The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 15, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXV., NO. 5358. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1930. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS THREE NATIONS HONOR DEAD FLIERS AT SEWARD EUVVERNMEN]: ‘Hoovers Educate Hinterlanis RESTS CASE, BRIBE TRIAL Defense in Doheny Trail Makes Motion for Direct- | ed Verdict — Denied WASHINGTON, tes | arch 15. aAitcr; imony of a number of western! men, the Government rested its ! cate against E. L. Doheny, charged with bribing Albert B. Fall, former | Secretary of Interior. The defense immediately made a | motion for a directed verdict free- ing Doheny of the charges, but this denied by Justice Hitz and the ial recessed until Monday. A. C. Finney, former Assistant 3 v-of the Interior, on the nd testified he revoked an or- der by Fall which said the Navy should handie all contracts involv- ing naval oil leases. BANK AGCOUNT | OF 6. WALSKA 1S ATTACHED Opera Singer Failed to Pay Advertising Bill— Worth Millions NEW YORK, March 15.—The! bank account of Ganna Walska, cpera singer and wife of Harold McCormick, has been attached by the Music Magazine which charges che contracted advertisements dur- ing her operatic tour and that the bill for $2,800 has never been pald. Attorneys said the bank account of the opera singer, whose wealth is said to run into the millions, is ample to cover the alleged debt. - - - esseevevs 0o . TODAY'S STOCK . QUOTATIONS . e cuveesoeecoOe NEW YORK, March 15.—Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted to- day at 7'y, Alleghany Corporation 307, American Ice 37%, Anaconda 70%, Bethlehem Steel 99%, Cen- tral Alloys 32%, General Motors 44'%, Gold Dust 42%, Granby 53, Grigsby Grunow 17, International Harvester 90, Kennecott 547%, Mis- souri Pacific 93, National Acme 237%, Packard 21%, Radio 50, Stand- ard Brands 22, Standard Oil of California 62%, U. S. Steel 179%, Montgomery-Ward 43%, Standard Oil of New Jersey 65%, Humble Oil 99'%, United Corporation 38. COL. WHALLEN PASSES AWAY Democratic Leader, 'Pio- | neer Business Man, Dies | in Los Angeles, Cal. LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 15.— | Col. James Patrick Whallen, aged’ 72 years, Democratic leader and business pioneer, died here today as the result of a heart attack he suffered a month ago. | Col. Whallen took a prominent part in the nomination of Wood- row Wilson for the first term of the Presidency and was also in the other national’ Democratic conven- tions. He operated a chain of burlesque theatres. A group of mountain children from the Virg;-nia, watting outside the little fram resident and Mrs. -én, all of whom walked anywhere from. fou built for them by -, session. Twenty chi to six miles, were on hand for th was the first they had ever seen. who was appointed by the Hoovers, a (raduatepgf Berea College, in Kentucky. Hat Bill Ruli ng Blue Ridge regio ‘schoolhouse which oover, for the open e opening of the school, whic: The teacher, Miss Christine Ves is herself a mountain girl ar (International Newsr Makes French Husband Boss ( Mar. 15.—Woman > been “put in French juris LYON, and her their ri prudence. Milliners who sell a woman more hats than her husband can afford, can't collect i A wife can exceed unduly the normal family budget, only with her husband’s authority. With those as principles the civil tribunal reduced from $2,800 to $400 | the year's bili for hats of Madame X Because of public ridicule the newspapers agreed not to use the | family name. H Madame X bought The mi. put in hi husband refuse lawsuu Judge Goyat earned $2.000 a ye come of $1,200. So the judge decided the hus-| band, knowing his income, would nevér have aut ized such pur- chases, and reduced the bill to $400. ——avo——— Sailors Leap Overboard From Flames; Rescued! SAN DIEGO, Cal, March 15.