The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 13, 1932, Page 1

BURMA MAY BREAK AWAY FROM INDIA National Election Will Be Held to Decide Stand to Be Taken BRITISH PREMIER GIVES HIS PLEDGE $ NG Responsible Government Is Promised—Warning Is Also Issued LONDON, Jan. 13. Premier Ramsay MacDonald, at the con- cluding sesion of the Burmese Round-Table Conference, pledged Burma with a responsible govern- ment by evolutionary process if Burma decides at the National el- ection to separate from India. Premier MacDonald said Great Britain will grant Burma a con- stitution providing for & legislature end Governor, the latter to be ap- pointed by the British Crown. The latter will exrcise wide reserved powers in dealing with foreign af- fairs, defense and finance. Premier MacDonald also gave a warning saying’that Great Britain, when challenged as in India today, “can never abrogate its duty to govern.” —————— SITUATION IN Also in those two measures Grandi has found evidence that Italy and that belief and gave him new and ‘“deep confidence” that such inter- national cogperation is practical and can be extremely useful. “We must face the naked truth,” Grandi saild. “The disarmament conference must succeed. Other- wise we all know that Europe can- not aftain stability and cannot es- cape its disturbing destiny. “A vast and profound economic crisis such as the world has not seen in our time has fallen upon HONOLULU TO BE REPORTED ment to Be Submit- ted to Wilbur HONOLULU, H. I, Jan. 13.—Gov. Lawrence M. Judd is expected to complete and soon forward to Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, a detailed report on the situation which resulted in an assault on Mrs. Thomas H. Masle, wife of Lieut. Massie, and further publiciay gained after the murder of Joseph Kahahawai, one of the Hawaiian youths charged with the assault. ‘The near-reign of terror here has resulted in the cancellation of some ‘mittee of the Chamber of Com- mitte eof the Chamber of Com- merce has an appointment to call on Gov. Judd and demand a change be made in the Police De- partment. PIERCE FACES LIOUOR CHARGE OF POSSESSION Complaint Is Made Against Former Home Asso- ciation Head SEATTLE, Jan. 13—A charge of possession of liquor has been filed against Ahira Pierce and his bond placed at $500. Pierce’s home was raided last week when authorities said they found and seized several varieties of liquor. Pierce is former President of the Home Savings and Loan Associa- tion which recenty failed. He faces a charge of embezzlement of funds of the Asosciation. VETERAN GOLD RUSHER DEAD George Fish Passes Away in San Francisco at Age of 77 Years WILKERSON IS APPOINTED T0 Federal _]ud—g-e:Who Crush- ed Capone Gang, Is Given Reward CHICAGO, 1ll., Jan. 13.—Federal Judge James Wilkerson, fromer school teacher, and who helped crush the most notorious gang in the United States, has been re- warded by President Hoover. Judge Wilkerson has been advanced to the Circuit Court of Appeals of the Seventh District. The President, in making the ap- pointment, said it was partly due to recognition of a Federal offi- cer for breaking up the Capone; gang's activities. Judge Wilkerson said nothing ex- cept that he gained a reputation from legal decisions alone. e TORNADO HITS IN'TWO STATES BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, Jan. 13.—A tornado dipped into five counties of Alabama and Mississippi today and killed eleven persons, than 150 other persons were in- jured. Property damage is mnot known. Nine negroes ware killed at Moundsville, Alabama, when forty homes were razed by the wind. Chinese Told to Talk Only Their Own Tongue NANKING, Jan. 13.—Chinese pro- ficient in a foreign language and “denationalized intellectuals” by a government order prohibiting the free use of foreign tongues. The government holds that Chi- nese who use foreign languages simply because they find them convenient are not patriotic. Of all the foreign languages spo- ken by Chinese, English is the most popular. It is the language of business in China, and one can travel in almost any section and find it used among merchants. Untied Shoe String Costs Man His Life CHICAGO, Jan. 13.—Hugh Mor- lace. His forgetfulness cost ten of them being negroes. More | fond of using it are branded as| Farrell to Retire As Steel Hea J..