The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 7, 1932, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLL, NO. 6204. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNPBD%Y. DEC MBER 7, 1932. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS OMMITTEE OF SENATE OVERWHELMING FOR REPEAL — NATIONAL EXPENSES BUDGET GIVEN TO LAW BODY BY PRESIDENT Two and One-Fourth Man-| ufacturers Excise Tax | Is Recommended VETERANS’ BENEFITS GOING TO BE SLASHED Eleven Per Cent Cut in| Government Salaries In- cluded in Suggestions WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.— President Hoover today pre-| sented Congress with a dras- tically reduced Budget and] recommended a two and one| fourth manufacturers excise tax, retention of the gasoline tax, rigid economies includinz% an additional 11 per cent cut| in Government salaries, also| a big slash in veterans’ bene- fits. | President Hoover did not| mention beer legalization as a source of income. DEFENSE COSTS The Chief Executive fixed the National defense cost for the next fiscal year at almost $600,000,000, a decrease of about $46,000,000. The estimated reduction in xpenditures totalled $397,-| 000. The sales tax is estimated to yield $355,000,000. No additional provisions included for additional| projects or building program.‘ et L JUDGE GIVES UP FIGHT FOR HIGHER BENCH Wilkerson A§ks Hoover Not| to Renominate Him— Confirmation Fails are WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.— Judge James H. Wilkerson, of Chicago, who sentenced “Scarface” Al Ca- pone to ten years in the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta, has asked President Hoover not to renomin- him for the Federal Circaic Court Bench, The Senate failed to confirm Judge Wilkerson's nomination at the last session. He was opposed by Union labor heads because of injunctions granted in labor dis- putes. PEIPING PLANS WOMEN POLICE PEIPING Dec. 7—Peiping will be the first city in China to have women police when uniformed wo- men officers begin to patrol the streets early next year. Prep- arations are being made to enlist 100 young women who have had grade school education and or- ganize them into 4 ‘training class. ate 4-Year Siege Ended by Machine Gun Bullets |ful and troubled. Move for Swedish Republic May Mark By ELMER W. PETERSON STOCKHOLM, Dec. 7.—Working cn governmental problems with a new social-democrat admini: tion which theoretically at least, would like to have Sweden a Republic, King Gustav V. will celebrate the 25th anniversary of his return to- morrow with his popularity undi- minished. Tt is not unlikely that the left | wing of the Riksdag will this year, as it has done before, introduce a resolution to chance Sweden to a Republic. It is more than likely | as has happened before that the | resolution will be voted down and that with the aid of the Social| Democrats. King’s Personality Counts In the continuance of this para- doxical situation, King Gustav has| unconscienciously played a domi nant role. His personal popularlby.! 5 his entire accord with changing‘ political trends, and his valuable| services to his country, have given Sweden little reason to dispense | with its royal family. | The human side of the king has| helped to establish this feeling. | & l | The Swedes like to boast of his/ agility on the tennis court, where' he figures in tournaments on the| Riviera as “Mr. G.” They like to see him ride by on parade, sitting as erect as the youngest officer | ‘They appreciate his prowress as| 2 fisherman and a hunter and his skill at bridge. L Royal Power Limited | In the constitutional government | which Sweden enjoys the king is neither figurehead nor dictator. In the exercise of authority he works with, and is limited by, his cabi-/ net. Conduct of foreign policy is! constitutionally in his hands but the Riksdag exercises an effective|perienced a general strike which control over it. war or conclude peace, but only lution. after consulting the Cabinet. | King Gustav Is, In effect, a “reg- den pressed hard in the matter of | ulator” in what can be termed a!neutrality and with some disagree- Democratic Monarchy. He serves ment on the subject in the country, King Gustaf of Sweden who, on December 8, celebrates a full .quarter of a century as mon- arch of that country. During the world war with Swe- | much as a permanent president King Gustav made good use of his| would serve in a modern repub- calm patience. lic as a balance wheel removed ) from politics as a personality rep-ized by political democratization, resenting the idea of the Swedish by extension of the franchise to state. women, by the up movement of His reign has been both peace-|Social Democrats and left wing cended the throne on December 8, 1907, the union between Sweden and Norway had just been ended, creating a lively political situa- tion. Two years later Sweden ex- tremendous industrialization and modernization along all lines and a radical change in the whole in- ternational situation in northern Europe. NEW REICHSTAG BIG ROBBERY IS DEADLOCKED | 1S STAGED IN LIKE LAST ONE' CHICAGO LOOP Chancellor, Ho;vever, Not Masked Men Seize Regist- Forced to Use Decree ered Mail Pouch—Loot for Dissolution Is Not Determined | CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. T.