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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ~ VOL. XXXIX., NO. 5948. J UNEAU ALASKA TUESDAY FEBRUARY 9, 1932. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SLAYER OF JUNEAU NURSE MUST DIE ON GALLOWS CHINESE, HOLDING FORTS AT WOOSUNG MACHINE GUNS, Warslups Rule in Bay as Shanghm Natives Flee| e “""m AERIAL BOMBS RATTLE TODAY Japanese Unable to Dis-| lodge Chinese from | Strong Positions ARTILLERY ACTION IN CHAPEI DISTRICT British Women and Chll-‘ dren Are Warned to | Leave Nanking ; SHANGHAI, Feb. 9. — Machine guns and aerial bombs rattled on the s of Woosung today as the Japanese attacked a large detach- | ment of Chinese throwing up de- f2nse works. A shell from a Japanese destroy-' er burst a g der magazine caus- | ing a terrific explosion and raising a dense cloud of smoke but the Chinese held on. Artillery action continues in the Chapei region. British Woman Wounded | One British woman was wounded | by a shell which burst in the In- ternational Settlement. | United States infantry has en- tered the patrol of ths northern section of the Settlement. Eight shells dropped in the French Concession and some property dam- age is reported. Word from Nanking said British women and children have been advised to leave, The Japanese said they have m- structed both land water forces to avoid friction with "American and other foreign troops. | S e JAPANESE SURPRISED | TOKYO, Feb. 9.— The Japanese | Foreign Office is surprised at ac- counts of unfavorable reaction in and seized the native quarter of the city. —Associated Press Photo. Two views recently taken in Shanghai where large numbers were killed as Japanese troops landed | Cruisers of world pewers are anchored off the Bund of the United States to Japan's pro- foreign settlement and (upper) natives and armed guards at a gate between the International Settlement posal to remove Chinese military 3nd. old native city. PENSION LISTS | LOADS AUSTRIA WITH BIG LOAD forces from important commercial -~~~ cenders in China. Those who disapprove of Japan's proposals should attempt to offer something better, the spokesman of the Foreign Office said, continuing that “if the world is going !,o be- come hysterical every time takes military action in Chlnfl. it is time something should be done.” | - ee—— | | CAMPAIGN TO SELL SALMON IS LAUNCHED Efforts Will_Be Made to Dispose of Two Mil- lion Cases {One Person in Every Flve’ ; Inhabitants of Voting Age Receives Money By WADE WERNER VIENNA, Feb. 9—Never has hard- pressed little Austria been able to exclaim in the prosperous Ameri- can manner: “One automobile for inhabitants!” { Even in the midst of an unpre- ! cedented econcmic crisis, however, she still is able to say: SEATTLE, Feb. 9.—A campaign' “One pension for every five in-| to sell $10,000,000 worth of Pacifc habitants old enough to vote.” Coast salmon will be launched next HCw mnumerous pensions are in Monday, Dixie Fleager, of the Pac- this republic of 6,500,000 inhabi-| cific Coast Sales Corporation, said tants is best shown by figures. The today. | Austrian government has on its! Fleager said 2,000,000 cases willbe Payroll 108,215 active employes. On placed with the trade before July its pension list, however, it has 1 leaving 1,000,000 cases as a carry- 115944 persons drawing govern- | over. | ment money monthly. Fleager predicted the campaign| Doubles Payroll will put the salmon industry in a! This is a pension list more than good position as 1932 is expected 7.000 names longer than the pay- to be a small year. roll. The fact that pensions equal —_————— |78 per cent of the active salary makeb the effect virtually a double The United States has a virtual pay_ron. | monopoly of the cornstarch indus- | The Austrina railways, govern- | try, being the only country that ment.owned but with a budget of produces this commodity in ap- ik & preciable quantities. ’ (Contmued on Page Two) “Leave Australia” Is Word , of Veterans to Foreign Reds, every five tralian coastal services. Colonel Campbell, leader of the organiza- tion, announced that if the sea-| men did not immediately return to work, their jobs would be filled.