The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 16, 1932, Page 1

Page views left: 0

You have reached the hourly page view limit. Unlock higher limit to our entire archive!

Subscribers enjoy higher page view limit, downloads, and exclusive features.

Text content (automatically generated)

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLI., NO. 6187. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY DAWES REFUSES T0 BE 6.0, P. 1936 LEADER “Hell and Masria" Says He Is Out of Politics for Good and All BRILLIANT POLITICAL CAREER COMES TO END Gen. Dawes Says “‘Door of Retirement Shut with Finality” for Him CHICAGO, Nov. 16. — A power in virtually every cam- paign since the first time McKinley ran in 1896, Gen. Charles G. Dawes says the deor of retirement has shut with finality on his political career. “I'm out of politics for good” was the brusque state- ment with which he mowed dewn any suggestion that he might be called the G. O. P. hope for the 1936 campaign. He said they could not draft him for further political serv- ice. Political Career Gen. Dawes was 67 years of age; in August and would, therefore, be 71 in 1936. He began a brilliant National political career as a lead- ing campaign contribution' gatherer and stump speaker & 431 in the| McKinley campaign of 1896. He| was appointed Comptroller of the| Currency by President McKinley in 1897 and served until 1901. While always active in Republican politics he devoted his time to banking in'| Chicago until he was commissioned | a Brigadier-General in the National Army. His war record on Gen. Pershing’s staff was brilliant. After the war the emphatic nature ofl his testimony before a Senate Com- | mittee peremptorially stopped a Senate investigation into the war record of the Wilson Administra- tion. It was in that testimony that he used the words “Hell and Mar which became a nickname for him. Nominated He was nominated for Vice-Presi-| d:nt by an anti-leaders movement in the Republican National Con- ion in 1924 at Cleveland when| President Coolidge was nommated‘ It was during his administration | of that office that he with Gen.| Pershing, speaking for the Pres-| d:nt and the army on the eve of (Continued on Page Eight) —ee DIMOND TO BE CHAMBER GUEST TOMORROW NOON Delegate -Elect to Be En- tertained by Business Men Tomorrow Chamber of Commerce to- morrow will have as its guest Senator Anthony J. Dimond, Dele- gate-Elect ' to Congress, at the weekly meeting of that organiza- tion at Bailey's Cafe at noon, it was announced today by President Allen Shattuck. This will be the first public function attended by Senator Dimond since the election| a week ago. He arrived here last Saturday evening for conferences with local party leaders and will proceed to his home in Valdez Friday on the steamer Alaska. The Chamber tomorrow will take up for action, two resolutions of the Petersburg Chamber of Com- merce relating to game regulations One requests the Alaska Gam2/ Commission to inaugurf® a resi- dent hunting license system and the other seeks to defer opening of the migratory bird seasen, If less than 90 days is allowed Ior| The {terly dividend by hunting next year, to October 1. , NOVEMBER 16, 1 932. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Harriett Louise Touton, junior at the University of Southern Cali- fornia, was named 1932 Helen of Troy to reign as queen of the campus “hijinx” December 5, inaugurating a homecoming celebration, (Associ- ated Press Photo) STOGK PRIGES SLUMP AGAIN, QUIET SESSION Net Losses of Some of Leading Issues Range from 1 to 3 Points NEW YORK, Nov. 16—The Stock Market slumped again today, clos- ing around the lows of a quiet session, BRIT. PRINGE OF WALES ON ULSTER LAND {In Belfast l—;—Open Parlia- ment Building—City Is Armed Camp BELFAST, Nov. 16.—The Princz of Wales, who has traveled thou- sands of miles to boost the Empire. sailed across the rough Irish Sea Net losses of some of the lead- ers ran from one to three points in the turnover of 1,000,000 shares\ The market was on the down- grade for most of the day but early afternoon dealings, following the declaration of the regular quar- the American Telephone and Telegaph, saw some reduction in previous losses but this improvement feebly held priczs and they edged off for the re- mainder of the session. Losses Are Taken American Telephone and Tele-! graph was three and one - half| points lower. R. H. Macy lost three and three- quarters. | Allied Chemical and Air Reduc-, tion were up slightly. United States Steel, Coca Cola,! Santa Fe and American Tobacco B lost a couple of points. Declines from a fraction to one, point were made by New York! Central, Westinghouse, Standard | Oil of New Jersey, Ward and Con-! solidated Gas. | CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK. Nov. 16.