The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 13, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5589. JUNEAU, ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” _ SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1930. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS WILL SHOOT SPANISH MUTINEERS FIFTH MEETING OF COMMISSION 1S TERMINATED Game Commission Ad- journs—Issues Summary of Work Done 22 Days After completing its fifth annual meeting, the Alaska Game Com- mission adjourned today following a 22-day session. Dr. W. H. Chase, President, and Irving McK. Reed, member of the Commission, left on the Yukon today for their respect- ive homes in Cordova and Fair- banks. The remaining Commissioners, W. R. Selfridge and Frank D. Wil-, liams, left early this week, the former for Ketchikan and the lat- ter for Seattle. Faced Important Questions “During its meeting the Commis- sion was faced with several im- pertant problems, some of which, had been discussed during previous annual meetings, owing to lack of information, no action had been taken heretofore,” said a statement made public here today by H. W. Terhune, Executive Secretary, summarizing the work accomplished. Any changes in present regula- tions recommended by the Com- mission at the meeting just con- cluded will not be effective until July 1, 1931, New game circulars announcing the changes in regula- tions will be printed and distributed in time to be in the hands of in- terested persons by that date. Having received favorable reports on game conditions throughout most -of the Territory, the regula- tions affecting seasons and bag lim- its on big game will remain in gen- eral as they are at present. Fur Areas Redistricted “For more than ten years,” said the summary of the meeting, “the| open seasons for taking fur bearing animals have been governed by the division of the Territory into three fur districts. The Commission has realized for several years-that these districts were inadequates to per- but on which,| | | | | | ! Barbara Hutton and Doris Dul tant By ADELAIDE KERR | NEW YORK, Dee. 13—Two of | America’s richest helrésses are mak- |ing their bows to New York so- ciety this winter in the splendor which wealth bestows. Doris Duke, golden-haired and blue-eyed, who inherits from her |father, James B. Duke, tobacco magnate, a fortune variously esti- mated from $50,000,000 to $100,- RICHEST DEBS W AITING THEIR FIRST “SEASON” ke (inset), America’s richest debu- tes, will make their bows to society in New York this winter. { made her bow before King George and Queen Mary. Bhen came-her<iebut at her home in Newport. A large marquee, lined guests, while trees and gardens were flooded with colored lights and searchlights played over the waves that broke against the shore near her home. This winter she will join the LINDSEY TRIAL U.S.-CANADA | MAIL SYSTEM | NOW PLANNED [Air Line Network to Link _ North America with Europe, Asia OTTAWA, Dec. 13.—A network’ of passenger and mail air lines joining Canada and the United| States and spanning the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to Europe and Asia, was outlined and ultimate ob- | Jjective plans were made here yes- terday afternoon at a conference of United States and Canadian The air line extension to Asia| would bz an extension of the pro- jected Miami and Calgary line | through Fort McMurray to Alaska, thence to Asia, Officials agreed this line should be in operation within three years to forestall the growing activility | of Russians from seriously entering into competition. — e IS GONTINUED T0 NEXT WEEK Point Raised in Complaint Charging Disorderly - ‘ Conduct of Judge ‘ NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, Dec.. 13—The trial of Judge Ben B. Lindsey, 6f" Denver, €l disorderly eonduct and disturbance with Smilax and hung with baskets of a religious service as the result of golden gladioli, received the 600|o‘{ his encounter with Bishop T.! Manning at the Cathedral of St.| John the Divine last Sunday, was; continued yesterday to next Interior a¥ged witn* CONGRESSIONAL [ MEASURES ARE IN COMMITTEES Senate and House Taking Recess but Confer- ences Proceeding WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 13.