The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 16, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVL, NO. 5411. THROWS BOMBSHELL: ANNOUNCES P JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1930, FEDERAL UNION OF EUROPE HAS BEEN STARTED Questionnaire to Outline Constitution Prepar- ed by Briand DELIVERY WILL BE MADE TOMORROW Twenty - six N—ations. in League of Nations Will Receive Copies PARIS, May 16. — A 6,000-wgrd | questionnaire to outline the con- stitution of the “European Federal Union,” has been prepared by for- mer Premier Briand and will be delivered to the governments whose 26 members are in the League of Nations. The questionnaire will be deliv- ered tomorrow. All other nations of the world, including Russia, will receive cop-| ies later. Keller, of Newark, N. J., wife of his brother, who committed suicide after he learned that his wife and brother were in love with each other and were ar- Love Fas];ions a Fatal_T:riafigle Edward Keller and Mrs. Henry 4 ranging a divorce so that they could be married. The busband killed himself by inhaling gas and left a written message In which he described his hatred for both his wife and brother. A copy of the questionnaire has ' been sent by steamer to the Unit-| ed States Government and should! reach Washington, D. C., next Mon- day. A complete text of the question- naire will be given out tomorrow. B BISHOP GANNON UNDER FIRE BY SEN.COMMITTEE, Request Made to Examine Records Regarding Stock Speculations { LONDON, May 15—Officials of | the Joint:Council of Qualified Op- | ticians have found that between 8‘-‘ /600,000 and 9,000,000 Englishmen use | iglasses as compared with 5,000,000 | (twenty years ago. ‘ | J. H. Sutcliffe, registrar of the Council, attributed the increase in poor eyesight to the fact that the t horizon of the average man is year- {1y becoming more constricted. “The horizon of the average man | 100 years ago was several mile: ‘he said. “Today for hours at a time it is little more than ten feet. “This puts a severe strain on the| I muscles which focus the eye. As- Poor Eyesight Grows i Yearly ‘Amon,g English Musical Comedy Star To Wed Sportsman 4 ::Exyvggfllchzm:‘ayoffi;sfi\gg;;Ugmmsm and shm(;t fs‘igl:t rresuna." Committee, today requested Federa)}nn‘ifi:mgir he;::;gem r{shg o{ynix:ed District Attorney Tuttle to permit; e itai an’ agent of the Lobby Committes| Siies, second, and Great, Britgin to examine all records concerning!m"d' Bishop Cannon’s transactions with | the New York brokerage house of | Charles Goldhurst-Kable Company. | Bishop Cannon has heen charg- ed by 20 delegates to the General! Conference of the Methodist Church | of the South with speculation in| the stock market. The charges are now being aired at the conference | in session in Dallas, Texas. | —— - FALLS TO HIS DEATH, KODIAK Marilyn Miller, petite blonde mus: cal comedy star, is altar bound. Marilyn’s third husband will be 6OV. KOHLER EXONERATED Jury Answers Eight Ques- tions—Judge to Give Final Verdict SHEBOYGAN, Wisconsin, May 16.—Exonerating Gov. Walter J. Kohler, who was charged with vio- lating the State’s Corrupt Prac- tices -Act, & Circuit Court Jury, answered negatively on eight ques- tions -of 'a special verdict. Judge Gustave Gehrz must now formulate “'a final - verdict which need 1ot agree with the jury’s find- ings. . Three Miners Are Dead, Gas Explosion AVELLA, Pennsyivania, May 16. —A gas explosion in the Powhattan Coal Mine last night killed three miners and injured four others. LINGUIST OF GERMAN | "~ FOREIGN OFFICE DIES| BERLIN, May 16.—The German foreign office has lost its polyglot prodigy in Counselor Emil Krebs, who died in Berlin, aged 63. Krebs spoke and read 45 langu- ages and dialects, and “only read” 20 more. At 25 he knew most European tongues and then became dragoman at the German legation in Peking, where he mastered the Asiatic ones. One day, a backwoods Mongolian tribe sent a communication to the Chinese government that no one ¢ould understand. Krebs translated Alfred Jesperson Is Killed in Accident — Well Known on Coast KODIAK, Alaska, May 16.