The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 29, 1935, Page 1

L “ President of the Carter Coal Com- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPI VOL. XLVL, NO. 7104. | ITALIAN NATION NO “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1935. SARNER GIVEN AUDIENCE BY JAP. EMPEROR Car Containing Memb ers of Party Accused of Photographing TOKYO, Oct. 29.—Vlce—l>msidem,' John Nance Garner, member of the party emroute to Manila to partici- pate in ceremonies incident to Phil- ippine Independence, was received today by Emperor’ Hirohito. The Vice-President was accom- panied by Joseph W. Byrns, speak- er of the House of Representatives, and Edwin L. Neville, Charge de Affaires of the American Embassy in Tokyo. Meanwhile, the chauffeur of a sightseeing car ascignad {2 the visit- inz Americans was quastioned by police on reports that the occupant of the car photographed tae forti- fied zono. | Representative and Mrs. Bert Lord, New York Republican, and Santi- ago Iglesias, Fuertd Rican resident commissioner, ozcupied the car. Taey rcturncd aboard the Presi- dent Grant, unaware of the incident. KEPT HIS SHOES ON TCXYO, Oct. 29.—Vice-President -arner appeared in the audience be- fore Emperor Hirohito with his shoes on. This constituted the answer to the recent speculation in the United States as to whether he would pay his respects in his stocking feet, thus keeping the custom of the country.! BUFFEY COAL ACT ASSAILED AS CONSPIRACY 'President, Carter Coal Co., Hurls Accusation During | Supreme Court Trial WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.— The Guffey Soft Coal Control Act is as- sailed in the District of Columbia Supreme Court as the most gigantic, conspiracy for the restraint of trade ever arising under anti-trust laws. Counsel James Walter Carter, pany, hurled the accusation today during the first suit challenging the jconstitutionality of the Act. OFFICALS OF FIFTY CITIES | . RETRENGHING Scaling Down of Heavy| Burden Results from Economy Moves CHICAGO, Tll, Oct. 29. — With ears tuned to the public demand for Governmental economy, officials in many large cities have reduced sharp- ly the municipal debt’s, a survey shows. s E H The survey discloses that in 50 of | the largest cities, where depression’s pinch nipped the faxpayers’ pocket- book, officials have ‘scaled down on the heavy burden of long-term in- debtedness. NEW CABINET, SPANISH Re. Scandal Develops — Oldl Government Hands in Resignation MADRID, Oct. 20.—Premier Joa- quin Chapaprieta has been requested by President Alcala Zamora to form a new cabinet. This was immediate- ly after the resignation of the month-old government, also headed by Chapaprieta. The resignation of the cabinet was the outgrowth of a gambling scan- dal, allegedly involving eight promi- nent radicals, officials :and former officigls of the government. | could satisfy every humanitarian de- | Mme. Mujda Lupescu, in two poses, intimate friend of King Carol of Rumania, and the object of an “Anti-Lupescu” drive by the National Feann‘t party. surprised her oppcnents by returning from France to tumania for the king's 42nd birthday. (Associated Pres. Photn Complications Seen by apitol nsidersin U. S Neutrfllity Aet| BUDGET SET FOR 3 YEARS Tugwell Says Fiscal Year, 1938 Will Show Sat- isfactory Balance | the country official assurance it has | washed its hands of any foreign war, the problems created by the gesture are a source of worry to insiders. declaration that “our objective is | to keep this country out of war." He repeats it at every epportunity. | Broader neutrality problems, how- |ever, certain to arise should the Italo-Ethiopian conflict spread, are | receiving anxious attention. It's such statements as that made by former LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20.—Address- | Senator Allen of Kansas, after an in- ing a Democratic meeting last night, | terview with Mussolini in Rome, that R. G. Tugwell, Undersecretary, of Ag- | I1 Duce apparently believes European riculture,. said- his calculations war inevitable, that alarms officials showed that the Administration| here, ‘What would happen, for e, ‘mand and still come to a balanced | if Great Britain :&:m‘;ece:r::“:; ——————.———— ’polnt neutrality program has given | Secretary Hull still stands on his | budget in the fiscal year 1938, ‘‘un-|volved in war with Italy? such as war or catastrophe.” | . The President’s & three-point pro- He is also quoted as saying that! ,op empargoes trade in arms and the fiscal year 1938, ought to show g thiopia, ‘and further warns that 8 ",?’ net increase of only $3,000,000,- | Americans who travel on the.ships | them, do so at their own risk. | Great Britain’s trade with the UNIUN STHIKER | United States runs into the hun- d 1 ldxeds of millions of dollars annual- borhood of $65,000,000. In the event, therefore, Great | United States would have to decide | whether it would give up its trading | rights supposedly protected under in- jican boats and American shippers. G{and ]ury Probe Ordered: The question also would arise as in Mystery Gunfire in |to how to distinguish between goods hipment to a belligerent and goods % 3 dir pres HAM, Ala, Oct: 20— mpped ectly to a warring na- Tension gripped the strife-torn Ala- | ed their inquiry into the slaying of! one union miner and the wounding Mountain Highway. 1 Gov. Bibb Graves ordered a grand | As a matter of fact, this laiter problem already has assumed im- portance. The refusal of -Austria and Hungary te join in sanctions against Ttaly with other members of the League of Nations opened a path | for goods to flow from German ports |down through Austria into Italy. | Secretary Hull Counters Mflk cm Sludied | In view of this situation, diplo- i mats here are asking whether the by Division of NRA President’s intention is to bar all WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. — The (Continued on Page Seven) ———— consumer’s division of NRA is eriti-| Iapan Accepta cizing the high cost of distributing 2 ] X 10 thels first of ' sertes of||VItaLioN. to studies of milk costs, which revealed Naval Conference that the dairy farmer is not selling in open market without being put at a disadvantage in bargaining for the price he deserves. less something unforeseen happens, | If Britain rights “the national debt, at the end oOf |, nition with both Italy and 900 of these nations or do business with ly. Italy’s is far less—in the neigh- | Britain became involved in war the | ternational law or else protect Amer- B chipped to - Alabama Cold Fields | nibred to a neutral state for re | tion. bama coal fields as authoritjgs press- | of six others in a burst of gunfire on Jury probe. .- TOKYO, Oct, 29.—~The Japan- ese Government has decided to | accept Great Britain’s invitation It is said that retail prices at| to the London Naval Conference present represent a compromise| to be held December 2. The other agviement between organized pro-| ‘nations invited are (he United ducers and diztributors, 1 States, France and Italy. LIQUIDATION | - OF ANTHIAPS Drastic ‘Action Taken in] North China Affairs— | Ultimatum Issued i TIENTSIN, Oct. 20. — Japanese | & military and diplomatic authormas' | imposed a strong hand over North China, with a formal demand that Chinese officials immediately liquid~ j |ate anti-Japanese and anti-Man- choukuan elements. Major General Harao Tada, Com- | hander of the Japanese garrison, followed his ultimatum with thei L | statement that Japan fears for the | welfare of China’s 400,000,000 peos. ple as well as the peace of the | Orient. Prompt decisive measures to eradis cate various anti-Japanese and anti~ { Manchoukuan organs existing in: | North China are demanded. i | DEFIANT ATTITUDE | NANKING, China, Oct. 29—The | Chinese Nationalist officials, bacl by increased military activity in the. Nanking area, are taking a m defiant attitude toward the new Japanese pressure. ¢ Al The official spokesman voiced be-; lief that the limit has been reached and China will not yleld further tofSa Japanese demands. - & y MEXICAN HILLS League “of Nations - Given' Warning—Contentions | ? Are Set Forth Y LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 20.—On GENEVA, Oct. 20.—Japan (0day g report that William Drainard, alias | warned the League of Nations that| wyiiyam Mahah, sought in the Wey- {3he will accept no treatment of diss' o naguser kidnaping in Tacoma last crimination, and will insist on equal g,ing has been seen in Lower Cali- opportunities for trade in the vast gonia Mexico, Joseph E. P. Dunn, reglons under mandate. head of the G-men in Southern At a former meeting of the League ' cqjitornia, ordered two agents of the Mandate Commission, & Belglan g5 Diego Department, to Visit. the member said that by resigning from pnountain hamlet of San Joe d'Eltel- | the League, Japan lost her right t0 1, where the fugitive is reported to |economic equality in the mandated ,.ve peen seen. | districts. | Although he expressed some doubt In an address to the Mandale ;hq¢ the man seen in the hills, dis- Commission, howcver, the Japanese guised as a miner, was Mahan, Dunn representative said such a docirine giq the report will be investigated was opposed by the Imperial W'\tmmughly, ernment, which held that it was an| oo ally and associate of the powers dis- tributing the mandates, Who alone‘l N s u BHEcTIoN i | | ' OF OFFICIALS " IRKS GOVERNOR can decide thé conditions of their op- eration. Japan argued that it is of no con- | A . 