improper, im conform to the Va o afpear before the Pope, uirements pertaining to mod- | but it would be too delicate a mat< but Premier Mussolini did re- |ter to ask him to change his ap the little Hindu rebel. Gand- | parel opped here enroute home to| Gandhi is represented as sa lia from London. |that since he did not alter hiss The authorities at the Vatican|native costume for King George, aid n-—rangemen'a for an audience | his own Sovereign, he could |