The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 28, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXV. . NO. 5395, ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1930. HOT FIGHT IS PROBABLE ON TARIFF [TEMS of| Conflicting Programs Two Parties Indicate Warm Time LUMBER AND SUGAR ENGAGE_ ATTENTION Conference Committee Did" Not Iron Out All of Difficulties ‘ WASHINGTON, April 28.—Sharp- ly conflicting party tariff programs give promise Jf a vigorous contested legislative battle when the House takes up the issues this week which were left unsettled by the con-| ference committee, on rates on sugar, lumber, shingles, cement and silver. The Senate's amendments in- corporating the export debenture for farm relief, a plan for modify- | ing the flexible provisions of the| present law, will be brought up on: separate vates. Sugar Trouble Point Members of the House believe| that Sugar is the most sharp con-| tention and an effort will be made by the Republicans to have the; House approve the rate of 2.2 cents| a pound on imports from Cuba. | The Democrats intend to support a 2 cent duty voted by the Sen- ate. The House originally voted a 24 duty. Look for Compromise Many Republicans are of the opinion the dispute on the flexible provisions will be settled by some | sort of a compromise. ! The Senate also voted to xevoke the authosity mow d President to change /#he rates and| restore it to Congpess. This is op- posed by the President. Fight an Lumber Rate Representative Hawley said the House would agree to the Senate duty of $1.50 per thousand board| feet on soft wood but would in- sist upon its own rate of 25 per- cent on shingles. Both are now on-the free list. The Democrats, Garner said, would keep both on the free list.! GARNER IS ILL | WASHINGTON, April 28—Rep- r¢sentative Garner, Democratic ldder, is confined to his bed with influenza and has been ordered to rémain in bed several days. His condition is not serious. Friends said he has run down on work over the tariff and rivers and harbors omnibus bill. e ——— Daylight Saving Time ‘Starts In Many States NEW YORK CITY, April 28.— Time pieces here and in many oth- er cities, are an hour fast compared to Standard time. Daylight saving time began at 2 o'clock Sunday morning and continués until the last Sunday in September. The new time will afford an added hour to outdoor recreation. The Mer- chants Association of New York, in a survey, shows that Daylight trr “the jtest closely and also the Trair; Crew, Whtch HLt Truck, Awarded Damages; Verdict v 4 : SAN JOSE, CAME. 4pril 28—a! Superior County jury has awarded $25,000 damages to Roger E. Fitz- patrick, Southern Pacific fireman,, and $3,000 to Frederick E. Rey- nolds, engineer, for, injuries re. ceived when their train struck ale gasoline ‘truck and trailer at a;® phone messages were - crossing here last Ocfober. e changed yesterday between The gasoline tank exploded and;- C. J. Smith, Vice-Presideht for a time it was feared Fitzpatrick |® of the Canadian Natio would not live. |® Railways, at an ordinary The verdict is against the Pa-| cific Truck Service and driver, Howard Hilton. Southern Pacific attorneys said the verdict is the fir§t recorded to| their knowledge in favor of a train| crew against owners or drivers of > the vehicle hit. CAMPAIGN FUND PROBE TO START WASHINGTON, April 28.—Sena-' jtor Gerald P. Nye, Chairman of| the Senate Campaign Funds Com-| mittee ,said the investigation will( begin a week from today, hearings to be conducted in the primary ex- penditures in Illinois and Pennsyl- vania. He said agents were al- ready at work in those states tol study the McCormick-Deneen con- Davis- | i | Grundy contest. Those involved said they wel- comed an investigation. e - ‘savihg has been adopted in 16 states in this country and by 28 cities in Canada. North Carolina has over 20,000,000} !acres of forest lands. | Prison Warden Places Blame for Recent Fire / COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 28.—Ac- cused of brutality by some of the prisoners and threatened with sus- pension because of the holocaust that snuffed out the lives of 320 convicts, Warden Thomas, of the Ohio Penitentiary, reappeared be- fore the Governor’s Investigation Committeee, and blamed the Ohio Legislature for his plight and for convicts losing their lives in the G. and H cell blocks last Monday night. y Warden Thomas said the cell blocks were in one of the fire traps which the state lawmaking bodies for 12 years refused to remove, He said the prisons were flooded with convicts far beyond capacity be- cause the state refused to build new ones. The minimum sentence laws which the General Assembly en- On State Legislatures were keeping the prisons full, Thomas said. Previously, surviving prisoners told the committee the convicts hated and despised Thomas and accused him of brutality. COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 28—A determination to subdue prisoners in the Ohio Penitentiary was expressed by Warden Thomas Sunday after another flare-up like those intermittent since a week ago tonight. “This mutiny will be put down, said the Warden. National Guardsmen were placed| with machine guns on the lawn in| front of the penitentiary during an uproar yesterday in the “White City” after milling and shouting by the prisoners. were broken. The prisoners were finally quieted and the guns with-|ployees, ‘were acted in 1921 over his objection, drawn, unruiy | First of Kind New Long*Distance Telephone System | Now Accomplished | LONDON, April 28.