The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 4, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL XXXV NO 5246. jUNEAU ALASK’\ MON’DAY NOVEMBER 4, 1929 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS CE BUSINESS 600D DECLARES SECY. LAMONT TODAY Department t of Commerce Head Produces Figures to Prove Assertion THREE ESSENTIAL FACTS ARE CITED Discusses Stock Market Re- action—Luxury Class Only Suffer WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.—Secre- tary of Commerce Robert P. La- mont today reiterated that business conditions are fundamentally sound and he cited the Department of Commerce figures showing ‘“abso- lutely” no increase in inventories, that forward orders were greater and there was no rise in com- | modity priees. Secretary Lamont endorsed state- ments of President Hoover and As- | sistant Secretary Klein, both of whom emphasized belief in stabil- ity of business. | Secretary Lamont asserted that the business curve over a long per-i fod was actually the reverse to that which preceded past business de-| pressions. He said the stock mar-‘ ket reaction was largely physologi- cal with purchasers of the luxury sclass feeling the falling off mostly. | -—“—0———— STOCK MARKET Is BAcK AGAIN ;TWO HUNDRED AND ]VI]\FTY PERSONS NORMAL BASIS Wild Outburst of Selling Takes Place at Open- | ing of Session i NEW YORK, Nov. 7—Trading in securities in the New York Stock! Exchange returned to a normal basis today after a wild outburst of selling at the opening. Today’s Quotations Alaska Juneau mine stock 5%, Alleghany Corporation 29%, Ameri- can Ice 37, American Alcohol 31, Bethlehem Steel 94%, Corn Pro- ducts 99, Fox Films 74'%, General Motors 45%, International Har- vester 90, Kennecott 73%, National Acme 20%, Pan-AmericanB 64%, Standard Oil of California 67%, Standard Oil of New Jersey 66%, Texas Corporation 56%, Air Reduc- | tion 131%, Electric Storage 88%, American T & T 235, Missouri Pa- cific 74, International Combustion 12%. z | NEW YORK T0 HOLD ELECTION | ON TOMORROW Mayor, Other Lesser Offic- | jals to Be Chosen— | Predictions Made |though he broke the law, he felt —BULLET MISSES F PR R Prince Humbert of Italy, vi trothal to Princess Marie Jose, el fired at him while he was laying known soldier. Prince Humbert PRiIICE HUMBERT PLANE QUEEN OF YUKON IS TOTAL WRECK Pilot Patterson Is Killed when Plane Plunges Into River at nghl ENGINE STALLS THEN | PLANE IN NOSE DIVE | Six Hundred Pounds of | Mail Aboard But No Passengers (Special to The Empire) SKAGWAY, Nov. 4.—The planc | ,after the take-off and the plafe { Assoclated Press Photo siting Belgium to celebrate his be- scaped unharmed when an assailant a wreath on tomb of Belgium’s un- is shown with Princess Marie Jose. HAD I WASHINGTON, Nov. 4—8Sixty- 'two new persons whose incomes are over $1,000,000 a year, are shown by government income tax rolls for | 192'1 boosting this total to 290 for the year. Included in the group are three unmarried women and 23 wives. The total income of the 200 per- | sons was $600,640,000 on which they paid a tax of $98,657,000. During the year 1927 taxpayers totaled 2,440,000 individuals with an aggregate net income of $22,545, 000,000 on which a total tax was $830,639,000. The figures were made public Sunday. KILLS MOTHER, IS ACQUITTED iMakes Dramatic Appeal to, Jury and Is Found Not Guilty BRADUIGNANA, Fance, Nov. 4. —Richard Corbett has been ac- quitted by a jury on the charge of murdering his invalid mother last May. He made a dramatic plea to the jury declaring that al- ‘he had done right. So moving was Corbett’s declara- (tion that one of the jurors broke | down and it was necessary for the| [Judge to suspend the trial while | ‘medical attention was given. The NEW YORK, Nov. 4 metropolis will elect a Mayor and lish extraction, killed his muthcn numerous lesser munlcipni officials tomorrow. ! John F. Curry, Tammany leader, in charge of Mayor Walker’s cam- paign for reelection, claimed his candidate will win by a plurality of more than 500,000 Florello H. La Guardia, running on the Fusion Republican ticket,| predicted his election by more than 200,000 votes. No figures were given out for Richard E. Enright or Norman Thomas. Both Enright and La Guardia made the unsolved slaying® of Ar- nold Rothstein the basis of their campaign attacks on Tammany and the City Administration. - PASTE JEWELRY BACK ! PARIS—Three strands of mar-' casite or paste made into a choker necklace yesembing the dwager‘ dog-collar 'of Victorian days is the( new evening ornament offered by a prominent dressmaker. He shows pendant earrings to match meas- | uring from two to four inches in| j Corbett, who