The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 8, 1932, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIX., NO. 5921. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1932. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BOMB HURLED AT JAPANESE EMPEROR BY KOREAN GOV. RITCHIE IS CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT Maryland Executive Open- ly Speaks of His Per- sonal Ambition MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT JACKSON. DAY DINNER Scathing Eignment Is Made of Blundering of Republicans BALTIMORE, Maryland, Jan. 8— Gov. Albert C. Ritchie, long con- sidered a possible Democratic Presi- dential nominee, last night threw aside his cloak of reticence for the first time and openly spoke of himself as a candidate. Delivering a scathing denuciation of what he called “Republican evasion, inaction and blundering in ‘Washington,” Gov. Ritchie de- clared he “would be proud” to carry the banner of Democracy to victory in the elections next Nov- ember. Gov. Ritchie made the statement at a Jackson Day dinner which was attended by prominent Demo- cratic leaders assembled nearby Washington for the meeting of the tomorrow. ROOSEVELT'S FRIENDS WILL ACT IMMEDIATELY WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 8— With Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland in the field for the Dem- ocratic Presidential nomina tion friends of Gov. Franklin D. Roose- velt plan to lose no time in fro- mally placing his name before the country as a Presidential candi- date. The North Dakota Democratic State Committee will meet January 14. It has informed the Roosevelt forces that it will adopt a resolu- tion calling upon Gov. Roosevelt for a statement almed to put him in the race as an avowed candi- date. —_———————— KANSAS GITY OFFERS TERMS TODEMOCRATS Makes Bid —fo—rNalional Convention to Be Held Next Summer KANSAS CITY, Jan. 8—This city has put in a bid for the Dem- ocratic National Convention with a convincing offer of $150,000. The Chamber of Commerce offi- cials have agreed that $100,000 will be turned over to the National Committee and guarantee another $50,000 to meet the convention ex- penses. Advices received here state party leaders assembled in ‘Washington are confident the offer will be ac- cepted at the National Committee session to be held there tomorrow. If this city gets the convention, the same hall that was the scene of the Democratic National Con- vention in 1900 and the Republican Convention in 1928, will be used for the sessions. ROOSEVELT SUPPORTERS MADE RESERVATIONS KANSAS CITY, Jan. 8—The bid of $150,000 by Kansas City for the Democratic National Convention has led supporters of Gov. Frank- lin D. Roosevelt, of New York, to make hotel reservations in the be- lief its selection is definitely as- sured. A delegation from the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce is now on the way ‘to 'Washington to pre- sent the National Committee with the offer of $100,000 in cash and $50,000 in pledges. He Buys Show Seats, She Pays for Parking is believed the; adian ‘Mounte may still be alive To Be Sought in Arctic Here is the last picture made of Dr. H. K. E. Krueger (left), German scientist, and his Danish assistant, R. A. Kjare, before their disappear- ance in the Arctic two years ago during an exploration tour. Now it and two patrols of the Royal Can- Police are preparing to go in_search of them. One patrol will go in the vicinity of Axel Heiberg Island while the second will search other remote islands where the lost explorers may have, DEMOGRATS USE $1,000,000 IN ORGANIZATION Committee Spent Million in Last Year, but Col- lected More ‘WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 8— The Democratic National Commit- |tee, which will meet tQmorrow,. .will recgive @ weport already prepared WOMAN FACES TRIAL; TAKES LIFE IN JAIL Leaves Suicide Note Blam- ing Depression for Charges Made SEATTLE, Jan. 8.