The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 23, 1932, Page 1

i | i THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XL., NO. 6089. POLICE TRAP HOLDUP GANG; TWO M JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 23, MEMBER ROOSEV NOMINEE WILL INVADE STRONG SMITH DISTRICT Going to New Jersey In-| dustrial Center for First Speech MAYOR FRANK HAGUE MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT Unverified Rumors Persist- ANOTHER AID TO BUSINESS 1S NOW LAW Home Loan Bank Bill, Sign- ed by Hoover, Will Be cf Help MONEY TO BE GIVEN TO HOME BUILDERS Various Institutions Will ent About Important 1 Happening } NEW YORK, July 23.—In| the State of New Jersey, the heart of the Eastern indus- trial section and one of Al Smith’s strongholds, Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt will launch his personal campaign for the Presidency on August 27. The announcement is made by Mayor Frank Hague, of Jersey City, Smith’s floor Be Assisted to Create Work WASHINCTON, July 23.-—While Congress in its recent session saw the enactment of° a great many reconstruction measures, it will have before it when it returns in December still other proposals de- signed to better business conditions. The lawmakers have accepted a good number of President Hoover's recommendations, intended toward this end, but at the same time wrote into the nation's statutes a good many of their own. Added to the 7econstruction bills is the Home Loan Bank Bill, signed yesterday by President Hoover which makes it possible to establish eight S leader at the Democratic Na-'t; twleve Federal banks to make tional Convention in Chicago, 'loans to home owners who cannot K 5 . % get money elsewhere, to building who has thrown the entire ‘v, 7 Oo™ Srhio i support of the New Jersey banks, homestead associations and organization behind the man |insurance companies. )52y ht to defeat f the | Preliminary work toward the new 1e sought to defeal for M€ gystem can begin when the Presi- 10omination. * dent names five men to constitute There are also persistentfihe Federal Home Loan Board. but unverified reports thati the meeting, at Seagirt, where the speech will be made, will also be marked| R e DEPUTY SHOT by a public reconciliation be-} DEAD BY FIRE tween Gov. Roosevelt and] ) former Gov. Smith. { MAGHINE GUN .———— i {Investigator on State At- | torney’s Staff in Chi- ENEMY FLIERS ON PEACE TRI Aviators Who Fired at Each Other, World | War, Plan Flight LONDON, July 23.—Two former World War fliers, who drilled at each other with machine guns over the Western Front in the World| War, plan a trans-Atlantic flight | in the interests of peace. The fliers are Baron von Schleigh. | once the Black Knight of the iorm-‘ er Kaiser’s flying warriors, and Major Christopher Dyaper, the | “mad major” of Great Britain's| Air Army. The two aviators plan to make the westward flight in the near| future, sitting side by side in the, plane. cago, Is Killed CHICAGO, Ill, July 23.—Jack A. Werner, Deputy Sheriff, attached to the State Attorney's staff, was killed last night by machine gun fire while driving a relative to his home. The police said Werner had been gathering evidence and suggested the slaying might have been the work of enemies or those who fear- ed prosecution. Dances Halted By Rain; Host Kills Himself RV/ANEWICK, Wash., July 23.— Ralph Crutchfield, 40 years old, caretaker for the Kennewick fair grounds, has been found dead with a bullet wound through his head. Officers believed Crutchfield, des- pondent over financial troubles, had shot himself. He operated an Von Schleigh said: “We are go-‘open air dance pavillion here, but ing on a peace crusade across the dance after dance had to be post- Atlantic. Our only bitterness arises 'poned because of rain or wind. from those misspent efforts in the The widow and an adopted son war of years.” survive. He Didn’t Like the Sermon; Can He Get His Money Back? BELOIT, Wis., July 23. — If a(and wrote a letter to the pastor, man spruces up in his Sunday|It said: best, goes to church, puts a dollar | “After hearing your sermon, I in the contribution box, listens|decided it would be better for you to the sermon and doesn't like it, |70t to be contaminated by any can he get his money back? money coming from me.” And he suggested at the same Maybe yes, and maybe no. time that he would like to have At any rate E. R. Brannigan,inis crisp dollar bill returned. majority leader of the City Coun-| «1 haye” said the minister, “no cil, is trying to get ‘his dollar back. He put it on the contribution plate last Sunday. Then he listen- ed. The Rev. H. A Studebaker began to talk on “Civic Righteous- ness.” The more Mr. Brannigan listened the more firmly he be- came convinced that perhaps the minister was directing his remarks at none other than Mr. Branni- gan and his politician followers. For several days he pondered that sermon. Then he set down power to return Mr. Brannigan’s dollar. It is now a part of the general church funds.” But the pastor notified the trus- tees of the request and it's up to them to say. Special action by the board is necessary. Meanwhile Mr. Brannigan is wait- ing and wondering. He recently emerged victorious from an ex- tended municipal political fight in ‘which the city manager was oust- ed from office. Fl;eing tge Kliegrsfl Turning their backs upon Holly- wood for a well-earned vacation, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., are shown as they sailed from New York for Europe on the S. S. Bremen. They will spend the next six weeks touring the Old World. Mrs. Fairbanks is the lovely Joan Crawford, a star of the screen in her own right. SHORT SESSION Absorbs jProfTTaking but Maintains Lead of Past Week NEW YORK, July 23.