The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 21, 1930, Page 1

\OL )\XX\ 5 NO 5363 €HlLl)REN BURNED TO DEATH ONVICTS FIRE ON DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA FRIDAY MARCH 21, 1930 MEMBLR TWO PRISONER ©X-AfghanKingDivorce Queer MAKE SURPRISE | ATTACK. ESCAPE Fire on Guards, Seriously \\/“undmg Them, then Flee Through Gates CONFUSION FOLLOWS | OUTBREAK IN PRISON, Hondnounds Are Put on — One Man, Bank l\nbl)er, Killed, Report SPEIGNER, Alabama,| ¢h 21.—Two guards in the State Penitentiary here,| were shot and seri()usl)" wounded by two prisoners' who opened fire with pistols as shifts -vere being changed in the prison cotton mill. i In the confusion that fol-| lowed, both prisoners escaped through the prison gates. B. Baltzer and J. Richardson are ards shot. The prisoners are Lee Huddens, | ng a two-year sentence for a| and Tom Barnes, for bank robbery. | ed from ne and opened fire without Bloodhounds were put on the trail of the fleeing prisoners Alabama, M: Tom Barnes, escaped p: is reported to have been killed by County nlhcu‘\ near Montgomery. SPEIGNER, Amanullah, former King of Afghanistan, who lost his throne to__ | Bacho Sahao, an Afghan water boy, is reported from Constantinople as willing to divorce Queen Sourya, they having lived separate lives for several months because she embraced the Catholic faith, ¢tuternational Newsreel) {7 FERVENT PLEA MADE TO FREE |I7 OlL MAGNATE‘“’”‘" i Counsel Prcsenlsi i o { le le Doheny Final Argument in Al- leged Bribe Case w. AfiHlNGTON March 21 —Con< e tinuing a fervent plea to the jury|e in the case of E. L. Doheny, oil e arge of bribery, Frank Hogan, | ¢ defense counsel began arguments|q with an explanation that the Pearl‘. Harbor, Hawaii, naval oil storage It contract gave the Doheny Company | ° rence to the Elk Hills' oil|g subject to certain conditions. | g This preference was regarded as,. mandatory, Hogan asserted, and| Doheny knew nothing of the de- ‘e tails of the contract. Defense Counsel Hogan !urthert sald the bids were studied by ex- perts who decided that the Doheny | proposal was the best submitted. Capt. Robert Dollar Passes 86th Milestone { | | I 1 | | { | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March| 21—Capt. Robert Dollar, the Grand Old Man of the Merchant Marine,” passed his 86th milestone | yesterday, departing a little rrom: the routine of his daily life. ; United Mine Workers | Stage Wild Ovation in Honor, ¥ INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 2 —The United Mine Workers of P® America completed the business of | the Thirty-First Consecutive Con-| stitutiohal Convention last night and adjourned after a wild ovation | for President John L. Lewis. S e — WANT MORE BEAUTY NEW YORK, March 21.—Business men are coming to learn that there re real values in beauty other than the lipstick, says a report to the| American Institute of Architects by | its President, C. Herrick Ham- mond. Notably, he adds, this beau- | E First Arrest 1 Model Village ld War FRFFPORT Ohio, March Freopon, which ten been cited as a model law - observing community, has had the first arrest since the World War. * ‘Two men, accused of run- ning 60 gallons of liquor through the village were ap- prehended and are held in jail, which the village council attempted to dispose of re- cently owing to the fact that the village had no crime. For twelve years the Coun- cil failed to enact an ordi- nance covering liquor viola- tions and now the Council is confronted with the prob- lem as how to prosecute. ©ee05e000eccecco000000 0 TARDIEU BACK IN PARIS FROM NAVAL SESSION \Says when Something Def- imite Is Done He Will Return to London ;v\as going to return to London and President Lewis when, Premier Andre Tardieu re- ied that he planned to go to' 1. London when something definite |a luncheon yesterday for NOTED SCIENTIST GIVES LUNCHEON FOR ANOTHER DISTINGUISHED { /D THEN FORGETS TO ATTEND IT | ST = MAN CHICAGO, Il Alfred Michaelson, distinguished University of Chicago scientist, gave Dr. Lee DeForrest, radio tube inventor, and forgot to attend it. The affair was a gathering of fa- mous scientists at the Quadrangle Club. The The waited guests waited and waited. soup got cold; still they Finally Dean Henry Gordon Gz\le’ stepped in as a substitute for the host and the luncheon went on. R 7 AR HUSTON'S MAN MOORE APPEARS AND TESTIFIES Personal Representative of G.O.P. Chairman Tells of Stock Trading WASHINGTON, March 21.