The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 7, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” , VOL. XXXV, NO. 5351. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1930. MEMBER PRICE TEN CENTS OF ASSOCIATED PRESS COMMUNISTS DEFY N. Y. POLICE; ATTEMPT T0 MARCH " PLANES REACH RUBY ON WAY T0 FAIRBANKS Aerial Funeral Cortege Un-| able to Land at Nome Plan Flight Today RUBY, Alaska, March 7.—The| 2] fun'eral cortege remained | overnight because of poor fly- | conditions. DO NOT LAND AT NOME NOME, Alaska, March 7.—The funeral plane, with the bod- | of Col. Carl Ben Eielson and Borland, arrived here from | or at 9 o'clock yesterday morn- | ie: Both the Fairchild plane and Junkers plane circled over the city | and landing field several times, but owing to the landing field being full of wind-rows caused by a recent blizzard, the planes did not land. I'he Funeral services were con- ducted here as the planes circled over the field. The planes con- tinued to Ruby where they were) to refuel and then leave for Fair-) banks. Pilots Harold Gillam and Capt.| Pat Reid, with mechanic Hughes took off in a Stearman plane fludi will accompany the funeral planes to Faribanks. NO FURS CARRIED | The Customs Office in Juneau received a cablegram dated yester- day from Nome stating that “one Fairchild plane, Joe Crosson, pilot, arrived over Nome yesterday morn- ing at 9 o'clock from Teller, circled the town thence took off for banks; also one Soviet plane. plane has two bodies N PAY DIRT IN FIRST HOLE BEAVER CREEK Width of Streak Still Re- mains Undetermined —Continue Work RUBY, Alaska, March 7.—Com- pletion of the first hole sunk in an effort to determine the width of the pay streak in the recent gold gtrike on Beaver Creek did not 'Communism in Capital School 2dith Briscoe (left) and Helen Colodny as they appeared leaving ourt at Washington, D. C., after being arreste in connection vith & Communist demonstration in the downtown section. The atter, who is a pupil in Central High School, made the startling statement that 300 District of Columbia school students are active in the Communist party. Although Assistant School Su.permtenden! Stephen E. Kramer discounted her assertion, he admitted that ae organized campaign was in existence for the purpose of spreading i hildren. radical propaganda among the school childr Ctariasih Yo COL. LINDBERGH TAKES NEW KIND OF FLIGHT—FROM BACK OF PONY; LANDS IN PRINCE OF WALES CLASS DELMONTE, Cal., March 7.—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, unable to fly | his glider because of lack of wind, took a new kind of flight yester- day afternoon, this time from the Death of Homesick Woman Was Just An Accident, Verdict NAVALSESSION | IN FULL SWING, TODAY, LONDON {Original French Delegation in Attendance—Urge to Speed Work { | LONDON, March 7--The Navall Conference is back into full swing) |today with the chief dclegates of | | France being representcd Ly Briand, | Tardieu and Cabinet members of | the original delegation. | |an atmosphere of expectancy, the| hope prevailing among the dele-| gates that tangible results will be achieved in a reasonable length of | time. This feeling was voiced by' Premier Ramsay MacDonald who | declared the conference is going to produce a treaty at a not very dis- tant date and be pleaded for fast- ler work of the conference. PAROLE FOR DR F. COOK | IS APPROVED [Attorney General Passes { Favorably on Question— Release Date Unknown WASHINGTON, March 7—A par- |ole for Dr. Frederick Cook has been approved by Attorney General | Mitchell, officials of the Depart~ ment of Justice said today. [ 8§ The exact date when the parole becomes effective will be ascof (tafniéd frim the warden of ' i} | pénitentiary at Leavenworth and in! | the opinion of the department of- |ficials' this will probably be to- Dr. Cook was sentenced for using the mails to defraud. LEAVENWORTH PENITEN- |TIARY, March 7—Warden White| |said he was waiting for formal |orders from Washington for thel {release on parole of Dr. Cook. ———————— ARTIST'S WIFE BRUTALLY SLAIN BODY IS FOUND | | | { | | | | The meeting today was held amid | | LIQUOR C ¢ i t ¢ A proposal that the senate capital’s discussion of the anti-liquor laws into the senate judiclary committee. the sponsor of the proposed inquiry, is seated at the head of the table, 4 Borah of Idaho and seated on his left Is Senator Lee S. Overman o: North Norris, a dry, is Senator Willlam E. Carolina. ONTROVERSY rhake a thorough Investigation of prol REACHES SENATE COMMITTEE EEETE LD N FVIUT] CLASH RESULTS ON UNEMPLOYED DAY, N. Y. CITY Dislurbanc,‘e_Takes Place When Whalen Refuses Right to March COMMUNISTS APPEAR EUROPEAN CAPITALS |Demonstrations Are Held | But Disorders Minor— Quiet London, Paris NEW YORK. March 7.