—Al- {fred Jesperson, aged 57 ‘years, a na- tive of Norway and one time chief engineer of the Admiral Line steamers Admiral Watson and Ad- miral Rogers, was accidentally kill- ed last night when he fell from the Erskine Dock, striking his head on the motorship Acorn and then falling into the water. | Capt. Nels Christensen, of the Acorn, heard the splash, and im- ymediately ran to the side of the (boat and pulled Jesperson out of the water but the latter was dead. Jesperson was with the George Hogg Canning Company on Blue Fox Island last season as machin- ist. Last winter he was watch- man. He was well known in Al-] aska waters where he has been em- ployed for the past 15 years. There are no known relatives and he will be buried here. e ————— Ten thousand Mexican quail have been shipped to Kentucky to re- plenish preserves in various sections of that State. | | Once he was consulted on Per- sian marriage laws; perhaps the most complicated in the world, full| of. obscure points and terms for which there is no equivalent in German. He furnished a complete | commentary, which is now incor-| porated in the State National Li-; brary. Lithuanian, Lapp dialects, Sia-! mese, Korean, Tibetan, all came! easy to Krebs, who held that after! learning the first 25 languages, the! rest was plain sailing. Icelandic he' picked up in three weeks. Of the Basque language, supposed to be, Michael Farmer, sportsman, well known on the Riviera. The date for the ceremony hak not been set- tled. The glorified dancer has Lknown Michael for a long time. (International Newsreel! INDIAN LEADER GIVEN RELEASE Hindu Poetess, Successor| of Gandhi, Is Freed— New Move Indicated BOMBAY, India, May 16.—Peace prospects were brightened today when announcement wase made in C. Austin, James C. Verdin and permitted to exceed limitations of Liberal quarters of an early ex- pected Government move in nego- tiations in the Civil Disobedience campaign started by Gandhi. Mrs. Naidu, Hindu poetess, and successor to Gandhi, arrested yes- terday in attempting a raid on the Government salt stations at Dhar- sana, was shortly afterwards lib- erated. Some of her followers were, however, detained -, Bulgarian Premier And Cabinet Quits| SOFIA, May 16.—Premier An- drey Liaptcheff, of Bulgaria, and his Cabinet resigned last night. The cause of the resignation was the failure to reach an understand- ing on political questions with the followers of former Premier Zank- off. ——— General McCleave Is Ordered to Rosecrans WASHINGTON, D. C, May 16— The War Department announces |{that Brig. Gen. Robert McCleave the document. Later, he returned |for an outsider, the most difficult had been ordered from headquar- to Germany, where his phenome-(of all, he had a knowledge which |ters to command the 6th Brigade at nal linguistic gifts were in much |enabled him to write articles for:"‘"” Rapeqring demand. , Basque newspapers. !transfer is effective July 1. : b ’B y President California. . The|will be a passenger north from Se-ping traffic officers with musical MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRE.SS Alaska Highway Bill Is Signed WASHINGTON, May 16— President Hoover has signed the bill providing for a study of the proposed extension of the Pacific Highway to Fair= banks, Alaska. The project is known as the Interna- tional Highway and link - the south . and Xfll‘ north, through British lumbia and the Yukon Tep ® ritory, with Fairbanks, Al- ® aska. | . o .00 e WILE LOW MAN " IN DEMOCRATIC " PRIMARY RAGE Hesse Leads Sommers— Ziegler, Boyle, Judson, Sampson Nominated | The official returns from the Democratic primary election on April 29, made public today by J.| H. Dunn, Clerk of the United States | district court, showed Frank A.| Boyle, T. B. Judson, Juneau, and ,E L. Sampson and A. H. Ziegler, | Ketchikan, were nominated for Albert Wile lost i | | _v_.®__ CHIRC 1L L clas at Churchill Downs. ,’ DOWNS ——— CLASSIC PRICE TEN CENTS LATFORM AS WET LORD DERBY WILL WITNESS CHURCHILL DOWNS MORROW OUT AGAINST DRY LAWS OF U, . In Openingampaign Ad- dress Says He Favors Re- peal 18th Amendment M’BRIDE AND JONES OUT WITH OPINIONS Representative Fort An- nounces His Candidacy on Dry Platform NEWARK, New Jersey, May 16.