The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 20, 1932, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL PHE TIME” VoL XL, NO. 6086._ JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1932. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY MARTIAL LAW DECLARED BY GERMAN GOVERNMENT TROU BOMB THROWN INTO RELATIONS OF 2 COUNTRIES Former Australian Premier Makes Broad An- nouncement BLUNT STATEMENT ISSUED AT OTTAWA | Time Is Now for Canada to Break Away from In- fluence of U. S. OTTAWA, July 20. — An inference that the British Empire Trade Conference, opening here tomorrow, might prove the means of “Canada to break away from the in-‘ fluence of the United States,”| has been plumped into the| laps of the Empire delegates.‘r Stanley Bruce, former Aus- tralian Premier, placed in! blunt words the question: ! “Will a cohesive trade pol-l icy within the units of the Bri at the cost of American com-| mercial relations with Can-| ada?” The former Australian Premier said there is always a tendency of absorption by a bigger country: and this “ought to be Canada’s chance to break away.” Canadians seemed unprepared for the bluntness of Bruce's pronounce- ment. The statements carried the Can-, adians back to 1911 when Con-! servatives cried out in fear of an-' nexation over the efforts of Presi-| dent Taft to institute reciprocal| trade between Canada and the United States. No Answer | There is no direct answer to Bruce’s suggestions but prairie farm- | ers, who it is believed are ready ; to demand lower tariffs against| British manufacturers in return for broader markets in the United Kingdom for their products, de- clared they do not want a British wheat quota. . . Hail, Wind | Storm Does | Big Damage BLEBET Film Romance Ended i | sh Empire be purchased Although professing the warmest affection for each other, Ruth Chat- terton, famous as & talkie star, and her husband, Ralph Forbes, have decided to abrogate their marital partnership via the Reno divorce court. Miss Chatterton is now in Europe and at her request, it is said, Forbes | in Reno taking the initiative in the suit. They are shown at a time wher happiness was undimmed and romance was in full bloom., ELLIOTT TURNS ROADS OVERTO T INTERIOR DEPT, Formal Transfer Made to| Gov. Parks—Board Ends 28 Years Service In a brief, and almost informal, Road , Commissioners for Alaska turned |vance (over its duties and powers in the to the Interior Depart- iment and ceased to exist after al-| | most 28 years of busy and. useful iexistence in the construction and | maintenance of roads and trails ceremony, the Board of Territory in the Territory. STOCK PRICES AKE ADVANCE, TRADING TODAY Bond Market's Steadiness Aids—Steel Industry Is Improving NEW YORK, July 20—An ad- in stocks was quietly re- sumed today. Traders took courage from con- tinued steadiness of the bond mar- ket and quietly drying up of liqui- dation in shares shorts are seeking ,to retire. ICommitments found nearby offer- The formal transfer was mads ings scarce. by Maj. A two or three minutes. alcolm Elliott, President, | {to Gov. George A. Parks, ex-of- more. ficio Commissioner in Alaska for| the Interior Deuartment, at 11:45 recession from the best at the la. m. and required no more than middle of the day but the list stif- At the con- |fened again. Prices quickly rose a point or In several leaders there was some Butte Hit by Terrific Gale clusion of the ceremony, Maj. El-| Shares Up oint HOOVER GIVEN WARNING FROM URBAN LEDOUX Must Call Extra Session of Congress, or White House Be Picketed BONUS QUESTION FORCED TO FRONT Butler Tells Veterans to “Lick Hell Out of Those Against You” BULLETIN—WASHINGTON, July 20—Three members of the House Army were arrested late this afternoon as the af- termath of a large group of veterans approaching the White House. The arrests were made after a mild scuffle with the police. Those arrested were charged with parading without a permit. A disorderly conduct bond of $125 was placed against each. Most of the veterans dis- persed in a good natured spirit. In the White House, Presi- dent Hcover kept at his work unaware of the incident. WASHINGTON, July 20.—Presi- dent Hoover is faced with the threat of calling a special session of Congress within 24 hours or the White House will be picketed. The warning came from n | Ledoux, delivered just before Ma- jor General Smedley T. Butler ad- vised the ragged crowd, if they gc home they should work at the polls to “lick hell out of those against you.” Ledoux tried to deliver to Pres- ident Hoover a petition demanding a special session of Congress at the White House. A secretary took the request. TLedoux promised that if other veterans won't help him he will picket the White House alone. ————————— BUTLER TAKES UP ISSUE WITH BONUS SEEKERS Fighting Marine Urges Vet- erans to Elect Favor- able Congressmen WASHINGTON, July 20.