The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 26, 1932, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPI “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIX., NO. 5988. TIP IN LINDBERGH JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1932. HOOVER URGES QUICK ACTION BY CONGRESS Budget Must Be Balanced as This Is “Keystone of Prosperity” INCREASED TAXATION DEEMED NECESSARY Failure to Act Means Long- er Period of Present Depression WASHINGTON, March 23. —Describing the balancing of the Budget the “Keystone of Recovery,” President Hoover said today' that this must in the main be accomplished by increased taxation. The P resident expressed confidence that both parties will unite to see the Budget is balanced. He said failure to do this means a prolonga- tion of depression indefin- itely. After rejecting the amend- ment to legalize and tax beer, the House accepted a tax on oil imports. M. L. MERRITT FILES AGAIN FOR SCHOOL BOARD Veteran Me:n-l;zr So Far Is Not Opposed for Fourth Term M. L. Merritt is a candidate for re-election to the Juneau School Board. He filed announcement of his candidacy yesterday afternoon in the office of City Clerk H. R. Shepdid. Mr. Merritt's present term is close to its end, and the filling of the position will take place at the election April 5, when a Mayor and three Councilmen also will be chosen by the voters. Composed of Three Members The School Board is composed of three members. Mr. Merritt and the two holdover members, R. E. Robertson and Grover C. Winn. The tenure is for three years, and the term of one of the members expires every year. Mr. Merritt is completing his ninth year on the board. His candidacy is for the fourth term and so far he has no opposition. Filings Close Wednesday Registration of voters is increas- ing daily. 'The number of names on, the lists reached 708 today. An aggregate of between 1100 and 1200 is expected before the books close at 9 o'clock next Saturday night. INVESTIGATE QUEER STUNT Railroad Ag—e_nTs Are Puz- zled by Actions of Men Aboard Train LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 26— Agents of the Sante Fe Railroad are investigating an apparent at- tempt to kidnap one or more pas- sengers on an eastbound train shortly after it leff here last night. Two men forced the conductor, Dan Burke, into a compartment and held him prisoner until the train reached a suburb. The men made a thorough search of the train but no attempt was made to rob or molest the passengers. Apparently disappointed, the two men jumped from the train at a suburban station and quickly disap- peared. — v Racing Romance st after they had been at Flushing, L. I, thi photo shows Earle Sande, star of the American race track, and hig bride, the former Mrs. Adela Kum- mer, widow of Clarence Kummer, famous jockey. Kummer an Sande were great friends during Made su marrie Sande transferred his affections to the widow., A wedding was th GRAND OLD MAN OF AUTOMOBILE {Henry M. Leland Made Rifles in Civil War and Motors in World War ASSOCIATED PRESS HENRY M. LELAND DETROIT, Michigan, March 26.— Henry M. Leland, aged 89 years, died at his home here today. He was President of the Cadillac Com- pany until it was merged with the General Motors. Mr. Leland’s career was replete in achievements. It took him from machinist’s apprentice to the dis- tinction of “The Grand Old Man of the Automobile Industry;” from the manufacturing of tools for rifle making during the Civil War to the production of Liberty mot- ors during the World War. Of the several automotive ploneers who visicned the future of the industry, none stood out more prominently than Mr. Leland. Mov- ing westward to Detroit in 1890, he began the manufacture of small tools, later qualified as a gear ex- pert and found his metier—the au- tomobile industry—when he began making transmissions for the one- cylinder car designed in 1800 by Ransom E. Olds. Strange Analogy Before going to Detroit, Mr. Le- land had engaged in the manu- facture of engines for what he termed “so-called” naphtha launch- es, and it was upon the experience gained in that work