The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 10, 1932, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE vVEWS ALL THE TIME" VOL. XLL, NO. 6207. JUNEAU ALASKA, SATURDAY thEMBER IO 1932, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT S T’I'EMPTED KIDNAPING PREVENTED BY DOG BARKING PROPOSAL MADE FOR CHANGES IN 1.3, GOVERNMENT Fifty - eight—_E-xecutive Branches Would Be Re- shaped by President FIFTEEN AGENCIES ARE TO BE REDUCED f_\ecutive Orders Also Is- sued—Four New Posts | Are Recommended (AS SHINGTON. Dec. 10. U a bulky message, Presi- Hoover placed before sress a series of recom-| n/ dations for ‘partially re-! anizing the Federal Gov-| ment by reshaping 58 Ex | _ ptive branches in a new| _“..ttem and reducing the num- | vber of independent agencie by 15. | Thh maze of proposals called for of four new posts in a itle Cabinet.” New Titles [ titles would b Assist- | ry of Interior for Pub-| —I dent The House Ways and Means Ccmmittee has cpened hearings on the revenue phescs ¢f the beer I. Chairman James Collier (left) of the committee estimated possible revenue from beer at $300,000,000 to $400,000,000 annually. Rep. Fred Vinsen (lower right) is the leading Democrat and Rep. Willis Hawley (right) the rank- ing Republican cn the Ways and Means Committee. (Associated Press Photos) The new Secretary of Interior| Health and Recrea-| Assistant for Education, tion. | Assistant Szcretary of Agricul-| ~ STOCK PRICES , SLIP SOME IN " SHORT SESSION 10— STIR OF OPPOSITION WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—A stir opposition, especially on the e cide crept around Presi- Ho6ver's regrouping plans. The Senate also plans to find out what it all means. Some House members sought to organize blocs powerful enough to prevent shifting of 58 Federai Agencies and elimination of 15 others. Some leaders in the Senate be- lieve the ¢hanges will become efs! fective automatically in 60 days. .—— ELABORATE FEAST AT BABE’S BAPTISM| An elaborate Russian feast took place at the home of Capt. and Mrs. George Tulintseff on Seventh Street last evening, in honor of the baptism of their daughter| Nadja, twenty guests being- pre- to witness the ceremony which preformed by Father Kashevar John Rustgard held- the acting as God Mother. Capt. Merkovief was God Father. baby was' the recipiant many beautiful gifts. gard’s gift to her Godchild was| a hand made Alaskan gold brace- let of CLOSING PRICES TODAY | NEW YORK, Dsc. Juneau mine stock closed at 13, American Can 54%, Anacon- 0a 8, BethlehemySteel 15%, Curtiss- Vright 1%, Fox Films 2%, Gen- €ral Motors 3%, International Harvester 234, Kennecott 9%, Cal- umet and Hecla 27%, Chrysler 16%, Colorado Fuel and Iron no sale; | Columbian Carbon 28%, Contin- lental Oil 6, Safeway. Stores 41, Standard Brands 15%, Packard Motors 2%, United States Steel| American Power and Light ture for Land Utilization. Assistant Secretary of Commerce | 23 Mlners for Merchant Marine. The President simultaneously suh- 3 mitted eleven Execuiive Orders for| I(lll()(l in carrying his plan into effect, and| if no ComMsssional objection is| K raised in 60 days, the reorganiza- e"tu tion will go forward as proposed.| Roosevelt Has Plans 1t is recalled that President-Elect I:xplosxon Takes Plac Roosevelt has areorganizationplan| Yancey Mme~Bodles Cilcads diU f lled of his own and this may cause Brought Cut arloadings an niille The Presiden em) T grouping and consolidation inte| HARLAN, Kentucky, Dec. Are Made Public the Coast Guard of the Border|F°ur more bodles . were removed‘ Patrol of the Treasucy Department:eafly taday from the Yancey Mine, NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—The Stock of the Customs Service. making a total of 23 known 10, ararket was somewhat wearied by {have been killed in an explosion. |ine effort of the advance late yes- | Rescue crew ‘sa;d they believed terday and prices drifted irregu- all of the viotims have been|jarily ‘4t the short pession today, brought out. Twelve of them were' 4 little slipping appeared here white miners and eleven were';ng there. Some of the leading negroes, shares lost ground. Price changes RATRE o P | were mostly negligibie. The closing |tone was steady with $500,000 shar- |es being turned over. Carloadings Report cuMMISS Carloadmgs report were too I:IDSQ-! IUNER in line with expectations t3| mr'u nce the trading. An element | uncertainty was injected by D'Es AT HDME the slated appearance of the | mnmhlv report which would show | 8 decline in steels unfilled tonnage | land when tne figures did appear, Ralph Williaas Passeslmc decline caused 1o surprise, Away in Yaklma—Ill | TUnited States Steel preferred dropped nearly two points. fOl’ PaSl Year 1 Issues up nearly two points in- WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—Com- | ciuded Industrial Rayon, Owens missioner Ralph Williams, of the and Illinois Glass. Federal Power Commission, aged| Westinghouse and Corn Products |52 years, died as a result of a were up about one point. hedrt attack at his home in Yak- ima, Washington, according to ad-| | vices received here. | A. P.