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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL XXXVl[., NO. 5597 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA MONDAY DECLMB};R 22 1930. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS { PRICE TEN CENTS CONGRESS TAKES RECESS; HARMONY SPIRIT BREAKS QUICK APPEAL IS TAKEN TO PROVE DRY LAW VALID Copmniiol Carrisi Judge William Clark’s Decision to Supreme Court 18TH AMENDMENT DEFENDED AS LEGAL Errors Char—g;d- to Lower Tribunal and Early Final Action Is Expected WASHINGTON, D. C,, Dec. 22.— ‘The Government's challenge to the recent decision of Federal Judge William Clark, of New Jersey, hold- ing the Prohibition Amendment is invalid, was filed Saturday in the Supreme Court. The Government contends that the Eighteenth Amendment was legally ratified and that therefore the National Prohibition Act and other laws enacted under the Amendment are valid. Government attorn ited as reversable errors: First—the court erred in allowing 2 motion- tc quash. Sccond—the Court erred m quashing the indictment for liquor transportation which brought about Judge Clark’s ruling. Third—the Court erred in ruling that the Eighteenth Amendment 1s invalid and that the National Pro- hibition Act 1§ therefore uncon- stitutional and void. Early action by the Supreme Court on the appenl is antlcxpated REVOLUTION IN CONFESSES TO l)l‘F\l( ATIONS IN MILLIONS Gilbert H. Bessemyer, (left), Secretary-Treasurer of the Guaranty Building and Loan Association at Los Angeles, entering the County Jail there after branding himself ty dirty crcok” following a signed confession to defaicaticns, running inio the millions of dollars, from hls compnny Gleam of Gold Lends Brilliance to Social IFIGHT OF LUGAS ON NORRIS STIRS Rcmgnahon of Repubhcan | Committee Executive De- | { manded by Senator 'HOWELL OF NEBRASKA {Glenn Defends Party Lead- er and Attacks Regu- larity of Assailant WASHINGTON, | debate resulted | Senate over the demand made a speech by Scnator George W. Norris, Republican of Nebraska, that Robert H. Lucas resign as Dec. 22.—Bitter Saturday in the can National Committee because Senate Campaign Funds Committen that during the campaign in Nebraska he had or- urging the defeat of Senator Nor- ris on the grounds that the latter was not a Republican, inasmuch as he had fought the administration policies of President Coolidge and | dent Hoover. What Lucas Admitted Lucas testified that he personal- ly paid $4.273 for the literature and its circulation, that he had acted (at the request of regular Republi- cans and that he and they gave no publicity to the contribution i . because they wanted to conceal it from the Democrats. Senator Norris, in his speech in the Senate, defended his campaign against the presidential candidacy of Herbert Hoover in 1928. BITTER DEBATE SUPPORTS COLLEAGUE! in’ executive director of the Republi-! HOLIDAY SHOPPERS FAVOR NOVELTIES IN CIFT SEARCH of his recent admission before the late Senatorial | dered the circulation of lterature | had opposed the election of Presi- AVI '\TOR FINDS PARTY LOS1 IN WILDERNESS | | | | Kidnaped by Chmeae | \ | i VENEZUELA; HAS FIRST SUCCESS Insurgents Surprlse Troops —Capture City— Burn City Hall BOGOTA, Columbia} Dec. A movement by Venezuelan in- surgents is predicted according to reports received here. Bogota newspapers print articles that insurgents are active in the southwestern portion of the coun- try but with little expectation of‘ success. Three hundred revolutionaries, | equipped, are said to havc‘ well captured the town of Labatera, killing the Civil Chief and burn-| ing the City Hall with all public archives. The Government trooops were surprised and unable to de- fend the city. -— Such a Modern Boy—Really, Isn’t He? ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 22.— Boys in days gone by wrote to Santa Claus for popguns. But times apparently have changed. Witness this letter, which came today among the Santa Claus letters to a St. Louis newspaper’s annual Christmas festival office: “Dear Santa—I am six years old and a good boy. Please bring me a machine gun and some real bullets. Your little friend, Jackic.” g An estimated 70 per cent of manufactured gas sold in the Unit- ed States is used in homes. 22— NEW FRAUDIS . INVESTIGATED BY UNGLE SAM romoters Bunking People’ on Oil Land Leases— Alaska Involved WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 22.—The Government is investi- gating alleged fraudulent sales of oil land leases. It is said men are offering to purchase leases at $2 per acre fer clients. The | Government's top fee is $32 for | any amount of acreage, giving | promoters a difference which is | said to run into thousands of dollars. I The western lands of the | United States proper were closed recently by President Hocver, but oil and gas lands in Alaska remain open and pro- moters “promise great oppor- tunities, securing large returns.” 