| The men scrambled back aboard | their ships. In the recent election the orga- SYDNEY, Australia, Feb. 9.— The “New Guard,” a patriotic or- ganization composed principally of ex-servicemen, is demanding the deportation of foreign revolution- aries and warning Australian-born communists to beware. ‘The crganization frankly follows some of the tenets of European fascism. nization opposed labor party candi- | The guard has been credited 1 dates and claims to have had much with breaking a shipping strike | |to do with causing the defeat of which threatened to cripple Aus.lscuums former government. | Rain, snow, gales and floods are | the qfrom the Tropics New Winter Storm Hits West Regwn |[Four Elements Raging in Various Parts of Pacific Coast Feb. 9.— in State: SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, weather for Western as a new winter storm swept region. The Weather Bureau caid the| conditions were caused by an un-, usual depression area extending to the North Pole. Flood menaces in California. Mexican families are endange by spreading waters in the Made region. There is heavy rain in San Fran- cisco. Heavy snow covers Nevada and‘ the high Sierras and roads ar blocked. The center of the storm is ex ected to hit Soub‘!c'rn CAMNJ‘J | have increased a SIX PERISH: HOME BURNS Mother and_H;' Five Chil- dren Die in Flames This Morning HAZELTON, Penn., Feb. 9.—Five | small children and the mother were a fire this burned to death in ‘mormng which destroyed the fam- ‘ ily home. Mrs. Carmen Romanelli, ru_shed\ out of the house and gave the! 'alarm. She then rushed back into the burning home to save her children and never returned. - REFOREST VERDUN ZONE VERDUN—The “red zone” of Verdun, blasted in the World War because French soldiers declared the Germans “shall not pass,” is being reforested at the rate of 7400 acres a year. The region cov- 'ers 17,300 acres. J |Navy Department. GAUTIUUS CAL - NOW SUED FOR LARGE AMOUNT St. Louis Insurance Agent Wants $ | 00,000 from Coolidge RINGFIELD, Mass., Feb. Calvin Coolidge, of the New Y Life Insurance Company, of wi 0.5 he is a director, has been sued for $100,000 by Lewis B. Tebbeit of St. Louis, insurance azent. Tebl said his reputation had been damaged, as an agent, by radio speech made by Cool which was later printed in pfln- phlet form and mailed out Hc aid Coolidge referred indire hxm in his speech INSURGENTS ARE KILLED WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 9 - The killing of ten Nicaraguan in- surgents and the wounding of a number of others in four e ments with the Native N Guard under command of U Marines has been reported to One gu the ma.n was wounded. e CANADIAN GIRL BREAKS RECORD LAKE PLACID, N. Y., Feb. 9— Lela Brooks, of Potter, Canada day set a mew world's record for women skaters winning the first heat in the 1,000 meter exhibition race. Her time was two minutes one and two-fifths seconds. 0- The previous record was minutes een and four-t seconds. the | CHAMBER BACKS DIRECTORS IN | Passage of Wicker- sham Bill in House The Chamber of Commerce day without an opposing vote adopted a report from the Board laf Directors opposing the passage jof the Wickersham measure pro- hibiting the use of any food fish for the manfacture of oil and meal A petition, urging the enactment of legislation to prohibit the use of herring from inside waters in such manufacture, | taken up by measure and Judge LeFevre's pe- | tition. Martin Holst, veteran local | fisherman, told the Chamber that {unless some re: ion ‘was {posed on the reduction indust the herring supplies of inside wat- ers would be exhausted within a few years. O'Malley Opposed Bill The Legislative Comimttee sub- {mitted to the Chamber a state- ment made by Commisioner Henry |O'Malley, of the Bureau of Fish- mrw:, opposing the Wickersham | bill. | He told the House Comimttee on yMerchant Marine and Fisheries: “After careful consideration, it lamy opinion that this | change is both unwise and unnec- | essary. Any