The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 18, 1932, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL xu' NO. 6214, IUNEAU ALASKA, SUNDAY, DhChMBER 18, 1932. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS FIRST SECI'ION CONGRESS DEALS QUICKLY WITH MANY MAJOR ISSUES HUNDREDS THREATENED BY FLOODS MANY FAMILIES ARE MAROONED by High Water, In- tense Cold NATIONAL GUARDS CALLED OUT TO AID Coastal Reglons in South Covered by Sheet of Ice ATLANTA, Georgia, Dec. 17— National Guardsmen in the South have been called to aid Mississippi flood suffers whose plight has been made grave by the bitter cold. One negro woman has been found frozen to death. xcept for Florida, there are only a few coastal areas that are not caqvered by glittering sheets of ice many hundreds of miles across. Between 400 and 500 families are arooned in the Pearl River flood zone near Jackson, Mississippi. Their lives are reported threat- ened by the rapidly rising waters ad sub-freezing weather. LERD WEATHER AGAIN SPREADS OVER COUNTRY Third Attack in Two Weeks Cripples Near- ly All of America CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 17.—Winter’s third zero attack of the past two weeks moved in full force tonight into the New England States and left most of the remainder of Am- erica shaking with chills. Snow fell in a dozen States and threatened to tie up transporta- IN RIVER AREAI‘ Lives Reported Impenlledi ~ WHO SAID’ ‘NO | | | | | | | | | | Did somebody say there wasn 't SANTA CLAUS’? any Santa Claus? Susan Fleming, I screen player, is shown here rehearsing for the old fellow's scheduled appearance on December 25. (Auoclated Press Photo) FREEDOM FOR FILIPINOS TO BE GIVEN NOW Senate Passes Measure| Granting Islands Independence WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. — The| Senate late today passed the Hawes-Cutting bill granting inde-“ pendence to the Philippines in| twelve years. The measure now goss to con- tion. The rate of fall in Baltimore is reported as being half an inch an hour, Shipping Disrupted Shipping along the Atlantic Coast is disrupted. Higaways are impassable. Danville, Vermont, reports naticn’s lowest low temperature. From the Atlantic seaboard to the Middle West and to the South- west and in the Old South snow fell today. Many places in Cali- fornia even report temperatures below normal and the Pacific Coast generally, except coastal regions continued to have freezing tem- peratures. ARGENTINA 1S DECLARED IN STATE, SEIGE Measure Taken to Prevent Overthrow of Gov- ernment the BUENOS AIRES, ec. 17. — Two former Presidents, Hipolito Yrigo- ven and Marcelo de Alvear, with hundreds of other political lead- ers, are prisoners today as the Argentine ten months’ old Consti- tutional Government asked Con- gress to declare a 30-day state of eige. The action was sought in order that rigorous measures can be tak- en to avert the overthrow of Presi- dent Augustin Justo by the party ousted in the revolution. A succession of bomb seizures|cisco where her husband was climaxed by the arrest of re- tired Col. Atilio Cattana and his ference with the House which at| the last session overwhelmingly ap-| proved the measure but freeing the possessions in eight years. { The vote was taken notwith- standing warnings of Republican | leaders that President Hoover would | veto the measure. The vote was taken after days of debate. e e | CHINA MAKES PEAGE MOVE Announces Condmons for Conciliation Orient- al Issue \ Pty ' GENEVA, Dec. 17—The essential condition upon which China would accept conciliation in the Sino- Japanese dispute is that Japan renounce support of Manchukuo. The Chinese delegation to the League of Nations made this an- nouncement today. ten MRS. W. A. BLANC TO VISIT MOTHER HERE To visit her mov.her. Mrs. Anna Webster, and sister, Mrs. Minnie Hurley, Mrs. W. A. Blang, left Seattle yesterday on the steamer Northwestern. She was ac- companied from there by her nephew, Robert Hurley, a student| at Washington State College, who is coming home to spend the holi-| days. Mrs. Blanc resides at San Fran- is a| prominent physician. It is her first visit here in several years. CAPITAL CITY IS COVERED WITH SNOW BLANKET {Bonus Seekers and Job Hunters Find Some- thing to Do WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. — The Capital whitened today under a swirling snow storm that slowed transportation and sent hurry calls to the Street Clearing Depart- ment. Another march on the Capitol by bonus seekers and job hunters brought some of them jobs at shoveling snow from the walks around the Government buildings. Some of the job hunters said they were glad to have the work. NS o T A RACE HORSES DIE IN FLAMES CHICAGO, I, DNec. 17.