The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 1, 1930, Page 1

\ | | | | < DAILY VOL. XXXV., NO. 5346. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 1. 1930. ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TlrierCENTS TRAIN ROBBERS MAKE ESCAPE FROM LEAVENWORTH ON HAITIAN COMMISSION BARRICADED NAVAL SESSION | Japanese Foreign Office Re- ceives Report — Con- | tents Not Divulged | U. S. SUGGESTIONS | ARE NOT APPROVED' Ratios of Tonnage Figures Submitted Are Caus- | ing Concern Now | TOKYO, March 1. — The best available opinion here is that Am-; erica’s latest proposals to Japan will bring the Naval Conference in Londen little, if any nearer, an agreement The proposals which United States Senator David A. Reed, member of the American delegation, handed to ! Ambassador Matsudaira, has been received by the Foreign Office. { Officlals of the Foreign Office' refused to disclose the contents of the proposals or make any com- ment upon them. { Opinion from authoritative quart- ers are that discussions of ratios of tonnage figures between Am- erican and Japanese delegations are making little pragress Yatween nav- {oover's commission to study tl members of the commission are: untoward incidents Gespite emfergen are dominating both sides, Commission began work today. aceording to reports received here, that there is little hope for suc- cess unless statesmen invoke broad- er political principles. STORMS RAGE AN NANUK AND DELAY FLIGHT Funeral Plane Still Held Up| at North Cape — Two Aviators in Teller NOME, Alaska, March 1.—A radio to Alfred J. Lomen from Pilot Joe Crosscn at the motorship Nanuk, dated February 27, says: “Bad storms are raging here and may last for three or four days. The bodies of Col. Carl Ben Eiel- son and Earl Borland were placed in a Fairchild plane yesterday but weather thickened and we were un-! able to start. | “When the _bodies were brought | in on February 22, we figured it| CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 1. would take 48 hours to thaw them The Cleveland Plain-Dealer, in cut. siblé to transport them in a plane copyrighted story, written by War- otherwise. When Gillam and Reid den P. E. Thomas, of the Ohio left here on February 26, the bodies Penitentiary, stating that Dr. James were not ready as we had hoped. !H. Snook told him prior to his “The doetor of the Stravropol electrocution that he deliberately prepared the bodies the very best|planned the slaying of Miss Theora possible. The bodies were formally Hix because she threatened to ex- finally got tired and went home. neatly arranged in flower gardens. Commissioner Russell in honor of refusal to attend. COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 1— Dr. James H. Snook was eleciro- cuted last night in the Ohio State Prison for the murder last June 13 of Miss Theora Hix, his coed mis- tress. Dr. Snock walked unassisted to the chair. He was perfectly cool and said nothing. His eyes took had eaten his last meal with his wife. CONFESSES TO WARDEN a turned over to us Wednesday. Both |pose the whole affair and ruin him | are wrapped in American flags Wesocially and professionally. Cameron Forbes (left) of Norwood, Mass., will head President of Kansas and Henry P. Fletcher, former ambassador to Rome. GIVEN COLD WELCOME PORT AU PRINCE. March 1.—After a ci Banner bearers who stood in the st Excelsior Hotel, the Commission’s headquart Haitians of all parties have been invited to the reception by invited have published cards in the local newspapers announcing DR. J. H. SNOOK DIES IN CHAIR FOR SLAYING OF COED; CONFESSION in the entire crowd. Previously he: It would have been impos- Columbus dispatch today prints a | - MANCGAUSES | LITTLE WAR Two Dead ;r;flall Hunt in Ohio—Three Men Are Injured in Fight RELIANCE, Ohio, March 1.