The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 21, 1930, Page 1

THE DAIILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5592. ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1930. ESS CENTS PRICE TEN HOOVER SIGNS BILLS FOR $161,000,000 FOR RELIEF SOLDIERS ARE WITHDRAWING FROM STREETS Spanish Troops Concen- trated in Barracks— Revoke Martial Law MADRID, Spain, Dec. 20.—Mar tial law is now prevailing in Spair only in theory for soldiers who havc been patrolling the streets in vari ous cities have been withdraw: and are concentrated in barracks. The Government remains aler however, prepared for the first sigr of ‘any further disturbance. The martial law order has no been officially revoked. Premier Berenguer denied report: his entire cabinet is preparing tc resign. Observers believe the Ministry will remain for the present but s change is looked for within the next few months. % i - .. — BANK- ROBBED OF LARGE SUM IN 4 MINUTES Three Men Disarm Special Officer, Menace Others and Make Escape N e CiTY, N. Y., Dec. 20.—Three robbers stole $31,623 in an uptown bank hold-up Saturday afternoon which was all aver in four minutes. The rcbbers disarmed a special poiceman, menaced a dozen employees and customers scooped up the cash and vanished. The robbers were in such a hur- ry they overlooked $25,000. Late in the afternoon a lone rob- ber invaded a wholesale jewelry office, bound and gagged one of the owners and one of the employees and escaped with gems valued at more than $30,000. —,,——— MONKS ARET0 HOMESTEAD N WEST ALASKA Father Niccone Arranges Funds to Bring Rus- sians North SEWARD, Aleska, Dec. 20.—In- augurating a scheme to bring Northern European farmers here to homestead in the Matanuska Valley, where the soil and climate is considered identical, Father Nic- cone has sent for three young Russian monks, now in Greece. The monks are experienced farm- ers driven from Russian homes by the Soviets. Father Niccone himself came from Greece and has arranged for funds to bring the other monks to Alaska. ., NOEL WIEN AT . ATLIN; FLYING T0 NOME HOME ATLIN, B. C., Dec. 20. — Noel Wien and co-pilot Siguard Ayre, enroute from Minnesota to Nome,' Alaska, for Christmas, arrived here and will continue to Dawson on the next leg of their flight. They expect to be in Dawson on Sun- day. Carrying Christmas Gifts, Flier Crashes, Burns to Death “PHILADELPHIA, Penn., Dec. 20.—Karyan Freiter, aged 28, who flew here from Boston to deliver Christmas gifts to rela- tives, was burned to death late this afternoon as his plane fell in the woods in the northeast- ern part of the city. 'Governor and Bride in Sot;th \ | weeks ago came as & great sur- prise to his personal and polit- ical associates, who are eagerly awaiting the return of the honey- Gov. Morgan F. Larson, of New Jersey, and his bride, enjoying a dip in the Roney Plaza pool at Miami Beach, where they are i mooners in order that they spending a part of their honey- may extend felicitations. moon. The unexpected mar- riage of the Governor a few counted ten. Then he bounced{; cheerily to his feet and skipped out of the ring, apparently pleased lat escaping from a hot spot. | Cormedy Bout Opens i Dolly Gray was overweight for BUTLER - COLLIER MATGH Is DRAW; his bout with Kid Eddy Ryan and | 1 1 |1t was corking good comedy while it lasted, puv Ryan was awarded the Judges' decision because Davis entered the ring one pound under the specified 125 pounds ringside. Legion Card Announced { On December 31, Announcer Grov- er C. Winn proclaimed, the Ameri- | can Legion will put on one of the biggest cards ever staged here.