The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 3, 1932, Page 1

“ALL THE NEV S ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIX., NO. 5943. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1932. SHANGHAI AGAIN SCENE-OF HARD CONFLICT TODAY Severest BaE Since Hos- tilites Be %an Re- ported in Progress WOOSUNG FORTS ARE ATTACKED,LONGRANGE Japanese 'Da)yer Said to Have Been Sunk by Chinese Fire SHANGHAI, Feb. 3.—The most severe battle since the outbreak of hostilities in Shanghai, waged to- day as Japanese land forces and mirplanes smashed against the ©Chapei district while warships in ‘the Wangpoo River shelled the Woosung forts, 16 miles away. The United States cruiser Hous- ton arrived in time to witness the battle. The Houston has 300 ma- rines aboard for a landing party but the commander was warned not to enfer the river but to stay out of the line of fire. Afterward the Houston moved up the river and tied up at Shanghai. Blue Jackets Landed Six Japanese destroyers, shelling the forts, covered a landing party bf Bluejackets. Observers said the district is a veritable inferno again where once ithe Japanese aviators bombed de- fensive residents and soldiers. The Japanese have. notified the American and British Consulates they are occupying Woosung. Shell fire from Chinese artillery in the Chapei sector fell on the Japanese headquarters near Hong- kew, on the grounds of a boys school but none are reported to have been injured. Airplanes join Attack Late this afterncon Japanese airplanes joined the attack on the ‘Woosung forts. Ohservers = sald two forts are doomed for complete destrluction. Reports are that Japanese war- ships in ‘the river are landing a full division of soldiers a consider- mble distance from Shanghai. Yesterday the Japanese said they #vould mot land troops but would permit the Navy to take care of the situation. Chinese authorities said shells ffrom a Woosung fort sank a Jap- anese destroyer in the Wangpoo River. CHINA ACCEPTS PROPOSALS WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 3.— The Nanking Government has ac- cepted terms of peace proposed by the British and American govern- ments but the governments do not expect to hear from Tokyo very readily. One report here is the Japanese are preparing to present counter proposals to part of those suggested as a basis for peace. The proposals submitted called for a cessation of violence and no more war-like preparations; neucral zones must be protected; combat- ants must withdraw from the In- ternational Settlemeni at Shanghai. Prompt negotiations for permanent peace will be the next step, the proposals stated. JAPAN WON'T ACCEPT TOKYO, Feb. 3.—The Japanese Foreign Minister today said Japan is unable to accept the peace terms proposed by the United States and Great Britain in the present form. Japan, the Foreign Minister said, will make counter proposals. —————— PAYS FORFEIT FOR SLAYING BELLEFONTE, Penn., Feb. 3.— Joseph Kosh, aged 27 years, was electrocuted today in the Rockview Penitentiary for the murder of Vic- toria Smolinsky, of an underworld establishment at Scran- ton. ————— PETER WARNER AT HOME contrast of black smoke and whirl -shed.. of snow this winter. path. Bnlw. an, lfll'll\d-lflflw lockcd train_is shown enteri The Cal ia._mountain. country Associ 1ted Press Phoio Transcontinental trains have been encountering mountainous snow- drifts in the high Sierras of California. Above is shown the striking eam jlow breaks a ng a snow- 180 inches ing snow as a 'HOLDOUTS CRY AGAINST ANY SALARY GUTS Ruth ‘Heads—M:jor Leaguers Declining First 1932 Offers By LOREN DISNEY (Associated Press Sports Writer.) NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—With Babe Ruth, the New York Yankee's Big Bam himself as generalissimo, the annual winter holdout army al- ready is beginning to assume well defined proportions. Ruth took over the leadership when he sigried a contract a few total demands of any three or four of the other belligerents. Realizing that his almost slender legs can't carry his 220 pounds of bulk around an outfield indefinite- 1y, Ruth, who was 38 this month, said the $70,000 figure would be satisfactory on the basis of a two- year agreement, but for one year he wanted the $80,000 he received in 1931 The Babe's chief = argument, apart from a superb condition for this time of the year, is the sta- tistics for last season which reveal that he was tied for the home run leadership, and with an average of .373 was second only to Al Simmons for batting leadership of the Am- erican league. ' The Babe Lucky In this respect Ruth is much more fortunate than any of the| members of his swelling army. Ruth’s hitting in 1931 was distinctly better than in the season