The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 10, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXV., NO. 5353. UNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, M ARCH 10, 1930, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS TAFT’S BODY TO LIE IN STATE; FUNERAL IS TOMORROW GREAT CRISIS IS NOW BEFORE NAVALSESSION France Demands Guarantee Of Security in Lieu of Big Navy SUCCESS OR FAILURE DEPENDS ON RESULT MacDonald and Stimson Do Not Want Pact which Means Warlike Action LONDON, March 10.—The chief delegates of America, Great Britain and France to the Naval Confer- eAce today tackled the first great crisis of the Conference in consid- eration of France's demand for a guarantee of security. in exchange for such a guarantee France let it be known that she is ' prepared to cut her claim for a big | na aggregating 724,000 tons for four years. [ Upon the outcome of this matier depends the success or failure of the Conference. Former Premier Briand, of the | French delegation, knew in ad- vance that neither British Premier MacDonald nor American Secretary of State Stimson wish to involve their countries in any pact which | would commit them to warlike ac- tion. |RENEW AL OF OLD FRIENDSHIP OF WMAYOR OF FAIRB: FLIER TAKES PLACE; OFFICIAL CALL FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 10 —Soviet mechan: , who ac- companied Soviet Commander Slip- enov here in a Junkers plane as escort to the funeral plane carry- ing the bodies of the two Alaskan fliers, unexpectedly entered upen a renewal of an old friendship with Mayor DeLavergne, when he and Slipenov made a formal courtesy call upon the Mayor last Satur- “Do you, by chance, know of Ne- runo Fahreg, of St. Petersburg?” the Mayor asked. “He is my father,” Fahreg re- FINE WELCOME 1S GIVEN BYRD INN. ZEALAND Rear Admiral_and Mem- bers of Antarctic - Ex- pedition at Dunedin | i ANKS AND SOVIET | plied. | Then it developed that some 25 |vears ago, DeLavergne had been a |guest at the Fahreg home in the |former Russian Capital while he| {was employed in the Russian branch of the New York Life Insur- ance Company. | The flier then was a small child and heard his first accounts of| America while perched on DeLad S v o sy HGHTY-FIVE THOUSAND i "Moscow atter tne MEET S. POLE FLIER ‘Ieamnd, moved to Moscow after the rebellion and is now head of the! ' 7R\{s an _It-fewgz»urm?(:o (?‘fi\_i:nw. }Acclaim Man Who HflS FUNERAL OF SANFORD IS HELD TODAY Associate Justice of Su- preme Court, Is Laid to Rest in Knoxville KNOXVILLE, Tenn., March 10. The funeral of Edward Terry San- ford, Associated Justice of the United States Supreme Court, was held here today. The body arrived late yesterday from Washington ac- companied by Supreme Court Chief |Justice Charles Evans Hughes, As-| sociate Justice James C. McRey- nolds, Pierce Butler and Harland Fiske Stone and the widow. Justice Sanford died suddenly Saturday, five hours before ;l’anlu;:os Loses |Third Appeal for Release on Bail Official Greetings DUNEDIN, New Zealand, March 110—Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd e (and members of his Amtarctic Ex- e |pedition, arrived here yesterday af- e |ternoon on the barque City of New e | York, after more than one year in o |the ice barrier of Ross Sea. .: Virtually the entire population e |of 85000 acclaimed the first man e to fly to both the North and South o |Poles and the only man to accom- o |plish the latter feat o, The barque and steamer Eleanor |Bolling were met in the harbor 'by launches carrying officials. Many |bands played and hundreds of tugs, ¥ i Flown to Both Poles— | | | LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 10.—Alexander Pan- tages, convicted of assault on Eunice Pringle, has lost his third attempt to obtain release on bail from the County Jail on plea of poor health. g The District Court of Ap- peals, to whom he had gone for an overruling in two re- fusals by the Superior Court, also refused him and denied . ° . . . . . . . . ° . . ® his appeal, . . . ° . © 00 sverevooe e S eee— FILM CATCHES AFIRE, CAUSES |eraft docks. Lindbergh Throws Scare Into Watchers Of Glider Flight up the harbor and to the | | | WHERE WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT P. 4. William Howard Taft, (below center), former President of the launches, steamers and ferryboats justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who passed away (escorted the Antarctic Expedition's p.... on Wyoming Avenue in Washington (shown asove). Mrs. Taft is shown right and below the two sons, Charles (left) and Robert (right). :Radicul Scene | Near W hite House uddenly Ended SCREEN STAR ASSED AW AY -l United States Iast Saturday and afternoon at his OVER 500 ARE former Chief LAST RESTING PLACE OF TAFT .