@?.W.m President of ' Big Corpora- tion Relinquishes Office April 18 Farrell announces he is retiring as President of the United States Steel Corporation, effective April 18, the date of the annual Board of Directors meeting. Mr. Farrell has been President of the corporation since 1911. He said he would continue on the Board of Directors. His successor has not been named, he said. —_—————— REGULATIONS ARE READY TO BE GIVEN UT Bureau of Fisheries Here Receives Printed Cop- ies to Distribute Printed regulations covering the 1932 Alaska fisheries season were received this week at local head- jquarters of the United States Bu- ireau of Fisheries, it was announced today by N. O. Hardy, Warden M Charge. Anyone desiring a copy may obtain it by calling at the bu- Teau’s offices in the Capitol. ‘There are but few changes from the 1931 regulations and the differ- ences are minor, affecting trap locations mainly. Closed seasons and oither major projects remain as in past few years. The regulations were approved land signed by Secretary R. P. La- {mont of the Department of Com- merce on December 17. { i ISTUDENTS TO HEAR ADDRESS ON WEATHER NEW YORK, Jan. 13.—James A. | Stability of Europe Hinges on Conference at Geneva, Italian Foreign Minister Declares all nations. There can be no doubt that the economic unrest is directly influenced by armaments. “I do mot mean to exclude other problems, but I believe that the problem of disarmament is ghe most Urgent and that its is indispensable for the solution’6f others, “Peace can be based only on a sense of security of states, ) curity of states can be tion of force and true equ of armaments at the lowest that the nations of the world at Geneva will take that road which wards of a billion dollars & more on arms than it did the war, A “There are twenty million mhen out of work and all nations suffering. 2 “We are at the parting of the ways in Europe's hfe. Ttaly will take the road to peace.” 4 1 EDDIE CULLEN _ IS HANGED Former H omw ood and New York Projection- ist, Dies on Scaffold BELFAST, Ireland, Jan. 13.—Ed- die Cullen, young naturalized citi- ben, was hanged here today for the slaying of Achment Musa, & Turk, fulfilling the death sentence im- posed after his conviction last De- cember 10, Musa, a promoter, and compan- ion of Zaro Agha, who claims to be the oldest man in the world, was found slain in a field near Garrick Fergus. Cullen was arrestea .and con- victed of the crime. The Ulster Cabinet considered the case without taking action and the Governor, the Duke of Aber- corn, said he saw no reason why a reprieve should be granted. Cullen was in good spirits end regaled the wardens of the prison with stories of Hollywood and New | York where he once worked as a film projectionist. ———to— 3 OIL FIRMS T0 BE MERGED proved the plan of merging the properties. The company will be called the Consolidated Oil Cor- poration. AMERICAN WOMAN RUNS JOB AGENCY FOR IDLE TURKS ISTANBUL, Jan. 13—The home ~ MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS STOCK PRICES TAKE ADVANCE, TRADING TODAY {Many Prominent Issues Go Up from Three to Six Points—Closing Firm NEW YORK, Jan. 13.—One of the broadest advances in weeks to- day sent many prominent issuesup three to six points and the closing tone of the market was strong. Sales totaled over 2,000,000 shares. A protracted decline in Govern- ment bonds together with reports .|of a Federal Reserve credit expan- sion gave a fresh impetus to the upturn of stocks. Issues rising three to six points included American Telephone and Telegraph, Allled Chemical, Ameri- can Tobacco B, Liget, Myers B, Eastman, Santa Fe, Union Pacific. Stocks up two or more included Southern Pacific, New York Oen- tral, Woolworth, Consolidate Gas, National Biscuit, Coco Cola, West- inghouse. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, quotations of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 132, Amercan Can 63%, Anaconda Copper 117%, Beth- lehem Steel, 22, Curtiss-Wright 1%, Fox Films 4%, General Motors 23%, International Harvester 26%%, Kennecott Copper 12%, Packard Motors 5, United States Steel 44%, Bunker Hill 23%. WFADDEN GOES AFTER HOOVER ON NEW ANGLE Says Reconstruction Fin- ance Bill Unfit to Be Considered ‘WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 13— Representative Louis T. McFadden, Republican of Pennsylvania, who assailed Hover’s debt moratorium plan, said the President’s Two Bil- lon Dollar reconstruction finance corporation bill is “unfit” for con- sideration. “This is a scheme for gouging $500,000000 out of the Treasury of the United States,” said Repre- sentative McFadden. “It is a scheme for taking half a billion dollars of the people’s money and giving it to a super-corporation for sinister purposes, helping a gang of financial looters to cover up their tracks.” LOGAL MEASURE GETS APPROVAL OF COMMITTEE House Territories Commit- tee Approves Street Improvement Bill A bill authorizing the town of Juneau to apply the proceeds from its sewer bond issue of 1825 to either sewer or permanent street improvements was yesterday ap- proved by the House Committee on Territories, according to an As- sociated Press dispatch received to- day