—Mrs. Thelma Cullen, aged 37, on trial in the Federal. Cowt...on. charges in connection with stock showing that it has spent $1,030,- 000 in 1931. The receipts were $2,000 in excess of the expendi- tures, The committee owes $727,- 000, of which $345000 is due| Chairman . John J. Raskob. Almost all the remainder is owing to the County Trust Company of New York for borrowed money. more delegates of tneir sex to the The committeewomen asked that | National Convention be by the several states. They rep- resent that ihere were only 82 women delegates to the last Na- tional Convention. New Hampshire Man for Secretary It is conceded that Robert Jack- son, Democratic National Commit- teéman from New Hampshire will { al Committee to succeed the late ‘Charles A. Greathouse of Indiana. WILKINS PLANS plane for Trip OMAHA, Neb, Jan. 8—Sir Hu- bert Wilkins plans another trip to one of the poles. This was out- lined here before he left by air- plane for Seattle. “I am going to Seattle to con- sult with engineers about the con- struction of a special plane for use on an expedition I have in mind. If I can get what I want I may have an announcement to make,” said Wilkins. ‘Wilkins added that the interior Antarctic continent was virtually untouched in the attempt to dis- cover its secrets. — 5 Rear Admirals PORTSMOUTH, N. H, Jan. 8.— Four rear admirals of the line and one from the staff will be retired from the United States naval serv- ice by reaching the age limit, in 1932, it was learned at the Ports- mouth navy yard today. Bristol, general board, retiring April 26; Willilam D. MacDougal, ton Roads, Va., June 10; William, C. Cole, Commandant, Twelfth ! Naval District, August 25, and board, Beptember 19. The staff ad- ! lmmm be chosen Secretary of the Nation- | Going to Seattle to Consult: About Special Air- | Will Be Retired | in Present Year‘ Commandant, Fifth Naval District and naval operating base at Hamp- | investnfents, hanged herself in the county jail during the night. Her body was found in a woman's dormitory. Mrs. Cullen had climbed to the top of a radiator, then stepped off with a crude hangman’s noose made from a strip of sheeting, around her neck and attached to a ceiling pipe. In a suicide note, Mrs. Cullen sent \ wrote: “Nobody loves me anymore be- cause I am broke and in trouble. No matter what is the truth, I am 8 victim of your depression and its | circumstances. But God knows me ;and loves me. For mearly six months I have heard no music, but inow I shall, because I am free.” — e BRIBERY 18 ' REVEALED ON EXPEDITION T0 | ONE ULP ULESEGuardsmen Implicated in WEST COAST Taking Money from Rum Runners NEW YORK, Jan. 8—Whilesale jbribery of coast guardsmen by li- jquor runners of the New York area for a total running of liquor esti- | mated in the millions of dollars is irevealed by the Federal District | Attorney, Howard Ameli. Twenty coast guardsmen have been arrested, according to Ameli iand several have confessed com- plicity. The investigation has been under way for several weeks. Commissioned officers are also involved. | Coast guardsmen, who have talk- \ed, indicated entire companies have {been bribed to permit liquor to be ;lulded. | Coast Guard officials expressed isurprise at the announcement. HYDABURG P. 0. ' ROBBERY SCENE | SEATTLE, Jan. 8—The Postal Inspectors have been informed that |the Post Office at Hydaburg, Line officers included Mark 'L.'ajqska, has been robbed. Nodetails |Schenken. Sidney were given. An inspector will be |assigned to the case. ——————— CHURCH ADOPTS COSTUME TRION, Ga., Jan. 8—The Trion Methodist Church has adopted an —overhalls for the menfolk and miral is George H. Rock, bureau of jcotton print dresses for the women. xl't was Preacher Fred Hay's idea, CITY FINANGES IMPROVE DURING PAST 9 MONTHS Municipal Clerk to Submit Fiscal Report to Coun- cil This Evening Juneau's financial condition has improved greatly in the past nine months, and further betterment is expected in the next three, which will bring to a close, March 81, the civic fiscal year, according to a report that Municipal Clerk H. R. Shepard, will submit to the City Council at its regular meeting this evening. From April 1 to December 31, 1931, receipts and disbursements each were $119,033.56. The largest item among receipts is comprised of taxes, which brought in $53,664.