The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 18, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE/ “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIL, NO. 6343. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1933. MEMBER OF A S ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT§ VAST EMPLOYMENT PLAN SUBMITTED > . v + . ARMS PARLEY NOW ATTRACTS ALL ATTENTION Delegates W—/_at—ch for Re-| sults of Moves of Roose- velt and Hitler DEVELOPMENTS. IN | HANDS OF TWO MEN| Stands Tak:Al'e Power- ful Factors in Disarm- ament Scheme BULLETIN — GENEVA, May 18. Teday's Disaramament Ccnference session was post- pened until tomorrow to per- mit the delcgates to study the meosage of President Roosevelt, of the United States, and the statement made yesterday by Chancellor Hitler, of Germany. UP TO TWO MEN GENEVA, May 18. — The rapid| sequence of events during the last few days has largely placed the destiny of the Disarmament Con-| ference in the hands of President Roosevelt and Chancellor Hitler. Delegates to the conference say the attitude of the two men con- stitutes a powerful factor in direct- ing the course of the conference. The delegates await concrete in- itiatives on- the part of the repre- sentatives of Roosevelt and Hitler and are eager to know how far America is disposed to go in what, Geneva regards as completing the machinery for peace. DEEDS WANTED LONDON, May 18. — Diplomatic circles expressed the belief that Hitler's speech was undoubtedly conciliatory and improved the out- loek for world disarmament but no definite declaration will be consid- ered until the speech has been translated into deeds at Geneva. STATESMEN IN UNITED STATES WATCH GENEVA Question Is Whether Ger- many and France Are | Budged from Positions ) WASHINGTON, May 18.—Ameri-) can statesmen today looked to Geneva for concrete indications asl to whether Germany and France have been budged from opposing and irreconcilable stands on arma-| ments as made in the appeal by President Roosevelt. The first expressions from France| regarding ‘the appeal were polite and friendly. Pleases World Germany's Chantellor seemed to have pleased the world with the conciliatory tone of his address made yesterday before the Reich- stag. Half a score of other nations, including Great Britain, acclaimed; the President’s action, in cable-' grams, but the President and his statesmen are considering the real-' ities of the problem with which they are undertaking and want to, see actions which speak louder chan’ words. There is intense interest in the ! reopening of the Dlsaxmnment‘ Conference at Geneva, scheduled for today. — Coed Dances | 199 Miles During Season LEXINGTON, Ky, May 18—A popular coed at the University of| Kentucky can very near equal the; marathon dancers, an enterprising statistician on the Kentucky Ker- nel, campus publication, has fig-! ured. He estimates a coed attend- ing all the student dances in a| year would dance 199 miles, of 15,840 steps at each dance, | Another star, Norma Sh Kidnap Threats in Moviedom Cost Stars Huge Sum Annually “Millions for Defense—Not a Cent for Tribute,” Motto of Film Celebrities Who Spend Fortunes Guard- ing Homes and Children. Norra SHEARER. Gror1A Swanson The happy ending to the McMath kidnaping: case, with the law trium- phant, is hailed in Hollywood as a devastating body blow at the cow- ardly racket which is costing the film colony a sizeable fortune annually. To the eternal credit of the film folk, be it known that, although hun- dreds of extortion demands and kidnap threats are received in the course of a year, the screen celebrities refuse to be shaken do 1 stead they spend huge sums to checkmate would-be “snatch” artists. Marlene Dietrich, lovely German star, who has been threatened on many occasions with the abduction of her daughter, Maria, maintains an armed guard of five men about her home at all times. Besides that, her home has been rendered well-nigh impregnable with all kinds of alarm de-| vices. Harold Lloyd, too, spends a fortune annually for the protection’ of his children, keeping a small corps of armed guards on his es! r, refused to be intimidated when extortion notes, threatening her child, Irving Thalberg, Jr., were sent her. She opened her purse strings, but not to the extortionists. Instead she em- ployed guardians, quick-trigger ones, for the child. Ann Harding followed a similar course when her daughter, Jane Bannister, was men- aced, with the result that the would-be child-snatchers got cold feet. Many stars who do not care to go to the expense of hiring special guards follow the example of Gloria Swanson, who obtained a pistol ermit for her chauffeur, who does the double duty of piloting the fa: imousine and keeping watch and ward over Miss Swanéon’s children. “CRASHING” IN ON MATE COSTS OVERTHOUSAND Anchorage C. of C. Wants Premium Placed on Gold ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 18.