The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 24, 1932, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIX., NO. 5961. JUNEAU ALASKA WEDNESD AY, FLBRUAR& 24 1934. nlEMBER OF ASJOLIA"'ED PREbb PRICE TEV CENTS SUDDEN ATTACKS FAIL TO DISLODGE CHINA FORCES DORE IS HIGH MAN IN MAYOR RACE, SEATTLE Polls Twics as f Many Votes| as Incumbent Harlin, Next Highest VIC MEYERS HAS REAL JAZZY TIME Two Present Councilmen Nominated from 16 Others at Primary SEATTLE, Feb. 24. — John F. Dore, prominent criminal attorney, | polled twice as many votes as the next candidate in a record break- | ing primary yesterday for Mayor. Robert H. Harlin, incumbent, and pationally known coal miners’ un- r, was also nominated and o will contest the electjon | to be held March 8. The vote cast for the six leading candidates for Mayor are as fol- lows: Jehn F. Dore Robert H. Harlin Frank Edwards Otto Case Arthur J. Ritchie 8,479 Vic Meyers 4,798 The other candidates came trail- ing along with small votes. Councilmanic Race Of the eighteen candidates, three to- be. elected, the..following. six. received the high vote for Council: David Levine, incum- bent v Phillip Tindall, incum- bent Frenk F. Fitts E. L. Blaine Oliver T. Erickson ...31,993 Dan Langdon 25,652 Blaine and Erickson are attempt- ing a “come back.” Frank F. Fitts is a former news- Ppaperman, having been for years on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Dan Langdon is a well known/ politician, Arthur J. Ritchie, seeking the nomination for Mayor, was a for- mer Managing' Editor of the Seat- tle Star. Vic Meyers, orchestra leader, whose humorous antics during the Mayoralty campaign drew national attention, had Laura La Plante, film and stage actress, for his camplign manager during the last two weeks of the campaign. She is appearing with a stock company on the speaking stage, a visiting star from Hollywood. Edwards “Come Back” Edwards is a recalled Mayor also attempting to stage a “come back.” Dore has been defense attorney in many of the most sensational murder cases in the Pacific North- (Continued on Page Eight) MacDonald No Prodigal To Labor Party Chiefs LONDON, Feb. 24.—Even if Ram- say MacDonald wants to return to labor party leadership, there is no fatted calf awaiting him, accord- ing o recent utterances of party chiefs. Arthur Greenwood, minister of health in the 1930-31 labor cabinet, said that the departure of Mac- Donald, Snowden and Thomas had not broken the party, but their re- turn would. J. R. Clynes and Dr. Addison have added their nays. The prime minister has not in-) dxcmwd his views publicly. 45,653 22,626 17,339 12,508 42,239 35,954 34,728 34,728 Ch;nese Air Adventurer * * * Commander of Kentucky * General Chang Hui-Chang Is Oriental Nomme de Guerre of Bert Hall, American Air-Soldier GE.N’ CHANGS Comno of Fortune. CHINESE ® Uver in war-torn China, in the thick of the fighting, is General Chang | hang, commander-in-chief of had a colorful career e one of the original organize Lafayette Escadrille during the W, the flag of almost every nation on earth. ged 20 enemy planes and principle allied po Hall went proposed trans-Pacif then he has been teaching the Chi good job o e In order to keep hi: the Chinese air forces, but neither home is in Hig- flying soldier of orld Wa In the European conflict was decorated seven times by the to China in 1929, after plans for a flight from New York had fallen through. Since to fly and has made a pretty job and also his head connected with his body, Hall has often had to be a slick diplomat; for the Chinese rebel, deserted the Nanking Government took ocer command of th gainst whom he fought o of the next. Only last Summer he created const y were the government n when he with pilots and en of hi r force of the Canton opposition.- TRAFFIC TIED UP ON ALASKA RAILROAD NOW No Trains N—I;/—ing for One Week—Tracks Are Still Blocked SEWARD, Alaska ,JFeb. 24. Blocked one week, traffic on the ‘Alaska Railroad will be tied up several days more. General Manager Oito F. Ohl- son, who revurned from Washing- ton, D. C, last week, is directing | the battle against the elements. A train which left Seward a week ago yesterday, is still stalled at Broad Pass. Twelve passengers aboard have food supplies and the coaches are warm. Some drifts are over 20 feet deep. The temperature is 50 de-| j Brees below zero. Uruguay Derides Charges that Country Shields Nest of Reds By ARMANDO MATTE MONTEVIDEO, Feb 24—Neither the Uruguayan government nor Tuyamtorg, the