The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 11, 1932, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIX., NO. 5950. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 11, 1932 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS U. S. MARINE BILLET BOMBED; JAPANESE APOLOGIZE 2299 Lo 2 d <CCCT 2929 <CCC PP COCT 299> SHORT TRUCE DECLARED AT SHANGHA]I NEW MEASURE FOR RELIEF IS BEING DRAFTED Congress Umted to Pass| Bill—Will Be Expedit- ed in Both Houses WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 11.— ‘With unprecedented unity, Con- is behind the emergency \easure to increase the amount of | h to be available to American Lanks and businesses which has) Loen cuorged by President Hoover, | Democratic and Republican lead- ers plan to expedite the bill through both houses. The new bill, which is strictly tisan, is being drafted by | r Carter Glass, of Virginia, resentative Steagall of Ala- | ama. ‘Tho measure relieves the pres- cure on small Federal Reserve banks | hich have exhausted discountable | r and permits the Federal Re- | ve rediscount and other sound | , not now eligible, to run year R STOCK PRICES SURGEUPWARD | ON GOOD NEWS' Leading Shares Show Gain | of from Two to Seven Points Today NEW YORK, Feb. 11—Stocks surged upward today in the broad- est advance since mid-December in 1esponce to the Washington, D. C., project to add new flexibility to the banking system. Leading shares generally gained| two to seven points. Auburn went up 15 points. The closing of the market was buoyant and final prices around; the day's best. The turnover 000 shares. Wall Street viewed the Wash- ington proposal as the most prom- ising of all the measures under- taken to break the deflation. Shorts were taken by surprise in today's trading. one for | { | | | | | H | was around 2,700,- CLOSING PRICES TODAY Ford Will JAPANESE CRUISER AT SHANGHA1 Associated Press Photo This is the Japanese cruiser, Haguro, one of the 40 Japanese battleships that participated in the occupation of Shanghai by Japanese marines. The Japanese ships shelled the Chinese fort at the mouth of the Whangpo before landing marines who engaged the Chinese in | heavy fighung. , INDEPENDENCE Bring Out ' TALK DEBATED e INWASHINGTON Automobile Ma nufac!urer | Confirms Rumors Re- 1Se('retary Hurley Opposed cently Circulated | to Granting Freedom to Filipinos DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 11.—Henry | Ford today confirmed rumors he is | I planning to bring out a new four—; WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. ll—i cylinder car and also an eight- |Secretary of War Hurley told the |eylinder car, probably by March 1. “In_sular Committee of the Senate The new car having the eight yesterday that withdrawal of the cylinders will be longer, lower and United States from the Philippines heavier than the four-cylinder car. and the granting of independence B o to the Filipinos would mean an| “economic crisis, political and social anarchy and would ultimately be followed by domination of Lhe isl- ands by some foreign power.” Secretary Hurley further said mhat, the “vociferous clamor for complete | independence” does not represent the Filipino sentiment and now| was no time for granting independ- | Two Girls Given Life for Slaying British Magistrate CALCUTTA, Feb. 11.—Sentences NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 14%, American Can | 63%, Anaconda Bethlehem | Steel 19, Curtiss-Wright 1%, Fox, Films 3%, General Motors 21%, | International Harvester 242, ken-\ necott 10%, Packard Muwrs 3 | Hill 23%. ———————— QUIT CLIPPING PATES SPRINGFIELD, IlI,, Feb. 11.— No jonger will shaved pates be the. style for well-behaved Illinois oon-; victs. Bald heads in Tilinois pris- ons henceforth will be those natur- ally that way, or those of convicts who persistently violate prison rules. i ’tutbed by the sentence. ter to die than live in a horse's | stable,” they said. of transportation for life have been |imposed upon Santi Ghose and Sunity Chowduri, Indian girl stu- dents, following their conviction in a Calcutta court of the murder of C. G. B. Stevens, British magis- trate, last month. The two girls seemed not per- “It is bet- ence in view of the situation in| the Orient. Speaker Roxas, of the Philippine House, clashed verbally with the War Secretary. Hurley said the Filipino leaders dared not to say anything against independence. Roxas saild the charge was not true but that the Filipinos refused to follow any leader who was not for independence. Arouses Resentment Secrztary Hurley described the bill for independence as “cowardly.” The bill was introduced by Sen- ators Cufting of New Mexico, and Hawes of Missouri. “Do you mean to say that Sen- ator Cutting and I are cowardly,” inquired Hawes. Hurley replied: “The bill has After passing judgement, the court requested the local government to take into consideration their youth and sex in connection with the treatment they receive in prison. The sentence of transportation sends the prisoner to one of the several penal colonies. The desti- nation of the two girls has not been announced. Man Dyes Red Hair; Takes Brother’s Place in Jail CHICAGO, Feb. 11.