The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 16, 1932, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL FHE TIME” VOL XL., NO. 6109. 'FARMERS ON STOCK PRICES TAKE ADVANCE, RAILS LEADING Gains Are Registered for Many Issues from One to Seven Points OPTIMISTIC REPORTS | IN TEXTILE CENTERS| Bear Elements Surprised at Comeback—Gossip | on New Pool NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—Railroad sharss pushed through to new highs today but the 118t was gen- erally unable to follow. ‘Today’s session began with a wild flurry of buying in which many issues were boosted from one to seven points. ‘Trading turned quieter and prof- it taking was encountered. Ralls continued strong in the middle of the day. Gains of Six Points Uaion Pacific, Allied Chemicals, Case, Norfolk and Western made gains of six to seven points. The first three ‘then lost two to three poin‘s. United States Steel was up three points. American Telephone and Tele- graph was a firm feature holding up four points. Issues Up 2-3 Points Gains of two to three points were made by, American Can, Westing- house, Eastman, American Tobacco B., Liggett & Myers B., New York Cen‘ral and Southern Pacific. Other shares up one point were Radin, General Electric, General Motors, and Standard Ofl of New Jersey. Coppers were sluggish. Renewed firmness was felt in commcaities. Optimistic Reports Ontimistic reports from the tex- tile centers remained the princi- pal stimuli following reports of orders for six months and wage advances. A considerable element of the bear factions was surprised by the sudden comeback of the market from yesterday. Public Participates Brekers report active public par- ticipation from many cities. Gossip concerning pool manipu- lation buzzes but there is consid- erable difference in opinion as to how important a factor syndicate operations have become. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—Alaska Junem mine stock closed ' today at 12, American Can 54%, Ana- conda 9%, Bethlehem Steel 19%; Curtiss-Wright 1%, General Motors %, International Harvester 29%, Kennecott 11%, Packard Motors 3%, United States Steel 3%, Ar- mour B 1%. —l INCREASE PAY T0 EMPLOYEES IN SILK MILLS Plants to 0—p~e_r;te Full Ca- pacity — Orders for Six Months Signed CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, Aug. 16. — The Durham Hosiery Company has ordered a blanket increase of 10 per cent in wages to those employed in the silk mills at Greensboro and Kernersville. An increase in pay has also been ordered of 10 to 12 per cent in many other cotton and silk mills. It is reported orders are on hand to run the mills for six months. —eo—— STEAMER SINKS; 22 LOSE LIVES MARSEILLES, France, Aug. 16.— Twenty-two men are reported to have drowned in the sinking of a fast dispatch boat in the mail serv- jce to'South Amierica. The vessel was enroute from Natal, Brazil, to Dakar, Senegal, and ran ‘into' a Brmgmg Trade D. Chapin, seated at the wheel of the Commerce Department as suc- cessor to Robert P. Lamont, may find that the stiffest climb facing his machine is the uphill drive to business recovery. Officials here believe that this drive will be the chief problem of *he aggressive optimist as well as his chief opportunity to make good with the Cabinet portfolio. Allied is the problem of steer- ing a course, or building a road, that may minimize the necessity of such steep climbs in the future. Machinery Geared Up To include his new work, the| veteran automobile man will head a machine geared in most part to th> promotion of the natkm‘s‘ industry and trade. As its leader he will be faced ' immediately with two very prnc-‘ | are continually asking the depart-' ment these days: How can we get orders and how can we reduce costs? | It is believed here that Secre-| tary Chapin, because he has tack- | led these same problems in his own work, may offer new ideas or concentrate on old ones which have been suggested or tested by his own experience. i He has, for instance, emphasized | in the past the necessity for mass | distribvtion. With the opportuni- ties he will now have for leader- ship it is taken in many quarters that he may stress this subject whicn many economists have held forth &s an essential, but too often disrezarded, companion to mass’ production. In other business quarters it is believed that one of the current problems in which he may take leaderskip is the turning of n-ade WASHINGTON, Aug. 16. — Roy tical questions which business men 'from being Revival Chapin’s Biggest Task As Commerce Secretary ROY D..CHAPIN “savings minded” becoming “sales minded.” Beiief that Secretary Chapinmay be active in establishing such a transformation is based particu- larly on his automobile associa- tion, a line which has been noted for its aggressive ‘“sales-minded- ness.’ An International Problem A p:oblem facing him in inter- national trade is the growing trend lamong nations to be self suffic- lent, 2 trend which has led to im- mediite losses in export trade. That the subject holds few fears for tMe new Secretary has been evidenced by his often-expressed business philosophy that anything that increases buying power aboard will ultimately be reflected in in- 'ereased purchases of American products P.R. BRADLEY COMMENTS ON A. J. PROGRESS Deep Sha EBeing Con- nected and Mt. Juneau Situation Normal Mining and milling of ore from the 1,000-foot level below the Al-‘ aska Juneau's present main haul- | age level will start as soon as the two shafts to the deep level ore- body have been connected, it was made known last night by P. R. Bradley, Consulting Engineer for the company, who has been here for the past six weeks on his an- nual inspection visit. With ull-m.l Bradley and their two daughters,/ he left on the Aleutian for their, fome in San Francisco. Progressing on Schedule “Work is progressing on the deep level expansion program ac-; cordiag to schedule, as are the explorations on Mt. Juneau where a long tunnel is now in progress with drifting and cross-cutting,” said Mr. Bradley. Ore values in ‘the deep level body continue to maintain the av- erage already announced. These values, as stated by Mr. Bradley last summer, averaged $320 per ton. . Pause In Some Aciivities “Deep underground development in the present warkings has reach- ed a stage where there is a pause in other activities,” Mr. Bradley declared. “We are now making a connection on the 1,000 foot lev- el between the two shafts. When this connection is completed, we shall begin taking out ore from, above the level. “On Mount Juneau, We are con- tinuing the driving of our long tunnel, and cross-cutting from time to time. The situation there is normal.” ———.——— FLIER BOARDMAN INJURED, CRASH SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Aug. 16.— Russell Boardman, trans-Atlantic flier, was seriously injured in an airplane he was trying out this afternoon when he crashed in the woods from a height of 2,000 feet. ‘ Boardman was in a semi-con- scious condition when found. His storm. Efforts to learn the fate of the crew has #e far failed. " = chances for recovery are said to AMERICAN I8 ASSASSINATED, CHINA REGION Employee of Motdt Com- pany Reported Kill- ed by Soldiers PEIPING, China, Aug. 16.—Lieu*. 'Robert Soule, official of the United States Legation, reports that Henry Ekval, American, employed by the China-United States Motor Com- pany at Hankow, was slain by Chinese soldiers near Sianfu dur- /ing July. The Legation has forwarded a protest to Nanking. Ekval disappeared while on a motor trip from Kansu Proyince. He was last reported 20 miles from Sianfu accompanied by the Rev. Tornvall, of the Swedish-Scandi- navian Alliance Mission, with head- quarters in Chicago. An unidentified Japanese report showed a trio was murdered about that time and thes bodies of the victims were thrown into an aban- doned well. e CRAFT LEAKING IN BERING SEA DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska, Aug. 16.—Schooner Sophie Christenson is revorted leaking badly on Ber- Ing Sea, and is ufder sail making for the nearest port. She has a ¢argo of codfish aboard. — et BAND AT BALL PARK TONIGHT Finally mustering ai members from camping trips and jobs out of the city, the Juneau City Band will ajpear at the ball game to- night and play between innings. The n.usiclans expect to arrive at the purk about 6:30 o'clock. ———————— ELEPHANTS MENACE FARMS WINDBORN, Southwest Africa, Aug. 16—Elephants are charging settlers and damaging farms in the district of Ourjo. Being classed as royal game, they can not be shot lut special licenses have been issued to farmers to kill beasts ‘umm. i Garner Has Long Conference with Alfred E. Smith NEW YORK, Aug. lS.—JOh‘l N. Garner, Vice-Presidential | candidate on the Democratic National Ticket, today called on former Gov. Alfred E. Smith. He announced he had hopes Smith would support the ticket. Smith had no comment to make. After an extended conference, Garner said: “In support of the Democratic ticket, I think Smith will be worth more any other man.” EXPECT DIMOND TO TAKE THIRD BY LARGE VOTE Estimates Range from 75 to 1,000 Votes—Has Launched Campaign Observers in the Third Division, of both parties, predict that Sen- ator A, J. Dimond of Valdez, Dem- ocratic candidate for Delegate to: Congress, will carry that section of the Territory by a big majority, estimates ranging from 750 +to 1,000, according to Albert Wile, Jocal merchandise broker. who re- turned here this morning after a business trip as far as Anchorage. “Everywhere I found prevailing a conviction that this is to be a great Democratic year, and the in- dications are favorable to a sweep- ing victory for the entire party ticket in the Third,” Mr. Wile de- clared. Senator Dimond has just launch- ed his campaign that will last un- til the polls close on November 8. He left Valdez last Thursday for Anchorage where he was to have taken an airplane on his first leg of a trip that will take him to Fairbanks on September 1. He wull cover Cook Inlet and Ke- nai points, Kodiak, the Alaska Peninsula, Bristol Bay, the Kus- kokw'm, lower Yukon and Second Divison points, and take a plane from there to Fairbanks. He also expects to visit several precincts on taz upper Yukon Rivér, Rich- ardson Highway and the Afaska Railroad districts before returning to Valdez to canvass all of Prince William Sound. He will come here from Cordova about October 1, and remain in Southeast Alaska until after the election. Tt is his plan to visit every precinct where there are enough votes to justify a public mee‘ing His campaign calls for work for every man on the Demo- cratic ticket. CHICHAGOF ENGAGED IN PATROL WORK Bound for Ketchikan, the sea- plane Chichagof, Pilot Anscel Eck- mann and Mechanic Gordon Gra- {ham, left Juneau this morning. At GGMMUNISTS | INGERMANY PLAN STRIKE Nationwide Movement Ar- ranged as War Against Chancellor HITLER FORCES ARE AGITATING TROUBLE Storm Brewing Over Inac- tivity for Unemploy- ment Relief BERLIN, Aug. 16. — Leaders of Germany's 3,500,000 Communists to- day laid plans for a nationwide strike as war against Chancellor von Papen's Government to force it to adopt measures for relief of unemployment. Rent strikes are among the sev- eral schemes advanced. Meanwhile the Government, goad- ed by denunciations of its policies by the Hitler forces, is experiencing difficulties in securing financial backing for its unemployment plans, indicating a storm is ahead. The Reichbanks is holding aloof at suggestions of the Government and blame legal restrictions in the present economic stringency. —, LOST CITY I8 DISCOVERED 1N DENSE JUNGLES Chewinga.m Leads to Important Find in Mexican Wilds WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—Amer- ican demand for chewing gum has discovered a lost city in the Mex- ican jungles which 1,000 years ago was the metropolis of Egypt-like civillzation, Great pyramids and ruins of temples and palaces in Which a teeming popaulation once lived. have been found buried in now what is an uninhabited and al- most impassible jungle, by an ex- pedition of the Carnegle Institute. Natlve chewing gum hunters who explored the region for chicle first found the ruins, The place has been named Calakmulu by C. L. Lundell, first American to visit it. ‘The city was built at the height of a vanished civilization of the old Empire of Mayas. It is on the Yucatan Peninsula, just -over the nerthern border of Suatemala and contains two huge 'pyramids, over 150 feet high, and ‘has more cultured monuments than any other Maya city yet found. Ketchikan the aircraft will embark H. B. Friele, of the Naket Pack- ing Company and patrol fish traps and canneries of the company. The Chichagof will return to her base in this city tomorrow. Yesterday the seaplane started for Li‘uya Bay, but visibility was so poor that after having reached Port Althorp she returned to Ju- neau. Boys Who Flay Hookey May Get School in Jail RALEIGH, N. C, Aug. 16.—Boys who played hookey from school to keep from studying their lessons and wandered into a life of crime may soon find their books and slates awaiting them in jail. Mrs. J. K. Slear, Chairman of the North Carolina Adult Illiterary Commission, has announced that a movement to stamp out illiterary in prisons will be started in the State. Mrs. Slear said the commission believes that through teaching men in prisons of the State fundamen- tals of reading, writing, and arith- metic much can be accomplished toward making them law abiding citizens when they are released. —————————— QUITS GOLD FOR BIRDS SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich, Aug. 16—M. L. Magee did not have time for both golf and bird hand- lin, so he is spending all his time with the birds, a much better sport, he thinks. Magee is proud of one record he has made. In 1025 he banded a purple finch. The bird has.been reported to him Agreements For Trade Negotiated Empire Conference at Ot- tawa Perfecting 5- Year Plan OTTAWA, Aug. 16—The Emplre Conference is moving toward the British 5-year plan of trade. Agree- ments will be negotiated for five years and then terminated on six months’ notice. No move has been made to change the date of the plenary session scheduled on Thursday, end- ing the conference. Canada and Great Britain are expected to perfect their agree- ments by tomorrow. Nineteen Lives Lost When Steamers Crash LONDON, Aug. 16.—A message to Lloyds from Toyko reports 19 lives were lost when the steamer Hide Maru collided with the Nichifuku Maru in the Inland Sea. The latter craft sank almost im- mediately. S—elpe— AMERICAN SCHOOL CLOSED SCUTARI, Turkey, Aug. 16— #nnual Congress of American Schools decided to close the Go- ziepe Bchool for boys and the Adana School for girls because in- sufficlent funds came from Amer- ica this year. home darkened by the tragedy of after their first son was kidnapped. the. first child was born. Gow, the first baby's nurse. fidence in her. She is now visiting ished the Lindbergh baby, yet. : MLMBE.R OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Another Son Born to Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh HAPPINESS BROUGHT BACK TO FLYING COUPLE ENGLEWOOD, New Jersey, Aug. 16.—Another son has been born to Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, bringing happiness back to the five months and sixteen days ago Mrs. Lifidbergh and child are both in good health. The child was born at the home of Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow where Mrs. ‘Morrow recently returned from Europe | to be present at the time of the happy event. It is considered likely that the baby's nurse will be Miss Betty Although questioned closely in connection : with the kidnaping, the Lindberghs always expressed complete con- at her home in Scotland. WILL GUARD BABY IF REQUESTED TRENTON, N. J, Aug. 16.