The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 7, 1933, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNliAU ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL. XLIIL, NO. 6489. = ‘BATTLE OF BALLOTS IS BEING WAGED ERS MARK ELECTION IN NEW YORK LENCE, DISORD ANDS OFF” APAN SAYS RUSSIA TO J MANY ARRESTS ARE REPORTED; FIGHTS 0CCUR Thugs Said to Be Making Attacks on Workers and Watchers BLACKJACKS SWUNG; VICTIMS ARE STRUCK One Entire Election Board Taken Jail—Troops May Be Called NEW YORK, Nov. 7.—Vio- lence and disorders accompan- jed the veting in the Mayor- alty election today with the Fusion forces early today threatening to demand pro- tection from gangs of mar- auding thugs. One man was stabbed and a ccore of election workers were blackjacked and beaten. One entire election board was arrested the voters balloted in one of the storm- iest elections in years. A police alarm was sent out from Brooklyn for a cruising squad as thugs stab- bed George Bennett, a work- er for McKee and manhandled workers and watchers at var- ious polling booths. The arrests are increasing in the number of instances of illegal registrations. The arrest of the ‘entire election poard was in the Twenty-ninth District. The members of the board were jailed on charges of permit- ting votes to be cast by persons allegedly ungualified. LaGuardia speeded to the voting place on re- ceipt of a telephone call and en- tering the place ripped the Tam- many badges from loiterers and said: “I know who you are. You are thugs.” Arrests followed. Blackjacks Swing Blackjacks were swung on Fusion workers and watchers on the low- er East Side. One man, William Covington, Special Deputy of the Attorney General, detailed to election fraud investigations, was felled by a blackjack. Fights took piace at another East Side polling place and Fusion Cam- paign Manager Wiiliam Chadbourne was arrested on a charge of as- sault preferred by a Democratic worker. This grew out of Chad- bourne’s demand for a police of- ficer to arrest two election board bers and the officer's refusal. Fusion threat for troops out of a small riot par- ticipated in by 200 persons at a polling place over charges of ‘“re- pea * by Fusion and Tammany ‘workers. as Tragic end to an 18-year search for his lost son came when Frank “Cy” Forsythe (inzet)yFormer big league baseball player, found the boy known as Roy Mann (top), in jai at Sacramento, Cal,, under a mur der charge. As a lad of four, the boy had been placed in custody of a Topeka, Kan., family which movec away while Forsythe was on & baseball tour RECOGNITION TALK STARTS ON TOMORROW Indicated American, Soviet Representatives Plan Swift Action WASHINGTON, Nov. 7. — The Blue Room in the White House has been selected for the first meeting of the Russian representative, Maxim Litvinoff, and President Roosevelt, where recognition, which has been off for 16 years, will be the topic for discussion. The understanding is that action will be swift. Today's meeting was formal. The two representatives will meet in- formally in the Blue Room tomor- row and in the White House din- |ing room Thursday. | The Russo-American will be explored thoroughly, said. relations it is EXPRESSES HOPE WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—Maxim Litvinoff, in an interview, said he came to America to make the “first break of the artificial bar- rier which for 16 years has pre- | vented a normal intercourse of the peoples of our two countries.” Litvinoff expressed hope that establishment of normal relations will bring about actual disarma- ment. He said he nourished the most sanguine hopes as to the out- come of his mission. Colorado Coed Must Take End of Long_ Trial | \‘ { here, are repcrted but Chaperon to All Parties BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 7—The of the room which can give her long-neglected chaperon -is due for | the greatest pleasure.” a return to her former exalted po-| Refreshments, at the same time sition, at least on the campus of | ke hatiee athas masliois Of the University of Colorado. 1party" REL AeaieEs 0L W Lydia Lawrence Brown, dean of | OL‘hn AR 1 # women at the university, in a re-| er . points, brought out by cent three-page statement to stu- | Dean Brown included a warning dents outlining social procedure to | 8gainst dancing after midnight or be followed during the current On Sunday. shouting between the school year, stipulated that the dances, smoking in the dance hall following attentions be showed the and going on the dance floor after chaperon: taking even one drink. A formal invitation to the party.| “Provide cloak-room facilities on Transportation to and from bhe‘ the first floor in your houses,” party. 3 | Dean Brown told sorority girls. A comfortable seat in “that part|“Do not take guests upstairs.” FARM STR SITUATION IS M Call for Troops Has Been Set Out to Jowa Gov- ernor from One City ONE BRIDGE BURNED; ANOTHER SET ON FIRE Soft Coal Mi—n;s Returning —Hard Coal Diggers Striking in Penn. CHICAGO, 1Il, Nov. 7.