—W. E. | Mooré, personal representative of Claudius Huston, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, told the Senate Lobby Committee today, that he bought and sold stock at Huston's direction from the latter’s New York brokerage ac- count. Questioned in regard to two checks given Huston by the Union |Carbide Company for the Tennes- see River Improvement Association rand deposited with the brokerage PARIS, March 21.—Asked if he’ fore the Naval Conference seemed | to require his presence. The Premier added that in offi-| clal circles it is a wellknown fact | |that it does not depend on France alone to find a solution of the dif- ficulties as sacrifices cannot be one- sided. state of Taft Is Valued at $475,000 WASHINGTON, March 21.—Pe- ty which helps to sell things has tition for probate of the will of entered automobiles. irm of Blyth and Donner, Moore said the funds were used in buying and trading in stocks. Floridla Woman Builds Shoe Painting Business, MIAMI, Fla., March 21.—A pair of scuffled and discolored shoes were the beginning of a profitable business for Mrs. Frank N. Fleet- | wood. ( Five years ago she used paint to renovate a pair of her shoes. Friends in Fort Lauderdale, Fla, where she lived, liked them and asked her to paint theirs. Now she colors them for Palm Beach and Miami society, special- izing in tints that match costumes. into the manufacture of William Howard Taft showed thc Some cf her customers send shoes ‘estate is worth about $475,000. to her from Europe, March 21.—Prof. ‘ MOUNTAIN MAY BE NAMED FOR ‘Senator Nye Seeks to Have Copper Mountain Re- named Mount Eielson A proposal to change the name of Copper Mountain in McKinley | National Park to Mount Efelson, in {honor of the late Col. Carl Ben Eielson, pioneer Alaska aviator, {made in a resolution introduced m |the Senate by Senator Gerald P, [Nye, of North Dakota. The relo- |lution has the support of the Am-| lerican Legion organization in the' | Territory, it was announced today ‘by T. J. Petrich, Department Ad- { jutant. The resolution will be taken up, for |day that Col. Eielson's body 1is {buried at Hatton, N. D. American ,Legion posts throughout the Ter- ritory are forwarding petitions to Washington in support of the pro- | posal. | Copper Mountain is not one of the Alaska Range proper about 5,000 fet high and stands {in the northwest section of the Inational park. Col. Eielson landed |the first plane in the park, making Ithe landing at the foot of the !mountain, Adjutant Petrich was advised by the Fairbanks Leglon| ‘orgamzanun TIED T0BED WHICH IS SET AFIRE, CLAIM Woman Is Rescued in Hotel | Room—Prominent Man Arrested | FAIRCHILD, Texas, March 21.— |Alleged to have been tied to a bed which was then set afire, Wilma Jones was rescued in her hotel room here. A few hours later, 8. C. Moore, prominent business man of Oak- wood, was arrested and charged with assault with intent to commit | murder. The Jones woman rolled off the bed in time to escape being burned on the feet. She alleges she was tied to the bed with lace curtain strips. She suffered very little. | The Jones woman came here yes-.| |terday to answer charges of forg- ery in connection with attempted |cashing of a $250 check bearing the |purported signature of Moore, who is married and the father of one child. Moore denied any connection with !the fire and was released on a I‘l,OOO bond. - EUGENE ROY tion Selection for Provisional Chief PORT AU PRINCE, Haitl, March 21—The People's Delegates have| approved of the choice of Eugene| Roy as temporary President of| Haiti He takes office on May 15 when President Borno's term ex- DEAD AVIATOR action by the Senate on the! It s IS APPROVED People’s Delegates Sanc-| Pacific-Alaska |Highway Conference \Is Announced PORTLAND, Ore, March 21.—W. G. Ide, Manager of the Oregon State Chamber of Commerce, announced to- day that all persons inter- ested in the proposed Pacific Highway to Alaska and South America are invited to attend a conference here on April 14, o . 