The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 22, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5572. “ALL THE NEWS " JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 ALL THE TIME” 80 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS B " PRICE TEN CENTS NAVY PLANES FLY NORTH T0 SEARCH FOR RENAHAN e e il GOVERNMENT TO FIGHT RACKE OPEN ROUND-TABLE CONFERENCE FEDERAL AGENTS TO MATCH WITS [ WITH GANGSTERS. [ General On;l;u_ghl Against Underworld Organi- zations Planned PREYING ACTIVITIES DISCLOSED, N.Y. CITY | | District Attorney Receives, Complaints of Many Rackets g | WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 22— | Gangsters, racketeers and narcotic smugglers are to get a dose of pra- ventative medicine from the Law Enforcement branches of -the Fed- eral Government. The Customs Bureau announces it is going to concentrate expert; narcotic agents on the Pacific Coast | to combat smuggling. Representative Woodruff of Mich- | igan said he would demand that; Congress enact laws specifically au-| thorizing Federal agencies to har- monize with the state agencies in their work against racketeers. Attorney General Mitchell has al- ready announced the Government| has employed special agents to combat racketeers in Chicago. § . Associated Press Photo _The round-table conference, désigned to decide the destiny of India, opened in London with Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald (upper left) chosen to preside over the deliberations. Among those prominent at the conference are: The Gaekwar of Baroda (upper right), the Maharaja of Patiala (lower left), ruling prince of the Pun- Jab, and Wedgewood Benn (lower right), secretary of state for India. FIGHT ON UNDERWORLD | NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., Nov. 22—Complaints indicating racke-! STALIN KILLED IS ADVICE FROM MOSCOW GIRCLES General Secretary of Com-| munist Party Report- ed Murdered SERIOUS DISORDERS IN SOVIET RUSSIA' European Capitals Receive Various Reports— | No Confirmation | LONDON, Nov. 22—Reports of serious disturbances in Soviet Rus= \lsla persisted today in Capitals in Europe despite repeated denials from the Russian spokesman. i ! The most important report is | centained in a dispatch from Riga, Latvia, that Stalin, Secretary Gen- eral of the Communist Party, was murdered in Moscow yesterday. | | The official Soviet News Agency | denied this and said reports were | made to distract public attention from the forthcoming trial of eight | alleged counter revolutionists. | Reports from Moscow are few tuday except for unimportant items handed out by the official Agency land did not relate to rumors which {had been queried. | Reports of disorders, said to have evaded censorship, and - of two mulinies are reported. One report came from Leningraw teers obtain millions of dollars an- nually in preying activities ranging from funeral processions to the corner golf courses were before the authorities today in an onslaught British Society Aviatrix on U. S. Tour FIRE SWEEPING on the underworld. ! LARGE sEcTIUN | After receiving fifty statements in which testimony was made re- | garding fifteen rackets in the city, | IN Ll District Attorney Crain said: | ’ “It appears that racketsers have got their hands on everything from g Five Hundred Men Called Out to Fight Blaze, | | the cradle to the grave, from babies’ milk to the funeral coaches” | Waterman Canyon On the basis of one complaint, the District Attorney ostimates that | SAN BERNARDINO, Cal, Nov.’y 22. Driven by heavy winds, a| gangdom shakes down Bnnuallyl brush fire swept over 1,000 acres in from consignees on water and rail shipments at least $5,000,000, levying Waterman Canyon and branched out over th@®mountains ! been | have | 1 | Mrs. Adele K. Cleaver, who flew from London fo In: pauses at Syracuse, N. Y., on pleas ]Sho is a daughter of a forme Minister of Finance of the Irisl Free State. he (International Newsr! well-known l British aviatrix and society lea%&gr, ia | 1? applicable public land laws by any and the otther from Kronstad where officers of the gunboat V kow are said to be in irons. Telephonic inquiries from Fin- land and Germany during the night brought reports denying disorders. The Finnish Minister reported he had walked the streets of Moscow and had not seen nor heard of any disorders. The Germans were less successful in making connections with Mos=- cow, other than by radio, but re- ported denial of rumors. ———,-—— HOMESTEADERS 70 GET CHANCE ‘Land Will Be Available in’ Arizona During Com- | 1 | ing | Month } “ PHOENIX, Ariz., Nov. 22.