The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 5, 1932, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIX., NO. 5918. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1932. * MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT$ ASSAULT MADE ON AMERICAN REGRETTED BY JAPAN JOBLESS START TO WASHINGTON T0 ENLIST AID Forty-five Thousand Leave Pittsburgh for Na- tional Capital SiX HUNDRED AUTOS LOADED WITH MEN Several I'En_dred Unem- ployed Forced to Hike | at Last Minute PITTSBURGH, Penn, Jan. 5— A “Coxey Army” of jobless started today for Washington, D. C, to plead for work. More than 20 blocks were jam- med with a crowd as Rev. James Cox, Roman Catholic priest, mar- shalled his followers for a trek to the Capital City. Father Cox estimated 45,000 men | are in the “army.” 7 Last-minute changes in the plans forced hundreds of men to start| afoot. ' B About 600 auto trucks left, filled ' to capacity. il { WO00D CHARGES ARE NOW BEING Mary Jo Matthews has a habl | times she won co-ed beauty conte: d in 1929 she was queen of the app! Va. Now she is featured in a Broadw: ' CO-ED BEAUTY ON BROADWAY Assoclated Press Photo of winning beauty honors. Three at the University of West Virgini: le ssom festival at Wincheste: ay review, “The Band Wagon.” MORGAN TAKES ' BACKWATER ON . SEAL REVENU Department of Commerce Head Reverses Position INVESTIBATED Accusation that Democratic Committee Concealed Expenditures Is Up — WASHINGTON, Jan. 5—Investi- gation of the Democratic National Committee’'s 1928 financial report was begun yesterday by Assistant ! TUnited States Attorney Jacob Ros- | Orlgmally Taken enbloom of New York. The inquiry | was instituted from the basis ol! Abandonment of the hostile at- charges made by Representative titude of the Department of Com-| William R. Wood of Indiana, Chair- /merce in the matter of alloting to | man of the Republican National i Alaska a share of the seal reve-) Congressional Committee, thatpart nues from the Pribilof Islands’ of the Democratic expenditures in jherds is revealed in a letter just| the Smith-Hoover campaign had received by the Chamber of Com- been concealed instead of being merce from E. F. Morgan, Actingi reported tothe Clerk of the House ‘Secretary, who assured the organi-| of Representatives. |zation of friendly feelings in any Rosenbloom said he would also cause that will promote the welfare investigate reports filed quarterly of Alaska. since 1928. | The decision of alloting seal rev- The reports are filed under the 'enues, said Mr. Morgan, who last terms of the Federal Corrupt Prac- October said Alaska was not en- tices Act and show contributions titled to any of the funds, is' received by political committees and solely a matter for Congress to their expenditures. | settle. Representative Wood charged that | t- Z:e mf;ué;ecm,‘f ce;, a:}b;m fc_; Under date of December 24, Mr. countants. I Morgan wrote the Chamber as fol- : ilaws. reversing his former stand: | “The receipt is acknowledged of OFFENSE IS OUTLAWED | "\oiier of the Iith istant, trans- Text Of New Letter bt 'Ruth NEW YORK, Jan. 5. — United | States Attorney Medalie said the Federal Corrupt Practices Act had been violated by the Democratic National Committee in filing an Bnnual report in 1928 which did not enumerate all the expenditures in excess of ten dollars. The report | was signed by James W. Gerard. He said he could see no blame at- taching to Mr. Gerard, and the statute of limitations bars prose- cution any how. — —— KITTIWAKE RETURNS FROM 10-DAY STAY AT WRANGELL The Bureau of Fisheries po,u-o]-] mitting copy of Referendum No. 2,' passed by the Juneau Chamber of Commerce and by similar bodies of Petersburg, Cordova, Skagway, Ket-i chikan, Fairbanks, Anchorage, Sew- ard, Nome, Wrangell and Douglas, Alaska, requesting favorable con- sideration of the memorial adopt-/ ed at the last session of the Terri- torial Legislature that the Depart- ment of Commerce shall annually pay to the Territory of Alaska for the benefit of the common schools a sum equal to fifty per cent of the amount received from the share of the United States in! fur-seal operations of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska.* “In my communication to you of ship Kittiwake, Capt. James R.'October 5, 1931, I expressed the Crawford, returned to port here ,ninjon that, as the Federal Gov- yesterday after a 10-day absence, ernment bears the cost of adminis- most of which was spent in the Wrangell district. (Continued on Page Seven) Voluntary Crop Adjustment in 1932 to Put Farmers on Recovery Road, Hyde Says By FRANK L WELLER 1931, output of manufactured arti-| DITCH HOOVER SAYS FORMER CONGRESSMAN O e 5 Hanna McCormick Issues Appeal to Re- publican Party CHICAGO, I, Jan. 5—Ruth Hanna McCormick, former Con- gressman-at-Large from Illinois, and defeated in 1929 for United States Senator by James Hamilton Lewis, has issued an appeal to the Republican Party to ditch Presi- dent Hoover and select another candidate for the Presidency this |year. The nomination of Hoover, {she said, will lead inevitably to de- feat next Fall. CULBERTSON LEAD IS CUT, BRIDGE CAME Lenz and Ligget, Jr., Win Six of Nine Rubbers Last Night NEW YORK, Jan. 5—Sidney S. Lenz and Commander Winfield night won six of the nine rubbers |of contract bridge in the seven- |teenth session of the 150-rubber match. Lenz's side "gained 3,385 |points in last night’s match and |cut the Culbertson lead to 16,835. Mrs. Culbertson continued to play as her husband’s partner Monday. This team has won T1 rubbers and Lenz 58. There are |21 rubbers remaining to be played. BLOCK DRYS IN FINLAND Special Session of Parlia- ment- Called to Act on Prohibition HELSINGFORS, Finland, Jan. 5. —President Pehr Evind Svinhufvud Liggett, Jr., U. N. Retired, Monday | SIX OFFICERS SHOT DOWN IN SLAYER CHASE Murder SuspTc.t and Pals Open Fire on 75 Men —Make Escape SPRINGFIELD, Misouri, Jan. 5. —Six officers were killed late Sat- urday when they cornered Harry ‘Young, murder suspect, and an un- known number of confederates in the Young farm house, several miles west of here. 5 Young and his pals escaped fi the house late Saturday night af a two hour battle with more 75 officers and members of a zens’ posse, 5 The dead are Sheriff Margell Hendrix, of Green County; Detéc- tives Tony Oliver, Ollie Crosswhite and Disney Meadows; Police Patrol driver Charles Houser, all of Springfield, and Deputy Sheriff ‘Wiley Washburn, who was brought to a hospital here, his face riddled with bullets and died shortly atter- ‘wards. Officers said they believed the gang used a machine gun. ‘Young was sought for the slaying of Mart Moe, City Marshal of Republic. n i- INTENSIVE SEARCH IS ON SPRINGFIELD, Jan 4. — Search for Harry and Jennings Young, brothers, who shot and killed six besieging officers Saturday night and escaped from their mother's farm home, has spread throughout a wrecked car at Streetham, Texas, the one believed to have been stolen by the brothers. CHASED MEN SUICIDE HOUSTON, Texas, Jan. 5.—Jen- nings and Harry Young, brothers, angd slayers of six Springfield, Mis- g “their SHo- ther’s advice and shot themselves to death rather than submit to capture by officers who surrounded their place of refuge. Jennings Young was dead when officers broke into a house here and Harry, his younger brother, had two bullet wounds. He 'was taken to a hospital where he died. Tip Received The police received a tip from J. F. Tomlinson who recognized a picture in a newspaper as that of Harry Young.. The two Young brothers rented a room in a house from Tomlinson. Eight officers went to the house. Claude Beverly, Police Lieuten- ant advanced with a shot gun and was fired on. He returned the fire. “Come on and get us, we're dead,” one of the brothers called out, They said they had accepted their mother’s advice printed in a morning newspaper that she hoped they would end their lives rather than submit to arrest. Harry Young came here to visit {his bride of only a few months. - e WHEAT FOR UNEMPLOYED WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 5— Despite Administration opposition, the Senate has passed a measure that instructs the Farm Board to turn over 40,000,000 bushels of wheat to be used by the needy unemployed of the country. e LONDON'S ALE WEAKENS LONDON.