The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 23, 1932, Page 1

| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” _VOL. XL., NO. 6141. AY, SEi’TEMBER 23, 1932. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY ROOSEVELT CARRIES DRIVE T0 THRESHOLD OF HOOVER CELEBRATED MARKSWOMAN, SLAYER Just As Opposite As Day and Night; That Is Mayor J. V. McKee, Former Mayor W alker IS SPREADING | LED BY RAILS ’ IRENE ETTER SHOOTS MATE, KILLS RIVAL Daughter of Retired Finan- cier Goes Gunning: for Two Persons FAMILY DENIES THAT JEALOUSY IS CAUSE Internationally Known Sportswoman Takes Life with Last Bullet PHILADELPHIA, Penn., Sept. 23. —Mus. Irene Etter, aged 37, daught- er of a retired Norristown, Penn- sylvania, financier, and known as an international huntress and markswoman, shot and critically wounded her husband, killed his young companion and then suicided. The family denies she was jealous of Miss Gwendolyn Shinn, but instea:i had been brooding over the death of her mother. Earl Etter, husband, was wounded twice. He was clad in his pajamas at the time of the shooting. Mrs. Etter, after shooting her husband, ran to the home of her parents, where Miss Shinn was stopping, chased her into the backyard and shot her twice. Mrs. Etter then killed herself with the last bullet in her revol- ver. ———e——— WARRACK, LUCAS AGQUIRE FRONT STREET CORNER Buy N.Y. Exchange Corner —First Step in Needed Improvement Project By a deal closed ths week, H. I Lucas and J. B. Warrack pur- chasei the New York Exchange Building and realty at the corner of Front and Seward Streets, it was made known today. The property was purchased.from the J. F. Malony Company, C. E. Stone and Charis P. Stone, who had it rented to John Pastl for the past several years. It is one of the most centrally located bus- iness corners in the city. The deal is the first one in a proposed improvement of South Seward Street that has for its object the removal of the New York Exchange building and the widening of the street to a full 30-foot thoroughfare from Front Street to Admiral Line dock. This was announced by Mr. Warrack in making public the pur- chase of the property. “Mr. Lucas and I bought at this opportune time in order to pave the way for a much needed improvement. We did not buy to have and to hold for profit,” he asserted. “Whenever the property owners affected and the Cty of Juneau have arrived at an equitable distripution of the cost of the project, we will turn over the propérty at our cost.” The cost to date subject to re- adjustment of taxes, is only $7,- 450. This, Mr. Warrack said, in- cludes the cost of a preliminary rough survey and mapping, legal work and incidental expense as well as the purchase price paid for the property. Nothing will e added as a profit, nor will there be any fee for transfer to the city when the expected improvement project materializes. Calvin Coolidge Is Expected to Be Head Of New Commission NEW YORK, Sept. 23. — Wall Street is. momentarily expecting acceptance ‘of Calvin Coolidge to take the Chairmanship of the Non- It is also rumored that Alfred 'E., Smith will be a member of NEW YORK’S EX-MAYOR AND SUCCESSOR Far different in personality, tastes and habits are James J. Walker (left), who resigned as Mayor of New York and his suc- cessor, Joseph V. McKee (right). This picture study shows them in an informal pose and in a more serious moment. R. B. MARTIN IS PARKS'S REPORT DESIGNATED AS |WILL EMPHASIZE DIST. DEPUTY/ROAD FINANGE Past Exalted Ruler of Local|Governor's Annual Report Elks Lodge Honored by | Just Completed for Sec- New Appointment retary of Interior R. 3. Martin, Past Exalted Ruler| A trorough analysis of Territor- of Juneau Lodge No. 420. B. P.lial and Federal road funds ap- O. FElks, has been designated as|plied to Alaska projects, end a District Deputy Grand Exalted|comment upon the measure of Ruler for the current year, it was|Territorial co-operation will make announced here today. His term|up an important section of the will expire next July after the|annual