—By swlwh—' ing identities with his brother, Al-| bert Russell, 32 years old, under indictment as & member of a $500.-| 000 Middle West kidnapping gang. walked out of the county jail to freedom. While Russell strolled out, his| younger brother, Stanley, 28, saun- tered into Albert’s cell, and it was| not until he arrived there that the | hoax was discovered. A‘ The similarity in *ue appearance of the two mex aided the plot. not in it one element of courage and attempts to tear down all that has been built in the Philippines over a period of years.” The War Secretary refused to re- tract his “cowardly” statement but added there was nothing personal meant. He said the bill was based on fear, into the room where the visit was mede Stanley threw his overcoat and hat on a chair. These Albert picked up when he walked out, ac- companied by his wife and child. Stanley was held at the county jail. He is liable, if found guilty of aiding and abetting the escape, to one to five years in prison. Under Illinois law, Stanley also could be tried for the crime of the escaped man, kidnapping, with the state's original evidence wused against him. e Meade Favors Year M oratorium for Irrigation Debts — WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 11— Reclamation ‘Commissioner Elwood Mead indorsed before the Senate Irrigation Committee the idea of a oue-year moratorium on irrigation districts' debts to the government, SENATORLEWIS | Ma | mentary elections. In order to re- IS CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT Name Is EnEd in Illinois State Primaries by Editor SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Feb. 11— United States Senator James Ham- | ilton Lewis has been placed in the| running as Democratic candidate | for President. A petition in his be- ' half has been received hare enter- | ing his name in the State pnma.ryf The petition was filed by Vincent Dallman, Editor of the Tlinois State Register of Springfield. Dall- | man said the “policies upon which Senator Lewis swept the state win- ning by three-quarte's of a million votes in 1930 have been adopted by other leading candidates for the Democratic Presidency. Lewis can carry Tllinois end this will assure a great national victory.” The name of {former United States Senator Joseph France, of yland, has been placed in nom- | ination as a Republican candidate | by an unidentified Maryland man. | . SMITH'S NAME | | | | | | 1 |0 BE ENTERED N, DAK. PRIMARY 'MARINES GUARD U. S. INTERESTS IN SHANGHAI While Japanese troops occupled the Chinese quarter of Shanghal, United States marines in the inter- national settlement prepared to defend American interests if fighting endangered the settlement. They put up barbed wire barricades along the settlement boundzies and were ready for any emergency. Here is a detachment of United States marines marching through one of Shanghai’s main thoroughfares. /| SCENE OF FIGHTING IN SHANGHAT . - \ Asreany Yorsieres t {Nominating Petitions to Be Circulated and Filed on Saturday MINOT, North Dakota, Feb. 11.— E. H. Stenvick, former postmaster here, said he would circulate nom- inating petitions in behalf of Alfred E. Smith and file them Saturday, the deadline. Stenvick said he was acting on his own initiative in placing Smith's name on the State primary for the Democratic Presidential nomination as permission from the candidate is not necessary under the State law. - LLOYD GEORGE the Chinese quarters in Shanghal. Clashes occurred on the borders of In a carefully planned advance preceded by a shelling from ships In the harber, Japanese marines augmented by armored cars captured Chinese troops were swept out of the native oity and Chapel district, shown on map, after severe fighting. the International settiement whei the United States holds large interests, DENIED SEAT | LONDON, Feb. 11.