—Most London pubs have passed on to customers the ha'penny tax on beer imposed by serving milder ales at the old fig- ure. Brewers make a special brand which sells at the old cost of six cents a half pint. the southwest with identification of | the revised budget, but some are; CHAMBER URGES LIBERALITY IN APPROPRIATIONS Passes Referendum Asking Congress to, Except Al- aska from Program At its first meeting of the new year, held at Bailey’'s Cafe today, the Chamber of Commerce adopted Referendum No. 4, of the Territor- ial Chamber, passed a resolution urging Congress to restore the necessary items to keep the Fed- eral Agricultural Experiment sta- tions in Alaska in operation and started plans for recruiting its membership this year to its great- est strength. Assuming the presidency of the organization for the fifth time in the past decade, Allen Shattuck as- sured the Chamber he would use his best efforts “to carry on the traditions of the Chamber and pur- sue an aggressive campaign in order to enable the organization to do the work it is charged with.” Has Strong Board Commenting on the 1932 organi- zation, Mr. Shattuck said the Chamber had a directorate that “has the best interests of the com- munity thoroughly at heart,” and could be depended on to give effi- cient and loyal service to the com- munity and the Chamber. ‘The local organization has func- tioned continuously for the past 30 years, and has been particularly effective during the past 10 or 12 years, President Shattuck point- ed out. Its period of greatest use- fulness started some six or seven years ago when it was democra- tized and its membership rolls thrown open to every resident of the town, and each member made to feel he had an equal voice in its deliberations with every other member. Siresses Value of Work .. In its resolution seeking funds for the Agricultural Experiment stations in the Territory, the Chamber, pointing out' that they were created for the purpose of promoting local agricultural de- velopment, asserted that the farm- ing industry contributes more to the permanent stability than any other; that it was mainly through the research and leadership of the local stations that such industry has progressed to be of material importance to the Territory and contributes in large part to the success of other industries in the Territory; that the Federal gov- enrnment has and is expending large sums to bring settlers into the country; and that the experi- ment stations are an indispensible part of the program of develop- ment; and urges Congress to re- store the items omitted by the Bureau of the Budget. Referendum No. 4, passed by the Chamber, urged Congress to' ex- clude Alaska from the national economy program, declaring that local sources of revenue are limited and that decreased appropriations will work hardships on the people of the north. It protested against the sale of the cable system, the abandonment of the experiment stations, reduction of road con- struction funds, and asked for a share in the seal revenues. Delegate In Sympathy M. S. Whittier, Secretary of the Territorial Chamber, said & copy of the referendum had been tele- graphed to Delegate Wickersham this week. The latter replied he was “in entire sympathy with the matters mentioned and as soon as committees organize and meet this week he will urge the policy out- lined by your telegram, though it Imay be difficult to prevent a cut of some of our appropriations on account of general economic pres- sure in Congress.” He added he had been assured the cable system would not be of- (Continued on Page Two) Steel Ir—l:lustry Eyes Auto Trade for Helping Hand cles was 35 per cent smaller than' the June, 1929, while the total: crop acreage, which in 1930 had in- (Associated Press Farm Editor) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 5— The farmer's own sudden realiza- Parliament to meet January 19 to|industry is looking with longing act on the results of Pinland's|eyes to the automobile industry, prohibition referendum which over- |one of its principal customers, to tion of the maladjustments which affect his economic disparity is counted upon by Secretary Hyde to start agriculture beck to the prosperity of which it so largely | was robbed by the vicissitudes of 1931, From June, 1929, to June, 1931, the prices of prodycts the farmers sell declined 41 per cent, whereas the prices of the goods they buy by . fell only 16 per cent. Industry cushioned its price curtailed production. The June, creased 05 per cent over 1929,/ showed no material reduction in, 1981, During the same time the value| of agricultural exports has de-| clined 25 per cent and the domestic demand fallen to an extent rarely before equalled in so short & time. See Need For Readjustment ‘While the nature of agriculture is such that limits the promptness with which farmers can readjust (Continuel on Page Three) whelmingly was for repeal of the dry laws. The special session is called at the request of the Cabinet. The members said they feared the Pro- hibitionists might attempt to ob- struct legislation in the session beginning February 2. —lies e The real name of Ed Krause, Notre Dame’s shortened by his prep -coach in start mills rolling that are now operating at substantially around a quarter of capacity. But automobile magnates are pro- ceeding slowly, awaiting definite signs that the estimated deficiency in automobiles will be removed by public buying. Building is the biggest consumer industry. Railroads, also a big consumer, has called a special session of| NEW YORK, Jan. 5—The steel |are not buying beyond absolute needs. In all three cases, however, stecl men see foundations for a re- vival once the general business trend moves upward. Full year 1931 production of Tolled steel is estimated around 19,- 000,000 tons, or about 36 per cent below the 29,600,000-ton output of 1830. Unexpected declines in, the export demand have served to cut production beyond even the ex- Ppected decrease. ‘Wage reductions of 10 per cent star sophomore [Of steel but there appears no defi-|on October 1 in the steel industry tackle, is Krauspunas. It was |Dite indication of a revival in that |may bolster earnings in the long Tun, but the lack of business now precludes a very effective showing. o SOUTH CAROLINA BEAUTY Associated Press Phote Although a Greenville, S. C., product, Betty Baker went to Los Angeles to begin her career. She played in several silent pictures there and then came east to become a a New York musical production. dancer in “The Cat and the Fiddle,” TREASURY ENDS CALENDAR YEAR WITH $265,320.92 Is Less nm{ad a Year Ago—$160,000 Added to Fund on Jan. 2. Although the Territory’s cash re- sources at the end of 1931 showed a sharp shrinkage from a year previous, there was still a sizeable fund in the toe of its old sock on January 1, this year, and more had been added to it on the fol- lowing day, it was revealed today by the financial statement issued covering the month of December by W. G. Smith, Treasurer. The gross cash balance was shown to be $298,92092 on December 31. There were oOutstanding warrants in the sum of $33557.08, leaving a net balance of $265,363.84. Of the latter sum, $47,870.26 was in special funds and could only be applied for specific uses. In the general and public school current funds there was $217,493.58. On January 2, according to a memorandum furnished by the Treasurer to the Governor’s office, approximately $160,000 was added to the net balance. This money comprised $80,000 from the Alaska Packers Association for payment on its taxes for last year which are estimated at $107,000, and fish trap license taxes and minor ac- counts from other sources. All cannery and salmon pack taxes become due on January 15, and are required to be paid on or before March 15. —— LOG CABIN IS FUNERAL PYRE; BOYS GONFESS Man and His Children Are Burned to Death—Mo- tive, Is Revenge GALLIPOLIS, Ohio, Jan. 5— Sheriff Swanson announced today that two inmates of the Boys' In-| dustial school at Lancaster, con- fessed they made a funeral pyre last spring out of a Gallia County log cabin, burning James White, aged 47, and his children to death. Revenge was the motive. The boys confessed because of conscience stricken. The boys are Albert Reymer and Ellsworth Mowyer. Before setting fire to the cabin, the boys nailed up the doors and windows so there would be no es- cape for the inmates. REFINER HOLDS CURRENCY BASIS DEMANDS STUDY All-Important Monetary System to Receive At- tention in 1932 By F. H. BROWNELL (Chairman American Smelting and Refining Company) NEW YORK, Jan. 5—The pres- jent outlook is that during this year the world will give increasing attention to the all-important prob- lem of monetary systems. ‘Whether the gold production of the world can meet the increasing demands of all the nations of the 1 world, df solely on gold basis with- out the use of silver, is seriously questioned. Even if inadeéquacy of production is assumed, present distribution of gold