report of Gov. George A. Grand Lodge meetirig. !Parks to the Secretary of Interior, Mr. Martin was head of the.u was revealed today. local lodge two years ago..Fe suc-, The document, which has been ceeds J. A. Talbot, Past Exalted in process of preparation for sev- Ruler of Ketchikan Lodge, as'eral weeks, was about completed District Deputy. His district com-itoday. It will be forwarded to prises Southeast Alaska. No word Washington in the first outgoing has been received on the designa- ! mail. tion of a District Deputy for West-| The data making up the body of ern and Interior Alaska. {the report and the several recom- IO mendations are not made public by the Governor. The Becretary of Interior will release the entire re- port for publication sometime early { in November. ———————— AMER. LE“'""’connavn MAN NEWPORT, Rhode Island, Sept. 23 —Ac¢miral William S. Sims has’ resigned as Honorary member of | the American Legion protesting against the Legion’s stand on' the TRV b fbonus - question. ICORDOVA, Alaska; Sept. 23— 1 \left for Point Whitshed two -days Dorothy Schiff Hall et . g gy Is Awarded DlVfll’ce]Thursday at the foot of Govern- ment Rock.. He had aj 1y \fallen from a cliff.to his death, the muthorities said. FALLON, Nev. Sept. 23.—A check of the records here revealed rhatl Mrs. Dorothy Schiff Hall, daughter| of Mortimer Schiff, millionatre Fily Distribution New York philanthropist, had ob- s § talned & divorce here from Ri¢hard Is Being Centralized B. W. Hall, socially prominent — WASHINGTON, Sept. 23—Almost 99 per cent of the wholesale do- mestic distribution of motion pic- New <Yorker. Mrs. Hall charged mental cruelty. ——————— MIZE GOING SOUTH Edward T. Mize, official scorer termined. New York City alone the Juneau City Baseball League is. responsible for 16.34 per cent. leaves tonight on - the - Northland of the amount distributed Seattle 10 re-enter the Uni-lexchanges to tiye various ing theatres in the country. By NOEL THORNTON NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—Scintil- lating James J. Walker and the man who has taken his place as |Mayor of New York City, digni- | fied Joseph V. McKee, have only two things in common. They are close personal friends, and boih {began their careers in Greenwich 'Village—~Waiker as a song writer and McKee as a newsboy. Otherwise they are about as op- posite as the two poles, each at- taining popularity in the metropo- |lis thoug hdirectly opposite meth= ods and personalities. 4 Where Walker is suave, witty, soffiething of a hafl-fellow-well- | met, McKee is quiet, pleasantl stately, industrious. ‘Walker w% (known for. the disregard for time pieces, but his successor not only punctual, but one of the few in- stances when he loses his good hu- mor is when he is forced to waste time. He is at his desk every |morning at 9, and rarely leaves until 6. | MeKee Younger Than Walker McKee is 43 years old 8 years younger than his predecessor. But |if seen together one would scarce- ily notice the difference in their | ages. | Walker always has been a soct | of ambassador from Greenwich | Villege and Broadway in New York. ;pdtfics. McKee really belongs to |the Bronx and he is the first | Mayor to come from that section | north of the Harlem river, | Although his fiair for wise-crack ing is best known to the public +Walkee is moted dor —his- abilisy’ quickly to assimilate knowledge of problems. After a féw glances at an intricate political document he | could arise and deliver a lengthy address that would show he had ‘a thorough understanding of the subject. / MoKee has a ' quiet “humor of ihis own but he doesn’t-go in for ithe “gag” jokes of a vaudeville !blackout variety. When he cam- paigned for his post as President of the Board of Aldermen in which race he polled 6,000 more votes than .Walker, his speeches were distinguished for their informative quality. He wasn't the platform performer that Walker was, but the voters knew what he was talking about. He Knows Mayor’s Job | McKee is no novice in the May- or's job. The