The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 9, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLI., NO. 6232. “ALL THF ’VI'Wc ALL THF T!ME" MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CEN REPEAL RESOLUTION GOES TO SENATE UPRISING IN SPAIN; TROOPS CALLED OUT REPUBLIC USES ARMED FORCES IN NEW TROUBLE Sixteen Persons Reported Dead in Sunday Dis- turbances TWO PARTIES ARE INVOLVED, REPORT Black Flag Ts—Hoisted Over City Hall in One Community MADRID, Jan. 9—Armed forc- es have been called out to cope with an uprising created by a wave of Extremist unrest sweeping through the young Republic which left 8 dead Sunday and a large‘ number wounded. A unestimated number of arrests have been made. The attacks occurred mainly in the industrihl centers of the coun- try. The police hinted thdt Monarch- ists were responsible for the out- breaks. Guards Are Jailed The town of Repollet, in Cata- lonia, has been take nover by the Communists who placed the au- thorities and Civil Guards in jail and raised a black flag over the city hall. Reinforcements ‘of ~Civil ‘Guards arrived and recaptured the -city ofter a battle in which one Guards- | man, and one townsmen were kill- ed and several wounded. TROUBLE IN BARCELONA BARCELONA, Jan. 9.—Two of- fice: and three Radicals were killed and a number wounded Sun- day in clashes betweén the author- | ities and extremists, who attacked trategic points throughout the The effort was pre-arranged create geneml disox‘ders HALIBUT SEASON IS DEFERRED 15 DAYSTOFEB.1 Dividing Line Between Dis- tricts Two and Three Is Moved South The open season for halibut fish- | ing has been deferred 15 days, om January 15 to February 1, ac- cording to official advices ed today by J. C. MeBride, Col-| lector of Customs, from Dr. W. P. Thompson, of the International Fisheries Commission. This is for 1933 only. - Next year ang thereafter, Dr. Thompson wired, the season will not open un- til March 1. It will close in each district when the catch limits have been reached. Change in Lines The Commission’s regulations for this year include a slight change in the dividing line between dis- tricts two and three. This was receiv- | 30 In jured In Rioting In Ireland Supporters of De Valera and Cosgrave Clash at Meeting DUBLIN Jan. 9.—Thirty persons were injured in rioting at a poli-| tical meeting here Sunday. There was also some indiserim- inate fi revolvers but ap- parently no ¢ injured in the qun ~fire. Fights started at the political mceting when De Valera support- ers howled down supporters of the former President, William T. Cos- grove. | | { | { | i | | — e HOME FOLKS PAY TRIBUTE - T0 GOOLIDGE Memoual Seerces Held in Little ‘Church He At- tended in Boyhood PLYMOUTH, Vt:, Jan. 9.*Th0 home folks, to whom he came back in death, Sunday paid final tri- {bute to Calvin Coolidge. ' They gathered in the neat, white Union Church, across the street from the Coolidge family homestead, and conducted memorial services like those held Saturday in North-, 'ampton, his home city, where he died last Thursday. | In a ritual service, the same as that at which the Nation Satur- day mourned the passing of Cool- idge, the town people paid the last homage. The idea was ad- vanced by Clarence Blanchard, who played with Coolidge when a boy, | Coolidge worshipped at the church |as a youth. LAID TO RE?T AMONG | Hl§ OWN NATIVE HILLS | , Jan. 9. — Calvin caohdge is at rest among his own native hills in the quiet country |graveyard beside the road that |winds past the homestead of his boyhood. The body was lowered |to the last sleep as the shadows of \the wintry day crept down the |mountain side late last Saturday afternoon. | Simple Burial Services i The burial services were simple A brief prayer was said by the |Rev. Albert J. Penner, pastor of |the Edwards Congregational church lat Northampton, then the body was lowered into the grave and the services were ended. Mrs. Coolidge stepped back and ‘walked firmly from the graveyard with her son and his wife. They rentered a car, drove to the old | homestead, and after a brief visit, |returned to Northhampton. | -Neighbors of other days, some {of them who have lived here 60 fyears, stood with