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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1932. LOCAL VOTE IN PRIMARY TESTS WILL BE HEAVY Total of 576 Registered at| 3 P. M. — Largest Re- corded in Recent Years Under a blamy, spring sky, Ju- neau’s Demoeratic and Republican cohorts turned today to the polling booths in the biennial primary elec- tions in record numbers, the vote at 3 pm. being slightly larger than that of two years ago when the city’s total vote in both parties for the day reached 1012. At 3 pm. today 576 voters had marked and deposited their ballots. Two years ago at the same hour, the total was 569, the heaviest in a decade or more. Gain in Third The entire gain was registered in the Third Precinct where 103 votzs had been cast at 3 o'clock, as compared to 69 in 1930, with the Democrats leading sub- stantially. Precinct’ No. 2, with 158 at that hour, was just two votes short of the 1930 midafter- noon count. Precinct No. 1, the largst in the city, was 25 under the 1830 mark.l 315 ‘this year and 340 two years| ago. All day the vote there has| been running neck and neck be- iween the two parties. Seldom has | more than 10 separated them and at 3 o'clock the margin was even | narrower. | In the Second Precinct, the Democrats had a fair margin which apparently was growing. Party workers for both Demo- crats and Republicans were actively engaged in bringing outthe voters. Automobiles with streamers for various candidates brought inter- mittent streams of the rank and file of the party to the polls. Dimond Is Leading Watchers at every pelling- place expressed the belief that Senator A. J. Dimond was leading his two rivals for Democratic nomination for Delegate by a wide margin: The Roosevelt for President can- idates for Delegates to that par- national convention and J. J. Connors, for National Committee- man, were said to be receiving a heavy vote. Little information was available on contested races in the Republi- ¢an primary. Supporters of inter- ested candidates made conflicting claims on who was leading. The final count in both primaries will be necessary to determine who the winners are. Returns to Be Slow Owing tothe multiplicity ef can- didates for the unusually long list of offices at stake, returns tonight are certain to be slow in coming in, locally as well as from outside points. In the City Hall precinct, it will require almost all night to complete the count and the Second Precinct returns probably will not be available until well after mid- night. The Thitd Precinct should be re- ported early. Returns from smaller precinets along Glacier Highway should be reported by" 8:30 p. m. or shortly thereafter. e CREW OF 12 TO BE GIVEN WORK ON BEZ GROUND Camp Outfit and Equip- ment Now Being Assembled Here A crew of 12 men will be put to work on an exploratory and de- velopment program on the Alaska Chichagof Gold Mining Company's ground at Chichagof, better known as the Bez property, it was made known here today. A camp out- fit and eguipment is now being assembled and as soon as this is available, the crew will be em- ployed. 'The purpose of the new program ic to determine the extent of the ore vein tapped last Fall ai the bottom of the shaft sunk during s e, is considered sufficiently sig- Yant to justify a thorough ex- ~oration. — ., DOUGLAS BOY IN HOSPITAL .\wdmmenmmmm«mine John Dorgan, a boy of Douglas, entered St. Ann's Hospital in this city yesterday to undergo an op- SMITH AND |Smith’s challenge of Gov. Frank-, THREE HUNDRED : One Result of Lindy Case Although he was cleared of any complicity in the Lindbergh baby kid: naping, Henry *“Red” Johnson (second from tight) is shown with an immigration official being escorted aboard the ship that is taking him back to his native Norway. When Johnson was arrested in Hart ford, Conn., in connection with the Lindy case, it was discovered thal he had entered the United States illegally three years ago. {Hoover, Roosevelt |Sit Close Together ;41 Banquet Table i ROOSEVELT BATTLE ON New. York Govetnor's Atk Hope Today’s Primaries Will End ‘"Stop Roosevelt "Movement WASHINGTON, April 26— The prospect is strong that President Hoover and Gov. Franklin D. Rogsevelt, of New ¥ork, prominent Democratic candidate for Hoever's office, may cit almost side’by side at the dinner in the White House Thursday night given for the Governors attending the Rich- mond, Virginia, conference. arbiters placed Gov. Rocscvelt third in the list which places him within easy chatting distance of President Hoover, i | WASHINGTON, April 26. — TheJ‘ long awaited test of Alfred E.