drequent and long absences of Walker from his post have given him much experience !in serving as temporary Mayor. \He isn’t the ironclad Tammany "servant that Walker is, | Where Walker boasted in his last campaign that he would be a “Tammany Mayor,” McKee has not . besitated in more than one instance to oppose policies of his Temmeny superiors which he did not approve. | McKee's private life is as quietly ,unobtrusive as Walker's is effer- ‘vescent. | Walker’s liking for travel Broad- way night life activities the the- companions tre, sports and gay is weil known. { McKee never has been seen of- ‘ten around Broadway, and he seems to have no great enthusasm for the spotlight ceremonies that the Mayor’s office demands. | His sports activities are confined to golf, in which he usually shoots in the 80's. He likes to spend | evenings alone translating classi- cal Titerature, a habit held oyer drom the days when he taught !Greek, Latin and literature ' at {Fordham Unirersity. He is mer- ried and has two sons, ' " FOR GERMANY BERLIN, Sept. 28.—The five- day, forty-hour week will be in- augurated in Germany next month the government amnounced today, under its projected “ome-year eco- nomic plan.” Mill owners will receive a pre- |mium for each new worker em- \ployed as the result of installing |the forty-hour week, which the ture fiims is done out of 43 key government believes will act as aljy Hopewell, N. J., cities, the Censns Bureau has d:- stimulus to help overcome the uUn- |will return to the U employment. Lahor wunion leaders, however, move gives factory owners & the free kand in dealing with workers. through have ested, declaring .} strongly protested, TOFARPOINTS Forces Are_gng Marshal- ed from Georgia to North Dakota NONSELLING CAMPAIGN GROWING IN STRENGTH Action Takes Form of Peaceful Talks to Real Violence DES MOINES, Ia., Sept. 23.— Farmers from widely scattered points, Georgla and North Da- kota, are moving today to join the selling strike that has been un- derway in Iowa for a month. All producers in New York, New Jersey, Vermont and Pennsylvania are also reported withholding their products from ~the metropolitan markets. In Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Nebras- ka and Jowa, thousands of farm- ers are aiding the non-selling movement with action ranging from peaceful talks to violence in stop- iping trucks and removing their cargoes of farm products. Milor Reno, President of the National Farmers' Holiday Asso- clation, said no farm movement ever spread like the present one. “I have received letters of en- couragerhent and promises of co-op- eration from Holland and other. European States and from every state in the United States,” said Reno. ———a HOOVER AGAIN CONTEMPLATING MORE AGTIVITY May Take Stump in Nation- wide Tour — Bingham Says Outcome Doubtful WASHINGTON, D. C., Bept. 23, —Informed that he is facing a dif- ficult undertaking in his campaign for re-election, President Hoover is again studying the advisibility of was made known here last night. It was authoritatively reported he is again considering making an extensivé speaking tour that may carry him to the Pacific Coast. It was originally announced that the President would remain at ‘Washington almost entirely during the campaign, making no st campaign speeches and enacting the role of Chief Executive of the Nation rather than that of can- didate for re-election. Conferenc- es with campaign managers, fol- lowing the Maine election disaster to the party, resulted in the de- cision to go to Des Moines, Ta., for a speech. Yesterday Senator Hiram Bing- ham, Connecticut Republican, in- formed the President the current campaign is the hardest the G. O. P. has faced in a great many years. “The outcome is in doubl at this time” he is quoted as tell- ing the President. CAPT. WRIGHT, 6. A. R. CHIEF SPRINGFIALD, 0L, Sept. 23— Capt. Willam P. Wright, of Chi- cago, aged 83 years, has been el- ected Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. - Betty Gow to Nurse New Lindbergh Baby 'GLASGOW, Scotland, Sept. 28.