The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 25, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY “4LL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XLL., NO. 6246. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1933, _ MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY JAPAN MAY BREAK FROM BIG LEAGUE NEW DEVELOPME AUTOMOBILE - OF MISSING THOMPSONS IS LOGATED Belief Grows that Former:{ Alaskans Were Hijack- | ed or Murdered on i i 1 | | Mexican Desert ATTLE, Jan. 25.—George Kil-| g of the Alaska Weekly, has received a letter stating that it is the belief of other former Alas- kans, that Mr. and Mrs. Charles, L. Thompson, pioneers of Fair- banks, were murdered on the Mexi- can desert last December. H. J. McCallum, of Azusa, Califor investigating the mys-| terious disappearance of the couple, said their car was found on the desert Found Them Nervous | Dr. McCallum said he called on, the Thompsons on December 2 and found them nervous. Thompson | said he had received threatening! letters and remarked: | “If I ever disappear, I want you to make an intensive search.” | Dr. McCallum also wrote that Joe Miller, of San Diego, former United States Marshal at Fair-| banks, visited the Thompsons in' their Mexican home on Decem-| ber 4, Hijacked—Murdered The discovery of the automobile, writes Dr. McCallum, “makes it look to me and Joe Miller, like the Thompsons were hijacked or| mudered.” | Sourdough friends of the missing couple have been informed that! Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, of Min- neapolis, registered at the Roslyn Hotel on December 6 and left short- | ly thereafter but the signature is parently different. | Thompon was part owner' of a Mexican brewery. disappeared early in December. STOCKS TAKE ADVANCE OVER TWO CAUSES Wheat Is Firmer Today—| Pennsylvania Railroad Pays Dividend NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—A firm tone for wheat together with the peyment of a dividend by the Pennsylvania Railroad buoyed up the Stock Market today and several | issues closed with gains of one to, two points. Trade was light the entire day.‘ Rails developed conspicuous strength and their firmness spread to other major groups. ! Tobaccos were rather soggy. Motion picture issues were so]u" in some volume. | Make Good Gains | Pennsylvania Railroad gained one| and one-half points with Union Pacific. Similar gains were m.wei by Santa Fe, American Telephone and Telegraph, American Can and Allied Chemical. Up Two Points | Up two points were United States steel, preferred, and Columbian Carbon. \ Up one point or so were New York Central, Case, United States! Steel, common, Ward, Consolidated Gas and United Fruit. Coppers advanced fractionally. I | a, | CLOSING STOCKS TODAY NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine. stock today is 12%, American Can | 61%, American Power and Light 7%, Anaconda 8, Bethlehem Steel 15%, Calumet and Hecla 2%, Chrysler 147, Colorado Fuel and Iron 6%, Curtiss-Wright 2, North American 28%, Fox Films 1%, General Motors 13%, International Harvester 22%, Kennecott 9%, Packard Motors 2%, Safeway Stores 42, Standard Brands 15, United States Steel 29%, West- inghouse Electric 29%, He and his wife = 'Revolution Is ;’Predil:ted Unless |Farmers Aided London Gift Shoppe Was Stage for Romance of Baruch Scion * e * * * Marriage of American Prince Charming to Salesgirl Climaxed Fight to Restore Her Illusions, Shattered by Contact with Grasping Brides to Be. SHe S : ] M. and Mrs BERNARD BaRUCH,JR. Bernard M. Baruch, son of one of President-elect Roosevelt's financial advisers who is mentioned as a likely possibility for next Secretary of the Treasury, did not find his bride in a “five-and-ten-cent-store” like the happy man in the song, but he did find her in a gift shoppe, where ber illusions about romance and marriage had become sadly in need of repair. The lady who §s Mrs. Bernard M. Baruch, Jr., today was then Miss Winifred Mann, 28 and beautiful. Her daily stint at the London department store where she was employed before romance dawned included the keeping of a “Book of Brides,” wherein London ladies who expected to trip to the altar in the near future recorded the list of pres- ents they desired from their friends. It was due to her dealings with these brides-to-be that the young salesgirl developed an attitude of cyn cism towards romance and marriage, for she discovered that a large per- centage of the future brides worried more about the gifts they hoped to receive than they did about the husband they were getting. But Winifred forgot all about her disillusionment when young Barney ca: along. The American Prince Charming restored a few of her shattere ideals and finally persuaded her to say ‘“yes.” However, Winifred changed her mind and young Baruch returned to America to continue his bombardment of her heart by cable and trans-Atlantic phone, with the result that they were married in Geneva, Switzerland, last Septeraber. The newly-weds are now honeymooning ‘“somewhere in these Lmited with the blessing of both th; parents, EAGLES' OLD AGE PENSION ACTED UPON |Washington State House Passes Measure by Vote 84 to 15 OLYMFIA, Wash., Jan. 25.