The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 31, 1932, Page 1

. ed by Cornelius Cody, are at happu 3 THE DAILY AL “ALL THE NEWS A VOL. XLL, NO. 6225. Y, DECEMBER 31, 1932 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY * * * * * * SENSATIONAL KIDNAP CASE ENDS, MURDER Cleveland Vzl;an Abduct- ed, Strangled, Shot With- in Forty Minutes TWENTY DETECTIVES HUNTING FOR SLAYER Officers - Have Only Few Clues Upon Which to Work CLEVELANi;, Ohio, Dec. 31.—Twenty detectives, head- the “Father of Wireless,” Several Issues Close with Losses of One Point or More | { NEW YORK, Dec. 31.—Stocks lended the vear 1932 with a last !minute slump. | Prices held until fairly steady work today on ome of the most sensational murder m; teries in Cleveland in" many - months. With only a few clues the detectives ‘are hunting the unidentified slayer of Mrs. Ruth Steese, aged 26, book- keeper for the Cleveland So- ciety for the Blind. Mrs. Steese was kidnaped flnd slain within the space of*40 min-' utes and her body thrown from an automobile. Mrs. Steese had been driving on an abandoned side highway on outskirts of the city. Mrs, Steese’s hands were ned behind her back, she was blind- folded with a dirty piece of il cloth and strangled with her own END UF YEAR scarf. She had also been sho'.‘ twice through the head. Herbert Steese, her husband, |s unable to throw any light on the tragedy and neither can her par-| ents. | UNDER ARREST; § ed weakness of tobaccos spread to other sections and several issues closed with losses of one point or \moxc The final tone W jerately heavy. Transactions for the two hour session were 500,000 . | shares. Alleged Bandit and 17- e W Year-Old le‘l COmpan- { Issues off one point or so in- < R d d U | cluded Reynoclds Tobacco B., Amer- 1on, ounde D lican Can, Allied Chemical, Amer- |ican Telephone and Telegraph, MOUNT VERNON, Wash., Dec.'Santa Fe, Case and a few others. 31.—A bullet scared bandit suspect| Fractional losses were sustained and his 17-year-old girl companion.' by American Tobacco B., United attired in boy's clothing, walked States Steel, United Aircraft, In- into a police trap last night. They ternational Harvester and others. were immediately @rrested and. . Coppers Close Steady questioned about a Milwaukee mur-, Coppers were firm in earlier der and two holdups in the State'tyaqing and closed about steady. of Wisconsin. | Buying appeared for New York Alexander Uttedorfer, aged 27, Gengra) put finished barely chang- bore a bullet wound in his side. g4, Isabella Pliska bore a wound il exas Corporation stiffened in fi- one of her legs. {nal dealings and finished with-a Bullet holes in their automobile, gain of a major fraction left in a garage to be repaired, Profit Taking was the initial clue on which the Last minute selling evidently re- two were arrested !flected profit taking on the ad- When arrested the sum of $1,000 vance of the last two days but in currency and $200 in gold was failed to cut seriously into the found in Uttedorfer's pockets. gams Both finally admitted their iden- merous cash transactions were tity and later confessed they had again reported on the tape indi- taken part in a servicz station cating last minute sales establish- holdup but denied knowledge of ed losses for tax purposes. any murder that had been com-' - mitted. | CLOSING PRICES TODAY e | NEW YORK, Dec. 31.—Closing STRANGE DUEL - lquo:auons of Alaska Juneau mine Sarentig: istock today is 127, American Can Helen Bagi and Helen Fodor 547, American Power and Light fought a 12-minute duel with saw- 7!, Anaconda 7%. Bethlehem Steel ed-off fence rails, near Bucharest, 14%, Calumet and Hecla 2%, Hungary, over the love of a hand- Chrysler 16%, Colorado Fuel and some farmer, Iron 5%, Columbian Carbon 28, A charming portrait study of the Contessa Be: ful little granddaughter, Llel' a Marconi in the Contess fact that her parents are obliged to spend much of their time in England, the little girl is taken care of most of the time although she holds frequent radio conversations with her par the last few minutes when renew- | mod- | SEEN, SALMON | | World-wide Consump- tion, Interest |DISCOVERY IS ALSO | TO BRING RESULTS i g . { mins Are Contained in Fish Oil canning industry, which lost mon- ey this year, finds hope for the| |new year in the fact that low lprioes have increased world-wide ! 