The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 25, 1932, Page 1

\ | % | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” OL. XLL, NO. 6194. A JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NO\’H’IBER 25, 1932. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CEN lS - JAPANESE CUT CHINESE DOWN BY HUNDREDS, REPORT 'DEBTOR NATIONS TOLD TO PAY U. S. TERRITORY FOR FIRST TIME IS DEPRESSIONHIT Parks, in Xr;ual Report, Urges Public Work to Relieve Unemployed CUTS IN ROAD FUNDS ADD TO ROLL OF IDLE Report Is Most Compre- hensive Ever Written by Present Governor Alaska, for the first time since national depression set in, seriously feels its effects, declares Gov. George A. Parks in his annual report to the Secretary of Interior, made public today by Secretary Lyman Wilbur. z “A survey of conditions in the larger communities disclosed an unusual number of unemloyed, and during the summer this was aggravated by an influx of work- ers from the Pacific Coast States,” and the “care of these people will present a serious problem during the coming winter,” declared the Governor. Urges Relief Aid Gov. Parks urged adoption of various Rivers and Harbors proj- ects, road projects and public build- ing items and appropriations for them by Congress to aid the Ter- ritory in combatting unemployment. He takes exception to the action of the present Congress in limiting the expenditure of Forest Highway fiinds and urges that the regwlar /dlotment be made as provided for in/ vae Act of Congress of Novem- Yer 9, 1921. The allotment to the Territory from the general Forest Highway fund for the current fiscal year would have been $934,- 000, but Congress limited the total oxpenditure this year from that gource to $350,000. | Two public buildings were recom- mended for immediate construction —Anchorage and Ketchikan. At| the time the report was preparad,! at the end of June last, neither of thesz had been provided for. Since then, the Ketchikan project has been approved and funds made available.* The Governor's report covers a wide range of subjects and is the most comprehensive ever prepared by Gov. Parks. It comprises al- most 400 manuscript pages, in- cluding many tables of statistical matter. It cites figures for pro- cductions of mining, fishing and timbering industries for all time and goes into a wealth of detail regarding economic and industrial conditions prevailing during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932. 1t reveals a decline of 16.7 per cent in the Territory’s commerce for that period. Exports decreased $8,511,905, or 149 per cent and[ imports $5,238,010, or 20.2 per cent. Total exports were $48,306.407 and imports $20,599,693, leaving a bal-‘ ance of trade in favor of Alaska amounting to $27,707,714. Copper, with a decline of almost 65 per cent from the 1931 produc- tion, showed the greatest loss of product on- the list. Local Finances Sound While the financial condition ofj the Territory was not as enhanced as the year previous, Territorial finances were still sound. A bal- ance on June 30 showed $561,662.43 was in the Treasury, as compared to $694,89493 for the same date of the previous year. The combinéd resources of the Territorial and National banks on the same dates were ‘approximate- ly: capital, $980,000; surplus -and net undivided profits, $787,500; de- posits, $10,331,700, while approxi- mate totals for the year previous were: capital, $915,000; surplus and net undivided profits, $826,000; de- posits, $11,275,000. The total assessed valuation of incorporated towns was $27,155,357, in 1932 as compared with $26,745,- 956 in 1931. From the Alaska Fund, created by the so-called trade and occupa- tional Federal license taxes, dur- ing the year there was $189,348.83 available. Sixty-five per cent of this was available for road and trail construction outside of in- corporated towns 25 per cent for schools; and 10 per cent for re- (Continued on Page Seven) I GOV. PARKS’S RECOMMENDATIONS 1. Relief of local unemployment by construction of Rivers and Harbors projects that have and the completion or repair of been recommended to Congress existing projects. Items for the improvement of Dry Pass, Sitka Harbor, Stikine River, Kodiak Harbor, and for further improvement of Wrangell Narrows and Nome Harbor have been recommended to Congress. The Ketchi- kan Harbor improvement is not completed and repairs are necessary to the Lowell Creek project at Seward. Construction work on these projects would employ many men and be of inestimable value to the Territory. 