—The Stock Market managed to absorb week- end profit taking at the short session today and at the same time maintain most of the gains of the week. The list eased somewhat during the first hour when a number of the leaders lost from fractions to a point but this was largely re- gained. A professional demonstration in alcohol stocks carried the leaders higher in late trading and the general list closed steady. Net changes were largely negligible to- day. The turnover was 300,000 shares. Car Loadings Gain The outstanding item of the business news was the freight car loadings for the week ending July 16 showing a gain of 87114 cars, approximately 15,000 cars larger than the decline of the preceding week. Prices Up and Down Rails and oils were about steady today. General Motors dipped a fraction as the quarterly earnings of seven cents a share were announced. The issue recovered close to unchang- ed. Point losses in Steel preferred, American Telephone, Westing- house, Union Pacific were virtually cancelled. United States Steel common and American Can regained fractional losses. Coca Cola was close to a point off. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, July 23. — Alaska Juneau mine stock closed today at 11%, American Can 34%, Anaconda 4, Bethlehem Steel 11%, Curtiss- Wright 1; Fox Films 1%, General Motors 9, International Harvester 14%, Kennecott 7%, Packard Mot- ors 1%, United States Steel 247, Armour B %. SAUNDERS TO VISIT WITH GOV. G. A. PARKS | To visit for several weeks with Gov. George A. Parks, Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Saunders of Den- ver, Colo, will arrive here to- night on the Admiral Watson. They will be house guests of the Gov- €rnor. Mr. Saunders is a vice-president of the Great Western Sugar Com- pany. This is the third trip he and Mrs. Saunders have made to Juneau, the latest having been two years ago. —l Al Corn is found in eighteen out of forty-three articles of food in the every day ration of the average family, STOCK MARKET CLOSES STEADY, RESOLUTION IS PASSED, GENEVA World Conference Ad- journs for Recess of Indefinite Period GERMANY AND RUSSIA /| ANNOUNCE THEIR VOTE Both Delegations Not Sat- isfied with Procedure —Further Work GENEVA, July 23. — The World Disarmament Conference adjourned today for an indefinite period after adopting a resolution promising a substantial reduction in armaments in later deliberations. Russia and Germany against adjournment. Resolution Is Weak Representatives of both Germany and Russia, announcing their vote for disarmament, said they did so although they did not support the resolution. The Russian delegation previously described the resolution as not suf- ficiently specific. Want Equality The German delegation objected to the omission of any reference to equality of all nations in the right to arm. During the recess, important.com- mittees of the Conference will €on- tinue negotiations on various phases of disarmament. 13 OFFICERS ARE INDICTED, MAN'S DEATH (Grand Jury Completes Work in Terrific Third Degree Case voted NEW YORK, July 23.—The forces of the law received both black and white marks last night as in- vestigations of police treatment of prisoners came to a climax. The Grand Jury at Mineola, New York, returned a batch of indict- ments against 13 policemen for the third degree death of 22-year- old Hyman Stark, the chargesrang- ing from second degree murder to second degree assault. The prisoner died as the result of strangulation following a terrific third degree. In Raiford, Florida, prison of- ficials and employees received a clean bill of health for the deaths of Harold Bradley and Frank Powell, convicts, who died in the prison camp earlier in the day. Capt. P. H. Randall, Warden of |the County Penitentiary at Griffin, Georgia, was indicted for invol- untary manslaughter for killing & negro convict. e ee——— MIDNIGHT MARRIAGES FEWER NEW YORK, July 23.—The nec- essity of giving threé days notice virtually has abolished “midnight” marriages” among [Episcopalians, the Rev. C. Rankin Barnes, and ex- ecutive of that church, said yester- day. | romance with Alfred Rcad, Jr., SAN FRANCISCO, Cal—Claire Windsor's drcams of a happy San Francisco stockbroker, are shattered by the heart balm suit of Mrs. Read against the film OF ASSOCIATED PRESS U. S, PLEASED ~ WITH ACTION, OTTAWA MEET |Liberal and Labor Party | Representatives Placed on Committee MAY BLOCK HIGHER TARIFF ON IMPORTS Preferential Treatment De- manded by Canada May Be Knocked Out OTTAWA, July 23.