The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 19, 1932, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIX., NO. 5957. jUNEAU ALASKA FRIDAY FE,BRUARY 19, I932 Ml:MBE.R OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT& JAPANESE DEFIED; ULTIMATUM TERMS ARE REJECTED PP ba oo d R d CCoT La 22 <«CCC CCCC P22 3 Ra o ad COCC RENEWED F ]IRHNG STARTS SATURDAY MOTION MADE FOR NEW TRIAL IN-JUDD CASE Attorneys for Slayer of Two Juneau Women Says Court Erred PHOENIX, Arizona, Feb. 19— Attorneys for Winnie Ruth Judd, condemned to die on the gallows for the murder of Mrs. Agnes Anne LeRoi, yesterday filed a petition for a new trial for the blond slayer of Mrs. LeRoi and Miss Herwig Samuelson, both formerly of Juneau, Alaska. The motion for a new trial is based on the contention the court in instructions to the jury, erred in admitting certain state evidence and exhibits and also that one of the jurors was disqualified by reason of m‘e]udxce and bias. M'ADOO FAVORS JOHN N. GARNER FOR CANDIDATE Says All Elements of Demo- cratic Party Can Unite Under Speaker LOS ANGELES (Cal, Feb. 19.— William Gibbs McAdoo yesterday announced his: preference for John N. Garner, Speaker of the House, for the Wemocratic Presidential nominatioz. The former Secretary of the Treasury, who himself was once a candidate for the nomination, in 1924, said that unde rGarner all elements of the Democratic par:. should be able to unite and inthat case his clechon will be certain. FOSHAY JURORS MAKE VISIT TO FOSHAY TOWER ThirtyAwo, Story” Beilding Inspected, Especially Elaborate Suite MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 19.— The jurors who have spent six weeks listening to the evidentce in the Foshay-Henley mail fraud trial, visited Foshay Tower yester- day afternoon as no evidence was taken owing to the illness of de- fense counsel Brill. The jurors made a thorough ins- pection of the 32-story building especially being interested in the 27 and 28th floors which the Gov- ernment claims Foshay fitted up for his own business and living quarters, to “satisfy his own vanity at the expense of the stockholders.” The floors are now unoccupied. They contain a dining room, kit- chen, art gallery, several bedrooms and elaborate bathrooms, one of which the government alleges cost more than $15000 to construct, The tower will be offered for sale next month. No bidder app- eared at the previous offering by the receiver. The trial was postponed today until next Monday due to the ill- ness of Attorney Brill. W. C. Fawcett Sues Wife for Divorce BRAINERD, Minn., Feb. 19.—W. H. Fawcett, magazine publisher and sportsman, has filed suit in district court for divorce from his wife, charging infidelity. Bill Introduced To Make Saturdays Legal Holidays WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 19.—~An unemployment relief bill making Saturday a legal holiday was introduced today by Representative Britten, of Tilinois. He estimated this weuld add 4,000,000 workers to the country’s payroll, Associated Press Photn Linda Watkins, blond movie star, is shown with her hushand, Gabriel L. Hess, New York lawyer, to whom she was married in Chicago, P. O. Plans One Day Stay At Mt. Vernon WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 19—~Mount Vernon, known to everybody who has heard of George Washington, will have a postoffice for one day, the date being the significant one of February 22. The Postoffice Department is setting up facilities to ' secure canccllation on bicentennial stamps to aid the Washington bicentennial and to give stamp collectors opportunity to secure a rare specimen. Those assigned to the Wash- ington homestead are expecting a busy day handling outgoing mail. QUICK DECISION LEAVES EXILE T0 RALLY HIS NATION IN WAR Chmas A Warrior Urges Countrymen Against Japan ONNOMINATION, JUDGE CARDOZO Senate Judiciary Subcom- mittee Hears Complaint | and Then Acts WASHINCGTON, D. 2. Feb. 19.— The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee has decided to recommend a favor- able report on the nomination of Judge Benjamin Cardozo to the Supreme Court of States. The Subcommittee reached quick decision after hearing complaint made by William Ander- son that Judge Cardozo, while on’ the Circuit Court of Appeals of| New York committed a “gross in- justice” by denying him bail while awaiting a decision on his trial of forgery in connection with the records of the Anti-Saloon League of which he was then State Super- intendent. The decision to recommend favorable report was reached less than five minutes. BEER HEARING COMES TO END - WASHI\NGTON, D. C., Feb. 19.