- 83. The heaviest outlays are $35- 545.69, for streets and sewers and $35,166.86 miscellaneous, which in- cludes $3345791 in payment of principal and interest on demand notes. 3 Demand And School Notes January 1, the city owed demand and school notes totralling $35,000, of which sum $34,000 was carried forward from March 31, 1981, the end of the last fiscal year. Estimated receipts for the three remaining months of the surrent fiscal year—January 1 to March 31—are estimated at $42700, of which $37,000 will be derived from regular taxes. Expenditures for the three-month period are calculated at $30,700. As a result there will be a surplus March 31, in the city treasury of $12,000. Saving Of $11,000 If this $12,000 is applied toward the payment of the outstanding $35,000 of demand and school notes, that indebtedness, which was $34,- 000 at the end of the last fiscal duced...to. $33.000: 3% the end of the present fiscal year. In other words, the city will have saved $11,000 in the current fiscal year. The bonded indebtedness of Ju- neau is $128,000. This amount is comprised of $100,000 in school bonds and $28,000 in sewer bonds. Items Making Up Receipts Detailed items in receipts from |March 31, 1931 to January 1, 1932 follow: Cash Bal, Ajril 1, "31. Taxes Fines Peddlers licenses Dog licenses .. Vehicle licenses Mercantile licens Wharf . Cemetery Building permits Demand notes . Sale Sewer Bonds Miscellaneous ... 631.15 53,664.33 1,805.00 112,50 348.00 6,058.50 6,245.00 7,900.00 -$ Total ... Details of Disbursements Detailed items of disbursement from March 31, 1931 to January 1, 11932, follow: Miscellaneous ... Streets and sewers Wharf Schools City Hall Police Department Health Department Indigent Fire Department City Clerk ... Taxes and Election Street lights . Hydrants . Cemetery Total . $119,033.56 ———e—— CULBERTSON LOSES MUCH OF LONG LEAD Lenz Wins Six Out of Seven Rubbers and Culbertson Lead Less than 9,000 NEW YORK, Jan. 8—A tre- mendous swing yesterday sent Cul- bertson’s plus in the contract bridge match down to 8,770 for him and his new partner Howard Lenz and Com- mander Winfield Liggett, Jr., yes- terday won six out of seven rub- $ 35,166.86 35,545.69 6,261.43 14,654.95 3,525.07 5,195.85 1,197.75 1,800.00 son 74 and Lenz 70. ———r Charles D. McVey, Jr., general official Sunday-go-to-meetin’ garb| REGISTERED AT ALASKAN |writing a textbook, Cathryn R. D. Webb and Michael Kosloff are among the guests registered at ihe Alaskan hotel, |nominate or express preference for DIMOND TO RUN FOR DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION Third Division Lawyer and Senator Will File for Delegate Anthony J. Dimond, Third Divi- sion Senator, will enter the lists for the Democratic nomination for Delegate to Congress. He will file his declaration of candidacy in the primary election unless the Demo- cratic Territorial Convention at Fairbanks should declare in favor of one of the other candidates for the nomination. A telegram from Mr. Dimond received here by James J. Connors, Democratic Na- tional Committeeman, said: “You may ennounce that I in- tend to file for the Democratic nomination for Delegate to Con- gress. This is conditioned that the Territorial Convention does not | any other candidate. Of course if either Mr. Grigsby of Mr. Ziegler should be the choice of the con- vention, and the convention so ex- press itself, I should not file. In| fact I should be happy to put! the whole matter up to the con- vention and abide by the decision of that body. But I understand that both Mr. Grigsby and Mr. Ziegler intend tofilein the primary anyhow, and therefore it seems best that we all file and let the primary decide. That is the only way that it can be done legally unless thereisa gentleman’s agree- ment to let the convention make the decision. If Mr. Grigsby and Mr. Ziegler wish to go into the pri- mary I think it would be poor policy for the convention to ex- press any choice at all. “In fact I should be happy to have it decided in ‘the primary, because if I am not well enough thought of as stuff for Delegatel to obtain the largest number of votes, it is very likely that I would not get far in the general election in