5 \wnsumpclon and stimulated dinter-/ _hand by reporting the discovery # !in all salmon of rich vitamins A and D. Profitable Sideline | Leading chiefs of the industry {hope a new profitable sideline has been opened which not only will develop into a fresh market but will also call attention directly to the value of salmon as an econ- \omical and beneficial food. zi Scala with her beauti ter of Senator Marconi, a at Rome. Due to the, by her grandmother, ta. | H. B. Friele, President of the | Association of Pacific Fisheries, said. Interest Stimulated “While the present low prices certainly mean no profit, they are having one good effect by stimu- lating interest of the consumer and trade. Even if the salmon in- dustry has been in a slump’ the past year, publicity given to the new discoveries about the product may in the long run prove very profitable. | “The most serious problem we ate After Slashmg have now is the actual threatened {increase in importations of canned | WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—The salmon frcm J:xp:m and Siberia.” 15100.000000 annual supply bill for | the Department of Agriculture has |been passed by the House but as SENATDR DILL 3.0 BEVERAGE it was sent to the Senate the Would Also Eiiminate Al- |measure is $118,000 less than was |reported by the House Appropria- holic Content from House Bill tions Committee The House lopped off the $118000 on the floor, after the committee had reduced it $7,000,000 under the es- WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—Unit- ed States Senator C. C. Dill, Dem * 'ocrat of Washington, proposed yes- terday that the Senate Judiciary timates submitted by the Budget. The $35,000,000 item for Federal Committee test the effect of 3.2 percent beer on a group of aver- aid in Highway construction was age people to determine intoxi- ANOTHER LARGE | APPROPRIATION Sends $|00 000,000 Agri- cultural Measure to Sen- approved by the House after an extended debate. This amount was a reduction of about $200,000,000 from the appropriation voted for the same purpose last year. The total reduction for the Dapartment amounted to about $206,000,000. Continental Oil 6, Curtiss-Wright 2%, Fox Films 1%, General Mot- tors 13%, International Harvester 21%, Kennecott 9'¢, Packard Mot~ ors 2%, Safeway Stores 40':, Stan- cating effects. dard Brands 15, United States Steel Senator Dill ruled out members 27% of the commitiee as testers re- | marking they were “hardly average | people.” 2-D'ay- y | Senator DMl also suggested the 12 L(l_\ ("‘I ’f(lt’)y 0’ }commiltee eliminate any fixed Unmarried Woman Is Dead ; Seducer Jailed TAPPAN, N. Y., Dec. 31.—Char- lotte Gibson, society girl, is today mourning the death of her 12- s“"““’(,;gaull(ell*—led ko s y day-old daughter. No details of the death are given. Sidney Homewood, riding master, BOSTON Dec. 31.—For seventeen is in jail awaiting the outcome of years as a member of the United his appeal following conviction of States Army and marine corps in seducing Miss Gibson under prom- the Philippines, Cuba, Mexico, and ise of marriage. ithe battles in France, Arthur J. amount of alcoholic content in the House beer bill, leaving that ques- tion to the courts. . T4 R |O'Neill, forty-eight, came out un- In the Western and Eastern di- scathed. But as he crossed Fre- visions of Canada there are 5872 mont Stieel. one afternoon, he was struck and knocked down by an automobile and died, grain elevators with a capacity of 414,630,260 bushels, INDUSTRY NOW {Low Prices Have Increased Science Reports Rich Vita-| | SEATTLE, Dec. 31.—The salmon| est in salm 4 m? 10 Fermy- W e, TS orty-four Page Review| - Filed on Last Day as : ¢ | . Executive of State } \ 'REPLIES TO CLAIM | | MADE BY LAWYERS Rcmarks Made | by Supreme _.Courl Justice Are Also ! { Commented Upon { -1 K 1 ’ALBANY N. Y., Dec. 31.