'Urban and Rural |Census Figures | Announced Today WASHINGTON, D. C, e Dec. 22—The Census Bu- Season at White House By SUE McNAMARA WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—Gold is the dominant note in the bril- liant social season just inaugurated at the White House. The gleam of gold in uniforms of countries and in the gowns of thL women promise a season of unusual splendor. The White House, during a big dinner or on a reception night, (looks as if King Midas might have ' passed that way turning everything he touched to gold. Gold dishes in the state dining room, gold candle sticks, and gold vases holding bouque of great russet-gold chrysanthemums all I have their places in the social fes- ‘1.1\'i[m<. | Women, clad in rustling white and gold -brocade or lace over gold {do their part in making the scene lin the White House as $parkling land brilliant as anything from a \Ialry book tale. | ' Mrs. Hoover dispensed with roses —the usual formal dinner flow- er—-at the cabinet dinner which inaugurated the White House fes- | tivities, and replaced them with the feathery gold pompoms. The flowers were everywhere, |resting in gold bowls. | At the diplomatic reception, at- {tended by 1,600 guests, Mrs. Her- | bert Hoover wore a gown of white |and gold brocade made with a long court train, The rich gleam accen- tuated in her gown was caught up at a hundred angles from gold braid on uniforms and in dresses. Mrs. Henry L. Stimson, wife of “At least I was honorable and/ By HAZLL REAVIS NEW YORK, Dac. 2 Novelty |in Christmas gifts seems to be the aim of merchant and shopper alike, this year, | More New Yorkers than usual, | according to store managers, ar: | expressing their greetings with bas- kets of fine foodstuffs. Ornamental waste baskets, or make-up boxes filled with chole tidbits, are a favorite remembrance and some confirmed lovers of rare| foods even send imported cheeses as holiday reminders. [ | | | | Sets of ash trays for all people novelty on shop or- their im- and all rooms are a which the Christmas gl ganizers have let loose i Pilot E. I. Wason (Ieft) ana Guide Jee Walh found Emil Kading and Bcb Marten and Capt. E. J. A. Burke dead in the Liard river country cf British Colu mibia aftor mushing 40 miles from where they found Burke’s airplane. The trio had Leen missing sinee October 11, Secret Is Gut For more than a year, Mrs. George Vargas, formerly Phylis Bal- e the Secretary of State, also wore o White and gold brocade. Mrs. Ray o Lyman Wilbur, wife of the Secre- ltary of the Interior, wore black lace over gold. urban population of the United States as 68955521 and the rural population as ® being 53,819,521, o ® 0 0 800 0000 00 o0 . . e reau today announced the @ . . | SECRET OF QUAKE-PROOF BUILDINGS IS GOAL OF U. S. ENGINEERS’ STUDY WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.— Gov- ernment aid in obtaining practical information on the action of earth- quakes, needed in the designing of shock-proof buildings, is sought by the American engineer- ing council. The coast and geodetic survey has framed a program for exten- sive study in this field which has the approval of engineers. to be| | 3 SHOOTINGS OVER SUNDAY (importance of making researches | in earthquake matters because of the importance to safety of life; and property,” Freeman said. ;22 .—Three shootings took place in The engineers’ problem, he says,|this vicinity on Sunday. |is to provide far greater strength| Aviators, flying low, found an and rigidity than is required simply ‘unidentified man shot in the back, to prevent the building from being near Hicksville, Long Island. It is toppled over. !beheved he was running from an The framework must be so de- {automobile when shot. signed that its distortion under ‘Thomas Boli was shot five times stress will be so small that interior |and slain. His body was found in NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., Dec.; above board in my opposition,” as- serted the Senator. “The literature sent into Nebraska in the recent senatorial campaign was not only false and malicious but a disgrace [to even the meanest eriminal.” Howell Supports Norris Senator Robert W. Howell, Re- publican of Nebraska, supported the demand of Senator Norris for the resignation of Lucas from his place on the National Republican com- mittee. “Some of the literature,” de- clared Senator Howell,“ was not ap- ptoved by even the Nebraska op- ponents of Senator Norris." Characterization of the secrecy over the source of the donation for ator Otis F. Glenn. Republican, of Tlinois, to- shout that it was mo worse deceit than Senator NOITis action in “posing as a Republican.” Senator Glenn delivered an ad- dress vigorously challenging the Republicanism of Senator Norris. Banker Makes Charges Wade Cooper, President of the Commercial National Bank, told the Senate Committee today the $4,000 loan given Lucas by the Re- publican National Committee to help finance the campaign against Senator Norris was backed by the