of 1929, at the conclusion of which he was given a two-year contract calling for a total of $160.000. Charles “Red” Lucas, ace of the Cincinnati Reds hurling staff, who 'has declined to accept a $2,500 cut in salary, is next in line with am- munition to bombard a general salary retrenchment policy of ma- jor league magnates by pointing to a successful 1931 season. Wilson In Tough Luck days ago calling for $70,000 for ‘me" season’s play, more money than the GHILE UNCOVERS WIDE RED PLOT ON WEST COAST! Government Seizes Docu- ments Indicating Well- Laid Plans By HAROLD P. BRAMAN SANTIAGO, Chile, Feb. 3—Secret investigations, made after the sei- zure of documents in communist headquarters in various cities have convinced the government that a |genuine red plot to establish soviet republics on the west coast of South America still exists, despite the recent defeat of the extremists {in northern Chile. The Government is making a cool, methodical study of the situ- (ation and intends to present in full the ramifications of communist ac- tivity on this coast since early in| 1931. | The documents, it is learned, re-| veal that the move to seize the‘ government of Chile in the Sep- | tember naval revolt was mere {child's in comparison to the exist- ing plots. It further is known that Chile has been the center of the coast agitation, with agents of the forces hereoperating in the neighbor- ing countries. Some doubt, exists as to the exact source of the plans. While some documents, officials admit, were written in Montevideo, Uruguay, it is believed that other instructions came from Moscow. Proof is said to exist that since the failure of the maval revolt, explicit orders for future action were given out inthe capital of the USSR. The Russian communists, it is explained, wished to gain a foot- hold in Chile first, because of the nitrates and copper which would be very valuable to Russia. Then the move would be on to Bolivia, |Peru and Ecuador. One person who was questioned, and who has wide influence among the yquth of Chile, said flatly that Raul Haya de la Torre, the Peru- l ENTER PRIMARY ELECTION RAGE 37, Largest Number More than Decade With a total of 57 having filed their declarations nominations by the two ress parties, the primary el ! ing period closed yesterday noon. Of that number, 37 : the Democratic ticket and the Republican. Both of the vartieg .hne ' m‘ ‘ber of contests for inations, and both 1 the eléction of part; occurs at the same’ tw primary. The De dates are fthe most © 1 any primary in the past 12 years. Many Rival Aspirants 'That party has a plethora of as= pirants for party, Territorial | Divisional offices. Among the inations to be contested are: gate to Congress, and Representatives. There is o test for Attorney General, Audi Commissioner of Education Highway Engineer. Contests are the order of the day in party office elections. There jare two complete tickets for Na-i tional Committeeman and and a third candidate for National Committeeman to make it a thrie- cornered affair, five filed for election as retn o s e Democratic Fllmgs Nnifim[ ¥ offie h 7 gates to the National Convention, | BILL URGED FOR PASSAGE, iSum of $375,000,000 Is Demanded to Help Y WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 3—/ HOUSE PRUNES ALASKAFOREST ROADS, $593,000 Limits - Totak. diflatment to Territory for 1932-33 to Sum of $350,000 Vigorously using the pruning knife, the National House of Rep- resentatives sliced off $595,000 frcrm the funds for Alaska’s forest hlgh- ways and trails for the fiscal year. beginning July 1, next, 1 was dis- closed today by official committee reports received here. Under the provisions of the an- nual supply bill of the Federal De-l partment of Agriculture, the Alaska allotment for the next fiscal year | is fixed at $350,000, and it is ex-, pressly provided than not more than that amount may be expended from the appropriation for that period and any balances left on | | { |hand from previous appropriations. The amount fixed was $595,000 less than 'the estimates approved (Continued on Page Four) IDLE BLACKS | Urging passage of the LaFolletite- ! 'Com.ican bill fof $375000,000 Fed- eral aid to cities and states to care ! for unemployed, Senator Costigan, |Democrat of Colorado, predicted | ‘a nation-wide degredation of liv—i ing standards, under-nourished children and broken homes unlessl this aid was given. ' Senator Costigan said no more| fundamental problem ever was pre- sented to the Sentae. “It involves nothing less than | the ‘unalienable right of American | citizens to life,” said the Colorado {Senator. He further stated defeat of the bill would open & new black chapter in American history. —eeo——— ROAM CONGO LEOPOLDVILLE, Belglan Congo, Feb. 3.