The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 14, 1930, Page 1

- " v THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5565. * JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1930. ECKMANN FINDS MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ASSASSINATION OF SOVIET DEL. IS LATEST PLOT Members of Russian Com-| e \ mission at Geneva Are Marked Men | GREAT SECRECY IS | BEING MAINTAINED Threat Received in Letter| Which Is Not Believed to Be Hoax 1 | GENEVA, Nov. 14. — The Ex-! change Telegraph says the Swiss police are observing great secrecy in connection with a plot discov- ered yesterday to assassinate the, Soviet delegation to the Prepara-| Jam MAYOR ROLPH ELECTED GOVERNOR - - 4 Ausociated Press Phote Rolph, Jr, mayor of San Francisco for many years, was elected governor of California. He is shown with Mrs. Rolph. ten in Russian and addressed to General of the League of Nations.| MARTIAL LAW with the delegation for the frontier | —_— The letter is not considered & tory Disarmament Commission. the Soviet delegation and Secretary The letter said it was the inten- | and to shoot the members of ""‘,Troops Patrol Streets as hoax. i The Agency said the conspiracy tion of White Russians to board a party, including Maxim Litvinoff, Result of Student Police have been aware of the was revealed through a letter writ- HAVANA UNDER the train as it was leaving Genev: Soviet Foreign Minister. Demonstrations presence in Switzerland of a num-| VAVANA, Nov. 14.—Havana’'s nor- ber of Soviet enemies who got into mal atmosphere has returned after | the country without passports. |a series of student disorders which The Swiss police adopted spec- resulted yesterday in the suspen- ial precautions regarding Rus-'sion of the Constitution for the city sian delegations at Geneva after and establishment of martial law. the assassination of Vaslava Vor-| Troops patrolled the city forbid- ovsky at Lusanna in 1923. 'd!ng public gatherings. e ! Since 10 o'clock last night, when 14-year-old boy was mer President Menocal, was shot {in a battle. wounded, | la |the situation has remained quiet.| iArturmaglcy Soria, relative of for-| | No disorders have been reported, MONTANA; LOW TEMPERATURES Fifty Automobiles Filled with Tourists Re- ported Stalled HELENA, Montana, Nov. 14— Snow blanketed th® state today af- ter riding down from Canada on a brisk wind. Temperatures fell rapidly. Fifty automobiles are stalled be- tween Glacier Park station and Belton. The occupants are mostly tourists. + Temperature here was 14 degrees above zero, a drop of 37 degrees with the snow. Anaconda reports 13 degrees abova zero. ‘Heavy snow is falling at Billings and the temperature is dropping. Livingston reports a heavy snow fall’ with temperature of 22 above zero. . Freezing temperature is also re- ported at Bozeman. - ., Standard Oil’s Net Estimated at $3.30 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 14—On the basis of the quarterly earnings figures made public by the Stan- dard Oil Company of California, which disclose share earnings of $2.37 on 12845980 shares for the first nine months of 1930, the re- sults of the final quarter should bring the net profit for the full year to a figure equivalent to ap- proximately $3.30 a share on 13,102,- 899 shares, the number to be out- standing at December 31, 1930, as a result of the payment of 2 per cent in stoek to be made December 15. ——————— Y A \ Winter Pays Visit to California SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. 14—Unsettled conditions pre- vailed today over California fol- lowing a visit of winter. A slight damage to crops is reported. The roads in the Yosemite are fup to noon today and the gov- jernment is confident trouble will be cleared away within a day or {two. ., CALLOFF "~ HOUR STRIKE [Troops Maintain Martial Law, However, in Peru Copper District LIMA, Peru, Nov. 14—Lima’s |workers trooped back this morning ito their jobs as the General Work- ers' Conference called off the 24 {hour strike, which partly paralyzed ithe city late yesterday. Martial law still prevails in the Cerro de Pasco copper Region particularly at Malposa where two Americans and more than a dozen others were killed in riots. Militant anti-foreign sentiment continued in the mining district and troops are on the alert |to prevent sabotage at the mines. LABOR RIOTS STIR MADRID MADRID, Nov. 14—Three men have been killed, a dozen seriously iwounded and 50 others injured less seriously in a series of a labor riots which broke out this after- noon. The riots threw the city into a turmoil. Lady .l:ne Inverclyde Now Seeking Divorce LONDON, Nov. 1l4—Lady In- verclyde, better known as “June, the Actress,” who was married to Lord Inverclyde last year after a romantic courtship on both sides of ' the Atlantic, has asked the Di- lvorce Court for annulment of the| marriage. Lord Inverclyde asked dismissal| of the petition on the ground that ’the court had no