The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 12, 1932, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XL, NO. 6106. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1932. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT4 HOOVER CASTS OVERBOARD “NOBLE EXPERIMENT” PRESIDENT IS WETTER THAN PLATFORM DECISION IN WALKER CASE MAY GO OVER Gov. Roosevelt May Delay | Action Until After No- vember Elections POWER TO REMOVE 'GOES TO HIGH COURT Mayor Testifies Today at Executive Hearing in Low Voice ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 12—There is a possibility that Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s decision ou the oust- er chargeés against Mayor James J. Walker, of New York City, will be delayed until after the Novem- ber elections. Gov. Roosevelt announced he will withhold action until after the question of his powers of removal has been decided by the Supreme Court. George Donnelly, Secretary of the Bronx Chamber of Commerce, de- manded that the Supreme Court determine Gov. Roosevelt's right to remove Mayor Walker. Mayor Walker today appeared calmer at the Executive hearing. H2 denied he influenced the grant- ing of a franchise to a bus com- pany in which his friend, State Senator Hastings, was interested. Mayor Walker made all answers to questions asked by Gov. Roose- velt deliberately and in a low voice. Yesterday he was very excited and vehement. — e —— HINDENBURG AND HITLER CONFERRING Prussian Pollce Make Simultaneous Raids on New Threat BERLIN, Aug. 12.—The possi- bility that’ Germany’s next Gov- ernment will be dominated by a coalition of Hitler's National So- cialisiss and the Centralist Party of former (Chancellor Bruening, loomed today. Adoii Hitler had a couference with President von Hindenburg, but reither would state the out- come. Prussian police struck simultan- eously in Hamburg and other cit- jes, raiding meeting places of the Communist Party and other allied organizations. This action follow- ed discovery that the Red Front Fighte: League, long forbidden, is active again. Business Slump Benefits Brazilian Wine Growers RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 12— Brazil's wine industry is taking the business crisis in reverse and gain- ing ground because imports are in a pronounced slump, due to re- triction on exchange. While wine imports have been dropping, the vineyards of Rio Grande de Sul, Santa Catharina and Minas Garaes have been es- tablishing: new production records. Rio Grande de Sul alone is ex- pected to ship 19,000,000 = gallons of wine this year. Previously the consumption of Brazilian wines has been small be- cause of the low prices for im- ported brands. Cover Patient with Rubber Sheet, Fight Flames; Are Thanked OAKLAND, Cal, Aug. 12— Even though his home was afire, P. J. Evans, aged 87 years, bed-ridden ‘for 10 years and unable to be moved, fire- men covered the invalid with a rubber sheet, supplied him with oxygen from a tank, to prevent suffocation, then uc- cessfully fought the flames. The nurse said the patient was not inconvenienced and thanked the firemen, MocN's SHADOW SPEEDING 2000 M. PATH OF TOTAL ECLIPSE & sun August 31. The map shows —= Speeding at 2,000 miles an hour, the moon’s siacow ail sweep down over northeast New England during the total eclipse of the the path of the tfotal eclipse and the shape of the shadow which will resemble a giant football. At upper right the sun is shown in various stages ef eclipse. With reports from two Southeast Alaska canneries missing, the total salmon pack of the Territory up to Saturday, August 6, was 3,534,546 cases, according to figures made public today at local headquarters jof the United States Bureau of Pisheries by Capt. M. J. O’Connor. Red salmon composed more than 50 per cent of the total at that time and numbers 1,949,188 cases. Pinks made the greatest gain dur- ing the week preceding and a total of 963,104 cases of that species had been packed to last Saturday night. Cook Inlet closed during the week with the largest pack oa record, 162,343 cases of which 83,- 272 cases were red salmon. The western end of Icy Strait closed last Saturday night affecting the Astoria and Puget Sound plant in Pack of Alaska Sah;mn Surpasses 3,500,000 Cases At the End of Last Week| Excursion Inlet. No report had been