The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 26, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXV., NO. 5367. J UNEAU, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1930. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS PROHIBITION OFFICER IS HELD ON MURDER CHARGE JOBLESS BRITISH STIRRED TO ACTION UNEMPLOYED STAGE MARCH UPON LONDON One Contingent Leaves Glasgow Next Monday | ~—Other Groups Move PRESENT POLICY IS | CAUSE FOR MOVEMENT | | National Unemployed! Workers Announce Protest Plans LONDON, March 26.—A parade of inemployed from various parts of the country, to London as a pro- test against the Government's un- employment policy is announced by the National Unemployment Work- ers. At least incement in the | | 1,000 persons, an says, will participate | first group of men leaving | w, next Monday. This group | 1 pick up a contingent of min- | in the Staffordshire coal fields. It will be April 30 before they will | reach London. an- n DISCOV ERS NEW R( JOM IN CARLSBA COL. EIELSON D C Ot contingents will start from stle, Plymouth, Yorkshire, Lancashire, South Wales, Midlands and Keno. e HEARINGS ON PROKIBITION ARE RESUMED Insurance Man Testifies at| Low Mortality Rate— | Dollar Line Defended WASHINGTON, March 26. AAH.-‘I er a week's recess, Prohibition| hearings were resumed today. John Lentz, of Columbus, Ohio, testified that 77 insurance compan- ies found the mortality rates low-' ered under the dry statutes. Representative Hadley, State of Washington, read a tele-| gram from J. J. Donovan, of Bel-! lingham, Wash., defending the Dol- | lar Steamship Line from what he termed charges by Representative | Ta Guardia, of New York, that liquor was dispensed on the liners of the company. Donovan said he had traveled on the Dollar steam- ships to different parts of the world and had not seen liquor used dispensed La Guardia replied that he would ! put in the record at the proper time a report of fines imposed on the Dollar ships for violations of liquor and narcotic laws. | his bed in t Asserting that in most Canadian Provinces “we have not really even a pretense of Government control; of liquor,” was made at the hear-; ing by E. C. Drury, former Prime | Minister of Ontario. “Government control remedy and impossible,” is not a effective control is Drury said. ( Earthquake Reported ‘ In Southwest China LONDON, March 26.—An earth- quake of considerable intensity is reported by the Kew Observatory.|western. The recording indicated the epi-| center is in Southwest China. ' . Blazing Home (baby in his bed. Frank E. Nicholson of New Yerk found a giant unci right is party two miles underground, entrance to. th: new unnamed room. arted room "LAID TO REST INHOME TOWN Last Rites for Distinguish- ed Aviator, Alaska Pio- neer, Held Today COLD WIND HURLS SNOW ON MOURNERS Former BucidTes and Thou- | sands of Others Pay Fin- i al Respects to Dead i HATTON, North Oakota. | March 26.—Beneath overcast {skies with a cold wind hurl- {ing snow out of the north, Cel. Carl Ben Eielson, who | was killed in a plane crash incar North Cape, Siberia, on| jlast November 9, was buried | “lhis afternoon. { (left) in New Mexico's caves. All night long former bud- |dies of the American Legion From among these attractive misses popular seraen acte the winner of a beauty contest at the Universi White, Marjorie Mines, Alice Grea, Virginia Diem, Margaret Clyde, Marian Mat- of the thews. Dorothy Sprouse, Isabel Harris and Virginia Clark. phetograph Betty Pritchard, Virginia AGEL COUPLE, MARRIED THIRTY YEARS, | ILI, AND FACING POVERTY, TAKE THEIR [ LIVES; NOTE L OWN Tot Carries Baby Brother Back Into TULSA, Oklahoma, March \ Bceeause his three-year-old = sister thought he “would be too cold” outdoors and carried him back :o’ blazing home after | {he had been rescued from the| flames by his five year old brother John Page, aged 11 months, was| burned to death. The little girl {dashed to safety after tucking the | was at s The mother, Mrs. Page, the, home of a neighbor who W ill. The father was ai work. R e N. H. Gilbert, Superiniendent of the Pioncer Packing Company, and | H. M. Parks, in charge of the Pio- neer Sea Fods plant, are passen gers for Cordova on the North-| Mr. Parks is accompan-| | ied by his wife. crews to the westward. the present prospects not live without the other, and de- | cided on a double suicide. Russian Princess Becomes Naturalized EFT IN EXPLANATION EALTIMORE, Maryland, March 'y Applewaite, aged 75, and Laura, aged 70, in ill- h and near . poverty after 32 married, were found lying in 26.—)bed with their throats slashed. | Two razors were found near the bodies. A note told the reason. The note said they could not face and could | - American Citizen PHILADELPHIA, march 26— Princess Irini Vladimirova Skaria- tina, of Russia, gave up titles and| renounced allegiance to her mother | ountry yesterday and became al naturalized American citizen. She | They are taking|is the wife of Victor I‘Aanklin[’”,’"(.rs Are Believed Blakesley, retired naval officer. She | was married in 1926. Her mother | is Princess Mary Lobanov of Ro»lnv,j Russia. | s, acting as judges, will select one from a of Washington. %slood guard over the casket in the mortuary. | After brief and simple serv-! |ices in the church where Col. Eielson worshipped as a bo, | | )| he was buried beside his} ! | mother, brother and sister in the Hatton Cemetery. Company’s stock overlssu: trials. Juror; J. H. Weaver, (upper right) JULIAN FIASCO BRINGS MORE WOE Los Angeles County’s Grand Jury is still busy returning indictments A in connection with the acquittal of defendants in the Julian Petrolenm the shooting yesterday. MANIS KILLED "IN GUN FIGHT; - DRY MAN HELD Lumberman and Plantet Fatally Wounded in Mississippi 'DEPUTY PROHIBITION . : ADMINISTRATOR HELD :Bail Refused, Kept in Un- { named Place—Investi- gation Progressing CLARKSVILLE, Miss, March 26.—The fatal wound- ing of M. L. Doggett, aged 57, lumberman and planter, in a gun fight with E. S. |Chapman, D eputy Prohibi- tion Administrator, is being ‘investigated today by both |State and Federal authori- | ties. Charged with the murder ‘of Doggett, Chapman was de- |nied bail and is held in an un- {named place as officers said |the feeling against him is TAssoclated Pres: |l - | A dozen shots were fired in Frank C. Grider, (upper left), a The fight was provoked by alleged briber; Louis Kraus, (lower a controversy started during left), alleged go-between, and John B. Groves, (lower right) a juror,'the trial of A. D). Brister. on Many stood outside of the little | have been held on bribery charges ‘church and amplifiers had been member of the jury, erected so thousands attending could hear the services then came the march to the grave, the Fargo | Legion' Band playing. has told Thousands shivered as they fol-, lowed the bier; then the final serv-| ices at the grave and the firing squad rendered the last military L e | salute. | The soft notes of taps echoed Accused Wlf(’ I\I”(’r over the cemetery and then Hat- ton, North Dakota, committed to T 3 = I ithe grave the man who brought honor to the town and State. X . ¥ | Accorded Tribute te P, 1 Carl Ben Eielson returned Ulahs Ht Ou((ll {to his home State yesterday and M) \was accorded tribute of an inter national hero. Crowds assembled at Minot and Devil’s Lake to pay silent tribute ‘as the funeral car halted briefly ‘m each point. | Onme thousand Minot. At Devil's Lake wreaths were placed on the casket by the Am- erican Legion and Daughters of |the American Revolution. A Colon- 'el's salute was fired by the Howit- ;zer Company of the North Dakota | |National Guards and taps were | |sounded as the train left the sta- t ‘Mon, | The funeral train arrived at Hat- l| {ton at 5:30 o'clock yesterday after- l {noon and the body was in state until the funeral this afternoon, 'attended by a Guard of Honor. | " —Associated Press Photo —Associated Press Photo. They are, left to right: Col. stood silent at —Associated Press Photo Maj. Charles A. Shepard, U. S. Army Surgeon of Fitzsimons General Hospital, Denver, Colo., has been charged with poison- ing his wife last June in To- peka, Ka i'nmwn: 1S PAIR ! THIS AFTERNOON IN Hermese Broadbent of Ogden | HOUSE OF CONGRESS was chosen Queen of Hearls of | the Utah city. She is a high | school student. e e WASHINGTON, March 26.