— Leaping overboard from a 30-[002; motor sailer when it caught fire in the bay, ten sailors from the destroyer Sumner were rescued by a crew of a second motor sailer. Fire aboard the first sailer started from back-fire. h ance, hats on credit. | s bill The . Came the | fo! the husband r with other in-| i A G e N Output of black coal in Czecho- slovakia increased 10 per cent in 1929. U. S. PRISONERS AT M’NEIL WILL GET EDUCATION SEATTLE, March 15—Ushering | in what is declared to be a novel | education program for inmates of federal prisons, ground has been breken at McNeil Island peniten- tiary for a vocational and recrea- tion building for use of the 1,000 prisoners. The building, according to Chap- lain Howell Isaac, who made the announcement in Seattle, will be used for the education and voca- tional training of prisoners. He said the program is being under- | taken with the backing of prison | | authorities at Washington, D. C. If it proves successful, he de- clared, it will be adopted in other federal penal institutions. 400 Applicants : Prisoners, who wish to, accord- | ing to Isaac, may avail themselves: of an education, academic or voca- | tional, equal to any obtainable in| civil life. Four hundred of the| 1,000 inmates have already applicd ! for this schooling, he said. | The academic course is to bel modeled after the curriculum used (éontmue: on Page Seven) One Reason for Slow Arkansas Train | Beautiful Miss Carroll Hewitt, who won the title of “Miss Arkansas” in a recent beauty contest. She is gaid to be a perfect type of South- ern beauty and may explain the opularity of that “slow train kansas.” u‘h i (International Newsreeld American Lieutenant Shot in Leg by Bullet From Looting Chinese SHANGHAI, China, March 15— Lieut. C. M. Winslow, commanding the United States Naval Armed Guard aboard the American-Yang-| tze Rapids Steamship Company’s steamer Chiping, was injured in the leg by a machine, gun bullet during a clash between his guards and lawless Chinese soldlers roaming /the north bank of the river. Queen Mary Visits Public House; Bar Lined with Men LONDON, March 15— Queen Mary yesterday paid what is probably her first visit to a public house and inspected Anchor Inn, in Somers Town, the slum dis- trict of North-Central Lon- don. The bar was men and the to them. The Queen also visited the cellars and saw the modern methods of storing beer. Anchor Inn is a model es- tablishment conducted by the Rev. Basil Jellicoe. with spoke lined Queen ceeoc0eceseee @0 s e ccvence PATRONAGE IS INVESTIGATED SOUTHSTATES Probe in Federal Office Holdings Brings Out Recommendations ) WASHINGTON, March 15.—In- gation by the Department of stice of patronage distribution in the Southern States is urged in a report submitted by a special com~ mittee which inquired into Federal |office holdings in the South The committee presented evi- dence taken in .Georgia, Missis- sippl, South Carolina and Texas and proposed the Corrupt Prac- \tices Laws be broadened to in- {elude in its scope any person $o- liciting funds from a Federal &f< (fice holder or employee for politi- {cal purposes. MAY CLAIM DISCOVERIES BYRD FOUND Land Located by Expedi- tion May Be Claimed in Name of U. S. WASHINGTON, March 15—Act- ing Secretary of State Cotton ex- pressed the view today that the in- tention of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd not to claim lands discov- ered in the Antarctic is not con- sidered binding upon the American Government. Secretary Cotton said ‘that it is his opinion, that what-| ever is the eventual decision in re- gard to the South Pole Territory, the State Department will take the tview that national claims will not be affected by verbal relinquish- ment on the part of the discoverer. e Mexico-Canada Air Mail Time Cut to 36 Hours| SEATTLE, March 15.—Air mail| now is being carried between Mex-, ico and Canada via Seattle with the | loss of but one business day, ac- cording to a schedule worked out | seoesscco0coe several hundred school children The largest orchestra in the world, eomposed of High School Orchestra, as they played aboard the 8. 