The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 30, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE: “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLL, NO. 6301. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS o — TROY CONFIRMED, ALASKA GOVERNOR * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * John W. Troy, Editor of The Empire and President of the Empire Printing Company, was today confirmed by the United States Senate to be Governor of Alaska, according to an Associated Press dispatch. Mr. Troy was nominated by President Roosevelt on March 23. The Senate Committee on Territories made a favorable report on the nomination on Tuesday of this week. Mr. Troy is now in Washington and expected to leave for his home in Juneau in the immediate future. LOCAL CHAMBER GREETS SENATE AT NOON LUNCH Capacity Attendance Wel- come Upper Branch of Legislature Today i With an attendance that packed | the luncheon room at Bailey's Cafe, | the Chamber of Commerce today was host to Gov. George A. Parks, members of the Territorial Senate and some of the Territorial offic- jals. Speakers were Gov. Parks, Senator R. S. Bragaw and H. L. Faulkner, with John W. Jones, President of the Chamber acting in the role of toastmaster. Allen Shattuck, President of the Senate, formally introduced his col- leagues Senators Lomen and Fraw-| ley, Second Division; Hess and De- | Vane, Fourth Division; Campbell,| Third Division, and Walker, First Division, of the upper branch of the Territorial Legislature, each of whom responded briefly. Other guests were Attorney General James | 8. Truitt and Commissioner —of Education A: E. Karnes. | Praises the Legislature | Calling attention to the faci that this year the Alaska Legislature comes into its majority as it held its first session in 1913, the Governor complimented that body highly for/ its sanity, progressiveness in leg- islation and the soundness of its fiscal policies. .“The efficiency with| which it has functioned, and the care it has used in making appro-! priations is evidenced by the fact that Alaska has no debt of any kind. It is the only legal sub-; division of the United States that is out of debt,” he declared. | The laws it has passed during the past 20 years, he added, com-' pare very favorably with the laws of the most progressive common- wealths. Its system of administra-, tion, larg:ly centered in the hands, of the Chief Executive of the Ter- ritory, is an elastic one, made necessary by the fluctuations in revenyes from taxes based upon productions and net profits. The clasticity of the system, he asserted, had been a factor in the favorable| results obtained. ! Well Supported by Public i “It has been my experience that| almost all of the Territory s squarely behind the Executive De- partment in its operations. What- ever it has achieved is due to the support that has been accorded by the large majority of Alaskans,” he said. 2 He predicted that same attitude toward his successor, John W. Troy. “We all know the incoming (}uv-i ernor and he knows the Territory as well as any man. T am certain that he will be accorded the same! support that has been given me.”, Will Remain Alaskan The Governor, calling attention| Business | partnership that has exisf e did not end with Garner’s ed State For many years, on and i Juscp She is retaining that pos new oifice, In center is Mi President’s as Usual ted between John Nance Garner and elevation to the Vice Presidency of , all through his distinguished career man, Mrs, Garner has acted as her husband’s secretary.| s here shown in the Vice President’s| hine Sterling, a member of the Vice office staff. STOCK MARKET HEAVY; PRICES ARE 1RREGULAR Trade Is Liéht for Entire Session — Pivotal Stocks Steady NEW YORK, March 30.—After drifting for nearly the entire day, stocks closed with a small irregular change. Rails were a little heavy. Alcohol and sugar issues firmed. Trade was light. Although several so-called pivotal stocks were under pressure, they became steadier, not- ably American Telephone and Tele- graph which finished fractionally higher than yesterday. United States Steel common and Allied Chemical held narrow fluc- tuations. Heaviness Prevails After a slight early heavy period, the market steadied with the ex- ception of rails. . Equities maintained a fairly even keel. Air Reduction, United States Steel (breferred, National Distillers, Corn Products, Consolidated Gas, Indus- trial Alcohol, American Sugar, and Great Western closed up from frac- Drugs Incorporated were off itions to ome point and one half. | Union Pacific lost one point. couple of points. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, March 30.