The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 1, 1930, Page 1

s AT P (I d N it Rk T THE DAILY AL SKA EMPIRE IME” “ALL THE NEWS 4.1 VOL. XXXVI., NO. 5398. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY . ! WICKER Feminist Pleads for Rights at The Hague NEW PLAN FOR | DISTRIBUTING LIQUOR 1S UP Stayton Declares Law En- forcement Commission Has Scheme OFFICIAL OF A.AP.A. EXPRESSES HIS VIEWS Quick Denial Comes from Cabinet Officers and Also Others WASHINGTON, May 1.—Willlam H. Stayton, Chairman of the Board | of the Association Against the Pro- |8 hibition Amendment, testified be- fore the Senate Lobby Committee |§ today that four members of Hoov- |§ er's Law Enforcement Commission | #told him they were trying to “work | out some other plan for distribu- tion of liquor than under the pres- | ent law.” Stayton said members of the Commission he talked with were, Judge Kenyon, Dean Pound and Col. Anderson. He said he could | not recall the name of the other. Stayton said he thought tha’ Sccretaries Stimson, Davis, Lamont, Brown and Adams believed the Prohibition law was a failure and he said he drew this “inference” after talking to Senators and Rep- resentatives. Make Denizls i Following the testimony, Secre- | k tary of Navy Adams said there was Miss Doris Stevens, former wife of no justification for the statement;Pudley Field Malone, international | made by Stayton. {lawyer, pauses outside the Peace Secretary of Commerce Lamont |Falace at the Hague, where she said he had not discussed Prohibi- |15 CAMPAIENIng for eatal Ratlonal tion since h¢ entered the Cabinet. She is attending the first = >wor1d1c§)l;ferenge o{\lthe c:di!;ip_ N'S STATEMENT | tion o ernational law, at whicn . .RICHMO! Vicginia, May 1'“\2;?:‘:;::;}:2“ from 47 countries Col. Henry Anderson, member of| "Intarnstional Newsreel) \he Hoover Law Enforcement Com- | o ission said he knew of no new | PAn being ¢onsidered by the Com- ANDER! NAVAL TREATY TO BE GIVEN QUICK ACTION lSccretary Stimson Has Promise Made by Chairman Borah | WASHINGTON, May 1.—Assur- ance of a “friendly attitude” to the | London Naval Treaty and spzedy | consideration was given Secretary of State Stimson, by Chairman Senator Borah, of the Senate Fore- ign relations committee at the Capitol conference. Secretary Stimson called on Sen- ator Borah after the treaty had been formally turned over to Pres- ident Hoover. SENT TO SENATE WASHINGTON, May 1. — Presi- dent Hoover today transmitted thc Naval Treaty to the Senate. It is one of the shortest public docu ments in history, containing onl: ninety words. STUDENTS ON RAMPACE Two Unpopular Professors | Are Hanged in Effigy | —Many Arrests PHILADELPHIA, Penn.,, May 1.— ,Hundreds of students of the Uni- ,versity of Pennsylvania, after hang- ing in effigies of two unpopular professors, clashed with the pdlice with a ult that the head of the _police department was himself ar- |restod” for obstructing justice. More than 200 alleged disorderly |students were placed under arrest. A score or more are held as lead- |ers. The remainder have been re- s UNOFFICIAL RETURNS, Precinct— z 2 5 |’/ MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES, FIRST DIVISION Comm. of Highway Z Treasurer Auditor - predisnyg uqor’ Juneau—Precinet No, 1 .| § Juneau—Precinct No. 2 ... Juneau—Precinct No. 8 Treadwell g Jualpa (A.J. Boarding House) Thane (Sheep Creek) ... Salmon Creek Mendenhall | Lynn Canal Stikine Revilla s Charcoal Point ... Wacker City t Ketchikan—Precinet No. 1 . Ketchikan—Precinet No. 2 ... Sitka Haines Chilkat Petersburg Wrangell Skagway Klawock Scow Bay Yakutat Craig T3 qyws ‘D M.i WETYSIIHOIM seurep] an)| 163 13| 56| 17| 3 14| 12 33)| 17 190 85 87 54 18 5| 199| 95| 91| 23] 2} 122 98] 89| 52| 14| 12]] j| 135 48/ 27, 44/ 10 19 24 155| ' 63 92 24| 56/ 42 61/ Educatien Engineer Senator E] = IeupIen L T ucsuyor I RMEdE A » 2 kS & © zeuwrn ydasog 23PUD MG | v TZuvb | 431 82| 308] 139 174 58| 114] 83| 114 22| 12 3 43 10 21| 9 2 4| 11 9 12 9| 22 24 18 13 8 6| 8 3 38 16| 31 | 29 12 | 1 260 237| 135/ 123 115 87, 