The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 6, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5583. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY., DECEMBER 6, 1930. " MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS TEN CENTS PRICE WASSON AND WALSH GO ON FINAL BURKE SEARCH MANY LIVES TAKEN BY POISON FOG COUNTRYSIDE U- S Se IS TERRIFIED BY FATALITIES Human Beit;g_s—and Animals Die as Result Unex- plained Cause BELIEVE GAS BEING RELEASED IN BELGIUM Various Other Causes AreI Given for Meuse Val- - ley Disaster BRUSSELS, Dec. 6. — A mysterious poison fog blank- eting the Meuse Valley in Belgium for three days has terrified the countryside. This fog has already caus- ed the death of 64 persons. Many domestic animals have also fallen victims. Some believe the gas is from German war material supposed to be buried around Liege. Others believe the poison is a byproduct of an indus- trial plant which became mix- ed with the fog. Still others believe it is some secret store of poison gas which has been let loose in some manner. The authori are trying to discover the exact cause. HYUNDREDS OF SHIPS ARE FINALLY RELEASED LONDON, Dec. 6.—England and Continental Europe today began to emerge from an impenetrable fog which turned the past two days into night. Several hundred ships tied up in British, French and Belgian ports|ful form of radiation, cosmic rays, turned their noses cautiously about ready to move to sea. In France, particularly along the Siene Valley and at Harve, both water and rail shipping was tied up. Mists cleared and forty steam- ers were waiting to enter Havre. “Paris had the worst fog in 25 years. FOUR MEN, ONE WOMAN BUILTY - IN'STOCK CASE Used Mails to Defraud— Fines, Prison Sen- tences Imposed SEATTLE, Dec. 6.—Four men and one womal. have been convicted in the Federal Court here of using the mails to defraud in promoting the sale of stock County mines. William A. Denny has been sen- tenced to 18 months in prison. Prank Denny, Willlam Denny’s son, has been sentenced to 13 months; R. W. Landon, former Secretary of the Seattle-Tacoma Cooperative Rare Metals Company, |ed to work. has been given 13 months and Na- than Batchelder, Denny’s brother- in-law, also sentenced to 13 months. The men were also fined $1,000 in addition to their prison sentences. Mrs. Faith W. Batchelder was fined $1,000 but escaped prison sen- | faster they go. About 10,000 miles a | tence. Two others, R. H. Stevens, of Los Angeles, and H. P. Osborne, of Grants Pass, were acquitted. Woman, Believed to Be Demented, Drowns Kiddies CHESTER, Penn., Dec. 6.—Carry- ing two of four small children from their cribs while they were sleep- ing, Mrs. Ida Twaddell, believed de- mented, drowned them in a bath tub. “I thought they would be better dead,” the woman told the Police. relativity predicted the reddening l £ oa | JRobert A. Millikan, president of the in seven Kittitas|relativity. | ve traveling away from us with im- ientists May Aid Einstein’s Study : L Albert Einstein is to do research at the California Institute of Tech- nology, -whose President, Dr. Robert A. Millikan (left) is one of the world’s leading physicists. By HOWARD BLAKESLEE (A. P. Science Editor) | | of lignt, although not the astonish- | ing speeds now observed. At Mt. Wilson also are Doctors Edison Pettit and Seth Nicholson, ‘who have measured.the heat of a star that is 600 times fainter than the faintest visible to the unaided eye. These are a few of the men doing outstanding research at the Pacific { coast institutions—t hings whicn may furnish added fuel for Ein- stein’s calculations, MERCY ASKED FROM SOVIET COURT BY FOUR Judges Take Recess in Treason Trial—Sen- tence on Sunday NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—Albert Einstein’s ferthcoming Ameri- can Yestarch will bé among ‘men - who have uncovered practical mysterics of space which even rclativity does not explain fully. Foremost is evidence that some- where out in the immensely cold and seemingly empty depths of space solid substance is all the time being created. ‘The proof of this new creation is disputed, and the world’s foremost advocate for the affirmative is Dr. | [ | | California Institute fo Technology, where it has been announced Ein- stein expects to do quiet research. Dr. Millikan holds that a power- which both he and his opponents have identified as falling ceaseless- ly upon the earth day and night, come from tremendous energics used somewhere in space to create matter. 4 He has identified these rays from creation of hydrogen and helium and possibly iron. His opponents hold the radiation comes from the annihilation of matter in the hot centers of stars and that nowhere is there evidence of creation—in short, that the uni- verse is running down to its death. Mathematical studies such as Einstein has mastered are used to support deductions of both .sides. Dr. Millikan, one of the world's foremost physicists, is the first man to measure by experiment the elec-! tric charge carried by an electron, at present considered the smallest bit of matter. The institution of which he ‘s; president will operate the new 200-| inch telescope, an instrument that| MOSCOW, Dec. 6—The Soviet Court sitting at the trial of eight engineers charged with treason, adjourned at noon today to con- sider the sentence which will be| returned tomorrow evening. There has been no question of guilt as all confessed. Despite the confession, the Gov- ernment built a thorough case, | broadeasting it to entire Russial and making both silent and sound pictures of the trial. Adjournment of Court was taken after Sergi, Kuprianov, Xenephon and Sitnin appealed for mercy. Sitnin, with tears in his eyes, asked that his life might be spared. “I have suffered during this trial. will “see” four times as well as the|I have Do reason to ask for len-| present largest and perhaps bring |ieney i S aglveimsplt into Ay o lght -more fact: ring upon | hands of the Proletarian Court and 3! acts bearing UPAN| o ise if my life is spared I| chall devote myself to honest work,” Sitnin said Kuprianov appeared pale and ill. He “spoke shortly and said: “The Another great mystery, one of the newest, is the “red shift” of distant light. This has been meas-, ured recently by Dr. Edwin Hub- " ble.’astronomer of Mt. Wilson, Cal, I:‘i‘;zel}llnis wex::gl;me;i a!g:-n“m:m“l.: obsérvatory of the Carnegie In.s:i-'I m\(.' concealed nothing| I knnw\ tute, where Einstein also is expect-| o projotarian Court has no feel- | ing for vengeance, therefore I hope ! The red shift means that ex-i; sy 2o given an opportunity to| tremely distant universes of Stars|ae an honest living to wipe out on all sides of the earth appear 10| pis biot on my life.” | | Th: cther two spoke and asked mense velocities. |that the death sentence not be| The greater their distance the|passed upon them. | ———————— second is the highest recession ve-| Twenty thousand 4-H club boys locity recently measured at Mt. and girls of Mississippi are tacking Wilson. up posters throughout the state| Astronomers doubt whether these |warning against forest fires. velocities are real. If they are the| whole material universe seems to be expanding, and out in the di-| rection of its edges the expansion is of explosive speed. If they are not real velocities, some scientists believe they will be found to have an important bear-| ing upon the laws of evolution of | creation. 1 Relativity is one means of work-| QUOPPIAG ave 20 CHR\STMAR \J FIGHTING FOR | en men. INCOME TAX INCREASE 1S SEEN BY SEC. Mellon Predicts Large De- ficit when Fiscal Year Ends in June WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 6.— It looks more than ever as though Mr. Taxpayer will have to pay one er cent more on this year’s in- come than on last. Secretary Mellon sees it that way. His annual report, addressed to Congress, predicted a $180,000,000 | deficit when the fiscal year ends next June. While making no recommenda- tions, the Treasury head recalled | pointing out a year ago that con- | tinuance of the one per cent re-,‘ duction then made would depend on | the revenue prospects this month. { These now “indicate that the tem- | porary decrease can not be con-| tinued during the current year." | Contrasting with the deficit fore- cast, the 1930 fiscal year surplus was $183,789,215. Every bit went toward retirement of the public debt, which stood at $16,185,308,290 when the year closed. Further, his report repeated & recommendation that Congress free income taxpayers who buy federal securities from liability for the pay- ment of income tax on the realiza- tion from such investments. That would give national paper the same exemption status as that now held by state and municipal borrowings The Secretary foresaw some changes in the form of payment hitherto received from foreign gov- rnments by the United States as a result of war loans, saying: “It is reasonably certain that the December interest payments on ac- count of foreign debts will be paid in cash, and it is quite possible that this may be equally true in June. It is impossible to forecast what method of payment foreign debt- ors may elect, though it is entirely possible that part of the interest payments will be made in securi- ties.” If the deficit materializes, it will be the first time a surplus has been missed since 1919. Mellon looks to 1932 to bring back a favorable bal- ance, to the extent of $30,600,000. The estimates set the income tax revenue then at $2,260,000,000, or $70,000,000 more than expected this year. SCAFFOLD; OFFI SCHEDULED AIR SYSTEMS ARE PROGRESSING kg o ! Civil Aeronautics Is Noted The year's progress in clvil aero- nautics has been marked particular- ly by continued development of scheduled air transportation of mail passengefs and express, according to the annual report of Clarence M. Young, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, to the Secretary of Commerce recently made public. The passenger air transport lines are constantly attracting that large group of people who could travel by air but for one reason or other have elected to remain with surface transportation, the report stat “Those air lines that render a service clearly advantageous in time over other means of travel or which the route would not be started lms«ildv(-mmgeously augment surface year. ‘ll‘ansporlnlmn are doing a substan- The fight began with a series o”nll business, and the lefld(‘nc_\ telegrams to Congressional delega|POInts to continued increase. tions from the Northwest from the| Ho' Distourdpotpnt tier of states from Washington to], Although pra 5/ in the manu- facture and sale of aircraft for Minnesota. z % miscellaneous use did not continue as rapidly in the eor eight Hollywood Police Raid months of the fiscal year ended A“eged Immoral Show June 30, 1930, as during the fg jpart of the year, this was not I | ga as g necessarily dis- HOLIYWOOD, Oal, Dec. f4SBcc, a8 Deing necssarty. < After a terrific battle between 150 5 police and at least 500 men at- AIR MAIL LINE Spokane Staris Action to Secure Route, Seattle to St. Paul SPOKANE, Wash, Dec. 6.— Charges that the Post Office De- partment is discriminating against the Northwest are made by Spo- kane businessmen who are organiz- ing to fight for an appropriation for a Seattle-St. Paul air mail route. The fight started when the Post Office Department announced that iis d The crew of the Swedish freighter Ovidia is shown appro lifeboat after their ship was stricken about 300 shown In the background. The entire crew of 26 men and th MAN INDIFFERENT AT DYING BECOMES ILL, TAKEN FROM SCEN Continued Development in| miles off the ON CIATING PRIEST SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Cal Dec. 6.—George Ryley, aged 21 i“'““ was hanged early today for | the “hammer” slaying George Dad” Jones, Livermore taxi dr ilu May, 1928. The prisoner was indifferent to his fate, but Father Patrick Kerri- gan, officiating at his first hanging, | became ill and had to be led out- side of the execution room. John Gomez, Ryley's partner the crime, was hanged on Augus| 15. The pair” robbed Jones of $23 20; | i in} st after beating him to death. 3 1S CLEARED OF CHARGES | { | ( F VIENNA, Ausuria, Dec. 6. —Charles | A. Levine has been cleared of con- spiracy charges to countcr!mz‘ French coins Levine told the the rges were the outcome of fifteen days alone | ,Levine said he decided to make| medals with a head on one side| and the other side a globe with | a plane flying around it. It was du to this that a “misunderstanding’ he said i m RSBl Swedish Student Glee Club Will Visit LUND, Sweden, Dec. ingers of the Lund University Glee| Club will visit the United States early next year in celebrbration of the hundredth anniversary of the; society : The director will ner, who took part in their tour of the United States patronage will be lent by Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf and many leading business men from the prov-! ince of Scania, have financially guaranteed the trip . The group will travel through New York, the New England states and the Middle West as far as Kan- City. The principal soloists will be Emil Gag-, Royal ar new designs, new fe: ing upon this riddle, and, in fact,| Gambling equipment also found in use. was “Manufacturers of alrcraft,” the report says, “who are just as skilled tending an alleged immoral enter-|jror o 00 88 tainment in a loft over a storaBeingmiey g they are in designing, | +constructing flying aircraft were arrested and herded into Hol- tips ik ; lywood and Los Angeles jails O peaqs ang desires of an intelligent | £t market. | :he :iim Sifiec when 14 "':m They are making every effort to attempted to arrest show members gegign ang produce aircraft which | w'i;.: used as clubs. lindicated are what the public wants. | e women claimed their clothes g4 ¢he same time they are pro- | developments, - 1 ' i “lin the principles of business eco- garage, 100 men and four women are paying strict attention to the vagrancy and immoral charge S8 discrisninating aircrat and spectators. Bottles flew and gy experiences and studies have arene-tos all 1 the tight by Ad'unk'“ecung plans continually on new (Continued on Fage Two) be Einar Beyron and Joel Berglund, both of the Royal Opera in Stock- holm. i aching the rescue ship Maurctania, in a Grand Banks. e captain and his wifc were saved {as it was generally Associated Press' " his plan to fly around the world in| | Bo 1904 | . SCENE DURING THRILLING RESCUE AT SEA Assoctated [\ 1'h SURPRISE GIVEN IN KNIFE DEATH CASE, PORTLAND Coroner’s Jury Blames Woman or Man or Both for Death, Mrs.- Bowles Dec. 6.—A cor- PORTLAND, Ore. | aner's jury has unanimously blamed Irma G. Loucks, aged 28, or Nelson C. Bowles, aged 34,.or both for the death of Mrs. Leone C. Bowles, aged 33, Portland Society matron The as a surprise xpected death would be blamed to unknown per- sons Mrs. Bowles diea as the result of a knife wound on November 12 in the apartment of Irma G. Loucks, known also as Mrs. Irma Loucks- Paris Mrs. Parls and Bowles, wealthy man of this city, were both pr 1 Mrs. Bowles had gone to the nt of Mrs. Parls to discuss woman’s relationship with verdict came It Bowle flicting s es being Mrs. Pa under a Th mean grand rst given out that Mrs, °d herself but later con- led to murder charg- ainst Bowles and have since been ie filed aga who the will coroner’s to erdict of the case go the AUSTRAL CANBERRA, Dec. 6—W. M force in Australian H is } a generation out a party encing as a dock- side .agit d labor party to undreamed of power and then, when t ess un- der ed the N and stee He was prime ministe Australia during the troublous years of the war, but when t national and D: Bruce itor, the m as leader, many declared country | od and selected S. M. | PILOT AND BUIDE OFF T0 SEARCH ~ FOR BURKE (Will Fiy to Feily Banks to | Hunt Missing Party— i Expect to Be Gone w Several Days | Pilot Everett Wasson and Guide Joe Walsh hopped off from Whitehorse at 10 o’clock | this ferenoon for Pelly Banks (in a final effert to locate Pilot E. J. A. Burke and his two companions, Emil Kad- ing and Bob Martens, accard- ing to advices received by The Empire in a special dis- | patch from the Agent of the White Pass and Yukon Route at Whitehorse. Wasson and Walsh expect to bhe gone sev- eral days. The Pelly Banks are at the | headwaters of the Pelly Riv- er. Taylor and Drury have a | trading post in that district at the junction of Campbell Creek and Pelly River. It is belleved here that Burke and his companions, after - leaving | their plane, which was frozen in lon the headwaters of the Liard River, might have traveled in the direction of Wolfe Lake, their an- nounced destination, and were pick- ed up by Indlans and either cared for or taken to the Pelly Banks The note found by Wasson and Walsh on their recent trip to the Burke plane stated the party was short of food. According to the note, which was found carved on the tree, the men had remained at the plane from October 11 to October 17, when shortage of food forced them to leave Wasson and Walsh intend to make a most thorough search, fly- ing low over the district for any signs of the Burke party and also landing on the snow at any Indian camp sighted. MRS. GRANT LOGAN IS MOTHER OF SON Mrs. Grant Logan of Douglas, is the mother of a son born early this morning at St. Ann’s Hospital. Mrs. Logan is a member of the Kilburn family of the city across the chan- nel. Mr. Logan is one of the pro- prietors of the Tom Thumb golf course in A, B, Hall, Juneau. e - . Alaskan Sues Wilkins for Sum of $450 —Sir George Hubert Wilkins has been sued for $450 plus intevest in the Superior Court by Boris Magids, Kotzebue, Alaska, business man. Magids says in his complaint he paid a man named Irwin Smith Farguar the money at Wilkins' direction when the lat- in Alaska on the De- Expedition. Magids vaid Wilkins has failed to reimburse him. USA HUGHES “ON OWN” IN IAN POLITICS that Hughes as a political force had seen his da Last ye counfounded his critics by defeating tr govern= ment on the floor the "House of representatives, forcing to the country where it was ov elming- ly defeated by the laborites. Hughes joined with Maxwell (Vie= {toria) and Marks (New South | Wales) in the formation of the | new people’s party. The combina- |tion was a powerful one but soon Maxwell resigned and now Marks has cut adrift so that Hughes is wher on the dockside—"on his own,” of