—Major Charles Schoefell, Assistant Sup- erintendent of the New Jersey State Police, said a guard will be furh- if requested, but none has been requested PROPERTY OF MONARCHISTS T0 BE SEIZED Seville Government Takes Action Following Spanish Rebellion SEVILLE, Spain, Aug. 16—Far- reaching. orders for confiscation of property of Monarchists and nobles have been issued by the local Government in a clean-up of the abortive Monarchist rebellion. The Government has taken pos- session of the chalet of Marquis Esquevel and announced it will take possession of other nobles found to have aided the recent one-day rebellion financially. A manifesto issued to the people urges calm during the revolt in- quiry. ———— ACTRESS LINKED T0 WALKER CASE ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 16—The name of Betty Compson, actress, was unofficially linked today in the Walker investigation when the New York City Executive, answer- ing reporters if Miss Compson was the “unknown person” to whom Robert Sherwood, missing account- ant, paid ‘money. Mayor Walker said: “Who do you suppose it was?"” The Mayor testifled concerning an unknown person who was a woman. The Sherwood accounts reveal that more than $40,000 was paid to an unknown person. The Mayor denied, however, that he knew anything of a deal. - e Classes at the University of Towa this Fall begin later than usual, allowing football candidates nine days of double drills after practice lst.ar:s September 15, TRAINS TO RUN ON ALASKA RR. BY NEXT FRIDAY Through Traffic to Be Re- sumed from Coast to Interior ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Ag. 16.— The Alaska Railroad announces re- sumption of through traffic from Seward to Fairoanks starting Fri- day as the result of completion of repairs of recent washouts. Airplanes have been carrying passengers awd freight from Curry to Fairbanks over the washed out district. - e GRONAU IS ON HOP TO COAST LAKE ' CORMORANT, Manitoba, Aug. 16—After three days of fish- ing, Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau and his three companions, who recently crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a seaplane, left today for La- clabiche, Alberta, the next stop in their flight to Prince Rupert, B. C. ~HUNDREDS OF MEN GUARDING IOWA HIGHWAYS Situation, Unique in State, Marked by Picketing and Boycotting ' REJECT DECLARATION | FOR MARTIAL LAW {Strike Movements Report- ed in Various Other States—Alarm SIOUX CITY, lowa, Aug. {16.—Armed forces of the law |have been organized to main- tain order in Iowa’s farm strike. Leaders of the movement sought to spread the strike to other States and officials iwere called upon to deputize hundreds of men to guard highways. The decision to have armed forces followed rejection of declaration of martial law to deal with the situation which has been marked by picket- ing and boycotting threats, designed to withhold farm produce until a fair profit is assured. At Leeds, two milk trucks ran into a blockade of farm- ers, The windshields of the trucks were smashed and the drivers were cut by flying | glass. Other strike movements {are reported from South Da- |kota, North Dakota, Illinois ‘and Nebraska. Urges Drys To Get Busy On Election Declares It Is Tough When President Admits En- forcement Failure SEATTLE, Aug. 16. —B. N. Hicks, State Superintendent of the Anti-Seloon League told the dele- gates of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union Con- vention that “when a President admits the dry laws cannot be en- forced, it is time we are getting Hicks said that as a result of the recent declaration, the Prohibi- tion Act will be harder to enforce than it has ever been, and he advoted election of a dry Congresss and dry State Legislatures, —,— 1,000 IN NEED, STORMDISTRICT HOUSTON, Texas, Aug. 16.—Ten= ant farmers are the principal suf- ferers in the hurricane of last Sat- urday and Sunday, which took at least 34 lives. Relief agencies estimate that 1,- 000 persons are destitute. Emergency stations continue to treat injured persons, estimated at about 200. The Coast Guard cutter Unalga has been ordered to aid in relief work. Damage to crops run at least $1,- ,000. Twenty Men Guard President Lebrun from Fate of Doumer PARIS, Aug. 16—No less than|the municipal police of Paris in- 20 plain-clothes men comprise the | stead of by the “Surete-Generale,” personal safety escort of Presi-|the French equivalent of the sec- dent Lebrun. |ret service in the United States Aftoc the grisly lesson of May and of Scotland Yard in NM 6, when President Doumer was| assassinated, the police decided the | The body-guard, as now consti~ chief of state should submit to tuted, includes a divisionary com~ closer surveillance. Doumer always|missioner, three subordinate com- objecied to it and evaded it when- | missioners, & chief inspector, & ever possible. ‘CM(ML five brigadiers . The President now is guarded by 'nine inspectors,