The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 5, 1932, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “4ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XL., NO. 6151. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1932. SMITH AND ROOSEVELT M: : @MBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS KE PEACE, WHIP TAMMANY PROGRAM FOR RELIEF GIVEN BY PRESIDENT Sets Forth Republican Poli- cies in Speech at Des Moines PROMISES MADE TO FARM BELTERS Replies to Criticisms and Pays Respect to Demo- cratic Party DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 5.— President Herbert Hoover declared last night that if the dozen or so icies for relief of agriculture, dvocated by the Democratic lead- had been adopted at the last session of Congress, the effect would have been an end to the recovery movement. This statement was made in the President’s first campaign speech since: accepting the nomination. Hoover's Proposals The President said he favored such proposals, as a radical re- vision of the agricultural marketing act, readjustment of land taxes, re- organization of land banks, ap- plication of the annual payment of war debts to “securing of ex- pansion of foreign markets for Am- erican agricultural products.” Even Higher Tariffs As another major point, the President promised the Farm Bekt- ers even higher tariffs than now, on farm products “where it is neces- sary to protect agriculture.” Quoting directly from criticisms of the present tariff by Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, he said: “What the Democratic Party pro- poses to do is to reduce farm tar- if Aside from ruin of agricul- ture, such an undertaking in the midst of depression will disturb every possibility of recovery.” Democratic Proposals Earlier, President Hoover listed the proposals he said that were initiated by the Democrats in the House “under the leadership of the gentleman who has been nominated as the Democratic candidate for Vice-President, thus the measures and policies were approved by that party.” el “Pork Barrel” President Hoover named the “pro- gram as pork barrel legislation, a some billion two hundred million dollax bonus bill, creation of sheer fiat money, and a bill to destroy the effectiveness of the Tariff Com- mission and a price-fixing bill.” «All this undermined public con- fidence and delayed all efforts of the Administration and powerful B s T A e (Continued on Page Seven) ELIBERATE, INTOLERABLE FALSEHO0DS Hoover Makes Talk Over Radio Regarding Charges Against Him FORT ; WAYNE, Ind, Oct. 5— Ppresident’ Hoover, in a stop here on his return from Des Moines to washington, |, characterized as “de- liberate and intolerable falsehoods” tho suggestions he had not done his best for the American people during depression. The President made the state- ment into a Fort Wayne radio, microphone on the special train and said he alwé; > believed good sportsmanship and statesmanship called for elimination of harsh personalities between opponehts. «1 regret the character of these personalities necessitates a direct word from me. «“When you are told the Presi- dent sat in the White House for the last three years of your mis- fortune without troubling to know your burdens, without using every ounce of his strength, and without straining every nerve to protect you, then I say to you that such statements are deliberate and in- tolerable falsehoods.” FARM PROBLEMS DISCUSSED BY HOOVER — HOLLAND BORN MISS AMERICAN FARM GIRL CHAMP Farmerettes from several states competed at pitching hay, churning, husking corn and milking at Los Angeles for the title of “America’s champion farm girl for 1932” and Miss Henrietta Bakker, who came .from Holland only two years ago won the honor. She is 18. (Associated Press Photo) United _Staies‘ M&tched il e;' Financial Strength Against World and W on Great Battle LARGE REALTY HOLDINGS TAKEN BY NEW OWNERS Main and Willoughby Prop- erty Bought by McCaf- | ferty and Bernard | | erican Bankers’ | i ‘ LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 5— !President Harry Haas, of the Am- Association, told the delegates at the association convention here, that America matched her strength against the world that thought financial ruin ‘was in store for the United States,| rand won. } vail today. “Happier conditions pre- These represent real reestablishment and fundmentally sound banking business and general economic conditions,” Haas said. Given Surprise President Haas said in the very trough of depression, foreign inter- ests believing financial ruin was |ahead for the United States con- Sale was effected today by theltinued to dump their securities in Pacific Coast Coal Company to R.