by The Empire. The measure is expected to pass the House with- out opposition. Another Alaska bill, authorizing the town of Petersburg to fissue bonds up to $100,000 for improve- ment of the light, water and sewer systems, was also approved by the committee. This measure allots $40,000 for the light and power system to double its present capic- KELLOGG, AT 75, Celebrating, on his 75th birthd: SEES PROSPERITY MELLON'S TAX PLAN IS GIVEN T0 HOUSE TODAY Adminstration’s Measure {' Is Submitted by Sec- | retary of Treasury CORPORATIONS WILL BE ASSESSED MORE Change Made in Individual Taxes—1924 Tax Is Revived ‘WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 13— An outline of the Administration’s tax increase plan to provide §390,~ 000,000 this year and $920,000,000 |next year, was presented to the :House today by Secretary of Treas- Iury Mellon. Corporation taxes are increased from 12 to 12% per cent to net | $27,000,000 during the current fiscal year and $60,000,000 in 1933, 1] Associated Press Photo lay, a public career that was not begun until he was 60 years old, Frank B. Kellogg, former secretary of state and now a Jjudge in the world court, Is shown at his desk In Individual income taxes have St. Paul, Minn. He expressed th inion that “th lan. 13.—Closing | ’ P e opinion that “the world is paying for Je ing. the war,” but that “our civilization Is steady enough to recfivir ?ram thQ economic depression.” normal rates of two, four and six per cent with surtaxes beginning with one per cent on incomes over LEGALIZING OF BEER TO BRING, One of Least Known Sen- ators May Soon Be in Spotlight By HERBERT PLUMMER There will be a lot written and heard about one of the probably least known Senators this winter when a certain committee gets down to consideration of the pro- posal to legalize 4 per cent beer. His name is Jesse Houghton Met- calf of Rhode Island, appointed Chairman of the sub-committee on manufactures to study this par- ticular bill of the group of prohi- bition bills introduced by Bingham of Connecticut. Metcalf, just past his Tist birth- day, is known to Senate observers | as the man who sits on next to the | last row on the Republican side of the chamber between the tall, white-haired and stately Bingham on his right and the robust, bald | Frazier of North Dakota on his left. ‘They know further that he rarely | makes a speech, seldom engages in debate, is quiet and unassuming in everything, presides with dignity over the Committee on Education and Labor, Philanthropist The swank of social Washington know him as the Senator who ofi,e-ni arrives in Washington aboard his| palatial yacht, “Felicia,” drops Candidacy of Roosevelt Is Formally Launched by Organization in Oregon ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 13— | $10,000 and graduated up to 37 percent on those between $100,000 and $200,000, 40 per cent above $500,000 as compared with the present maximum of 20 per cent on incomes in excess of $100,000. Exemptions Personal exemptions are lowered to $1,000 for a single person, $2,500 PORTLAND, Oregon, Jan. 13— |Vith one having dependents with {Leading the nation in formally :mcredlt of $400 for each depend- Jaunching the candidacy of Gov.| Franklin D, Roosevelt for. the| This 1s expected to bring in Democratic Presidential nomina- 1700000 individuals making a total tion, W@t thg' Ohicago convention Of Federal taxpayers of 3,600,000 next June, %eorge F, Alexander,| ¥ho are expected to pay an ad- President of the. Roosevelt for Qitional $83.000000 the last half . President. League -of - Oregon, has filed with the Secretary of State |$185,000.000 next year. petitions to place Roosevelt’s name | Bovivhl of 184 Tax on the Democratic pre(eremmfim::; ;mwl :vxlev‘lldafl:: primary ballot, |including an increase of one sixth lon the present rates for tobacco the grateful villagers. It was news manufacturers, except cigars; tax |that the fountaln had been com- ! ; % | n n lon admissions of ten cents, or {pleted. But it had not been named | more: tax on manufactureres and | for the village war dead— | sales of cars, trucks and accessor- { The fountain had been chrlswn»‘,es; five, three and two and one- ed “Monsieur and Madame Met- paje per cent respectively; stamp calf"— in appreciation of their tax for conveyance of realty, 50 kindnees ann generosity. | cents for each $500 value in excess TR A 1of $100; five per cent tax on man- | ufacturers sales of radios, phono- GREAT sYsTEM lof two cents on each check or | |draft; five cents on telephone, tel« |egraph, radio and cable messages | where the charges are J4 to 50 IS COMPLETED GIRL KILLED One of Biggest Enterprises of Kind in World | BY CONVICT Is Dedicated ! st | ROCKVIEW PENITENTIARY, rushing waters of the Himalayas petty