The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 15, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS —— VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5590. ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY DECEMBER 15, 1930. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NATION-WIDE REVOLUTION BREAKS OUT IN SPAIN TODAY E | An Engagement ECONOMIC REVIEW, BOTH DARK AND BRIGHT SPOTS, IS GIVEN BY SEC. LAMONT| Agriculture, Construction, Transportation, Foreign Trade—Each Analyzed; Facts Given on Home Building, Industrial Waste; Work for Human Safety; Aviation Is Youngster with Bright Prospects. ALASKA FLIER, REPORTEDLOST, IS AT W'GRATH Matt Nieminen Flying from Iditarod with Passen- gers, Caused Fears ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—An un- broken advance in American pro- ductivity was cited today by Sec- retary Lamont ag the fundamental cause of rising standards of liv- ing. In this factor, he found “con- clusive evidence” that business progress is not wiped out by pe- riods of depression. This cheering word went to Congress in his an- nual report. “It has marked a permanent achievement,” he said, “and when | the present recession is over, the | same upward movement will un-| questionably be resumed. “The causes at work are for the e most part of a cumulative charac- Fears for the safety of Matt Niem- ter, so that it may be said ma“inen Alaska Airway's pilot, and each forward step leads to another | WO Passengers, on a flight from. The report dealt with the flscal‘h 2 1 pd A 5afely Bb Mocirath year which closed June 30. It in- |D35 ‘anded safely & 3 adad $ soetombitrantk | Pilot Nieminen left Iditarod .dur- o ALEVOT 08 BT |ing a storm. A emergency landing and a resume of the Commerce " - was made on the Dishna River Department's activities. where he was sighted by Ed Young. No Cut in Wages | When the report was received Mr. Lamont said it Was “a note- | pere Saturday that Nieminen had worthy fact that practically 10 peen missing since Thursday, two cuts in wages have been made b&‘syarchmg planes started out, one employers as a result of the re- piloted by Frank Dorbandt and the | cession of business.” other by Young. Two dog teams This he saw as contrasting sharp- also cooperated with the fliers. ly with the practices of previous| Young spotted Nieminen on the slack periods and as evidence of a|Dishna River and Nieminen later widespread conviction that “per-|took the air and reached McGrath manent progress in prosperity is|safely. dependent on liberal wages aad| consequent large buying power on the part of the masses of the peo- ple.” Greater skill and intelligence Miss Beta Rothafel, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel whose engagement to William Stern, of Rochester, N. Y., has been announced. Miss Rothafei's father, better known in every cor- | mer of the country as “Roxy,” is & pioneer of de luxe cinema thea- | tre develokl ent, having sponsored the huge New York cinema house | which bears his name. KLLS BRIDE OF 2 MONTHS, THEN HIMSELF {Tragedy Revealed in Am- erican Dentist’s Game | Hunt in Africa daughter of Rothafel, FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 15.— | i i UMTALIS, Southerri Rhodeslia, | | S T 1 o . Wl Africa, Dec. 15—The big game| " ALFRED HOLMAN ,Magoon American dentist, fam"d‘ |as a hunter, has ended disastrous- with the deatl of himself and ( hunting -expedition of Dr. R. Li. GflNFESSES T0 buadron of 12 Italmn Pluno ; Propares to Hop SLAYING 6 ON NO. DAK, RANCH All Others Prewously Im- plicated in Crime Are Absolved FARM HAND CLAIMS HE DID DEED ALONE {United States Attorney Is Skeptical — Arrest Made in Oregon WILLISTON, North Dakota, Dec 15.—Charles Bannon, aged 22, farm- er, has confessed he killed six members of the Albert E. Haven family in their farmhouse near Schafer on the morning of last | February 10, his attorney, A. J. Knox, said. Knox said that Bannon deelared [he alone was responsible and ab- solved all persons previously men-| tioned in conflicting stories. United States Attorney J. 8. Tay- lor is skeptical and said he will not accept the story without veri- fication. Bannon was arrested for the theft of four of the Haven family hogs.| family first disap- peared, it was believed they were visiting relatives in Abbrdeen, | Wash. Five brothers and sisters of Mrs Haven live in the Gray Har- bor towns. Bannon said Mrs. ‘Haven's body ‘wus burled on his ‘mother’s farm|the venture will be the climax of nearby. Haven and four children were found on the Haven farm at Ban- non's direction. ONE ARREST IS MADE TOLEDO, Oregon, Dec. 15.