2. In addition to the above projects, reports have been sub- mitted for the improvement of Petersburg Harbor, Cralg Harbor, Gastineau Channel and Salmon River at Hyder. The early consideration of thesz reports is urged. 3. The National Forests of Alaska contain the most densely populated sections of the Territory, and within these areas the unemployment situation is most acute. forests many road projects that authorities. Construction work projects this season. All of the proposed projects referred There are within these have been recommended by local should be undertaken on these to can be completed with the funds that will be available if Alaska is given its share of the appropriations as apportioned in the Act of November 9, 1921. 4. The completion of the road through McKinley National Park will permit easy access from the Alaska Railroad to the Kantishna. mining district, thus encouraging development of a well-mineralized area and possibly developing tonnage for the railroad. 5. Glacier Bay National Monument embraces some of the most attractive cessible and if the boundaries features of Southeast Alaska. It is easily ac- are changed so as to include adjacent areas it will afford a sanctuary for wild life that can- not be surpassed. The present National Monument and adja- cent areas should be included in a National Park. 6. Schools and hosptials are needed in many sections of the Territory to care for the Native people. program has been recommended. definite number of buildings each year. plan, it is often impossible to erect the buifdings until the years, following the appropriation, A 10-year construction This plan would assure a Under the preseni 7. The hospital boat on the Yukon River serves a large territory and gives medical aid to residents in isolated places. The present boat is old and should be replaced with a new vessel completely equipped for the service. In addition to the above, it is desired to invite considera- tion to the recommendations that have been made in previous reports: A Coast Guard cutter in Western Alaska during the winter season; a stabilized road-building program that will assure the Alaska Road Commission definite appropriations for a period of 10 years; Federal buildings for Anchorage and Ketchikan; consolidation of law enforcement agencies in one organization; and, increased allotments for relief of destitution among the Native people. MRS. J. M. DAVIS, LOCAL PIONEER, DIES THURS DAY Pioneer Local Artist Pass- es Away—Resided in Juneau 41 Years Mrs. Montgomery Davis, 77, pio- neer resident of this city where she had resided for almost a half- century, died at 1:15 a. m. Thurs- day morning at St. Ann's Hospital, to which she had been removed illness. At her bedside when the end came were her daughter, Mrs. William Carlson, two sons, Trevor and Cedric, and her daughter-in- law, Mrs. Trevor Davis. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon in Holy Trinity Cathedral. They will be conducted by Dean C. E. Rice. In- terment, under direction of the Charles W. Carter Mortuary, will be in Evergreen OCemetery. The remains will lie in state in the Chapel of the Mortunary until 2 o'clock tomorrow after- noon. Mrs. Davis had been a con- tinuous resident of Juneau since 1891 and for many years was prom- irent in church, musical and other circles. Born In London Mrs. Davis, formerly Frances Caroline Brooks, was born in Lon- don, England, Nov. 3, 1855. 8he was the daughter of George Brooks, Proctor of Doctors Com- mons—a lawyer engaged in ecceles- iastical ‘and admiralty cases. Her mother, Louise Pepys, was related to Samuel Pepys who wrote the celebrated Pepys Diary. As a young woman, Mrs. Davis decided on a career as painter, musician and linguist, so her edu- cation was formulated with that end in view. Several years were spent in Italy, France and Ger- (Coritinued on Paug ‘tw_) | Elect, several days ago affer an extended ! ORGANIZATION OF NEW HOUSE NOW UNDERWAY Selection of Speaker Down to Last Committee Post Is Progressing WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—Organ- ization of the Democratic House of the new Congress from the selec- Ition of a successor to Speaker John N. Garner, Vice-President- down to the last committee Post is already troubling the hold- over members in view of their large majority. Activity in the drive for the Speakership nomination, which is tantamount to election, is reach- ing a feverish pitch following a deluge of letters which have gone to 313 Democratic members-elect. ‘Candidates for the Speakership, arnounced and unannounced, com- Prise Representatives Rainey, Floor Leader; .Rankin, Chairman of the Veterans' Committee; McDuffie, of Alabama, party whip; 'Byrns, of Tennessee; Bankhead of Alabama; Warren, of North Carolina; ©O'- Connor, of New York; Greenwood of Indiana. Cudaby Is Sued For Divorce Cost LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 25.— Michael Cudahy of the packer Cudahys, still owes for the divorce won from him in 1930 by Mrs. Murial Cudahy, according to a suit on file in Superior Court. Attorney William J. MecNichols brought the action, which charged that Cudahy agreed to pay $2,000, but paid only a small sum, and still owes $1,855. Mrs. Cudahy also, is named defendant. PRI e U Air Commodore Sir Charles Kingsford Smith plans to fly from England to Australia m five days next AerL NO EXTENSION ON PAYMENTIS T0 BE GRANTED Blunt Replies Sent to For- eign Nations by President OPPOSITION ARISES TO PROPOSED AGENCY Creation of Commission to! Review Debts Is Frowned Upon WASHINGTON, Nov. eign nations were told bluntly last Wednesday by President Hoover—|: with the knowledge of President- Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt—that they will be expected to meet their payments December 15 on debts due the United States. This was done shortly after the President, in a lengthy statement, reviewed ! the debt situation which had drawn]| Roosevelt into the epochal confer- ence at the White House last Tues- day. Secretary of State Stimson hand- ed the British, French and Bel- glum Ambassadors replies of this! Government to the. requests for extension of the moratorium. The replies were not made pub-' lic last Wednesday night, { Opposition Arises In the face of sharp Congres- sional opposition President Hoover hes pfoposed a legislative créatien! of an ‘agency to review the inter- national financial pledges in con- nection with the world economic and disarmament problems. Little| chance is seen for such a com- mission because of determined op- position of Congress, especially by the Democratic House. President-Elect Roosevelt failed| also to give his approval to the; idea. FRANCE NOTIFIED PARIS, Nov. 25.—The President of the United States has no power| to grant a postponement of the| $20,000,000 debt installment due from France on December 15, the State Department has informed the| French Government, replying to| the note from France requesting a! podtponement (pending reconsid- eration of the debt schedules. The note said the postponement| of debt payments mean the inevit- able transfer of the tax burden from the taxpayers of another| country to the taxpayers of the! United States without compensa- tion. e ROOSEVELT IS IN SOUTHLAND FOR 2 WEEKS President-Elect to Hold Conference with Cong. Leaders [ WARM SPRINGS, Georgia, Nov. 25. — President-Elect Franklin D.| Roosevelt arrived here yesterday| morning for a two weeks’ stay. He| will hold a series of conferences| with Congressional leaders during) his stay here 25 —For- | |a pound of an earl; will uke BUTTER, EGGS ADVANGING ON Fockono, Annual Profits of Millions SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Nov. 25. —Being a butter and egg man on the Pacific Coast has carried some old meaning. Prices rose swiftly iast week on top of the previous gradual gains makng profts above the year's low levels of more than $80,000.000 on the annual basis of market prices. ‘At Portland, butter jumped five cents a pound making 30 cents wholesale for the best quality. Generally, butter rose from a low of 17% cents a pound to 29 cents. Fggs r from 15% cents a dozen to 35% cents a doxen for the largest size. STERLING HAS TAKEN SLUMP LONDON, Nov. 25.