| Wiliams was appointed to the L Federal Power Commission in 1930, He had been in bad health for the | past year. A widow, two children jand a sister survive. | of,‘ -~ cee - — Mrs. Rust-| Our total stock of gold is $4,000,- 000,000. No other country -ever | posessed so much. Britain, for Jample has only $588,000,000. The Chicago Gangster Finds that o They Treat’Em Roughin One [~ ... State;Sentence Given Quickly F[]UR DIEIN HOUSE BLAZE GLEK'WOOD SPINGS, Col.,, Dec. De Vrain pleaded guilty and: 10.—Colorado is rough on Chicago|was immediately sentenced to five! gangsters. years in the penitentiary and to, Leland Du Vrain, sometimes |pay a fine of $1250. Both were! known as “The Gun” or “Diamond | suspended on condition the gun-! EDMONTON Dec. 10.—Arthur, Jack” Alterie, former. President of \man leave the state “at once and aged 21 years; Sadie, aged 18; the Chicago Janitors’ Union learn- | forever.” Vida, aged 16, and Leonard, aged ed yesterday how rough the state Alterie agreed. He was 1mmune‘ 0, children of the Charles Wes- can be when he was hailed before|from the processes of law in Chi- |bitt family, were burned to death District Judge John T. Shumate |cago for years, leaving only when|in their home which was destroyed on a charge of assault with intent |gang wars got too hot. He was!by fire during zero weather. The o kill a former gangster who took ?a swashbuckling pioneer of Chi-|parents and two other children fled | | stranger in gray” who boarded the |a murder complaint, which was re- jon his heel and walking away was | vorsen’s, elry Store, Harry Race’s Pharma: Iaskn Steamship Company, U & I 10.—Alaska | Hall, 'oday:cha'lc> 4 'S IMAN IN GRAY IDENTIFIED IN MURDER CASE Woman Fam After De- claring Guy Was Aboard Wanderwell’s Yacht LONG BEACH, Cal, Dec. 10— Cfficers announced a new link-in the evidence by which they hope to connect Walter J. Guy with the | slaying last Monday night of Capt. Wallace Wanderwell, of the round- the-world-cruise yacht Carma. In the presence of ‘the police, Miss Marion Smith positively iden- tified Guy as the “mysterious yacht Monday night and inquired for Capt. Wanderwell, a few min- utes before he was killed. “I am positive he is the man.” Miss Smtih. said, as Guy faced her, then she collapsed Officers said they would seek fused ye: insufficient evidence. NEW ANGLE GIVEN SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dee. 10. —The belief that Capt. Wander- was shot because of his habit in dismissing a person Dy turning the basis of cxpressed by his former wife, Mrs, Nell Wanderwell Farely, formerly Nell Mille?, “who was born near Scattle. She aiso suggested he had been killed because of one of his many -love affairs or by someone who worked for one of his vic- tlms. Bhe sald he Wis an “‘eters ual lover or so he thought, and couldn't be true to any woman.” BUSINESS AREA | IS PUTTING ON YULETIDE DRESS Stores Use Evergreens Out- side and Many Dec- orate Interiors Decorations of business houses for the Christmas season are go- ing forward rapidly. By early next week holiday dress will have been donned by virtually all stores and commercial buildings. Quite uniformly, the estabhah— ments are adorning their fronts with evergreens and many of them are embellishing interiors. Among those that have put up |decozations in the last few days are the First National Bank, Hal- Inc., Gordon’s, Yarman's| |Fur Shop, E. McClaire’s Canvas and Tent Store, Jacobsen's Je Juneau Drug Company, Schombel Flectric Company, Pioneer Pool Hall, Nifty Shop, Miners’ Cigar| Store, Donaldine’s Cosmetique and Beauty Shop, Brownie's Barber Shop, Burford's Pool Hall, Pioneer Barber Shop, Arctic Pool Hall, Al-| H. 8. Graves, Men’s Furnishing Store, Imperial Pool Kaufmann's restaurant, Men’s Furnishing Electric Company, I3 elson's Jewelry Store, Junsau Bakery, Juneau-Young Cempany, Thomas Hardware Com- pany, Arnold’s Bootery amd Gas- tineau Grocery. FIREMEN AND CUTTER CREW TO HOLD DRILL Members of the Juneau Fire De- partment and seamen