such modfication of i the law would prevent commercial | utilization of certain species of fish |not as yet used for human is to oil and meal fertilizer. These species, which include silver hake, |ling cod, rays, dog fish and other varieties are caught in nets along with salmon and other fishes uti- lized for age of thess food fisnes, for which there is no market, can be avoided by their manufacture into oil and meal. They cannot be segregated from the salmon and other species as caught in purse seines and | traps. Would Destroy Industry “I feel that the outstanding ob- jection to this proposed change in the law is that it would destroy t.he extensive industry which has 'developrd in Alaska of manufactur- ing oil and meal from herring. The capture of herring for commercial use in Alaska is effected chiefly by purse seines, although gill nets have been used in a limited way. In operating a purse seine there can be no segregation of the small {from the large fish. “Therefore, as there is no market for small herring salted or | wise prepared for human consump- tion, it seems entirely proper to utilize the smaller fishin the manu- {facture of oil and meal. If this were not done there would be in- evitably heavy wastage of those small herring which the trade does not accept, in the salt fish market. Misconception Is Held “A popular misconception has existed where herring are used in manufacture of oil and meal, the resulting products are applied solely to uses other than human food. On the contrary, large quantities of herring oil. through processes of hydrogenation and deodorization, are used in the manufacture of Iedihle fats. “The meal, or so-called fertilizer, manufactured from herring is used extensively for feeding hogs, cattle and poultry. The us: of meal as stock food has increased greatly and a considerable part of the west coast production is absorbed by poultrymen. It has been well es- tablished that fish meal mixed with other items is one of the best known foods to stimulate the pro- duction of eggs. Experiments in feeding fish meal to hogs show that it is fully equal to meat tank- age for such purposes “There has been considerable agi- tation in Alaska at times to the ef- fect that the reduction plants were depleting the runs of herring. I do inot feel that there is any serious situation along this line. As in any and in some places | waters herring may be less abund- ceding seasons; at the same timec they may be more abundant in (Continued on P;g;. : i:izl;t) HERRING STAND Approves Report Opposing| to- presented by | Judge H. B. LeFevre, was referred | to the Legislative Committee for report. | Most of today's meeting was the discusion on the | im- | proposed | food | but which can be manufactured in- | human food. The wast-| other- | fishery, seasonal fluctuations occur, | in Alaskan | ant in certain places than in pre- | | | | Jury composed of | last October 16. MANY TOURISTS COMING NORTH, ASSERTS BAKER Bookings $iir Season Are| Already Heavy — In- quiries Numcmua | SEATTLE, Feb. 9.— AS many visitors will go to Al his year as last year, L. W. of the, Alaska Steamship Compa iid on his return from a trip Ea | The sight-seeing urge be stimulated by convent the FINANCIER OF JAPAN KILLED Junnohuke (Inouye Assas-| sinated Going to Polit- ical Meeting TOKYO, Japan, Feb. 9.—Junno-| huke Inouye, one of Japan's out- standing financial leaders, was shot and killed by Tadashi Kr.mm!f aged 23. 1 Inouye had ai d at a political | meeting when wuma advanced | and fired point blank at him, “ ing him instantly. Konuma | immediately arrested bu no motive. | Inouye twice ser Minister and was ered the| strongest man in the Minseio | Party. ‘ L U \ IRISH GOLD IN CORNWALL TOWEDNACK, Cornwall | Inad—Two bracelets and two nec laces of old Irish gold, made at 1,500 years ago, were du on a farm near here. They prol ably were traded by the Irisn for icm-n.m tin, Mrs Jluld (onru ted of \lurd(’r MRS jUI]D |s all men find Winnie Ruth Judd guilty of slaying Mrs. Agnes LeRoi, former nurse of Juneau, Alaska, in Phoenix, Arizona, The jury voted death on the gallows. Eng- | ¢ - CONVICTED OF LEROI MURDER All Male JLT Takes But One Ballot and Guilt Is Determined |NO EMOTION DISPLAYED BY WOMAN DEFENDANT Walks to C;ll—;nd Surveys Herself in Mirror— Death Is Penalty PHOENIX, Arizona, Feb. 9.