| lin D. Rooszvelt’s Bid for the Demo-: cratic Presidential nomination is on today in Massachusetts and Penn- ’U s sylvania primaries. Former Gov. {g Smith’s supporters claim a clean | sweep of the Bay State's 36 votes| while Gov. Roosvelt’s aids claim | they will get a few votes in that State. | In Pennsylvania Roosevelt's aids claim the entire delegation of 76 votes. * They also claim the six/ votes from Alaska where the pri- maries are being held today. Roose- | Floor of Senate velt supporters here hope that the e result of the primaries today will . SEATTLE, April 26.—The fight end the “stop Roosevelt move- for lumber, logs, shingles and pulp- ment.” wood tariffs inclusion in the reve- President Hoover is expected to nue bill is not over, telegraphed win all the delegates from Massa- Col. Greeley,_ He testified before chusetts, Pennsylvania and Alaska. the Senate Finance Committee and Republican interest in the pri- the committee turned his proposals maries centers principally in the down. Pennsylvania Senatorial nomina- | ; tion where Senator James J. Davis floor of the Senate, Greeley said. and Major-Gen. Smedley D. But- | The new British lumber tariff ler are contesting. Gen. Butler as-this week gives British Columbia > . LUMBER LOSES FIGHT Tariff Battle Wiil, How- ever Be Carried to | American lumber manufacturers in | British trade while the TUnited | States is denied protection from Canadian imports. — e - gang” throughout his campaign. LEIK - LINDLEY EXPEDITION I FED. EMPLOYEES MAKING ASCENT MUST PAY TAX _No Exemption on Incomes 00 oo Eevaion, | 10 Those in Alska Mt. McKinley { and Hawaii . | WASHINGTON, April 26. — The FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 26— g.p,te Finance Commitiee refused i Tininiey Bl o Tt S0 e g o Suey T HE-Tiridiey) expeet ML Sies" roaliil| L2 ERus Bk Sle provislon. sibiect- " w, e ing Territorial employees in Alaska z ;T.;fig?,;{of; zilcr:xabmt)gebzn:ll:: and Hawaii to Federal income tax. tain.. Fine weather is being ex- Senator Hiram Bingham pointed e ATy i . out the Federal employees were perienced and everything is BOINZ ovempted two years ago but his i |plea to strike out was outvoted. 1 | | —to—— GET BALLOTS IN BOX The voters of Gastineau Channel have until 7 o'clock this evening to get their ballots in the ballot boxes. It is important that every qualified voter go to the polls and cast his ballot be- fore that hour. Remember: Registration is not necessary. e ESCAPE FLAMES : ! . le SEATTLE, April 26—A specbacu-{' lar fire in the seven-floor Granada |® Apartments, 1736 Belmont, sent 300 ® residents, many in their nixhtl’ clothes, fleeing to the street early ® this morning. Damage is estimated . ® ®ee0ececcenoce eration for appedicitis, at $50,000. . The fight will be carried to the| sailled “that damned Philadelphia & 15 to 20 per cent advantage over| MAKING LAST PLEAS, HONOR SLAYING CASE Question of Insanity Seems to Be Issue in Trial,, of 4 Defendants HONOLULU, H. I, April 26— Final pleas-are expected to be made today in the “honor slaying trial” Prosecuting- Attorney John ‘C. Kelley will' argue that ut. Thomas H. Massie was sane n he shot and killed Joseph Kahba- hawai, allsged assaulter of his wife, and the other defendants in #he |case, Mrs. Granville Fortescue,; E. J. Lord and A. O. Jones were like- wise responsible. E Clarence Darrow, veteran crim- inal attorney, will make his that Lieut. Massie, suffering the details of the- story told’ by his wife and from the confesion of the young Hawalian, was ne | when Kahahawai was killed. h: This may be the last plea l&e made by Darrow in his long c: 3 The defendants face a penalty of 20 years to life, if convicted. ECONOMY BILL 1S COMING UP ON WEDNESDAY {House Prepares for Fight —Battle Over Fed- eral Pay Cuts WASHINGTON, April 26.—Foe: of pay cuts for Federal employ- es; worked-to- form a coalif Lo break down the iron bound rule of procedure under which House| icaders intend to force through the General Economy bill. Avoiding a xepetition of the sales tax revolt, the rule permtis con- | sideration of only four amend- ments to each of the ten titles, and limits debate to 10 minutes on each, when the measure comes up tomorrow. 