on the Unit- ed States Ccast Guard cutter Tal- lapoosa. will hold a joint fire drill at 9:30 o'clock tomorrow morning. The Department’s hose will be con- nected with equipment of the Tal lapoosa and the cruiser's pu will force salt water through nozzles. ‘The drill will demonstrate fective methods of fighting v« front blazes. ———— Restaurant, Australia has finally emerged as a film-producing country, with sev- eral companies producing both :p dude ranching in Colorado. Icago's beer gang wars, 'in safety from the flames, lsolmd features and short subjects {ing after more than an {that the jury must decide. |Chancellor Heen mplishes GRAHAM TRIAL CLOSED TODAY WITH SPEECHES Grigsby Makes Able Speech to Jury in Urgmg‘ Ac- quittal of Client The Graham case, in which C. J. €8horty) Graham, well known lo- cal taxicab operator, was charged with being an accomplee of Wil- llam McGee in the latter’s holdup of B. M. Behrends Bank on Janu- a1y 23 last, was given to the jury late this afternoon. All the evi- dence was completed Friday after- noon and the arguments of coun- sel started when court convened at 10 a. m. today. In one of the ablest speeches of his career, George B. Grigsby occupied some *90 minutes in ana- lyzing the evidence which, he de- clared was as consistent with Gra- ham’s innocence as with his guilt, and t auch of it was not duly with innocence but it was also inconsistent with guilt. All Circumstantial Evidence All of the evidence upon which the Government pins its hopes for conviction was circumstantial. Mr. Grigsby argued that but for the evidence given by Graham himself, voluntarily, there was nothing in the record to connect the defend- ant with McGee at all, and not anything in it to prove that he was associated with him in rob- Bing the bank, planning the hold- up, or to facilitate the robber’s cape. r. “Grigsby argued this phase of the case briefly Friday after- noon when he presented a motion asking Judge James W. Harding te instruct the jury to bring in a verdict of not guilty. This motiton was resisted by the Governmen and finally denied by Judge Hard- hour of debate. Two Points Left In ruling upon the motion, the court said there were two points brought out by the Government These were: The evidence given by Gladys Lamb that about 10:30 a. m. on the day of the robbery, and before the identity of the bandit was known even to the officers of the law Graham had told her that McGee had been shot; and the testimony © of Deputy Marshal Frank Price that about 10 o'clock, just before the holdup occurred, he saw Graham in a parked auto- mobile on Franklin Street near Morris Construction Company’s ‘building—the machine in which Graham admitted he and McGee had been driving around town for (Continued on Page Two) CXCHRE VNG REICHSTAG 1S ADJOURNED TO SAVE TROUBLE Political Victory— Cabinet to Rule BERLIN, Dec. 10. — Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher climinated the| possibility of a parliamentary crisis yesterday by prevailing on the| Reichstag to adjourn subject to| the call of Speaker Hermann Wil- helm Goering It was a political victory for the Chancellor and paved the way for a “winter armistice” since the Reichstag does not meet until late in January. The adjournment Cabinet to rule the of constant threat defeat. :nables the country fres of legislative w O dhid S SHOPPING DAYS TOCHRISTMAS | o bery. oners Gang. couple of hundred dollars in cash in the pouch. | aumber owned by the rest of the These farmerettes won top honors with their home-made outfits In | the 4.H club style revue In Chicago. Left to right: Mildred Startup, 19, | of Silver Lake, Kas., whose woolen suit won the grand championship; | tion, | the same manner as the Lind- ‘ABDUGTIUN PLOT IS REVEALED BY WATCHFUL DOG Maid, Aroused by Barks, Rushes to Nursery, Saves Baby Boy 'LADDER IS USED, WINDOW JIMMIED [Alarm Is So—u:&ed, Would- Be Kidnapers Flee— Search Started PHILADELPHIA, Penn., | Dec. 10.—To the barking of a German shepherd dog, guarding the nursery door, the police attributed the thwarting of a daring abduc- apparently planned in bergh kidnaping. - The would-be-kidnapers of | the 2-year-old son of Mr. and | Mrs. Jechn R. C. Master, so- cially prominent suburbanites, fled as the maid dashed to the nursery in response to the dog’s barking. The maid found the metal |screen pried from a windows Margaret Franklin, 15, of Leesville, La,, who took first in the cotton of linen dress group; Mary Chambers, 15, of Mansville, W, Va., winner in the Bemi-tailored silk class; Helen Clark, 17, of Portland, Ore., winner ‘n the informal party dress group. (Anoclated Press Photo) Wickersham [TELLS BREWERS, Wonts Beer DISTILLERS 10 LEAVE CAPITAL For Alaska S LaGuardia| Told to Draft Bill by Rep-| resentative on House Representative Issues Warning to Committee Wet Advocates f WASHIN(vICV Dcc 10.