The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 28, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME» VOL. XLL, NO. 6249. * JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS 'PRICE TEN CENTY REPRIEVE GIVEN SLAYER, JUNEAU GIRLS FRENCH PREMIER, GERMAN CHANCELLOR, BOTH FALL ECONOMY, EFFICIENCY, NEW KEYNOTE PAUL-BONCOUR MINISTRY 1S OUT IN FRANGE Fi orty—Day—Old Governmenl erthrown—No fidence Voted VON SCHLEICHER IS DETHRONED, GERMANY Eamon de Valera Assured of Presidency in Irish Free State VOTE GREATEST | 'ON RECORD AND MAJORITIES BIG Total Vote Is 14,202—Di-| mond Majority Unpre- | cedented at 6,169 | | ] PARIS, Jan. 28.—The 40-| day-old government of loseph Paul-Boncour was n\erthrnwn‘ by the Chamber of l)eputies‘ by a vote of 390 to 193 after COMPLETE RETURNS IN, an all-night session. (TH[RD BOOST CAMPBEL[A The overthrow came on an' article of the financial bill in- Final Figures Show Hlm‘ 88 Votes Ahead of L. V. Ray, Republican creasing income and other‘ general tax rates 5 per cent in an effort to balance the Budget. ! The full sweep of the Democrat- There is no definite indica- ic landslide in Alaska last No- i as 2 vember was revealed for the first tion as to who will become (time today with the completion of the new French Premier.'me official count by the Terri- Herriot and Saladier are thclfmml Canvassing Board, cor‘rjmocseld - jof Gov. George A. Parks an 0l- leading candidates. !lector of Customs J. C. McBride 1 # | The vote was the greatest ever GERMAN TROUBLE |casL at a Territorial election— BERLIN, Jan. 28.—General 14202, and the Democratic candi- Kurt von Schleicher hag dates, headed by Senator Anthony . Dimond, received unprecedent- stumbled over the preenmdl ed majorities. Carrying every Di- obstacle of Adolf Hitler and|vision, as did every Territorial fallen as German Chancellor. candidate except A. E. Karnes and " S. Truitt, Mr. Dimond’s ma- The entire German Cabinet| ‘Jonty was 6,189. has also resigned. { | . . K Loses Thre President von Hmdenbur;z! B e o 3 Ay Although Mr. Karnes lost the immediately called von Pap-!Second, Third and Fourth Divis- en, who preceded von Schlei- ions by small margins, his ma- Wit s < ljority of 1502 in the First Di- cher, and instructed him to | vision), Nees it Hathr iy lires o put together a Cabinet which' |give him the election for Commis- will be supported by the‘5‘°“°r of Education by 927 votes. | In a three-cornered race, Mr.| Reichstag. Von Papen has . received a plurality of the not been appointed Chancel-vote cast in every division except lor. ‘bhe Second which was carried by It appears certain that Hitler or Attorney General John Rustgard. von Papen will get the Chancel-|The Democratic candidate led M. lorship. |Rustgard by 788 votes, and W. L. Hitler will have the call if he/Paul, Independent, by 2,271 VOtEISA can guarantee a stable government| Representative F"““‘; 4. Boyle with the support of the National-|SWePL every division and 'won .from Full Democratic Sweep Shown In Official Canvass of Vote OFFICIAL TERRITORIAL VOTE For Delegate: First Second Third Fourth Total Dimond 4,724 519 2,786 1,920 9,949 Wickersham 1,812 270 980 758 3,820 For Attorney General: Paul ... 1,806 178 781 531 3,206 Rustgard 2,154 442 1,238 937 4,711 Truitt 2,589 274 1,595 1,099 5,557 For Auditor: Boyle 3,845 443 1,975 1,581 7,844 Cole 2,560 393 1,558 916 54217 For Commissioner of Education: Karnes 3,958 337 1,727 1,121 7,143 Keller 2,456 513 1,844 1,409 6,222 For Highway Engineer: Hesse 4,324 541 2478 1,662 9,005 Wann 1,713 268 964 804 3,809 Total vote 6,747 954 2,952 12,685 14,202 —One precinct mi: f—Estimated. ing. Roosevelt Must Exercise Leadership As Soon As He Is Inaugurated President BULLETS WHIZ KNIVES FLASH, THIS MORNING - One Man Kllled Three Hoover regime takes the amtud« Others Wounded Speak- |that its hands have been tied ef- {Iecnvely with respect to foreign easy GueStS Flee ianaxrs and its efforts at recon- |struction at home blocked in ad- {vance by a hostile Congress. NEW YORK, Jan. 28—One man, Qn the legislative side, every was killed