—Because work has been stopped on the Usumbura Railway and road construction in Ruanda- | Urundi has been abandoned, 1,800 natives are unemployed in the Bel- | gian Congo. They are wandering beyond their districts and Euro- peans are demanding protection. of Cosmic Ray; ICHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 3.—A world wide expedition bent on discover- ing the baffling secret of the cos- year by Dr. Arthur H. Compton, Poifessor of Physcs atthe Univer- sity of Chicago, Nobel prize win- ner in 1927 and distinguished for his research in this field. Lofty mountain ranges scattered around the earth will be scaled for siudies by physicists in a two-year survey directed by Dr. Compton. Prefssor Compton intends to find lout what the cosmic rays consist of and where they come from, whether vian extremist, who has many fol- lowers in northern Chile, is work- ing with the communists in the youth movement along the coast. Officials had heen assured pre- viously that Haya de la Torre was not & communist. Communism in Chile is under control of two opposing factions. Moscow is said to have tried to deaders from the sun or from intergalactial space, hundreds of millions of light years from the earth. He will start in March on a six month’s expeditionto Peru, New Zealand, Australia, Hawaii and Alaska to continue experiments al- ready begun in the Rockies and in the Alps. Three other cooperat- ing expeditions will be organized Compton Will Hunt Secret Study from High Mountains; Expedition Comes to Alaska World-Wide The work is made possible by a grant from the Carnegie Founda- tion. taken in standard ionization cham- bers at eighteen widely distributed stations and at heights varying drom 17,000 to 20,000 feet. North and South polar expeditions will also carry the measuring instruments. “A survey such as this,” said Pro- fessor Compton, “should give the most adequate test that has yet been devised to distinguish whether CONST RECION bays Ghosts Ordered Him to Kill 8 Persons WINNIPEG, Feb. 3. — Tom Hrechkozie, aged 28, has con- fessed to the police, according to their reports, to the slaying of Martin Sitar and family of seven near Elma. He said ghosts ordered him to kill the family. He was a relative and wnrkell for Sitar as a farm IS THREATENED BY SNOW, COLD Rescue Parti: Rushed to Aid Stranded and Lost Parties SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 3.— With another storm brewing plows are being rushed to clear the snow from the mountain roads. Rescue parties are also being rushed out to aid the stranded and lost who were caught in the week- end attack that covered the entire section of the coast from Canada to Southern California. Snow is predicted although it is warmer ‘in t.he Pacific Northwest. PICTURE MAN MAY PURCHASE NAVY AIRSHIP Howard Hughes Offers to! Buy Dirigible Los Angeles WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 3.— Howard Hughes, motion picture| producer has offered to buy the| dirigible TLos Angeles from the| Navy to make a new movie thriller. The price was not mentioned but | [Rear Admiral Moffett, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics said $500,-| mic ray will be undertaken this| Measurements of the rays will be|000 would be about right. Money derived from the sale will be used to enlarge a new aircraft being constructed at Akron for the Gov- ernment, Trained Steeds Outwit Turkish Border Guard, MARDINE, , Turkey, Bquin esmugglers may be brought Feb. 3. Associated Press Photo Blnu the adoption of a new 24-hour divorce law in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, saloons like the one shown here in Juarez, just across the berder from E| Paso, Tex., have begun to bid for the patronage king visitors. The town also boasts a gamblmq casino nnd a race track. [FALL LOSES LAST GHANGE FOR FREEDOM Federal Pa;o—le— Board Re- fuses to Shorten ,}{;non Senlence WHARINGTON, o, Feb, 5= Albert B. Fall yesterday lost his last hope for freedom before the end of his sentence for accepting a $100,000 bribe from E. L. Doheny | when the Federal Parole Board de- clined to shorten the imprisonment of the former Secretary of Inter- for. The members of the board issued a statement saying such ac- tion would b2 “unjustifiable and incompatible with the welfare of society.” Fall is confined in the New Mex- ico State Prison. Mrs. Jouett Elliott, Fall's daugh- ter, said the family had been pre- pared for such a decision through reports of friends here. Fall is the only one who has been convicted in oil land lease scandals of the Harding Admin- istration. His year sentence ends on May 8 but the $100,000 fine is unpaid yet. Should the fine romain unpaid, Fall must serve an extra 30 days and then must take the pauper’s oath to be re- leased. CHARGES MADE AGAINST MANY U. S. DOCTORS ISays 90 Per Cent Liquor Prescrlphons Are *“Bootlegging” WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 3.