The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 13, 1930, Page 1

=~ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ]UNEAU? ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1930. — - . OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS REDS MOVE ON NANKING; CITY REPORTED DEFENSELESS SELECTING JURY AT SEATTLE FOR | TRIAL OF FIVE i Eleven Open-Minded Men Tentatively in Box in | Lyle, Others Case ' SEATTLE, Aug. 13—Eleven men | claiming to be open-minded on Frohibition were selected tenta- | tively when court adjourned Ilate yesterday afternoon to try Roy Lyle, William Whitney, Earl Cor- win, R. L. Fryant and Clifford McKinney, four former high Pro- hibition officials and one former United States District Attorney, on charges of corruption and bribery in office. Five preemptory challenges re- mained to the defense and three tc the Government when adjourn- mént was taken yesterday. i ‘Talismen who admitted opinions on Prohibition were closely ques- tioned by both sides. All were asked whether they belonged ‘o organizations backing or opposing the Eighteenth Amendment. F. A. Ernst, Seattle hardware nierchant, was excused when he sald friends of Lyle and Whlmey‘ talked with him and urged they were innocent. A. Carr was excused when he saild he signed a petition urging n change in the Prohibition laws. A third indictment charging ‘Whitney with perjury will be heard two weeks after the present trial ends. ——————— | BIG DIRIGIBLE READY TOLEAVE FOR HOME PORT Thirteenth Not Disconcert- ing to Navigator for Start of Flight ST. HUBERT AIRPORT, MON- TREAL, Aug. 13.—The thirteenth has no terrors for the British diri- gible R-100 and the big aircraft is ready for the trip across the At- lantic Ocean to Cardington, Eng- land, starting tonight. The gas bags are bulging with a rew supply of hydrogen. The passenger list is not an- nounced but it is known that Jazques Cartier, descendant of Can- ada’s pioneer navigator, will make the trip by air which his ancestor made along the 8t. Lawrence and @cross the Atlantic, The starboard forward motor which developed a defect on the trip over, will not be used going back. It is thought the return trip to England will be made in 50 hours. GROCERS POSTPONE MEET UNTIL FRIDAY Owing to lack of representative cttendance, the Retail Grocers' meeting called for last might .t the Legion Dugout was carried over to Friday evening, it was am- nounced today. Confict with the Elks Show cut down the attend- ance. The meeting will be held at 9 p.m. Friday at he Dugout at which time it is urged all grocers and their employees be present. It is called jointly by George Brothers end Piggly Wiggly. b oo oo d BANK DECREASE IN JAPAN TOKYO, Aug. 13.—There are now 1070 banks in Japan, a decrease of 156 in the last year being ascribed to consolidations. { | !Lina Basquette, stage and film ac- | i tress, widow of Sam Warner, motion Shot Doc;t.;)‘l-;s Wife LOCAL SALMON PACK REACHED 2000000 MARK {Season Closes in Last Dis- trict Next Week—Price | War Reported On | With figures lacking on seven {canncries, Southeast Alaska up to |last Saturday night had packed | 1,926,798 cases of salmon, according | gta counts received at local head-| quarters of the United States Bu- reau of Fisheries. The packs of the unreported plants, it was es- timated, would have been suffi- cien to take the aggregate for all| canneries above the 2,000,000-case | mark. The Icy Strait and Northern Chatham Strait canneries have t'n- ished the scason. Other distrists close tomorrow, Monday and a week from next Friday. The total pack is expected to reach 3,000,000. Pricc Sags Lower Information received at the Doug- las Island Packing Company’s plant at Douglas today from Seattle con-: nections said a price war was start- ing between some of the larger con- Assoclated P Pi Lady Owe,:'m;r::ch ;:::' whl::flo' cerns engaged in the industry which had sent quotations back to new low levels. Pre-war prices for canned salmon were indicated in this cablegram, which said pinks were being offer- ed freely by two big packers for $1 per dozen and chums had brok- - (en to 90 cents. This is ten cents per dozen on each variety lower than tentative opening prices an- "nounced several weeks ago by P. E. Harris Company. Later the origi- nal quotations were withdrawn and more recently prices were generally fixed at $1.26 for pinks and $1.20 for chums. { | . Reds, which.are far short of the average, are as.high as in any re- cent season. The last figure quoted ,here was $3.25 per dozen for Alas- ka Reds with the market firm. i Local Pack Ahead | The Icy Strait season closed on Sir Theodore Charles Owen, shot and wounded in Versailles, France, wife of Dr. Paul Gastuad, French radiologist, In the climax of a tri- sngular drama. STAGE, FILM STAR TRIES T0 END LIFE Lina Basquefte Admits At: tempt at Suicide— Over Daughter LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 13.