The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 27, 1932, Page 1

1 i THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL PHE TIME” s, VOL. XL., NO. 6092. CONSTRUCTION OF HIGHWAYS 70 BEGIN SOON Federal Appropriation of Millions of Dollars to Aid States THIRTY HOUR WEEK GOES INTO EFFECT Vigorous Step in Right Di- rection in Unemploy- ment Situation CHICAGO, Ill, July 27.—A quart- er of a million men will soon be working 30 hours a week for 11 months. This is indicated follow- ing a nationwide survey. The work will be the result of the $120,000,000 Federal appropriation to aid States in highway construction in prac- tically every State. The construction program is de- med to make the jobless self- sustaining and.is hailed as a vig- orous step in the right direction. Relief workers are generally en- thusiastic over the provision of the 30-hour week thus providing jobs for more workers over a longer period. Highway construction will be doubled and tripled in many States by the Federal appropriation which must be matched on & dollar for dollar status by the States. Additional thousands will be em- ployed on road and other equip- ment jobs. This will also increase the sale of food products. LUMBER MILLS TOMORROW TO RESUME WORK All Workers——t:)_ Be Elected from Former Employees of Lumber Company Operations will be resumed to- morrow by the Juneau Lumber Mills in all departments, the of- fice of the company announced today. All workers will be select- ed from among those that were employed in the industry when it closed down. Orders on hand do not promise a protracted run and the company stated resumption would be for only a comparative short time. The mills opened this year April 1. They operated until May 25, when they suspended work. They have been closed since. ———e,——— A. R. MORTON IS SUICIDE SEATTLE, July 27—A. Robert Morton, aged 54 years, former Vice- President of the National Bank of Commerce, killed himself at his country home, north of the city. He had been in ill-health since last fall. A year ago he was divorced The coroner reported Morton, clad in a dressing gown, walked to the bank of a small stream in his garden and shot himself in the head. - ee— Women of the Moose at Anchor- chorage reently installed new offi- cers, Gertrude Lakshas is past regent; Edith Knapp, senior re- gent; Ella Mattsehei, junior re- gent; Theresa Irwin, chaplain; Bessie Quiton, treasury; Mattie Leckwold, guide; Clara McCut- cheon, assistant guide: Bee Bell Lockhart, sentinel; Agnes Ames, argus; Agnes Climie, organist. Mellon Back in U. S.; Denies He Is to Resign NEW YORK, July 27. Ambassador Andrew W. Mellon bas arrived here on a vaca- tion trip. He denied he would resign but also declined to dis- cuss the reason for his return home at this time, Married bv Dad Philip H. Rhinelander is shown with his bride, the former Virginia Rob erts, of Beverly, Mass., as they left the cathedral Church of St. Paul Boston, after their brilliant society marriage. The groom is & son of Bishop Philip Mercer Rhinelander, of Washington, D. C., who officiated at the ceremony. WEAKEST LINK IN RAILWAY 1S RUSSIK'S GUARD Paradoxicai iact Consid- ered in Light of Recent Events By STANLEY P. MOSCOW, July 27.—The Trans- Siberian railroad, the only line which links up the whole Soviet Union from the Baltic to the Pa- cific, is at once the weakest and the strongest factor in :'the na- tion's transportation system, from a military standpoint. This paradoxical fact is being considered here in the light of re- cent Japanese actions in Manchur- ia. There is evidence that such moves as the Japanese seizure on June 29 of Chinese customs at Manchuria, on Manchuria’s west- ern border, and the more recent taking over of Russian docks and warehouses at Harbin, have strain- ed Soviet patience. Uesson in Czar’s Defeat The railroad is weakest because i war comes in the Far East it would be difficult to move suffic- ient troops and supplies over it unless there was time for advance preparations. Historians lay part of the responsibility for Czarist Russia’s defeat by Japan to the railroad’s inability to rush large bodies of troops to Manchuria. Profiting by that lesson, the So- viet authorities began reinforcing |their already strong military base in the Far East as soon as the war scare was occasioned here by Japanese occupation of Manchur- ia. Now Red Army leaders assert that the Soviet Union is ready to repel an invasion—a