The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 9, 1932, Page 1

g3 (£ ve THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIX., NO. 5922. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1932. PRICE TEN CENT$ JAPAN MAY ASK REVISION OF NINE POWER TREATY ARREST WOMAN AND LIEUTENANT IN MURDER CASE Hawaiian Shot to Death for Recent Attack on Navy Man’s Wife CAPTURE IS MADE AFTER LONG CHASE Three Prominent Persons, ChicagoWins Democratic Convention Mayor Cermak Guarantees $200,000 and Gets Big Meeting for Windy City y ‘WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 9.— Chicago was chosen as the Demo- cratic National Convention City to- day after Mayor Anton J. Cermak guaranteed $200,000 for the com- mittee and its convention ex- penses. | As the campaign waxed hot be- tween the contenders for the con- Involved in Honolulu vention, Chairman John J. Raskob urged that the National Committee Shooting Case | send the convention to the city of- HONOLULU, H. I, Jan. 9.—MIS. soring tne highest bid. San Fran- Grace Bell Fortescue, wife of Gran-| ;... presented a check for $150,000. ville Fortescue, noted Arr_lerlcan Kansas City had already offered soldier and author, and a niece of $150,000. Immediately after Chair- Alexander Graham Bell, with her . . "poo o proposal to give the son-in-law, Lieut. Thomas H. Mas- oonyention to the highest bidder sie, of the United States Navy, impetus was given to the campaign has been arrested on alleBed g pgantic City when it offered charges of slaying Joseph Kaha- hawai, young Hawaiian, who with four others, was accused of attack- ing Mrs. Massie, last September. The jury disagreed as to the guilt of the five. E. J. Lord, naval enlisted man, is also named in the murder com-| plaint. The police forced their automo- bile into a bank after a 10-mile chase during which time several shots were fired. The police claim the Hawailan was lured into the car. The the Hawaiian was found in the car with a bullet through the heart. NO SHORE LEAVE WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 9.— The Navy officials announced to- day that fleet maneuvers will be carried on off the Hawaiian Isl- ands as scheduled but officers and men will not be given shore leave at Honolulu because of the intense feeling there as results of recent attacks made on white ‘women. - MACKINTOSH 1S NAMED FOR CIRCUIT JUDG Seattle Jurist Selected by President Hoover to Succeed Rudkin WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 9— Judge Kenneth Mackintosh, for- mer member of the Wickersham Law Enforcement Commission and former Chief Justice of the Wash- ington State Supreme Court, was named yesterday afternoon by President Hoover for Circuit Judge of the Ninth Circuit with head- quarters at San Francisco to suc- ceed the late Judge Frank H. Rud- kin. Judge Mackintosh is 56 years of age and a native of Seattle. He at- tended the University of 'Washing- ton in 1891 and graduated from Stanford in 1895 at the age of 20. He graduated from the Columbia University School of Law in 1900, and immediately began the prac- tice of law in Seattle. He was elec- ted Prosecuting Attorney of King County (Seattle) in 1905 and served four years. He became Su- perior Court Judge of King County in 1912 and served six years, re- signing to accept appointment as Asociate Justice of the Washing- ton State Supreme Court in 1818. He was elected to that office three times and became Chief Justice in 1927. ITn 1930 he resigned to run for United States Senator. He de- feated former Senator Poindexter for the Republican nomination for Senator, but was defeated in the general election by Senator C. C. Dill, Democrat. He is married and has a son. —_———— ISLE BANS RUM SOURCE ST. VINCENT, Island of Cape Verde—On the plea that home- made rum is one of the chief causes of poverty here, the govern- ,000. Just before the balloting Chicago, through Mayor Cermak, offered $200,000, and the payment of the amount was guaranteed by the Mayor. ——l LUGAS TO RUN FOR AUDITOR IN ' GOP. PRIMARY Juneau Bus_ix;s Man Wil Become Active Candidate for Territorial Office On the eve of his departurs on a business trip to the South, Harry 1. Lucas, well known Juneau .busi- smesssman, joday- anneunced that he would file his declaration of candidacy for the Republican nom- ination for Territorial Auditor. Mr. Lucas will sail on the North- western tomorrow night for Seattle where he will transact business for local concerns in which he is interested. He