—Tele- desk phone here, and Sir Henry Thornton, President, on a train speeding betwebn Toronto to Montreal. An Associated Press correspord- ent also conversed with $ir Henry. The system whigh went into commercial use yesterday was devised by|J. C. Burkholder, Chief Eh- gineer of the Canadian Na- tional Railway. 000000000 Pl B - EARTH SHOCKS T0 WESTWARD ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 28.—Three carthquake shocks of moderate in- tensity were recorded on the St. Louis University seismograph be- tween 10 and 11 o'clock last Satur- day morning. The disturbance was about 4,000 miles distant and ohservers believe it occurred in the Aleutian Islands. Author of Popular I Lyrics and Stories Passes Away at Home | NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 28— Mrs. Elizabeth Slater Whiteson, !aged 52 years, author of lyrics and la number of popular songs of other days, including: “Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland,” and “Let Me Call You Sweetheart,” died here at her home last Saturday. She produced more thadh 400 lyries and many short stories. B e — Hold-up Men Kill Roadhouse Patron; Resistance Shown BELL MAWR, New Jersey, April 28 —Six masked men shot a patron to death in the Bell Mawr Country early this morning. The gpnmen escaped after robbing the fguests and rifling the cash register Willlam Wrierman, aged 30 years, was shot through the heart’ when Several cell windows he offered resistance. Seventeen persons, including em- in ‘the roadhouse when the hold-ups entered. Club Roadhouse during a hold-up; CORNERSTONE WILL BE LAID _HERE TUESDAY Arrangements Made for Dedication Exercises Tomorrow Afterncon The cornerstone o1 Juneau’'s new Territorial and Federal Building, which will be the largest structure ir the city when completed, will be laid tomorrow between 4 and 5 pm., at the corner of Fourth and Seward Streets. Exercises will be started with a parade forming at the Scottish Rite Temple at 4 p. m. The Juneau City Band will head the march, fol- lowed by the Grand Tyler and Grand Stewards of the Masonic Lodge, Lodge members, Federal Territorial and City officiais, Drum and Bugle Corps of the American Legion, Legion members, school chil- dren, construstion engineers and of- ficials of the Grand Lodge. The parade will march on Fourth to Franklin Street, thence tg Front, west on Front to Seward, and up Seward to Fourth Street. Following the parade the corner- stone laying will be held, with ap- propriate ceremonies. Gov. George A. Parks will make the official ad- dress, completing the program. On the platform, in addition to Gov. Parks, will be Judge Justin W. Harding, Mayor Thomas B. Jud- son, Harry G. Watson, President of the Chamber of - Commerce, and Claud Helgesen, Commander of the American Legion, and officials of the Masonic Lodge. Masonic officials, who will have charge of the cornerstone laying, are as follows: Evans Gruber, Grand Master; . T. Tripp, Deputy Grand Master; M. S. Whittler, Senior Grnad War- den; John H. Dunn, Junior Grand Warden; J. Wilfred Leivers, Grand ‘Treasurer; Charles E. Naghel, Grand Secretary. Ralph E. Mize, Grand Chaplain; Walter P. Scott, Grand Lecturer; John Rustgard, Grand Orator; B. M. Behrends, Grand Historian; Alex Sey, Grand Standard Bearer; |Wallis 8. George, Grand Sword !Bearer; William Feero, Grand Bible Bearer; Harry I. Lucas, Grand Sen- |lor Steward; Charles Sey, Grand Junior Steward; A. E. Goetz, Grand Senior Deacon; G. Kirkham, Grand Junior Deacon; William Wright, Grand Tyler; Homer G. Nordling, Grand Marshal. Within the copper box which will be set in the cornerstone, will be the following articles: Gover=- nor’s Report of 1929, contdining lists of Federal and Territorial of- ficials; Alaska Legionnaire of March 1930; Chamber of Commerce pam; phlets and membership list; roster of city officials, 1930; Gastineau Elk and roster of members, 1930; pamphlet and map of proposed In- ternational Highway; All Alaska Review, 1929; coin by construction jengineer; roster of officers andy RO LAy o R e 0 £ L A members of Mt. Juneau Lodge No. pave the way for that legulanonl (Continued on Page Eight) an endurance record last May 29. these shores since the ‘World Alaskans tomoriew will march to {the polls in the blennial primary elections to nominate party candi- dates for Delegate to Congress, four Territorial officers, legislative po- sitions in each Division and Divisi- onal Road Commissioners. The polls will open at 8 am. and close {at 7 