The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 18, 1932, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 18, 1932. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL. XL, NO. 6084, PRICE CONGRESS TAKES ADJOURNMENT TO NEXT DECEMBER ROOSE " TWO FACTIONS MAY NOW BURY THEIR GRUDEES Reconciliation Is in Pro- gress in State of Massachusetts VELT MEETING SMITH LEADERS FIVEHUNDRED Many Bills LAWS PLAGED | re Enacted ONU. S, BopKs B Conres Thousands of Measures| Fail to Get Attention from Congress 7“vi‘qui<’F"oii PRETTY im; : ;D_RASTIC MOVE ' % & IS ADOPTED IN GERMAN_NATIUN {All Outdoor Demonstra- tions Banned by Gov- ernment Decree . AR i . e | F ® \FIFTEEN PERSONS ARE R B LT [ : . B E= | KILLED'OVER WEEK-END BIG MEASURES ARE PASSED IN CLOSING HOURS Senators and Congressmen Complete Labors Late Last Saturday SENATE AND HOUSE YIELD ON TWO BILLS Relief Legislation Goes to ‘SLAVE BLOCK” BID WINS \Important Legislation Is Also Shelved, One Way or Another | WASHINGTON, July 18.—Here are some of the highlights of the iCongrvsslonal session that ended LIQUOR LETISLAMON last Saturday night: PENDING, 2 HOUSES: " Laws, Resolutons Enacted — | Hoover moratorium. | Muscle Shoals Age O]d Reconstruction Finance Corpora- | y Problem, Cash Bonus | . WELCOME ROOSEVELT Observacs Loak e Healing State of Emergency May tion act. Steagall Banking law. of Wounds Caused at Convention SWAMSCOTT, Mass., July 18.—Paving a way to pos- sible reconciliation with the Smith faction in the State of Massachusetts, Gov. Franklin Associated Press Phote Harking back to the era before 1860, when negro slaves were sold from auction blocks, Louis Byrens, Be Declared—Many Demands Made BERLIN, July 18—The German Government has issued a decree banning all outdoor demonstrations | following week-end rioting in which 15 persons were killed. The Cabinet is faced with a num- ber of other possibilities, such as declaring a state of emergency, as Still Unsettled WASHINGTON, July 18.— About 500 laws were enacted by Congress during the ses- sion ending last Saturday night, chosen from 18,000 in- troduced, one of the bumper pansion law. bill, Billion dollar tax act. $150,000,000 Economy law. $125,000,000 Farm Loan Bank law. Norris Anti-Injunction law. Relief act. Home Loan Bank Currency Ex- Bills Vetoed Democratic Tariff bill, Original President—Will Sign it Tomorrow WASHINGTON, July 18.— The Seventy-seond Congress adjourned at 11:25 o’clock last Saturday night until the Garner - Wagner Re“e[IShort session opens in Decem- ber, racked with last minute disputes over the relief bill and Home Loan Bank legis- lation. D. Roosevelt, Democratic nominee for President, met today with Smith leaders. welfare worker, “sold” Los Angeles’ unemployed to the highest bidders. A bid of 50 cents an hour won Bills passed by House but not the services of Vivian Roberts, 27, sivown with Byrens on the block as the idle and bidders looked on. by Senate: Cash Bonus bill. Muscle Shoals bill. Bills passed by Senate but not demanded by various political groups; forbidding of wearing of unforms, as the Centrists and trade unions want, or outlawing of the Communists as the Nazis demand. bill crops in history. Thirteen thousand bills were presented in the House To Last Post A It is understood an effort‘FURMER DEAN is being made to induce Gov. | Joseph P. Ely to greet Gov. Roosevelt at Westfield and later at Ely’s home. If Gov. Ely endorses the Democratic national ticket, observors believe others who went down to defeat with Al Smith at the Chicago conven- tion, will follow and conven- tion wounds will be healed. G ov. Roosevelt conferred wth Col. E. M. House, advisor tc Weoodrow Wilson, earlier in the day. OF DIPLOMATS | DIES IN PARIS Jules Jusserand, for Years Ambassador to U. S., Passes Away PARIS, July 18. — Jean Jules| Jusserand, French diplomat, former French Ambassador to the United States, died today. For some time he had bezn suffering from a kid- ney ailment. Mme. Jusserand was P ——— REPORT AIMEE SERIOUSLY ILL ATBEACH HOME |Attending Doctor Says Slightest Shock May Cause Death | LAKE ELSINORE, Cal, July 18. | —Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton is reported by her doctor to be in such a critical condition at her |beach home here that the “slight- The Cabinet started recognizing the demands by a general ban on all outdoor processions and dem- onstrations as the most effective method of avoiding further bloody week-ends. : BLOODY AFFRAYS BERLIN, July 18—Fifteen per- sons were slain and scores were injured in bloody political affrays throughout the Reich over the week-end. The political disturbances in Ger- |many were especlally