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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” NO. 5514. JUNEAU, A VOL. XXXVL, BANK LOOTED|OF OVER $44,000 IN DAYLIGH OHID DEMOCRAT |Found Aniree Came DARES G.0P. ON STATE RIGHTS Senatorial Candidate Bulk-‘ ely Says Cannot Dodge Prohibition,State Issue COLUMBUS, O., Sept. 16.—Rob- ert J. Bulkely, Democratic nom-! inée for United States Senator, ad- vocated the repeal of the Eigh- teenth Amendment in a speech be- fore the Ohio Democratic State convention. He griticized the Re- publicans for attémpting to dodge the Prohibition issue, and chal- lenged his foes to meet the ques-! tion not as a State party issue but as-a question of State Rights. | CONNECTICUT G. O. P. % NAMES CANDIDATE i HARTFORD, Conn., Sept. 16— Lieut.-Gov. Ernest Rogers wasnom- inated for Governor by the Con- necticut Republicans today to op- pose Dr. Wilbur Cross, Dean Emer- itus of the Yale Graduate School, the Democratic nominee. The Prohibition plank adopted by the Republican convention urged that Representatives in Congress recognize the need for prompt rem- edial action that the rights of States to regulate their own affairs may be restored. * Assoclated Press Photo Dr. Gunner Horn, who led the ex- Reditioh that brought back relics of the ill fated Andree expedition. REPORTS HIS STATES COMPLETING | PARTY TICKETS TODAY e \ | WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. — The " WIFE MISSING selection of eandidates for National and State offices is /before five ’Mrs, Noah Beery Dlsap- States in primaries and State nom- | pear ed from Ran Ch inating conventions today. Primar-; Week Ago—Ill ies in New York will nominate all but State-wide candidates. seatc; candidates will be nominated later.. [og ANGELES Cal. Sept. 16, Primaries for the nomination of _noah Beery, movie nclmr, reveal- all candidates are being held in .4 today that his wife Marguerite Massachusetts and Wisconsin and State conventions in Connecticut yoneh north of Hollywood for a and Delaware will complete the geop ang has made an appeal to choice of party standard bearers yn. nolice to aid in locating her. for the general election that is The actor ‘said his wife left seven weeks awsy. (the ranch on September 8 in her SRS . %t BT | automobile, leaying no explanation. | She has been ill for several months 1 R w NuT 1and Beery attributed her disap- {pearante to her illness. | ——— - AUTo VIc."M Western Alaska Fair at < ] Anchorage ‘Great Success ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 16. —The Western Alaska Fair closed WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 16— The State Department officials de-' nied the rumor that Dwight W. Morrow, Ambassador to Mexico, has here last Saturday night with al The quality and| «been injured in an automobile ac- Mardi Gras. pident in Mexico City. The denial quantity of thg exhibits “exceeded .was made after a Jong distance any previous year, and the attend- call to Mexico City. {ance was nearly doubled of any = | previous year. - Jpusi . PeiOnction Frank Keaton Sentenced Of Gold Makes Record, OTTAWA, Sept. 16. — Canada’s gold production in 1929 again es-‘ LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 16— tablished a record, a total of 1,- Frank Keaton has been sentenced 928,038 fine ounces and at the to die on the gallows for the slaying current rate worth $39,861,663. lof Motley Flint, banker and fi- Ontario produced 1,622,267 ounces.| nancier, in a court room two ymonths ago. No show of emotion was visfble. An appeal will be made, American Girl Twins {lnsflnlty being charged. Fail to Swim English Channel DOVER, England, Sept. 16. —Bernice and Phyllis Gitten- field, ‘American girl twins, failed to swim the English channel yesterday. They had been in the water more than 12% hours. Coldness of the water and a sharp wind obliged the girls-to abandon the swim five miles from the French coast. KOHLER OPPOSED ‘Foreign Trade Shows Upward Trend in August WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 16.— , President Hoover has been inform- ed by the Department of Com- merce that American foreign trade in August ran between 80 and 85 per cent in quantity of like for- ,eign trade last year and registered some gain over the early months of this year. has been missing from the Beery, | "To Hang; Killed M. Flint! AMER. LEGION OPENS SESSION AT ANCHORAGE [Large Attendance Repre- sents All But One Alaska Post | ANCHORAGE, Alaska Sept. 16.