The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 8, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VO[,. )\Llll., NO 6490. JUN[:AU ALASKA, WEDNESD AY, '\IOVEMBER 8, 1933, ME.MBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CBVT g REPEAL PROHIBITION Pennsylvania, Ohio and Utah V ote “Wet” Making Thirty-six State. to Knockout Eighteenth Amendment from U. S. Constitution TAMMANY SWEPT FROM POWER IN N.Y. Wreckage of Great Machine Is Almost Complete as Fusion Candidate Wins Election by Quarter of Million Votes, Wigwam Candidate Being Third Man in Mayoralty Battle; McKee in Second Place After Hot Campaign GEN, JOHNSON CARRIES FIGHT T CHISELERS NRA Adminstrator Threat- ens to Use Big Stick on Gougers DECLARES FARM STRIKE, AIDS ENEMIES OF NRA Asks Support to President) to Fight Racketeers, [ Beat Depression [ MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. 8.— Flinging another verbal attack at Hemry Ford, Gen. Hugh S. John-| son, NRA Administrator, last night ned from his speech here in' dep! g the Mid-west farm s:rxk“; H to threaten, if necessary, the “chis-| elers and gougers under the Re- | covi Act” with the Administra- tion’s big stick. Addressing a throng in the Clty; Auditorium, the NRA Chieftain! counseled patience in support so| the President can “lick this ghast-|§ farm disparity.” Is Not Dictator Referring to the recent ch: he had assumed the airs of a Di tator, Johnson said: " “This charge happened to come from a man W is intrenched in what he re-} ds as an impregnable economic position of wealth and power and| he has exercised a most ruthless economic dictatorship.” Administrator Johnson declar- ed the farm strike helped the ene- mies of NRA in “their fight against any effort of recovery. This na- tion acts as one man to pull it-| self out of the depression and helps fight the enemies of NRA| in their cynical belief they can always play the farmer for a sucker.” Richest Girl Not Able to Obtain Suite Pieture the richest girl in the world housed in the “sample” room of a San Francisco hotel and you have exactly the plight of Miss Doris Duke, only child of the late James B. Duke, multimillionaire tobacco king, during her weekend stay in that city. Her identity closely guarded, Miss Duke came to see the U. S. C.-California foot- ball game. Hotel reservations were at a premium. There was & pts simply no other place for her rges : but the “sample” room. She B hack s g the. timit | CESEAnd fCE. e ghme, Biok and let nothing happen to give| o RLTIC REUE LYY aid and comfort to his enemvles‘ P g e i R i Ewetity- which are yours. Let us pull 10~/ grgs pirthday by formally in- gether or it is certain as sunrise heriting between fifty and we arclgomz to be pulled dOWD| giopiy millions. separately.” ARSI Gen. Johnson declared that “N RA offers nothing but protection | Gul-n PR' c E against chiseling and racketeering | in this country. NRA strengthens| the rule of majority. It has puc\ four million people back to work. I am not going to see it lose by, any -great plans and pmm"anda of chiselers. ———,——— 'MAKES APPEAL FOR HITLER AT POLLS SUNDAY Millions of Workers Asked! 5Pt *0lee® on ‘the worla to Support Chancellor | market. Forcign exchanges saw the in Coming Election | doliar slipping further to $1.94 to the pound in the London BERLIN, Nov. 8—A message, market, the lowest since 1914. directed to millions of workers ox; P the consolidated and gigantic la- bor front of the Nazi Trade Umon’ by Commissioner Roberf Ley, ap- pealed for the solid backing ofi Chancellor Hitler in next Sunday S| election. NEW YORK, Nov. 8.—The Her- ald Tribune says a movement has been started in Tammany to ask Al Smith to resign his member- ship. WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.