Republican National Committe. Senator Cutting of New Mexlco, Independent Republican, demand- ed the resignation of Lucas and said that unless Lucas's statement against Senator Norris was repud- iated, Republicanism was at anend. He vigorously defended Senator |Norris and said he had a right to his opinions, that the Nebraska Republicans thought he was a good enough Republican to elect him. Senator Cutting denounced Lucas and said Lucas had no right to finance any anti-Norris campaign while a member of the Executive Committee. ... Sweden was ainerica’s pest mar- ket for motor trucks in Septem- ber. Get Your Packages From Post Office; Special Hours ‘The assorting space at the e Post Office is limited, liter- e ally jammed with packages e and more sacks of mail e ready to be opened and dis- e tributed. Tonight the deliv- the literature as deceit caused Sen-| Mrs. B. D. Hayward of Seattle, Wash.,, was captured by Chinese bandits for ransom last October. | She was ill at the time. Mr. and Mrs. Hayward were attached to 3 mission at Lanchow in Kansu pro vince. 'WIEN REACHES FAIRBANKS ON NOME FLIGHT Veteran Alaska Aviator | | Flying Over Route of Proposed Highway FATRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 22.— Landing here at noon Sunday, Noel Wien, veteran Alaska aviator, and his brother Sigurd, completed | all but the final lap of their flight| from Virginia, Minnesota, to Nome. The two fliers have covered 2,500 miles in 14 days. They spent several, days aground owing to bad weather. Noel and his brother are flying over the route of the proposed International Highway. Noel Wien was met wife and young son. They expect to hop off today for Nome to 'spend Christmas with the parents of Mrs. Wien, The flight from Dawson to Fair- banks was made in three hou — e LT here by his [ | | | BIGGS COMES | “BILLY” TO JUNEAU ON VISIT W. H. Biggs, known to his many {friends in Juneau as “Billie,” ar , rlved on the Estebeth this mornuxg] from Hirst-Chichagof, to spend |Christmas here. He expects to re- | turn on the motorship leaving Fri-' lday night for his headquarters. | S Clutched Electric Heater While in Bath VAN AUYS, N. Y, Dec. 22.— ‘Wilbert J. Lubbering, 17 year | zar, daughter of Governcr and Mrs. | Balzar of Nevada, kept their mar- , riage a secret. Both are students at agination. Even bath rooms are not forgoi- {mache bottles Precise knowledge of earthquake | plastered walls will not be badly | motion and force is “urgently need- ed,” says John R. Freeman, of Providence, R. I, in a report to the council on a world survey of shock- resisting architecture. “In the United States there a growing realization of the grea:i 15 cracked and partitions of hollow a stolen automobile in Brooklyn. |1t is believed to have been a gang- Tub; He's Dead ‘ | \ i extra two hours, from 6 to 8 tile crushed. land execution. Stone and bricks used in exte-| Mrs. Vincenza Esposito, aged 22, rior veneering must be anchored samas seriously wounded in a volley strongly, he says, they w'll not be-|of shots from a passing curtained come detached and fall on thelautomobile in Brooklyn. She re- heads of people below. v/ cently separated from her husband. o'clock, and residents are requested to avail themselves of this time and call and se- cure their packages—because there will be more tomor- row—and room is needed. e 00000 . ® L] . » . ® ery window will be open an . . - . . . old high school football player was electrocuted Sunday when he clutched an electric heater while taking a bath. He was feund sitting in the bath tub with the heater tightly hugged to his chest with both hands. 1 U. Nelson, | the National Association of Real Such homes will » ten by the ash tray exper It i possible to get a neat little ash; tray which can be attached to the bath tub soap dish, a water pipe or window ledge. Gifts of games no longer are lim- ited to young people. | Grown-up games are featured) side by side with juvenile piay-| things in leading shops. | Some new recreations have ap-' peared for the Christmas trade.! | One of them is puff billiards, a fast -garne played with air guns and a small wooden ball. There are many indoor archer: games to select from. Archery pok- er is one of the new ones. { Backgammon boards are promi- nently displayed in all the game; departments. For bridge players| there are new designs in playing | cards. Bridge ensembles are put up in many forms. Even the containers for !hl\ | year's Christmas gifts reflect mer- chandisers’ search for things new and different. For instance there are papnx< bearing labels of champagnes and vintage wines, Shopping advisers recommend them as boxes for the inevitable neckties gloves and handkerchiefs | ALEXIS RYKOFF S “RELIEVED" All Right Wingers Being Qusted from Com- munst Party MOSCOW, Dec. 22.