p.m, throughout the Territory. | With but one contested place on the Democratic territorial slate and ione other on the Divisional ticket, !public interest all over Alaska is |largely centered on the Republican primary In which there are con- tests for every nomination except {one. ' Big Vote Expected Local political ieaders predict the biggest primary vote ever polled in ]the Territory,. especially the heavi- est Republican vote by reason of the many contests in that party. and generally owing to the large number of nominations that are at stake. ‘The unopposed Democratic candi- dates for Territorial nominations are: For Delegate, George B. Grigs- by; Treasurer, Richard E. Hard- castle; Commissioner of Education, Anthony E. Karnes, all of Ketchi- kan; for Auditor, Thomas Gaffney of Nome. R. J. Sommers, present encumbent, is opposed for nomina- tion for Highway Engineer, by Wil- liam A. Hesse, Ketchikan. The former is conceded to have the jsupport of the party organization and is favored to win. The party’s Divisional candidates are: for Senat6r, Allen Shattuck unopposed; for Territorial Repre- sentatives, Frank A. Boyle, Thomas B. Judson, and Albert Wile, of Ju- neau; A. H. Ziegler and E. L. Sampson of Ketchikan, with four to be nominated. Hot G. O. P. Contest The contest around which the widest interest centers, is that for Republican nomination for Dele- gate. This has seen the re-entry actively of Judge James Wicker- sham, former Delegate, into the political arena. He retired from Congress 10 years ago and has not been an aspirant for any elective office during the past decade. Attorney General John Rustgard, a long time associate of Wicker- sham’s in the political field, is opposed by the latter in the race, Mr. Rustgard is admittedly the Ad- ministration candidate. This is evident from a statement recently issued by Capt. A. E. Lathrop, Re- publiean National Committeeman for Alaska, in his own newspaper, the Fairbanks News-Miner, in which he pledges his support to Mr. Rustgard. He said his visits to Washington and conversations with officials there had convinced him Alaska needs there “a delegate who can and will make friends with these various agencies of the Gov- ernment and who, by so doing, may Alask;fls M arc:hwtt; }’olls to 7 Select Party Candidates in Primary Elections Tuesday | Administration Slate To Close Campaign With Meeting Tonight ‘The last words in the local Republican campalign, before the annual battle of ballots tomorrow, will be spoken to- night at the Palace Theatre by the Administration candi- dates headed by Attorney General John Rustgard, who is seeking nomination - for Delegate to Congress. Other candidates, including C. T. Gardner, candidate for the Senaterial nomination, and Walter P. Scott, one of the House candidates, are billed for short talks, Rustgard will answer‘some of the statements made here last week by his opponent, Judge Wickersham. He will refer specifically to the An- chorage address made by himself two years ago, eulog- izing Wickersham and from which the latter quoted lib- erally here in his own speech. The first of the Bet- ter Homes Week program will also be received at the Palace from 7 to 8 o'clock to- night, as broadcast arrange- ments will be completed this afternoon, . . ) . . . . . . . . . . . . ° . » . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and material assistance from the National government which it so materially needs. = A delegate who antagonizes and fights with those who are in a position to aid fis can be of little practical benefit to the Territory, I am therefore support- ing Mr. Rustgard's candidacy and will extend to him all the assist- ance I can give.” Pledges Co-operation In his campagn addresses Mr. Rustgard has pledged to co-operate with the Federal agencies and par- ticularly with the Bureau of Fish- erles with the view of obtaining every possible recognition of local residents in the salmon fisheries industry. He has attacked his op- ponent's sincerity on several grounds and questioned the tives behind the movement spon- sored by him to bring suits against the Federal government for the Southeast Alaska Indian tribes for alleged alienated holdings of lands and natural resources. Judge Wickersham has made everything possible out of a speech delivered by his opponent at An- chorage two years ago in which Mr. Rustgard waxed highly eulogistic of Wickersham. Other Contests The Republican contest for Com- missioner of Education, in the past ten days, had developed into one ® 'noon, Eastern Standard time, com- Young Flier Starts Flight, East to West WESTFIELD, New Jersey, April 28. — Frank Goldbor- ough ed 18 years, son of Bruce Goldborough, lost in an attempted transatlantic flight on the plane Dawn, took off at 5:40 o'clock this morning on the first leg of a flight to Los Angeles. He plans to make the trip in three days. He will stop at Wheeling, West Virginia; Indianapolis, Indiana, and St Leuls, Missuori. s900ceesc0cc0esse *eecsscsenen COL, LINDBEREH " MAKES