The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 20, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL, THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. XLIL, NO. 6474. JAPAN T0 APPROPRIATE M NEY FOR ARMY AND NAVY SCORES PERISH IN ORIENTAL TYPHOON *STEAMER GOES DOWN IN GALE; MANY CARRIED, - WATERY GRAVE English Women Are Among Victims Marine Disaster —Fishing Boats. Also Founder in Storm KOBE, Japan, Oct. 20.— Sixty-six persons including a number of English women are feared to have perished aboard the coastwise steamer Yashima Maru which found- ered in a typhoon off Suma, ncar here, Fifty-one survivors of the crew and fifty-eight passeng- ers are reported to have been saved. it is rcported the typhoon also carried to death nearly 100 cthers who went down with several fiching vessels. BEN HART IS NAMED T0 ACT, FISH HEARING San Francisco Man Will Represent Pacific Coast at Code Discussion WASHINGTON, Oct. 20—The Industrial Advisory Board of NRA has appointed Ben Hart, Vice- President of the Alaska Packers’ A tion of San Francisco to re nt the Pacific Coast Fish- eries at the hearings on the fish- eries code. Representatives are also appoint- ed for the Great Lakes, Atlantic Seaboard and Southern fisheries. The official hearings on the code opens in Washington on Sat- urday. Representatives of more than fifty fishermen’s associations ap- provzd of the tentative code pro- viding @ 40-hour week and mini- mum wages of $11 a week and upwa The code will be offered to the Agricultural Adjustment Adminis- tration: tOmMOITow. IS AGAINST ADVERTISING OF LIQUORS Rockefeller—_s;vey Makes Reports—Reasonable Restrictions Asked NEW YORK, Oct. 20—In the pelif that advertising liquor oth- er than light beer should be “rig- idly restricted or forbidden” where possible, the Rockefeller Liquor Survey cautioned against adver- ives for sale of alcoholic beverages. The report said that unless ad- vertising mediums accept reasona- ble restrictions willingly for this kind of advertising “there will un- doubtedly be in the near future complete prohibition of all kinds of liguor advertising with extens- ive Federal Legislation as well as state codes.” SHOOT TO KILL VIENNA, Oct. 20. — Orders to shoot to Kkill Nazi demonstrafiorsl were issued by the police of Dorn- birn this afternoon to impress the populace of the seriousness of the, situation. —— Michigan’s potential daily crude Only 19 States Could Drink Under Repeal; Antis in Lead But Liquor Comes U nder Ban ] By RADER WINGET | laws until November of 1935. NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—Three out | youjSIANA—On repeal of the of every four persons casting bal-| a6 pronibition law, regulation lots on the question this year hgve | reverted to the 1915 “blind tiger” favored repeal of the Prohibition |,y granting local option. This Amendment, but a majority of |15y woulq control liquor after na- states under today's conditions | ional repeal. would be dry if repeal were ef-| NAyNE State dry for 48 years, fectad. !and in the event of national re- Citizens of only 19 states would | poqy for which the state voted, be able to take a !e_ga'l drink of i would remain dry. hard liquor, under widely varying) nApypAND—Status of liquor sets of laws " Thos2 drinking|jows cannot be determined posi- conditions would vary from "e"wediuvely‘ but it is believed the old liquor statutes to newly planned|jag¢ would control traffic in the state control laws and from sa-|oyent of repeal. Joons permitted by local option to} MASSACHUSETTS—Return to prohibition liquor laws would fol- drug stores licensed by the state.! The Cnntfl;ls Mf:;“s"?n whi 1‘Ilow national repeal. Local option st B hich | jngicated. State dry law repealed. either constitutional or statutory MlCHlGAN—NaL};oml r:;eal bans on liquor would prevent afyoyiq find the state’s beverages return to the general pre-prombi-!limiwd Vi 8" e 2 oent HeWiaho: tioin status. But with 33 ‘oi !.