The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 20, 1932, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE - “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" 'VOL. xLI., NO. 6216. MEMB[:R OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS LEGALIZATION MEASURE NOW BEING DEBATED Entire Day’ Given Over to General Discussion —Drys Fight AMENDMENTS WILL RE MADE TOMORROW Leaders Confident of Fav- orable Vote Sometime on Wednesday WASHI The bill for l‘he legalization of 3.2 per cent beer has been| ubmitied to the House. Heouse leaders are confident the measure will be approved and the final vote is expected to be taken tomorrow. The Drys, however, rallied full strength and a full array of arguments were ready when the Collier bill was call- ed up. | Today was set aside for| debate. Tomorrow will be given cver to offering of amend- ments with a vote on each before final disposition. If the bill is passed it will| be immediately dispatched to| the Senate where all concede A rough road lies ahead on any beer proposal. Potency of 3.2 beer and| whether President Hoover| would sign the bill legalizing it, ensnarled the House all lay by lengthy arguments. Supporters insisted victory| will be theirs tomorrow when| the vote is taken. { Representative Rainey, ma-| jority leader, held that the| percentage of the beer as pro- vided in the bill is non-intoxi- cating. Representative Britten re-| iterated his stand that Hoov- er will veto a beer bill. ———to———— THREE NEGRO RAIDERS SHOT Six Are Under Arrest After Skirmish with Offi- cers’ Posse MONTGOMERY, Alabama, Dec. 20.—Three negroes were killed late sterday afternoon in skirmishes \\hh an officers’ posse in Talla- poosa County. The Sheriff’s of- fice reported four deputies were wounded. Negroes made an attack on the| live stock of Cliff James, negro farmer, about 12 miles east of| Tallassee. James summoned the authorities and the negro raiders fled, firing as they retreated. Three of the negroes were fatally wounded and six others were arrested. All involved were share crop farmers, the officials reported. 1 Al L B Guatemala is believed to be the| only country in Central America producing tea commercially. - e, —— TOMORROW WILL BE YEAR'S SHORTEST DAY Theoretically, tomorrow will be the shortest day of the year. At 4:15 o'clock tomorrow afternon, Juneau time, the sun will cease its southward jour- ney and start back toward the North. At that hour will occur the Winter Solstice. For six months the days will become longer and longer until they reach their longest for the iTON, Dec. 20.—| New King and Ambitious to * * E Queen of Health_l Fight Sickness * * Almost Perfect Health Champions at 4-H Congress Plan Careers as Doctor and Nur You Like,” 'I}n:ys.r: AT Hom-; IN THE KrrcHEN " Dororry EILER The healthiest boy and girl in the 950,000 entrants from all over the cago, will devote their lives to the se. “Eat What Their Motto. os ALLEN. @ United States, chosen from among country at the 4-H Congress in Chi alleviation of human suffering. The boy, Ross Allen, of Harrison County, W. Va., will be a doctor, and Dorothy Eiler, of Atkin County, ing career. Ross wenty, as hand, ., the healthiest girl, pllnl a nurs- ome as he is healthy. Hefis a great believer in the early to bed idea and is also an advocate of eating just what you like. He scored 99.4 points out of a possible 100, a perfect score having been marred by the fact that one of his teeth ovevlnyped another, and is a brunette with sparkling brown eyes. Dorothy, sixteen, is 5 feet 3%2 inches tall, weighs 126 pounds She, too, is a disciple of the early to bed maxim and the eat-what-you-like principle. Dorothy has never been ili in her life, except at the age of three when she had the. measles——~who ever heard of one measle? She is a modern girl in every respect, suve one. She uses and parties and has a good time. not spend any time watching the scale, dieting being a her powder and lipstick, goes to dances The one cxception is that she do inal sin eyes. GOV. ROOSEVELT IS SILENT OVER HOOVER'S VIEWS Makes No Comment Re-| garding Cooperation on Foreign Policy ALBANY, N. Y. Dec. 20.—Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt read with- out comment President Hoover's proposals to Congress yesterday for coopération between the Presi- dent and President-Elect to insure | continuance of the American for- eign policy. ‘While Gov. Roosevelt was silent, friends predicted that coolness on his part towards Hoover's proposals, particularly the one for interlock- ing the war debts, World Economic and World disarmament questions, showed that he was not in sym- pathy with pointed out that Gov. Roosevelt's expressed views were these ques- tions should be dealt with separ- ately. Scparfle [Issues Gov. Roosevelt, it is lieves that while all three not be considered together at this time. tive of the President had called upon him to discuss the recommen- idations which the President made 'to Congress yesterday, Gov. Roose- velt