— Dr. Arthur Bevan, of the Univer- sity of Chicago, testified before a Senate Committee that 90 percent of the liquor prescriptions issued by doctors are ‘“bootlegging prescrip- {tions.” Dr. Bevan said a large number of idoctors are unable to resist the \temptation of selling prescriptions. ‘Some doctors, Dr. Bevan stated, are selling a whole quota for $100 iyearly and this makes it possible for a doctor to make $1,200 a year. Out of 160,000 medical men in the United States, half of them make legitimately less than $2,500 la year, Dr. Bevan said. the cosmic rays are photons, as are perhaps with their trainers, beforo|Swedish Prince to Wed light apd X-rays or electrons such @8 give rise to the earth’s aurora. Geographic Location “Because of the effect of the earth's magnetic field electrons chould give less intense rays neflr' the Equator than near the Palel Likewise if the cosmic rays have their origin in the earth's atmos- phere there should presumably bel ‘variations with the geographic lo- the breach by consolidating|for a world survey, one in South lecation. groups under new leadership.|America, another in South Africa| “The cosmic rays are a type of 10, attempt failed because the ri-{and a third in the Himalayan |radistion that strikes the earth resident of Alaska for 35 ym'lfllm" hD"V"-dthfl!dWM-mlifl'fi' ) Mountains, A, (Wm”w d!edatm the special tribunals which Turkey is setting wp for contraband trade across the Turco-Syrian fronter. The discovery that riderless| horses had been trained to carry | goods past the border guards was mademommkn.lswppedut. a customs house instead of at a smuowlm’ rendezvous. The beast was loaded with Syri- an silk and sugar, ——— Herman (Charlie) Sather, Commoner in Switzerland STOCKHOLM, Fep. 3. — Prince Lennart, grandson of King Gus- 'tave, and Karin Nissvandt, daugh- dfir of a wealthy Stockholm busi- ness many, are to be married in {May, it is learned. The ceremony probably will take iplace in Switzerland. When their romance was first jannounced, the King forbade lneir marriage, until they were older. lowfl\eroyalwlshu "|o’clock this morning to ascer- DEAD, THOUSAND INJURED, QUAKE Santiago, Cuba, Practically * Razed by Five Earth Shocks STREETS ARE FILLED WITH DEBRIS, DEAD | Practically All Principal Buildings Are Destroy- ed—Aid Rushed SANTIAGO, Cllbl, Feb. 3. —At least 500 persons have been killed and 2,000 injured by a fifth earthquake which struck here at 6 o’clock this morning. It is impossible up to 8 tain the correct death toll and impossible to estimate the extent of the property damage. Streets are filled with de- bris and bodies of the dead. . There have been no fires breaking out and no disorder. Scores of houses including one four-story apartment fell early this morning during the h rlfth _earthquake., : “lli““w _to_as ] tfimage to ships fn t’i)‘& o bay or along the waterfront - or the effect of the quake throughout the remainder of the Province. The fifth quake struck exactly at 6 o'clock. The first shock occurred at 1:30 o'clock followed by the others of less intensity. Scores of children are among the dead and injured. The roof of a maternity hospital fell killing many women and chil- dren. Half of the city is in ruins in- cluding many American business houses and warehouses. p I8 WITHOUT LIGHTS HAVANA, Cuba, Feb. 3.—Accord- ing to radio reports Santiago is without lights, gas and water. 4 Rescue and relief expeditions have been sent from here. Airplanes have returned from Santiago and report that prac- tically all principal buildings in Santiago have been destroyed. Inhabitants can be seen in the open fields where they have sougit safety. TO AID VICTIMS WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 3.— Vice-Admiral Willard, Commander of the Scouting Force, has sailed . | from Guantanamo for Santiago to aid the quake victims. SHOCK IS REGISTERED AT STATION IN SITKA SITKA, Alaska, Feb. 3.—A heavy earthquake shock was registered on the seismograph here last night. The first waves reached Sitka 33 minutes and 44 seconds past 9 o'clock. The distance is estimated to be about 3,000 miles. DEFICIENCY BILL SIGNED | WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 3.— ¢ President Hoover has signed the | $126,000,000 first deficiency bill meet the emergency monetary of the Government's de] ———— INTERNATIONAY TENNIS TO GO “PRO,” CAACH SAYS International tennis may be ph ed on a professional basis with a few yeafs, in the opinion Merser Beasley, Tulane mentor. Beasley, who developed E Vines, America’s No. l