|our markets and then wthdrew the| L. Bernard and Frank McCafferty of the properties known as the old Main Street Warehouse and the old' Pacific Steamship Dock, the tran- saction constituting the largest realj estate deal in Juneau in several years. George H. Walmsley, resident representafive of the Pacific Coast Coal Company, said the price con- sideration was extremely reason- able inasmuch as the coal corpora- tion was not desirous of retaining realty not used for its own pur- poses. West Side of Main * What is known as the Ma'n Street Warehouse property is on the west side of Main Street and extends from the south end of the former Cable Office building, on the corner of Main and Front Streets, to and including the gaso- line filling station at the corner of Main Street and Willoughby Ave- nue, operated by Mr. McCafferty. The one-story buildings on the land are occupied by Smith’s Paint Shop, by tenants in street level apart- ments and by an automobile paint shop. The old Pacific Steamship Dock property extends 230 feet along the waterfront at the foot of Main Street. This property is the site of the Juneau Motors Company, of which Mr. McCafferty is pro-| prietor. One of City’s Landmarks The old Pacific Steamship Com- pany's Dock is one of the City's landmarks. Originally, it was built} by the late Capt. James Carroll, who sold it to the steamship com- ‘pany. Until 1916 it was the moor-| ing place for large steamships. Of late years, it has been the home of the Juneau Motors Company. Mr. Bernard, formerly in the newspaper business, bought several months ago from the Pacific Coast Coal Company, the old Cable Office building, which he has improved into store rooms on the street level and apartments on the second floor. —— MRS. OLDS RETURNS HOME Mrs. Harry Olds, little daughter Shirley, and the baby returned home to Juneau aboard the Alas- proceeds in gold, “then suddenly in June, camz the end of Europe’s ability to take further gold from this country. Amenica had match- ed her strength against the world and won. But other countries | seemed to appreciate it before we ourselves realized it.” True American Spirit | President Haas said the people; took the change from the new era of prosperity to adversity “lke true Americans and good soldiers who never lost a war. Properiy rights have been respected. We saw no social upheavals as were Wwit- nessed in other parts of the world.| The minority abided by the de- cisions' of the majority. Over-Taxation “We probably experienced the en- actment of the greatest construc- tive measures in our history yet the great task of the Government lies ahead. It has yet to wres'le with over-taxation. We should bear |in mind it is the duty of our people to support the Government and not the Government to support the people.” WILL NOT GIVE RELIEF LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 5— National Bank Division of the Am- erican Bankers' Association, said issuance of additional currency | would be inadequate as a relief for depression. y BATHES RETURN HERE TO MAKE THEIR HOME After an absence of five years, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bathe, long- time residents of this city, returned {v.o make their home here. “We are iglad to get back home and this time we are going to stay,” declared Mr. Bathe. For the past two years they have resided in Portland, Ore. When they left here they moved to Hood| River, then to Walla Walla. Mr. Bathe owned and operated here for many years the W.E.B. barber shop. He probably will resume that oc- cupation in a short time. ——————— ‘Caecho-Slovakia exported - more | WOLVES PREYING ON SHEEP BANDS, FLORY DECLARE Hunters and Trappers Re- port Interior Sheep Herds Thinned Out | through that seotion this summer, report serious depredations on mountain sheep in McKinley Na- tional Park by wolves, according to Commissioner Charles H. Flory, United States Department of Ag- riculture, who returned here Mon- day on the steamer Yukon from an official trip to western and in- | terior points. Wolves in bands of considerable size have been seen in widely scat- tered sections, but seem to be most abundant within the park which 5 a game sanctuary. Much havoc |nas been done to the sheep herds, Mr. Flory said. Depredations Unhampered i Depredations have been reported in the Rainy Pass country, on Richardsen Highway and other |areas. The predatory animal cam- |paign conducted for several years by the United States Biological Survey was abandoned last Spring and the man in charge transferred to Washington State. The reason assigned for this step was a lack of funds due to the economy pro- gram. Hunters and trappers are not at- tempting to take the predators, Mr. Flory said. They reported a shortage of Territorial funds for bounty payments and current pric- es for wolf pelts are so low as to make trapping commercially im- practicable. unchecked. Fine New Building Thé new Federal builing at Fair- banks from an architectural stand- point is the most striking in Al- aska. Mr. Flory said. The work is progressing steadily. The struc- { Walter Wilson, President of theityre is completely housed in,. in- ciuding the roof. Crews are now engaged in interior construction. It ‘will be ready for occupancy next Summer or early Fall Polar year studies in Fairbanks ‘have been launched and will con- tinue for the mnext 12 months. Three small buildings have been completed on the Alaska College campus to house instruments, and the ‘instruments are installed and (Continued on Page Two.) | Hunters and trappers passlng‘ The wolves are, thus, running through the game areas TWO BROTHERS CHARGED WITH BIG COLLAPSE [Samuel and Martin Insull Indicted . by ‘Chicago Grand: Jury CAPIASES ISSUED; “"BONDS ARE FIXED Latest Developments in Failure of Large ‘Public Utilities { CHICAGO, I, Oct. 5.—Samuel Insull, aged' 72 yéars, public utili- ties ruler, and his brother Martin Insull, have been indicted by the grand jury on charges of embez- zlement and collapse of the Inhsull holding companies that caused loss- es of millions of dollars to invest- i ofs. The indictments are based on charges that funds were taken from two finance companies in the Insull Utilities system and used to support a marginal stock market. ‘The account was maintained by Martin Insull but Samuel Insull is alleged to have knowledge of the withdrawals and endorsed a check for part of the abstraction of the total funds. It is alleged funds totalling $514,942.74 were di- verted. { Capiases were issued for the ar- rest of the two brothers. Samuel Insull is in France and {Martin Insull {s in Ontario, Can- Ada. Martin's bond is placed at 1$75,000' and Samuel’s bond is plac- led at $50,000. Gov. Louis L. Emmerson said he would extradite the two brothers if the Court would guarantee the cost of the proceedings. TO REQUES1T BIG LOAN , CHICAGO, Il., Oct. 5. — The receivers of the Middle-West Utili- ties Company announced today they have determined to ask the Recon- struction Finance Corporation for $21,000,000 to liqufdate loans of the National Electric and Power Com- pany held by five New York banks. ‘The Middle-West Utilities Com- pany, the gigantic Insull holding company, invested $40,000,000 in its 99 percent stock ownership of the National Elictric and Power Com- pany but lost operating control last July when the New York banks took charge of Cook County. — e, — MOONEY CASE “ STORY BEING | | INVESTIGATED, Portland Detectives Are Searching for Uniden- tifed Man PORTLAND, Ore., Oct.. 5—De- tectives are probing Paul Calli- cottee’s story that he unwittingly carried ‘the San Francisco Pre- paredness Day bomb which explod- ed in 1916, killing 10 persons and injuring 42 for which Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings are serv- ing life sentences. The detectives have started a search ‘for an unidentified man, who Berhard Johnson, of Portland, said he met late in 1916, in An- chorage, Alaska, and who said he was the man responsible for the bombing. The unidentified man said he hired a youth, about Calli- cottee’s age then, to carry the bomb’ from Oakland to San Fran- cisco, in a suitcase. Boxer to Be Converted Inte Hospital Ship and SEATTLE, Oet. 5—The power schooner Boxer, which served the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Alas- ka until the motorship North Star ‘was commissioned, will be con- verted into @ hospital ship and- serve isolated villages on the Al- ka last night. The baby was born'than 15,000,000 pairs of shoes lm'aslun Pty in Seattle several wecks ago. leetr. This is the ‘announcement made Headquarters at Juneau |here by J. R. Ummel, Office Man- jager of the Interior Depart | TUmmel ammounced he {for bids soon for rebu \Boxer which will be pal {with large red crosses | The. Boxer sails nort days and headquarters o! pital shilp will be at Juncau Gev. Franklin D. Rocsevelt a ment.” They Are Real Friends at the Democratic State Convention in Albany, N. Y., in the pres- ence of the entire assemblage, denoting a “from the heart senti- |ROOSEVELT AND SMITH WIN IN N.Y. CONVENTION. Former Governor and Gov- ernor Force Nomination of Lehman, State Ticket SMITH, ROOSEVELT AS FRIENDS IRRESISTIBLE Fi htingg—\l:oulder to Shoulder as Friends Estranged Leaders Win ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 5.—~Former Gov. Alfred E. Smith and Gov. | Franklin D. Roosevelt joined hands { as they stood on the platform of. the Democratis State Convention here last night. It was their first meeting since the Chicago Democratic Conven- tion nominated Gov. Roosevelt for e nd Alfred E. Smith shoke hands REPUBLICANS OF DONOVANTOLEAD Famous World War Colonel Selected by G. O. P. for N. Y. Governorship | BUFFALO, N. Y, Oct. 5—The New York Republicans in their into step with Hoover, Donovan and Davison and began a parade which they hope will lead them t victory November 8. Col. William J. Donovan was nominated for Governor by accla- mation amid riotous scenes, F. Trubee Davison; Assistant Secre- tary of War, was chosen for Dem- tenant-Governor in the same man- ner. No bthers were named for the posts and the mnominations were unanimous. The convention adopted a 2,000- Hoover's stand on Prohibition. Attorney York district, United States Senator to tompe in Senator Robert F. Wagner. saying: “Ome of the strongest New York tickets in years has just been nominated.” el CAPT. LATHROP LEASES GROUP, QUARTZ CLAINS Camp Already Established —Will Drive Six Hun- | NEW YORK PICK State Convention last night felll word platform endorsing President George Z. Medalie, United States for the Northern New| inat | #. noinag ':;bankers and one of the most col- the November election with The convention sent a telegrama to President Hoover at Des Moines, i the Presidency. They posed with ciasped hands and faces wreathed in happy smiles as phatographers snapped their cameras and the del- egates and spectators cheered un- ti the rafters quaked. The incident occured just before former Gov. Smith made the nom- inating speech, placing Lieut.-Gov. Herbert H. Lehman in nomination for Governor, in which he vigor- ously denounced the Republican Administration and enthusiastical- 1y praised Gov. Roosevelt, the Dem- rocratic Presidential nominee, and Lieut.-Gov. Lehman. Battle All Day All night and all day there had been a battle between Gov. Roose- velt and former Gov. Smith, stand- ing shoulder to shoulder on one side, and Tammany leaders on the other. At the last the New York City leaders surrendered. They agreed to and did withdraw the candidacy of Mayor John Boyd Thatcher, of Albany, for Governor, and permitted,the unanimousnom- ination of the Smith-Roosevelt ticket. Left it in Good Hands “I knew that the State of New York was in good hands when I left the Governor’s office in 1929,” said Al Smith. He praised the work of Gov. Roosevelt and Lieut.- Gov. Lehman ,who haye headed WAUKESHA, Wis., Oct. 5.—An-|the government of the Empire drew J. Frame, dean of Wisconsin |State for the last four vears. Roosevelt Praised Smith |orful of the state's financiers, is Following former Gov. Smith idead here. He was known in fi-|Gov. Roosevelt said that Gov, inancial circles"as “America’s great- |Smith as Governor had made New - est country banker.” York State a “National criterion Althouh he had lived his entire of good government.” He 24 life at Waukesha, Wis., a suburb ued: “the State in the hands of |of Milwaukee, he achieved national t¢he Republicans in 1920 had fallen | prominence by his vigorous opposi- to a low ebb,” Gov. Smith had Isition to policies which he deemed |redeemed it from its low estate jdetrimental to the country’s finan-|and enthroned efficiency and hon- |cial system. esty. | 1In the early years of the 20th| Al Smith sat with the New York \century Mr. Frame launched a|City delegation, perspiration | figk single handed, against the streaming down his face, as Gov. then widely agitated proposal for |Roosevelt praised him. | “asset currency.” This involved Roosevelt to Help Lehman the authorization of currency is-| Gov, Roosevelt told the conven- sued by small banks, based on a |tion that after another tour in first lien on their assets. His behalt of his own oundidacy for ,contention prevailed in spite of the|president he would return to New advocacy of the policy by the|york and devote the remainder ! American Bankers' Association and|of his time to working for the many members of Congress. election of Lehman to the Gover- i Is Recognized norship. When the Federal Reserve bank | Gov. Roosevelt said in the course Reconciliation From the Heart ALBANY, N. Y, Oct. 5— ‘When former Gov. Alfred E. Smith and Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt shock hands on the stage of the Democratic State Convention last night, observers overheard and re- ported this dialogue: Roosevelt—*“Al, this comes from my heart.” Smith—“That goes for me too.” . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . L 006000000600 e———— 1. J. FRAME S " DEAD AT HOME INWISCONSIN i*America’s Greatest Coun- try Banker” Passes Away in Waukesha | d-Foot Tunnel |bill was before Congress, Mr. Frame dred-Fo {was invited by the chairman of i ! Senate and House committees FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 5.— the Capt. A. E. Lathrop has leased a/to appear before them as an ex- group of gold quartz claims et PeTt, belng the only “country bank- Cleary Hill, adjacent to the Clea.ry"’" to 'receive such recognition. Hill Mines property, from George At the 1922 convention of the Warmhold and L. D. Colbert and | American Bankers' Association he has already started establishing' Was the leader of the anti-branch a camp. Capt. Lathrop intends tolbank forces in a debate on that drive a tunnel about 800 feet and | Subject and attracted natlonal at- (Continuea on Page TWO) ACTIVITY IS SHOWN ;GAINS IN BUSINESS develop three known leads and prospect for others. Capt. Lathrop plans to work through the winter. The site of the group is about 25 miles from Fairbanks, s BN WS MOORE PAYS HIS PENALTY NEW YORK, Oct. 5. — Henry Moore, juror who caused a mistrial of the Senator James J. Davis case, alleged conducting lotteries for the| Loyal Order of Moose, by talking to the defense counsel, today paid his $100 fine for contempt of court, tention by his arguments. He also was an avowed Oppo- nent of Postal Savings Banks and |the ‘single tax theory. Frequently he was among the speakers at the | conventions of the American Bank- (ers’ Association and had address- red more than half of the State P | Banking Associations in the Unit-| WASHINGTON, Oct. 5. — The |ed States. He was author of many (October survey of current business, ‘!monognphs on banking subjects|made today by the Department of and articles for newspapers and|Commerce, reports moderate im- \magazines. In 1913, when the Li-|provement with business activity brary of Congress issued a list of [since last August marked by & | reterence on monetary questions. | “rapid gain in the textile industry.” |Mr, Frame was credited with twen-| The report said a number of ty titles. Only three others had |business indicators moved upward {a larger number. “by more than a seasonal amount. Rises From Office Boy The movement has been Mr. Frame was born at Wau- [largely by & demand for consumer kesha, February 19, 1844. He was|goods a8 reflected in the rapid ¥ 5 ,educated in the public schools,|by the textile industry working the while to help support |upturn in leather and food (Continued on Page Seven) sing industries,” October Survey Announced by Department of merce i