— Betty Gow, nurse of Charles Auz- n he was ' home from his pa Btates about the middle of next month, to take up‘her position with the ‘as nurse of their second child, # was reliably learned to- day. changing his campaign plans, it) FARM STRIKE [MANY SHARES, TAKE ADVANGE Steels Also Gain with In- dustrials and Utili- ties Following OILS, GASOLINE GO INTO A SLUMP Expanding Autumn Busi- ness Prospects Encour- aging to Bulls NEW YORK, Sept. 23. — The bulls, interested today in pros- pects of a slowly expanding aut- umn business, upped prices of fa- vorite shares, although trading was quiet on the upturn. Rails were again spoflighted, Lackawanna upping four points to a new high. Gains of two or more points developed for Santa Te, Union Pacific, Bouthern Pacific, New York Central, Reading, Atlantic Coast Line, Lehigh Valley. Steels Take Gain Steels gained substantially, Gulf States upping five points, to & new ligh. United States, Bethle- hem and Youngstown went up two or more points. Oils were dampened and gaso- line prices were cut and soggy, Standard Oil of New Jersey drop- ping one point. Industrials, Utilities Up The line of industrials an utilities followed ‘radls and United Aircraft Soared to & new ihigh, 8 four point gain. Case and Allied Chemicals were up three or more points. Dupont, Wir Reduction, Coca Cola, Consolidated Gas, Westing- house and American Telephone and Telegraph were up two points. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—Closng quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 10, American Can 56%, Anaconda 14, Bethlehem Steel 24%, Curtiss-Wright 3, Fox Films 4%, General Motors 187%, Tnterna- tional Harvester 27, Kennecott 14%, Packard Motors 4%, United States Steel 44%, Armour B, 1%, Calu- met and Hecla 5%, Chrysler 20%, ‘Calorado Fuel and Iron 10, Colum- bian Carbon 34%, Continental Oil 7, Standard Brands 15%, United Adrcraft 33, Safeway Stores 52'4 Dupout 44, Canadian Pacific 17%. 1S SENTENGED FOR STEALING OF THOUSANDS| Aged Custo:];r; of Univer- sitys Church, Enters Guilty Plea WINNIPPEG, Sept. 23.—John A. MacCray, trusted custodian of the University of Manitoba' and Church of England funds for the past 30 years was sentenced yesterday to seven years in the penitentiary for theft. The 67-year-old lawyer, enfeebled as the result of a long illness, pleaded guilty to the charges of theft of $500,000 from the Univer- sity ard $60,000 from the church [ funds. The church officlals refused to prosecute but the prosecution con- tinued. MILITIA ROUTS MINE PICKETS TAYLORSVILLE, 111, Sept. 23.— ‘With tear gas and smoke bombs the militia cleared the street this morning enabling union miners to go to work through the picket linés. The majority of the mines refused to accept the recent $5-a- day wage scale. The guardsmen broke the picket lines amid jeers. TENNIS GAME FATAL BRISTOL England, Sept. 23— Edwin George Davis met death here playing tennis. Davis, 23, fell over backwards trying to reach & hard one and dislocated his neck. VEigh?teenth : Amendment Is Up Again Arguments Presented to High Court that Meas- ure Is Invalid BALTIMORE, Maryland, Sept. 23. —Argument that the Eighteenth ‘Amendment is invalid because it was never submitted to states foc ratification, have been prepared and submitted to the United States Court. The arguments are submit- ted by attorneys defending on alleged bootlegger. The attorneys, Morris Synder, John Yost and Joseph McCormick, filed a demurrer and motion to squash the indictments against their client, charging the amend- ment Tas been void since 1926 be- cause Section 3, of the Amend- ment, says it is inoperative un- less ratified as an amendment to the Ccnstitution by state legisla- tures within seven years. ———— DIMOND MAKES IMPRESSION IN CREEK SPEECH legate Draws Crowds \nEairbanks Area P e FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 23.