The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 2, 1931, Page 1

“ FAIRBANKS MAN SHOOTS WIFE, COMMITS SUICIDE L] . 4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5606. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS : U.S. MARINES ARE AMBUSHED, KILLED Suit SERGEANT AND SEVEN PRIVATES ARE SHOT DOWN Nicaraguan. Insurgents Made Sudden Attack and Kill Marines FIGHT RAGES FOR OVER TWO HOURS Bodies of Dead Men Are| Found Mutiliated— | Unable to Get Aid | M AN A GU A, Nicaragua, Jan. 2.—Marine detachments today combed the hills near Achuara, Nort hern Nicara-| gua, seeking a band of in- surgents. The insurgents, last Wed- necday, killed eight of a pa- trol of ten Marines, from am- bush, between Octopal and Apali. The bodies were mutiliated. Newly Elected Senator of N. C [THOUSANDS ARE | 3enator-elect R. J. W. Bailey of North Carolina has been elect- ed to take office March 4th. The State’s other new repre- sentative in the Upper House is Senator Cameron Morrison, former Governor, who was ap- pointed Senator to succeed the late Sem~¢nr Qverman. The patrol was repairing a new- ly erected telephone line. The Nicaraguan insurgents are believed to have been commanded by Biguel Ortez, Lieutenant of Gen. Sandingo. Two members of the patrol were seriously wounded. The dead Marines are: H Sergeant Arthur Palrang. Privates Irvin Aron, Lambert Bush, Edward Elliott, Joseph Har-! baugh, Richard Litz, F. McMullen and Joseph McCarthy, all from the East and Middle Western States. The patrol was suddenly fired on and fought for two and one-| half hours but the rebels gradually picked the Marines off. Private Hutfcheson was ordered to go through the line of fire for ald but was wounded and unable to reach Octopal A farmer nearby heard the fir- ing and gave the alarm. Twenty-five men were rushed to the scene but they found only the dead and wounded Marines. HAS FULL AUTHORITY ‘WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 2— Col. Frederick Bradman, Com- mandant of the Marines in Ni- caragut holds full authority to cope with the bandits, it was of-| ficially said here today. Senator King said he proposed} an immediate withdrawal of Ma- rines. He said: “It is a bad thing to send bayonets in support ofj American investments in foreign countries.” BOVERNMENT OF PANAMA TURNED Prominent HUGH WALLACE PASSES AWAY; HEART FAILURE Democrat and Former Ambassador to France Is Dead = HOGH SRR g ‘WASHINGTON,: Jan. 2.—Hugh C. Wallace, former American Am- hassador to France, died yesterday trom. heart failure with which he had been afflicted for some time. OVER IN REVOLT 5 oot o PANAMA CITY, Jan. 2—A revolt, | breaking without warning, over- threw the Government of President Arosemena, and the Capital of the| Republic has passed into .the hands| ©of the Revolutionary- Junta headed | by Harmodis Arias. I The rebellion was sponsored by the “Accion Comunal” a patriotic organization that violently eriti-; cized what it called corruption of government under both President,| Chiata and Arosemena. A group' of about 100 men stormed the head: quarters of the National Police. The Police also serve as Panama’s only national army. After firing a few shots the group captured the Police Station. The Presidential Palace was mext attacked and captured. The Presi- dent is today confined in his quar- | ters in the Palace, apparently un- der arrest. - for several weeks. Mrs. Wallace and a miece, who resides in Paris, were riat the bedside. In Demicratic Councils Active in councils of the Demo- cratic party for many years Hugh Campbell Wallace was said to have enteréd politics merely for pleasure he derived from it. the He |never sought public office and al-/ 1though nominations as Goyernor and United States Senator were frequently offered to him, he con- sistently refused to run for office. 