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' THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE) “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIL, NO. 6441. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS MAN IS ATTACKED, MANGLED BY BEAR — REPEALISTS OF | MAINE VICTORS | BY 270 1 VOTE Stronghold of Old Dry‘ Laws Swings Against | 18th Amendment COMPLIMENTS PAID TO WETS BY FARLEY Three Other States Regist- ering Decision Today— Majorities Expected PORTLAND, Maine, Sept.’ 12.—This State, the strong- held of Prohibition since the middle of the last century, was swept into the repeal column yesterday, the twen- ty-sixth State in the march of States favoring the over- turn of Prehibition. The more than four-fifths of the precincts reported early this morning, the vote showed slightly more than a 2 to 1 margin for repeal. Five hundred and twelve of the State’s six hundred and thirty-two precincts gave for repeal 91,809 against 45,124, The Rev. F. W. Smith, Superin- tendent of the dry forces, con- ceded the wet victory but in a statement said: “We shall continue the fight. We are not beaten.” Apparently the Rev. Smith pre- dicts a fight over the State’s dry law. ALL TO VOTE WET WASHINGTON, Sept. 12— Maine’s vote resulted in all 80 delegates being instructed to vote wet at the convention. Postmaster General Farley, who made several addresses in urging repeal, said the Maine vote should dispel “any doubt in the mind of any one as the attitude of the people of the country on the question of repeal.” The Postmaster General further stated he did not have the slight- est doubt but that Maryland, Min- nesota and Colorade will give large majorities for repeal. REPEALISTS HOPEFUL WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. — Re-, pealists expresed confidence that results today in three States will be similar to the vote recorded yesterday in Maine. States voting today on the repeal issue are Maryland, Colorado and Minnesota. Prohibitionists, disputing ground, kept on fighting hopefully. — - — HUMAN FREIGHT AWAITS VOYAGE TO ISLE EXILE Fifteen ‘Hundred Convicts Banished—Two Ships to Carry Unfortunates | { i ! | LA ROCHELLE, France, Sept. 12—A cargo of human freight, condemned to expiate crimes in the tropical heat of lonely French Guiana, is being assembled for shipment to the notorious camps there September 22. Fifteen hundred conviets are| awaiting banishment. Most of them will make the voyage of de- spair in two loads of mearly 700! each on a convict ship sailing on} its first trip in two years. Escape offers the only hope| many will have of seeing. the| French shores again as they de- spondently climb the ship's lad- der, a file of drab figures in con- viet dress, and three weeks later descend to the docks of St. Laur- ent du Marconi, 4,300 miles from (Continued on Page Seven) New Deal Four-Leaf Clover! That’s ‘Four-in-One’ Farley WASHINGTON, Sept. 12— In|as his own official representa- this half-year-old administration | tive. Jim Farléy, with four jobs to| And consider his last itiner- handle, might be likenéd to a|ary. Just back from Kansas City, lucky four-leaf clover on the New | hence off for the Labor Day con- Deal lapel. vention of letter carriers in At- He's Postmaster-General. He's| lantic City. Then he reviewed a | prophet. | more patronage dispenser. He's repeal | And he’s official jolly good fellow. | The momentum that he gather- | ed in carrying the Roosevelt cause throughe the country as campaign | manager apparently keeps him whirling on through the States. No Cabinet officer is covering mileage these days than| “Big Jim.” Corner Stones, Repeal Speeches | Each trip away from Washing- | ton usually sees him functioning | in all four capacities. As Post- master-General, he lays a F‘ederal; building corner stone or dedicates | a new postoffice. While there, or going or coming he makes a stir- ring speech for repeal. In each city he visits, of course, there is patronage chat. And just for good measure he participates | in picnics, clambakes, the races— all the many gatherings where a parade of postmen on holiday, on the Board