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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1930. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PR WICKERSHAM DESPERATE IN DEFEA 6.0.P. S\YS IMOTHER’S HAND GUIDES RASKOBCAUSED | THE LA FOLLETTE CLAN STOCK CRASH Republican Netiohal Com- tee Blames Democratic Chairman for Hard Times WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 1.— The Republican National Commit- tee has circulated a full page pos- ter throughout the country entitled: “Who Caused Stock Market Crash,” followed by a sub-title: “John J. Raskob’s Statement.” The state- ment, appearing on the poster was an interview published in the La-| dies Home Journal for August, 1929, entitled, “Everybody Ought to Be Rich.” The poster contains another ques- tion: “*Did Raskob sell short?” and the answer: “Raskob as Chairman “of the Democratic National Committee and operator on the stock market was in position to wield tremendous influence.” The further charge is made that Senator Robinson, Democrat of Ar- kansas, minority leader in the Sen- ate, blamed Raskob for the stock market crash. This is the first time the Republicans have done so. . Democrats charge that this is a right-about face for the Rgpubli- cans. From President Hoover down they have denied that anyone was responsible for the crash that caus- ed the depression but insisted that it was caused by world-wide con- ditions. Now they allege that the Chajrman of the defeated Demo- cratic Party did it all. Democrats declare only the desperation of a defeatist condition of mind would call forth such a ridiculous attempt to make votes. e oo oo cmmmannd DR. VARGAS T0 Belle Case La Follette, widow of big factor in her family’s political destiny, even mow aiding her sons, Robert, Jr., (left), and Philip. By WALTER T. BROWN (A. P. Staff Writer) MADISON, Wis, Nov. 1—Belle Casée La Follette has pointed the| way of political success to her sec-| ond son as she did for his elder brother and their father. The judgment and wisdom of the widow of Robert M. La Follette, the senior, is credited with importance | in the Republican primary cam- paign which started Philip F. La Pollette on the pathway to the Wis- consin governorship. Mrs. La- Follette’s husband called her his “counselor,” and freely ad- mitted the aid her faith and fore-| {M. resembles the father. CHARGE THREE WITH MURDER IN RUM CASE Two Coast Guardsmen and Customs Agent Involv- ed in Shooting KEY WEST, Florida, Nov. 1— Warrants charging Coast Gu: e men and a Customs Agent first degree murder in connectior with the disappearance of Wil Demeritt, reputed rum runner, duf- ing a gun battle last Wednesday awaited service today. The men accused are: Chief Boatswain H. B. Bowery | Commander of the picket boat. Everett' Charlow, engineer of the boat. Oscar Lounders, Customs Agent The warrants were issued on ib. formation of Clem Demeritt 3 said his son has been missing sintc the Coast Guard picket boat firec on him as he was unloiding liqué: The younger Demeriti's three com panions were arrested and enterec pleas of not guilty to the charge: of importing liquor. —————— TRAIN SPEEDS; WRECK RESULT) 1 the famous Senator, has been a He is a strategist. Phillip, resembling the mother, is a politiclan of the old school, an orator with magnetism and personality. He remembers names, he gives his hearers a “hom- ey” feeling. “You're a chip off the old block,” one admirer remarked. “No, just a splinter,” he came! back. Philip is frail; he weighs but 130 pounds,, but during the rigorous primary campaign he traveled thou- sands of miles and made six or seven speeches a day. —Engineer Disobeys Train Orders Nov. 1.—Stanley Pickett, engineer, and Charles Punphrey, fireman, both of Baltimore, were kijled when & westbound Baltimore u@od Ohio Express train was wrecked this morning. Pickett was killed outright. ‘fllgms around the- eountey. GERMAN AIR GIANT TO START FOR AMERICA SOON The huge Dornler plane, \ shown below. many, to New York early in November. Capt. N d Lleut. H. Schildhauer, American naval officer, will serve as pilot. Associated Press ['hoto DO-X, will begin its flight across the Atlantic from Friedrichshafen, Ger- Friedrich Christlansen (upper right) will be in command The navigation and control rooms LARGEST AIRPLANE IN WORLD IS GROOMED FOR FLIGHT ALTENHEIM, Switzerland, Nov. 1.—The biggest airplane in the world, the DO-X, is groomed for the start of the flight to America tomorrow. \Two Trainmen Are Deud the tank sufficient to keep the twelve engines delivering 7,200 horsepower for eighteen hours. The plane leaves for Amsterdam tomorrow making the first flight from Lake Constance. pected the plane will leave Lisbon between Bermuda and New York Capt. Errol Boyd and Lieut. the ship was leaving tomorrow. The builders of the DO-X sa The huge metal plane will have about 4,200 gallons of fuel in It is ex- about November 10 for the Azores, thence to the fuel ship midway City, thence to New York City. Harry Connor, why recently made the trans-Atlantic flight in the MARTINSBURG, West Virgina,|plane Columbia and who planned to attempt to join the crew, decided not to do so when it was learned | y the plane will p-obably remain in the United States all winter making N CENTS SAYS GRIGSBY CRIGSBY SAYS WICKERSHAM PREVARICATES {Democratic Nominee Tells About Work in Con- gress, Jones Bill SAYS PERSONALATTACK IS INSPIRED BY FEAR Declares Wickersham Knows He Is “Off the . Map” and Dares Not Attack Where He Can Answer KETCHIKAN, Nov. 1.