—Eigh- teen race horses, valued at more than $150,000, perished in a fire which burned the big Barn on the Samuel Insull Estate. - UNEMPLOYED STRIKE GOLD WELLINGTON, N. Z, Dec. 17— One of two unemployed men who found gold in Congo has sold a six-months option on his claim {for $50,000 plus 16 per cent of the gold extracted says a report [rom Dunnedin. Suicide Match King’s Brother Is Sentenced STOCKHOLM, Dec. 17.—Torsten | Kreuger, brother of the late Ivar Kreuger, suicide match king, was today sentenced to three and one- | half years on charges of fraudulent | bankruptey. Bra;ll Burns Money SAN PAULO, Dec. 17.—The state confession of leadership of a na- —_———eo— tion-wide plot against the present|J. K. M'ALISTER RETURNING government. HOME ON NORTHWESTERN The imprisonment of every out- _ standing Radical followed. J. K. McAlister, accountant in - the office of Territorial Auditor, is The density of population in New | returning home on the steamer Zealand is approximately 15 per-| Northwestern after a brief trip to sons to the square mile. Seattle and Portland. 1 government will burn its big bun- dle of grief—the more than $21,- 000,000, in rebel currency issued during the late civil war. The ash- |es will be buried in Araca Ceme- tery. e Floods have been damaging grain crops in Guatemala. 'FOUL PLAY NOT SUSPECTED IN THOMPSON CASE Tia Juana Police Authori- ties Say Thompsons Have Gone to States TIA JUANA, Mex., Dec.17—That Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Thompson, former Alaskans, have not met | with foul play but disappeared re- cently from here for pubicity pur- poses, was claimed today by Miguel Santa Cruz, Chief of Police of this | city. He said his department had | investigated the alleged disappear- | ance and had come to the con- clusion stated. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, accord- !mg to their friends, have not been | seen since December 3, two weeks 'ago, Their automobile was said to have been seen December 6, at Tecate, but neither of them was in it Returned to States Chief Santa Cruz said no formal complaint had been made in the case but that he investigated the matter on account of the publicity it had received. He sald he had come to the conclusion they had returned to the States. The investigation, he added, show-, ed the Thompsons left Tia Juana! on December 5 and went to Los Angeles. They sent a telegram from Oakland on December 7. Mex- ican police do not suspect foul play but think they desired publicity for commercia! purposes. Thompson is part owner of a distillery at Tia Juana. PROMINENT IN FAIRBANKS FATIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 17— Charles L. Thompson is a pioneer resident of this city and resided here until about two years ago. He was one of the first to engage in the air transportation business here and was a leading stockholder in the Bennett Rodebaugh Airplane Company which was later purchas- ed by the Alaskan Airways. Mr. Thompson was connected with the latter corporation in an executive capacity until the sum- mer of 1931 when he scvered his connection with it and moved to the States. Before coming to Fairbanks, he resided at Nome. AGED EDITOR WHITEHORSE STAR PASSES Arthur Jol;l:(;n Dies in Hospital — Survived bv 7 Children (Special to The Empire.) SKAGWAY, Alaska, Dec. 17— Afthur Johnson, Editor of the Whitehorse Star, died in the hos- pital at Whitehore Friday night at 11 o'clock. He was about 70 years old and a widower. He is survived by a son and six daughters, all residents of New Westminster, B. C. One daughter was with him for the past two months. NEW CABINET IN BELGIUM Count de Brougueville Suc- ceeds in- Forming New Ministry BRUSSELS, Dec. 17. — Couat Charles de Brouqueville has suc- ceeded in forming a new Cabinet to replace the Ministry he headed and which resigned after refusal to approve the war debt payment to tbe United States which was due on December 15. —————— = DRY CHIEF LEAVE FOR VACATION IN KENTUCKY H. W. Raney, Chief of the Fed- eral Dry forces in Alaska, left on the Princzss Norah for Seattle. He is enroute to Kentucky where he will spend a 30-day vacation. W ho Will Fill Garner’s Shoes? Four Are in Race Already; Others Expected to Make Entry HENRY T RAINEY] Despite the crush of important Iemflm facing the