November. “I have a very high regard for Mr. Grigsby and Mr. Ziegler and would be happy to support either of them if either should be the choice of the convention or be nominated in the primary.” WAREHOUSE IS DESTROYED BY MORNING FIRE Building and Contents of Anchorage Storage Plant Burned ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan8— Apparently an over-heated stove in the warm storage section of A. A. Shonbeck’s warehouse in the terminal yards of the Alaska Rail- road, caused destruction of the building yesterday morning, in- cluding the contents, mostly hay, grain and potatoes. The loss is estimated by the owner at $8,000, mostly covered by insurance. BLIZZARD RAGES ¥ Chinese Girl Spellbinder This picture will come as a distinc ! he!ief that Chinese women are demure and self-effacing. A girl agitator is shown in Nanking inciting a mob of Chinese students into a riot against the government. It nation-wide demonstrations which resulted President Chiang Kai-Shek and election of Lin Sen to the Presidency.! t shock to those who cherished the was scenes like this that led to the in the resignation of STOCK PRICES KEEP SOARING, CLOSE STRONG For Third Successive Ses- sion Numerous Issues Gain NEW YORK, Jan. 8. —A broad advance developed in the securities market today aend for the third successive session stocks finished with a strong tone. There were numerous gains of from one to five points. Today's turnover was about 1,- 700,000 shares. American Telephone and Tele- graph was a high flier, rising five points. Coco Cola took a flight and went up five points. United States Steel was up three points. Issues rising up to four included American Can, American Tobacco B, Consolidated Gas, Eastman, Johns-Manville, Southern Pacific, Allied Chemical. Coppers were firm and gains were around one point. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Jan. 8—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 13%, American Can 63%, Anaconda Copper 11'%, Beth- lehem Steel 21%, Curtiss-Wright 1%, Fox Films 4%, General Motors 23%, International Harvester 26, Kennecott Copper 12%, Packard Motors 5, United States Steel 43%, Bunker Hill, no sale. — GOES INSANE; MURDERS FIVE THEN SUICIDES AT BROAD PASS:; TRAIN STALLED Twenty Passengers from Fairbanks for Seward Are Marooned SEWARD, Alaska, Jan. 8.—Twen- ty persons enroute to Seward from Fairbanks by rail have been mar- ooned in a blizzard at Broad Pass since Monday. There is no suffering among th passengers and they have ample food and water aboard the train.| Snowplows are digging away the drifts and the train is expected to get through soon. This School Teacher Works Without Pay| BLOOMFIELD, Ia., Jan. 8—| Bloomfield has a school teacher | who works without pay. Because Company says it plans to supply | experience, before |the Western part of the United| States. 1t says its banana boats| will stimulate commerce along the | she wanted |Goble donated her sirvices. She teaches English in the fifth ninth grades: Missouri M;I.EUHS Amuck —0Only One of Family of 9 Survives CAPE GIRADEAU, Missouri, Jan. —Oliver Davenport, aged 50 years, killed five of his children by striking them on the head with a hammer, fatally wounded his wife and another child, then shot him- self. Davenport apparently went in- sane. Only a 12-year-old boy is left out of the family of nine. —— Californians to Grow Bananas on Mexican Land| MEXICO CITY, Jan. 8—The Montgomery Banana Corporation | of San Fransisco plans to plant 44,000 acres of land to bananas around Puerto Vallarta, State of Jalisco, if permission is received | from the Mexican government. The | ‘West Mexican Coast, because they |wi nandie general shipping. NOTE IS GIVEN JAPANESE; FROM UNITED STATES {Protest on Manchurian Policy, from Stimson, Handed in by Forbes TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 8.