—A tract of land consisting of 14,700 acres | in Arizona will be thrown open D¢ { cember 16 for homesteading, U federal land office here has an- nounced. | The lands, it was pointed ou’, will be subject to homestead and desert land entry only by ex-s: icemen of the World war. The fil- ings close March 16. Stephen D. Pool, acting trar, declared that applicants may file any time between November 27, and December 16. Some in Forest { All lands remaining vacant March 116 will be subject to location regis- wre tour of the United States | lection or entry under any of the | qualified applicant. | Some of the land is within the three cents a hundred weight on all goods delivered to every pier in the city dominated by the gangs, except the United Fruit Line, Crain‘ Five hundred men said. (called to the fire scene. | | The fire is believed to have ‘started when winds blew down G'ANT Dn-x high tension lines, | | Cabins in the canyon have been| burned. | n The inhabitants led when the| [V] fire gained headway. | | Foresters, American Legion and | i, |students of the Sherman Indlan| Will Not Cross Atlantic School arc all on the firing line. | . . o | The mountain country is clust-| This Winter — Will fered with watersheds and it is| Remain il’l Span |feared high damages will result. | CORUNNA, Spain, Nov. 22—The Reds in Brazil United States will probably re-\To Face Death, ceive no visit from the giant Ger- > man seaplane Do-X this winter. Gouvt. Warns The local representative of thel RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 22— Dornier Brothers announced last The new Brazilian government will | night the ship would terminate the 'give short shift to Communists. All| present flight at El Ferrol, near Red agents seized instigating or) here, not even visiting Corunna. | participating in riots are to be shot, | The ship expects to fly from San—" Police Commissioner Baptista Luz- i tander to El Ferrol as soon as the:ardo announced. weather permits and will remain| In this manner the government| there all winter. plans to suppress the Communist| gy Sk RSN IR |disturbances that have occurred in! Mrs. Charles G. Hubbard, wife the capital during the past. While' of the owner of the Primrose gold none of them have so far resulted mine on Lake Kenai, near Seward,|in serious outbreaks, it is thought | y is a passenger aboard the Alameda the announcement will forestall| bound on a business trip to Cali- and program of violence the Com- fornia. munists may have in mind. i 10“ INJURED’ | | | | Japanese Rich Men Pay ‘Big Taxes on Incomes TIRANIA, Albania, Nov. TOKYO, Nov. 22—Baron Hach- jroemon Mitsui, head of the House of Mitsui, the titans of economic Japan, confinues, as for many years, the richest individual in the empire. Income tax assessments akis. for 1930 show that he must pay| Only two of the thirteen 1 25 per cent on an income of 2,800,- | outside Tokyo, Baron Kichizaemon bac, Brataj, Thermai, Dukat, 000 yen ($1,400,000). | Sumitomo of Osaka, and Shinbei penio, Vranisht and Llorara. i | Inui, Kobe money lender. Inui re-| e —— Next comes Baron Hisaya Iwasa-| e Hia oo A et i, senior partner of the Mitsubishi cently has been an unwilling y interests, who X i=. 1 at 2,400,000 yen a year. The N -asaki family is House of Mitsul. ‘have been killed in an earthqu Of thirteen incomes assessed 2%|yesterday in the Varona distr more than one million yen, six be-ion the shore of the Adriatic. ict, jured. gaya prison under indictment for fraud, i trip, EARTHQUAKE 22— 3 _ Seven villages were destroyed and | the principal financial rival of the|more than 50 persons are known to ake long to Mitsuis and three to lwas-“ More than 200 persons are in- ‘tors 36%, Granby Corpora The villages suffering were Ter-' necott Copper 27%, Montgomery- Le- ‘Ward 23%, National Acme 8 P A. M. Dieringer, owner of the Ojl of California 50% resident, occupying a cell in Ichi-|Valdez wharf, is a ‘passenger south Ojl of New Jersey 54%, United Alr- on the Alameda on a vacation craft 29%, U, S. Steel 147", | limits of the Crook national rrxu%t,, | and therefore not available for en-| try under the general public | laws upon the filing of the plal e | cept where embraced in valid ad-| iverze claims ante-dating the da of withdrawal, January 13, 1908 e . TODAY’S STOCK | QUOTATIONS | oy Nov.. Al- Am- Cop- el NO, Mo- n 16% Ken- NEW YORK CITY, N. Y 22.