The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 14, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY. , NOVEMBER 14, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS TW@ BURN TO DEATH JIN F IIRE ARCT]IC TRADING SHIP 1S DESTROYED, CAMERON BAY Two Members of Crew Lose Their Lives in Vessel's Flames CAPTAIN IS FLOWN OUT FOR TREATMENT| Canadian Pil—ol'Makes Fastl Flight Over Barren Lands of North E D M O NTON, Nov. 14.—| Pilet John Bythell rested at| Aklavik today after a 500-] mile flight over the barren lands from Cameren Bay with Capt. Vic Ingraham, skipper of an Arctic schooner, in a speed trip to secure medical treatment. ('.spl ]m.;r | stroyed by fire on Great Bear Lake, with the loss of two lives. Capt. Ingraham also suf- fered severe frost bites as the result of two days’ adrift on a rubber raft. It is feared that one of his legs will have to be amputated. Other survivors of the fire remained at Cameron Bay re- covering from exposure and are reported as making rapid progres | GOL. LINDBERGH PLANS FLIGHT OVER ATLANTIC Denies That He Will Make Nonstop Attempt— Rumors Prevail VIGO, Portugal, Nov. 14.—Unit- ed States Consul Benwick Mc- Neive has refuted reports he is authority for the statement that Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife are planning a non-stop flight rom Lisbon to New York. How- newspapermen gathered from conversations with Spanish and Portuguese officials at Caledras Detup and Valenca Dominho that the American is intending to make such a flight. The Lindbergs landed here yes- terday and spent the night aboard the plane in the ‘Mino River when bad weather forced them to come down. ever, NOTHING DOING | CALEDRASDETUY, Nov. 14— Col. Lindbergh said he is think- ing of making an exploration tour over the Atlantic’s southern rout2 but he has no thought of a non- stop flight. Oceans to Rise 150 Feet If Huge | Ice Area Melts WASHINGTON, Nov. 14—If ever the ice of Greenland and Antarc-, tica decides fo melt and go places, it will be quite advisable for the residents of all seaboard areas to pack up their belongings and get moving—fast According to Dr. W. J. Hum-, phreys of the United States Wea- ther Bureau, enough water would be added to the oceans to raise their levels 150 feet, enough to drown out the great seaports, which include some of the largest and highest population centers, | Geologists know there have been‘ times when Greenland did not have much ice. Humphreys points out, may come again, | Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the 21, Dry Gov. Pmchot Urges State Control of Liquor; Asks Aid to Serve Penn. Commonwealth a gallon on pre-Prohibition liquor and $1 a gallon tax on post-Pro- hibition liquor, will bring a $25,- 000,000 revenue annually. G Pinchot, a life-long dry, asked the Legislators to let political considerations “go hang and join me single-handed in an effort to serve the commonwealth.” HARRISBURG, Penn, Nov. 14—, Gov. Gifford Pinchot asked the members of the State Legislature,| in special session, to control sales of liquor through State operated !stores and apply the p its to un- employment relief, aid schools and old age assistance. Gov. Pm(‘ho said a tax of $2 Dxffer in Cho:ce of Names Lucy SToNe \GERMANY PLANS Nazis Await Action from | believed to be looking expectantly |in matters of International poli-| MANY CHANGES, CONSTITUTION Drastic Revision Will Be Ready to Submit to Next Reichstag EUROPEAN POLICIES TO BE ANNOUNCED Other Nations Before Taking Positive Steps BERLIN, Nov. 14—Germany is for a friendly gesture from abroad | tics, especially on disarmament, the latter following the threat of | Arthur Henderson, of Great Bri- tain, to resign as President of the! Disarmament Conference unless nations change their ‘‘attitude” re-! garding arms. This however, is| interpreted as Henderson's person- \ _DOROTHY THOMPSON The assertion of Joan Blondell, screen star, that she wishes to be known and billed as Joan Barnes, the name she acquired by marrying George Bames, movie cameraman, not only shatters a Hollywood tradition but is a radical departure from the modern trend, which is for woman to retain her individuality and