between the |Nazis of Adolph Hitler and Com- | munists. Hardly a week-end has passed during the recent twelve months that the two forces have not clashed with fatal results. and 5,000 in the Senate. To the bills were added simple and joint concurrent resolutions bringing the total measures filed to 19,000. The bills ranged from im- portant to the merest trifle. Mea s ures of cquntrywide omy, Revenue and Relief bil moratorium, lame duck, and| {legislation to repeal the Eigh- teenth Amendment and mod- ify the Volstead Act, pend- ing in both Houses to con- by House: Nava! Construction bill, Pending legislation: World Court Treaty. t An agreement on the two billion, one hundred and twen- wo million dollar relief bill Glass resolution to replace Pro- hibition Amendment. — - . | GREAT SEAWAY tion of the $800,000,000 St. Lawr- Glass Bank Reform bill. came through by the Senate’s vielding to the House con- troversial clause on publicity on the Reconstruction Finance Corporation loans. Conversely the House gave iway on the Home Loan bill laccepting the Glass rider which will make it possible WASHINGTON, July 18. — The |fOr nearly one billion dollar United States and Canada has agreed, by treaty, to the construc- expansion of currency. The President is expected front the Legislators at the December session. Other questions involved include the aging Muscle Shoals problem, naval con- struction, banking law re- form, Philippine independence and soldiers’ bonus cash pay- |est shock will probably result in | her death.” | Even Aimee's husband, Dave with him at the time of death. There is a question whether lit- erature did not lose a brilliant | £ addition to its ranks when Jean 3 | Hutton, is not allowed to see her. Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand in ~ "4 | Mrs. Sutton has been 1ll for the early manhood determined upon a s ; |past year, aggravated by a tropical career in the diplomatic service of ‘affhchon and suffering also from HESITATES TU his native France. Although he A|a nervous colla;_)se. A week ago had spent his entire life since he | =—=— =—=—=—=————————— |last Saturday night she fell and |was 21 in the service of his coun- try, M. Jusserand demonstrated by a to sign the huge relief bill tomorrow but will delay sign- ing the Home Loan bill which expands currency nearly one billion dollars until a report is received from the Comp- troller General regarding the expansion clause. —_————————— ence seaway which wil open all |ports on the Great Lakes to ocean commerce. In a brief ceremony at the State Department, Secretary Stimson signed the treaty for the United States and Minister Herridge sign- ed for Canada. The gigantic project calls for the development of the St. Lawrence ment. River for 180 miles from Montreal to Lake Ontario, an eight year task, It will enable ocean-going H ) ships to travel to the heart of the nflvEH s DEBT continent while at the same time provide up to 2,000,000 horse pow- n E c LARATION Is er electrical energy to be divided SUIT STARTED FOR RECOVERY, FIFTY MILLION Another Angle to Manipu- lations of Kreuger ASSOCIATED PRESS (UNDERWOOD) |hit her head on a concrete floor JEAN JULES JUSSERAND 'when overcome by news her hus- the few works that he published | that, had he followed literature as French Diplemat who died in |band had lost his case in which Pl’Ofi( Ta k|n g Con[inues his life’s work, he would have tak- | -—— Paris early today. |he was sued for breach of promise k with the foremost of TOda)’ Rather than ;‘x;en::‘?]nwriters. GHDGERY MAN . 3 In Diplomatic Service | "C()mmunlsts resh Buying | Is Revealed |by a Pasadena nurse. Born at Lyons, February 18, 1855, | P g l F U UN D SI.AIN osonec at NEW YORK, Juiy 18.—The Irv- M. Jusserand entered the diplo-! matic service of France in 1876 | S M ing Trust Company, as trustee in tate eet‘bankrupwy for the International Match Company, has started buit by American and Canadian m~IMEAsURE GIVEN tions bordering in the waterway. The agreement must be ratified! by the legislative bodies of the two PPRUVAL countries before going into effect. —————— NEW YORK, July 18—The ad- Jjournment of Congress for which Wall Street long awaited with manifest lack of patience brought more profit taking in sales rather and two years later became Consul | at London. His next assignment was at Tunis, where he spent sev-| . than fresh buying into the Stock Market. The brighest aspect of securi- ties were turned down, after some hesitation. Many Issues Decline Tssues losing one point or more included American Tobacco B., Liggeit & Myers B., Consolidated Gas, Dupont, Coca Cola, Santa Fe, American Telephone and Tele- graph. United States Steel fairly well. Westington Electric sagged only a fraction. Make 5 Point Gain + Detroit Edison and Homestak: Mining mounted about 5 points but later lost most of the gain. Reports of foreign buying here, particularly from London, has been gratifying to the more bullishly inclined on the street althougn it is difficult to determine any reasonable and accurate estimate of the amount. held up CLOSING PRIULS TODAY NEW YORK, July 18.