The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 17, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5567. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1930 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SHATTUCK ELECTED SENATOR BY MARGIN OF 32 VOTES RA|NMAY A"] {Repearlr of Eighteénfit INSEARCH FOR MISSING FLIER Taking Snow Off Moun- tains According to Pilot Eckmann " SKIIS ARE ADJUSTED | TO CANADIAN PLANES:Repeal of the Eighteerth Amend- | Fes Unfavorable Weather, Poor Visibility Still Ham- per Searchers With weather unsettled and visi- bility poor in Northern British Co- ! lumbia, search planes for Pilot Robin Renhan and E. J. A. Burke and companions are unable to take the air today. Anscel Eckmann and his com- panions made a short flight out of reached for a plan to strengthen | act pe repealed and States enforce Kezc‘hxkan yesterday afternoon, re- ' the present system or whether some | the Eighteenth Amendment. turning at dusk. Both mountains form of modification will be urged, | and lowlands were, covered Wwith' snow but light rains are falling| and are now expected to clear the hills to facilitate the search,| Eckmann said. Navy Planes in Storm The two United States Navy| planes enroute from San Diego to! Seattle and Bremerton Navy Yard to join the search were forced to land at Medford, Oregon, Sunday, on account of storms after taking off from Red Bluff, California, at noon. Weather permitting the planes were expected to fly north taday. Insists Husband Lives Mrs. Sam Clerf, wife of a com- panion of Pilot Renahan, is pre- paring to fly to British Columbia from San Francisco taking her five months old baby. She insists her husband will be found alive, The Royal Canadian Air Force planes made short umsuccessful flights from Prince Rupert, B. C., last Saturday seeking Renahan and his companions, Sam Clerf and Frank Hatcher. Adjusting Skiis Two Pacific International Air- ways planes enroute to Atlin to search for Capt. Burke and his two companions, Emil Kading and Bob Martens, were held at Smith- ers, B. C., last Saturday, adjusting skiis. They expected to make the hop to Atlin either Sunday or to- day. Pilot E. J. Wasson, young flier, is held to the ground at White-|cut of 1 per cent in income taxes horse by unfavorable weather. Pilot W. A. Joerss is making ready at Prince Rupert to join the search for Pilot Renahan. Report About Renahan It was reported at Prince Rupert last Saturday that an Indian nam- ed Douglas reported he saw Rena- han flying just above the tree tops toward the mountain near the en- trance of Greinville and he was Amendment Discarded 1 By Ho over Commission | Denial Made that Four Per Cent Beer or National Members Guard Secret of What Plan Will Be Suggested — Report Ready by January 1 or| Before WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 17— ment has been definitely discarded by President Hoover's Law Enforce- ment Commission. is to be done but repeal is not in- cluded among them. An autheritative denial was also entered into the oft-repeated rumor that the Commission, as a whole, would recommand 4 percent beer or urge a National referendum. Whether a final agreement will be remained a question. The eleven members’ secret 1s guarded with the same care as has surrounded the seventeen months’ deliberations. From the members however came the assurance that the report will | surely be laid on President Hoover's desk January 1 or before. While the members of the Com- mission have taken a recess until November 24, another attack on | Party, taken by Senator Simeon D. | Chairman of the Repubhcnn“ National Committee, was made by | | Representative Fred A. Britten, Re- | | publican, of Illinois, who said Fess | | The Commission members have | should resign, turning the manage | | reached tentative conclusions what | ment of the Republican machine over to “someone who can properly sense public opinion.” | REPEAL VOLSTEAD LAW { | WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 17— To compile plans advanced for | Prohibition law changes, Represen- | tative Beck, Republican of Penn- | sylvania, suggested the Volstead Representative Beck said any ef- fort to regeal the Eighteenth Amendment would result in such a defeat as to postpone any “prac- tical relief for another genera- tion.” The Congressman said any politi- cal pariy attempting to side-step the issue will be doomed to defeat. He said the Law Enforcement Commission