| {Miles Mdrphy, unconquered local middleweight, has been matched, with Joe Manila, Ketchikan vet-| eran, for the main gc. ! Slugger Weaver will fight Kid Samora, a Filipino, who looks be a classy ring artist. It was announced there will be 7 bouts on the card. | - e — r SHOT, KILLED Judges Decide Eight-Round| Main Go in Slow Smok- er Last Night After one of the slowest main events on record, Ford Butler and Joe Collier, matched for the al- leged . heavyweight chflmpionship| of Southeast Alaska, fought to aj draw last night in the Mo Smoker at A. B. Hall, according to the unanimous decision of Judges Karl Theile and Ed Adams. The entire eight rounds were siow except in spots where the two seekers after fistic laurels ral- lied for seconds only to lapse again nto posturing and gargoyle imita- tion. Butler lander the oftener, and had clear edges in the second, sixth, seventh and eighth rounds.[ Some protests greeted the decision, but the fans, tired with the lack g of action, didn't care much which| DENVER, GaldieDopd 20, UoKR way the officials voted. A. Berglund, bachelor hotel pro- Weaver Quick Kayo prietor, was shot and killed by two Slugger Weaver had.a set up fed unidentified men who awakened him in the person of Jimmy Young, | him Saturday morning, when he Haines boy, who lasted one min-}Tesented a request made by them. ute in the scheduled six - round | The men fled, and Berglund's in- semi-final. The boys met at the Valid wife lay helpless a few feet bell, Young leading and missing away. Two roomers witnessed the with a long right. Weaver rushed |shooting. and in a melee clouted Young with| s left and right to the jaw. Young [taljan Air sq“admn dropped and rose without taking 3 3 the CoHink ! Hoytus AlNbiv da5aT) Finally Reach Spain as he came up off the floor. Weav- er swarmed all over him with a| CARTAGENA, Spain, Dec. 20— hailstorm of gloves to the head|With all twelve seaplanes of the and face. Young dropped the!Italian Squadron flight to Rio de second time. His head landed with Janeiro finally arriving here, Gen- considerable force across the lower eral Italo Balbo, Italian Air Min- rope and he was counted out jster and leader of the expedition, stretched full length on the can- expects to take off Sunday for ves. 1 Kunitra, Morocco, the second halt- ing place. The seaplanes had stormy going today. Osborne-Brady Draw Al' Osborne and Bill Brady, 170- pounders, in the special match, went four rounds to another draw.| Al almost left handed Bill into, submission. He had the copper-, hued battler from Douglas tied in his shoes most of the time. Brady showed only one real flurry, in the second rounc wien he floored Os- borne with a right smash to the jaw. Osborne took the nine count and rose to batter Brady across the ring and force him ‘into a clinch. The boys were long on slugging and short on science. Neither show- ed any ill effects at the end. Cabo Curls Up Frank Cabo, 137-pounder from the Philippines, curled up within Be Courtmartialed ' five seconds after the bell started AL him on a scheduled four round bout| gaN ANTONIO, Texas, Dec. 20. with Sammy Nelson, who substitut-{__The headquarters of the Eighth ed for Philip Joseph. Cabo kepuCO.rps announced that Lieut. Lester | Sammy waiting in the ring for|y wmMaitland, who was the first to/ some 10 minutes. _When he finally |1y the Pacific ocean from San! crawled into the ring and the fight|prancisco to Hawaii, will face a| got started, Sammy took One |genera] courtmartial next Monday, healthy swing and as the littlely, 4 charge of being drunk while brown brother undertook to Iun|ynger treatment at Fort Sam Hous- into a clinch Nelson ripped a light!ion Hospital left into his stomach. i DA P N Cabo curled up on his side near| The Salt Lake City, Utah, police | the ropes and lay without stirring|gepartment recovered 3,600 stolen | a muscle while Referee Franks!pjcycles last year, L BOXER ARRIVES AT SEATTLE, HARD TRIP | SEATTLE, Dec. 20—The Govern- | ment schooner Boxer arrived here { Saturday afternoon with tin ore, | reindeer meat, hides, ivory and ! curios from Point Barrow, Alaska. Capt. Whitlam said the trip south was one of the most trying in his | career. Lieut. Maitland to | ! Ellis. The words of the FESTIVITIES OF CHRISTMAS TO BEGIN TODAY Yuletide Tree Will Be| Lighted and Carols Sung This Afternoon Yuletide