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 9%, American Can 327, Anaconda 4, Bethlehem Stecl eral years and then returned to| London in 1887 as a member of | {the French Embassy staff. He was named French Minister at .Copen- hagen in 1890 and remained in the | Danish capital until his transfer | to Washington in 1902. | During his long service at the American capital, M. Jusserand | States and throughout the country was the best known of the foreign diplomats. He was constantly in demand as a speaker at public and semi-public functions, and unless the pressure of international busi- ness compelled him to decline such | invitations, he seldom missed an opportunity to use his voice and his knowledge of American and French affairs in his constant ef- ltort to cement more firmly the long-standing friendly relations be- tween the foremost republics of | old and ngw worlds. . His speaking epgagements took' him to many of the large ‘cities" of the United commsncement exercises of. Ameri- can colleges and universities, sev-, eral of which conferred honorary ! degrees upon him. Dean of Corps As a consequence of his service AS PREDICTED “Cards of Death” Pulled from Fortune Teller's Hands, Gave Clue : | More CHICAGO, Ill, July 18—The po- | deck of clues in the investigation of the slaying of George Carl, storekeeper, foretold by his widow, she said, 60 hours in advance, by “cards of death” she drew from a neighborhood fortune teller’s .hand. Evan Grilee, aged 38 years,| brother-in-law of the dead man, is held. ed beneficiary. He denied any m-} surance dealings with Carl. | Mrs. Carl told the police she and her mother warned Carl last Thursday that she had turned the cards which predicted his death, | sent to hospitals. ,discharged later and the six are ,well on the road to recovery. jOne Hundre_d_li ushed to Hospital in Ohio After Luncheon MASSILLON, Ohio, July 18.— than 300 Communists, who traveled extensively in the United Jlim , Pecame ill after a luncheon at their o y lce today shuffled through a slim State - convention, from what is said to be ptomaine poisoning. are recovering One hundred Communists were All but six were — e He sold the wife a $5,000 insurance policy with a double in- UWYHEE demnity clause. The wife was nam-! IS DEDICATED| OWYHEE, Oregon, July 18.—The States and he was frequently call-'from cards in, the hands of Mrs. Owyhee Dam, key to a reclamation ed up to deliver addresses at the gqe Ballo, who has the reputa- project estimated to cost ultimately tion as a sooth-sayer. $18,000,000, was dediacted yesterday. Carl laughed at the forebodings.'The dam _c0§t $6,000,000. The pro- was found shot to death ject will irrigate 123,000 ares. Carl 'outside his grocery store by his, to recover $50,000,000 worth of German Reich bonds alleged stol- en from the Intérnational Match Company by Ivar Kreuger, dead Swedish match king. The summons and complaint in the suit has been filed in the Federal Court. The Irving Trust Company has obtained from Federal Judge Mack a4 temporary restraining order against payment of the $1,500,000 interest on bonds to five Swedish banks. —————— TRADE BALANCE OFF MILLIONS WASHINGTON, July 18. — The United States had an unfavorable trade balance of approximately $6,- 000,000 during June, the Depart- ment of Commerce announces. The exports were $115,000,000 and the imports were valued at $121,- 000,000. NOT VERY CLEAR State Department An- nounces Participation in Conference on Issue WASHINGTON, July 18.—Some Democrats of Congress said they are not quite sure of President Hoover's attitude toward war debts revision notwithstanding his recent letter to Senator William E. Bor- ah promising the European com- bination would not coerce the Unit- ed Btates into action. Just about that time the State Department intimated anew it would accept an invitation to par- ticipate in a conference, sponsored by the League of Nations, to dis- cuss financial and economic ques- tions. The President’s letter was called to the attention of the Senate last Saturday afternon by Senator Joseph T. Robinson. “It seems to me the policy of the Administration meant that a revision of these debts will be| asked, and I ask again