Hickock, 18-year-old daugh- roared through sluices today while ' ter (y,, Dr. A L mcko-eok resident Viceroy Lord Willingdon dedicated 'pyschiatrist of the prison, was fa= the completed “Sukkar Barrage,” tqlly stabbed by a negro prisoner terprises in the world. | convict is withheld. He is & pa- The dam is nearly a mile 10n8 ! tient in the pyschopathic ward and cost $75,000,000. land was captured soon after the The dam consists of 66 huge killing. Due to rigid censorship, !graphs and equipment; stamp tax 0F IRRIGAT'“N |cents and ten cents above. SUKKAR, Indie, Jan. 13—The BELIEFONT, Penn., Jan. 13. — one of the greatest irrigation en-'this afternoon. The name of the concrete spans 60 feet wide, equip- details are unavailable. of the current fiscal year snd . . anchor in the Tidal Basin and en- Ped With gigantic steel gates which tertains select groups on short harness the waters of the Indus cruises down the Potomac. River upon which the whole great None but his closest friends per- 52nd deserts depends for life. haps know of his expensive private| 'The Project took nine years to philanthroples which have endear- Pulld, and 77,000 men were employ- ed him to the hearts of people both |64 here and abroad. By chance we heard of one of his | “unknown” projects the other day.! Tt concerns a French village and : the days before he became a United States Senator. Our informant says that not 100 persons in the country know anything about it. During the war, Metcalf virtually supported a hospital in France. After the Armistice he and Mrs. ———— CANADA GROWS TOBACCO OTTAWA—Canada’s 1931 tobacco crop exceeded the previous year's production by more than 11,500,000 pounds, it is estimated. Experienced Governor Is Filling Shoes of Dwight F. Davis in Philippines Weather will be the subject of |of an American woman who has an address that will be delivered |lived for ten years in Istanbul, at a meeting of Juneau High |constitutes an employment bureau 8chool students in the High School | that is mobbed daily by jobless auditorium tomorrow afternoon | Turks. by R. C. Mize, Section Director| Miss Caris E. Mills of Princeton, Meteorologist with headquarters in|N. J., and Toledo, Ohio, has been this city. carrying on independent voluntary Prof. R. 5. Raven, superintend- [social work here for a decade. ent of Public Schools will preside |The destitute seek her aid in sick- at the meeting. ness and schooling, and recently, i —— above all, for help in finding work. | ity, $25,000 to the water and sewer systems, and $35,000 for the pur- chase and retirement of outstand- | War scene. ing Petersburg bonds. Both of these measures were in-|Of the residents had been patients troduced by Delegate Wickersham |8t Metcalf’s hospital. when Congress convened with sev- Rehabilitates Village eral others that have not been| Immediately the village wanted acted on. to give him a banquet. Metcalf, ob- oo serving the ruins, said no—that he . wanted to ba t the village. Senate Approves Money B s s Metcalf went abroad to visit the During their travels He did more. At his expense en- they visited a village where mxny‘ ' MANILA, Jan. encced administrator became Act- lmg Governor of the Philippines when the Governor General, Dwight F. Davis, sailed for the United States. George C. Butte, former candidate for Governor of Texas, is the Vice ‘Governor who moved into Malaca- nang palace. He had previous expe- |rience as Acting Governor of both |Porto Rico and these islands. 13.—An experi- | jive opposition to Nicholas Roose- | A SAFE BET LADYSMITH, Wis.—Speaking of safe bets: A newspaper offerd a One of her recent applicants Was a 15-year-old Caucasian prince, & refugee from Soviet Russia. Miss Mills found him a job collecting grasshoppers for a Russian wom- pet monkey. woman, also a refugee, can for - Delegation Going to Geneva Conference WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 13.— The 8enate has adopted a resolu- tion authorizing the appropriation gineers were brought from Paris| While Attorney General of Porto and put to work repairing the vil- Rico, to which post he was appoint- |lage’s water system. He practically led by President Coolidge in 1925, | rehabilitated the place. Dr. Butte three times held the ex- Before leaving he gave a consid- [ecutive reins during absences of erable sum of money to the village Horace M. Towner. authorities with instructions that| It was on his record in the West pay only 15 cents a day, but in|Of $450,000 expenses for the Am- they build a fountain in memory |Indies that President Hoover pro- mkum.mnnlcmnvem delegation to the Geneva Disarmament Conference, of inhabitants who died in the war.!moted him to his present post on Some time after he heard from December 3, 1930, alter stormy na-