The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 4, 1932, Page 1

» "THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIX., NO. 5917. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1932. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS | JAPANESE SOLDIERS ATTACK AMERICAN VICE-CONSUL URPRISE MESSAGE GIVEN TOCONGRESS HOOVER URGES OUICK ACTION ECONOMIC PLAN Declares Need Is Great for | ’ Enactment of Cer- tain Proposals RECOMMENDATIONS GIVEN IN MESSAGE Creation of Several Funds, Strengthening of Laws Also Suggested WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 4— President Hoover, in a surprise message to Congress today, urged immediate action upon his emer- gency economic program. The President declared emphat- jcally the need was ‘“even more evident” then when the program .'i';o Youn_g To Solo / DEMOCRATS MAKEHEADWAY ON PROGRAM ! Party Leaders Hace Feet on Ground and Will Offer Definite Party Plan WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. — The week ushers in a period of funda- mental decisions for the Demo- cratic Party. With a Jackson Day Dinner Friday and Spring meeting of the National Committee Satur- day, the signs point to an ending of the jockeying for the starting line which so far have marked activities. About the same time the clarifi- cation of party policy may begin in Congress. The Democratic elder leaders are showing signs of get- ting their feet squarcly on the ground and are preparing to offer legislation bearing so indelibly the party trade mark as to force it upon the country’s attention as uU. S. Associated Press Photo Mary Emma Woolley, president of Mt- Holyoke college, was named as a delegate to represent the United States at the Geneva arms Gibson, : conference. Never before has any woman served as a delegate to such an important International conference. Other members of the American delegation (left to right): Ambassador Charles G. Dawes, head of the group; Senator Claude A. Swanson of Virginia and Ambassador Hugh 0. 8. OFFIGIAL BADLY BEATEN, MUKDEN STREET Assaulted by Three Soldiers . —Face Cut to Bone in Two Places CULVER CHAMBERLAIN IS VICTIM OF ATTACK Severe Penfi}7 Demanded —Report Is Made to Washington MUKDEN, Jan. 4—An investiga« tion into the assault and painful beating of Culver Chamberlain, young United States Vice-Consul, by three Japanese soldiers in one of the main streets of Mukden, has begun by 8. Korishima, Japan=- ese Consul. Chamberlin was so badly beaten was first laid before Congress. | campaign material. The tax plans 5 F- 3 h and his face cut to the bone in Iamedinte Acken seem to be the leaders in the pro- Sentence to HE T u mnis two places that a report was im- The message requested immed- gram mediately made to the Japanesa late action on the following rec-| 3 P . . F Consul by American Consul Myrl ommendations: DEMOCRATS AGREE ON enltentlar’y MA BE P T armers Strengthening of the Federal L ' Land Bank system already passed ; { by the House. Creation of a $500,000,000 re- construction finance corporation. Creation of a home loan discount | bank to revive employment and stimulate home building. Enlargement of the discount facilities of the Federal Reserve Banks. Development of the plan to re- store money in closed banks to depositors. Transportation Law Revision of the law relating to transportation as recommended by the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion to “restore confidence in bonds ! of the railroads.” Revision of the banking laws in order to better safeguard deposit- ors, Reduction of Federal expenditures | and “adequate increase in taxes | and restriction of issues of Fed- eral securities.” - PIERRE BOUREY DIES IN SOUTH Internationally Known Min-| ing Engineer Is Ill Only Two Days i SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 4— | Pierre Bourey, aged 70 years, in- ternationally known mining engin- eer, is dead here at the Stanfor University hospital after two day: illness. He was born and educated | in France and came to California and managed a mine for a quarter of a century. He was also employed @ short time in Alaska. ———— HOTEL MAN ON VACATION A. B. Cummings, who is mana- ger of the Alaska Railroad hotel at Curry, greeted friends in Juneau Saturday while the steamship Vic-! |a telegram warning Associated Press Photo Pretto Bell, 14, is said to be the youngest girl flier, but she .can’t fly solo until she is 16. To kill time she's making a trip to Hawailan Islands. BOMB OUTRAGE - T0 BE PROBED BY CONGRESS Representative Fish, Jr., Prepares Resolution for Inquiry WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 4— A Congressional investigation of Fascist and Anti-Fascist activities in the United States is proposed by Representative Hamilton Fish, Jr., Republican, of New York. Representative Fish termed the widespread attempted bombings, which have taken three lives, as a “diabolical conspiracy.” He has drafted a resolution for an inquiry by the House Foreign Affairs Com- mittee, of which he is the ranking member. ———————— MEMPHIS GIVEN BOMB WARNING MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 4—The police headquarters here received them that Memphis is marked for bombing attacks. Inspector Will Griffin did not re- veal the source of the telegram bu toria was in port. He is on his way advised residents to be careful in handling packages received through NEW TARIFF BILL WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. — The Democratic Senate and House po!