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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALl. THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER OF ASSOCIATkD PRLSS OL. XLL, NO. 6189. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRI DAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1932. PRICE TEN CENTS URGES BILL T0 LEGALIZE BEER BE PREPARED NOW POLITICAL FRAUDS BEING REVEALED ROOSEVELT READS OF ELECTION REPUBLICANS BOUGHT VOTES IN ONE STATE Organization Also Intimi- dated Those Favor- ing Roosevelt 25 TO 50 CENTS PAID TO NEGROES Testimony Presented to House Committee in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Penn., Nov. 18—Testimony that Republi- can orgamization workers bought votes, intimidated Roos- cvelt voters and gave illegal assistance o citizens in the re- cent election, was given yes- terday befcre the House Com- on Campaign Expen- ttec ditures. Many witnesses passed be- fore the Committee. Two negroes testified that Representative Clinton A. Sow- ere, in the Twentieth Ward, banded out money. Aaren Hinten, one of the witresces, said about 200 votes were bought, the price rang- ing from 25 to 50 cents. Mrs. Willie Cook testified that somecne pulled the voting machine lever for her and gave her a $1 bill. ILLEGAL ASSISTANCE PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 18.—Ja- ii'cob Mueller, Roosevelt watcher at the polls during the recent elec- told the House Committee to- that he saw illegal assistance to voters at the polling tion given three men were allowed one place who do not division. I saw Elmer county employee, hand at least three voters envelopes, which 1 saw opened. The envelopes con- ed $3 each, said Mueller. Committee again heard to- estimony of alleged vote and infimidation of citizens to vote for Roosevelt; ezal assistance of others. “TORCH GIRL” T0 AGAIN DON GREASE PAINT After Birth of Baby, Libby Holman Reynolds Re- turns to Stage o tair 1 NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—After birth of her baby, expected sbout mid-January, Libby Holman Reynolds will return to the stage, ehouse, Broadway col- tates in an article today New York Sun. Morehouse .says the former ch girl” singer was informed coming of her baby on v she was indicted for the of her husband, . Smith tobacco heir. The case ntly nolle prossed and Ab Walker, friend of were freed of the mur- the TWO U. S. MARSHALS VISIT HERE TODAY nroute to their respective homes, United States Marshals Charles D. Jones, Nome, and Lynn | Smith, Reby, visited here today | while the steamer Alaska was in They were guests of Mar- shal | and visited other Federal and Ter- ritorial officials. G Marshal Jones left Nome on the sailing of the steamer Vic- He will fly to Nome from banks. Marshal Smith passed through here early last week with, | insane patients for Morningside. | —— jsts to use a mew ncise to attract attention. Albert White this mormngt A Londen coroner wants motor-; Associated Press telephoto of and friends in the Hotel Biltmore, STOCK MARKET REMAINS QUIET; come Today — Rally Nipped by Wheat Sag NEW YORK, Nov. 18, — The Stock Market overcame the recent heaviness today but failed to de- velop strength. Several leaders were up from one to iwo points but most of the gains were reduced to fractions by the close. The final today was steady. were 700,000 Wheat Sags | The stock price rally was evi- i dently nipped by sagging wheat jbut the upturn appeared to reflect imtle but short covering. The mar- ket remained sluggish, profs on- als contributing virtually of the- business. Allied Chemical and Case gams of about two points. tone of the market The transfers, all los point gain. No Change in Steel day. American Telephone and Tele- graph closed a fraction lower. Issues up fractionally included American Can, Dupont, Interna- tional Harvester and Union Car- | bide. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Nov. quotation of Alaska Juneau mine istock today is 12%, American Can| Chrysler 15%, Colorado Fuel and Iron 7, Columbian Carbon 27%, Continental Oil 6, Standard Brands 15%, American Power and Light |8%, Canadian Pacific 13%. Du- [pont 36%, Safeway Stores 51. {Billings Is Not Bomb Case Man Says Callicotte SACRAMENTO, Cal, Nov. 18.