The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 20, 1932, Page 1

pa THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XL., NO. 6113. ~ MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY ROOSEVELT STUNPS CRIT JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1932. WITH * * * * * ECONOMIC * * PROGRAM * NOMINEE INDICTS G. O. P. LEADERSHIP HEAT WAVE IS OVER ENGLAND; RECORD BROKEN Deaths ‘Rea;};i 21 Yester- day—List Expected to Increase Today BEER KEPT ON ICE; ICE CREAM IS GON Bank Clerk:—‘[jermitted to Remove Coats — An- other Tradition Broken LONDON, Aug. 20.—A blistering sun is again over England today. Yesterday heat records were smashed. Deaths reached 21 and indica- tions are the list will be larger today. The temperature yesterday was 99 degrees. Thousands are seeking relief at the seaside The banks of the Thames River is a fashionable promenade instead of just the haunt of the homeless Ice cream supplies are exhausted. Beer is kept on ice which is against British traditions. Pilots said the heat at 2,000 feet was the same as on the ground. The Bank of England today al- lowed the clerks to remove their coats. This is the first time in history the coat rule has been broken. Three lives were lost at Nantes, France, when a sand barge sprung a leak and quickly sank because the heat shrunk the planks. CAPT, MOLLISON POSTPONES HIS FLIGKTTON. Y. British Flier Flew Blind for Much of Distance Over Atlantic ST. JOHN, New Brunswick, Aug. 20—Capt. J. A. Mollison, British flier who landed here yesterday in his tiny plane “Heart’s Content,” after a flight over the Atlantic from the Irish Free State in a little over 24 hours, has postponed to Sunday continuation of his flight to New York City. He is going to Montreal today to watch the air pageant. Capt. Mollison said the westward crossing of the Atlantic, the first successful solo flight in that di- rection, was the toughest he has ever made. He is the holder of many distance records. “I was lucky, I guess,” said Cap!. Mollison. “For hours at a stretch I could not see the water and I did not know whether the wind was changing and blowing me off the course. I am going to fly the same plane back but I think the return trip will be easy.” ———— HOOVER GETS REAL CHUMMY WITH SCRIBES SKYLAND, Virginia, Aug. 20— A vacationing President got friend- ly with the newspapermen today and invited them all to lunch with him, including their wives. Reporters and photographers usually stay at a hotel several miles away from the Rapidan Camp. Among President Hoover's guests at the camp over the week-end is Mrs. Thomas Edison, widow of the inventor. Prince of Wales Is Writing Book LONDON, Aug. 20.—The Frince of Wales is writing a book follow- ing his trip to Africa a couple of years ago, it is announced. The title of the volume will be “Sport and Travel in East Africa.” 1 Making Flight Record Already aloft longer than any tion, Mrs. Frances Harrell Marsalis (in cockpit in above picture) and Mrs. Louise McP. Thaden, flew on a full week aloft as their goal. They are in the air over Valley Stream, N. Y. At one o'clock tomorrow afternoon they will have been one week in their flying boudoir, a Curtiss-Thrush monoplane. and breakfast from a refueling plane this morning. other women in the history of avia- They got 80 gallons of gas They dropped notes saying they were near exhaustion but expected to hang on. BILLS CAPTURE FOURTH TO WIN TITLE FOR 1332 Elks Defeat American Le- gion 8 to 5 in Seventh and Deciding Game Composite Game Score ‘Won Lost Hits Runs Errors Elks ... 4 3 53 39 25 Legion .. 3 4 77 55 20 In a game replete with thrills and all sorts of baseball, the Elks last ndight defeated the American | Legion 8 to 5, to capture the City League championship of 1932, af- ter one of the greatest series in the history of ‘the organization. It was their second successive championship. On the short end of an 8 to; 3 score at the opening of the last half of the final inning, the Vets staged a rally in the twilight that netted them two runs and, with the trying run on bases, a foolish attempt of a runner to score from second on an infield single cut off their last chance. Upseat Near in Final Koski, except for the opening | fram>, had kept the Vet sluggers' subdued for five consecutive in- nings. He was hit some and in an occasional hole. At such times he was invincible. In the last of the seventh, the Vets broke his charm over their bats. Bill Schmitz smoked a liner past second and through right cen- ter for three bases. a fre: ride to first, Sam Baker fanned vigorously for the first out. Worth's fly to short right got lost in the gathering gloom and went for a single, Bill Schmitz and Garn scoring. Haines singled to right. Grummett fanned on curve balls. Jack Schmitz's fly in short right went for a