—The | House today approved of the Eagles’ old age pension bill by a (vote of 84 to 15. The bill pro- vides a pension of $30 monthly to persons 65 years or over, who have lived in the State 15 years and WASHINGTON, Jan. 25— Speaking in vigorcus support of a domestic allotment in the farm relief bill, Edward O’Neill, President of the American Farm Bureau Federation, told the Senate Committee today that “unless something is done for the farmer, we will have a revolution in less than one year.” - e FORMER STAGE STAR VERY ILL in the county five years. Doctors Says Overdose of TUSH! TISH! s o e o TUSH TISH! Police Differ { FIGHT LGUMS SEATTLE, Jan. 25—Edith Ran- som, former star of the stage play ,, “White Cargo,” is still unconscious Tiny Jungle Port Wanted by Peru—Countries Given Warning and in a critical condition. Physi-' cians said her condition is the re-! sult of an overdose of a sleep powder. She was found in her apartment where the police said WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—With they discovered notes indicating Colombian gunboat two days’ dis- suicide. tance from Peruvian troops at Secceir e Leticia, on the upper Amazon Riv- er, Secretary of State Stimson said the United States is to send an immediate not reminding the coun- N Itries to settle their disputes under Fuun KILLS zme Kellogg Pact. The pending fight is over possession of a tiny | jungle port. | T MISSOULA, Mont, Jan 25.—A| X Extravagant Wife Is father and his six-year-old daugh- ter is dead, and an eight-year-old | . son is expected to die from polson‘ Dworced by c°]°nel believed by authorities to have | been in home canned food. Everett! RENO, Nev, Jan. 25.—Extrava- ‘A. Smith, thirty-nine, railway ex- gance of his wife caused him fi- press messenger, and Lois Ellen, |nancial embarrassment while in his daughter, died within a few't-he army, Col. Lucien H. Taliafero, hours of each other after partak- |now retired, testiffed in securing |ing of the food. Harold Smith, the a divorce from Lucene Goodenow son, is critically ill in @ hospital Taliaferro, prominent Hollywood here, ‘writer, BIG SUITIS FILED, INSULL CASE; LARGE SUM ASKED Entire Directorate of Utili- ties Corporation Sued for Forty Million Dollars CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 25.—To -the maze of litigation involving _the Insull enterprises was today added a $40,000,000 suit against the en- tire directorate of the Insull Utili- ties Investment Corporation, the half billion dollar pany, by counsel for the creditors. Immediately upon filing the suit; subpoenas were issued against the defendants, Samuel and Martin In- sull and Samuel Insull, Jr., and twelve other directors. The suit charges the company paid large dividends with the sanc- tion of the directorate and approv- ed of large sums in settlement of claims and that the defendantis purchased much stock of dubious value. It is further charged the di- rectorate operated an intramux':tli selling game in which stocks of the various Insull companies were re- sold to each other to create a fictitious income. SHOTS FIRED AT SISTER OF ‘SCARFACE' AL Chicago Police Making In-| vestigation—Woman Denies Report | CHICAGO, Tl Jan. 25.—The po-| lice are investigating the report that Mrs. Mafalda Mariotte, sis- ter of “Scarface” Al Capone, bare- 1y escaped death when four bullets were fired in her direction from an automobile while she was walk- ing on the street. The report said Mrs. Mariotte was walking with her little daughter when an automobile passed and the shots were fired at her. | Mrs. Mariotte denies she was, shot at. | - eee Troy Finds Silver Lining for North In Depression Lra SEATTLE, Jan. 25.