is expected to recom- mend for strengthening of the laws without reference to repeal or changes. HOOVER STATES DEFICIT NEEDN'T CAUSE ALARM President and Republican Senate Leaders Differ on Tax Cut WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—Presi- dent Hoover believes that there will be a small treasury deficit at the end of the current fiscal year, which will close next June 30. His view of financial conditions gives rise to the opinoon in some influ- ential quarters that the temporary made last year cannot be continued for the next. The rates will auto- matically revert to the high lev- els.unless Congress acts to continue the reduced rates. Congress is not likely to take such action unless urged to do so by the President. No Cause for Alarm The President does not think that there is any cause for alarm in the fact that necessary expendi-| SENATORBORAH DENIES THREAT OF FILIBUSTER | | Says Fear of President Hoover Is “‘Superla- tive Impudence” | WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 17— Senator William E. Borah, Republi can of Idaho, characterized as “su-; perlative impudence” the fear of President Hoover that an extra session of Congress is going to be forced next Spring by a filibuster at the approaching short term of Congress. “I have not heard of any such threats from the Democrats nor ! from Progressives, I think it is an ! exhibition of superative impudence to be stating this in effect. Progres- sives or Democrats have Jjust as keen a sense of responsibility and | intelligent conception of their duty 'as the regulars” said Senator| | Borah. : President Hoover has solicited as- I {Fishing Boat HIGH TARIFF MAKES J0BS SAYS SMOOT. Referendum Will Be Recommended—-Eleven‘Wage Levels Are Being| Maintained n All Ma- jor Industries DEFENDS U. S. IN MAKING INCREASES Thirty Nations Increased Tariffs Against This Country WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 17.— United States Senator Reed Smooi whose name is attached to the new tariff act so widely condemned and also defended in the campaign, said the “question is whether the tariff is high enough not whether it is too high.” The statement was made after conferring with President Hoover. Senator Smoot held the tariff| was alding business recoverys He said wage levels were malhtained in all major industries as the re-, {sult of “agreements brought about | by the President. He said thousands | of people were at work today with| the shoe, textiles and other indus- tries who would be idle except for the tariff.” Senator Smoot said ‘“prices of corn, butter, wool and other pro- ducts are higher than would have been as provided by prices every- where else. Products of the rest | | | | | | EIGHTEEN KILLED AS BOAT POUNDED TO PIECES 8 The lumber schooner Brooklyn, with a crew of 18, sank within fiv encountered on leaving Humboldt, by a huge wave in a gale ashore with part of the engines left on the shore. of the world have dropped to such ' levels as would flood the United } States if it was not for the tariff.| ‘The purchasing power of the farmer is being sustained and this is creat-) i | ing more work. Only one nation| M has increased tariffs since we un- dertook a revision. Three years pre- vious to our revision, thirty nati increased. tariffs against thé Uni States.” R Reaches Nanaimo From England NANAIMO, B. C., Nov. 17.— The 25-ton fishing boat Lady Royal has arrived here with E. W. Wilson and crew of threc from Brixton, England via the Panama Canal. The Lady Royal left Brixton last March. The craft crossed the Bay of Biscay, stopped at Palma, Canary Islands, crossed to Antigua, British West In- dies, then to Kingston, Jamaica. From there the vessel crossed the Caribbean Sea, through the Panama Canal to the Pacific Ocean. Provisions ran low while 900 miles from land and rations Julius L. Meier, independent, gov Mrs. Frederick M. 3 Joseph Ehrman 11 of San Francisco, (front) the ler. ily. Left to right, rear: Julius L. jr., and Mrs. successful candidate and Mrs. Me 6 WOUNDED IN ELECTIONS Premier Pilsudski Govern- ment Will Have Ma- GOVERNOR.ELECT WITH Cal, still fastened to the hull and ‘insc() FAMILY Assocated Press Photo ernor-elect of Oregon and his fam- Ganz of San Francisco, MARTIAL LAW T0 CONTINUE ~ HAVANA CIT harbor. Assocrated Press Photo e minutes after being bowled over The wreckage was washed STORMS OVER "COAST STATES ARE SUBSIDING ERain in California, Oregon ! Turns Into