—An all-male jury has voted death on the gallows as Winnie Ruth Judd's penalty for the murder of Mrs. Agnes LeRoi, former nurse of Ju- neau, Alaska, who was slain in this city on October 16, last year, at the | same time Hedvig Samuelson was also killed, both by bullets, and whose bodies were dismembered |and shipped in two trunks and a suitcase to Los Angeles, where the crime was revealed Shows No Emotion Mrs. Judd showed no emotion when the verdict of guilty and the | penalty was read, but tears welled |to the eyes of Dr. W. C. Judd, the woman's husband sitting with his arms about her shoulders. Mrs. Judd walked unassisted to her cell and looked into the mirror as if to satisfy herself she held her poise, The insanity plea was compliely lost as far as the jury was con- cerned. Short Deliberation The jury deliberated two hours and forty minutes, excluding an hour for dinner last night. The first ballot was unanimous for conviction. Five more ballots were required before a unanimous verdict on the death penalty was reached. Appeal Mandatory An appeal mandatory under the Arizona law which requires the STUGK PR‘GES Supreme Court to review the case WAVER AGAIN: |~ LOSSES SMALL 60V, ROOSEVELT MEETS SMITH List Remdms Qulet for Most Part Although Several |State Execl;t—i\; Returns Issues Break from New York City NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—A stub- in Good Humor born down-drift brought the mar- ™ ket today to the bear low of early January The list was qu and most the losses were fractional but some broke one to two points. is ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 9.—Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, effervescent of | With good ~humor, has returned |from New York City. While there he held a conference with Alfred E. Smith. Smith announced he was Rotary Club in Seat the Ameri-| Auburn went down eight points, o - can Legion in Portland and the closing heavy. willing to be drafted as a Presi- Olympiad in Los Ang Sales amounted'to 1,100,000 shares, | dential nominee. Gov. Roosevelt was Baker said the company ! al- pr nt about the announcement but ready received large numt of| CLOSING PRICES TODAY | :‘“N?d Jheeytully, with newge inquiries and bookings are heavy| NEW YORK, Feb. 9. — Closing |Permen In contrast to seeming already for the tourist season. | guotati hees 88 worry before his departure. |quotation of Alaska Juneau mine A ’ . TR - s 5. While in New York, Gow. Roose- |stock today 13%, American Can | 3t~ abhaRaet < i ol ot 647%, Anaconda Copper 9 B"”“""Zea Bl wautpeitagt hem Steel 16'4, Curtiss-Wright 1 L i~ o Voo Motor er 22, Fox Films 3%, General International Harve: | ENTERED IN PRISIARY BISMARCK, North Dakota, Feb. Motors the name of States Bu Hill, n sale. evelt as a Demo~ 25 Presidential candidate in g e ra ) te primary election on March I sta st‘.m shak. Oguses that |15 have been accepted by the (I“"“{"d“‘\ drin 14 ;‘J\‘ ;q,; of co retsry Ol S Rocstmelt’s Bt o And: ‘0o te will be on the ball how many saucers. | Emergenc \ Law, Quickly y I*n forced, Curbs Peru Reds LIMA, 9.—Legislation The demonstration was planned aimed at commun- fty forward a general strike which { ist et was to have been declared simul- i taneously in this country and tion 1 S Chile. >hile, immed The authorities say that the communistic agitation is the work qf a few distinguished persons who led pa in the udul deputies ab- |Séek their own aggrandizement. It from voting. is being carried on among workers day of its approval the and peasants, but there is so very appli by the poiice little unemployment in Peru com- e of mounted men dispen pared with Chile and other South up of communists who tried American countries that the soil parade in the face of an order for the red seed is sparse and al- ! forbidding the march, jmost. barren.