whether we'll transfer this burden to the| American taxpayer or leave them where they belong,” sald Senator LIQUOR ISSUE Senate late last Saturday agreed to consider Senator Glass's reso- lution proposing a substitute for the Eighteenth Amendment, bar- ring the saloon, and giving liquor control to the States. The action means the matter will alive unfil next December. s IS KEPT ALIVE WASHINGTON, July 18, — The be kept Congress reconvenes [Major Requirements of Bill Will Create Fund for Direct Relief WASHINGTON, July 18. — ‘The major provisions in the Emergency Relief bill passed late last Saturday by Congress, are as follows: 1. Creation of an emergency fund of $300,000,000 under the Recon- struction Finance Corporation, for direct relief in loans to States and municipalities on need. the basis of 2. Appropriation for public con- truction program of $322,000,000 of LADY BEATTY PASSES AWAY DINGLEY, England, July Lord Beatty, daughter of the late | Marshall Field, of Chicago, died in |her sleep Sunday after an illness She was married in 1901 to Earl David Beatty, who| [nyestigators in of several days. which $119,000,000 may be postpon- ed upon certification of the Secre- tary of the Treasury that the funds are not available and cannot be obtained on reasonable terms. 3. Authorization for the Recon- struction Finance Corporation to borrow an additional billion and a half dollars to loan to public or semi-public institutions for self liquidating construction work or to private corporations for the same kind of projects of public nature, ———-—— subsequently became Admiral of the 9%, Curtiss<Wright 1, Fox Films : . British Fleet. 1%, General Motors 8%, Interna- tional Harvester 17, Kennecoit Robinson. ——— iwife and son. The rear of the| e on 0 0 a e g store was in disorder, the cash J p in the United States, M. Jusserand rogister had been overturned and 08 2 was long the dean of the diplo- w5 empty, -No weapon was found.| Far East Are ~ 6%, Packard Moft.s 1%, United tates Steel 22%. Eight Jump from Flames And Escape with Lives SEATTLE, July 18—Eight per- sons fumped to safety during a fire which destroyed five houses of the camp buildings at Fletcher’'s Bay on Bainbridge Island early this morning. The loss is $15,000 cov- ered by $7,000 insurance, matic corps in Washington, and | often was pointed to as an example of the wisdom of countries con- tinuing able Ambassadors in im- portant posts and not making them subject to change with the advent of a new government. When he; had completed 20 years as French Ambassador to the United States the event was marked by a simple ceremony, without precedent in the diplomatic history of Washington, or perhaps, in any other country. Virtually all the diplomats in Wash- {Continued on Page Seven) R | Forty Million Dollars, | Retiring Loans Given to ’ Relief, Goes to Hoover" Fortune in Klondike, Dies; $250 Stake Brings Wealth SEATTLE, July 18.—Joseph Gon- WASHINGTON, July 18. — The dolfo, aged 83 years, well-known | $40,000,000 appropriation bill retire existing loans against the Farm Board for wheat and cotton released. to the American Cross for relief distribution was sént to the President from the a House last Baturday afternoon, 2 to Alaskan pioneer, result of an attack of the heart Red Klondike, stake, it is said, and purchased !so}d at Alaska prices, the highes: the is dead as Gondolfo, during the rush to the borrowed $250 for a load of grocleries which n¢ he claimed, ever paid. He sold bananas and oranges in the Klondike for $1, watermelons at $25 each, lemons at $100 a box and tomatoes at $5 a pound. ‘Gondolfo remained in the Daw- son district for several years and |when he finally came south, he lhad a fortune of $100,000. slightly, 4 Dr. Eckener Slightly Injured when he Rams Tree with Automobile KEMPTEN, Germany, July 18.— While driving his car, Dr. Hugo Eckner, of dirigible fame, tried to ‘pass another car and ran into a |tree last Saturday afternoon, and |knocked it down. Dr. Eckner, his wife and daughter, were hurled out NINETEEN DIE IN HEAT WAVE ATLANTA, Ga., July 18.—Nine- teen persons perished in the South last Saturday as the result of the seven days of The greatest loss of life is report- of the car but were injured only|€d from New Orleans, where five persons died, high temperatures. On Their Way TOKYO, July 18—The League of Nation’s Commission in- vestigating the troubles of the Far East, ended a 12-days’ visit Saturday and left for Peiping to complete the report to the League. Apparently the commission- ers have accomplished little beyond learning that Japan is determined no outside interfer- ence will alter the course in Manchuria. WL b