—Closing quotation today o |aska Juneai mine stock is 6 |erican Can 118%, Anaconda ,iper no sale, Bethlehem S sale, Fox Films 34%, Gener | International Harvester 62 |ard Motors 10, Simmons Beds 187, | Standard Brands 16%, Standard rd ‘Wright 3%, les must see Btates will have a hearing before Judge Charles Sey in FILM STARS PROTEST THEATER “MONOPOLY” Associated Press Photo TEERS 'FURTHER HUNT FOR MISSING MEN STARTED |Planes Leave Seattle to Join Mother Ship, | Grenville Channel |ECKMANN TO JOIN SEARCH PARTY SOON | . . | Thaw in Interior Prevents | Planes Hunting for Paddy Rurke SEATTLE, Nov. 22—The United States Navy's two amphibian planes are leaving here today to fly to Alert Bay enroute to Grenville Channel to search for Pilot Robin Renahan and his two companions, Sam Clerf and Frank Hatcher, missing in their plane since October 28. ¥ Charging West Coast Theaters is a “monopoly” Which seeks to “stifle the endeavor of motion plcture artists and producers,” these screen celebrities have served notice that they will not show their pictures In this group of theaters. Left to right: Al Jolson, Mary Pickford, Ronald Colman, Gloria Swanson, Douglas Fairbanks, Joseph M, Schenck, film executive; Charles Chaplin, Samuel Goldwyn, producer, and Edadie Cantor. Winter Hits Alaska IN ADVERTISING;R”“"'Y Builas Show SAYS PRESIDENT Good Will of Public Must Be Maintained, | Hoover Asserts ! SEWARD, Alas 2 The onslaught of winter is now felt e, six weeks earlier last year. The rotary the Alacka Railroad is making th first trip to clear the way for the pac-cnger and freight trains from the interior. Six feet of cnow is reperted at Summit, - e WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. | 22— tion of National Advertisers that if the good will of the public toward B!G PRUBLEM them is to be maintained the de-| ka, Nov. on sire created through adverti H must be satisfied by the article sold. | “The good will of the public ward the producer, the goods or the service is the essential of sound advertising, for no business succeeds upcn the sale of an article once, he said in a speech before the twen-, ty-first annual meeting of thel group. | Advertising Held Vital 1 | WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov text of President | Hoover's| z | Senators Norris of Nebraska Feature in Presiden- tial Campaign The address follows: “It gives me great pleasure to ex-| tend greetings to you upon your as- power issue under either Govern- combly In Washington. Advertising | Ment or private control was one of 15 ome of the vital organs of our|the outstanding problems confront- | . ; entire economic and jal syst | ing Congress now and the Presiden- “Ihe purpose of advertising is to| tial campalgn in 1932, create desire, and from the tor- Senator Norris is sponsoring the mants 'of desire there at once|Senate bill for Government opera- enierbes additional demand. From|ton of Muscle Shoals. enlarged. diffuses of articles ——y service you cheapen costs and thereby you are a part of the d,\*—IRU M R NNERS namic force which creates higher standards of living I ' ARE SURPRISED | 1 our 50 m and | Truth Essential “The very importnace of the po- sition which advertising has risen | to occupy in the economic system | is in direct proportion to the ability | of people to depend upon the pr ;-% bity of the statements you pr'-sen:‘i COHASSET, Massachusetts, Nov The advertising execut and thelss _pne Copst Guard surprised medium through which he advertis-lyym runners landing 600 cases of to it that the desire|jjquor on the glades of Se > ar-iof Navy Adams estate | The Coast Guard sei traband but tre landing cre aped in a truck and thé crew the boad sped away and down :{the Cohasset River into Massachu- isetts Bay. The Guardsmen had no speedboat in which to follow. epensibility, the b bu- Four men escaped in a truck reau and the v agencies| The liquor seized is estimated which you have set up to safefuard worth $150.000 the general reputation of advertis-| — - ing are not only sound ethics, but Cu(nl Drivers sound business. T wish you success| = in your convention and in the pu -\In Berlin to poses for wmm.yiu.u.: tm 'mbled. ZU(' Decorated you create is ticle recommend of the public to the goods, or sential of sound no business succeeds upon t of an article once. “You have es- zed that r business recog BERLIN, Nov. 22 To bring about a better understanding be- SR tween automobilists and pedestrians Chargsd vith theft of an over-jand to foster careful driving, a