The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 23, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ' VoL XXXVI., NO 5495, JUNEAU ALASKA SATURl)\\ AUGUST 23 1930. MEMB[;R OF AS%CIA[ED PRESS PRICE TI:N C[:NTS OLMSTED PAID $85,000 IN 3 YEARS FOR PROTECTION SOCRE (1K “MA" FERGUSON GOMEBACK 1S IN BALANCE TODAY Texas Is Holding Demo- cratic Run-Off Primary for Governorship | DALLAS, Tex., August 23.—The | fate of Miriam A. Ferguson's at-| tempted political comeback is in the balance. The former woman | Governor is opposed to Ross S. Sterling, publisher of the Houston | Post-Dispatch and capitalist, in the Democratic run-off primary that is being conducted today. Former Gov. James E. Ferguson, | who was ousted from office by legislative impeachment gnd con- viction, conducted his wife’s cam- | paign on a promise to give the| State “two Governors at the price | of one.” Former Gov. Ferguson also promised that, if Mrs. Ferguson won, all violators of the Prohibition acts would be liberated from the penitentiaries and jails of Texas. There were eleven candidates for Governor in the first State primary. Mrs. Ferguson led the poll by a substantial plurality and Sterling had a long lead over the next highest. No other high office is involved in the run-off prim. ry. RUTH M'CORMICK BACKS UP ON PROHIBITION SPRINGFIELD, Ill, August 23.— Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Re- publican nominee for Senator, an- nounced that if the voters of Illi- nois in a referendum in November, ask for the repeal of the Prohibition Amendment, she will be guided by their decisién. Before Mrs. McCormick had spok- en on the subject the Republican State convention had adopted a platform plank pledging the Re- publicans to abide by the will of the State referendum. —_—— e ROOSEVELT SAYS COUNTRY PAYING FOR WILD SPREE: Crisis Caused by Unecon- omic, Unscientific and Unbusinesslike Foundations "“DELPHI, N. Y., Aug. 23.—Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an ad- @ress last night, said the country is. now “paying the penalty for a wild spree based on uneconomic, un- scientific and unbusinesslike foun- dations.” He referred to “some people in very high positions” as having giv- en’ the impression a year ago that nothing could happen to prosperity. The Governor said that “one rea-* 56n the country passed through an economic crisis was that some peo- ple thought they had discovered | & new law and that the old law of supply and demand could be scrap- ped; they thought we could go on speeding up production as long as we did two things: paid high wages to everyone and continued high speed selling campaigns.” H. 0. ADAMS AT DOCK TO MEET BEAUTIES To Horace O. Adams, Asslstami Agent here of the Alaska Steam-. chip Company, the 23 Mid West | prize beauties aboard the Alameda, | which arrived here this morning, | were of no interest at all. He prizes | other beauties. They had spent; the summer in Seattle and were coming home on the vessel—Mrs. Adams and little daughter Louise. He was at the wharf to meet them and also to greet a little son, | Horace O., Jr., back, too, from the | Puget Sound metropolis. COME Gloria Swanson, film actress, TO PARTING OF THE WAYS ~ Assoclated Press Plioto announced In Hollywood that she and her titled husband, Marquis Henri de la Falaise, had decided to live apart. She said they found it possible to maintain separate estab- lishments and still remain “the best of friends.” Woman Forester (f Associated Press Photo Margaret Stoughton of Osage, lowa, is the first junior woman forester in the United States. She is stationed at the Appalachian for- | est experiment station in Asheville, . C. ELIHU ROOT GIVEN HONOR Presented with Bar Asso- ciation’s Distinguish- ed Medal CHICAGO, Illinois, August 23.-- The American Bar Association yes terday recognized Elihu Root’s bril- | liant career as a statesman and| lawyer and presented him the Dis- tinguished Service Medal for 1930. Frank B. Kellogg, former Secre- tary of State, called Root America’s most distinguished lawyer and statesman. KAYE DON HAS NARROW ESCAPE INAUTO RACE |Car Overturns and Catches Afire — Suffers Broken Rib BELFAST, August 23.