—Tri- |bute to Col. Eielson was delivered iin the House of Representatives ithis afternoon by Representative |Olger B. Burtness, of North Da- |kota, who urged the passage of his (bill to award the aviator a Con- Irene Ann Brown Is Married to Minister Of Public Works, B.C. To Have Perished in prosecutors she ] money but was never given any amount. ier was acquitted. ‘Same Man Believed to Be Robber o RN IR while Mrs, Caroline Love, (in oval) | o PG e B e charge of possession. Brist- | IS SUSPENDED ‘ ASHINGTON, March 26. |— Prohibition Commissioner f 2 B(]nks {Doran said today he will sus- ipend Chapmn. He said press ‘reports indicated Chapman engaged in a duel and ‘duels are out of date.” | LOS ANGILLES, Cal, March 26. —A robber held-up the Branch of the Seaboard National Bank late yesterday afternoon, obtaining $3,-, 000. He demanded “only big bills,” | at the point of a gun. The robbcr; B Voice of Marconi escaped in an automobile. ‘l‘ H . An hour later making the same IS eard Distance request, a robber believed to be lhel()/ 11.000 Miles same man, obtained $1,000 in al iy hold-up of the Branch of the Los|q Angeles National Pank of Saving -+ GENOA, March 26.—Short radio waves cutting across the Atlantic Ocean, United States and Pacific Ocean carried the voice of Marconi from his yacht Electra to Sydney to open the electri- cal exposition there. Marconi spoke across 11,- 000 miles to Director Fisk, of the Exposition and the reception was good. Deer Being Cared For on Outskirts Of Cordova CORDOVA, Alaska, March 2 Driven from the interior hills by|® cold, snow and hunger, more than|® 50 deer are being cared for on the|® outskirts of the city. Food lS‘. LA Rl . bought through popular subscrip- | eesvcsccccce Nearly 85 i per cent of Belgium's lexport grapes go to London. LEAGUE RECORDS "~ SHOW GROWTH OF PEACE MOVEMENT VA, March 26-—League of s authorities point with isfaction to increasing evidences of the growth of procedure for pacific traditional American policy of avoiding European entanglements. Nine of the American treaties are treaties of conciliation embracing Coal Mine Explosion gressional Medal of Honor. VANCOUVER, B. C., March 26— | Representative Burtness related Irene Ann Brown, formerly of the settlement of international dis- putes. All told there are 130 treat- no special features; eleven of them are treaties of arbitration of one Contracts Now Signed For Mail and Passenger ’ Service Across Atlantic% - Yukon country, graduate nurse and les of this nature registered with more recently Superintendent of the the league. hospital at Shelton, Wash, was married last night to N. H. Lough- heed, Minister of Public Works of British Columbia. ARNETTSVILLE, West Virginia, Col. Eielson’s flight across the 2 gii o March 26—Five of eleven miners|North Pole and numerous other Rich Strike Reporled lentombed by an explosion in theifllghu. especially those in Alaska i ¢ 1 |Yukon Mine of the Crown Hill| Representative Burtnesssaid many On 'Mlncr"l.creek s Coal Company are known to be ewards had been given Col. Eiel- District Near Valdez gead. ~Rescue crews are pushing 'son by forelgn governments for the linto the workings to determine the North Pole ht and the War De-| The néwlyweds left for Eastern schifdgau-Zeppelin Carbide and! CORDOVA, March 26.—Reports fate of others. All are, xu.»