- icy committee have agreed on a tariff bill measure and it will be lhrought up for action perhaps Thursday. The measure does not touch the rate structure of the present tariff but sets out the pol- icy Democrats would follow in the event they captured the Senate and {»mm‘\mam next il 1t 150k {to the lowering of duties as a result of the proposed international economic conference the President will be asked to call. { THOUSANDS OF BILLS PILE UP WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 4— One large sized record the present Congress has piled up in more than nine thousand bills presented |in four weeks in the past it has taken three or four months to pile | up. The House has 6,659 bills and the Senate 2419. These are all in- tended for consideration, and only a scant handful have gone even half way to passage. Thousands of these bills will, of course, die of neglect, and others | will be pushed aside by the emer- gency program for relief and tax- ation bills, Thus far only six bills and reso- lutions have been adopted and passed by both branches of Con- gress, ONE THOUSAND TONS OF EARTH SLIDE, TAGOMA Part of Stadium Is Taken| Out by Rain—Covers Railroad Tracks TACOMA, Wash,, Jan. 4. — One thousand tons of earth, loosened| in Still Case Former Prohibition Officers Are Sent to McNeil Island Prison TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 4—Stiff sentences have been given those Diending. guilty or. convictad i% the $50,000 Graham still case. George Juanaris, aged 36, of Se- attle, pleaded guilty and has been sentenced to two years at McNeil Island and fined $1,000. Graham Johnson, of Seattle, for- mer prohibition officer, has been sentenced to four years at McNeil and fined $2,000, and an additional sentence of 11 months in the Pierce County jail. John 8. Tickles, of Seattle, for- mer undercover dry officer, was given the same sentence as passed | on Johnson, except the county jail term. Lew Menkes, of Seattle, was given | two years at the McNeil Island prison and Curtis Simpson, also of | Seattle, received an eleven months ' sentence at the Fort Lewis road, camp. BORAH WOULD CUT SALARIES Introduces Measure in Sen-‘ ate Reducing Pay Down the Line WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 4—! United States Senator William E. Borah, Republican, of Idaho, today ! introduced a bill reducing the sal-| aries of the Vice-President, Cabinet | | Hoover’s inom.\nanon of Speaker Garner FOR PRESIDENT Condemning Wilson, Pub- lisher Lauds Champ Clark, Says Speaker Like Him LOS ANGELES, Jan. 4—Speaker !John N. Garner, Democratic House leader, was lauded as “another Champ Clark” by Willlam Ran- dolph Hearst in a radio address in which the publisher asked “who will be the next President??” Terming Champ Clark's defeat for the Democratic Presidential nomination by Woodrow Wilson in 1912 as America's greatest misfor- tune, Hearst called upon the Nation “to think carefully and act firmly regarding the political situations of this eventful year.” The publisher’s address also ad- vanced an explanation of President “unprecedented unpopu- larity” in the asertion “he has al- ways been Wilsonite.” He said President Wilson left the Demo- | cratic party a national chart which ' has kept the party and Nation in complications and catastrophies ever since, mentioning Wilson’s ad- vocacy of American participation lin the League of Nations and the League Court. He said, “Wilson’s policies have cost the Nation thousands of lives and thousands of millions of dol- lars, and contributed no material benefit to any single citizen who was not a war contractor.” Although not advocating z};: so many words, he emphasized in closing that Garner was a “plain man of the plain people, a sound and sincere Democrat—in fact, an- other Champ Clark.” Members and Speaker of the House ! from $15,000 to $12,000. i The same bill reduces the salaries of the members of Congress from $10,000 to $8,000 and the members/ FIVE CONVICTS AT FUNTER BAY Pekovich Goes East to Con- fer with Associates About Future Plans eastern asocites on the Wwork gone at Punter Bay since last Spring, and to confer Wwith them relative | to the future program, Sam Peko- vich, general manager of the Alas- ka Admiralty Gold Mining Com- | pany, left Saturday on the steamer the Government whenever debtors | language. To_give a personal report to hlsl Bankrupt !Obligations of First Sign- ers to Petition Run Into Millions HELSINGFORS, Finland, Jan. 4 —Small farmers of Finland, who said they are in distress, decided at & mass Meeting Sunday, to sign a petition in bankruptcy. Obligations