8. Aquitania during a visit to the big liner. Union. in Constitution of the National 3-Year-Old Werld’s Champion EETENY | Little three- year-old Marjorie Best smiles demuie- | ly as she drags | her precious championship cup oyt upon the diving board. Marjorie has just been acciaimed world’s cham- pion swimmer for her age. When but 23 months old she won this Barnes New- berry Cup by swimming 25 feet. The cup is competed for annually. (International P Newsreel) CITY MARSHAL IS SHOT DOWN Answers Call of Robbery by postal officials and executives of the Pacific Air Transport Com- (pany. According to the schedule an-| nounced, mail leaving Tia Juana,| Mexico, at 6 o'clock in the evening, | {is placed aboard a mall-passenger plane at Los Angeles at midnight, reaches San Francisco at 3:30 a.m. and Seattle at noon. A train con- nection then takes the mail to Van- couver where it arrives late in the evening. Train time between Vancouver and San Diego, Cal, is 54 hours. at Filling Station— Pays with Life DYERSVILLE, Towa, March 15.— Henry Hanfield, Dyersville mar- shal, was shot to death by two robbers who held up a filling tion last night. The robbers es- caped in an automoblle after ob- taining $30 from Matt White, man- ager of the station. Hanfleld was notified of the rob- bery. He accosted the two rob- bers and was shot fatally. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Through ‘ns president, Dr. nzary E. Woolley, |the American Association of Uni- iversity Women has written Presi- dent Hoover urging that women have the same right as men to change or maintain their national- ity. ! Nationality is to be discussed at the conference for codification of \University Women Urge Nationality Law-Change international law which meets The Hague March 13. The Uni sity women request that the United States delegates be instructed to vote for a measure that would give women the same rights as men on questions of nationality. They also urge that women ex- perienced in international law be Two Eastern Doctors | To Hunt Kodiak Bear During Coming Spring | ANCHORAUG®Y, niaska, March 15. |—Dr. Joseph R. Root, of Hartford, | Connecticut, surgeon and hunting | partner of Gov. John N. Trumbull, ‘wxll hunt Kodiak bear during the {spring. Dr. Root will be accom-| |panied north by Dr. E. H. Proud-! man, of New York, realtor and Af- |rican game hunter. The Alnsk:\l Guides Association will use a horse pack train. | President Hoover Is ; To Address Editors| WASHINCTON, March 15— President Hoover today accepted | the invitation to address the Amer- | ican Society of Newspaper Editors | at thelr annual banquet’ on April| 19. BIGGER BROOKLYN PARK The children come from every They played before Pre: | class Children in World’s Largest Musical State in tle Th oy dent Hall, Washington, . C. expect to tour Europe this Summer. (Inrernational Newsree'( B. C. Liquor Prices Are to Drop; U. S. Tourists Cause It VICTORIA, B. C., March 15.—Tourists from the United States so increased the pro- fits of the British Columbla liquor stores that the prices of liquor are going to be cut, H. R. Pooley, Attorney Gen- eral told the British Colum- bia legislature today. He said Canadian consumption of liquor has not increased. 1 PASSENGERS ABOARD YUKON FOR THIS PORT SEATTLE, March 15. — Steamer Yukon sailed for Alaska ports this morning at 9 o'clock with 190 first passengers and 88 steerage aboard. The following passengers are booked for Juneau: C. H. Nelton, M. V. Manville and wife, G. Tulinseff and wife, George L. J. Pal- Jack Turner, {S. Jacobsen and wife, {mer, A. Wildman, |William Douglas and wife, Mrs. Eldred Ireland, Mrs. G. Roberts, Mrs. Sutherland, Mrs. G. Larson, L. Arnes and wife, Emerson Baker, Mrs. W. J. Baker, Frederick Baker, M. Curich, Andrew Hoskela, Will- lam Fox, H. Young, Sam Ray- mond, A. Sweathers, A. Heravo, and 11 steerage. . |Branch Bank in San Francisco Is Robbed of $3,719 SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March 15—Two men late yesterday after- noon held-up the Hayes and Divi- sadero Street Branch of the Bank of Italy, probably wounded a Po- {liceman, and escaped with $3,719. |Jacobson and wife, Roy Rutherford, | BODIES TAKEN O HALL; WILL LIE IN' STATE Canadians, Russians and Americans in Funeral Procession at Night TRIBUTE PAID TO EIELSON, BORLAND Journey South Continues on Steamer Alaska— Plans of Escort | SEWARD, Alaska, March 15— Three nations were represented last uight at the funeral cortege formed |after the train arrived here from | Fairbanks with the bodies of Col. | Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland, | Accompanied by Ole Eielson, fath- |er of Col. Eielson, Russian and Canadian fliers, several hundred persons tramped through the snow end marched bareheaded behind the American Legion Honor Guard {up Broadway and to the Odd Fel- {lows Hall where the bodies will re- |main in state until the departure of the steamer Alaska Sunday. | Draped in Flags The caskets were draped in Am- |erican flags in Seward and among |the floral pieces were flags of Canada and Soviet Russia which {will be placed aboard the Alaska. | It is' understood that Canadian |fliers' Capt. Pat Reid, Bill Hughes |and Sam McAuley will be permit- ited to accompany the body of Col. ;Elelaon to Hatton, North Dakota. Seattle Instructions Soviet Commander Slipenov and 'his Mechanic Fahreg, upon reach- |ing Seattle, will receive instructions |from their Government whether to |pick up the Junkers plane at Fair- |banks and return to their station |in Siberia, or take some other route, Bewildered at Treatment The two Soviet fliers are be- |wildered at the treatment accord- ed by the Alaskan. They said the friendly spirit was never better demonstrated than at Fairbanks where they were not permitted to spend money even for food, cloth~ ing or at the hotels. | ANCHORAGE PAYS RESPECTS TO DEAD ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 15. —A large deiegation met the train carrying the bodies of Col. Eielson and Earl Borland yesterday. The delegation included all school chil- dren, The incoming train was met 10 miles north of the station here by Pilot Frank Dorbandt in a plane and also by a Guard of Honor of |the American Legion. This guard BB s S MR di £ (Continued on Page Two) Ashes of Samuel Magid to Be Tuken To Deering, Alaska SEATTLE, March 15. — Samuel Magid, who during the past 27 years built and operated trading posts in various parts of Alaska, died at Miami, Florida, March 5. The body was brought here and cremated. The ashes will be taken to Deering, Alaska, where they will be buried. Mrs. Magid accompan- ied the body here and the services, | which were held yesterday, were in charge of the Masonic Lodge. / | Boris Magid, brother of Samuel Magid, passed through Juneau on the Northwestern, to attend the funeral in Seattle. Women are destroying civilization! They have turned away from their natural modes of expression in the home and the family in their attempts to fill men’s posi- tions. They are sapping the strength BROOKLYN, March 15.—Brook- lyn plans to enlarge its National league baseball park which now seats 25,000. Although the club seldom finishes higher than the second division, it has a great fol- lowing locally and fans usmally are turned away on Sundays and holi- days. | A combination fountain pen and of the race. These opinions of Dr. Jon Alfred Mjoen, Norwegian eugenist of in- ternational reputation, who has ar- | rived here, do not reflect upon the capabilities of women, but upon their lack of vision. | “When I supported the women’s| suffrage movement in Norway, it was because I felt the world need- included in the government delega- radio receiver is the invention of a ed the voice of woman,” he sald. tion, Manila University student. WOES OF CIVILIZATION ARE BLAMED ON WOMEN SAN FRANCISCO, March 15.—) see that that voice reveals itself as only a hoarse echo of man.” Inexorably this gray-haired Nor= dic scientist who has been called Into the leading countries of the | world to confer with leaders who see in the decline of the birth rate a threat to society, points out that |college women average two children or less, while morons average from five to seven. As director of Vinderen Labora= torium, Dr. Mjoen has aroused his' country to the necessity of serving and perpetuating the better race elements, o “Criminals serving life should be segregated,” he said. l"Eu: I regret my support when lkw—(flconunund on Page Seven)