— Dwight W. Morrow, opening his campaign for the Republican nomi- nation for the United States Sen- ate, declared himself in favor of the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, The Ambassador to Mexico de- voted to the Prohibition question almost all of his 3,000 word ad- dress. Morrow asserted that if elected he would be prepared to vote for a resolution submitting to the states Rl {a constitutional amendment which | Representatives. in the contest for fourth place, re- |ceiving 126 to 137 votes cast for | Sampson. William A. Hesse, Ketchikan, car- ried the Division for nomination for Highway Engineer over J. Sommers, encumbent, 112 to 110 votes. Incomplete unofficial returns from the other three Divisions, how- ever, give Mr. Sommers a small lead. There were no other eon- itests on the Democratic ticket. The total Democratic vote cast Aged Man Rescued | After 3 Hours from ‘ Safety Leposit Vault | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, e May 16.—Firemen and safe experts rescued a 70-year-old depositor, Raymond Wolf, from a three hours’ impris- onment in a safety deposit vault in the Mission Branch was 257 votes, five of which Were of a San Prancisco bank, e spoiled. This is 75 more than the|e |ate yesterday afternoon. e Democrats cast in the Division in Using electric torches, a ® the 1928 primary when the total hole was cut in the vault. e was 182 votes, Wolf was near collapse from e { The official returns as announced fright, otherwise unharmed. e hday. follow: | Wolf walked into the vault ® For Delegate, George B. Grigsby before closing time and e 230; for Treasurer, R. E. Hard- failed to notice the huge e castle 210; for ‘Auditor, Thomas e goore’closing, and attendants o Gaffney, 202; for Commissioner of | ¢ glgo ;ailed to notice him in- e | Education, Anthony E. Karnes, 201; | o side, until his entrance slip for Highway Engineer, William A. was found. A time lock held o {Hesse 112, R. J. Sommers 110; foriy the vault doors. . | Senator Allen Shattuck 204; for(g of [Representatives, Frank A. Boyle|y o 6 6 ¢ # ¢« ¢ 0 0 0 o @ 182, Thomas B. Judson. 176, E. L. Sampson 137, Albert Wile 126, A. H. Ziegler 185. Just who will represent the party for Territorial Road Commissioners, two of which are provided for, pre- sents a problem for the party lead- ers to solve between now and the November election. There were no filings for the nominations and voters didn’t' expre¢s much inter- est. Charles E. Naghel, office chief of the Bureau of Public Surveys and Acting Director of the Federal Census for the Territory, had his name written in by two voters, which was the highest given any- one for the nomination. And if Delegate Sutherland wants to continue actively in politics, may- be he can come to some under- standing with the Democratic or- ganization t0 that end. He was one of six other men to receive one vote for the other Democratic nomi- nation for Road Commissioner. C. T. Gardner, Republican nominee for Senator was another. The others were: Walter Anderson, E. —_— e RESERVATIONS TO NAVAL PACT NOW INDICATED Two Senate Committees| Preparing to Act Fol- | lowing Opinions ? WASHINGTON, May 16. — Al movement to attach reservations tc the London naval treaty began to take form today as two Senate| committees heard a variety of op- inions of high officers of the Navy who appeared at hearings. / The reservations, it is indicated, will deal in part with the flexible clause under which the United States and Great Britain will be the treaty in case any outside pow-| €r began a theatening building pro- gram. MRS, SPALDING |- - DIES IN ITALY: FLORENCE, Italy, May 16—Mrs.[® ® ®® @ 0 0 00 06000 Marie Spalding, of New York, mother of the famous violinist Al-| NEW YORK, May 16.