—Ameri- |can Ambassador Forbes today pre- sented Secretary State Henry |L. Stimson's note the Munchu- |rian situation to the Japanese For- |eign Office. Official circles expressed the view that the military operations in Manchuria are not of a nature to justify intervention of a third party. It is also reiterated here there is| little chance to get Japan to mod- ify the Manchurian policy. Unofficially it is said the Ameri- can Secretary’s note indicated the invoking of the Nine Power Treaty in the Manchurian dispute. - e — THREE ESCAPED CONVICTS ARE BACK IN CELLS Two Others Involved in Prison Break Are Still at Large ABBOTSFORD, B. C, Jan. 8— Frank Sorge, aged 27, fugitive from the Oakalla Prison Farm from which he escaped last Sunday ! night with four others, was cap- tured late yesterday east of the city. Three of the five who escaped have been captured. Wiliam M. Bagley, notorious bank robber, and Gordon Fawcett, awalting sentence for robbery, are still at large. ——ao——— WATCH STOPS BULLET SAN FRANSISCO, Jan. 8— When a bandit shot at Walter HIROHITO IS 'NEAR VICTIM, BOMB OUTRAGE Infernal Machine Thrown ! at Japan’s Ruler in Tokyo |[KOREAN ARRESTED; SECOND BOMB FOUND Premier Inukai and Cab- inet Members Immed- iately Resign TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 8. — The’ | Japanese Government, headed by | Premier Inukai, in power less than one month, handed in its resigna= tion today to Emperor Hirohito, shortly after the Emperor narrow- :ly missed becoming a victim of & bomb. The Emperor instructed the Pre- mier to continue in office until further orders. The bomb exploded immediately in front of the Emperor's state carriage as he rode home from the annual military review. The bomb fell under the car- riage of Count Makino, Minister of the Imperial Household, but none in the carriage were injured as the result of the explosion. A young Korean, named Rihoso, was immediately arrested as the bomb thrower. A second bomb was found in his pocket. The resignation of the Premier and his Cabinet is believed to be merely formal like that of Pre- mier Yamamoto, then the Prince Regent, now Emperor, was fired on eight years ago. Emperor Hirohito showed no signs of nervousness following the explosion of the bomb. ———e e BOMBS MAILED T0 MUSSOLINI, KING EMMANUEL Word Is Received in Italy sy that Explosives’ Now on High Seas ROME, Jan. 8.—Watchful offi- clals are on guard today at all ports of entry in Italy after re- ceipt of word that bombs, intended for Premier Mussolini and King Emmanuel, are on the high seas. Officials will especially watch for the mail aboard the steamer Exvalibur now on the way from the United States. 3 Anti-facist bomb plots” have been discovered in Paris, and Nice, it i is announced. Details concerning alleged bombs in the mail aboard the steamer Exvalibur are lacking. — e — JOE CROSSON OFF T0 SOUTH SEATTLE, Jan. 8—Joe Crosson, {wife and four months old son arrived here yesterday from Alaska and left immediately by train for San Diego to visit Crosson's mother. He expects to make & hasty visit to New York City and will return north via Seattle. The Crossons traveled by plane Terry, manager of a bakery here,' the bullet struck him over the| heart. But it didn't hurt him. A watch deflected the lead pellet. from Fairbanks to Anchorage, then were passengers on the train to Seward, coming south on the steamer Victoria. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 8.— Three Harvard student engineers who sought answers totraffic prob- lems that have grown with the automobile era, heve reported the future line of growth of cities will | lead toward large-scale, self-con- tained buildings, “if the means of transportation are not altered by some as yet undeveloped agency.” The three students, D. Grant Mickle, Harold F. Hamond and Leonard E. McClintock, visited fif- teen principal American cities where they interviewed traffic en- gineers, architects, city planners, police officials in charge of traf- fic, city street officials, garage owners, building owners, and man- Large-Scale Buildings Next, Says Reports of Architects agers and retall merchants. They reported finding several examples of the new style building during their trip. Probably “the most spectacular instance of this tendency” to large= scale building, the report said, was }me Cleveland terminal group of buildings erected over the tracks of the Union terminal. Five have been erected and the final . 4