The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 27, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLL, NO. 6274. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 27, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS U. S. JOINS LEAGUE IN CONDEMNING JAPANESE WARSHIPS RUSHED TO CHINESE PORTS JAPANESE ARE STRENGHTENING ALL POSITIONS Cruisers Dispatched to All Important Places, China Waters FOUR DRIVES ARE UNDERWAY IN .ll:'.HOLI Miss Frances Perkins, New 1902. Led Fight for i | Military Command Hopes:‘ p to Capture Province i Capital March 10 g | SHANGHAI, Feb. 27.—Two Jap-| anese cruisers arrived here Sunday presumably in accordance with the| : annourcement that precautionary measures will be taken to protect| : Japanes: nationals in China m{ event operations in Jehol spread south of the Great Wall. | Chinese reports said Japanese| warships have arrived at various perts cn the Chinese coa the Japanese flotilla River has been s " on the| ngize g RUSH O LONDON, Feb. by the success of the far, Japanese officers hope to oc: of Jehol Provinee, This day is battle of Mukden Japanese War. Four different drives are now| peng made”in Jehol Provinee-een~ tered on four objectives, Lingyuan,| Chihfeng, Wungkungfu and in the| region about Suiting, all within 100 miles of Jehol City. Resistance Strong resistance to the advance forces is reported from Shamao- shan where the fourteenth infantry brigade is advancing on Lingyuan. ‘ Chihfeng has been bombed by Japanese airplanes. Rep from unofficial claim 1,000 Chinese have been kill-| ed near Lingyuan. Advance Hindered Chinese advices said the Japan-| her predecessors. ese advance is meeting with great| in 1902, Miss Perkins has made a difficulty because of mud in the| America. As secretary of the New river beds and sand drifts with| impend tanks and trucks. 27.—Encouraged campaign so| at Chinchow | City, capital in the e cabinet of President-elect Franklin not only be the first woman ever to | the United States, but would also ers. Her good work in that capacit; tao are reported fleeing to Dairen in fear hostilities might break out.| HEAVY CASUALTIES LONDON, Feb. 27.—According to| unofficial reports from Tokyo, Jap- | anese casualties were 600 in one| battle near Liggyuan. { The Chinese are reported to be still holding Paishihtsumen, near| Lingyuan, despite Japanese cavalry attacks. HUNGARY 1S THREATENED BY ENTENTE and is looking forward CAMPAIGN IN GERMANY IS BLOODY ONE Three NazisKilled by Com- munists—Many Are Reported Injured BERLIN, Feb. 27.—Three persons Three Lit“e Nahons MBY‘kllled, suspension of two more newspapers and a flood of oratory Occupy Large One H | Sunday masked the beginning of Trouble Starts [the final week before the German {citizens elect a new Reichstag and ROME, Feb. 27.—The daily news- | prussian Diet. paper Giornale dTtalia publishes - " Tex v what is described as secret cl.auseswac;:m:r “:;,L:p;k;?;a:mfndkhu'd!;,‘:g af 7500 Mmertl pet Abaotited by’;‘m,“ was stabbed to death at Lin- the little Entente Nations mdicm'idenf‘als ing the signatories intend to occu-i Mar ‘j persons were Ty Wiy, L e o 8ggression | 4y oughout the Republic. from other nations. The Little Entente pact is de- AT clared to be a perpetual union of interests among Jugoslavia, Czech- oslovakia and Rumania. injured PRINTING PLANT AT PETERSBURG IS SOLD Appropriation for War The plant of the Petersburg Al- askan, official organization of the Department Is Held Up! v | Alaska Native Brotherhood which WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. — The! Was seized under an execution giv- Senate and House conferees have en to Hogue and Tveten several failed to reach a complete a,gree_‘months ago, was sold at Petersburg ment on the War Department ap-|last Friday at public auction, it propriation bill. The measure wm;wns made known today by Henry be taken up again in the House Roden who returned home Sunday to ses whether that branch will|on the mailboat Pacific. accept the Senate amendment al-| The property was purchased by lowing $22,000,000 for Citizen Mili-| Hogue and Tveten for the amount tary Training camps to hold the/of the judgment, some $1,200, Mr. year round for unemployed youths.