The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 7, 1932, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE(’ “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XL, NO. 6153, JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1932, - \ ¥ | ) F # £ s MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY N.Y. DEMOCRATS NAME SURROGATE (‘BRIEN, MAYOR PARTIES LINE UP IN BATTLE ARRAY DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS IN FINAL STRUGGLE With One Month to Go Be- fore Election, Campaign to Be Waged HOOVER, ROOSEVELT TO MAKE SPEECHES Seven Cabinet Members to Invade Middle West— Norris in Action CHICAGO, TH., Oct. 7—With one | month of campaigning left before the voters march to the polls, the Republican leaders are to put the big guns to work in the Middle West. Leading speakers of the Repub- lican Party, including seven mem- Lers of President Hoover's Cabinet, have been assigned to get the far- mer vote. Working with the Cabinet mem- bers will be a score of nationally known speakers. Heover to Speak President Hoover is scheduled for one or two speeches in the Cen- tral States. Secretary of Interior, Ray Lyman ‘Wilbur, will next week join the Republican forces and make twelve speeches in eleven days in Ohio, Illinois, Michigan and Towa. Roosevelt Addresses The Democrats are also planning an intensive campaign with Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigning on the Atlantic Coast. Republican Independent United States Senator Norris taking the stump in the Middle West and on the Pacific Coast, and other spellbinders, all well known speakers being sent in various directions. The Democrats are to concen- trate on mnormally Republican States but no stone is to be left unturned even in Democratic states, to prevent any eleventh hour attempted stampede by the opposition forces. Democratic Speakers Former Secretary of State Bain- bridge Colby, Mayor Frank Murphy of Detroit, Senator Costigan of Colorado, Senator James Hamilton Lewis, Senator Thomas J. Walsh, | and Senator Burtoi K. Wheeler of Montana, Former Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, Sena-| tor Carter Glass, Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, and Gov.-elect Braim of Maine, not to mention former Senator Jim Reed of Missouri, who will at Des Moines answer the farm speech of Presi- dent Hoover, are some of the Democratic speakers that will cov- er the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada to ‘Mexico during the next few weeks. —e RUSH MILITIA 0 CANTONTO STAND GUARD Threats ——Nae to Bomb)| Two Schools Shelter- ing 1,000 Pupils CANTON, Ill, Oct. 7.—The State Militia was rushed here today to prevent violence in connection with the miners’ strike and are on guard at two schools sheltering 1,000 pu- ils. ’ The rushing of the troops here followed threats that the schools would be bombed. A guard at one of the schools found a lighted bomb under a win- dow ledge. Brooks Comet Is Discovered Again WILLIAMS BAY, Wis., Oct. 7.— Prof. Otto Strube, director of the University of Chicago, Yerkes Ob- servatory, has announced the per- iodically appearing comet, Brooks, had been rediscovered by Prof. George Van Biesbroeck of the ob- servatory staff. Strube said the comet first was discovered in 1889 and had been seen five times since then, B. E. F. Against President Hoover Just 100 Per Cent UNIONTOWN, Pa. Oct. 7.— Tattered delegates to the First National Convention of the Bonus Expeditionary Forces started home yesterday after they elected Staff Officers and adopted by-laws and a political policy to “support honest per- sons in both parties; to sup- port Congressional candidates favoring just veterans' legisla- tion and 100 percent opposi- ticn to Hoover.” — e HEAD OF BIG INSURANCE CO. PASSES AWAY Darwin P. Kingsley Dies in New York After Long Illness DARWIN P. KINGSLEY ~ NEW YORK, Oct. 7.—Darwin P. Kingsley, Chairman of the New York Life Insurance ‘Company, died at his home here yesterday after a long illness, as the result of heart disease. The ascendency of Kingsley to the Presidency of the New York Life Insurance Company, one of the greatest financial institutions in the world, was regarded ds a proof of his own philosophy that leadership “is mo longer in govern- ment” but “in science and busi- ness.” For Kingsley was a leader, not only in the vast field of insurance, but in international business and finance as well. This career had| its preparatory locale in the nustic environment of old Vermont and old western frontier, but its field of fruition extended over all the continents. Semi-Public Service Besides presiding at the head of |the New York Life—the business which runs into the billions and has ramifications throughout the world—Darwin Kingsley de- veted much time to semi-public service. While he was president of the insurance company he went to Japan in 1920 as a member of an American business and finan- cial mission, and while in that country was appointed a member of the commercial relations’ com- mittee of the Japan Society to aid Oriental trade. In 1920-21 he was president of the New York State Chamber of * Commerce. ¥ As President of the Chamber of Commerce he embellished the rep- utation as a public speaker which he had acquired while in college. As President of the Chamber and ir other addresses he attacked the political system of the country, called for a federation of English- speaking nations as a first step for a world democracy, and de- fended modernism in religion. He saw life insurance as “a peaceful social revolution,” and assailed “the foolish philosophy” of the Dec- laration of Independence that “all men are created equal.” His Policies “Business and scientific is based on practice and princi- ples that totally negative that great political axiom,” he asserted. “Men are not equal in anything from birth to death.” Darwin Kingsley, product of the “little red school house,” - traveled much the same path as other pion- b’ (Continued on Page Two) HAWLEY - SMOOT TARIFF UPHELD BY 0. L. MILLS Secretary of Treasury Gives 3 Accomplish- ments of G. O. P. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. 7.— The Republican tariff theories were upheld and the Democratic princi- ples attacked by Secretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills in an address here last night in which he said the Tariff “is an issue in which every wage earner, every farmer, every manufacturer and every merchant in this country has a direct and vital interest.” At the outset of his address, Secretary Mills listed three accom- plishments of the Hoover Adminis- tration as “we saved the credit of the Government; preserved the in- tegrity of the monetary system, and upheld the credit structure of the nation, tottering on the brink of disaster. Three Accomplishments “These three accomplishments alone achieved in the face of fear- ful odds, after the grimmest strug- gle, entitle the President to the gratitude and confidence of the Nation.” Secretary Mills said things could have been much worse and can still be very much worse. “If you jentrust the Government to a Par- ty that has shown its inability to stand firmly by sound princi- | ples, in time of stress and danger, end its everlasting willingness to resort to panaceas. Things can | jbecome very much worse, particu- larly on the Pacific Coast, if the Democrats are given the oppor- tunity to do away with a protective tariff and substitute a competitive tariff for revenue.” He said the Republicans stood squarely for the Hawley-Smoot kariff and believe the proposed world tariff conference impracti- cable. ——————— SAYS GONVICT WAS TORTURED FLORIDA CAMP Horrible Expose of Treat- ment Told at Mur- der Trial JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Oct. 7— A convict testified today that Ar- thur Maillefert was slowly tortured in the wilder atmosphere of theto death in a Florida Prison Camp. The cenvict says Maillefert was nailed naked in a barrel. Then he| was placed later in a sweatbox, 3| feet by 3 feet, his feet in stocks Iand a chain around his neck and |beaten by George Courson, former fendants charged with the murder of Maillefert. The convict said Courson tried to get the other cbnvicts to sym- pathize with him in his punish- ment of Maillefert because the lat- ter tried to escape. Solomon Higginbotham is the other defendant in the present mur- der trial. e — WARDEN TOOK PRISONERS T0 WORLD SERIES ELDORA, Iowa, Oct. 7.