Blizzard— | Tornadoes South SEATTLE, Nov. 17—The storm whichh hgs ryled in the Western | states for the last three days is | wearing itself out in California and | Nevada today, according to Weather Bureau reports. | The rain in Northern California | and Oregon has turned into a bliz- | zard. Automobiles are stranded and telephone and telegraph lines are broken. | Snoqualmie Pass in Washington ‘)s open but Oregon and California passes are closed by snow. ’ In the Middle West winter treked |down from Canada and covered portions of Minnesota and South Dakota with ice. Wisconsin and Michigan are cov- ered with snow which hampers traffic. Snowplows are at work in many sections clearing the high- ways. Edward Achuff and Clarence/ Stevens are marooned in a cabin on Mount Hood in Oregon by 10 feet of snow. Rescuers are attempting {to reach them before their two days’ supply of food gives out. DEMOCRAT WINS IN CLOSE RACE: VOTE COMPLETE Recheck Nets Small Gains for All Democrats— Wick Lead Cut to 149 GRIGSBY MAKES GAIN IN FIVE NEW RETURNS Three in First and Two in . Third Division Are Car- 1‘ ried by Democrats Allen Shattuck, Democrat, has de- feated C. T. (Tom) Gardner, Re- | publican, for Senator from the First | Division by a margin of 32 votes. IH{‘ gained five votes in three pre- :(-lncls reporting here today and added 28 more in a recheck of the duplicate official returns received at the office of Clerk of the United States District Court. His election is now certain since the returns held by the Clerk of Court are a duplicate in every re- spect of the official returns to the Territorial Canvassing Board except that the latter receives the baliots. Both sets come directly from the election boards at the several pre- cincts. The total vote in this sace was: Shattuck 2,315, Gardner 2,283, Grigsby Also Gains George B. Grigsby, Democratic candidate for Delegate, also made substantial gains over the week end over Judge James Wickersham, his Republican opponent. The latter now has a lead of 149 votes with probably about 500 votes unreported from all over the Territory. Mr. Grigsby carried Port Alexander, Shakan and Copper Mount, by nine votes and made a net gain of 16 votes in the recheck. Chignik and Hope, in the Third Division, gave him a majority of 16 votes, making his total gain 41 from all sources. This reduced Judge Wickersham's lead to 149 votes. The vote in this Division was: Grigsby 2,636, Wicker- sham 2,483, While W. K. Keller, Republican, | carried Port Alexander by 11 and lost Shakan and Copper Mount by seven, his vote in this Division suf- fered a net loss of six votes on the |recheck. He is now leading An- {thony J. Karnes on the Territorial |vote by 210 votes. He carried Chignik by 15 votes, but lost Hope by six. The vote in this Division |was: Karnes 2426, Keller 2373. | All Democrats Gain Every Democratic candidate made | slight gains on the PFirst Division {recheck but not enough to affect (the outcome of any of the other | contests. The official returns from Klukwan and Wrangell were en- tirely different from those originally |received through the bulletin serv- tain the flier cracked. A search, < 5 | Party leaders in the % . \ ; 7 accor e tures will exceed revenues “by aSurances trom RN U consisted of one cup of water jority Deputies |Constitutional Gua rantees Tornadoes swept Louisiana, Mis-| according to reports, has not yet been 'made in that vicinity. Request More Planes The Vancouver, B. C. Flight Committee has sent a request to the Department of National De- fense at Ottawa for two Royal Canadian Air Force planes equipped with skiis to bé sent immediately comparatively small percentage.” | “As we have had surpluses over| many years” he states, “probably i we can stand a deficit for one year; without disarranging the stability | of the government. The President said that final es- timates of appropriations to be] Senate against any filibuster. KIDNAPPING daily. The liner Wilhelmina was sighted and necessities were ob- tained. MADRID STRIKE 'Sundsy WARSAW, Nov. 17. — Sixty-one persons were wounded in clashes| and the in Warsaw Saturday night in connection with Polish Parliamentary elections Returns indicate the Government Party of Premier Pulsudski will ‘have a majority. Suspended — Mili- tary on Duty | HAVANA, Cuba, Nov. 17.