The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 28, 1932, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1932. NO CONFERENCE ON DEBTS UNTIL NATIONS DISARM Republican of Indiana Counters Proposal Made by Borah AMERICA NOT TO BE GOAT SAYS WATSON Indications Administration Not to’ Initiate Any Revision WASHINGTON, July 28.— Actual disarmament of Eur- ope is demanded by Senator James E. Watson, Republican of Indiana, as a preliminary to any world economic con- ference on war debts or re- parations, such as has been proposed by Senator William E Boerah, of Idaho. “It is unthinkable that we sheuld permit European na- tions to keep the money they owe the United States to en- able them to build up larger military est ablishments on the continent; and as far as we can see, that is their plan,” said Senator Watson. Ambassador Edge, in Paris, vesterday informed French Premier Edouard Herriot, that the basis of cooperation between countries lies in dis- armament. It is evident that the Ad- ministration is not going to take the initiative for a down- ward revision of war debts owed the United States and will demand a drastic Euro- pean disarmament as its price. LIARD PARTY BREAKS UP; NO PAY GOLD FOUND C. O. Butcher, One of Leaders, Says Engineer Reports Unfavorably “After a painstaking investiga- tion, no promising placer gold prospects haze been discovered in the Liard district of Southern Yu- kon Territory, and the party that was organized by Thomas M. Mitchell in Detroit, Mich., and that came north with five airplanes, 1 abandoned its mining activi- ties and is dsbhanding,” said C. O. Butcher, wealthy contractor of | Detroit, one of the principal mem- bers of the group of argonauts. Mining Engineer Coming Harry Townsend, well-known min- ing engineer, who was retained by the Mitchell party to report on the placer gold possibilities of the Liard district, will come to Ju- neau in a few days and then re- turn to his headquarters in Se- attle. “Mr. Townsend's report was un- favorable,” Mr. Butcher declared, “and does not warrant any fur- ther expendtunres in the Liard. He is now looking over some ground in other districts. “The Mitchell party will wind (Continuea on Page Eight) — e — Fails to Stop His Auto; Three Lives Lost SEATTLE, July 28. — Jean Rose Wilson, Ida May Wilson and Fred Pearson were killed when Pearscn failed to stop his coupe before driving across an arterial highway near Issaquah. The car crashed over an em- DISARMAMENT OF EUROPE DEMANDED __ MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY A recent Fhoto of former Congress- 1 man William D. Upshaw, of At- lanta, Ga., who was nominated for the Presidency of the United States at the national convention of the Prohibition Party at Indianapolis, Ind. Upshaw, who served in Con- 'gress until 1927, bolted the Demo- cratic Party in 1928, opposing Ak fred E. Smith in Georgis. PROTEST FILED BY HERRIOT ON GERMAN'S TALK Threats of General to Strengthen Defense Gets One Rise PARIS, July 28. — French Premier Edouard Herriot has filed a protest with the Ger- man Ambassador here against the radio address of Gen. Kurt von Schleicher, the pow- er behind the von Papen throne, who threatened to strengthen Germany’s mili- tary power unless other na- tions scaled down their arm- ed forces or granted equal- ity. The address is called tact- less and inopportune in view of the fact that Germany signed the Lausanne agree- ments and also adhered to the Anglo - French consultive pact. ——————— REVIVAL ENDS WITH 2 DEAD Hallelujah Meeting Con-| cludes with Regular Gun Battle SOMERSET, Kentucky, July 28.— Two men were killed when a re- vival meeting in the Quinton Bap- tist Church was disrupted by a gun battle. Three other persons were wound- ed. Officers went to the church to arrest Dick East who was creating a disturbance. Deputy Sheriff Murphy Johnson, and Tom East, brother of Dick East, were killed. The revival meeting was broken up. —_——————— Smedley Butler, Dry, ‘Out of Senate Race HARRISBURG, Pa., July 28— Gen. Smedley D. Butler, has with- drawn as prohibition candidate for the United States Senate. Defeated by Senator James J. Davis for the Republican nomina- tion at the April primary, Butler was nominated by the Prohibition Party by a sufficient number of voters writing his name on the ballot. Butler recently announced he would support Gov. Franklin ‘D. Roosevelt of New York, Democrat- ic nominee for President, IS PREDICTING Cheer Nazi Leader in Berlin Speech 30 POLITICAL PARTIES Decadence Must End Next Sunday racy of Germany is given only Hitler who is winding up his day’s election. In a speech in the Berlin stadium, Hitler was cheered by 100,000 people when he said: “On July 31 we must re- move the rule of Democracy, and Marxism, its vassal, from {Germany and restore a re- gime of discipline, national conscience, honor and power. “We aim to sweep thirty political parties out of the country. “The Germans must be a united people. “We are