is of French-Eng- then shot himself, but he recov- ered. He said: “My mother was suffering tortures. Doctors agreed that she could not recover. I feel that although I broke the law, I! did right.” . Seaplane Lost in Clouds, Fuel Low, Rescued at Sea NORFOLK, Va., Nov. 4—Lost in the clouds with fuel supply low, | Ensign George P. Hatfield, pilot of 'a naval | missing Saturday night on a flight seaplane, was reported from Philadelphia to Norfolk. Ensign Hatfield landed his plane alongside the Norwegian fruit steamer Commodore Rollins 15 miles miles from the Virginia Capes and! was towed in by the steamer yes-| terday morning, All aboard the plane were safe. The ship had no wireless so could not report the rescue of the plane. e . American farmers ' buy 700,000 heating. stoves yearly. OME_OF OVER ONE MILLION DOLLARS IN THE U. S." DURING 1927 Department of |Interior Works on International Highway WASHINGTON, Nov. 4— The Department of the In- terior announced today that it is collaborating with Al- aska and Canada preparing plans for extension of the Pacific Highway from the border, to Fairbanks, Alaska, a distance of 2,000 miles. The proposed highway will conneet with the road sys- tem in Alaska which may be followed to the coast at Wrangell, Juneau, Cordova or Seward with Yukon transportation which leads to Bering Sea. 20‘eec00000ce .- MAKE BREAK FROM PRISON Two Get Away from Ohio Penitentiary — Third i Critically Wounded | COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 4—Two |Ohio Penitentiary prisoners made 'a successful break for liberty after ibeating a guard, while a third pris- oner, Arthur Brooker, is in a crit- {ical condition. Brooker is serving a life sentence | rm murder, FThe two prisoners who escaped Imc Guy Tennent, serving from 10 to 25 years for robbery, and Will- (iam Miller, serving 20 years for | robbery. | The trio scaled the wall and beat Guard John Montgomery who was jin the tower. They swung over ithe wail on an improvised ladder. !In escaping they took a machmc igun from Montgomery. i\ Prison officials said three dnlls‘ :and three piece of steel reinforce- iment were found in the prisoners’ cells. Officials are unable to ex- plain how they came there. Brooker, who was captured in a {building immediately across the street from the penitentiary, is believed to bave been wounded in \an exchange of shots between the escaping prisoners and guards on ‘the wall who rushed to Montgom- ‘ery’s assistance. — e Cattle have been eliminated from | the tax rolls of Mississippi in order | to encourage development of dairy- hng and livestock growing. PROHIBITION Queen of the ‘Yukon No. 2, with | 800 pounds of mail, but no passen- gers, plunged into the river: Saturs . day evening at Mayo. 41 Pilot Patterson, aged 24 years, was instantly killed. The engine of the plane stal dA' went into a nose dive. Patterson was unable to bring it out. The plane is the second one own-~ ed by Clyde G. Wann and W. A. Puckett to be wrecked. Plane Queen of the Yukon No. 2, was recently brought north .nd was in Juneau about two months ago bound for Whitehorse from Sk.! Louis, via Seaulu ENFORGEMENT SEVEN TE 1\IL L.b STRI ERS C PRICE TEN CENTS CONDEMNATION OF BINGHAM 1S BEFORE SENATE Resolution of Senator Nor- ris Started. in Ac- tion Today CONNECTICUT MAN MAKES HIS DEFENSE Smoot Introduces Substi- tute—Gillett Makes Statement BULLETIN — WASHING- TON, Nov. 4. — Late this afternoon the Senate voted to !condemn the conduct of Sen- {amr Bingham for taking { Charles F. Eyanson, officer | of the Connecticut Manufaet- ‘urers Association into the se- 'cret sessions of the Senate | Finance Committee at the Associated Press Photo Seven labor agitators and strikers accused of tie murder of O. F. Aderholt, chief of police of Gas- tonia, N. C., were convicted of second degree murd:r in the Charlotte superior court. right): Bottom row (left to right): Top row (left to Fred Erwin Beal, Lawrence, Mass.; W. M. McGinnis, Gastonia, and Clarence Miller, New York. Joseph Harrison, Passa'c, N. J.; George Carter, Mizpah, N. J.; K. Y. Hen- drlckl, Gastonia, and Loull McLaunth GlltonlJ‘ ! To Dlvorce Van Loon BE DISCUSSED)| Senator Broo—k};art to Talk! Tomorrow—Outlines His High Lights WASHINGTON, Nov, 4—Senator Brookhart, who is taking a lead- ing part in the controversy over Prohibition enforcement in Wash- ington, D. C. announced in the Senate today that he proposed to- morrow to speak on the subject of enforcement in general and on “Wall Street booze parties in par- ticular.” The Iowan has been subpoenaed to tell the Federal Grand Jury; about a dinner party he attended, given by an out-of-town man. for | new members of Congress, at which Brookhart said liquor was served. | Cardinal Haves Has Conference With Pope Pius WATICAN CITY, Italy, Nov. 4— Cardinal Hayes, of New York, Ro- man Cathoic Prelate, was received in a long personal audien by Pope Pius today. He was radiant as he left the audience room. The conference with the Pope was held at an unusually early morning hour to allow the Pontiff more time to hear the report from what he con- siders the largest and most pros | perous Roman Catholic Archdiocese in the world. There was no politi- cal matters discussed. QU 5 MANY STUDENTS MARRIED COLUMBIA, Mo.