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SHRSPNOEER Py DARIGOLD MILK DARIGOLD MILK DARIGOLD MILK DARIGOLD MILK IVAR KREUGER KILLS HIMSELF, One of Richest Men in | World, Match King, Commits Suicide \SWEDISH GOVERNMENT TAKES QUICK ACTION IBill Introduced o Parkia- ment for Moratorium on Foreign Debts STOCKHOLM, March 14.—Ivat Kreuger, aged 52 years, head of Swedish match trust, committed suicide in Paris last Saturday. | Company officials said they wilil investigate the affairs of the con- cern. Kreuger was reputed to be one (of the richest men in the wo |His organization has 90 ma {plants in various parts of world. | Following the announcement of {the death of Kreuger, a bill was OLD MILK DARIGOLD ¥ Darigold Milk 14 Tall Cans $1.00 PER CASE $2.99 NO DEALERS { the introduced in Parliament for moratorium on Swedish debt abroad. Banking circles, here and abroad believe that Kreuger, with his al most world-wide enterprises, was caught in the snarl of world fin- ance which developed last year in the collapse of Central Europe Under the debt moratorium t the Government will be authori: to suspend payment of Swede foreign debts. The object of bill is to protect the vast Kreu industrial and financial intere in the event of a panie. PARLIAMENT ACTS LIMIT—ONE CASE ARIGOLD MILK DARIGOLD MILK DARIGOLD MILK DARICG Chambers of the Swedish Parlia- ment today adopted a bill author: K.lzing the Government to grant com |Panies or persons a short mora- |torium on payment of debts. This action followed the death of Ivar Kreuger, who killed hims |last Saturday in Paris just bef |he was to have held a financia | conference. ATOOIYVA YT dTO9TYVAd YTIN dToOTIVd YTIN dIO2¥vVd YIIN a10919vd D DARIGOLD MILK DARIGOLD MILK DARIGOLD MILK DARIGOLD MIL BLUE PETER'S (CONFERENGE OF ARRIVAL OPENS | ARC. STARTED |, oommer wn oens S i, e wd et ‘ NEW YORK, March 14, ~%\Wall Street circles said the suicide of Arthur Rust of Chi- chagof Mine Here documented for a crew of three, She was built at Seattle in 1928. She is painted white and presents an attractive appearance. Her in- terior appointments are luxurious. UNITED FOOD CHIEF BACK AT WORK AGAIN Samuel A. Light, manager of the | United Food Company, is recovere-d from injuries he suffered a week | ago yesterday in an elevator acci- | dent in the store, and resumed his business’ activities today. For the past week, he has spent most of his time at home. John Light, 6-year-old son of Mr. and, Mrs. Light, is making good progress toward complete recovery from the injuries he suffered in the | elevator accident. He is being cared for at home. e District Superintendents| Arrive to Go Over Pro- gram for Year Ivar Kreuger is not expectéd to affect New York banking or the Stock Exchange to any great ex- tent. ESTEBETH GOES ON HER LAST The annua: conserence o: Alaska | Road Commussion officials with | district superintendents opened here | this morning 1n Commission Head- | quarters, with every district except the Kuskokwim represented. The | meeting will last ten days. Heralding the advent of another yadhting season, the Blue Peter, palatial craft, is the first large pleasure vessel to make her appear- ance this year in Southeast Alaska waters. The Blue Peter arrived in Juneau FRENGHGAPITAL i.| Such action would open the way STOCKHOLM, March 14.— Both | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1932. EXPECT TRUCE T0 BE SIGNED, CHINA, JAPAN Combatants Are Believed Ready to Agree to End Hostilities 'FOUR NATIONS WILL | THEN BE ABLE TO ACT Policing of Neutral. Zone Greatest Stumbling Block | WASHINGTON, March 14. | While the Chinese and Japanese leaders have not reached definite | truce agreements in the Shanghai | area, the opinion prevails in offi- jcial circles here the combatants | will soon sign an agreement to end hostilities. ‘!or the United States, France, Italy and Great Britlan to join then in |a conference to settle the Shanghai ————————————— e ——————————————————————————— CIGARETTES: CIGARETTES CIGARETTES CIGARETTES CIGARETTES Cigarettes CIGARETTES ARE NOW 2 Packages for 25¢ | dispute. Informal discussion are known| :|to be making progress toward peace. | One of the stumbling blocks has | | been the best means of policing the | |neutral zone around the Interna- | |tional Settlement, whether foreign | | soldiers or policemen should be used |as guards. This is a stubborn prob- | lem. | MUNITIONS