The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 16, 1933, Page 1

e ——— — B v > 3 ¥ . v e . THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL. THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” *VOL. XLL, NO. 6238, JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1933, PRICE FILIBUSTER P @ f CONTINUES ON HOOVER'S VETO Jockeying ior. Time Pre- vents Action on Im- portant Measures HOUSE IS WORKING ON APPROPRIATIONS —Beer Bill Is Also in Committee WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.— The iron grip of filibuster d vital legislation in 2 snarl in the Senate| i el today while the House i7! plugeing steadily aleng on uppropriation bills, ing the debate on the War Department supply measure. The question of overriding President Hoover’s veto of the Philippine independence bill is before the Senate but indications are the final vote! will be delayed by filibuster; jockeying. ! Loans for Farmers The House planned to take timej also to consider the bill making| crop production loans available for| farmers again this year. Legisla-| ifon to ease the strain on bank- continu | ALASKA WATERS ¢ fl-NNE?iGHT " Gotham’s New May(;rr on Job }GHARGES VU. S, 5 | Elected to fill the unexpired term of James J. Walker as Mafor of New York, John Patrick O’Brien is shown at his desk in City Hall after his formal inauguration. The new Mayor, in his inaugural address, called for drastic cuts in the cost of city government. Mayor O’Brien will serve one year unless re-elected. JAPANESE PACK JUDGE HARDING MANY CRABS IN- FACING §100,800 ~ DAMAGE ACTION Operations in Bristol Bay‘Local Jurist Sued by W. L. rupts is also being whipped into shape in the committee. i The beer bill is before the Sen-| ate Judiciary Committee with the; sponsors predicting speedy approv-| al when taken to the floor. | Described — Fish Out- | Paul for Large Sum for side of 3-Mile Limit | Contempt Ruling Japanese, operating ‘in Bristol| Charging mallcious persecution Bay waters, but without the jur- | against himself, W. L. Paul, Ket- |isdiction of the United States. |chikan attorney, former member packed approximately 11,000 cases | of the Alaska Legislature, and Mort,“‘e Mea.!'ure lof crab meat from early in May Apkms to expedite the measure|., y., jatter part of June, ac- to relieve the mortgage situation cording fo reports made to the are being: formulated by Chairman, v ... siates Bureau of Fisher- | leader of the organized -Indians of Southeast Alaska, Saturday filed a damage suit against Federal Judge Justin W. Harding, seeking REVENTS AIDING CHINA PRESENTWAR Tokyo anspabers Making Accusations—Grew Makes Denial |OFFICIAL STATEMENT MADE BY WAR OFFICE Japanese, Chinese Concen- 1: trating Forces in | Jehol Province | LONDON, Jan. 16.—According to advices received here, the United States is accused in Tokyo news- papers of furnishing money, arms and ammunition to China to use against the Japanese forces. American Ambassador Joseph Grew, in Tokyo, has emphatically denied the charges. An official Japanese War Office statement said. Americans are furn- ishing the Chinese with airplanes and motor cars and described other arms supplied. A remarkable airview of the nel. It was transmitted dcross the Ttalian Is Shot In TItalian soldier was shot and killed by Chinese in the Shanhaik- wan battlefield area.. The Ifalian been guaranteed safe passage to Rome. It is expected a demand for satisfaction from the Chinese Government will be made. Japanese airplanes have bombed Chinese headquarters in the Kailu district, Jehol Province and Chi-| | nese counteracts on Tungliao are LR | anticipated. Charges, However, Are; Concentrating ‘ Exploded When Full In- According to unofficial reports’ the Japanese and Chinese military concentrations continued through-, < AsHINGTON, Jan. 16—Wheth- cut Eastern Jehol as the former . . group of Federal officials prepared for a campaign to amnex gnot migratory wildfowl in season the Province to Manchukuo. 'or two days before it opened, is The Japanese miiitary leaders a matter presented to Secretary | fear they acted too late in at- Arthur M. Pryde of the Depart-, vestigation Is Made CREW MEMBERS KILLED AS FLAMES ) " to this newspaper. Eighteen or more of her crew wi giant liner Atlantique burning from bow to stern in the English chan- and telephotoed to San Francisco, thence speeded Atlantic by cabl killed. Pope Issues SAYS OFFEALS. St (i ear PrAYer IS WELL KNOWN Special Plea Is Made to Bring Peace Into Worid in Centenary | VATICAN CITY, Italy, Jan. 16— I Mornlng in South Pope Pius on Sunday proclaimed an ‘“extraordinary” Holy Year prayer, penance and pilgrimage to Rome to bring peace to the world entitled Quod Nuper, which means “since recently.” The Holy Year is to begin Ap- MEMBER $100,000, according to an Associat- ed Press dispatch from Ketchikan. His suit is based upon a sen- tence by Harding almost four years ago finding Paul guilty of con- tempt of court and imposing a fine of $175 upon him. The Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Judge Steagall, of the House Bankingi,o, spquy 9,000 crabs were taken Committee. The bill is being pm"jdally in the operations. pared by farm leaders who havei o i i The Japanese continued opera- discussed the lssue With President™| yyon 1n the field until the middle Eleg X evels : | of September, but no report was Chairman Steagall believes Hoov-| after the 3 | available on the result /ill veto anything but temporary | ;:5E:bpeart nof qunc tempting to isolate China proper ment of Agriculture for determina- ri] 2, | from Jehol by closing the passes tion. in the Great Wall. —— .- - UNEMPLOYED F. A. Cooper, formerly an assistant game guide, said they shot the birds out of season. He made the charge which was forwarded to the Secretary by John M. Helzworth, President of e National Association of Wild The Pope exhorted the people of | the world to turn their minds| “from earthly decaying things, |against which they are struggling |so unhappily, and withdraw them-| Iselves from the din of life and re-| Iflect in their hearts with them-| OF ASSOCIATED PRESS FORMER ALASKANS BELIEVED SLAIN ON WHEREABOUTS | WHEREABOUTS OF THOMPSON, WIFE STILL MYSTERY | i Fairbanks Friends Dissat- isfied jwith Investi- gation in Case \COUPLE, NOT SEEN | SINCE LAST MONTH |Mexican F;iends Also Wor- | ried—Convinced ' Crime | Committed FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 16.—Dissatisfied with the in- vestigation into the myster- | fous disappearance from Tia | Juana, Mexico, early last De- (cember of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Thompson, former - residents of this city, local 4 friends of the couple are pre- * paring to appeal to the Fed- eral authorities, if necessary. i Local friends of the couple == doubted from the first the DAV' stories that the disappear~ §.2nce was for publicity pur- AlIL absolutely foreign to the ¥ Thompsons’s nature. HAD FEARS It is reported here that the 5 Thompsons feared they would Prominent Alaskan Suc- be murdered. They told ! cumbs to Heart Attack 'neighbors in Sanysidro, Cali- fornia, of their fears and tele- | phoned every morning, also Capt. Rowlauu Edawin (Rolly) informing them when leaving ‘Dnvis‘ wzll krown Alaskan, died home for an overnight stay. | this morning at 7 o'clock at Seattle, . [the result of & sudden heart attack, Lhese neighbors had no word | News of the death was received by from the Thompsons when his son, Capt. James V. Davis in they started a trip from a telegram from another son, Don, which th did t t at whose home Capt. and Mrs. a5 M e P Davis wers ‘guests. Capt. Davis Suspect Crime had been actively engaged in the' Qanvsi friends fisheries industry in Alaska for 21 _ o0y o R i e ported to be convineed they for much of that time. He came have been murdered. Thomp- Beer Bill Delayed The product was packed in half- A delay of one week for the beer | Pound cans and Sfild to Japan for and wine bill was forced late to-|about $15 per case. The steamer day when the Senate Judiciary|Nagato Maru, mother ship of the (,Jmmjuee failed to reach an agree-' expedition, carrledv a crew of 45 ment. Had the bill been reported Men and, in addition, about 400 today it would have been on the | men who were employed in can- hir _ining and fishing operations. thirteenth anniversary of the Eigh-) e Hacatorhlags ' asitasd, fu teenth Amendment. 2 o | operations to an area along t Pass Over Veto ° | o r odi; i - | north shore of Alaska Peninsula Senstor ZYCHRY 10 afkmoon;_m Bristol Bay from about Amak announced that a complete poll of - the sne;a;e memberfhip sphowed Island to Port Moller, well outside more than enough votes to pass,or the three-mile Territorial water | stri Vi SCre st ers the Philippine -independence bini| Strip: ~Two oil ’”‘:" b e“"‘Nd over the veto of the President. oL 140; tabs, d“m“;emen “;‘ r;, :'_"’g S d and about 10 other small fishin; _ Senator Robinson planned to ask! Soats 0. work ¥ the hets. . The invocation of the cloture rule to; letel, e it SRate Ans Saroe B VHla unyges VANIp WaS OOMIEIeY. the veto. A two-thirds vote is ftted with modern canning ma- : chinery. needed to invoke the drastic clo- During the season, her operations ture. were under observation of the United States Coast Guard’s Ber- ing Sea patrol. None of her boats were found gither in or near the s SRR Attempted Eviction Cause of Fight in Harding’s decision -and exonerated Paul of the contempt. Paul's complaint sets up the con- tempt decision of Judge Harding, |and its reversal and declares: | “That the plainuux uas been in- | jured in this. That many persons, | hearing of this said order ad- | judging - contempt, and knowing that the plaintiff was prejudiced before the said district court, have jceased to do business with said | plaintiff; and that the plaintiff has been otherwise injured in his good name and reputation, and whereby, and by means whereof, the said plaintiff has sustained damages, said damage beginning on or about the 4th day of March, 1929, and accruing to this day {and by reason of said continuance |of the defendant in office and said continuance of the practice of the plaintiff as said attorney at law in the district of Alaska, to his damage in the sum of $100,000.” three-mile limit. A rumor that e e 98 some of them had crossed into s Territorial waters between Amak Island and the mainland was saidl‘ to be unfounded. i The Japanese used eight sampans | in working their nets. Each sam-‘( PREM‘ER DIES pan had a crew of ten men to| Brooklyn with Police NEW YORK, Jan. 16. — More than 200 persons battled with the police for 25 minutes this after- noon in Frooklyn as a landlord sought to evict a tenant. Five per- sons were arrested. haul in the nets, and two largan g sampans were used in setting the WASHINGTON, Jan. 16, — Theln . These are approximately bill to permit Fairbanks, Alaska,jo.o "¢ inome lon 10 t] g and about to issue $100,000 in bonds o build|, oy gige suspended from a haul- a school house has been passed . ying puoyed at the top by glass by the House and sent to the Sen- . ¥ ate. Convicted of Killing Dry Agent, But Will Not Hang iContinued on Page Three) | vicroria, B. C, Jan. 16.—Col- |lapsing as a result of a heart ai- |tack, Mrs. S. F. Tolmie, wife of |the Premier of British Columbia, died here last Saturday. The Pre- | mier is in ‘Winnipeg enroute to a Government conference at Otta- wa. {Many Women ‘!Serving as State \Legislators - WASHINGTON, Jan. 16— The biennial survey of women VANCOUVER, Wash., Jan. 16.—|hanging him which makes life im- | A jury in the Superior Court here | prisonment mandatory. has convicted Jesse Cousins, aged Cousins shot to death Vlasich 48, of first degree murder of Ed.|and Ballard Turner, Seattle Pro- in public office chows 132 wo Viasich, of Tacoma,. Prohibition |hibition agent, when they raided| men are serving. as legislators Agent, but recommended against!his farm home last September 29.) in 34 States. | Life Conservationists (and self-| !consubuned leader of a movement to tie up admiralty Island in a| bear sanctuary.) | Shot in Season . Paul Redington, Chief of the United States Biological Survey,de-! nied the charge emphatically. He | NOW SEEKING SCRIPT BASIS Washington State Legisla- tors Working on New Measure \ said the birds were killed by him- self and Frank Dufresne, Alaska (Game Warden, September 1. ‘They were mem of the bear census party and were in Gam- |bler Bay at the time. The Alas-| — ka Game Commission was asked to investigate matter, OLYMPIA, Wash, Jan. 16. ‘Washington’s unemployed legis! tors would like to see the S put on a script basis to relieve| ARE NOT SUBSTANTIATED the economic conditions. | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. 16— State Representative James J. ‘W. R. Selfridge, Chairman of the Bond, Democrat of King County, Alaska Game Commission, com- speaking for the unemployed House mMmenting on the Cooper charge, members living at a dormitory Supported Paul Redington in his a- here, sa¥ the “only way to fizht denial of any violation of the capitalism these times is to issue 8ame laws. | He said the matter had been script.” | | thoroughly investigated and noevi- Against Bond Issue Representative Bond said mem- the chargs. £ i bers of the House are working on| ‘Cooper’s license as an assistant | a bill to provide distribution of guide was revoked because, having' a fifty million dollar issue of change paper. The sponsors Oof had been violated, he failed to re-| the bill are against a bond issu¢ port it to the Game Commission | to care for the unemployed c ,without delay, as required by both tending this “would place a bur- law and regulations. | den on our children and would| submit our Government to dicta-| tion by capital.” The charge was made last sum- | A measure was introduced for a mer, unofficially. More than a ten million dollar bond issue sev- month ago, it was sent to Secre- eral days ago. (Continued on Page Eight) TERHUNE GIVES DETAILS | zDirty Dishes in Kitchen ! | Sink Is Cause of Murder, | MARSHALL, T, Jan. 16.—Hu-|ways finding the kitchen sink full bert Moor, former school teacher,|of dirty dishes and became dis- has been convicted of first degree gusted with her slovenly house- murder for slaying his wife be- Keeping. The penalty is fixed at jcause, he said, he got tired of al- death. 2 selves, year.” Holy Year is in commemoration of the Nineteenth Century of Christ’s redemption of mankind. MRS, SAYREIS DEAD, RESULT OF OPERATION Daughter of Late Woodrow Wilson Passes Away in Hospital especially this centenary CAMBRIDGE, Mass.,, Jan. 16.— Mrs. Jessie Sayre, a daughter of the late Woodrow Wilson, died Sunday night in a hospital here |dence was found to substantiate where she underwent an operation | on Saturday. Mrs. Sayre is the wife of Francis B. Sayre, Harvard Law School Professor. The operation was for gall blad- der trouble. Besides her husband, Mrs. Sayre is survived by two sons and a daughter. —_— e — FIGHTING AT IRISH RALLY DUBLIN, Jan. fighting occurred at times on the outskirts of a crowd of 25,000 at a political rally here Sunday. The police however, kept order without calling for the aid of the military. Most of the trouble was caused by ‘Casgrave supporters. years. His home port was Juneau to Alaska first in 1897 with the gon was interested in a Mexi- steamer Roche Harbor, bringing a b wer d Mexi cargo of lumber and coal to Skag- o re ery .exlca.n -way, where he spent the winter authorities, after an investi- of 1897-8 towing and freighting gation, announced they be- in adjacent waters. gl i Chih:’ David- Had SheT rkaisd lieved the couple had disap- |in the fishing industry on Puget peared, just as an advertising | newly appointed State| X- '8 suspicion that the game laws ' Commissioner of Correctioh and| Mrs, Davis went South about two' months ago to spend the winter. He had been a guest at the home of his son, Don Davis. News of Capt. Davis's death came as a distinct surprige to rela- tives and friends in this city. He was hale and hearty when he left Juneau, and Miss Grace Vivian men down there and at one time had accumulated a considerable fortune. Established Cannery He came to Alaska to remain in ESGA‘PE FRUM |of the Tee Harbor cannery. s A |s“ GA ‘ he was for several years Superin- g e tendent of the Katalla cannery Twen[y..mne Monarchlsts, near Cordova for the Pacific Am- ¥ b | erican Pisheries. Last summer he' Banished Months AZO. Reach Portugal have arrived here after thrilling experiences and many hardships at sea. The route taken by the exiles was unusually long as iney avoid- 16.—Some brisk | 1906 and established a cannery at Kasaan Bay. Later he was identi- :wns associated with his son, Capt. {James V. Davis of Juneau. He and | LISBON, Portugal, Jan. 16. — ‘Twenty-nine Spanish Monarchist Davis.‘ who recently arrived here ed the regular steamship lines to to visit her father, Capt. James V. escape from Spanish warships. Davis, said he was in good health (Continue- on Page Two) Sound before coming to Alaska. He dodge. fied with other canneries. For sev- exiles who escaped on January 1 | ‘They were exiled following the was one of the first salmon trap - e eral years he was Superintendent from Villa Cisneros, West Africa, 'revolt last August. Cat, Also Illicit Romance, Causes Tragedy; Conviction SEATTLE, Jan. 16—A jury on Sunday, convicted John T. Bi- death penalty should not be impos- ed, beau, middle aged rancher, of first | |degree murder for the slaying of | Alfred T. Elliott, husband of a| woman with whom he had a 16.} year illicit romance. The jury recommended that the The slaying was the culmination of a quarrel over putting out a cat at the ranch house where all resided. ,Bibeau in anger, then revealed the alfair with Elott's wife. 3