The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 21, 1932, Page 1

ILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXIX., NO. 5932. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1932. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT§ “GET OUT OF HERE,” CRI MRS. JUDD AT WITNESS MURDER MYSTER “HEX DOCTOR” IS SUSPECTED SLAYING CASE Church WorEFound Dy- ing with Twelve Stab Wounds in Body WEIRD SYMBOLS ARE CARVED ON FOREHEAD Victim Lived in Region Where Witchcraft Cults Held Sway PHILADELPHIA, Jenn., Jan. 21. —The hand of & Pennsylvania “Hex Doctor” is seen by the auth= orities in the slaylng of Norman Bechtel, Mennonite church worker. Weird symbols were fgound carv- ed on the forehead of the man who was found dying on a vacant es- tate and who died later in a hos- pital without recovering conscious- ness. Bechtel had spent his youth in the region where the hexes and other witcheraft held sway. Bechtel was stabbed twelve times. Small crescents were cut on each side of his forehead and a horizon- tal inch-long cut was under each crescent. The police are baffled for the fnotive, which was probably rob- Bechtel's overcoat, eye-glass case [3 to his, heart. wnl was was plunged seven more times in a small circle around the heart. e RAILS LEAD IN STOCK MARKET TRADING TODAY Carrier Issues Carry Bur- den. of Transactions— Undertone Good NEW YORK, Jan. 21.—Firmness o rails stood out in a dull market today. Industrials eased in late trading but the carrier issues re- tained part of their early one 0 three point gains and net changes for the most part were fractional. The turnover today was about 1,300,000 shares. The market was indecisive al- though of a firm undertone for most of the day and is regarded Bs encouraging. Union Pacific, after selling up to 2% points, closed with a gain of Jess than one point. Southern Pa- cific got off with a one point gain. United States Steel remained practically unchanged. American Teiephone, General Motors and General Electric sagged fractionally. American Tobacco issues were firm. —esae—— CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Jan. 21.—Closing quotation of Alaska Junean mine stock today is 16%, American‘ Oan 631, Anaconda Copper 10%, Beth- Jehem Steel 21%, Curtiss-Wright 1%, Fox Films 4%, General Mo- tors 22%, International Harvester 26%, Kennecott 11%, Packard Mo- tors 5, United States Steel 45%, Bunker Hill, no sale. —ll MINK STRONG, AUCTION SALE TACOMA, Wash, Jén. 21.—Mink[Noted Biographer, Author,| was the largest mover at the West Coast Fur Sales auction here. of IN PHILA DELPHIA Army and Navy Mass for “Attack” on Hawaii; AreBeing February when the Hawaiian Islands will be the object of “attack” dur- ing the navy and army war game. Every branch of the service will take part in the maneuvers. SAN . FRANCISCO, Jan. 21. [Preparations for the greatest mili- tary maneuvers held in the Pacific since 1918 have clothed the war game scheduled to in Feb- ruary with almost secrecy of actual cOMMCL, ol - "At the ValleJo' Sipyards, Wwork being rushed on the morring mast for the mavy's huge new dirigible, the Akron, and local observers be- lieve the great airship will partici- pate, basing at Sunnyvale, where work on the new west coast dirigi- ble field is underway. Planned Two Years Ago Plans for the game, which will involve the use of every arm of the service, were laid two years ago and it is stated have no relation to any political developments of re- cent months in the Far Bast. The maneuvers will be a test of the defense of the Hawaiian islands and San Francisco will be used as a base for the expeditionary force of the army. The “attack” probably will be launched against the islands at some unrevealed date early in the month. Before the opening troops b3 Plans Kept in Secrecy and guns will be taken to Hawaii, but it is planned to transport the artillery horses and infantry mule trains for use after landing if the attacking fleet is able to penetrate the defense of the islands. . by destroyers and it #s ewpected fast scout cruisers will be brought from the east coast through the Panama canal to join in the war game, some, with their planes, belng attached of ‘the attacking forces and others to the defense. New Submarines These maneuvers will bring the big new type submarines into use under war conditions for the first time and will be one of the few joint operations of army and navy. The naval part on behalf of the attacking force will be to reduce the defending submarine and sur- face fleets and to cover landing operations by bombardment of land fortifications. ‘The regular naval maneuvers will follow the sham military expe- dition against the nation’s mid- Pacific territory. REPARATIONS DISCUSSIONS ARE DELAYED Lausanne Conference Post: poned — Bruening Makes Statement LONDON, Jan. 21.