received yesterday on its pack which is reported unofficially to! have reached 80,000 cases. Eastern Icy Strait closed last night, shutting off a source of most of the supply from the Port Al- thorp plant of the Alaska Pacific Fisheries Corporation, but it will continue to operate for several day. on fish from the western district. The Southeast Alaska pink run was reported as heavier this week in all districts with larger takes by seiners and traps. Traps on both the Admiralty and Chichagof Islands shores of Chatham were getting fish in fairly good volume yesterday and today. Pack by Districts The pack by districts to the end of last week was as follows: *—Final report. t—Week ending July 30. District— Reds Kings Pinks Chums Cohoes Total Ketchikan 20,694 262 204,386 81,629 1,665 314,636 West Coast, P.W.] I 6,769 11,553 11,362 15,585 4117 49,986 Icy Straitt 21,586 ... 65,090 54,724 7,669 149,069 Westernf 8,927 6 34,820 83,467 3,669 130,889 Eastern 5,621 6,563 33,568 67,841 6,728 120,321 Wrangell 7,185 5 23344 12,333 1,388 44,255 Yakutat 18,435 4,883 6,124 67 118 29,627 Prince William Sound* 19,343 1,402 206,693 33,133 10,756 211,327 Cook Inlet* . 83,272 16,783 23,571 6,270 32,447 162,343 Chignik 109,068 128 26,847 3,387 340 139,770 Alaska Peninsula— (both) 316,326 5326 172901 82315 8,244 585,112 | Kodiak? 68,473 438 118,883 18,347 1,358 207,500 Bristol Bay* 1,195,164 12,546 35,515 9,781 450 1,253,456 Copper River* 68,325 7,930 76,255 Totals 1,949,188 67,826 963,104 468,879 85,549 3,534,546 t—Incomplete, one cannery missing. JOHN SCOPES IS CANDIDATE LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 12— John Scopes, central figure in the Tennessee evolution trial in 1923, is a nominee for Congressman-at- Large on the Socialist ticket. — e OIL LAMPS POPULAR AGAIN CLEVELAND, Ohio — Business cond.itions are making the old- fashioned kerosene lemp popular again. The authority is C. W. Stan- ley, who has been selling oil lamps a long time and claims to be en- joying greater ‘business than ever. Formerly people bought them only llm' tneir camps, he says, ALASKA MINE OWNER KILLED SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 12. —Frank Neville, aged 58, Grass | vallzy miner, was killed by a fall from the fifth floor of a hotel here. The body was partly clothed. A window in his apartment was open and the police believe he be- came dizzy and fell. Neville had mines in Grass Val- ley and other parts of California, also in Alaska. He recently re- turned from Mexico where he had ;been on a mining venture. T#0 hotel guests are held for investigation, Moon’s Shadow to ch.;;zp New England At 2,000-Mile Speed During Eclipse By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE (Associated Press Science Editor.) NEW YORK, Aug. 12. — The meaning of future stratosphere travel speeds of 2,000 miles an hour—something actually moving that fast—can be seen in northeast New England August 31. This speeding object will be the black, oncoming edge of the moon's shadow during the total eclipse of the sun which crosses upper Ver- mont, New Hamshire, Maine and a corner of Massachusettes about 3:30 p. m. eastern standard time. Watchers on mountains and in airplanes should have a good view |of the flying edge traveling over broad miles spread out below them. The shadow's speed is announced by astronomers as 2967 feet a second, slightly more than half a mile. Its shape will be that of a gigantic football, advancing side on, an eclipse 100 miles long and about 60 across. Starts Near Pole It starts near the north pole, comes down across Canada, and passes out to sea to make a 6,000 mile journey in three hours, Its last sight of land for the United States is Chatham, Mass.,, on Cape Cod. Spectators with a little imagina- tion can sense the earth's rotation while they look at this shadow. Those in New England will be traveling eastward with the earth’s rotation at around 700 miles an hour. If they face east, the shadow over- takes them from behind like an ex- | press train at a diamond-shaped crossing. It comes down from the northwest and rushes ahead to branch off to the southeast. Their own travel with earth's rotation be- ing partly in the same direction cuts down the shadow’s speed. This shadow is a black cone ex- i tending behind the moon an aver= age of 231,650 miles. When there ic an eclipse the earth cuts through the cone. The cut, astronomers calculate, may be made anywhere from just grazing to 18,000 miles {inside the tip. The earth can also miss the tip {like the lower end of tornado cloud funnel. Under such circumstances the tip of the shadow may pass anywhere from a few miles to 20,- 1000 miles overhead. The result then is an “annular” eclipse. The sun shows all around the edge of the RIOTING, FIRES ARE FOLLOWING SPANISH REVOLT Death Pen;; Demanded for Gen. San Juaro, Rebel Leader MADRID, Spain, Aug. 12. — Rioting and burning reddened much of the southern part of Spain as the Government planned to punish Gen. San Guaro, leader of the revolt. Oae man was KiM&d and three wounded at Santa Fe when guards dispersed a group burning a cas- ino. Two other deaths are reported in Seville where the streets are heavily patrolled. Guards are stationed around churches in San Lucar and Aznal- collar where mobs have attempted to set the churches on fire. A convent at Albecim has been burned. manted for Gen. San Juaro.. ‘Arrests of prominent anarchists consinued. Prison Factory Makes Auto Plates of Copper|a: CARSON CITY, Nevada, Aug. 12. —In a campaign to “sell” the gov- ernor and motor vehigle depart- ment on copper license plates for 1933, Warden Matt Penrose of the state peniteniary had two sets made at the prison factory as samples. According to Penrose who is also superintendent of the factory, cop+ per plates will cost about 11 cents a pax while the ordinary metal plates cost about seven cents a set to manufacture. He expects to start manufacturing the 1933 plates ni October, STOCK MARKET WAVERS TODAY ON ADVANCING Hoover's —A_c—ceptancc Speech Widely Discuss- ed on Wall Street PRICES TAKE SETBACK, EARLY TRADING TODAY “Wet Issu_es Take Ad- vance While Others cover Losses NEW YORK, Aug. 12. — The Stock Market continued to waver today reflecting uncertainty in trading quarters as to whether the advance will be further pressed without aid of a more general im- provement in business conditions. President Hoover's acceptance speecn was widely discussed on Wall Street but there was no agreement as to whether it would influence the market which suf- fered a substantial setback early in the day. Hoover supporters claimed the setback was due to the violent advance and they were inclined to praise Hoover for avoidance of flowing comment which might have stimulated spec- ulation. “Wet” Stocks Up Some “wet” stocks were bid up also power issues, reflecting Hoo- ver's stand on Government power, Issves up one to two points in- cluded National Distilleries, Unit- ed States Industrial Alcohol, Stone and Webster, Standard Gas, and Gillezle. Los: in some issues of from one to five points were largely re- gained. Wheat Lower Case and International Harves- ter iost” four points when wheat opensd lower. Off one to three points were Unitzd States Steel, American Tel- ephone and Telegraph, Bethlehem, entirely, leaving it suspended "“’“'Dupo t, Coca Cola, American To- bacco B., Santa Fe, and Westing- house. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Aug. 12—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 11%, American Can 50%, Anaconda 8, Bethlehem Steel 16%, Curtiss-Wright 1%, General Motors 137%, International Harves- ter 27%, Kennecott 10, Packard Motors 3%, United States Steel 38%, Armour B. 1. RESIDENT OF JUNEAU HURT AUTO CRASH Mrs. Gustofgr—s:)n and Two Children Are in Ac- cident in South LONGVIEW, Wash,, Aug. 12—R. M. Higgins, of Portland, and Jane Abraham, of Seattle, Higgins's niece, were killed outright, and Mrs. Jean Noble, of Portland, died of injuries shortly after in a hos- pital whenr a stage and,an auto- mobile crashed on the Pacific Highway near Castle Rock. Mrs. Hazel Harrington, of Port- land, and son Bert, were seriously car. The death penalty has been de- hurt. Mrs. Harrington may die. All were passengers in Higgins's Juneau Woman Hurt Several of the bus passengers, in- cluding Mrs. G. A. Gustofferson, of Juneau, and two children, suf- fered minor injuries. R. E. Harvill, stage driver, re- ported he was getting underway after stopping at a railroad cross- ing. He saw Higgins's car com- ing southward with dimmed lights ‘The auto swerved across the road directly in front of the bus and crashed. The Higgins's sedan