25 19| 2| 3 124)] 88 120/] 51 64 n 105 61 17 9| 52 7| 35 36| | 135 81 | 37 14 | 3 13) 10 23] Y 1§ ki | 1 29 11 3l 133 83|| | 146|| | 36 2 | 86 147 | 9] | 8 |18 | 4 | 39| 10 9| 228 103] 88| 25 2| 116| 86 76| 56| 8 10| 24| 36, 3 120| 118 48| 72| 20| 47| 37| Representatives e | PWWOS 13398 uuIm ‘D 19401 11008 ‘d I19j[eMm. 1908\ duesnz| 405 90] 159 406 169 103 e 68 75| 64 5| 10| 26| 20 34| Tof als | | 1534] 1493 20 il 1120 1699]| 1447| 1466]| 1154| 1622‘ 1764 | 1799| 1044]| 1459| 1508 1483 Guardsmen Make Discovery in Prison City COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 1. —National Guardsmen, mak- ing a routine inspection of the White City in the Ohio Penitentiary, discovered the beginning of a hole which was being dug in the wall leading to Warden Thomas’ residence. The Guardsmen also found a crowbar in the . . . . . . - . . » » .basement of the prison. . ° o0 00000000 Delegate Rust- Wicker- gard sham Knight Smith Cole Reed Breuer 32 Seward | Cordova, Eyak, | Chitina, Me- | Carthy | Valdez | Anchorage . | Jonesville | Moose Creek ... i | | | | | 90 51 Il | 156, 39 414 kil 15| 13)| 2 18] | 255 46 126 o Girdwood Tunnel Matanuska Curry ... Wasilla Talkeetna Mile 3% Moose Pass | 132 12 373 REPUBLICAN RETURNS — THIRD DIVISION Treasurer Auditor Com. of Edu. Keller 5| 417 103)| 46 81 i i | 250/| 61| 95 23 213 3 14 5 | 255 26, 351| 3 | 7 | 8 | 5| | 13 4| 16| 6 | 1277, 1576] 1048 1712 SPENT LARGE ~ SUMIN FIGHT ‘IMrs. MeCormick Tells | Committee Her Campaign | Expense Was $252,572 WASHINGTON, May 1. — Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick told the iSenate Campaigns Funds Commit- pocketbook in the race for the Sen- ate. She said she recelved no con- tributions except from her own fam- PRICE TEN CENTS SHAM NOW LEADING IN DELEGATE CONTEST LATE RETURNS FROM PRIMARY NARROWRACES Breuer Close to Keller— | Cole Leading Reed— | Summers Tops Hesse GARDNER HOLDS TO . MARGIN OVER STEEL Has Large Lead and Seems Sure of Place—House Race Not Certain With additional returns coming in from the First, Second, Third ‘and Fourth Divisions since yester- day afternoon, Judge James Wick- ersham assumed the lead in the Republican race for nomination for Delegate, and was today leading Attorney General John Rustgard by 260 votes. | Cash Cole was leading Elmer Reed by 368 votes for nomination for Auditor, and W. K. Keller had lan edge of 141 votes on L. W. Breuer for Commissioner of Edu- cation. W. G. Smith was leading Frank L. Knight by 900 votes for Treasurer. n the Democratic primary R. J. Sommers, encumbent, had taken the lead for Highway Engineer by ,the close margin of 13 votes which \Jocal party leaders expected to be increased as belated returns arrive. Wick Carries Nome | Wickersham carried the city of |Nome, recelving 104 to 93 for Mr. | Rustgard. Anchorage and the !raflroad belt put him in the lead in the Third Division, 788 to 575 for his opponent. One new precinct was received from the Fourth Divi- | i | | i | "more to the good. { The Second Division Ilikewise gave Breuer a majority over Keller, ily and urged legislation enacted to the Nome vote being 112 to 60. | provide for a closer scrutiny of all i 457 [cn i Smith carried the town 7 to 1 over | mpaign activities . by Senatorial | y Knight, 146 to 20. Reed swept mision for the distribution of li- as quoted today before the | GOLDBOROUGH | leased. When Chief Schofield, of the @ 668 755 825 381)| L & < L] 9 i (. 4 Serke Lobby Committee by Stay-| ————.————— ) IRE BLOWN | T FRAGMENTS\ Slight Accident but 0k A ) Pemmec T eir Farm by Dyhamite Blast VANCOU\&R, Wash,, May 1.