festivities %egin today. | Juneau’s community Christmas tree | will burst forth in the effulgent| rlory of a myriad of gaily colored sectric lights and the joyous strains of Christmas carols will | adden the wintry air at 4 o'clock his afternoon. The celebration, in| vhich all residents of the city are | TESTS NEW MOTOR; ATTAINS 185-MILE SPEED rged to participate, will mark the | ‘eginning of a municipal observ- | ance that will be continued until after New Year's Day. The tree, which erected Fri- day beside the curb at Triangle Corner by Mayor Thomas B. Jud- son and a crew of city workers, was wired and given electrical connec- tion yesterday by the Alaska Elec- tric Light and Power Company. i Arrangements for the group sing- ing are in charge of Mrs. W. E.| five carols to be sung have been printed on| {slips of paper, and these will be distributed among the assembled | throng. The selections are “Come All Ye Faithful,” “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear “Joy to the World,” “O Little Town of Bethle-, hem,” and “Silent Night.” Organ accompaniments will be played by Mrs. G. E. Krause. | Details of the municipal tree un- dertaking are in charge of the ‘Women’s Club, of which Mrs. J. P. Williams is president. | : | NINE IN'S. E. ALASKA T0 CLOSE DOWN | Ketchikan Hears Three Big Companies Will Cut Off Three Plants Each Nine Southeast Alaska canner- ies, normally operated, will not be opened next season, if reports cur- rent in Ketchikan are well found- ed, it was learned here today. It was reported at the First City that nine plants are certain not to be operated and several others may | be left idle. The closure of these plants is the result of the present depression in the States which has slowed up sales of canned fish along with all other commodities and left an un- usdal quantity of the cheaper grades of fish in the hands of the packers.: A curtailment of the 1931 pack is deemed advisable so as to clean up the carry over stocks by 1932. The canneries reported at Ket- chikan as sure not to open next year are owned by the Northwest- ern Fisheries, Libby, McNeill & Libby and Alaska Pacific Salmon Corporation, three by each of them. LAID TO REST, NATIVE HILLS Vermont’s Senior Senator Is Buried, Familiar Surroundings ST. ALBANS, Vermont, Dec. 20. —Frank Lester Greene, Vermont's senior Senator, was buried this aft-| ernoon in the familiar surroundings | of the native hills. The little Con- gregational church was wded | with high officials, colleagues in Congress and neighbors. | B SR . Miss ‘Dana DeVighne arrived on the Admiral Farragut to spend the holidays with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. H. C. DeVighne. —————— Dr. G. F. Freeburger returned home on the Admiral Farragut last night after a business trip to the Pacific Northwest. l | QROPPING Vave | 10 CPRICTMAS o cANNERlEs |a dense fog off Laso Island. | | Capt. Erick Hjeft was picked up {tonight. 'and girls D Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. new 600-horsepower motor instal Associated Press Photo Heights, N. J., to tcst & Lindbergh before they took off at Hasbrouck record led in the plane in which they broke the trans-continental spesd last Easter. He obtained a speed of 185 miles an hour. Mrs. Lindbergh took the controls part of the time. DAUGHTER AND WIFE PERISH, SEA DISASTER Captain of Ship Lost in! ollision, Has Triple Troubles COPENHAGEN, Dec. 20.