of those signing the petition total three hundred million Finnish marks, about $4,500,000. The petition will be filed with Myers. | Myers reported the assault was “entirely unprovoked.” Halted by Soldiers Chamberlain arrived at Mukden on his way to Harbin. He was riding in the American Consul's car, which displayed the American flag and coat of arms. He was on his way to the station to catch an early morning train to Harbin. | The car was halted by three Jap- anese soldiers, ‘apparently forming a patrol. Chamberlain alighted from ths (car, showed his diplomatic pass- port and explaining his status in i Chinese, which he speaks fluently. One of the Japanese soldiers | showed a knowledge of the Chinese ‘Chamberlain does not Victoria for Seattle enroute to owing a total of one billion marks | speak Japanese. New York. He was acocmpanied by Mrs. Pekovich, and they expect to| be absent until early in the spring. Mr. Pekovich said it was possible that a big new mill would be | erected at Funter Bay next spring. If the assays from the ground prospected last year show a con-| tinuation of the orebody already | proved up, thus assuring adequate ! tonnage, the new milling plant is' practically a certainty. | | Fifty-five nundred lineal feet of drilling was done on the propert:'i during the past several months, Mr. Pekovich said. Cores taken from these areas were shipped di-' rect to the east for pssay and until ,he reaches there and gets reports |from the testing laboratories, he will not know definitely what the results are. From all appearance, he said, they were satisfactory. | L Previous drilling operatons, done | 'vich said, the presence of more| than 5,000,000 tons of ore Cnrrymg! gross values in excess of $9.50 per | ton. The values principally were | iin nickle, cobalt, gold, silver and copper. ‘The drilling operations last year were undertaken with a view to the same body, and intended to prove up that body to a depth of 4 have signed. —ip- e LEGAL BATILE 1S ABANDONED One Defendant in Foshay Case to Throw Himself on Mercy of Court MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, Jan. 4— The Daily Tribune says C. W. Sal- isbury, one of the seven defendants in the Foshaw mail fraud case, has decided to drop his plans to stand a retrial and will throw himself on the mercy of the Fed- eral Court. |before 1931, indicated, Mr. Peko- Spanish Leaders See New Danger in Women’s Vote| MADRID, Jan. 4—Political lead- ers are doing a bit of early vote getting in preparation for the next national elections when 5,000,000 extend, or block out, more ore of |Spanish women will be entitled ta; vote for the first time. Some left wing publications féar 'hat women, who were strong sup- porters of the monarchy, may vote against the republic. Fists Begin to Fly The three soldiers quickly began to beat Chamberlain with their fists and he retreated inside the car, the soldiers following him and | continuing to beat him. Chamber- lain’s chauffeur finally got the car away and returned to the Con- sulate. | SEVERE PENALTY DEMANDED WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 4— The American Consulate at Muk- |den has advised the State Depart- ment it is demanding “severe pen- |alty” be meted out by the Japanese |authorities for the “unjustified” |attack at Mukden on Vice-Consul | Chamberlain. CHARGED WITH ' CASH SHORTAGE Glen R. Bach Arrested at Tacoma Following Indictment TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 4—Gden | R. Bach, former Federal Predatory ‘Animal Chief for Washington, has been arrested on a secret indict- ment returned by the Federal Grand Jury here. Bach is charged specifically with defalcations in his accounts of ap- % | more than 2,000 feet. to the States for a few months’ of the Farm Board from $12,000 to| In addition to the drilling, tun- | vacation. $9,600. | |nelling, shaft sinking end raising bl 1 'done last year amounted to 1,200 feet. the mall by recent heavy rains, slid from | the foot of the Tacoma Stadium Monarchists and Catholic ele- ments, attempting to form a large | proximately $6,000. Federal offi- cials said the actual shortages are 1931 Grain Prices Sagged to New Lows; ’32 Looks Brighter By JOHN P. BOUGHAN (Asociated Press Market Editor) CHICAGO, T, Jan. 4—Ending the most sensational year in this country’ s grain history, Chicago board of trade members are look- ing hopefuly forward to improved conditions in 1832, By far the outstanding event of was double the severity of slash in values, for prices at were roughly about cut in , worst m!njudadmfium‘lwp bottom, whereas total transac- tions at their minimum' were re- duced to less than 25 per cent of the usual average. Wheat At 45 Cents Bottom prices of 1931 future de- liveries of wheat in Chicago were reached 48% cents a bushel for May contracts and at 45 cents for cash wheat—that is, immediate spot delivery. These records compare with 86% cents, the year'’s high for May wheat, and with 84%, the 1931 top for cash wheat. Total daily grain transactions at their 1931 lowest on