The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 24, 1932, Page 1

'MINING MAN, Al A ALL THE TIME” SK A SANTA CLAUS IN COMMAND MERRY TIME AT YULETIDE 1S ORDER OF CHIEF RULER Happiness e s Sprung Upon Country With Haves Providing for Those Who Have Not WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.— That man with the white whiskers took charge of the situation today and with a wave of his pudgy hand and a toss of his roguish head bid care be gone and put folks to work at the serious ! business of making Christ- mas merry. The folks ate up the idea. The haves, in great num- bers, turned to help the have- nots in pouring out food and toys and clothing in a hap- piness breeding stream. Despite difficulties, the people are determined that happiness shall reign this Yuletide. WELL KNOWN, PASSES AWAY John S. M;];nzie, Klon-| dike Stampeder, Dies in San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. 24. —Jjohn 8. Mackenzie, aged 75, i | | widely known. for mining opera-'’~ tions in Alaska, Wsstern United States and British Columbia, died at his home here last night after an illness of several years. Mackenzie joined the rush to Alaska and organized the Klondike Mines Railway in 1903. He formed a partnership with F. W. Bradley,’ of San Francisco, Manager of the; Treadwell mine, in Alaska, and the‘ Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mine in the Couer-d'Alene. Mackenzie sub- sequently became interested in Ne- vada mining ventures. He is survived by his widow. .- Woman with $200 Freezes to Death’ DENVER, Dec. 24. — With more than $200 tied around her neck,| Miss Eliza Dully, 82 years old, a pioneer Denver resident, was found frozen to death in her cottage. The coal box was empty. U. S. FIGHTING INAUCURATE | {during the ye: |started by a Chow#s STOGK PAIGES KIDDIES' TAKE ADVANGE | PATRON SHORTSESSIO | While Market Does Not| Celebrate, Many Is- sues Make Gains NEW YORK, Dec. 24 —The Stoek Market showed siight inclination| at the short session tod dulge in a pre-Christmas cél tion. Prices crept irregularly high- ler and trade was light but on the whole the market gave the best |account of itsclf in several days. | Net gains of fractions to one |and one-half peints were numer- ous. Rails Improve acted bett in resr | Coca Ocla made an exceptional thrr" points, lf"] A'l(‘d Chemi- Anvm ican Telepl ca e and Tele- graph, Santa Fe, Ca Chesapeake and Ohio, Corn Products, New | York Central, Standard Brands and Union Pacific but United States preferred, lost an early rise. ! Common was up a fraction at the ! close | Tobaccos progress. Much of the improvement of the “dny was due to short covering by traders who wished to lighten com- tments over the two-day holiday. and oils made little CLOSING PRICES TODAY | NEW YORK, Dec. 24. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |stock today is 12%, American Can 12%, Calum:t’z-.md Hecla 2'%, Colo- 'Soldiers and SallOIS in All Vew President of Chile! Parts of World Are ; Will Be Inducted jrado Fuel and Iron 4%, Chrysler 15"»’«. Columbian Carbon 27, Con- | tinental Oil 5 Curtiss-Wright 1% Fox Films 17%, General Motors 12 | International Harvester 20%, Ken- necott 77 Packard Motors 2%, Remembercd IiflO ")“lce | Safeway Stores 39%, Sta ndard { e Brands 14%, United Stat Steel WASHINGTON, Dec. 24—Tur-| SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 2—lgen’ " ates Biee keys by the ton have been provid- | Auturo Alessandri, 64-year-old vet-| j ed Uncle Sam’s soldiers and sailors| eran, a Leftist in politics, becomes in far flung parts of the world.