-.v.vver,}pammn'. had awarded him the Canada and the United States on a Carbon Chemicals, United Aircraft!from Valdez say a rich strike onbelieved to be dead. One of theiDlsungulshed Flying Cross for|honeymoon trip. and Aluminum Company of Ameri- |Mineral Creek has been made by bodies located is that of J Liv-|World War service but Congresa“ B ca. !T. J. Devenney and W. A. Dolan. A |ingston, night foreman. |has done nothing in recognition of | Mr. anq Mrs. Luke Elwell of i . 3 The signing of the contracts 16-inch ledge of solid quartz has T |his service and his development of the Interior country are on their |World disposition to turn away lrc‘m marks the first active cooperation been uncovered 300 feet below the| Passengers on the Northwe ternlavmtion in the Far North HP way to Seward on uu_: Northwest- | war as a means of determining the between heavier and lighter than|surface that is said to carry free bound for Fairbanks via Seward, asked early consideration of hisjern. He has been mining in the|!s: of international controver- lgold to values from $50,000 a ton up, include Mrs. John A. Mclr tosh. measure. P ;Ralny Pass country. is necessary Her husband is of the firm of| Delegate Sutherland also paid a B is in MecIntosh and Kubon, Fairbanks tribute to the aviator, recamns‘ M. H. Killdahl, Superintendent of | druggists, one of the oldest bu mess“the interest Col. Ejelson had dis-|the Alaska Pacific Salmon plant at t dur- houses of that city. She has been played in Alaska and other sections Drier Bay, is aboard the North-|ing the past year, they are less Easv.\be!ore flying days began. “He was|western. He is taking a crew with |comprehensive than most of those w in a pioneer in polar explorations by him to begin preparations for the|in which other countries are the lntrplnne," Delegate Sutherland said. coming season. parties. They reflect clearly the ) ‘ standard type. These eleven pro- vide for arbitration in disputes of a legal nature only, and incl four kinds of reservations: disp coming within the domestic juris diction of states, disputes affectimy the interests of third powers, dig~ putes affecting the Monroe Doctrine] and those affecting obligations uj der the covenant of the League Nations. In treaties concluded between o er countries, the following tend cies are aqbserved: to provide the” same treaty for concilia arbitration and judicial settlem to submit all disputes to arbit; or judicial settlement; to reservations; and to designate Permanent Court of Intern Justice as the competent tr} in legal disputes. A Twenty-five countries were par- ties to 34 new treatles which were registered during 1929 In 1928 there were registered 15 new treat- fes and in 1927, only six The United States was a party to 20 of the new treaties, which are regarded in Geneva as indicating a NEW YORK, March 26.—Charles Mitchell, Chairman of the National City Company, and Dr. Hugh Ecke- ner, Graf Zeppelin Commander, an- nounced signing of contracts with | prominent financial and aircraft in- terests in the United States and | Furope for the establishment of a |air craft in establishing a regular| lighter than air mail and passenger |mail and passenger service. | being so rich “no assay line across the Atlantic Ocean. | Planes of the United Aircraft will|to demonstrate that a fortune carry passengers from inland points QSXghL" The contracts are signed by the to the Atlantic Coast where they; Assays on all ore taken ou 1 : . hs International Zeppelin Transport | will embark on airships. {ing the tunneling averaged $20 to V§§it!n§ 1nhC§111|logna laml ‘;‘;- Company, National City Company,| No date is set for beginning otlthe ton after the free gold had been 21lhl er husband, who is Goodyear-Zeppelin Company, Luft-|the service. ‘set aside. Seattle. e While the Washington govern- ment is easily leader in numbers of treaties of this kind registered dur-