The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 6, 1932, Page 1

| | “ALL THE NEWS VOL. XL., NO. 6152. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1932. ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE BETTER TIMES BACK INU.S. SAYS SISSON Worst of Depression Has Passed Declares New AB.A. President NOTES ELEMENTS OF IMPROVEMENT Business Activity, Earn- ings, Employment Soon Back to Normal LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 6.— Francis Sisson, Vice-President of the Guarantee Trust Company of New York City, new President of the American Bankers' Association, today declared that the worst of dep: ion has passed. Addressing the closing session of the convention, and following his clection as President, Sisson said he read the story of better times in the advance.that has taken place | - in prices of stocks, bonds and com- modities, and in the disappearance of the panicky spirit of a few months ago. Sisson said there is reason to believe the worst of the depres- sions is past and elements of im- provement noted thus far are the forerunners of a more tangible re- covery that will gradually raise business activity, earnings and em- ployment to the levels that “our natural and human resources give us the right to regard as normal.” ———-—————— ROOSEVELT IS PREPARING FOR DRIVE IN SOUTH Presidential Nominee Pleas- ed with Lehman Nomination ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 6. — Gov. Roosevelt, well pleased with the Democratic nomination of Lieut.- Gov. Herbert R. Lehman for Gov- ernor, today turned to his corres- pondence in preparation for his last big drive for the election. His next trip will be down the Atlantic Coast through Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas and Geor- gia. He may return through Ten- nesse, Kentucky and West Vir- ginia. Gov. Roosevelt said that he was undecided whether he would ask Al Smith to make speeches in his behalf during the campaign or not. Smith will speak for Lehman in New York which would, of course, help the National campaign. Gov. Roosevelt will, himself, de- vote some time to the Lehman campaign. -t ARGHBISHOP EXILED FROM NATIVE LAND Aged Catholic Prelate Crosses Into U. S. from Mexico LAREDO, Texas, Oct. 6.—Exiled from his native land for the second time, Archbishop Leopold Ruiz y Flores, aged Catholic Prelate, cross- ed the international boundary into the United States today. The Archbishop was expelled from Mexico by order of the President, acting on instructions from the Chamber of Deputies for being a “pernicious foreigner” following his comments on the Pope's recent en- cyclical discussing the Catholic Church in Mexico. Al Smith, Jr., and Wife Part, Is Report NEW YORK, Oct. 6.—The Amer- ican says Alfred E. Smith Jr., son of the former Governor of New York, and his wife have separated. The paper says Curtin and Glynn, lawyers, are drawing up a separa- tion agreement. Mrs. Smith was formerly Bertha Gott, daughter of a Syracuse, N. Y. locomotive en- gineer. She married Smith eight years ago. | Beauty Her Boun?y 60,000 con- iss Maxine Land, danghter of Judge Max Land, of Atlanta, Ga., winner of a recent beauty competmon, has a golden chance of cashing in on her ulchri- Selected from amon, testants, beautiful tude via the movies. Miss Land is in Hollywood where she is soon to make her debut on the screen. PAYNE MAKES HIS GHARGES ON ELECTION Declares Democratic Vic- tory Would Postpone Business Recovery NEW YORK, Oct. 6—Frederick H. Payne, Assistant Secretary of War, said here today that a Demo- cratic victory will create uncer-~ tainty and postpone business Ie- covery. The Assistant Secretary made the statement to those attending the American Exporters and Importers Association conclave here. “In voting for Herbert Hoover for President, I firmly believe I will be contributing most effective- ly to the economic recovery of the United States,” said Payne. “We are beginning the upward climb pression of unparalleled severity. “I do not predict a quick recov- ery if we have a change of ad- ministration at this period of un- certainty. It may be prolonged over a year since the new Demo- cratic Congress would not meet in regular session until one year from next December.” ———— SAYS MUSCLE SHOALS COMES INTO CAMPAIGN Wartime Secretary of Navy Declares Issue Is Testing Stone BOWLING GREEN, Kentucky, Oct. 6. — Asserting that Muscle Shoals is a testing stone of can- didates, Josephus Daniels, War-time Secretary of the Navy, said Presi- dent Hoover has stood for locking up such resource or turning them over to the