'His public service consisted of two 1years as Receiver of Public Mon- leys of Utah, to which he was ap-| ipointed by President Cleveland, and | as United States Ambassador to +France from 1919 to 1921, to which {post he was named by President | Wilson. Close to Wilson Mr. Wallace was elécted a mem- iber of the Democratic National |Committee from Washington in Joffre in Deep Coma; Is Not Expected to Awake ® _PARIS, Jan. 2—Marshal |® Joffre is in a deep coma |® from which physicians did | ® not expect him to awake. He remained alive, doctors said, through injections of serum. He rests perfectly still, an arm twitching occa- sionally. eeecoe oo 0 e, NIGHT CLUB IS DLE IN SOUTH, WALESDISTRIGT Dispute of Hours and Wages Result in Walk- out and Lockout CARDIFF, Wales, Jan 2.—Onl ia few wheels turned in the Soutt | Wales colleries yesterday following a combined strike and lockout be- tween owners and workers, Of| 150,000 men employed in the flelds, most of them were idle, except here and there where small groups worked under local agreements, Some of the workers had already been idle and this brings the total {to near 230,000. | The trouble resulted from a dis~ pute over the hours of wages. The miners held out for a seven and & half hour day in contrast to an (eight hour day. The employers were !willing to grant this if the men would take a one-sixteenth day pay cut. The men and the employers could not agree and the miners were or- dered to strike at midnight De- { cember 31. | The Government hopes to reach ]‘a settlement at a meeting with the | |South Wales Conciliation Board tomorrow where the claims of both sides will be weighed. Unless a compromise is reached, a bitter hard winter is fn sight for ;the entire field. DISCOVERY OF " GOLD REPORTED | vealed 'in Early In- terior Camp FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 2.— Reports received here said a new |ernathy was the abductor. +!Good Strike Said t’o Be Re-| gold strike has been made on B Lower Goldstream Creek, one of Y | the camp’s early producers. One ROBBERY SCENE REGULARBEDLAM Seven Men Attempt to Se- cure Big Loot—Pistol Battle Follows CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 2—Bandits’ guns blazed against the law in two robberies yesterday and one police- man is dead and six other persons are wounded. One of the battles turned a night club into a bedlam and the other brought death to Patrolman John Vondruska assigned to guard ja Yellow Taxi office. Seven men attempted to steal between $6,000 and $8,000 from a night club but escaped without the money. The cabaret is located {in a district once ruled by Bugs i Moran's gang. Sam Battaglia, recently acquitted of gtealing jewelry from the wife |of Mayor Thompson, one of the men in the robbery, was wounded and captured. Detective Martin Joyce and Patrolman John Maier were seriously wounded. George Rusk, another robber, |after being floored by a diving tackle by one of the guests, who was shot in the abdomen. One of the robbers was wounded, as blood was found, but he escaped. TODAY’S STOCK | QUOTATIONS ] e g L] NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, Jan, 2.—Closing quotation of Alaska Ju- {neau mine stock today is 7%, Am- erican Can 113%, Anaconda Cop- per ‘32, Bethlehem Steel 52%, Gen- eral Motors 37%, Granby Consoli- dated 16%, Internatioanl Harvester 50%, Kennecott Corporation 24%, Montgomery-Ward 17%, National | Acme 7%, Packard Motors 9%, Simmons Beds 16%, Standard . (] | | was shotserious unemployment proplem in tunnel, run in five feet from the shaft, has revealed ground running from $2 to $3 to the foot. John Clausen and associates made the discovery. The Lower Goldstream district has been idle for years. The ground upstream from the adjoining’ block, " are under option | to a California company. Several outfits have been work- ing steadily all winter on Little Eldorado and oldtimers paint a rosy picture for the future of the two old creeks which have already, yielded millions of dollars. The Fairbanks Exploration Com- pany has a fleet of gold dredges still forging their way through pay gravel. The winter thus far has been one of the warmest on record. Dredgés on Upper Cleary and Gilmore are believed to have set a record for length of operations in Alaska. They started digging the latter part of April and have worked continuously since. They have already exceeded more than a week the previous record. P e U R ITALY MAKES JOBS FOR IDLE ROME, Jan. 2.