13-Y ear-Old Boy Hunted for Murder Posses Are Searching Des- ert Country for Slay- er of Father BULLETIN—Phoenix, Ariz., April 26—“Bad Man” Merrill has been captured. He was found loitering in the Stock Yards. PHOENIX, Arizona April 26— The youngest “bad man,” 13-year- old Bobby Merrill, is being sought today by posses in the desert country. Late last fight, the boy sudden- ly appearing in the living room of the home at Silbert, shot and killed his father, and wounded his mother and brother. The boy then saddled a pony and galloped away. The mother said the boy had never before given the family any trouble. The County Attorney said the boy “is apparently raging mad and | has just started shooting.” e ———— DEMING SUED FOR BIG SUM BELLINGHAM, Wash., April 26. Evidence last week in the suit of the Pacific American Fisheries stockholders against E. B. Dem- ing, President, reveals that the amount of damage sought is ac- tually $1680,000. The plaintiffs are headed by John W. Harris, of New York. ' The prosecution rest- ed Saturday and the defense has opened. ACTION IS DISMISSED BELLINGHAM, Wash., April 26. —Federal Judge Jeremiah Netever suddenly dismissed the suit brought against E. B. Deming, President of the Pacific American Pisheries Cempany, by John [F. Harris, of New York. The dismissal granted |stipulation to both sides. i Fortescue-M ssie Trial Jury, Honolulu Case OLULU—~Photo sho adjourned on first day of trial, in custody of two court bailiffs, taken Tom Moo neyl ; Denied Par?Ion by Gob. SACRAMENTO, California—Governor J: of Tom Mooney. ames Rolph, Jr., of Cal MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS - - s A e ettt jury in the “honor slaying trial” leaving Judiciary Building when court | n to hetel and lacked up. Rol ph ,j r. ifornia, denied the pardon application Governor Rolph’s decision, which climaxes a sixteen-year international fight for liberty from a life sentence imposed on Mooney for complicity in the San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing, livered at his office in Sacramento. Photo shows newspapermen and officials grouped in the Governor's office. was de- Seated, left to right, are former Chief Justice Matt I. Sullivan, Governor Rolph and Governor Balzar of Nevada. will Sludy Cosmic Dust In Interior JOHNSON MAY PROVE TO BE HUNTEDGHOST New Theory Advanced Re- garding Man Killed by Mounties Carp Part.y—lje;ves Nenana by Plane — May Land on Glacier FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 26— {Allen Carp, of New York, E. P. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 26— Beck and two others left Nenana ‘The belief that Albert Johnson, yesterday by a plane piloted by Joe killed by the Mounted Police last Crosson for Mount McKinley to winter, after he had killed one study cosmic dust preparatory to Mountie and wounded another, was work to be undertaken during the the famed Nation River Charley summer in Alaska. Creek Ghost, is expressed in a let-!| The expedition hoped to be able ter written by Jim Taylor, resident |to land on Mulbrow Glacier but of the Nation River community, might be forced to land lower Yukon Territory, to Jim Newlen, down. of Fairbanks, but a former trapper in that district. Taylor said Johnson’s description tallied with that of the Ghost WhoJ terrorized white and Indian trap-; pers for several years. The Ghost! Vatican’s Radio System to Be Extended to U. S. VATICAN CITY, April 26—The roamed about the Natlon RIVErly,ijean has established direct radio | district in the summer months then disappearing in the winter, prob- 4..c ably going into the Arctic. Taylor ;... pointed out that Johnson washead-! o o America. ed for the Nation River reglon| “poieivers have been installed in when he was killed. ‘The Ghostiine pepdquarters 'of nunciatures was long hunted but never caP-iang apostolic delegations in most tured. |of Europe. R o 2t s e Each receiver has a fixed hour to | tune in HVJ, the Vatican City sta- jtion, and most of the official in- tructions are transmitted that way. ) !The system was devised at the re- MANY |NJURED quest of the Pope, who is greatly i interested in radio. DETROIT, Michigar, April 26.