—Postpone- ment of the Lausanne Reparations Conference does not mean it will not be held later, officials here said. The conference is between Gov- ernments concerned with repara- tions and war dedts. The announcement regarding postponement of the conference was well received in Paris and in In Germany there was no sur- prise but Chancellor Bruening told the British Ambas- sador Germany cannot accept any proposal for a one year extension of the moratorium as a substitute on the ground that prolongation of the moratorium means an indefi- nite delay in efforts to reach a final setttlement. Dies After Long Iliness LONDON, Jan. 21. — Lytton noted GET CAGE ASSISTANT COLUMBIA, Mo., Jan. 16—Wal- ter (Jack) Crangle, baseball versity of Missouri, will act as assistant to George Edward, cage this season. and| PARLIAMENT OF JAPAN BROUGHT T0 END TODAY To Prepare_fo—rGeneral El- ections—Cabinet Is Criticized TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 21.—The Japancse Parliament was today dis- solved by an Imperial decree to make way for the general elec- tions. “The order was promulgated after the Government outlined its poli- cies and reiterating Japan had no |territorial ambitions in Manchuria. The Wakasuhi cabinet was criti- cized for removing the gold stan- dard but said industry has wit- nessed a revival since the Cabinet replaced it. iGrasshopper “Devourer” Attaches to Automobile OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 21.—If Wal- ter 8. Jardine’s plan works out, the grasshoppers will be hopping into his hopper. Jardine, a Nebraska state repre- sentative, has applied for a patent on his machine which is calculated to “devour grasshoppers as fast as they are hatched.” His device, attached to an auto- | [} they're ground up an expellled in |neat furrows for use as chicken feed, fertilizer or fish bait. An infernational thx ress will be held in Madrid, April 3-10, cong- Spain, .. Transports Engaged i ANOTHER CRIM STIRSHONOLU MAN HUNT BEG Mother of- Two Chlldrefl Assaulted—FEscaped ! Murderer Sought County Attorney Char with Dilatory Tactics in Terror Reign HONOLULU, H. 1., Jan. fll.fl city is aroused by a fresh . hunt and by another attack upoR & woman. Mrs. Toka Okazaka, aged 238 years, mother of two children, coms plained to the police she was a8=| saulted near the airport by a she identified, through a graph, as Daniel Lymp, Portuguese-Hawaiian murderer. The asasult occurred as the) authorities were preparing to- { i [ 1 erack cavalry men. Major General Morl, commander of the Japanese troops in Chinchow, is shown as he inspected the attle front with some of his leading officers and This . photo was made just before the victorious Jap army occupied the last Conqueror of Chincho against the city w at the Front remaining Chinese stronghol eral Mori took a prominéat s ] d in Manchuria. Gen- J)art in the advance and directed his troops in the fighting that took place before the defeated rem- nants of the Chinese Army evacuated the city. before the Grand Jury evidence the shooting of Joseph + accused of assaulting a white wori=' an. % County Attorney Gilliland is ae- cused of dilatory tactics in proses cution of the case. & ———————— IMMIRATION HAS SHAKE-UP Virtual Reorganization Takes Place — Seattle Loses Headquarters JUNEAU COURT RECORDS RULED OUT IN STATES L B t Admitted in Alleged Mail Fraud Case | \ | SEATTLE, Jan. 21. — United | States Attorneys prosecuting Con- |rad Wolfe, on charges of using the ‘mails to defraud in the Cantu ‘Mining Company, Hyder, Alaska, |case, are without documentary evi- {COIll‘t, which they expected to use. { Judge Cushman today refused to WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 21— admit the Alaska Court records and Secretary of Labor William N.|warned A. Arnold, Assistant Clerk Doak today announced transfers in in the Federal Court at Juneau the Immigration Service amount- (that he had no authority to bring ing to a virtual reorganization of the records from Juneau without the Field Service. | permission of the Juneau Court. Assistant Commissione: | The prosecution then explained Harsls o Woahinnion: hay: men Permission had been oblained after sent to El Paso, as Director of the the records were brought here but ATDccuments Obtained Here Ne dence from the Alaska Federal | Border Patrol, heretofore operated by Supervisors, Seattle loses immigration head- quarters whi¢h have been shifted to Detroit, Michigan, where Frank Berkshire, for many years Assist- ant Commissioner of Immigration at Seattle, becomes Director of the Canadian Border Patrol in charge of the entire boundary. Thomas Lynch is his successor in Seattle. AROUSED FROM BEDS BY QUAKE NAPLES, Itay, Jan. 21.