short session ol Ccnneu. llln race ace for Speakership of the new House is commanding attention. LIOEPH W BYRNS] Henry T, Rainey of Hlinois, Jmph w. Byrns of Tennessee, John McDuffie of Alabama, and John E. Rankin of Mississippi are ufl'ely seek-~ ing the post while others are behu mentioned. Th: selection probably will not be made until March. By CECIL B. DICKSON WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. — The powerful post of Speaker in the new or 73rd Congress is béing ac- tively sought by four leading Demo- crats of varying views. Another quartet of possible con-| tenders may enter the field before a selection is mads at a Democratic | caucus probably in March. Despite the time remaining before the ac-| tual selection, the importance of the post is such that it probably will commend much attention at the present short session. \ The office will be vacated by Speaker John N. Garner on March | 4 when he becomes Vice-President| and presiding officer of the Sea- ate. Candidates already in the rnce‘; are Iiepresentatives Henry T.| Rainey of Illinois, Democratic Floor Leader; Joszph W. Byrns of Tennessee, Chairman of the im- portant - Appropriations Committee; John McDuffie of Alabama, Party Whip, and John E. Rankin, of Mis- sissipi, Chairman of the Veterans’ Committee. Others May Seck Post The possible contenders are Rep- resentatives Lindsay C. Warren of North Carolina, Chairman of the Accounts Committee; John W. Mc- Cormack of Massachusetts, bar of the Ways and Means Com- mittee; John J, O'Connor of New York, and Arthur H. Greenwood of Indiana, both members of the| Rules group. Garner was elected Speaker a| year ago when the Democrats seiz- ed the House from 12 years of Re-| publican control. The Texan was the first Democratic Speaker since| the late Champ Clark of Missouri, who wielded the gavel during the| Wilson Administration. All Are Veterans Both Rainey and Byrns are vet-| erans of a quarter of a century of | service in the House. McDuffie, Rankin and other contenders are all of long time service, but entered | Congress after the World War pe- riod. Coming to Congress 28 years ago, Rainey became leader in the pres-| ent house after establishing a repu- | tation as a student of domestic| and international affairs. A large| distinguished by his shock of snowy | white hair, his ability as a debater | and knowledge of tariff and reve- nue legislation. Byrns has been elected for his thirteenth term from the Sixth| Tennessee Dismct Besldes head ) mem-I ing the biggest committee in Con- gress, he has besn Chairman of the Democratic National Congress- jonal, Committee for four years. The Tennessean, tall'and quiet spoken, is reputed to have the best knowledge of governmental expen- ditures of any member in Con- gress. In debate, he handles him- self ably. McDuffie, representing the First, Alabama District, has been in Con- gress 14 years. He has been an ardent advocate and vigorous de- fender of Democratic principles. Because of his close acquaintance with legislative problems he was made Whip several years ago. Rankin has been & doughty sup- porter of cash payment of the sol- diers’ bonus and inflation of cur- rency. He has fought the sales tax. The Mississipplan has support in the liberal wing of the party. Warren has been mentioned as Speakership timber because of the manner in which he has ‘presided energetic man of 73 years, he is| over the House during trying times| in the last session. O'Connor has been boomed by| friends- from Eastern States. A | New England group has suggested McCormack, and several in the Indiana delegation are espounmg the cause of Greenwood. TWO VICTORIA MEN ARE DEAD BY OWNHANDS Former Government Offic-| ial, War Veteran, Take Lives Hold-Up Artists Get Busy |[Heaviest Fog of Years Shrouds Work of Slick Men TACOMA, Wash,, Dec. 17.—The VICTORIA, B. C, Dec."17.