— Paul M. Callicotte of Portland, |Ore., the man who claims he was the unwitfing agent of the 1916 |San Fransico Preparedness Day bombers, met Warren K. Billings in the warden's office at Folsom 1S:aw Prison and declared positively “Billings is not the man who gave me the suitcase in Oakland, nor is he the man to whom I delivered it in San Francisco,” SOME STRENGTH Recent Heaviness Over- Reynolds Tobacoo B lost a one| United States Steel closed \vuhl parely any change from yester-/ 18.—Closing | 532, Anaconda %, Bethlehem | Steel 17%, Fox s 3, Gene Motors 14, International Harv ter 22%, Kennecott 11, Packard | " | Motors 2%, United States § ,ll 35%, Calumet and Hecla 3% Franklin D. Roosevelt with family New York, after President Hoover had conceded the election to him. With the President-elect are (left to right) James Farley, James Roosevelt, Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt. LOCCOLITE AND PARTY TOWED {Indien Wenan: Ol Power Boat Julia Is Also Brought to Juneau i | With, the Loccolite in tow and| her party of hunters aboard, hu | United States Coast Guard cutter| /Tallapoosa, Capt. C. H. Dench,| Commander, arrived in Juneau this| afternoon. An Indian woman, one of a party of five Indians, off the power craft Julia was also brought to port by the cutter. The Tallapoosa left Juneau at ‘630 this morning. She sighted| the Loccolite at Cove Point an hour and a half later. Could Not Pass Taku The small craft tried to pass| Taku Inlet to come to Juneau but| the weather was too rough and she| took refuge in Doty's Cove. The cutter proceeded to Doty’s| Cove. Lear g that the Loccolite's ‘gako‘me <um)l3 was low and that| those aboard of her—C. L. Hulse, yRodney Hulse, Warren H. Wilson| {and H. W. Edwards—had scarcely| any other food but deer meat, Capt ! Dench decided to take the power boat in tow. Went Back for Indians | At Taku Inlet, Capt. Dench was| jinformed by the Loccolite’s hunters| ;lhab five Indians on the Julia were Iin a secluded party of Doty’s Cove and that they might be short ofl provisions. He took the Tallapoosa| back to the Cove. The four Indian| men in the party were cont.em‘ to stay, having a supply of deer| meat, but the Indian woman asked to be brought to Juneau. With her, the Tallapoosa return-| ed to Taku Inlet, took the Locco- in tow and arrived here with- ut incident. The pleasure boat Jazz, with its rowner, Cash Cole and a party of friends, returned to Juneau last levening from Oliver Inlet, where‘ |the craft had been ' stormbound| ysince last Sunda) e WENDELL DA“SON HERE FOR| SPEEL RIVER STREAM WORK/ Wendell Dawson, hydroelectric| engineer representing George T.| Cameron ‘and associates and the Zellerbach interests, in coilecting data on waterpower here and at| | Ketchikan, arrived today on the steamer Alaska from Ketchikan. He will leave shortly for Speel River to check up on steam guages in that district. ,e- Approximately $21,000 of the stu-| dent loan fund was bofrowed by HERE BY CUTTER |on several vessels. | Mrs. George Dick Declares| | band, { questioning WALTER LOFGREN IS SHOT TODAY BY N. GIATROS Latter Says_\;a—s Defending Home—Wounded Man's Condition Is Serious Walter Lefgren, a cooky was shot end possibly fatally wounded carly tcday on Willoughby Avenue by Nick Giatros who used a .32 cali- ber revolver, after the latter is said to have found Lofgren in- vading his home. Giatros is be- held in the Federal jail on was arn d at his house on Willoughby opposite the Cole barn, shortly after the shooting. His wife, ride of two weel the former erine Caito, is also being de~ tained. Surpriced Pair Giatros, a miner employed by the Alaska Juneau, told officers, it was said, that he returned home, No. 8 Willoughby Avenue, from | work about 8 o'clock this morning. |He en house and found ‘lorz'cn thexe with his wife. rily clad, Lofgren fled by the rear door. Glatros grabbed a re- volver and ran out the front door, dropping a criridge belt as he ran, and headed off Lofgren as he apparently was attempting to lescape. He shot him twice, in- |flicting wounds in the left arm and chest Lofgren fell to the boarding | and Gilatros went back into the bouse. Lofgren managed to get to his feet and worked his way across Willoughby Avenue to the Cole barn, where an employee of | Cole’s Transfer picked him up and | rushed him to St. Ann’s p'tall An emergency operation was | performed by Dr. H. C. DeVighne who sald today the man is very low. The most ‘serious wound is in the breast which penetrated and pierced the 1cn‘| lung. The same bullet struck| |the left hand and upper arm. Lofgren has resided here some- | time, cooking at various places and He is married