—Inhabi- tants of Italy were aroused from their beds late last night by a light earthquake and loud explosive noises. - Mount Vesuvius is reported rest- less. Buildings near the volcano “danc- ed” but no reports have been re- osived regarding property damage or loss of life. Scientists Will < Judge Cushman still refused to ’:dmlm them, saying he would not tie up another court’s records. He refused to admit certified copies from the records on the grounds that only a Court Clerk in Alaska could make such certification. Constance Bennett Will Adopt Boy, 3 HOLLYWCC::, Cal, Jan. *21.—~ Constance Bennett, film actress and wife of the Marquis de la Fa- laise, will adopt a 3-year-old boy, ;& distant relative whose parents | were wictims of an automobile crash, it became known here, | Miss Bennett has on file in Los IAngeles courts a petition for the lmmnn of Dennis Arthur Arm- }urong. ‘The petition, however, is sealed, but Superior Judge Samuel Blake admitted the adoption prob- 'ably would take place within ninety days. Miss Bennett brought the {child with her from Europe two years ago after gaining a Paris divorce from Philip Plant, wealthy i New York sportsman. Go Fishing” After Cancer in Mexico; Are ToCarryOut Un TTHACA, N. Y., Jan. 21—A can-} cer “fishing” expedition to search for a promising clue in cancer study in rare Mexican fish was announced at Cornell University ‘today. ©On March 1 Dr. Myron Gordon, research investigator at Cornel , | hereditary basis for cancer, They will collect killifish, a many- hued creature, no larger than the ique Scheme My e ] | WS He has found that by crossing two unusual strains, the platyfishes, | | | Will Push Economie " Recovery Work Is Outlined for, New Reconstruetiop Einarics, Corporation WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 21.— ‘Wholehearted cooperation for na- tinal economic recovery will be pushed by the Reconstruction Fin- ance Corporation which now is on the verge of Congressional enact- ment. The measure creating the cor- poration, carefully but speedily revised by experts and members of the House and Senate, will be returned to the Chambers tomor- row for final approval as drafted by the conferees. ‘The new legislation will allow the Corporation to replace unliquid col- lateral with cash in loans to the following: Federal State banks, savings banks, trust cmpanies, building and loan associations, mortgage loan companies, insurance companies, credit unions, Federal Land banks, Joint stock and land credit cor- porations, interstate steam and el- ectric railways, exporters and far- mers. U. S. STEAMERS MAINTAIN BARS Liquor Sold Aboard Liners on Ocean Outside of 12-Mile Limit 'WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan, 21.— Chairman O'Connor, of the United Btates Shipping Board, told the (House Committee, under question- ing, that American lines operate bars outside the 12-mile limit. OConnor was testifying in the House Marine Gommittee investi- gation into the Shipping Boards’ sale of the United States Lines. O'Connor said the Federal Gov- ernment sacrificed to the Prohibi- tion Law thousands of dollars in liquor supplies in 1929 by transfer of the lines to the Paul Chapman Company. He said he could mot sell liquar or be a bootleggger, 80 gave it to them. Move to Save Water Mills As Park Sites in States %he offspring develop cancer. Hel DES MOINES, Tows, Jan. 21—So 30es to Mexico to learn pnmmyithn all reminders of pioneer days whether this same sort of cancer in Towa may not be erased in this oceurs among these fish in mture.;tmfldem era there is a move afoot |to 1] sites The B (et 50 :'r::rve old' water mills as at! Jacob Crane, Jr., and Prof. Floyd least in these fish. Purthermore |A. Nagler, of the University of this cancer comes upon the off- Iowa are making a survey of the spring despite the fact that the 25 of the 500 mills still in operation parents are free from the disease, in Iowa for the state board of con- ‘of of indications of it. Some of the servation. experiments have shown the possi-| The first mill in Towa was built . | bility that color pigments, to which in 1829 when. Zachery. Taylor in- the fish owe their variagated hues, 'structed officers to build a saw something to do with pro-|mill for use in constructing Fort ducing the hereditary caneer, Crawford, FOSTER SEEKS NOMINATION AS ATTY, GENERAL Yy Local A?bm ¢ and Former Cordovan zeks G. O. P. Nomination Representative Frank H. Foster, formerly of Cordova and now a resident of this city, today cast his fedora into the Territorial political arena by filing his declaration of candidacy for the Republican nom- ination for Attorney General of Alaska. He is the first to file for the place. While it has been reported that Representative Grover C. Winn, Speaker of the 1931 Territorial House of Representatives was seri- ously considering seeking the same nomination, he has not made any announcement concerning it. And it is not known whether Attorney General John Rustgard will be a candidate. Mr. Fosier came o Alaska 21 years ago and has resided here since that time, principally at Cor- dova. He moved here last Spring and opened law offices. He is a graduate of Stanford University. Always & regular Republican, Mr. Foster was three times elected on that ticket from the Third Divi- sion to the Territorial House of Representatives, serving in 1923, 29 and 31. He was Chairman of the ‘Ways and Means Committee of the last House and during his three terms was & member of the Judi- clary Committee. Possible Union of Presbyterians in 1934 Is Seen PHILADELPHIA, Penn., Jan. 21 —Union of the Presbyterian church in the United States of America anl the United Presbyterian churcr of North America in 1934 is seen possible by a special committee on organic union of the two groups. “Definite progress” in negotia- tions toward the long-proposed merger was anounced by the com- mittee of which Dr. William J. Reid of- the United Presbyterian IChurch is chairman, and Dr. Lewis S. Mudge of the Presbyterian Church of the United States is secretary. Plans call for the two assemblies to meet separately in 1934 and then to “unite to form one body which shall be known as the General As- sembly of the Presbyterian Church in America.” e SENTENCE IMPOSED ON TWQ BY JUDGE CHAS. SEY Pleading guilty to adultery before Judge Charles Sey in the United States Commissioner’s Court yes- terday, Frank Parmeto and Ms7 David were given sentences by Judge Sey. Parmeto was fined $100, and the woman sentenced to serve 90 days in the local Federal Jjan, ACCUSED SLAYER 7 JUNEAU WOMEN CREATES SCENE Leaps from Chair and De- nounces Alienist for Prosecution JURY OF TWELVE MEN TO HEAR CASE Taking of Evidence I Be- gun Today — Is of Routine Nature P H O E NIX, Arizona, Jan. 21.—Winnie Ruth Judd leap- ed from her chair in the court room this afternoon to de- nounce Dr. Joseph Catton, alienist for the prosecution. “You get out of here,” Mrs. Judd cried, rising with tensed muscles and flashing eyes as the physiciatrist approached her chair during a court re- ° ess. “Make him get out of here. You talked about me,” the alleged slayer cried, appealing to her attorneys. Dr. Catton, amazed, backed away and she sat down nerv- ously, clasping and unclasping her hands. b A jury of twelve men was finally secured to hear the case of Mrs. Judd who is ac- cused of slaying Agnes Le- Roi and Miss Hedvig Samuel- son, both formerly of Juneau, Alaska. Testimony begaii today but it is only of a routine nature. DEMOCRATS IN MAINE CLAIM CHANGES 600B Party Is Better Organized than in Previous Campaigns PORTLAND, Maine, Jan. 21.— Both Democratic and Republican Committeemen said this State will send delegations pledged to the nomination of Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover to their respective national conven- tions next June. While Republican leaders predict- ed the “usual party majority” for the State in the coming elections, the Democrats believe they have a good chance due to better party organizations than in previous cam- paigns. HARD TIMES, SOFT WORDS, HALT DUELS BUDAPEST, Jan. 21. Hard times don't deserve all the hard words said about them. Here in Budapest they « prevented what might have been a fatal duel. Paul Javor, actor, had words with Zoltan Egyed, theatre critic, and the upshot was a challenge and grim arrangements for a duel with sabers. Then, just as the weapons were about to flash, the referee ex- claimed: “Gentlemen! Think a moment! At a time when the whole country bleeds with distress, can Hungar- ians permit themselves the luxury of attacking one another with the saber?” Whereupon the duelists threw away their swords and kissed each other on both cheeks. ———————— A law establishing a minimum wage scale has been proposed Brazil, F