that he based his prediction of the future of the internal combustion engines. It was a strange analogy that the youth who helped make rifles for Union soldiers during the Civil War should, as a septuagenarian in 1917, make the heart of the modern instrument of war, the airplane motor, for use ir. the World War. “Beautiful engines they were, too,” Mr. Leland once said of the Liberty motors. “They would have won the war if the Kaiser hadn't run away so soon. I used to spend 16 to 18 hours a day at the plant the former’s life and, on his death, | INDUSTRY DIES NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE AT DEADLOCK NOW {Parley at Shanghai Report- { ed Nearing Breakdown on One Issue \JAPANESE EMPHATIC ON QUITTING REGION {Will Not W—i?;ldraw for Next Six Weeks and then Only So Far | SHANGHAI, March 26.—Negotia- tions are near a breakdown in the Sino-Japanese peace moves. Adjournment of the parley was taken today until next Monday. The deadlock is on the issue re- garding the withdrawal of the Jap- anese troops. The Japanese insist they will not withdraw for six | weeks and then only to a secondary defense line. The Chinese agreed to remain in the conference only after persuad- ed to do so by the American and | British Ministers. | INQUIRY COMMISSION NOW BOUND TO NANKING SHANGHAI, March 26. — The League of Nation’s Inquiry Com- { mission has left for Nanking t> j continue investigation of the con- fliet in the Shanghai and Man- | ehuria area. i SENATE QUIZ WILL MOVE T0 NEW FRONTS :Stock Market, Farm Board and Coal Fields Are Slated for Probing WASHINGTON, March 26. — In- | quisitorial powers of the Senate, which in the past have exposed scandals and aroused nation-wide controvesy, are about to be invoked on new fronts. The most publicized of the pend- ing investigations relates to stock | market operations. Of equally as great political significance will be the Senate’s inquiry into Farm ! Board operations and transactions lon the grain, cotton and other | commodity exchanges. Conditions in the Kentucky bi- tuminous coal fields also are down for investigation through a resolu- tion not yet adopted but apparent- ly likely to be approved. The res- olution is so phrased that the in- | vestigating committee will be com- pelled to inquire not only into the life of the workers but also re- garding the economic distress of tha coal industry itself. A small but determined group jof senators is deploying against the radio broadcasting industry in an effort to drive from the air advertising practices which they consider to be not only boresome but likely to prove fatal to broad- casting if not corrected. Only the Johnson investigation of foreign bond flotations in the United States has been completed this session. Senators are com- plaining that they are overworked and do not have as much time as heretofore for other than legisla- tive labors. GILMANS WILL MAKE THEIR HOME HERE Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gilman and their daughter have arrived in Juneau from Seattle to make this their home, They came Friday on the motorship Northland. Mr. Gilman will have charge of the fruit and vegetable department of the Piggly Wiggly Store here. ., CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, March 26.—Clos- ing quotations of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14%, Ameri- can Can 62%, Anaconda 8, Beth- lehem Steel 17% Curtiss-Wright 1%, Fox Films 3%, General Mot- ors 16%. - Infternational Harvester [ Montana’s five-cent gasoline tax|when we werc making those en-|21, Kennecott 7%, Packard Morors yielded $3873,827 in 1931 as com-|gines, but it was no hardship. I|3 5-8, United States Steel 40%, pared with $3,801,887 in 1930. (Continued on Page Two) Bunker Hill, no sale. _ MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS _ PRICE TEN CENTS KIDNAPING STARTS NEW SEARC GET, SAYS PRESIDENT Sports form an impo alaya. The picture shows a in huge bamboo fences. In Ru - Easter Morning All Arou ter is observed in differing ways in the four quarters of the rtant part of the celebration in fish drive, the fish beirg trapped