The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 12, 1934, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLV., NO. 6804. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1934. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FRENCHMEN RIOT ON ARMISTICE DAY STUDENT IS SHOT, | YALE GRADUATE FALLS IN FIGHT INLOS ANGELES Lawrence L. Lyons, of Uni- versity of So. California, Dies in Robbery ”»— LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 3 Lawrence Leonard Lyons, Ynle{ graduate and medical student at| the University of Southern Cali- fornia, was shot to death in Little Harlem when he gave battle to two negroes who held him up. Dennis Wells, another negro, who said he was an eye witness to the shooting, called the police and identified two suspects who were ! arrested later. Wells said he heard a fight, look- ed out of a window and saw Lyons battling desperately with two ne- groes. Well said one negro sud- denly pulled a pistol and started beating the student, finally re- versed the weapon and shot Lyons throcugh the forehead. Then the | negro rifled Lyons's pockets and | walked away. | —,— EMBEZZLER COMES OUT | OF HIDEOUT i 1 | Kept Out oE_Sgght for Two! Years — Is Glad It Is All Over CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 12.—Nichol- as Schwall, absconding Wilamette Bank cashier, charged with em- | bezzlement of $56,000, has emerged | from a two-year hideout in the| Wisconsin woods. He said he want- | ed to pay his debt and was glad it was endéd. Schwall cried when told his mother had died during the time he was hiding out. 7 N\ ILLED IN HOLD-UP Border Sharpshooter { President and Wife Lead in| d | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mrs. i | Roosevelt to pay tribute to the sol- ] } The President, leading thousands { SEN Patrolman Charles Askins, Jr. By shooting 290 out of a possible | 300 over the official police pistol course, Border Patrolman Charles ‘Askins, Jr., established a new rec- ord for pistol shooting at El Paso, Tex. Askins is shown with some of the numerous medals he has won in pistol shooting in three years., BORAH GIVEN OPPORTUNITY TOMAKEGO0D Senator Says He Will Pres-| ent Evidence on ‘Waste’ .| RIBUTE PAID T0 DEAD WHO . FELLIN WAR : T Observances in Na- tional Capital ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. XZ.—Ar-} mistice Day moved President | dier dead and prompted the First | Lady to say a word of the miseries of war. jon the pilgrimage to the Tomb of |the Unknown Soldier, carried a wreath in remembrance. Mrs. Roosevelt added a bouquet white chrysanthemums. ! Over the radio, Mrs. Roosevelt | ‘urged the youth to be trained to amity and understanding for other countries. e R , CUTTING BELIEVED T0 BE ELECTED ;Has Lead of Over 1,156] | Votes Over Democratic | ! Opponent Chavez SANTA FE, New Mexico, Nov. 12, | —United States Senator Bronson | | Cuiting, Republican, has apparent- | ly been re-elected. Associated Press | tabulations, with only 12 of the state’s 761 precincts missing, give'| Cutting 74,622 votes and Dennis Chavez, Democrat, 1,156 less. It is believed the remaining pre- | cincts will go for Cutting. of i Floating Bre wer y R eaches Ketchikan; To Cover S.E. Alaska: 4 |Next Ten Years e U, PRESIDENT of Relief Funds ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—United States Senator William E. Borah HEADING NEW ADV. COUNCIL Will Assist Economic Se- curity Committee to Draft Program | ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has appointed an | Advisory Council, headed by F. P. Graham, President of the Univer- sity of North Carolina, to assist the committee on Economic Se- curity in formulating a program for unemployment insurance, old age security or pension, to be pre- sented by the President at the forthcoming session of congress. So far the plan is in plastic form. One of the few definite points about the proposal is that a pay- roll tax will be levied but in what amount is yet to be determined. President of W.C.T. Claims New Saloon Is Worse than Old Saloon of Idaho, Republican Independent, has agreed to lay pefore Harry L. Hopkins, Relief Adminigtrator, evi- dence that he has of ‘‘shameless waste” of relief funds. Borah has arranged to confer this week with Dallas W. Dort, Chief Investigator of the Relief Administration, after receiving a letter from Hopkins saying any | conditions alleged by* Borah would “not be tolerated for one moment.” The Idaho Senator was asked to furnish particulars to substantiate his charges and was promised quick | action. | ELLEN M'ADOO AND ACTOR WED ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, | Nov. 12—Ellen Wilson McAdoo, | daughter of United States Senator | William Gibbs McAdoo, and Rafael De Onate, movie actor, who claims to be of Spanish descent, were married here Saturday at a simple KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Nov, 12— The old sailing schooner Alumna, believed to be the only floating | brewery in the world, has been towed here from Seattle by the tug Akutan. The floating brewery will ply along the Southeast Alas- ka coast, making and selling beer | as she goes. The venture is ex- pected to furnish $20,000 to $35,000 in tax revenues for the Territorial coffers. —_———.—.e—— REGULAR AIR SERVICE, U. . T0 AUSTRALIA Route to Be Surveyed This Month—Flier Is on Way to Canada SOUTHAMPTON, England, Nov. 12—Plans for a regular trans-Pa- cific Air Service, carrying passen- gers and mail between Australia, Canada and the United States, is disclosed by Charles T. P. Ulm, Australian airman, as he sailed | for Canada. He is Managing Di- ceremony after flying here from |rector of the Great Pacific Airways, Hollywood. Their recent announce- CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 12.—As- serting that the new saloon is here and infinitely more dangerous than the old, Mrs. Ida Wise Smith, Na- tional President of the W.CT.U, is to organize a five-year plan of education against alcohol. Brighten Polish Nights WARSAW.—To increase kero- sene consumption among Polish peasants, who get up and retire with the sun except in the short days of winter, prices for lamp oil have been cut 25 per cent. Deal- ers had become alarmed because frugal farmers had lowersd the annual consumption of kerosene from 154,000 to 118000 tons in four years. ment of intention to wed, caused a furore as it was believed the groom has Filipino blood. B Utah Man Appointed as Governor of Fed. Reserve Bank Board ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—Pres- ident Roosevelt has appointed Mar- lined 8. Eccles, of Utah, as Gover- nor of the Federal Reserve Bank, succeeding Eugene R :Black, re- signed. Eccles is described as an advo- | cate of a liberal degree of Govern- Ltd., and is due in Montreal No- vember 17. He will fly from there to Vancouver, B. C., from where he will attempt the 8,000 mile flight to Australia on a survey. “ Pet Rabbit Leads Child To Death DENVER, Colo., Nov. 12— Nellie Lucero, aged 17 months, is dead and physicians battled to save the lives of eight other small children who followed 2 pet rabbit to a junk pile and there scraped eandy and syrup ment control over credit and cur- rency. He had a leading part in formulating the heusing legislation. from a barrel they found. Two of the little ones are in Australian Fliers Ahead of Time in Crossing Pacific Ocean { ‘ il i In less than 15 hours after taking off at Honolulu, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith brought the Lady Scuthern Cross down on the tamac of Oakland November 4 to complete his roundtrip flight from the Bay port to Australia and back which was started in 1928. The 2408-mile cver water flight was made in remarkable time and the Awustralian air hero and his navigator, Capt. P. G. Tayler, were in the Golden State hours before thelr Q‘pected arrival. Smith apologized for his early appearance. Upper left: Kingsford Smith and Taylor telling the story ‘of the flightis Yower left: The trans-Pacific flight officially ends as the Lady Southern Cross is flagged. Right: Sir Charles (left) and Taylor climb out of the cockpit after roaring o wut of the West. (Associated Press Photos) ar May Come Within LONDON, Nov. 12. — Lloyd George, England’s wartime Pre- mier, said it is impossible to get assurance against war oc- curring within the next ten years, NEW FEATURE PLANNED FOR | FED. HOUSIN Insurance of Mortgages on By ALEXANDER R. GEORGE WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—Anoth- big battle in Congress over the | Bonus—the most bitter since the bonus army’s invasion of Washing- |ton in 1932—is in prospect this winter. The demands of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign | | | action despite