~ IN ARLINGTON [Military, Official Escorts | for Former President, | Who Died Saturday |PASSED PEACEFULLY; UNCONSCIOUS AT END Hoover Declares Official Mourning Period for Next Thirty Days WASHINGTON, March 10—When | Willlam Howard Taft passed peace- (fully away from life late last Sat~ urday afternoon, he was wrapped |in merciful unconseiousness. | A stroke from hardening of the arteries preceded his death by half an hour. At 4:45 o'clock Saturday after- ,noon he suffered a sudden stroke while alone, except for the nurse. This heralded the end. Fifteen min- utes later Dr. Fuller reached the patient's room, turned away, and shook his head. Mrs. Taft was summoned from the next room and took up her sta- tion for the last vigil. He died at 5:15 o'clock. Helen Taft Manning, the jurist’s |daughter was on an auto ride at the (time. Both sons, Charles and Rob- ert, at Cincinnati, left for here immediately upon being notified of their father's death. Hoover Calis President Hoover was foremost | | 1S SUING FOR - LARGE AMOUNT Mae Murray Sues Tiffany Productions for Near- | William Howard Taft. He left home | to join his colleagues in celebrating | jthe 89th birthday of Justice Oliver !Wendell Holmes. He went to a| (dentist’s office, collapsed in a chair jand died of uremic poisoning short- | ly after being removed to his home unconscious. Chief Justice Houghes will return . |to Washington in time for the fu- DELMONTE, Cal, March 10.—Col. Charles A. Lind+ bergh threw a momentary scare into several hundred watchers here last Saturday afternoon in a glider flight when the left aileron drop- ped from the glider, near the end of a flight of one hour among the many who sorrowfully went to the residence where Taft lay dead. WASHINGTON, March 10, — Another Radical demon- stration near the White House “was stdged’ last Sat- urday afternoon and as on “Red Thursday,” the Police won. Nicholas J. Pless was in a streetcar. As it arrived near DR.F. A, COOK DEATH T0 104 IS RELEASED Ami Patriotic Anniversary of | Japanese Results in Tragedy Today DROWNED, HIGH WATER, FRANCE 22"~ Wi[h()ut 80-day period of official mourning. e | The body of Taft will remain in She}ter——-Rel’lablllla- |the Wyoming Avenue home until tion Is Started |tomorrow morning. It will then be 1 It ° FROM PRISON Plans to Study Cure for Narcotics—Still Claims Pole Discovery LEAVENWORTH PRISON, March | . Frederick A, Cook, aged 65 | physician and explorer, has | been released on parole from the Federal Penitentiary here afier hav- | ing served five years of his sen- tence of fourteen years and nine months for using the mails to de- | fraud in connection with oil pro- motions. Dr. Cook plans to go to Chicago | to study a cure for narcotics, which | he says is the degeneration of cre- | ation . He will study a new sci- ence, “celluar therapy.” Dr. Cook was prison interne aid- | ing suffering fellow prisoners, Dr. Cook still claims discovery of ! the North Pole and sald: | “Peary’s narrative and mine must stand as finished records. Both | reports are accessible.” | Dr. Cook said he felt too old *o undertake any further Arctic ex- plorations. Student Is Stabbed ; One Man Confesses; Is Climax to Party! PITTSBURGH, Penn., March 10, | ~Newell Gibson, student in chem- istry at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, was shot in the ab- domen in his apartment which was shared with Walter O. Krebs, night | instructor of Carnegie Research and | Engineer of the United States Bu- reau of Mines in Pittsburgh. * The| police said Krebs admitted the shooting. The Police said it cli- {issued by Chief of Police F. neral of W. H. Taft tomorrow. WARRANTS FOR Wisconsin University Stu- dents to Be Arrested, Disorderly Charge MADISON, Wisconsin, March 10. —Warrants charging five University of Wisconsin students With disor- derly conduct in breaking up a parade last Thursday have been