—A spec- tacular demand that distillers arm brewers out and stay out of| ton,” was fung at them WASHINGTON, Dec. 10—Dele- gate James Wickersham of Alaska, yesterday told the House Ways and Means Committee at the hearing! on legalization of beer, he donhte'ly whether ' Alaska was included | ¥ the proposed legislation and wan‘- by Representative La- | C New York, before the| B & rtain my Territory is of g by (Srtaih s | House Ways and Means Committce, | inciuded. in what he described as a warn-| The Delegate further said: “’I‘hcx“m” against abuses that might (1(»-; is some doubt whether moderation g . (10 | would apply to Alaska, in view of the 1917 law, “get of repeal of tke Eighteenth | and with your per Amendment. Aid Not Wnnl(‘d issi raft an amendmer g % 3 help in d '\hmg a bill erl‘th,luv. Representative Rainey, of the committee, said the committee liquor 1a ol 5% to have such an| Lne Speaker said he wanted to amendment. advise the wets that if a beer bill| Vol | becomes a law and abuses follow,| i Rl 'the Eighteenth Amendment wili| | never be repealed No Liquor Profits Chicago Police Make Ar-! rests in Tuesday’s | Eighteenth Amendment in the | | To admonitions of the brewers {and distillers that they had come Loop Hold-up place, AN - - 4L the request of the committee, | LaGuardia said that fact made no CHICAGO, Dec. 10.—Ten persons| Eight country schools in were held last night as suspects|County, Oklahoma, fed a | difference in his mind. Their ac- tivities might defeat repeal whicia in last Tuesday's Loop mail rob-!‘so‘ooo hot Iunc; to .pupils a year. | You liquor. He declared that control| of Legislatures by distillers and brewers are what brought on € Bry total of in The window had been jim- ‘mxed open_and a,ladder was fo und propped against the >1d< of the house. The maid heard footsteps ¥ of somebody fleeing across the lawn. The police were summoned and was on throughout the sec non The Masters were 'absent from th" house at the time and the baby | was asleep on the second floor. The maid, Florence Lanwehr, was in the reading room on the first floor. She picked up the baby and gave the alarm. Tire marks indicated the would- | be k)dnapers fled in an automohlle. ICICLES HANS ON TREES IN GAL. ORCHARDS °Pacific Northwest States Are Also Hit by Sub- Zero Temperature SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. 10. —While Alaska thawed out in spots, snow crusted weather howled in a surprise raid in the South and drapped California fruit ore chards with icicles. Orzgon and Washington also fell into the clutch of rampaging sub= zero temperatures. s A A ST Students Hold 30 Creeds NEW YORK Det. 10—The stu- lent body of the Biblical Seminary New York, which recently op- 1 its thiriy-third year, includes representatives 6f 30 denominations nine foreign countries, 5, 20 universities, and 13 seminaries. Of the 148 students registered, all but 11 have one or more academic degrees. tes hc favors. LaGuardia added thm | there should be no profits from| The police said all of the pris-|-— were members of the 42- A squad of police made the ar- rest in a west side apartment when they appeared apparently to at- tend a gang cénference. The registered sack, which the) robbers took from a mail «'.u'n('l';x and his guard, contained $500000 4 in securities, of little tof - ALBANY the robbers. There were Bours. ‘hefa panese butler Him fmm N. Y. Dec. 10.—A few| Gentro Akiyama, Ja- | was to have gone| to the electric chair for the murder | of J. Willilam S¢hatz, Poughkeepsie | millionaire, last December, Gov, No fewer than 25,800,000 automo- Franklin D. Roosevelt commuted biles are owned by Americans— his sentence to life imprisonment. almost one for every family. Tk Akiyama, stabbed and hacked! tal is almost three times ul z 10 death and injured Mrs. ence Q. Cavozza, a guest, in niment over criticism becauss e S world \Gov. Roosevelt Commutes Japanese’s Sentence;Saves Electrlc Chair he failed lunch. Gov. to provide a midnight Roosevelt explaintd his ‘gran:mg of the commutation be- cause two of the seven Judges of the Court of Appeals disserited. he Governor’s clemency did net extend, however, to Joseph Brown and 1o death for the murder of a New York City policeman. Charles Markowiiz, sentenced = |