'National :Guard Machine Gunners d to Keep Commissioners Out sequence whether or not the man- datory power is a member of the League. £ COLUMBUS, 8. C., Oct. 20.—Olin D. Johnson declared today that the |State Highway Commission is “in a RIS BV £5 1e « DIES | ) | state of insurrection,” and ordered , National Guard machine gunners to | keep the commissioners from their Ferneki, Desperado, Be- lieved to Have Swal- offices. He named a board to supervise lowed Poison | |the affairs of the commission and lfifl‘;f"“u% Oz ::"p;'.;";‘n;y ordered removal from office of all i ™ S " | commissioners, including Chief Com- tured yesterday following his €5cape [.icioner Ben M. Sayer, whose re- from Joliet penitentiary, died after ,iue was the object of aitacks by the Clue of Weyerhaeuser Kidnaper 211 in the Detective Bureau. Police expressed belief that he -wallowed poison concealed in his clothing. Macedonia Floods Police Frustrate Attempted Killing; Three Under Arrest Taking Heavy Toll MaDRID, oct. 20— Potice: Have —_— |frustrated a plot to assassinate a SOFIA, Oct. 29.—An undetermined high: Government official by arrest- number of persons are reported to ing two men and women in posses- he dead in disastrous floods in Mace- sion of six automatic pistols and donia. several powerful bombs. Proclamation for Armistice Day Is Issued by President WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—Pro- claiming November 11 as Armis- ! tice Vay, Fresigent Kooseveit remarked that “it is particularly fitting that at this snniversary at peace with all nations. Our | comviction for permanent peace can and must be attained throughout the world.” A detachment of Italian: soldiers marching towar plan campaign. They are headed south from Eritrea. (Associated Press Photo) “Men Sent to Investigate having been found unconseious in his Goyernor since long before election. | Ry T the frontier Dedia;te Hospital Addition St. oseph'msli!utibn at lgairbnnks Increased to. 50 Beds FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 20— The new wing to the St. Joseph's the institution to 50 beds, was dedi-~ cated Monday, the twenty-fifth an- niversary of the founding of the hos- pital, by Father Francis Monroe, now at Wrangell. The addition gives Fairbanks a modern hospital in every respect, with an adequate x-ray laboratory, surgical rooms, modern elevators, electric lights, steam heating and laundry, The furnishings of 20 private rooms were donated by leading citizens. ‘The expansion of the hospital was urgently needed on account of the development in aviation, which re- sulted in patients being brought here from outlying points by planes. Speakers included Mayor E. D. Collins, U. 8. District Judge Harry E. Pratt, Dr. J. A. Butherland and Pather Francis Eline, local pastor. The hospital is under the direction of the Sisters of Charity of Provi- dence, The building was designed by Sis- ter Joseph Anselm, of Seattle, who has been supervising architect for 15/ similar institutions. ‘The addition was erected by the J. B. Warrack Construction Com- pany, of Juneau. Warrack came here by plane to be present at the dedication. - e, GOMPROMISE IN PUBLIC UTILITY ACT IS SOUGHT | parture from Longtime Stand on Regulation Hospital, increasing the capacity of | {Brokers Make Kadical De-| WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. | h F ascists on 'March* to Meet Ethiopian Enomy JHESTRIEfiUNs | ARE ORDERED ' BY MUSSOLINI { Public Dining Rooms, Meat | Markets to Be Closed Two Days Weekly {ACTION IS TAKEN IN | FIGHT ON SANCTIONS League Ru—l_i;-g— Scheduled to Go Into Effect Against Italy on Thursday ROME, Oct. 29.