1 JUNEAU MAN 1S DEAD IN SOUTH L. B. Adsit, Pioneer of Ju-| neau, Passed Away in | | Los Angeles Today | 46 years of age,| {pioneer of this city and widely| Enown throughout Alaska, died | from canger of the stomach at 6 a. m. today in a Los Angeles hos-| pital, according to telegraphic ad-| vices received here. He is survived by his widow who resides here, his mother and a sister, Mrs. Lil- lian Gabbs of San Diego, Calif. His mother and sister were with hLim when the end came. Mr. Adsit left here last week to enter a Los Angeles clinic for treatment. He reached there Wednesday morning, weakened by the trip, but it was uhougm there might be a ochance .for him He had been ill for sev- eral years and confined to his home for several months Mr Adsit came to Juneau about 1891 with his parents His father was engaged in business here and at one time at Douglas He later represénted, & number of manu-' facturers and wholesale houses, covering a large part of the Ter- ritory. | The younger Adsit grew to man- hood here, and was connected with Goldstein’s Emporium for a time. In 1897, he was purser on the steamer Newport, operating between Valdez and Alaska Peninsula points ;and held that position for some- time. Leaving that position he re- turned to Juneau. After the death of his father in 11910, Mr. 'Adsit took over the var- fous lines held by him and con- tinued the business. Three years later, he became associated with B. C. Delzelle and enlarged the business materially. This partner- ship lasted more than a decade. In recent years, Mr. Adsit has liaintained his business alone, and until several months ago covered a large part of the Territory. He was a life member of Juneau Lodge No. 420, B. P. O. Elks, and of the local Eleven o'Clock Club of that lodge. Definite funeral arrangements have not been per- fected, it was said. known whether the body would be returned here or interred in Cali- fornia. ! Mr. Adsit was a native of Chi- cago, Ill, being born there on October 11, 1884. He came to Ju- neau as a mere lad and resided here continuously since that time. A R O L. B. Adsit, 'o..--o--o-oon . o TODAY'S STOCK |® QUOTATIONS I ® 0000000000 NEW YORK, March 21.—Alaska iJunenu mine stock is quoted today \at 7%, Alleghany Corporation 31'% Amencnn Ice 38%, Anaconda 75, }Bethlehem Steel 104, Central Alloys 31%, General Motors 48%, Gold Dust 43%, Granby 55%, Grigsby- |Grunow 18%, International Har-! | vester 94%, Kennecott 581, Mis- sourl Pacific 93%, National Acme |pires, to serve until legislative elec- 25, Packard 22%, Radio 51%, Stan- |tions are held next fall. dard Brands 24, Standard. Oil of |California 64%, Standard Oil Mi |New Jersey 69, Humble Oil 109%,| 1!!‘ 8. Steel 190%, Montgomery-Ward i 41. ————— |Japanese and Soviet Military Officers to { OF ASSOCXATFD PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS IN SCHOOL BUILDING DUCE’S DAUGHTER AND FIANCE | Recent photograph of Edda Mussolini, daughter of Italy’s premier, whose engagement to Galleazzo Ciano, son of the minister of come munications, hal been announced. UARS ESCAPE 3 CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE, RURAL SCHOOL Youngster Attempts to Re- vive Fire in Stove by Using Kerosene 'E}GHTY CHILDREN AND TWO TEACHERS ESCAPE Fatal Disaste—rbccurs Late in Afternoon in Ok- lahoma District CHANDLER, Okla., March 21.—Freddy Eaton, aged 8 years; Lawanda Doddrill, aged 7, and Franville Mur- ray, aged 8, were burned to death late yesterday after- |noen when the Eaton boy tried to revive a dying fire {in a rural school house stove Associated Press Photo || MARRIAGE IG LAW AND RIGHTS OF WIFE | 1,600 Stills | “Captured” | During January WASHINGTON, March 21. —Federal Prohibition Agents, curing January, “captured” 1,600 stills ranging in size from a tea kettle to plants capable of turning out 2,000 gallons a day. Almost half of the plants “captured” throughout the United States were producing #lcohol from corn. eeeccescsccee ®e0ccccccccce TORCH VICTIM IS IDENTIFIED ASNEW YORKER Eugene Moran Pays with Life as Result of Gang- land’s Reprisal NEWARK, N. J,, March 21.—The Newark Evening News says the Police have identified the body (found in the outskirts of Newark, a flaming torch and with a bullet through the brain, as that of Eu- gene Moran, aged 39, from New York’s East Side. Moran’s death, the Police believe is gangland’s reprisal for the lead- ership in a machine gun battl which is termed a vain attempt to “eliminate” a foe of Arnold Roth- stein, whom Moran served as a henchman at a fabulous salary. ... — Normand Estate Is Left to Her Mother | LOS ANGELES, March 21.—Leav- |ing her entire estate to her mother, |a contract agreeing to |goclal and economic claims on each ‘other has collapsed. 'ginia Roth, before their marriage in September, | exists"” o with other persons. Be Interchanged Now| TOKYO, Japan, agreement has been reached be- tween the Japanese and Soviet Governments for interchange of |military officers between the two armie$ whereby Japanese officers will be attached for certain periods 4o Soviet units and vice versa. March 21—An ‘ WOODEN LEG FOR C. Mary D. Normand, of New ARY |Mrs. | York, the will of Mabel Normand ROCHESTER, Minn., March 21.