jurisdiction as the parties involved were domiciled; Lord and Lady Inverclyde had never | lived together as man and wife. The | VOTE AGAINST * UNITED STATES Budgetary Method of War . Material Limitation Ac- i cepted at Geneva GENEVA, Nov. 14—The Pre- paratcry Disarmament Commis- | tion of the League of Nations | has accepted the principle of | Yimitation of land war materials | by a Budgetary method which | the United States, through its | representative Hugh S. Gib- son, declined to accept. The principle is embodied in a rceolution by Victount Cecil for Great Britain. Sixteen nations supported the principle including Canada, France, Japan, Russia, Germany and Italy against the United States, Sweden, Turkey, Vene- zucla and Bulgaria. China did not vote. MANY BURIED UNDER DEBRS i i | Hundred Dead in Land- | slide—Rescuers Hurt LYONS, France, Nov. 14—Three workmen were injured by falling \masonry as they labored on Four- viere Hill in an effort to dig out scores of persons buried yesterday under debris of an overwhelming |landslide. | The authorities have decided to use dynamite to demolish the shaky walls of buildings still standing in the zone and facing the rescuers. | A wide area has been evacuated in fear of further slides. | Only five bodies have been re- |covered but it is estimated that be- tween 60 and 100 persons remain buried. iKetchikan Federal i Building Condemned KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Nov. 14—A stinging condemnation of the Fed- eral Building here, charging specifi- |cally it is a fire trap, unsanitary and inadequate, was voiced by 'nhe Federal Grand Jury in a re- port to Judge Justin W. ‘Harding | yesterday. The report urged a Inew building as soon as possible. —————————— “ERRORS PART O GAME,” - SAYS ATHLETICS' COACH CHICAGO, Nov. 14—Connie Mack, 67-year-old manager of the world’s champion Athletics, seldom eriti- cizes his players for making mis- plays on the ball field. “Errors,” says Mack, “are a part of baseball and must be expected.” S LAWRENCE KERR HERE Lawrence Kerr of Nome, veteran in Scotland. Counsel stated that!court reporter and Clerk of the Brands 14%, Standard Oil of Cali- House of Representatives at the last session of the Territorial Leg- PREMIER OF * JAPAN SHOT | ~ BY FANATIC Assassin Fires from Dis- tance of Six Feet, at Railroad , Station 'WOUNDED OFFICIAL - | TAKEN TO HOSPITAL i & iCondition Reported Serious But May Recover, Doctors State | | | | TOKYO, Nov. 14—Yuko Hama- 'guchi, Premier of Japan, who teok |a prominent part in the London | Naval Conference, was shot today by Tomeo Sakoya, aged 23, member of the Aikokusha or “Love of Coun- try Association,” a reactionmary pa- triotic organization, at the Tokyo Central station where the Pre- {mier was about to entrain for Yoko- ! {hama. “ i The committee appointed by White House after a conference The youth fired from a distance| ~Sra [SServe system: Secretaries |of six feet, the bullet penetrating| _ Wik the right abdomen and ranging tb- |ward the hip. & The assassin was immediately seized by the Police. I The Premier was taken to the, Imperial University hospital where P AINTED uN doctors said his condition is seri- ous but,the chance of racovery ls\i FENGE RAIL | considered good. :MA”- BY ed that Attempt Will OVER ATLANTIC | B Made on'Lit 1S ANNOUNGED =52 £ s over a message painted on the 3 ’fence facing his window, which Fast Planes and Flying'erected him when he arose tis Boats Will Be Used jmorning. | iy } | {Chicago Policeman Warn-| Associated Press I'hotc President Hoover to deal with unemployment problems is shown at the with the Presigent Left to right: Eugene Meyer, governor ot the ted- Ray Lyman Wilour, Patrick Huriey, Andrew Mellon, Robert P. Lamont, O'MALLEY HAS SESSION WITH FISH PACKERS Holds Conference in San Francisco — Coming North to Seattle SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. 14. —Federal Fisheries Henry O'Malley met here yesterday with the Bristol Bay salmon pack- ers and officers of the Alaska Pack- ers' Association to discuss fishing conditions in Alaskan waters, } Succeeds Father | g | Commissioner | PRICE TEN CENTS N0 TRACE OF RENAHAN'S PLANE | PRESIDENTHOOVE.R 5 UNEMPLOYMENT COMMITTEE NU WHEGKAGE IS SIGHTED BY ~ SEARCH PARTY Portland Canal Section Is Combed by Plane and Three Men NAVY PLANES ARE ENROUTE FROM CAL. Will Proceed North from Bremerton to Joint Hunt for Missing Airmen KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Nov, {11.