and three others Wwere | major project except the routine wounded during a wild melee in|appropriation bills has fallen into a Harlem speakeasy just be-|serious trouble. Hope of doing fore noon today. |single constructive thing during Screaming women and shouting|the short session has about dis- men fled from the place leaving lappeared. it littered with wraps and pocket-| The upshot is that Mr. Roosevelt books. will be faced on March 4 with a By BYRON PRICE (Chicf of Bureau, the Associated Press, Washington) All that has been said in recent {months about the need for leader- smp at Washington—and it would fill volumes—appears now to have | |fallen short of fully stating the | ‘-Reservation?Made, How- NEW PRUGHAM IS BEING PUT UP TO FRIENDS Government Reorganization Scheme Is Outlined by President-Elect PRESENT SESSIONS OF CONGRESS IS WATCHED Many Issues Must Be En- acted at Earliest Opportunity WARM SPRINGS, Georgia,| Jan. 28.—Government reor- ganization, with a view of ac- complishing both economy| key-, stone of President-Elect! Roosevelt’s program whic h' and efficiency, is the he has put up to friends to! work on. | +.Roosevelt is still awaiting results of the present short session of Congress. The President-Elect has an- nounced no plans for the extra session of Congress but is ready for one if Farm Relief, Prohibition and Budget balancing measures fail. He will then advance them to the extra session, together with the reorganization plan, now tak-, ing shape. Domestic Issues International complicatons of war| debts, tariffs, currency, and dis- armament are also on his cal- endar of study but while foreign| diplomats worry about these, Roose~ velt is mapping his domestic pro- gram. In the reorganization scheme, it includes at present, reduction of the personnel, consolidation of government agencies and abolish- ing unnecessary functions. —————— JAPAN IS NOT | - T0 WITHDRAW FROM LEAGUE ists and at least toleration by the Centrists which would give him a, majority in the Reichstag. If Hitler remains unwilling to play with the other- parties, or if the Centrists shoud refuse even a benevolent neutrality, the post will probably go to von Papen, ! If von Papen is named, he will be invested with dictatorial powers, such as no previous Chancellor has| ever had. IN IRELAND BELFAST, Jan. 28—The recent, election in the Irish Free State assures the Fianna Fail Party will remain in power with Eamon de’ Valera as President. Cash Cole, Republican, for Audi- tor by 2417 votes. Highway Engineer W. A. Hesse, Democrat, had a majority over F. E. Wann, Republican, of 5,196 votes, approaching the record breaking margin given to Senator Dimond. Five Senators Elected All five Territorial Senators elec- ted are Democrats—N. R. Walker, Ketchikan, First; James Frawley, | Second; James R. Campbell, Third; L. C. Hess and Thomas J. DeVane, Fourth Division. Mr. Devane was |elected for the short and Mr. Hess the long term. The former will |fill out the unexpired term of the late John W. Dunn, veteran mem- (Continued on Page Twm Paddle-Wheel Airplane Is Being Studied; Models Are Under Test, Wind Tunnels| NEW YORK, Jan. 25. — New American paddle-wheel av-planc models which have been under secret tests in wind tunnels for | several years will come so far to- ward promising to revolutionize | aviation that the National Advis-| ory Committee of Aeronautics is| studying the new plane. The new plane has no propellor in a conventional sense, but four ed ]is |paddle wheels, two on each side, cut the air at an angle which leads to the belief the plane may stand almost still in the air or go forward at a rate almost equal- ling the ordinary plane when the operator desires. It is expected that a full scale A man walked into the speak- easy and sat at a table where Peter Moran, owner of the place, wes sitting with two men and two women. Pulls Gun, Fires Without warning, the man pull-| ed a gun and began firing. Moran was wounded in the thigh. William Fields was killed. Heary Clark was gounded in the head The gunman flung away his gun and