—John | W. Troy, Editor of the e| Daily Alaska Empire, Ju- neau, and prominently men- tioned for the next Gover- nor of Alaska, arriving here said the gold mining indus- try is looking up. “As the result of depres- sion Alaska is being pros- pected more extensively than for many years. Consider- able mining activity is likely to result in future years from this search for new mineral deposits,” he said. LEADERS IN PHILIPPINE FREED holding com-}. Mémbers of congress who directed the fight for Philippine independence met for mutual congratula. tions a'ter_ both branches of congress passed their measure over President Hoover's veto. Left to right: Sen. ators Cutting of New Mexico and Hawes of Missouri, Representative Hare of South Carolina and Senator Pittman of Nevada. (Associated Press Photo) OM MOVEMENT NTS IN MYSTERY CASE Farm R;l;’f Problem- Is E Big Subject; Greater than Average Person Imagines WINNIE JUDD LOSES FIGHT ON HALLORAN [Charge of Being Accessory in Juneau Women Mur- der Case Dismissed PHOENIX, Ariz, Jan. 25.—Judge J. C. Niles today dismissed the charge of accessory to the crime of murder against J. J. Halloran, alleged in the slayings of Agnes Anne Le Roi and Hedvig Samuel- son, both of Juneau, Alaska, by Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd. The blond slayer accused the wealthy lum- berman of being an accessory, al- leging he disposed of the bodies following the shooting in a Second Avenue bungalow here in October, 1931, O'MALLEY IS GIVEN BOOST BY BIG ASSOC. National Food Brokers Ask He Be Transferred to Civil Service CHICAGO, 11, Jan. 25.—George Bennett, of Buffalo, N. Y., has been clected President of the National Food Brokers Association. The members of the asociation passed a resolution urging retention and transfer to the Civil Service of Henry O'Malley, Fisheries Com- missioner, who for 30 years has regulated the salmon catch for the Federal Government Are to Chicago Fair Buildings Open On Junel CHICAGO, Jan. 25.—When A Century of Progress opens its gats June 1, every feature contemplat- ed in the program announced more than two years ago, will be reads officials said, following a surve of the work, accomplished durin 1932, Approximately $6,000,000 ha been spent on the exposition’s con- struction program. Exhibit space in exposition buildings and spec- ial exhibit buildings costing $4.- 755324 is under contract. Mor than 230 of the largest industria rganizations and groups of organ- zations will be exhibitors. Contracts for entertainment, rep- esenting investment of an ad- ditional $4,300,000, have been sign- ed up. ‘The Federal government has ap- oropriated $1,000,000 for its build- ngs, and exhibits and fo: States have taken official action for participation, while sixteen foreign nations have officially ac- cepted President Hoover's invita- tion, being furthered in fourteen addi- ional nations, Plans for participation are|,, By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Staff, The Associated Press, Washington.) The farm relief bill may appear to many politicians and newspa- per readers as merely incident to a crowded Legislative program, but the interest of the farm belt is at- tested by the managing editor of one of the most important daily papers in the mid-west, who writes: “I would say from my own standpoint that the domestic al- lotment plan is the greatest news story that we can possibly have. The attitude is getting to be one of desperation, with a feeling that something must be done and done quickly.” The present patronage run on ‘Washington—probably the biggest in history—has reached a point where at least one Democratic Senator has refused to talk to any more of his constituents who are looking for jobs, HOOVER A CANDIDATE? One member of President Hoo- ver's Cabinet is being quoted around Washington as fully con- vinced Mr. Hoover will be a 1936 candidate for the Republican Pres- idential nomination. , .. That “painful” Democratic in- come tax boost proposal now is interpreted by some politicians merely a scare-crow, really design- ed to impress both Congress and the public that government ex- penditures must be reduced, or else, A conviction that the anti-pro- hibition sweep is at flood tide and that in the natural course of ac- tion and reaction delay will fight on the side of the prohibitionists appears to provide the one clear thread of strategy running through the presenf operations of both the wets and drys. ... PUZZLE FOR DEMOCRATS Each of three leading aspirants for speaker — Messrs. McDuffie, Rainey and Byrne—is exhibiting privately a letter which he regards as somewhat of an erdorsement of his candidacy, imagine the bewi derment of the House Democr: because one of these let signed by Robert Jackson, tary of