—The demo- tion of Alexis Rykoff, who has been “relieved” as head of the Union Council of the People's Commis- sars, has been completed. His re- muval has been with the action of the Central Committee, of the Communists Party, carrying out a house cleaning of Right Wingers. There is only one Right Winger |remaining in a high post, Nicholas Bucharin, member of the Central {Committee, and he is expected to be dropped eventually. e — FLAT ROOFS ARE NOW PREDICTED WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—Houses 10 years from now will have flat roofs which can be used as out- | door living rooms, says Herbert Executive Secretary of Estate Boards. give dwellers more he light and air, the University of chada. PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAM GETS STARTEDTODAY Government Officials Put Into Operation, Plan to Spend Big Sum WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 22. — Government Executives started work today putting into opexation the $116,000,000 ap- propriation for public works, mostly for roads. The Department of Agricul- ture is moulding the machinery for dispensing of the $45,000,- 000 appropriation for loans to drought stricken farmers in putting out next year's crops. President Hoover signed both relief bills Saturda .- — — TODAY'S STOCK | QUNTATIONS | . e . NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., Dec. 22.—Closing quotation of Alaska | Juneau mine stock today is 6%, Pacific Gas and Electric 44, Alle- ghany 7%, Pennsylvania Railroad 56%, American Can 1097, Ana- conda Copper 26%, Bethlehem Steel 51%, General Electric 43'4, West-| inghouse Electric and Mechnical 9% er 46%, Kennecott Corporation Montgomery-Ward 1 nal Acme 7, Packard Motors 9% Simmons Beds 15'%, Standard Oil of California 44 andard Oil of | New Jersey 457., Standard Bran 16, U. S. Steel 138, Curtiss-Wright | Escaped Murdereirr A * Captured by Police| BALTIMORE, Maryland, Dec. 22 The Police surprised and cap- tured Frank VanDerkuylen, one six men who escaped on Decem 4 from Mattewan Hospital for the Criminal Insane, The Police found VanDerkuylen in seclusion in the rt of the y. He ad- his identit 1d made no ance. He was committed last New York C bigamous wife. , General Motors 34's, Granby | Consolidated 20, International Har- | % Na-l COOPERATION TO SPEED WORK IS ALL BUT BURIED Dissension Breaks Out Be- tween Republicans | and Democrats BIG APPROPRIATION BILLS NOT PASSED Senate Wnthholds Action on Government Expen- ses for Next Year WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 22.— Congress adjourned at 12:05 o'clock Sunday m ing for a two week’s recess ov he holidays after the Senate had been in continuous ses- slon for more than thirtesn hours. One of the last acts of the Sen= ate was the passage of the. appro=- | priation bill for $150,000,000 for the Federal Farm Board completing Congressional action 6n the meas- ure, which now goes to the Presi= dent for his signature. The heralded Republican and Democratic cooperation movement to speed legislation in order to avoid an extra session next spring was all but buried under dissension which flared into both parties over relief bills, the Federal Power Com- mission appointments and other controversial matters, None of the regular appropria- tion bills, carrying funds to meet the government's expenses during the next year, got through the Sen- ate for final enactment. These must be disposed of befcre March {4 If an extra session is to be avoid- ed. The Treasury and Post Office appropriation bill was before the the holiday recess was taken. Muscle Shoals also re- | mains an unsettled issue. One of the tasks for the Senate ;on meeting January 6 will be con- | firming the nominees of the Tariff Commission. WORK TO START ON THREE JOBS IN SHORT TIME Emergency Rellef Appro- 1‘ priation Carries Money | Senate when for Alaska Projects Initial work on River and Harbor | improvements in Alaska, involving the expenditure of $334,000 prob- ably will be launched in the near lrumre it was indicated today by | Maj. Malcolm Elliott, United States | District Engineer and President of | the Alaska Road Commission, who |returned Saturday night from ‘Washingwn. D. C There are three projects slated |for work in the very near future— {Thomas Basin at Ketchikan, Port | Alexander and a breakwater for a “<msll boat refuge at Seward. In Emergency Measure Funds for this work were in- [cluded in the President’s Unem- \poymem relief program. “If the wnuanon is as reported in current ‘prew dispatches, that is that the |Emergency Rellef bill has been |passed by Congress and approved the President, it is expected it |will result in launching work at Ketchikan, Port Alexander and Seward in the near future,” Maj. iEIl:ou said. The Ketchikan project calls for ,{the expenditure of $272,000, Port Alexander $17.000, and Seward breakwater $45,000. The sums ap=- propriated for the first two proj- ects cover the estimated cost for ‘comple'lon of the job. The Seward “ppropvlauun is for the breakwater construction and does not include any money for necessary dredging, | b | (Continued on Pue Three) | SVOVPIAG Qave 10 QL\R}Q MAC