\:(EEA g W it SR e necessary BGOS;T;sm:pirov n; x.fl field. peal of the Eig mendmen 4 i f @ to the Constituton, many states m“fl”fl‘:fifz‘fi? n;\q:w; ?;:nfo‘ are drafting liquor control meas- mmm 55( 2 w% l;e" e pl 0 ures ranging from local option to e nex gislature. epeal state-wide regulation. the Eighteenth Amendment would 1o sbine. fiatis thate are melthey|And "the: #iaie dry but there is prohibition statutes nor new 1i- | Some question whether it would quor control laws, and if national t‘einsta;ed Olfithl:;fll gl?t:fin rlav‘;s'. prohibition is repealed these same ::)5:;" "m:‘:)m(me advent of n: states will revert to ancient reg- P! ulatons. MISSISSIPPI—The only move- . ment for liberalization of the state A few states, often after urging by repealists, have set up a sys- bone-dry law is for legalization tem of liquor control regulations. Following is a summary of con- of 3.2 per cent beer. MISSOURI—State bone-dry act would remain after national repeal Armistice Day Proclamation Is Issued WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.— President Roosevelt has is- sued a proclamation calling for national observance of Armistice Day, November 11, ALL TESTIMONY OF INTIMACIES 1S RULED OU Government Scores Point in Albert Case Which Goes to Jury Today In self-abnegation yesterday af- ternoon, Mrs. Richard Albert, whose husband’s life is at stake for the killing of Sam Hennin- ger at Italio River last January, went on the witness stand and bared the history of her alleged illicit intimacy with the dead man. This morning the Government rendered her gesture futile when its motion to strike all testimony shown by the ‘“love affair” was granted by Judge George F. Al- exander. This actioh occurred af- ter both sides had rested, all the evidence having been presented. Based on Termination REC OGNITION “OF RUSSIA IS NOW NEARING BULLETIN — WASHING- TON, Oct. 20.—An exchange of correspondence bet ween President Roosevelt and Rus sia to he made public today points the path to ultimate recognition but does not con- stitute recognition now. MOSCOW, Oct. 20. — Un- cenfirmed r e ports received here said President Roosevelt has made a direct overture to the Soviet Union looking to- ward recognition. REVOLT BEGUN AGAINST NRA IN NEBRASKA jov. Bryan, Former Gov. “Neville, Senator Nor- ris Dissatisfied * LINCOLN, Nebraska, Oct, 20.— Showgirl May Wed Auto Heir According to Broadway gossips Mickey Devine, New York show- girl and Horace E. Dodge (both above) heir - to $25,000,000 auto fortune, will wed after his divorce from the former Muriel Sisman of Detroit whom he married in 1928, ditions in each state: H for which the state voted, but the ALABAMA—Efforts to repeal the 3 4 strict state prohibitfon laws' wers] gct’. was ’fmd'\mjd to permit beer, Qefeated béfore Alabama voted [ JOBUOL gTOUP phidying ;reguiatory. o : egislatiop. three to two for national repeal. 2 T | ARIZONA—The state prohibition| MONTANA g ’m"i‘iiol‘:"‘;o E:iqgfiwbe}i:s 1:::;1;3, am::inltx 20 into the liquor business under statute. The law would ban sa- | Estem copled from Alberta, s Canada, where the state operates - liquor stores. ARKANSAS—Voted for na[ion_al AqNErBRASKA—-ReLenflOn or repeal repeal, but is bone dry under isfo¢ state constitutional prohibition own laws. 5 will be passed on in the 1934 gen- CALIFORNIA—A state 1QUOT} o) glections, but no action could control ““nwm;m e::c;’meA:“’:; be taken on statutory prohibition tive on national repeal. until 1935, now in ef_fect regulates beer Wit NEVADA — State’s prohibition some provisions applicable to hard| awe repealed. Liquor control would liquor. Many old control 1aWs|he ynder the jurisdiction of coun- e hr ek ralhting | e, RREES, SR yniEia] overnments, to liquor regulation and control 8 NEW HAMPSHIRE—Repeal of repealed last year. Legislature ad-|nationa) prohibition voted June 20, i‘;oumed rer:fl:gl;l ?rrzh:ec;fir;g\is}: but state still has its own pro- ar consump! s i i of any liquor that might be sold ;;b‘g;“c:;‘;’siegfif,wfnd L in event of repeal. A co_mmisslon NEW JERSEY—Permanent beer is werking mnow unofficially for|,ng jiquor control legislation an- control suggestions. ticipated, otherwise in’ the event CONNECTICUT—The state has| ¢ national repeal control will re- a law looking b°m‘“’ present bee; vert to old local option laws. The control ax:dlpossibf future bard| ;5i0 enforcement act was repealed liquor control. 1932, DELAWARE—Similar law in this NEW MEXICO — Citizens voted state with~cnf_orcemen'. and reg-| . ainst national prohibition and ulation vestad in a one-madn COM-| tho penalty paragraph in the state mission. Saloons are barred, DOUTS| oo gtjytion establishing prohibi- “m!‘:% bt of osf“‘:he"“:’:a“;‘,’; tion. In the event of national RIDA--Four %] repeal state law would go into =f- 67 counties would be wet if state ;:g:\l p:o:iging control gimd local and ']’B;iona‘ihg"::bfe‘:;::m;:‘d :{; option “not inconsistent or in vio- repealed, althoul i f the national constitu- counties could obtain liquor legal- é:;::’ oy ity. The state voted for national N‘Ew YORK—Beer and liquor repeal and on November 13, 1934} \onro) machinery established to T Lo W atien 1 e R o e & NORTH CARO! A af ry “Wd‘““ryfifii‘:’“a‘;;:hfhel‘es%fig; until legislature acts otherwise. ture, no ac g in 1935. bone-dry status can be taken un- r{e);‘tos;;s;‘m ‘i; A;?OTA—S'AW con- '-“llt)hiufi““',z’m}:’fn’f;:{;’“_;mmer stitutional prohibition rejuected, g t act would prohibited” sale of intoxicants, but }(’z:p i e g this year voted for natl;mall iz;: national prohibition. peal. ~ Beer has ‘xe“ | OHMIO—A siate senatorial com- and machinery has been eSWeBUE U} mittee is studying the - control ed looking to liquor control andjo,eciion n the event of nation- 5"“:;;9:;’;1- neral assembly es- |3l 8nd state repeal, rigid control —Ge! ve ticipated. tablished drug store monopoly on hwi)l:‘:‘]:‘(“))‘:r——?rohib“lfin pro- spiritous liquor, ;‘lwh a: :r:e;l:{ tected by the state constitution A0 g uiepnAbe, 80 1a| and enforcement acts. ILegislative scription only. This ;mhus wtouo[ leaders said they would fight vig- m’ifi bel axl‘etezp:adl mBetere a;\;en wine orously any attempt to repeal state natiopal ~ rovisions. can be sold only with food. O REGON _state dry laws were TLLINOIS — State prohibition| yeeen from the books in 1932, statites :viy)led °‘:ni;sh;n5t:::'m:; State liquor commission fo make i e g ’ ¢ of | recommendations for control in the ach t;’ £0 410 ‘etleck Hh, eyony event of national repeal. Tepea.. —The status of IOWA—State voted for nnnqml st:teEN;:S)‘:itivut:l?n the ev-s*nts of repeal, State prombmont.hf‘iab;l;:; national repeal hinges on a legal ed _tn 1915, would wnm gkt decision interpreting the state en- ?:twl::)lk:epfil ol drike forcement act. . b RHODE ISLAND—State alcohol- KANSAS—Since 1880 the state L'+ Davers : 3 2 ge commission conirols h; be;:r;gu”::p::‘l‘ continue &Y | por now and would control hard {2 “ . liquor if it is made legal by na- mrucxv—msmlerswwork;ng”gm g Y fo capacity, old plants bAWE TE| SOUTH CAROLINA — National habilitated, but st ; repeal would revive the “quart a oil output has been increased to more than 50,000 barrels. people may not have the oppor-| """ tunity to pass on the state dry; (Continuei on Page Two) The motion was based on Mrs.| 4 ¢ 2 Al revolt against NRA broke out Albert’s own testimony that the yesterdayi in Nebraska, the by intimacy between herself and Hen- ninger had ended during the sum- mer of 1932, several months before the shooting took place. G. W. Folta, Asst. United States Attor- new, who made the motion, con- tended that the terminaion of the affair at the time testified by the woman removed the possibility of any connection between it and the shooting. ‘W. L. Paul, counsel for Albert, urged against it on the ground that the witness had merely said that to lighten ‘her shame,” and that the testimony from her own lips of meetings with Henninger subsequent to the summer indicat- ed the affair was a continuing one. Bares Sordid Details On the stand , yesterday Mrs. Albert bared the details of the sordid relationship claimed between herself and Henninger. It began, she asserted, with the fime the two of them were discovered in a love passage on July 4, 1932, by her husband. It ended that same summer, she said. She did not know if her husband was aware of its termination, but she declar ed, he did not speak to her about it afterward Mrs. Albert also confirmed her husband’s story as to a threat by Henninger some time prior to| the shooting. As he had told, she| testified it was made on a Yaku- tat Street