The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 21, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIX., NO. 5906. 1931. QUICK ACTION PROMISED ON RECONSTRUGTION Senate to Take Up Half- Billion Dollar Corpora- tion After Holidays ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 21.— Senate leaders of both parties have assured President Hoover that there will be prompt action onthe| proposed half-billion dollar re- construction corporation after the) Christmas Holiday Season. As the Christmas Holiday beck- oned, President Hoover pushed for action. Leaders of the Senate set out to clear the decks by fast ac- tion in the ratification of the mor- atorium. A plea from Veterans that votes on the moratorium be withheld until after the enactment of bills for cash payments of com- pensation certificates rested with the Senate members as they pre- pared for the war debt question. ‘The appeal, however, as expressed in telegrams and letters from Vet- erans of Foreign Wars organiza- tions and posts, have fallen gen- erally on deaf ears. The mora- torium will be considered first. House Marking Time The House is waiting for the Senate to get finished with matters that have been sent to it from the House, is ready to quit and is marking time for more debate lined out for today and tomor- row's sessions. Tomorrow’s session will be the last before the holidays. Quick moratorium action isaimed principally to making things easy for President Hoover's relief pro- gram. This is coming along now splendidly but needs unceasing care from the leaders. s King Delays Wheat For Needy The Senate Committee of Agri- culture reported favorably the Sen- ate resolution authorizing the Farm Board to turn over 40,000,000 bush- els of wheat for the needy. Im- mediate action was blocked, how- ever, by Senator Willlam H. King, Democrat of Utah, who forced it to the calendar, refusing the neces- sary unanimous consent for its passage at once. Takes Up Moratorium The Senate took up the mora- torium measure after its oppon- ents complained bitterly against the “lash” to drive the measure through by a continuous session. Before taking up the moratorium the Senate adopted the resolution of Senator James Couzens of Mich- igan to appoint a joint committee of the Senate and House to study the railroad problem. The Senate also adopted a reso- lution calling on President Hoover for unpublished reports prepared by the Wickersham Commission, reports of the experts on the Moo- ney and Warren Billings cases. ———————— HARRY GOOPER IS WINNER OF GOLF TOURNEY Wiffy Cox Is Second at Pasadena with Others Trailing PASADENA, Cal, Dec. 21.—Har- ry Cooper, Chicago professional, Plans Conquest of Pacific i Perhaps the Ha to Captain J. K. Von will_attempt the difficult non-sto Pacific Ocean to the California cpast. Hudson C. Mead. The plane they is appropriately named the “Hawaii,” where these photos T waiian lei he is wearing will bring fame and fortun. Althaus (top), who has just announced that he p flight from Honolulu across the He will be accompanied by lower panel and will use is shown in were made. OIL, COPPER SHARES DRAG PRICES DOWN Rails Also Close Heavily— Chocolate Issue De- clares Dividend NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—Late sell- ing of oil and copper shares today was somewhat depressing to stocks and most of the upturn was can- celled. The market was quiet and the closing heavy. Several issues were off from one to two points but most of the day issues maintained a fairly confident tone. Rails, after an interval of strength, gave up gains and closed heavily. Declines appeared in United States Steel, American Smelting, New York Central, Union Pacific, Allied Chemicals. American Telephone and Tele- graph registered an exceptional drop of three points. Hershey Chocolate was up a few points on reports of an increase in the annual dividend from $5 to $10. Bonds had good support the en- tire day. Oils were depressed by adverse earning reports. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 12%, American Can 62%, Anaconda Copper 11%, Beth- lehem Steel 21%, Curtiss-Wright 1%, Fox Films 3%, General Motors 23%, International -Harvester 25%, Kennecott 117%, Packard Motors 4%, Bunker Hill on curb 23%, United States Steel 39%. —e———— yesterday won the annual Pasadena Open Golf Tournament and $1,000 prize money. ‘Wiffy Cox, of Brooklyn, was sec- ond, winning $500; Fred Morrison, of Culver City, third, and his prize being $400. Ralph Guldahl and Walter Hagen, both of Detroit, Mich,, tied for fourth place and won $325 each, ——————— Hoover Escapes from Secret Service Guard WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec. 21. — The most constantly watched man in the United States, got away yesterday for an unguarded spin on the Maryland highways. President Hoover's auto led the Secret Service escorting car up a blind road, turned back and reached the cross roads and disappeared. The Secret Serv- ice car raced around and fin- ally gave up the chase. The President was found on his doorstep when the Secret Service men reached the White MILLIONAIRE MEETS DEATH, STAB WOUNDS Dischargedg;vant Kills J. William Schatz in His Home POUGHKEEPSIE, New Yor, Dec. 21.