— Cody, former screen star, was filed Rochester boasts a singing canary|for probate in superior court here. with & wooden leg. The bird met|To Lew Cody, her husband, the ac- with an aceident some time ago in|tress left one dollar, “for the rea- which one of its legs was complete- |son that he is well provided for in ly severed. Miss Floy Prender- his own separate property and is ghast, the owner, substitued aleapable of earning his own sup- ‘mltch stick. port.” NORING | S ON ROCKS CHICAGO, IIl, March 21.—The marriage of two University of Chi- cago students in which they signed restricted The breakdown of lhe unusual | pact signed by Lee Dolan and Vir- 1928, was aired in Super- for Court where Dolan lost an ,alienation oi affections suit against hls father-in-law. The agreement, introduced as evi- dence in the trial, and entered into is an attempt “to foster and pre- serve the great love which now evidently fell far short of that mark. At the end of the trial he told the court he was not| really after the money (he sued for $50,000) and merely wanted his wife back, but the young woman refused to speak to him and left the court- room on the arm of her father, Judge Michael L. McKinley, in di- recting the jury to return a verdict of “not guilty,” said it was ‘“the most outrageous contract I have ever heard of.” He called it a “mere companionate marriage, by which you assume all the benefits and none of the duties of a hus- band.” Dolan denied it was a compan- jonate marriage and insisted every- thing would have worked out all right if his father-in-law, Edgar Roth, architect, had not interfered. The contr: provided that Dolan was not to support his wife until 1933, when both should have f‘mshw ed their university courses. Each; one promised not to interfere with the other’s school attendance or career and they were both given| the right to forbid social re!J::o:H} The agreement provided that the wife should not contract bills in the husband's name, that she must live with him at least three months out of every year and never absent| herself from wherever he might be| by a distance of more than 600} miles, and that in disagreements | his judgment should be binding. | The provision that “in the event | of any section of this agreement comes into conflict with the law of the land, it is the desire of both parties that such section of this agreement shall take precedence,” was especially referred to by Judge McKinley in his denouncement of the pact. | Turning to the plaintiff, he said, “You want to be a lawyer and yet you flout all laws, both statutes and dictates of humanity.” | by pouring kerosene upon it. Eighty other children and two teachers escaped. The school house was a one- story frame building of two rooms |/and burned with great rapidity, |fanned by a stiff wind. When the flames burst from the Istove, the front part of the room was immediately a mass of flames. The teacher worked heroically ~|to save those in her room. The teacher and older pupils in the other rom tried vainly to res- jcue the three children cut off by the flames. SCARFACE AL'S BROTHER UNDER ARREST, FLORIDA Police Swoop Down on Palatial Residence on Palm Island MIAMI BEACH, Florida, March 21.—John Albert Capone, who the police say is a brother of “Scarface” Al Capone, former Chicago gang=- ster, recently released from prison in Philadelphia, was arrested last |night in Capone’s palatial Palm Island residence, which has been the only development in the search for Al Officers said they found 10 sacks and three bottles of liquor in a bathroom connected with Capone’s suite. Three other men arrested with Capone will be charged with vag=- rancy, the Pouce said. GRAF ZEPPELIN TOFLY IN MAY First Flight Will Be to South America and Re- turn via Lakehurst FREDRICHSHAFEN, March 21.— Capt. A. Ehmann today informed the Associated Press that the take-off of the Graf Zeppelin on the first South American flight, will take place between May m and 15. On the return, the Graf will touch at Lakehurst, New Jersey. The first point of the flight to South America will be Seville, then | Rio de Janerio, returning home via the West Indian Islands, Hae | vana, Lakehurst, Seville, then Fredrichshafen. o PR S S “SINTER” MEANS ROAST TRONTON, Minn, March 21— "Sintering,”” in iron-ore means mixing fine ores wim and burning under induced In copper and lead metallurgy i |is called roasting,