— |Department Commander Maurice | | Sharp opened the Alaska American | | Legion convention yesterday to the | largest attendance of Legionnaires ever held. All posts but Nom2 were represented. | A parade was held last night, fol- | lowed by a mixer. | The legionnaires were welcomed by Mayor J. J. Delaney and by | Harry F. Morton, President of the| Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, and response was made by Vice-|— Commander J. A. Talbot, of Ketchi-' MILTO | Mrs. Paul Beran, Department President of the American Legioni Auxiliary also extended greetings., The following were named on| the Resolutions Committee: J. A.| Talbot, E. M. Polley, Ralph Reeser, | Dr. A. R. Roberts, Stanley Nichols, William O'Malley, Frederick Nel- son and Frank Jones. and transmitted by radio tc N SILLS, SCREEN ACTOR, DIES SUDDENLY | 1 Lieut. Bromley | Abandons Flight |For This Year Tennis with Wife and Son | | | | LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 16— |Milton Sills, aged 48 years, well- OMINATO, 16.—Lieut. anncunced today he has abandoned ' attempts to fly this year across the Pacific to Tacoma, Washington. He sald he hoped to obtain backing for a trans-Pacific effort in 1931 Replacement of damaged parts of the planeswill re- quire a month Bromley said and then this will be too late to attempt the flight this season. Bromley plans to store the plane in Yokohama this winter. o 'attack while playing tennis with ® his wife and son at their suburban ® home. L4 ® as Dorls Kenyon, said he appeared ® entirely well at the beginning of the ® tennis play and suddenly dropped ® unconscious.and failed to revive: ® Milton Sills was educated at the ® University of Chicago and later be- ® came a Professor of Mathematics- at the University. He was a mati- nee idol on Breadway 20 years ago. o {o e . . . . ® | Milton Sills was. popular with movie fans in Juneéau and was a strong drawing card.. The. fans \also thrilled to his he-man charac- | terizations. 05 PRy —.e——— jB;zauty Given |$17099,000; ‘Dower Rights- WEST PALM -BEACH, Flor-~ ida, Sept. 16.—Lucy Cotten Thomas, former gaotress and widely known beauty, widow of the late Edward Russell Thom- a8, New York millionaire, has beent awarded $1,099,000 in full settlément of her claims for dower rights against the estate of the former sportsman and owner of the old New York Morning Telegraph. | ———————— | EARL CORWIN EXPLAINS HS PROI DUTIES Defendant in Conspiracy Trial Worked as Un- dercover Man SEATTLE, Sept. 18—Earl Cor- | 1 | LASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1930. S | 4 Drops Dead 'While Playing Japan, Sept. e known picture actor, dropped dendi Harold Bromley e yesterday as the result of a heart, Mrs. Sills, known on the screen | vl IN- WISCONSIN BY PHIL LA FOLLETTE MILWAUKEE, Wis., Sept. 16. Another son of Robert Marion La- Follette seeks to follow the politi- cal footsteps of his father and brother, Robert M. LaFollette, jr., United States Senator from Wis- eonsin. Philip F., younger of the two “LaFollette boys,” is contesting the Republican nomination for Gover- _mor with Walter J. Kohler, million- éire manufacturer and incumbent. Today Republicans of the state will choose between the two. In November the winner will seek elec- tion over Charles E. Hammersley, Democratic candidate who is vil- lage attorney for. Shorewood, a Milwaukee suburb. In pre-primary campaign speeches of both factions, prohibition, “pros- perity,” the tariff and other na- tional issues almost have overshad- owed state issues. All groups have favored state con- trol of liquor to replace national prohibition. All likewise have de- win, one of the defendants in the| conspiracy trial with Lyle Whitney | T Bt and Fryant, resumed the stand |yesterday and testified at intervals' {as he had not absolutely recovered ™ 4 iy ifrom his condition of last Saturday Rt IS DIVORGE Corwin said he had no investment A in the Grays Harbor Radio station| « 2 v ;and ran it because Hubbard feared| ppNO Nevada, ‘Sept. 16—Faith the notoriety of being connected Hope MacLean h‘n.s been granted 8 {with the Olmsted liquor conspiracy giyoree from Douglas MacLean, the ;a;du;:e affect of business on melsmse and- screen . actor, on the " / . They were Corwin specifically dented all of Erounas OF deserbion. e the Government’s charges. He told' 5 v {or his duties in conection with the {trapping of the Olmsted liquor ring ‘members. He sald he was told tc ido everything possible to capture |the bootleggers. Corwin admitted on cross exami- |nation he was not told to make ar—! irests but merely report violations| |and explained the reason for this !was, he was working as an under- ‘COVGT man. ————e £ 7 TODAY'S STOCK | | QUOTATIONS | L2 L NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, Sept. 16.