—An infuriated Japanese butler, Gentro Akiyama, aged 38 years, stabbed to death J. William Schatz, 56-year-old millionaire manufac- turer and sportsman Sunday and wounded Mrs Florence (Carozza, house guest, aged 26 years. Akiyama was discharged Satur- day night for failure to prepare an after theatre lunch for Schatz and Mrs. Carozza. ‘Akiyama burst into Schatz's bed- room and stabbed him to death and then went to the bedroom of Mrs. Corozza and attacked her. Ser- vants called the police and they arrived in time to prevent Aki- yama from killing the woman. CORE DRILLING FOR COAL WILL BE DONE SOON Government Calls for Bids on Project in Anthra- cite Ridge Area WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 21 Possibilities of coal developmentin Alaska are going to looked into further, it was made known today by the Department of Interior. Bids for core drilling in the ‘south central part of the Terri- |tory have been asked for and will be opened January 15, 1932. Cores are to be taken at 1,500 and 2,000 feet. The drilling will be done on what is known as Anthracite Ridge in the Matanuska field, according to B. D. Stewart, Mining Supervisor for Alaska. Funds for this work were appropriated at the last ses- sion of Congress. Geologists have already studied the ridge and located the most likely areas for drilling. The coal deposits in the district are bi- tuminous. 1S STRICKEN IN AUTO; DIES IN HOSPITAL Brother of Premier Musso- lini of Italy Suffers Heart Attack MILAN, Ttaly, Dec. 21.—Arnold Mussolini, aged 46 years, brother of Premier Benito Mussolini, died in a hospital today. He was strick- en in his automobile as a’ result of a heart attack and immediately rushed to a hospital where he died soon after. Arnold Mussolini was editor of Popglo D'Italia, a Milan daily newspaper the Premier founded. BUSINESS GOOD ON LYNN CANAL SAYS SOUTHWELL Dr. R. E. Southwell returned on the Northwestern from a profes- sional business trip to Haines and Skagway. He reports business ex- ceptionally good in both towns and is highly elated over the success of his visit to the Lynn Canal lo- calities. e, FRANK WATSON WANTED Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Frank Watson, who has been in Alaska for many years supposed to have been following mining, is asked ot notify the Juneau Post- master. Watson's whereabouts are desired regardig a will. Tomorrow Will Be Shortest Day of Year Tomorrow, December 22, will be the shortest day of the year. At 10:30 o'clock tomorrow morning will occur the Winter Solstice when the sun will reach its south- ernmost point since last year. At that moment it will be- gin its swing to the north and continue for six months. It will, however, be several days before there will be any appreciable lengthening of the hours of daylight. SENATORS ASK PAROLE FOR ALBERT FALL James Hamilton Lewis In- tercedes for Aged Form- er Cabinet Member WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 21.— Senator James Hamilton Lewis, Democrat of Illinois, and Senator |Bronson M. Cutting, Republican |of New Mexico, today seriously took up the matter of a parole for former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall. They called upon President Hoover in behalf of the aged and ill former official who languishes in prison. Fall's health is reported to be in a serious state. Girl Drops from Sight in Big City Father, Directs Seardli but No Trace of Daughter | Is Found PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 21.—The haggard but determined father of Virginia Penfield, aged 19, student at the fashionable Swarthmore | School, today continued to direct efforts to locate her. She has been missing since last Thursday and no trace of her has yet been found. | SHATTUCK MADE HEAD OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS Directors of Chamber of Commerce Complete Organization Today The Board of Directors of the | Chamber of Commerce for 1932, at its first meeting since its members | were elected last Tuesday, today | elected Allen Shattuck Chairman of the Board and President of the | Chamber. Other officers elected were: B. H. Howard, First Vice-President, John W. Jones, Second Vice-Presi- dent, and G. H. Walmsley, Secre- tary, re-elected. Mr. Shattuck's term will be the fifth he has served the Chamber in that capacity. From 1921 to 1925, he was President and Chair- man of the Board, and it was dur- ing that period that the founda- tions for the organization’s marked | |expansion and growth were lald.i He was the unanimous choice of | the Board at today's election. The next meeting of the Board| will be held on January 4. By that date, the standing commit- tees of the Chamber will have been | formed, and will then be submitted to the Board for approval. Other members of the Board for next year, in”addition to the offi- cers elected are : G. E. Cleveland, Ludwig Nelson, B. F. Heintzleman and J. P. Anderson. JACK “LEGS” T0 BE