—David Lloyd George, famous Liberal leader and ‘Wartime British premier, was yes- terday denied a seat in the House of Commons because he failed to) file an expense account showing nis ' expenditures in the recent parlia- IMPEACHMENT GHARGES HAVE BEEN DROPPED Mellon Prepares to Resign from 'Cabinet to Be Ambassador | | | | move the bar it will be necessary for him to take the case to a high court, ——e— Premier Mussolini Has Conference With Pope Today VATICAN CITY, Italy, Feb. 11. — Premier Mussolini visited the Pope today and the two were closeted for fully an hour. This is the first visit of the Premier to Vatican City since he and the Pope discussed the Lateran Treaty, signed three years ago. The Premier emerged from the conference smiling and went to St. Peters and knelt in prayer. Taxpay WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 11.— Impeachment charges against. An- drew W. Mellon were dropped by the House Judiciary Committee yes- terday as the voteran financier prepared to step from the Treasury !into England’s Court of St. James. | Mellon will shortly resign from ithe Cabinet and take the oath as | Ambassador to Great Britain. Twenty-three lawyers. all Repre- sentatives, agreed rere was noth- ing to justify further proceed- ,ings” in the impeachment case. | 1 | er to Get “Break” in Income Levy, Coming Mont WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 11.— It is a virtual certainty now taxpayers will be saved from ing to “shell out” more money last year when they go to pay income taxes in March. Decision of both Democrats & ing the present fiscal year. First payments on new taxe rates, bound to be substantially higher and probably dropping the exemp- tions so as to include many ‘more men and women on their income, will under the present plan be Officials said the escaped pris- oner had a ten-year criminal rec- |ord, and that he was wanted by federal authorities as a member of | a nationwide automobile theft ring. They look singularly alike except | that Stanley has red hair. He overcame this obstacle by having # dyed brown to match his bro-| ther's. Russell’s escape followed a visit | from his wife and her 3-year-old daughter. Accompanied by Stanley Mrs. Russell called at the jail and He was charged with kidnapping |Dr. and Mrs. Max Gecht, and it was reported he was negotiating | to turn state’s evidence. This led to the suggestion by some officials gangsters engineered that cape to prevent him from but opposed extending it three years, Mead was testifying on bills by Chairman Thomas, Republican of Idaho, and Senator Carey, Republi- can of Wyoming, seeking relief for the districts unable to pay. The Thomas bill provides for a |three-year blanket moratorium. Carey’s would permit a 50 per cent|more Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee to ban re- troactive tax plans urged by the Treasury, is likely to control action all through Congress after the big tax program is drafted. This Treasury proposal was ap- parently the most cordially disliked of all the plans advanced to secure revenue for the government. the es-|reduction in plym for a like xnung it, however, will force the talking. | period. ‘Treasury to heavier borrowing dur- made in March, 1933. Next March, unless there a| change in the present Congression- al decision, income taxes will be | paid at the rate of 1'% per cent ion the first $4,000 of net income, is above that amount, with exemp- and for married ones or‘hea families at $3,500. tions for single persons at $1,500 cifi GRAHAM AND AVIATRIX AT {Fliers Bound for Arctic for Baychimo's Furs Make Short Hop PRINCE GEORGE, B. C,, Feb. 11. |—William B. Graham and Mrs. |Edna Christofterson arrived at South Fort George yesterday afternoon at {4:556 o'clock. They left Oroville at 111:20 o'clock yes! rning en- ;mube to the Arcti ;furs from the Hudson's Bay trading ship Baychimo. ‘Weather permitting the two fliers will continue their flight north- {ward today. | Portland Jobs Plan Includes 6-Hour Day | PORTLAND, Ore, Feb. 11— | The civic emergency relief commis- sion has adopted a three-fold pro- |gram for reliet of the unemploy- {ment situation and began thetas ! of marshaling support for the plan. | mately $1,000000 in emergency work promised; immediate estab-| lishment of a six-hour day in al (lines in order to put more people to work, and immediate steps to| \conven, agricultural surpluses of the Northwest into local food re- jlie{. ——————— 3 per cent on the next $4.000 and | 5 per cent on all normal income | ond successive year won the Pa- amateur three ds of |cushion billiard championship atia mystery. Northwest lBamnmm, Wash., this seasor. FORT GEORGE. The program asks city-wide sup- port of a building and repair cam- paign, now said to have approxi-, 1 | the Associated Press Photo DISARMAMENT REQUESTED FOR ENTIRE WORLD Soviet Foreign Minister| Predicts Another World War | GENEVA, Feb. 11.