—Capt. Erick Hjeft, of the steamer Oberon, | |lost his wife and four-year-old daughter when the Oberon sank, soon after a collision with the Arc-| sturus, whose skipper is his brother | Ossi Hjeft, early this morning in| | by ‘his brother's vessel clasping the body of his dead daughter in his arms. [ Search Is Abandoned i The search for possible additional | survivors of one the worst | marine disasters in the history of}| the Danish coast, the sinking of the Oberon after collision with the Arcturus, was virtually abandoncd_‘ Forty persons, possibly more, are believed to have been drowned when the Oberon went down or to have perished later in a sea of flaming oil which escaped from the vessel’s hold. NORTHLANDIS LAST YULETIDE VESSEL SOUTH Motorship Departs After| Christmas Tree Party for Children Bound for Seattle, the motorship | Northland, Capt. Leonard Wil-| liams, departed from Juneau 4:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon, | having arrived at 10:30 o'clock Friday night. She was the last boat | to leave here in time to reach Se- attle before Christmas. She em- | barked nine passengers here for | the South. They were Flora Tate, | Ina Swanson and Roy Swanson for | Petersburg; Miss Ernestine Wem-‘[ worth and Glen Carrington for Ketchikan; A. McDougall, E. J. El- lingen, Mrs. E. Wonderly and M. Barbara Wonderly for Seattle. | Yesterday afternoon, between 2! and 3 ‘oclock a Christmas tree| party, with a Santa Claus in the person of Second Officer Benjamin Joyce, was held in a forward sa- lon of the Northland. All little boys of the city had been! invited and many of them were present. Santa Claus distributed ap- | ples, oranges and bags of cookies among the children, all receiving Ppresents. e———— Falls 5 Stories, Only Scratches Chin, Goes Back to Work BAN P‘EIANCISCO, Cal.,, Deec. igene D'Hulla, window washer, fell from the ledge of a window of the fifth story of the Phelan Building Saturday afternoon to a steel screen over a court. He suffered only a at | . . o . ! .1 . bruised chin and immediate- . ) . ® ly went back to work. L) Mothballs Don’t Aid Car, Long Leased Wire | v 9900000990000 Winter Reaches High Point Tomorrow When Solstice Occurs Tomorrow winter reaches its halfway point in the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice occurring in Juneau at 4:40 a.m,, accord- ing to computations made by R. C. Mize, Meteorologist in Charge of the local Unit- ed States Weather Bureau Station Monday day In the year, the sun appearing on the horizon at 8:48 a.m. and disappear- ing from view at 3:09 p.m., ® a day of six hours and 21 e minutes. e cececoecnce D HARRY BLUNT, JOE BARROWS, FLY TO ATLIN | BROTHERHOODS OF RAILROADS ARE MEETING Affiliation with American Federation of Labor Is Indicated is the shortest . . ° Dec. 20— cen opened which affiliation of the major railroad labor Broth- erhoods, with a membership of ap- proximately 500,000, with the Am- erican Federation of Labor. The announcement was made to- day by the officials of the Brother- hoods - JOB SHARIN SCHEME FOR RAILROADERS Three Unions Voluntarily Adopt Plans to Aid Unemployment Makes Flight from Tele- graph Creek—Will Return for Lowe 20.- WHITEHORSE, Y. T., Dec Harry Blunt, who has not y covered from injuries received when| his plane crashed in the ice of a lake near Telegraph Creek, has ar-! rived here with Joe Barrows, of | oppURLAND, Ohio, Dec California. They flew a plane here. yoy ntary sharing of jobs to ea Barrows will return to Telegrabh gietresq of unemployment by three Creek within a day or two and PICk pajjroaq Workers' Unions which up his employer, Edward L hope to make the plan effective all P.)'Pal(lenl of the Paglific Interna-|, . the country, has been started. tional Airways, and' Mrs. LOWe ~pne Brotherhoods of Trainmen, and then fly to Anchorage Engineers and Firemen have The wreck of Blunt's plane Dre-|ne’ monthly mileage basis of pay vented him from joining the search!y, " ;1qer o create work for their for Capt. Burke. idle members. The Trainmens’ Union put the plan in operation on a dozen roads but of 40,000 idle, there are still 30,000 unemployed The Firemen's Union effected re- ductions on many roads The Engineers’ Union two ays the fed- | onihs ago, agreed to share jobs. v | The Brotherhoods seek eventually Despite the belief of many mo-, ,eaqjustment on the basis of a torists that mothballs placed in 6-hour day, at present on an 8-hour gasoline make an auto run farther and faster, they don’t, the commis-, - sion says after an investigation. Placing tablets containing the same ingredients mothballs in MILLIUNAIRE gasoline tanks with the fuel, thz, Federal Commission Fin TULSA, Okla, Dec. 20.— The mothball’s place is in the home and not in the automobile, eral trade commission. wage commission has found, does not m~| move carbon, give added mileage,! lessen exhaust odor, smoking,| knocking or even promote higher} engine efficiency generally. e Bowles and Paris Investigation s ! Established by A. P. NEW YORK CITY, Dec.s 20—/ The United States and Mexico were brought closer together tonight| when over a direct leased wire the| Associated Press began a daily ex- change of n between New York and the newspaper Excelsior in Mexico City. It is the longest in- ed ternational leased land wire for|Mond ret strictly press association news serv- ' dictment ice ever established between the| The two centers for this purpose, oper-|true t ating as it does over more tham lesser 3,000 miles. | - Dunn, son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Dunn, is a pas- senger north on the Alameda to!s spend the Christmas holidays in|plue Juneau. He is attending the Uni- pre: Vi Washington, | pounds, 20 a secre degree Nelson secre- ion with Bowles noon to PORTLAND, The Co Grand Jury in investigation of the first murder charges against Bowles, millionaire and tary Irma Parls, in conne: the fatal stabbing of Mrs. adjourned Saturday Oregon, Dec. ithout jury returned and seven indictm -oe WATER BLUE seven COPPER Clarence VASHINGTON German Richard ter chemi e to the com- nc of 20.—A| cut .‘Gram] Jury Adjourns in PUBLIC WORKS, DROUGHT LOANS ~ PASSCONGRESS Measures Receive Execu- tive Approval in Quick Time EIGHTY MILLIONS FOR | ROAD CONSTRUCTION Expected that Entire Sum Will Be Spent by Next July | 1 WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. '20. — President Hoover has signed both emergency bills, the Public Works for $116,- 1000,000 and the drought loans for $45,000,000. | The measures were signed ;by the President less than an hour after he received them. [ Two lone photographers, at ,the White House at the time, were allowed in the Execu- | tive' office, a rare thing, to Imake photographs of the | President signing the bills. 1 The Public Works bill got | through the Senate this aft- | ernoon after Senators La Fol- lette of Wisconsin, and Walsh of Massachusetts, assailed it as a “drop in the bucket.” The Senate receded from |three amendments in a dis- pute with the House. The Administration intends to put the funds in operation at once. Of the Public Works funds $80,000,000 goes for road con- struction. President Hoover is given authority to allocate the money as he deems necessary 'if an emergency arises. | It is expected most of the | money will be spent before | July 1. | .- FED, POWER COMMISSION ~ CONFIRMED WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 20.— | The Federal Power Commission was | completed tonight when the Senate confirmed the last three nomina- tions made by President Hoover. The commission is now composed | of Chairman George Otis Smith, of Maine; Frank R. McNinch of North Carolina, Marcel Garsaud of Louis- iana, Ralph B. Williamson of Wash- ington, and Claud L. Draper of ‘Wyoming. McNinch and Garsaud are Demo- crats and the others are Repub- licans. The new commission will be or=- ganized immediately to replace the nt commission. The nominations considered to- night developed opposition on the floor. AMBASSADOR FROM UNITED STATES, DIES THE HAGUE, Dec. 20.—Gerrit John Diekema, United States Min- ister to The Netherlands, died Sat- urday following an operation on Thursday. He was appointed by President Hoover last August. He had served in the House of Repre- sentatives from Michigan. .- - DEPTHE PEACEFUL OCEAN LA JOLLA —The depths of the Pacific ocean are found to be peaceful in one respect by Scripps Institution oceanographers. They are less subject than other oceans to “upwellin and other currents ! which mix surface and deep waters, )