bared heads in 2 hail storm as the body was plac- jed in the grave. | [CITY BEGINS MOVING SNOW FROM STREETS moved south to Cape Spencer from ! latitude 58° 54’ 13 A change was made to corres- pond in the same as for last Season. The limit for both in 1932 was| 46,000,000 pounds of salable hali- but, 22500,000 for district two and' 22,500,600 for three. limits for made known by Dr. Thompson. Except for taking on supplies, many local vessels were virtually| prepared to begin fishing this week. They were awaiting advices regard- ing the new regulations before taking on their stores for the trip. The delay in opening was asked for by dealers in all sections who Individual leit ¥ was highly desirable 10 ¢lean (p up as much of the storage stocks as catches on the market. B At a year old the average child should have a vocabulary of seven words, the district catch hmw‘ but the total for the two remnin‘ this season were not | possible before putting fresh ;| The City Street Department to- |day began to dig the downtown streets out from under the winter’s unusually heavy accumulation of 'snow. A large number of men were put to work shoveling the {snowpiles into trucks which' hauled it away and dumped it into the bay. Traffic in the business area has been seriously impeded since last Friday’ heavy snowfall. The streets ings were beginning to overflow onto the sidewalks. Rain, falling Saturday and Sun- day, further complicated condi- itions. Weather, tightening today, made going difficult on some of the hill streets. i T T S | JAMES ORME ON SICK LIST James Orme, who is employed fering from influenza for several days. at George Brothers, has been suf-| DIMUNI] LEAVES | 'FOR FARNORTH T0 MAKE STUDY Takes Plane from Anchor- age to Cover Seward Peninsula, Interior \ | | and other ! the far morth and in- consult with residents on their needs and to get better !acquainted personally with condi- | Enroute to Nome points in terior to TO REPRESENT U S AT GENEVA { tions there, Delegate-Elect Anthony | | J. Dimond was at Anchorage last | Saturday, according to advices re- ceived here. [ He is making the trip to Nome {by plane from Anchorage and will |stop at McGrath, Flat and other points enroute. After a day or two at Nome he plans to proceed by plane to Fairbanks, via Ruby. The Delegate-elect will visit| coast towns afterward. He is ex- pec d m be in Fairbanks by the first next week and probably | will come back to the coast a week later. He is expected to arrive here about the end of this month for a week’s stay before pxoceedmg to Washington. He has announc led he hopes to be in Washumon me two weeks before the ad- journment of the present term, of Congress RUSSIAN XMAS OBSERVED BY LOCAL CHURCH : Services Held Over Week- tnd at Orthodox Church Is Well Attended | Russian Chnszmas was observed in Juneau by special services at| the Russian Orthodox Church.| conducted by the Rev. A. P. Kash- ’ evaroff on Friday evening, Satur-| day morning, Saturday evenm«i and Sunday morning. A large choir that had been trained by Fa- ther Kashevaroff for the last three| months furnished appropriate music at all of the services, singing, hymns and other Christmas selec- tions. 1 Excellent Attendance In spite of inclement weather; there was an excellent attendance| at all of the services, Father Kash-| evaroff said. Following the church service on| Saturday evening the special choir sang carols at the homes of friends | and at the Government Hospital | On Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock the members of e choir ! entertained with a banquet " for| over 150 people at St. Nicholas| Hall in the Native Village at which Father Kashevaroff was a special ' guest. During the banquet carols were sung by the choir and numerous speeches were made. - WHITE LEAVES HOSPITAL | J. White, who entered St. Ann’s| hospital on January 3 with influ- enza was discharged from the hospital today. CLUB MEETING IS POSTPONED Flu 'Epidemfiauses Wom- an’s Club to Cancel Meeting for Tuesday | ments by Mrs. |were kept fairly clear with the Iplow but the piles along the curb-' ‘The regular monthly meeting of the Juneau Women's Club, sched uled fo rnext Tuesday, has been ‘indefinitely postponed, it was an- nounced today by Mrs. Mildred Herrmann, President. Due to the prevalence of influenza and coids in the city, and the illness of sev- eral of the members, it wds decid- ed to call off the meeting, she said. The program arranged for ior row, she added, will be given at a later date, or {them. (has been attained and | next | day, Master | Mr. jhost on Saturday ing the luncheon the party att Prof. John H. Williams (left) o{ Harvard university and Ed E. Day have sailed to represent the United States in January coi ences at Geneva, where a program for the world monetary and sco- nomic conference is to be planned. (Associated Press Photo) SCHOOLS ACT TOHASBROUCK MAY CURB EPIDEMICS; HAVE DROWNED 192 PUPILS OUTWHILE TRAPPING Pupils With Colds or|Hale inlee Found on Lake | Coughs Sent Home—Co- | by Juneau Plane Sent operation Is Urged Out on Search. . KETCHIKAN, Algska, Jan. 9.- V. J. Hickey, in tlm Southern Al- aska Airways plar reached Ketchikan late afternoon after an unsuccessful search for Henry Basbrouck, missing Peters- burg trapper. Pilot Hickey reported sighting a today | hole in the ice in the lake about | ortiies today | to curb the Publiec scnooi {took stringent further spread of - influenza whooping cough in the school and, acting on the advice of health uthorities, decided not to suspend mn daily sessions at\least for the, present.. Every room was examined a steps 'and all pupils with coughs or olht‘x'jfl miles from Petersburg and ob- symptoms of colds were sent to| servers believe Hasbrouck their homes. This will be done have drowned. every day until the epidemic sub- It is understood the sides said R. 8. Raven, Superin- not continue the search. tendent of City Schools. 1 Pilot Hickey left Juneau early There were today 192 pupils out|Sunday morning for burg. He of schools, as compared to the was supposed to have picked up normal of 35 under ordinary con- | several Legionnaires there and fly ditions. The total enrollment of over the country in which Has- both the grade and high schools | brouck believed to have been is about 700. Most of those un-|trapp Hasbrouck was a war able to attend are reported to h nd left gbout two weeks influenza. Whooping cough is also| ago o; ping expedition. Two a land failed to find any trace of the missing may plane will ve | veteran 4 la facto The growth of the epidemics ibeen marked since last Ws‘dnch! e {Mr. Raven said. At that time, numbl- of pupils absent was FAVORED CLASS Dr. W. J. Pigg, City Health Of- fi was called into consultation today, He visited both school Depression Has So Far Caused No Request of and with Mr. Raven inspeciod He and Mr., Raven hay Aid from RF.C. requested the co-operation of parents and others in helping control the situation. “If the WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—Alas- ka, which has not yet attained the status of Statehood, has shown continues to grow for the (few day. it probably will be she can stand on her own feet despite depres. essary to close the schools enti: ' A report is ly, but we hope that the tha JACKIE GUCKER 'Alaska is one of the few political HOST SATURDAY subdivisions of the United States three days will see = abatement,” Mr. Raven said. D In celebration of his eighth birth- which has not been obliged to ask Jack Gucker, s aid of the Reconstruction Finance and Mrs. J. W. Gucker Corporation to a numb: Only tw find them- A delightful birthday selves in Alaska’s favored classifi- - eation and the overnor of one of the States, New York, said in Gucker who a mess: to the State Legisla- Marietta v ture, he will be obliged to obtain - Federal aid soon - - . FRANK A. METCALF RETURNS man. bu cd Sunday shows states his friends. luncheon was served at the C er residence at the Spickett Ap. assisted by Mrs, and Miss Alleine Apland. Follo ed the Micky Mouse matinee at Capitol theatre. Guests at the party were Misses Betty Mills and Joan M gan, Minard Mill, Dean A Karl Theile Jr, Horace Ada and Geo Walmsley. Screen Aetress Quits Mate First Dav After Marriage LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan - ber married Thomas Daniel, for- A divorce suit has been file 1/ mer naval aviator. She left him behalf of Elinor Fair, screen - - the next day after the marriage ress who the last week in D Frank A. Metcalf, well known - Juneau mining gineer, returned this noon on the Estebeth from a ten day examination trip to Chichagof Island | | ™ D. ), WILLIAMS Currency DIES SUDDENLY; [nTation CAUSE UNKNOWN |Attacks Being Made in Promment Mmmg Engineer | other D"CCt!O“ on | —Head of Hirst-Chicha- Glass Bill gof — Dies Sunday g | | 1 WASHINGTON Jan. | Daniel J. Willlams. aged about |50 years, manager and part owner {of the Hirst-Chichagof mine at | Kinsham Cove and prominent in | mining engineering circles for many | years, died suddenly at his home | | there Sunday morning, according | |to advices received by The Empire today. The cause of his death was not disclosed in rddiograms received | here. He Is survived by Mrs. Wil- ‘!lams who is now enroute here with the body. Nephew of Lloyd George r. Willlams was born in Wales, England. He was a nephew of David Lloyd George, famous Brit- ish Liberal and war-time Premier of Great Britain, who was a half- brother of his mother. As a lad of four years, he came to the United States with his par- ents who settled in Butte, Mont. In that great mining camp young Williams grew to manhood and mining naturally became a part of him. His father was employed in the Butte mines and he worked there himself as a boy and man. He went through the elementary schools of -Butte, then by workipg 1 the ‘mines AT TS oWn expens- es, first through high school and then through college. He was graduated from the School of Mines of the University of Mon- tana with a degree of Mining En- gineer. |ing up the nation’s economic health will probably get no farther than the discussion stage at this ses- sion. Attacks on the Glass banking bill from another direction took form today as a harp controversy |held sway in the Senate over the branch banking features. The new opposition is aimed at the bill’s provisions that national banks must divorce themselves |from security affiliates in three years. | Indications are that the meas- |ure will be before the Senate for the entire week. STOGCK PRICES DRAGGED DOWN, TRADING TODAY Bulls Fail ?Revive Ad- vance of Last Week— | Wheat “Weakens NEW YORK, Jan. were dragged down reactionary tendency market. The bulls attempted to last week's advance by bidding up carriers for a time but found the remainder of the list sluggish. The close was heavy. Numerous losses of fractions to more than one point were re- ported. | 9. — Stocks today by a of the wheat Attained Prominence He had followed that profession from graduation to his untimely death. Prior to coming to Alaska to take charge of the Hirst-Chi- chagof, he was in charge of a gold mine near Hazelton, B. C. direct- ing successfully its operations. It was while in charge of that| § e market remained largely pro- property that he met and later|geceional with much trading orig- married Miss Frances Rosselle of|; ” Ketchikan, {inating on the floor. SRtk The announcement that the Na- chg’zr“::“’;‘;;] i "}‘I’asw;‘e‘nm‘";‘ tional Tranportation Comm i ttes # | will press preparation of its re- charge ever since that time. He | port was evidently construed bull- enhanced greatly his already rec- hshly but was unabls to attract a ognized reputation in his profes-|gonons e oo o f;:")" ;’it ”I;‘Ze ;:;‘::d made there in “yoo ¢ up fractions to a point, i lnh‘rcsh‘d‘ in Takn which were then lost, included Bhing J1bied veats huthik w”_‘l’ennsylvzmn‘ New York Central, liams with W. A. Eaton, Chnrl\ncsl‘::‘:hfln Fheiflo” and R AN PR) G. Warner of thic city, and oth- ers, became interested in Taku| River properties. He spent some- | time there directing exploratory | work and later the property they Professional Market Industrials Lose Several industrials closed with net losses of one point to one point and one half including Am- B ar erican Can, American Telephone opnonegu(:(l ?;{d'eyxxi;?onwxan and Telegraph, United States Steel, the States. With the collapse «of | ¥ ooIWorth, Westinghouse, Case, Al- the siiver market, it suspended op- (led Chemical and United Aircraft. erations but, by agreement with Bastuiin rowe two: polhte, Mr. Williams and its associates, retained its control of the ground,| CLOSING PRICES TODAY 1 Williams | NEW YORK, Jan. 9. — Closing Local friends of Mr. were deeply grieved when meyl“”ma“o" of Alaska Juneau mine is 13, American Can learned of his death, which came |S{0°K today as a shock to them. 58':, American Power and Light 8, Well Last Week Anaconda 7%, Bethlehem Steel Frank A. Metcalf, mining en- 15%, Calumet and Hecla 2%, Chrys- gineer of this city, tler 16%, Colorado Fuel and Iron who visited the | i Williams last week at their home,| %% Columbian Carbon 32}, Con- Curtiss - Wright : ime | tinental Ol 59 and Capt. Larfy Parks, longtime| " g friend of Mr..qud Mrs. Willlams, | 2% Fox Films 2%, General Mot- & International Harvester ors 13%, 123, Kennecott 9%, Packard Mot- ‘0 i, Safeway Stores' 41, Stan- |dara Brands 15%, b'l 1 28%. (Continued an Page Two) POSSE KILLS SLAYER OF Farmer, Housekeeper Beat- en to Death—Assassin Is Hunted Down - BURIAL OF MRS, GALLINGER TAKES PLACE, OREGON CITY | The remains of Mrs. Nellie Gal- linger, who died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Delene S pich on Gastineau Ave., Jan. 6, will be taken south on the steamer {Alaska for burial at Oregon City, —— {Oregon, accompanied by Mrs, Ste- OREGON, Iil., Jan. 9.—Daniel pich. Fisher and his housekeeper, Mrs.| The remains are now at the BEessie Meade, aged 35, were beat- Charles W. Carter Mortuary await- en to death by John Hellarques,'ing the depunure of the steamer. farm hand, yesterday afternoon, .o and several hours later I . was ENTERS HOSPITAL shot down by a member of a posse after being cornered in a' nearby farm, No motive is known for the kill- ings, but Bellarques said just be- fore he died that “they were no Jgood,” M. Horr, miner, entered St Ann’s hospital . Sunday night to receive treatment for influenza. ————————— Coal mined in Poland in a re- cent month weighed 2,361,680 tons 9.—Curren- |cy inflation, as a means of ton-| revive| ., United States| .| Hayes JUDICIARY COM. ACTS FAVORABLY ON BIG MEASURE | Almost Unammously Re- ports Move to Change 18th Amendment FIRST TIME SUCH ACTION IS TAKEN Bill Promised Immediate Action in Upper House of Congress WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.— The Senate Judiciary Com- mittee sent a favorable re- port to the Senate today on the Prohibition repeal resolu- tion, voting alm ost unani- mously to report the slightly modified Blaine repeal reso- lution limiting the ratifica- tion peried to seven years. The resolution proposes re- |peal of the Eighteenth Amendment, protect dry States from shipments of li- quors, and permit Congress |to legislate against the re- turn of the saloon. It was the first time a standing Congressional Com- mittee has approved a meas- ure for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment since An-| it went into effect. SHORT DISCUSSION Today’s action was taken at an Executive session of the committee lasting only one hour and a half. There was considerable dis- cussion of the provision for submitting the resolution to State Legislatures instead of State conventions but the committee retained it by a vote of 10 to 4. The bill is assured of im- mediate attention by the Sen- ate. A RESASEES RS RS AL RODSEVELT IS WATCHING ROW IN WASHINGTON Paying Amtion to His | Cabinet — Also Fu- ture Policies | HYDE PARK, Jan. 9.—Cabinet selections and future policies com- manded the attention last Satur- day of President-Elect Roosevelt as he silently watched the row in Washington over the income tax increases to balance the -Budget. Content that the Congressional Democrats are going to go the limit at the present session to balance the Budget, Roosevelt is leaving all details to them. S eee SECOND SON IS o| BORN TO NOYES Word has been received in Ju- Ineau of the birth of a son, Daniel Noyes, to Lieut. John R. U. 8. A. and Mrs. Noyes,, at the Swedish Hospital, Seattle, December 23 | Lieut. Noyes was until recently on duty in Juneau with the Alas- ka Road Commission, and |Noyes, formerly Eunice G. 2 merman, was art teacher in the Juneau Public Schools for two years. Lieut. Noyes is now on duty as assiftant to the District Engin- |eer- at Seattle. | The Neyes have another young son, John, Noyes