—Predicting an- other World War of “unprecedent- | |ed dovastation,” Maxim Litvinoff, | Soviet Foreign Minister, asked for | absolute disarmament as the only | valid security against war. i | | | AMERICANS IN DANGER; PLANE HAS ‘ACCIDENT’ |Bomb Wrecks Cotton Mill Today in Which Ma- rines Quartered FOUR-HOUR TRUCE STAYS HOSTILITIES Wounded, Also Women and Children to Be Re- moved from Chapel SHANGHAL Feb. 11. — A ore of United States ma- rines were endangered teday when a bomb wrecked a cot- ton mill in which the marines were billeted. No* marines were injured but five Chinese women and children were killed. Admiral Shimad a apolo- zed to the United States forces saying the bombing was a mistake. The bombs were dropped, the Admiral {said, when a faulty release lon a Japanese airplane flying over the billet, snapped open. prea— FOUR-HOUR TRUCE SHANGHAI, Feb. 11. — A four-hour truce has been de- \clared to permit foreign non- combatants to get out of the Chapei distriet. This has been larranged by the French priest, Jackuinot, as the Chi- inese and Japanese continued to dig in for a major engage- ment. | Addressed the delegates attending | | the Disarmament Conference, the | | Soviet official said he knew his | | proposal would not be accepted but‘ it was offered as an alternative | proposal. He rejected i.ae French proposal for international police, under sup- ~|ervision of the League of Nations, saying that no guarantee was given | LML the police would be used to de!end weaker nations. He was cheercd as he mounted the rostrum land again when he left. His speech } was considered to increase the pos- ference. GOV, ROLPH LOS ANGELES, Calif., Feb. 11.— | Gov. Rolph had a narrow escape }herc yesterday when a plane in overran a local landing field and stuck in the mud, tilting at a dangerous angle. The pilot ex- plained he had to swerve the run- way and take to the muddy sec- tion in order to avoid crashing into an open ditch with probable serious consequences, ABERDEEN, Feb. 11— Carl Hochhaus paused after a strenuous task of cleaning an au- | tomobile pe sat down on abench and fingered the greasy rag. It was blue and white, striped, not Wash., | that came to him regularly in bales |But he noticed lettering sewed on rag found the words, “Norge” Roald Amundsen.” and and ility of the success of the con-! IN ACCIDENT which he traveled from Sacramento | much different from any other rag | Thirty foreigners, bearing iwhite flags, will go into the Chinese city and remove the {wounded, women and chil- |dren, trapped in the shell-torn buildings. This is the first cessation lof hostilities since the Shang- hai battle started. | RUTHLESS WARFARE SHANGHATI, Feb. 11.—Sir John (Continued on Page Two) R A G Claim Wood Carvings Sold in Alaska Are Made by Swiss SEATTLE, Feb. 11.—At a cus- toms hearing here it was re- vealed that most of the wood carvings sold tourists through- out Alaska and at the various national parks in the states are the handiwork of Swiss wood- carvers. This was revealed when at- torneys argued whether Swiss carved whistles are curios or toys. The Government claims they are toys. Importers pay 70 per cent duty on toys and 33 per cent duty on curios. Ra v from Amundsen Aretic Flight Found in Aberdeen (dealer, he learned, bought his rags from the Orient, but there the | trail ended. How the cloth came to' be a rag, how it ever went to the Orient jand how it ever missed souvenir hunters remain a puzzle. Amundsen, the daring Norwegian explorer, flew the Norge from Spitzbergen to Teller, Alaska. He |later lost his life in a cruise for Nobile, the Ttalian explorer later |rescued from Arctic ice. The rag |that came to the Grays Harbor |auto wrecking shop apparently covered some equipment of sup- Wiping dirty car parts with a souvenir from one of the most glorious 2irships in the history of exploration! Paul Link, Seattle, for the sec- Hochhaus hastily placed the rag aside and finished his job with an- plies carried aboard the Norge. Although Hochhaus has dvm up |other cloth of more common an- | cestry. Then he set about solving He recalled the rag came ltn a bale from Seattle. The Seattie solving the mystery, he has no in~ tention of wiping any more auto- -