mania it’s a day of feasting. The nd the World fad is selling fresh-killed goats for the day. Mexicans go in for vast allegarical ceremonics. In conduet special services on the trod. And. in America the po Jerusalem the Greelk Catholics same ground that the Saviour pulace attends special church services and then goes out to display its new clothes, EARTH SHOCKS AT FAIRBANKS SWING LIGHTS Dogs, Terrif—iez, Run Into Cabin and Crawl Under Bed FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 26. —Two earthquake shocks, one ex- ceedingly sharp, shook Fairbanks yesterday afternoon, the more se- vere oceurring at. 2:02: o'elock. Buildings swayed, doors cracked and lights swung violently. The quakes of short duration were much more violent at Broad Pass and Healy on the Alaska Railroad. Telephone reports said {chimneys were knocked down at Broad Pass and the ground swayed so violently two dogs ran into a cabin and crawled under a bed. SLIDE AT GIRDWOOD SEWARD, Alaska, March 26— Four earth shocks were felt here last night. The shocks shook down earth at Girdwood delaying the Alaska Rail- road passenger train for two hours. Buildings are reported to have swayed at Anchorage, - BRINGING GOLD MACHINE NORTH The purse seiner Governor Hartley points in Alaska carrying a gold separating machine which is to be tested on beach sands. J. Frank Wright is commander of the Governor Hartley and he is accompanied by W. V. Wells, Leroy Moyer, former Fairbanks resident; Alvin March, Colvin Wilson, Ray Lowman and Milo Marshall. The machine is called a centri- fugalizer by the inventor, L. C. Erickson, A. J. FICKEN TO BE AT SHOP NEXT WEEK A. J. Picken, proprietor of the Sanitary Meat Market, who has been i1l at his home for several days, expects to be able to attend jwbuflnesnenwuk. ANACORTES, Wash., March 26.— | has sailed for Yakutat and other | WASHINGTON, March 28— RANGOON, Burma, March 26— Nara Singh Swami, Indian mystic who thought he could sWallow pois- on and other noxious substances with impunity, died yesterday, a Indian M ysiig Dies, Marty to His Faith; Drinks Poison r martyr to his own faith. Swami swallowed nearly a quart of the deadliest corrosive glass. He died three hours later. LENT IS OVER, BELLS, ORGANS REMAIN SILENT Elaborate Services Are Completed in Catho- lic Capital ROME, Italy, March 26—Lent | over officially at noon today, church |bells and organs were silent. Since {early Maundy Thursday morning, !bells and organs apprized the capi- tal of the Catholic World that the Jtime had arrived to rejoice in | Christ's Resurrection. In St. Peter’s Cathedral, Cardinal Pacelli blessed the Pope’s candles and lighted the Eastern fire by a flink spark. In every city in TItaly, priests went from home to home and gave blessings. Hundreds of young men in all |parts of the world, and students }Ihere. were ordained as priests. e Banking Situation Shows Improvement iThroughout Nation The great improvement in the banking situation in the nation | has received the official recog- nition of the Federal Reserve Board. The statément of the Beard credits the recent re- constructive acts of Congress and gives credit particularly to the Glass-Steagall Credit Ex- pansion Bill. Praise is also given to the Reconstruction Finance Corpor- ation. This agency has now made loans totaling $234,981,714. — .e— Evasion of the Oklahoma gasoline |tax is reported by motorists who purchase decrepit tractors to get the exemption, “IRISH ARMY" IS PERMITTED T0 CELEBRATE Republican Spirit is Gay on Bloody Easter Anniversary DUBLIN, March 26—Easter Eve, the anniversary of the bloody Easter week of 1016, found the Republican spirit more active than in years. The “Irish Republican Army” is allowed free reign in the cele- bration for the first time in years, but the regular army forces have been ordered out as a precaution- ary measure to prevent clashes. ‘Doc® Holmes Passes A way in California Prospected for Gold in Alaska and for Oil in Texas COVINA, Cal, March 26—W. H. “Doc” Holmes, who prospected for gold in Alaska and oil in Texas, died here today. “Doc” Holmes spent 15 years in Alaska beginning