smiled and said: “That I cannot tell you.” —— e Ticket purchasers waited in line| twenty-seven hours to obtain seats| for the opening of “Children in| year in June. 90000 er 000 . . . . . . . . [ . e (] . Uniform” in London recently. such procedure. They | said, be- | ques- tions may bear some interrelation in the ultimate results, they should | Asked whether any rep:esfma-‘ THREE MEALS EACH DAY IS PROVING LURE Great Movement from Cit- | 1es to Farms Is Tak- ing Place WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. — The | powerful magnet of three meals .daily and comfortable sleeping quarters has lured so many per- |sons from the cities that the na- tion’s farm population is approach- |ing the record breaking 32,000,000 | established in 1910, 1 So rapidly has the city-to-farm movement continued during the past three years that the Agricul- ture Department experts believe the number living off the soil at the end of this year will be slight- ly below the peak. .o Fingerprints Of Citizens |Now Sought BERKELEY, Cal. Dec. 20— An invitation to Berkeley citi- zens to ge to the police sta- tion and be fingerprinted has been issued by the police de- partment, after the City Coun- cil had authorized the creation of a Bureau of Perronal iden- tification. Residents will not be charged for finger-printing and fer keeping files of their | prints. \ “If finger printed persons | get lost, suffer amnesia or at- | tacks, or get bowled over in | traffic accidents we chall be able to identify them,” said | A. J. Greening, Chief of Po- GOV, ROLPH PARDONING VIOLATORS DRY LAWS SACRAMENTO, Cal. Dec. 20. —Gev. James Relph Jr, has signed 133 pardons releasing 128 meen and womea violators of the rcpealed Wright Prohi- bition Fnforccment Act and five viclators of the Jones Act, from the city and ccunty. jails. The five Jones Act viclators were also serving concurrent Wright Act sentences. JUNEAU M0OSE FAVORITES IN CANALTOURNEY| Cage Toung Opens To- day at Army Post— Schedule CHIKCOT BARRACKS, Dec. 20. —Three Gastineau - Channel bas- ketball teams arrived at Haines late Monday afternoon and draw- ings for tournament play was held at noon today. The outcome of play will be decidsd in a per- ‘| centage plan. The Moose of Junecau and the Alaska Native Brotherhood. teams in ‘pre-} of Haines are favorites tournament gossip. Channel teams engaged in practice this morning and showed up well. The schedule for today was: Skagway Girls vs. Douglas Girls 3 pm Moose vs. Army Post 4 p. m. Douglas vs. Skagway 7 p. m. White Pass vs. Haines A. C. 8 p. m. Wednesday at 3 p. m. the Haines A. N. B. five will meet the winner of the Moose-Army Post game; at 4 p. m. Haines and Douglas High Schools meet; at p. m. the Haines Girls and Douglas Girls play; at 10 p. m. the winner of the Doug- las-Skagway Girls will play the winner in the Haines-Douglas Girls game, unless Douglass wins both contests. Thursday at 3 p. m. Haines High School will play Skazway High boys. At 4 o'clock the loser in the Moose-Army Post contest will play the loser in the White Pass- Haines A. C. game; at 6:30 p. m. Haines Girls vs. Skagway Girls; at 8:30 the High School champions will play the winner of the senior championship. The Moose starting lineup today was: Lindstrom, Torgerson, for- wards, Brown center, Bloomquist, Moyer guards. 21 MISSING INDIANS ARE NOW AT HOME Leave Gasboat J and ] Caught in Ice and Take to Trail VANCOUVER, B. C. Dec. 20.— Twenty one Bella Coola Indians feared lost on the gasboat J and J when the boat was caught in Dean channel ice, are reported safe. Iver Pougner, Indian Agent, tele- graphed here last night the In- dians reached Green Bay last Sat- urday, left their gasboat and tramped six miles over the mount- ain trail to their homes. —————— CAN'T AGREE, GENEVA, Dec. 20.—The League of Nations Committee of 19, find= ing itself unable to agree on any proposals for settlement of the Sino-Japanese controversy, has ad- Journed until January 16. lNom Baritone, Whallhok- TAKE RECESS L ¢ harged wuh Murder of Capt Wanderwell e e — Capt. Waller Wanderwell (upper left), world traveler, was found shot to dcath aboard his yacht Cavma, docked at Long Beach, Cal. His widow Aloha Wanderwell (upper right), furnished police’ with a picture of a man she kncw as “Guy” who is now charged with the murder. Part of Wanderwell's crew for a round the worid trip were (front row, left to right) Lord Edward Eugene Mantagu, Lon- dcn; Ruth Leucks and James Farris, both of Portland, Ore; Mary L. Smith, Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. Cuthbert Willis, Los Angeles, and (standing) Forrest Plummer, Jack Craig. (Associated Press Photos) LONG BEACH, Cal, Dec. 20.