— heir bodies\blown into fragments y a dynamie blast, Mr. and Mrs. . B. Northu) were killed on their arm last night. Deputy sheriffs nd coroner left for the scene f the traged! immediately upon t being repoited this morning. Pnly parts of \the bodies of the wo were foun: ‘Mother” ] s 100 Year Id Today SN & SILVER SPRINGS, Maryland, [May 1—“Mother” fones, life long ighter in the cause of labor, cele- [brated her 100th rthday today af the country hong of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Burgess. Letters and telegraps are pour- ing in on her from 41 sections of the country extendind congratula- tions. FORCED DOWN; WILL KEEP ON flan ai on EL PASO, Tes May 1—Frank Goldborough, 19-year-old transcon- tinentel flier, has arrived here. He was forced down by darkness last |might in the desert at Midland, |about 100 miles east of here. He spent most of the night at tha }spot and took off at daylight, con- tinuing here. He ‘struck a tele- phone pole #hd one wing was dam- from continuing his trip to Los Angeles. It is expected that he will resume his flight later in the (day. His next stop will be at Tucson, Arizona. — .. eeeecvccvcsoncoe S . . . . ee0ecececccccce NEW YORK, May 1.—Alaska Ju- neau is quoted today at 7, Alle- ghany 27%, Anaconda 59%, Beth- lehem Steel 97%, General Motors 46%, Gold Dust 44%, Granby 32, Crigsby Grunow 24, Kennecott 447%, Missouri Pacific 81%, National \ Acme 18'2, Packard 18%, Standard Brands 24!%, Simmon Beds 45%, Peru has established @ consulate |Standard Oil of California 71% at Houston, Tex.,, with jurisdiction|U. S. Steel 178%, Ward Baking over the entire State. B 11%, Montgomery Ward 43%. TODAY'S STOCK . . . . QUOTATIONS . CANARIES AID JOBLESS ENGLISH BOOT MAKERS NORWICH, England, M§ lemish birds introduced in Norwich The canary breeders of rwi hiin the sixteenth century. have had a great boom ol late.| Flemings, who fled from Spanish The mild spring weather has|persecutions on the continent, set- brought good bird business to many | tled here, bringing their singing workmen, just as the boot trate, a |pets with them. nsple_ industry of Norwich, \'was| The young canaries must be giv- languishing. |en vocal lessons. ~ Some fanciers | place the birds in the bushes where 090 canaries every year, America | "CLLDERICS SI0G AL dawEy eve. e takes 17,000 of them, while ty | young canaries try to imitate the e | ¥ the cther birds go to European coun- ;h:: birds and thus acquire varied tries, to British colonies, and some But house wives have found a en to lonel, - :’:.n mely outposts in the Arc more simple method of training. Norwich exports more than 100,- Youthful Fliet Meets with' aged but this will not prevent him ! |Police Department refused to re- lease those not implicated as lead- lers, he was arrested by a Magis- trate’s constable and held on $1,500 bail. He was finally released and will be given a hcaring later in the day. Chief Schofield said that in his judgment “things were of such a | precarious condition I did not think it advisable to let the boys go back to the streets.” PANTA CASE COMING UP !Convicted Man Has Four Attorneys to Present His Side SACRAMENTO, Cal, May l— Representated by four attorneys, Alexander Pantages is prepared to wage a strong fight before the !State Supreme Court, for release on bail, pending appeal on conviction of criminal assault. The State has three counsellors to oppose Pantages. ' The Supreme Court ordered Dis- trict Attorney Fitts to show cause why Pantages should not be ad- mitted to bail. { FRANCIS EDW. BLISS IS DEAD SANTA BARBARA, Cal, May 1. —Francis Edward Bliss, aged 83 years, said to be the owner of the !largest private collection of prints and etchings in the world, died here late yesterday. He organized and |was for 25 years Managing Director of the Anglo-American Petroleum Company, a branch of the Standard Oil operating in the British Em- pire. | British Women Golfers Defeat SUNNINGDALE, England, May 1. Teams from U.S.| Scveral other towns in England have flourishing canary industries, but all the birds trace back '«OJmaw» the birds to sing lustily, [ b s noon. The score was 8% to 6%. * FOR SMUGBLIN iPenalties and Duties to Amount of Over $200,- 000 Is Assessed NEW YORK, May 1.—Undeclared jewelry, furs, clothing and ‘mer- chandise, which Mrs. Robert Dodge, President of the cosmetics firm of Harriet Hubbard Ayers, brought to jthe United States in the past five years, has resulted in penalties and duties of $213,286, the largest ever imposed by the Port of New York. She is suffering from a nervous breakdown at her home on Long Island and a check was presented in her behalf. Judge. Parker Is Believed Gaining, Confirmation Vote WASHINGTON, May 1.