LAND SOLDIERS, SHANGHAI, March 14—Reports | : from the front last Saturday night | |indicated everything was quiet but ! |the Japanese were moving in large |reinforcement units with great |quantities of war material. | ‘The defense line from Nanziang | northward to the Yangtze was| | strengthened by detachments from | 3000 reinforcements landed at| ‘Woosung. CIGARETTES CIGARETTES CIGARETTES CIGARETTES CIGARETTES CIAGRE ARE ORDERED HOME TOKYO, March 14. — The War |Office announced today that the Eleventh Division of Japanese troops, one brigade of the Twelfth Division and parts of auxiliary units have been ordered home from Shanghai as the result of a steady improvement in the situation there. i coMM AT SHANGHAI | SHANGHAI, March 14, — The| members of the League of Na- tions’s Commission, sent to inquiry into the Sino-Japanese troubles, had | their first view of the battered | Fort Woosung teday and inspectecl1 the city through binoculars from | the decks of the steamer President Adams. The members of the com- mission were met by Chinese digni- taries when the liner docked. CHIANG ACCEPTS POSITION NANKING, March 14. — Gen. PER CARTON $1.24 LIMIT—ONE CARTON NO DEALERS SALLIYOVI) SALLAYVOL) SALLAMVOID SALLAYVOI) SHLLAYVIID STLLANVOID GARETTES CIGARETTES CIGARETTES CIGARETTES CIGARETTES FOSHAY TRIAL * NEARING CLOSE MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 14. ~—The cross examination of W. B. | Foshay, charged with H. H. Henley | with using the mails to defraud, in - C Chiang Kai-Shek, former President, today announced he accepts the Chairmanship of the Chinese Mili- tary Council with full responsibil- ity as to military affairs. He said he desires peace but is prepared to fight to the bitter end. e e Go~ernment Operation of Muscle Shoals Is Reported Unanimously ‘WASHINGTON, March 14.—The Senate Agriculture Committee has recommended enactment of the Norris bill for Government opera- tion of Muscle Shoals. Despite President Hoover's veto of the bill at the last session, the ATTENTION LEGION OF THE MOOSE will hold a regular meeting Tues- day night, March 15th, at 7:30 » committee reported unanimously' o'clock in‘the Moose Hall, initia-|he Promotion and selling of se-|on tne . 5 tion. Starting at 8:30 o'clock sharp | CUrities in the Foshay enterprises, | el S SRS a musicale will be presented, fol- | Was completed last Saturday after- lowed by dancing and luncheon. DOOD. Remember THE DATE, THE TIME, | It is believed the case will go to THE PLACE. Invitational. adv.|the jury during this week. ST. PATRICK'S DAY DANCE Big time promised by the Elks |March 17. Favors, refreshments, music by Serenaders. -—adv. last night and moored at the Cits ‘Wharf. Aboard of her are her owner, John Graham, wealthy Se- A new member was addéd to the staff of the United Food Company's store today. Robert Brown started attle resident, Arthur Rust of Ta- coma, one of the owners of the Chichagof gold mine on Chichagol | Island, and Mrs. Rust. work this morning. HARDING SENTENCES After a bnief stay here, tha yachting party will cruise the | KLlNGBE“.- TO TERM neighboring waters. The craft's AT M'NEIL ISLAND: itinerary is not definite but it will | include visits at Chichagof and Sitka. Chester Klingbeil, recently con- The Blue Peter is 859 feet long, victed at Ketchikan on a statutory 18.3 feet wide and 10 feet deep. She charge, was sentenced last Saturday is of 118 gross tons and 99 net ?y Federal Judge Justin W. Hard- tons. Delsel equipped, she can de- ing to serve one year and nine velop 350 horsepower, and is months at the McNeil Island Fed- eral Penitentiary, according to ad- frrrrrorrrmrrorsssessss, vices received by United States Marshal Albert White. He will be taken south on the stcamer Northwestern by Deputy United States Marshal W. H. Cas- well, who left here Saturday n that vessel. He took from hers Lowell LaVanway,15-year-old youth recently committed to. the indus- trial training school at St. Anthony Tdaho. Deputy Caswell will also take an insane patient south from Ketchi- kan for Morningside Sanitarium. WINN SAILS SUNDAY ON RETURN VOYAGE After a brief visit here look- ing after official business that in- cluded attending a meeting of the Alaska Inter-Departmental Com- mission, Dennis Winn, Commissioner for the Departmen? "of Commerce and Alaska Agent of the Bureau of Fisheries, left Sunday on the Brani for Seattle. He will make a short