—Re- sponding to an increase of 54 | cents an cunce in the world | market price, the Reconstruc- ticn Finance Corporation has purchased more newly mined domestic gold and the price went today to a new high of $33.05 an ounce. The price of bar gold was Hitler seeks control of the Reichstag and endorsement of his foreign policy. Observers believe he will receive the double endorse- ment. A WILLIAM L. PAUL BACK FROM KETCHIKAN — e LEAVES HOSPITAL , TRIP Charles Beck, who underwent a| William L. Paul, local attorney, tonsilectomy at St. Ann’s Hospital returned to Juneau on the steamer yesterday, left the hospital today'Alaska from a business trip to for his home. ,Ketchikan, - $3305 TODAY TIGAROLINAS | BREAK AWAY WET COLUMN {Two States Ale First to| Vote Retention of 1 Amendment ‘ PREDlCTlONS ARE GENERALLY UPSET Whlle Resul.s Favor Re- publicans, Vote Not Re- volt Against F. D. R. CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, Nov. 8—A dry victory in North Cerolina and what apparently is one in South Carolina, gave the first break in the wet column and the two States are the first to go on record for retention of the Eighteenth Amendment since Con- gress submitted the question. | This confounded most of the | prognosticators in the size of the | North Carolina dry majority which was unforeseen by any of the prophets outh Carolina | the by feather-edge | margin was in of | most. predictions | Explanation Given a contradiction Plty the Poor Beach Cop! The arm of the law 1s engaged in a rather pleasant pastime here, although in line of duty. The new bathing ordi- nance for Hnllyv\ood beaches is_responsible. Here is Miss Peggy Graves being examined | and measured to deter- mine whether or not her nifty costume covers the law and enough of Peggy. { In explaining the South Caro- lina outcome, Romulus Reese, Sec- |retary of the Association for Pro- hibition Reform, said the repealists were “just too sure of repeal and the voters did not turn out.” In North Carolina, Jake Newell, Republican leader, asserted the re- sult in reality was a Republican victory with every county vn!h nur- mal Republican strength gi huge majority to the dry c Senator J. W. Bailey, mpml ‘ad- New Head {vocaté in North Carolina, said “the |result in no sense is a revolt against President Roosevelt. He would carry the State today by an| even larger majority than given him last year. One explanation is |that the drys began an earlier cam- |paign in the two States than the others and worked harder than the advocates who took the re- as a :uregone conclusion.” _— FORMER ALASKA BANKER FOUND HI DI NG; NchEi‘;;‘;"}z :‘;‘Lflifi and Juneau, wi | e | There is but little organizatio: | business slated to come up lotes Left by Jacob J. Cole' aiscussion and most of the noo: | hour will be devoted to greetl Indicated He Might | {iece two suests, Attempt Suicide ! BRADLEY T0 BE CHAMBER GUEST = TOMORROW NOON Local Business Men P. R. Bradley, :resldent of th Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Com- pany, who ived here yest: for a week’s visit, his first sinc his advancement from Consulting Engineer to the head of the cc pany, will be a guest of Chamber of Commerce tomorrow at its weekly noonluncheon meet- ing at Bailey’s Cafe, it was a nounced today by John W. Jon President. Lieut. John H. Noyes, here for hearing on the Terrifory’s ap- plication foi a permit to e A bridge over Gastineau Channe a New Hymn Written SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. 8. —Jacob J. Cole, aged 78, retired Alaska banker, whose wife asked| the police to reach for him after| YEOVIL, England, Nov. 8 he disappeared Monday, was found hymn wriiten by Rev. J. E safe Tuesday cruched in a niche Harrison, rector of Yeovi, atir in the Palace of Fine Arts Build- ed the attention of an America ing in the Marine section. | scout official and he is negot The police said Cole left a|ing with clergymen with a view to note Monday that indicated he‘hfl"ing it adopted by the Amer might commit suicide. { scout organization. The recto Yesterday a similar note was)Wrote the English Scout hym: found beside a lagoon near where “Your Leader Calls You.” Cole lived. ————————— i Cole was found by James J.