—Closing quotation of Alaska Ju- neau mine stock today is 5%, Al- leghany Corporation 21%, Ameri- can Can 120%, Anaconda Copper 45%, Bethlehem Steel 88'%, Fox Films 49%, Gemeral Motors 44%, |Granby Copper no sale, Hupp Mo- {tors 13%, 13%, 13%, International| Harvester 78%, Kennecott Copper |34%, Montgomery-Ward 36%, Na- tional Acme no sale, Packard Mo- tors 13, 13%, 13, Bimmons Beds 27%, {of presenting NO DEFENSE FOR MRS.MCORMIC CHICAGO, ‘Tll., Sept. 16. — The Senate Campaign Funds Commit- tee. today denied Attorney General Cavistrom, of Illinois, the pr.'.'flze a statement - MEMBER O PRICE TEN CENTS _ T ROBBERY F ASSOCIATED PRESS __ First Pictures Of Finding Of Andree .E;);p;ditiqnfi . First picture showing tha discoverv of the remains of Andree expedition after it had been held In the Arctic fastness of White Island for 33 years. Picture shows D~ Gunner Horn's party digging for bodies of the explorers and relics of the ill fated expedition. Picture was taken by a member ot Dr. Horn's party. After return of the party's ship Bratvaag to Tromsoe the picture was rushed to London New York. An exclusive Associated Press radiophoto show ing where the bo Dr. Gunner Horn and his party of Arctic sealers. craft was dug out of lce where It had rested for 33 years. - AT TROMSOE - ‘Bones of Third Member of A I S to Be Examined | TROMSOE, Sept. 16.—The sealer FPUM SE ATTI_E Isbjoern bearing what are believed | L third member of the Andree Bal- « i 3 Eloon Expedition, has arrived here. Seaplane Bnngs SIX Besu‘les The 'sealer was escorted here by 2| Pilot, Who Come and Swedish gunboat Svenskund. All three ships flew the Norweg-| lan and Swedish flags at hall pjoteq by Anscel C. Eckmann, 3 operating manager of the Alaska- The coffin containing the bones Washington Airways, the seaplane | ‘plul for experts to examine. |after a lelsurely flight from Seattle. i s S HRE {Besides Mr. Eckmalin, those aboard 1suN |the aircraft were Don Bennett, di- | 4 A. W. Praser, R. O. Reeke and Mr. and Mrs. James Carlson. The plane left Seattle Sunday | REMAINS OF € o | P Andree Expedition | WRANGEI-L HEBE | to be the remains of Knut Frankel, | the Government steamer Michael to Hunt mast. weére immediately taken to a ""S"wmngeu arrived in Juneau today uF HUUVEH |rector of the airways; O. W. Wiley, morning. It made stops at Van- ke |couver, B. C., where it picked up { | WASHINGTON, . C., Sept. 16— Mr. and Mrs. Carlson, at Alert Herbert Hoover, Jr., aged 28 years, Bay and Prince Rupert. It came i" temporarily disabled by a slight directly here from Prince Rupert. iilness caused by overwork and' Mr. Eckmann, Mr. Bennett, Mr. Ipss of sleep. He is recuperating Wiley and Mr. Fraser will enjoy at the President’s camp on the & feW days'shunting in this part| 'NO DROUGHT LOANS RApidan River on leave of absence ©f Alaska, and then they plan to from the Western Air Express. His 1Y back to Seattle. 3 ' The seaplane Sea Pigeon, of the WHERE ANDREE CAMP WAS DISCOVERED BY DR. HO one of his companions, Nils Strindberg, were found after their balloon in which they attempted to reach the north pole was wrecked somewhere In t he Arctic In 1897. The picture shows the boat used . by the expedition, which, protruding from the snow on White Island, lead to the grim discovery by It was taken by a member of Dr. Horn's party betore HECK OF U. S. TARIFF | REVENUE IS BIG TASK LOCAL HUNTERS ition g)x MASKED " MEN HOLD-UP EVERETT BANK | Forty Empl;e;s and Pat- rons Are Lined Up Against Walls | SUB-MACHINE GUNNER | KEEPS CROWD AWAY - Robbery Staged in Five Minutes—Escape Is Made in Auto EVERETT, Wash., Sept. 16.—The police of the North- —— west have joined in a search RN for six bandits, five deserib- ed as wearing mechanics’ ov- eralls and the other a brown ¥ J checked suit, who yesterday o i ‘ held-up the Citizens Security %\g‘% Bank and escaped with $44,- @ This is said to be the larg- est cash loot in Northwest / crime annals in recent years. ] The bandits fled in a large . automobile after completing the hold-up in five minutes. One of the bandits stood outside the bank threatening + scores of persons with a sub- ! machine gun. Four bandits entered the bank and lined up about 40 employees and patrons ‘| against the walls. | Another bandit remained at the wheel of the automobile. All bandits wore masks. A fake hold-up call by a {woman a few minutes before lthe car appeared at the bank 'drew the police flying squad- ron to the outskirts of the city. | | | 7 Assoclated Press Phot Assiiiated Iness Phato dies of Saloman August Andree and I \ 2k e, — COMMISSION BAG TWO MOOSE By FRANK 1. WELLER 1 | (A. P. Staff Writer) IUHU ! WASHINGTON, Sept. 16—Chair- | |man Henry P. Fletcher and other | new members of the United States Tariff commission will face a task " | probably unequalled in the com-‘lhr{:mh;:f l:mp::.