— The Senate conferees today consid- ered the Emergency Unemployment Relief Bill after the adjournment | yesterday out of respect to Sena- | tor Lee S. Overman, who died earlier in the day. The Interstate Commerce Com- mission questioned the nominees for the Federal Power Commis- | postal authorities. | si The Muscle Shoals conferees are considering a compromise which is expected to bring out a plan for operation by the Government. The chief dispute now is whether the power developed will be transmit- ted over Government supply lines or private lines. The House is in recess today but the Immigration Committee is still considering the suspension bill. Yesterday the House passed the Department’s supply bill including $15,000,000 for the Bould- er Dam project. The House struck gut the provision against a ‘salary increase for Government employees and refused to act on the Senate's $118,000,000 Public Works bill. THO ‘POLITE ROBBERS GET SE500 LOOT Only Hold Dagger at Wom- an’s Throat, Seal Lips with Tape, Bind Her NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, Dec. \ SCENE OF SPANISH STR IKE RIOTS ssociated Dress Photo Serious disorders marked spréad of@sneral strike in Spain. Ap- proximately 200 were wounded in strike riots. Above is Plaza Cataluna In Barcelona where rioters and police clashed. PLOOD TRANSFUSIONS MADE POSSIBLE BY NOBEL PRIZE WINNER’S FINDIN NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—Thou- sands of persons literally owe their lives to Dr. Karl Landsteiner, win- ner of the 1930 Nobel prize in medi- cine. Blood transfusion, now a com- lman means of saving the lives of | persons weakened by loss of blood |or anemia, was made possible by his discoveries that there are four | major types of human blood. Sufferers from infantile paraly- | sis have been aided by Dr. Land- | steiner’s experiments with monkeys. He was the first to find that these ‘animals could be infected with the | disease. | This led to the discovery that the |serum of Infantile paralysis con- | valescents might be used as a pro- i tective or checking agency in pa- itlenu who had the diseasé in its | incipient stages. Dr. Landsteiner has been study- ing the human blood for 30 years. Wednesday. This followed when 13 —Vesterday afternoon two men | His discoveries have ranged from Judge Lindsey's attorney asked dis- in'jumpers delivered a table and g clue to the causes of immunity missal on the grounds the com= packages to the Riverside Drive}ngnm“ disease to enabling police ‘Bar Silver Goes Down to New Low of 32V NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. Dec. 13.—Bar silver estab- lished a new historical low for the second time this week when it hit 32'¢ yes- terday. Last Tuesday bar silver. broke to 33. It has dropped to the new low from 46% cents an ounce since the first of the year. 3 CRY BABY BANDITS DIE OSSINING, N. Y., Dec. 13.— Three cry baby bandits, who cried profusely during their trial, were . . ® 000 e o0 REVOLUTION N SPAIN IS CRUSHED OUT |Furious Battle Is Waged— Disloyal Troops Lose— to Shoot Leaders Dec. 13—In a furious battle near Ayerbe Sawn, Federal troops took 100 prisoners, seized rebel equipment and drove revolt- ing regiments back upon the garri- son town of Jaca where the rebel- lion flared yesterday. General Berenguer, Prime Minis- certed the engagement ter- revolt 1 troops are in con- trol of the Jaca area. Loyal forces are continuing to converge on the revolt center. Eight Rebel officers captured will be court martialed immediately. MADRID, WILL BE SHOT LONDON, Dec. 13.—An Exchange Telegram said several leaders of " the revolution in Spain will be shot | tomorrow. DISCOVERY OF WOMAN'S BODY 70 GIVE CLEW Motive for North Dakota | Slayings Sought by , Authorities | WILLISTON, North Dakota, Dec. 13.—~The discovery of the where- abouts of Mrs. Albert C. Haven or the finding of her body will prove an important factor in establishing the identity and motive for the person who killed her husband and four children, according to the au- thorities. mit the setting of open seasons|gyg 00 has already stepped into the at a time when the fur was at its best but it has been unwilling to attempt a revision, and create new limelight with a presentation at Buckingham Palace and an initial debut at her family estate in New- fur districts until it was'in POS=i hort this summer. session of more authentic informa- tion. “With amount the gathering of a vast of information from all sections of the Territory by its wardens, and with suggestions from many people conversant with cli- matic conditions and the primeness of furs in nearly every section of Alaska, the Commission has in- creased the number of fur districts to” eight. Boundaries Are Outlined “The new district number one| includes Southeast Alaska as far west as Cape Fairweathgr. “District number two embraces the drainages of the coastal re- gion from Cape Fairweather