—On his/ |1a8t day as Governor of New York| State, Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt| wrote into the State records a 44- page commentary on last summer’s’ hearing for the removal of James| |J Walker as Mayor, of New York! s hoped to set a iprecedent for future Executive ac- tion. Tart Comment | In the ouster proceedings, Gov. Roosevelt commented tartly on the claim of Walker's lawyers that charges based on the acts com- mitted were during a prior term and were not grounds for removal. “That claim is not only wrong in principle but based upon anj assumption too violent to afford it any support,” wrote Gov. Roose- velt. | Scores Justice Turning to Supreme Court Jus- tice Staley's upholding the Gov- erner’'s power for removal, but commenting unfavorably on the Governor’s conduct of the trial, Gov. Roosevelt said: “His utterances could have no effect except possibly one influ- encing public opinion adversely to an Executive in the discharge of the latter’s duty, so as to bring implication of blame upon a coor- dinate branch of the Govern- ment.” — e e GOV, ROOSEVELT TO BE RETIRED/§ FOR TWO MONTHS Ends Chiefi(ecutivcship Tonight—Will Take Yacht Cruise ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 31.—Gov. . Franklin D. Roosevelt returns to rivate life tonight at the end of his Governorship and becomes a private citizen for two months un- til he is inaugurated President of rnor’s desk is cleared of official business. Tonight he entertains the State Cabinet at dinner and will then look in on the Inauguration Ball for Herbert H. Lehman, his suc- cessor, Gov. Roosevelt said today: “I am reluctant to leave Albany. The four years here have been happy and exciting ones.” Before he goes to Washington for his inauguration, Gov. Roose- velt will go for a yacht trip in southern waters ——.——— Henry Ford Recovers From Operation; Dances DETROIT, Mich.,, Dec. 31.—Hen- ry Ford, automobile manufacturer, has so completely recovered from his recent operation that he at- tended an old-fashioned dance last night, . * * * * May Escape Gallows time of her trial. I nwlved in Judd M urder Case e —— Above photo shows J. J. Halloran, known as “Happy Jack,’ dicted in Phocaix in connection with the wemen, Agnes Anne Le Roi and Hedviz Samuelson, ““sociated Press Phota Winnie Ruth Judd, slayer of two Juneau women, taken at the The' Grand Jury at Phoenix has asked her death sentence be commutted to life impri: snment. " in- of two Juneau by Mrs. Winnie slaying Ruth Judd. The wealthy business man is alleged to have figured prominently trsg¢ dy. in gay Hotel at Niagara Falls Destroyed By Morning Fire NIAGARA FALis, N. Y Fire this morning des Clifton Hotel, at the falls, and several stores d at was clased for the e is estimat $1,000,000. 31 the the Dec. yed 1k of The dam- The winter. partics with the slain girls preceding the OFFICERS SELECTED BY MASONIC LODGE M. L. Merritt was chosen Wor- shipful Master at the annual elec- tion of officers this week of Mount SPARED GALLOWS * * * IN TRUNK MURDER CASE GRAND JURY - AT PHOENIX - MAKES PLEA FOR WOMAN Recommends that Sentence of Slayer of Juneau Women Be Commut- ted Imprisonment PHOENIX, Arizona, ' Dec. 31.—Winnie Ruth Judd’s pur- ported “whole truth” story of the Phoenix trunk mur- ders, has caused the grand jury to recommend she be spared from the gallows. This plea is made in a resolution ri a Board of :’:fi& g . The -resolution said: “Mrs. Judd has convinced this grand jury she was acting in self- defense when she killed Agnes Anne Le Roi.” The grand jury urged the Board to commute her sentence to life imprisonment. Mrs. Judd was tried and con- victed of the slaying of Mrs. Le Roi. Information is still pending on charges of her murder of Miss Samuelson. The bodies of the two women were shipped to Los Angeles ina trunk. APPEAL IS PLANNED LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 31.— Attorneys for Mrs. Judd said her case will be carried to the United States Supreme Court alleging she failed to reczive a fair and im- iparuu] trial at Phoenix. e — J. ). HALLORAN 1S INDICTED FOR “CONCEALMENT” Wealthy Lumberman M+ leged Implicated in Double Murder PHOENIX, Arizona, Dec. 31.—J. J. Halleran, wealthy |lumberman and sportsman, | has been indicted by the | County Grand Jury in con- | nection with the Winnie Ruth Judd murder case. Shertly after the indict- ment was returned, Halloran accepted the warrant charg- ing him with being an acces- sory to the slaying of the two Juneau, Alaska, women, Mrs. Agnes Anne Le Roi and Miss Hedvig Samuelson. He appeared and posted a bond for $3,000. Halloran was immediately released pending a hearing next Tuesday. The charge is based on the |allegation he is alleged to have attempted concealment Juneau Lodge of Masons. L. E.lof the crime. He is not Hendrickson was elected Senior Warden, H. .D. Stahler. . :Junios (lmrgecl with implication in Waj Wallis. 8., George,. Treas-| 7 ouo g 2 ur nd J. W, Leivers, Secretary (Continued on Page Two.)