maiden name after marriage. Since Lucy Stone, famous reformer of the last century, started the fad, many cele- brated women have followed suit. A notable example is Miss Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor in the Roosevelt Cabinet, who in private life is Mrs. Paul Wilson. Another is Dorothy Thnmpson, novelist, who has kept her maiden name thmugh two marriages. She is Mrs. Sinclair Lewis, wife of the world-famed author. Formerly she was married to Josef Bard. of Budapest, Hungary. ACRE CONTROL MUSSOLINI HAS IS PREDIGTED NEW SOLUTION, ‘BY AGRIC. SE()i ECONOMIC ILLS Wallace Makes His Fore— Announces Guild System Which May Supplant cast Before Land Grant Chamber of Deputies College Association | | | CHICAGO, T, Nov. 14—Secre-| ROME, Nov tary of Agriculture lace, pic- lini has announced that ‘rational resettlement of affecting economic matt will be in addressing the Asso- entrusted to the National Council ,ciation of Land Grant Colleges, | of Corporations under a new guild forecast a complete control over system which will direct the econ- every acre of American farm land omic situation. This system may to balance produ perhaps supplant the Chamber of | - | Deputies. Mae and Repeal May ‘Man Steals Gems Make United States Fat to Get Prison Home | OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 14— ANN ARBOR, Mich, Nov. 14— Mae West styles and prohibition! After confessing that he turned to repeal likely would make Ameri- crime that he might have food and cans a more corpulent race, says. shelter in prison, Omar Levinski, of Detroit, was sentenced to Journal of the American Medi- One to fifteen years in the reform- cal Association. | atory at Tonia. He tossed a brick “The Mae West renaissance and, through a jewelry store window the cocktail will go hand in hand| and stole jewelry valued at $100. in adding pounds to the average American,” he told the Oklahoma Undemker Falls Clinical Conference. Dead at Funeral “The average hwnball is equsl to three hard-boiled eg; A cock- CHICAGO, T, Nov. 14.—Ed- tail is equal to t.hree slices of | ward C. Hamman, an undertaker, 14 —Premier Musso- legislation America” Such times, Dr.|bread and butter and a bottle of|collapsed and died of heart trou-|tried to free itself. beer is equivalent to a plate ofble as 1i* conducted funeral ser- ham and eggs.” ) vices for Paul A. Pollack. armament questions. | accord, al disappointment as regards d\s—! Constitution Changes It is announced here that plans‘ | are being made for drastic chang-| es in the German constitution and will be ready when the Reichstag meets on December 1. German newspapers, with one| are hammering into the minds of their readers, with hcad- lines especially, that Europe mu%t, decide on future policies, or Ger-! many, in fthe face of the Sunday election, will determine her Eur- opean course. The newspapers as | well as the general populace con- | tinued the celebration of the Naz | triumph when the voters endorsed | the Government’s foreign policy. The newspapers indicate that now | is the proper time for Germany to assert herself and urged the Ger- mans to keep this idea uppermost in the present celebration of the Fatherland’s great victory at the polls. | FRENCH HAVE FEARS 1‘ PARIS, Nov. 14—French fears | of Hitler's danger to peace Wwas openly acknowledged today by For- eign Affairs Minister Paul Bon cour in the Chamber of Deputies | He maCe the declaration Hm! | “German exaltation is fraught wit the adventurous possibilities Um it will perhaps menace European | stability.” - Gold Demanded for $20 Bill in Test Suit WASHINGTON, Nov., 14—Hals- |ey K. Davis of New York, de- ‘bc redeemed in gold, has enter | suit to test the Constitutionality of President Roosevelt's regula- | tions suspending such paymer A petition in fhe nature of a wri of mandamus was filed against Secretary Woodin in the District| of Columbia Supreme Court. | - e —— MISS ELSIE THOMPSON ADDED TO STAFF OF | KONNERUP'S DEPT. S10RE Miss FElsie Thompson has ac- cepted a clerical position with Kon- | nerup’s Department Store on Front Street. The addition to the s was necessary because of the ir crease in business on recent weeks Vl Konnerup said. 14.