—A miniature wal in which one pound |shells, tear gas bombs and dyna- { mite were used to besiege a bar- }| ricaded madman, resulted in & | casualty list of two dead and three injured. | i The dead are: ' Hubert Floehr, aged 60, escaped inmate of the Toledo State Asylum. Mrs. Augusta Floehr, aged 55, his wife, whom he killed during a fam=-! ily argument preceding his lone five-hour stand in his home against police, County officials, National |Guards and volunteer attackers. | The injured are: Police Chief Weaner. | Newell Littlefield, aged 23, stu- dent. i William Chappell, aged 34, '‘a salesman. Chappell was shot by Floenr as Taft’s Vitality he tried to climb through a win- Continues to Hold dow. Littlefield was hit by a stray bul- Aguinst Disease { e |let. Chief Weaner was hit as he was |leading a storming party. | A eitizen finally planted dyna- mite under the house, which was cxploded. Floehr was found dead. Here is the new rural mou school will accommodate 30 pu school for the benefit of mount: to teach. | Asgociated Press I'hoto i he Haitian situation. Among other William Allen White (above, right) WASHINGTON, March 1. —The vitality that Willlam Howard Taft built up in his younger days is still hold- ing out against the com- bination of diseases. It is said there has been little change in his condition dur- ing the past 24 hours. It is believed he is reésting more “quietly.” Im peaceful night of no cy preparations, the Hoover Haitian outside the gates of the s a good part of the night,} BOMB CLOSES " CHICAGO.CLUB WITH A BANG pANTAGES HAS HEART ATTAGK Wife Is With Him at Time —Not as Serious as However, they stuck their banners, High those their the Commissioners. Many of ° . . . ° ° . ) . ° . ° Qe e o000 o000ooe Night Resort of Smart Set Is Wrecked—Three Persons Injured CHICAGO,* Ill, March 1.—The |Algiers Club, night life haunt of Last Sunday the smart and wealthy Gold Coast- jers, was closed last night with a 1 bang. LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 1.— A bomb planted in the alley at Alexander Pantages was the victim the side of the transformed under- of a second heart attack within a | |taker's barn, exploded when about week in the County Jail here. His . ! . |25 fashionable dressed men and wife was with him when he was/ jwomen were dining and dancing stricken and applied an xcepack.} | inside. She summoned Dr. Benjamin Blank, | | One side of the club was wrecked jail Mospital Physiclan, who said | and at least three persons Weré the attack was less serious thanl! | slightly hurt. the one Pantages had last Sunday A Post Office sub-station, across ) the street, was damaged. The police are advised that one pp/i, ¢ Divorce on musician, a bond broker and a so- Plea Hubby Lost | / e | ciety woman were hurt. } A % No one was in the club when S o ‘ At “Strip Poker’ | v —_— !the police arrived. H i | L RER 4 | LOS ANGELES, March 1—Charg- | |Nothing to Live ing her husband with engaging In | Associated Press Photo | a game of “strip poker,” with di- {For, Sophomore | | Dr. JAMES H. SNOOK vesting hitself of most of , his 1 | At right, R. V. Long, state school architect, iy ntain school p.ls. President ain pupils. Hoover was interest Couzen’s Dauéhter Elopes Associated Press Photo near President Hoover's summer camp in Virginia. The ed in the movement to build the Christine Vest, Kentucky mountain girl (left), was chosen shown assembling furniture in.the school. Exclusive picture of the former Miss Margaret “Margo” Couzens, 21- wnr—old heiress to the $50,000,000 fortune of Senator Couzens, with illiam Chewning, Baltimore, Md. Fredericksburg, families.” Virginia, 28-year-old bank elerk, after their elopement to Chewning is the son of a prominent physician in and comes from one of The bride was one of this the “‘old line season’s- debutantes. “Tnternational Newsredt i’;)urrrls VPlanned Over Part of Proposed Road Between B.C. and Alaska | SEATTLE, March 1.—Invitations to the press of the United States and Canada to accompany an au- omobile caravan to start June 12 rom Vancouver to Hazelton on |the proposed route of the Alaska- | Yukon Pacific Highway have been | issued by Premier Tolmie, of Brit- ish Columbia. It is expected that the caravan will arrive at the end |of the 1,000-mile run by June 21. made here. | “Gillam and Reid are still at' Teller. Weather is bad.” { |Dr. Snook was buried at 6 o'clock | funeral director's parlors. |this morning in Green Lawn Cem- private funeral service was held at jetery. The body was taken to the|the home. Nathan Quits Mercury; Sells Out to Mencken And Knopf, Partners NEW YORK, March 1.—Sixteen! years of editorial alliance of George | Jean Nathan and Henry L. Menc- | ken, begun when they became edi- | FUNERAL THIS MORNING COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 1.— | Former Professor of the Ohio ‘clothes In the presence of herself | | and several guests, to her great embarrassment and humiliation, Mrs. Maud M. Peterson was granted a divorce from Ralph Peterson by Superior Judge Edward Engs. Mrs. Peterson declared her hus- Gas : + from the: ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 1.