—The ' Anchorage Chamber of Commerce has adopted a resolution favoring the reduc- tion in the gold content of the dollar or payment of a pre- mium on gold. The resolution is being forwarded to the Al- aska Chamber of Commerce urging it recommend to Presi- dent Roosevelt that he invoke the authority vested in him for that purpose. —————— BEER PRICES DROP IN B. C Arrangements Also Made for Deliveries as Phone Orders VICTORIA, May 18.—During t A week the Government gave citect| 10 Probe War Pensions to its new policy in regard to beer | sale, peducing the price by 25| OTTAWA, May 18—Announce- cents a dozen pints, and 50 cents|ment was made in the House of 8 dozen quarts, with arrange-| Commons by Hon. E. N. Rhodes, ments for deliveries on telephonE{Minisbex‘ of Finance, that it is the orders to the board. The price | intention of the government to drops from $2.00 a dozen pints at|conduct a general investigation in- Coast points to $1.75 with a rebate! to the question of war pensions. on return of the bottles to the|This matter will come under a breweries. Up-country prices will| thorough review. The purpose is be on the same range but varied | to remove injustiess, and in so do- in respect to freight charges. | ing, save the treasury a substantial ——————— | Joe Chambers, 235-pound fresh- | s AR 7 s AR man tackle from Lima, Ohio, dis-| Lieut. Scott E. Peck, assigned to places Bill Riley, 226-pounder, as|the U. S. S. Macon, is the only the heaviest individual on North- | officer in the United States lighter- western’s prospective 1933 lineup.| than-air service during the World They're expected to team up at war who still is active in that tackle, I service, Amount in Aiding Movie Actress +LOS ANGELES, Cal, May 18— A judgment of $1,256 from Eleanor | Boardman, movie actress, was giv- |en in the Municipal Court yester- day to Lucien Wheeler, private de- tective, after she told how she and the detective “crashed” into an | apartment and found her husband, | King Vidor, with a young woman. 1 On this’ evidence she recently se- | cured a divorce. | The actress offered a much | smaller sum in settlement which ‘Lhe detective refused. .. Government of Canada l ! TWO ATTEMPTS Detective Is Awarded Fai| NOW RALLYING BEHIND HITLER People Want to Assure World Ideals Are for Universal Peace FORMER PREMIER OF FRANCE HAS VIEWS Believes Germany to Make Demand for Equality on Sea and Land BERLIN, May 18. — The whole German nation has rallied behind the Government, solemnly assuring the world her hallowed ideals are universal peace, universal disarma- ment and properly working econ- omic machinery. Newspapers took the stand that the success of the world disarma- | ment conference is now dependent |on the rest of the world extend-! ing a friendly hand to Germany. | The Prussian Diet meets for the | last time today to consign itself to the limbo of a parliamentary, | government until 1937 shearing it- | self of constitutional powers and‘ | go into retirement, subject to the call of the Premier, [Hermann | Goering, who with Herr Kube, Nazi floor leader, will be given blanket | powers in.the -interim. | HERRIOT'S VIEWS PARIS, May 18—Former Pre- mier Edouard Herriot believes the | basis of Chancellor Hitler's speech | (Associated Press Photos) BLAZE OF UNDETERMIN ED O) A spectacular fire gutted the ferryboat Peralta, destroyed a score of electric interurban cars and burned down the Key System terminal on the Oakland side of San Francisco bay at a loss estimated at $3,000,000. In addition commuter service between S8an Francisco and Oakland was disrupted. Upper photo shows some of the cars ablaze, while below is the Peralta as it looked after being swept by the flames. !is that Germany will claim equal- |ity on the sea as well as on