The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 8, 1932, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” YE)_L. XL. NO. 6154. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBIR 8, 1932. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN AL SMITH WILL TAKE STUMP FOR GOV. ROOSEVELT : STOCK PRICES ARE CONFUSED, SHORT SESSION Wide Assortment of Losses Are Reported—Some Make Recoveries CLOSING TONE OF MARKET IS HEAVY Favorable Freight Revenue Serves to Check Early Declines NEW YORK, Oct. 8—The Stock Market finished the short session today in confused price movements with a wide assortment of small losses. The favorable weekly report of revenue freight checked the early decline but a break in cotton brought fresh selling and many more active issues were depressed frcm one to over two points for & while. Recoveries Are Made Numerous recoveries of a point or so were made in late dealings and losses ranged from fractions to a point. The closing tone was slightly heavy. Union Pacific rallied fractionally, then dropped. Southern Pacific dropped two points. Reduce Losses United States Steel and Ameri- can Can reduced extreme losses to fractions. Issues closing a point lower in- cluded American Telephone and Telegraph, International Harvester, Case, Consolidated Gas, Sears and ‘Waoolworth. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Oct. 8.—Closing quotations of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 10, American Can 47%, Anaconda 9%, Bethlehem Steel 17, Curtiss-Wright 2%, 2, 2; Fox TFilms 2%, General Motors 13%, International Harvester 20%, Kennecott 10%, Packard Motors 3, United States Steel 35%, Armour B, 1; American Power and Light 9%, Chrysler 13%, Colorado Fuel and Iron, no sale; Columbian Car- bon 26%, Continental Oil 5%, Standard Brands 14, United Air- craft 22%, Safeway Stores 46%, Dupont 34%, Canadian Pacific 14%, Calumet and Hecla 3%. e e—— MAKE REQUEST FOR ARREST OF SAMUEL INSULL Utilities Head Being| Searched for in Italy —Martin in Canada CHICAGO, 1., Oct. 8—Samuel Insull, utilities head, wanted for larceny and embezzlement in con- nection with the collapse of his holding companies, is sought in Florence, Italy, with the request for his provisional arrest and deten- tion, -The request was delivered by the American Embassy in Paris to the French Foreign Office. Insull left Paris shortly after he was indicted here, according to ad- vices. At Barrie, Ontario, Canada, bail of $50,000 has been set for Mar- tin Insull, awaiting extradition on the same charges as his brother. — e PUBLIC WORK “Torch Singer’ Not M entioned in Long Silence by Crying Out Libby as Toast of Broadt;'ay i to ublished portrait of Libby Holman Reynolds, made when 3.: l"":.‘:rl::h :i:l:;er" first won stardom on Broadway with her sensational singing of “Moanin’ Low” in the “Little Show.” _ BISHOP CANNON PROTECTIVE QUESTIONING2 | TARIFF URGE PRESNOMINEES MADE BY HYDE Specific Plans to Prevent|Agriculture Secretary De- Return of Saloon, Etc., clares Home Market Are Asked Considered First WASHINGTON, Oct. 8—Bishop| SHEINANDOAH, Iowa, Oct. 8— James Cannon has requested Pres-|Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. ident Hoover and Gov. Franklin Hyde declared here in a political D. Roosevelt, Republican and Dem- 'address that the farmers’' tariff .ocratic nominees for President re-f}’rillCiPlES of the Democrats will spectively, to state their specific|cripple the farmers’ finances if it plans for preventing the return of {is put into effect. the saloon and protecting dry| The Secretary said the United states if the Prohibition laws are|States’ home market was 15 times revised. greater than the foreign market jeven before the passage of the 11931 tariff bill, therefore it will “be more important to protect the home market than attempt ex- First Question “Both of you candidates are op- posed to the return of the saloon,” said Bishop Cannon, and then he asked: “When the Federal brand Pansion of foreign trade. of criminal is removed from bev-| Secretary Hyde said there are erage of the