the party’s National Com- mittee, one by James A. Farley, the National chairman, and one by Franklin D. Roosevelt. . . . Senator Huey Long's assault on Senator Carter Glass' branch bank- ing project was something more than another Senate debate; it was the first major set-to between the conservatives and the not-so- conservative wings of the sup- porters of Mr. Roosevelt, with both sides quoting him to quality their attitudes. . . . It now seems assured that what- ever the constituted leaders may y some form of currency infla- (Continued on Page Two) :|Unemployment Commission BOB HENDERSON, KLONDIKE BOLD LOCATOR, DIES |Prospector Who Started | Great Stampede, Pass- i es in Vancouver VANCOUVER, B. C, Jan. 25.— Robert D. (Bob) Henderson, whose gold discoveries in 1896 preceded the stampede of 1898 into the Klon- dike, died yesterday at his home here at the age of 76 years. Hi last exploit was in October, | year, when with other mining men he made a flight from Carcross to the Pelly River astrict in search lof a rich placer deposit he claimed he located in early days. In the summer of 1896 Hender- son was prospecting on Gold Bot- tom in the Klondike region when he made his find. He struck out at once for the mouth of the Klon- dike where he met George Carmack | and apprised him of his find. He returned to Gold Bottom and it was some time later when Car- mack with others decided to look him up. While on their way to Gold Bot- tom, Carmack and his friends stopped to prospect just below thej mouth of the Eldorado. They struck pay dirt and hurried out to record their claims at Forty Mile. It was not until later that Henderson heard what had happened and while others had staked the best claims, he still was credited with the find. Henderson was born in Nova Scotia in 1857. He went to Alaska in 1894, prospecting many creeks tributary to the upper Yukon be- fore making his find at Gold Bot- tom, He had been living at Vancou- ver for a number of years. RELIEF FUNDS T0 BE SOUGHT of Washington Starts Planning OLYMPIA, Wash, Jank 25— While the new State Unemploy- ment Relief Commission convened to plan and draw funds from the| Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion to aid the needy, the House| approved of the measure givinz! property owners two years inwhich to redeem real estate lost by failure to pay delinquent improvement| taxes. last| IMPORTANT SESSION OF CABINET 1S HELD TODAY {Count Uchida Warns Col- leagues to Prepare to Make Grave De- cision Shortly CONCILIATION IN MANCHURIA CASE ABANDONED NOW If Charges Are Made at Geneva Only One Course Remains for Japan Government TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 25.— |Under bold type headlines, | Japanese newspapers today reported a special Cabinet session which heard Foreign Minister Count Uchida report on the League of Nations’ (virtual abandonment of ef- forts to conciliate the Sino- | Japanse dispute in Manchuria. Count Uchida warned his | colleagues they must prepare 'shortly to make a decision of grave importance. It is understood the Cab- inet session adjourned with- out a decision pending furth- er developments at Geneva although it is generally be- {lieved the Government will be compelled to withdraw from the League of Nations if |charges are made against Japan of territorial aggres- sion in violation of the League’s covenant, anti-war pact or nine-power pact. ). B. WARRACK THINKS TIMES AREIMPROVING Believes Business Showing a Slight Upward Trend for Coming Year J. B. Warrack, of the Warrack Construction Company, which is building the Assembly Apartments in Juneau, returped here on the steamer Alaska from a six-weeks trip to Seattle. Mr. Warrack spent the holidays with his family in Seattle and took care of consider- able business while there. Work .on the Assembly Apart- (Continued on Page Two) Dimond Is Accorded Great Reception In Interior Towns ANCHORAGE, Alask., Jan. 25.—Pilots of mail planes arriving here from points in the Kuskokwim Valley re- port Delegate-Elect Anthony J. Dimond was accorded an unusually warm reception at all points. He was greet- ed by largely attended meet- ings at Bethel, Flat and other points. Residents of all communi- ties marveled at the visita- tion, saying it was the first time they ever knew of a representative visiting them after the election had been held. All others before Mr. ———— There are still hunareds of peo- ple living in Eur who never heard of the World War, accor: ing to a London newspaper, 3 Dimond’s time did their visiting prior to the eléc- tion,