the exchange were about 16,000,000 bushels, against & normal daily aggregate of about 85,000,000 bushels. /Chicago grain trade experts gen- erally blame two causes for the big collapse of prices. The first is mammoth enlargement of wheat acreage as a result of the world war. The second is government hindrance to freedom of supply and demand operations, onto the Northern Pacific tracks below causing damage estimated at $35,000. No one was hurt as the result of the slide. The slide took out about 50 feet of the stadium floor but it is not believed the tiers of cement seats or the Stadium High School is en- dangered. New Aerial Smoke Screen {Is Developed STOCKHOLM, Jan. 4—John Haerden, Stockholm engineer, and Lieut. Berndt Krook, of the Swedish Board of Aviation, may have developed a mew aerial smoke screen. The device is said to have been proclaimed a success by military experts of many coun- tries. The apparatus is said to be safe to handle and is non- PRINCE CARL REAL AUTHOR Swedish Prince Writes| Book Covering Many Interesting Details STOCKHOLM, Jan. 4 — The Swedish Prince has written a best seller. “I Remember” is the title; of the book. The book describes among other things the career of Prince Carl,! the author, in the Swedish cavalry, | his visit to Russia at the time of | the coronation of Czar Alexander, the Third, and his work as Presi-| dent of the Swedish Red Cross| during the World War. | — LUMBER DEALER TO STATES l Ray C. Larson, Anchorage lum-| ber dealer, is making a business| trip to the States. He is a pas-| senger southbound on the steam- neau Saturday. kit ik bl FROM OAKALLA Escape Occurs Under Cov- er of Darkness and Rain —Hunt Is Started VANCOUVER, B. C, Jan. 4— Under cover of the darkness and rain, five convicts made a getaway from Oakalla Prison at 7 o'clock Sunday night. The prisoners included William Bagley, under sentence of 14 years and 15 lashes for holding-up the Harrison Hot Springs last Spris Frank Sorge, serving eight years for burglary; Gordon Fawcett, serv- ing two years for robbery; William W. Lane, three years for burglary, and Norman A. Moore, awaiting sentence for burglary. The Provincial Police immediate- ly launched an intensive drive to round-up the escaped men. ——e—— | A new automobile tire, connmmz; Aviation 1is revolutionizing pas- ship Victoria, which called at Ju- \:::umbic and solid tire principles, senger and mail transportation in been invented in Norway. A roadbed, linking the tunnel| | portal to the beach, a distance of 3,700 feet, was ballasted with rock, vlsnd made ready for putting down steel for a tramroad. Ballasting was completed and it is in shape to withstand any load. Other work included the con- | struction of a two-story bunkhouse, 50 by 24 feet,a62by25 messhouse, | two new dwellings for families, and | one warehouse. The mill building, | /100 by 126 feet and 65 feet high,| |was resheathed and put into first class condition. If no new mill is erected this| year, the old plant will be improved | and ‘enlarged . and milling done there. However, if the explora- tions done last year show to have| been as satisfactory as is believed to be the case, and agreeable fin-| ancial arrangements can be made, the company will go ahead with a new mill as soon as possible in the spring. It will be located at the portal of the tunnel. i ————— | Latin America, national party, have been especial- ly active in the canvas for feminine votes. believed to be near $12,000. Bach pleaded not guilty and the |case was set for January 23. — Auto I ndustry Sees Present Year as Much Rosier-Hued By DAVID J. WILKIE DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 4—Out of the lessons of 1930-31 the motor- car industry expects to establish in 1932 more firmly than ever its place as one of the key industries of the nation’s industrial foundation. It may be said that 1930 was chaotic in the motorcar industry, 1931, which many leaders of the |industry believed would mark the “recovery” period, proved to be more a year of further reorganiza- tion of production and merchan- dising practices. With inventories reduced, pro- duction rigidly restricted to de- |mand and dealer organizations de- {veloped and working on closer har- mony with the production branch of the industries there appears to be substantial basis for the opti- mistic outlook expressed by many motorcar executives for 1932. See Better Year Ahead The industry’s leaders confident- ly expect to produce, and what is more important, expect the retail division to sell more cars in 1932 than were distributed in 1931. The fact the industry produced }in 1931 2,000,000 units—fewer than {in any one year during the last |decade—is not as discouraging to | motorcar executives as might be assumed by the comparison of these figures with those of other years. The important thing, automobile makers point out, is that except for the irreducible dealers’ floor stocks, the industry in 1931 sold all the cars it built during that year, and enters 1932 with all its facilities, (Continued on Page Three)