The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 19, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ‘ALL THE NEW. ALL THE TIME* ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XL, NO. 6241. N JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1933, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY NEARLY 400 MEN RE FOUND FROZEN WORLD PROBLEMS TO BE DISCUSSED AT CONFERENCE ROOSEVELT AND PRESIDENT ARE T0 MEET AGAIN Many Su bj—ec_ls Will Be| Talked Over at Ses- sion Tomorrow PRESIDENT-ELECT HAS HIS ADVISORS Democratic Leaders Will Explain Present Mud- dle of Congress NEW YORK, Jan. 19.—An attempt to smooth the world’s headache seems in prospect as President-Elect Roosevelt got ready for another meet- ing with President Hoover in Washington, D. C., tomorrow. The President-Elect left here tcday for the National (Capital. Accompanying him are Norman Davis, former Under Secretary of State, William Weodin and Prof. Raymond Moley, close ad- visers. Davis has been mentioned strongly for Secretary of State and Woodin for Secre- tary of Treasury or Secretary of Commerce. The President-Elect spoke iightly of the meeting say- ing it concerns things in gen- eral and on no specific sub- ject. i The men surrounding Roos- evelt for the trip are well in- formed on the international debts situation. Soon after this arrival in Wash- ington, which will be Ilate this afternoon, Democratic leaders of Congress will call on Roosevelt at his hotel suite and outline the legislative situation and also lay plans for the extra session of Con- gress which will probably be called between April 10 and April 17. To Explain Situation The muddled Colifressional sit- uation will be explained in detail to Roosevelt by the party chief- tains, an explanation which is very likely to include a detailed ac- count of the Senate filibustering which has widened the breach be-| tween the conservative and liberal wings of the Democratic Party and tied up legislation for more than one week. The President-Elect has invited Secretary of State Stimson to tea this afternoon, presumably to study the Far Eastern problems. NORTHWEST IS AGAIN GRIPPED BY SNOW FALL Numerous Accidents Re- ported with One Death —No Relief SEATTLE, Jan. 19.—The entire Northwest was gripped in a snow storm yesterday and there is lit- tle hope of immediate relief. The air mail service was halt- & Although she received many congratulatory telegrams from admirers on the occasion of her seventy-fourth birthday recantlr. Chapman Catt, famous peace advocate and suffrage leader, decided inst holding any celebration, asserting that it will be time enough —hen she reaches her eightieth Im!‘vttuno She is shown‘in her home at Mew Rndt , STOOK MARKET | S ot Brpoee STRONGER BUT TRADING LIGHT Several Issues Up Slightly| —Maintain Advance to Close NEW YORK, Jan. 19.—The Stock Market was a little sturdier today deriving some strength from wheat. Several issues rose one point or two but there was some recession late in the afternoon. The fmal tone was steady. Trading was light. | Shortly after the opening todn:v'. stocks pushed up rather strongly,, especially after the opening of the; ; Chicago markst where wheat prices| went up about one cent a bushel.! Al“’"t de Winton, well-known ex- t was highly plorer, who is enroute to Brazil to The - skce nRsky organize an expedition at his per- professional with short covering sonal expense in order to search appearing to account for most of for the lost Colonel H. P. Fawcett, the buying. | British explorer, who has not been Rails Held Up | heard from since he entered the : : iities Brazilian jungle seven years ago.! Some industrials and _umme; [De Winton plans to take up the sagged at the close but rails held itrail where a former search party, fairly well. {|{led by Commander Dyott, left off Afrcraft and United States Steel,| Issues closing up one half to one FOR 12 - YEAR | Fe, American Telephone and Tele- | Advances of one point or so were; some years ago common, but these were virluany' point included New York Central, graph, Westinghouse, Dupont, L)g-! ALASKA GlRI- | registered for Chemical, United lost before the close. ,SEEK REWARD { Pennsylvania, Unior Pacific, Santa gett and Myers B and United | States Steel, preferred. NEW YORK, Jan, 19.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 12, American Can| !58%, American Power and Light) 17%, Anaconda 7%, Bethlehem Steel| {15, Calumet and Hecla 2%, Chrys-! 'ler 14, Colorado Fuel and Iron, noj sale; Continental Oil 5%, Curtiss- A movement has been started here Wright 2%, North American 28%, for recognition nationally and also | Fox Films 2, General Motors 13%, some suitable reward or medal for | International Harvester 22%, Ken- litlie Nena McKinley, 12-year-old | necott 9, Packard Motors 2%, Safe- Copper River girl, who mushed way Stores 40%, Standard Brands alone 22 miles on snowshoes, trav- .15, United States Steel 28. !eling all night, to Copper Center I —to—— |to get an airplane to rescue Don }W idow of Dead | Fleury, trapper, whose feet were ognition of Nena Mc- Kinley, Heroine Mrs. Carrie | | | i Movement Started for Rec-| ANCHORAGE, Alasga, Jan. 19.—| DEMOCRATIC LEADERS ARE MAKING PLANS Elimination of Double Tax- ation Will Be Con- sidered Now STATES MAY BE GIVEN GOVERNMENT REVENUE Tobacco, (:soline, Other Products May Increase New Funds WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.— Having discarded plans for new taxation legislation at this session of Congress, Democratic leaders today be- {gan considering plans to elim- inate double taxation during the special assembly next April. This it is believed can| be brought about by unifying: taxes to permit States to par- ticipate in revenue collected {by the Federal Government, thus eliminating various lev= ies on the same product. The Democrats hope to raise additional revenue on| the basis of increased con- i sumption of tobacco, gasoline and other produets. ————— | CHALLENGES - WINNIE RUTH | - AS WITNESS PHOENIX, Arizona, Jan. m.-‘ Counsel for J. J. Halloran, wealthy lumberman, today challenged the| competence of Winnie Ruth Judd as a witness against him in the | preliminary hearing on a charge of his being an accessory fo the crime of murder. The counsel took his stand on the grounds that the blond slayer was of unsound mind, unable to }comprehend the oath and was not |a voluntary witness. | Halloran is charged with being lan accessory in the trunk mur-| |der case, the slaying of Agnes |Anne Le Roi and Hedvig Samuel- (son, both of Juneau, Alaska, in | October, 1931 ‘ .Conviction of Nicely i Upheld by High Court, OLYMPIA, Wash., Jan. 19.—The Washington State Supreme Court, has affirmed the conviction by the; |King County Court of Wall , Nicely, former Supervisor of State Division of Savings and Loan | Associations, on charges in con nection with the failure of | Puget Sound Savings and Loa1| Association of Seattle. 3 IOWA FARMERS TAKE METHODS TO GET RELIEF Balk Tax Sales—Ask Price Rise, Scaling Down of Mortgages By L. E. SKELLY DES MOINES, 1ia., Jan. 19, — Agrarian Towa, focal point of far- mers’ “strikes” last summer, again | seethes with agricultural |as county officers attempt to con- |duet delinquent tax sales and mort- gagees seek to foreclose on farm land. Hard hit by the lowest prices in 80 years, many Iowans have lost farms that have belonged to the same family for generations. Farm leaders predict others will experience a similar fate unless either state or federal relief is ob- tained. There must be an immediate rise in agricultural prices or a scaling down of all farm mortgages or both, they assert, if the Iowa far- mer is to survive. Farmers Organize Restless while others debate the future, Towa farmers have taken things into their own hands, For once they contradicted the old theory that the farmer would not organize. Groups WwWere merged throughout Iowa to prevent tax sales and foreclosures of mortgag- - Success of their strategy was (Continued on Page Two) | { ROME Italy, Jan. 19.—Although Mussolini frequently has prai his people for their increas obedience, they have in at le one point - failed to live up to | hopes. | badly £ § Man Asks Murder i B Flier Harold Gillam took the He has preached, warned, Italy Fails Duce in His Drive for Larger Families believe it is due to hard times. Others think it is a new ‘mental- ity. At any rate the government sta- 5 |tistics department found its census returns for the first 11 months of 1932, showed that the natural in- unrest | ed completely. i Hundreds of automobiles were Charge Be Dropped ! stalled and the motor bus busi-| | ness wes interrupted. H SEATTLE, Jan. 19.—At the | Numerous minor accidents, with' at least one fatality, have been| reported. The {atality was.seven-| year-ald Lois Seeman, of Kent,| who ran in front of a bus during | a blinding snow storm. son, over a cliff while on a The snowfall in ®Portland, Ore-! hunting trip, causing his death, n, was the heaviest in two years. has )een dropped. widow, the second degree mur- der charge against Theodore Weed, who is alleged to have pushed his friend, S. D. Simp- i man to the Cordova Hospital. At- tendants say they will be able to save Fleury's life but it is a ques- request of the dead man’s |tion as to whether they can save‘ his feet. — o A small hillside cemetery over- i’looking a peaceful valley in Letch-|wants many “bambini”—but er County, Kentucky, contains the 'guves of 19 murder victims, most of them killed in feud strife, most commanded larger fami —but the birth rate keeps go down. s|crease in population was 44,459 7 |below the same period of 1931 and {128,364 under that of the first 11 months of 1930. The natural in- crease represents number of births in excess of deaths. Cheap Honeymoons Help Births were 40,057 fewer than those of 1931 and 89,134 under those of 1930. The increase in the (Continued on Page Five) Cause Puzzles Experts He has declared that a nat jto be powerful must be pr and that the blackshirt regi 1 |pumber of births is smaller each year. Most students of the situation Restless while waiting for relief legislation, Towa farmers took it upon themselves and organized to halt tax sales and farm mortgage forecloseures, At La Mars they stormed the office of Judge C. W. Pitts (upper right) demanding a halt in foreclosures. mortatorium on farm morgtages. Gov. Clyde Herring (upper left) predicted the new Iowa Assembly will pass relief measures. Below is a group of Iowa farmers. Judge Pitts suggested a five to seven months’ HJust A Mistake” It was “just a big mistake,” said Elinor Fair, film actress and form- er wife of William Boyd, screen star, after she flew to Yuma, Ariz., recently and married Thomas W. Danlel, former naval aviator. She said she had employed an attorney to begin annuiment proceedings. (Associated Press Photo) MOTHER, BABY, ARE FROZEN ON ALASKA TRAIL Four - Year-Old Boy, Pro- tected by Bodies, Is Found Alive ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 19.— A plane arriving from Nushagak, on Bristol Bay, reports an Indian mother, with a baby strapped to her back, stumbled and fell across her four-year-old son, at night, while on her way to town in weath- er with a temperature of 20 degrees below zero. The trio was found the next morning, the mother and baby frozen to death, but the boy, kept sufficiently warm by his mother’s I body, was alive. The doctor at the Dillingham Hospital said he may have to am- putate the boys hands and feet as they were frozen, Jin the spring to be on the ground. TROY ENROUTE T0 SOUTH FOR EXTENDED TRIP Editor and Publisher of The Empire Sails on Northwestern Today On a combined business and vacation trip that will occupy sev- eral weeks and probably take him| to the East for the inauguration| of President-Elect Roosevelt, John W. Troy, publisher and editor of The Empire and prominently men- tioned for appointment as Gov- ernor of Alaska, left here today on the steamer Northwestern for Se- attle. After spending a few days there conferring with friends and looking after business matters, he will pro- ceed to San Diego, Calif, for a visit with Mrs. Troy. He prob- ably will meet Delegate-Elect An- thony J. Dimond in San Fran- cisco early next month and ac- company him to Washington, D. C. Mr. Troy is the candidate of the Territorial Democratic organization for the Governorship. He has re- ceived hundreds of letters of support ! from all sections of Alaska, from! business and professional men, and from all of the party’s most active workers, This support has come to him| voluntarily, without solicitation on his part. He consented to become an aspirant for the office at the request of many of the party's leaders and the movement in his support, which has spread through- out the Territory and in some measure to the States, is the work of his friends and political asso- ciates of the past 20 or more years. PREDICTS MINE WORK IN NORTH SEATTLE, Jan. 1y—W. H. Pal- mer, aged 92 years, who began| mining in the Pike's Peak rush| in 59, has arrived here to spendi the winter. He said he expected| mining to be resumed in the Chug- ach Range district, northeast of Valdez, Alaska, when the weather| | | [ SOLDIERS OF CHINA ARMY FOUND DEAD, MOUNTAINS Bodies of 380, Clad in Thin Summer Uniforms Dis- covered — Rifles . Clasped in Hands SHANGHALIL Jan. 19. — A | Chinese press report received here today said 380 frozen bodies of Chinese soldiers, clad in thin summer uniforms and with rifles clasped in their hands, have been dis- covered at their posts in the Mount Tukushan-Manchurian fighting zone. The victims were volun- teers who, being pressed by the Japanese last December, withdrew to the top of the mountain where they stub- bornly defended themselves in fortified positions for two weeks. Reports said the Japanese were repulsed in all attacks, the Chinese succumbing only to the intense cold. NO BATTLING LONDON, Jan. 19. — The Oriental armies in Manchuria are waiting for a break in the cold weather. Meantime there is no activity reported on any front and there has not been any for the past two days. ——e,—— CHIEF OF ARMY ENGINEERS MAY GRANTREQUEST Studies Need for Local Representative in Alas- ka, Chamber Hears That there is reason to believe the Chief of Engineers will short- ly assign an officer of the U, 8. Army Engineer Corps, or at any rate an engineer of the Seattle Rivers and Harbors district to Al- aska, with heddquarters at Ju- neau, to handle fish trap loca- tions and other local interests, the Chamber of Commerce was today informed by Delegate James Wick- ersham. The Chief of Engineers, Gen. George B. Pillsbury, has asked the Division Engineer at San Francis- co to investigate the situation and report to him as soon as possi- ble. Request Made Here The request for the assignment of an officer from the Seattle dis- trict to Alaska was preferred through the Delegate by the local Chamber some time ago. Judge Wickersham transmitted the Cham- ber's petition to Gen. Pillsbury by letter, endorsing it unreservedly and pointing out that public in- terests would be better served than is now possibje under pres- ent arrangements by which all Al- aska matters under the Board of Rivers and Harbors have to be referred to Seattle for action. Enclosing the Chamber a copy of Gen. Pillsbury’s letter advising that a study of the matter had been ordered made, the Delegate informed the Chamber there was hope that “the desired result may be secured.” Canners’ Plans Incompleted Letters from four large salmon packing operators regarding the employment of local labor next permits. Palmer plans to go North enrlyl v season, read at today's meeting