—Of nearly 4.000| students at the University of Mis-! ri, 184 are married—132 men and 52 women. e Three United States predatory | animal hunters in Alaska have a| “beat” to cover aggregating 500,~ 000 square miles. | | i | | | AFTER TODAY THERE ARE ONLY 42 MORE SHOPPING DAYS LEFT | | made for special addresses | enport, Burlington, i and vainly to the protocol division | f of the State Department although | | that his subordinates were through'! ! lowed by an explanation at the de- | After Mearing/festimony in New York that Kendrik Willem V. Loon, author-historian, was living in Holland with his second wife, the former Helen Criswell, Official Ref- eree William P. Burr directed Henry A. Uterhart, counsel for Van Loon’s third wife, Frances Good- rich, actress, to submit the findings within ten days, which means a rec- ommendation that a divorce be granted. Mr. Van Loon did not de- fend the suit. International Newsreel Farm Chief Topic Of Science Meeting DES MOINES, Nov. 4—In the heart of the agricultural middlewest science will turn its microscope on the problems of the farm, annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement Science here December 27-Janu 2. Agriculture always receives atten- tion at the meetings of the ¢ tion, the greatest scientific body the United States, but as the p gram takes form, indications ar that it will be the outstanding sub- Ject for discussion at the 1929 meet- at the of |ing. Leading authorities of national and international fame will talk on the problems having a direct bear- ing on farming, aad allied activi- ties. For the first time, the association will extend its activity beyond the host city. Arrangements are being to be given by leading scientists in D~v- Sioux City Ames and Omaha. e o g |GIRL LAWYER CARRIES CANE i . LAWRENCE, Kas. Elizabeth Arnold, the only woman in the senior class of the University of |Kansas Law School, carries a canc flvflhuh!mnmtheclm STIMSON REFUSES TO ACT AS REFEREE IN SOCIAL BATTLES WASHINGTON, Nov, 4—Cails for [ . | statement escaped many, for the re- help socially still come plaintively | quests for assistance still come by telephone and letter, but hostess fully six months ago—while contro- | nd social secretary receive the |same response—in effect: versy ran high over the official | rank of Mrs. Dolly Curtiss Gann, “Settle it lfm' yu\u’svlf;‘lhcflstatc the vice presidential hostess—Secre- ;'Dcparbm:nt ix ot of westecy. tary Stimson announced succlntly et | Tragedy Stalks |In Wake of | Two Accidents with ministering in social dilemmas. A plea for assistance now is fol- partment that, officially, there is no such thing as social pgecedence among United States officials, and | that determining unofficial rank | the hostess must look elsewhere. Promising Opening There is in fact a promising open- | ing, it is said, for a commercial so- cial arbiter who could tell for a consideration when to wear a white or black tie, how to seat one’s guests, or any of the countless baffling nuisances of social observ- ance. Even the all-knowing soclal secre- taries would patronize such a re- feree, for now they ask the State | Department. And the only possi- Rility of a resumption there of the old practice of offering expert ad- vice—unofficially and gratis—would seem to be legislation providing a | bureau of social information. Such legislation is regarded as hwundl. the horizon of probability Hostesses for years consulted '1{ veteran official in the State De- | partment whenever they were in a| quandary over some fine point social etiquette, or they went X(,x counsel to a butler of the Prcxldr-m These knéw the rigid but unmrn.tcn rules—that have grown up during decades of observing precedence among American offi- LIS cials, although this nation, un]ike‘FuNxEvgre:z}:{(' i il Furopean countries, has never de- ICurpumu}m Xidiohanad fined by legislation the comparative | " the dale ot his company's stod social standing of its high officers, \hmdm" Y Piest NV"H“ sl .o Create Division EAY FPelics ‘The State Department has offered L o i