—Sher- iff Horsefall said his deputies have' arrested James F. Bannon, said to ORBETELLO, Italy, Dec. 15 Twelve seaplanes are all tuned up ready to take the air today on the first stage of a 6,470-mile flight to Rio de Janeiro. | Forty-eight men will participate, | four in each plane. The squad- ron will make a numbar of stops enroute. The longest hop of 1,875 miles will be from Bulama to Port Natal. It is estimated the flight will require 65 flying hours. Italo Balbo, Air Minister and daring pilot, is himself heading the expedition. Savoia-Marchett! seaplanes, mod- eled after Itallan bombers, make up the fleet which will progress in | easy stages to Cartagena, Spain, and down the African coast to the i hopping-off point, Bulama, Poriu- guese Guinea, Their departure for World, after general will be timed for the light of the full moon and dependent on good weather, probably between January 5 and 8. | They will make for the nearest ! point of Brazil—Natal—crossing the 'quator in mid-ocean, and then| proceed down the coast to Rio de/ Janeiro. | By the mass !nrmauon flight, the largest ever proposed for a trans-| VAv.Lmuc attempt. Italy hopes to demonstrate the reliability and pos- sibiliites of aviation. | Each plane carries a pilot, co- | pilot, mechanic and radio operator. | Each is equipped with special in- | struments and a new small but ex- | tremely powerful wireless set | To Balboa, Mussolini’s right-hand |man in making Italy air conscious, the New {two other squadron flights he has led, one in 1928 to London and Berlin, and the other last year| around the Balkans and the Black | Sea. 1 ‘Tt-will be the third transatlantic venture to be backed by the Italian| government, The first was the memorable overhauling | | ltalu Balbo, ltalmn Orbetello to Rio de Janeiro. VANCOUVER, B. C. Dec. Hatcher, are otill alive, Mrs. Re 28 while on a mercy errand to ir Mllll&t?r, who will com Savoia-Marchetti seaplanes on a flight across the South Atlantic from | Wife of Pilot Renahan Makes Request Search Be R()neawd for Husband | Rebin Renahan and his twe eom Minister of National Defense at Ottawa urging a search be made in the mountains back of Prince Rupert. Pilot Renahan and his companions disappears GUUNTRY 18 IN ~ TURMOIL ;REBEL - PLANES ACTIVE Citi(‘s Showered from Air with Inflamatory Proclamations 'SPANISH THRONE IS " REPORTED TOTTERING Labor Riots HallngAMar- tial Law Declared— President Proclaimed South 4tlunuc PARIS, Dec. A Span- ish revelt, another chapter in | Spain’s political drama, burst | today in a nation-wide move- |ment against the throne. A President has been pro- claimed at Bilboa. Madrid is in a turmoil. Rebel airplanes have show- ered the principal cities with inflamatory proclamations. News is scarce under a rigid censorship. — | It is reported that Madrid troops are about to join the | revolt. ! Labor riots have flared in | Bilboa and San Sebastian ac- |counting for three deaths. Martial law has been de- |clared throughout Spain. ‘ Alcala Zamora, a Cabinet | Minister in 1923, has been ;pruclaimed President of the | Spanish Republic according ;'Lo reports here. | King Alfonzo is bR nAlld a fleet of 12 licving her husband Pilot am Clerf nahan has wired the «d en October cearch for Pilot E. J. A. Burke kept in his and his companions, then lost in the Liard River District. among the workers, improved meth- Word has been received here that residents of Whitehorse ods of organization and manage- wife. |be the father of Charles Bannon.| 3 The police said it was a case' flight of Commander Francesco de | castle. ment, advances in science and in- vention, and increased use of capi- tal as an aid to labor, wecc list- ed as the causes of increased out- put per workman. Personal Productivity Gains in personal prod vity have ranged from 57 to 115 per cent in the various branches of economic endeavor over 2 penodw of thirty years. Gains of 10 to 401 per cent were noted for the last; decade. Among the major economic phe- nomena of the fiscal year, the Com- merce Secretary referred to a “very considerable decline” in com- modity prices, which broke “the steadiness” that characterized the DIES IN SOUTH | of apparent murder and suicide. | The couple had been married Edltol’ Idennfied with Coast | 01y two months and quarreled fre- ‘quemly the poiice said. Newspapers Half a | 1t is evident, according to the Century, Passes ! authorities, from the position the }bcdms were found, that Dr. Magoon | | first killed his wife with some sort| SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. 