possibility about which the press hére warns unceasingly. The military strength of the link lies, paradoxically, in the place which might be considered its greatest weakness—the fact that the far eastern end of the line, stretching 1,500 miles from Chita to Vladivostok, is only single track. It has been left that way delib- erately, as a piece of military strategy. Would Hamper Foe This makes of the territory ly- ing between Chita and Vladivostok a sort of a bottleneck. Therein lies the strategy. An official of the commissariat for transporta- tion explained it this way: “Suppose an enemy invaded so- viet territory from the east. He naturally would make first for the Trans-Siberian, which is the only means by which he could hope to advance. But a single track line could not accommodate the troops and supplies he would have to move. l “Consider, therefore, that if the RICHARDSON (Coptinued on Page Three) | |one-half days his third aerial trip pumuna in 1674, [UNEEAU:-ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JOBLESS MEN WIL GERMAN FLIER ANDCOMRADES FLY OVER SEA Capt. Von Gronau Brings Seaplane Down in Montreal Harbor REPORTED AIRMEN WILL COME NORTH Aerial Trafilazers Ac- complish Flight Fol- lowing Arctic Route MONTREAL, July 27. — Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau, German air- man, landed his flying boat in Montreal harbor late yesterday afternoon, completing in four and from Europe to America by the Arctic route. He is accompanied by three companions. It is believed the flier intends to fly to Japan via Canada and Alaska but he said the purpose of his present flight was to establish an airmail route from Europe to the Parific Coast. |IS COMING NORTH ON WORLD FLIGHT SEATTLE, July 27.—Capt. von Gronau is going to make a flight around the world. This was con- firmed by an oil company hers which said the route included Prince Rupert, B. €. Chichagof Island, Dutch Harbor and Kanga, Alaska. It was announced today the oil company has already delivered fucl at Prince Rupert. Sixty-nine Cadets Die Like Rats Trapped at Their Desks Below Deck When Ship Goes Down KIEL, Germany, July 27. — A group of buoys, signifying a trag- edy, bobbed on the surface of Kiel Bay today over the spot where 69 German naval cadets were drowned yesterday when the old windjam- mer Niobe went down in a squall. Sixty-nine youths were trapped at their desks in the schoolroom between decks when the ship sank. Only six of those below decks sur- vived. Thirty seven persons aboard were saved, including the captain and his lieutenant, 17 members of the crew and 18 cadets. Was War Prize The Niobe was a war prize. She was reconditioned for a training ship and for two years was in command of Count Felix yon Luck- ner, dubbed the “Sea Devil” for his exploits during the World War. Salvage vesels, equipped with diving apparatus, started work {to- day. All through the night, search-| lights played on the waters where the vessel went down but no addi- | tional survivors were rescued in| Germany’s greatest naval disaster | since the World War. Future Highs Die Two thirds of the one-year class of future naval officers perished. One surviving cadet said: “The| first officer had sufficient presence of mind to shout ‘all hands to SLar—’ board’ when the squall struck the| ship but it was too late. Scarcely 30 seconds later the Niobe was on the bottom of the sea. HEAD TO BE CHOPPED OFF PARIS, July 27—Dr. Paul Gor- guloff has been convicted of the premeditated assassination of Pres- ident Paul Doumer, last May, and death by the guillotine has been imposed. Gorguloff shouted: “Shoot me like a soldier but don't guillotine me,” as the sentence was 3 s v e o - smmmemmd G. V. Fesperman, 80, of Moores- JULY 27, 1932. This panoramic view gives a wrought by the disastrous fire th swept Coney Island, the nation’s most idea of the extent of the dnmnge] famous playground at New York. At left is the skeleton of the burned- out boardwalk aund at right are the ruins of nearly four blocks, compris- raged for five hours, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ing about 200 buildings which were totall; contents. Approximately $2,000,000 wox'ti erty and 1,000 persons rendered homeless by the conflagration which SOON FIND WO destroyed with their complete of damage was done to prop- Seeing Broadway It’s hard to believe that such a dis: tinguished {erson as this, who is known practically all over the world, is seeing New York for the first time. But such is the case. She i¢ Loretta Young, charming screen star, shown as she arrived in the big city from the West Coast. SPECIAL SESSION URGED FOR WASH. |Gov. Hartley to Be Re- quested to Call Meet- ing of Legislators SEATTLE, Jiuiv 37.—Represen- tatives of 52 organizations in the state of Washington are invited to send delegations to Olympia to present Gov. R. H. Hartley with a demand for a special session of the State Legislature. The dele- gates will urge that the special session arrange for a public works program for unemployment relief. ———.e—— Canadians Sponsor Back-to-Farm Plan VANCOUVER, B. C, July 27— To relieve suffering and pressure on relief funds, dominion, provin- cial and municipal authorities in British Columbia are cooperating in an effort to return unemployed married men to small farms. A plan has been worked out to turn over to unemployed married men who have had farm experience approximately 5,000 small parcels of land near Vancouver which have come into the possession of the province through tax sales. A feature of the effort is the ad- vancement of cash sums to each settler to aid each in establishing himself and becoming largely, if not wholly, self-supporting. - Poll tax payments by 13360 vol-lwas assoiated with Tex Rickard. Treasury Department officials fail- an are members of one associa- | ers this year shatiered all previous 1t js reputed he won and lost ed to agree on a means of evict- tion, under direct government con- ville, N. C.,, wears a pair of pants STRANGE TALE OF REVENGE IS TOLD BY YOUTH Stabs Aunt to Death, At- { tempts to Kill Uncle for Alleged Wrong SAN JOSE, Cal, July 27. — A} strange story of revenge which led | 20-year-old George Douglas Temple- ,ton Jr., University of «California | student, to kill his aunt and at- |tempt to slay his uncle, a wealthy' Manila importer and exporter, to lavenge the wrong done his father, | 'has been related to the authorities. | Templeton confessed in Oak- | !land, where he isheld on a charge. |to knifing Mrs. Lillian Babcock and | William Babcock, as they slept in | house at Mountain View. | Babcock is the head of the Phil- ippine delegation to the Olympic Games. He is a former business partner of Templeton’s father. { | Mrs. Babcock was stabbed to! death and Babcock has been dan- | gerously wounded. Blood trans- | fusion has been ordered in a hos- Ipital in an attempt to save his| |life. H Accusation Is Made Templeton accused his uncle of | defrauding his father, when they were partners, of large sums of money. He said he sought revenge 'as a possibility of replenishing his father’s funds through insurance | and inheritance from the death of the Babcocks Templton aisc said he took a lcan of kerosene to the scene with | which he intended to fire the place ’wmch the Babcocks were occupy- ing, figuring others in the place| could escape Stabbing Details “I stabbed my uncle twice in} ithe chest then went after my aunt. She pulled the covers up around her back and I had trouble in} |getting at her. By the time I got( the covers down, Babcock was oub of bed and grappled with me. I had to drop the knife and run,” Isaid Templeton in his confession | to the authorities WILSON MIZNER SERIOUSLY ILL | Reputed to Have Made and| Lost Many Fortunes in Alaska LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 27.— Bonus Army veterans apparently, | Wilson Mizner, aged 57 years, pro-i |moter, wit and author, who par-| ticipated in the Klondike rush, is sylvania Avenue when the Dl.szricb“ critically ill with pneumonia. He 1reoords in Palm Beach county, Fl|many fortunes in Alaska. ling them, STOCK MARKET BEGINS WOBBLY, THEN REACTION Steels Are Weakened—De- ficit Reported—Power Production Favorable NEW YORK, July 27. ‘The Stock Market responded once more to bullish stimulation after a wob- bly start today. Steels weakened for a time on publication of the June quarter reports of United States Steel and several independents, showing de- ficits as large as expected. Favorable power production re- ports and recall of workers at the RCA Victor plant provided specu- lators for a rise with fresh am- munition. Gains Registered Gains of one to two points ap- peared for American Water Works, Standard Gas, Pacific Lighting, Commonwealth and Southern pre- ferred, and United Corporation pre- ferred. Radio common gained fraction- ally but preferred gained two points. One point gains were registered for Union Pacific, Northern Pa- cific, Illinois Central, and Atlantic Coast Line. Steel Fluctuates Point losses fell to American Telephone and Telegraph and West- inghouse but they recovered. United States Steel common sag- ged. Preferred was off four points and then recovered. Trade today was moderate. Market Surges Up The Stock Marker surged up before the close this afternoon to the best levels of the summer, re- covery resuming which has pro- ceeded for five consecutive ses- sions until yesterday's slight set- back. $ Bullishness was stimulated by the brisk up-turn in the wheat market. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, July 27.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 11, American Can 37%, Anaconda 5, Bethlehem Steel | 13%, Curtiss-Wright 1%, Fox Films | 2, General Motors 9%, Internation- | al Harvester 16%, Kennecott 7, Packard Motors 2%, United States Steel 27%, Armour B #%. - — BONUS SEEKERS SCORE VICTORY WASHINGTON, July 27. — The won an important victory today toward retaining a camp on Penn- of Columbia Commissioner and | Glad You’re Back! Returning home after a brief vaca- tion in Europe, Gladys Glad, hailed as the “most beautiful show girl in the world,” is shown as she ar- vived at New York on the S. S, Paris, JOBLESS RIOT, SECURE FUNDS Second Outburst Takes Place in St. Johns— Banks to Aid ST. JOHNS, Iewfoundland, July 27—The second riotous outburst of jobless within four months oc- curred yesterday and prompted a syndicate of Canadian banks to advance $100,000 for a program of work to relieve unemployment. Fhe decision was reached after a night of disorder in which sev- eral stores were entered. Hundreds of jobless demonstrat- | ed 8n the streets, | Zionist Calls on World | To Help Balk Hitlerism| LONDON, July 27.—Dr. Nahum | Sokolag, president of the World's Zionist Organization, views the iproposal in the Prussian Lmdmgl |to confiscate the property of Jews | from Eastern Europe, as “an act| of barbarism reminiscent of the Middle Ages.” The Zionist leader, interviewed | on his return from the United| States, said that Jews of the world would rise in protest. Dr. Sokolow hoped that “the protes of the civilized world, against such resolutions, would help |to overcome Hitlerism.” ——————— All broadcasting stations in Jap- trol. | ; GERMANY HURLS DEFIANCE TO WORLD: GOING TO ARM RK EQUALITYIS DEMANDED BY GERMAN GEN.; THREAT MADE Nation Will Increase De- fense Unless Other Powers Reduce Armaments BERLIN, July 27. — Gen. Kurt von Schleicher, the pow- er behind the von Papen throne, struck a note of de- fiance to the world in a radio address, serving virtual no- tice on the world powers that unless Germany is granted equality and released from the limitations of the post- war treaties, she will proceed to establish her own security by reorganization of her arm- ed forces Security for Germany, Gen. von Schleicher said, can only be attained by other powers scaling down their armaments to Germany’s level, or by re- organizing German defenses. The Germna General said that if equality is “denied us, |we must take the alternative of providing and establishing our own security for the fu- ture.” DEMOCRAT IS APPOINTED TO R.F. C. BOARD Atlee Pomerene, Former Senator of Ohio, Nam- ed by President WASHINGTON, July 27—Way- ing aside party lines, President Hoover yesterday appointed a Dem- ocrat, Atles Pomerene, former Sen- ator of Ohio, to fill one of two vacancies on the board of the Re- construction Finance Corporation. President Hoover said Pomerene, who prosecuted the Teapot Dome ol investigation, will be elected Chairman of the Board. The appointment makes certain that Your of the seven Directors of the Board will be Democrats. B FALLS TO HIS DEATH;THOMAS LARSON KILLED Discoverer of Gold in Fair- banks Plunges Over Chff CORDOVA, Alaska, July 27— Thomas Larson, aged 60, said to be the. discoverer of gold in the Fairbanks districf, is dead as the result of a fall over a cliff on his property in the Kotsina District. Word of Larson’s death was brought here yesterday by his part- ner, F. H. Barton. Larson’s death occurred on July 21, Former Alaskan Starves to Death; $38,000 in Banks OLYMPIA, Wash,, July 27.— Andrew B. Craig, aged 71 years, who operated tailor shops at various places in Alaska some time ago, died as a result of malnutrition several days age. It was learned teday he had $38,000 in cash in various Seat- tle banks. A