hurtled into a ditch. —_———— BREAK DUTCH SWIM MARKS AMSTERDAM, Aug. 12. — Two Dutch swimming records have been sel up here for the 200 meter breast stroke. Miss Brouwers of Rotterdam, did the distance in 2:3 3-5 and Korperschoek lowered s owr mark to 2:55 3-5, W.C.T.U.Will Wage Battle, Hoover Plan Wil Oppo-s-; President’s Scheme, Says Mrs. Ella A. Boole SEATTLE, Aug. 12—Mrs. Ella A. Boole, of Brooklyn, President lor the Women's Christian Temper- ance Union, which is holding a convention here, commenting on President Hoover's proposal that States deal with prohibition as they saw fit, said: “The proposed plan will be op- posed by the dry forces every step of the way." Mrs, Boole said the proposal will rot solve the problem but “will create new problems even more difficult.” e ,,———— EXTENSIONS T0 OTHER REGIONS ARE ANNOUNGED O'Malley Adds Three Days Fishing Throughout Southeast Alaska In furtherance of his policy of aiding Alaska fishermen and can- 6OV, ROOSEVELT WILL CHALLENGE HOOVER'S STAND Democr agc_Presidemial Nominee to Make Re- ply, Acceptance Talk N. Y. EXECUTIVE TO SPEAK OUT, AUG. 20 Will Make Address in Ohio Outlining His Own Declarations ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 12. —What President Hoover said in his acceptance speech only casually interested Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Presi- dential nominee on the Demo- cratic National Ticket. Gov. Roosevelt retired without reading a word of the Hoover address. Later, however, Gov. Roosevelt will put his com- ments under a political micro- scope answering Hoover and challenging his stand, in a series of road speeches, the first being on August 20, at Columbus, Ohio. His answers|nery workers, harda hit by this will elaborate his own atti.|Years curtailment of the pink salmon pack and late rums of fish, tude on economic questions, | Upit-d States Commissioner of Fish- particularly on railroads. eries Henry O'Malley has extended the commercial fishing season in PRUVISIDNS 0F four edditional Southeast Alaska districts and on Kodiak Island, he announced today. Reports received from Agent Den- Alaska Not Overlooked in Measure Sponsored by Democratic Senator nis Winn who is studying the situa- tion in Frederick Sound and Lower Chatham Strait, and from both Ketchikan and the west coast of Prince of Wales Island showed an abundance of fish, making the ex- tensicn possible. Three days have been granted to the Southeast Alaska districts, and four days on Kodiak, except Olga Bay and Karluk. The run of pink salmon in that region is reporicd to be unusually heavy. Ex‘ensions were ordered in South- east Alaska as follows: Western includea in the provisions for re- |district, from the southern ex- lief funds in the Wagner Relief |tremity of Point Couverdeen, to Bill, passed by Congress in its|{6 p. m. August 17, Eastern district, closing hours as a substitute for|to 6 p. m. August 17; North Prince the Garner Relief Bill, it was dis-{of Wales Island district, to 6 p. closed by copies of the law receiv-|m. August 26; and Southern dis- ed here this week. trict, to 6 p. m. August 19. The measure carried $300,000,000) The four-day extension on Kod- for the Reconstruction Finance|iak TIsland carries the season to Corporation to be available for|6 p. m. August 18. payment to the Governors of the, The Commisioner today tele- States and Territories in furnish- [graphed Washington headquarters ing relief and work relief to needy |dire:ling the issuance of regula- and distressed people and in re-|tions embodying the several ex- lieving the hardship resulting from |tensions. They were authorized, he unemployment. said, to give seiners and cannery Requires Prior Agreement workers an opportunity to aug- The act provides that before any |ment their rather slim earnings money is paid to the Governor of |up o the present. A three-day Alaska for relief purposes, the|extension was given western Icy “Territory of Alaska shall enter|Strait last week for the same into an agreement with the cor-|reasna, and the trolling season, poration for the repayment of such |originally slated to have expired amount with interest thereon as|on August 25, has been extended herein provided, in such install-|to the end of the year. ments and upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed up- on.” In the States a different repay- ment is provided for in annual installments beginning in 1933 to be covered by deductions of one- fifth of the share of each State and Hawaii in the annual Federal Highway Fund allotments. Neither Alaska or Porto Rico share in this Federal largess so other ar- rangements are mecessary for them. Alaska, with all the other Ter- ritorics of the United States, was Legalized Gambling Urged As Brazilian Tourist Bait RO JANEIRO, Aug. 12.