Russian trading or- ganization which makes its South American headquarters here, is worried by the allegations from cther countries that Uruguay is the fountainhead of a stream of com- munist propaganda that is tinge- ing South America red. Chilean charges that communists in Uruguay inspired and helped to finance the December revolt in Copiapo; Peruvian suspicions that communists here knew all about the inner workings of the Aprista there; Argentine irritation that the Tuyamtorg, expelled from Bue- nos Aires six months ago, should find hospice over the river in Mon- tevideo—all these are regarded in Uruguay as nonsense. Welcomes Exiles Uruguay has long been a con- genial place for those who bhave, for one reason or another, left their native countries. Exiles from Argentina, Brazil and other Latin American repub- lics enter without annoyance. Mon- tevideo has become the home of many South American as well as European communists. | N. Y. SHERIFF IS REMOVED BY GOVERNOR Roosevelt Not Sahsfled with Explanation of Farley’s Income J | 4 | ALBANY, New York, Feb. 24— Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt has re- | mcved Sheriff Thomas Farle |New York District, and leader of ;’I‘amman’y's Keystone Unit. Gov. Roosevelt said he was not ‘sa..bhed with Farley's explanation {of his income and this was mainly the reason for his removal. f Farley's income was revealed by | investigators to be $390,000 over a period of a few years Farley said the money had previously been kept in a tin box and he had de- ;pwn,ed it tram time time GUNFIDENGE IN TARDIEU PARIS, Feb. 24—Andre Tardieu {and his Cabinet secured a 309 to ;262 vote of confidence today in the Chamber of Deputies. 2 SRR L FORMER PITT CAGE STAR CARRIES ON FOR TULSA | KANSAS CITY, Feb. 24—Charley (The Chipper) Hyatt, Uniontown, |Pa., boy who made good in’ a Uni- jversity of Pittsburgh Dbasketball uniform, still roams the courts in |a way that spreads consternation (among rival teams of the Tulsa |Oilers. Hyatt, with five field goals, led i(he Oilers to a victory over the hitherto undefeated Kansas City athletic club in the Missouri Valley mhmmmmm&e[ (Continued on Page Seven) lA-A._U.cN, of the famous | but he has fought under | — Kate Ryan, Familiar Figure “STOCK ~PRICES PLAN PR(]TEST Chinese Amazons FOR AGTIVITY, Q S e U.S. AVlATflfl A7 Japan to Reglster Com- plaint Regarding Robert Shorts, Killed in Air SHANGHAT, Feb. 24 — It is learned here that Japan is prepar- ing a protest to the United States over the action of Robert Short, Olympia and Tacoma, Washington, airman reported killed in an air fight with the Japanese at So0o- chow. He fought three *Japanese planes once before he was shot down. One of the Japanese pilots died later. Official news of Shont's death is E d, but the Chinese Government admits he has been killed in an air duel. Short was salesman for an air- plane company and started to de- liver a Boeing fighter to the Chi- nese Government when he was shot down. unreponte Following the example of the famous ‘‘Battalion of Death,” in which Russian women fouihl during the World War, these Chinese women have attached themselves to the army that is defending Shanghai and Weosung against the Japanese invaders. body of women similar to those shown were recently seported as havmz made a bnve stand ngnmst a Volunteers Service Srot volnteered his services with the Chinese for one week. He brought down one Japanese plane over Woosung, his own plane being bullet riddled. The next day, flying a Boeing pursuit plane, he spotted th:ce Jap- anese bombers and escortéd by three other Chinese pursuit planes attacked the bomber;s‘ killing the HUGE SNOWFALL bres i =l el SMOTOR TRAFFIC fatally wounded one of the pilots! of the Japanese planes before hc |crashed in flames. The Chinese authorities have Cl!y Digs Oul from Heavy recommended the title of Colonel| Spow Cover Under Skies | and Short will be buried with mili- By tary honors. He was second Lieu- Balmy as pnng tenant in the United States Army Air Reserves. Japanese landing lulum Found in Salt; Was for Alaska Fishermen SEATTLE, Feb. 24. concealed as salt, destined preparation of salted fish, has becn seized here. and J. T. Mansen, aged 48 years, was ar- rested. He confessed he had 50 gallons of liquor on hand to ship in salt to Alaskan fisher- men. ~Liguor for .. FOUR KILLED; AUTO STRUCK BY N. P, TRAIN Vehicle Is Carried with Victims Along Tracks for Two Blocks Under a sun thdt was almost springlike in its mild warmth, Ju- neau today was