L. Trostle. The warrants named E. P. Millard, Robert Sykes, E. J. Mittermeyer, Charles A. Adamson and Jack McCarter. The warrants for the arrests were issued on request by the “Universal Civil Liberty Committee,” after the American Civil Liberty Union of New York wired a protest. The students named led a group of approximately 50 students on pa- rade leader David Gordon, of New York. Banners were smashed and the parade leaders were threatened with a dacking in Lake Mendota. Clerk of U. S. District Court at Valdez, Dies In Hospital in Seattle (Special from Miner) VALDEZ, Alaska, March 10— {Frank G. Kappelman, Clerk of the United States District Court of the Third Division, with headquar- ters in Valdez, died Friday night in maxed a party. G. H. Bane, of Un- jontown, Penn., is also held. Providence Hospital, Seattle, follow- ing an operation for goitre. FIVE STUDENTS and 10 minutes. He landed safely. When about 200 feet from the ground the aileron fell but he continued the flight to a perfect landing. Col. Lindbergh was en- thusiastic over the flight and said he would continue tests. SEOUL, Korea, March 10.—One|® hundred and four persons were|® killed and more than 100 were in-|® jured today in a fire that broke!® out in the Chinkai Naval Base mov-|® ie theatre in Southern Korea. Most ® of the victims were Japanese naval | ® men, wives and children. e The show was being given in a|® warehouse at the naval base in ob-|® ®ec0ecesnnes WASHINGTON, March 10. —A jdemand has been made upon |Chairman Moses of the Senate, {Rules Committee by Senator Har-| rison of Mississippi, to have Sena-| tor Grundy remove from his suite | of offices in the Senate Office, Building, persons connected with {the American Tariff League. Senator Harrison made his sugJ { gestion after Warren F. Doane,| who was with the Grundy Leaguel News Bureau, testified before the; Senate Lobby Committee he was on | (ills Woman He Criticised, then Takes Own Life servance of the 25th Anniversary of (® © ©¢ © ¢ © @ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ o the capture by the Japanese of i Mukden in the Russo-Japanese war. | The anniversary is celebrated throughout the Japanese Empire. The film, which ignited and caus- ed the fire, was a patriotic repro- AFTER GRUND |ducti0n of scenes during the Russo- Japanese conflict, There were ahout 600 persons in | the warehouse when the film burstiMakeS Demand that Sen- into flames and fired the structure. | oy Remove from Of_ | The flames broke out at 3 o'clock ‘s y I this afternoon and raged two hours. | fice Certam OutSIders t e y TRUNK GONE Big Robbery Is Reported to Police at Palm Beach, Florida PALM BEACH, Florida, March 10—It has been reported to the|Grundy's payroll and used the Sen- Police that Jewelry to the value)ator’s office. of $25000 to $100,000 was stolen, Senator Grundy denied the per-! from the apartment of Mrs. Olga,sons were connected with the Everhard Hilliard, of New York, |League and that they made his of-, sometime Saturday. The jewelry fice their “headquarters.” ¢was kept in a trunk. Mrs. Hilliard ldeclined to make a statement ex-| cept that the jewelry had “no great | sentimental value.” | Chief of Police Joseph Sorman | [believes the theft was an “inside| ly Two Million LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 10. ~—Mae Murray, screen actress, has | filed suit for $1,750,000 from Tit- | fany Productions, Incorporated, claiming that lack of skill in p;'o-‘ ducing a film injured her profes-| sional reputation. The' complaint charged the com- pany with fraud, negligence and breach of gontract. Miss Murray in the complaint sald “Peagock Alley,” one of eight| plictures contracted was an “ar-| tistic fallure.” = She accused the company with failure .to exercise the option on her services for the other seven productions and also demanded that the concern be re- strained from interfering with her attempts to seek employment else- where. the scene of last Thursday clash, he made a speech de- nouncing Imperialism and President Hoover. Detective Sergeant Richard Cox, former pugilist, was also a passenger on the car. He attemptea to quiet Pless and a fist fight followed Pless lost by a “wide mar- gin,” and was arrested. Scven participants arrested in last Thursday's disturb- ances were fined late Sat- urday and all gave notice of appeal. ° . o . ° . . e . ® . . . . . . . . . . . . ° ° . ° . @ 0o s 0005 00 00 ‘SHOT T0 DEATH: BODIES IN AUTO GRANITE CITY, Ill, March 10.