and has a wife and two children. WIFE OF SLAIN MAN DESCRIBES HIS SHOOTING Breed Called His Name and Then Shot Him Frank Breed first called her husband, George Dick by name and then fatally shot him as he was entering the door of the Breed house at Sitka on June 17, last, Mrs. Flora Dick, wife of the slain man testified today in the Fed- eral district court. She was the chief witness of the {Government and the one upon |whom it apparently depended to establish what it regards as the| facts of the shooting. Her hus- she told the jury, under| by herself, told her how he was wounded Is Deathbed Statement Her account of what Dick nar- rated about the shooting was ad- mitted, after extended argument, | as a deathbed statement. She, it is said, was the only one to whom Dick made any statement as to how the shooting occurred. Mr. and Mrs. Dick and thres children, one an infant of a few months, she declared went to the Breed place on the afternoon of | June 17 at Breed’s invitation. They! one bullet| i’:amml TO WASHINGTON DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE, WIFE, SON CAST BALLOTS | | | | i | | Associattd Press telephoto of Gov. Franklin D, Roosevelt voting at the general election at Hyde Park, N. Y. Left to right: Mrs. Reosevel., the governor and son, Elliott, GAME BOARD IS READY T0 OPEN ANNUAL SESSION Selfridge and Williams Ar- nve——Expecled to Be Largely Routine With the arrival of two more members here today, the Alaska Game Commission’s official person- nel was all in this city and ready for the annual meeting which will cpen here next Monday morning m Commission headquarters 'in the President W. R. Sel- Ketchikan, and Frank P. St. Michael, arrived’ on {ridge, Williams, the Alas Commissioners Irving McK. Reed Fairbanks, and Andrew Simons, Seward, reached here early this ek. They with H. W. Terhune, Exccutive Officer, comprise the Commis; The coming President de- is sessions, largely Tt will be to routine matters. pected that many new 11 be necessary, and few changes in existing one are anti- cipated. Selfridge voted The Alaska brown bear, as usu-! al, will come in for his share of | the Commi n's attentnon. But the discussions will undoubtedly | be without fiction as the mem-} bers generally are agreed on that! subject. The question of imposing a li- cense on reside unters has been raised in a r tion from the Petersburg Chamber of Commerce, | and will be considered more ser- lously than in former years. Various administrative problems connected with enforcement of the regulations will bd dealt with by the Commission. 1 >, —— | l i Romance Hmted | the Democratic Nahmul (,unumt» tee, is shown escorting Mrs. Kath- erine Filene Dodd to see the poni run at a Washington, D. (/. ra track. Shouse’s wife recently ob- tained a divorce at Hutchins Kansas. Mrs, Dodd, a divore: the daughter of Lincoln Filene, Roston merchant prince. A romance is hinted. ALASKA WORK IS APPROVED BY L. H. COM.: Improvements Recom-: WICKERSHAM TO 60 TUMURRUW; Judge James W ham, Dele- | gate in 5s, and Mrs. Wi ersham, will leave Juneau tomor- row for Washington, D. C. so the Judge can be presen ening of Congress They will take pas steamship Admiral expected to stay to dinner but none was served. Breed and her hushand drank a small pitcher or‘ beer. After remaining about three hours, at sometime near 8 p. m.|_ she took the children and went to | |a relative’s house not far distant.|”" Dick remained at Breeds. | About 9 p. m. she returned there | to get her husband. She was there but a few minutes, then left by | herself, but her husband overtcok | her shortly. He didn't enter the women students at the University| of Michigan last year. l residence, however. On reaching (Continuea on Page Two) \‘ul go direct by t ional capital. I shall push forward I have introduced in f Alaska,” the Judgze lative success, howev <hort session of Cong lematical, “After my term with the expiration of Congress, March 4, Mr »m and T shall return to chall resume my law Drac ) { 1 I mended at Ketchikan, Also Hinchinbrook IINGTON, Nov. WAE 18.—The Commissioner of Lightholl in his & ., recommends to Comme that ing expenditures be made » Hinchinbrook light station tehikan lighthouse depot and whart airs, $4,051. Erecting buoy shed and travel- ling crane at Ketchikan, $12,500. — e »;Ogden Mills’s Niece Breaks Engagement LONDON, Nov. 18.