—Friends o: Judge John J, Parker, nom- inated for Associate Justice of the {Supreme Court of the United States, claimed gains in the Sen- ate Republican ranks for confirma- tion but the situation will be in doubt until the final vote is taken. Statement Made on Veterans’ - Bureau Minimum Estimate -WASHINGTON, May 1~—Director Hines, of the Veterans Bureau, es- timated the minimum yearly cost iof the veterans' bill recently pass- ed by the House, at $181,000,000 with a maximum at $404,000,000. Reece Plan for Muscle Shoals Given Approval WASHINGTON, May 1. — The House Military Committee has ap=! proved the Reece plan for leasing of Muscle Shoals to private cor- porations. Early action in the IHouae is expected. H -, WORLD TELEPHONE | DIRECTORY COPENHAGEN — A world tele- —The British women’s golf team phone directory containing the E. Lee beneath one of the wide defeated the women’s team from{names of 50,000 persons who use White arches in a downstairs front They draw a wet cork across the|the United States in an all day|international factilities has beea room. dan:pened surface of a glass bottle !competition consisting of foursomes |published in Denmark. It is print«’ and say that the resulting’ screech [this morning and singles this after- ed In English, Frénch and Ger- man. % i ‘again. | REPUBLICAN RETURNS —FOURTH DIVISION Ru‘u)te-le\'l;'&er- gard sham Knight Smith Cole Reed Breuer 3491 Fairbanks Tanana .....| 284 3 313/ 49| Treasurer 185 5 Auditor Com. of Edu, Keller 265 2¢ 300 16| 199/ 27| 235 23 REPUBLICAN RETURNS — SECOND DIVISION Treas irer Delegate Rust- Wicker- gard sham Knight Smith Cole Reed Breuer 20, Nome sl 93| 104 39| || Auditor Com. of Edu. Keller 146 28) 172] 112 60 LEE MANSION RENEWS AS SOUTH GIVES PRIZED ANTIQUES By SUE McNAMARA (Associated Press Staff Writer) WASHINGTON, May 1—Women are making valuable contributions toward restoration of the old Lee mansion on the banks of the Po- tomac. . The Government is supervising the work of turning it into a pub- lic shrine. \ | From fine homes have come priz- led antiques that the home-like at-L mosphere of Nellile Custis and her daughter, Mary Custis Lee, may be reproduced in every detail. Glad- ly have the donors parted with rare mahogany tables and quaint four-poster beds. Colored women who once lived in the vine-covered slave house on jthe old Lee plantation have come from their little homes in Virginia tc direct the placing of these pieces just as they were a century ago. Mrs. James Peyton Powell of Huntsville, Alabama, has given 27 pleces of old furniture which are duplicates of those used by the Lees. A little mahogany bedside table which once belonged to Nellie Cus- tis was given by her great grand- daughter, Mrs. George Goldsbor-| cugh. It had been in Mount Ver- non. Women of the present and of the past are making the old house live The first to step out on the wide, verandah and gaze down upon the shining Potomac was Nellie Park Custis, wife of the adopted son of | George Washington. Her daughter, Mary Custis, be-’ came the bride of General Robert |atres in Colombia. |seem_to object to a reasonable; OLD GLORIES ! |fireplace over which Mrs. Custis| and Mrs. Lee once presided has been equipped with iron cranes and| kettles, hickory broom and husk mat by women of today. MORE WILD RICE FOR DUCK FEED ORDERED Another consignment of wild rice for planting around the breeding and feeding grounds for ducks and | geese has been ordered by the Ter- ritory, it was made known today | by Gov. George A. Parks. This 15, the second purchase made of the seed, the first arriving last Fall and was distributed to points along | the coast from Ketchikan to Cor-| dova and Beward. | When the next consignment ar-| rives, 70 pounds will be kept here for distribution. Ninety pounds will g0 to Anchorage and 100 pounds to Fairbanks. The supply retained in Juneau will be divided between Juneau, Petersburg, Wrangell ani Ketchikan, Anchorage will supply the rail belt, and Fairbanks will supply the interior. — COLOMBIA LIKES TALKIES BOGOTA — Sound pictures are crowding silent movies from the- Patrons do not amount of talking in English. ———————— DOUGLAS MAN BACK A. DeRoux of Douglas, who has been in the States for several ~|candidates. E. S, CLARK IS WASHINGTON, May 1.