The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 11, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIIL, NO. 6493. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE_TEN CENTS PRESIDENT T0 END EMERGENCY TAXES | Tribute to FallenMen 1 RECOGNITION IS REPORTED T0 BE NEARER Conversations Are to Con-| tinue Between Presi- dent and Litvinoff ber Peace Reestablish- ed 15 Years Ago WASHINGTON, Nov. 11. tions of the world paused today WASHINGTON, Nov.11.—Friend- | to revive memories of peace which | ly but serious conversations be-|came to the war-torn world fifteen | tween President Roosevelt and So-|years ago and to honor those who Affairs Commissar | fought and died in the great war. off th Un‘L(\I States and diplomatic kinship. Official souces forecast an an- incement next week of anunder- ing on recognition supporting this prediction. Personal Chats | There have been personal chats! between the President and Soviet | rep. entative up to more than two hours and also the State Depart-| ment meetings which swelled the total discussions to more than ten hour: | windswept tomb in Arlington Ceme- Further conferences are obvious, tery. LISTLESS WITH SLIGHT GAINS world soldier the the propelled Russia toward Millions paid silent ! dead. All over the United States and possessions, World War veterans gathered to salute their fallen com- rades. in parts of tribute ‘to n RESPECT PAID WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—Bowing ing reverence, President Roosevelt acknowledged the respect of the nation for the Unknown Soldier anew by placing a wreath on the ference was last mght when Presn- dent Roosevelt and Commissar Lit- vinoff talked together, with) William Bullitt, Secretary of State| Hull’s special assistant and author-| ity on Russian affairs being the| only outsider present. e e———— CUBAN REVOLT SPREADING T0 | 2 PROVINGES Situation Reported Tense| in Santa Clara and Also Oriente ing Little Strength to Equities NEW YORK, Nov. 11. — After mulling about listlessly for most of | the short session, stocks rallied moderately in the final minutes for points. Trading was largeiy professional. With the grain markets closed, from the new gold price. The sterling, after losing seven cents, cancelled virtually all decline. The French franc sagged, then recov- ered. HAVANA, Cuba. Nov. 11.—Rum- blings of a revolt oustide of the capital sounded ominously today as the Government launched plans to deal sternly with those most; active in this week’s bloody up- rising. Havana Province is quiet except for an occasional skirmish. The U. S. Smelting Provinces of Matanzas and Cam- |, :¢c E _flgu(-y are quiet but the situation” Western Union, Case, Allied is reported tense in Santa Clara|cpemical, American Telephone and R Sigtente EROvnces Telegraph, National Distillers wert Gnfl-P. LE ADERS 1 cacibrsdi A o | . o HOLD MEETING more were United States Steel Begin Series Conferences American Smelting, Shrysler, Gen- eral Motors, Depasco, Sears, Good- —Prepare for Con- gressional Tilt year and McIntyre. WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—Re- publican leaders began a series of conferences yesterday in prepara- tion for the Congressional elections in 1934 in which Chairman Ever- ett Sanders said he hoped fo cap- ture the House. Criticism on the Recovery pro- gram and Administration, ‘first voiced in a pamphlet issued ten days ago in which the President was charged with breaking cam- paign pledges, was indicated as a line of strategy for the Republi- cans to follow. One of the first problems will be to clear away the deficit of approximately $175,000 from the 1932 campaign. —e——— HERB DUNLOP ON TRIP Herb Dunlop, merchandise brok- er, left on the Yukon for a busi- ness trip to Southeast Alaska cit- jes. Bends Irregular Bonds were somewhat although the Federal list displayed {rallying tendencies. | three was up CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Nov. 11.