expects to return before the end of the month. Upon his return to Juneau, Mr. cas said today he will file his declaration of candidacy for Aud- itor, which he expects to follow up with an active campaign for the Republican nomination. If nominated he will, he said, make an energetic campaign for election in November. Mr. Lucas is Alaska represen- tative for the Remington - Rand Company and is Secretary of the Juneau Cold Storage Company. Until last year he was for several years head of the Juneau Motors Company. For 12 years he was Assistant Cashier of the B. M. Behrends Bank. For the last five years he has been Bank Examiner for the First Division, getting an- nual appointments each year. Mr. Lucas has been a resident of Alaska for 20 years, and has visited nearly all parts of the Ter- ritory. He is married and has two 1 boys. Before consenting to become a candidate for Auditor, Mr. Lucas !says, he was urged to throw his hat in the ring by many people |from all parts of the Territory. 1 KETCHIKAN MAN IS ALSO IN RACE | Percy G. Charles, well known |insurance and real estate broker lof Ketchikan, has already an- nounced his candidacy for the Re- publican nomination for Auditor. {Mr. Charles has been an almost |continuous resident of Alaska for labout thinty years. He was a ploneer in the establishment of the express business in Alaska. He also served as Chief Deputy Marshal in |the Fourth Division. He has been in the real estate and insurance business with Charles and Hard- 1ma.stle at Ketchikan for a dozen !years. — e — GODDARDS CALLED TO SITKA Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Goddard left ment has issued a decree provid- | Juneau yesterday for Sitka. The ing for gradual vessation of sugar trip is in response to a message cane growing and substituting fruit culture. that Mr. Goddard’s father is quite i Culbertson Defeats Contract Bridge Rival by 8,980 Points NEW YORK, Jan. 9—Ely Cul-|for Lenz. bertson triumphed last night, end- Culbertson, who had a number of ing his month’s contract bridge |partners, finished the match with match with Sidney S. Lenz in a|his wife, his starting partner. test of the rival bidding systems, 8980 points ahead. Oswald Jacoby and Commander Winfield Liggett, Jr., were Lenz's Culbertson won 77 rubbers to 73 | partners, SMITH, DAVIS AND COX HIT 6. 0. P. HARD Former Democratic Candi- dates Denounce Admin- istration, Prohibition ‘WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 9.— Enthusiastic and optimistic Demo- crats from far and wide gave spirited assent last night to the last three campaigns that arraigned the Hoover Administation and de- manded its repudiation at the polls in November. ‘The speakers at the Jackson Day dinner were former Gov. Alfred E. Smith, John W. Davis and former led off and his speech was especi- ally marked by its attack on the way the economic situation had been handled. He said that private relief for the unemployed was in- sufficient and he proposed a huge Federal bond issue for needed pub- \lic works throughout the country to give jobs to those who are not working. Davis and Cox joined Smith in {charging failure after failure to Republicans and in hailing the coming Democratic day. Nothing was said about Presi- dential candidates. Prohibition was touched upon more lightly than economic conditions, but it was de- nounced by all three speakers, es- pecially by Al Smith, who called spending $100,000,000 a year to en- force it was just a “flea bite.” FORMER SENATOR REED ENTERS PRESIDENT RACE SPRINGFizLD, Mo., Jan. 9.— Former Senator James A. Reed of Missouri sounded what was be- lieved by the several thousand Democrats who heard him to be his aspirations for the Democratic in making the prineipal address at the annual Missouri Jackson Day dinner. Senator Reed let slip a phrase that was a signal for cries, “Jim Reed for President.” “I now speak for Reed,” he said in introducing his program for re- medial measures. His principal point was a demand for decentral- ization of the Government. He seemed more concerned about eco- nomic situations than Prohibition, which he treated briefly. He also advocated withdrawal from all Eu- TOpean Controversy. ————— BRIAND ASKS RELIEF FROM HIS MINISTRY French Statesman Is Sick and Weary — Laval May Assume Duties PARIS, Jan. 9—Sick and weary, Aristide Briand has asked Premier Laval to name a new Foreign Min- ister in the French Cabinet. The course the Premier will take is not definitely known but it is believed he will assume the Foreign Ministry himself, allowing Briand to remain in the Cabinet as a Gov. James M. Cox. Gov. Smith | | Presidential. nemination. last. Bighiydeave SHORTAGE OF WATER STUDIED BY CITY COUNCIL Special Meeting Will Be| Held Monday to Confer with John Reck There is a great quantity of water, but it is not the right kind The domestic supply has been cur tailed because surface flow is| speeches of their leaders in the|not regarded as suitable for con-| sumption because previous cold| weather has diminished the yield of underground spring sources.