—There’ ps- bi k NEW YORK, Nov. one seagull flying around St head Bay that has learned ter lesson—never poke your at a clam. The gull spied the clam— fellow—lying just under the ter with its mouth open bird stuck his bill into the cl: which was . disastrous, for latter snapped its shells shut Then began a battle and mu churning of water as the bl The c held on and pulled the gull be- neath the water, ily | | Sterling skipped back to ’mmapd that a $20 gold certificate 'they produced the girl | near Kirschner’s ch. But for the sign in the native language and the peculiar type harness on the horses, this procession of roduce might well have been pictured anywhere in the American hinterland. ow Russia has progressed in the past few yes road. flanked by a trolley line (at left), well-built houses and, in background, a modern '\p.ulment hovse, of the type that is fast supplammg the drab abodes of rural dwellers in the Soviet, wagons, laden with farm It gives a graphic idea of B PRICES MAKE SLIGHT GAINS “STOCK MARKET Liquidation Du ring Last Hour, However, Re- | duces Some Advances . NEW YORK, Nov. 14. — Stocks were up one to two or more points early today following another gold advance and renewed weakness of the dollar, but encountered liqui- dation during the last hour which transformed gains into losses Today’s market close was heavy.! Transfers were over 2,000,000 shares. The curb was irregular after ear- firmness. All bonds were heavy. Equities Quiet Equities, after inaugural of a spurt, turned quiet and hesitant Grains were up one to two cents a bushel but lost virtually all Silver futures were strong .nvmnd 5.26%. Alcohols React | Alcohols led in the reaction ( with one to around five point !')sV} es ! | Metals were soft, off fractions to around two points, Case, United States Steel, Amer- (Continued on Page Eight) ——————— . Supposed Burglars Just Calllng on Girl * NEW YORK, Nuv. 14 —Love transcended law in Brooklyn. Hy-| man Camki and Edward Temple/ were arraigned before County Judge Noyes as burglars. | Abraham Kirschner had caused their arrest for enfering his home. The prisoners protested they in- tended to call on a girl and went into the wrong house. Finally who lived| au Judge \'ove: dhmlxwd the pair. Sea Gull lels Big Clam Deadly-—-Of fwer Saves Bird A crowd collected. Policeman James Kelly ran up, pulled off shoes and waded out the struggle was going He reached into the brought out a clam as his| two fists with the s still hanging on. The policeman tried to pry open the steel-jawed clam with a pocket knife, but Was un- successful. Then he drew his club and whacked. That did the business The clam’s shell broke and the gull was freed. . . with just .pep enough left to fly away. | water and| big as Reco «rnition Russw Is N earmg Now| Final Argumenfis Are Re- ported as Entering Last Stages WASHINGTON, Nov. sian recognition optimism contin- ued undimmed today with final arguments on major policies occu- pying the attention of the Admin- istration and Commissar Litvinoff as the Soviet repr ntative round- ed out conversa Details are still withheld. LII.Y GAINES - IS ON TRIAL 14—Rus- 1S, ~ FOR KILLING SEEPING GASES Is Charged with Murder o DEALING DEATH. Her Husband in kane, Washmglon SPOKANE, Wash, Nov. 14— Lily Banks Gaines is expected to know by tonight the names of the ,jury whom the state will ask to send her to the gallows on ch: es she murdered her hush wmxlthy sportsman and saniprac- Thn death penalty was injected almost in the first question asked by the prosecution. Gaines was shot trree times while on the driveway at his home last August 15. ———————— Sing Sing Kidnaper’s Wife Gets Annulmen NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—Serving a Sing Sing sentence for kidnap- ing, George T. Clarke learned that his wife had obtained an annul- ment of their marriage. Clarke was convicted with Allen W. Au- gust of abducting Jackie Rus: stock broker's son. They W given from four to twenty-five years. Mrs. Clarke’s annulment action filed and tried without at- tracting public attention. She is a tall, svelte blonde, mother of a boy twenty months old. Dewce Still Waves SEBASTOPOL, U. S. S. R pneumatic “wave breaker,” design- ed to calm rough seas, underwent successful tests here. and compressed the harbor face and broke the waves, ' have killed 16 persons in the ll"muul in Serum — A They ¥ Perforated cats pipes were laid on the bottom .,of by a air gratulate pumped into them, rose to the sur- said he would do away | dog for SCUTHBOUND 5 ALASKA CRAFT "IN AGCIDENT ‘Two Vessels Hlt in Dense Fog This Morning Out- side Vancouver Harbor BOTH CRAFT ONLY SLIGHTLY DAMAGED One Is Withdrawn from Route—OQther Will Pro- ceed South to Seattle VANCOUVER, B. C., Nov. 14.