—Alaska bert Spalding, died today at the|Juneau mine stock closed today at home of her husband, Walter!7, Alleghany Corporation 28'%, Al- Spalding, one of the organizers of |lis Chalmers 64, American Can 145, John B. Rice. ———a———— ———ee e . ® & 000 00 0 o TODAY'S STOCK . . QUOTATIONS . . . the well known sporting goods|American T. and T. Company 247, firm, American Tobacco B 249%, Ana- A PR ety o g e conds 60%, Bethlehem Steel 96%, ECKMANN TO FLY General Motors 48%, Gold Dust 45%, Granby 33%, International Harvester 107, Kennecott 46%, Mis- | NORTH TOMORROW souri-Pacific no sale, Montgomery | Anscel Eckmann of the Alaska-|Ward 44, National Acme 19, Na- | Washington Airways, who was the|tional Bella Hess 15%, Packard chief aviafor in this section last!171 Phillips Petroleum 39%. Radio summer, expects to leave Seattle| Corperation 50%, Standard Brands| tomorrow morning with the sea- 223 Simmons Beds 42%, Standard plane Juneau for this city. Eck-|0Ofl of California 70%, United Alr- mann expects to reach here during|craft 77, U. 8. Steel 173%, Ward the afternoon, according to plans Baking B 11%. announced today in a cablegram S A N W recelved from Seattle by A. B.| Dr. Arnold H. Kegel, Chicago Hayes, in charge of Alaska offices|Health Commissioner, proposes to of the company. Gilbert Skinnerreduce harsh traffic noises by equip- WM. J. LOCKE PASSES AWAY, PARIS HOME Widely Known British Nov- elist Dies After Long' Iliness Lord Derby, whose forefather originated the famous Epscm Derby, will attend the American Derby By ORLO ROBERTSON (A. P. Sports Writer) color and splendor attending a re- newal of the famous English “Dar- by,” America’s racing clans will pay homage to Lord Derby of Great Britain at the fifty-seventh running of the Kentucky Derby over the historic Churchill Downs turf, to- MOrrow, The 17th Earl of Derby, known |in private life as Edward George Villiers _Stanley, i country May 3, and for three weeks has been feted and honored by America’s foremost thoroughbred owners and statesmen. Climaxing the visit of the dis- tinguished Englishman will be his NEW YORK, May 16.—Amid the arrived in_ this in | would restore to them power to de- |termine their policy toward the sliquor traffic. EXPRESSIONS HEARD WASHINGTON, May 16—Dwight W. Morrow's announcement that he is seeking the Republican Sena- torial nomination in New Jersey as an advocate of the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, brought an expression from F. Scott McBride, General Syperintendent of the Anti- /Saloon, League, denouncing Mor- row's stand on an “out and out wet” platform and that probably this would put a dry candidate States Senator Wesley L. Jones, of Washington, said the country would not agree with Mor- Irow. | FORT IS CANDIDATE presence at the Blue Grass turf| NEWARK, New Jersey, May 16. spectacle, where Lord Derby will —Representative Franklin W. Fort, present to the owner of the winner former ary of the Republican the trophy of victory. Lord Derby's Natlonal Committee, today an- speech will be broadcast in a net- nouniced he will enter the race for work hooking England and Ameri- the Republican nomination of ca by air. United States Senator against Mor- Since May 14, 1779, the name Lord YOW and former Senator Freling- Derby has been synonymous with huyser. Morrow and Frelinghuyser thoroughbred racing in the British have announced their platforms as Isles. The twelfth Earl of Derby 8dvocating the repeal of the dry originated the colorful Epsom Der- '‘8W. by, but it was not until 1924 that' Representative Fort announced the Lord Derby’s colors were flashed Dis platform as being in support ASSOCIATED PRE WILLIAM J LOCKE PARIS, May 16. — Willlam J. Locke, widely known British novel- ist, died in his Paris home last night after a long illness. Jack of all trades and master of one—this was William John Locke, mathematician, school teacher, ar- chitect and at last a novelist W. J. Locke's liid may picted best by chronicling it ord- ing to his various occupations. He was a mathematician at St. John's college, Cambridge, where he was graduated with high honors in mathematics in 1884. Though he was born in the Barbadoes, March 20, 1863, the son of John Locke, a Trinidad banker, much of his early tchooling was in England. He was, however, graduated at the Queen’s Royal College, Trinidad, in 1881. Locke’s first position was as mathematical tutor for a family in northern France. Leavin t he accepted a number of tutorial po- sitions. After studying architecture, Locke ‘held the position of Secretary of the Royal Institute of British Ar- chitects from 1897 to 1907. He was elected to membership in the archi- tectural societies of Holland, Spain, Portugal and the United ¢ es. Locke's first novel appeared be de- in 1895. It was “The Gate of Samaria.” He wrote more than thirty novels. Among those best known to Ameri- can readers Is “The Beloved Vaga- bond.” - Other later popular works were “The Morals of Marcus Or- deyne,” “Stella Maris," e Won- derful Year,” “The Rough Road” “The House of Baltazar,” and “The Mountebank.” “The Beloved Vagabond" was dra- in a “Darby” triumph. Sansovino won that year for the present turfman-statesman. There has not been a year, however, when the entries fo Lord Derby have not been feared wherever they went to the post. While in this country Lord Der- by is the guest of Joseph E. Wid- ener, president of the Westchester Racing Association, which controls Belmont Park. His itinerary called for receptions and dinners in New York, Washington, Philadelphia and Kentucky. Pope Pius to Hold { Consistory May 19 VATICAN CITY, May 16.—Pope Pjus, will hold a consistory on May 19 in preparation for canonization of the Blessed Fillppini and Blessed Belarmino and the eight North American Jesuit martyrs. A fur- | ther semipublic consistory will be held on May 22 for the same bles- seds, at which the archbishops and bishops will be asked to vote on them, The canonlzation ceremonies are set for the end of June. ‘ol the Eighteenth Amendment. Douglas Girl Wins Alaska’s 'Essay Contest The annual natlonal citizenship essay contest of the Daughters of the American Revolution, title be- ing “How High School Students Can Ald in Developing a Sentiment for Law Enforcement,” has been won by Miss Aflie Niemi, senior student ,of the Douglas High School, for laska. i Mrs. Jeanette Drury Clark, of |Falrbanks, said in hes letter of congratulation, that the essay was not only the best of the leading |essays of all the schools but was head and shoulders above any of the rest, and that “this student !deserves both the grand prize of $10 and medal” ! In the near future the essay will ,be published. As the winning es- say of the Alaska Chapter of the D. A. R, it will be sent to com- pete in the nation-wide contest for the year. The essay was written ,during the class period, which was one of the rules of the contest, so that students’ essays were entirely independent from quoted material. p & FRENCH PARIS, May 16.—Unemployment. a post-war ailment hitherto net listed in France, now threatens this country as a result of a peace time catastrophe; the March floods in South-Western France. Actual damages in the tragic triangle of Moissac, Montauban and Agen, a territory about the size of Rhode Island, amounted to about $40,000,000. This has been covered by government appropriations and public subscriptions but former flourishing industries are wrecked. Woolen goods looms are idle in UNEMPLOYMENT HITS FLOOD AREA Forty thousand men and women, earning comfortable livelihoods un- tl the rush of water came down from the Black Mountains through the Tarn, Aveyron and Garonne rivers,vhave had no work since that fateful night of March 5, Until this catastrophe occurred, unemployment was virtually un- known. Government lists showed only 1859 persons receiving doles. Ther were 150,000 Itallans and 75~ 000 Spaniards at labor in southern France and 200,000 Poles and nearly 100,000 Belglans working in the ' ’ % matized and produced at His Ma- the district of Mazamet; cloth mills jesty’s theatre, 1908. Other plays|are destroyed in Castres and the | northern provinces. Of late, too, were “Mr. Cynic,” “The Lost Le-|fur and glove industry which made|many -Portuguese, shut off from W Graulhet a center .of world trade, |Brasil by the coffee slump, have (Continued on Page Six) is at a standstill. been earning wages in this country.