the, {land. The former Premier gave this {warning in a lecture, concluding with the following statement: “After the Versailles treaty, Ger- { many will attack the Washington conventions.” The reaction following the first Edigefit of Hitler's statement is rep-, | resented that acts alone can prove, | German'’s sincerity toward peace. DIMOND CONFERS WITH DEPT, ON FUND SHORTAGE Wires Chamber of Have Judge Telegraph De- partment Details } In a telegram received today ! from Delegate Dimond, the Cham- M A DE Tn KILL | ber of Commerce was informed he | GEN Hw |had conferred with several offi- | i L] cials of the Department of Justice | relative to lack of funds to pay | jlocal Federal district court at- |taches and they had expressed a ‘Thrower of One Bomb willingness to do anything possible C h EX d to remedy the situation, aught, ecuted— The Delegate suggested that the One Escapes | Chamber request Judge Harding to | ‘e the Department of Justice | tting forth the full details of the | handicaps placed on the court 'by} furloughing of deputy clerks, court | librarian and court reporter. TIENTSIN, China, May 18—A | second attempt in 24 hours to sassinate Gen. Hwang Fu, repre- sentative of the Nanking National- {ist Government in North China,| Appoint Mrs. Parker ; failed yesterday as he departed for| LD€ appointment of Mrs. Belty | ek 9 Parker to have charge of the Peiping. The second bomb failed - Chamber’s Tourist Information| plode. The would-be assa :{i)n e::;g,p:d e e | Booth was announced today by thcl‘ | ™ The first bomtb thrower was an | Board of Directors. She was picked obscure political enthusiast. He O Seven applicants. The booth will be opened on; June 1, and operate three months. | Mrs. Parker will enter on her du- ties on June 15 and be employed until August 15. Out of the 41 was caught when injured by the/ | bomb intended for the General and | was quickly executed. In both instances, Gen. Hwang Fu was not injured. He is reput- ied to be friendly with the Ja])d!‘.'; | | requests for in-| | (Continued on Page Two) MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 18.—Th depression has served as a s ladder to spiritual and m success for Bellevue Baptist chu Since the pastor, the Rev Robert G. Lee, came to Memph five years ago from Charleston C., Bellevue church has added proximately 3,000 members (o | enrollment. and received offer amounting to about $320,000. About 800 conversions are C! ed to Dr. Lee’s preaching, which | desoribes as “old-fashioned | pel.” ' Dr, Lee says he has revivals ¢v- Dr 208 Depression Wage Fight with “( Nd-Time Gospel”| s Are Losing Ty Sunday at the regular s averaging 11 new members a W Shortly after coming here he| helped remodel and enlarge the chureh’s building and build a mod- | ern Sunday school plant capable | of accommodating 3,000 pupils. | “I do not believe in cheap bally- | hoo,” Dr. Lee says. “My sermons are based on the gospel. Some- times we insert an advertisement in the papers telling of coming services, but if the advertisement| seems sensational it always relates 0 & sermon based on scripture.’” Dr. Lee served at New Orleans| adopted Californian now and puts | nomic Confer before his pastorate at Charleston Gandli Is) s, - On Second Week, Fast ! e Examining Physician Says 64-Year-Old Mahatma Like Man of 40 POONA, India, ]yay 18 —Mahat- ma Gandhi, at 64 years, is as an average man at 40 years, said a bulletin by a physician who ex- amined Gandhi in the second week of his three weeks’ fast. against un- | touchability. The doctor said he is satisfied the Mahatma will pull through. PLANS FLIGHT AROUND WORLD (Wiley Post to Make An-| other Attempt for Rec- ord with Robot OKLAHOMA CITY, May 18— Wiley Post will try for a new round the world mark on July 1, with @ robot for a companion. The Winnie Mae is now being rebuilt for the flight. Post expects to follow about tHe same route as before, including Fairbanks, Alaska. e s JOHN ARENSON KILLS i SELF ON OWN VESSEL John Arenson, owner and opera- tor of the Gasboat T-457 commit- ted suicide on the boat at Cha- tham, according to telegraphic ad- vices received this morning by United States Marshal Alber! White from Deputy Mars Springer at Tenakee. Word was brought to that settlement from the Chatham cannery last night No reason was known for the man’s act. Details were not given by the Tenakee officer in his mes- sage. - e Ty Cobb, one of the greatest stars baseball has produced, is an in most of his time playing golf. | RIGIN DEST EYES OF WORLD DIRECTED TO GENEVA CONFERENCE ROYS PIER PROGRAM FOR PUBLIC WORKS OUTLINED NOW {Proposals Are Sub mitted | to Congress by Presi- t dent Roosevelt | \COMPLETE EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY REQUEST Asks Legislators for Tax Plan to Underwrite Entire Project | | | | | } |, WASHINGTON, May 18.