—The In- ternal Revenue Bureau announces ithat Earl 8. Clark, Treasurer of {the American Society of Certified Public Accountants, has been ar- rested at Providence, Rhode Island, on a warrant charging falsifica- tion of income tax records. LINDBERGH ON RETURN FLIGHT COLON, May 1.—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, homeward bound, took off at 7:58 o'clock this morning for Puerta Cabezas, Nicaragua, car- 4 jrying 201 pounds of mail for New |York. He plans to continue to Miami tomorrow. ‘Engagemen! of Miss Hughes Is Announced NEW YORK, May 1.—Chief Jus- tice Charles E. Hughes and Mrs. Hughes have announced the en- |gagement of their daughter Eliza- beth Evans Hughes, to Willilam Thomas Gossett, member of the firm of Hughes, Schurman and Dwight, of New York City. Daughter of Movie ST. LOUIS, Mo, May 1.—Miss Josephine Bushman, daughter of Francis X. Bushman, movie actor, yesterday was married to John W. Foster of this city. UNDER ARREST Actor Is Married’ |it over Cole 172 to 25. | The rail belt also gave Breuer a | heavy vote, putting him in the lead ‘\ln the Third Division, 763 to 457. Cole was returned a winner in the railroad precinets and his vote in the Third Division to date is 1825 to 381 for Reed. | While Rnight carried his home town of Anchorage, Smith still leads him in the Third, 755 to 668. Four in First Four new precincts were reported from this Division, Klawock, Scow Bay, Yakutat and Craig. The vote was split for the first time in Kla- |wock, one of the largest of the In- dian settlements, and the Admin- |istration ticket received a good per- jcentage of the vote there and at | Craig. There has been no change in the status of the Divisional ticket ‘during the past 24 hours. Winn, |Scott, Noland and Johnson are ,high for the House. Gardner’s lead jover W. A, Steel today was 755 which was generally regarded as assuring the former of nomination for Senator. It is probabie that the unre- ported vote will not exceed 1,000, }ll it reaches that figure. Many ismnu polling places have not been {heard from and several of these |will give the regulars majorities. Some of the lerger Indian villages are unreported, including Kluk- {wan, Hydaburg, Hoonah, Angoon, Kake and Metlakatla. The regu- ‘lars expect a division at Hoonah, Angoon and Kake, and believe they |will carry Metlakatla. If this proves to have been the case, they esti- mate that Noland or Gildea will nose out Paul for a place on the | House ticket with Winn and Scott :occupylng the other two places. { ——————————— WICKERSHAM RETURNS | | After spending several days in Ketchikan and vicinity, James Wickersham, candidate for the Re- publican nomination for Delegate to Congress, was an arrival on the Northland. ‘ ROME BANS PETTING ROME, May 1.—Kissing, embrac- ing and otherwise demonstrating affection, hitherto to a concomitant of springtime in most public squares and gardens of Italy, is now frown- ed upon. The metropolitan police are daily IN PUBLIC; FINES EACH PAIR equally . severe. Romantic Romans retort to the gubernatorial theory of “a place Hor everything” meaning that court- ship should be carried on in the family parlor, that the quality of electric and gas light supplied by months, was an arrival on the In the big basement kitchen are e and nightly rounding up petters|the municipality is so poor that and inflicting a fine of 20 lire (about $1.05) upon each pair. The today more of the feminine touches of land. With him is his daughter, long ago and today. The old bl’le'erl. Anna Constantino. Genoese authorities have been \ ardent swains might miss the ob- ject of their affections if they tried to osculate indoors. o