—Kaye Don one of Great Britain’s noted motor ; 'racers, suffered a broken rib and his mechanic was seriously injured as their car overturned and caught fire today in the 410-mile Ulster | Tourist Trophy Race of the Royal Automobile Club. Don narrowly es- | caped death. CZECHS DRILL CITIES . UNDER GAS-ATTACKS PRAGUE, August 23.—Czecho- slovakian army authorities are mak- ing thorough preparations for even- tuality of a gas attack on a large scale in the next war, whenever it may occur. Flying maneuvers are being held in Eastern Bohemia with mimic gas attacks on the towns of Pardubitz, Prerau and Koniggratz. During these attacks the civilian popu- lation is called upon to utilize the means of defense laid down by the| army general staff. The attacks take place at night, | when on signal all lights in the towns must be extinguished. The fire-brigades, the gymnastic socie- ties and the Red Cross branches, all provided with gas masks of the latest pattern, turn out and conduct civilians to shelters where they will be safe from gas bombs launched from the planes. MARQUETTE - MISSION:RY IN SEATTLE Plane to Be Used by Jesuits in Alaska Completes Long Flight SEATTLE, August 23.—The Jesuit | missionary airplane, piloted from |New York City via California by {Brother George J. Feltes, 8. J, {and with Rev. Phillip Delon as a | passenger, arrived here yesterday from Tacoma. The plane will be crated for shipment to Alaska. For fifteen years Father Delon has driven a team of dogs to the ;stations, spread over an area of 200,000 square miles, and has found it impossible to vislt them than once a year, he said. But, beginning this winter, things will be different, With the plane, ,whlch will be piloted by Brother George J. Feltes, S. J, only three or four hours will be required to 1cnvrr the distance that before took |eight or ten days. The airplane was given to Father iDelon by the Marquette League of New York, in i named the Mar- 'quette Missionary. % i For Father Delon is looking for- yward to his work in the North—in a region stretching from Fairbanks, |Alaska, to the western limits of the United States possessions and from the Aleutian Islands to the | Arctic Circle—with the anticipation |of a boy going to a circus. The ship is a Bellanca six-pas- |senger cabin plane, powered with a 225-horsepower motor. The ship will be reassembled in |Alaska. From Holy Cross, Jesuit headquarters, 300 miles up from the !mouth of the Yukon River; the ship will operate, making inspection |tours and emergency flights for the relief of the Jesuit stations. |lapsible, and may be made into a bed, thus proyiding an aerial ambu- lance “I'll be able to reach every station three or four times a year,” Father Delon exulted. The ship will be equipped with | skiis. \Assaulter of Girl Is Caught After Many Days 23 —William Horrner, aged 24 years, hunted since last Monday when he escaped after arrest on a charge iof attacking a 15-year-old girl, was captured last night as he re- turned to his cabin to obtain papers and cash left there. He was found to have a wound in the left groin. He said he was shot by police dur- ing the hunt. President Is to Hold Important Conferences,® ORANGE, Virginia, August 23.— | President Hoover has arrived here for a rest and informal conferences on pressing government problems, mainly the Inland Waterway De- |velopment related to flood control. Three Killed, 6 Wounded | In Riot, German Police’ BRUNZLAU, Germany, 23 —Three persons were killed dix wounded in a riot here night. The Police fired into crowd as they charged firemen were playing water on them. the who more | Packard Diesel The six seats in the ship are col- ' STONY POINT, New York, Aug. August | and, last | COMBINE; AGREE ON FALL UNITY Gardner and Scott Agree on Harmony Program with Indian Faction Under the leadership of W. L !Paul, Indian leader of Ketchikan, |the Republican candidates of the |First Division will this year make a campaign under the slogan of |“Vote the Party Ticket Straight.” | The dove of peace has descended |on these champions.of the long- time warring factions of the G. O. P. in this Division and harmony revails among them. Alliance Ts Formed Prejudices such as that against w mass voting of the organized In-| § dian element, held up to April 28 last by some of the nominees, and bitter denunciation of everythln"l for which the anti-Indian primary | candidates stood have been cast| laside. And the pipe of peace has .