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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE( “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1933. ERN WASHINGTON * VOL. XLIIL, NO. 6517. FLOODS SWEEP W * MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * LIVES ARE LOST IN RIVER TORRENTS |: EE[HSLATURS . So&kthiné Nude ih Wegdings“ HIGHESfilATER . '.v IN SPLIT ON & | IN YEARS FILL - LIQUOR LAWS RIVER VALLEYS Various Regulations for T - S : * Control in Washing- S“?ut]b[ E‘epfi:‘e; lE:;r-ung ton Advanced land Localities * * * * * UNDERTONE 0 STOCKS FIRM. ON BIG BOARD Profit-lakin—g—F;ils to Make Much Impression on Share Prices NEW YORK, Dec. 11—For the| ROOSEVELT IS |Barbaca and Prince Home Again |, BACKED UP BY MINING ASSH, Support Pledged at Spo- kane Session to Meas- ures for Prosperity OLYMPIA, Wash., Dec. 11.—An SPOKANE, Wash., Dec. 11.—Aft- er pledging “cooperatively and in- dividually support to whatever measurzs President Roosevelt deems necessary for prosperity,” the Northwest Mining Association has closed the Thirty "Ninth An- nual Convention here. The association demanded im- mediate demonetization of silver at he ratio of 16 to 1, reestablish- ment of bimefalism “on a basis that existed during the first of this Republic” which the delegates declared would place one ndillion men back to work. Another resolution declared that since the United States is a ma- jor world power “it is mow in a position to settle its own mone- tary policies without diction of e intensive drive was launched last { Saturday night by the Washington ist.aoe Senate Liquor Control com- | I ittee to have the bill regulating | liquor sales ready for introduction in the Senate by the middle of this fourth successive trading day stocks on the New York Stock Exchange displayed a relatively firm under- tone, despite considerable profit- taking, and the appearance of sev= eral soft spots among the metals, industrials and specialties. week. Trading sentiment noticeably im-{ Meanwhile hearings are planned proved but activity dwindled oniBoth by the Senate and Houses on realizing sales. The close was ir liguor control measures in an ef- regular. fort to wind up the affairs of the Profit-taking was a feature on ! Special session, called primarily to | the Curb exchange. | form laws regulating taxing and Bonds were strong in nearly all|sale of intoxicants, before Christ- | departments. | mas. | For the fifth consecutive day, The problem before the Legisla- sterling and franc exchange both ture largely concerns hard liquor. {lost but later recovered. { Some wish the sale of hard li- Grains were fairly steady. Silver! quor to be confined to state stores | futures were heavy. | in bottles only. Rail shares were the best per-; Others favor allowing hotels and HUNDREDS M AROONED WHILE OTHERS ESCAPE Bridges Are:. Ot — High- ways Are Blocked— Ranches Evacuated BULLETIN—Scattle, Dec. 11. —Late this afternoon it is known the follewing lost their lives in the flod and storms in the Pacific Northwest: Gerald Worley, aged 30, man- ager at Winlock, for Swift and Company, drowned when his auto was washed off the road by the high water. Walter Dimmock, CCC eamp ———————————————————— After an extended European honeymoon following their Paris weddin, rince and Princess Alexis Mdivani ave shown arriving in Vew York{ e to the Woolworth for- | | swept away and drowned in the international bankers or the Gov- member at Tolt, near Everett, | formers during the day, with Dela- restaurants to dispense hard li- 3 ) ernments of the old world.” Roy H. Clarke was elected Pres- ident of the association. .- MAIL PLANES 50 DOWN IN SNOW STORM Pilots Bail Qut Safely— Land in Alleghanies During Night PORTAGE, Penn., Dec. 11.— Braving a raging storm to get the mails through, two planes of the Transcontinental and Western Air- lines crashed in the snow swept Al- leghany mountains during the night. The two pilots The wings of crushed with ice temperaturs. Neither of the passengers. ‘SCARFACE’ AL LOSES SECOND FREEDOM CASE Habeas Corpus Is Denied Gangster—Statute of Limitation Plea bailed out safely. the planes were under the falling planes carried ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 11—Fed- eral Judge E. Marvin Underwood has denied the second plea of «Scarface” Al Capone to gain his freedom on a habeas corpus based on the statute of limitation. Capone's attorneys said an ap- peal will be taken to a higher court. ’he Chicago gang Czar is serving a 10-year sentence for evading in-| come tax payments. He entered the penitentiary here in May, 1932, and made his first attempt to gain his freedom a year ago. Americ;ns Are Killed, German Plane Crash BERLIN, Dec. 11.