—Two men are dead by self-inflicted bul- | let wounds. Herbert Shaw, rormer Depul.y Supreme Court Registrar, was shot| through the chest by a bullet from | & revolver he was apparently clean- ing when it was discharged. Thomas Beveridge, a war vet- eran, was found shot through the heart in a garage. A rifle contain-| ing one empty shell was found nearby. WILSONS LEAVE ON ANNUAL VACATION TRIP TO SOUTH heaviest fog of the year continued today. The Fire Department lost the | location of a blaze, which caused a $1,300 loss before it was found |and finally put out. Seven hold- have been re- ported as a result of the fog. —p———— Penalty Is Designated For Nepotism WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. — A bill providing that all Senators and Representatives be penal- BEER SURE FOR ALASKA IF BILL Approval of Ways and Means Committee WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. — The insistence of Delegate James Wick- ersham won for Alaska the right of the Collier beer bill which will come up in the House next week | for final action. The measure, as originally drawn would have excluded Alaska. The ‘Terruorya Delegate to Congress in- sistently urged the Ways and Means | Committee to let down the bars ‘ugamst his constituents, and was finally successful. -, JUDGE ARNOLD uERE FROM HOUSE SET FOR BEER VOTE AND FARMER RELIEF Senate Is Stalled on Rough Road to Philippine Independence DEMOCRATS PREPARING IMPORTANT MEASURES Hoover May Dump Enure War Debt Problem in Roosevelt’s Hands WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 17.— With the short session of Congress not yet a month old, leaders in both branches have moved with rapidity to bring out some of the more important questions vm-h' which it is hoped to deal before the current term ends next. lnrch Legmation on such major tmlu as beer and farm relief is ready, or nearly ready, for quick action by the House of Representatives. Early today the Senate was stalled on the GETS APPROVAL Delegate’s Insistence Wins to come in under the provisions| KETCHIKAN FOR SHORT STAY rough road to Philippine independ- ence, but will soon turn its ate tention ‘to other matters. “Kingfish” Has Flocr Benator Huey Long, the Louisiana “Kingfish,” took the floor in the upper chamber Friday and had it today, threatening to continue @ one-man filibuster indefinitely, talk= ing about direct and abstract prine ciples until the Senate agrees to remove a provision for a plebes- cite carried in the compromise bill. The House was prepared to bring up Tuesday the bill legalizing the manufacture and sale of beer, but a vote may not be reached on that day- In fact, Democratic leaders of that body have decided to giva House members ample time to de< bate the Collier measure when it is brought up Tuesday. The indica~ tions are that the general 4&0‘:’ on the subject will, occupy ti days. Advocates of legalizing wine by Congressional legislation have de- cided not to seek to amend the beer measure to add naturally fer- mented grape juice to beer. It is pointed. out that parliamentary rulss prohibit such a procedure. In the Senate, o nate, the Democrats have undertaken to shape legisla~ tion for relief of unemployment, national economy and repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, all of which it is hoped to bring to the floor very shortly after the Christ- mas vacation. Administration leaders in the Senate expressed a hope that mem-= bers will be temperate in their dis< cussion of the French debt default. The State Department is discours nzlnc Precipitate talk about insti« TO STICK BY DEPUTIES ON DEBT POLICY |Premier - Desxgnate of France Makes State- ment to Socialists PARIS, Dec. 17.—Premier-] ignate Joseph Pdul Boncour the Soclalist leaders he considered that any future action of the French Cabine: must be bound by the vote of the Chamber of De= puties on December 14 to defer payment of war debts to the Unit- ed States pending an Infemnuunl conference. It was stated in the Chamber of Deputy lobbies that the So= ticipate in the Boncour . because his program is not satise factory. cialists have docldednottonll’h\ Former Premier Herriot agaim declined positively to participate in the Boncour Cabines. France is still expecting thing more definite from ton on the debt issue if the ber of Deputies is to be to reverse its decision and ize the debt payment. ized by forfeiture of office if they practice nepotism has been introduced by Representa- tive Grant E. Mouser, Jr, Re- publican of Qhio. Many members of Congress, Rcpresentative Mouser stated, have relatives on the legisla- tive payroll. Judge W. C. Arnold, United | States Commissioner at Ketchikan, arrived here Friday on the motor- ship Northland on legal business. He will. return home this evening on the same vessel. - e Wolves from Russia are invading the Vilna district of Poland. Enroute to Seattle to attend the annual conference of the sales force with headquarters officials, M. 8. Wilson, Alaska representative of| Blake, Moffatt and Towne, left| here Friday night on the steamer Norah. He was accompanied by Mrs. Wilson and they will spend about six weeks on the trip.