| Some betterment of the prevailing condition should be made, how- ever, in the opinion of the ity Council, so it will hold a special | meeting Monday evening $o-discuss/ the matter with John Reck, of the Juneau Water Company. ¥ Finances Prove Gratifying At the regular meeting of the| Council last evening, the munici- pality’s financial report, as com- piled by City Clerk R. H. Shepard, ! and the water situation were re- ceived consideration. Gratification was expressed at the financial showing, which recs ords a lowering of $11,000 in the city’s indebtedness in the current fiscal year, which will close next March 31. Suggestions Not Uniform Suggestions by Councilmen , for improvement of the water system were lacking in uniformity, and the consensus was that Mr. Reck should be requested to explainthe cause of the present shortage and the future plans of the company. As the matter is one of immediate importance the decision was reach- ed to hold a special meeting Mon~ day night, and the City Clerk was directed to request Mr. Reck to be !present. C.F. McNutt, employed at the City Wharf was granted ten weeks' ye of absence without pay. % expects to look after the busine: of the Imperial Pool Hall, while Joseph Stocker, owner, takes a vacation. - 20 PASSENGERS ARE MAROONED | ABOARD TRAIN Snow Plows Working on Alaska Railroad to Clear Tracks SEWARD, Alaska, Jan. 9. —Twen- ty passengers enroute to Seward from Fairbanks remain marooned in snow drifts at Mile 314, in the Broad Pass District but it is said they have plenty of food, water and fuel. A number of passengers enroute to Fairbanks from Seward, have reached the Deadhorse Division point and are being cared for at the Government hotel. Plows are working to clear the track. Freezing temperatures have brok- en, followed by more snow. - ——— SAYS GERMANY Minister without portfolio which would allow Briand to represent France in the League of Nations as soon as his health improves. ———.——— returned here on other Style Shop. “Business is fine in Ketchikan,” said Mr. Coleman, “and was es-|Horaec Rumbold, British Ambas- N&hll’e LOVCI”S COLEMAN SAYS Chancellor BrueningMakes the Admiral|when the Lausanne Reparations Evans after a brief trip to Ketchi- |Conferences convenes, Germany will kan, where he also operates an-|tell the world that her ability to UNABLE TO PAY HER WAR DEBTS pay reparations is at an end. Chancellor Buening has told Sir pecially so during the holidays. sador, that not only for the pres- There is no complaint from any [ent, but for an indefinite time to of the merchants and everything |come, Germany will be unable to looks rosy and bright.” Jobless Kill Crows to Collect Bounty Kan,, NEWTON, pay. Baby Sleeps 2 Days Beside Dead Mother LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 9.— Jan. 9—Un-|While his mother lay dead two employed are making. money here|days as the result of a heart at- and having sport, too. They are|tack, a difteen-months-old baby (where I could be the owner of a policy; the latter he believed vital shooting crows and taking them to|boy slept, warmly wrapped and un- |ten-acre field of evergrowing o the perpetuity of the party. the county clerk’s ofice, where a|harmed, in a snowbound cabin. 5 bounty is paid. The mother, Mrs. Willlam T. 4. WHERE TWO WERE KILLED IN packages contalning bon:! have been intended for prominent Italian.Americans in Pittsburgh, New ). W, FORDNEY - PASSES AWAY IN MICHIGAN Most Ardent ist” in Nation's His- tory, Is Dead DWIGHT DAVIS 1S TO RESIGN HIS POSITION Theodore Roosevelt Slated to Be Gov. Gen. of Philippines ‘WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 9.— The resignation of Dwight W. Davis, as Governor-General of the Philippines, is imminent. Davis has made tentative plans to sail for Paris next week where Mrs. Davis is at present. She is very ill, it is said. He is making the trip to see her. Davis and Secretary of War Hur- ley have an engagement with President Hoover at which time Davis is expected to resign. Theodore Roosevelt, now Gover- nor of Porto Rico, is slated to suc- ceed Davis. RESIGNATION CONFIRMED WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 9.— Dwight Davis late this afternoon confirmed his resignation but de- nied he will re-enter politics. | 24 ENLISTED MEN INVOLVED | Zsszaies BRIBERY CASE .oz, suer, s Charges Are Filed Against Coast Guardsmen on Eastern Coast WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 9.— Mich.,, where he built up a fortune Court martial charges have been in the timber business, Joseph filed against 24 enlisted men of the Warren Fordney, during his 24 Coast Guard as a result of charges years in the lower House at Wash- of accepting bribes from rum run- ington, came to be known as one ners. No commissioned officers are of the most ardent “protectionists” involved. in the nation’s history. Rear Admiral F. C. Billard, Com- A conservative Republican al- mandant of the Coast Guard, said ways, his name is remembered in investigation showed a few men of connection with the Fordney-Mec- the Fire Island, Blue Point, and Cumber bill of 1921, he Bell Port stations accepted from drafted in collaboration with Sen- $20 to $80 from smugglers to per- ator Porter J. McCumber of North ASSOCIATED PRESS 9.—Jo- ' 8 years, member of Congr for 24 years and co-author of the Ford- ney-McCumber Tariff Bill in 192 died here yesterday as U result of erysipelas. Entering Congress after two years as city alderman, at Saginaw, o e mit the smugglers landing liquor Dakota. Fordney cor red the | Positive Statement from stranded rum runners. bill, enacted shortly before his re- to England The announcement of Billard was tirement from Con: a monu- made following 2 statement by ment to a determined tariff fight District Attorney Ameli, in Brook- during his entire legislative career. Herb Coleman, proprietor of the| BERLIN, Jan. 9. — Chancellor|jyy tnat the conspiracy concerned B ouly Oie B Hollywood Style Shop in Juneau,|Buening has informed England that|, nymper of men in the New York! At the time of ment, area and involved upward of a March 4, 1923, he had spent a third million dollars in bribes but Billard of his life in Congress. As repre- sald the total of bribes was trifling. sentative of the eighth Michizgan distriet he was re-elected eleven | consecutive times. In only one |campaign was the result of the race in doubt. A protective tariff on lumber was one of his planks in his first Con- HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 9 |gressional campaign in 1898, and Aaron Erdman, president of the Fordney continued to battle for Dauphin County Agricultural Ex- protection of American industries tension Association, told the o to the end. He believed in a tariff Rization in session here v high enough to suit every Ameri- would constitute heavenly happi- can producer, and in unrestricted ness for him. distribution of positions to those It goes like this: faithful to the party. The former “My idea of heaven is a place he considered the keystone to hi Idea of Heaven sweet. clover, with herds of black Born in Blackford County, India- and white cattle peacefully graz- na on November 5, 1853, Fordney More than a thousand were Taylor, was found by her husband |ing therein—and me sitting all jjyed on a farm with his parents (Continued on Page Two) brought in Jast week, and other relatives, day on a fence, watching them.” Two postal clerks ware killed and three other clerks and a detective were Injured exploded in Easton, Pa, causing the wreckage shown above in the Easton post- office. Investigators sensed an anti-fascist plot in connection with the affair, for the bombs were believed to INUKAI WILL BOMB BLAST NOW ARISES IN MANCHURIACASE Japanese Government Seeks Conference Re- garding Pact Terms |CLEARER DEFINITION | OF PHRASES SOUGHT (Great Britain Not Follow- ing Lead of U. S. in i Oriental Trouble TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 9—A con- ference to revise the Nine Power Treaty, which has been cited by American Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson in his recent note to Japan on the Manchurian question, may be sought by the Japanese Government. The purpose of the conference will be to obtain a clearer defini- tion of the term “administrative integrity” as used in the treaty. . The spokesman of the Japanese Foreign Office said that at the time of the signing of the Kellogg Pact, Japan should have made a reservation regarding Manchuria but neglected to do so. Associated Press Photo when three of sever York and Baltimores DAWES RESIONS ASAMBASSADOR, GREAT BRITAIN U. S. GOES IT ALONE LONDON, Jan. 9.