—Presi- dent Roosevelt, late yesterday aft- | érnoon sent his all-inclusive pub- | lic works and industrial supervision program to Congress requesting full Executive authority to inaugurate {a three billion dollar public con- struction program. The President asked | lators to decide befora week on new taxes to underwrite the project or he would submit his own recommendations for levies. The President also asked for au- thority to reduce or eliminate new | taxes should Prohibition Repeal be- come effective, or increasing reve- nues would make them unneces- sary. | President Roosevelt said the pur- | pose of the program was to ob- ‘tain wide re-employment, shorten the work week, pay decent wages {for the shorter week, prevent uns fair competition and disastrous overproduction. CONGRESS GETS BUSY WASHINGTON, May 18.—Ddmo- - |cratic leaders moved quickly to- day to take the President's new | vast employment program over the first hurdle and provide new taxes. Demands for revision of some parts of the legislation is made. Chairman Doughton called the House 'Ways and Means Commit- tee to session for the opening of hearings for finding a suitable form of taxes for financing the proposed three billion bond issue within a the legis- early next RECOVERY BILL TAKING IN BIg RANGE OF WORK Includes Construction of Highways, Naval and '}, Army' Flood Control ing industrial regulation and the huge public construction program WASHINGTON, May 18.— - The together in a concerted drive | Public Works B ki’ against unemployment, ready for House actfon next week. | ministration’s industrial Industrial and labor leaders, rail recovery bill sets up a program in- representatives, constructors, im- cluding $400,000,000 for —highway g:rwrs }s‘md Swt;k Exchange mem- st § rs, who anticipate an effort to construction, rivers & rbe 'kb ; o 2 .us .‘md harbors 1oyy'a tax on stocks and dividends, work and flood control. | said they want to testify before the The section al:o provides for K Ways and Means Committee. $100,000,000 naval and army con-, Members of the Committee said struction and $100,000,000 for con- they may finally decide on a manu- vation and dgvelopment of na- facturer's sales levy of about 1% tural resources. percent as a compromise. Loans will be made to states and | LSRG o ST municipalities through the Recon- struction Finance Corporation. Fnufl wAYs To To Rush Measure Chairman Doughton hopes to ave the all-inclusive measure, ty- section of national ISHIL ARRIVES FOR CONFERENGE PUBLIC WORKS IN WASHINGTON oyt v s fore Committee—No Recommendations Japanese Envoy Comes to Confer with Presi- dent Roosevelt SAN FRANCISUD, Cal, May 18. —Radiating a willingness to operate with President Roosevel to revive rld trade, Viscount Ki- kijurio s of Japan, crossed the western threshold of America yes- on his way Washington co- | the Pre 1 The Visc "mmm(-m on said he weuld not conomic problems un- til he has exchanged views with President Roosevelt m Washington the Viscount goes ito London to attend the Eco- nemic Conference of which he said: “Success is coming to the Eco- ence in London. This seems to be assured.” 4 nomic problems with | WASHINGTON, May 18.—Four separate ways of raising money by taxes to fund the three billion dol- lar outlay for public works will be put before the Ways and Means Committee, ‘without recommenda- tions. It is said however that no sales tax will get by the House. One of the ways mentioned is a flat sales tax with no exemptions. The three others include raising the income tax rates in combina- tion with income taxation or cor- | porate dividends plus an increased | gasoline tax or levies on tea, cof- | fee, cocoa or mew miscellaneous taxes covering such items as small- {er admissions and long distance leephone charges which are now tax exempt. S e, ——— Peru has increased the import /duty on motion picture films.