stocks of the world is suck as to make difficult, if not impos- sible, the use of gold alone. Silver Use Declines The monetary use of silver by European nations was greatly les- sened after the war, Many nations, including even India, sold the silver obtained from coins. Tt was this (sale of silver formerly used as money that caused the unpreceden- ted fall in the price of silver dur- ing the last two years. But half the people of the world still use silver more than gold in their monetary transactions. Doubt still exists as to the pre- petuity and solvency of many ex- isting nations, and doubt will probably always exist as to the fi- nancial wisdom and integrity which may be exercised by frequently changing administrations and gov- ernments. Hence, paper money has sufficient stability only when it rests upon an adequate metallic basis—gold or silver or both. Britain Shows Problem Much greater attention through- (Continued on Page Two) By SMITH REAVIS | (Foreign News Editor, The Asso- ciated Press) LONDON, Jan. 5—The economic iwolf was scratching at the world's |door as 1932 succeeded 1931. { From Germany to Japan, and |from Scotland to Argentina, the bogies of unemployment, over-pro- duction, dislocated markets and kindred evils have troubled the dreams of statesmen. “ ‘World hopes for a more prosper- ous 1932 to projected national and They were sentenced to the 1n-|international efforts. an auto theft, dustrial School when convicted of 1 In February at Geneva the na- tions will seek, in an attempt for MAKES APOLOGY . FOR ATTACKING U. §. OFFICIAL Japan Presents. Regrets at Assault on Vice-Con- sul at Mukden oa REPORT, WASHINGTON IRifles Pointed at American While Civilian Made Inquiry MUKDEN, Jan. 5. — Japan has presented an apology for the as- sault by three Japanese soldiers on Culver Chamberlain, United States Vice-Consul. Kazuhito Morishima, temporarily in charge of the Japanese Consul- ate visited the United States Con- sul and informed American Consul Myrl Myers the Japanese Govern- ment presented deepest apologies. Morishima indicated Chamberlain spoke roughly to the soldiers when halted on the street as he was proceeding in the Consulate auto~ mobile to the railway station to board a train for Harbin. Friends of Chamberlain said ha is quiet and well-mannered and state without reserve that the “rough talk plea” is just trumped up to give some excuse for the attack which was “entirely unpro= voked.” ATTACKED BY CIVILIAN TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 5. — The Japanese Foreign Office has in- structed Ambassador Debuchi, at Washington, D. C. ,to express re- grets to the State Department over the attack on Vice Counsel Cham- berlain at Mukden by a civilian interpreter who was one of a group of three who attacked the Ameri- tan. The interpretor has been dis- missed and the others will be pun- ished, BETWEEN GOVERNMENTS MUKDEN, Jan. §—The question of reparation by the Japanese military for attack on Vice Consul Chamberlain, has become one be- tween the governments at Wash~ ington and Tokyo. American Consul General Myers has received apologies from the Japanese Acting Consul here but declined to treat the assault as an incident capable of being settled by the local American and Japan- ese authorities. Consul General Myers has sent all information to the State De- partment at Washington. Chamberlain Makes Report Vice Consul written a repoit of the attack. “I am at a los to account for this assault. It was entirely un- (Continued on Page Seven) ONE ALASKA NOMINATION 1S REPORTED Senate Committee Acts Favorable on Nam- ing of Sullivan WASRINGTON, D. C, Jan. 5.— The BSenate Judiciary Committee has reported favorably on the nom- ination of Leroy M. Sullivan to be United States District Attorney of the Second Division of Alaska, with his headquarters at Nome. Sullivan has the endorsement of Delegate James Wickersham. {World Efforts Hold Hopes for Chasing Business Wolf Away from Door of 1932 a general reduction of armaments, relief from topheavy governmental budgets. Political problems yielded large= in July, President Hoover's debt and mortatorium proposal staved off what German observers declared meant complete ruin. The solution, Chancellor Bruen- | ing said, was only temporary, and = | Germany asked some form of last- ing relief in 1932. The plan