|BABY GIRL BORN TO MR. Hoffman, his son-in-law, who| AND MRS. JOHN EOVCHEV said the former banker suffered no reversss and was financially independent. e, This morning at 9:30 o'c’ ibaby girl weighing six and |quarters pounds was b to and Mrs. John E. Eovchev a Ann’s Hospi —_————— | MR. AND MRS. A. JOHANSEN G. 1. Clithero, who is an of- PARENTS OF BABY PBOY ficer in the salvage company work-; At 1 o'clock this morning a ba ing at the scene of the Islander boy weighing six and three-quarter wreck, arrived from Seattle on the pounds was born at St. steamer Alaska and left for thejHospital. The proud parents scene of operations, off the south-'the new arrival are Mr. and ern end of Douglas Island, |Algot Johansen, G. I. CLITHERO ARRIVES FROM SOUTH ON ALASKA | | ea or the Boy Scouts yq: | was completed D'GROOT TELLS HIS OWN STORY ABOUT SHOOTING -of Alaska Ju- Takes Stand in Own De- neau Will Be Greeted by | ense Today and Tells of Killing Abe Hanson DeGroot, taking the stand on his own behalf this morning in the Federal District Court, told his story leading up to the fatal shooting of Abe Hanson last March for which he is now being tried on an indictment charging him with murder in the first degree. He admitted he went 0 Hanson's place on Chichagof Island for the purpose of taking away his wife and that he had been at least partly foiled in that attempt, He shot Hanson on the Wa Wa at Chichagof, he said. because he feared his life was at stake and only after Hanson made motions of drawing a revolver that he had carried continuously for a two-day period dur which both DeGroot and his wife assert- the defendant had been re- peatedly threatened with death. Harold gasboat Government Case Brief he Government's case in chie; brief. It called but s, R. B. (Doc.) Mclver, is the owner of the boat on which the killing was done and who was present at the time but did not see the shooting. His testimony shortly after the noon recess yesterday. Five defense w called to the stand yester ternoon, including Mclve: Smith, United States Commis at Chichagof, Georg: l4~'x S uty United States Mar ter Ulrich and Mrs. DeC Smith testified to the | investigation following ing. Mr. Jones told o revolver aboard the H with which the Hanson had previous! DeGroot and which he continuously for t ing the shooting, a bl an old, rusty rifle ber of the crew of told of reporting the sheo! the Commissioner. were Lou ner Dep- Wa ting (Conuinued on Page TWw0) | posts .|“Let There Be nght i * | bulbs ‘ und c\'cr,v householder in the land] John Factor to| | m Here He Ts— Mayor - Elect _-,__‘ { CANDIDATE OF FUSIONISTS IS - ELECTED CHIEF ¢ EXECUTIVEN.Y. O Brien Falls to Carry One, of Five Boroughs— Democrats Win in Many Elections NEW YORK, Nov. 8.—The Tammany dynasty was swept from power in yesterday’s el-' ection when Fiorelle La- Guardia was given a quarter of a million plurality. Never in recent political history of Tammany has the wreckage of its city-wide ma- chine been so complete, Tam- many winning only its New York County ticket. | In the victorious Fusion! headquarters the assertion made that Tammany passed the word to knife Mayor O’'Brien and trade him in desperate attempt to save what they could from the} Fusion landslide. | O’Brien failed to carry even one of the five boroughs and; finished third in the thrée-| cornered race. | O’Brien got 86,100 :md“ Joseph McKee received 604,- 045 votes. Ficrelle H. LaGuardia, former Congressman, and “stormy pet- rel” of the Republican Party in New Yerk who was elected Chief Executive of the metropolis yes- terday on the Fusion ticket. He a fce of Wall Street. The platform on which he was el- ected follows: “Pledged to eliminate leafer frem public office. Favers adoption of (uummltl charter rule preventing any city empleyee from contributing to or receiving favors from any party or candidate . « Advo- cates new city charter and abelishment of county govern- ments within city . . . Would eliminate $20,000,000 a ‘waste’ in land condemnat ! ‘rackets : | of courts ‘rulea p: i is is al every speilsmen’ . . . insists city bud- get should be brought within city’s income . Has school | system referm: IN NEW YORK SERVE DRINKS DEMOCRATS LOST TWO POST! Cleveland but made off-setting gains in other cities. Fiorelle H. LaGuardia, Independ- ent Republican, running as Fusion- | ist, won in New York City by a large majority. i In Cleveland, Harry Davis, Re- publican, won over Ray Miller, Democrat, inecumbent. | Democrat in Boston Frederick Mansfield, Democra® was elected Mayor in Boston in a six-sided race, The Democrats made striking | gains upstate in New York, Buf- falo electing a Democratic Mayor for the first time since 1914 | In Rochester, a Democratic May-, ies of ew York or was elected, the first time in open their door 30 years. | placed welcome mats Poughkeepsie Joins Parade | holds. Poughkeepsie, the nearest city to The Attorney G the home of President Roosevelt.