digging out from under the heaviest 24-hours fall of | sncw of the n, and one of the heaviest in several years. Seven inches of snow had fallen in uw' |24 hours preceding midnight Tues- day. Sonie of it was turned into water by a heavy rain that fell in the | early mornnig hou “BIG SISTER OF YUKON" PASSES AWAY IN SOUTH s, but there was still plenty left on the streets and ks to impede traffic in all tions and block motor vehicle | |traffic in many sections. Melting snow that filled deep| KENNEWICK, Washington, ruts in the snow, particularly inigq_Gus Carlin, aged 54 A the business district, added to Lrar<’c},c]m aged 56; Mr. and Mrs |fic troubles and made automobile | Copeland, aged 36 and |operation a rat risky business. kalled this morning in The indications were that the tem-|mobile driven by Ca perature would drop later this af-|squck by a Northern P: ternoon or evening to below freez- Vengvr train, ing. The auto was carried for a dlv Traffic over Glacier Highway be-|tance of two blocks a e tween town and Auk Lake moved |track and the locomotive without difficulty as the Bureau Cf“badly damaged that it had to be Public Roads cleared away thelreplaced, {new snow over the route shonly\ before midnight. Vehicular traffic on the Thane Road is again block- ed. A slide, estimated to containporteq killed in the bave Associat- 5,000 yards of snow,filled the road'ed Press dispatch, are beli near the Union Oil Company sta-\be Ketchikan residents, who were |on a visit to the States tion in the same place a similar| slide occurfed several weeks ago. v in Gold Rush Days, Is Dead VANCCUVER, B. C., Feb. 24— Kate Ryan, aged 56 years, known |as the “Big Sister. of the Yukon” in the gold rush days, died he la'iL Saturday following a long ill- Feb, | N R auto- | when c Pass- She was called the “Big Sister” Xbecau:e she never hesitated to go a long distance to aid any miner In 1898 she was in the Atlin | District collecting Government roy- |alties and was then known Minnie Lamereaux. She also trav- |eled the Stikine trail. i | MAY BE ALASKANS Ray Copeland and his wife, re- eved to Pntil the weather stiffens up, the material cannot be removed. Other sections of the Territory report widely varying weather con- ditions, The southern end of the Panhandle was visited by heavy rain storms. Ketchikan is reported | to have had nine inches of rain in the -past two days. In the interior, subzero weather prevailed over a wide area. Fair-| banks reported 48 degrees below,| Fért. Yukon 50 and Eagle 52 de-| COVERNMENT GAIN QUIETLY, HOLD ADVANCE Technical Keaction from Yesterday's Slump Takes Place NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—The Stock Market halted, then retired, took on a quiet advance today cancelled most of yesterday's | es with gains of one to four poinis. The turnover today was 1,200,000 shares. The advance today is regarded as a technical reaction. American Telephone and Tele- graph and also Auburn netted up to two and three point gains. Unit- ed States Steel retanied most of a| two-point gain and other le did the same. Warmng to sz]or Orgamz.anons | { ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, Feb. 124—A third party will sweep the “Prr:sidemlal election should the Re- | | publicans and Democrats nominate | {wet candidates and insert wet| ASE planks in their platform is pre- |dicted by Dr. E. H. Cherrington, | Gerferal Seeretary of the R |League Against Alcoholism. SACRAMENTO, Cal, Feb. 24—| Dr. Cherrington spoke today be- | Through a decision of the United fore the Southern Convention of | States Land Office, the United|ine Anti-Saloon League. Besides his States has lost title to the claim predigtion regarding a third party | of $25,000000 in oil lands in thelyictory, he said he consid Elk Hills section. only a possibility that both ma The decision held the land Wwas parties will be wet. not known to be mineralized when —a {sold by the state therefore the TWO LEAVE HOSPITAL 1United States had no claim. | The Governmeni started action, ia 1929 against the Standard Oil CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Feb. 24—Closi quotation of Alaska Juneau stock today is 15, American Can 67%, Anaconda Copper 10, Bethle- hem Steel 21%, Curtiss-Wright, no sale; Fox Films 3%, General Mot- ors 21%, International Harvester 237%, Kennecott 9%, Packard Mol- ors 4, United States Steel 47'%, Bunker Hill, no sale. L George Griggs and 8ol Coppin both including Doheney and Associated |treztment, left the institution today Oil