—Great Britain is not following the lead of the United States in invoking the Nine Power Treaty pact in the Man- churia trouble, a statement issued by the Foreign Office says. The British Government stands “Protection-| Will Attend Geneva Con- by the open door policy for in- |ternational trade with Manchuria and does not consider it necessary ference as Delegate—Re- turns to Privale Llf& "nt present to send any formal note |to Japan because Japan recently WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. g_~‘rcxicraufld adherence to the open nounced *he has§"” resigned’ 4% “Am- | bassador to Great Britain, the | resignation to take effect after the Twu DEAD IN eva. He is chief spokesman for the | | Conference. ( PLANE cRAsH | Ambassador Dawes is leaving the | Ambassadorship to return to priv- gt stant government service during and since the World War. Crushed to Death Dawes has frequently been men- | at Portland Presids inee. s rniel o | PORTLAND, Oregon, Jan. 9.—D. C. Warren, of Alameda, California, killed today when Warren's plane crashed near the St. Helens air beacon. STIGK oN JuB at the time. | Coroner White said he believed e the plane was flying low and Il . of the landing gear. ; Cabinet Members De- | warren and Smith were crushed { Clde to Remam to death in their seats. fCharles G. Dawes last PO | Disarmament Conference at Gen- | Ameri¢an delegation at the Geneva | ate life after several years of con- California Man and P]lot tioned as a possible Republican | and his pilot, Robert Smith, were The fliers were enroute to Seattle | ;Premler of Japan and His:slruck a tall snag tearing off part | TOKYO, Jar. s—Premler Inukai jand the members of his cabinet |have decided to remain in orf!ce.t ! | 'Wed in Germany and Part in Reno The Premier presented the resig- {nation of his Government yester- RENO, Nev.,, Jan. 9.—Arthur {day following an aftempt on the Louis Day, in the district court has life of Emperor Hirohito by a obtained a divorce from Helen Hess young Korean, who threw a bomb Day whom he charged with deser- at the Chief Ruler of Japan. At|tion. The couple were married in the time the Emperor told Inukai Jaeyenhun, Germany, August 20, |to remain in his office. 1900. | - The Days are said to be prom- | Close to 4,000,000 live in Moscow,J'mem socially in Washington, D. C, ‘iRussla. The city was built for awhere he was connected with the ! population of 2,000,000. geophysical laboratory. Single Bliss to Come High . Under Turkish Celibate Tax | ISTANBUL, Turkey, Jan. 9.— ! ried men between the ages of twen- {The emancipation of Turkish men, ty-five and forty-five, and women {almost as big an achievement of | will be exempt after thirty-five. Kthc Kemalists as the emancipation The phenomenon of bachelors of Turkish women, has received land bachelor girls in formerly first setback. | much-married Turkey will speedily | To the sons of Turkey, whose |disappear, for the tax is crushing, mothers always used to choose |doubling the existing heavy income, their brides for them, the new land and real estate taxes for all right to marry whom they please —or not at all—was as heady a freedom as any that the daughters celibates of the ages affected. ‘The right to fall in love on his of Turkey gained. Under the new |regime it became a merry and !popular thing to be a bachelor. Now government pressure is to replace parental; a celibate tax, just propesed before the Angora parliament, 1l take all the joy ‘out of bachelordom. | The Nationalist Government is sincere enough about equal rig! for men to impose the tax on spinsters and widows who fail to remarry, as well as on bachelors and widowers. The women are merely given ten years of im- munity as a bit of baksheesh. The proposed tax will hit all unmar- ts own instead of submitting to par- ental dictates, is only one of the new liberties of the young man of Turkey. Another is the right to have a career outside the army and government. To good Turkish families, these were long the only professions deemed worthy. Busi- ness was left to Greeks, Armen- have combined to create the new | attitude that work is not only necessary but noble. The Turkey now are out after any they can get; they are into banks and business icans and Jews. # £ NEW SITUATION [