assistance, working overtime at it, |~ _ #5303 By the terms of the transaction, and sthe b“UL,r #lso could e ¢de- "Fo)\nylms Corporation relinquishes pended upon. AHeY. ¥ Il ded llnlv to more than 25,000 shares of and when the protocol division was 0% b 1 created in February, 1928, official [First National stock. CHICAGO, 1Il, Nov. 4— Mr. and Mrs. Harry V. Hurtt, left St. Mary's Hospital hap- py that their daughter, a victim of a street car acci- dent, was improving. A minute later, just as they gained the safety zone to board a street car for home, a speeding motorist struck and fatally injured both. Mrs. Hurtt was dcad when taken back to the hospital and Mr. Hurtt died several hours later. The only witness to the accident was unable to give the Police a description of the car, which sped away. " FOX ANNOUNCES NEW FILM DEAL .~,oual 4. —William Fox Apparently the meaning of thls‘ Films ' completion ' | time the tariff bill was being | framed. This is the first act of cen- sure in 25 years. The vote was 54 to 22 and was taken after a protracted discussion. The resolution was finally amended and cleared Bingham of any in- (tention of corrupt motives. WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. — Con-~ demnation jof the action of United :Ccnnecucut, is demanded in the Senate by Senator Norris, “to pre- serve the honor and dignity of |this bedy.” + * Before Senator Norris made his appeal today, the Connecticut Sen- ator read in his defense his use of Charles L. Evanson as an of- !ficer of the Connecticut Manufact- 'urers Association, in assisting him lon the tariff bill and said that whatever he did was in an effort to obtain the most complete infor- (mation regarding the needs of those ‘C(lmlng under Hoovers' message to \Congress as being the need of tar- |iff revision. Senator Smoot offered a substi- ‘tutc resolution of censure but not ‘menuunmg Senator Bingham speci- o |fically but voicing disapproval of placmg personx interested in legis~ lation upon the Government pay= roll. wenator Gillevi, of Massachusetts, defended Senator Bingham, saying ithat if the Senate passed on dis- cretions of fellow Senators “our |time for the transaction of business iwill be very limited.” X e — KILLED IN GUN BATTLE Anothet Victim of Shoot- ing Indulged in by Dry Officers WHITESBURG, N. Y., Nov. 4.— The body of Ashland Collins, be< lieved to have been engaged in a zun battle with Prohibition Officers, was found near the scene of the shooting. He had been shot 13 - times. The fight resulted in serious wounding of Stephen K. Cornett, Deputy Sheriff. It is said 25 shots were fired by Cor= nett, Collins and W. A. Creech, Fed~ eral Prohibition Agent. pronouncement made the rendering |~ of unumcnl advice one of its func- | (()URI DECLINES A”) TO ("ET tions. This unofficial counsel, it w.\s plained today, was received as of- ficial dictation. Last winter came| SAN FRANCISGO, Nov. 4—Re- the controversy over Mrs. Gann's fusal of the United States Supreme social status and a plethora of ques- | Court to go into the Mark Hopkins s concerning soeial etiquette.|estate, part of which was described One April day when a wave of so-|in lengthy documents as “missing,” cial self-consciousness had swept brought a close to what has been the capital, Secretary Stimson an- termed an attempt to “get some- nounced, in effect, that his depart- |thing that wasn't there.” ment no longer should be secretary! Close to 1,000 persons, advised to social Washington: |they were heirs fo Mark Hopkins, That the protocol division had far California pioneer, opened legal pro- wore important duties to occupy it; ceedings in federsl courts to secure that the giving of advice had been'a fabulous amount of money. It was misinterpreted so that it had as- alleged in the legal doeuments that sumed the importance of official |three banks, twe in San Francisco pronouncement; that ‘Washington and one in Sacramento, had with- society must shift for itself in held some 20 or 30 million dollars ling its social problems, jof the estate. { “.SOMETHIN(, ouT OF NOTHING” Bank officials, surprised at the allegations, immediately made as- | how much money was supposed to ihave been in the banks, but the | credulous said as high as $40,000,000. The estate case dragged through the courst and finally went to the ‘Supreme Court after having been |refused action in all lower xmu |courts located in San ‘The “missing heirs” were throughom the United States. The estate was distributed 1880 and aggregated aj £ $20,000,000. Hopkins’ NM close of kin were the m States Semator Hiram Bingham, ofi | sertions that the money wasn't | there. No one ever determined just *