— The six wekes' hearing on the bill to legalize 4 per cent beer ended today. thousand words were taken in tes- timony on both sides. Too Many Flat Tires Cost Man His Wife DETROIT, Mich,, Feb., 19.—Mrs. Alexander Daas has filed for a divorce asserting her husband was out four nights consecutively. The first night he alleged a flat tire; the second night it was four flat tires; the third and fourth nights a a a in it was Turkish baths, % the United | Two hundred and eigh®v, | } '; H | i By MOKRIS J. HARRIS | SHANGHAT, Feb. 19.—Wu Pei- | Fu, the “poet-soldier,” a name to ‘conjure with in China has come jout of a Buddhist monastery to assist his old foe, Chiang Kai-Shek, in unifying China against Japan. | He was, until Marshal Chiang de- feated him at Wuchung in 1927, a very thorn in the flesh of the na- |tionalists. He fought them in the field and politically and if Feng Yu-Hsiang, the ‘“Christian gener- 21” had not gone over to the enemy he might have carried out his plan jto unify China by force. In those days he was a warrior | whom all China feared and respec- .:ed. When a few days ago he lenly appeared in Peiping as honurcd guest” of Chinag Hsiao- Liang, he jumped back into the . headlines of the vernacular and | foreign press. i Has Mission Known to be failing in health and with, perhaps, only a few months to live, Marshal Wu may become one of the chief rallying .mzmes for resistance to Japanese aggression. | Wu is a tall slender man with white hands which are as capable with the artist's brush or the pen ,as they are at sketching military plans. He won distinction in the field of fine arts while he was a youthful student and induiged him- self in these pursuits in later years as a relaxation from his stern duties as a soldier. | He was born at Peng-la, prov- (Continuea on Page Three) ON REPARATIONS ence at Lausanne Leaves Nerves at Tension By LOUIS P. LOCHNER BERLIN, Feb. 19.—Postponement of the reparations conference at Lausanne leaves Germany cold. Every citizen of the reich is so convinced that pay reparations hereafter that he sees the probable extension of the Hoover moratorium as the logical result of inexorable events. erything else is a permanent set- tlement. People's nerves are jarred ;at the thought ‘that, once again, only a provisional settlement may be decided upon. they say, weighs so heavily upon business and industry that eco- nomic recovery is impossible, The late Gustav Stresemann’s words in the Reichstag upon his| return from the Hague conference, where the Youny Plan was finally {initiated, are recalled. Stdese- {mann then left no doubt in his hearers’ minds that nobody in Germany could guarantee the ful- | fillment of the plan. Ask Workable Plan | What Germany now wants is ! something which its signers are |convinced can be fulfilled. Hitler | has said again and again that his party would not sign anything that |it could not guarantee bo fHRpl. 'Bruemng has pleaded for a settle- | ment of the reparations issue that “rests upon verity and clear recog- nition of facts.” The Social Demo- crats protest against “unbearable burdens.” If the Bruening cabinet could emerge from the Young Plan ma- neuvers with a settlement adapted to Germany's self-acknowledged ca- German ship of state would be se- cure. That self-acknowledged capacity to pay is, however, tothegreat ma- jority of the German people, “null |comma null null,” which, translat- ed into English, means “zero point zero zero (0.00).” The dimpossible is therefore not expected of the Bruening cabinet. Daily Bread Chief Concern Those who do any political think- ing know this. They also know that, in his heart of hearts, Bruen- ing cannot expect a permanent so- |lution. Another provisional solu- tion is the best to be hoped for. ‘The foreign observer who makes it his business to talk with men and women in every walk of life is | bound to find that the worriesover daily bread and the implications of the emergency decrees under-which Germany has been living since De- cember 8 have become far more i\ pressing than speculation overthe reparations issue, The more than rive million un- employed want work and bread— all else is obscured by this elemen- tary need. ¢ R Mining Company Plans Fund for Unemployed Men SA. PAUL, Minn,, Feb. 19.