|been smoked by the nominees. | The breach between the candi-| !dates is closed. It may be it is [not wholly healed, only time can| reveal if it was quieted by a gen-| uine specific or merely lulled into| inactivity by the dope makers. Whatever it eventually proves to |J" cure or otherwise, it was decid- ed upon at a conference, or series of discussions, a sort of political [clinic, held here early this month. (Participating in this were Judge‘ |James Wickersham, nominee |Delegate to Congr N nominee for Auditor; W. G. Smith, nominee for Treasurer; C. T. Gard- ner, Walter P. Scott, Grover C. Winn and W. L. Paul, all legisla- tive candidates. The only Terri- torial candidates not present were Joe Ulmer, High Engineer candi- date and W. K. Keller, candidate ‘for Commissioner of Education; and J. E. Johnson, Ketchikan nom- inee for the House was the only Divisional office seeker not attend- ing. Promoted by Foster | There is no secret about the fact that Frank H. Foster, veteran Third | Diyision politician. and legislator, | \during a recent visit here boosted along the harmony program. In fact, his visit seemed to have been| largely politically evangelistic in its | {tenor. He took his text from the handbook of practical politics and | expounded mightily on party fealty | and not without result. | | After convincing his congregation | here that the only 'true road to political heaven was in supporting the Republican candidates from the ! head of the ticket right down| through the entire list, he carried his stirring message to the Ketchi- kan Garcia. His hopeful words brought Mr. Paul hotfoot to Juneau and Harmony was a fact accom- plished. Enmities Are Forgotten And now everything is lovely. hind the banner of the (Continued on Page Emh‘t’)r RAINS CAUSE ~ SENATORS TO ~ DELAY PLANS Postpone TE of McKin- ley Park—Investigators Go to Fairbanks SEWARD, Alaska, August Rains caused the Alaska Railr Investigating Committee, composed of Senators Howell, Kendrick and Thomas, to postpone th tour through Mount McKinley ional Park. They. left by train for Fairbanks, planning the Park on their return | - l TODAY’S STOCK | QUOTATIONS NEW YORK CITY, N. ¥ 23.—There was no sale of Juneau mine stock today 'quotations on other stock lfollows Alleghany Corporatic ‘American Can 129, Anacon \per 45%, Bethlehem Steel & | Pilms 44% General Mo 45,1 JGrnnby Copper no sale, Hupp Mo- {tors 13%, International Harvester 79 Kennecott Copper 347.. M 'nt-' gomery-Ward 32%, Nationa! Acme |13, Packard Motors 131, 1 13%, Simmons Beds 25, Standard 2rands 19%, Standard Oil of Culifornia 61, Standard Ofl of New Jersy T4 Stewart-Warner 241, 24'. 24%, United Alrcraft 62, U. 8. Stee! 108%. | ust | Alaska Closing. as 20%, Cop- Fox {ing his G 0 P NUMI\NEES NEW MERCHANT SHIP CHRISTENED BY MRS HOOVER Associated Press Phote A splash of cool spring water from the hand ot Mrs. Herbert Hoover christened the new 8,000-ton merchant marine ship Excalibur at the shipyards in Camden, N. J. The sponsoring group shows (left to right) Ruth Fessler, Secretary to Mrs. Hoover; Robert Workman, ship official; Mys. Stark MacMil- len, Mrs. Edglr Rlcknrd. Mrs. Ho Seeks Bakm ‘ Assoclated Press Photo Alleging her love for William N. Fleischmann, cousin of Maj. Max Fleischmann, yeast magnate, Madge Mitchell, film actress, filed suit in Los Angeles for $100,000 charging breach of promise. IS SENTENCED T0 HARD LABOR Florida Pulmer Is Con- victed of Criminal Libel MIAMI, Florida, August 23.—J P. Wendler, publisher, has been sentenced to three months at hard | labor on the county road follow- conviction on a charge of criminal libel. An affidavit charged a recent editorial attack against the late Glenn Curtiss, avi- avion pioneer, following the deatn of Curtiss, A habeas corpus was de-! nied and Wendler was jailed im- mediately. - e | Dead Balloonist Was Believed Near His Goal OSLO, Norway, August 23.— S. Auguste Andree, Swedish balloonist, who in 1897 tried to fly to the North Pole, and whose body has been found on White Island, Fridtjof-Nansen Land by a Norwegian Scientific Ex- pedition, is believed to have reached a point less than 500 miles from his objective and was beating back to the inhab- ited world when death overtook * him. On the back page of the bal- loon’s log was a notation: “Eighty-three degrees North, 32 East” The date was seven days af- ter the start of the balloon from Danes Island, Spitzbergen, in July, 1897, The position given is some distance north of where the body of Andree and one com- panion were found. | The sealer Brattvag is expect- ed to arrive at Tromsoe on September 10, with the bodies, | which are said to be in an ex- | ceptionally good state of preser- vation, .- Montell Knapp, 22, Cedar Rapids, Imu. traveled half way around the; world in 7 months on $20. imeda as she moored to her wha {intent {were, I bewitching Dianas, {that |and various points of 'the city. At noon, over and Rep. J. Q. Tilson. JUNEAU HOLDS OUT HER ARMS T0 23 BEAUTIES Fair Maids from Mid West Marvel at Ore Mill and Glacier | Today should have been a public holiday. Twenty-threg beauties, be- wlldmmg in the variety of their emranum loveliness, were visitors lin Juneau for several Hours this | Going To Brazil {forenoon and this afternoon. Their ' arrival was considerably ahead of schedule, but Thane flashed .the passing of their craft there and the news of their close approach was quickly broadcast here The bewitching maids lined the port rail of the steamship Ala- % thronged for its breadth and length with every phase of local citiz on extending a hearty come. They passed in revue, as it down the gangplank, their pretty faces wreathed in smiles. Fulfilled Expectations The charming s ngers fulfilled all expectation. Voluptuous Hebes, statuesque Junos, alluring Venuses, all the beauties of the worlds of fancy and fact lived again, "and invited friendly companionship. Juneau's stalwart sons responded. Except for Gov. George A. Parks, wel- {whose exalted position restricts his reception of guests to government functionaries of high authority, '\11 eligible bachelors of the commun-| ity were present to make the accn- sion happy and memorable for mo comely maids. Mayor Was There But if the Territorial Execulive was constrained to be absent, May- or Thomas B. Judson was under no obligations to be away. He was glad to greet the visitors officially and personally. Likewise Chief of Police George Getchell; he bur- nished his star so “he could get and keep a place that would afford him an unobstructed view of them. Greeted by Sunshine v In brilliant sunshine, the Alameda with her cargo of pulchritude, docked at 9:20 am. today, more| than two hours before she was scheduled to arrive. Her early ar- rival was occasioned by the fact no stop was made at Taku Glacier, fog having obscurred the natural wonder. The visiting party included not tors of the tour, a publicity agent, a motion picture photographer, chaperons, and traveling represen- tatives of the steamship company. After the exchange of greetings, the visitors were escorted by E. M. Goddard, president of the Chambar of Commerce, and by the reception committee of the commercial organ-, ization to waiting automobiles and driven to the tramy ka Juneau Gold Mining Company Théy were taken through the mill. Later in the forenoon, they visited the Alaska Museum, curio shops interest in luncheon was served aboard the Alameda. Motor to Glacier Immediately “afterwards, the visi- tors as guests of the Chamber of Commerce, were motored to Men- {denhall Glacier. On return, they |Conunued on Pugc E.Izhu " requited love is only the prize-win-| {ning beauties but also the conduc-| 1y of the Alas- ™ Assoclated I'ress Photo Beatrice Lee of Salt Lake City, winner of the Miami beauty con- test, will represent thé United States at the international pflgeanl | In Rio Janeiro. MISSING MAN'S BODY IS FOUND Suicide Is Verdict Follow-. ing Autopsy, Inquest at Cordova CORDOVA, Alaska, August 23.— ‘Thi‘ body of Robert Browning, .;:(‘d 22 years, of Vallejo, California, missing since July 18, was found' yesterday on the outskirts of the city by Mike Shepard, who stum- bled upon the remains while hunt- ing. | A suicide verdict followed the au- topsy and inquest. A pistol bullet was found in Browning's brain. The gun was still in the boy’s hand. Un- said to have been | !the motive. | i DETAILS ABOUT CORRUPTION ON COURTRECORDS Olmsted Comfietes Direct Testimony — Cross Examined Monday ’CONSPHRACY TRIAL TAKES DAY’S RECESS oy 3 Instructed Verdict to Be Asked for McKinney, One Defendant SEATTL L. A\ug. 23.—With _Rn) Olmsted’s awaited story spread on the records, the | Lyle-Whitney-Corwin-Fryant- McKinney conspiracy and |bribery trial recessed late yes- terday afternoon over the week-end. ' Olmsted is due for cross examination by the defense on Monday. Yesterday, while on the witness stand, Olmsted, for- mer head of the Puget Sound liguor ring and who was brought here from MecNeil Penitentiary where he is now serving sentence, testified he paid former Prohibition heads approximately $85,000 for | protection in 1925, 1926 and 1927. With one exception, this money was paid through A. L. Hubbard. He said the exception was the money paid to former Assistant United States District Attorney Clifford McKinney, who sent Olm- sted to prison. Olmsted said $3,000 was the amount given McKinney as a con- tribution to former United States District Attorney Thomas Revelle's | Gubernatorial campaign fund. To Ask Directed Verdict John J. Sullivan, McKinney's at- torney, announced that he would ask on Monday for a directed ver- dict of acquittal for his client on |the grounds the alleged act of con- spiracy occurred more than three years prior to the indictment of his client and was thus outlawed. Payment to Lyle Olmsted said the first payment through Hubbard to Roy C. Lyle, Prohibition Adnrinistrator, was an amount of $250 to “pacify the dear (old ladies of the W. C. T, U." Olmsted said Hubbard told him the temperance group was press- (ing Lyle for contributions. Olmsted testified he had planned a counter conspiracy trip of influ- ential Seattle clients by getting ,them to pay for liquor by checks 50 photostatic copies could be made. The plan did not work. Some of the “boys” fought shy of the idea. Wife of Sec. of Int., Bound for Fairbanks SEWARD, Alaska, August 23.— Mrs. Ray Lyman Wilbur, wife of the Secretary of Interior, and her 'son Ray Lyman Junior, arrived from Seattle Thursday night and !left for the interior yesterday. DRYS OF INDIA BACK GANDHIS By JAMES P. HOWE | (A. P. Correspondent) CALCUTTA, August 23.—Demand for a “dry” India was made by committee of the Indian Chamber of Comme: a in b ing up Mahatma in fight for prohib! Indian independe; Gandhi, in his ary of t started v In e ernment a ce of Calcu Gandhi, tion along his with n point sum- demands, n. mmunic e gov- of India the Chamber of Comme committee urged that the government should embark at once on a policy of prohibition and, fore- going the revenue derived from li- quor shoul ither curtail expendi- tures to the extent of that reve- nue or raise it from other sources. As a dvocate of prohibition in the interests of the peasant and ‘the workingman in general Gandhi claims that the annual drink bill of a 1 LIQUOR BOYCOTT |the country approximates $350,000,~ 000, while the yearly drink revenue of the British government is more than $70,000,000. India, in the opinion of the com- mitteemen of the Chamber of Commerce, would soon become “dry” if she had the power to legislate according to her requirements. It was pointed out by the committee that the various provincial govern- ments had rejected popular de- mands for prohibition solely on the ground of loss of revenue. The committee contends that the picketing of the toddy or grog shops, as conceived by the Nation- alist Congress party as one means of depriving the government of rev- enue, is a perfectly legitimate method of persuasion and'that the |“people have certainly the right to adopt all peaceful and legitimate jmethods for discouraging the use lof liquor.”