BURIED SIMPLE RITES i e ‘Gangdom Fails to Heed Plea of Window—No Frills at Funeral NEW YORK, N. Y, Dec. 21— Jack “Legs” Diamond, who was jput on the spot last week in Al- bany, will not have the funeral that usually is given by gangdom to its fallen leaders who reach | the eminence attained by the New | York gangster. His will be a plain wooden casket, without frills or | seroll work. | M™Mrs. Diamond’s plea to gangdom | for funds with which to inter her FOUND; IS IN DAZE |late husband in the style befitting PHILADELPHIA, Penn., Dec. 2. his recent high estate, has fallen —Miss Penfield has been found in on deaf ears. The “King is dead.” Providence, Rhode Island, her fath- er was informed late this al‘ter-;-c . noon. She arrived there in a daze,| LOMMittee Asks for taken ill aboard a train, but does| Congessional Control not know how she came to be on ¢ & % the train. of National Elections WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 21.— Congress is called upon by the RADIO GREETINGS |oo : by th ARE ACCEPTED NOW ! zating committes to cxtubtion aeti- | nite limitations on campaign ex- Messages conveying Christmas peditures by Presidental and Con- greetings for delivery on December gressional candidates. 2§ will be accepted at the local| The committee brought in a bill Signal Corps office now. These| which sought for the first time to messages will be transmitted to the | extend Congressional supervision localities addressed to butthrough to the Presidential nad Congres- arrangements with telegraph com-|sional campaigns including the panies in the states, will not be de-| nominating primaries. All candi- livered until Christmas Day. The dates would be made directly re- idea is to prevent congestion at the sponsible for any expenditures in 1 last hour. their behaif, By HAMILTON FARON CHARLESTON, W. Va,, Dec. 21 —Those who doubt the reality of Santa Claus may ponder a decision of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, the highest tri- bunal in the Mountaineer state. Five judges, harking back to their childhood days, took judicial no- tice of the doubting Thomases aend held in a formal opinion, couched in legal phraseology, that despite mew modes of locomotion, different industrial conditions and economic changes, Santa Claus re- mains the same, his eye undimmed and his spirit uncrushed. “His desire to be bountous en- dures through the ages, though his ability to reach every child may at times be affected by unfortunate economic conditions over which he has no control,” the court held in its opinion, which urged that “no child lose faith in the spirit of Santa Claus.” Judge Haymond Maxwell, who wrote the court’s opinion, which lwns concurred in by the other four A Santa Claus? Sure, for Court Affirms Him;Has Not Changed a Bit Either, Jud ge So Rules Judges, referred to a previous affir- mation of Santa Claus by the tri- bunal. That opinion, handed down several years ago, scored critics of Santa Claus and reformers “who would abolish Santa Claus alto- gether.” Judge Maxwell, in the opinion, pointed out that the decision was written on a petition for a rehear- ing, and rules limiting the period in which a rehearing may be sought were disregarded ‘“because time runneth not against Santa Claus or little children.” “Counsel who have filed the pe- tition (friends of children and of Santa Claus) do not attempt to have the decision modified or cur- tailed—they recognize its sound- ness,” the opinion read. “Their desire is that the decision may be enlarged to embrace more recent facts known to al men. The specific query is this: “Have the stress and strain of recent months dimmed the eye or crushed : Plt nd Iai Garlow’s mail plane didn’t touch damage to old Mechanical Hall, a plane is indicated by Not, irom the crash. Pilot Garlow is Hollywood Faces Sticker; Coolidge Is Cause of It LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21.— Hollywood today is facing its biggest problem. It has solved many stickers, butl the current one is causing it more than a little worry. It is how to get an eight- reel talkie out of Silent Cal Coolidge. CRCRCRC NS R NN A - OPPOSE BIG PROJECT IN WASHINGTON War Department Engineers Against Columbia River Basin WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 21.— The War Department Engineers have reported against the immed- iate development of the Columbia River Basin project in the State of Washington Lack of demand for power to be developed by the project and an existing surplus of agricultural pro- duets, are assigned as the principal reasons for opposing immediate construction. The War Department engineers estimated the total invesment re- quired would be $400,000,000. LIVES OF TEN FISHERMEN ARE LOST IN GALES Three M&llifi rees Felled by Snow — Trade Faces Big Loss LONDON, Dec —A dispatch from Stockholm to the Daily Mail says ten fishermen have been drowned in a two day storm along the Swedish coast Three million trees have been felled in violent snow storms all over Sweden, according to the dis- patch, and the timber trade faces heavy losses. INSTRUCTS