—Major General Smedley D. Butler, fight- ing Marine, in an address last night to the bonus seeking veterans here, received a huge ovation. He Hard C(impaigri No Worry to Garner for He WEENCANADA,U.S.LOOMS Has Stumped State of Texas on Horseback WASHINGTON, July 20.—Tt will be something new to this genera- fon to see *‘Cactus Jack” Garner mount the political stump. Down in Texas, where a district | that lacks just four square miles | of being as large as the whole| state of Maine has sent him to Congress for 15 consecutive terms, the old-timers may remember him as a hard-riding, straight-talking horseback campaigner. But, to the younger crowd, he is known as & man whose constituents | have thought so highly of their) representative that he has found it necessary to make only a few cam- paign speeches in years. It will be to his behavior on the house floor, then, that observers will have to look for a clue as to what sort of a campaign the Democratic Vice residential candi- date will be. On the basis of Tiis, his public| may expect colorful and fearless| speeches, a dominant thread of biuntness relieved with touches of wit and humor, and NO references {0 manuscript or notes. He always speaks extemporaneously. His appeal largely will be to the plain people, whom he is of and for. He speaks with his whole body,‘ waving his arms and driving home points with his fists, but his talk is of the straight-from-the-shoulder variety with no flights into oratory. His voice is high-pitched but his delivery is vigorous and he is noted for his ability to strip away the husks of 2 subject and drive at the facts and figures, Nervous before making a speech, he gains assurance once he is on his feet and words are clizped out with machine-gun suddenness as he warms to his subject. If his past record in Texas bears any evidence, he will be ready for whatever rigors the campaign may John N. Garner, Democratic nominee for Vice-President, knows what a hard political campaign is for he toured Texas back in the days when it was necessary to travel by horse. from-the-shoulder and puts his He talks straight- whole body into his addresses. Closeup shows him in a typical speaking pose. have in store because he has tackled many a man-sized cam- paigning job in his early days in Congress. His district then contained 32 counties and he had to address ral- lies in every one of them. Transpor- tation was not of the best—and he turned to the saddle as his means of covering ground. MRS. RODSEVELT IS DRY, BUT IN FAVOR, REPEAL Position of Wife of Demo- cratic Nominee Is Stat- ed—Controversy POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., July 20. —The Daily Eagle-News quotes Mrs. | Albert J. Aiken Rawlings, of New York, as saying Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt refused to endorse her! husband’s wet stand and asserting “I am a dry.” Mrs. Rawlings is Acting Chair- | man of a women’s organization for, Prohibition reform. She said she] approached the wife of the Demo- | cratic nominee and requested her| Prohibition Batile to Center On Congressional Elections By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Staff, The Associated Press, Washington.) Home from the Chicago conven- tions, and thinking it over, the politicians are beginning to realize {the prohibition shoe is likely to pinch hardest, not in the Presi- dential race at all, but out in the local elections of Senators and Congressmen. Under the Constitution, whoever is President after March 4, next. can do very little about the dry laws. Both Mr. Hoover and Mr. | Roosevelt can—and probably wiil SPOTLIGHT MAY SHIFT Incidentally, this offers a field of activity for those who, for one reason or another, do not fecl {impelled to spend their energies iand their influence on behalf of either Hoover or Roosevelt. Many of the friends of Senator |Borah believe he will take the stump for various Senatorial nom- inees favoring prohibition, and say little meantime about the nation- al ticket. Doubtless such repeal advocates as Alfred E. Smith and Nicholas Murray Butler will be urged to adopt a similar course on the oth- —suborinate this issue to the BT&VE | o cide of the question. question of economic recovery. But Congress can do a great deal about prohibition. :the President, is empowered to pro- Tt, mot It is conceivable that for the first time in American history, the Congressional campaigns which DICTATORSHIP PRACTICALLY ESTABLISHED GERMAN LAND Military Rule Now Pre- vails Over Berlin— Also Province of Brandenburg CHANCELLOR GIVEN GREAT POWERS BY AN OFFICIAL DECREE Move Results from