Walk. The next week he was laying a cornerstone and making repeal speech in Nor- folk, Va. Later he went north- ward to dedicate a Federal build- ing in Boston and made a re- peal speech in Maine. And so it goes. Going so, it has been a very busy six months for Farley. Job- seekers, job-seekers, job-seekers; the postal deficiency to deal with; vitations, invitations, invitations. More Problems With a Grin The good-natured Farley grins seem to have caused fortune to smile right back at him. That de- ficit he says, is dwindling. The patronage problem gradually is getting solved. Take 1epeal, too—it looks on the present record, as if the coun- try were going to take it in about a dozen more shakes of the ballot the repeal plank to put over, in-/| high official adds the final fillip of a grand time for all. It was “Big Jim” Farley whom President Roosevelt chose to open A Century of Progress Exposition ALASKA RACKET/BAG LIMITS ON IS UNDER PROBE| DUCKS REDUGED BY GRAND JURY BY LATE ORDER Daily Bag Cut to 12 and Possession Limit Is 24 —Geese Unchanged box. So “Four-in-One” Farley might be likened to a lucky clover on ! the New Deal lapel Cannery Workers Testify-| ing in Million Dollar Case in South SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. 12.| —Alaska cannery workers swarmed the corridors of the City Hall last| night as the County Grand Jury bag lirhit on ducks and of six birds in the maximum possession lim- it is called for in new regulations is investigating what Arthur John-issued by the Department of Com- son, State Labor Commission At-|merce -yesterday, it was revealed torney, charged was a ‘“million in an Associated Press dispatch dollar racket” case against Sam-| from Washington to The Empire, uel Young and Emil Mayer, tail-/and confirmed today in an offic- ors and outfitters of 30 cannery lal circular issued by the Alas- workers. |ka Game Commission. The cannery workers accuse The Department made no change Young and Mayer with forcing in the open season from last them to buy misfit clothing at| Vyear, leaving it at 60 days, from exhorbitant prices -to obain work September 1 to October 31 in Al- in Alaska. | aska. Wilson Snipe or Jasksnipe Parade Just Started | may be killed until December 15. The workers have started to ap-| The new regulation reads: pear before the Grand Jury and|Daily bag limits—Ducks, (except they said the parade has only wood ducks, ruddy ducks and buf- started. ) flehead ducks), 12 in the aggre- Attorney Johnson said he has gate of all kinds, but not more 253 affidavits supporting charges|than eight or any one kind or of usury and opeaitrno mfwypp;eight in the aggregate of the fol- of usury and operation of an em-| lowing species—canvasback, red- ployment agency without a li-|head, scaups, teals, choveller and cense, and other alleged law vio-| gadwall. lations. Geese, (except Ross) and brant Attorney Johnson said he will| —four in the aggregate of all prove the workers were chnrgedlkinds. $40 for suits retailing at $18 and| Possession limits: Ducks, 24, $20. “ | except canvasback, redhead, scaup, | teal, shoveller and gadwall, of | which not more than 16 of any |one kind or all kinds combined. | Geese (except Ross), and brant, eight. The possession limit for Wilson . Snipe or Jacksnipe is. 26. e ADMIRAL CHASE Reduction of three in the daily, ...I..l..Ol...[ GOLD PRICE ‘WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. —The price of gold today, as announced by the Treas- ury Department, is $20.21 an ounce. BALA OPENING FOR S, E. ALASKA FAIR WEDNESDAY Committees and Judges for Various Displays | | Announced Today | ! Everything is in readiness for | the opening of the 12th Annual | Southeast Alaska Fair tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock when the doors of the big Fair building will be thrown open to the public for a four-day fiesta. Many of the booths and exhibits are already arranged and the re- maining ones will be completed to- night and tomorrow morning, it was announced by W. S. Pullen, Fair manager. | Departments Judged Wednesday | Home canning, needlework and ;floral displays will be judged on | Wednesday afternoon beginning at ’1 o'clock in order that the judges for these departments may be fin- | ished early in the afternoon. It is | requested that judges for these de- | partments be on hand promptly at 1 o'clock so that the work may be completed without delay, Mr. Pullen announced. Committees Appointed Committees for the various de- partments have been appointed by | Mrs. Joseph R. Campbell, chair- iman of the Women'’s Departments. | The departments are: home can- ‘ning, floral, educational, needle work, embroldery, miscellaneous needle work, home cooking, art, school exhibit, native educational, and Pioneers, and the committees in charge of these displays are: Needlework: Mrs. T. A. Mor- gan, chairman; Mrs. R. 8. Raven| and Mrs. E. L. Gruber. | | Colored Embroidery: Mrs. Thom- as Gardner, chairman; Mrs. C. H. Flory, and Mrs, Gunnar Blom- gren. Miscellaneous - Needlework: Mrs. Walter P. Scott, chairman; Mrs. Elmer Friend and Mrs. M. G.| Metcalf. | Home Cooking: Mrs. Roy Ruth-| erford, chairman; Mrs. Ray D.| Peterman, and Mrs, Ed Cowling. | Home Canning: Mrs. Daniel : Ross, chairman; Mrs. John W.| | Jones, and Mrs. J. K. Campbell. | Art. Department: Mrs. Winn { Goddard chairman; Mrs: H. G. Watson and Mrs. N. L. Troast. Floral Display: Mrs. Harley| Turner, chairman; Mrs. J. W. Lie-| i vers, and Mrs. L. Sorby. | School Exhibit: Miss Jeanette | Stewart, chairman; Miss Mary| Simpkins, and Miss Mary Jeanette Whittier. Native Educational Department: Mrs. Charles W. Hawkesworth, | chairman; Mrs. David Waggoner| and Mrs. Paul W. Gordon. Pioneers: Mrs. Frank Pearce,| (Continued on Page Three) I | | RUNS AGROUND Dense Fog Prevails on Puget Sound—Sched- ules Disrupted ‘Domes’dc Plans By BYRON PRICE SEATTLE, Sept. 12.—A dense fog blanketed the Puget Sound region today and caused the Ad- miral Chase to run aground on the sand bar slip north of Everett. The fog delayed other vessels and schedules on the North Pa- cific lanes. i’ The Admiral Chase is not be- lieved to be damaged and will be released at the next high tide. ! (Chief of Bureau, The Associated ] Press, Washington.) There will bé a great deal of talk, but no one .in Washington ! really appears to expect much out of the cuddent reoiprocal trade | negotiations, or the coming war debt discussions. The reason for this is that Pres- Sl v ident Roosevelt is launched on a 1 very definite program of national HOMER W. GORHAM ON° WAY |rehabilitation, and he can not go SOUTH FOR VACATION very far on the international task i just ‘now without running into Homer W. Gorham, who is with complications which might weaken the Butler-Mauro Drug Company what he is doing at home, here, left for a vacation in the Long before he came to Wash- States on the Yukon. He will be ington, Mr. Roosevelt had an idea outside several weeks, lor making up some sort of “con- Rooseve Curb It Hand Abroad solidated ledger” account with oth-| | er nations, figuring in the debts| and trade considerations. The sug- | gestion was that we agree to take| certain. goods, in certain amounts, | possibly in part payment of war| debts, and to export certain oth- er goods. He discussed this idea with at least one foreign statesman when he was in Europe two years ago. But the trouble was that 1o agree to take a certain amount of imports would almost inevitably lead to some dislocation and un-| employment at home. That cannot be risked now. Pe: haps a year or two hence If conditions. here are brought to normal by the Roosevelt domestic (Continued on Page Two) 1 ment, TODAY'S MARKET |and Alaska Juneau. | Smelting 39, Anaconda 17%, | Motors 4%, Chicago and Milwaukee | (preferred) 13%, Radio Corporation | IN NATION IS NOW DECISIVE Newspaper Display Adver- tising Shows Decided Gain — Reports BEST BAROMETER SHOWS CONFIDENCE President Roosevelt, All Other Leaders Settle Down to New Work WASHINGTON, Sept. 12—NRA reports newspaper display adver- tising has taken a definite and appreciable upturn and this sup- plied President Roosevelt’s recov- ery efforts with new impetus born of favorable tokens. Twenty-five large cities from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast report a 16 percent August| advertising gain over August of last year. Confidence Shown NRA officials termed this a def- inite reflection by one of the most accurate business barometers of renewed confidence of the part of the Nation's business. After commenting on the fa- vorable nrewspaper advertising ving, .Recovery leaders, from the . President on down, settled anew a multitude of problems. Ccuncil Summoned President Roosevelt immediately summoned the Recovery Council to discuss the whole line of Gov- ernment endeavors, stressing the Nation's credit needs. Administrator Johnson called a public hearing on the troublesome coal code for a mid-week agree- He was spurred on by threatening labor condtiions in Pennsylvania where strikes are again feared. The Administrator also issued orders seeking to stop violations of the industrial codes and re-| employment agreements. PROFIT TAKING REDUGES GAINS NEW YORK, Sept. 12.—Profit| taking stemmed the tide of spec-| ilative enthusiasm and early moderate gains today were re- placed by small losses in many instances. The close was irregu- lar. Transfers were 2,300,000 shares. | The curb was irregular. Bonds had new life, but gains were reduced late in the day. Professionals were largely re- sponsible for price fluctuations. Grains Easy Grains turned easy under real- izing. Oil shares were up fractionally to about one point. Standard Oil of California and New Jersey, and Seaboard made gains. Chrysler crossed 50 for anoth- er Tiew years’ high then retracted for a point loss. Case, Allied Chemical, Ameri- can Smelting were off two points. Homestake was off four points. Declines of fractions to a point ccurred for New. York Central, Westinghouse, Union Pacific, Con- solidated Gas. United States Steel an Alcohols sagged after early advance. CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Sept. 12. — Alaska Juneau mine stock closed today at 28%, American Can 92', American Power and Light 12, American| Ar-| mour B 2%, Bethlehem Steel 39%, Calumet and Hecla 6%, Colorado Fuel and Iron 6%, Curtiss-Wright 3, General Motors 34':, Interna- tional Harvester 40%, Kennecott 21%, Missouri Pacific 6%, Packard 9', Standard Brands 28%, United| states Steel 54%, Western Union| 68, United Aircraft 38%, Ward Bak- | ing B, no sale, BIG REGOVERY : And Now Mr Stork Goés NRA' 3 § |Shoulder D_islocated, Face Unique announcements of the birth of a-baby daughter are being sent these days by E. E. Umland, advertising man of Brookline, Mass. At right is Mrs. Pauline Sayer Umland, his wife and mother of Baby Gretchen, NRA OFFICIALS 'WARNING GIVEN IN NEW BATTLE TO REBELLIOUS EASTERN AREA CUBAN OFFICERS Huge Parade Being Ar- |Ultimatum Issued by Presi- ranged—Strikes Prevail dent—Absolute De- —Pay Is Increased fiance Is Shown HAVANA, Cuba, Sept. 12.— (Copyright by the Associated Press). President Ramon San Martin teld Col. Horacio Ferrer today that the Army and Navy officers, now prac- tically in a rebellion in their headquarters in the National Hotel, they must come to terms with the new Govern- ment within 24 or 36 hours. NEW YORK, Sept. 12—The in- dustrial pulse, with several high- lights noticeable, beat livelier today in an effort to recapture prosperity, settle strikes, provide fatter pay checks, create more employment and surmount all withahuge NRA parade with the Blue Eagle cocking a watchful éye over all. Strikes have paralyzed much of| the Northern New Jersey silk in-| dustry and violence has broken out in that area when pickets attempt- ed to storm a plant of the United| Pierce Dye Works at Lodi. More! than 30 persons were hurt. The| police drove the battling strikers back with clubs and tear gas. The underwear workers in New York and vicinity have been sum- moned to strike for higher wages. Another strike is expected to tie up the cleaning and dyeing in- dustry. On the other hand, several in-} dustrial companies, announce pay! boosts as high as six and one half per cent. BUSINESS 1S GOOD IN TERRITORY DECLARES M. S. WILSON TODAY “Business throughout the Inter- ior and Southwest Alaska is fine,” declared M. 8. Wilson, representa- | tive of Blake, Moffitt and Towne,! paper manufacturers, who returned today on the steamer Yukon from| a trip through the Territory as far as Fairbanks. | Mr. Wilson visited in Valdez Cordova, Anchorage and Fairbanks, | u returning to the coast by way of Richardson Hlghway {o Valdez Announces Resignation at where he boarded the Yukon. i A g Cordova—To Purchase Eight Killed When Morton’s Law Office Plane Dives to Earth corpova amsks sept. 12— LJUBLJAMA, Jugoslovia, Sept.