on the eve of great historical decisions and thirteen years of decadence are nearing the end.” Farm Calls Louder than Ever to City Population Drift Back to Land Gained Head- way Last Year WASHINGTON, July 28. — The call of the soil, and other reasons drew 252,000 more city folks to the farm this last year than moved to the city. Statistics made public by the Department of Agriculture showed that 1,471,000 persons left the farm for towns and citles and that 1,- 679,000 moved farmward. The farm population January 1, 1932, was placed at 31,260,000. com- pared with 30,612,000 at the begin- ning of 1931. Births account for the increase over and above those moving back to the country. The Department described the ircrease as the “largest and most significant” in the ten years that population cranges have been es- timated. For seven years of the decade annual decreases were reported and only during 1930 and 1931 were appreciable gains indicated. Mrs. Willebrandt To Remain Silent For Herbert Hoover WASHINGTON, July 28—Ma- bel Walker Wildebrandt favors the re-election of Herbert Hoover as President, but apparently not to the extent of breaking her “politi- cal silence.” To a report she would go cam- paigning in Hoover's behalf, a re- port which was coupled with con- jecture on her present stand on prohibition, Mrs. Wildebrandt, one of the leading women campaign- ers for Mr. Hoover in 1928, made answer: “I reaffairm the political si- lence which I have continuously and ' consistently maintained.” —————— TRENCH SILO SUCCESSFUL CLEMSON COLLEGE, 8. C— More than 100 South Carolina farmers last year used the trench silo successfully, the College of Agriculture extension department reports. The first silo of this type was built in the State in 1929, NEW REGIME| One Hundred Thousand| ARE TO BE WIPED OUT |} Declares Thirteen Years of BERLIN, July 28.—Democ- | a few days of life by Adolf € airplane campaign for Sun- A Four women are in the spot- light as the national politieal campaign gets under way. The November elections will desig- nate two of them to be the na- tion’s foremost hostesses. Wilk they be Mrs. Herbert Hoover (above) and Mrs. Dolly Gann? By BESS FURMAN WASHINGTON, July 28. — The four months of July, August, Sep-’ tember and October will be mgh-i lighted and tense for four women of national interest—Mrs. Herberti | Eoover, Mrs. Flanklin D. Roosevelt, | |Mrs. Dolly Gann and Mrs. John | N. Garner. | November's second Tuesday will| tell which two Hoover-Gann or Roosevelt-Garner, will be the cen- ter of Washington's official social life for the next four years. Individually they are about as contrasting a foursdbme as could be found. Together they typify American life. And whether they sit at home or circulate when the campaign comes, each will be a| factor’ in Presidential and Vice- Presidential fortunes. § Mrs. Hoover a Cosmopolitan Lou Henry Hoover, whose cam- paigr setting probably will be the south portico of the White House and Camp Rapidan is the cosmo- politan. Born in Towa to mem- ories of rail fences and fresh- turned furrows, she~has lived in China, London, California, and Washington, D. C. pitable home the hundreds daily pour, Press-shy, Mrs. Hoover has pro- vided comparatively little copy to perhaps no other White House mistress has piled up such an in- dividual acquaintance through a staggering “sum total” of guests. Her hostess gift is as distinctive as her shimmering, white hair. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, ac- Into her hos-| reporters during her regime, but} Tense Months Ahead for These Women; Election Means Much tive in the arena in behalf of her husband, is the “born tocrat” if America has any such to offer. |§ First cousin of Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, the *“Princess ¥ of Rooseveltian days in Whit House, Mrs. Roosevelt has the same slim, straight grace of bear- ing, the same social ease. Being aristocratic, she can also be as democratic as she chooses, gathering women reporters about her in a close little circle for inti- mate talks about her girls’ school and her furniture factory and the traditions she considers worth keeping in the White House Mrs. Dolly Gann gorgeously- gowned Kansas, a political cam- paigner in her own right as well as social hostess for her brother, Vice-President Curtis, is regarded as certain to play a prminent part | termed the “success story” type of American, rising to prominence and power side by side with her Indian reservation. Mrs. Garner Aids Husband wife Ettie probably will home while he goes campaigning —but those who know Mrs. Garner (best can not imagine the two that |long separated. Eitie Garner, bobbed-haired and | deep-dimpled typifies for many thc: simplicity that still survives in| {American life. Her heart is cen- tered in her husband and in her | Uvalde, Texas, home. | For elmborate dresses and social | | preference she cares not at all,| but she says she will even loyally meet the social obligations of the Vice-President for that husband “of hers. | in the campaign. She might be | half brother who was born on an | Speaker Garner says that his, stay at! If the Démocratic candidates are elected, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt (above) will be the nation’s first lady and Mrs. John N. Garner (below) will play & prominent part in the official capital social life as the wife of the Vice-President. ILLINOIS GETS THREE MILLION T0 AID NEEDY First State Given Relief Money from Federal Corporation ‘WASHINGTON, July 28.