liquor traffic and thattWo million head of cattle south traffic is again legalized, what def_‘cf the Rio Grande in the border inite and specific plan do you State and Old Mexico. The price propose to prevent the return ol“" reedemi cattle on the south bank the infamous and intolerable sa-|Of the river is $2 a hundred and loon system which was admittedly|the Price on the north bank is 4. smashed by the adoption of the! It 1s a protective tariff, not the Eighteenth Amendment.?” |Rio Grande, which keeps that Another Question ;crushing weight from Mexico and Bishop Cannon fuither asked: |oeing Placed on the United Siates “What specific method do you pro-| 3 pose to protect dry states?” ! Each nominee was asked whether he will “stand for retention of the [}y [y 5 Eighteenth Amendment if, after| very careful consideration, you find | yourself unable to propose any‘ FINANGE B'G definite plan which will effectively prevent the return of the saloon | cr its equivalent, and will protect ! Third Question Bishop Cannon asked another' . 240 A5y question, whether penddbxfi:mweIlel Supply Sixty Million present Prohibition * il ‘b Yoo IOkcikends ke sapity | Dol!ars for San ‘F ran- cisco Bay Project adequate funds for as effective| enforcement of the Eighteenth | Amendment, @s for other Federsl| ~WAGHINGTON, Oct. 8. — The ik 3 | Reconstruction Finance Corpora- i tion announced today it would sup- Will; Breaks | ‘I Am Innocent’g NEW YORK, Oct. 8.—A will exs ecuted by Smith Reynolds, heir to the tobacco fortune, less than & year before he was fatally shot at, Winston-Salem, will be filed - in probate soon. The will, it is leaves his share of the Reynolds tobacco millions mostly to his brother and two sisters. The will was written before he 'married Libby Holman, “Torch Singer,” who faces a trial on the charge of mur= dering him. “I AM INNOCENT” Libby Holman Reynolds, facing the two great climaxes of her fwen= ty-six year of life—motherhood and ‘trial for the slaying of" her husband—told Ward Morehouse, in | a copyrighted interview published by The New York Sun: “God in Heaven knows that I did not kill Smith Reynolds.” ' The interview, obtained by The Sun writer at the unnamed rustic retreat where she is awaiting the calling of her trial and where she! is preparing clothing for the baby to be born of a marriage severed Springfield, 1. MANY HURT AS ILLINOIS One man was killed, and scores were bruised or stabbed In a clash between two factions of miners at The rlot represented a fight between armed groups of union miners and othcrs who i have organized a new union. This picture shows part of the participating crowd. (Associated Press Photo) by gunfire early last July, quoted the former Broadway torch singer as saying: “It is knowing that I am going to give binth to the child of the man I loved that affords me my only gleam of happiness, that gives | me any desire to live at all. The fact that within four months I will have a child—his child—makes me strong enough to fight for a com- plete and absolute vindication.” First Interview The interview granted The Sun’s columnist was the first in which the husky-throated Broadway sing- er has spoken for publication since her 20-year-old husband, an heir to the tobacco fortune of the late K. J. Reynolds, was found dying from a bullet wound at Reynoldéj family estate at Winston-Sal- . 3 G In Wisconsin Address Says “I didn’t shoot Smith,” she told | This Is Not Time for Morehouse. “I loved him as I nev-/ er loved anyone before or ever will| Expenmentallsts again. The fullest and richest| hours of my life were spent with! RIPON, Wisconsin, Oct. 8.