—The appoint- |ment of Walter Runciman and J. H. Thomas as Great Britain's mem- {bers of the important Committee {On Commercial Relations with for- eign countries was heard with sat- isfaction by American observers at the British Imperial Economic Con- ference in session here. Runciman and Thomas are mem- bers of the Liberal and Labor parties respectively and because of their affiliations they are expected to oppose any move by the con- food costs to British consumers. Bennett's Stand When Premier Bennett, of the ference which would result in high | TWO YOUTHFUL ROBBERS ARE SLAIN, TACOMA Walk Into Ambush in Resi- dential Section, Pay with Lives THIRD MEMBER OF GANG MAKES ESCAPE |Believel Series of Holdupe of Parked Cars Is Now Explained TACOMA, Wash., July 23. |—Gunfire of three policemen, from a trap they set to cap- |ture a holdup gang which had been preying on parked cars in the residential dis- tricts, killed two men last night from a decoy automeo- {bile in surrounding shrub- bery. Fire from sawed-off shot- {guns mowed two, the victims !being two men, about 25 actress for $100,000. Read exonerated the picture star of any blame and declares that Mrs. Read’s suit is a plot to get the actress’s money. This photo snapped in a happier day, when Read and Claire Windsor were seeing New York, This photo of Claire Windsor and Alfred C. Read, Jr., was made public by Read himself because he believed his wife would use them in her divorce suit and her $100,000 suit against the stage and screen star for alienation of affections. “Glorifier of American Gi;i,” Florenz Ziegfeld, Passes Away — HOLLYWOOD, Cal, July 23.— Florenz Ziegfeld, originator of the famed Ziegfeld Follies and inter- nationally known as the “Glori-; fier of the American Girl” died here in his sixty-fourth year. He succumbed to an attack of the heart at The Cedars where ap-! parently he had been recovering Dominion of Canada, said Canada Years of age, as yet unidenti- expects a preferential treatment of |fied. The: i i exports to the United Kingdom inl| ¥ AE8, cradiih Wll-th return for a tariff adjustment on:‘l 'score of holdups in the imports, it was inferred he con- trict. The third member of templated asking the British to th, i raise import barriers against non-| S5 believed to have Empire countries behind which the ©S¢aped in an automobile as Dominions might find guarantesd the others were shot. markets. It was argued that this Tra, could mean nothing less than dls-i The officers :e;r;:’:he trap and crimination against the United 2 getting two men were Sergeant States and also against Argentine Larry Amundson, Detective John wheat and meat, and also implied Paulson and Officer Percy Grej . higher costs to British consumersA" Two members of the holdup gg?; World Economics |approached the auto in which two It is believed that with Runci- of the officers were seated. One man and Thomas on the commit- |flashed a flashlight in the face of tee, W will become a natural bridge Paulson and demanded that ‘“he between it and the proposed world stick ’em up.” economic conference and suggests Sergeant Amundson leaped from the British may predicate Em- the shrubbery and Dire ~economio rehsbilitation on |the men e, Trrnded (e elimination of trade restriction be-| Raises Revol: tween the Empire nations ratherl One of the holdupvm?nrstuted to than on a higher tariff wall run and the other swung toward from a congestion of the lungs re- sulting in an attack of pneumonia, | suffered a year ago. Billie Burke, stage and screen actress, his wife, arrived at the hospital two minutes after his death. Ran Away From Home Florenz Ziegfeld, who gained his first experience as a show man at the age of thirteen, when he ran away from home and joined Buffalo Bill's wild west show, achieved his greatest reputation as a producer of girl-and-music shows. He won the title “Glorifier of' the American Girl,” and amassed a fortune through his annual| Broadway revues, The Follies, in which he led the trend toward| nudity on the stage. Admitting that he was to blame for the first tendency toward this form of daring, he lived to regret the extremes in nudity to which some producers later went. He claimed he had presented nudity( “artistically” and deplored the| | lies ASSOCIATED PRESS (K AN ZAKIAV) "LORENZ ZIEGFELD ~ attitude came in 1926, several pro- ducers had copied his annual Fol- idea, and had staged shows that proved as successful as Zieg- feld's own productions. Merit and Artistry “I am leading the movement back to artistry and normalcy in the theatre,” he said at that time. “There is but one thing left for legitimate producers to do, and against other exporting countries. IRISH FREE STATE HITS AT BRITAIN Dail Eireann Passes Bill for 100 Per Cent Tanff on Imports DUBLIN, July 23. — The Dail Eireann at a special session last night passed the bill permitting tariffs up to 