—Clyde Herring, Democratic candidate for Governor, charged in a political address last night that Warden C. H. Ireland, of the State Reforma- |tory at Anamosa, took too pris- oners to the world series games. Herring demanded that Gov. Dan ‘W. Turner remove Ireland from office immediately. Rumanian Cabinet : Is Reported Out from Bucharest said the Rumanian Cabinet of Premier Valda Voevod has resigned, Kentucky, shown with thirty-four children that have been borne by hi his first spouse Sloan became the fa John D. Sloan (inset), 60-year-old miner of Kona, children and by his second, eighteen. .8 reach the grand total of forty by the time he is seventy. Sloan is proud of the fact that neither of his wives ever lost & child. Four sets of twins and two sets of triplets are inclutled in the imposing family. What's that somebody said about race suicide? of the thirty-five 8 two wives. By ther of seventeen He hopes to STOCK PRICES HOLDING FIRM, OUIET TRADING Weekly Toack Raiviews Show Further Gains, Business Activity NEW YORK, Oct. 7.—Stocks dis- played a firm tone today. Trading was quiet during the early part of the session and pric- e3 churned irregularly but upped after a brief flurry of selling of some of the leading securities. United States Steel recovered a fractional loss. Shares gaining one point includ- HOOVER TALKS TO WOMEN OF NATION TODAY Broadcasts from White House on Election Day Responsibilities That’s That, Says Thomas . In Address Socialist Candidate for President Wants Certain War SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. 7.— |Norman Thomas, candidate for | President on the Socialist Na- ltional Ticket, told the Common- | wealth Club here that “our hope |of peace is of little worth unless with it goes a positive program |of world organization.” Thomas said capitalism ds “def- | initely gone. The Nationalist is |at the final stage of its land it is our task to change cap- WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.— Presi- dent Hoover today radioed the women of the Nation from the ‘White House saying that on elec- tion day they will be confronted with the questions of the right solution which will be important to the Nation for many years ‘o come. The President said the election ed American Telephone and Tele- italism to the Nationalist system, will decide whether the weapons, W hirlwind Campaign For O’Brien Will Boost Roosevelt NEW YORK, Oct. T— Tammany leaders are plan- ning a whirlwind campaign to elect Judge John P. O'- Brien Mayor of New York. They said they expected widespread endorsement of O'Brien whose name, they say, will boost the majority for the Democratic Nation- al and State tickets. His nomination means a united front by campaign manag- ers for National, State and local tickets. Judge O'Brien said his platform is nigid economy consistent with the public welfare. o0 000000000 e — WALKER AND M'KEE OUT AND HARMONY COMES Jimmie Walker Withdraws in Interest of His Party —Action Unanimous ROOSEVELT AND SMITH GET ACTION When Walker Refuses ta Face Their Opposition Agree on O'Brien NEW YORK, Oct. 7.—Fol- lowing the dramatic with- drawal of former Mayor YOUNG WOMAN HERE WHO HIKE FROM NEW YORK Thea Francis Was Lost| Five Days on Old Telegraph Trail Having walked from New York to Alaska, Miss Thea Franeis, ath- letic young woman with an engag- yesterday. long journey from New York City boats, one being across the Strik- ine River mnear Telegraph Creek, B. C, and the other across the Tagish ' River near Carcross, Y. T, On her trip, of approximately 6,000 miles she carried no weapon, either to protect herself or to hunt game, inasmuch as she anticipat- ed no molestations and the killing of any creature. Lost For Five Days James J. Walker via radio from mid - ocean the Demo- cratic City Convention last night unanimously nominat- ed Surrogate John P. O’Brien for Mayor. After the nomination of Judge O’Brien for Mayor and the announcement that he is satisfactory to Acting Mayor Joseph V. McKee, the “Com- mittee of One Thousand,” that purposed to launch an inde- ing personality, arrived in Juneau ndent Dem: ic e, oo e | pe ocratic and Re- publican fusion candidate for Mayor decided to take no her starting point, to ‘Skagway, her place of entry into the Terri-|aetion, tory; -she took two. rides, both in - ‘The radiogram from former May- or Jimmie Walker from the Eur- opa in mid-Atlantic which caused the withdrawal of his name from ‘| the Mayorality race said: “I request my name be withheld from consideration. This decision is based solely upon my willingness to put the interests of the party above my personal desires.” Acting Mayor McKee's name was not presented to the convention iprison guard and one of the de-} graph, Pullman, Allied Chemical, Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, New York | ternational Harvester and Chrys- ler. The weekly trade reviews told of further gains in business activity although the increases were less pronounced than recently. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Oct. 7. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 9%, American Can 48%, Anaconda 10, Bethlehem Steel 18%, Curtiss-Wright 2%, 2, 2%; Fox Films 3, General Motors 14%, International Harvester 217%, Ken- necott 11, Packard Motors 3%, Unit- ed States Steel 36, Armour B 1, American Power and Light 10, Chrysler 14, Colorado Iron and Fuel 7, Columbian Carbon 27'%, Contin- ental Oil 5%, Standard Brands 14%, United Aircraft 227%, Safeway Stores 48, Dupont 35, Canadian Pacific 14%, Calumet and Hecla 3%. ———e———— ALASKA R.R. CUTS DEFICIT UNDER OHLSON ‘WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.—Secre- tary of Interior Wilbur announces that Col. Otto F. Ohlson, General Manager of the Alaska Railroad, reporied a government loss during the last fiscal year of $177,283, or 30 per cent. lower than ever before in- the railroad’s history. Secretary Wilbur said Col. Ohl- son‘'s economies were Jargely re- sponsible for the satisfactory show- ing which was made despite air- plane and water transportation cutting the passenger tariff between Seward and Fairbanks, D. J. WILLIAMS AND WIFE VISIT JUNEAU D. J. Williams, general manager of the Hirst-Chichagof min, gt Kimshan Cove, Chichagof Island, and Mrs. Williams are visiting in Juneau for a few days. ‘While here they are the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Wal- mer, Santa Fe, Lackawanna, which is a breeder of war, while Central, American Can, Case, In-| we seek to prevent particular wars.” FLYING CLUB NOW PLANNED | IN THIS CITY Her most perilous adventure was |8t all. getting lost between Hazelton and| Agreement on O’Brien Unanimocus Telegraph Creek and remaining| The leaders of all five Boroughs five days and nights on a bar of [of New York agreed to the nom- the Bell-Irving River, until found |ination of Surrogate O’Brien for by linemen of the Dorhinion Tele- [Mayor. It was reached after Jim- graph System. mie Walker had been vigorously Miss Francis came from Skag-|denounced and formidable opposi- way to Juneau in a powerboat.|tion to him under the leadership She will remain here indefintely.{of Al Smith and Gov. Roosevelt She is a guest at the home of Judge | had been disclosed. After re- B. B. LeFevre, with whom she be- | nouncing Walker the exchange of ‘came acquainted in California when | radiograms to the Europa was dis= he visited there several months|closed, and it was made evident he called had been proven and were winning, will be continued in force or whether these will pe changed to instrumentalities, he characterized as untried. The broadcast was arranged by the Women’s Division of the Re- publican National Committee as part of the ceremonies they plan- ned for their “Hoover Day.” ——.—— R.F. . REPORT First Meeting Will Be Held| ago. Devotee of Physical Culture A devotee of physical culture, that in face of the opposition of former Gov. Smith and Gov. Roose~ velt, Leader John F. Curry of Next Monday — In- structor Here Plans are now underway for v,he: IS GOING T0 BE PUBLISHED Miss Francis left New York City|Tammany and Leader John H. - April 1, 1930. She traveled over | gooey po Brooklyn hmoo?m',duio the Lincoln and Victory highways|pominate Walker if he desired that by way of the states of New Jer- | o sey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, they do Mo Walker replied S5 forming of the Juneau Flying Club, Aviation Corps, next Monday| night at the first meeting to be held at 8 oclock in room 416 Goldstein Building. Lee Barregar and L. F. Barr are“ the prime movers in the Club and indications are that the club will| start off under most auspicious; conditions. The first work of the club will be to start a ground school for the study of Air Traffic Rules, Aircraft Engines. Theory of Flights, Meteorology and Navigation. These subjects are required for a Gov- , Ust ernment examination to secure e Transport License. L. # Barr is He came North Flying Expedition and has been flying planes in the interior, having a Canadian license. For two years Mr. Barr was in! Detroit doing test work for avia- tion companies. He is an exper- fenced transport pilot. Mt is the intention of the pro- moters of the Juneau Flying Club to ‘have their own plane station- ed here for work of the members of the club. The plane will be owned by the club | —_——— ) Tokyo Rated as Third Protest Proves Unavailing When Lodged with South Trimble WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.—Over ithe objection of the officials of the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- report advanced by the corporation. Protests were made that publi- the instructor. the Mitchell from Detroit "¥here the institutions were in a perfectly sound condition. The report for August showed loans totalling $186,209,310 were au- thorized. bad effect, — e FARM STRIKE NOW CENTERED “t s civ o Wwoia, IN NEW AREA become the werid's third of-; CHICAGO, T, Oct. 7.—Another ficially absorbing e vo su- protracted siege of several middle- burban towns and and in- western cities is apparent in the creasing its area seve farm strike for higher prices. Formerly the pop! as Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is 2550000 and the are: one today the center of the anti-mar- square miles. Greater Tokyo has keting activity. Several hundred a population 00 in 233 farmers have established picket square miles. The cit united stations on thirteen highways lead- under a single adminisiration, ing into that city, | Largest City in Worldi' runs have been started when |bia to Vancouver, Ilinois, Towa, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah and Nevada to San Fran- cisco, the transcontinental trip pass- ing over four mountain ranges, cov- ering a distance of 3,300 miles and requiring seven months' time. She remained a year and eleven months in California. Bearing a letter from Gov. James J. Rolph of California to Gov. George A. Parks of Alaska, she Log of Journey From California she traveled the 'cation of the reports is having a |coast route through Oregon, Wash- especially on banks, |ington and part of British Colum- a distance of 1,029 miles. Her itinerary from Vancouver was to Hazelton 826 miles; to Telegraph Creek, 364; to Atlin, 225; to Tagish, 87; to Carcross, 32; to Skagway, 67':. “I experienced all kinds of weath- er and traversed all kinds of roads and trails,” Miss Francis said. “I perspired from heat, shivered from cold and was drenched with rain. In the States, for the most part, walked on good, automobile roads and on fine bridges that spanned the rivers. After leaving Hazelton, the end of highway fa- cilities, I encountered the diffi- cultines incident to a sparsely set- tled and infrequently traversed oountry. Many Kinds of Locomotion “Sometimes 1 crawled on my hands and knees, struggled through mud knee-deep, waded, waist high in icy streams and orossed over deep, swift and comparatively wide streams on long, slender, swaying (Continued on Page Sevem) Curry and McCooey that “I know the people share your confidence in me because my 23 years of public life does not record ‘a single in- stance of disloyalty to my consti- tuents.” Then followed the Walker request that his name be withs held from consideration in the in= terest of the Democratic Party. When Walker made it plain that he did not want to run for Mayor ttion, South Trimble, Clerk of the [left California March 19, this year. against the opposition of Smith House of Representatives, has de- |She continued without protracted|nd Roosevelt, the five Borough cided to publish the R. F. C. Aug-|sojourns at any places to this leaders quickly and unanimously to Congress on loans, City. agreed upon Judge O’Brien to fill out the remainder of Walker’s term, ending December 31, 1933. Walker Interested in Senate From steamship Europa sources close to Jimmie Walker, who is re= turning to New York from Europe, said they believed that Walker is more interested in a campaign in the future for the United States Senate than in running again for Mayor of New York. The Democratic City Convention last night was made necessary by the decision of the New York State Court of Appeals in Albany which held that a Mayor of New York City must be elected this Fall. — - KETCHIKAN TO SEATTLE, Oct. 7—A dispaich ! received here, and confirmed from . ‘Washington, says the Treasury De- . partment has approved of a border Alaska, HAVE STATION Immigration Station at Ketchikan, 3 L G R