—Swoop- ing down into the Loop District, five masked men executed a rob- bery in the heart of the Loop yes- terday. The robbers grabbed a registered BERLIN, Dec. 7. The new Reichstag, deadlocked like the last one as far as party control is con- cerned, held the first session yes- terday. There was lively heckling from the Communists but Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher got through without being forced to utilize his decree for dissolution that he had ready for emergency. The outstanding incident was a bitter attack on President von Hin- denburg by Gen. Karl Litzmann, the 82-year-old follower of Adolf Hitler, Nazi leader, that history may curse the ag President for driving the natio. into Bolshevism. | Herman Wilhelm Goering, a Hit-| e s elected Spesker of the GTATTER LEAVES FOR SEATTLE WITH HINES | National Bank and escaped. | It has not been dewrmined just ihow much was in the pouch until |a check-up is made but the sum imay run into a million dollars in securities, much of which will he | hard to convert into cash. who asserteq! Officials said it is known, how- ed €ver, that the pouch contained up- . wards of $200,000 in securities but cash. Woolly Roads in Australia| SYDNEY, Dec. 7—The Council | of Moree New South Wales, is! testing a road pavement made of With Edwin D. Hines in cus- today for delivery to McNeil Is- ELKHORN, Wis, Dec. 7— A four-year siege to rout Max Cichon, wife and two children from his farm home on fore- closure proceedings ended here yesterday when a Sheriff’s posse peppered the upper floors of the farm house with machine- gun bullets. Cichon was ar- i land penitentiary authorities Chief chemically-treated Wool which IS nony United States Marshal J. sald to set as hard as concrete. i P Stafter left this morning on Hoal ot g market grade IS i, gteamer Northwestern for Se- used. {atle. Hines is under a sentence . . to serve two and one-half years Lion Cubs Go Irish 'in the penitentiary. DUBLIN, Dec. 7.—~The classical Deputy Statter will be in Se- Irish names of Blanaid, Breas, aitle and vicinity for the next 30 rested. Sheriff James Mahon had the family moved into a house Ma- hon had provided. Baedru, Brierin and Branach were days, taking his annual leave. At to five lion cubs born in the zoo sane patient for delivery to Morn- here. lgtven by the lord mayor of Dublin Ketchikan he will pick up an .in- King’s Jubilee| | ;| Curley Guy, identified as the man i | freed after questioning. He may declare threatened to develop into a revo- | | Detectives announced |they believed they are near solu- CAPTAIN SHOT Navy’s New - DOWN IN CABIN OF HIS CRAFT Broadcast I@al Is Made|" for Apprehension of Curley Guy DETECTIVES BELIEVE CASE NEAR SOLUTION ?iMyslerious Shooting on Round-World Cruiser Is Revealed LONG BEACH, Cal, Dec. T— today that tion of the slaying of Capt. Wal~ ter Wanderwell globe trotter, in his cabin on the round-the-world | ship Carma. i The detectives have broadcast an appeal for the apprehension of in gray, seen shortly after Capt.| ‘Wanderwell was shot to death. Mrs. Wanderwell said her hus- | band had a controversy with Guy | and the latter threatened her hus- band. With five-sixths of the outer cov framewaxk of the U. S. S. Macon, wh be ready f FOUR NATIONS LAUNCH MOVE 15 Released The fifteen members of the round-the-world cruise on the Carma, all arrested after the dis- covery of the crime, have been | The start of the voyage to the| South Seas is proposed for Satur- | day by Mrs. Wanderwell. | Alleged Slayer Harry Greenwood employe of a' gambling barge, definitely identi- fied a photograph of Guy as the !man who wore a gray suit o(’ clothes and was seen on the pierl Firm Application of League Covenant in Dispute completion of the giant airship in or iz Fe or her ‘érst trial flicht. scheduled for | position. AGAINST JAPAN DRASTICALLY ljifigible Nearing Cdeletion early March. The above photo, made in the big con- struction hangar at Akron, Ohio, shows one of the horizontal fins just after it had been placed ia ering applied to the , workmen are rush- der that she Statesmen Discussing War Debts| {France and Great Britain Plan Action on U. S. Payments BULLS UNABLE T0 CONTINUE STOCK RALLY Slight Gains Made Today Mostly Off—Closing Is Irregular | i | PARIS, Dec. T.