15.|of g heavy instrument, then ended —Alfred Holman, aged 73 years, -hls own life. for the past 17 years Editor of tho. The woman came from Oregon ISan Francisco Argonaut, a weekly,| ;' g A two months ago for the {advocate of world peace and men"v\eJdmg bringing her two daugh- tioned as a possible appointee as| ters by a previous marriage. Ambassador to Japan or Minister | The girls slept in another part to Greece, is dead at Bolinas. For half a century Mr. Holman of, fus. Ligse. i HE ! was prominently identified with| Tne first indiaesion of kbe trag-‘\ edy was when a .native servant EAcific Loasi Lawande. found the couple dead when he |ily in North Dakota, alleged murderer of the Haven fam- as he drove into an auto camp. Advices have been received that States Attorney J. 8. Taylor has issued a warrant agains’ Bannon and would ask for his ex- tradition from the @oveinor of Oregon to stand triai in North Da- kcla SENATE PLANS T0 HIT BACK James | | pinedo and two companions, who flew a seaplane in 1927 from Rome along the western coast of Africa, | across the south Atlantic, and to |the United States. His plane was desiroyed by fire in Arizona, but |with a new ship he returned to Rome by way of New York, New- foundland and London. The second was the record non- | stop distance flight of 1928 by | Capt. Arturo Ferrarin and Major C. P. del Prete, who flew from Rome to Touros, near Natal, Bra- zil, a distance of 4,466 miles in 51 hours and 59 minutes. Del Prete died later of injuries when the pair crashed. price levels of recent years. The drop ran all the way througa the commodity- list but was “especiaily marked in farm products.” A de- crease in the value of crops was noted, together with an increase in that of animal products. Transportation Field In the field of transportation in- creased efficiency was noted, with railroads “handing more traffic| with fewer employes, fewer freight cars, and fewer locomotives than in any other year of sinmlar busin2ss volume.” The security markets dominatad financial conditions, Lamon® said,! and loans for the sale and pur- chase of securities were generally regarded as having had “a most| disturbing effect” on the motiey market. A decline in American | At the age of 17 years he began his | | newspaper career on the Portland left Seattle for California in 1891, | | Oregonian and was later Editor cf! TODAY'S STOCK Mr. Holman was born in Oregon. leahe them theE brcakhsl the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He QUOTATIONS | Losing Her Only Child, NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, Dec.| C . C . 15.—Closing quotation of Alaska Omml!s rime jJuneau mine stock today is 6‘.»‘} American Can 108, Anaconda Cop- lper 26, Bethlehem Steel 51%, Fox|hours before she was to have been )| Films 25%, General Motors 33%,|married, Helen Hidinger, aged 21 Granby Consolidated .13'%, Inter- Years, was shot to death in her bed national Harvester 51%, Kennecott| Sunday by her mother, Mrs. Eu- | Copper 227%, Montgomery- wflrd;gemn Prowant, aged 48, who suicid- 17%, National Acme 7%, Packard 1 ed, in the locked bedroom. Motors 8%, Simmons Beds 141%,| The girl's stepfather said his Standard Brands 15%, loans abroad was noted. Standard | Wife had been opposed to the mar- The Secretary mentioned at sev-! | Oil of California 40%, Standard Oil riage. She had been in ill-health| eral points in his report that b“a"[o; New Jersey 49, United Alrcraft|8nd the worry of losing her oniy ness depression had been Wworld 901, . 8 Steel 137%, Curtiss- | child undoubtedly, were reasons for wide and said that in several for-, wnght 2%, Pacific Gas kst Elec- | the tragedy. eign countries recession had begun'{1io 44 Pennsylvania Rallroad 55'%,] A huge bouquet of orange blos-| even earller than in the Unied General Electric 43%, Westinghouse Soms arrived at the girl's home States. 1E1€cmc and Mechanical 91%. { while detectives were investigat- D |ing Efforts to degrease waste in m- | Earl Penna, aged 22, dustry, a home building campaign A census of game bagged in|groom, asked that the engagement conducted on a national scale, in- North Carolina is to be taken by|ring be buried with the girl. | the Department of Conservation | 'and Development. DENVER, Colo., Dec. 15.