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 26, American Can 91%, American Power and Light 8, Anaconda 157, Armour B 2% Bethlehem Steel 31, Hecla 5%, Colorado Fuel and Iron,| no sale; Curtiss-Wright 2%, Fox Films, no sale; General Motors 31, International Harvester 39%, Kennecott 22%;, Packard Motors 3%, Standard Oil of California 427, United Corporation 5%, Can- adian Pacific 12%, Chicago and Milwaukee (preferred) 8%, United States Steel 42%. Hikers Cause Punctures WAUKESHA, Wis, Nov. 11. Nails from the soles of hitch-hik- ers’ shoes are causing an epidemic of slow leaks in automobile tires of this section, it has been found by garage workers. The hikers in many instances sole their shoes imperfectly, and the mnails work out of the soles to the highway, where they are picked up by tires. ANDY VOLSTEAD SENATOR LONG PaidToday| Nations Pause to Remem-| = Nhel |Grain Markets Closed Giv-: gains of fractions to around two| equities had little inspiration aside ! | alienation of Mr irregular | Calumet and| GIVES VERSION fident, Victors Won Thl‘ough Politics MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, Nov. Andrew J. Volstead, the dying Prohibition | his silence yesterday Prohibiticn repeal. He wrote a public letter to a local newspaper, declaring the “Wets won through | politics, the lavish use of money | and the rankest kind of propa- ganda that ever fication of the Constitution.” Law, broke over-confident. The letter was sent from Granite Falls where Volstead practices law. Volstead further said, in his | letter, that only one-fourth of the voters cast their ballots in the re- peal elections and he reminded, the | Wets that they will have to live, up to their promises, such as that ! the saloon will not come back. He added: “In the near future an- other campaign outlawing the Lrai- fic in liquor was probable.” FILM ACTRESS GRANTED NEW TRIAL IN L. ‘Judgment of $75, 000 Against Miss Windsor | | *“Unreasonable” Nov. 11.— LOS ANGELES, Cal, awarded Mrs. Oakland matron, against Windsor, film actress, for Read.’s | husband was “excessive | reasonable,” Superior J. P. Sroul, has granied the ac- | tress a new frial. Read after a sensational trial in] which Mrs. Read sued for $100,000, charging the blonde actress stole the affections of her husband. Al- fred C. Read, Oakland broker. M'LEAN BACK; LANDING OUT OF QUESTION Juneau Pilot Is Unable to Reach Two Marooned | Persons, Tel. Creek Pilot Chester McLean, Alaske Air Express, Jun |ing Lockheed | the company's in several attempts to reach Tele-| graph Creek on the Stikine River, to bring out L. H. Smith and ing 'in that vicinity. and a landing on the swift and returned to Juneau. A boat will be sent up the river, Steve Early and came fo Juneau which is still sufficiently open, t0, early in the fall where she has ring Mr. Smith and Miss Joyce jb,en fhe Tovse guest of Mrs. Lau- to Wrangell. OF WET DELUGE Declares D;yT Over Con-| 1| former | and un- have Court Judge ship when it arrives there. | | brazen the nulli-} Volstead asserted the Drys were | | | | i IS GREETED BY BOMB AND EGGS Declares He_ Put Roosevelt in White House in Louisiana Speech ALEXANDRIA, Louisiana, Nov. co-author of | 11.—An odorous bomb was dropped from an upper story building and respecting | a barrage of eggs were tossed in his direction as United States Sen- ator Huey P. Long mounted the ity Hall steps here to deliver a speech on the redistribution of wealth in the new tax program The eggs missed the Senator who warned his audifors not to attempt any heckling. At an earlier meeting Senator Long claimed the credit of put- ting Roosevelt in the White House saying: “No newspaper and no politician has had the nerve to say Roosevelt could have been nominated at Chicago if Huey Long Long hod not been there.”, 0BTAIN CLUE ~ IN KIDNAPING, BROOKE HART Wallet of Abducted Man Is Found Aboard Tanker— Steamer Be Searched SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. 11 —Discovery of a wallet bearing his |name and containing the personal Deciding that the $75,000 judgment | tanker in the bay which had been Marian Y. Rcad,‘d)ckpd alongside the Matson liner Claire| Lurline alleged | geles yesterd: Judgment was awarded Mrs, man over a telephone asked $40,000 ‘ | 1 l of the said, have cleared up and Mrs returned mi Howard is expected to be up with- au from Wrangell this morn- plane at 10:15 o'clock after makmg\ MRS. 0. H. SMITH LEAVES | Forced back bysunfavorable wukon to join her husband and weather and after several t00 ex-!tne ohildren, who preceded her citing experiences in the mountains | south, slushy Stikine River, Pilot McLean! symmer at Kimsham Cove vis followed the dictates of wisdom and | ner mother, the late Mrs. | cards of Brooke Hart, kidnaped in How States are Preparea for Repeal i METHR & — . RELIEF COMING FORTAXPAYERS AT YEAR'S END Roosevelt Will Wipe Out $250,000,000 in Lev- ies by Proclamation 'PROHIBITION REPEAL MAKES THIS POSSIBLE Official Estimate Indicates $500,000.000 May Be Dropped Next Year A ! WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—Presi- | dent Roosevelt, it was made known Map shows how the forty-eight States stand as regards prepafation for repeal of the Federal prohibition laws, | scheduled to become effective on December 6. Only ten States (marked A) have enacted new laws for liquor five (marked B) will revert to pre-prohibition laws unless new laws are adopted before repeal; three States (marked C) are at present without laws, but have commissions working; six States (marked D) control; ’i:ve chfmnasmns preparing new control laws; six others (marked E) pr 8, operate under present dry laws until new legislation is enacted. WASHINGTON, Nov. 1L—"Af-|gong are preparing new Ilquol' ter Repeal—what?” is the ques-|jawe which they expect to have | fi_.iun now occupying master m“‘d‘“endcwd before repeal becomes ef- | in various parts of the country( re,iive These States are Colo- and particulaily in the national | rado, Illinois, Oregon, Towa, Mich- r, with the zero hour‘ 1 < | igan, esota, Missouri, io, on scheduled for De-| 8 Minnes ssouri, Ohio, | irginia. cember 5, another problem is mu_\auc;V g ¥, A > fronting the country. ive States that will go back to pre-prohibition laws unless new i _c"l'}‘]""l %}"’“‘"; ool laws are adopted are Louisiana, 4 ;]‘5 hh e pr‘u e, 0! fwlx; ”; Maryland, Massachusetts, New ;’(”‘rf. h::’::ce;‘e SIO:‘";(_Bhe‘; n;)‘;; Jersey and Wisconsin. However, ams 3 ° commissions are rki re- becomes effective, the knotty rid-| ot working <o ape dle will be dumped, automatically, | pare; mew, faws. N - Mamsacunachie into had e eatteatibd Tinso of < ge| Snd Wiscopaln, Jilhidk a propieme : atic if they will be enacted before States. It is their concern to en- . December 5. act laws governing the liquor traf- fic. Early Action Expected Although thirty - seven States In six of the remaining twenty- three States, early action to re- the remaining 18 States, one, Washhlm.on has no liquor laws whatever and 17 will continue | san have lifted their voices in condem- nation of prohibition, only ten have adopted new liquor laws to meet the emergency that will arise with repeal. These states are Arizona, fornia, Connecticut, Delaware, In- diana, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, New York and Rhode Is- land. One of the ten, Indiana, which ratified repeal by a 2 to 1 vote, prohibits the Nc’:pc in drug stores for purposes. Jose Thursday, is reported here. The wallet was found on an oil Cali- which sailed for Los An- in Los Angeles ted to search the author! been requ The There have been no other con- tacts than the first, in which a “if you want your son home alive.” commis- sale of liquor | medicin- | vise existing liquor laws is likely, but almost certainly not before the Federal prohibition law is dis- carded. These States are Maine, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Utah, Vermont and Wyoming. That leaves the remainder of the States to continue to operate | under their present dry laws, re- ‘qard]eqs of whether or not they voted to repeal fhe Eighteenth | Amendment. These States include Alabama, | Arkansas, Florida, Georgla Idaho, ' | act.a model liquor law to apply to {today from the White House, ex- pects to issue a proclamation aboubt December 5, which will end taxes that the Treasury estimates are now omise early action to revise existing | producing revenue at:the rate of to {about $250,000,000 Yearly. | « These levies were included in the | National Recovery Act for the spec- ial purpose of financing the Ad- ministration’s emergency program. Attached to them was a proviso under which a Presidential pro- clamation would end them after repeal of the Eighteenth Amend- ment officially comes in December. Held as Mendatory The President is represented as i rregarding this tax suspending ‘pro= clamation is mandatory upon him and intends to issue it as scon as he receives formal ratification of the action which makes Utah the 36th State to ratify repeal. The Utah ratification meeting will take place on December 3, and on or about that date the President expects to issue the pro=- clamation. Effective Junuary First The following levies will be elim- inated by the President: Beginning January 1, 1934, one- half cent Federal tax on gasoline; and five per cent now levied on dividends at the source. Beginning July 1, 1934, tal stock tax will end. The excess profits levy will be dropped at the end of the taxable year that was chosen by the tax- payer. The President, it was added, also Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Caro- lina, South Dokota, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia and h- ington. The (last-named State is the only one in the entire forty- eight that has no legal provis- ion whatever for controlling the! liquor traffic. | Perhaps the most striking of the new liquor laws enacted by any State is that of Montana. There the control of liquor traffic will be placed in the hands of the Montana Liquor Control Board,| which will establish stores for t sale of liquor in packages between the hours of 12 noon and 8 p. m,, except Sundays and holidays. Many other States are expected to follow Montana's lead and en- act similar laws, Federal Zones In Federal districts, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Vir lands, and the Canal Zone Volstead Act will remain in force after repeal, pending action by Congress, which is expected to en- such as ska, Is- the capi- these Federal districts at the on whxch mcnts in January. ses- In nine other Smt(»i MRS. BRICE HOWARD RECUPERATING FROM GIRL MISSING, recent operaion SEARCH BEGUN IN CALIFORNIA Mrs. Brice Howard, sister of | H. G. Watson and former resident of this city, is convalescing in a Tacoma hospital from an opera- tion for appendicitis, according to word just received by Mr. Watson from Mr. Howard. She was re- | ported to be making excellent pro- i gress toward recovery. Mrs. Howard was teken sudden- !ly il on November 2. She was | rushed to the hospital and ope ed on immediately, Complications | made her condition serious for a | few days but these, Mr. Howard Have Disappeared from Oakland Home Nov. 11.—Search girl, reported home of her CAKLAND, Cal., for & 14-year-old missing from the grandmother, Mrs. M. Souza, at Fort Bragg, has been started by the police at the krandmcth(-r's request. Mrs, Souza said the girl's mother, Mrs. A. Gomez and another daugh- ter aged five years, ing from their Oakland home. in a short time. - e — ON YUKON FOR CALIFORNIA Mrs. O. H. Smith, who came Mary Joyce, who have been hunt-|pnortn in the early summer with Broadway Girl to Wed Young Erskine her children, left on the steamer TUSLA, Okla, Nov. the dith Howard, Broadway show , flew into Tusla with Alk R. Erskine, Jr., son of the late presi- dent of the Studebaker Corp: tion, and announced to homefolks that she and Erskine would be married at the end of the theatri- cal season, in Fresno, California 11.—M Smith spent most of Mrs. P. S Rex and Early and her brothers, rel McKechnie, Two Otherfieported to| are also miss- | Humphrey E Loses Out | WASHINGTON, Nov. 11. — Tht{ Comptroller General has ruled that | William S. Humphrey, deposed Fed- | eral Trade Commissioner, is no| |longer entitled to the salary of| that office despite his claim he is| still Commissioner. | The President removed Humphrey and appointed George C. Matthews | in his place. } Humphrey decided to sue to at-| tach Matthews legality of his removal. - e FORD WINS | WASHINGTON, Nov. 11. — The | Comptroller General has ruled that |Henry Ford is eligible to receive | Government contracts although he | refused to sign the NRA auto code | |in behalf of his manufacturing | companies. | - eee | | the salary which went to| and also to test thei JOHN GUERRERO ENTERS HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT John Guerrero, who is employed at the Alaska Juneau entered St. Ann's Hospital yesterday for treat- |ment for an injured knee, | HULL LEAVES | State | delegate Montevideo. hopes to be able to eliminate some of the so-called nuisance taxes such as levies on refrigerators, automo- bile tires and the like. In all, said the official estimate, | he desired to do away with nearly £500,000,000 in taxes. This amount will then be raised by a tax on distilled Hqucr FOR SOUTH ON BIG MISSION Secretary of State Off to SUGGESTS THAT oot S ™| RUSSIA, JAPAN GET TOGETHER WASHINGTON barking on a Foreign Minister 'Would Cease Military Ac- tivity on Borders Nov. 11 lengthy mission aim- at smoothing relations between United States and the Latin- Secretary of — Em- ed the American Hull left nations, today as the chief to Seventh Pan-Am- Conference be held at He sailed from New York this afternoon. The Secretary made no comment the erican to TOKYO, Nov. 11.—The sugges- tion that Russia and Japan should get together and agree to cease all military activity along the entire Siberian and Manchurian border was made yesterday by Japan's _ Foreign Minister, Koki Hirota. Although newspapers inter< preted the statement as a warning to the Soviet to withdraw troops concentrated on the border, Hi- they were guided and wished to indicate the y of mutual abstention from military activity which would be likely to awaken mistrust, his mis e i e L L. L. TRIMBLE TO SPEND SOME TIME IN JU regarding the L for the rived L. Trimble, Route Agent Railway Express Agency, in Juneau for a week's stay in Juneau after spending the last four visiting the offices of the company in the Interior. ar- months