— Snook home last night frzmb:'isjc,‘mean“ Johnny. aked 93" sopho- more of the University of MMichi- gan, ended her left last night by !inhaling gas, She left a note de- iCirl Takes State University Carol’s Heart Turns Again; Has New Love| EUCHAREST, March 1. — The tors of Smart Set in 1914 and con-|spotlight of world interest in the claring that she had nothing to |live for. (FRONT STREET FIRE RUINS CIGAR STORE‘FOU Burned to Death, Fire, the cause o which has not |been ascertained, yesterday after- Twenty-eight Americans and oth- jer newspapermen and 12 Canadians have been invited on the tour. ————— {Marion Swenson | W ants to Come Right Back band falsely accused her, and chok- ed her. He once staged a “wild party” in their home and, when his wife remonstrated ,with him for his alleged indecorous conduct, he | became angry and abusive, accord- |gwenson, Capt. Olaf Swenson and 4 ln]ured, Denflment‘inz to the complaint. |Capt. Olaf Milovzorov have arrived The wife asserted her husband nerc on the steamer Alaska from SEATTLE, March 1. — Marion e e0 s vess e . TODAY'S STOCK . QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 1.—Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted today it 7%, American Ice 36%, Ana- conda 75%, Bethlehem Steel 100%, 'U.S. AND JAPAN IN NAVAL DEADLOCK | NEWPROPOSALS - CREATE CRISIS TWO CONVICTS, USING PASSES, ESCAPE EASILY Long Term Prisoners, Pass- ed by Guard at Prison Gates, at Liberty ESCAPE NOT LEARNED i FOR SEVERAL HOURS Chicago Police Suspect that Recovery of $135,- 000 Is Planned LEAVENWORTH PENITEN- TIARY, Kansas, March 1—Using forged outside passes, Thomas Hol- den and Francis Keating, serving sentences of 26 years each for rob- bing a mail car of a Grand Trunk Railroad train in September, 1926, escaped from the penitentiary yes- terday and are still at large. With a new guard at the main entrance, Holden and Keating ap- ‘peared about 10 o'clock yesterday (morning. In some way they had obtained two pass cards, the regu- lar kind used by trusties detailed to outside employment. They ob- tained photographs of themselves which were pasted on the cards as required, | The guard allowed them to pass. | Theilr o "33 ges ot learned! until late in the afternoon. LOOT NEVER RECOVERED CHICAGO, Ill, March 1. — The loot of $135,000 which Holden and Keating grabbed in the robbery of the mail car has never been found. It is believed by the Chicago po- lice that this recovery is entwined with their escape. MOVIE ACTRESS 1S FINED BIG SUM, TAX CASE Pays Appoximatey $25,- | 000, Covering Shortage, and Other Accounts LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 1.— |Corinne Griffiths, motion picture 'star, yesterday pleaded guilty to the criminal information charging her with evasion of her 1920 income tax and was fined $1,000. The fine was imposed after the Court was informed she “made good” the shortage of $16,000 of her 1927 tax income return and penalty, bringing the account to ap- | proximately $25,000. Fahy and Wife Plan | "Round-World Flight ; ST. LOUIS, March 1.—Lieut. 'Fahy of Los Angeles, official holder of the world’s solo endurance record L for airplanes, and his wife an- , nounced complete plans for a flight 43, Gold Dust 43, Granby 58, Grigs- |by Grunow 17%, Ke:’mecatt 59, around the world in an attempt to National Acme 24%, Packard 19, b;mer the Graf Zeppelin's globen |Radio 50, National Brands 26, U.|Circling record of 21 days. |S. Steel 184%, Standard Ofl of Cal-| The Fahys, both of whom are |ifornia 58%, Alleghany Corporation PLots, said that they would use a [31, . International Harvester 937%, Lockheed Vega, powered; with a | 2tissouri Pacific 91. (Pratt and Whitney wasp engine, | starting from Detroit about June 1. iCenlral Alloys 32%, General Motors TRANSPLANTED EVE | i {noon gutted the Nenana cigar! ALICIA, Arkansas, March 1— Sometimes became intoxicated, torc|ihe Nanuk, at North Cape, Smem.f ABLE TO SEE DI MI;Y store on Front street, between the Four bodies have been taken from up articles in the house, broke up IMiss Swenson’ emphatically declar- | City Dock and the Juneau Lumber purned wreckage of tank and box dishes and furniture, squandered|ed she would like to go back im-| and kept the Juneau firemen cars of a Missouri Pacific Railroad his money, and quarreled with her.|mediately but her father said she{ BOSTON, March 1.