RECORD WITH AIR MAL Reaches Cr;lobal, During Sunday Afternoon, { Ahead of Time MAKES FLIGHT IN | EVEN DAY SCHEDULE Carries ZSOFo_unds of Mail from New York for S. ; A. D?Eations CRISTOBAL, Panama Canal |Zone, April 28—Col. Charles A. | Lindbergh Sunday blazed the new |airmail route across the Caribbean Sea linking New York and Buenos Alres In an even day mail schedule. Col. Lindbergh took off from Miami last Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock on the first leg of the + light- $o - Cristobal. Mo réachéd Havana In' two hours and three | minutes. | Col. Lindbergh left Hanava at 5:33 a.m. Sunday, Eastern Standard time, landing on France Field at ‘iCrlstobal at 4:04 yesterday after- | |pleting the flight of 1,033 miles in (nine hours and fifty-eight min- lutes. He was not scheduled to ar- {rive until 6 o'clock last night. Col. Lindbergh brought 215 !pounds of mall destined for vari- (ous parts of South America. Ool. Lindbergh plans to return to the States the latter part of the week. Plying conditions Sunday were | perfect. Col. Lingbergh carried {Basll Rowe as co-pllot and Bert Denicky as radlo operator. CROSSON AND ROBBINS ARE | AT MOTORSHP Reach Frozen-in Craft and Load with Valuable Furs for U. S. MOTORSHIP NANUK, East Cape iberia, April 28.—Carrying valuable furs destined for the United States, two Fairchild planes, plloted by Crosson and Robbins, are expected to leave today for Teller. Crosson and Robbins arrived Sat- urday after an overnight stop at an lsolated lagoon east of here where they picked up a Fairchild plane which was left there in a damaged condition more than two months ago during the Elelson-Bor- land search. Mechanic Hutchinson repaired the | landing gear and the plane was flown to the Nanuk by Robbins. Pilot Gladyshev, Russian, has left the Stavropol, ice bound, with the/| last two members of the Moscow Sclentific Expedition. They will fly, to St. Lawrence Bay then Vladi- vostok, thence overland to Mos- | cow. | | > Two Killed, One Is Injured, Another Is Unhurt Plane Crash. FORT WORTH, Texas, April 28, | —Jim Kelly, endurance flter, and! G. W. Mennis, also of Fort Worth, | were killed in a plane crash near| Alvoro late Saturday afternoon. C. W, Williams was seriously in- Jured but another passenger, “Red" Roff, was uninjured. Roff was with Kelly when he set STUNT PLANE CRASHES AND SEVEN KILLED Air Circus i Tennessee Ends in Tragedy— 20w Persons Injured PILOT IS PLACED IN COUNTY JAIL Charge of Murder to Be Made as Result of Ac- cident on Sunday BULLETIN-—Fayetteville, Apr. 28~The seventh victim, a ne- 80, was reported this after- noon, as the result of the plane crash Sunday. Milton P. Covert, \ ue pilot, has been placed in jail in an- other county as the Sheriff feared violence. Magistrate John Pool sald a warrant will be FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn., April 28. —=8ix spectators gathered to watch an alr circus sponsored by the American Legion Post here, were killed and 20 others were injured Sunday, as a stunting plane crashed into a crowd. i The dead are: Booney Bearned, aged 14; Kelly Towry, 23; Law- rence Smith, 28; Monroe Marbury, 87 Hurley Spray, 26; and Marvin Ashby, 30. The plane fell from a helght of only 10 feet, the nose diving into the crowd on a raflroad embank- ment as it approached the land- THREE KILLED IN CRASH PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire, April 28—Geneva Brockett, aged 14 years, and Bruce Heffler, also 14, were burned to death in an airplane crash_ here Sunday. Pilot Olyde Robinson was badly burned. The engine stalled while Robin- son was giving the children a pleas~ ure cruise. In an attempt to make an emergency landing on &, road, a wing caught on a tree and. the plane burst into flames as it crashed. Robinson was thrown free but. he was unable to pull the children from the wreckage. >, WOULDPADLOCK PALATIAL HOME OF AL CAPONE Arguments —MTde Place Is “Nuisance”—Judge : Reserves Decision MIAMI, Florida, April 28 —After hearing the petition of State Ate torney Vernon Hawthorne, to pad- lock as a nuisance, the palatial - Palm Beach residence of “Scarface” Al Capone, an Indefinite recess was taken by Judge Paul D. Barnes, who took the arguments under ad- visement. A Capone appeared in . court with his wife, Mrs. Mae Capone, who | was also named ;their boy, and eleven other defendants. ¥ Frank Newton was recently con- victed of possession of liquor after 5 a raid on the Capone residence. | Frank Gallatt, resident agent for the home, and John Capone, broth=" er of “Scarface,” appeared for the defense and denied that Capone’ had been directing maintenance as a nuisance and they polnted to the fact that he was “in Philadels phia” for ten months. They de« nled that his friend and relati caused Miami to be known as “den of crime” as the petition leged. Commander Eckener Picked Up in England On Flight of Zeppel CARDINGTON, England, 28.—The Graf Zeppelin picked Commander Eckener here last urday afternoon and started the Graf, the first