started for the exit. A paaic swept the speakeasy. Is Downed Men en:ployed in the place clos- 2d in on the gunman, got him down and jammed penknives into his body thne and time again. The police finally arrived and stopped the iisorder. The gunman has been identified as Joseph Pisher, aged 27. He gave no explanatim for the shoot- ing. Moore, Oregon U. Offered Japan Post EUGENE, Ore.,, Jan. 28. — Dr. A. R. Moore, University of Oregon professor of psychology, has been offered the visiting professorship at Tohaku University, Sendai, Ja- pan, according to announcement plane will be constructed and test- in the near future, but the date indefinite, here. The offer was tendered by the Rockefeller Foundation and is considered a signal honor. situation of government disorgan- ization much worse than most per- sons expected. | He will be called upon from the |first hour of his administration| to exercise, not merely the ordin-|Japanese newspapers that the Gov- |ary leadership of the Presidency, |ernment is considering an immed- lbut also a legislative leadership | iate withdrawal from the Disarma- of a far higher order than most ever, by Statement from Foreign Office TOKYO, Jan. 28—Statements In | ment and Economic Conference this |Presidents have been able to ever|year as well as from the League, achieve. | are described at the Foreign Office |as “pure speculation.” MUST AWAIT MARCH 4 | It is said Japan is awaiting Evidently the nation must w: wtion of the League of Nations for inauguration day for any vis-|on the Manchurian dispute before |ible, undeniable démonstration deciding on any action. |how Mr. Roosevelt will measur The Foreign Office spokesman lup to the test, aid long ago Japan had decided For a time it appeared he mig m action to take if the report of assume effective guidance of de-|the League's committee, now being moralized Democratic forces 1 drafted, is unfavorable. Capitol Hill and pilot a leg! “We shall withdraw from the |tive program through the pres-|League of Nations if circumstanc- of |ent session. That prospect has s compel us” said the spokes- largely disappeared. nan, ‘Some hints and suggestions have —_———— reached Washington, but as ye there is mo sign of an effort to False Story Bl’lng3 crack the whip of party control boiail e ot ot e Contempt Sentence in Congress who have failed be regular apparently have heard no word of !eprlmand or entreaty .;| CHICAGO, Jan. 28—Exposed in false claim that his wife was n expectant mother, which earn- d him probation on a two-month term for prohibition violation, Rob- vt Selders, 22, North Riverside bootlegger, was sentenced to two , months for contempt of court by Federal Judge Johnson. He must TAX PARLEY INCONCLUSIVE The inconclusive New York tax conference presented only one of several instances where the Pre |dent-Elect either has declined Blond Sla yer As mess Mrs. Winnic Ruth Judd is shown as she testified in Phoenix, Arizona, at the hearing of John J. Halloran, who was indicted as an accessory in the “trunk murders” case. The case was later dismissed. FORD PLANTS ARE TIED- UP, BIG STRIKE Trouble in Briggs Company Factories Cause Sus- pension of Work DETROIT, Michigan, Jan. 28.— A strike in the plants of the Briggs Manufacturing Company, which has forced suspension of operations of the Ford Motor Company through- out the United States, is still in effect although 40 men returned to plant. One hundred thousand men throughout the Ford companies in the United States were thown out of work when the supply of bodies was cut off by the Briggs shut- down. The Ford plants will be reopened as soon as the flow of bodies is resumed, probably on Monday. Henry Ford, in London, telephone conversation with re- porters, said the strike in the Briggs Marfiufacturing Company is all a move against his making Ford cars. The Ford Company officials said it is expected the Briggs' strike will end by Monday and within six hours after, the Ford plants throughout the country will resume operations, Three Months in Jail; | Divorced; He Goes Back, CHICAGO, Jan. 28—For