—Lady Forbes, a niecé of Ogden M ted States Se asury, has broken her ment with the Marquis de B announcement was ma father, the Earl of C Lady Moira is 22 years ol > Ogden me of al Mjjis, who lef! % $10,000,000. DIMOND LEAVES FOR VALDEZ; TO RETURN LATER Prepare for Departure for Washington After having spent several days here cohferring with local - Demo- cratic leaders and visiting friends, -elect Anthony J. Dimond, afternoon on the “sieamer for his home in Valdez. !He will begin at once preparations to close down his law practice and ceed to Washington where he lans to arrive about the middle of February. It Is his left | Alaska present intention to make a hurried trip as far north | E:\.& Nome before going east. He {will leave Valdez about the first E the year and proceed to Fair- banks, visiting Seward -and '‘An- | chorage enroute. | Will Fly to Nome | From Fairbanks he will fly to |Nome. He did not get to go to the Second Division during his campaign, due x» h', injury by an r proy at Iditarod in making the trip takes office, to condi and learn local study nd all of the month n this mission. He > here about the end for a stay of sev- g0 Over some parts ative program with lo- and to discuss with of the Federal gov-| some of -their problems policies. He will visit in Ket- an briefly, and go to Wash- mmgton from there. He expects to be In Washingto nten days or two scks before the inauguration of President Roosevelt. While there has %één no offic- fal word as to the probability of special session after March 4, rext, if one is called Delegate Dimond will be ready for it. He will have two bills ready for in- troduction—one to give the Alaska Legislature jurisdiction over the fisheries of the Territory, and the| second to achieve a like objective | for game and fur-bearing animals. He will also work on a compre- hensive amendment to the Organic Act to the end that complete home to yeal agents nt rule will be extenc to the Te: [ritory. These three measures, he| considers the most important on| the program in the Democratic| | party s Terri platform Pending has several in the Unit in the| them are o trial and o dispose of them hird Divisi dy Delegate - Elect Leaves to |COMMITTEE OF HOUSE IS TOLD T0 HUSTLE UP Beverage Mea<ure Wanted for Introduction in House Next Month \SENATOR VANDENBERG FOR RESUBMISSION {Rules Committee Ready to Get Modification Out of Way Quickly WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. —Represen tative John-J. O’Connor, New York Demo- crat, yesterday urged Rep- resentative James W. Collier, Mississippi Democrat, Chair- man of the Ways and Means —| Committee, to have a beer bill ready for presentation when the House convenes next menth. R e p r esentative O’Connor said: “The public is impatient and will protest any delay” on legalizing beer. Representative John J. Cochran, Democrat of Mis- souri, said legalization of beer will put 35,000 men to work in his State and aid the un- employment situation every- where. MORE ACTION WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. The drive for a change in the Federal liquor laws gained impetus today from the an- nouncement by United States Senator Arthur H. Vanden- berg, Republican of Michigan, that he favors immediate submission of the Prohibi- tion repeal amendment and liberalization of the Volstead Act. The announcement came as Wets were seeking to have the Ways and Means Com- mittee draft a beer bill for presentation when Congress opens. Senator Vandenberg said he favored immediate resub- mission of the Eighteenth Amendment because it is just that regard be had for rights of majorities and because of validity of law enforcement demands it. POWERFUL AID WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—Repre- sentative Edward W. Pou, Demo- crat of North Carolina, Chairman of the House Rules Committee, ex- presesd the hope today that “we can get modification of the Vol- ead Act behind us at the short sion of Congress.” As head of the powerful House Rules Committee having much to y on what the House acts, Chair- man Pou is in a strategic position. Pou stands against the Eighteenth Amendment and Volstead Act. NOTED MAN IS INJURED, HUNT CHICAGO, 11, Nov. 18.—Prince Michael Cantacuzene, great grand- son of former President Grant, was seriously injured yesterday during @ hunt. His horse failed to hurdle a fence. S eee SHIPS DELIVER TO DOOR SAN FRANCISCO—In competi- t {tion with railroads and truck lines Walter svovz | 1or Loas a' lr"wht trade, a Pacifie lugurai.ed a dno- to-door dellvery sorvice,