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

THE DAILY JUNEAU ALASKA I-RIDAY ]UNE, 24 VOL )\L., NO. 6065. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” |932 ALASKA EMPIRE ROOSEVELT FORCES TO FIGHT TWO THIRDS RULE * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * SMITH NOW LEADS ALL OPPOSITION ~ ASK THEM—THEY KNOW ANSWERS GOVERNMENT OF SIAM 1S OVERTHROWN Sudden, Blfirief Revolt Establishes Constitu- tional Monarchy BANKOK, Siam, June 24. — A Constitutional Monarchy has been ectablished in Siam after a sudden | brief revolution in which the ef of Staff of the Army was 1 because he resisted arrest. | The revolt was led by the army and navy and announced the ob- was in delivering the country rom the government of Princes. The rebels invaded the palace | i captured the members of the| Royal family, Cabinet Ministers and other officials wand imprisoned | them. After King and - Queen l\ warship was sent to Bauhin »ve King Prejadhipok and Queen Rambai, who visited the United tes some time ago, are living nd ordered them brought to Ban- kok The people took no part in the movement, but The city is quiet. The King is expected to arrive here soon. Apparently the rebels re willing that he continue to eign but not as an absolute Mon- n to restrict the King's power, liminate Princes entirely from the FLY TU BAMP AT FAIRWEATHER tion of all members of the Cab- Washburn Party Will Spend inet, which is composed of Princes. The city was taken by surprise Summer Scaling Tow- ering Peaks Chlcaqo. Revolt Objects as the mutinous troops poured into the streets afoot, with military tanks. Some were armed with ma- chine guns. SETS HERSELF AFIRE; WOMAN PLANS DEATH Soaks ClotEin Benzine then Applies Match —May Die SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, —The police sought today to es- tablish the identity of a middle aged woman who saturated her clothes with benzine, then set her clothes on fire and lay down in a vacant lot to await death. The flames spread to the sur- rounding grass. Passersby noticed thz flames and beat them out. i The woman was still alive but will probably die. She protested | against efforts to save her life and | refused to identify herself. . Intent on scaling Mount Fair- weather’s lofty peak, which towers 15,300 feet above sea level, a group of five mountain climbers arrived |in Juneau from the States last [night on the steamship Prince Ru-' pert and left this forenoon in the seaplane Chichagof for a lake at the head of Sea Otter Creek, above ! Cape Fairweather, where they will | establish their base camp. Members of the group are leader, H. Bradford Washburn, | of Cambridge, Ma Robert fl\ June 24.| o of Philadelphia, Walter A Everett of Arlington, Mass.; ard L. Riley of Plainfie] all of the 1933 class Universidy; Harold Paumga Vienna, Austria, who was in Aus n ski team in the last two Olympics and who is ing the expedition as tive of veral Austrian tions. Two Others Besides these five in I tain-climbing project, are two others, Robert S. Mo n Pawtucket, R. I, a gralate of Dai mouth College in 1929, of the Yale 'School of Fore in 1931 and an | employee of the United States Fo‘ st Service in New Mexico and |Tdaho for the last year, and Ray "I‘a)lm Forest Examiner of the | Regional Office whose headquar- | WASHINGTON, June 24—The|ior nave been in Ketchikan. Mr.| House has sent to @ conference|pionghan and Mr. Taylor, with two with the Senate, the Garner and| ;g g half tons of climbing, camp-! Wagner relief bills and negotmuons"uw photographic, surveying and will begin immediately in efforts Sm[m ¢ equipment, went from to reach a compromise on the dif-|y ;o0 about two ks ago on foparbes (gver e meeaen, (e power boat Yakobi, Capt. Tom The Senate passed the Wagner |gmib 1o Genotaph Island, Lituya bill yesterday and the House ap- g They have been occupied in proved the Garner bill some time | _ ago. = nsw publica- In Party e moun- (Coptiuea on Page TWO) Cornet Playmg Is No Crime ‘ Declares Judge, Chicago Court CHICAGO, June 24—No matter | charging him with is disturbing how badly he may play, a correct |the peace. He was walking around | player is still within the law. as a sandwich man advertising a Apparently that was the con-|shoe repair shop—and clusion of Judge Thomas A. Green |the cornet so people would look at in the case of Policeman James‘hlm. ‘Actually he played the Star Keating versus Charles Delling- |Spangled Banner so badly that hoff. | he ought to be charged with sac- “He was,” said the policeman, rilege or something.” “the worst player 1 ever heard.” “Judge,” said the prisoner, “you that a crime?” asked the have got to admit the Star Span- |gled Banner is no cinch on the | cornet.” he played ; it might be a crime to play as badly as this man did,” To which the Court agreed and Keating replied. “But what we're'let him go. » 3 |quest, jm of | police | kidnaping. Associated Press Phote Three of the girls of the information bureau drafted for duty in Chicago for the republican national convention were (left to right) Mrs. R. M. Bridwill, Louise Ruffner and Mrs. J. W. Thompson, all of | Lester Gore Is Confirmed As Judge at Nome WASSRINGTON, June 24. ster O. ' Gore, attorney of Ketchikan, 'Alaska, was confirmed by the Senate yesterday to be Federal Judge of the Second Divis- ion of Alaska with his head- quarters at Nome. | e ceo00 0 es o0 — e MiSS GOW IS REFUSED VISA TO VISIT HOME .State Depallmenl Turns|’ Down Request for Pres- ent Time at Least WASHINGTON, June 24—Betty , former nurse to the kidnaped !and slain Lindbergh baby, has been | |denied a visa to visit | England her home in August it is learned the Department. The visa was denied al of another Federal nt official which had sent ents to co-operate with the Jersey in an investigation of the in at tate he re- depart- ag- Miss Gow who still is employed at the Lindbergh home in Hope- | | Wi N. J, is understood to have bocked passage as far back as last Janu; The trip was postponed (until March and the booking was changed accordingly. Sometime in February, it is un- derstood, she changed her plans again and decided to sail in Ap- ril. When the baby was kidnaped, on March 1, all her plans for a trip were postponed until the mys tery could be cleared up. Recently she booked passage for August and applied for a visa. This | has been denied, at least tempor- arily. She, as well as other alien servants in the Lindbergh home | will probably be prevented from lvavug’ the country so long as au- th()rl!l€> are attempting to solve the kidnaping mystery. 1, 'Standard Oil Co. On Five-Day Week NEW YORK, June 24 — The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey has announced adoption of a five-day week for all salaried employees and wage e general curtailment “of schedules to afford employment 10| the largest possible number. The program will become effective July 1st. The new schedule effect, will 43,000 workmen, [} ROTARIANS ARE NEAR GLOSE OF BIG CONVENTION Hundreds (flelegates Preparing for Trips to Alaska SEATTLE, June 24—The closing |sessions of the Rotary Convention are being held and hundreds of the delegates are preparing 1o leave for Alaska aboard. the steam= |ers Alaska, Dorothy Alexander and Aleutian. The next convention will be held in Boston, Mass. The chief business today is the | passage of a resolution concerning the present world economic crisis. A proposal on the subject has been submitted but several amendments cropped up and it was decided to postpone action pending a confer- ence on international trade barriers. It was found that some of the delegates approve of free trade as |a theory but others are in opposi- tion ‘on . the ground tariffs are | necessary for self-preservation of many industries. ALASKA SAILS NORTH SEATTLE, June 24-—With Ro- tarians aboard from nearly all pants of the world, the steamer Alaska inaugurated sailings on the South- east Alaska route today. The Al- noon with 175 first class and five steerage passengers. There are no passengers, either first or steerage, for Juneau. STOCK MARKET TAKES DECLINE IN FAST ORDER Demand All But Disappears | —New Low Levels Reported Reached NEW YORK, June 24.—The gen- eral level of share prices today came close to the cyclical low of June 1 as the demand all but dis- appeared from the market. Prices gave way at a great rate. The list had turned upward at the start, presumably out of the response to a cut of the Federal Reserve rediscount rate but soft- ness of American Can was quickly followed by slumps in Santa Fe and Atchison and soon pulled the mar- ket down. Some leaders hit new lows. Santa Fe dropped three points| to the lowest price since 1900, Allied Chemical dropped almost as much as Santa Fe. American Telephone and Tele- graph dipped two points. United States Steel, common, was off more than one point and preferred went under 57, a three point loss. Union Pacific lost three points. Issues off one point or so in- |cluded Consolidated Gas, Ligget & Meyers Tobacco B, Drug, Dupont, lCominen'.al Can and others. | CLOSING PRICES TODAY | NEW YORK, June 24—Closing quotation today of Alaska Juneau mine stock is 7%, American Can 30%, Anaconda Copper 3%, Beth- hem Stezl 8%, Curtiss-Wright 1, Fox Films 1%, General Motors 8%, International Harvester 117 |ard Motors 1%, United States smel |28%. DR. BIEDERMAN - PASSES AWAY FORT HAUCHUCA, Arizona, June 24.—Dr. Charles Bei aged most distinguished pioneer |tists, died in the Post hospital to- |day. He was also a former body- |guard to Abraham Lincoln. - HINDENBURG HONORS GROW NUREMBURG. — This German city has added one 172 honorary citizenships of P ancient the aska sailed at 1 o'clpek this after- | »|King and Queen yeste These Potential First Ladies Well Qualified for Posztton * X ok Wives of Three Leading Democratic Candidates and « Daughter of a Fourth Ideally Suited for Job of White House Hostess. n, very Iinle h bun said of the woman who may share the success of any one of them. Of course, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of New York’s Governor, who is the leading Democratic candidate, needs no introduction to Americans. Born a Roosevelt, she kept the illustrious name intact by marrying one. Mrs. Roosevelt is no stranger to politics and diplomatic usage, so in the event of her husband’s victory in the coming campaign she would fit into the role of White House hostess like a hand into a glove. Mrs. John Nance Garner, wife of the Speaker of the House, would also make an ideal “First Lady.” Since her marria 1895, she has bee Jack’s” secretary and advisor. Their ideal partnership romantic a story as any in the pages of fiction. Then there is Mrs. New- ton D. Baker, who is equipped for the job of presiding at the White House by reason of her association with diplomatic society during her husband’s tenure of office as Secretary of War in the late President Wilson’s cabi- net. One unusual possibility deserves mention. In the event of Governor George White of Ohio being nominated and elected, he will bring the youngest “First Lady” in history to the W| 24-year-old daughter, Mary, who is now afiici-(l) hostess in the Gubernatorial man- | DR WILSON IS NOW ON FENCE, PUBLISHER TO SUCGEED DAWES, FEDERAL BOARD Gardner Cowles, Sr., Ap-| pointed to Reconstruc- tion Finance Corp. Doesn’t Know Whether He Will Support Hoover —Just Looks Bad WASHINGTON, June 24. — An| PORTLAND, Oregon, June 24— Iowa publisher, Gardner Cowles, | Dr. Clarence True Wilson, head of , has been appointed to fill mn‘!ho Methodist Board of Temper- "”c“"“y on the Reconstruction Fi-| ;00 pronibition and Public Mor- nance Corporation caused by the | res&gna(ionxo( Charles G. Dawes, als, expressed his doubt here today Cowles is publisher of the Des to whether he would Moines Register-Tribune and is 71 Hoover, although not advi years old. He is considered an third party. independent Republican. He served| p. wwilson is scheduled to go to as a member of the Public Lands 5] next week on charges of reck- Commission, appointed by President joes driving, e 2 Hoover in 1929 ! Dr. ‘Wilson said he approved of resubmission of the Prohibition |question in a “constitutional way” ’ and also added that he may be forced to speak for Hoover if the Democrats adopt the wet plank as LONDON, June Adel Astair, former Follies n w Lady he exp the Democrats will do. @ el DR R Cavendish, was to (!!r- jay but s{as support | ating a 24 clety was given a shock when hm‘ shire, failed to appear as sponsor saying she was indisposed | 12,500 IN KNOT ll()ll ANG | EVERETT, Wash,, June 24—Guy COLUMBUS, O—The Columbus Gilbert, aged 30 years, of Monroe, ciation boast one of the largest while hunting near the foothills by knot-hole gangs in the country. The | William Gnushe, his hunting com- mother-in-law, Duc of Devon- ABGIDENTALLY - Red Birds of the American Asso- near here, was accidentally shot roster pow contains 12500 names panion. Gilbert died instantly as am- nue.' dent von Hindenburg and has « a street “Hindenburg and fresh applications are received a result of a bullet through his| daily, \ & B e anialy Bead S0 HE ASSERTS OPENFIGHT ON ROOSEVELT WILL TAKE PLACE NOW Former N. Y. Governor Openly i Opposition to Present, Gov. MAKES ATTEMPT TO GET FORCES IN LINE \Tennessee |Delegate Aims Blow at Smith to Keep Him from Floor CHICAGO, Ill, June 24.—Alfred E. Smith emerged today as the leader of the opposition to Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt for the nom- |ination for President on the Demo- |cratic National ticket. Smith began a move to unite supporters of other candidates into a solid group to block Roosevelt's nomination as the Roosevelt sup- porters confidently complated plans to-toss out the two-thirds rule and shove Senator Thomas J. Walsh in as Permanent Chairman of the Na- tional Convention. William G. McAdoo assured that California would stand behind Gar- ner and Texas leaders said they | would back Garner to the finish. Opposition to Roosevelt’s move on the two-thirds rule is opposed by nearly all Presidential