—Closing to his 26 years' residence in the ., cation of Alaska Juneau mine Territory, was proud of the fact g,y today is 14%, American Can REGISTRATION NEAR CLOSING; 3 DAYS LEFT City Election Approaching —Citizens Prepare to Cast Votes | Registrants, taking advantage of the last few days before the muni- cipal election April 4, are filing into the office of City Clerk H. R. Shep- ard in a steady stream. Registra- tion had reached 639 at noon today and was increasing hourly. The office of the City Clerk will be kept open Saturday night and Monday night between 7:30 and 9:30 to accommodate citizens who are unable to register during the day. Mayor, City Council and Member of the School Board will be voted upon at the election next Tuesday. An ordinance granting a fran- chise to W. H. Bacon, for the use of certain city streets for the op- eration of an automobile bus line is also to be voted upon. R :JURY SYSTEMIS | UNDER ATTACK, SOUTHERNCASE TROY CAPABLE ' FOR GOVERNOR OF TERRITORY Acquaintances in Seattle Say Editor Qualified for His Position SEATTLE, March 30.—Acquain- tances of John W. Troy, Editor of the Daily Alaska Empire and Pres- ident of the Empire Printing Com- pany, today confirmed to be Gov- ernor of Alaska, declare that he is well qualified for the position both 'as an advocate of home rule and because of his knowledge of Terri- ‘torial affairs. | His acquaintances are diligent 'in telling of how Mr. Troy, hearing land reading of some of the inac- lcurate statements regarding an in- |eident in the territory, will say: |“‘No, that happened at such and such a time,’ and he's always right, t0o,” said Charles Garfield, former head of the Alaska Division of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, an oldtime Alaskan himself. Knows Territory During the past two decades, (Mr. Troy has visited many parts |of the territory and also learned |about it from legislators, merchants, !miners and fishermen who went to {Juneau at various times. His first- {hand knowledge of the Territory icovers a period of 36 years. He {first went north in '97 to cover the gold rush for the Seattle Times. {He is generally credited with keep- |ing the cause of the Democrats alive in Alaska. SOLONS TANGLE ON ABATEMENT: ONE BILL KILLED Senate and_ljl:use at Odds Over Abatements With- out Previous Trial until well into the night. »- By SIGRID ARNE WASHINGTON, Mar, 30.—Lunch time arrives in Washington. Peo- ple flow out of office buildings, just as they do in other cities. But in the office wing of the White House Franklin D. Roose- velt now labors right through the hour. Servants are admitted to his {office with a luncheon tray. Who- ever is in the office at the time— talking, ironing out reorganization —is asked to lunch with the Presi- dent, who goes right on planning |between bites. | Dines at 8 0’Clock I The dinner hour comes and office | buildings close. People go home to |dinner and for leisure. The Presi- dent goes right on. At 8 o'clock he has dinner at the White House. | Meanwhile people everywhere are |settling down for the evening’s pleasures. But the President goes up to his office in the second floor oval room and the conferences begin all over The houses of the Legislature today were snarled up over a House amendment to the Senate's bill amending the Territorial sta- tute against houses of lewdness, etc. The bill, introduced originally in the Senate to provide for actions brought under the law to be brought in the name of the Wnited| In Schedule Racing How does a President spend his day? Cabinet or with nowspapermen (right). Roosevelt Day Crams Work to Li;fiit T the Clock Around B Take Franklin D. Roosevelt as an example. 7:30, turning at once to his correspondence and then to dictation, which he concludes at about 10 a.m. Lunch he takes a this desk, and then follows a lively afternocn that may include a meeting with the The schedule is a well filled one, and doesn’t end, usually, He's up at again, lasting often until 1 o'clock in the morning. He has a very simple schedule— work for the waking hours. And sleeping hours are few. He rises at 7:30 a.m, and even while he is eating breakfast in his room or his study, he goes through his mail and starts dictating to sec- retaries. That continues until around 10 am. Work at Office Starts By that time he has sorted out the day's most pressing needs and he goes over to his executive offices where he: remains until the late dinner hour and the later confer- ences. " There are four appointments that are definitely on the week’s calen- dar. He sees the cabinet Tuesday and Friday at 2 pm. Then there are the two press conferences each week—Wednesday at 10 am. and Friday at 4 pm. Usually his program includes about five appointments. But he WORLD ISSUES ARE DISCUSSED AT CONFERENCE States instead of the Territory, was amended in the House to provide that no abatement action could be taken unless and until a criminal conviction had first been obtained.