—The - pound | sterling touched $3.22 in exchange, one cent below the previous mini- Gold Standard | went off the in | Sepl.ember 1931 SRR Nina Wllcox Putnam Sued for Auto Bill LOS ANGELES, Nov. 25.—Mrs, Nina Wilcox Putnam Ogle, writer, fus ‘failed to pay Rolls-Royce of America, Inc., a bill of $94.59 for labor and material, according to a collection age suit filed in municipal court. The automobile services were assertedly rendered in Tos Angeles County within the past two years. Charmed Ltfe of ‘Pretty Bm' Floyd’s Lieutenant Is Ended In Attempted BOLEY, Oklahoma, Nov. 25.— The hitherto charmed life of George Birdwell, Lieutenant of Ok- lahoma’s desperado, Charles “Pret- ty Boy” Floyd, ended here last Wednesday in a. furlous gunfight in this negro village when he and two other men attempted to rob a bank. A negro was killed. He has been identified as Charles Glass A white man was wounded. He has been identitidd as C. C. Pat- terson, wanted < at Shawnee for hooting a policeman & month ago. € Bank Robbery by the turned Lhey Birdwell was gshot 1 infuriated townsfolk who their guns on the trio after had shot the pr bank in the robbe: MYSTERIOUS MOVE TUSLA, Okla., Nov. 25 -The wife of Charles Floyd has been mys- terously moved from hospital here, leading office: believe |the Boley robbery in which Floyd, :lw of Birdwell wa slam was. planned to diver ention {from Floyd's presence The four little daughters of Senator-elect Augustine Lonergan of Connecticut are thrilled at the thou, ght move to Washington where their Dadd, epubhcnn veteran Senator Hmlm Bmg PACIFIC COAST Phicts Wae v waftly v»"nh' family out for a Left to right are: Slx Killed By Filipino | In Seattle |Crazed Islander, with Na-| {‘tive “Weapon, Runs ~ Amuck on Streets SEATTLE, Nov. 25.—A crazed| ’Fi]lplno, slashing savagely with n“ ‘nntlve weapon, plowed through the | streets in the south end of the| city yesterday, killing six persons, and wounding others. The killer, Julian Marcelino, aged | 30 years, a laborer, was finally| overpowered by three policemen and { then jalled. The victims were four fellow Filipinos and two whites. No reason is known for tHe| !frenzied outbreak. ! FELT FUNNY IN HEAD SEATTLE, Nov. 25.—Julian Mar- celino, Filipino, who kilied six per- sons and wounded eleven with two, knives Thanksgiving Day, explain-! ed he felt funpy in the head and that caused him to run amuck through a hotel and streets slash-/ ing at every passerby. Marcelino told the police he was ham’s a seat in the Upper House. Here Lucy and the Senator- elect. Connectlcut s Senator-Elect and Family I the Lonergan stroll near their Hartford home. Ann, Mary, Ruth, Mrs, Lonergan, 6.0.P. 1S WIPED OUT IN ALASKA, SAYS DELEGATE ', No Repub]ncans Left in'Al- aska After Recent El- ection, He Claims SEATTLE, Nov. 25.—Alaska is |now thoroughly Democratic, de- | clared Delegate James Wickersham, now here enroute to Washington to avtend the short session of Con- |gress. The Delegate, who was de- feated in the recent election by Senator A. J. Dimond, said there are few Republicans left in the north., The Territory, he declared, is awaiting the new National admin- istration before pushing for legis- lation before Congress. Nothing to Press “We haven't anything to press during the short session of Con- gress and I am afraid we'd not get far if we had. The people at | |home seem willing to let things| 1 the Democrats are in.) re no more Repubhcnns! Fverybody up there isi alone unti “There in Alas held up Wednesday night by three colored men and lost $200. After- wards, he said, he went to Lhe Midway Hotel and stayed with Pito Gualfo. Yesterday morning e went to a hospital and visited his cousin. “When I returned to the hotel missing,” said Marcelino. i The Filipino said he questioned| Gualto who denied any knowledge of the missing money. “I felt' different to the usually feel. I felt funny head. I stabbed Pito,” said Mar- celino. The Filipino then related other stabbings until he said he lost his memory. He said today: “My worth all of those livi 2 L s Chile Backs Plan To Oppose Soviet way I in thef life is not SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 25. — Chilean newspapers have approved & proposal for government action against Soviet activities in South America. The proposal urged a South | ‘American conference which