camps. TO FIGHT SMITH NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 24— J. MisGardenhire, delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Chicago, said he would sponsor a resolution to deny Al Smith the | privilege of the convention floor and to declare him meligible as a im\ndldale for the Presidential nom- |ination “unless he assures the dele- |gates he will abide by the action |of the convention and support its | nominee.” Yesterday Smith refused to an- swer a question “will you support | the convemim\‘s nominee?” SHORT PLATFORM IS AIM OF MEN FRAMING PLANKS | Tentative LE Is Said to Be One Thousand Words CHICAGO, Ill, June 24. — The Democratic platform makers are trying to set a record. Their goal is to make the short- est and most concise declaration of party principles ever written. They have Roosevelt’s support in this for a tentative limit of 1,000 words is imposed by his leaders. Senator C. C. Dill, of the State of Washington, believes the Pro- hibition plank can be written in 25 words. It will call for submis- sion to the States of the question of retention of modification or repeal of the Eighteenth Amend- ment p gLk ALASKA CRUISE Capt. and Mrs, James Griffiths aska aboard their yacht. CHICAGO, T, June avowed candidates for cratic nomination | for 24.— the Seven President headquarters in the Congress Ho- tel or have reservations The avowed candidates for whom reservations are made are: Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, ho has taken the presidential and 100 extra rooms for his boosters. Gov. | rt Ritchie of Maryland, who has taken the Florentine Room and Forty-one additional {rooms for friends. Speaker of the House Garner has reserved a suite of three rooms. James Reed, former Senator from Missouri, has reserved a suite and and Miss Nadine Ayers will leave | le in July on a cruise to Al-| Demo- | and three dark horses have their| ABROGATION OF OLD PLAN NOW BEING SOUGHT Majority Rule May Prevail at Democratic Nation- al Convention MANAGER FARLEY MAKES STATEMENT |Supporters of New York Executive Unanimous- ly Decide on Plan CHICAGO, 1l June 24. — The Roosevelt forces unanimously de- cided last night to fight for abro- gation of the 100-year-old two- thirds nominating rule. James A. Farley, political man- ager for Gov. Franklin D. Roose= velt, gave out the statement as follows: “At a meeting of the friends of Gov. Roosevelt the following reso- |lution was adopted unanimously: ‘That it be the sense of this gath- ering of friends of Franklin D, Roosevelt that we pledge ourselves to do all within our power to bring about the abolition of the two- thirds rule and the adoption of a majority rule in the convention.’™ Farley refused to amplify his statement. THIRD PARTY TALK WASHINGTON, June 24. — Gov. William H. “Alfalfa Bill" Murray, of Oklahoma, candidate for the Presidency on the Democratic tick- et, said that if the Democrats succeed in abolishing the two- thirds rule, a third party will be organized. MAY GO TO CHICAGO ALBANY, N. Y., June 24.—Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt may appear before the Democratic National Convention and he may go if he is nominated. His advisors feel that he should personally seek to assuage the wounds of battle left on his opponents. He may also go in the event of a deadlock but under ordinary circumstances it is believed he will stay at home and attend to his duties as Governor. AIMEE'S MATE IS BEING SUED Girl Forced to Tell of Giv- ing Hutton Rubs in Alcohol LOS ANGELES, Cal, June 24— Myrtle St. Pierre burst into tears on the witness stand today and collapsed as the defense attorneys forced her to relate how she gave alcohol rubs and other light treat- ment to David Hutton, the former Aimee McPherson’s present hus- band. Miss St. Pierre is suing Hutton for $200,000 breach of pro- — e, “FIRST WOMEN” IN TURKEY ISTANBUL — New “first women”™ items in the Turkey of Mustapha Kemal: at the Black Sea port of | Trebizond a woman has been ap- pointed customs inspector; in Is- tanbul the first woman truck driv- er has been licensed Seven Avowed Democratic Candidates Open Quarters |350 rooms for his backers. Former Gov. Harry Byrd of Vir- |ginia has a suite. | Pormer Gov. Alfred E. Smith jof New York has reserved a suite. | Gov. William (Alfalfa) Bill Mur- ray of Oklahoma has engaged a suits and 100 rooms. The three who have made un- dercover reservations are: Gov. George White of Ohio, & | suite. | Newton D. Baker, former Secre- |[¢uy of War, two suites. Melvin A. Traylor, President of the First National Bank of Chi- {cago, two suites. Trayler is said lto be developing support in Texas and Kentucky, where “he formerly lived,