when in her presence Henninger had told her husband: | “You have no right following her; (Continued on Page Two) NUTT RESIGNS AS TREASURER REP.NATL,COM. | George F. Getz, of Chi- cago, to Raise Funds, Congress Campaign WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—Jos- eph R. Nutt, of Cleveland, wh raised the money to finance Her- bert Hoover's {wo campaigns {0 the Presidency, has resigned a Treasurer of the Republican Na- tional Committee. The suceessor upon whom must devolve the task of providing fund for the 1934 Congressional elec- tions is George F. Getz, of Chi- cago, coal man. Everett Sanders, Chairman o0 the Republican National Commi - tee, announces the changes. Nutt has served through (v Presidential and one Congress.o al campaigns. Sanders expressed regret Nutt’s resignation but the latt ‘felt it was necessary fo retire. of .uusurgent leaders. Gov. Charles W. Bryan said the farmers' throats are being “cut from both ears” by the abandon- ment of the anti-trust laws and declining farm prices. He urged in- flation instead of “pouring money in at the top.” Quits As Chairman Former Gov. Keith Neville, an- other Democrat, announced his resignation as State NRA chair- man because of lack of sympathy with its program in an agricul- tural territory. He said prices and changes produced virtually a buyers’ strike among the farmers. Norris’ Appeal Senator George W. Norris, In- dependent Republican, who sup- ported Roosevelt, sent a second ap- peal to the President to inflate currency by retiring one billion and one half of Liberty bonds by new currency instead of refunding them. Backs President Anoth er Democratic leader, Congressman E. R. Burke, express- ed regret at Gov. Bryan's criti- cism of the Recovery program and said he knew the President was throwing the force of the Admin- ration behind any move to help farmer. —,—————— DOOMED MAN GETS A DRINK SAN QUENTIN, Cal, Oct. 20— Offered all the whiskey he could stand .on orders of the Governor, Dallas Eagan, aged 40, climbed along the 13 steps to the scaffold and ‘'was put to death this morn- 1z in San Quentin Prison for the wurder of Willlam Kirkpatrick, of Battle Creek, Michigan, in a Los Angeles hold-up last July. Eagan took only a small drink of bourbon half an hour before he| was executed. e — - SNOW SEATTLE, Oct. 10.—Snow v Central Washington today b mountain passes are being lear by snowplows. ———.———— MEMBER ANCHORAGE SIGNAL CORPS STAFF TRANSFERRED TO SEATTLE DEPARTMENT th the kept Among the southbound passeng-| ers on the steamer Yukon are Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Fellows and| their daughter Barbara. Mr. lows is a member of the Signal Corps staff in Anchoraze and has been stationed there for GOLD PRICE WASHINGTON, Oct, 20.— Today's price of gold is $29.18 an ounce, according to the quotation issued by the Treasury Department. AUSTRIA TAKES FIRM HAND IN ANTIMOVENENT 1 Government Serves Notice' —Soldiers . Are Re- ! ported Deserting VIENNA, Oct. 20.—The Govern-. ment to Austria has made pubi a decree authorizing the immediaf dismissal of rail employees and im- | mediate cancellation of pensions for inactive workers “who further anti- COLD WEATHER STIMULATING BUYING FACTOR Business Situation Spotty —Retail Distribu- tion Better NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—The busi- ness situation continues spotty al- though retail distribution has been making a fair showing, the Dun- Bradsreet, Inc., review said today. Wholesale buying fluctuated from day to day Industrial activities emerged slow- ly from the grip of strikes and a| nation-wide slowing down of pro- ductive operations appears in the leading indices. The volume of consumer buying failed to rise by any wide percent- age above last week's showing with gains few and largely in districts where cool weather wasastimulat- ing factor. e government movements.” Meanwhile a Socialist newspaper said about one-tenth of the Aus- trian Army has deserted and gone to Germany. This would mean de- fection of seven battalions. e e——— U, S. CONSUMER FACES ANOTHER HUGE LOAD NOW Administration’s Program? to Aid Farmer Will | Be Felt by All WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. — The American consumer will be called on to shoulder a tax load of more than one billion dollars to finance | the Administration’s program for a| gigantic retreat in farm production policies. | Farm adjustment officials hinge |exaction of this tribute for a period | of slightly more than two years,! from last July 9, when the pro- cessing tax No. 1 was levied on| wheat, until November 4, 1935, when the hog and corn processing levies terminate. 