—Defving | the Police order to confine their | demonstration to Madison Square, | Communists yesterday attempted a parade and march to the City Hall. ‘This precipitated a riot in which | several Policemen and citizens were | injured. Associated Press Photo hibition enforcement carried the Chairman George W. On his right To Clean Up Lo Associated Press Ploto Maj. Gen. Herbert Crosby, chief >t cavalry of the army, has been given the job of making Washing- ton free of crime. He will hes’ District of Columblia police. ARE LASHED vmous amounts of money to reducing Canite) SALES CENSUS . BY UNCLE SAM MAY AID TRAD By ALEXANDER GEORGE (A. P. Staff Writer) | WASHINGTON, M h %.~The| government, the butcher, the baker | and the silk hose maker are prepar- | ing to join hands in an attempt to obtain the most comprehensive answer to the question, “How's bus- iness?” It will be the census of merchan- : dise distribution, to be taken for [the first time this spring. | A diagnosis from it is expected to aid the national advisory come (mittee on business in its move to | keep the “blood pressure™ of trade at a healthy level at all times. | | The census of distribution is en- | tirely distinct from the regular 1930 | population count, the census of ag- | riculture and the enumeration of | manufactures The government hopes thus to obtain a vivid picture of the ways | in which American merchandise | moves and to find some remedy for | “sick distribution.” | In recent years, 'says Secratary | Lamont of the Department of Com- | merce, American business has de- | voted much attention and enor- ! costs of production. “While amaging progress has been | made in lowering costs of produc- tion, the costs of distribution have been increased,” he said. hear com- sides we A crowd estimated at 50,000 per- sons grouped in the Square and nearby streets. A delegation called on Police Commissioner Whalen in his temporary headquarters and de- manded they be allowed to parade. The Commissioner refused and the delegation returned, then a parade started. | Foot and Mounied Police and Na- tional Guardsmen charged them. Communists charged Whalen's of- fice but the Police protected him from an attack. Coffee Romance Enas IIn Grounds for Divorce UBLE IN DETROIT DET! T, Michigan, March 7.— Twelve persons were injured and 17 persons were arrested near Cadil- lac Square during a 90 minute battle yesterday afternoon. The Police attempted to disperse a dem- onstration of unemployed and for ar:hour and a halt there was a small sized riot before the crowd was dispersed. PARADES IN EUROPEAN CITIES DURING YESTERDAY LONDON, March 7.—“Interna- tional Unemployment Day,” was ob- served in most capitals of Europe yesterday with parades of Com- munist jobless. Many arrests of leaders were made following clash- | es with the Police, but there was ¥ very little disorder of importance { except in Berlin. : “Red Thursday” proved pale pink in the British Isles. In Dublin there was some lively incidents as a large number of unemployed at- tempted to march and were charged by the Police. S Al T P RIS Y T | (Continued on Page Two) Mrs. Eleanor Hunt Sanborn! daughter-in-law of the famow | “Frem all ) 5 v show pay dirt. back of a polo pony, and landed 3 coffee king, is suing for divoret The operators reported the hole 63 feet toward the creek from the point of discovery. Other prospect holes will be sunk closer to the discovery point. Fifteen prospecting boilers to generate steam for thawing the frozen ground to permit digging have arrived and are being taken to Beaver Creek from here by tractors. Editor Admits He Is On Grundy’s Payroll and Uses His Office| WASHINGTON, March 7.—War- ren Doane, Editor of Manufacturer, published ‘by the Manufacturers’ Club of Philadelphia, told the Sen- ate Lobby Committee today he is on the payroll of United States Senator Joseph R. Grundy at $500 a month and added that when he had work to do for Grundy he did it in the Senate Office Building rcom assigned to the Pennsylvania Senator. Doane said he was employed for research work. The wjtness was called for gues- tioning concerning reports he and| two others used Senator Grundy’s offices as their headquarters. LONDON, March 7.—A verdict of [in the class of the Prince of Wales. accidental death has been returned | Galloping down the fleld, the in the inquest over the body of |Lone Eagle was sent sprawling in Mrs. Pearl Demaret, stenographer |the turf and was dragged 25 feet. to American Secretary of State He was shaken up but apparently Stimson, who died yesterday after |was unhurt and laughed the inci- a fall from the window of her room |dent off and left for his lodge. on the sixth floor of the Mayfair ——————————— Hotel. Mrs. Hurley Fisk, who occupied‘MAY IMPRUVE the rcom with Mrs. Demaret, was House Rivers and Harbors in the bath room of the suite at the {time of the accident. She testi- Committee Is Discus- sing Project {fied that Mrs. Demaret, after 10 days in London, became “quite homesick and wanted to return home where she had her child: Tt| WASHINGTON, March 7.