—Exact- ly one week after the Federal Re- lief Bill became a law, Illinois ob- tained $3,000,000 to care for the needy. Officials of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation said they ex- pect all States to care for the needs of those in distress as far as possible and call on the cor- poration only as a last resort. Other applications for State loans are pending . MAKES OFFER FOR PURCHASE, RICHFIELD OIL Harry F. Si—r;:Eir Bids Mil- lions for Assets of Company LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 28— An offer, equivalent to $22,862,000 for the assets of the Richfield 0Oil Company, made by Harry F. Sinclair, of the Consolidated Oil Corporation, has been accepted by a committee representing the bond- holders and creditors. The Richfield Oil Company has been in liquidation since 1930. Con- sumation of " the deal depends upon the acceptance of a majority of the interested persons. CHAPTER 1. WHICH MAN? (ROM where she sat in the stage box between her sister and her sister’s husband, Sondra Kent could see thetwo men whenever the lights went up between the John Anderson, very distinguished looking in the third row of the orchestra, was his best to be interested play, and polite to the woman be- side him. Mark Merriman, in not very good row of the dress circle, was finding it difficult to keep his eyes on the stage be- cause they turned so often to where Sondra sat. Sondra, nervous, undecided, un- happy, was turning over the most momentous question of her life, while Flora beside her disregard- ed the play and criticised the au- dience, and Flora's husband snored peacefully, screened by the cur- tains. ‘Whenever the lights went up in the theatre Sondra looked criti- cally at John Anderson. Whenever they went down again she thought of Mark Merriman, and wondered hopelessly why it should be pos- sible to care so very much for a man and yet be quite determined that nothing on earth would ever ‘nduce her to marry him, ! The Faithfed BY RUBY a trifle bored even while he did | in the| 2l AYRES Merriman was 28, good-looking, cheery, optimistic and penniless,! with a future even more hopeless, than her own, seeing that he had rothing beyond his personality to guarantee him a prominent place in the long line of candidates all of whom were waiting at the gate of the future, hoping for some- thing good to turn up. John Anderson was rich, in: fluential and 47, and ‘both men loved her. Neither of them had said so in $0 many words, for Anderson was a married man, Jong separated from a wife who would not divorce kim, and Merriman had nothing |but his love to offer her. Merriman was not a sentimen- talist who believed that little else | mattered if ‘only one loved well |enough for the had been brought up in middle class poverty himself, sities in order to give him a good education, and then after half a ldczen years of struggling to turn his father's small but inefficient .buflneu firm into a paying con- icern, he had watched that father idie, a broken, disappointed man, and had found himself face lo face with failure. He had been quite frank about iit to Sondra. l “What little there is left out of ithe ruin will be mother's of course, (Gontinued on Page TW0) New Plot by Communists Is Revealed Latest Propaganda Makes Attack on Banks Throughout Nation CHICAGO, il July 28.—Authors | of Communist propaganda which was found in a Pontiac, Michigan, hotel when the room of George Rowland was raided, are sought as directors of a nationwide campaign against the confidence in banks of 'BARTLETT SAYS PROSPERITY S EVIDENT HERE Nothing Wrong with Ju- neau, Former Local Hotel man Tells Chamber There’s nothing wrong with Ju- neau. It's going ahead as it should. It has a fine payroll, and its con- ditions are better than most towns in the entire country. depositors. The Communists are blamed for a systematic attack on the integ-| rity of banks in many cities in the Midwest. i C. L. Smith, Prosecuting Attor- ney at Pontiac, claims the move- sponsoring a whispering campa.lgn.