—The Directors of the Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company, one of the largest producers 'of surface coated abrasives, such as sandpaper and emery cloth, have put into ef- fect a permanent program of un- employment benefits to be support- ed by a reserve fund built up from earnings. The organization has 700 employes. From now on, workers will be protected against enforced idleness af no cost to themselves. The only provision in the plan calling for possible contributions from workers is that in extreme emergencies, if the company’s benefit fund should be exhausted, those still regularly employed can be called on 1o give a small portion of their earnings to help pay those laid off ‘Weekly benefits for' those out of work range from $7 to $1750 for from ten to seventeen weeks in one year, depending on leng service with the company a: mal earnings. No pay is gi the first two weeks’ lay off. Thosc eligible must have a service record of three years and earn noi more than $45 a week normally. | Postponement of Confer-| Germany cannot | ‘What Germany wants above ev- | The incertitude about the future, | pacity to pay, his captaincy of the| |GERMANS WANT FINAL DECISIONS | pelled to walk carrying a few poasessiona. Associated Press Photo Scenes like this have been common in wartorn China in recent months. In Manchuria and more cecently in Nanking, inhabitants have fled before the guns of Japanese invaders. This picture shows refugees boarding a freight train at Darien, Manchuria, for the north. Others less fortunate were com- YANKEE TROOPS IN SHANGHAI AREA Associated Press photo American troops in the area of Shanghai, scene of Sino- Japanese warfare, have been mobilized to protect Amencans and American in- terests in that city. In these exclusive Associated Press pictures United States sailors (above) are shown on guard at the race track in Shanghai, and (below) a riot squad from a navy destroyer is shown [ landing at Shanghai, BISHOP CANNON VOLSTEAD ACT CHALLENGED TO' MODIFICATION PRESS HIS CASE Tinkham U~r—g_—es Church~.Representahves of Three man to Go On With States Present Peti- His Libel Suit tions, Washington WASHINGTO! D. C. Feb, 19.— Representative George Holden Tin- kham, Republican of Massachu- setts, today challenged Bishop James Cannon, Jr, to press his libel action against him. Bishop Cannon sued Tinkham after the latter called the church-) man a “spurious self-designated moral leader, a shameless violator of the Federal Corrupt Practice Act.” 19. atures WASHINGTON, Petitions bearing from their distr] modifi- cation of the Volstead Act were to- day presented by Rey )"VAIL.LU\(‘ Horr, of Washington; White Ohio, and Boland, of Pennsylvania. WANT REPEAL CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 19.—Repeal of the Prohibition laws to permit state control is demanded by the Representative Tinkham urgedI‘EXeculive Council American the libel action be brought in|Hotel Association. court early to make Bishop Cannon e e e tell of his actions in the AnuJ Smith campaign in 1928 i - Wlmkey Evaporates; WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 19v—— Secretary of Treasury Mills today L)(‘ F of the Liquor Trial Kll]ed Lros ANGELES, Cal,, Feb. 19— Evaporation is hailed by James Taylor as nature’s greatest bless ing. Liquor posse: were dismissed when detectiv the court the teaspoonful of whis key seized a year ago as evidence ¢ ure to permit of the importatoin jof brandy and other spirits for ionbeverage purposes, on offi- certificates. ‘The supply | evaporated, is country is insuficient to mee: when Taylor was arrested had the demands. | | | IS REQUESTED |recommended enactment of a meas- | IPROFIT TAKING STRIKES STOCK MARKET TODAY Severdd Iiucs Rine Whis! Others 'Take Mod- erate Losses NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—Intermit- tent profit taking took most of the bulge out of the market today at times and the close was irregular. veral issues went up one to three | points and others sustained moder- ate losses. The turnover today was 2,300,000 shares. The market started feverishly then quickly lost about half of the rise, steadied, then weakened late. U. S. Steel went up one point. American Telephone and Telegraph lost nearly one point, CLOSING PRICES TODAY . NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 15, American Can 1%, Anaconda 10%, Bethlehein Steel 22%, Curtiss-Wright 1%, Fox | Film 4%, General Motors 23%, In | ternational Harvester 24%, Kenne- jcott 10%, Packard Motors 4, United | States Steel 50%, Bunker Hill, no | sale. 1 | DEVALERA HAS 14~ SEAT LEAD OVERCOSGRAVE rish Free Ete Election| Close — New Policy | Is Advocated I DUBLIN, Feb. 19.