—Six persons, including a Mr. and Mrs. Barber, of the United States, were killed in the crash of a passenger plane near Hamburg late this afternoon. Six persons were injured. o - GUDMAN JENSEN WILL BE MERCHANTS' NIGHT PATROL RELIEVING JACK ZAVODSKY Gudman Jensen will relieve Jack Zavodsky as Merchants’ Night Patrolman, beginning tonight. Mr. Jensen formerly held this position but took leave last spring to spend sometime at his mining property _-c Windam Bay. The Princess was M tune, and the Prince, |Of $34.01 Higher Than World Price WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. —Today's price of gold is $34.01, the same as for the past eight days. This is $1.21 in excess of the world gold price at London. . (@ e 00000009 00 e FISHERY CODE 1S DISCUSSED . INWASHINGTON {Hearings Are Stated with | NRA and AAA Offic- | ials Presiding i WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Public hearings on the proposed fisheries code are underway with represen- tatives of NRA and AAA presiding. | The discussion centers about ‘the competition by foreign fisheries in the American markets and causes of increased shipments by the Jap- anese. One official said he believed the fisheries industry code will be transferred from the AAA to | NRA. ——————— SAYS RODSEVELT Message Sent to Delegates at American Farm | Convention CHICAGO, Ill. Dec. 11.—The delegates to the American Farm iConventiun. in session here, re- {ceived a message from President Roosevelt which said: “We seem to be on our way.” gates to continue operating with the program for ‘“controlled agri- culture.” P8 A I Declares that Wealth Must |Be Redistributed WASHINGTON, Dec. 11— | Dr. Sidney Goldstein, of the | Jewish Free Synagogue of New | York, declared in an address here Saturday night that un- less wealth was conscripted and re-distributed in “accordance with the law,” it will be seiz- ¢d and appropriated through violence and bloodshed. iss Barbara Hutton, heire whose title is dispute Georgian (Russia) famiy, “ON OUR WAY” | The President counseled the dele- d, is & member of a prominent TROOPS ARE ORDERED OUT, MOB RUMORS Governor ot Oklahoma Takes Action on Vague Reports of Lynching KINGFISHER, Okla., Dec. 11— Hustled away. in the tense atmos- phere of vague mob rumors amid mobilization of troops, Jack Wis- dom, whose arrest barely preceded the discovery of the body of Mrs. Harry Pritchard, is held in a secret place of safety. Wisdom, a cowhand, has been sought in connection with the dis- appearance on November 23 of Mr. and Mrs. Pritchard, of Wichita Kansas. They disappeared after allegedly they sought to collect for a “no fund” check from Wisdom under threat of prosecution. Search for Body The officers Tnoved to carry out a systematic search for Pritchard’s body, driving the handcuffed Wis- dom over side rcads and trying to follow confused directions as to where the body is hidden. Wisdom claimed to know where the body is, the officers said, but declared he did not kill him. Sheriff Ed Martin said Wisdom claimed another man is mixed up in the killing. Mrs. Pritchard’s body was dis- covered under a culvert near Bison, near here. | Trocps Called Then rumors of lynch law began to fly and the Governor ordered field artillery batter'es mobilized here and also at Enid. Troops were ordered to shoot to kill if neces- sary, Gov. Murray adding: “We do not want any mobs in Oklahoma.” ———————— LINDBERGHS IN TROPICAL RAIN DURING FLIGHT Make Air T_n; from Para to Manaos in Slightly Over 71/ Hours | | | | MANOS, Brazil, Dec. 11—Com- ’ple;ing a 932 mile hop from Para port, in tropical rain, Col. Charles | A. Lindbergh and his wife landed | here at 2:03 Sunday afternoon. The ‘night was made in 7 hours and 37 mfZnutes. The flying couple plans to leave | shortly for the north via. Trinidad | and Porto Rico, expecting to reach |ten days ago left St. Ann's today | ago, left the hospital for her home|into the snow in near zero weather. !home hy Christmas, ware up three points. Up a point quor in dining rooms by the drink or more were American Telephone While still others, who oppose the | |and Telegraph, Consolidated Gas, state setting itself up in the liquor | and Western Union. Auburn was business, want “bottle