in 1903. At one time he was United States Deputy Marshal at Skagway. He pros- pected on Ester Creek in the Fair- banks district and joined the Kus- kokwim stampede. From Alaska, Holmes went to the Texas Panhandle where he is cred- ited with drilling the first ofl well in that district. He was a Re- publican candidate for Governor of Texas in 1928 but was defeated by Dan Moody. At one time Holmes as Governor of Alaska. The ashes of “Doc¢” Holmes will be scattered over the Alaska coun- try he loved so well, poisons | and then ate a handful of broken | MASS SLAYER'S BURIAL PLAGE 18 DESTROYED |Garage of “Blue Beard” Mysteriously Set i Afire, Burns | e CLARKSBURG, West Virginia, March 26—One week to an hour after “Blue Beard” Harry F. Pow- |ers, mass slayer, was hanged in the State Prison, a strangely con- |structed garage in a quiet del, where the bodies of his five victims were found, was set afire last night. | The police believe the blaze was of incendiary origin. DRUG COMPANY PRESIDENT IS FOUND GUILTY |Sentenced to Prison, Fined, for Selling Jamaica Ginger WICHITA, Kansas, March 26.— Abraham Michaels, of New York, President of the Interstate Drug Company, has been sentenced in the Federal Court to five years im- prisonment and fined $20,000 for {the sale and transportation of a substandard extract of Jamaica ginger in violation of the Prohibi- tion law. He was the first of the wholesalers of the extract to face itrial in Kansas where widespread more than two years ago, left scores paralyzed in feet and limbs. \ use of the product, as a beverage,| REPUTED GANG LEADER BEING HUNTED DOWN jSearch formductors of | Lindbergh’s Son Shifts | toWashington, D.C. \IMPORTANT CLUE IS GIVEN BY 4 YOUTHY {Harry Fleisc—he—r, Notorious Character, Reported Seen | with Woman and Baby | HOPEWELL, N. J., March ;‘26. — A sudden tip today swung the search for Baby | Lindbergh, kidnaped from his lerib in his nursery at the |home of Col. and Mrs. Charles {A. Lindbergh, on the night of \March 1, to Washington, D. C., where Harry Fleischer, re- puted leader of the Detroit Purple Gang and a known | kidnaper in previous cases is reperted to have been seen by four youths. ‘ The report made by the (youths is that Fleischer was !seen with a woman and a baby. ' The youths identified | Fleischér’s picture in the | Rogues’ Gallery. Meanwhile three prominent persons of Norfolk, Virginia, continued in their efforts to restore the baby to his par- ents. The three residents, who are working optimistically on negotiations with the abduct- ors of the baby are the Rey. H. Dobson-Peacock, Rear Ad- miral Guy Burrage, retired, and John Curtis, boat builder. ———————— EXTORTION IS CHARGE FILED IN1DAHO CASE {Janitor Alleged to Be in i Plot for Demand of $10,000 BOISE, Idaho, March 26.—A com« plaint charging Roger Cull, State House janitor, with an attempted extortion in connection with the attempt to force William V. Regan, wealthy resident, to pay $10,000 to protect his family, has been filed in a Justice Court here. . A blackmail note threatened harm would come to one of Regan’s seven children in event the $10,000 was not paid. CRAF ZEPPELIN OFF FOR HOME | FERNANDO NORONHA, Brazil, March 26.—The Graf Zeppelin flew over this island this morning om | the return trip to Germany. The giant airship took off from Pern- ambucco shortly after midnight. | CHICAGO, March 26. — Milady's (long skirts and other recent addi- 'tions to her wardrobe will cost | American hotel owners more than {a million dollars, A. G. Pulver, Man- |ager of the fashionable Hotel Sher~ | here. " Pulver spoke before a gathering lol hotel operators. “Time once was,” Pulver said, Mil(t(l)" ;Vears More—And It Costs Hotels Millions [“when a guest room clothes closet |from four to five feet deep proved | adequate for any p . . “The closet space now required |1s almost twice what it was in the | days of abbreviated dressss. To in- |was a candidate for appolnlmemjry in Chicago, said in an address|crease and remodel their clothes - closet facilities, hotels throughout the country will spend more $1,000,000 during the next three four years.” T