|Roden said. Probable First Woman Cabinet Member Qualified for Post issioner, Has Been Active in Labor Circles Since s s Wits DAUGHTER StUsANA ! z sources| Miss Frances Perkins, whose appointment as Secretary | including a vast store of knowledg Since her graduation from Mount 11 the fight that resulted in many reforms for the bene Industrial Board, to which she was appointed by Japancse residents at Chingwan-| Smith in 1923. Three years later she became ci | in which capacity Miss Perkina served until apy missioner in charge of the State Labor Departin ernor Roosevelt. In private life, Miss Perkins is [ of a well-known efficiency engineer. They hav Winslow Perkins Wilson, who is now in her las CONDITION OF MAYOR CERMAK STILL SERIOUS York State Industrial Com- Safety in Factories. Have Developed—Sit- uation Complicated MIAMI, Florida, Feb. 27.—Mayor Anton J. Cermak, of Chicago, vies tim of Guiseppi’s Zangara's :bul- pearance of pneumonia which! has further complicated his condition. This morning doctors believed the Chicago exec utive would: “last ugh the day.” Mayor Cermak decidedly showed the strain he is under. in his condition immediately, if it does come, be for the worse. Dr. J. W. Snyder, at 8 o'clock last Saturday night, issued a bils letin that he did not believe Mayor Cermak would live through the night adding “that there probably will not be another glucose injec< tion. We probably will allow the patient to rest.” STOCK PRICES WOBBLE ABOUT TRADING TODAY Some Shares Off Point or Two While Others Have Small Net Gains NEW YORK, Feb. 27.—The sell- ing pressure relaxed today on se- curities and share prices tried to by L i | FRANCES Perrins | | Pneumonia Reported ‘to|. lets, had a bad night following: ap-|} Doctors do not look for a change| but it probably will| YT there two years ago. (Associated Press Photos) Assembl y A partm ents,M ode?n In All Respects, With Latest Improvements and Fixtures, to rally. Although they eased in the |last hour several issues were Offj ione pomnt or two but several small} net gains remained for others. Over| one million shares were in today’s| turnover. ! American Can and American Telephone and Telegraph, after ris ing one point, they closed off with fractions following reaction. Stocks backed and filled cor sideably but encountered good sngr; port on recessions. Rails Hold Up | Rails held up better than most| groups but gains of one point in| New York Central and Union Pa- cific were about lost. Delaware and Hudson rose more than three points and then reacted about one point. | Gains of about two points for American Tobbaco B and Liggett| and Myers B were reduced to frac- tions. Steel, preferred, lost a rise of 1% points and common lost one point. Case, Allied Chemical and Johns- Mansville lost about two points of Labor in the assured, would itf the history of qualifications, Lald by few of olyoke College sor conditions in » Safety, she led f factory work- ip in the State rnor Alfred E. n of that body, industrial Com- 1 1929 by Gov- sul Wilson, wife {aughter, Susana t Brearly School W, D. Roosevelt seem hold a cabinet post bring to that o o and experienc close study of | York Committee « y won her men to enteri CHICAGO MAN 18 KIDNAPED, CLEVER RUSE | Abductors, Fosing as U. S. | Operatives, Abduct 1 Jerry Fl_ynn CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Feb. 27.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 11%, American Can 49%, American Power and Light | CHICAGO, I, Feb. 21—Repre- |4 Anaconda 5%, Bethlehem Steel senting themselves as Federal op- 11, Calumet and Hecla 2, Curtiss= eratives, two men kidnaped Jere-‘wflgm 1%, North American 17%, miah Flynn, former night club Fox Films 1%, General Motors 10, owner, and are holding him fOr| ryierngtional Harvester 14, Ket $10,000 ransom. cott 7%, Packard Motors 2 Flynn was seized while ng | way Stores 32, Standard in an automobile® with a friend,|141, United States Steel who was not held. Westinghouse Electric 197 DEAD, EXPLOSION told the police, and said they wish-| ed to search the car for liquor. SHANGHAI, Feb. 27—Sever persons, 15 of them girls, we Flynn was ordered to drive ahead. His friend was forced out of the |car and was told they were taking Flynn to a police station The friend found Flynn had never heen ed, and 30 others injured | explosion of a boiler in a | factory +in the Chinese sectio afternoon. ——————— taken to any station. he ran- som demand was made public la- R.F.C. Not Discontinuing Making Loans to Banks a. van mavern makes | BUSINESS TRIPS ter. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. — The| | Reconstruction Finance Corporation | today denied rumors it is discon- | tinuing loans to banks. There is not the slightest foundation for such a statement, directors of the |R. F. C. declared, 23%, A. Van Mavern, commercial brok= er, returned on the mo Northland yesterday mornin the round trip to Sitka @ last evening on the motors! Ketchikan on business. Be Ready for Tenants Shortly Completely modern in every re- spect, the Assembly Apartments, built by the Warrack Construction Company, are expected to be ready for occupancy by March 15, though g ! V. T a few of the apartments will be HYDE PARK, N. X, Feb. 2. }4i00q earlier for tenants who ~President-Elect Roosevelt for- | % fmust movs y arc! " ar mally announced Sunday that | ove 1 by, Marsh 1, Nedly {all of the apartments have already Henry A. Wallace, Jr., of Iowa, - (been rented or leased. and James A. Farley, of New | m. ginest materials and work York, will be his Secretary of o manship have been used through Agriculture and Postmaster ¥ i » Eltekal, -vaepeetivhly. jout the building and the 32 apart- They were in the list of | have the latest of modern & {improvements and built in conven- Cabinet officials published by |jenses incorporated in them. the Associated Press several | goii brass hardware and glass days ago. S knobs are used on all the doors. The other officially announc= |y, apartment doors to the hall- ed appointments have been |y,us gre made of Philippine ma- Senator Cordell Hull as Secre~ |no0any finished with five coats of tary of State, and William H. |4 yvarnisheand have small wick- Woodin, b.ccremry of Treasury. lets with bronze grills and plates Late this afternon Roosevelt |for i1 apariment number and announced that Senator Claude | qoo: prockor. A. Swanson would be Secretary of Navy and Harold Ickes, of Oak Floors Lliinois, will be Secretary of [Flooz-s in u.vmy apartment are Interior. tof a high grade of oak, except {for the kitchen, dinette and bath- Irooms. The kitchens and dinettes {bave inlaid lingleum on the floor jand first tenants were given their choice of three attractive patterns Embargo on tand color schemes. Walls in the Arms Is O'K' | kitchens and , dinettes are color W i t’l France painted according to the desires Wallace, Jr., and : Farley to Be in Roosevelt’s Cabinet of the tenants, some with two |shades of green, others with two ishades of yellow, or a plain color, and the woodwork in all is palé United States and Great’ D 4 |ivory, Britain Must Also Be l NI L n Agrecment | China cupboards with leaded —_— glass doors separate the dinettes PARIS, Feb. France is ready from the kitchens. A feature of to participate in any arms embargo the kitchens is ample cupboard proposed by the League of Nations and drawer space for utensils and for the Far East, provided the SuPplies and table space for work- United States and Great Britain P8 The cupboards have tin lined also take part fira\w‘m for flour and sugar. Iron- ting boards are built in. NOTHING DOIN' | Plumbing fixtures in both bath- WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. — The rooms and kitchens are chronium House Democrats today blocked ac- Plated and are the very latest tion on MHoover's embargo group style. Faucets have a special valve with Speaker Garner saying he will rrangement by which water can not permit the proposal to be be :shu: gfr individually and new brought up under suspension of washers installed when necessary. the rules. | Refrigerators U RS Each apartment is equipped with | %o JOHN GALATAS LEAVES a 4% cubic foot mechanical re- HOSPITAL FOR HOME frigerator of a type which was chosen after a thorough investiga- John Galatas, who underwent a tion by the contracting engineers. major operation on February 12,/ Floors in the bathrooms are of left St. Ann's Hospital today for attractive title with many differ- his home. J (Continuea on Page TWo) 27, ' COLOMBIA AND PERU BATTLE FOR RIVER PORT ) oy A Peruvian aerial attack on a Colombian flotilla in the Putumayo river and the capture of the town of Tarapaca by Colombians fanned into open warfare hostilities that had smoldered for months between Peru and Colombia over the border village of Leticia. Both countries are moving troops into the disputed area. Types of fighting men from the two countries are shown here. Above is a Colombian infantry unit building a pontoon bridge. Picture beiow shows Peruvian soldiers in Callao during the rebellion SENATOR HULL WORKING FOR BETTER TIMES Holds Diplomatic Discus- sions to Revive Inter- national Trade WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Sena- tor Cordell Hull, who will be Sec- retary of State in the Roosevelt Cabinet, began a round of diplo- matic discussions today out of which he seeks to bring better times in the world by reviving in=- ternational trade. France and Greal Britain, the principal debtors of the United States, were the first to send their Ambassadors to confer with Hull with major interest centered in the conference with Claudel, of France, late today e ee U. S, FLOATING AIRPORT GOES INTO ELEMENT Carrier Ranger Launched Saturday—Christened by Mrs. Hoover NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia, Feb. 27.—Mrs. Herbert Hoover christened the aircraft carrier Ran- ger here last Saturday. The Ranger, the latest edition to Uncle Sam’'s fighting forces, is a huge p which provides more than an acre of landing space. She will be a veritable floating airport and will cost, when fully equipped, $19,000,000. AMERICAN GOV, IN ACCORD WITH ACTION OF LEAG, |Agrees Perfectly with Posi- tion Taken in Man- churian Case SECRETARY STIMSON SENDS OFFICIAL REPLY Hopes Entertained that Is- sue Be Settled by Pacific Means WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Secre- |tary of State Henry L. Stimson, advised the League of Nations last Saturday night, after a conference with Senator Cordell Hull, who will succeed him under Roosevelt, that the American Government is in general accord with the conclusions of the League of Nations in the Manchurian question and endorses the principals recommended “inso- far as appropriate under the treat- ies to which it is a party.” Replies to Inquiry Secretary Stimson’s reply was made to the note from the League of Nations asking the United States to associate itself with the views expressed by the League in its re- port on the Manchurian situation which resulted in a walkout of the Japanese delegation from the as- sembly of the league. Hopes of U. 8. “The American Government earn- estly hopes that the two nations now engaged in controversy, both of which have long been in friend- ly relationship with our own peo- ples, may find it possible right now to clear the expression of world opinion and conform their policies to the need and desire of the fam- ily of nations that disputes be- tween nations shall be settled by none but pacific means,” the note said further. The note approved the stand of the League of Nations for non- recognition of Manchukuo State. BIG GASOLINE CONTRACT MADE BY UNION OIL G0 Soviet Trading ‘Company Purchases 3,250, 000 Gallons SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 27. —The Examiner said Sunday that the Union Oil Company of Cali- fonia has completed a deal with the Amtorg Trading Corporation, representing the Soviet govern- |ment, for the sale of 3,250,000 gal- lons of gasoline for shipment from the Pacific Coast in March or Ap- ril The Examiner says it is the first time the Russian Soviet gov- ernment has openly bought Cali- fornia gasoline. The reported price is 4 cents a gallon. The Examiner says reports dif- fer as to the destination of the cargo. Some say the gasoline will go to Vladivostok and others that it will be marketed in Eng- land or dumped into Australia. The purchase has caused inter- est because of reports of a sur- plus production of oil and gasoline in Russia. Finns Defy Crisis; Cost Cutting HELSINGFORS, Feb. 27. — Fin- land, with its 1932 export surplus the largest on record, holds fast to its reputation of being one of the few countries to show an in- creasingly favorable trade balance in the face of the economic crisis. The excess in value of exports over imports in the year was 1. 190,000 finmarks, equivalent to $17- 850,000 at current exchange Is Aiding Trade In the first ten months of 1933, exports were worth 200,000,000 fin- marks more than in the same per- iod of 1931 while imports decreas= |ed by 94,000,000. 3 The Finnish Trade Review says |this has come about because “it has been possible to reduce pro- | duction costs in nearly the same |degree as. prices have fallen”