warning by President Roosevelt of its danger to the re- covery program, indicates that powerful pressure will be placed on the new Congress for immedi- ate cash payment of adjusted com- 'pensation certificates. It is estimated that between $2,- New Structures 000,000,000 and $2,400,000,000 would T k U be needed to pay the bonus in ful'. aken Up Representative Wright Patman of pR e _!Texas, who for several years has WASHINGTON, Nov. 12— The heen g leader of bonus-supporting Federal Housing Administration gorees i Congress, is expected to has announced a mnew set-up 10 jntroduce a measure similar to his handle insurance of mortgages ON piy) which passed the House last new houses. The first steps wil' b wMareh but died in the Senate. the listing of institutions which, will be able to make insured loans. | House Passed It The Patman bill authorized im- John E. Pegues of Juneau, will be | the Director for Alaska. | mediate payment of the bonus in — .- new money—the issuance of $2,200,- ] {000,000 in United States notes of UH HUM' ITS |small denominations against the ] ] gold supply of the Treasury and to be maintained at a Dparity with NG other paper currency. | The House passed the bill by a vote of 295 to 125 despite the op- WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—HENY pogipion of President Roosevelt P. Fletcher, Chairman of the Re~ gng the protest of administration publican National Commitiee, P'e= jeaders that the measure ‘“struck dicted the New Deal will topple D€= a¢ the very neart of the recovery cause of paternalistic and social- program.” The senate, which two istic policies while the G. O. P. weeks before the house vote defeat- will continue to fight. L ed a similar bill, did not take up Fletcher claimed the Rrpu.w:-v.m.s 156 Dittann measure . polled 47 percent of the total VOl | moyiioa) ohservers here are of last Tuesday while the Democrals the oninion that the bonus would lost seven million votes. receive enough support to pass both the House and Senate in the new Congress, but that it probably would be defeated on a second vote in the Senate after veto by BAR ASSOCIATION LUNCHEON PROVES COMPLETE SUCCESS the President. i Long A Thorny Issue The Juneau Bar Association! In his speech at Roanoke, Va. Luncheon at the country home of President Roosevelt inferentially R. E. Robertson was practically & stated that any bonus payments to complete success, despite the fact war'veterans should await at least that some members were delayed the relief of millions of persons in arriving because of storm-brok- whose conditions were far worse en trees on the road, and some de- than those of the average veteran. terred in going at all because of He also warned that the credit re- the storm. !sources of the nation must be con- In addition to a sumptuous served, luncheon and the lively repartee| The bonus was a thorny issue al- that characterizes Juneau Law AS- 50 for Presidents Coolidge and Hoo- sociation gatherings, a portion of ver. the Washington-Stanford game, Certificates are held by some broadcast was heard over short 3543000 former service men, the wave radio. » {Cbngress lielieve(i Fa “Most Bitter” Bonus F ight Wars for immediate governmental | | \ TRUCKS RUMBLE ASCITY REPAIRS STORM DAMAGE (Mayor Orders Immediate Filling of Holes Torn in Road cing being $988. Loans on the certifi- cates, however, have been made to 2,870,000 veterans, or 80 per cent of those holding certificates. Adjusted service credit is com- puted on the basis of amount of active service in excess of 60 days in the military or naval forces after April 5, 1917, and before July 1, 1919. For each day of overseas service, $1.25 is allowed while for each day of home service the al- lowance is $1. Advocates of cash payment con- tend it, would boost the nation's purchasing power by putting money The rumble of dump trucks through the city streets today told the story of Juneau's move to repair the wreckage done her waterfront Saturday afternoon }when a sudden 50-mile gale swept jup Gastineau Channel from the | southeast. | Twenty trucks were called out by | Mayor Isadore Goldstein yesterday {and were used all day and again today in taking fill for great holes torn by the grasping waves along Willoughby Avenue. Cavities, ex- | tending into the road as far as ten | feet in some places, were being | filled with crushed rock. No