power monopoly for operation and this would pour mil- lions into their coffers through out of the trough of de-| HEAVY SELLING | DRIVES STOCK DOWN SLIGHTLY Shares Drop One to Two Points, Then Resist- ance Appears | NEW YORK, Oct. 6. — Fairly heavy selling was carried over into the opening of the stock market today driving some stocks down from one to two points but there appeared signs of resistance. Macy, Norfolk and Western, Col- umbian Carbon and American To- bacco B were off around one to two points. Southern Railway and Santa Fe were slightly higher. The market was closely watched for signs of resistance as the low mid-September were approached at the close of business yesterday. Standard statistics average was 58.7 on September 19th and the re- action had penetrated to the low upward movement of the summer | rally was undervmy Opinion is /| jdivided as to whether the recent rising trend was being continued. CLOINGS PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Oct. 6. — Alaska Juneau mine stock closed today at %, American Can 51%, Anaconda %, Bethlehem Steel 21, Curtiss- Wright 2%, 2, 2%; Fox Films 3%, General Motors 15%, International Harvester 24%, Kennecott 11%, Packard Motors 3%, United States Steel 387%, Armour B 1, American Power and Light 11%, Chrysler 15%, Colorado Fuel and Iron 8%.| Columbian Carbon 30, Continental | Oil 5%, Standard Brands 14%,| United Afrcraft 26, Safeway Stores| 49%, Dupont 37%, Canadian Paci- fic 16%, Calumet and Hecla 37%. FLORY ORDERED TO WASHINGTON BY SECRETARY Will Aid Department on Alaska Matters During Session of Congress Charles H. Flory, Alaska Com- missioner for the Department of | Agriculture, has been directed by the Secretary of Agriculture to re- port to Washington during the short term of Congress, it was made known here today. Mr. Flory | will leave here early in December and remain in the national capi- tal for several weeks. His mission in Washington is to advise the Department on Alaska matters under its jurisdiction, par- ticularly those that may be af- fected by legislation to be consid- ered by the next session of Con- gress. He is the directing head of the Department’s bureaus that op- erate in the Territory. “I shall endeavor to place the Alaskan side of any question be- fore the Department and, if called on to do so, before Congressional committees,” Mr. Flory said. “The correct piocture of the work done by our agencies here and its rela- tion to MYM’N development, will umt reduoed Federal ap- excessive rates. ———————— ALASKA CREEK NAMED HOLMES ductions, and to be able to get some increases for some of the more important work,” he said. —_——e— Lincoln Ellsworth Justice of H—igh Court Is Honored While He Is Still Alive WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—Among comparatively few for whom places have been named while they are still alive, is Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, formerly of the Supreme Court of the United States. The United States Geographic Board, the final Government au- thority on Government names, has decided that a creek in the Koyu- kuk River district in Alaska, should be called Holmes Creek. A member of the Geological Burvey found the creek on March 8, 1930, the 90th birthday of Jus- tice Holmes. Wil Vfl Next April NEW YORK, Oct. 6—Lincoln Ellsworth, Arctic explorer, has con- firmed his engagement to Miss Mary Louise Ulmer, daughter of Mrs. Joseph B. Ulmer of Potis- town, Pa., and said they would be married in Switzerland next April. Mrs. Greenwood Sues for Divorce BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Oct. 8.— Katherine Ursula Parrott Green- wood, novelist of ‘Wilton, has filed @ suit for divorce against Charles T. Greenwood, New York banker, it became known here, She is the| The committee, now holding n.siwmngbon State appear Nouri author of “Ex-Wife” and “Strang- ers May Kiss,” mmmmwmaamnmm-u able to do more She charges cruelty. points, touched in the reaction of | point of 583, the lowest reached% since August 13th when the major {locratic National BIVES PRIZES | FOR CAMPAIGN Donation Announced to Stimulate Medal- ! lion Drive NEW YORK, Oct. 6—The Dem- Committee an- nounces that Mrs. William Ran- dolph Hearss, vice chairman of the finance. committee, has donated| $10,000 . in prize money to the Shareholders of America, a cam- paign organization. The prizes are to stimulate the medallion campaign. (Every con- tributor of one dollar to the cam- paign fund receives a Roosevelt- Garner emblem. The objective is 1,000,000 medallion awards, General Prizes These general prizes