| United States District Attorney 12—8ix passengers, pilot and me-| William Cuddy, of the Third Di- chanic were killed when a pdv!\'!snm announced his resignation senger plane crashed this after-| yesterday. He will purchase the noon on the grounds of the insane|law office of Harry F. Morton, | | i ARE DEFIANT HAVANA, Cuba, Sept fiant army officers, b caded | and hesieged in sumptuous apart- ments in the National Hotel, re- | sisted the new Government's de- | mands that they come to terms immediately and scoffed at the | Presidenfial ultimatum they yield |in 24 or 36 hours, The officers mads showdown in their former President de reinstated. Have Strong Backing The officers are backed, it is said, by a powerful A-B-C secret order and other societies. The 0 500 officers 'are armed and prepared for any con- tingency. Meanwhile | vates, | cers 1i line 1 ready for a demands that Cespedes be the revolting pri- ho arose against the offi- week, kept ap airtight the hotel. 5 R asylum near here, lox’ Anchorage, UNARMED HIKER LATEST VICTIM FRENZIEDBRUTE Flesh-torn Chris Cayafas Flown Here for Treatment —Condition Precarious GREEK SEINER IS SEVERELY WOUNDED Ripped, Arm Broken— Other Serious Injuries Chris Cayafas, 44-year-old native of Greece, while on a pleasure hike, unarmed, back of Little Port Walter, yes- terday afternoon, fell another victim to a vicious brown bear, when he was attacked | and horribly mangled, suffer- |ing a dislocated shoulder, | broken arm and other serious | injuri | A mass of bloody, torn | flesh, Mr. Cayafas in terrible !agony was brought to the hospital here on the seaplane Baranof at 8:20 o’clock last evening, accompanied by Dr. | W. W. Council, who flew over | to Little Port Walter in an- | swer to the emergency call, Mrs. Cayafas and Roy Lar- his companion on the § son, hike. The bear had torn at its victim's head and face, breaking his jaw, crushing his facial bones, and tear- |ing the flesh from his face, near his | eyes and neck. The man’s left should- |er was dislocated by the infuriated beast, his left arm broken in sev- eral places, his left hand horribly ‘ma.nglcd and his body covered with numerous gashes, tears and con- tusions. Over two hours were re- quired to dress the wounds and x-rays are being taken today. The !fact that he is a heavy, well | fleshed man is all that saved him from instant death, Dr. Council | said. | | | | Victim Unarrmed The accident happened at 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon after Mr. Cayafas and Roy Larson, had | been hiking for an hour in the | hills back ol Little Port Walter, lon the lower end of Baranof Island. The former was unarmed and Mr. Larson had a .22 caliber rifle hoping to se some ptarmigan. The two men were separated when the big brownje attacked Mr. Cayafas and his cries brought Mr. Larson to the scene. Helpless to aid the injured man, he ran to the camp for help. Victim’s Description o Mr. Cayafas graphically described his sensation of despair, and said that he prayed, ‘Oh God, help me, there is nothing I can do for my- self.” Never as long as he lives will he forget the sound of his own bones crunching and snapping in (Continued on Page‘- Two) e MISJUDGED FOR BURGLARS, TWO ARE SHOT DOWN Deputy Fires at Watchman —Second Watchman Shoots and Kills LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 12— Deputy Sheriff John Hedge saw a man in the shadow of a build- ing and opened fire. A watchman, Frank Chavez, fell with a bullet in his adbomen. Another watchman, Norman Krutchick, returned Hedge's fire, killing Hedge. Chavez is not expected to live. It is belicved the three appar- ently took each other for burglars,