| The Senate yesterday rejected! the amendment and returned it to| the House promptly. This morning| the House declined to recede and| with equal dispatch sent it back| to the Senate with a request for| conference. McDonald Speaker named Representatives Taylor, Special Am:&an Ambas- that he is a real Alaskan. “I shall continue to reside in the Territory after I retire from of-| fice as Governor. It is my home. “I shall visit this Chamber of Commerce, the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, and those of the other communities that I may hap- pen to visit. As I go down the streets of the various towns, I hope| you will continue to greet me as ‘George.” That is what I like.” Points to Record Editorial warnings against legis- lative extravagance, while well tak- en and friendly, are not altogether well-based, declared Senator Bragaw, who pointed to the record of precsding sessions as indicating that the lawmakers have always stayed within the limits of Terri- (Continued on Page Three) — e, —— House of Morgan Is Going to Be Investigated WASHINGTON, March 30— An investigation of the House of Morgan is sought by the Committee. :Seven Negroes Are to Be | Retried for Alleged At- 557%, American Power and Light 414, Anaconda 6%, Bethlehem Steel 13%, Calumet and Hecla, no sale; . . Fox Films %, General Motors 11 tack on White Girls International Harvester 22%, Ken necott 9, North American 17%,” DECATUR, Alabama, March 30. {Packard Motors 2, United States,—The first of .the seven negroes | Steel 28%. facing retrial on accusations of at- tacking two white girls, in the Scottboro case, has been ordered {to appear for hearing but a delay |has arisen over charges of racial discriminations in jury selection. Heywood Patterson, the first of the seven defendants sentenced to i oo SEARGHING FOR ABDUG E |death but granted new trials on opn, (8 |appeal, is ready to appear but the 1tish Gunboats LDOI( for defense counsel is prepared for an- . d other attack on Alabama's jury Gang WhO denape |system. He has made an appeal Steamer Officers Br iw summon 200 negroes, among them doctors, lawyers and one col- lege professor, to support his mo- tion to quash the jury venire be- cause the first one included none of the defendant’s zace. —————— NEWCHWANG, Manchuria, March 30—British gunboats are searching, off the Manchurian coast, for a, gang of Chinese buccaneers who, yesterday kidnaped four British of- ficers from the British merchant, ppyNCE RUPERT MAN AND ship Nanchang as it lay at anchor, wiFg ENROUTE TO TENAKEE in the harbor. British Vice-Consul D. H. Clarke! npy and Mrs. D. Zarelli of Prince’ is coming here from Mukden to aid /Rypert are at the Gastineau hotel | sador and British Premier Meet Blake and Nerland to act for the| House. | : Ten Bills Read The Senate yesterday auemoon‘; in a late session, considered ten| LONDON, ' March 30.—Norman of its own bills in second readinz|payjs, Special Ambassador of the and recommitted another to 'he United States in Europe, and Brit- Judiciary Committee for revision. jgn Premier Ramsay MacDonald, One of those advanced to third today began a series of talks on reading was Walker's measure 10 the whole range of world problems define as a felony contributing with emphasis on the forthcoming to the delinquency of minors. An- Economic Conference and Disarm- other, by DeVane, defines legal ament session. fences and repeals Chapter 58 of Davis will remain in London over the Session Laws of 1917. The the week-end. other eight were minor code B HRSRPPRER, amendments to correct defects u covered in preparing the copy A codifying and compiling the laws of the Territory. H ! The House met but briefly yester- | day afternoon, convening at 4:30| o'clock, and postponing action on! its calendar until today. 1t 1 | s v British Representative at| Today, by a-vote of 14 to Moscow Summoned killed DeVane’s bill designed (o] permit Deputy United States .\l.u—; for Conference shals to act as prosecutors in jus- tices’ courts Where no United States| LUONDON, March 30.—Sir Es- Attorney is available for that work. | Mend Ovey, British Ambassador to The bill was indefinitely postponcd Moscow, has been summonfad home The House measures and six { to London for a consultation. He will: return to Moscow, it is said, o Einstein Is to Renounce Citizenshi p Scientist Takes First Step in His Announced Intention BERLIN, March 30—Prof. Alber: Einstein has taken steps to re- nounce Prussian citizenship as the result of Jewish disturbances in Germany. This became known yes- terday. The scientist became a citizen of Germany in 1914 when he accepted a position in the Prus- sian Academy of Sciences. Prof. Einstein landed in Brussels yesterday from his trip to the United States. The German Consulate gave in- formation as to steps to be taken to end his citizenship. The scientist was formerly Swiss. al R i e To Speed Enactment On Regulation Over Securities WASHINGTON, March 30.— Efforts are being made on Capitol Hill to speed enact- ment of President Roosevelt's proposal, submitted yesterday, for Federal regulation of new security issues. The House Interstate Com- digs into the subjects af Hana, Ha thinks of persons that can tell him more. Phone calls go out and those summoned hurry in until the ap- pointments mount to 15 or 20 a day. Leisure Very Limited ‘The President has permitted him- self few intervals of leisure since he arrived. He spent a half hour with Oliver Wendell Holmes, a former justice of the supreme court on his birthday. Also, —and laughed heartily—at the White House correspondents dinner in his honor. On his first Sunday here he went to church. A few days ago he went for a motor ride around the capital. Once he and Mrs. Roosevelt met the diplomatic corps at White House tea. And once they enter- tained visiting governors and their wives at a buffet lunch. But the rest of the time it has been work—and to bed when most of the nation is already sleeping. REQUEST AL TO BE CANDIDATE, MAYOR,SENATOR Friends and Associates Want Smith to Re- enter Politics NEW YORK, March 30.—Pressure is being brought to bear on Al Smith by friends and associates to persuade him to reenter the political ring as a candidate either for Mayor of New York City or United States Senator. The office of Mayor will be filled a% the November election while the seat in the Senate, occupied oy Senator Royal S. Copeland, will be up in 1934. . Smith is noncommittal. A close associate said that it is too early to adopt any attitude or decide on any course. EARTH SHOCKS he attended | ~ IN CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 30. SECOND TRIAL IS DENIED TO WINNIE JUDD Slayer of Two Juneau Women Not to Face Another Jury JUDGE SPEAKMAN MAKES DECISION {Pardon BoarT Expécted to Make Announcement Within Few Days PHOENIX, Arizona, March 30.— |Declaring that he considered an- |other trial only a waste of time {and money, Superior Court Judge |Howard C. Speakman today dis- missed the information charging Winnie Ruth Judd with the mur- der of Miss Hedvig Samuelson, |former school teacher of Juneau, Alaska. Mrs. Judd's attorneys sought to place her on trial in an apparent attempt to allow her to tell her story of self-defense in killing Miss |Samuelson and Mrs. Agnes Anne LeRol, nurse, The decision of the Board of Pardons, relative to ‘granting Mrs. Judd commutation of sentence, from hanging next month, for the jmurder of Mrs. Le Rol, to life im- ‘Pprisonment -is expected to be made within the next few days. Miss Samuelson and Mrs. LeRoi were killed here and their bodies shipped in trunks to Los Angeles. e — MINISTER ON TRIAL;CHARGE SERIOUS ONE Young School Teacher Says He Attempted Criminal Assault MUNCIE, Indiana, March 30.— Assertions of an 18-year-old school teacher, Helen Huffman, that the Rev. C. L. Conway threatened her with violence when she resisted his amorous advances last December, were made before the jury today as the suspended minister's trial on a charge of an attempted criminal assault continued in the Circuit Court here. Miss Huffman said the minister took her to a lonely spot in the country. When she repulsed his ad- vances, she said the minister asked her: “How would you like to find yourself with your head in the mud in that-creek and your shoes float- ing down the river?” ———.—————— FARMERS NOW RECEIVE MORE PRODUCT PAY WASHINGTON, March 30.—Ad- vances in the prices of all groups of agricultural commodities, except poultry products, raised the index of general price levels paid farm- ers one percent during the month ending March 15. This is accord- ing to an announcement made this afternoon by the Department of lAgriculture. S e also of Juneau, a former |Limitations Are Removed on Liquor Prescriptions WASHINGTON, March 30.— The medicinal liquor bill, re-' moving restrictiens on preserip- in attempts to rescue the British enroute to Tenakee Hot Springs!y i officers, This was the announcement made today as members of the Committee said it would seek increased power in continuing its stock market investigation. —A wide area, centering in the vi-| cinity of Long Beach and here, was | rocked by a sharp earthquake to- | day lasting five seconds. No re- ports of damage have been re- Iceived. tions by physicians, was passed by the House today and sent to the White House for the President's signature. The bill was passed by the Semate terday afternoom. he Senate were considered in s where they expect to spend two!ond reading, all recommended weeks. Mr. Zarelli, Prince Rupert'passage by various commit: hotel owner, formerly lived in Val- ,They were advanced on the dez and is renewing old Alaska a¢- | ——0 — - = 0 (Continued on Page Six quaintances while in Juneau. fi merce Committee will hold hearings tomorrow while the Senate Judiciary Committee arranged for immediate consid- eration. {following the conferences. The consultation is presumably in connection with the recent ar- """ Irest of British technicians by Soviet | Russia on charges of sabotage. for ——t e Three-wheeled motor vehicles capable of carrying seven passen- gers, are used in Manila. | ok