to Prince William Sound and the low- @ Copper River Region, Kenai Peninsula, and a portion of the Bu- sitna River drainage to Cook Inlet from the west, down to the base of the Alaska Peninsula, “District number three includes most of the Alaska Pel la, the Kodiak-Afognak Island p, all of the islands along the south side of the Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. “District number four covers a portion of the north side of the Alaska Peninsula, the Iliamna and Lake Clarke region and all the drainage of the Nushagak River, including the Wood River lakes. “District number five embraces the lower Kuskokwim and lower Yukon Rivers, Nunivak and St Lawrence islands, Seward Penin- sula, and the drainages of the Selawik, Kobuk and Noatak Rivers. “District number six includes the Arctic Coast region north of the summit of Brooks Range from Cape Lisburne to the International Line at Demarcation * Point. “District number seven includes the drainages of the upper Koyu- kuk and Yukon rivers and the Porcupine River. “District number eight includes the drainages of the upper Copper, Susitna and Kuskokwim rivers, to- gether with the drainages of the Yukon River from a point midway between Russian Mission and Holy Cross to old Fort Hamlin, including the lower Koyukuk River. Attention to Climate “In this realignment of fur dn-L 4ricts, particular attention was giv- throng of almost 300 debutantes and will be the guest of honor at a number of the festivities which go to make the New York debutante season the gayest in America. plaint was based on two different statutes without being specific as to either. The request was taken under advisement, Bishop Manning was not present Apartment of Mrs. Charles F. Zit-| detectives to identify blood stains. tell, wife of a theatrical magazine| pr. Landsteiner, a tall, slender publisher, and departed with jewel-'man, nervous and modest, was born ry valued at $65,000. in Vienna 62 years ago and worked Except that they laid a dagger Search for Mrs. Haven's body on executed early today for the slay-! ing of a Long Island druggist. James Butler, 21, was first to go. He said nothing. ! the farm where the bodies of four others were found, continues. Charles Branon, aged 22, farm hand, told of the burying place Barbara Hutton, dark-haired, grand-daughter of Frank W. Wool- worth, and heiress to the estimated $60,000,000 which he gleaned from a chain of nickle and dime em- poriums, will make her first bow December 22, at a ball in the new Hotel Pierre, in New York. Both have beéen quietly, though luxuriously reared; both are 18; both possess simplicity and charm of manner and both will move in & brilliant spotlight on which the | eyes of the world are focused. The spotlight flashed on Doris Duke five years ago with her fath- er's death when, as a slim girl of | thirteen, she became known as the heiress to the vast wealth which he founded on tobacco and in- creased in the aluminum industry. A Fifth Avenue home, appraised with «ts contents at $1,600,000, a 2,000 acre estate at Somerville, N. J., the family home “Rough Point” at Newport, R. I, a private Pull- man car with “Doris” gilded on the panelling, motor cars and horses were among the things included in that wealth. Yet, a few months later, when she and her mother sailed for Eu- rope, they selected a first cabin, entirely lacking the ostentation of a suite, Cameramen, who hadn't the ghost of an idea who she was, were watched celebrities being photo- graphed before departure and asked to take her picture. They discovered her identity only when that cere- mony was over. Doris Duke's love is sports. She | swims, plays tennis, and as a child ‘dashed up and down the New Jer- sey country roads on a Shetland poriy which is now replaced by a gaited saddle horse. Recently she joined a dancing class with other sub-debs and could be found sev- | eral mornings a week clogging away |tor dear life. Last spring she donned white satin gown and ostrich feathers and QavP @ ?\QOVE\R i | attracted by the girl's smile as she. Barbara Hutton stepped into the limelight four years ago when her trustees, acting for her, sold 50,000 shares ($10,000,000 worth) of com- mon stock in.the Woolworth Com- pany, which she inherited from the grandfather who started his first five and ten cent store on a bor- rowed $350. It constituted one of the largest private stock transac- tions which Wall street had ever seen and interest focused on the young girl in whose name the sale was made. During her sub-deb days she has lived quietly, but this fall her father and stepmother—her mother died for her debutante festivities, which start with a whirl three days before Christmas. SAAR VALLEY IS EVACUATED BY 2 NATIONS French and Belgian Troops Leave Territory— ’ .y League’s Decision SAAR BRUECKEN, Germany, iDec. 13—The French and Belgian | troops detailed for railroad protec- tion, evacuated the Saar Valley iyesterday afternoon in accordance with the League of Nations decision {last September. The evacuation followed the de- ! cision which said the remainder of | the French and Belgian troops were |to be withdrawn from the Baar Valley within three months. Before the decision, France con- |tended a force of 250 men was es- sential to security for railway transportation. Julius Curtuis, German Foreign | Minister, objected. l When the Saar Commission Ingreed to guarantee Railway secur- ity Former Premier Briand ylelded to the German requests. { The last Allied troops evacuated {the Rhingland last June. The Saar Basin, by the Versailles a few years ago—are deep in plans|’ in the court room. !against her throat to make her Last Sunday the Denver advo- ppen the safe, subsequently bound| cate of companionate marriage was her and sealed her lips with ad- forcibly ejected from the cathedral crying, “This is not a House of Jus- tice; Not a House of God.” The former Judge had listened to Bishop Manning score him as the author of the “most filthy and insidious pieces of propaganda ever published in behalf of lewdness and unrestrained sexual gratification.” ——— JHUNTED MEN | FIGHT POLICE WICHITA, Kansas, Dec. 13,—The police are seeking two men who, escaped yesterday after their com-| panion was fatally wounded in a gun battle with the police. Two bystanders were wounded. The men sought are Colquitt Davis, and Cherokee Joe, alias! Chief Bonner. | D. T. Davis, brother of Colquitt, was slain. Davis and his brother were! sought for «the slaying of Con Kiersent and Vernon Cason, De-! puty Sheriffs, and Harold McCar-| ick, grocer, of Amarillp, Texas. D. T. Davis went to a doctor to have his wounds dressed. The doc- tor called the .authorities but Davis | died soon after they arrived ——oe——— slightly | . TUDAY'S STUOCK | QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. Dec. 13.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6, Am= erican Can 107, Anaconda Copper 29%, Bethlehem Steel 51%, Fox Films 25%, General Motors 33%, Granby Consolidated 14%, Inter- national Harvester 50%, Kennecott Copper 24, Montgomery-Ward 17'%, National Acme 8%, Packard Motors 8%, Simmons Beds 147, Standard Brands 15%, Standard Oil of Cali- fornia 43%, Standard Oil of New Jersey 49%:, United Aircraft 20, U. S. Steel 136%, Curtis-Wright 2%, hesive tape, the two men were exceedingly polite, Mrs. Zitter said. Mrs. Zitter's negro maid was also bound and gagged. ‘The robbers heeded pleas not to take jewelry which belonged to Mrs. Zitter's son who Is dead. ‘The jewelry taken was not in- | sured. T, STEEG IS NEW FRENCH PREMIER e i Forms Ministry then Issues Statement Regard- ing Policies PARIS, Dec. 13.—Theodore Steeg I1s the new French Premier and he has organized a Cabinet. The Pre- mier issued his first statement, aft- er consulting President Doumergue, and said the new Government will be dedicated to “impartial justice, maintenance of peace through se-j curity and the pursuit of economic activity by means of social prog- soan” e i EINSTEIN HEARS CARMEN NEW YORK CITY, Dec. 13— Grand opera tempted Dr. Albert Einstein ‘off an ocean liner last night and he attended the Metro- politan Opera to hear Carmen. He sat with his wife. He arose and bowed to the applause when the audience discovered him during in- termissions. Later Dr. Einstein went behind the scenes of the stage and . congratulated Marie Jeritza, Aus- trian star, and her colleagues. L TS T s Mrs. A. Haverstock, wife of Dr. Haverstock of the Seward Hospital, is a passenger on the Yukon for home after visiting in the south. {in Europe until 1922, but he speaks | English with only a slight accent. Sclence is both his work and his |play. He has no recreation. He is 'busy day and night in his labora- tory at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and llves to waste time traveling back and iforth. In the summer he transfers Ihis activities to a home on the Massachusetts coast. Highest Officials Pay Last Respects iTo Sen. Qverman WASHINGTON, Dec. 13— President Hoover, members of the Cabinet and Supreme Court and the entire Senate paid a farewell to United States Sena- tor Lee Slater Overman last night as they gathered around the casket. Before the body was taken to the South Carolina home for burial. The body was escorted by a Senate Commit- tee. Senator Overman died early yesterday morning following a brief illness. o 1S REWARDED AFTER DEATH WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 13.— Mrs. Florence Page, widow of Capt. Arthur Page of the Marine Corps, today received the Distinguished Flying Cross awarded posthumous- ly to her husband. The medal was esented to Mrs. Page by the cting Secretary of the Navy. The citation said Capt. Page’s pioneering accomplishments in pil- oting a plane by instruments con- tributed much to the advancement of aviation. Capt. Page won the Curtiss Marine Trophy in a race. He was killed last September when his plane crashed in the Chicago Air | Races. [ - eee — Mrs. C. E. Orlander, wife of Sew- close to the Institution so as not| Ttalio Ferdinand, 22, was next. He said: “May God forgive me, bless mother, fathér and sweet- heart.” James Bloger, 19, was the last. He strode into the chair room with his hands in his pockets and said: “I will die like I lived, with a smile ;on my face.” - e BOOTLEGGERS ~ UNDER ARREST ; - ;Round-up Made in Ohio— i Are Questioned as to Buying Protection ! TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 13. — The Government today questioned the first contingent of bootleggers caught in a sweeping campaign di- rected to learn whether law vio- |lators were buying protection. More than 25 men and women are under arrest following raids yesterday by 55 Federal agents from four States. Other arrests are expected, in- cluding higher-ups but they will not be taken into custody until indicted by the grand jury. - USES OWN WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 13.— { Herbert Hoover -has a presidential [radio technique all his own | He a reputation among the { broadcasting officials as a man {who “knows his microphone,” and | he never ies from his system. A specially constructed micro- { phone, which no one but the presi- fdent uses, is stored in the Washing- ton headquarters of the National Broadcasting company. i The president always talks di- |rectly into the “mike” in a calm ‘manner.- He is extremely prompt for his radio appearances. Addresses by him, going out over after his arrest for selling four hogs from the farm. At first he said Mrs. Haven kill- red her husband and three chil- dren. Then he said she was dead too. Finally Branon changed his story to involve a farmer near Schafer, North Dakota, and an- !other man whose name is un- | known. | Mrs. Haven's body was not found | where Branon said it was. | —————— i Second Arrest Made In Defalcation Of $8,000,000 LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 13. —Rupert L. Fleury, Vice-Presi- dent of the Guaranty Building | and Loan Association of Holly- wood, which collapsed Friday after Gilbert H. Bessemyer, General Manager, allegedly con- fessed to an $8,000,000 embez- zlement, was arrested late yes- | terday afternoon after admit- | ting to the grand jury he had known for some time of Besse- myer's acts. Fleury did not get a penny of the money but would not tell of the unlawful acts on account of his leyalty to Bessemyer. | ] | | HOOVER, EVER PROMPT FOR BROADCAST DATES, TECHNIQUE self several minutes before broad- jcast time and reads a few lines of his speech so that engineers |may get a voice level test. The talk is always typewritten on thin cards enclosed in a small black | leather notebook. There are duplicate transmitting | facilities in the study, for nothing is ever allowed to interfere with the success of the broadcast. ‘The chief executive sits with per- fect composure until the announcer gives the signal for him to begin. |Once the controls are set they are seldom touched, for Mr. Hoover en to climatic conditions which constitute the governing factor in, Pt B A e " (Continued on Page Three) (B e i s i STV PO {Treaty is under the government of | Pacific Gas and Electric no sale, the League of Nations and has a|Pennsylvania Raiiroad 56, General popula'tmn of 800,000 over an area|Electric 43%, Westinghouse Electric iof 726 square miles. and Mechanical 91. ard’s exclusive jeweler, is a pas- senger aboard the Yukon for the Westward after a visit in the States. 4 ., Mrs. Grace Corson, of Seward, is returning home after a visit in Se- attle. Shé is aboard the steamer ‘Yukon. speaks in an even tone. Mr. Hoover is an enthusiastie radio listener as well as an im- \portant broadcaster. the air lanes from the White House are made from the Lincoln study and it is there that he seats him- 4