|said late last night o far named a Democrat for Mayor for| we are concerned, the Eighteenth the first time in four years. | Amendment is still a law Courtland elected a Democrat! Even then s crowds of three for Mayor for the first time since|and four 1 and out incorporation, 33 years ago. of the wut inter- Jasper McLevy was elected Mayurf ference. of Bridgeport, Connecticut, to be-| The come the first Socialist every el-|during yeste: ted to a Mayoralty in the State.| legal be The Council is also composed of | until Socialists. the pc — the easies ‘Un’ ba Doors — Crowds Go in Unmolested by Police NEW YORK, Nov. 8 —Speakeas- propped ight and on thres- I's office speakeast was barred on and all re closed osed, but made no ef s to stem flowing into the speak- lining up in front of > Says Turkish Official| i ISTANBUL, Nov. 8. — Electric| 7 'ND'GTED had a huge sale in Turkey as the al celebrated the| tenth .mmvexsaxy of the Republic on October 29. All city and town 8—Seven indicted for idnaping. Thec by death in Tlling Nov | g governments ! the County the nstructions that all front|js windows should be bedecked With ights during the three nights m‘\r\\”s AXTEL HOME 1e celebration. FROM ST. ANN'S TODAY G AL ST RS IN HOSPITAL Mrs. T. J. Strobe is receiving| al treatment at St. AnnJ - Stanley Axtel, who underwent major operation at St. Ann's H pital ten days ago, went home !rom Hospital l'hn hospital today, ‘Welcome Mats Placed at| |three States by | EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT ~ NOW OUT OF CONSTITUTION ‘Thlrty sn(Stales Have Act- ed Favorably on Repeal —Utah Clinches Na- tional Wet Parade WASHINGTON, Nov. The Eighteenth Amendment has been voted out of the (cmtnutmn in off-year elec- tumw with iiquor being legal lin 19 States when the last step in repeal is takenm on {December 5 or December 6. P ennsylvania, Ohio and Utah, on the basis of early returns, voted for repeal thus lining up the full 36 States' needed for killing the Eigh- teenth Amendment. 8.— North and South Carolina, the former by a heavy vote, were the first States to step out of line in the wet parade and voted to retain the Eigh- teenth Amendment. The mar- gin in the latter State for dry is small. Counting of ballots in Kentucky began at 10 o'clock this morning, as required by the State law but repealists confidently predict the Blue Grass State has joined the repeal march. Ohio, Pennsylvania and Utaih hold ratifying conventions on December H Kentucky votes for repeal, Ndl'undl Prohibition ends on that date because of that State’s con- vention on November 27. Otherwisc repe: will be delayed until De- cember 6 when Maine ratifies re- ‘.wnl Deleat Conceded Dry leaders conceded defeat in Utah before half of the precincts were heard from. The wets made further gains in later returns giv- ing the State distinction of being the tnirty-sixin State to vote for ratification Ohio piled up 600,000 razjoricy for repeal although it i tle birthplace of the Anti-Saloon League and Prohibition movement Pennsylvania gave a 6 to 1 vote for repeal All other than the 19 States where liquor may be legally sold, have either constitutional or sta- tutory Prohibition and repeal of National Constitutional Prohibition leaves them unaffected Thirty- s were dry when Pro- hibition was ddupud Now only 29 States wil r POLITICS 168 KILL PRESTON Nov. 8.— Reports of five el y killings in the Floyd and Knou Counties brought to 15 the number of kill- Ky |ings in the State of Kentucky. - Smith and Others Were Wade Large Loans After Market (rmh in 1929 WASHING ro stigators said :oday the National Bank has submit- ce showing loans of sev- thousiads of dollars were » Al E. Smith and others, ants in the syndicate stock 1ts shortly after the market : in 1929,