—Agita- tion for legalized gambling in Bri- zil and especially here in the capital is growing. Proponents argue that France has sttracted thousands of tour- ists i her resorts by this means and that casinos here would have similar effect. The agitation increased after a recent decree cut down the num- ber of lotteries. Advocates of the “wide cpen town” said that surrep- titions gambling could be wiped out only at great expense and that regulated games would bring new money into the country. e WEL(‘O‘VIF S. NAVY MEN RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 12— Rencwal of the American naval mission to Brazil is generally hail- ed by the press which has been supporting the government's plan for modernizing this country’s fleet. The rew mission will contain two as compared with 20 in mer body, Governor May Apply The Act further provides: “The Governor of any State or Terri- tory may from time to time make application for funds under this section, and in such applica- tion so made shall certify the necessity for such funds and that the resources of the State or Ter- ritory, including moneys then available and which can be made available by the State or Terri- tory, its political subdivisions, and privat2 contributions, are inade- quate to meet its relief needs. All amounts paid to the Governor of a State or Territory under this section shall be administered by the Governor, or under his dmc i (Continued on Page Two) IN ACCEPTANCE SPEECH HOOVER FORSAKES DRYS President \XTol_lld Jettison Prohibition, Urging Change in System ADVOCATES RETURN OF ISSUE TO STATES Urges Change ge From Diele sive to Offensive Against Present Depression WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. —Advocating a change in Prohibition and envisaging a movement “from a defense to a powerful attack on de- pression,” Herbert Hoover last night accepted the re- nomination to the Presidency. States should be allowed to deal with the liquor problem as they see fit, Hoover de- clared, but subject to consti- tutional guarantees to protect each other “from interfer- ence and invasion by its neighbors and that in no part of the United States shall there be a return to uu saloon system.” g In going on record in fav- or of a change in Prohibition, the President went beyond the Republican platform which confined the proposal to the question that such a change should be submitted to the people. In his acceptance speech, the President said he oppos- ed cancellation of war debts. The President favors a pro- tective tariff. Strong Defense The President also insisted that the Navy and Army should be strong enough to prevent invasion but asked arms reduction above that strength. He insisted on a balanced budget along with the reduc- tion of National, State and local governmental expendi- tures. The President demanded sound currency. Immigration He favors restricted immi- gration and asked conserva+ tion of national resources. A reform in banking laws is favored. Hoover advocat- ed reorganization of the law enforcement agencies, court of legal procedure and favor« ed the development of rivers, harbors and highways. REPRESENTATIVE SNELL'S NOTIFICATION REMARKS WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—For- mally notifying him of his renom- ination, Representative Bertrand H. Sneli, of New York, told Her- bert Hoover that “against all seen and unseen powers of economic evil cver-spreading the world, you have preserved the welfare of your country,” and upon him depends " (Continued on Fage Two) R Is Electrocuted ’ W hile Taking Cool Bath OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 12. ~—Hubert Ward, aged 21, was bathing contentedly last night in 2 tub of cool water under the breeze of an electric fan. The fan tumbled into the tub. $ A short circuit was made, shocking Hubert into insensi- bility and he drowned, i i