| | President of Chile today for the is year's turkey bill is for 220 second time in 12 years. He will tons and the cost is $100,000, the be the sixth President of the coun- smallest in recent years. |try in seven months, Turkey is a government regula | Alessandri’s inauguration wm tion for Thanksgiving and Christ-|take place late foday before a mas day dinners, the item for both | int session of Congress to be fol-| services being placed in the menu ‘lowed by a reception this evening. | by government edict. ‘ - * ARE DEMANDED TaE 70 FREE FIFTY STORM STARTS “4ickan, chuncy : SUNDAY SCHOOL TO }Chmese Guerillas Ask Big | " OBSERVE CHRISTMAS Ransom for Release FOREST FIRES | of Capiives Next Monday evening at 7:30 'Dflmk the Sunday School of the| HARBIN, Manchuria, Dec. 24— 24. Resurrecticn Lutheran Church will Chinese guerillas today demanded Forest fires caused less damage have its. Chrisimas tree program. two airplanes, four cannon, 10 ma- this season than last but 13 of The senior department will present chine guns and a quantity of am- the 24 ted by lightninz @ pageant “The Light of the munition as ransom for 50 em- in this park w .lmv‘rrvld, and the primary children ployes of the Chinese-Eastern rail- single storm, within/will give a playlet as part of the way. less smokers start-| program | Those held captives are believed | M Belle Knudson and Mrs. to be mostly Russians capiured by ng K. Olafson are in charge the rebels of the eastern: division YOSEMITE, Cal, Dec. 18 hours. Ca led only nine. 9 Clty Children, Never Saw ‘Moue or Radio’ CHICAGO, Dec. 24—The strange | story of an isolation so complete that none of a family of nine chil- dren has ever seen a motion pic- ture, a street car or radio, al-| though they have lived all their | lives near Chicago, has come to light. They are the children of Joseph Steiff, 30 years old, a farmer of Wheeling, T, who came to Amer- jca 30 years ago from Russia. The siory was revealed whe n ! from 4 to 23 years, | 4 |of the pageant and Mrs. L. Stone- of the Chinese-Eastern Railway "house and Rachel Borleck are di-| (recting tne prmary program. |GUN CLUB TO STAGE SHOOT NEXT MONDAY A besutiful stage setting is prom- Scattergun artists of Juneau are {ised and many colorful costumes {will be worn by the children. Candy | invited to join the Juneau Gun Club Monday morning in its an- Steiff appealed to Chief A, H. wxll be distributed. Louis of the Forest Preserves po- it tie, 10 find s oldest chitd, ary, Co-Eds Now Turning nual Christmas shoot at the club's range on the b2ach near the Ju- neau Dairy. The shoot will begin 23, who fled from her home. The| To Romantic Books | authorities were told she left be-! cause a dove flew around her h2ad| DENTON, Tex., Dec. 24. — Sup- at 10 c'clock. g and she regarded it as an evil planting the mystery story once so This is the first event of | omen, | popular, more than one-third of kind staged by the club since She later was found at the home the hooks now checked out of the Spring. All members and of a neighbor. {library at Texas State College for else desiring to tak? part are urg The ages of the children range Women are in the romantic fic- to turn out and make it a + day. i 4to 23 tion class, o 74l GREETINGS T0 WORLD GIVEN BY POPE PIUS ITTEE FAVORS BEER BILL OF NATION Annual Ch rlstmas Messagc Broadcast—Holy Year Announcement VATICAN CITY, In a Christmas Italy, Dec. 24 message to the Pope Piu enth, an- nced the year's “Jubilee” ob- vance of the Nineteenth Cen- y of Christmas, Passion, Death | ind Resurr 1 April 2 The e broadcast over the Pope’ in reply to of Cardinals Listed among pread tholic action and Eucharistic Con- the sor listed are the * wn sad conditions in Russia, Mexico and ‘)).m\ FRANK PARISH INDICTED FOR = GRAND LARGENY Man Who Ede Sixteen Million Dollar For- tune, Surrenders NEW YORK, Dec. 24—Frank P. Parish, who made a $15,000,000 fortune, hought the former Presi- dential yacht Mayflower, and or- ,|ganized a $50,000.000 pipeline com- pany by the time he was 36, sur- rendered on a grand larcency in- dictment vesterday The indictment charges larceny of $127,000 worth of bonds of the Missouri and Kansas Pipeline Com- pany, and three promissory notes aggregating $63,000. Parish denied the charges. The compa was organized to bring natural gas $1,200 mi from the Southwest to Illinois. —_———. e — GORDON BACK AFTER TRIP T0 WASHINGTON Paul Ww. Education of sordon, Director of the Alaska division of the Office of Indian Affairs, accompanied by Mrs. Gordon and their young son. arrived last night on the Admiral Evans. They have le y house where they will make th?ir' home, Mr. Gordon has just returned from Washir n where he ap- peared before e House Appro- in defense of the next| priations Cor educational est tee nates for ,.uagvs ok JUNEAU ALASKA, SATURDA" DECEMBER 24, 1932 : ME R OP ASSO( iA'"E'7 P THE NIGHT B EFQOR LU R E CHRISTMAS LARGE BUDGET 60V, RODSEVEL GREETS JAPAN GIVES PARDONS BIET MEMBERS FOR CHRISTMAS Largest Demmd for Money Thirteen Prisoners Sent to m History Is Prin- Homes—Sentences cipal Business Shortened TOKYO, Dec —The Sixt ALBANY, N. Y. Dec. 24.