wjll given. $1,000 to the woman who remits the cash for the greatest number of medallions; $500 for the mnext thighest, and $500 for the third highest. $1,000 for the first remittance | for 5,000 medallions; $200 for the second remittance for 5,000; $100 for the third such remittance; $50 for each of the next two. $1,000 for the largest number sold and paid for in cities of] over 200,000 population; $200 for the next largest number in such cities; $1,000 for the largest num- ber in cities of 100,000 to 200,000 population; $200 for the next larg- est mumber in such cities; $1,000 for the largest number in ecities of 50,000 to 100,000 population; $200 for the mext largest in such cities; $1,000 for the largest number .in cities below $50,000 population; $200 for the next largest in such cities. $1,000 for the highest percentage of medallions sold and paid for in each Congressional district, based on the 1928 vote. A person sell- ing 400 medallions in a district |having 1,000 votes would have a percentage of 40. $1,000 for the best percentage in a county, based on the 1928| vote of the county. Remittances are 1o e send to the | treasurer. Shareholders of Amer-| ica, Biltmore Hotel. o 2-GENT POST RATE URGED be 'WASHINGTON, Oct. 6. — The House Postoffice Subcommittee in- vestigating the postal service has/ unanimously voted for restoration | of the two-cent postal rate on first class mail matter. The group announced “this ac- tion was taken in view of repre- sentations made to the subcom-| mittee at the hearings, the falling off in volume of first class mail, since the three-cent rate went into effect July 6, and the Postmaster | General's recent public statement that the two-cent rate should be restored as soon as the postal bus-i iness warranted it.” will hearings on postal matters, ber session. SENATOR LEWIS | career when { Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Mon- What Did Will Iwgers Qay T hat Made Roosevelt Lau gh LOS ANGELES, Cal—Gov. Franklin D. Rocsevelt and party laugh when Will Rogers, film funny man, introduced the Democratic ncminee at Los An:eles. un to richt are Roosevelt, his son, Ja.mcs, wflllam G. MeAdno. James Fnrlfly, Natlonnl Chairman and Rogers. Democratlc Nommoe at Ranch in Anzona WILLIAMS, Ariz.—Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic Presidential candidate visits the ranch of Mrs. Jack Greenway, Democratic National Committeewoman from Arizona, during his Presidential campaign. He is pictured above with left to right: Senatcr Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, Mrs. Jack Greenway, Democratic National Committewoman from Arizena and Gov. Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s Western Tour Alters Course of Campaign| ( By BYRON PRICE However much or little it may mean in votes in November, Gov. Roosevelt's western tour already has had important effects on the strategic course of the campaign. The stir and publicity attending him have encouraged party work- 'ers everywhere, just at the oppor- |tune time, to bestir themselve | toward capitalizing the prestige gained by the Democratic victory in Maine. Meanwhile the nominee's selec- tion of campaign topics turned discussion to new issues—selected by himself. PLANS TOUR OF STATE OF WASH. “Home Coming” Trip Ex- pected by Seattle Dur- ing This Month SEATTLE, Oct. 6.—James Hamil- Finally his method af. treating ton Lewis of Illinois probably will those topics in large degree has stage a ‘“homecoming tour” of changed the whole character of the Washington this month, George Republican attacks on him. In- E. Starr, Democratic State chz.lr-yswmd of denouncing him as a be- man, announces. illever in “radical” proposals, the Lewis, who started his political opposition now is contending that he was elected @& he has proposed xwmmg new at Congressman in this state in 1896, all. dis one of a list of national speak-| These things have made Gov. ers selected to be heard here in Roosevelt much more of a figure final phases of the Presidential in the campaign than he was when campaign. His last visit here was he left Albany. They have marked in 1916, when he stumped the his real advent to party leadership state for President Wilson. ,on a national scale, and in that Notables Expected sense they have moved the strug- Mayor Frank Murphy of Detroit,(gle for the presidency along to new ground. E. P. Costigan other national sted for ap- tana and Senator of Colorado ‘are speakers tentativel A COINCIDENCE From the standpoint of political generalship, the coincidence of the Maine election with the start of the Governor’s western trip is most y | reau. interesting. John E. Ballaine ead of the| Could the Democratic manager, Progressive Republican League for |have foreseen all that has happen- | Roosevelt, said he hoped Senator ed? That they expected Demo- George W. Nebraska |eratic gains in Maine is certain, Norris of would include Seatile {Jected independent 1o velt. “We are not pr ed greatly on an actual Demo- |cratic victory, throwing the Repub- but they scarcely could have bank- | THOMAS HITS BOTH PARTIES Socialist Candldate for! President Makes | Political Address SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. 