—Im- provement of Sitka Harbor by pro- viding a channel on the easicrly was the first time Mrs. Demaret | had been separated from her cl\ildl side of Harbor Rock, 150 feet wide and 22 feet deep at mean and husband.” Police Get Faster Cars | water, at an estimated cost of $67.- Mrs. Demaret planned to return home by steamer and the fatal acci- | dent happened just a few hours before the steamer sailed. To Combat Rum Runners|500. is being considered by the |House Rivers and Harbors Com- ! mittee in formulating the omnibus bill. The committee members ques- tioned Army Engineers on the pro- ‘ject which would include removal of Indian Rock. DETROIT, March 7.—Michigan’s state police, upon whom falls most of the responsibility for apprehend- |ing rum runners using federal high- | | ways between Detroit and chxcugo.! —————— LIEUT. AND MRS, MORGAN " TO REMARRY THIS MONTH A telegram from Mrs. Dorothy Morgan at Honolulu to her father in Juneau says that she and Lieut. Harry E. Morgan will be remarried officers to “rake the road,” will be{‘port.ers of the Eighteenth Amend- |46%. March 22. Both Mrs. Morgan and Lieut. Morgan were Juneau reared and graduated from the Juneau High School. little daughter, Joan, Honolulu in January. - Jack Holland, football star and went Supporters of Dry Laws Announce Plan For New Testimony are to be provided with faster cars .and added weapons. ! i Because some liquor dealers use; |the fastest type of autemobiles,] |state police will be equipped with |eimilar machines. Sub-machine !guns mounted on pivots to enable| WASHINGTON, March T7.—8up- jinstalled in many cars. Tear gas ment announced they propose to |equipment also is to be provided. utjjize the recess of the House One device of the rum mm‘erleudlciary Committee hearings by cealing cloud of dust blown up on'ing calls for witnesses to combat unpaved roads in dry weather. Most |each phase of the oponents of the of the inter-city roads, however, are dry law touched upon. low | | BUFFALO, New York, March 17 —Arrested in the brutal slaying of Mrs. Henry Marchand, wife of the famous artist, Curator of the Buffalo Museum of Science, an Indian woman allged to have been! infatuated with the artist, blamed the killing on an older woman of her tribe. Police detectives said Lillian Jim- erson, aged 35 years, full-blood In- dian whom Marchand used as a model, admitted she was present| in the Marchand home yesterday when Mrs. Marchand was beaten |and choken to death but she main- tained she did not kill' the artist's wife. i The police did not make public |the name of the woman the Indian |woman accused. The woman is, however, already under arrest. ; Mrs. Marchand was found by her 12-year-old son. | ——,-——- .............1 . TODAY’S STOCK o . QUOTATIONS . eee0 0000060000 0 | NEW YORK, March 7.—Alaska | Juneau mine stock is quoted today | lat 7%, Alleghany Corporation 32%, American Ice 34%, Anaconda 75%,, Bethlehem Steel 103%, Central Al-| consumers. "plaims regarding the cost of get- {ting commodities from producers to We have excellent sta- Four Persons Are Killed— Two Hundred Injured —Property Damage MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 17 Four deaths and property damage estimated at more than $100,000 is the result of a tornado which lashed Mississippi and Louisiana last night. One village was wrecked and 200 persons injured. Two negroes were killed in Boli- var County, Mississippi; Mrs. J. W. Adams was killed on her farm and a negro woman named Mitchell was killed at Homer, Louisiana. Telephone and telegraph have been torn down. Flagman Is Killed In Crash of Trains COLUMBUS, Georgia, March 7.— Ossie White, flagman, was killed at Glen Alto, Georgia, this forenoon when the sécond section of a north- lines |tistics on the production of all |kinds of goods, but statistically we | practically lose sight of every com- |modity once it is produced.” | Frederick M. Feiker, chairman ;nf the advisory committee on the jcensus of distribution, says that !while the census will disclose con- |crete facts of usefulness to the | “hard-boiled” busines§ man, he Ishould not be over-optimistic as to lindividual results. | But the census will provide, he |declares, new facts which men of imagination in business can put to work in cutting costs, extending {the sale of commodities into thou- |sands of homes and incidentally ’mmmalnmg and increasing wage |1evels. {Mexican Slayer of | Two Dies Today on : State Prison Gallows i | FLORENCE, Arizona, March 7.