‘:;seo;ofls‘rv;o::’l ‘mlsslon's history when they take sportsmen returned here last night office today. i i . after a seven-day hunt in the lower 1 Stnppea ot verbal - plumage, the Taku River District. One of the ‘cafnmnssloxx's Jjob consists of deter- animals killed, said to be almost a | mining how much revenue all ar- record size for the lower river, is |ticles imported in the last three'estimated to weigh about 1,500 years would have yielded had the pounds. ad valorem rates of the new tariff, In the party were: G. W. Folta, act been effective, and what scale Assistant United States District At- of import duties would have yielded torney; Lance Hendrickson, Harry the same revenue had they been Sabin, Al' Slagle and Phil Jolie. assessed on the American ratner"rhey went to Twin Glacier Camp |than the foreign valuation of those on Dr. H. C. DeVighne's boat, Chir~ | products. ikof, and from there by small river Congress called it an “evaluation” boats and outboard motors. project in ordering the investiga-| The party hunted between Twin tion and set July 1, 1932, as the Glacier Lake and Klutchman's date on which the commission: was Mountain. Both moose were killed to report. The purpose is to de-|near the base of the mountain. termine the feasibility of adopting | sually Large Moose Is Bagged on Lower Taku River ties. The items involved run into hun- dreds of thousands on each of which the weighted average value (Continued on Page Three) a domestic basis for ad valorem du-| — - Uniteéd States Deputy Marshal C. |J. Sullivan, who was here for a few days on official business, has re- turned to his headquarters at Haines. He was a passenger on |the steamship Admiral Rogers yes= terday. fense of the “honor and dignity Wife s enroute east from Pasa- of Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick,” 92na, California, but thé two chil- and the Aren remain at home. to Pioneer Airways, arrived in Ju- neau from Sitka this morning. It TO FARMERS UNLESS returned forthwith main line of its inquiry. BODY OF TOM KINNEY FOUND. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sep! The body of Tom Kinney, w been - missing in Mount M Park since July 19, has been by a Ranger on the bank. 16~ hy ) hag !McKinley River. McKinney had 8p- parently lived about two weeks Rf~ plored the chain store and chainiStandard Brands 20%, Standardter he separated from his pro:pector bank “menace” and suggested va- rious ways of curbing alleged eco- (Continued on Page Three) Oil of California %, Standard Oll of New. Jersey 68%, Stewart- ‘Warner 26%, 26%, 26%, United Alr- Jeratt 60%, U. 8. Bteel 169. partner, Tom Black, on berris parcuptines, until made help exposure, The body was where it was found. ; and uried 1 nlayt found s.y'l g !is scheduled to take Mrs. T. R. Pll w h |Shotter to Hoonah and J. C. Cole- Flaces. Wreath on man to Kake this afternoon. On Mencm Monument S:\]:xfln it is expected to go to MEXICO CITY, Sept. 16—Am-' erican Ambassador Dwight W. Mor- Jack Dempsey row placed a wreath on the Inde- ns .- vendence Monument in honor of Now Has Negro {the Mcxican Inccpendence Day. Man Servant AL e | New Governor of Federal Reserve Board Takes Oath WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 16— Eugene Meyer, Jr., of New York,! Was sworn in today as Governor of the Pederal Reserve Board. He Succeeds Roy A. Young, of Min-f neapolis, who resigned. . ; THOMASVILLE, Ga,, Sept. 16. —Jack Dempsey has realized another ambition and has hired a Georgla negro as his personal man servant and wherever he goes he will have him with him. The man servant is “John Ross, suh, of Thomasville, Gaw- gla.” Dempsey came here for a visit to Stribling’s farm. | | By FRANK 1. WELLER (A. P. Farm Editor) WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—The |administration has officially elimi- nated all ‘charity patients” in its plan of drought relief. | Analysts of the scheme to place |“succor on a business basis” say tthe credit corporations which are to act as intermediaries between the drought-stricken farmers and the federal intermediate credit banks, will not underwrite loans to farm- ers considered a “poor risk.” The conference out of which the xnaumml drought relief program THEY’RE GOOD RISKS *manated took cognizance of the fact that many farmers had ex- hausted their credit and would be- come “charity patients.” Since government funds going through intermediate credit bank channels cannot be used for char- ity, the farmer who has no collat- eral must look to the Red Cross or some local charitable organiza- tion for assistance. There are expected to be a num- ber of extenuating -circumstances, however. It is predicted that a farmer who has potential assets (Continued on Page Three)