— Senator A. J. Dimond, Democratic candidate for Delegate to Con- gress, who this week resumed his drive for votes in this district, has made a very favorable impres- sion on the audiences hearing him and those with whom he has come into individual contact. Wednesday night he spoke for an hour before a large gathering of miners on Goldstream Creek, defining the issues, advocating the Democratic Home Rule doctrine, and urging support for the entire Democratic ticket. He spoke along similar lines at Fox and will visit Gilmore next. Senator Dimond’s health is great- ly improved. He has been out of the hosptal since Monday. He will come here for his biggest meeting so far of the campaign next Mon- day bight. e, DEATH FAST IS BELIEVED NEARING END Mahatma's Will Still Strong —Message for Am- erican People POONA, India, Sept. 23.—The death fast protesting the Eng- lish plan to solve the electoral problems for millions of lower caste untouchables, may end to- day through a compromise, accord- ing to Mahatma Gandhi. He made the statement when Indian offi- cials, through Mahatma represen- tatives, ‘'said a compromise would probably be reached during to- day. ‘With face drawn and eyes sunk- | en over his 70 hours of fasting. the Mahatma’s will was still strong enough to dictate letters and see visitors. His physicians warned him to| talk as little as possible. Gandhi said: “I'm quite optimis- tic as the result of this after- noon’s conference. “My message to the American people is that they do not mis- take this for a political move. It is a deep spiritual effort. It is a penance and it is, according to my views, nothing less than a de- mand for deliverance of several millioas of human beings from a horrible religious serfdom.” P S WINS CADDY CHAMPIONSHIP LOUIS, Sept. 23.—Bob Keefe new caddy champion of the is dist: His total fo~ Democratic Candidate for PREDICTS WIDE BREAKING DOWN IN PARTY VOTE 'Gov. Roosevelt Reaches San Francisco—Delivers Two Speeches There GOV. ROLPH WELCOMES NOMINEE IN MESSAGE Is Saluted at Sacramento with 17 Guns—Porter Not to Receive Him SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. 23.—With a perdiction that party lines will break more than ever before in history in the November elec- tions, Gov. Franklin D. Roose- velt, Democratic nominee for President, carried his cam- paign to within 45 miles of the legal residence of Presi- dent Herbert Hoover, his Re- publican opponent. Gov. Roosevelt’s state- ments, a plea to forget party lines, are being given remark- able attention from liberal Re- publicans and this plea is also carrying weight by the Demeo- cratic nominee’s praise of Senator Hiram W. Johnson. Great throngs welcomed Gov. Roosevelt on his arrival here. Tonight, Gov. Roosevelt speaks in two places, the Commonwealth Club and also Civic Auditorium. PRAISES JOHNSON SACRAMENTO, Cal., Sept. 23.—Gov. Franklin D. Roose- velt, speaking here yesterday on his Presidential campaign tour of the West, referred to California’s senior United States Senator, Hiram W. Johnson, as “long a warrior in the ranks of true Ameri- can progress.” Here, as at all other stops on his days’ run down the Sacra- mento Valley, Gov. Roosevelt in- vited Republicans to come under - his banner. The Democratic nominee's plat- form talks were also greeted by generous applause. At all. stops crowds greeted the New York Gov- ernor and listened attentively to his remarks. Rolph Sends Greeting When Gov. Roosevelt's train crossed the line into Califorma from Oregon, a message of greet- ing and welcome was received by the Democratic nominee from Gov. Cames Rolph, Jr., wishing him a pleasant visit. He was met by William Gibbs McAdoo, Democratic candidate for the Senate who will accompany him on his tour of the State. When the train rolled into the Sacramento station, a gubernator ial salute of 17 guns was fired in the honor of Gov. Roosevelt. PORTER WON'T WELCOME It may be all right for Gov. James Rolph, Jr., to officially welcome |Gov. Franklin D. Rooevelt to the State of California, but the New Yorker, who is due here Saturday, will have to go without an official (Continuea on Pags TwWo) —eto———— Descend Into Ocean’s Depths To Beat Record