JURY INLINDSAY CASE SEATTLE, Dec. 21. — The jury trying the case of Everett Frank Lindsay for slaying his wife, is being instructed by Superior Court Judge Findley. The case is expect- the spirit of Santa Claus? We Jnmver with an emphatic NO,” ed to be in the hands of the jury tonight, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Though it fell into the heart of Pittsburgh aft: Garlow (upper left), had deserted it via parachute n Crash 1 afe i 5 / s pilot, Melvin C. and safel a soul, though it did do p s shown in photo. reck: e how parts of the building red shown recover k of mail er it uff which accompanied the plane on its uncontrolled plunge. JUNEAU RADID RECEPTION IS " HIT HARD BLOW ‘II nte rfe rence f]'oln Local Transmitter Renders Receivers Valueless { TForty-five thousand dollars worth lof radio receiving sets owned by |some 500 or more Juneau residents !was rendered practically valuele: {today when the United States Inal Corps took the air with all communications and abandoned the water circuit that for more than a quarter of a century served |its cable system, handling all mes- | sages between Alaskan towns, and | between them and the States, de-| clared Wilbur Burford, Secretary | |of the Juneau Radio Club. | | With prac lly continuous wire- less transmission going on, inter- ference from the local station is so intense that radio reception is not only unsal actory, it is virtually | impossible, he said. | Acting On Instructions In accord h instructions from | Seattle he: uarters, the local Sig-| nal Corps on today began| routing all messa via wireless to | Petersburg, Wrangell and Ketchi-| kan. For some time it has been| working dirs with Seattle, An- chorage, Skag y and Haines. An- chorage distributes to interior and northern point | The Junea: |15 not trouble ttle radio circuit ome. But the inter- Alaska wi communication plays havoc w local recep n of programs broadcast from outside points. The local transmitter, lo- cated inside the city limits, on any- thing except the short wave equip- ment, is the source of interference so strong that it is impossible to tune it out. When it is in oper- ation, and that will be most of the time after today, there is no re- ception worthwhile. ‘The only remedy, is admitted by Army officials, is to move the| transmitting plant out of town A site has been picked at Menden- hall on the Kendler place and a lease to the Government agreed upon. Funds are understood to| have been appropriated last Spring | for the new plant, but nothing has | been done to establish it other than | select the site. The Chamber of | Commerce has taken the matter up | with Delegate Wickersham urging | him to place the matter beforethe (Continuea vn Page Sl | | Shopoing Daps PRICE TEN CENTS NIPPON FORGE BEGINS DRIVE UPON BANDITS |Believed Ultimate Goal Is Capture of Chinchow, in Manchuria INOTE DISPATCHED, LEAGUE OF NATIONS China Makes Direct Appeal to United States to Intervene LONDON, Dec. 21. — The Japanese have started a new |drive south of Mukden, say- ing the movement is directed against bandits. There is be- lief, according to advices re- ceived here, that the purpose of the drive however is to capture Chinchow before Christmas. China has sent a note of |protest to the League of Na« !tions and the Foreign Office 'has issued a statement inter- |preted as a direct appeal to the United States to inter- vene in behalf of the Nine Power Treaty and Kellogg- Briand Pact. Japan places the bandit force at 30,000, ; There are no figures re- ceived here indicating the size of the Japanese forces par- ticipating in the new drive. —_—————— POWDERING HER FACE WAITRESS 15 SHOT DOWN {Unidentified Chinese Kills White Girl in Restaurant VANCOUVER, B. C, Dec. 21.— ‘While powdering her face beforea glass in a Pender Street Cafe last night, Mary Shaw, aged 19 years, a white girl waitress, was shot by an unidentified Chinese patron. He suicided immediately after shooting the girl. Several persons were in the rese taurant at the time of the shoot- ing but they could not interfere as the tragedy was enacted in such a short space of time. The Chinese fired nine bullets from two revolvers, all but two into the girl's back. He then sent two bullets through his own head. The police have been unable to learn the motive. The Chinese was - a frequenter of the Cafe. T e i SIX DROWN TRYING TO SAVE 1 BOY Christmas Present Causes Tragedy at Town in Michigan DELTON, Michigan, Dec. 21.—A seven-year-old boy, playing with a premature Christmas present, broke through the ice Sunday on a small lake near here and six others were drowned in a futile attempt to rescue him The dead are: Mr. and Mrs. years of age i Oliver and Orville Oman, aged & 12 and 7 respectively. “ Harry Ergang, aged 29 years. Buddie Morgan, aged 17 years. Teddie Morgan was the boy drowned when his sled broke through the ice. ) Only a three-year-old child is left in the Oman family. ICE HOCKEY TEAMS PLAY TO 3-3 TIE STOCKHOLM, Dec. 21.—Canad- ian and Swedish ice hockey played to a 3-3 tie here day in an exciting match, Oman, each 30