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 11%, American Can 55%, Anaconda 9%, Bethlehem Steel 17%, Fox Films 3, General Motors 13%, International Harvest-| er 22'%, Kennecott 11', Packard Motors 2%, United States Stecl 35%, Calumet and Hecla, no sale;! Chrysler 15%, Colorado Fuel and Iron, no sale; Columbian Carbon' 27%, Continental Oil 6, Standard Brands 15%, American Power and Light 8%, Canadian Pacific 13%, Dupont 367, Safeway Stores 49%. Tiny Birds Test Zoo Skill | BERLIN, Nav. 16.—The. diet of |the smallest inmates of the Berlin 700, kolibri birds from Brazil about the size of a man’s thumb, taxed the ingenuity of the management until a small test tube was fitted with -a long spout permitting the irds to dip their long bills into honey. in state to set his foot on Ulster today for the first time. The Prince came here to open {the Parliament Building. Belfast is dressed, in holiday bunting but the city is also an armed camp filled with soldiers trained to protect the heir to the British throne. Elaborate precautions have been taken because of protests of the Irish Nationalists against the visit and also owing to recent unem- ployment rioting in which several | lives were lost. ——————— FRAUD CHARGE IS MADE; SUIT ON ACCOUNTING NEW YORK, Nov. 16.—A stock-! j holders’ suit for an accounting, charges that officers and directors of the Bethlehem Steel are pay- ing themselves “large, excessive and unauthorized amounts as so-called bonuses amounting to more than $37,000,000 in 20 years with misuse of $20,000,000 of the corporation’s | funds.” The suit has been filed in the Supreme Court by the Standacd Investment Company and Irma. Jackson as stockholders. The plaintiffs ask “that the amount of the corporation’s alleged losses be determined by the Court and assessed against the defend- ants.” | | e HYACINTH BLUE CHOSEN BY MRS. VANDERBILT PARIS—Mrs. W. H. Vanderbilt is included in the list of fashion- sble women who are sponsoring hyacinth blue this season. She wears an evening gown of hyacinth blue velvet designed on a semi-fitted sifnouette which but- tons down the side. With if she| wears a little waistlength jacket of blue and silve: lame, | through his | party has maintained its identity |in the Territory through thé lean| JOHN W, TROY 1S PARTY'S CHOICE T0 BE GOVERNOR Democrats Hr:i;e on Local Leader — Dimond Will Urge Appointment So far as the Governorship of Alaska is concerned, Alaskans aré united on just one man, declared Delegate-elect Anthony J. Dimond today. And that man is John W. Troy, veteran Democratic leader of the Territory, present Chairman of the Democratic Territorial Com- mittee and editor of The Empire. “Mr. Troy is the undoubted choice of the rank and file of Al-| askans, Republicans as well’ as Democrats, and is unanimously put forward by the organization lead-} crs, most of whom I have had the; priviledge of consulting during the past three months,” declared Sen- ator Dimond today. v Renders Fine Service “I shall consider it an honor to present his name ‘to President/ Roosevelt and to say to him thaty Troy will bring to the office? of Governor every attribute that goes with that office. He has served the party long faithfully and efficiently. It is largely intelligent and pro- gressive advocacy of Democratic principles and doctrines that the| Mr. years of political adversity. He! has not sought at any time rec-! ompense for his services and is not | seeking it now. And his appoint- | 4 | t j Row:l Romance Linking Prince George and Prmcoss Ingrid Eurcpean vocial circles are Sweden and Prince George of England. The rumors were spurred on when the Prince was seen with lngrkl on numerous cccasions when the former visited Stockholm. Princess Ingrid is seen above in informal peses as she appeared recently in Euhnd Prince Geor:e is shown below. £ STOCKHOLM Nov. 16.—Rumors | ment will come, not because of any ©f a royal romance between Prin- | personal seeking by him but rather cess Ingrid, pretty 22-year- nld‘ Rumors Perstst in Europe all abuzz with talk of royal romance between Princess Ingrid of ost sure fubure Queen of Great {ot rumors are in ract ms.!-zmnd POSTMASTERS ARE INVOLVED IN QUEER DEAL |Present Administration Is Charged with Polit- ical Move DEMOCRAT PLANS AN INVESTIGATION Plan to Ke::.p_—Republicans in Office During Roose- velt Term WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.