— Mrs. Tillie Miller, aged 28, and her S e UUITS NAVY seven-year-old adopted daughter, Thelma May, were found shot to| . e . (death in an automobile in a pri- Lieut. Williams Resigns Be- vate garage here iate saturday at- | cause Orders Keep Him terncon. The Police were notified | from Annual Races that the two had been slain about !saturday noon near Belleview by a |youth, who put the bodies in his two Soviet Fliers Dress Up At Fairbanks; to Return To Moscow After Funeral FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 10.|Alaska Airways, Incorporated, —American money was almost the |helped them in buying clothes. They first consideration of Soviet Com-|will remain here until after the|March mander Slipenov and his Mechanic |funeral services next Wednesday, Falbreg, after they had stowed away ithen start back to Moscow. their Junkers plane in which they| Ole Eielson, Col. Eielson’s father, arrived as escort from North Cape |limited his first talk with the Rus- to the Fairchild plane whichisians to a few words and clasped brought the bodies of Col. Carl Ben |their hands. Later a more lengthy Eielson and Earl Borland. conversation was held when an in- They purchased complete outfits |terpreter became available, of clothes and shoes and emerged | Ole Eielson sald: “I wish T could on the streets in business suits. speak your language,” meaning that The Russians did not have the |he would like to convey his appre- money they expected by cable but |ciation for their aid direct to them Arthur Johnson, Manager of the|without interpretation. Job.” Mrs. Hilliard is the third wife of Robert C. Hilliard, actor and play- wright. Drink Anti-Freeze Compound for Liquor.; Four Are Dead DEVILS LAKE, North Dakota, 10.—An anti-freeze com- pound, stolen from a store and given out as an alcoholic drink, is believed by the authorities respon- sible for the deaths of four Sioux Indians, disappearance of another and probable fatal illness to three more. The Indians were stricken at a !dance near Tokio, Forgotten Reser- | vation. The authorities are in- | vestigating the deaths. They have .‘ arrested Matthias Taylor, an In-Je !dtan, for questioning. PERU, Indiana, March 10—Wal- months from last Saturday. Mean- ter C. Kinneday, aged 36, shot and time pe i5 on leave of absence since killed Mrs. Edith M. Flohr, agedtne privilege of 60 days' freedom 133, in her home, wounded her 500 fnom guty accumulated during his | Gerald, aged 10, then shot and | long service in the Navy. killed himself. The two had been; |friends for some time and recently |quarrelled when Kinneday criticized | I her for keeping company with other men. Nomination of Judge Thatcher Is Reported S Favorably, Committee :Ruth Signs on |Dotted Line; |Salary Raise ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 10—Babe Ruth today signed a new contract with the New York Yankees. The contract is for two years and his services will cost $80,000 annually. - WASHINGTON, rch 10—The nomination of Judge Thomas Day ‘Thatcher to be Solicitor General, has been reported favorably to the Senate by the Judiciary Commit- tee without opposition. 1 ® by the Committee, Judge Thatcher /in four power companies. ®0 0000000000 disappeared. ‘0 | Resporiding to a written request WASHINGTON, March 10.—Re- car and drove them here, a distance signation of the Navy's crack flyer, |of 30 miles. The Police are search- Lieut. Alford J. Willilams, has been ing for Donald Englebow. No mo- accepted and signed by Acting Sec- tive has been ascribed. retary of the Navy Ernest Lne‘ = T30 1 T Jahncke. “I signed the resigation with MURDERER DIES deep regret,” said Jahncke. i Lieut. Willlams resigned because he had been ordered to sea duty| UPUN SCAFFULD for three years, which would pre- | vent participation in the Schneider! Cup races next year. | RAWLINS, Wyoming, March 10 TN eI RAN IS, offoctive —George Brownfield, aged 54 years, was hanged in the State Prison| shortly after midnight, the seventh man in the history of the institu- tion to pay the supreme penalty. He stepped on the trap at 12:18 'am. today and was pronounced !dead at 12:33 o'clock. | Brownfield was convicted of the| murder of Theodore Thomas last November. He shot Thomas in |the back and then assaulted Mrs. Thomas after he had spent part of the night with the couple in a sheep wagon near Colony, last July. { Bumeti to Deathiinr ‘ Fire; Home Destroyed VICTORIA, B. C., March 10.