—Eamon De- | valera appears to be the next President of the Irish Free State. <He has a lead of 14 seats over | William T. Cosgrave, although the InL'.(-r has refused to concede a victory to his opponent. | DeValera advocated complete in- ependence from Great Britain| {while President Cosgrave has co- | | operated with the Empxre | “DANATORUN . FOR SENATORi PORTLAND, O:\eaqn. Feb. Marshal N. Dana, Associate editor | {of the Portland Jot today an- {nounced his dida for the Dcmm ratic nomination of United ates Senator succeed Senator | su.x.m 19—| rnal, o JEAM USES 45 CORVALLIS, Ore, Feb 19. Forty-five Oregon State college| | foo players saw action fimg-f ing A.o:n only a few minutes to| nearly seven hours in 1931 games. | GRID | Bdwin | ecutive PITCHED BATTLE IS EXPECTED TO BE FOUGHT NOW Chinese Hastily Bringing Up Reinforcements to Meet Japanese | AMERICANS, BRITISH ARE TO BE MOVED |Nationals to Evacute Dis- trict Where Fighting Expected to Rage SHANGHAI, Feb. 19.—The Chi« | nese military leaders will not with« draw 12'% miles from Shanghai, as | the ultimatum from the Japanese demanded, and a battle is immi« nent. The time for the withdraw= al, as stated in the ultimatum, ex- pires at 6 o'clock Saturday night, Oriental time. It was also revealed by the mer- chants, who conferred with the Chinese military leaders and piead= ed that they withdraw, that no such action will be taken end they now take the stand that the sooner the battle is over so much the bet= ter. Advised To Leave Hundreds of American residents who live in the most dangerous spots where a pitched battle be= tween the Chinese and Japanese will probably be fought, have been advised by United States Consul Cunningham to evacuate. No arrangements have been made 1o take Americans out of Shanghai proper but Cunningham fears for those living in the Hongkew and Yangtsee Poo districts which Jap= anese cruisers are likely to shell The British Consul has also ad- vised his nationals to leave the threatened districts. Chines~ Guns Boom Chinese guns continued today to beat a tatoo as a prelude to the: battle. Three Japanese bluejackets have been killed. The Chinese have made hasty and elaborate preparations for the expected attack apparently having no other intention except to fight the Japanese. Of Defiance The Japanese claim the bom- bardment today is only a gesture of defiance and the only effect the ultimatum had, seems to be speed on the part of the Chinese to make defense preparations. Various bridges are protected by machine guns. American infantry today took over the International Settlement defense on & one mile front. HEAVY REINFORCEMENTS TOKYO, Feb. 19.—The Japanese Government officials are confer= ring today to formulate plans for heavy reinforcements in Shanghal and other China districts. Newspapeprs here said Chinese General Chiang Kai Shek is lead- ing heavy reinforcements toward Shanghai to aid Chinese troops uhere. Members of the Japanese cabinet agreed to do the best they can to keep the situation from developing (Conv-nued on Pnge Two) HENRY PU YI IS EXECUTIVE OF NEW STATE | |Former Boy Emperor of China Elevated to High Position TOKYO, Japan, Feb. 19.—The ‘newspaper Ashai today says Henry Pu Vi, former boy Emperor of China, has been unanimously elec- ted as Chief Executive of the new state launched yesterday in Man- churia by proclamation of the ex- committee composed of Chinese and Japanese. The Chief Executive will be known as Genshu, which translated - means a Sovereign or Chief Execu- tive. Th‘ ty-six took part in major con- in tests and 23 played for 60 minutes Ankuo, more—the required time for a| | or letter. The name of the new state is “Land of Peace." S The Genshu will hold o(!h“ 3 life.