Political Riots in Which 100 Have Been Killed, 1,200 Wounded BERLIN, July 20. — The German Government has de- clared martial law over Ber- lin and the Province of Bran- denburg and with military precision moved %wiftly to clamp down a Dictatorship over the huge State of Prus- sia. The move followed critical pressure on the Government to stop political riots which have taken 100 dead and 1,- 200 injured during the past three weeks. Chancellor von Papen has been appointed Commissioner of Prussia and Lord Mayor Franz Bracht, of Essen, has been named the Chancellor’s assistant, Dictatorial power has been given in von Papen’s name to his assistant. The decree of martial law was issued when Karl Sever- ing, Prussian Minister of the Interior, declined to accept President von Hindenburg’s emergency decree as binding and declared he would yield only to force. Gen. von Rundsedt has been placed in charge of Ber- lin and Brandenburg under the martial law order. ——.——— RELIEF BILL always coincide with Presidential campaigns but regularly are over- shadowed, may in 1932 present the real drama of a Presidential year. to sign a membership card. The| ha stit; incident reputedly occurred at the Ilt a.lo‘;e ;e: ll:odikfl; mnvdl;mI Roosevelt home coming party 8t qye wet and dry societies, | Hyde Park on July 0. and the wet and dry leaders in public life, have been quick to see ‘liott shook hands with the hczv.d—" Shares up a point or more were quarters’ rersonnel, wishing each | American Can, American Tele- igood luck end success. |phone and Telegraph, Allied Chemi- ‘| Extends Best Wishe ‘cal, Consolidated Gas, Borden, BUTTE, Montana, July 20—! The transfer took place in Maj.|Case, American Tobacco B., Liggett advised the men to keep their lead- er, W. W. Waters in the Capital City, even if the rest went home, to fight their cause. Butler also urged the veterans Late Yesterday— Rain Follows IS NOT SIGNED REPLY 1S MADE NOMINEES MUST TAKE NOTE Thousands of dollars damage was, Elliott's private office in the capi-‘& Myers B, Brooklyn Manhattan, caused by a terrific hail and wind tol. e said: Public Service of New Jersey, Au- storm which swept over Butte late‘ “Pursuant to recent legislatiou‘burn. Santa Fe. yesterday. fhy CongressI hereby turn over to| Union Pacific was up fractionally. Hundreds of windows were brok- you as representative of the De-| Soft Spots en by hail stones which in many partment of the Interior all of r.he! United States was isolated. cases measured one inch in diam- duties, powers, functions of the! Soft spots were Penny and Mc- eter. \Board of Road Commissioners fo | Keesport, off more than one point. Electric signs were ruined and Alaska together with all the prop-| Midweek statistics were mixed auto tops were punctured. |erty and records thereof. Ar- in tenor. Trees-vere stripped of their tofl»jrnngemems have also been made! The steel industry sentiment age. } é | to transfer the funds and accounts seems improved but there is little in Street car patrons huddled in the as of this date. the way of substantial quickening aisles to escape hail and flying| “Permit e to assure you tha% of operations and is mot expected glase. the retiring Board has done ev- for several weeks. A heavy rain followed the storm ' erything within its power to ficili-/ Add To Wage flooding the streets. |tate the consummation of this| The India Tire And Rubber AT . |transfer without disorganization or Company of Akron announced a Two-thirds of the people in the hindrance to the work, and that plan to add to wage and salary Michigan peninsula between Sagi-|we extend to you and your assist- checks for the last six months of the fiscal year to overcome the naw bay and Lake Huron were left homeless in a forest fire in 1871.0 (20 percent wage cut instituted last | January. Two Kings, One Too Many, Is | cuosm s zooax (Continued on Page Two) to elect Congresmen who are fav- orable to the bonus. “They may be calling you tramps now but in 1917 they did not call you bums,” Butler shouted. — COPPER DROPS T0 LOW PRICE NEW YORK, July 20.—Reports received here said foreign produz- ers are offering copper at 4% cents a pound and late today additional advices said this had been shad- ed to 4.70 cents a pound, the low- est which the metal has ever been offered in the world market. Domestic producers continued ‘o quote 5% cents. ALBANY, N. Y, July 20—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt said she personally is dry but she believes the Eigtheenth Amendment has been unsuccessful and is in favor of repeal. The statement was made in an- swer to reports she declined to join a women's organization for Na- tional Prohibition reform. THREE KILLED BY LIGHTNING ALTOONA, Penn,, July 20.—Three persons were killed and a dozen were stunned when lightning struck a tree under which they had gath- ered for protection from a sudden storm. ! where it means something. UP TO CONGRESS gress. convention, special assembled of the states. Ithis instance. ment is to be dmended ito take the first step. from both sides Congressional candidates. that, and to apply the pressure Tt will be vastly more difficult | this year than ever before for any candidate for Senate or House, janywhere, to dodge and straddle. | The constitution provides just two methods of originating amend- ments. One fs by the action of | two-thirds of both Houses of Con- The other is by a national for that|their down. purpose on the petition ot the Legislatures of two-thirds In actual practice, the second method never has been tried, and no one expects it to be tried in If the dry amend- or re- ‘pealed, it will be up to Congress Already the organized pressure is focusing on The #f- Of course, as the respective lead- ers of their parties, the Presiden- tial nominees will be compelled to take some notice. But the very fact of the vary- l1ng predicaments of the local Con- ‘embarrassmenfs of Republican re- pealists and Democratic drys— is sure to soften somewhat the ut- ‘te'ranoes at the top of the tick- {ets, and center the real issue fur- e CHAPLIN LOSES - OUT, PETITION Claims Valuation of Securi- ties Too High— gressional nominees—such as the BY PRESIDENT Action Postponed Accord- ing to Information at White House WASHINGTON, July 20. — Con= trary to statements made late yes- terday, President Hoover postponed |signing the relief bill, the aides at the White House made known. The Chief Executive wishes to allow more time for the reorgani- zation of the Reconstruction Fi= nance Corporation. It is mandatory, under the relief bill, that the organization is ef- fective ten days after the Presi- dent signs it. Owen D. Young, New York in- dustrialist and Wilson M. Mills, Detroit banker, were mentioned for places on the board of the Re- construction Finance Corporation. Ashes of Former Alaskan to Be Scattered Over Mt. McKinley fort to put every candidate on record was reflected in Senator| Bingham’s demand for an immed- iate vote on his beer bill, and by | the clamor of the wet bloc in the Py . ) NEW YORK, July 20.—Closing Bothering American Gypsydom quotation of Alaska Juneau mine ,stock today is 11, American Can «PETROIT, Mich, July 20,—Am-[ erican Gypsydom is troubled with | Board Says No LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 20— Twelve Thousand Men Idle; Factories Closed ing he is the real King by right 11, General Motors 8%, Interna- of both inheritance and election. tional Harvester 12%, Kennecott :33%, Anaconda 4, Bethlehem Steel /10, Curtiss-Wright 1, Fox Films two Kings which is admittedly one | King too many. Steve Stanley, college graduate, King Marks wants the gypsies 0 gy packard Motors 1%, United remain as they are. Councils have been held but 'States Steel 23%, Armour B %. —— says he is the real King, by right |nothing has been done, says Rosa of election, and wants the gypsies Mitchell, palm reader, and tribe| ‘Spread a paper before cleaning to go modern substituting American |leader. “King One says he is King. fowl or fish and then all unpleas- Other says he is King. There is a ant’ cleaning up is avoided. The Up bobbed Joseph Marks, lineal |{Gypsy King and if they ask who paper can be gathered up and descendant of the late King, say-|said so, tell them Rosa Mitchell.” .burned, trades for fortune telling. SEATTLE, July 20. Walter Holmes, brother of W. H. “Doe” Holmes, Texas oilman and former Alaska prospector, who died four months ago, in Amarillo, has ar- rived here enroute to Alaska. 1 Walter Holmes is going to the N orth to fulfill his deceased broth- | | [er's wish that his ashes be scat-| tered over Mount McKinley. Holmes is expected to get away today by plane, going to Anchorage [ from where Frank Dorbandt will pllot a ship over Mount McKinley as the ashes of the former pros- pector are scattered, House for a similar show-down. The Los Angeles County Board of |Supervisors yesterday denied the This is only the beginning. Be- petition of Charlie Chaplin for a fore it be counted on to ask the Con-| candidates over and tion as $7,668,000. “Do you favor repeal? Do' gressional over: you favor beer and wine?” is over, the friends and reduction in the valuation of se- oes of national prohibition may curities listed in his name. The decision upheld the valua- Chaplin said the valuation should be $1,657,000. As Result of Walkout HIGH POINT, North Carolina, July 20. — Industry here is near paralysis with 12,000 workers idle, It is estimated 150 factories have closed because of a general walk< 1oul. AR