—Throt- |tled by martial law, opposition to {the Adininistration of President |Machado has subsided and the city sissippi, Alabama and Georgia last | Saturday night ! A negro child was blown 75 yards | Mrs. George Davis was killed while | sleeping when her home collapsed ,at Brookhaven, Mississippi. | Many persons were injured in at Winnsboro, Louisiana and killed. | ice of the United States Signal Corps. Errors were discovered in one or two other precincts. The corrected returns from Wrangell and Klukwwan follow: Wrangell: Grigsby 120, Wickersham 121, Sutherland 1; Hardcastle 72, | Smith 142; Cole 184, Gaffney 57; |Hesse 67, Johnson 15, Ulmer 136; THREAT MADE Mary Pickford's Niece Is Under Guard of Police at Beverly Hills | BEVERLY HILLS, Cal, Nov. 17.| —The Beverly Hills police disclos- ed foday they have been providing| a police escort for Mary Pickford's adopted niece Gywnn as a conse- quence of threats of kidnapping. The police guarded the child to jand from school last Friday and to Atlin to search for Capt. Burke.|asked of the next Congress were various localities, livestock killed, Capt. Burke was last reported|being held up pending detailed in- leaving Liard Post on October 11.{formation of the government’s in- Pilot Renahan was last seen|come since the beginning of the about dusk on October 28. current fiscal year. d Both the President and Secretary Commumm Fire on of the Treasury Mellon expressed! American Shipping | Karnes 89, Keller 133; Frame 9, | Gardner 130, Shattuck 82; Boyle |66, Johnson 109, Judson 58, McCor- |mack 85, Paul 137, Sampson 90, iScott 93, Winn 107, Ziegler 103. Klukwan: Grigsby 3, Wickersham |40; Hardeastle 5, Smith 34; Cole 139, Gaffney 0; Hesse 1, Johnson 6, Ulmer 35; Karnes 3, Keller 37; | Frame 2, Gardner 37, Shattuck 2; Boyle 3, Johnson 37, Judson 1, Mc- l e e e o oopesy. | Presented a nearly normal aspect.| pouges, churches and barns blown liament last August and 81 opposi- Infantry and Cavalry consti- | goun especially at Macob, Missis- '{fgz lfi‘;""““ were jailed by elec-| tuiéd the principal reminder that g RSt R par. X constitutional guarantees have bee“‘ishe; in Louislana: Jackson and suspended. s i PILSUDSKI WINS ] Rigid military rule is in force. | Queenstown in Alabama and Daw- WARSAW, Nov. 17.—Pilsudski’'s| Three thousand police are also| "™ ™ G°81% Party emerged victorious in the|on duty. ] election capturing 247 seats out of | The Government intimated mat‘l | 1S CALLED OFF Three Days of General Dis- orders Come to End Sunday Night MADRID, Spain, Nov. 17.—After three days of rioting and general disorder with two known dead o number gravely injured, 200 with lesser hurts, the Madrid general strike was ordered to end Sa day night by the Labor Dep ments. The strike was declared following charges the Police were brutal at a funeral of four workmen last ‘Wednesday. The strike caused great suffering because of a food shortage. — e {Premier Hlmullcllii Shows Signs, Recovery confidence that the present reducedi income rates could be continued.| Smoot Opposed Reduced Rates HANKOW, China, Nov. 17—Muz- | Senator Smoot, Republican, of| zle-loading cannon manned by|Utah, chairman of the Senate fi-| Communists along the south bank nance committee, declared that hej of the Yangtse River were contin- was opposed to continuance of the| uously active today against passing|reduced income tax rates. His word shipping. Three American steamers|in fiscal affairs is considered au-'., . {,qay were attacked but all escaped With|thoritative. N aither VoA police, Douglas Fair- Hae damour Senator Reed, Republican of . py nor Mary will reveal the na- e Pennsylvania, also an authority on .. of the threat. fiscal affairs, shares Senator| mne gir] is the daughter of Lot- Smoot’s view. Senator Reed added (. pjckford. that he did not believe Congress| The police said they received would renew the reduced rates. |reports of other threatened kid- —l !nappings but discounted them. Har- old Lloyd was reported to have Ireceived a threat that his daugh- ter was slated for kidnapping but {the rumor started when he chang- ‘ed the watchman on his estate. ———.,—— " 'Nine Are Killed At Grade Crossing TODAY'S STOCK, QUOTATIONS ! . H 444. The Premier controls the martial law will remain perhaps for | House in which he commanded by |several days until the morale of the only 118 votes at dissolution. Theldxsturbers. chiefly students, has| results are: Pilsudski's party Zfl,lbeen broken. Centro-Radicals 82, National Dem-| Fighting last week resulted ocrats 62, Ukranians and White|seven deaths and 50 more wounded. | gumoau mine stock today s 6%, American Int. Russians 21, Christian Democrats| Censorship has extended to tele- american Can 113%, Anaconda!Hiolcay C 13. :phonos and radios. Previously the|gopper 377, Bethlenem Steel 627,/ ’lg way Lom. oo cable and telegraph service were pox Fiims 31%, General Motors| Now Complete % !under a ban. All Spanish language 343, Granby Corporation 19, In-| Wol/ Bites Off | newapspers, ;‘xt'ept the Herald de ternational Harvester 58%:, Kenne- e 5 § | Cuba suspended publications rather|cott Copper 29%, National Acme |‘Two Fingers of | than submit to censorship pruning. |7y, Fackard Matars 4. Alamokials \Woman’s Hand | Fifty or more arrests have been|Beds 13%, United Aircraft 27, U.|e made |S. Steel 144'%, Curtis Wright 3%,'e ISHPEMING, Michigan, Nov. Standard Brands 15%, Standard e 17—With two fingers of her Ofl - of * California 5 Standard | right hand bitten off by a wolf, Oil of New Jersey 53% - Mrs. Gust Loylun‘l-n. aged 56 years, is in a hospital here un- \LARGE AUDIENCE ATTENDS CONCERT der treatment for blood poison- | |to 30 days in jail. ing. Leaving her home near Tre- | The Police sald a code was seized | | " (Continued on Page Eight) i bl NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., Nov.| In 47 —Closing quotations of Alaska /s . -oo—— Old Man Gloom To Be Buried; Plan National Day % CHICAGO, 1ll, Nov. 17— Business men are preparing to bury Old Man Gloom. One hundred business men, headed by Andrew J. Weis- burg, hotel owner, have or- ganized a “Better Bay” com- mittee and will produce Business Pessimism in ef- WASHINGTON, D.C, Nov. Herbert H. Rice, of De- troit, Treasurer of the Na- tional Automobile Chamber of Commerce, has been ap- pointed by the Interior De- partment, as Chairman of the American Commission created by Congress to in- vestigate the feasibility of a highway between the United States, through British Co- lumbia to the Yukon and Alaska. | 17 SHIFTING “BOOM” HOTEL FINALLY SETTLES DOWN SENTENCED TO JAIL o HOBBS, N. M., Nov. 17. — The ‘wandering hotel” of the Permian Basin now is more or less estab- |lshed in this new oil city, its fourth home. The nomadic hostelry began life HAVANA, Nov. 17 jand fifty persons | Friday were today One hundred arrested since sentenced each TOKYO, Japan, Nov. 17—Pre-} mier Yuko Hamaguchi, shot in the abdomen by an assassin last Fri- day on a train platform here, today appeared to be on the road to re- |last night in the arrest at Santiago figy, place it on trial, prose- cute and condemn to death. The execution date is De- cember 31. A huge balloon bearing the effigy will be set free. Mayors of various cities have been invited to make it a national day. ,o--ooa.ooo.oo“h‘“ ®at Fort Stockton, Tex. From there ® iits 40 rooms went to Big Spring, Tex. The structure = then moved to Pyote, Tex. After flush production was gone in the Pyote areas, the senger train. J. C. Flippen, white| o linn was transferred to Hobbs, com- man, and eight negroes, four wom- ® |pleting 300 miles of traveling. Now en and four children were those grown to 100 rooms. killed. RICHMOND, Virginia, Nov. 17— ;Nine persons were killed at a cross- ing near Dewitt when an automo- bile was struck by a Seaboard pas- 096000000000 0000 covery. The 60-year-old Premier slept well last night and took tea today. The assailant has not made his motive clear. | ——>-- Miss Irene Burke, who ha n taking a vacation in the States, was a passenger northbound to Juncau on the Princess Norah. nary after dusk to care for a flock of sheep, she was sudden- ly confronted by a wolf. She threw her hands up to protect herself and the wolf sprang and snapped off two of her fingers and then fled. Mrs. Loytunenn will probably recover. |of Jacob Augustin Pino, alleged | Radical Chief, and implicates 100 | members of the Natic Com- mu Party in Cuba editious lit- € was' also This liter ature urges gverthrow of Man" which is said to mean President | Machado. nalist d The first concert given by ‘mus)(\xl department of the Juneau e {High School in the grammar school e |auditorium Sunday afternoon Wws [well attended. The young artist both those on the vocal and in-le Istrumenta} parts of the program,|e ‘acquitted themselves admirably and e to the delight of their Instructors.|e Other members of the Am- erican Commission are Ern- est Walker Sawyer and Ma- jor Malcolm Elliott, Presi- dent of the Alaska Road Commission, with his head- quarters at Juneau, Alaska.