three| months Robert Thill had been in “alimony row” for owing. $9.41 to his first wife, Eleanor, But bailiffs brought him from jail long enough for Superior Judge Sabath to divorce him from hxs\ second wife, Carnella, The cmrge\ was desertion Thill liked the idea of being out| of jail, and mentioned it to Judgef Sabath, pointing out he had a $50-, a-week job awaiting him. The | judge asked Wife No. 1 if she'd | consent. She wouldn't—unless she! got her alimony, So Thill went, back to jail. A new rubber bathing cap for| women is made to imitate a well- in a l (Continued on Page TWO0) Is0 serve the prohibition sentence. | groomed head of hair, fyears off, when they FOUR INJURED AS FLY WHEEL BURSTS APART Three Navafi)—f_ficers, Civil- . ian Student Hurt at Demonstration OAKLAND, Cal, Jan. 28—Three wnaval officers and a civilian stu- dent were injured when a balance wheel on a new type high speed engine burst during a test yes- terday. Lieut. Charles E. McDonald, their benches in the Briggs body aged 30 years, was seriously in- jured. Lieutenants Kenneth Hurd, aged 29, and Lewis D. Sharp, aged 28, were critically injured. B A Smith, civilian student was slight- ly injured. Fragments Shoot Out The naval officers were a group of 29 Annapolis graduates tak- ing post graduate work in me- chanical engineering at the Uni- versity of California. They were accompanied by five ci dénts who went to the plant of the gas engine company to see a demonstration and as they watch- led, the fly wheel flew into frag- ments, which were shot into the crowd —————— ZYNDA HOTEL HAS WINNIE RUTH JUDD GRANTED 58-DAY STAY OF EXECUTION 'Arizona Board of Pardons Acts in ‘Trunk Murders’ Case—Application for i Pardon,Commutation PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 28. —The State Board of Par- dons has granted a 58-day re- prieve to Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd, convicted slayer of Mrs. Agnes Anne Le Roi, former nurse of Juneau, Alaska. | The reprieve sets Mrs. Judd’s execution date for April 14. She was originally sentenced to hang February 17. Meanwhile a hearing on the application for a full par- don or commutation of the death sentence to life impris- onment will be heard. Mrs. Judd has not yet been tried for the murder of Miss ! Hedvig Samuelson, former school teacher of Juneau. Both women were killed in “self-defense” according to Mrs. Judd, on October 16, 1931, and the bodies packed in trunks and shipped to Los Angeles. The body of Miss Samuelson was dismembered. —— e ————— LINDSAY AND ROOSEVELT T0 HAVE MEETING British Ambassador' Goes to Warm Springs by Airplane WASHINGTON, Jan, 28.—British Ambassador Lindsay accepted an invitation to confer with President- Elect Roosevelt and has left by plane for Warm Springs, Georgia. He will later advise his govern- Iment of the impending war debt situation. ———————— Uncover “Old” Headstone HEALDTON, Okla, Jan. 28— An investigation is being made to determine whether English-speak- BEEN DECORATED |ing travelers were in Oklahoma in Redecora vating have be of the Zynda Hotel y all of the rooms. lobb; and and spring reno-|1725. n completed in the 'near here uncovered Rig builders in an oil field a weather« beaten stone on which was carved “Dicd April 26, 1725, B. O. B." Woman Senator Flies East With Petition for Passage 'Depreciated Currency Bill WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. — Mrs. Kathryn Malstrom, of Tacoma, |State Senator of Washnigton, who | flew here with a memorial from | her state legislature for of the depreciated currency bill, told a Congressional committee 1 |that the ‘unemployed demand to | ther {know why there is so much talk |of beer percentages and Philip- pine independence, 12§ passage | “We feel that a delay in enact- ing legislation along the deprec- |iated currency bill line will be fa- said Mrs. Malstrom, “even for the extra session of tal,” |to wait lCmgress Delay will place a fur- strain on people who already are suffering from loss of unem- | ployment due in a large part to this destructive foreign competi~