The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 18, 1932, Page 1

3 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XL., NO. 6162. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDA’ OCTOBER 18,1932, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS " PRICE TEN CENTY ROOSEVELT IS OFF ON 3,000 MILE CAMPAIGN TRIP PARTY REGULARITY BITTERLY SCORED NORRIS SAYS HOOVER CAN'T BE REELECTED Nebras ka_'s_—lndependent Republican Raps Old Line Policy AMPLIFIES SLOGAN, POLITICAL BOSSES Declares P\;-igent Is Em- bodiment Partisanship Personified PEILADELPHIA, Penn., Oct. 18. —Terming party regularity “one of the greatest evils confronting the Government,” Nebraska's Independ- ent Republican Senator George W. Norris, told a Pennsylvania aud- ience last night that President Hoover cannot be reelected except through votes of “people who do not believe in him but who will vote for him on account of the party. If the people of this coun- try will think only of the happiness of our people, welfare and per- petuity of our homes and fire- sides, Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt will be elected by a majority which will be more outstanding and more overwhelming than the majority which put Theodors Roosevelt in the White House.” Slogan of Bosses Continuing, Senator Norris said: “The modern slogan of political bosses is to stand by your party, right or wrong. Be regular, though the Government falls. “The same bosses try to teach the rising generations that party regularity is the very essence of citizenship, when as a matter of fact, party regularity is very often concealment of crime, debauchery, or covering up the evil of robbing the people of their very funda- mental rights of human freedom. It puts party above country and! in the logical end, means the de- struction of the Democratic Gov- ernment. «president Hoover is today the| embodiment of that partisanship and without its sinister influence he has no chance of being re- elected.” SEIZE LIQUOR INSEATTLE; 4 MEN ARRESTED Three HundTe_d— and Ninety Cases Take Place of Gypsum SEATTLE, Oct. 18—A shipment,; of 390 cases of imported liqum-; was seized and four alleged mem-| pers of a rum ring, who were un- loading the liquor from a freight | car, were arrested in the railroad yards here. The sheriff’s officers acted on a 1ip. Those arrested were Arthur Tur- ner, Harold Anderson, Fred Martin and Leonard Spencer. The officers said the car left California loaded with gypsum which was and the liquor, valued at $35,000 was substituted. Fire Danger Increases WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—Short- age of rainfall over periods of 15 to 18 years has greatly increased the fire hazard in four important western national forest regions, says the forest service. Hoover to Make Campaign Trip At End of Week WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. —President Hoover is fram- ing his campaign speech to be made at Detroit and also considering ‘where he will make rear platform appear- ances on his. third Mid- Western trip at the end of this week. |closed until the very last weeks| “Big Five” in First Confab Meeting for the first time since they were appointed by President Hoover, the five members of the non-partisan Railroad Committee, the object of which is to protect the holders of United States railroad bonds, are shown in the conference room at the Empire State Building, New York. Left to right are (standing) Alexander Legge and Bernard M. Baruch, banker; seated (left to right) Clark Howell, editor; former President Calvin Coolidge, chairman, and former Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York. Behind-The-Scene fi;litics At Fever Pitch This Month By BYRON PRICE [ticians that in that month public ctcher always listed in' the poli- | opinion becomes “set”; that polls tical almanacs as_ the critical |taken then are likely to show the month ‘of 4 national campaign, |scttled judgment of the voters, and has accelterated organized party!that money can most easily be col- activity to a degree even greater lected then, under the pressure than the general public reaiizes.,of the final appeal to popular en- The campaign swings of the can- thusiasm. didates, the thundering of big and little spellbinders, the parades and | the fireworks—all of the outward show comes a long way from SEEING THE RESULT Through the nation-wide con- s . |tracts, a party headquarters usu- ;f:;’gf;y:fls‘;:’mbgl:"em:wgmgf this a1y knows rather definitely in ad- Wihat o5 Belking e .sceneswame how the election is going. A aB":me T et} Sometimes local leaders become 3 » 1 over-enthusiastic, but too-rosy pre- tully- ik esting. :}t‘ 25 ‘;r: "“‘:;‘“;zaf:a‘rd‘;?idlcnons generally are detected and privacy that the res wha&gi |discounted by the more experienc- e Gappaign: dsvelops. hogs . |d national leaders and something pens in the open usually Is Ne|pn.pper the truth becomes the ba- product of many earnest hours of ¢ o the final judgment. i exchange of in- 2 preparation of an 8 | And it is amazing how nearly formation and advice of the most| . 2 confidential character, of diseus-|the informakion gathered by op- sions and disputes which often rise | Posing parties agrees. It is the to the level of high drama. fashion never to give up publicity It should not be assumed that until the votes are counted, but any great party organization di-| the voters, themselves, would be Teiis: G fhe polnt-blank st the |oETtised fo ‘kuow. how. biten s enemy. It may send speakers, as party organization closes its cqm- " paign with predictions of victory into territory it :o:sw ':3 zfreiz;mbf‘ ncgpturmg % 1t !'When it knows perfectly well that : it is licked. may and frequently does, make pretended thrusts to deceive the| other side. But back of it all is| 900 PRISONERS a central plan of campaign which| directs itself ceaselessly toward the concentration of the real effort| against those sectors which appear | KE ANB M most vulnerable. ] Politicians in general regard secrecy as a prime requirement. Often the real infent is not dis- unloaded somewhere | |of the campaign, when presumably i, is too late for the opposition to| do anything about it. VAST ARMY AT WORK The preparation and execution lof such a plan on a national scale naturally requires @ vast| |army of workers, ramifying even the most remote precincts. The sinews of the campaign are! |information and money; and in{ the collection of each, many hands are enlisted. Just now, in these swift weeks of October, the quest| for the two essentials is at its height. Party workers not only conduct; confidential polls as to the inten-| tion of the voters, but they try to! ascertain on what issues decisions | are being reached in this locality and that. The results, consolidat- ed county by county, and then| state by state, give national party headquarters dependable data on which to judge how and into what | quarter the major attack should be directed. So far as money is concerned, it| is the usual practice to assign, fixed quotas to states and subdi-| visions of states and %o hold looal leaders responsible, on pain of in- curring great displeasure at head-, quarters, for the collection of these amounts. ' These operations ~reach ~their| 1 .'...'."....‘ peaks in October because of 2 TROOPS CALLED Convicts Ask for More *“Smokes” and Longer Recreation Hours KINGSTON, Ontario, Oct. 18.— Quiet has been restored at the Portsmouth Penitentiary where troops were called last night to quell a riot of 900 prisoners. ‘The prisoners threatened to fire the prison buildings, demanding more cigarette paper and tobacco, and longer recreation periods. Two of the prisoners were in- jured by a volley from the guns of the soldiers. 0UT; SAYS VOTE FOR ROOSEVELT Candidate for President of Jobless Party With- draws from Race DENOUNCES HOOVER IN BITTER TERMS Declares Democratic Nem- inee Is Frank, _Cdur- ageous in Policies PITTSBURGH, Penn. Oct. 18.— The Rev. James Cox today with- drew as the Jobless Party's cahdi-| date for President and urged. his followers to vote for the ,Demio- cratic nominee, Gov. Franklin :D. Roosevelt. Father Cox, militant pastor of the old St. Patrick's Catliolic Church, bitterly excoriated Pre dent Hoover for “neglect of téans to relieve suffering among the ¥n- employed for the last two 'yeats.” Barbarous Action 3 4 Father Cox called the ejectiont of the bonuseers from Washington 'as barbarous. He said America musk reject Herbert Hoover and all he represents if “she continues Demeoc- racy.” The Catholic priest said Hoover stands for special privilege and has forgotten the 120,000,000 ordi- nary American citizens. Father Cox said the opportunity Hoover one thousand times but he never lift his hands nor raise’' his voice to relieve the suffering| American people. ! Praise for Roosevelt Father Cox sald Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt has pledged himself} to the protection of the interests of the common man., He has “been’ frank and courageous in advocating the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment and pledged himself| definitely to policies which willj aid in the economic recovery and' recreation of work. He has en- dorsed principal large public con-| struction by the PFederal Govern-| ment in times of depression.” Father Cox is known to Pitts-| burgh as “The Shepherd of the, Poor,” because of his work among| the poverty stricken. He toured: several Western States recently after announcing himself as the, Jobless Party’s candidate for Presi-; dent. 1 Idea for Duck Trap In Oiling Highway ELLIS, Kans.,, Oct. 18.—All that| glitters is mot water. So a flock of ducks flying over Ellis discovered when they at-, tempted to land on a freshly oiled highway. Several of the ducks were killed as they struck the pavement. Hunters explained that the oil on the highway gave it the ap- pearance of a stream from the altitude of which the ducks were | fiying. Landlubbers’ Lifeboat Gets Trial in Australia SYDNEY, Oct. 18.—A lifeboat worked by levers has been put into itrial service here. The men in the boat push and pull levers, thus making a propel- | to help has been presented ‘46 off Alaska. By F. B. COLTON (Associated Press Science Editor) WASHINGTON, Oct. 18—An “El- lis Island of the ancient past Where. garly ants _to = ica are belie have stopped off on their way, has given scien- tists new. evidence that the an- cestors of the American Indians were Asiatics. This prehistoric immigration sta- tion is Kodiak Island, off the Al- askan coast, where Dr. ‘Ales Hrd- licka, anthropologist of the Smith- mains of ancient peoples who passed southward from Bering Sea. The earliest immigrants paused only a season or two on Kodiak, he says, just long enough for their scouts to explore the mainland to the east and south and to pre- pare for the next leg of the jour- ney, which they made by skin boats all the way from Siberia. Scores of Villages Dr. Hrdlicka found scores of old village sites on the island, the larg- sonfan Institution, has found re-| REV. JAMES COX| Alaska “Ellis Island’ Yields Relics Showing Asiatics Migrated in Waves Seats/ and tools made of carved whale vertebrae, and primitive “blackjacks” fashioned from stones and bear legbones (left below) were among relics found by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka (right) on Kodiak Island The relics were left by ancient Asiatics who migrated to America by way of Bering Sea "(map). Dr. Hrdlicka is holding a piece of ivory art found on the island. est of which covers more than 30 acres, indicating it was more thick- ly settled and probably a diffus- ion center from which at least a pled b’ys'g’e S i The oldest recoverable human remains in the north, he believes, probably are located on Kodiak Is- land and in the nearby Cook’s In- let. Tribe after tribe of Asiatic im- migrants passed by way of Ko- diak island over a period of many centuries, the latest perhaps ar- riving about 1500 years ago. Ruins of their dwellings, graves, tools, weapons and refuse are piled 15 feet deep in places. Two Distinct Types Skeletons from the graves show that two distinct types of people lived at different times on the is- land. One, the more ancient, re- sembles the California Indians, while the other is related to the Aleuts, matives of the Aleutian islands, off Alaska. The earlier race disappeared from Kodiak Island before the lat- ter people appeared. Whether the early people were victims of whole- DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE IS ON NEW TOUR Starts Toward Mid-Western States and Then Branches South TWO SPEECHES ARE SCHEDULED TODAY Sixty Persons Aboard Roosevelt Special Which Leaves Albany in Rain ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 18—Smil« ing and waving at a crowd of well~ . wishers standing in the rain, Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratia ' nominee for President left here this morning at 6 o'clock on a cam~ paign tour of 3,000 miles which will take him through 17 States. The party aboard the Roosevelt Special numbers sixty persons and includes Gov. Roosevelt, his daugh- ter Mrs. Curtis Dall and his son James. 13 Two Speeches Today During today, Gov. Roosevelt speaks at Rochester and Buffalo in behalf of the State Democratic ticket headed by Lieutenant Gov- ernor Herbert Lehman, nominee for Governor. 5 The campaign trip extends through the Dixie and Border States. Itinerary of Tour Besides the two addresses sched- sale massacre, 2n epidemic or sim- L;}Ty‘fiflgfafed ‘elsewhere may never be known. The firs{ Americans had more |than mere beginnings of civiliza- tion before they left Asia, Dr. Hrdlicka says. In the deeper lev- €ls of the old refuse heaps he found ivory images so skilfully carved that they are evidently por- traits of individuals, wellsmade, tastefully decorated implements and slate knives almost as sharp as if made of metal The later arrivals apparently were less cultured, for they left }cruder relics. | Dr. Hrdlicka and three assistants worked nine to 15 hours a day, seven days a week, all summer, yet | uncovered only a portion of one |of the important villages cites on the island. HUNTER SHOT BY OWN GUN IN ACCIDENT Body of Former University of Washington Stu- dent Found PORT ANGELES, Wash,, Oct. 18. —The body of Floyd Andre, aged 27 years, former University of Washington student, missing on a hunting trip since last Friday, was found in the woods west of here, a shotgun wound in his neck. Officers said Andre was carry- ing a 'gun by the barrel, stumbled accidentally, discharging the weapon. His father and two brothers live ler revolve. The advantage of the contrap- tion is that unskilled occupants in Tacoma, Wash R One of the Indiana University can lend a hand without “catching |backfleld is Ivan Fuqua, @ sprint crabs” when the craft is rolling. Jstar. Days of Medical s_licialid Fades WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. — The day of the physician who treated everything from lumbago to laryn- gitis may be . returning. ‘A survey has convinced Dr. H. G. Weiskotten, dean of the Syra- cuse University college of medi-| cine, that the tendency to special-| lization has reached and possibly pasted its peak. ~ Conclusion of Dr. Weiskotten’s studies were made public by the committee on the costs of medi- DES MOINES, Ia, Oct. 18.— Prices are low and the harvest plentiful, so many Iowa farmers are considering the use of corn for fuel Corn from ten acres will keep an average farm house warm throughout the winter. Towa’s corn cvep-is one of the biggest in history. . There is a market-choking surplus of well- long-prevalent belief among poli- cal care, headed by Secretary Wil- bur, himself a physician, = . matured corn. “There may be some question Imv;t F ;rmers P_lan tou 1 Use 13-Cent Corn for Fuel | about using a food as fuel in these |times, but the economic aspect | cannot” be ignored” said Charles |D. Reed, senior meterologist in |the Towa weather bureau “Anything that will remove the | surplus should be de: .. Maybe by burning it in place of coal the |excess cam be prevented from breaking the market | Parmers are offered 13 or 14 |cents @ bushel for torn, the low- |est prives in years, | | Treat_s-r with Russia Off; Is Abrogated Great Britain Takes Steps in Line with New Trade Agreement LONDON, Oc:-:.l H. Thomas, Secretary of Dominions, announced today in the House of Commons, 6. 0. P, LIQUOR ' PLANK IS FRAUD SAYS RITCHE jMary]and Governor At- tacks Republicans on Prohibition,Economy CHICAGO, Oct. 18.—Gov. Albert |tion of the national lottery laws, the deficit was $903,000,000. When 1932 ended the| |in Federal Court. The first trial deficit was $2,885000,000. He said that Great Britain has abrogated C. Ritchie of Maryland, in an the commercial treaty with Russia.'address here, discussing the Demo- The Dominion Secretary said re- cratic and Republican Prohibition nunciation was made necessary planks, said the “Republican plank under Article 21 of the Tariff is a fraud and sham. At the Re- Agreement reached at the recent publican National Convention at Impetfial Conference at Ottawa. | Chicago, President Hoover accepted . ——————— a plank that was obviously de- 4 ; ‘;slgned to appear dry to drys and Davis’s New Trial Set ‘;vet. fi‘ wets. The plank uy more | (dry than wet, but probably the| For 28th of November|yes: tning is o canl it by 1ty rest P |nnme, a fraud and sham.” NEW YORK, Oct. 18.—The new| Gov. Ritchie said the “Republican | trial of TUnited States Senator pledges of economy have not been James J. Davis of Pennsylvania,| kept” The Republican Party director general of the Loyal Or- ’pmmlsed a sound fiscal policy. der of Moose, charged with viola- When the fiscal year 1931 ended has been set for’ November 28 the fiscal year ) of the former Secretary of Labor the deficit for this last year h: ended in a mistrial. | already reached more than $450,- 000,000. ¢ Sendl son' to Jln Go\'.» Ritchie’s reception was en- | thusiastic. For Dope Addiction NEW ORLEANS, La., Oct. ll!——-t | Boom in Mustaches Mrs. Murcie TLevert, fifty-five, asked Judge Emile Leonard of Re- corder’'s Count, to send her two sons, Bertrand, twenty, and Ray- mond, seventeen, to jail because they were drug addicts and had stolen articles from the family to purchase drugs. The judge sen- tenced them to thirty days each in the house of correction, | ' ENID, Okla. Oct. 18.—Half of the 300 Enid business men who agreed to let their beards grow dor a pioneer celebration have de- jcided to keep their mustaches. |Some said it was an ideal chance ito find out how they looked t¢hus Buffalo, the tentative plans call for appearances at Pittsburgh, Wheel~ ing, West Virginia; Indianapolis, Springtield, Illinols; St. Louis, Mis- souri; Warm Springs, Georgia, and Atlanta, Georgia. Other stops may be made, for instance, at Raleigh, North Carolina. Into New England Gov. Roosevelt, it is sald, also plans a campaign trip into the New England States and he will close his campaign probably with two speeches in New York City. On his present trip numerous rear-platform appearances are scheduled. DIMOND SPEECH IS SLATED FOR MONDAY, 0CT. 24 Democratic Campai % gn Opens at Haines Tomor- row—Leave Tonight Senator Anthony J. Dimond, Democratic nominee for Delegate to Congress, will deliver one of the major speeches of his campaign here next Monday evening in the Coliseum Theatre, it was settled last night at an enthusiastic meet- ing of the local Democratic Com- mittee which had as its guests, Senator Dimond, Frank A. Boyle, nominee for Territorial Auditor, William A. Hesse, nominee for High- way Engineer, N. R. Walker of Ketchikan, nominee for Senator, and Mayor Thomas B. Judson who is one of the House nominees. Senator Dimond will speak in every large town in Southeast Al- aska before the election on Novem- ber 8, next. He will also make short talks at many of the smaller precincts. Leaves Tonight on Tour The Democratic campaign in (Continued on Page Eight) Mrs. Roosevelt Takes Stump For Lehman NEW YORK, Oct. 18.—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt has ta- ken the stump, not for her husband, Democratic nominee for President, but for Lieuten- ant-Governor Herbert Lehman, nominee for Democratic Gov- ernor of New York State. Mrs. Roesevelt made a talk in behalf of Lehman last night at a Democratic rally at Riv- ‘adorned, with a minimum of em- \Larassment, erdale. She said it was her first political speech in four years,