—In a state- ment made yesterday Georgs B. IGrlgsby, Democratic nominee for ’Delegm.e to Congress, accused Judge | Wickersham of prevarication in his Juneau speech. He also declared that Wickersham’s desperate per- !sonal attack on him was prompted by knowledge that he “was off the {map” and about to be defeated. “He did not dare to make any such |statements at any place where I ! followed him.” “While Delegate,” said Mr. Grigs- {by, “I attended to Alaska business jall day and every day while Con- gress was in session. I prepared and ,introduced many bills, I secured the passage of several bonding bills; secured the passage of the ‘Eighty !Rod Strip Bill! which did away | with the reservation from entry of half the water front lands in South- east Alaska; made the principal |speech on the floor of the House for the additional $17,000,000 needed ‘for the Alaska Railroad; at the request of Congressman Mondell of Wyoming, Republican floor leader, I made the speech which prevented the abolition of the Surveyor Gen- eral’s office, which was afterward He has his father’s habit of rip- Punphrey died as the result of Tuttle’s Socialist_Daughter |s ACQUITTED abolished, without opposition, while sight gave. iping off his coat and collar during |a speech. “Reactionaries” and “spe- fcalds after reaching the hospital BE PRESIDENT Dan Sutherland was Delegate; de- OF NEW GOVT, Insurgent Leader in Rio de/ Janeiro—In. Office on Monday \ RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Nov. 1—Dr. Getulio Vargas, Insurgent leader, was greeted here last night like a conquering hero. He con- sulted political and military chiefs. 54t is understood here that Dr. Vargas will take charge as Pro- v%nal President on Monday. ashington Luis, deposed Presi- déft of the former Government, is still held as prisoner and refuses to resign his post. His term of office expires November 15. COL. OHLSON GOING EAST Alaska Railroad Manager Will Confer on Ap- propriations SEWARD, Alaska, Nov. 1.—Col. Otto F. Ohlson, General Manager of the Alaska Railroad, leaves on the Yukon today for Washington, D. C., to confer with the Appro- priations Committee and Secretary of Interior on the railroad’s needs for the coming year. Col. Ohlson said he is confident no drastic changes are contemplated by the Senatorial Committee. i £X 'band left but she preferred to see Philip, 33, defeated Gov. Walter J. Kohler in the primary. Two years ago Kohler attained promi- nence by splitting the La Follette delegation to the national conven-} tion, and then defeating the pro-| gressive candidate for the gover- ship. The elder son, appointed t» fill the unexpired term of his fath- er when he died, in 1925, was elect- ed to the office two years later. He now is 35. Mrs. La Follette was urged to seek the office her hus- | Robert M.; jr., occupy it. Mrs, LaFollette and her husband were sweethearts at the Umversuy' of Wisconsin in the early 80's. Both| were graduated from the law school, she the first woman in the state.] She was an advisor in all his mlm_i cal campaigns, for district attorney- ship of Dane county, for Congress,| for Governor, for the Senate and; finally for the Presidency in 1924.] There is much like both mother and father in the two sons. Robert ‘he will reach an office at 33 that jngton, The accident occurred at a curve \cial interests” punctuate his langu- . on the detour track. |age as they did that of “Pighting "rne train was speeding. Officials Bob.” ‘said indtructions have been for en- His hair is the same unmanage- gineers to slow down at the point. able plume. The father ran his fin- " phe entire train, locomotive, eight gers through it; so does the son. express and one passenger Car, was Philip was Dane county attorney gerailed. as was his father. If, however, he; The train was running as a is elected governor in November gecond section west from Wash- D. C, bound to Pitts- his father did not attain until he burgh. was 45. The elder La Follette was' The locomotive plunged 10 feet in the House of Representatives to the edge of a hole being dug for from 1885 to 1801, before serving construction of a subway. as governor . from 1900 to 1906. | The La Follette clan is a friendly one. When Robert M. senior, ran STANFOR.D WI Ns OVER U. OF CAL. | for the Presidency as an Indepen- campaign, Philip was on the fight- First Game at Night in His- ing line. Bob returned the aid in Philip’s campaign. And behind all of them moves the quiet, unseen hand of a wom- an, 5 Construction Program Of Government to Cost About GRIFFITH DEFEATS NERONS OF GREECE CHICAGO, 1, Nov. 1.—Tuffy Griffith, of Sioux City, a heavy- weight, last night won an easy eight round decision over George Nerons of Athens, Greece. “HARD TO STOP” O’NEIL WINS JOB AS LEGION HEAD TOPEKA, Kansas, Nov. 1—A square-jawed, stocky Kansas law- yer was cited fer gallantry in action in the St. Mihiel offensive is the American Legion’s new Na- tional Commander. Here in Kansas, ever since his college days, they've called Ralph T. “Dyke” O'Neil “a hard man to stop.” ‘He was “hard to stop” in the St. Mihiel drive, to0. Only two days before the Armistice he defied ma- chine gun and shell fire to carry forward telephone wire necessary ) “That brought a citation and praise for “tireless effort and utter disregard for machine gun and shell fire.” A citation for the Distinguished Service Cross ‘once was refused by the new Legion head, his friends say, because similar honors were not offered men under his com- mand. O’Neil resigned as Prosecuting At- torney of Osage county, Kas., soon after the United BStates entered the war. At Fort Sheridan, IIl, he 000,000 in naval and military air- dent in 1924 -both the boys stumped for him. During the junior .Bob's tory of Coast Confer- ence Is Played LOS8 ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 1.— B.ll. D lla Stanford last night defeated the University of California, Los An- U wn 0 rs geles branch, at football by a score _ (of 20 to 0 in the first night game! WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 1— in the history of the Pacific Coast Concentrating on its efforts to lead Conference. the country into a solution of the| Harlow Rothers, of Stanford, full- unemployment problem, the Federal back, led the Cardinals in an un- government announces that its cur- jexpectedly rugged battle as the Los yent construction projects would Angeles Branch has been regarded cost approximately one billion dol- s an easy victim for the invaders. lars. Vi i ——— The projects include public warks, public building program, naval and ! military work and construetion of ]B EA RTHQ“ AKE ships built with the aid of the Ship-| FELT AT NIG H ping Board loans. The projects are exclusive of $10,- 1,—Eigh=~ e teen quakes were felt here last 'Inight by the population of this | itown which is near Macerata on ® 'the fringe of the zone shaken earl- ITY, jer in the week. The citizens vere NEW YORK OITY, Nov. 1—.p . un into a panic. There were Closing quotation of Alaska Ju-! . Beati misie Back oy’ 15 8%, moioo Al qkiles, fo a5y of (e erican Can 114%, Anaconda Copper | tically nothing. 35%, . Bethlehem Steel 70%, Fox [P ooy NOUE. Pilms 36%, General Motors 34%, Granby Corporation 14, Interna- BABY GIRL IS DEAD tionl Harvester 59%, Kennecott Copper 25%, Montgomery-Ward 19, National Acme no sale, Packard Motors 9, 8%, 8%, Simmons Beds 15%, Standard Oll of New. Jersey 53%, United Afrcraft 31%, U. 8. Steel 145%, Curtis Wright 4, Stan- craft contracts. —l il TODAY’S STOCK QUOTATIONS FIASTRA, Italy, Nov. . | | Betty Jean, baby daughter of X jand Mrs. W. B. Converse, died | Tuesday as the resuit of pneumonia. The funeral was held Thursday and interment was in Evercicen (Continued on Page Five) leemm. Many beautiful {lorak dard Oil of California 50%, Stan-|offerings were placed on the lile . casket. dard Brands 16. Points for Politics By ADELAIDE KERR (A.-P. Staff Writer) NEW YORK, Nov. l.—American politics 15 years hence may find among its ranks a slim blonde feminine member of the Tuttle clan, whose chief has just been nomi- nated governor for New York on the Republican ticket. For Charlotte, 20-year-old social- istic daughter of Charles H. Tut- tue, “loves that word politics” by her own admission and hopes to make her mark in it some day. She has already made her mark as, a student of political science at Vassar, where she will be graduated this spring. A year ago last summer, in the | interest of her socialistic studies, she forsook tennis: courts, which are her second love, hied herself to Chicago and went to work in a book factory to earn first hand about conditions which she had been reviewing. She worked all summer inserting leaves in books, earned $12 to $13 a week—and lived on it. She capped that experience by addressing a mass meeting in the New York YWCA last winter, urg- ing unionization of Fifth Avenue dressmaking shop employees. Papa Tuttle was in the audience. “No, he didn't object,” said Char- lotte. “I think he was sort of pleas- ed and amused.” This summer she went to Europe, where she spent several weeks in the Seminar of Madariaga at Ge- neva, and had more than one dis- cussion of socialistic problems with Arthur . Hepderson, Great Britain's Labor foréign secretary, while they had tea on the Parliament,K House terrace in London. Charlotte Tuttle is petite and pert and pretty; she is as feminine as ruffles and her frocks are bright and smart. Women will keep on being homemakers, she opines, but first ‘and last they have to think about' things outside. ‘When she ‘puts Vassar behind her Played His Part To Perfection; Two Are Killed ATLANTA, Georgia, Nov. 1. —Attired in women's clothing, Ivey Allen, negro, joined Hal- lowe’en festivities in costume and was po realistic that Willie Moseley and Horace Allen, the Iatter not related, also negroes, followed him home. Frightened or else angry, Ivey Allen grab- bed a riffe and killed both. He lll’lm to the police. OF MURDER IN FIVE MINUTES Virginia Real Estate Man Freed of Charge by Jury WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 1.— Herbert M. Campbell has been ac- quitted of the charge of killing Mary Baker, Navy Department clerk, last April, by a jury after only a few minutes deliberation. Campbell, a Virginian real estate man, testified he got mixed up in the case when he tried to get some publicity out of it to boost trade at his golf course. He succeeded to the extent of having to defend him self against a charge of first de- gree murder. 3 ARE KILLED * GOING TO GAME LEXINGTON, Kentucky, Nov. 1. (—Three of five Kentucky Univer- isity alumni are dead as the result jof an automobile accident enroute here to attend the Alabama-Ken- tucky football game today. The dead are Wendell Smith, Gagan Smith, cousins ,and Crit Wallen. CHARLOTTE TUTTLE - she is going to plunge into Law at Columbia university and pass the bar examinations. But she doesn't expect to practice. “You need lay to understand legislation,” she declares. “There’s a great deal of legislative work to be done for such people as those girls I saw in Chicago. ‘That's where I'm going to head in when I i{ented Congressman Albert John- _son's attempt to eliminate Canadian _competition; - procured the pur- ‘chase by the Government of three wireless stations from Falcon Joslin that would otherwise have been abandoned; introduced a bill for the home control of the fisheries; flood control and public buildings bills. “I was constantly occupied with the contest that Judge Wickersham was waging in the House for my seat. H The Jones Bill “The only time that I was ever ipresent with Sims at a Senate committee hearing was when he land Gov. Riggs and Maurice D. Leehey were trying to gei their transportation bill attached to the Jones Bill. “I never heard of the obnoxious |Alaska amendment to the Jones Bill until the Senate committee reported, and immediately wrote a brief directed specifically to the Alaska provision and same as pub- lished in Juneau Empire, June 17, 11920. The telegram from Congress- !man E. L. Davis of Tennessee, pub- lished in The Empire October 2, 1920, specifically states that my Ibnef referred to the Alaska pro- | vision. | “Wickersham lied when he said ihe protested against the Alaska amendment to the Jones Bill." . | Expect Big Lead at Ketchikan | Mr. Grigsby and his friends here expect him to carry Ketchikan by a big majority. They estimate ‘that it will be at least 350. go to work.” ARE HOMELESS | AFTER PARTY "Gy e A CED DENVER, Colo., gNov. 1. — Three small children are homeless today following a Hallowe'en party. Forrest Schaffer is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and his wife, previously shot, died later, | following a quarrel at a party given | in the Schaffer home. By FRANK I. WELLER (A. P. Farm Editor) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 1.— National farm groups look with in- iterest on the stand of the Ameri- |can country life conference at the | Wisconsin college of agriculture for CAUSE NO DAMAGE “a surfaced road to every farmer's gate.” LY 1] ‘ The American farm bureau fed- No damage of consequence was €ration, which long has had a “farm done by the youth of Juneau Hal- to market road” committee, says {lowe'en. Windows quite generally the inadequate condition of local were marked with soap and a few roads handicaps the rural popula- boards of sidewalks in the resi- tion both socially and commercial- dence parts of town were taken up. ly. “The young folks behaved them-| It was found at the conference selves,” said Chief of Police George that of 3,000,000 miles of roads in Getchell. ~ “There were no com- this country only 300,000 miles, or plaints of destructive pranks. Which 10 per cent, are set apart as state was as it should have been.” ‘and federal highways. The re- | HALLOWE’EN PRANKS M GROUPS URGE - HIGHW AYS TO ALL RURAL AREAS maining 90 per cent are local roads. While some have been given an Iau-weamer surface, not less than ' |80 per cent of the farmers still |reside on dirt roads which, even in the best farming communities are |often virtuglly impassable to mo- |tor traffic on account of mud and | snow. State and Federal governments |are expending about $750,000,000 a year on their 10 percent of the roads, and the local communities about an equal amount on the re- maining 90 per cent. Letters were read to the confer- ence showing that many farmers have to keep their automobiles and trucks stationed at the side of hard roads and transport their families