— (Continued on Page Eight) i e | picture executive, was treated for | a slight case of poisoning at a re- ff []] ceiving hospital last night follow- | : ing what the Police said she ad- mitted as a.suicide attempt. The act was prompted, the ac- tress. said, by failure to obtain custody of her daughter, Lita, aged 4 years. The child was adopted by No R Rls LEADING a brother of Sam Warner following the latter's death. | j Physicians said Miss Basquette will not suffer any ill effects. Ohi o‘ Democrats Wet— be returned to her. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. AND GORE WIN; == 10-INCH SHRIMP ‘CROWD FILLS STREETS AS Sympathizers of Thomas Ji Mooney and Warren Billings, convicted life termers for bomb COURT HEARS McDONALD | a Preparedness Day parade in 1916, both seeking second hearings on their pardon applications, thronged the square fronting the state building in San Francisco as the Supreme Court the listened to John McDonald, chief state witn Right: Police forcibly removing Charles P ™ “300P-A-DOOP ~ GIRL” CANNOT | - USE $40,000 {Restraining Order Is Issued| by Court—Never Heard . of Incident { { | ! ]«V‘NEW YORK, Aug. 13—Helen| Kane the “boop-a-doop girl” is re- strained under a Supreme Court or- der from touching $40,000 to her| account in the Plaza Trust Com- pany. The order was issued at the in- stance of creditors of the Bond {Press Company, now in bankruptcy ! proceedings. It is charged that Murray Pos- 5 iner, partner in the firm, gave ithe money to Helen Kane out of Associated Press Photo ! the funds of the company and this il netachan, Portland hotel righttully belongs to the creditors publican candidate for governor of Oregon. The primary election wine' ner, G. W. Joseph, died last May. | DENIES CHARGES CHICAGO, Ill., Aug. |Bond Press Company and said: “Mr. Posner i§ a friend of mi Miss Basquette said she left her . o : e present usband, Peverell Marley,| ~ Robinson, ~Hitchcock, Ibut T never Heard of this money . usiness. aybe I've en more | camera man, upon assurance of Weaver, Bryan Ahead | (- s, the studio officials her child would ! ‘ e pow) She has led an 13— w20 8 ] exemplary life in an effort t0 re- wyjgm g Murray, “Alfalfa Bl | gain possession of her daughter. yon the Democratic nomination for & Governor, defeating Frank Buttram, MacDonald Cond multimillionaire, and Thomas P.| | Gore, the former blind solon and i r Nui’ance one of Oklahoma's first Senators,; Chain Lette defeated C. J. Wrightsman, also | NDO! ination | N, Aug. 13.—Unauthoriz- Multimillionaire, for the nom cduau of famogus people’s names for United States Senator. H in chain letters has been sternly| Returns from 2286 precincts out condemned by Ramsay MacDonald, 0f 3325 in the Democratic run-off Prime Minister. primary yesterday gave Murray for A London woman received a Governor 157,436 and Buttram 94,- chain letter predicting dire misfor- 182. For Senator Gpre received tune unless she sent copies of it from the same precincts Beds Are Found in Prince! New wealth from Prince William Sound is seen with the successful prospecting for shrimp beds discovery of unestimated ties in virtually every bay on the Sound is 123,581 |are 10 inches long and it is not un- {Peterson Hotel At ! Tanana Is Destroyed! William Sound—Spid- er Crabs Also CORDOVA, Alaska, Aug FORT GIBBON, Alaska, Aug. 13. |—The Peterson Hotel with all con- Itents as destroyed by fire yester- 13— ¢ay at Tanana. The origin of the | fire is not known. The Peterson ltamlly escaped unhurt. The | quanti= Mother and Aunt of [ Actress Hurt, Crash reported. - The shrimp trial, recant his original testimony. ckler at the hearina. Left inset: Mooney’s mother (left) and nurse. | Soa;_Oi; to New Rea;rd Dales Jackson waving a greeti Forest O'Brine continue to soar over St. Greater St. Louis. ng fo a photographer as he and Louis Airport in the plane SEAT OF NATL. GOV, MAY FALL TOCUMMUNISTS Rumors from Countryside Report Disguised Reds 20 Miles Away |FEW SOLDIERS ARE IN CITY; DEFENSELESS {Hankow Is Arming Against Invasion — Defenses Are Strengthened | NANKING, Aug. 13.—Re- ports have been circulated that the seat of the National- ists’ Government may fall linto the hands of Communist | bands. The reports arise from rumors from the countryside saying alleged Reds, in peas- ant garb, armed with rifles, Jhave appeared in large num- bers 20 miles away from | Nanking. | The city is virtually de- {fenseless as only a few sol- diers are here. BELEAGUERED CITY HANKOW, Aug. 13.—This town today took on appear- ance of a beleaguered city. | The authorities have tight- lened up t‘he defenses against the threatened Communist at- tack. Sandbag defenses have beén erected at all strategic points in the native section and ma- chine guns have been mount- ed for action. Evacuation from nearby |cities is heavy. e ST. LOUIS, Aug. 13—Jackson and O'Brine are crowned Kings o(iTU SALVAGE { Endurance Fliers today but they do not for the coronation, not for anothe well, At 8:52 o'clock this morning they had equalled the Hunter Brolhcx's" 13.—Helen yecorg of 554 hours and one hour later the ne Kane denied the charges of the __ 'SKILLED LAB intend to return to earth r two or three weeks, if all goes v record became official. OR SCARCITY DRAG ON SOVIET PLAN PLANE DROPS, WOMAN HURT 1= Manager of Airways Crit cally Injured in ; Air Circus * to nine other people. The Prime and Wrightsman 92,016. * jcommon for more than one ton L' i | Minister, the Pf(nce of Wales, and Robinson Leads be picked up by the experimental| . CRONTON-ON-T}LE;HK;}JSOL 3 George Bernard Shaw were among' In Arkansas, Senator Joseph T. trawler. N. Y., Aug. 13—Mrs. 'l'u :rga‘n HOLYOKE, Colorado, Aug. 13.— those cited as having formed links Robinson had a two to one lead| Yesterday the finding of huge|2Rd Mus. Elizabeth Dillon, idenfi-| et P in the chain. She wrote MacDonald over Tom W. Campbell for the spider crabs four feet across brought | fied as the mother antd AT OF pirs Mflfm S5t the Ookixade AM ! asking him whether he had actu-'Democratic Senatorial nomination.'further proof of the presence of Helen Morgan the actress, were s ¢ b B oo ally passed the missive on. |'The vote in 336 precincts out of a the shrimp. injured and Lewis o‘l‘)’lflk dwtlas kl::- Jur):i of lm:nvevx),\v:’t:“c ncne:,noon The Prime Minister replied that total of 2,028 was: Robinson 16| The first salmon trolling inmany ¢4 When an automobile driven bylJured late ~yesterday = afternoon he “never at any time had any-!417 and Campbell 9,254. For Gov- vears has started on the .nd,‘xd crashed into a phone p N7 Pr T - 2h ) thing to do with chain letters.” Sir ermor, Gov. Harvey Parnell received Fisheries Commissioner O'Malley 048y A b an"fl ‘c ashed Sho WABES Godfrey Thomas, the Prince’s 3ggs for renomination, John Shef- oOPened the area to silver saimon. = pating in an treus equerry, said that chain letters were ! fia1q 334 Thornberry Gray 87 never allowed to reach the Princs. { Norris Leads In Nebraska | | Fragmentary returns from Ne- Ibraska shows Senator George W. Norris, carrying the banner of the STOP SEARCH FRENCH WAR AREAS - | Mrs. Josephs is given an even 5 . insurgents, leading Willlam W.| most prominent leaders of the Civil|chance for recovery Stebbins, standpatter, in the Re-| !Disobedience ‘Movement today dis- el N OW P AY DI VI DE N DS publican Senatorial primary and ; y cused ith Ghandi in the Yeroda |, o - " |former Senator Gilbert M. Hitch- b e jail the possibilities of ending the| | TODAY'S STOCK | ’ cock leading Dr. Jennie Callfas for; CORDOVA, aiazka, Aug 3.— ipresent activities pending the forth-| | QUOTATIONS | PARIS, Aug. 13.—Taxes from the' Interest seemed a huge burden the Democratic nomination. The Search for Robert Brownir of coming round table conference in|e. —— . ten war-devastated departments|on the country for all the momay'vm compiled from scattering pre-!Vallejo, California, who :r- London. NEW YOFK CITY, N. Y., Aug now are paying interest and prin- had to be borrowed. Yet in 1824,|cincts last night showed Norris 3,- 'lously disappeared three week: 12, | Pt 13.—Closing quotation of Alaska clpal on the huge cost of recon-|according to - the president .of the|g3g and Stebbins 2,970. Hitchcock has been abandoned. He wa- 'ere, PREDATORY ANIMALS HIT Juneau mine stock today is 5%, Al- struction. Roubaix Chamber of Commerce, nad in 456 out of 2,038 precincts on a visit and went out in'o 'hz: NORTHERN REINDEER MEN |leghany Corporation 20, Anaconda Textile mills and coal mines of [taxes from the war area more than 1557 to 355 for Dr. Callfas. woods and has mever been scen 47%, Bethlehem Steel 77’2, Gen- the north constitute a big- part -of fpaid the interest and now pros- 'pm.me, Gov. Charles W. Bryan Since. No trace of the man nas! Reindeer owners of the Kokrines eral Motors 43%, Granby, 23%, In- France’s industrial wealth. Arter\perny' has so greatly increased | was leading Anton Jensen for the been discovered by any of the many district have suffered materially |ternational Harvester 75, Kennecott the war the ruined strip from Lille taxes that they promise to extin- down past Verdun could pay little guish the debt. and needed much. Rebuilding is almost complete.| That, of course, was the theory| There has been spent about $3,800,- jon which France invested in recon- 000,000 and about a tenth that|struction. And as a matter of fact, much remains to be paid. The economists say, the output of the Democratic nomination for Gover- nor. { Sarly returns from the Repubu-‘ can primury gave Gov. Arthur J. Weaver for renomination as Gov- |t er 1,120 worky in 1922, was likely to take 40 region has been increased in a more! years. It has been almost finished |seientific way and by modernizing plants. 1 s f3d » 43 In the Democratic Ohio primary {(Continuea on Pagé Two) searching parties, ernor 307L and Harry C. Palm-|Production economics for m Detroit, B A T (Civil Disobedience + Activities May Stop POONA, India, Aug. 13. — The won several prizes The cause for her plane suddenly dropping into a tailspin and crash- | ing is not known. Five thousand spectators witnessed the crash. from depredations of predatory ani- ——————— - imals, mainly wolves, SEEK CHEAPER PLANES according to |word received by Gov. George A. Parks from H. A. Gubser, director of the Territory’s warfare on preda- tors. He has just completed a sur- of ac- DETROIT, Aug. 13.—A s |37%, Montgomery-Ward 31, Nation- al Acme 12, Packard Motors 14, 13, 13'%, Simmons Beds 23, Standard Prands 18%, Standard Oil of Cal- ifornia 61%, Standard Oil of New Jersey 68%, United Aircraft 52, uring aircraft will be made he vey of the area and found evidences | U. 8. Steel 159, American Can 11714, Society of Automotive Eng I of numerous wolves. A hunter will|Fox Films 41%, Hupp Motors 13, itechnical sessions.-October I be stationed in th edistrict to wage|12%, 12%, Stewart-Warner 323%, .8 campaign on them. 22%, 23%, ‘|are to be employed BY WALTE CHUMAK (Associated Press Staff Writer) MOSCOW, Aug. 13.—Soviet Rus- sla is undertaking to quadruple its supply of native skilled labor with- in four years. ‘This campaign has been under- taken because lack of craftsmen, engineers and technicians, to start and operate the numerous factories, mills, power plants, railways and other enterprises contemplated by the five-year industrialization plan, is proving a heavy drag on the progress of that gigantic scheme. Importation of large numbers of American, German and other for- eign technicians has failed to overs come the dearth of skilled hands. The foreigners have helped to work out projects and to supervise the building of industrial plants, but continued operation of those plants is something else, The State Planning Commission, a fecund source of methods, has drawn up a five-year plan on tech- nical education aimed at converting a million laborers and peasants into skilled workmen within the time limit. The present chain of uni- versities, technical schools, night schools and facsory courses is to be expanded and the radio and movies in spreading technical knowledge. Figures issued by Tass, the ficlal news agency, show that up to last October 120,000 Russian specialists were engaged in indus- tries under construction. Of this number 31 were university graduates, 35231 had received a secondary education and 53,395 had gained their skill by experience and had no theoretical training. The same source states that within four years there must be re- cruited 435873 skilled specialists of- (C'ox‘unued on Page'l‘vm) PACIFIC ERA Arrangements Are Made in Vancouver Where Wark Crashed " VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 13.— Arrangements for salvaging the fifth plane wrecked in recent years, the Pacific Era, in an attempt of the East to West crossing of the North Pacific, is being made. Bromley lost three planes, Major Martin one plane and Wark one. Reports that Bob Wark was bad- ly injured in his crack-up here Monday afterncon are scouted. It is said he went to a hospital only ‘ror an X-ray of his neck which jwas slightly strained. Lieut. Harold Bromley and his navigator Harold Gatty, now in Tokyo, are ready to try the West to East flight. Japanese customs wrinkles have been ironed out and he Japanese Government has given Bromley permission to take-off either from Tachikawa or Kasu- migara airports. It is believed Bromley and Gatty will be ready to fly within a week. HOPES TO FLY SOON TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 13.—All of- ficial obstacles have been removed |for Lieut. Harold Bromley and he |said he\ hoped to start his flight to Tacoma from the Kasumigaura hirdrome within a week. A 1909~ |foot runway is available for tha | take-off. |Jack Pickford Weds Third Follies Beauty DELMONTE, Cal., Aug. 13.—Jack Pickford, movie actor, and Mary Mulhern, former member of Zieg- feld “Follies,” of New York City, were married here yesterday af- teernoon. James Kirkwood was the only attendant. Pickford’s first wife was Olive Thomas, “Follies” and screen star. She committed suicide while they were together in Paris ten years ago. Then he was married to Marilyn Miller of the “Follies.” She divorced him in 1927, B e