The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 23, 1933, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ! “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIIL, NO. 6503. JUNEAU ALASKA, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 23, 1933. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT S THOUSANDS ARE T REATENED BY FIRE NET CLOSES AROUND TWO KIDNAPERS ABDUCTORS OF BROOKE HART ARE INDICTED Seven Counts Returned Against Men by Fed- eral Grand Jury SHERIFF OF COUNTY | ALSO TAKES ACTION Swears toamplainlsl Which Mean Death ! or Imprisonment SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. 23. —A Federal Grand Jury has indict- ed Thomas H. Thurmond and John M. Holmes on seven counts for us- the mails in an attempt to $40,000 from Alex J. Hart, Jose merchant, and father of Brooke Hart. rtly after the indictments e returned, Sheriff William J. Emig of Santa Clara County, swore | to complaints charging the two men with kidnaping. The penalty th or life imprisonment where the the vietim. Young Hart was beaten over the head and thrown into the bay from | the San Mateo bridge. His body | has not yet been recovered al- though the authorities are continu- ing the search. JURY AWARDS HALF MILLION T0 CAL. NURSE Jury Decxdes Sum Is Due| as Pioneer’s Show of Appreciation LOS ANGEELES, Cal, A jury has returned a verdict awarding Mrs. Irene Herbert half a million dollars, plus interest, in her suit against the estate of the late Col. J. B. Lakershim, developer of the mow thickly populated San Fernando Valley. rs. Herbert is a Long Beach ‘nurse and companion.” The attorneys for the estate contended the note made out for “five hundred” was altered to me\tflon present figure. ; Attorneys for Mrs. Herbert de-| clared the note was a pioneer’s manner of expressing appreciation | for the many kindnesses she be- | stowed on him. BROTHERHOODS ORDER STRIKE ON S.P.ROAD Walkout Caiei for Satur- . day—3,000 Employees Are Affected HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 23.—Of- ficials of the “big four” railroad brotherhoods on the Southern Pa- cific Railroad last night voted to call a strike on the sections of the system in Texas and Louisiana be- ginning at noon Saturday. The action, affecting 3,000 men was taken after the company of- ficials and the men failed to get together on their differences fol- Jowing a series of disputes last- ing several months. —ao—— FORENOON FIRE A flue fire in the building owned by John Biggs on Gastineau Ave- nue near the Moose Hall called out the fire department this morn- ing. Damage was slight, as a little water aréund the chimney was. all (- Retuming Rhumbist State, under the law, is] dnapers cause bodily harm to | | Fresh from triumphs in Europe, Nov. 23— | and she sued to collect on a| ., unusually perplexing problem, note which she said the late mil-| o 400 00ce of any legal obstacles, lionaire gave her for services as a| B | Alicia Parla, Cuban rhumba dancer, | is pictured as she arrived at New | York on the Ile de France. Sha ! introduced the famous dance in any European capitals and had| | the honor of teaching it to thet Prince of Wales during her visit to' Monte Cnrlo DIMOND SEEKS HOME OWNERS' | LOAN BENEFITS Delegate Continues Work to Secure Corporation Branch in North WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 11. —(Special Correspondence) — Ad- ministrative delay in establish- ment of a branch of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation in Al- aska is causing Delegate Dimond deep concern. It has proven to be but because of unwillingness, or inertia, or some other reason which can only be guessed at on the part of officials of the corpora- That the law. clearly provides that distressed home owners in Alaska shall be taken care of, the Delegate well knows, for he saw to | that himself. As originally drawn the act applied only to continental United States, and Mr. Dimond had inserted provision for its ex- tension to the territories and pos- sessions. Appearing as Section 7 in the act as finally passed, this provis- jon reads: ‘‘The provisions of this act shall apply to the continental United States, to the Terrifories of Alaska and Hawaii, and to Porto Rico and the Virgin Is- Immediately after Congress ad- journed Mr. Dimond requested the Home Owners’ Loan Corporationn to set up a branch in Alaska. From time to time during the summer he renewed that request and each time—the last only a few ‘days since—was not that “nc final decision has been reached.” ‘Continued on Page Four) FRED PETERSON IS INJURED IN BLAST Fred Peterson, employed on the highway, suffered a broken leg this morning shortly bzfore noon when struck by a flying piece of wood blasted from a stump at Van- derbilt Hill. The fracture is near his hip. Peterson was brought to St. Ann’s Hospital, where an X-ray was taken of his injured leg. Dr. that was required to check the blaze. L P. Dawes is in charge of the CALLS NATION T0 MAKE FIGHT FOR THIS LAND President Lauds Spirit of Founders at Tercen- tenary Celebration ‘WARM SPRINGS, Georgia, Nov. 23.—President Roosevelt last night called the Nation to war against those ‘“obstinate, powerful intoler- ant things that we fight for to- day,” in speaking before a ter- 'centenary celebration. The President made no reference to current issues nor to the critics of the gold program but lauded the spirit of the founders of Am- erica and asked it be matched today. Lee Tracy, Film Star, Discharged Recent “Dep—lo_rable" Ac- tion in Mexico City, Causes Action LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 23.— Lee Tracy, film actor, arrested re- cently in Mexico City, has been dis- charged by the Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer Film Company, according to an announcement made last night by Louis B. Mayer, Studio Executive. Mayer described Tracy's behavior in Mexico City as “deplorable” in the announcement of Tracy's dis- missal contained in a telegram to Abelardo Rodriquez, President of Mexlco Tracy was arrested in Mexico be- capse he appeared on the balcony of a hotel, in “practically a nude condition” and jeered Mexican cadets marching by the hotel. —eee NO 3.2 BEER FOR KANSANS; BILL IS KII.I.EI] Legalization n Re pr e senta- tives Lose in Fight in State House TOPEKA, Kansas, vocates of legalization of 3.2 beer in Kansas were defeated in the House yesterday when a proposed bill for the brew was lost 63 to 56. The state will have'a referendum next year on the whole liquor question. —————— AMPLIFIERS INSTALLED An amplifying sys',em has been Nov. 23—Ad-' MONETARY PLAN Yale . Economist Defehds Policy and Calls Program Substantially Right PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 23— regarded as the unofficial econo- mic adviser to President Roosevels, | last night expressed “reluctant” opposition to some of the Presi- dent’s monetary policies. ‘Warburg made a surprise address before the American Academy of Political Science, aligning himself with Dr. O. W. M. Sprague, re- cently resigned special adviser to the Treasury who is seeking to arouse public opinion against the | President’s gold program. | Opposed To Methods Warburg said what he opposed were some of the methods by which Roosevelt' “seeks to attain his end while some misconceptions seem to becloud his purpose to disregard the accumulated exper- ience of centuries manifested by all too many of his advisers.” Warburg expressed doubt that as a practical matter there can bz any such thing as dollar con- stant purchasing power, He de- fended the gold standard and said he believed there was no such ' thing as controlled inflation. 3 Economist Defends President At the same meeting Prof. Irv- ing Fisher, Yale University econ-| omist, and adviser to the admin- istration, said the monetary policy of the President was “substan- tially right.” Warburg disclosed he had re- signed as a member of the Ameri- can delegation at the World Econ- omic Conference at London after the President’s monetary message was received there, but that he didn't let the resignation become known at that time because he still| (Céntlnued on Page Two) MORGENTHAU, OF ROOSEVELT| '§ | James P. Warburg, who has besn| ‘Legal Costs in Fox Film| . One of the most spectacular murder trials in the court annals . under way in Spokane, Wash., with the trial of Mrs. August. 15, 1932, band a “six months' period of freedom.” fzlling at the spot indicated by the cross. (upper right) acting as counsel for the defense and Prosecuting Attorney Walter (International Illustrated News photo) SENATORS WILL PROBE BIG FEE GIVEN HUBHES {Settle’s Balloon rReach(l Height |Of 61,237 Feet WASHINGTON, Nov. 23— The calibration barometer carried by the Settle bal- loon in the recent flight into the stratosphere show- ed that 61237 feet was the height attained. Russians attained more ' ROOSEVELT T0 DISCUSS 60LD \ Achng Treasury Head Will [ Confer on Monetary | i Buying Policy ‘ WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—No in- dications of any change in the | Administration’s monetary policy | have developed as Henry Morge thau, Jr., Acting Secretary of ti Treasury, prepared to discuss the| gold buying plan thoroughly with President Roosevelt at Warms| Spring, Ga. ! | 'No authoritative official here had forecast whether the decision at | warm Springs would be for con- tinued silence or for a counter Company Sale Will Be Investigated WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—Evi- dence of payment of a million dol- |lars to Samuel Untermeyer and half a million to Charles Evans Hughes for legal services in the| | fight by William Fox to save his| theatre properties, is held by the|g e e 0 0 6 6 0 9 @ 0 0 @ Sennte stock investigators in con- PRSEREE 5 TR0 IR nection with fees paid by Gen- | eral Theatres Equipment Inc., un- | der agreement with Fox, when| V| the holding company bought con- trol of his theatre companies for UF SARRAUT [ liam Fox told the Senate inves-| Is TuPPL'NG tigators today that he was “forc-| ed, under duress” to sell control 4 — : {Predicted French Cabinet $15,000,000. of the vast theatre chain he built Will Lose Out Be- than 62,000 feet but the U. 8. 8. R. is not a mem- ber of the Aronautics In- ternationale so the height is unofficial. Piccard reached more than 53,000 feet on his flight. FOX GIVES TESTIMONY WASHINGTON, Nov. 23—Wil-} when the mysterious shooting occurreds Attcrney Edward Robertson B ANK E RS FIGHT Sensalwnal S) pokano M urder Trml U n(I(’r W(w of the Pacific Northwest is now Lily Banka Gaines (upper left) on a charge of slaying her husband, Jacques L. Gaines (upper center), prominent Spokane sportsman, on the night of Police uncovered a weird “agreement” in which Mrs. Gaines had accorded her hus- Gaines was chot as he entcred his own home (lower center), He had just left the apartment of Mrs. Harrielte Andrew (lower left) is Brown is pictured at lower right. MRS. NICHIA IS FOUND GUILTY ; MANSLAUGHTER jury Reaches Verdict After 25 Hours—Recom- mends Leniency Guilty of manslaughter with a recommendation for leniency was the verdict returned this morning in the case of Mrs. Blanche Rid- | ley Nichia for the slaying of Ole | Storset at Yakutat on October | 6. The jury reached their decision about 5 o'clock yesterday after-| noon after twenty-five hours of deliberation, but the verdict was sealed and read at the opening of court ‘this morning. Additional instructions were given the jury yesterday afternoon about an hour before the verdict was reached. The trial of Mrs. Nichia start- guments closed Tuesday afternoon. —e———— Urges Brazil to Buy BRUSH, FOREST 1/ FIRE SWEEPS ~ ON COMMUNITY Blaze, Reported Out of Control, Enters Cali- fornia Section RESIDENTS FLEEING | LEAVING ALL GOODS {Camp Housing Unemploy- | ment Relief Workers Said Be Doomed LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nov. |23.—One hundred and seven- ity county welfare workers were trapped for some time by a raging brush and forest fire in the foothills, north- west of here, before they reached safety. A camp, housing men work- ing on unemployment relief Iprojects, is reported sur- rounded by the flames and |concern is expressed for the ’sa[uty of 40 fire fighters, {members of the C.C. C. who failed to report to headquart- jers. | The brush fire is complete- ly,. out of control on more {than a one mile line front and has entered the end of the city of Tugunga, a com- !munity of 3,000 persons, where hysterical confusion is enacted with many families abandoning all possessions and fleeing. Other residents are being dragged from the scene by firemen as the resi- dents fought to carry away valuables. —teo— FUR SALES IN SEATTLE FIRM; MANY BIDDERS iSilver Fox Brings $87— Northwest Mink Average $4.92 SEATTLE, Nov. 23.—Bidders were numerous yesterday on the Seattle Fur Exchange in the fall auction. Silver fox sold as high as $87 | ed Monday morning and the ar-|for half silver grade. Northwestern mink were all tak- en at an average of $4.92 with the best bringing $10.50. | Red fox averaged $14.94. Blue fox averaged $25 but went installed in the Sons of Norway word-offensive to meet that set off Hall in Petersburg to make it by Dr. O. M. W. Sprague’s resigna- possible to use phonograph records tion‘ as Treasury monetary adviser for dancing. A microphone is also and his criticism of the policy as among bankers to send his com- panies into receivership. up from a lone nickelodeon in| Brooklyn. He charged conspiracy fore Tonight PARIS, Nov. 23.