—Sec- him. I loved him tenderly, dearly retary of War, Col, Patrick J. and completely, and to him I meant Hurley, speaking from the porch everything. Everything. jof a little school house known as “When I realized that he was the birthplace of the Republican gone, I didn't want to live, My life Party, today called for support of | President Hoover as the “strong was over. To learn that I, his wife, | was actually suspected of murder-M8h of Republicanism, the one ing him stunned and horrified me, ?:t it didn’t matter. The fm:tl Secretary Hurley said this is not at he was dead caused nothing to a ‘time for experimentalists. He matter until I knew positively that said Hoover's policies were non- I was to have a child. With that partisan and the reconstruction knowledge, with that gleam of ogram is steadily and firmly win- happiness, I had something to live ning a battle over economic chaos. for, something to fight for. And " mye Secretary said the Admin- now I want to go through with the istration was for a waterways pro- trial, I want no strings left, N0 joot and Gov. Franklin D. Roose- doubts left in people’s minds as 0 yejt, Democratic nominee for Pres- my innocence. I don't only want jjent, is for and against them. acquittal; I want a.complete apol-| Tocal politiclans regarded Secre- ogy.” ‘tary Hurley's trip to Wisconsin as significant as the state has long ‘been dominated by anti-Hoover- LaFollette Progressive Republicans, The leadership of the LaFollettes was recently repudiated, however. HURLEY CALLS " FOR SUPPORT States out of the morass.” Tells of Tragedy Morehouse asked her to tell him ' of the happenings of the night of | Smith Reynolds's death. The Sun, quoted her as saying: “It was about 12:30 o'clock, I be- lieve, when I heard Smith call out my name. I saw him standing be- side the bed, our bed, with a pistol to his temple. I remember nothing | more, though I had the feeling of holding his head in my arms. I don’t remember going to the hos- pital. I remember nothing that happened there.” She described Smith as “morbid.” | “rd often sit up with him until 6 o'clock in the morning, arguing and pleading. He had some strange delusion that I was going to leave Guns Blaze In Battle | American Voter Qutetly | Thinking, Declares Price; OF PRESIDENT great hope of getting the United | LATEST DIGEST REPORT BOOSTS By BYRON PRICE One of the striking things about this campaign is the accumulating evidence that the voter is doing |an extraordinary amount of guiet, | earnest thinking for himself. This is the more impressive be- from 20 States |cause on its outward and noisier side politics in 1932 has lacked{ The third report of the Presi- Projections Into F uturec oV, R[ESEVELT {Democratic Nominee Takes Decided Lead in Report EAST WILL HEAR SMITH IN CAMPAIGN Great Democratic Leader Will Make Speeches in New York, New England IMAY RUN FOR MAYOR OF NEW YORK IN 1933 Former Governor’s Friends Are Talking of Him for Metropolis’s Head NEW YORK, Oct. 8.—For- mer Gov. Alfred E. Smith will campaign for Democratic vie« tory for Roosevelt and Gar= ner and the Democratic State tickets in Massachusetts, Con= necticut, Rhode Island and New York and perhaps else- where beginning soon. This was announced by the Demo- cratic National Committee last night. Gov. Smith will exert him- self in those States from which the delegations to the Democratic National Conven- tion at Chicago supported him for the Presidential nomina- tion. Massachusetts and Rhode Island gave him their electoral votes in 1928. Smith for Mayor The friends of Al Smith have already begun talking much of the color and excitement|dential poll of fthe Literary Di- ther year: party organi.|8€St, released today, shows a con- o e 2 !tinued swing to Gov. Franklin D. zation has much money to spend’ |on brass bands and torchlight pa"m)osevelc, Out of 800,000 odd votes I canvassed to October 8, the Dem- 2}"‘}0::5;!;;:;5‘;:':?5 o moseln per cem.v Norman Thomas, So- Some observers have ‘concludedlmags;", h;“i”:‘;’:l? {s:‘s mé’m i ithat the comparative quiet denotes|, ot of the 20 States represent- 'many signs, however, that the re- | ©d in the report, and Hoover in verse s true; that the populas in- | 0 1) SO, SR, DS |ormal, but s manitesting fiset *% Hoover States have ok yén msion. Eetier | Shen. veds, | heretofore in the Hoover :olumn: In the Maine election the turn- | Pennsylvania, California, Ohio, TI- o ers was greater thi 1 s s , jout of vot Wopy HHAn s linois, and Michigan, are all under ::fi,rye' r;m“m‘s i-:fi l;‘:r‘t»he Roosevelt banner, and his per- exceeding expectations. Regmm_!cenmges in ‘those reported in the Ition figures have skyrocketed in|Second poll are increased in the | numerous localities. [ SR TepaRe. All these tangible facts would ‘This is evidenced by the gain the Democratic nominee made in the i:m t,:fl‘_?omt to @ record vote In o) yote so far counted. In the ! |first report, made public on Sep- tember 24, he was trailing Presi-| dent Hoover in the some 66,000 votes cast. In the second an- nounced count, released on October 1, with 222,000 votes canvassed, he had polled 46 per cent of the to- tal and President Hoover 45% per cent. Of the 800,000 votes covered by |the third report of today, Gov. Roosevelt had a clear majority, his vote totaling 51 per cent., a gain of 5 per cent. President |Hoover, dropping to 41 per cent., had lost 4% per cent. Vote from some of the States | POLITICIANS ‘GET SURPPRISES That the voters are quietly ‘drawing their own conclusions and mean to do something about it | with no unmecessary flare of trum- pets, is further evidenced by the| number of political surprises al- ready dealt out this year to the prognosticators. In Maine the Republican man- agers apparently did not suspect that a majority of Democratic ballots would be cast on election day. In Wisconsin no one fore- told the overwhelming upset of {Ply $62,000000 toward construction jof the giant bridge across San | Francisco Bay linking it to the Oak- him. He'd often disappear for hours at night and came back land bridge, The Corporation will buy the YEARSAS | THRESHERMAN =72 7%, - © MARION, Ohio, Oct. 8.—Mfl,chm'luon that California supply $8,000,~ ery comes and machinery goes, but 000 to maintain the bridge through DEATHS GROW COLUMBUB, Ohio, Oct. 8—In- creased employment of men on public works to relieve the jobless is having one effect of increasing the number of dfatalities in the public employment branch of in- dustry in Ohio. Sixteen fatalities were reported in July and public employees sustained one-sixth of the total time lost in the state due to accidents. W. H. Seiter, Jr, age Tl, keeps the life of the bonds so the gross right on threshing grain for the revenue of the property will be In 50 consecutive years devoted to payment of the interest as a thresherman he has worn out and rtirement of the bonds. seven ftractors, and traction en-| The project is the largest self- gines and several threshing ma- liquidating the Corporation has yet chines. In his time he has thresh-|agreed to finance. 3 ed 1250000 bushels of oats and| e {Railroad Commission ‘ Meets with Al Smith Students with NEW YORK, Oct. 8—The new A0 g Commission that 1is considering ‘Autos to D‘rfve | American reiiroads-and thelr prob- Excel in Classjlems met’ yesterday at the office _|Mills, Secretary of Treasury, lost vin Coolidge, Alfred E. Smith,| The announcement said that 1ast| committee requesting A. Barush, Clark Howell|{all, Mills bet a prominent sociely | agded to her previous contribu- lines on a basis which a thinking weeping with joy because I had not[ fled.” Carried Pistol, She Says She said he was “never without a pistol.” “He often said to me, ‘If any- thing happens there’s always the little Mauser.” Many, many times I'd see him holding the pistol to Mu lieved not to have been seriously (Continued on Page Three) ' |hurt. Secretary of Treasury Mills, Republican, Pays $100 Into Campaign Fund of Democrats Roosevelt would not be nominated for the Presidency on the Demo- cratic National ticket The jeweler, Patrolman Fred Blazier and Mrs. Florence Martin are in a critical condition. NEW YORK, Oct. 8—Ogden L. a bet, the Democratic National Headquarters announced, and as the result, his personal check for|the lady. - $100 has gone -into the Roosevelt-| e wisner endorsed the Garner camalgn fund. over to the Democratic C hat it WMIGW.HMD-M The bandits, unidentified, are be-{ Mills paid his bet to! check November and whether the party paign which wins will be able during the be next four years to establish party the LaFollettes. | On Street In other words, the polmemm‘m]‘l'ered_ by the report of today in these two instances and in many |""go 0 s —_— others failed to realize to what| California 16,400 lmzfiflluauc 4 Poli ‘and extent the voters were ready to|co) .. ’ Two Bandits, Police ‘an: pai i gmolhagd [ X5 5798 7444 b it ‘cut loose from previous eg] | Tiinois 13.901 23181 Others in Running ces, forget old labels and register | 1808 AL i Fl l’ll new preferences. New J 43,864 37008 g The number of independent can- | o 0 Yeor":g e jiss: CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 8—Five didates in the field this year inj. . e za'm persons were shot, three perhaps rebellion against both old parties,|po it i “m fatally, in a downtown running'the increased activity of suchC RSV, ik S s e gunfight between the police and groups as the Socialists and the " two bandits. lopen appeals being made every- The bandits had, been (rustrated;wmem for scratched ballots, all TURKEYS P AY in an attempt to rob a diamond attest to the hopes which have merchant, Herbert Quinlan. beén stirred by this swing toward independent voting. 600D PROFITS VOTERS LOOK TO FUTURE l There is evidence, 100, that mil-' lions of voters not only are think-: VADKINVILLE, N. O, Oct. 8.— |ing about November, but are pro-,J. R. Davis, Yadkin county farmer, | jecting theilr ponderings far into bought four turkeys in the spring the future. {of 1931, and during the rest of the The long-discussed “realignment year they brought him returns of of parties’—that is, attainment of $214.48. He increased his turkey a new political grouping in place brood this year and looks for of the present Republican and multiplied profits. | Democratic parties—may stil be| {vears off, but prophecies of its ad-' Attack on Emperor him as the likely candidate of the Democratic organiza- tion for Mayor of New York next year. The idea is mak- ing headway in the metropo~ lis among those of all parties. REPUBLICANS ARE PICKING MAN FOR NEW YORK MAYOR NEW YORK, Oct. 8.—Republican chieftains are conferring today with the purpose of picking a Mayoralty candidate with whom to fight Judge John P. O'Brien who has the back- ing of Tammany. It is rumored that the Republican nominee may be an independent Democrat. May Be M’Aneny The New York Times understands that George McAneny, who was Borough President of New York when the late Willlam J. Gaynor was Mayor, 1910-13, is being dis- cussed as a possibility for the Re- publican Mayorality nomination. He is a Democrat. Chairman Kingsland Macy of the Republican State Committee is con- ferring today with the chairmen of the County Committees of the five metropolitan Counties trying to agree, on a candidate before the convention which will be held tonight. INVENTOR OF ONE-WAY RIDE PASSES AWAY Original “Put-on-Spot™ Gangster Dies in De- lirious State BEARDSTOWN, Ill, Oct. 8— Francis McErlane, reputed inventor of the one-way ride in Chicago li- quor wars, died m bed today in a hospital as a result of pneumonia. McErlane escaped the bullets of hundreds of enemies. He is cred- ited with the slaying of several men after introducing the machine gun to gangland. He died delirious, believing his enemies were trying to shoot him. Four internes were required to hold him in his last struggles. vent are a conspicuous part of the Gets Death Penalty political discussions of 1932. i The restlessness of the elector- TOKYO, Oct. 8~The Korean, Li Ho 8ho, who attempted to bomb ate is recognized now by every| politician of rank. the carriage of Emperor Hirohito victed of | What it all will lead to nobody January 8, has been con pretends® to know. Probably much will depend on what happens in attempiing the life of the sover- eign and sentenced to death by the Tokyo court. The Japanese government of Pre- mier Inokai. resigned over the Bombing incident. t |public will accept. 0TTO KAHN IS SERIOUSLY ILL NEW YORK, Oct. 8—Otto Kahn, financier, is ill with agina peectoris pulmonitis. His condition is se- rious and his attending physicians dre worried, ._7________,,3_" B i