—The precise ply was reestablished, the freight train which was derailed R 7 |would return to her high schooldegree of hope for success in restor- flames were subdued. Jast night and caught fire. jThe Miss Elizabeth Marshall, daugh-|studies here. 1ing human eyesight by transplant- tinued" through their founding of matrimonial affairs of the Ruman- the American Mercury, has been'ian royal family switched today | discontinued. from the wrecked romance of Prin- |~ Nathan has sold his interest In|cess Tleana to a new romance of |MUIS: the Mercury to his- partners, Menc- prince Carol. {busy for thirty minutes before the pupils |contracted once more to stimula- (tion by light and some of the vis- ken and A. A. Knopf, Incorporated, ! According to the Bucharest news- on the Northwestern. and retired from editorial collabor- paper Lupta, Carol has decided to ation in that magazine. He indi- |separate from Mme. Lupescu, the cated the break was amicable and‘TnanAhmed beauty for whom he declined to be interviewed, but did jeft the throne and family, and to say: “Mencken is Mereury’s ideal mayy a French princess whose editor.” iname has not been revealed, SR o BrE G |is supposed to be a member of the Mrs. Winifred Jones, of Gordon's, | tamily of Emperor Napoleon 1. who has been south on a buying| PR A B trip, is returning north on the'’ Northwestern. | B. M. Behrends, banker, and Mrs. BT i i T |Behrends, who have been vacation- H. H. Post, of the PFirst National |ing in the states for several weeks, Bank, south for the past several|are returning home aboard the weeks, is a homebound pasenger Northwestern which sailed from Se- attle this merning. Indications are that the blaze four persons found dead and four ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Marshall | e e She | ‘was turned in about 4:10 p. m started from an overheated stove, others injured are all believed to as the fire evidently originated have been “beating thelr way.” is a passenger for her Juneau home | on the Northwestern. Candidate for Seattle inext to a heater in the room. By |the time the Department truck ar-‘ irived on the scene the flames weie |making short work of the dry frame structure. | MILWAUKEE, Wis, March 1.— Although the firemen experienced A man with a new automobile, who little difficulty in extinguishing the followed directions explicitly, drove blaze, the interior of the building his small car for 10 miles from ‘was badly charred. The building Waukesha to West Junction over is owned by Grant Baldwin and-bumpy ties and rails of the inter- was not insured as far as is known. urban right of way, officials of the The call was from box 1-7 and Electric Company reported today. | The motorist stopped at Wuu T . L% JUST 100 PER CENT DUMB h Council Dies, Result of Injuries, Auto Accident kesha and inquired' the shortest| route to Milwaukee. He was told| SEATTLE, March 1-—George W. to folle the Interurban tracks.iWorley, contractor and candidate This he did until a train crew stop- [for the City Council, died today ped him at West Junction. from injuries received in an auto- Deputy Sheriffs who were sum- mobile accident. He was one of lmoned heard his story and guided the six nominated last Tuesday for him to the highway, which extended !the election to be held this month along the tracks most, of the way. 'for the Council, three to be chosen. !ing eyes has been measured indi- |rectly by Dr. Clyde E. Keeler of the Harvard Medical school. | - His experiments indicate that 'transplanted eyes cannot restore humian sight, but rather show there may be some small degree of resto- ration for lower animals, “Within recent’ years,” he reports, “our hopes for transplantatien of human eyes have been raised. These hopes have been based upon the fact that in lower animals, mainly frogs, eyes which have been trans- planted became normal in their general appearance, their blood sup- ‘ jual elements have been found to have remained intact. “A few workers have claimed re- | storation of vision in frogs on the \basis of these tests. However, there has been no satisfactory method of measuring the amount of restoration of sight, and the be- havior of such animals is too er- ratic to draw definite conclusions.™ Dr. Keeler employs an electrical test for vision, which he devised, and which used fine, electrodes to measure electrical cur~ rents produced when light strikes the eyes. : thread-like