estimate as to the damage done the city by the roaring wind, termed the worst that has ever hit the Juneau harbor, was made today. Mayor Goldstein said the amount that the city would have into circulation in all sections of the country. R PRIEST SLAIN BY PUGILIST; MOB ENRAGED TRON RIVER, Michigan, Nov. 12, | —Accused of slaying a priest, Mag- | loire Labelle hid today behind the | £2 law while enraged men from the| pd"y w;;n{d Tun. into several thau- north . woods: MamaRa i mwl.ssr?. dollars, but that it was im- where the police had taken him. | possible Lo give an accurate esti- Labelle, 8 former pugtlist, was | mate today. The fact that all busi- s houses were closed today for arrested as he stood over the crum- | nes; tice Day 4 pled form of the Rev. James Len- ?)n ;r’::‘xsvxce B’:. oli:flay Sdded. to hart, aged 63 years, retired pastor | o:‘ (‘l)w‘ ;:m;:e EpRtingthe. cank and priest. The priest was so bad- |~ . o TE0 . ly beaten and kicked that he died.| % “}'1 (:‘"'V‘X byt Labelle was arrested. He asserted t,u“m,t ho llr‘mrl;cbsuddcnness ot the priest had broken up his v::-n:n:n:oa:] . ;"k"" Sihout home, as Mrs, Labelle was the pas- 00h, Retlaay; and tor's housekeeper. then stopped, almost as suddenly shortly after 2:30 o'clock that af- | ternoon. Battles Waves MANYOUTBREAKS TAKE PLACE IN FRENCH NATION Hatreds F it by Fall of Doumergue Cabinet— Herriot Hooted PARIS, Nov. 11.—Armistice Day was the signal for renewed out- breaks between rival French politi- cal organizations and their hatreds were fanned by the fall of the Doumergue Cabinet. Gunfights occurred in the streets of Paris and brawls in several oth- er French cities, the Nation's hom- age to the war dead. Many persons were injured in rioting in front of the Memorial to the war dead at Narbonne with Communists and opponents ex- changing blows. | The police repeatedly broke up | crowds in front of the hotel here | where Herriot lives. He was shout- ed and hooted and asked to resign | from the present Cabinet. Yester- |day he was hooted in his home ‘ltown of Lyon at the conclusion of |a a speech. PETERSBURG IS HIT BY STORM LAST SATURDAY Two Warehouses Blown Into Bay—Power Lines Down PETERSBURG, Alaska, Nov. 12. —A 40-mile an hour gale caused $5,000 damage last Saturday. Half of the Anderson Marine Way col- lapsed on the Alaska Game Com- mission’s Seal. Two warehouses were blown into the bay, windows of residences and stores and power lines went down. SPAIN'S REVOLT WAS BLOODY ONE Thirty-five Hundred Known Dead, Ten Thousand Were Injured MADRID, Nov. 12—It is esti« mated conservatively that Spain's recent revolt, was the bloodiest in 50 years. Thirty-five hundred are known to be dead and 10000 were in- jured. Property damage was al- most $500,000,000 but the Socialist revolters were crushed. —e——— TOM MOONEY CASE BEFORE HIGH COURT WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. — The Supreme Court has ordered the State of California to show within 40 days why a review should not be PERFORMER | Stories of both near-tragedy and |#ranted Tom Mooney in his at- | comedy were mingled. Capt. Martin |!empt to escape the remainder of Holst of the herring boat Wilson, (Continued on Page Six) IS SEIZED his life sentence for the 1916 San | Francisco Preparedness Day Parade | bombing. BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 12— The| . police are searching for Mrs. Mary | Sl y G Keen, aged 20, of Fort Davis, Tex- “ a e r " v e n as, performer who appears at the Boston Garden. She was allegedly | seized and carried off by men in an auto truck, her husband said. PLLRE 25 T A | MINING MEN DEPART o . o SEATTLE, Nov. Two ititu mining men, W. C. z Bantnen "and > M Nt were Gritfis, convicted of slaying Police recent passengers on the Copper Sergeant John Donlan in making River and “Northwestern Railway an attempted burglary in his out of Cordova. They left for their| home, has been sentenced to a 12— Edward (value of the average certificate 'drill with them. property, takjpg a new Keystone “life term” in the state prison. Superior Judge John T. Ronald, Life but Will Be Released when Indicated He Will Become Good Citizen in passing the sentence, said: “Whenever . they realize you are | ready to become a good man and | atone for your aet, you will be | released.” | Griffis, 19 years old, wiped his hand across his face and replied: