The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 29, 1936, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR VOL. XLVIL, NO. 7182. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1936, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMer OF ASSOCIATED PRESS " PRICE TEN CENTS FIERY REPLY GIVEN “HAPPY WARRIOR” PRESIDENT T0 BE HEARD AT BIRTHDAY BALL Grand Margly of Juneau Af- fair Will Begin in Elks’ Ballroom at 9:30 WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. President Roosevelt will inter- rupt his own birthday party to- morrow night to speak words of greetings over the radio to those attending 7,000 birthday balls throughout the country. As us- ual the President will observe his birthday with intimates. DUDE HAYNES ORCHESTRA TO PLAY | Plans for the President’s birthday ! ball to be held tomorrow night in the Elks ball room were nearing completion today and the commit- tee appointed by General Chairman James J. Connors promised it will be one of the outstanding affairs of the winter season. | Mr. Connors announced Cthis | morning that Dude Haynes and his orchestra has been obtained to furnish m sic for the event and he expected all Federal, Territorial and city officials and prominent citizens to be on hand at 9:30 to lead the grand march. For eight years President Frank- | lin D. Roosevelt, as head of the| Georgia Warm Springs Foundation has been the leader of this fight to combat the menace of Infantile Paralysis. For the past two years,| under the direction of Colonel i Henry L. Doherty, Chairman of the National Committee for the Birth-! day Ball for the President, the American public has generously re- sponded to this movement to cre-| ate funds with which to carry on the fight against Infantile Paralysis. | “About one million dollars was raised_ through the 1934 Birthday Ball for the battle against Infantile Paralysis, and a slightly larger sum was obtained from similar celebra- tions last January. It is anticipat- ed that the movement will again receive the same generous public support,” Chairman Connors said. This past year 50 per cent of the proceeds of the 1935 Birthday Ball for the President was turned over to the President’s Birthday Ball Commission for Infantile Paralysis Research. This money is being is- sued in grants to those institutions throughout the country which are specializing in research efforts to bring the disease under control. These projects are being conducted in accordance with recommenda- tions of an Advisory Medical Com- mittee, whose membership consists of Dr. George W. McCoy, United States Public Health Service, chair- man; Dr. Max M. Peet, University of Michigan; Dr. Donald B. Arm- strong, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. A survey completed by this committee co-operating with (Continued on Page Two) —— e - STOCK PRICES AGAIN BOOSTED TO NEW HIGHS Motors and Aviation Issues’ Take Lead Today— | Gains Wide NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—A brisk demand for motors and aviation shares starched up the Stock Mar- ket today. Gains of fractions to around two points appeared on a broad front and at the finish with final levels around the best of the day. Numerous highs for several years were recorded. The closing tone was firm. ! CLOSING PRICES TODAY i NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 15%, American Can 124, American Power and Light| 10%, Anaconda 30%, Steel 52, Curtiss-Wright 4%, Chi-/ cago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific 2%, General Motors 58, In- ternational Harvester 64, Kenne- 1 | \ELIGIBLE’ TO WED KING EDWARD | e | Tl If Edward V111, Britain’s new bachelor king, marries, the law pro- vides he may choose only a royal princess, and only these five girls appear eligible. Top, erine, both of Greece. Russia, Princess Juliana of (Associated Press Photos) SENATOR BORAK ON RECORD FOR AGE PENSIONS Republican ];;eisidenlial As- pirant Declares Townsend Plan Is Impractical NEW YORK, Jan. 2§.—Senator William E. Borah of Idaho in a speech last night in Brooklyn ex- pressed the view that ‘‘évery per- son 60 years or over deserved {ifty or sixty dollars a month as an old age pension” but that the Townsend plan is impractical. In the first comprehensive expo- sition of his stand on a number of vital issues since his name began to be mentioned for the Republican Presidential nomination, the Ida- hoan called for delegates to the na- tional convention to be instructed to frame a “living platform to take care of the people as a whole.” He advocated a hands off policy for this country in international poli- tical embroilments and arti-lynch- ing legislation if a law could be framed that wouldn't infringe upon states rights. He favored a. policy of regimentation “if it became the choice of government for regimen- tation rather than monopoly.” Senator Borah delivered his ex- temporaneous address at a meeting of some 3,000 persons in Shrine Hall, Brooklyn, arranged by the “Borah for President” state com- mittee which seeks to instruct the New York delegates to the Cleve- land convention to vote for Borah. NEW FIGHT FOR REGULATION OF COAL IMMINENT Second Bill Ready If Guffey Act Termed Uncon- stitutional WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—A con- tinued battle for Federal regula- tion of the soft coal industry, if the L|Supreme Court rules the Guffey 'Act is unconstitutional, is predict- thlehe; Bethlehem . by United States Senator Jos- eph F. Guffey, Democrat of Penn- sylvania. Senator Guffey, who is author of the coal control meas- ure, made the statement in ad- cott 32%, United States Steel 48'%, greqsing the delegates attending the Southern Railway 15%, Cities Serv- ice 5%, Pound $4.99%, at 22. DOW, JONES AVERAGES convention of the United Mine Bremner 18 workers. - eee Brazil has the largest number of | Japanese residents—173,500—outside The following are today’s Dow,|of the mother country. Hawail is sec- Jones averages: Industrials, 147.71,jond with 150,000 and the United rails 4582, utilities 31.93. States third, with 146,000, left to right: Princess Irene and Princess ,Kat”' Bottom, left to right: Grand Duchess Kira of Holland and Princess Eugenie of Greece. Ray Refuses to Be Candidate |For Delegate SEWARD, Alaska, Jan. 20.— L. V. Ray, prominent West Al- 2:ka attorney, squelched all re- ports that he will file a5 a Republican candidate for Dele- gate to Congres from Alaska. Various organizations lately re- questcd Ray to become a can- didate but he has positively refused. Plitical Oratary Sweeps Gongress as Election Nears By HERBERT PLUMMER WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. — The first days of the present session of Congress indicate that the floors of both houses will be utilized at every opportunity as sounding boards for the coming national campaign. From the opening day this has been so. President Roosevelt set the pace when he broke all pre- cedents by delivering his message on the state of the Union at a night session when the nation could listen in. It has been maintained since. Already Congressional leaders, es- pecially in the House, have ex- perienced difficulty in holding the membership in check. Supporters of the Townsend old age pension plan have been particularly insist- ent they be given opportunity to air their views. As the session progresses, the pressure for “letting off steam,” as Vice-President Garner described it when he was Speaker of the House, will increase. Unless the leaders clamp down, the situation may be- come serious. “CANNED SPEECHES” The entire membership of the House and one-thir¢ of the Senate are up for re-election this year. No better place is to be had than the House or Senate for these Sen- ators and Representatives to make' In addition to the fact that their speeches may be noted the same| their speeches. day in their home-town papers, there is another factor probably of greater importance to them. ’I‘hey] have the privilege of broadcasting their remarks to constituents in the mails, free of charge, on wha.t-\ ever scale they desire. The member of Congress pays for the speeches he has printed, but they are printed in the Govern- ment Printing Office at Washing- | RICHARD LOEB SUCCUMBS T0 RAZOR WOUNDS: Killer of Bobby Franks Meets Death at Hands of Fellow Convict JOLIET, IIl, Jan. 29.—Slashed 52 times by a razor in the hands of an enraged fellow conviét, Richr ard Loeb, 30, co-perpetrator of the “thrill slaying” of Bobby Franks, in 1924, was killed Tuesday In Stateville Penitentiary. James Day, 28, serving a term for larceny, confessed to Kkilling Loeb. State's Attorney Will McCabe, of Will County, said he blamed it to Loeb’s persistence in pursuing Day over a long period of time with improper advances. Day first said fight.” Day denied he had stolen the razor with which he cut to pieces the partner of Nathan Leopold in Chicago's most revolting crime of nearly a dozen years ago. The razor, he claimed, was wrested from Loeb’s hand when Loeb threatened him with it. “Ever since I've been a prisoner here, Loeb has been hounding me, trying to get me to submit to him. I have always refused,” Day said in a formal statement. The altercation occurred in al private showerbath room. Loeb was taken to the prison| T0 CUT NEGUS No charges had been placed Blackshirts Scatter Defend- against Day up to a late hour last! ers AlOIl g Keyna night. Colony Border RETURNED = | — 20.—The cor-/. ASMARA, Eritrea Jan. 29—De- oner's jury sifting the Richard laved accounts from the southern Loeb slaying in the Stateville Peni- Ethiopian front tell of desperate tentiary, returned a verdict ac- CHOFS by Ras Desta Demtu, Negus i chieftain, to reassemble his scat- cusing James Day, aged 23, felloW yo 0q" forces after Fascist victorics convict, of homicide. | along the Ganale Dorya region. BSOS I A | | The pugsuing forces of General DIMBND HnPEs Rudolfo Graziani found the retreat- ing defende had fired one large supply mag: , but the invaders captured a second with guns, am- Delegate Says No Truth in Reports Measure Is Tabled munition and supplies. The Italians moved to cut off a possible Ethiopian supply from British Kenya Colony, as the scattered Ethiopian soldiers left w: ter holes in the hands of the swift- ly-moving Blackshirts. Two planes flying across the Kenya border are reported by the Italian high ecommand as signalling troop movements to the Ethiopians WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 29.— Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di- mond said he hopes for favorable action on the pending bill, H. R. 8213, to abolish salmon traps in Alaska. The Delegate added that there is “not a word of truth” in reports from Alaska that the measure has been tabled by the House Com- mittee on Merchant Marine and - - e Fisheries, “The committee completed its | ) hearing January 16, but it will be several days before a printed record Driver and Three Children is available,” he said. “I hope and Lose Lives—I12 In]urcd expect the bill will be considered COALGATE, Okla., Jan. 20.—A in executive session within tWo school bus driver and three children weeks. I do not know the com- were killed near Tupelo when the mittee’s sentiments, but I have hus overturned on an icy highway hopes for a favorable report, and The dead are Roy Harbor, driver, I am inclined to believe it will pass Alma Drennan, Billie Purgent, Al- if it reaches the floor.” lent Hagger, students. Commenting on the operation of Twelve other children traps, Delegate Dimond said: “Fish the bus were injured traps give owners special privilege T in a species of monopoly to which they are not entitied. The traps McKanna Is Elected catch 35 to 60 million fish a year. President Fairbanks Ice Carnival Assn. it was “just a city. The famous Broadway spot ITALIANS MOVE VERDIC™ JOLIET, Ill, Jan riding i They have already been abolished in some Alaska regions.” L. W. LARSEN FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Robert J. McKanna has ected President of the Ice Carnival Association nual program will be held here March 6 to March 8, inclusive. McKanna is President of the Fair- banks Chamber of Comme: e — TY COLLECTOR Jan. 29.— been el Fairbanks The an- 'Secretary of Anchorage Lodge of Elks Found Dead by Mother : ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 20— SA“SJ(}R STATE ‘Lyle W. Larsen, aged 40, Secretary ; ; Hillard, Deputy Collector of {of the Lodge of Elks and a resident ¢ysioms at Eagle, who has been |of the Territory since boyhood. gonnected with the Juneau office | at his home here after an gnce last November, sailed south 'DEPU ton at cost price. His franking illness of two years. His mother, sn the Princess Norah for a two- privilege permits him free use of the mails. Some idea of the large scale 5 (Continued onTage Seven) Mrs. Laura Baxter, found him dead months' vacation in' the States. in his bed. Mr. Hillard will join his son at Larsen came to Anchorage in Pomona, California, where the lat- 1015 and previous to that time ter is attending college, and will had been at Dawson, retdrn later to the Juneau office. | { Snow and ice were responsible for this holdup in New York, as a frozen switch tied up trolleys at Times Square during an eight-inch snowfall which took a toll of several lives in the area surrounding the source | " KING WINTER CAUSES TIMES SQUARE HOLDUP l | \ | | | | was quite deserted during the storm. (Associated Press Photo) Naval Meetto LONG POLICIES Urge Exchange ~ WILL CONTINUE Buiding Plans IN LOUISIANA |Session Resumed After In-' James Noe Who Succeeds ‘ Gov. Allen Says He Will | terval of Mourning for | King—]apfim Absent Carry on Same Course “TURNCOAT” BY SEN. ROBINSON “Brown Derby Discarded for High Hat,” Former Running Mate Tells Al PORTRAYED WARRING AGAINST OWN PEOPLE Heart witth Deal but Words Those of ‘Unhappy Warrior,” Senator Says WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—The New Deal last night officially portrayed Alfred E. Smith as a turncoat, “warring against his own people; against the men and women with whom he fought shoulder to shoulder in the past.” The spokesman, in reply to the Saturday speech impung- ing Americanism and the in- tegrity of the Roosevelt policies, was Smith’s running mate in 1928, Senator Joseph T. Rob- inson. No Constructive Idea In a fiery address last night over the radio, the Senator de- clared Smith's “hour-long harangue before the miscalled Liberty League was barren, sterile and without a single constructive suggestion.” Senator Robinson said Smith ap- proved the NRA, farm relief, urged Federal spending for public works and urged Congress to cut red tape and confer wide powers on the Chief Executive but exposed “with merciless logic the false cry of Communism and Socialism.” He BATON ROUGE, La. Jan. 29. The policies of the late United States Senator Huey P. Lr)nahfivv! survived despite the sudden death | yesterday of Gov. O. K. Allen, Long’s | coief lieutenant. | Lieut. Gov. James A. Noe, who became Chief Executive, declared | to the people of Louisiana that “I say there will be no change in pol- icy in any way whatsoever in gov- | erning the state.” Gov. Noe is to fill out Allen’s term expiring May 11. REVISED SOIL -~ SUBSIDY PLAN UP IN SENATE griculture Committee| WILL SEARCH Delmar Fadden, Missing on Mt. Rainier, Subject of Intensive Hunt LONDON, Jan. 29.—The Naval Conference, seeking a substitute for the Washington Naval Limitations treaties, resumed its sessions to- day after an interval of mourning for Ki George. A technical subcommittee will complete the draft of the agreement for mutual exchange of informa- tion on building programs among the four nations remaining after Japan’s withdrawal. The plan will be submitted to the full confer- ence. Late today Japan established con- tact with other conferees for the first time since the delegation left the original five-power conference. ARMY PLANE WASHINGTON, Jan. 29—Burd- ened with constitutional doubts and | threatened with inflationary at-| tacks, the revised Administration soll conservation subsidy plan for | replacing the AAA was ordered| reported to the Senate by the Ag- ricultural Committee by a vote of 15 to 2 ! Senators McNary and Norbeck opposed the bill B GRADUATE NURSES ARE| TO ELECT OFFICERS | The January meeting of the | Graduate Nurses of Gastineau | | channel, originally postponed be- | | cause of illness, will be held next » Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock at | the home of Dr. E. H. Kaser, ac- cording to announcement today by {Mrs. R. H. Williams, President. | Election of officers will be para- WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Alaska | mount on the agenda, with plans Delegate Anthony J. Dimond has|for a social event pending the ap- introduced a bill authorizing a bond proval of the club. issue of $80,000 for the City of oo Srangell, Alaska, for somsiruction REYNOLDS 1S BAC FROM TRIP SOUTH be used for streets, water system,| 4 S £ | Percy E. Reynolds, Manager of | {the Juneau Ice Cream Parlor and harbor float and municipal strue- | MORAN ENTERS RACE |the Juneau Liquor Company, re- tures. | turned on the Victoria from a three FOR SEAT lN HOUSE weeks' business trip to the States. | Several items of new equipment for . T. Moran of Charcoal Point his firms were purchased in Seat- has filed his candidacy for the!tle, Mr. Reynolds said. Democratic nomination to the Ter-| —_———— ritorial House of Representatives! DEWEY BAKER RETURNS with the Clerk of Court. | Mr. Moran is a practicing attor-| SEATTLE, Jan. 29. — An Army photographic plane’ will take off from Fort Lewis tomorrow in search for Delmar Fadden, missing on Mt. Rainier since January 13. Land searchers have been unable to find any txace of the mountaineer. ——— BOND MEASURE | FOR WRANGELL Delegate Introduces Bill for System of Public | Dewey Baker, with the Juneau ney in Ketchikan, and was former- | Bakery, who has been south for ly United States Commissioner at|several weeks on a vacation, re- Charcoal Point. turned home aboard the Victoria. |said the New Deal was the plat- | form of the Happy Warrior but the policies of the Liberty League have become the platform of the “Un- happy Warrior.” Al in Strange Company The Liberty League members, the Senator said, are a strange com- pany for Smith who had fought for a quarter of a century for social Justice. “The plamour of your presence and the brilliance of your person- ''ality so completely dominated the gathering that in the half shadows were concealed the lurking figures of men who fought 25 years against the principles of government you espoused,” declared the Senator. “I'm sure Mr. Hoover was with you in spirit as you repeated against Mr. Roosevelt the very speech which he himself delivered against you in 1928.” L Senator Robinson said Mr. Smith apparently had forgotten the issues upon which he ran for the Presi- dency, declaring, “the brown derby has been discarded for the high | hat.” e i VOTES CONTINUE TOROLL IN FOR BIRLS’ CONTEST Ruth Lundell Still Leads Field — Thousands of Votes to Miss Whitfield The Daily Alaska Empire's “coun- ter-upper” still works day and night in an effort to keep his head above the rising tide of votes that grows daily in the Better Times Drive, now entering its second week. To- day's standings are for all votes turned in before noon Tuesday, and epresents a total of 686,825 ballots st for the 43 candic\tes. Heavy »alloting was reported today by the ‘counter-upper”, which assures to- morrow’s count well ahead of the | first million mark. Ruth Lundell lengthens her lead n today's posting with a total of 127900, almost deuble her total of 64,675 yesterday. Ida Roller con- tinued in' second place, doubling her Tuesday standing by polling a total of 90550 votes today. Other ‘big ten” candidates today were: Bessie Powers, 74,675, Elizabeth Ka- ser, 64,900, Harriet Barragar, 63,- 900, Rosellen Monagle, 57,050, Anita Garnick, 55250, Charlotte Polet, 54,275, Betty Whitfield, 52,675, and Rosa Danner. Other standings ap- pear elsewhere in today’s Empire. Hoarded Votes In The phenomenal rise of Betty (Continued on Page Two)