— TOULOUSE, France, March 10.— Stimulated rather than discouraged oy the magnitude of the task which becomes hourly more apparent, the population of the stricken French flood regions of last week, are set- ting rapidly and intelligently to work in repairing the damage wrought by the Gironne River and tributaries. The loss of life now appears well over the previous high estimates of 500 persons, with Moissac, where -150 perished, the hardest hit. ‘The property damage is now es- timated at many million dollars. Thousands are homeless where a | week ago they were happy in a healthy section of sunny southern France. Ten thousand persons out of 28,- 000 inhabitants of Montouban are without shelter. COMMISSION MAKES REPORT Haitian Investigators Make Recommendations to President PORT AU PRINCE, March 10.— Hoover’s Haitian Investigation Com- ! mission has recommended to Presi- dent Hoover that a one-man Pro- vincial Government be appointed to take over the Government in Haiti on May 1 when the term of Presi- dent Borno expires. The Provincial President would remain in office until it is possible i{to hold popular legislative elections for an Assembly which would then meet and elect a President to fill a normal term. |taken to the Capitol rotunda where it will lle in state three hours be- fore the funeral in All Soul's Uni- tarian Church at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Congress To Adjourn President Hoover and the entire Supreme Court and other officials will attend the funeral. Congress will adjourn. Twenty delegates from the House and Senate will form a funeral cortege, escorting it to Arlington cemetery where Taft will be the first President to be buried there, at /his own expressed wish. The plot was selected yesterday by Mrs. Taft .and three children. Flags at Half Staff Flags are at half-staff through- out the country. | Yesterday Mrs. Gann and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson were among the visitors at the Taft home. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt tele- graphed sympathy from Oyster Bay. | Taft’s pew in the All Souls Uni- tarian church was empty yesterday. The church was crowded. Taft laid the cornerstone of the church six years ago. The Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, pastor, said in his remarks yester- day at the morning service. “The inspiration we know that we had in our midst was that of a man |who exemplified to the fullest ex- tent the difference between coun- terfeit and real religion.” He asked Divine aid to the family. MILITARY ESCORT ‘WASHINGTON, March 10.—Ma- Jor General Sladen, Commanding General of the Third Corps Area, at Baltimore, has been selected to command the military procession which will act as formal escort at Taft’s funeral. A bright sunshiny day, with a hint of spring flooded the isolated knoll in Arlington cemetery, which will be Taft’s final resting place. (Continued on Page Three) Bbdy of Borland to Be Interred in a1 Crypt of New Mausoleum, Seattle SEATTLE, March 10.—The body of Earl Borland, victim of the plane crash North Cape, Siberia, with Col. Carl Ben Eielson, will be interred in the choicest crypt in the violet corridor of the new $1,- 000,000 mausolem at Acacia Me- near {of Vancouver Island. Detalled plans have not. yet been worked out but it is believed that civic and patriotic organiza= tions in Seattle will assist in ap= propriate ceremonies. When the bodies of the two fliers arrive they will be met by an escort of war veterans and members of the vari~ ous American Legion Posts of Se~ informed the Senate he holds stock Agnes and Louis Johnson, Indian morial Park, his parents announced |attle and vicinity. He was couple, were burned to death in a|after the management of the pnrki informed that this threatened oppo- fire which destroyed their home at|freely offered the crypt for the re- remains will be carried on sition to his confirmation but this Campbell River, on the east coast|mains. State Adjutant Drain said the | calssons from the dock to the 3 ,neral pariors,