stop at Ketchikan. Mr. Winn will remain in Se- attle for the next two months. He is expected to sail as usual about May 1, for Bristol Bay where he will have K charge of field activi- gations and administratvie activi- ties during the red salmon packing season. - NOTICE After several days spent in the hospital have now returned to my office where I shall be glad. to re- ceive my patients. adv. DR. GEO. L. BARTON. e ATTENTION MASONS There will be a Stated Communi- jcation of Mt. Juneau Lodge No. 147, |F. & A. M. at the Masonic Temple Monday evening, March 14. Work “Tomorrow’s Styles Today” Featuring “THE BEST IN HOSIERY” Both Service Weight and Chiffon Priced from 95¢ to $2.35 } ! sesscsesssseseet-abEE e eeE e e e et “Juneau’s Own Store” jin the E. A. Degree. By order of [the W. M. J. W. LEIVERS, Secretary. i l*fld\'. ‘The principal objectives of the | conference will be to cut the pat- tern of the Commission’s roauand WINTER TRIP trail construction and maintenance rogram for the next year to fit the reduced appropriations carried for | that work in the annual War De- partment supply bill. The House appropriations committee approved the budget estimate of $600,000 for the coming fiscal year. Participating in the conference will be Maj. Malcolm Elliott, Pres- ident, Maj. L. E. Atkins, Engineer Officer, Tke Taylor, Assistant En- gineer, Superintendents M. C. Ed- modns, Anchorage; T. H. Huddles- | ton, Valdez, R. J. Shepard, Chitina Frank Nash, Fairbanks, Superintendent Bauer, Nome, Sup- erintendent of Coats and Chief Skinner. Maj. Atkins and Mr. Nash arrived here Saturday on the steamer Ad- miral Evans from Seattle. The for- mer had been absent several weeks on official business in San Fran- cisco and also visited in Los An- geles. The latter had been on a vacation in Seattle for some time. Superintendents Huddleston, Ed- munds, and Shepard, Mr. Bauer and Mr. Skinner arrived on the Northwestern from Seward. Mr. Skinner has been making an in- spection of fiscal offices as far north as Fairbanks. RASMUSON IS SURE WILL BE ELECTED Confidence that he will be elected Republican National Committeema 1 for Alaska at the April primary was expressed by E. A. Rasmuson, head of the Bank of Alaska chain, who visited her last Saturday ev- ening. He is enroute to Seattle cn a business trip and will return north on an early steamer. Mr. Rasmuson conferred with local members of the Territorial Banking Board while he was..in town. He also met a number of local Republicans and discussed political matters with them. DEVLIN IS ON HIS WAY TO INTERIOR; MAY RETURN HERE C. A. Devlin, of the Devlin Boot- ery of Ketchikan, is a passenger aboard the Admiral Bvans enroute to Fairbanks with a stock of the latest in footwear, especially for women. On his return trip he will make trade calls at Anchorage and Cordova and will probably reopen his shoe store in Juneau. Assistant | 55 places of call. | Beginning this weck, the Hste- beth will go on summer schedule. In the future she will sail from ihere at 6 o'clock Thursday evening instead of 6 o'clock Saturday even- |ing as in the past. Clerk G. Equipment John | Motorship Will Start Her Summer Schedule Next Thursday On the last voyage of the winter schedule, the motorship Estebeth, Capt. Edward Back and Purser Reobert Coughlin, departed from Juneau Saturday evening on her | weekly voyage to Sitka and way |ports. She took one passenger, | Samuel Beseloff for Chichagof, and (a large amount of freight for vari- Easter Candies Candied Eggs | 'Departing from this port next Baskets }Thursday evening, the vessel will N Ireturn Monday or early Tuesday. ests 7 Chicks CARD OF THANKS | We desire to extend our thanks |and appreciation for the many kind |acts extended us through the sick- iness and loss of our beloved father |and brother and for the many beau~ tiful floral offerings at the burial ceremony. ELIZABETH JUNE PANTER, MR. and MRS. E. O. FIELDS. Juneau Drug Co. “There Is No Substitute for QUALITY” LAST CALL FREE Tickets to Seattle WILL BE AWARDED AT | —adv. t ——————d WHILE IT LASTS GOLDEN CORN, No. 2 size cans .. 10¢ 35¢ LAUNDRY SOAP, large bars, 10 for | ——AT—— GARNICK’S--Phone 174 ! CARA NOME CREAMS, FACE POWDERS, ROUGES, BATH SALTS Butler, Mauro Drug Co. THE REXALL STORE PHONE 134 = FREE DELIVERY EXPRESS-MONEY ORDERS COLISEUM THEATRE TOMORROW NIGHT—9:30 P. M. 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