—Chief Pilot Anscel Eck- |{mann, with Larry Parks and Frank Wadham made a trip {up Portland Canal to Hyder {and Stewart Thursday with- out locating any sign of Pilot “Pat” Renahan or his com- panions, Sam Clerf and Frank Hatcher. The flight up the canal was |made following a report from Stewart, B. C, that the wrecked plane of Renahan and one body floating in the canal had been seen. Eckmann radioed last night that |he will work southwest of here to- vday, weather permitting. | Pilot Renahan and his compan- |lons were last seen about dusk on October 28 flying north over Lucy Island, probably enroute to Prince iRupert. B. C. NAVY PLANES ENROUTE SAN DIEGO, Cal, Nov. 14—Two |Loening amphibian planes left here |this morning for Seattle and Brem- jerton to take part in the search |for Pilot Robin “Pat” Renahan and {his two companions. | The planes are under the com- Between Sixty and One| , for Service I NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, Nov. 14. —Plans for a Trans-Atlantic air- mail service have been completed. Announcements made here today revealed that the Pan-American Airways will carry mail from New |York to Bermuda in fast single- seated planes and the Imperial Air- ways of London will pick the mail up there in giant four-motored fly- ling boats and carry on to England. The plans at present call only for mail but later the service may | be expanded and include express and passengers. Gear f; Landing Planes On Carriers Is Improved WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 15.} ‘—Speedmg up the operation of landing planes on aircraft carriers has earned commendation for three navy men. 4 Lieut. J. C. Metzel, E. B. Mang- ham, and Alfred Caehler received letters of praise from the secretary of navy for devising automatic elec- tric control for the motors which ch ‘;snralgmen the cables on deck Wi slow up landing planes. The development was found in tests to simplify and render prac- tically fool-proof the operation of |the gear which is the “heart’ of landings on the floating airports. Planes coming in for landing ap- proach the carriers from the rear, dropping a hook which engages one |of a series of cables stretched across, deck. Before a second plane can land the first must be run to the forward part of the ship and the cables, operated from below,| stretched into position. ———— L3 —0 | TODAY’S STOCK | A QUOTATIONS | . —e NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. Nov. ‘The message was: “Keating is next.” Investigators said they believed the warning meant an attempt would be made on Keating's life to prevent him testifying for the state against William “Three Fingered” Jack White, accused of slaying a policeman a few years ago. Keating is gathering evidence to be used during the trial. He de- clined a body guard. 12 Fingers and 12 Toes—Police lAre Astonished CENTRALIA, Wash., Nov. 14— Mike Greenleaf, in charge of the Centralia police fingerprint bureau, found himself confronted with bigger job than he anticipated. Ray Bickerton, 32 years old, a vagrant brought in by the street force be- cause he needed a night's sleep was to be fingerprinted before his Telease. The standard identification card has places for five fingers. Bicker- ton's hand though has six fingers.| “Let's see your other hand,” said the officer. Six fingers on the other hand, “That isn't all” the prisoner said, and he took off his shoes and S0X. Each foot had six toes, all nor- mal in appearance. The man was released without suspicion. ————————— Canadian Railway’s Gross Off Sharply TORONTO, Ont, Nov. 14—The Canadian National Railway's gross earnings to date this year were ap- proximately $40,000,000 less than the same period in 1929, Sir Henry ‘Thornton, president, revealed here. The decrease in earnings will be offset, Thornton said, by drastic ‘n w‘as announced that mmm‘;mand of Lieut. C. F. Greber. He fhdnuea are proposed to the fish-|is piloting one plane and Chief ing regulations but before making|Electriclan Claude Alexander is pil~ specific changes, O'Malley will go to Seattle and confer with fishing interests there. | -+ GIANT PLANE Associated Press Photo Charles F. Curry, jr., was elected | representative from the third Cali fornia congressional district tc succeed his father who died a shor! time ago. MONEY OFFER 1S DENIED IN CALSHOT, England, Nov. 4—Af- ter several unsuccessful attempts to take off from the bay here, the glant German Do-X left the water at 3:45 o'clock this morning for Bordeaux in continuation of the flight to New York City The giant plane is piloted by C. ¥ H. Schildauer, of New Holstein, Wisconsin, U. 8. A, and carries 27 passengers, officers and crew which included Mr. and Mrs. Louis Huck of New York City and Harvey | Brewton, of Panama City, Florida, Testimony Is Given Before Senatorial Investi- e who are making the trip across the gating Body Atlantic Ocean o i SRR _ DENVER, wiorado, Nov. 14— Qutput of Taking the stand as a volunteer | witness, Harry T. McCauley, Umv..v(li("’l’["‘r May States Revenue Agent in charge of | B 5 g Colorado, Wyoming and New Mex- B( Ru[“’“l ico, told the Senatorial Campaign | Investigating Committee that he had not offered George Birdsall $5,000 or money to councilmen at| Colorado Springs to influence their, attitude toward the Natural Gas! franchise there. Birdsall testified action yesterday. McCauley said he helped to get| an attorney for the company there | NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, Nov. 14—The Copper Institute announced last night it had re- commended to the industry a reduction in the current output of the rcd metal sufficient to prevent an increase in existing , a large volume of which as depressed prices severcly this year. to such trans- D0-X IS OFF oting the other plane. The two planes will work under orders of Capt, Zeno Briggs, Com- !mandant at the Bremerton Navy | Yard. It is understood here that guide |pilots will be provided at Seattle |by the Alaska-Washington Airways. Whether the search will be ex- {tended for Capt. E. J. A. Burke, missing in the Liard district since October 11 is not known here. With |Burke are Emil Kading and Bob Marten. HAROLD GATTY COMING HOME; " BADLY GASSE Bromley’s Companion to Reach Seattle Soon from Japan SEATTLE, Nov. 14—Harold Gat- ty, companion of Lieut. Harold Bromley on the latter's attempted flight from Japan to Tacoma, will arrive here on November 29 on the President Madison. Gatty was more seriously affected by gas fumes which blocked the tlight than was Bromley who ar- rived in Seattle some time ago. Gatty, however, recovered from the fumes more quickly than was expected. when the franchise was up for de-| | cision but received no compensa- |{tion. He said he had not been ac- | ltive in the campaign of George | Shaw, defeated Republican Sena- |torial candidate, in the recent cam- paign The testimony was offered in !connection with Chairman Nye's STYLE, actress, whose real name was June Howard-Tripp, and Lord Inverclyde were married at St. Colomba's church, London, March 21,.1929. ————————— closed by snow. Rain fell in Southern Califor- nia yesterday, the first since last April. A fishing boat and two barges containing sardines were over- There are more than 6,000 de- turned when a squall hit Monte- |partment stores in the United islature, is in Juneau for an in- idefinite stay. After adjournment lof the last Legislature, he returned to Nome, and subsequently jour: ineyed to many parts of the Inter- jor. He then went to the States, 'visiting large cities on thg Pacific jand Atlantic coasts. economies in all operating depart- ments and capital expendifures. These economies will total approxi- {mately $30,000,000 by the end of the year, he said. Thornton estimated that at least |14—Closing quotation of Aliska !Juneau mine stock today is 6 American Can 116%, Anacc Copper 417%, Bethlehem Steel © Fox Films 29%, Granby Cor 21%, International A Harvester Kennecott Copper 32, Na Acme, no sale, Packard Motors Simmons Beds 13%, jonj 59%, onal it the sluggish wheat market this to the general 1711’ year and the rest StandaTd pginess depression fornia 51, Standard Oil of Jersey 54%, United Aircraft |U. 8. Steel 146 and Curtis-W "'"“’lkudolpiA Sparen Is Dead; Funeral Sunday SEATTLE, Nov. 14—The funeral 31uffs, of Rudloph Sparen, aged 42 years, in- superintendent of the Kodiak Fish- eries, who died here yesterday, will be held Sunday. Sparent has re- sided in Seattle for 25 years. - | o ok 2 E. J. Gillet of Counci Ia., who is supervising th stallation of elevators in the C iwl Building, is staying at the Gas tineau Hotel. {half of the drop was attributable | 'hearing which charged “public util- ity participation in Senatorial election, according to in- | formation received by the Commit- tee.” - Bankruptcy Proceedings { " Against W. N. P. Co. | SEATTLE, Nov. 14—An involun- the Colorado | WASHINGTON, Nov. 14—Ameri- {can women now surpass French {women in style and beauty as a {result of the phenomenal growth of {the bea industry in this country, says Georges Bolchert, one of. the |tirst n in the capital to open a |“beauty parlor.” Bolchert, now of a concern which caters to exclusive trade in Wash- Img'.or: would fix the annual figure \tary bankruptey proceedings listing being spent for beautification in the claims of $14,841 has been filed in|United States at $3,000,000,000 in- the Federal Court agfinst the stead of the $1000,000,000 recently Wrangell Narrows Packing Com-|estimated by C. C. Concannon, chiet sany. The petitioning creditors |of the chemical division of the de- are J. T. Tenneson, Schwabacher |partment of commerce the coun- where a seventh in industries Hardware Company and Hogue and|{ “Ran “Tveten Company. |try's leading U. S. WOMEN LEAD BEAUTY, EXPERT DECLARES few years ago it was only the four- teenth, the beauty business has as patrons the shop girl and the wom- an of millions, the school girl and the grandmother,” says Bolchert. “It has made women cleaner, hap- pier, healthier.” All around him were evidences of the suave, scented activities which contribute to the 26,000 tons of skin lotions and the 4,000 tons of face powder used annually by the women of this country. “Women between 30 and 50 are the best patrons,” says Bolchert, The annual bills of some of our patrons come to around $2,000. But the average patron spends about $10 ) weekly throughout the year.