—Higher states- e e CHECK SHOWS LAW CHANGES ARE REQUIRED Judiciary Committee, How- ever Divided on Saloon Issue NEW BEER BILL IS BEING FORMULATED Scores of Witnesses Sum- moned to Appear Be- fore House Body WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.— A check of members showed an overwhelming sentiment of the Senate Judiciary Com- mittee, where the fate of Pro- hibition Repeal legislation rests, for repeal of the Eigh< teenth Amendment, with pro- tection for dry States. The check also shows the committee is divided closely over whether to include some i clause to prevent the return of the saloon and this may block plans of Senate leaders for prompt disposal of the | repeal problem. Democratic leaders in the House today undertook for- | mulation of a beer bill which |they expect to submit next week. More than two scores of I |in his unlighted cabin. His reign has been character-| When he as-'groups, by marked social reforms, | | mail pouch consigned to the First after Capt. Wanderwell was slain | Mrs. Wanderwell’s story of her | husband’s differences with Guy were corroborated by Eugene Bab- bitt, of Seattle, former University student, who said the man at- tempted to kill Wanderwell during Is Demanded GENEVA, Dec.” 7—Four small men of France and Great Britain hLave arrived here from Geneva nations, the Irish Free State, Swed- | ' discuss war debts due the Unit- d t week. en, Norway and Czechoslovakia,|® ::;fi;::z‘ary“egtmp GEEae ::lveml:u;;;(:‘!la :;t;::;;‘mzrm?}':iaruund the idea of consigning the 4 2 . "\ French debt money to the Bank of Ewpty OF Npddos” D& & fire. ape France. Commentators said the | witnesses have been sum- ;moned to give their views NEW YORK, Dec. 7—Bullish ef-| before the House Ways and forts to keep speculative firesburn-|p\r.. ) it ing after yesterday’s flare-up met}‘h ans Committee on a, dozen little success today for a further| Proposals to fix alcoholic con- rally. Slight gains made ear'y tent of legalized beer and de- ‘No Hope of Salvaging Sea Thrust Captain and First Officer| Are Taken Off in Lifeboats | plication of the League's covenant |in the Sino-Japan dispute. | The four nations urged that a | strong policy be taken against | Japan. | SPAIN JOINS IN GENEVA, Dec. 7.—Spain, late today, joined the four other small (nations demanding that the As- |sembly of the League of Nations accept the Lytton report criticizing Japan's actfVity in Manchuria. Switzerland urged another at- tempt at concilliation. ——————— Cabinet might consider immediate- | ly a plan to put twenty million| dollars, due December 15, in the Bank of International settlements,'and there was a better tone inj U R PRIRAEACIL ) wheat but neither served to en- DEBT MENTION DISCOURAGING graph and Union Pacific were sog-| gy all day. United States Stesl| made one-point rise and then; London Newspapers Find Little Consolation, Annual Message a closed off. Standard Oil of New| Jersey was up one point. Penn-| sylvania was soft. E | CLOSING PRICES TODAY | NEW YORK, Dec. 7. — Closing| quotation of Alaska Juneau mine tock today is 13%, American Can| 52%, Anaconda 8%, Bethlehem Steel| , Curtiss-Wright 1%, Fox Fllms: General Motors 13%, Interna-| tional Harvester 21%, Kennecott| 9%z, Packard Motors 2%, United| States Steel 327%, American Power| and Light 8, Calumet and Hecla,| no sale; Chrysler 16%, Colorado| Fuel and Iron, no sale; Columbian Carbon 26, Continental OIl 5%, Safeway Stores 40%, Standard Brands 14%. 16 LONDON, Dec. 7—That part of | 2 President Hoover’s annual mes- sage to the American Congress, dealing with war debts, is di aging to the London press reference to cooperation of tions in the economic crisis warmly welcomed. The London Times said there is only one method whereby these ur- but na- is 3 Huskies in White Spats Form Rio’s Riot Squad RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. T—Tw2 hundred huskies who wear white spats with their dress uniforms have been formed into a special police riot squad. These picked righters have been trained in boxing, wrestling, jiu- jitsu and capoeria, a Brazilian | | ASTORIA, Oregon, Dec. "'_H"“"‘GAT GAUSE OF of salvaging the freighter Sea| Thrust which went aground at the| mouth of the Columbia River early FATAL TRAGEDY last Sunday, was virtually aban-| doned yesterday when Capt.