6.— Norman Thomas, Socialist candi- date for President, in an address here, charged the Republican mdj Democratic Parties with proposing “nothing adequately to relieve un-| employment, much less to cure it.” Alaska Juneau Profits To September, $845,200 SAN FRANCTISCO, Cal, Oct. 6.— ,but, on the contrary, FLAMES RAGE IN2 STATES; OREGON, WASH. Fire Batlleraick to Posts During Night to Control Blazes TOWN DESTROYED; ANOTHER DOOMED Clouds from Sea and Smoke Mingle with Promises of Rain PORTLAND, Oregon, Oct. 6.— Clouds rolling from the sea and mingling with the smoke, promiséd rain to end the series of forest fires destroying Western Oregon and Southwest Washington. Hundreds of fighters stuck dog- gedly to their posts from the Cali- fornia line to the Columbia River and over into Washington. Although increased relative humidity, cooler weather and abate- ment of high winds temporarily halted the flames, fire ringed the town of Timber, Oregon, and crept toward the nearby lumber camp. Flames still smouldered in the ruins of Cochran, fire swept mill town. Damage so far is estimated at over thre¢ million dollars, —_———— JAMES A, REED TOANSWER FARM. $PEECH, HOOVER {Former Missouri Senator Will Speak at Des Moines in Reply to President WASHINGTON, Oct. 6— The Democratic answéer to the farm speech of President Hoover deliv- |ered at Des Moines will be made |point of the agriculturalist, ’SENATDR WALSH RIDICULES PRESIDENT HOOVER SPEECH WABHINGTON, Oct. 6. —Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana in la sw&emm clven out last night [said: how profound was Lhe meulon made on Towa farmers by the exposition of Presi- (dent Hoover of his theory thet their troubles originated with and were attributable to the collapse of credit in Austria in the Spring |of 1931. It has not seemed diawn upon him that never recovered from the sion of 1922 despite the there have been three it HE r ve L from bad to worse.” Senator Walsh said President (Hoover's speech was ridiculous. b g e SLOW TORTURE FOR PRISONER The Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company today reported estimated profits from its mine at Juneau amounting to $845200 for the first nine months of 1932, ending Sep- tember 30. For' the same period last year the company $1,263,850. fore deductions were made for taxes and depreciation. reported Both amounts were be-, JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Oct. 6.— Willlam Roberts, convict testified that Arthur Maillefert was locked in a sweat box in a Florida Prison Camp and threatened with ,death by Solomon Higginbotham and George Courson, former guards. The two guards are accused of murdering Maillefert by slow tor- ture. BILLINGS, Mont.,, Oct. 6.—The |most complete skeleton of a hopli- tosarurus, a branch of the dino- Itsux family, so rare that its ex- istence was established only by means of a handful of bony plates unearthed a few years ago, has been revovered from the lower cretaceous formation of the Crow Indan Reservation fifty miles |licans into a close huddle to fi-|southeast of here. |gure out a complete revision of 1 The discovery was announced by |Barnum Brown, curator of the American Museum of Natural His- jever,” said Ballai certain |campaign plans. i for Roosevelt, and might| Whether foreseen or nof, the ;00d else- |{result has been that exactly atlig hcve.v ry. (Continued on Page Seven) l The creature, the curator de- Armof-Plated M onster Is Unearthed, Montana State clared, was distinguished by its extreme breadth, measuring 7 feet wide at the hips, although but 14 feet Tong. The neck and tail were much shorter than those of other species. The bedy was covered from nose to tail with heavy, bony plates which made the herb eater almost impervious to attack. Underneath the outer armor, Brown stated, were smaller plates of a peculiar woven-like appearance. These, the curator believes, were imbedded in the creature's skin, and gave it flexibility, RBERRA