—Pres- Fourth Session of the Diet open: Tlect Franklin D, Roo: today. The principal business is¢ e of the last official acts, a vote on the est budget in|Governor of the State of N history caused by the demands York, signed commutation orders in Manchu the Army and Nav sterday that sent 13 inmates of campaigns. isons to thelr homes in Today’s meet wa. or Christmas amd s ed a mere formality or ntences for 10 ot ganization. The battle on finances will be- the session gin next month W settles down to bi AGED WOMAN | 1S MURDERED HODVER RWILL FISH 10 DAYS SAVANNAH, Dec 24 —President | Hoover and his party, bound on a 10-day fishing cruise, arrived here At {this morning and was given a re- ST. LOUIS, Mo, Dec. 24—The ception reminiscent of the cam- body of Mrs. Josephine Elder, aged paign days. mother of Conway Elder, former| Judge of the Missouri suurvmt Court, was found cead in the o-- Nome Man and Sitka fice of Dr. Squire P. Brevier, a| i/ In S h dentis laté yesterday afternoon. woman (0 ‘ 8\1 out PRICE TEN Cl:Nl\ MAJORITY OF MEMBERS FOR MODIFICATION . “VOLSTEAD AGT Speedy C—o:s_idera!ion of Measure Promised When it Comes Up for Dis- 1‘ cussion Next Week | B | WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.— | A check of the Senate’s Jud- |iciary Committee, where the House beer bill faces the next ! test, disclosed that a clear fmajuril_v of the members are [ for modification of the Vol stead Act. Interviews with the mem- |bers of the committee indi- lcated the bill will receive | speedy consideration unless a | snarl develops over the alco- !holic content provision. Only four of the 13 mem- bers remaining in the Capital ‘(ny over the holidays indi- |cated they will oppose beer 'Iegiqlation at this session. he other nine members, con- stituting a majority said they | will vote for beer though one lor two made reservatlons on |the alcoholic content. Three {of the absentees are Demo- ('r.lts whose party platform ‘mlla for immediate modifica- |tion. The next action comes {up in the Judiciary Commit- | tee the first of next week. * 70 TRANSPORT 'BEERIN TANK | RAILROAD GARS i 1 ew Arrangements Are Being Made to Handle Preduction ‘ CHICAGO, Il Dec. 24—Beer ‘r ay travel in glass bottles, as large as box cars, when it is legal- d and transportation of the bev- age will be in an elegance such | as the pre-war product never knew. | It has been arranged by manu- facturers of railroad equipment for | the construction of beer cars car- ying insulated tanks, constructed | of stee! and lined with glass, from | the brewers to the buyers all over |the country at a low temperature |under uniform pressure which :s |said will be much cheaper than in kegs as was the case of former years. |The aged woman apparently had' fiscal year. He spent a few days been beaten to death. | TACOMA, W. zton, Dec. 24.— at Wrangell Institute enroute here.| The police said Mrs. Brevier, ! George Bouw Nome ,Alaska, —_—————— wife of the dentist, said her hus- and Annasta alon, of Sitka ! Without intent of jest, Charles|pand had been missing Alaska, obt a marriage li- Higham of England recently de-|Thursday. He told catse BaTe clared that the dyeing and life in- |day he had been “having ' surance businesses should advertise |with somebody.” L' B more. BT s A u('ago utter Death Sentence Is | Give Party to Confirmed, High Court OLYMPIA, Wash., Dec. 24—The State Supreme Court has affirmed the convietion in Jefferson County CHICAGO, T Dec. sentenced and egg men whose SI Ollie ILee Strat I g for murder of his friend, clivities once inspired a popular| re Amy son a party yesterday for Townsend, in 35 on the floor of the Mercantile Exchange. and Egg Men 350 Children; Toys, Provisions for Christmas Each boy carried home a toy truck tractor, and each girl car< ried a doll. All were loaded down ‘w\:‘n provisions for a Christmas | dinner, including of course, but- Lter and eggs.