—Identified by witnesses as the “Mystery Man in Gray,” through the port hole of Capt. Wanderwell’'s yacht, William J. (Curley) Guy | venturer, is held in the Superior Court charged with the killing of the globe {lowing a preliminar aring yesterday. | Those in the courtroom were mystified as Mrs. Aloha Wanderwell, widow of the slain wanderer, ;step])ed from the witness stand and hurriedly crossed the court room and held a whispéred conversation | with the man accused of killing her husband. Mrs. Wanderwell climaxed the consultation (she described as th> “vengeful mutineer.” The woman refused to disclose the nature of the conversation but Guy's lawyer said she asked his| client abcut a paper signed by members of Wanderwell's touring party who left the adventurer in Panama two years ago. The attorney said Guy replied: but I hope Mrs. Wanderwell you do not think I shot the Captain It was thon the woman extended her hand to the suspected murderer. C. E, WHITEHILL | Embargo who peered aged 24 years, Welsh ad- trotter on December 5, fol- with Guy by extending her hand to the suspect once “No EXPORTS MORE THAN IMPORTS| OREGON AND WA SHINGTON ARE DAMAGED Rain Falls and Rivers Over- flowing with Dis- astrous Results RAILROAD TRACKS, HIGHWAYS BLOCKED Small - Craft- R Reported to Have Gone Down in Puget Sound SEATTLE, Dec. 20.—High winds howled across Western damage of at least $100,000. Rains have overflowed riv- ers. are flooded. Railroad tracks and high- ways are blocked. High waves have dashed driftwood along Puget Sound and many beach cottages are wrecked. Thirty-two head of cattle near Astoria, Oregon, were killed when the wind demol- ished a barn. Fowl and bees were also killed. Traffic in all directions has been halted. Power lines are down. Many small craft are re- perted sunk in Puget Sound. PROTECTION OF GAME IN NORTH ON SOUND BASIS Sahsfaclory Progress Made in Conservation, Says Paul Redington Satisfactory progress s being made in the conservation ‘of all forms of wild life in Alaska, de- clared Paul G. Redington, Chief of the United States Biological Survey, in his annual report to the Secretary of Agriculture, cop< ies of which have just been re= ceived here. He reported a game management plan, being worked out for protect- ing brown bear on Admiralty Is- land to be co-ordinated with cons= templated timber operations there. This, he added, has been approved by the Senate Speciall Commite tee on Conservation of Wild Lifd resources. Administration is Facilitated In regard to the general ‘Alas< ka conservation situation Mr. Red= i On Arms DESNNY.G, On drme |President Hoover Prepares Special Message to | Congress | YORK, Deec. 20.—Clarence | { Bugene Whitehill, aged 61, who! " e i e e g Wastingion | WASHINGTON, Dec. 20—Prest and sang before Royalty, died to- dent Hoover 5 prepared a special = : message to Congress asking au- day. He was a noted baritone and | > 1o declare an arms em- g | thority was with t Metropolitan Opera 2 Company f 19 years. bargo as a means of ending the Whitehill was working as an|DOstilities between Bolivia and ed Like George Wash- ington, Passes Reported at Thirty- Five Mllllon WAEHHIN(:TON, Dec. 20. A ifavorable trade balance for No- ember of $35,000,000 is announced | by the Department of Commerce. | | Exports totalled $159,000000 and{ NEW od as |imports $104,000,000 each lower | {than the previous month ¥ s Paraguay in the Chaco region. S mes Madume Mba and tnis| The President weks Oomgres- Mother-to-Be ; al for future prohibi- lectric chmged <l ‘:::fei | tion against arms shxpmgnts o Fuces Electric |any country regarded as a possible | Chair in Murder| |or actual threat to interrupt peace | CHICAGO, Dec. 20.—Three weeks KING GUUNTY |No names of nations are however |from the ordeal of childbirth, Mrs. | mentioned. | Beatrice Ferguson Snipes, twenty- | ——— —— ne, sto in general sessions| (;ETS REL'EF and listened, stunned 'into si- | lence, a judge t her the Sk Ve 'S ate must take her Ilifs Feund gulity of first degree WASHINGTON, Dec | murder in the slaying of a rural Reconstruction F' e Corporanon ulxr man, the young mother-to-be has acted on the em mey relief s sentenced to die in lhe electric loan of $350,000 to King County, \”‘fl" Avel]- 7. Washington. The previous loans NEW YORK, Dec ig e made to the s totalled $1,075,- copper prices were slightly strong-| Latin America, says a U. 8. sur-| 000, Seaitle is cipal city er today at 510 compared to yes- | vey, has 15 per cent of the poten-| in the county, terddy's price of 5 cents | tial waterpower of the world. | November Trade Balance! |districts in the Territory. |restricted to 10. ington said: “Administration of the Alaska |Game Law has been facilitated by |the amendments to the law passed |in 1931, and the law as amended {1s making for satisfactory progress |in the conservation of the great game resources of the Territory. In an - effort to relieve trappers, who, in recent seasons have suf- fered hardships because of low prices and scarcity of other furs, an open season on beaver was continued in five out of eight A bag of 15 a season was set, ex- in district 7, where it was Three districts limit cept remained closed. “In addition to (Continued on Page Three) Washington and Oregon to- ) !day causing an estimated Hundreds of acres of land