—Canadian Pacific steam- er Princess Alice and Alaska Steamship Cempany’s steam- er Yukon collided this morn- ing outside the harbor in a | dense fog. None of those abeard the steamers were injured. The Princess Alice sus- tained a twisted stem and |was taken off the regular 'S eattle-Vancouver run for ‘STOCK MARKET = IS DRAWN 0UT bound to Seattle, had two plates buckled above the May Be Concsed by First of Year—Sinclair Is The waterline. The Yukon dis- charged Vancouver freight Called to Testify WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, — Tlmlg‘m and will leave for Seattle Senatorial Committee today aban- later today. doned all hope of winding up the stock market investigation by the end of the month as Harry S. Sinclair, millionaire oilman, was called to tell about the stock pool | in which he and others partici- pated -early in 1929. 4 The investigators are to sit through December with a view of concluding the long in- vestigation about the first of the year. rs. Here you can see a first class Yukon sailed south from u at 7 o'clock last Friday ing with the following Juneau passengers aboard for Seattle: W.S. Pekovich, Mrs. Pekovich, Roy Ruth- erford, P. S. ray, Ben Delzelle, Mrs. E. Eggen, Mrs. O. H. Smith, Lieut. John R. Noyes, Mrs. F. C. McMahon, Franci McMahon, | Blanch McMahon, Mrs. J. W. Gucker, Mrs. S. A. Light, Adele Light, Jack Light, O. Ross, John Farrow, Charles G. Warner, Thom- as Ryan, Frank A. Nefsy, Henry A. Woods, J. W, Felix, John Peggia, John Barry, Gust Dahl, R. J. Crary and C. R. Cameron. i SENATOR LONG CALLED “RAT” DURING PROBE {Investigator Gets Wrathy at Hearing, Probing Election of Overton prepared | Clouds of Ponsonous Acid Oozing from Crev- ices in Ground VICO, Spain, Nov ly alarmed at seeping 14 gases ¥ last s, residents Sello are evacuating the a Many others are from the gases Clouds of carbonic acid gas are oozing from crevices in the ground. | ———.——— near 1 expected to die NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 14— John Holland, investigator for the Senate Committee probing the elec- tion of United States Senator John H. Overton, of Louisiana, shouted denunciations at fhe hearing here and charged Chairman Tom Con- nally, of Texas, with being yel- low and accused the whole com- mittee of “covering up for the rat from TLouisiana.” When Holland mentioned “the rat” he looked at United States Senator Huey Long Holland said Connally intimidat- ed him by saying that “T had bet- ter not do anything unless Con- nally said so.” AN MR e ;Taxis to Police for Charity Bed SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Nov. 14—A - taxicab rolled up to police head- Dog Kills Cat, But— guarters. A ragged man emerged, | paid the driver and then sauntered MALDEN, Mass., Nov. 14—Police |into the police station. to figure this one out.| fister may I sleep in your jail ed a complaint that|ho tonight?” he asked the desk hens had been killed T nt suspected, but the| He couldn't, he was told, but the found dead, both killed | salvation Army might give him a Police went to con-|ped owner but the latter| “Okay,” replied the ragged one. with the |“May I use your telephone to call Tuberculosis Cure Believed SHELTON. A cure for tubercul for in a serum, Dr. Stephen Maher, authority on the sub- jeet, has just discovered. He made the anncuncement to a group of phs ns here today. Dr. Maher said the serum, when applied to tubercle bac- cilli creates an acid which de- stroys itself and the tuberculosis human body. - > Car Kills Chicks, in the are WO cats we were dog the killing the cats.