concerns, [ior their homes in this city, 1 ‘Madame jofima Gadski, was 50 | hanna Gadski, Dr. Cherrlngton lssues H | concert work. Wit Bootl(’ o |James Reed, of whom entered St. Ann's|told the Company of California and others, Hospital last week for medical | Terrell, Japanese attack. Armed with old-fashioned rifles and long bayonets, a fighting unit of the modern Amazons held an outpost on a road leading to Woo- sung and successfully repulsed several attacks by a arty. Many of the brave women were reported killed in the engagement when they stood up ngaum the fire of Jap machine guns. OPERA SINGER - HURT IN AUTO AGCIDENT,DIES Who Achieved Fame in U. S., Passes Away ocrAT8D PREET JCHANNA GADPSKI BERLIN, Feb. 24—Madame Jo- noted opera singer, as the result of in-| in an automobile | |is dead here juries received | accident, Conflict with the world of music| because of love for her native land, | Germany, during the World War, definitely altered the career of Jo- hanna Gadski, one of the foremost | ‘Wagnerian sopranos of her time. She had the unique distinction |of being a singer born abroad who | |achieved her fame and success in Amencd Coming to the United| States in 1895 a comparatively un- | known young singer, she ro tead- le in prestige and popularity. In| midst of her war activities her connection with the Metropoli- House, New York, was| and thereafter herap- terminated | pearances were confined largely ¢ On New Yea eve, 1915, Madame Gadski gave a dinner at her home at which, it was reported, Goritz, a German baritone, sang a parody making a jest of the sink- (Continuea wn Page Six) to! Otto | J SECOND DRIVE IS LAUNCHED BY JAPANESE New Forces Are Landed | from Warships, Sent Against Chinese DEFENDERS HOLDING LINES SUCCESSFULLY Commander Uyeda MayBe Removed—Tokyo Gov- ernment Is Worried | SHANGHAI, Feb. 24.—The Jap- anese made another drive against Kiangwan today but failed to budge the defending Chinese forces. The attack was then suddenly shifted to the Chapei sector by |landing forces sent ashore from Japanese warships in the river, | They opened an attack and severe | fighting followed throughout the afternoon Air Bombardment An air bombardment preceded the thrust against Kiangwan, Two Chinese airplanes dropped | bombs on the Japanese headquart- ers, missing them by only 100 feet. The Japanese used eight bomb- ing planes dropping 250 pounds of explosives on the Chinese lines. Japanese Thrown Back The Chinese held their own and | have even thrust the Japanese back jin some sections along the battle line; Reports have been received here | from Tokyo that the Japanese Gov- ernment is alarmed at the failure to dislodge the Chinese. It was be- lieved this would take but a few (Contiues on ?uu TWO) U. S, STANDS BEHIND OPEN DOOR POLICY ‘Dnspu!es Claxm of Japan i Nine Power Treaty Should Be Revised WASH[NGTO‘\T D C, Feb. 24— |The United States stands behind {the Open Door policy in China and disputes the Japan claims the Nine Power traety should be revised because China is not able to main- tain order. This is maintained in a letter to |United States Senator William E. | Borah written by Secretary of | State Stimson, | The Secretary of State said ob- |servance of treates would have {avoided the present situation. The |Nine Power Treaty was enacted |to permit China to develop free ‘m/.xluuom and the Powers realized | it would take a long time for this |to be accomplished. } The communication was sent !Borah and is taken to represent |the stand of the United States ,when a showdown comes in the Sino-Japanese situation and also puts Japan on notice that the |United States considers Japan is in Chma in violation of the treaty and will not recognize any settle- |ment growing out of Japan's de- mands. GREW IS CONFIRMED WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 24— | The Senate today waved the rules land sent confirmation of Joseph |C. McGrew direct to President Hoover. Ambassador Forbes re- cently resigned and is ready to leave Tokyo as soon as Grew ar- rives and takes up his duties. | gger Stns He Kllled Los An geles Woman to Keep Her from NGELES, Cal, Feb. 24— display of emotion, he beat aged 40 years, with an iron bar when she enraged police Mrs. Anne ! him, aged 45, a bootlegger, | to death | Illicit Business The woman's body was found in a shallow grave in the backyard of her home yesterday. Reed said the woman wanted to | go back to bootlegging and he did not want her to do so, an argu- ment resulted and then he beat her to death, l