‘l Rowland, whose arrest has been! ordered by the authorities, has not | been locatéd. | The plot reveals that unknowns call up depositors and tell them the banks in which they have! deposits, are unsound. HAVE GRUBSTAKE bandt arrived yesterday on a flight from Alaska and warned prospect- ors not to go to the new strike at Cordova or elsewhere in Alaska |unless prepared to pay their way and buy supplies both ways. —————e Equal Rights for Women In National Air Races than the men. All events, for the first time in the history of the classic, will be open to women fliers—but two events will be exclusively for the women. One is a 50-mile race similar to the 1931 contest won by Mrs, Maude Tait with a speed of 1875 miles an hour, while a new event will be the Amelia Earhart trophy SAYS DORBANDT SEATTLE, July 28—Frank Dor-' This is the conviction of Glen C. Bartlett, Manager of the Frye Hotel, Seattle, and former Juneau resident, as voiced today to the Chamber of Commerce. “You have a good substantial town and ought to pat one another on the back ment is backed by Soviet Russia.'and congratulate yourselves,” he William Z. Foster, Communist added. candidate for President, denied in | Sees Many Improvements New York, that the organization is| Mr. Bartlett commented on the striking public improvements made !here during the few years that have elapsed since his departure for Seattle. The permanent streets (Continued on Page Right) ONE VETERAN SHOT, KILLED; ONE WOUNDED Serious Disturbance Takes Place This Afternoon in Washington TROOPS CALLED OUT; ARE RUSHED TO SCENE {Squadron ‘o—f—Cavalry Hur- ried to White House— Area Under Guard WASHINGTON, July 28.— Late this afternoon one un- identified veteran was shot dead and another seriously wounded in rioting between the bonus seekers and the Capital City Police near the Capitol. Troops were called out at the direction of President Hoover. Squadrons of cavalry were rushed from Fort Myer and headed for the White House. The police strove to keep order but the veterans are in an ugly mood. Firing was started by a po- liceman after an order to “keep back” was disobeyed. FIRING STARTS Firing started when vet- erans rushed policemen. Police Chief Pelham Glass- ford was standing on the sec- ond floor of a building when the shooting began. Looking over the edge of a building, partly demolished, from which the veterans had been ordered to move, the Chief saw a scuffle with vet- erans, attacking Officer Shin- ault. The latter fired his gun. Glassford yelled: (Continuec on rage Eight) Predicts Victory For Democrats, His State Ticket OKLAHOMA, Okla., July 28. —Gov. William H. Murray, en- couraged by the success of his favorite candidates in the run- off primary, declared the Demo- crats will elect every one onm the State ticket. Murray’s choices won 26 House of Representative races and lost 21. I ! bility that | University of Denver physicists. { Many scientists believe thes (end Wlicox Overback, striking similarities. eries of science shows that radium rays can affect heredity, even cre- radium—about as much the point of a pin—within a covering of lead, a centimeter thick. Measured Radium Rays Two meters away they set up a sensitive meter to record both the faint radium rays filtering through the lead ahd the cosmic rays coming from the sky. With the radium at this first distance they found the cosmic I race with an award posted by the trans-Atlantic flier's husband, George Palmer Putnam, ray cts were constantly equal |to about one-third of the radium rays in the power of ionization. invisible rays come from the stars. ‘The Denver men, J. C. Stearns|tiny Heredity comes into the picture |because one of the latest discov-| il Stars’ Invisible Rays May Affect Heredity After AU NEW YORK, July 28.—A possi- stars affect heredity slightly is shown in xxmsurementslredium rays are believed to have of cosmic rays announced by Lwo“cr(azed the new species recently Ionization is the break-up of an atom. It is also the way in which | (in laboratories. In the species- | building the jonization broke up |the atoms composing the gases, living units which control | compared | heredity. |them with radium rays and found | Not Cutting Much Ice Dr. Arthur H. Compton of the University of Chicago, now con- ducting a world-wide series of tests finds about 15 per cent more cosmic rays in temperate than in y CLEVELAND, Oo. July 28. —'ating new species, tropic zones. But nowhere has b tha gggdrh::d:ttdomy a little less than | g, oise women will be admitted| The Denver scientists describe science found enough cosmic rays S ad Asiched his parents to all events on the national air|their experiments a letter toito be really a big factor in her- it Hmbelves almost Of neoss- race calendar August 27-September)The Physical Revie: They shield- |edity. They are fewer than the 5, they'll have a better “break”|ed two-tenths of a miligram of |radium rays naturally in the air and much less than the radium rays everywhere emanating from earth. Scientists have speculated, how- jever, as to whether there may have been periods in the remote past when cosmic rays fell more thickly. Both this speculation and this possibility that long ago there was more radium have been point- ed out as interesting guesses upom the origin of new species of ani- mals and plants many millions of years ago, i