— Representative Tilman B. Parks, Democrat of Arkansas, told newspapermen today that he will ask for a Con- | gressional investigation to de- termine whether the Hoover Administration has juggled postmasterships in order tao keep Republicans in office during the first term of Pres- |ident-Elect Franklin D. Roose- velt. Representative Parks said he received information, that to assure Republican post- masterships during the next _|four years, it has been a gen- }eml practice. of the Hoover ‘Administration to permit Britain and Northern Ireland. Bu&’chudren of Queen Victoria. In- from railroad station greetings wlgrid: mother was “Princess Mar- | | postmasters to serve as act- in the nature of recognition of caughter of Sweden’s crown prince, |railroad station farewells, it waswgarez of Conuaught, daughter o,.mg postmasters for two those services by the people of Al-| aska and their consequent desire to have him for their Chief Exe- tive,” declared the Delegate-elect. Not Seeking Office Troy, commenting briefly | Mr. c¢n the statement of Senator Di-|from the British capital unattend- | reason for this, but romantic gos- | mond, declared he was not and ©d save by her holiday host, the|sip is seldom logical. and Prince George, fourth son of "the king of England, will not‘ down. | Not even the, discounts given out by court circles in London | |nor the departure of the princess | | 29-year-old George who appeared |Victoria’s second son, the aged! alongside Sweden's royal daushber‘Dukc of Connaught. This grand- ! when the news photographers de- |daughter of England's great Queen ' veloped their plates. | married the present Crown Prince Wales Too Busy? |and bore him all his There was, of course, a logical | She died in 1920. Prince George, of course, traces The Prince back to Victoria through his fa- children. | years. This will make most {of the four-year terms of first, second and third class postmasters continue until 11936 or 1937, he said, adding 'that postmasters are entitled had not been a candidate for thc(Du‘ke of Athlone, served to stifle of Wales, as honored guest of the|ther, the present ruler and his | to serve four years from the officer of Governor. “I am mnot insensible to the honor and dis-| tinction such an appointment would confer upon the recipient. not been a candidate for it and am not now in the sense that I.am | seeking it. “It would be unuue were I to say that I did not know that my name has been suggested more or less frequently in that connection. I have felt, and still feel, that| there are other Democrats in Al- aska who would fill the position more capably than I, and who are just as deserving of the honor.| However, if it is the sentiment of; | Wales, the talk here. BSweden remembers the many ap- pearances of the two in public 1 mveiwhen Prince George accompanied | Gustaf Adol. the Prince of | visit to his oldest on brother the latter's (Sweden in October. At Races Together He was constantly at her side at the opera, the race track, the visitors. |luncheon table and on promenade. of the time with Mrs. Clark Kerr, |wife of the British minister. It was | Bernadotte It was even relaled that they were | ‘scen walking hand-in-hand and m‘(xearge who was the partner | Sweden that thal, nent. is a sign of betro-| announced or ‘ either immi- | When the British visitors arrived, the organization, and as Senator|rumors had it that Ingrid might | Dimond has said, the rank and file [become the bride of the heir to |linked through royal marriage. The ry. of Alaskans, both Democrats and|the Brlmh throne and Imnce al- ,voung Subject,s of the preuent uop ga;,od to Count Nils von Rosen. those of other parties, that T can serve the Territory as Governor,| and the appointment shall be ten-| dered me, I shall not refuse it”| he said. Committee Heads Endorse James J. Connors, National Com- mitteeman, and S. Hellenthal, Chairman of the Divisional Com- mittee and member of the Terri-| torial Committee, both agresd with Senator Dimond on the desirabil- ity cf Mr. Troy's appointment. “There is no other Alaska Demo- crat so outstanding, and from all parts of the Territory comes the demand that he be named Gover-| ror,” Mr." Connors asserted. shall co-operate with Senator Di- mind in every possible way to brmg about his appointment,” he said. | Mr. Hellenthal said that he and other members of the Territorial Committee, and the Divisional Committee of which he is head, are enthusiastically committed to the same objective. “There is no difference of opinion among or- ganization members on its desira- bility. We agree with Senator Dimond that he is the oné man for the position and the one upon whom we can all agree,” he de- clared. | { | Fortune Halts, Cell Door PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, 16.