— Refugio Machias, Mexican citizen, died on the gallows this morning | in the State Prison for the mur- der 14 months ago of Pedro Cor- |loys 33, General Motors 427, Gold bound Seminole Limited crashed ;o {Dust 43%, Granby 57, Grigsby Gru- info the rear of the first section| Cornelas was a roomer in the|Ig alien to the board's current|should any be authorized, to fl= |now 16%, International Harvester {043, Kennecott 50%, Misouri Pa- |cific 96, National Acme 24, Packard |20, Radio 50, Standard Brands 26%,| Standard Oil of California 59%, Istandard Oil of New Jersey 62%,| "U S. Steel 182%, Montgomery Ward |Indianapolis American Association' {management likes the college ball |player, and has undertaken to sign| from Conviction;(fharge {the costs of proudcing their crops. |cipation would inject the provision Humble Oil 92%. — - e — MAXIE IS OVERRULED f BUFFALO, March 7—If Maxie' Mrs. Morgan and'that has been difficult to combat going over the testimony of the Rosenbloom had his way his fight to has been the “dust screen,” a con-|Anti-Prohibition group and arrang- With Jimmy Slattery, April 7, for the lightheavyweight title, as recog- nized by the New York State Ath- |letic commission, would be held which he had halted. —_————— INDIANAPOLIS LOOKING FOR COLLEGE PLAYERS \chias shot and killed Cornelas|ana has notified his constituents | INDIANAPOLIS, March 7.—The four from the school diamonds Oral Hildebrand, Butler Univer- sity all-around athlete, has signed a pitching contract and negotiations were opened with Eb Caraway, and Pest Welch, Purdue players and Butch Niemic, Notre Dame football {house of Paula Medinas and tried |to protect her from Machias when the entered the woman's home. and also the woman. | Pantages Files Appeal of Prejudice Is Made LOS ANGELES, Calif.,, March 7. —Attorneys for Alexander Pan- tages have filed their opening brief appealing from the conviction, in Rules that Buying Liquor Is Not Crime Under Dry Law from her husband, ‘Handsom« | |Jack” Sanborn. As grounds f divorce she charges her husban with intoxication and cruel ani abusive treatment. She is his sec \ond wife. | BOSTON, Mass., March 7. —Federal Judge Morton to- day ruled that the purchase | of liquor is not a crime un- | ® der the National Prohibition |® Act. The decision was given in the case of James Farrar indicted for purchasing two pints of liquor. GOLF BALLS FROM BRITAIN WASHINGTON —Department of Commerce figures show that all ex- cept 156 of 2,550,357 golf balls im- ported in 1929 came from the Unit- ,' . ed Kingdom. | |90 0eeeececcscccse FARM BOARD SEES PRODUCTION LOAN AS NEXT DEMAND By FRANK I. WELLER ' Farm Editor +to be used as collateral in borrow- ing as much as 10 times the amount | of the capital from intermediate | (Associated Press Feature Service) | .oqit banks. { WASHINGTON, March 7.—It has[ The board is brought into the |become known unofficially that|picture on the theory of growing members of the federal farm board |demands for the use of federal {have held informal discussions of an | funds as capital. i'upprouchmg demand for "prmlum‘ The board is understood to be tion credit,” a form of farm financ- | inclined to restrict its activities, | { |Practice of loaning money for mar- | nance keting purposes only. Representative Kemp of Louisi- corporations the national | commodity marketing associations might organize. There has been some discussion that he has asked the board for a | of such a subsidiary for the Ameri- ‘plan whereby advances can be, can cotton cooperative association. made to strawberry and vegetable |growers of his district to help meet Unquestionably farm board parti- | ‘The request is considered a fore- |that farmers to whom production runner of others that may result |credit was extended agree to mar- in the board considering the \Isciket their crop through the coop- of government funds to help coop- !erative. eratives maintain subsidiary “fi-| To secure crop lien notes they nance corporations” through which |would be requested to give, there production credit may be extended. |is a probability that the board, hoxer at Tulane, puts in his spare hard-surfaced, and transportation| Mrs. Lenna Yoster, in charge of elsewhere. ~Maxie thought he re- and baseball player of two years time as an artist’s model. He plans from one city to another entirely (presentation of dry witnesses, said ceived.a bad deal when Jimmy was ago. to become a professional model over unpaved roads is virtually im- it was planned to cover every angle given the decision in their Buffalo! Welch coaches football at Wash- when he is graduates in 1931, lpossible in Michigan. . 1!:-om a moral to legislative aspect. bout last fall. ‘ingwn and Niemic at Rice lnsulutc.} the District Court of Appeals. through the cooperative, would re- Charges of prejudice to the jury| Cooperatives can, and some have, quest the farmers to 'tollov cul- in “prejudicial statements” by Dis- set up such subsidiaries themselves, | tural methods necessary to success= trict Attorney Fitts, are made. imvm’.mg their capital in securities | ful production.