coat from a friend, Robert Snook, Berlin newspaper has decided an Indian, was brought here from decorate drivers who are recom- Petersburg on the motorship North- 'mended to it by the police. land last night by Deputy United: The decoration will consist of a Marshal Frank Price. He'badge worn in the lapel of the In special cases a medal will awarded with which the Knight of the Wheel” SNOOK IS CHARGED WITH | THEFT OF OVERCOA ‘coat be { title of [ the United States Commissioner’s Court, next week. goes Will Also Be Outstanding\ ~lat | Capper ¢f Kansas declared that the| retary | d the con- of | to | | Arkansa _ | Swallow left FOUR FROZEN ‘ T0 DEATH iN - THOSTHTES {Storm Victims Are Found ‘ Search Started for 1 Two Others DENVER, Col freezing weather Aav. of Nov. opened 3elow in the Four found and two per Tem | stig sn {ing a li | The fore change in temperatures. The dead accounted the following Howard Rhodes, frozen to death Lamar, Colorado. His saddle horse was found frozen to death a mile away | John Evans s undar way for 15 known to be missing. sralures are moderating few places rted diminish- for include rancher, was buried under three feet of snow near Colo- froze to death. rom, Laguna Indian, frozen to death near Gallup, Mexico ne |the Black Ca | The n Deming | Tilford i was New . was frozen to death in New Mexico are Joe Norton, of Mexico, and James of Denver, both in Ne Mexico, HERE ceased during and the day dawned sp. The sun shone dur- rocn and early afternoon, | SUN SHINE | during ¢ MRS. W WASHINGTON N D. C f bel back southes back- a Effie Gene Wingo. become a politi- much in the fore- no effort of her }ground own. Her | compe of congr functi 'bk'l' ¥ “I anm husband v |to qualif quiet dig { Befo | tin husbar new enough t e woman fpember whe mem- o eig of ssion in a 1 only because my 1ed me said Mrs. work of her T. Wingo Dcemocerat, he fourth | + been' st is fair with but little The two planes are in charge of | Lieut. C. F. Gerber and Pilot | Claude Alexander. The Navy Radio Station tender yesterday with sup- slies and spare parts for the two y planes and will establish for the present, a base on Grenville Channel and act as mother ship to !the planes. | Anscel Eckman, chief pilot of the !Al.\‘k.\ Washington Airways, was advised against returni north but insisted and has been given per- mission. A sadden thaw in the Liard River District, with accompanying rain, held the skii-equipped planes to the ground and the search for Capt. {E. A. (Paddy) Burke and his two companions, Emil Kading and Pob Marten, missing since October 11, in that section, has been de- layed. ECKMANN ON RADIO Over the radio from station KJR at Seattle at 9:30 o'clock last night. Anscel Eckmann, well known pilot familiar to residents of Juneau be- cause of his connection with the Alaska-Washington Airways, talked of his search for Robin Renahan, |Sam Clerf and Frank Hatch Eckmann arrived in Seattle about I noon yesterday from Prince Rupert. At Bremerton, yesterday evening he conferred with United States Naval officials. As a result of the conference he said two Navy planes would leave Bremerton this morn- ling for Alert Bay, B. C, to join /the United States Navy tender hich left Bremerton yes- om there the two planes tender will proceed to Grenville Channel, 30 miles south of Prince Ruper and establish their base. The Navy units will co- e with Eckmann in his search the lost airmen. Will Resume Search | Eckmann, who has already flown | 6,000 miles in seeking the ill-fated aviators, will leave Seattle for Prince Rupert in a few days, pos- sibly sooner, depending on installa- tion of a new engine in his plane. In charge of one of the Navy C Ry, F “u\d the ' ope for continued __ "~ (Continued on Page Eight) INGO FITTED FOR CONGRESS BY YEARS IN CAPITAL alled the 17 years which a training school for her new task. These were gay young years of the Wilson administration She smiled a bit wanly to remem- ber how they “boned up” among the biographies in the Congression- al Directory to be informed about their hosts and host: Then came the yea in which ’zhv poliical arena got a larger hold | | on her. Her husband was injured in an accident. More and more she | shared in his life. During Lvlhe last three she seldom was absent side, even at- tending the ons of the banking and committee ‘meetings. Her one to carry wishes. So of the hc thought now, she says, is out her late husband's she is closing the door scene, stepping forth | into the political career,