—| BRAZIL FEARS One man was killed and 30 were in a number of foreign coun- and plans soon to extend the BOLL WEEVIL injured by an explosion of gas| FORTALEZA, Brazil — Importa- | the United States of | which ripped a one-story plumbing tion from shop to pieces and wrecked several cotton to be used in manufacturing other stores nearby late yesterday|here, has been protested by the afternoon. It was ascertained that commercial association on the a gaspipe had been broken when ground that it may bring the boll coal was unloaded inte the base-'wecvil to this cotton growing sec- ment of the shop. | tion, communication with its representa- | U. S. FOR CUES ON DEBT PARLEY Scaling Down of Repara- tions and War Debts Is Envisaged PARIS, April — A scaling | down of reparations and war debts is envisaged here as a possible |outcome of the Lausanne confer- erce in June, provided ‘America agrees to cuts in war debt pay- ments due her, ‘While both liberal and conser- vative- elements in France are in general agreement with this view, the approach of the May 1 voting for a new Chamber of Deputies, and some seeming changes in in- ternational opinion, have retard- ec. definition of the exact position |the Prench will take at the par- Tardien Tunes His Ear A new OCabinet will come into power after the May elections and it will have only a few weeks in which to select its delegation to |Leusanne and fix its attitude. | But go on. the assumption “muL he remain as Premier, ieu is keeping his ear |Andre Tar attuned to Washington's recactions {to the various proposals. Like his Pierre Laval, he has already announced willingness to n Germany's burden provided a similar scaling down nificant in this connection em in the recently voted 11632 budge. showing an income jef 1,173,000,000 francs, roughly $46,- 000,000, from reparations above what France must pay to Great | Britain and America. Some highly conservative ele- (Continuea v Page Slx) 1632 FRENCH WATCH ments to the United States. | FIVE KILLED, MANY INJURED, BY TORNADOES Tennessee, Arkansas and Kentucky Communi- ties Are Hit 200 POUND WOMAN LIFTED INTO AIR Property Damage Estimat- ed to Be Large in Several Districts MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 26— Tornadoes killed five persons in farming communities in this vi= cinity yesterday, injured a score and did extensive property dam- age. Other sections of the State were also ‘hit Various districts in Arkansas and Kentucky were struck by the tor- nadoes and much property damage | was done but as far as known no deaths resulted. One freak of the tornado was the picking of a woman weighing 200" pounds from her kitchen door and carrying her several hundred feet away. She landed in soft mud and was not hurt. STOCK MARKET WORK S HIGHER THEN DECLINES Closing Tendency Is Soft —Trading Sluggish During Day NEW YORK, April 26. — The |Stock Market worked uncertainly high and went into the afternoon with a softening tendency. Trading was sluggish. United States Steel, American Telephone and Telegraph, Union Pacific, American Can, Santa Fe lost from a fraction to a point after gains of one to two or more points. The list was helped a little by a sharp increase shown in the weekly report of freight car load- ings. Member banks reported a gain of $61,000,000 in loans and invest= ments. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, April 26—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 10%, American Can 142%, Anaconda Copper 5%, Bethle- {hem Steel 13%, Curtiss-Wright 1%, Fox Films, no sale; General Motors 11%, International Harvester 19%, Kennecott 7%, Packard Motors 2%, United States Steel 27%, Bunker Hill, no sale. e DIVIDEND IS OMITTED BY STEEL CORP. - Common Stock Holders Get No Money—Pre- ferred Holders Do NEW YORK, April 26. — The United States Steel Corporation * has omitted the quarterly dividend of common stock for the first time since 1815. The Directors declared the regu- lar quarterly dividend of $1.75 a share on preferred. Omission of the common stock dividend was widely expected be= ‘cuuse of decreasing earnings after |2 reduction three months ago from |81 to 50 cents a share. | | | |World Has Baby Colic |mous “gloomy dean” of St. Paul's id that humanity, with hundreds of thousands of years has reached only “the ratile and the feeding “We old fellows graves in a few “We have made a I know, and I am shall not have ‘to new problems. .