—Further | progress toward settlement of in- dustrial disputes, according to As- sociated Press advices assembled in the troubled farm strike area there is no apparent lessening of the ten- sion. A request for State troops from Mayor es, of Sioux City, at whose markets the anti-selling movement is directed, are held up by Gov. Clyde L. Herring pending developments. A settlement has been made in the tool and diemakers' strike in the Detroit auto factories and other smaller plants Miners are going back to work in the soft coal fields in Penn- sylvania but in the northeastern section of the State, hard coal diggers are on a strike. The appeal for troops in Iowa followed burning of a bridge near Sioux City. Another bridge was set on fire last night. The situation there is said to be serious. —_—————— CHANNEL BRIDGE HEARING TO BE HELD TOMORROW To hold a hearing on the appli- cation of the Territory for a per- mit to erect a bridge across Gas- tineau Channel to link the towns of Juneau and Douglas together, Lieut. John R. Noyes of the office of United States District Engineer arrived today from his headquar- | ters in Seattle. The hearing will open at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow in the Hall of the House of Representatives in the Capitol Building. Al interested parties are invited to appear. All parties interested in naviga- tion and the officials of any Ter- ritorial, city, town or local associa-| tion whose interests in navigation may be affected by the construc-, tion on the proposed work are par-| ticularly invited to be present They will be given an opportunity to express their ews upon the suitability of the location and ade- quacy of the plans in reference to navigation, and to changes considered desirable in the interests of navigation. «It is particularly desired to as- certain whether the vertical clear- ance it is proposed to provide is| sufficient to accommodale present and prospective navigation at this point,” Lieut. Noyes said “If mot, it is desired to know what clear- ance should be provided.” The plans accompanying the ap- plication made by Gov. John W. Troy last month show a bridge with a fixed span of approximately 400 feet horizontal clearance and a vertical clearance of 585 feet at mean low water, and 38 feet above the highest recorded fide. Oral statements will be heard, but for accuracy of record all im- portant facts and arguments should be submitted in writing, as the records of the hearings will be for- ' warded for consideration by the War Department. Written state- ments may be handed to Lieut Noyes at the hearing, it was said. IKE 0ST SERIOUS Ul with the problem of striking a com-| ( | WARNING GIVEN BY SOVIET, EVE OF CELEBRATION President of Council of| | Commissars Speaks Out at Meeting 'TROUBLE APPARENTLY LOOKED FOR, FAR EAST 'Red Army to Be Strength- ened. Victory Hailed ! When Forces Clash | MOSCOW, Nov. 7.—The Soviet Government’s hope in a successful outcome for recognition by Wash- ington has resulted in a sharp warning to Japan to keep hands off the Soviet in the Far East. This warning was sounded last night by Vyacheslaff Molotoff, President of the Council of Com- missars and spoken in the pres- ence of Joseph Stalin and other high officials at a Communist Party meeting in the Moscow Op~ era House in hailing the Sixteenth Anniversary of the October Revo- | lution which will be celebrated throughout the country tomorrow.| Concerning Manchura, the| speaker said, “Japan is master there and responsible for every-| thing, so while striving to kesp| friendly relations everywhere, we shall continue, as last year, to strengthen the Red Army in the Far East. We expect when the moment comes to be victorious.” as COMES RIGHT BACK TOKYO, Japan, Nov. 7.—Ci cumstantial accounts by the Ren News Agency in Japanese language newspapers said Foregn Minister Sirota has advised Soviet Russia to decrease military concentrations DA in Far Eastern Siberia. | N0 RESULTS AT | FOR BIG SUM eputy Warden in Convict 'CONFERENGE ON "o Neer e DEBT REVISION Tl Bl ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. 7—] Sy Perkins, Deputy Warden of a Negotiations Between U.S. vict camp, yesterday fied and Great Britain Come to Naught afiuence with L C a con- a sul for $100,000 damages all sulting from the motion picture, |“I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang” against Warner Brother un | Pictures, Inc. and others Hits Home Perkins alleges he was in charge of the Campbell County Convict Camp when Robert E; Burns ‘I)roke away and that t is based on the bok Burns wr The British Ambassador con-| The suit claims that by inuen- ferred last Saturday with Ppresi-| do_reference the public is led to dent Roosevelt for the second time| believe the plaintiff is gulity of during the week. The first me | acts of c‘ru‘eny and v served to prolong conversations| the convicts in his ¢ and Saturday's concluded them Perkins alleges that on The negotiators were confronted characters is called “Parkin Second Suit The suit follows one cently against the Warne thers for $1,000,000 damages Harrell Hardy, convict ¥ n imilar charges. Hardy died but his attorn aid they . understood the suit w prose- | cuted. WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—Be in a spirit of pessimism in | by realization of the difficult to overcome, the war debt revision negotiation with Great Britain h: apparently reached the fruitless end. re- and by on ince promise between the British tence the debt payments be ¢ ed and the demand of Congr that the payments be collect<d has ! NO AGREEMENT | WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—Pre { dent Roosevelt announced tc ,the end of the British War Deb | negotiations without agreement. but | with the payment of $7.500,000 by lGrea( Britain on December 15. It is said here that France’s debt Idefault policy is still unchanzed | ——— The above picture was recently shown in Juneau. e Tries to Dance at 60; | Falls and Kills Self {Free State Is to Reorganize Army CHICAGO, Nov. 17 ars old, Mrs. Anna Bas how a few dance children of Mr. and man Kloss, at whose was staying while attendi fair. She slipped and fell, br ing her hip, and died from | injuries a few hours later | Brashow lived in Marquett w i to steps to Mr home 1 DUBLIN, Nov. 7.—The battalior | system in the Free State A would be discarded and regi formed under a plan framed b | Defense Minisster Aiken. The r | iments, instead of being numbs iwould be named for Irish pa Her- Mrs. Mich With the government of President Grau San Martin believed tott Juba’s strong man and likeliest successor to Grau. Mendieta ha; life in his country’s service. He fought against Spain in '98 and led the 1 prisoned and later exiled, he returned to Havana with the overthrow of Mach: be the only man in Cuba who would be acceptable as President to all lar favorite of Carlos De La Torr ents who hold the real power in the turbulent e picture | o, | he on a beach here today. The tor Mendi:a{aw I;ooihs As Next Cuban President . Colona! Carlas Mepdicta is 't of his do. Mendieta is belicved to rties. He is known to be a particu- ty of Havana, who wields tremendous wnd. D'GROOT MURDER TRIAL STARTED ! mained the same as yesterday, ! | e, former president of the Univer: Gold Price . Unchanged; . Is$32.84 Self-defense Plea of Slay- er of Abe Hanson, Murder Charge $32.84 an ounce. patches from London tell of a new gold weakness there. - TORSO FOUND ' BY FISHERMEN ON CALL BEACH Head, Arms, Legs Appar- ently Severed by Some | Sharp Instrument | A jury of five women and scven men was selected and impaneled in the Federal District Court in less than one hour this morning to de- cide the fate of Harol local barber, upon whor ernment indicated it a capital dict for murder of Abe Hanson, for years a gasboat operator this port Opening by both sides and th ernment witness, R. B Iver, had about | REDONDO BEACH, Cal, Nov. 7. | “mony ’M. n —A headless, legless, armless hum-| . u:-‘(-" e an torso was found by fishermen | 2700 o out of > made Gov- ) Mc- statements (Do N Tecess was F. Alexan- epresented by and H. L. Faulk- 1 | called ie! George B. Grigst {nad apparently been in the wate im’" several months. The authorities | have so far been unable to de-| term the sex. The arms, head| and legs were apparently severed | Pleads Self-Defense Mr. Faulkner, in his opening (Continued on Paga Two) REPEAL ISSUE * BEING DECIDED, VOTING TODAY Result Will Answer if 13 Years of Prohibition Is Sufficient TAMMANY HAS GREAT FIGHT IN NEW YORK |Postmaster General Farley Confident Administra- tion Is Supported WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.— Voters in half a dozen wide- {1y scattered States are today |inscribing their answers as {to whether thirteen years of 'Prohibition shall end next | month. Of almost equal importance to a large portion of the elec- |torate is New York’s three- |way Mayoralty contest in which Tammany's long reign lis at stake. | Elsewhere, in the off-year ember election horizon, are scattered city and State {elections by which political | chservers hope to gauge sen- timent with an eye on the Congressicnal campaigns next | vear. For McKee Confidence that balloting |in Pennsylvania, Ohio, North and South Carolina, Kentucky land Utah will climax the Ad- iminislnntiun's camp aign to | restore liquor is expressed by | Postmaster General Farley }\\'hu also brought the Nation- |al Administration a bit closer in the New York Mayoralty race with a last minute open jappeal for the election of |Joseph V. McKee. Wets Sanquine Anti-Prohibition majorities in at !least three States are predicted by the wet organization leaders. That " (Continued on fié;i‘wo) — ., — ‘.4’"(’"1('{("8 Ar? Under Dictatorship | LONDON, Nov. 7.—Stan- ley Baldwin, Lord President of the Council, asserted in a speech at a rally last night that the ordinary constitu- tion has been broken down in the United States and the Americans are practi- cally under a dictatorship. by some sharp instrument ?S('hl)l)l Wr()rk Is - /German Students in | | U. S. Facing Quiz for One | Cut Down Million Children » cited an off | NEW YORK, Nov. 7.—A demand that the activities of German ex-la { change students at American Uni-|d ities investigaled to disclose|t whether they are engaged in Na: propaganda work has been made| co by Dr. Prank Boas, professor of anthropology at Columbia Unive: sty In Samue! house WASHINGTON, Nov. 7. — An| The survey I of depression con- | 1 ) | schools, with 110,80 s, ning to undermine # ¢ o, 1 schools, was un- | [0 reopen; 716 ng of the joint|Will run less e emergency in that 2,016 failed with 35,750 pupils, than eight months. disclosed ies paid teachers, are con- below what is being paid fa y hands under the NRA blanket and permanent codes, sur- howed The report emphasized that his year approximately half the r cachers in the nation are r an annual salary of less than $750, and one in every five is receiving less than $450.” | siderably Na- re- cted by the Association 000 children be either § opportu: en- or go on an educational on ba this fall through of schools to reopen or to throughout the school a letter to Represe chairman of in i de- imm Ona order of the su- me command of the Nazis re- German students in| f; foregn lands to spread Hitler prop-| function ) year,