—Premier Ben- ito Muscclini teday put the Ital- ian pation on a cix months’ dist to fight sanctions. The meacure is effcctive next Friday, Novem- ber 1. The order restricts the sale of meats and also prescribes a rcduction on necessary imports. The crder also cleses public dining rooms and butcher shops «n Tuerdays and Wednesdays. | [ | Official quarters Intimate the Ital- §s | lan Government is confident many A | nations will scramble to supply Italy’s needs after the existing com- | mercial contracts are disrupted by | the sanctions’ program. to the army engaged in the ARMIES MOVE AHEAD GENEVA, Oct. 29 ~Premier Mus- i | ‘Bfl BUMBING solini’s empire building armies to- | | day advanced into the Ethioplan 1 RE | interior, according to unofficial ad- | vices, as the League of Nations, pes- simistic over the chances of peace, | planned a campaigp of sanctions 1 against Italy. i | Twenty-four nations have notified — the League they will participate in the buy nothing boyeott. ) Contracts to Be Awarded|™g "3 Bomns borct e by First of Year—-Re- |bers nave put into effect financial place Oid Craft fonh, Sh e § e Italy, according to reports received WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—Admiral | pere s preparing to meet the sanc- Ernest J. King, head of the Naval|yiong campaign with rigid economic Bureau of Aeronautics, disclosed | 4o actic control, {plans to award contracts for 60 tor- | On Northern Front pedo bombing planes by January 1| paving pushed 25 miles toward the 1036, interior of Ethiopia, the Italian The new craft is wanted to re-|goes are today half way on the | place the over-age planes and Will| o oh on the northern front from | be assigned to the airplane carriers| pgigrat to Makale, the mountain Lexington and Saratoga. | pass, which is the gateway to the kP PN B | interior. q | 1t is reported that small concen- trations of Ethiopian tribesmen have | been scattered before the advancing Italian troops. MAKE DISPLAY ) Afrplanes are soaring over hoth | the northern and southern fronts, ; seeking locations of Ethiopian de- | BY AUSTRIANS tachments of troops. 3 FAIL TO AGREE i fRegs 7 LONDON, Oct. 20.—Great Britain }erlltary Parade Features|and France, it s disclosed trom of- | ficial sources, have failed to find Up-to-Date Cannons, |0 (or setting the conflict between Tanks, Mobilization |[the two powers over the common AR IcR- | plan of action at Geneva. Thursday | VIENNA, Oct. 20.—The new Aus-|when the League's sanctions com- | trian government surprised the na- [ mittee meets on the date set lor | tion and Europe’s military observers | imposition of the economic boycott | by lifting the veil from its up-to-da‘e | 8gainst Italy, it was assumed Parls | war machines in a parade here. | and - London, pursuant to the com- Tanks, no higher than a mau’s|mon plan, would seek to put the shoulder, were maneuvered. A new | boycott Into effect as soon &s pos- |little cannon, mounted on rubber- sible. | tired wheels and drawn by a single O U R R DT } horse, was given its first public show- wnnln FLIGHT | ing. One hundred trucks indicated the! | reliance the new army places on mo- | ~ NEARING END | Overhead, 36 planes, some tri- | | Bbichie. ks e | LONDON, Oct. 26.—Harold Far- - | quhar, British diplomat and flier, ,AGED cAs“lER and Fritz Bieler, German aviator, | landed at the Heston airdrome from Paris, terminating a 22,000-mfle flizht begun in Mexico City last August uNDER ARRES | The fliers procesded to New, Yor] | then across Capada, W Hpaheee, . | China, India, and eastern and North- {William Shearer Is Held in 4 4 orn Africa. e ———— f Texas for Authorities | in California FORT WORTH, Tex., Oct. 20.— bers 2s80¢ William B. Shearer is held here ot i i b awaiting a California officer who knowledged this stand as a departure long oppo wanted the aged cashier of the Cali- n;or;: in ‘mon s e | fornia State Treasury office in con—‘ hyeng i, vy 4 { nection with an alleged $24,000 short- | The Association is now holding ) age in funds | [ amision heys. | "The arrest came after the State| Austrian World War | Bureau of Criminal Identification Ace Dies, Pneumonia Va., Oct. 20.—The Investment Barik- | ing Association expresses the hope | that the 1935 Public Utility Act will be revised to start Federal regula- tion within proper legal limits. enlisted the aid of local police in setting the trap. -ee | Scorpions were already in exis-| VIENNA, Oct. 29.—Capt. Rudolf |tence in the carboniferous period| | Stanger, Austrian World War flying|and there is no essential structural [ace, died here today, a victim ali'dmer»ncc between these fossils and {pneumonia, | ‘existing forms, Stir Created At Geneva by Japan Officer GENEVA, Oct. 29.—The re- ported statement by a Japanese officer that the former German Islands in the Pacific Ocean, now mandated to Japan, have a stra- tegic value, created a stir in a meeting of the League Mandate Commission. ! Pierre Orit, Belgian member, read a report from an unnamed Japanese officer denying charges that Japan bas fortified the ilands but conceding that they st strategic importanee.