—Premier Sar- raut today began a fight for the| Navy in United States Aol RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 23.—| Oross fox averaged $25.50. The newspaper “O Caricoa” has A collection of fine Northwest | started a campaign to have Brazil{muskrats were all taken at an Believing that home owners in| connected with the system. “leading to unrestrained inflation.’ Creation of Civil Works Administrat Move of Pres. Roosevell By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington.) Nothing else President Roosevelt has done challenges the imagina- tion quite so sharply as his crea- tion of the Civil Works Adminis- tration, designed to hire the un- employed wholesale, put. them to work at all sorts of odd jobs, and pay them out of government mon- ey. In its scope the plan is fully as ambitious as the most ambitious claim ever made for the NRA. It is propoSed to have no fewer than 4,000,000 men in the pay of this new agency by mid-December. In its theory of operation it de- ion Is Great parts as widely from the accepted notions of the past as did the processing taxes or the sale of power from Muscle Shoals. The fact that so momentous step could be taken without tracting far greater attention it did is proof how far the na has gone along the road tow new conception of the functions of government. STUDYING THE PENDULUM The word being passed by peal leaders to their workers is not one of unmixed jubilation over the victory of November 7. Now the anti-prohibitionists, X, B AR VI AT GG R wonunued on Page Two) l at- be- MOOSE CARD PARTY life of the Cabinet before the | DRAWS 32 PLAYERS chamber of Deputies, with the odds against him on the program to save the franc. As resumption of the debate pro- 'gressed and the end neared, it was hle and |predicted in the lobbies that the :l}l)l;::zenfly jEsiemang pinoc ?Government will fall before to- Pirst places were won at whist |Dight. by Mrs. Charles Bender for the women, and by Ed Dull for Lhn\ men. In pinochle, Mrs. J. A. Bulger | took first for the women, and/ Grant ‘Baldwin for the men. Mrs. John Satre won high place in bridge, no men playing | The next of these popular events will be held December 1. At the Moose ,card party last night, 32 people filled the emh_s tables. No men competed in bridge. ———.———— HUNTERS SHOOT WOLF A 50-pound gray wolf was re- cently shot near Ketchikan while| chasing a deer through the woods back of town. The wolf was shot four times before he was killed. | The hunters let the deer go but| | will claim the $15 bounty on the wolf. e — HUNTERS GET GOATS Japanese Money Is Aiding China Revolt, | Newspapers Claim, Two goats and several deer were bagged by a hunting party SHANGHAI, Nov. 23. — Chinesc recently in Ketchikan and were newspaper charge that Japanese later on display at the Tongass money is aiding the newly declared | Trading Company’s store there. anti-government movement in the The deer included a 160-pound 10- Fukien Province. jpoinv. buck. construet its future naval ships in the United States, arguing that America's purchases from Brazil exceed zhuw of all Eumpe BOXER BR ING CABVED IVORY COLLECTION FROM ST. LAWRENCE ISLANDS Offices of the Bureau of Indian Affairs were crowded this morning | by people eager to purchase the carved ivory bracelets, tusks afid other ivory pieces made by the Eskimos of St. Lawrence Island which were brought to Juneau on the motorship Boxer last night. While the collection was nof as large or varied as some others which have been brought down from the island for disposal, it contained a number of attractive pieces, many of which were spok- en for by noon today. —————— MARRIED TODAY United States Commissioner J. F Mullen this afternoon joined in marriage Joseph D. Hill and Mary F. Malben. average of 53 cents. CANTON BUYING BRITISH TANKS HONG KONG, Nov. 23.—The Canton government has ordered 20 military tanks from British firms, says representatives here of General Chen Chi Tang, dom- inant figure in the South China government. The Canton general is said to be organizing a tank corps. Shopping Days fo Christmas