Texas/ Leaguer. Worth spilled the beans com- pletely. Instead of moving along to third and playing it safe, he took the hot corner in his stride and headed for home. Junge with a perfect throw to the plate caught him some 15 feet away. Boyd tagged him for the third out, end- ing the game and the series. Andrews Comes Through Walter Andrews manager and first baseman, was the main fac- tor in winning last night. In four trips tc the plate he hit a home run, a triple and a single. He drove in four runs and scored two him- séf to account for six out of the eight scored by the Bills. It was Andy who sent them away to a four-run getaway in the first inning. A walk to Junge, (Contiauea on Pages TWO) Garn drew | John D. Jr., At Bedside Of Sister Financier Rushes to Chi- cago Despite Orders of His Doctor CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 20—John D. Rockefeller, arrived here. He was rushed to the bedside of his dying sister, Mrs. Edith McComick. The financier was met by his nieces, Mrs. Max Osler and Mrs. Elisha Hubbard. “I have come to Chicago on account of the critical illness of my sister,” said Rockefeller, Jr. | “Since early in the summer I have been confined to my bed for much ,of the time. Under the circum- stances I request the gentlemen of the press to grant me privacy.” It is not believed that John D. Rockefeller, Sr., will come to Chi- jcago to see his daughter because he is unable to travel owing to his age. ——————— 1, SCHOBER DROPS DEAD "Former Chancellor of Aus- i tria Dies Suddenly, Aged 58 Years | VIENNA, Aug. 20. Johann |Schober, aged 58 years, Viennese policeman, who rose to the Chan- cellorship of Austria, fell dead in his room in a sanitarium at Guten- brunn last night. He had been ill with a heart ailment for some time. Schober ate dinner last night, |went to his room and fell while |passing through the door. Schober’s last Chancellorship end- ed in September, 1930. —— e s Canadian Experts To Discuss Land OTTAWA Ont., Aug. 20—A con- ferenc> of officials representing all government agricultural services in Canada will be held in Toronto August 29, Robert Weir, Dominion minister of Agriculture announces. He said he would propose es- tablishment of a natlonal commit- tee of technical men to advise ministers of agriculture to the best methods of co-ordinating the var- jous federal and provincial acti- lvities in research, experimentation, «conirol, extension and marketing. Jr., disregarding his|{wrizht, 2% doctor’s orders not to travel, has|era) STOCK MARKET SESSION TODAY IS QUIET ONE Prices Waver Slightly But| | Closing Reported as Being Steady SEVERAL ISSUES UP FRACTIONALJY List in General Close to Finals of Friday— Bonds Attract NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—The Stack Market today drifted to the guiet- est week-end session in four weeks. Prices fluctuated in a narrow rut, but the list closed steady. A" few issues were up a fraction to more than one point. In the aggregate the list was howaver close to the final level of Priday's session. Sales Small Sales for the short session today were about 600,000 shares. Switching of speculative atten- tion o the bond market appeared. Professional traders seemed to have grown weary. ‘American Telegraph and Tele- phore, United States Steel, Ameri- can Can, General Electric, Westing- house Electric and a few rails were up one to one and one hall poinis Lose Two Points Tliinois Central, Rock Island, Chicago and Northwestern and Union Pacific failed to recover an early loss of two points. United Fruit was strong, ‘three points. Case was up one point. Chrysler, Coca Cola and Youngs- town Sheet T,'be gained one point. up CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—Alaska Juneau mine stock closed today at 11%, American Can 52%, Anaconda 9, Bethlehem Steel 18% Curtiss- Fox Films 4%, Gen- Motors 137%, International Harvester 25%, Rennecott 10%, Packard Motors 3%, United States Steel 40% Armour B. 1%. UNITED STATES, RUSSIA HIT BY TRADE TREATIES OTTAWA, Aug. 20—The curtains have fallen on the Imperial Con- ference and the results of the month’s bickerings are to fall chief- ly on Russia and the United States. By the agreementsreached, Great Britain will bar the sale of Rus- sian goods to the United Kingdom at less than world prices. Preference pacts also mean a loss of at least fifty million dollars yearly to the United States in the sales of iron and steel products also a loss of an indeterminate amount of textile trade. e, DEVIGHNES OFF FRIDAY ON BRIEF HUNTING TRIP Dr. and Mrs. H. C. DeVighne, their daughter Dana, and H. 7. Watson, Secretary to Gov. George A. Parks, left Friday afternoon on the DeVighne yacht, Chirikof, for a brief deer hunting trip. They are expected to return to town Sunday. CALIFORNIA CREW WINS OVER LEANDER SHELL Air view of the University of California’s powerful eight-oared boatload (indicaied by arrow) win. ning the initial heat of the Olympic championship trials in a spectacular fashion over able entry, with Germany and Italy close behind. Upper: a close up of the Golden Bears nearly a length ahead of their nearest rival at the finish line, at the Long Beach, Cal, course. (Associated Press Photo) Canada's formid. REPUBLICANS MAKE CHARGES, Declares Mayor Seeks Political Twist—G.O.P. Leaders Summoned ALBANY, N. Y, Aug. 20—A charge from the Republican camp that Mayor James J. Walker seeks to twist his hearing on the ouster charge to a mock political trial on political issues echoed today as the New York City Chief Executive waited for a renewed fight start- ing Monday. Kingsland Macy, G. O. P. State Chairman, issued a ‘claim after Mayor Walker summoned Macy and other Republican leaders, to appear before Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt next Monday when the hearing is to be resumed, for ques- tioning by Walker’s attorney. Mayor Walker is apparently seeking to substantiate his con- tentions that the legislative in- quiry was a “Republican fishing party.” Macy declared the inquiry show- ed “corruption and graft and that Executive laxity had run rampant in New York City.” He declared it is an axiomatic Tammany that resents interference with its meth- ods. B SULLIVAN RETURNS FROM OFFICIAL TRIP OUTSIDE Deputy United States Marshal C, J. Sullivan, who was sent South recently with insane patients for Morningside Sanitarium, is a pas- senger on the steamer Alaska en- route to his headquarters at Haines. W. P. JOHNSON RETURNS ON ALASKA FROM TOWNS SOUTH W. P. Johnson, local Frigidaire dealer, who has been calling on the trade at towns in the southern end of the Division, returned home today on the steamer Alaska. Tweet! Tweet! Fessto Try Out Speeches on Birds! —_— ‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Copy- ing Henry Clay, speeches that Sen- ator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio will make in the 1932 political cam- paign probably will be tried out first on the song birds which flit about the curved walk on the Sen- ator's seven-acre estate at Yellow Springs, O. A former history teacher, Sena- tor Fess redalied in laying out the grounds of his home that Clay had a flag-stone walk which ran dresses which made him a model for thousands of school boy ora- tors, He is a model, too, for Sen. Fess, and the Ohioan, former chairman of thz Republican National Com- mittee, decided he would have a walk also to be used as &n open- air forum. “Clay’'s walk ended at his barn” Senator Fess said. |that his speech was ready he tried |3t out on the livestock WALKER CASE “When he felt| Alaska’s salmon pack for 1932, up to and including August 13, |aggregated 4,223,042 cases of all varieties, according to pack reports received at local headquarters of the United States Bureau of Fish- eries. Most of the districts were through for the season last night, although a few will continue for some time yet. The big feature of the pack is the output of red salmon which lo date aggregates 2,000,035 cases. Tha pink pack so far reported is 1,381,- 130 cases. Southeast About Closed The current week saw most of { Southeast Alaska’s fishing districts close down for the year. Icy Strait, the Western, Eastern and Southern districts have finished but it will Alasls;-ti Salmon Pack Almost 4,250,000 Cases on August 13; Operations About Ended CHALLENGE MET IN SPEECH BY GOV ROOSEVELT Democratic Nominee Ar- raigns G.O.P. Leadership in Columbus Address CONFOUNDS CRITICS WITH BROAD PROGRAM Suggests Remedies Needed to Safeguard Interests “of “Average Man™ COLUMBLUS, Ohio, Aug. 20. — Before an enthusias audience of more than 25,000 persons, Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his first road speech of his campaign for the Presidency, this afternoon answered those critics who have charged him with of- fering no concrete remedy for economic evils for which he has already indicted the Hoover regime. The Demderatic nomineedn his address met straightaway, the Republican challenge to propose an economic program for betterment of general the “forgotten man” whose be several days before the final figures from them are available. The south end of the west coast of Prince of Wales Island will con- tinue for several days longer. No fall fishing is contemplated in the Panhandle, so far as can be learn- ed. Yakutat, where ordinarily the Libby plant operates through the Fall, will probably be idle. Kodiak and Chignik were still packing. Copper River has its usual Fall fishing. But the total of all operations between now and the end of the Fall season will not materially affect the size of the | pack. Pack by District The pack by species and district up to last Saturday night was as follows: *—One cannery missing; red talls. cause he espoused in accept- ing his party’s leadership. Mr. Roosevelt was escorted to the Municipal Stadium by Newton D. Baker, great War Secretary under Woodrow Wilson, and former Gov. James M. Cox, Democratic candidate for President in 1920. Great Ovation The New Yorker was given a great ovation as he rose to address the huge crowd, one of the largest ever to hear a candidate speak in this city. He voiced his challenge to the opposition in measured terms and proposed his rem- edies in direct and unequivo- cating manner. He demanded Government supervision over stock selling. He urged more stringent banking laws for the protec- tion of the “great mass of average American men and women who have been forgot- ten by those in power.” Speculation Begins Depression Gov. Roosevelt hammered home District Reds Kings Pinks Chums Cohoes Total Icy Strait* ... 23,902 96,473 57,990 8,790 187,155 | Western* 17,580 17 103,078 106,586 8,087 235,448 Eastern 1,785 6,318 60,816 64,249 8,792 147,960 Eastern 1,210 213 21,888 18,072 1,995 43,438 Southern . 21,076 276 308,025 103,818 10,520 443,715 West, Coast . 10,040 11,553 46,637 45,364 6,633 120,227 ‘Wrangell 9,197 5 43,623 22121 1234 87,200 | Yakutat 19,651 4,909 4,546 186 222 29,514 | Kodiak . 85,834 506 251,683 22,579 3,257 363,859 Alaska Peninsulat 317,439 5,336 104,885 84,383 9,704 611,747 i Chignik 112,424 128 30,496 3,559 399 147,008 | Bristol Bayt 1,195,164 12,556 9781 85515 450 11,308,996 Cook Inletf 83,272 16,783 2,357 6,260 32447 141,119 Prince Willliam Soundf 24,369 1,402 206,842 33,142 10,756 276,511 Copper Rivert 62,222 7,965 5,187 lResurrecLion Bay 3,870 3,870 Totals .. 2,000,035 68,127 1,381,130 653,824 114,306 4,223,042 i—Final pack; !—Includes 5,530 cases of his charge that the present Ad- ministration has been almost solely concerned with aiding big business. He thrust sharply at the bearish T0 HOP MONDAY PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, Aug 20.—Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau has set Monday for his next hop enroute on & flight around the world. The four German fliers Cordova, Alaska, with a succeeding flight to Attu, then to Tokyo, Japan. LOCKIE MACKINNON ILL WITH RHEUMATISM As a result of rheumatism, Los- |kie MacKinnon is confined to his |rooms at the MacKinnon Apart- ments. He has not been able to be on the street for five days and ‘has been in bed for three. — - e —- | BAKERY BUILDING IMPROVED He once! The exterior walls of the San from his house in Kentucky w}nmuied that the reception given:fi“nusm Bakery building on Sec- | his barn some distance away. his effbrts by the horses and mules ond Street are being improved bY |come reconciled until mid-Septem-|economic crash, and emphasized it Strolling back and forth along it, was often better’ than that from | Waterproofing. he Kentuckian perfected the ad- nis Senate colleagues,” G. E. Krause is i ‘oing the work, will make the flight from here to| GERMAN FLIERS W, DORNBERG PASSES AWAY | VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug 20— William Dornberg, aged 56 years, for 36 years .engaged here and near Nome, Alaska, died | yesterday. Chevalier, Wife Plan to Make Up in mining attitude of the G. O. P. leader- ship in 1929, when despite warn- ings of economic experts and fi- nancial leaders, official statements were issued painting rosy pictures of the status of affairs and deny- ing that stock quotations were higher than actval conditions in the various industries justified. He charged that the depression began as the result of unbridled speculation, then spread to Europe and continued because the Hoover Administration refused to recognize and correct the evils clearly appar- ent then, delayed relief after the crash had occurred, and forgot all about essential reform. Where Is Prosperity? CANNES, France, Aug. 20. | Mourice Chevalier and his wife, | Yvonne Valee, are going to make up—but not until after they are | divorced. At present they are living apart, | Chevalier in his villa at La Bocca just outside Cannes, and Yvonne with her family in Paris. Aftcr the decree is issued—Chev alier expects it September 19—they |each other.” But they can't be- ‘be-r. it is pointed out, because this iwould invalidate the divorce, I The Democratic nominee remind~ ed his audience by quotation from Hoover's speeches, that the Presi- dent solemnly promised the coun- try “continued prosperity” under a prolonged Republican leadership, and contrasted the conditions of the past three years with those painted in the word pictures of President Hoover in 1928. He was unsparing in his analysis ll'xl)!!"l to remain “quite happy with |of the leadership of the Republican Party prior to and . before the " (Continued on Page Two) 5.