| AR Ernest Landstrom and First Officer B i v b R. Nelson were taken off in nrc-\Affan' with Man’s Wife for| boats from a Coast Guard cutter. £ The two officers had refused to 16 Years, Also leave the ship until hope of sav- Makes Cllmax ing her had been given up. - SEATTLE, Dec. 7T—A first de- gree murder charge has been filed against John Bibeau accusing him of fatally wounding his former | friend, Alfred Elliott, as a climax to a quarrel resulting over whether a cat should be put out of the; house. | | Bibeau also told Elliott of an |affair between himself and EI-| |liott’s wife of 16 years' duration. Musician Beats Dutch Tax method of fighting with the feet.| e | Some of them carry machine guns,| AMSTERDAM, Dec. 7.—Dr. Wil- too. | liem Mengelberg, conductor of Am- Parading upon their inaugura- sterdam’s orchestra, has closed| tion, the big fellows were gorge- his home and moved to a hotel to ous in red caps, blue jackets and demonstrate to D officials that trousers with red stripes, white he really reside Switzerland, spats and white gloves. But on is only “staying > and thcre-. active duty they wear khaki. fore cannot be n Holland. i debt difficulties can be overcome, namely, accepting payment in goods and services but “President Hoover did not suggest this and Congress would not have consid- ered it if he did.” The Times concluded with the statement that the practical al- ternative is to pay in gold. Blase Young Britons Scorn Parents’ Books LONDON, Dec. 7—English chil- dren today are more sophisticatzd in their reading than past genera- tions, says a report by a children’s book club. “The Last of the Mohicans,” —————— SCHUYLER IS SENATOR NOW Republican of Colorado Takes Oath—Walker Served Two Days | | | WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. — Karl Republican, today !OOK‘ ath as United States Senator| from Colorado, succeeding Walter Walker, Democrat, appointed by were mostly erased as isolated $0%t| oide on the tax rate. spots developed during the aftec- noon. The close was irregular. Strength was shown by sterling B CHAMBER IS TO VOTE ON THREE VITAL MATTERS Will Act on Bone Dry Law, Placer Mining and Absentee Voting With two other resolutions one endorsing the repeal of the Alaska Bone Dry Law by the Alaska Leg- islature and seeking its approval by Congress will be offered to the Chamber of Commerce tomorrow by the Executive Committee. The other two ask for validation by Congress of two other Legislative acts one repealing the special plac- er mining law of August, 1912, and the other for absentee voting in the Territory. The three matters were referred to the Legislative committee last week. It reported on them to the |Board at its meeting today. Nominations for next year's Board will be opened at tomor- |row’s meeting of the Chamber. |The special nominating commit- tee will present its report, placing at least seven candidates, and oth- er nominations possibly will be made from the floor. Nominations will remain open until December 15 at which meeting the annual election will be held. e James L. Freeburn, General Man- ager of the Chichagof Gold Mia- ing Company, came to Juneau to- day from Ketchikan. He is intef- {“Treasure Island,” and other thril'- WINSTON SALEM, N. C., Dec. 7. —Settlement of the estate of Smith Reynolds, heir to the tobacco for-| tune, may give Libby Holman Rey- nolds’s unborn child a fortune of $18,000,000. This was revealed heve ... |ingside Sanitarium at Portland. 'as attorneys began negotiations over ldfl. the case being nolle prossed. Westward communities. i]nhorn Child May E | World with $18,000,00 nter | producers of the 80's are scarcely ]wamed by sons and daughters of | earlier readers. Boys' and girls’ tastes run into the same channels until the age of 15. Then girls “become roman- tic and want nothing but novels Smith Rey- and the boys seek mechanies killed last rather than adventure” e i H. B. Crewson, merchandise brok- with headquarters in Juneau, has alleged mur- yeturned from a business trip to the tobacco million nolds was mys July 6. His “Torch Singer,” ed of the charge c u w, the former cently clear- o. wid Y| ested in mining property in the Gov. William H. Adams, to fill| out the unexpired term of de- ceased Senator Waterman. Walker served just two days. He flew here from Denver to give the Dem- ocratic side of the Senate a nu- merical majority, when Congress convened last Monday. - eee H. L. Redlingshafer, fiscal agent for the Forest Service, returned to- day from a trip to the States, | where he was called by the serious Lillnesb of his father,