should take action against penetration of the Continent by Soviet agerls. = Brother Brings Gift; | wounded as Burglar DETROIT, m Nov. Creeping across the porch of his 25 |Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, Democratic, mr jobs.” Sentiment For Troy Delegate Wickersham said the people of the Territory seem agreed upon at least one appointment. Sentiment, generally, in the Terri- tory favors the appointment of and now are looking | i |mum reached sincz the countty}giog'r nad hidden in a sack was|John W. Troy for Governor of Al- aska, he asserted. He was not in- |clined to believe he would have any opposmon from within the Terri- Seameues, however, who noted | the recent passage through here of President of the Alaska Agricultura] College and School of Mines, said Dr. Bun- nell is now in 'Washington in the interests of his own candidacy for that office. Organization Democratic lead- ers here, including J. J. Connors, National Committeeman, were not irclined to believe Dr. Bunnell is in Washington on an office-seek- ing mission. If he aspires to be- come Governor of Alaska, he has not made that fact kn to any | of the organization leaders. The Alaska College and the Ex- tension Service of the Federal De- partment of Agriculture have been. carrying on co-operative work for several years on funds provided by Congress. Dr. Bunnell usually goes to Washington each year to confer with officers of that Department relative to the program and funds for its support. Local Democrats think that the reason for his present trip East. is {Horse on Hunger brother’s home to leave a sack of| potatoes as a surprise gift, Russel| Harrison, forty-one, was shot to| death in the when his brmh-‘ er, James, m him for a bur-| \glar. The wounded brother will | «recover, Strike Is Dead LIVERFOOL, England, Nov. 25.— R\.hcr than live in a new stable, “Ldlty,” a TOFse belonging to the leerpool Street Car Corporation, went on a hunger strike and died. MACHINE GUNS USED TO KILL IN MANCHURIA Peasants in Three Villages Are Massacred— Over 2,000 Dead WHEN BULLETS FAIL, BAYONET TAKE LIVES Mass Slaugh_ter Reported —Victims Ordered to Kneel, then Shot S H AN G HAIL Nov. 25— The Chinese Foreign: Office, in a communique published here, charges that 2,700 Chi- nese peasant were massacred recently in Northern Man- churia by Japanese troops. The communique said the mass killing was done with machine guns. Inhabitants of three vil- luges, near Fushan, according the communlque, were as- stmbled in a ditc] Kneel, Then Shot Machine guns were placed not far from the ditch only a few yards apart. Assembling the captives, the Jap- soldiers commanded them &l to kneel with their backs to the guns. Some of the villagers realized their fate and started to run. Immediately the machine gun clamor broke loose. Resort to Bayonets The communique said that in- fants, children and others not killed by machine gun bullets were bayonetted. The communique said that sub- sequently the farms and villages were alloted to Japanese Nationals, B i e DEMOCRATS AT NOME ENDORSE JOHN W. TROY Territorial lnd *Divisional Committee Members Agree on Slate NOME, Alaska, Nov. 25—At a meeting last Tuesday night of all local members of the Democratic Territorial Committee Jointly with the Divisional Committee, John W. Troy, Editor of the Alaska Daily Empire of Juneau, was unanimous- lv endorsed for appointment as Governor of ‘Alaska. The same meeting also unani- mously éndorsed O. D. Cochrane for Federal Judge, Ralph O'Neill for United States District Attore ney, and Thomas Gaffney for United States Marshal of the Set= cnd Division. Further considera- tlon being given to the ‘endorse- ment for the appointment of a Democratic postmaster here. MANDATE T0 HITLER NOW WITHDRAWN BERLIN, Nov. 25.—President von Hindenburg withdrew the offer of Chancellorship to Adolf Hitler yes= terday. A Hitler was unable to or- ganize a supporting majority in the Reichstag. The President has started con= sidering others for the Chancellor- ship. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 25.—The proposed calender year with thir- teen months of twenty-eight days €ach has received the of Dr. Frederick C. Leonard, chair- man of the department of astron~ omy of the University of Califo ._", St