—A few Decrease in Waste il ' i (Continued on Page Five) Proposed Endurance Flight Ends; Woman LARGES'T BANK IN WORLD Found as Stowaway NOW DOMICILED IN U S” LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 15— Because Miss Billie Brown, aged 24 parachute jumper, stowed away WASHINGTON, Dec. 15— HOW | pending. aboard a trimotored plane which the American banking system is| “The merging of important bank-: had started on an endurance flight, “changing was sketched today in|ing institutions in our larger cities'the ship came down 20 minutes the Commerce Department’s an-|has resulted in a marked reduc-(aner it left the ground early to- nual report. tion in the number of banks as well i | day. The trend toward chain and|as a large-scale concentration o[- Miss Brown planned to make a group banking, banking consolida- | banking resources. As a result of psrachute jump but had only one tion and the expanse of branch|one of these mergers, the largest chute which is against the De- banking was again evident during |bank in the world is now domi-|partment of Commerce ruling. the past- fiscal year,” Secretary |ciled in the United States.” Six pilots were aboard the plane. Lamont reminded Congress, where| The “largest bank” was not nam-"rhey said there was no place for jmportant banking legislation is|ed. a woman, anyway, - Mother, Broodlng Over intended ‘ cent Statement lssaed | SAVED, ACCIDENT at White House {Explosion Occurs on Ex- WASHI'NGTON D. ©, Dec. 15.— " 4 Fearing another lashing from Pres- cursion s[eamer w][h Glass Bottom 1ident Hoover, the Senate is stndy—l 1ing means of hitting back | Senators are prepared to make! |a record, through a La Follette| MIAMI, Flonda Dec. 15.—An ex- the | plosion and afire aboard the ex- are | cursion steamer Eureka, No. II, | resolution, their dislike at White House statemeént they playing politics with human mis-|sent 135 persons leaping into the ery. surging Atlantic. | The resolution would declare tha| The passengers had been watch- | Senate favors glving precedence to|ing through the craft’s glass hot- \relief of suffering over interests: tom. |of wealthy taxpayers. One hundred and twenty-five of President Hoover claimed that|the passengers were brought ashore | no matter how divided, an increase | safely. 1in taxes falls on the workers .mdx ‘Three bodies have been recovered [farmers. He asked the Senate not;and seven are unaccounted for. |to increase the taxes, The boat sank in 10 feet of | water. | Divers are searching for the bod /ies in the Marine Gardens, | miles south of here. | A three-piece orchestra tried to |stém the panic but it was drown- |ed out by screams of women and ‘chxldren as smoke from the engine | room gave fnotice of a mishap| which was followed by the ex-| | Plosions. ! 'Prize Winners, Radio Contest, Are Announced NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, Dec. 15—The first prizes in the National Radio Audition contest have been announced. They go to Carol Deis, soprano of Dayton, Ohio, and Raoul E. Nadeau, baritone of New York City. The prizes are $5,000 each and two years' study in the American Ovnservmry ?DDVPING W? ‘\'0 CHRISTMAS e e !Barrage of {Bullets Greet Firemen ROCK SPRINGS, Wyoming, Dec. 15.—Firemen rushing to a blaze in a one story building this morning ‘were greeted by a barrage of shots. Everyone kept at bay as the result of bullets flying wild. Nearly 4,000 rounds of am- munition were discharged in the melee. The building was occupied by a chooting gallery, o i i i, 15| of the Canadian Government and Bob Marten were week cxposure and exhaustion. This since October 11. DARING FLIER PLANNING TRIP - ACROSS STATES : Mrs. Victor Bruce Reaches! Vancouver — Made 10,000-Mile Flight VANCOUVER, B. C, Duc. 15 With her mother's birthplace, New | Albany, Indiana, on the itinerary planned by Mrs. Victor Bruce whose daring 10,000 mile flight across Europe and Asia is to be followed by an air journey across the United States and then south| to Buenos Aires. The British avia- trix-artist plans to paint cities Aires at the opening in April. | Mrs. Bruce will Yly the little| 110 horsepower plane to Seattle this week. She arrived Friday night on a steamer from Japan Mrs. Bruce left England only a | fews weeks after learning to fly.' Her first solo flight was made after six days of instruction On her flight from England to | Japan, she crashed on a desert and lost three days. She broke the pro- peller of her plane. She was forced down near Foochow, China, when her gas ran low. She landed on a | golf course and refueled | After reaching Scattle, Mrs.| Bruce plans to fly to Portland,! 8an Francisco, Los Angeles, thence east to Toronto and New York City, stopping enroute at New | Albany. She expects to ship her plane from Buenos Aires to South Africa and fly home via Egypt. [Small Boat Capsizes; | \ | Man Drowns, 1 Rescued | |* VICTORIA, B. C., Dec. 15.—Jo- | seph Wright was drowned when a small boat in which he was cross- ing the Gulf of Georgia capsized. J. Wilkinson was rescued by fish- ermen after clinging to the wreck- | age of the boat for several hours.| and Atlin are up in arms at what they de vigorously a search for Burke who lived onc month and nine days after his plane crashed. Burke’s com Wasson and taken to vu-m horse. — e e tand reach the exhibition at Buenos . = Premier Berenguer is attempting to whip the Government into a | united front. | No word has been received from Jac ce early Sunday morning. Dispatches received in Paris Sun- day night from Huesca reported | the Spanish Government had mov- ed swiftly to squelch the revolt. | Two leaders, Fervyn Galan and | Garcia Hernadez, had been court- OF D o Hero of Plane | martialed and shot | Hundreds of leaders all Search, Engaged to | Spain were reported arrested. W hitehorse Nurse | In the execution of Galan and VANCOUVER, B. C, Dec. ® | gernadez, both refused bandages 5—Pilot Everett L. Was- ®'for their eyes. Galan pleaded for son, aged 24 years, hero of ®|the life of his comrade saying he the rescue of il Kading e ldeserved to die but Hernadez was and Bob and the innocent. finding of A | As his last act, Galan handed Burke's body in the Liard a purse to the officer of the fir- District, is engaged to marry |ing squad with the request that Florence Gertrude Jones | the contests, 500 pesetas, be given nurse at Whitehorse. This is | to the poor. the announcement made by 3 Miss Jones' parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Jor LR I, R Mrs. Keith-Miller’s Plane Crashes, Wrecked| cribe as negligence | for failure to prosecute more io mil Kading . by Pilot Everett L. tied as the recult of had been micsing found al Burke flying party over .- PUBLIC WORKS BILL REDUCED WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 15.— JACKbONVILLE Florida, Dec.|Conferees on the $118,000,000 Emer- Mrs. Keith-Miller's pIBnfi;gcnfy Public Works bill have re- ashed today enroute to Wash-|duced the total appropriations to on, D, when the motor |$116,000,000 and restored the House failed. The ship was but 40 feet|provisions permitting the President above the ground at the time. The|to use specified sums, interchange~ aviatrix was not hurt. The under- | able. The Conferees eliminated the iage and wings were demol-|Senate amendment requiring local i hed IADOI on all p‘“’)JI'C s. | c ing “Hmmrch of Muuls” Is Welcomed in New York; 41)["‘(’('[(1![()" lflxpr(*s.se(l NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., ll(‘(n .—New York City, mors than ence the host to Kings and Queens, welcomed “A monarch cf Minds” last Saturday afterneon. The words were spoken by Nicholas Murray Butler, Prcsident of Columbia University in presenting. Prof. Albert Einstein to Mayor James J. Walker at the City Hall ceremonies. Mayor Walker assured Proi. Einstein that New Yorkers “have a very profound appreciation for the contributions you have made to science even if we don’t understand them.” President Butler “The territory which this monarch rules is not bounded by seas, mountains or rivers. The territory cver which his authcrity extends flies no one flag. He speaks no single tongue. It is a realm of ideas where men and women of every race and creed meet under the direction of masters of intelligence. Our gides are philosophers and friends in an effort to better and more fully understand the world in which we live.” Frau Einstein translated the short speech made by the Prefessor in German. “I feel this is a recognition of all scientifie work being done in the world over, not only by me, but others. I am thankful of the feeling expressed through the Burgomeister of this great city. The spirit of peace should reign the world over fer the realm of minds does not recognize wars,” ’