1Ty | Will Aid Farmer |8 Most of the proceeds which may | be greatly augumented by compen- sary taxes on competing products are scheduled to find their way Pel- |into the pocketbooks of the Amer-| Auxiliaries jcan farmers now reputedly thin| and thinning for the last decade. The principal consideration will| the last year. He has been trans- ferred to the Seattle office | be that farmers forego planting! as much as in the past. H Scores of Vets May Lose Out On Compensation WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—Less than half of the veterans whose future benefit payments de- pend on proving their presump- tive disabilities to be in the line of service seemed to be in line fcr continued compensation. Special beards have reviewed fifty per cent of the presump- tive cases and unol but clesely checked figures owed cnly forty per cent of this cross section will be entitled to re- tain benefits. WOMEN ARE JOINING MEN, | MINE STRIKE Thousands Kre Reported on Move to Spring- field as Pickets S PRINGFIELD, Il, Oct. 20.— seming with thousands of dis- tisfied members of the Progres- sivk Miners’ Union, this ecity today became the object of a concerted march of the women folks. The President of 85 Progressive said the women, up-| wards of 10,000, would join the men in picketing the mines of the Peabody Coal Company. Meanwhile Guardsmen stood ready to quell any outbreaks. CABINET IS SUES COMMUNIQUE ON BUDGET EXPENSE FOR TWO YEARS Japanese Ministers Are in Agreement to Give Large Sums for Both Sea and Land Forces BULLETIN—TOKYO, Oct. 20. — The Japanese Cabinet issued a communique today saying the Ministers haw» agreed on the fundamental principles for coordinating the Empire’s foreign and naticnal | defense, alse finance policies. Consent is believed to have been gained for priority of the Army and Navy demands :|over everything else in fram- ] ing the 1934-1935 budget. GERMAN TEXT T0 LEAGUE IS NOT REGENED Another Angle n With- drawal Issue Announc- ed by News Agency GENEVA, Ocvu. 20. Germany withdrew from the League of Na- tions not only because of “failure of the World Disarmament Con- ference, but because the League has become a forum for Jews and Marxists,” it is asserted by a semi- official Wolff News Agency dis- patch. The text of the withdrawal has not been received in Geneva and has not yet been made public in Berlin. BOUND BY COVENANT GENEVA, Oct. 20.—League of Na- tions officials - emphasized that Germany is bound indefinitely by the covenant of the League despite its resignation since the covenant is part of the ‘A'reaty of Versailles. Japan resigned because the League condemned her Manchurian policy and Germany resigned as a protest that the League had not done enough for her. R o MINISTRY OF FRANGE GAINS IN CONFIDENCE Threats Made Are Appar- ently Favoring Con- tinuing Government PARIS, Oct. 20.—The Govern- ment’s chances at surviving im- proved overnight as supporters of Premier Daladier, frightened the Socialist with the prediction that the Right Wing would gain contral if the Cabinet fell. Premier Daladier's fight for his Cabinet’s life and protection of the franc will begin Sunday when the Chamber of Deputies debate be- gins, Despite improvement in the sit- uation, Cabinet members admitted precariousness of their position in face of the opposition of many to the budgetary measures, particu- larly to the reduction of function- aries, sale and pensions. — eeo——— Advertising Man Dies; Injured, Auto Accident OLYMPIA, Wash, Oct. 20—A victim of injuries received in an auto accident, Harold Fothergill, died this afternoon. He was 34 years of age and was an advertising man formerly employed on Wenat~ chee, Seattle and Kelso newspapers,