100 per cent on Brit- ish imports. The bill is expected to be signed and become a law today. taliation against the 20 per cent duties levied by Great Britain on| The measure was designed in re- | Amundson, revolver raised. | Amundson and Gregg opened fire |and the holdup man dropped with lbuck.shoc in the chest. | The officers then fired at the jrunning man and he fell, caught llln the crossfire. i Then a car, nearby, drove away and it is believed it carried the third man. {LOCAL MILL GIVEN DEFAULT JUDGMENT IN DISTRICT COURT By a default judgment rendered in the Federal District Court yes= terday by Judge Justin W. Hard- ing, the Juneau Lumber Mills was jawarded $1736 from the West Coast Hospital Association, a Craig !organization. The local company has a lien on a hospital construct- ed by the Association at Craig |about two years ago. The Ilumber for the building daring and coarseness” of exploil- |y .s i 6, 1eaq not only audiences ers on Broadway, who, he said, ¥ o 3 : ~ (back to the shows based on merit were “pandering to the vilest| d tist; b e h tastes of play-goers to force a by |04 AT, ek to fovce i Sftioa - staimgede.” {producers to amend their ways.” pe He asked the theatre-going pub- When this announcement of hls‘\lic's suppart, by patronizing only NOME, Alaska, June 23—A Uni- versity of Washington co-ed ex- citedly recounted thrilling incidents of the past ten months spent stu- dying customs and lore of the Eskimo cliff dwellers of King Is- land. Miss Frances A. Ross, daughter of Capt. Thomas A. Ross of Nome, returned dramatically in one of six walrus hide skin boats with P The quaint flotilla arrived here after being long overdue in the 100-mile journey from King Is- land in Bering Strait. The hazardous trip was made without mishap. Miss Ross and her Eskimos appeared even less excited than old residents of Nome, who welcomed the adventurers. U. W. Co-Ed Rides 100 Miles In Skin Boat on Bering Sea those shows that were free from displays of naked women. Even in matrimony Ziegfeld con- fined himself to the theatrical field. His first wife was Anna Held, whom he starred in several productions and from whom he was subsequently divorced. In 1914 he married Miss Billie Burke, the actress, who was the star in sev- eral of his productions. A daugh- ter, Patricia, was born to the cou- ple in 1916. Ziegfeld was born As the only witte woman who | ever lived on ragged King Island,| Miss Ross related her activities| and observations during the past ten months. Hunts Walrus and Seal in Chicago, Irish Free State goods on account of defaulting in land annuities. was obtained from the Juneau mill, when the enterprise collapsed due ——— largely to changed economic con- A new college to be called Roger ditions, the Craig hospital backers Williams University is to be estab-] were unable to make payments lished at Westerly, R. I. as had been planned. John Wanted to Be “Cop” Until He Met 2 Real Ones CHICAGO, July 23. —The life|chants said. John's chest swelled ambition of John Lenardo was to/with pride and he felt sure at be a “cop.” ylast he had tasted all of the joys Life could hold no more happi-;ol life. ness for him, if he could sWing| Good things end. Two detectives a club, pick peanuts from the Ven-|say him, took him to the detec “I had a wonderful experience hunting walrus, seal and big birds,” sald the Washington co-ed, who will complete her senior year,start- ing this Fall “The Eskimos were kind to me! and gave me cvery assistance in my studies. T would like very much to spend another winter on the island, but I want to complete my studies at Washington.” She said the trip from the is-| land to Nome in a skin boat was “most fascinating,” as the sea was rough at times and the frail craft /March 31, 1868. Back To School His first venture in the show field, Buffalo Bill's show, was brief, as his parents took him back home and compelled him to resume his schooling. His father conducted the Chicago Musical College and the son devoted ten years to that |institution, becoming general man- ager and director. His first experience as an im- pressario came to him partly by tossed as a cork, l (Continued on Page Two) l dor’s stand, pat little children on their heads and be addressed as| “officer.” So John became a policeman. | No one told him he could. In real| life he was a railroad clerk, but| |he managed to squeeze out 45 min-| utes a day of his spare time for| his police duties. In a novelty shop he bought al| star and a toy pistol. For his beat he .chose the ghetto. Daily he strolled for 45 minutes, the star on his breast and the top gun bulging on his hip. “A nice day, officer,” the mer- |regularly and work hard. \ MR tive bureau. “I just walked up and down the ghetto,” said John. “The life of a policeman is grand. I want to be one.” The policemen couldn't under- stand. They don't get paid very They told him they would have to turn him over to the Federal authori- |ties. Because the star John selécted wasn't a policeman's at all It was the badge of a United States mar- shal, y