—The joy of Franz Sulko, jailed for picking pockets, over official news that a relative in Hungary had left him $430.000, vanished| when the will arrived. It provided 'that the tentative heir must have clean police record, Nov. | PRESIDENT 1§ {out. when the President |at the castle, Ingrid took George's tioned nation, had to devote most -of hls‘gmndrathel the late Edward VIIL time to his royal host, King Gustaf | The relationship figures down to and to Ingrid’s father, Crown Prince |the third degree of cousinship be- |tween George and Ingrid. There were opportunities, how- Stockholm has bécome accus- | ever when the British heir might tomed of late years to a lot of | this sort of weighing and balanc- There was for example, the ing. The crashes of thrones since | the world war has restricted®, the | royal marriage circle mfieflnlly‘ and the daughters of the have occupied an Ln | | se}f | first dancing party given for the But Wales tangoed most of |creasingly prominent place in it. ! Ingrid, despite her youth, has| been exempt. She was men- frequently when it became known that Crown Prince Freder- ick of Denmark was ready to mar- Another rumor had her en- Ingrid. Again, at the first formal dinner 1ot arm as her escort to the table. England and Sweden already are | | { Lmdbergh Receives Fourteen Notes from KulnaperS' Police I n.sp('('tor M IN WASHINGTON; GROUP CHEERS Hoover Welcom( -d by Of-| ficial Family After Democratic Landslide 16.—~Presi- to the Na- was wel- and | WASHINGTON, Nov dent Hoover returned tional Capital today and comed by his official family other groups. Cheers and hand-clapping broke| emergzd was the been In Democratic| from his special train. It first time Hoover has Washington since the landslide. The President planned new the complicated studic debt question. ———. e -Honduras is appealing ! lof old fractional currency vert It into the new lempir > rTe-| n the | lders | ) con-| cur- ‘ rency, | been made public that 14 notes AMY JOHNSON MAKES FLIGHT T0 BEAT MATE akes Statomun JERSEY CITY, N. J, Nov. 16— The -Jersey City Journal has an interview with Inspector Harry Walsh, of the Jersey City Police Darlng British Aviatrix Department, in which that official Crosses Sahara Bound said Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has| received 14 notes from the kidnap- to Cape Town ers and slayers of his son { Inspector Walsh said he beheved. the baby was killed when the kid-' DAKAR, French West Africa napper was descending the ladder | Nov. 16.—Amy Johnson, Great Bri-! from the nursery, as the ludder[w,ns daring woman flier, who is| broke and the criminal threw the|trying to beat her husband's ,_ecmd} baby to the ground to save his from London to Cape Town, crossed e the great Sahara Desert ahd landed The Lindbergns neard a noise at at Dao on the Upper Niger yes- 9:30 o'clock. The baby was misse d‘berday She took off from Doula! at 10 oclock that same night. |on the Gulf of Guinea | i She made the 1400-mile flight This ‘i, the. THisp Hing 16088100 Oran, Algeria a little | more than 13 hours. - in | have been received, all bearing the same symbol. | | FALE PINK CLOQUE MAKES EVENING GOWN Austrian Wives May Pry | | PARIS—Mrs. Norman Armour, >VIENNA, Nov. 1u~—A suspicious|yife of the new United States wife has a right to pry open her apnister to Haiti, included in the hushand’'s desk, said Austrian | wardrobe wi she took with her| courts in the case of a colonel who' to Port au Prince an evening frock d for divorce on the ground or paje pink washable clogue. It nis wife had meddled with his| |was designed with a round, low- |date of their confirmation by the United States Senate. R TRIPARTITE ECONOMICAL CONSORTIUM Three Natio: in Europe Join in New Rehabili- tation Scheme PARIS, Nov. 16.—The formation f" a tripartite economical con- sortium among Prance, Germany and Great Britain, designed to re- | habilitate Europe, is announced by Raymond Patenotre, American born, Under Secretary for National Econ- omy. The first project will be the of- fering of a seventeen billion franc loan for electrification of railways in Poland, Rumania, Irak and Por- tugal. The Paris edition of the New | York Herald Tribune today said i Prance and England will each pro- :udo 40 per cent of the loan and Germany will provide 20 per cent. Patenotre said the consortium is | purely an economic arrangement. Premier Herriot will be the ti- tular head of the consortium in France, and Chancellor von Papen in Germany. Patenotre, as Vice- President for France, will be in actual charge of operations, with headquarters in France. The Ger- man Minister of National Economy | will be German Vice-President. e - | TASSELS USED TO TRIM SMART FALL "RQCKS PARIS—Tassel trims are seen on many of the smartest fall frocks here. Madame Henri Garat, wife of the French movie actor, wears a frock of soft green wool de- signed with intri¢ate seams at the waist line and closed in front by 'tiny green tassels passing through gilt rings. Another smart Parisian wears a frock' of dull purple wool with a private mail. At the same ime | necked decolletage which crossed in the wife got a' decree on evidence front and twisted around the waist found in ‘the desk, |to form a bely, small turnover collar ffhished with two big gray yarn tassels,

Other pages from this issue: