The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 21, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" ]UNEAU ALASKA, SATURDAY JANUARY 21, 1933, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS FRICE TEN CENT{ U. S.-GREAT BRITAIN WILL CONFER ON WAR DEBTS JAPAN NOW MAKES POSITIVE THREAT PRESIDENT AND ROOSEVELT ARE IN NEW ACCORD Both Agree to Discussion, | with British on Econ- omic Problems SECRETARY OF STATE GIVEN lNSTRUCTlONS} Results of White House| Meeting Announced— | Good News, London | | WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.— President Hoover and Pres | dent-Elect Roosevelt, in a con-| fetence yesterday afterncon,) agreed upon discussion of war, debts with representatives of Great Britain, the discussion to take place early in March,' a White House statement’ Talks with the representa-! tives of Great Britain also‘ include views on the econ- omic problems of the world and “ways and mean of im-| proving the world situation.” Secretary of State \‘timson was instructed to immediate-' Iy initiate negotiations with Great Britain, arranging for the conference. Only Great Britain was mentioned in the statement,| that nation having paid the: December installment of the debt. i | war FOR MARCH CONFERENCE WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—Diplo- matic machinery was set in full motion today on both sides of the Won Matrimonial Sweepstakes BI'"NESE NATION Lovely Joan Blondell, screen star, m monial sweepstakes when this pictu ight have been entered in the matfi- re was made recently. Whether she was or not, Joan is now a bride, having taken her cameraman sweetheart, George Barnes (inset), for better Phoenix, Ariz. Joan concealed her lovel ROOSEVELT DISCUSSING HIS CABINET Two Senat;and Labor Chiefs Are Called Into Conference WASHINGTON, Jan, 21.—Before | or worse in a secret wedding at blonde tresses under a red wig it LIONS FALL TO ACT WILD; BIG HUNT POSTPONED {Alleged JungT Bred Cats Roar with Delight at Freedom WOLF ISLAND, Missouri, Jan. Atlantic to bring the United States pogijent-Elect Roosevelt left here (91 Tion traders are no more to and Great Britin together early in March for an examination of war debts. The way is now open for the appointment of a British Mission' to meet the Americans. Secretary of State Stimson sum- moned British Ambassador Sir| late yesterday afternoon for the Muscle Shoals project, he discuss- led his Cabinet with United States Senator Walsh, of Montana, Sen- awr Glass of Virginia, and heads lof the American Federation of La- bor. No statements were made, al- be trus it seems. D. M. Wright, St. Louis novelty manufacturer, bought two guaran- teed to be jungle bred hard-boiled African cats, and inviled a party ted than horse traders, Ronald Lindsay and informed him though Senator Walsh refused m,m)f friends for a real lion hunt. of the Hoover-Roosevelt agreement.| IS GREAT NEWS LONDON, Jan. 21.—Great Bri-| tain received the war debt confer-| ence agreement as the best news, in months, ] A trip by Premier Ramsay Mac-! Donald to the United States to, discuss the war debts is a possible’ result of the American invitation but no official announcement of British plans is made. Aspects Brighter i It is understood that officials say whether Roosevelt asked him to be Attorney General TRINITY GUILD HAS SUCCESSFUL PARTY The bridge and whist party giv- en by the Trinity Cathedral Guild in the Parish Hall last night was pronounced a jolly success by the ,committee in charge. Nine tables werz in play during of other European captials regard- the evening, six of bridge and three ed the United States-British con- Of Whist. Mrs. ference as brighténing but many was chairman of the committee in newspapers question the motives of charge of the card party. She was the American Government and 3ssistcd by Mrs. A. E. Snow, Mrs. | John W. Jones, | President-Elect Roosevelt. France has decided to wait re- sults of the British-United States negotiations before forming new policies toward her own debts ow- ing America. SEAPLANE MITKOF IS BACK FROM KETCHIKAN The seaplane Mitkof, with J. V. Hickey, owner, and M. W. Sas- sen, pilot, returned to Juneau late vesterday from Ketchikan. While in Ketchikan the Mitkol made trips to Craig and Klawock | to bring witnesses for trials being been killed in Dalmatia since it gogpita) today, held during the current court ses- sion there, Harry Lee, Mrs. A. J. Buckmgham and Mrs. C. E. Rice. The next entertainment to be given by the Guild will be a Val- entine Tea. Stone Lion at Turin To Recall Trau Rehcs1 .TURIN, Italy, Jan. 21. — Turin University students have decided to erect here a huge stone lion to| replace similar symbols recently| destroyed in the Dalmatian town, of Trau. The names of Italians who have came under the rule of Jugoslavia will be inscribed on the monument. The animals were taken to Wolf Island, where Wright and his par- ty waited for the big game hunt. The lions were turned loose yes- terday. They crashed through the barb- ed wire runway, intended to guide them into the brush, then played around the sand, roaring, apprec- iation at their liberty. They re- fused, however, to act like wild animals. Wright won't shoot them until they do act wild, The sheriff who said he would iput a stop to the hunt, failed to appear. —————— F. MOFFITY GOES SOUTH FOR TWO MONTHS — JOHN | | ager, Alaska-Windham Mines, a southbound passenger on the/ |Northwestern. Mr. Moffitt will| {spend two months in Seattle anc was the Windham Bay mining pany before returning spring operations. e ee — — MRS. WINN IN HOSPITAL com- | Mrs. James Winn, who suffered a pariial stroke of paralysis about a month ago, entered St. Ann's as a result of a general breakdown. Mrs. Winn is {a patient of Dr. H. C. DeVighne. GIVEN WARNING - FROMJAPANESE: [ Foreign Mmlster Advises i Against Further Mili- ‘ tary Action COUNT MAKES TALK ‘ TO ENTIRE WORLD (Clearing ' Indicates that Japan Going Ahead, Manchuria Campaign TOKYO, Jan. 21.—Foreign Uchida, speaking at today’s opening of the session of the Diet, after the New Year holiday, sternly warned the “Government and people of China against unfortunate eventualities™ arise. He invited the Chinese an. ister spoke to the House of Peers, he equally addressed an audience of the world's statesmen, who are anxiously vatching the war cloud in North China. The speech was telegraphed to every major capital for dissemination. Count Uchida declared Japan be- lieved the Chinese Nationalist Con- gress has backed the positive cam- paign against Japan. The Foreign Minister clearly in- dicated Japan will join “the task of maintaining peace and order” in the Jehol Province and conclud- ed his address by making a bid for “recognition that the construc- tive force of Japan is the main- stay of tranquility in this part of the world.” BREAK IS LOOMING GENEVA, Jan. 21.—Information that Japan is increasing her forces in Manchuria surprised officials here. Some commentators asserted that the Japanese move strength- ened the belief tiat a definite diplomatic rupture between the League of Nations and Japan wil finally result. FAILS TO INSTRUCT ment has failed to instruct yes or no as requested, to il..eague‘s proposal it offered t for he ‘Minister Count Yasyda| which may! to “think seriously befor el proceeding further” in the di-| rectien of military and econ-! omic movements against Jap-, Although the Foreign Min‘r GENEVA, Jan. 21.—A Tokyo dis- | ipatch said the Japanese Govern- delegates here to give a definitz “|serving an arson sentense in Penn- ,‘ Won and Lost Famous Beauties—Died Alone * * * * * * Colurful and Tragic Career of Jack Pickford, Brother of “America’s Sweetheart,” Recalled by Death in Paris. } | ! \ s own right, in the Ameri of the young man who won and lost three of America’s fore dows alone. Pickford, who was 36 at the time of his d appearance in 1909 a production called “Peu Robi In 1919 he turned er Mary was rapidly climbing to eminence H Thomas, noted Follies beauty, once d having married her 1917, In 1920 they went Paris on It was then that tragedy first entered Pick Returning to their hotel after a p-rty, Mi: inadvertently took a dose of mercury bichloride in mis! for a sleeping potion and died five later. Two years later, Pickford married Marilyn Miller, also a Follies beauty, but she divorced him in Paris in 1927 after & two-year separation, during which they had remained friends. In 1930, Pickford took another bri time Mary Mulhern, a New York actress. But again the romance went on the rocks, Miss Mulhern divorcing last year in Los Angeles. Pickford never achieved the fame that came to ister upon the screen, -llhnugh e appeared in many pictures for various companies, and even managed his own company for a time. death was the climax of a long series of nervous breakdow: Mary Pickford has ordered her brother’sl rem: ent home for burial in Los Angeles. Lame Duck |DEFIES SENATE Amendment Nears Goal IN FILIBUSTER Only Three—l-\’lore States Required to Make Ratification ic death of Jack Pickford, brother of Mary and formerly a film idol in P the colorful car | films, where his s FIVE ACGUSED OF MURDER IN BIG FIRE PLOT Two Million Dollal Arson Ring Revealed— Senator Thomas to Use Every Effort to Prevent WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. — ony| | Vote on Measure Charges Preferred three more state legislatures must CLEVELAND, Ohlo, Jan. 2l.—|ratify the Lame Duck Amendment | Five men described by the pollce(to make it part of the Federal as members of a two million dollar | Constitution. arson ring, have been accused cf| South Dakote and Tennessee first degree murder in the burning|legislatures accepted the propos- of an apartment hotel last Junelal yesterday making a total of 33 9 in which thirteen persons lost States. their lives. j The amendment provides for the Safety Director Frank J. Merrick President and Congressmen to take !said the five men conspired to burn|office in January, following elec- |a barber supply shop, on the tion, instead of in March, \ground floor of the hotel and col- lect $20,000 insurance. Was Arson Expert Merrick asserted that L. J. Kam- ins, aged 64, former attorney, now | WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. — The Glass Banking bill today piled when. Senator Huey Long openly hurled filibustering in the Senate’s path. Senator Thomas, of Okla-! homa, came to the front, saying| he would use every power to pre- vent a vote. Senator Thomas defied the Sen- ate to in e the ure rule and ‘lh s again cut deeply into the open L made in the Dem- rangs by the filibuster. Long kept up his end | TWO MORE RATIFY WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. — Two | more state legislatures, those fied the Lame Duck amend.mem, oc | sylvania, was the “king pin” of the ON GLASS BILL squarely up against just as big a mountain of opposition as it did| | conciliation in the Manchurian |uation, and providing that Russia and the United States participat —————— group and obtained a large income for years as an arson expert. The others accused in the arson iplot are Sau Nieman and Paul make the amendment operative. ————— leaving only one state needed to| jof the dilatory tactics today, but ‘<| nied he was filibustering. He tried 0 n time by asking for a re- u s until Monday. He failed in; John F. Moffitf, general man- | to begin, ( WILL SUCCEED ford, Conn., to Be Seattle Bishop VATICAN CITY, Italy, Jan. 21— The Pope has nominated Monsign: John O'Shea, of the diocese Hartford, Connecticut, to be Bish of the Diocese of Seattle. Monsignor O'Shea succeeds tot diocese following the recent dea Lof Bishep O'Dea. | | BISHOP 0'DEA San Francisco in the interest o Vlonsignor OShea, of Hart-'g TABS FRANGE AS “INGRATE” Senator Robmson Criticises | Nation Defaulting War Debt WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—France was labeled as a “thorough in- grate” in the Senate yesterday af-| ternoon by Senator Arthur R. Rob- SEATTLE, Jan. 31.—The King inson, Republican of Indiana. in|County Commissioners have ap- an address criticising that nation’s (pointed E. J. Miller to succeed N war debt payment default. He ex-|G. Robinson, ousted by the State pressed opposition to any cancel- |House after convictions of « mor- lation or reduction in any war|als charge. Miller is another of debts, King County’s unemployed, Childs, of Pittsburgh, fire insurance adjustors; Ray I. Turk, Cleveland, Manager of the American Beauty Barber Supply Company, and Ben Hirsch, of Beaver Falls, Penn. ———.—— [v.nh and announced he would in- sist on night sessions next week. The voluntary agreement for ly meaningless. A bundle of amendments have heen proposed to the bill. Aged Governor of ank of England Is To Wed Young Woman LONDON, Jan. 21.—Monta- gue Norman, aged 61 years, Governor of the Bank of Eng- land, is to marry Mrs. Pris- cilla Cecelia Maria Worsthorne, aged 33, member of the Lon- don County Council. The an- nouncement was made yester- Unemployed Man of King County Named As Representative I | i limitation cf debate is now virtual- | JUDGE MAKES NEW RULING, MURDER CASE State Must—l;;ove Crime Was Committed by Blond Slayer | A, |LEGAL OPINION IN HALLORAN HEARING ‘Self Defense Plea in Slay- ing of Juneau Women Up Again P H O ENIX, Arizona, Jan. 121, — The State must again prove that Mrs, Winnie Ruth | Judd committed a crime when 1she killed Mrs. Agnes Anne * |Le Roi, nurse of Juneau, Al- iaskn, in October, 1931, if the charge of being an accessory to the crime, now pending 'against J. J. Halloran, wealthy lumberman, is to be upheld. This is the ruling Superior Court Judge J. C. Niles has made at the preliminary hear- ing of Halloran on the charge of being an accessory. The Court ruled that “Hal- loran is not bound by the pro- ceedings of the State agains® Mrs. Judd, involving the slay- ing of Mrs. Le Roi, and her testimony is solely that of & witness or participant in the struggle in which she claims an act of self-defense. If an ‘act of self-defense, homicide s justifiable. If no crime has been committed, Halloran can ‘be an accessory to no crime.” FOOD FAMINE AT AT WINDHAM BAY 1S DOUBTED HERE C | | | utter Alerl o Way to Break Up Ice in rbor | According to an Associated Press dispatch received by The Empire ard carrying a Ketchikan date line, the residents of Windham [Bay. mining camp 180 miles north lof Ketchikan, are running short ‘of food and want to get their mail, | To relieve the situation, the U. |8. Coast Guard Cutter Alert sail- ed from Ketchikan at midnight Friday to break ice in the barbor. The dispatch added that it was understood that the small com- munity had been locked in for weeks. No Complaint Here J. B. Caro, who with Charles E. Hooker, is owner of the motorboat Pacific which. has the mail con- {tract for Windham Bay, about |sixty miles south of Juneau, says there has been no failure to de- liver mail at Windham this win- ter, nor has there been any com- plaint from Windham residents about delivery of mail or supplies, On its trip south last week, the !Pacxnc was unable to deliver sup- |plies ordered from Juneau for Windham as there was no one to receive them at the boat's landing | place, about five miles from the |settlement. The supplies were re- turned to Juneau and taken out again on the Pacific Thursday. They should have arrived at Wind- (Continued on Page Eight) .4