houses” to {off five points. {be operated by private interests; | United States Smelting and Re- under strict state supervision. ’ fining, Cerro de Pasco, Mc Intyre' Still another group want munici- Mines and Alaska Juneau were palities to have something to say down one to two. points..Johns #s to the manner liquor is to be Mansville lost more than two-sold and taxed within cities. points, while Chrysler, Allied b 0 o5 RS S Chemical, Westinghouse Electric and General Motors were slightly ] lower. CLOSING PRICES TODAY | | NEW YORK, Dec., Ifi—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 217, American Can UNDEH ATTAGK 29%, American Power and Light President Signs Codes for 10, Anaconda 15, Armour B 2% Bethiehem Steel 36%, Calumet and Wholesalers and | Rectifiers i Hecla 4%, Colorado Fuel and Iron ! 4%, Curtiss-Wright 2%, Fox Films 14%, General Motors 34%, Inter- national Harvester 42%. Kennecott 20%, North American Aviation 5':, North American Company 15% Chicago and Milwaukee (preferred) WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Oppo- | 5%, Standard Ofl of California sition to the Administrations sug- | 43%, United Corporation 5%, Uni- gestion of $2.60 tax on a gallon | ted States Steel 47%. of hard liquor has developed on/ TTEET Capitol Hill as the Government| strengthened control plans with| May Restore iz e | Salary Cut by January tifying industries. } Complaints that the tax on strong spirits, proposed by the! President’s Interdepartmental al- cohol committee, is too high, came | from several members of the House Ways and Means Committee. This Good News for Govern- committee is meeting today with - the Senate Finance Committee to ment Employee.s leen discuss recommendations. Out by Rainey R g MANY LIVES IN SPANISH LAND ment employees Wil be restored January 1 is made by Speaker Anarchist Insurection Rag- ed Heavily Saturday Rainey. He said the paycut is not in harmony with the President's Night, Sunday MADRID, Dec. 11.—A revolution- program of increasing the purchas- ary outbreak flared anew Sunday ing power. Have You a Cold? in Northeastern Spain adding ad- | ditional deaths to the toll of the Take an Airplane Ride for Cure l anarchist insurrection which now stands at 78. CHICAGO, 1L, Dec. 11 | airplane ride is foreseen as a poseible cure for the so-called common cold. Dr. Haldor Carlsen said his attention has been called to the flying cure by airplane em- ployes. “Observations made among paseengers found that some fif- ty who left Chicago recently with colds in various stages of sniffles up, en arrival at the Newark airport found their colds entirely gone. Further studies may prove that the cold germs cannot live at alti- tudes of 8,000 to 10,000 feet.” ————— JOHN GALLAGHER LEAVES ST. ANN'S HOSPITAL TODAY EIGHT BOMB EXPLOSIONS MADRID, Dec. 11.—Eight bomb explosions racked Madrid last Sat- ,urday night and complete confus-| |ion reigned in the Spanish capital, heretofore unfouched in the na- tion-wide Extremist revolt which in 24 hours, up to Saturday night. brought an unofficial toll of 64 dead and hundreds wounded | A strict cemsorship on all news was put in effect Saturday night. ‘MRS, HOME 1 e CLEMENTS Mys. Maxine Clements, who un- John Gallagher, who underwent|derwent a major operation at St. a major operation at the hospital| Ann’s Hospitadl ‘about two weeks | | | for his home, yesterday. This unusual wedding ceremony, shown in progress, took place at the “Elysia” nudist colony, near Lake Elsinore, Cal. couple, Susie Wise and Jim Goodman, take Clarke Irvine pronounces them man bridesmaid, and at right, James “birthday suits.” recently The happy the marital vows as the Rev. At left, Constance Allen, All wore their and wife. Mack, best man. ’Republican Pmin;wen Into Nudist Colony; Many Celebrities Are Shown Up FAIRBANKS IS SILENT ABOUT DIVORGE GASE Spends Day Skiing in Switzerland — Then Off to Austria ST. MORITZ, Switzerland, Dec. 11.—Douglas Fairbanks was silent here last Saturday regarding the filing of a divorce complaint against him by Mary Pickford. The actor spent the day skiing and said he expected to leave immediately for Austria. AGENT’S REMARKS LONDON Dec. 11.—Douglas Fair- banks's representatives here said the actor was continuing his “dig- nified silence” regarding his per- sonal affairs and added that as soon as Fairbanks finishes two pic- tures he is making in Spain and England he will return to Cali- fornia. MARY ENROUTE EAST ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Dec. 11-~Mary Pickford, enroute to New York City, after filing her divorce papers from Douglas Fair- banks in Los Angeles, declined to see newspapermen when the train reached here. FIRE BREAKS 0UT DURING WINTER GALE Three Marathon Dancers Lose Their Lives— Others Injured HAMPDEN, Maine Dec. I1.— Fire breaking out in a dance pav- illion during a blizzard today caus- ed the death of three marathon dancers, one woman and two men, | and sent others scantily clothed,| Many persons were injured. | WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—With President Franklin D. Roosevelt as guest of honor and a galaxy of celebrities as guests, the annual winter dinner of the Gridiron Glub was given here last Saturday night and the honor guest and the oth- ers viewed themselves as depicted in the pale green glare of the sa- tirical spotlight. The lampooners directed their shafts at the Roosevelt monetary policy and also declared the Re- publican Party had been driven into a nudist colony through loss- es occurred in the big wind of 1932, Al Smith was characterized as the man opening the main line of attack on the Roosevelt Adminis- tration. The grillers characterized Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson as King of Crackers and Nira as Queen of| Codes. Their court, sitting in judgment on Henry Ford, King of Tin, was experiencing some diffi- culty in inducing the jury of Blue Eaglets to bring in a verdict for the New Deal. The farm Was not forgotten .and a model was shown depicting Ma and Pa in evening dress, serving their shabby dressed city cousins beefsteak which was $8 a pound. -eo——— MELLON SUIT 1S DISMISSED Four Other Formet” Tocts ury Officials Also Escape Trial 'ON, Dec. 11.— The Andrew W. Mellon and four other former Treasury officials for recovery of two hun- dred million dollars in income re- funds, has been dismissed by the District of Columbia Supreme Court The suit charged that Mellon and the others wilfully allowed foreign steamship companies to de- fraud the United States. - Bullitt Reaches Moscow; U. S. Flag WASHINC suit agair Sncqualmie River while help- ing his mother and sister to dry land frem a car which had been stopped by deep water. Carl Hclly, trapper, caught in the hills near Everett in a snow storm and died from exposure just ae rescuers, including his James Meilke, rancher near Longview, believed drewned in the Olequa river while attempt- ing to rescue caitle. His empty beat has been found. SEATTLE, Dec. 11.—Under glow- ering skies, a score of Western Washington cities and towns have had the highest floodwaters in years. Longview described the Cowlitz river as the highest since 1896. The water at Auburn has besn the highest in 20 years. Tacoma has had the worst flood in its history. Hundreds Marooned Hundreds of families have, been marooned or forced to evacuate their homes along the Puyallup and White Rivers. Those who left their homes were carried to safety in small boats. // No verified reports of flood deaths have been received. Highways Closed Thousands of acres of land are under water and virtually all main highways are closed. John Corbett, watchman on a washed out highway near Renton, suffered a paralytic stroke. Miss Mary Berry, aged 16, of Seattle, was an auto victim during the heavy rain. Streets Flooded Centralia, Chehalis, Kelso, Aber- deen, Tacoma and Hoquiam have been hit hard by the waters which have flooded streets. Early this mofning it looked as if the special session of the State Legislature at Olympia would have a hard time in continuing as traf- fic chokes- were reported in all di- rections and members may not be able to get there for a quorum. Cattle Lost In the Puyallup and White River valleys, besides many families be- ing marooned and others having narrow escapes, scores of cattle are lost. The Puyallup River Highway bridge is down after scores rushed to safety when the timbers began to snap. At Tacoma the Puyallup River is running 25 per cent mors wa‘er than in 1917 when flood losses ap- proximafed one million dollars. The forecast is now that the grand to- tal will be more than $2,000000 for the present flood Many districts report water from two to fifteen feet deep. (Conunued on Page Two) Floats in Breeze MOSCOW, Dec. 11— The Star Spangled Banner flew of- ficially over Moscow teday for the first time in the history of the Soviet Republic, honor- ing the arrival of United States Ambassador W. C. Bullitt,