—Rellef of the Italy has reached a high point with an enrollment of 418,760 hith- erto jobless men in the force bulld- ing roads and other public work. Killing in Defense Of Honor of Home Is Now Legalized MEXICO CITY, Jan. 2— Jesus Ballestin, prominent mer- chant, has been released from custody under the first appli- cation of that sectioni of the new Mexican penal code which legitimizes a killing in defense of one’s home. Ballestin returned to his | home recently and found Fran- cisco Corona and his wife to- 1892 and again in 1896, but resign- ed before completing his second WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 2.—; term. He was elected again in 1916.! fisse D::‘"“;:’Lnfigem‘; u‘fl}fle was chosen frequently as dele- gate to the Democratic National as the result of the revolt is not | likely. In event public order s not oo oaione and ook an active) Junduly disturbed, intervention is palg | (Continued on Page Three) l NO INTERVENTION | not required. | Brands 17%, Standard Oil of Cali- fornia 47, Standard Oil of New Jer- sey 48%, U. 8. Steel 142, Curtiss-| ‘Wright 2%, Pacific Gas and Elec- tric 48, Pennsylvania Railroad 58%, | General Electric 45%, Westinghouse Electric and Mechanical 84%, Hud- | son Bay Mining and Smelting 4%.{ gether. There was a fight. Corona stumbled from the house mortally wounded by a machete. # After an investigation of the facts, the Minister of ‘Justice . ordered the release of Ballestin. KIDNAPPED.BOY BACK IN ARMS ‘OF HIS PARENTS Negro Returns 13-Year-Old Lad—No Ransom Paid —None Asked ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 2.—Adolph- us Busch Orthwein, aged 13 years, rrandson of August Busch, Presi- dent of Anheuser-Busch, Incor- porated, who was kidnapped by a negro New Year's Eve, was turned yesterday to his parents un- harmed. Henry Troll, attorney, i re- sald no| u Pont Scion P ransom was pald and none was asked. The kidnapper returned the boy | with the agreement that the lad. made no statement other than to his parents. This agreement was kept. The parents of young Orth- wein had offered a ‘“substaatial reward.” The kidnapper called and told the parents where they could find the boy. They went to the spot designated and he was standing by the roadside. He grected them with: “Here I am and I am glad to be with you again.” ‘The boy was tired but unharmed Attorney Troll said the kidnap- ping was not planned but the negro took the lad after robbing the chauffeur. KIDNAPPER IDENTIFIED ST. LOUIS, Jan. 2.—Charles Y. ‘Abernathy, aged 28 years, son of Pear] Abernathy, negro real estate dealer, kidnapped young Orthwein, Attorney Troll disclosed. He would not make a definite statement but this was learned from him after the police virtually determined Ab- The senior Abernathy brought about the restoration of the boy to his parents yesterday after he had been held for 20 hours. Troll said the older Abernathy said: ‘“As father to father, I want to return to you, the boy.” 2 SURPRISED, BOTH KILLED Husband Finds Wife with Another Man—DBoth Are Slain STIGER, Okla, Jan. 2—Delmas Munn is in jail facing a murder| charge in connection with the| slaying of J. J. Lowry, aged 56, retired farmer, and his wife Mrs, Munn, aged 18 years. Munn, who is 23 years of age, said he hid in a closet and sur- prised Lowry and his wife together. He shot Lowry, then reloaded his| single-barreled shotgun and killed his wife. Lowry was a married man with 12 children. Sitting with Widow, In Parked Car, City l Detective Is Killed TAMPA, Florida, Jan. 2—A vol-| ley of pistol shots killed John Jones, aged 52, City Detective, last night as he sat in a parked motor car, on the outskirts of the clty,‘ with Mrs. Hattie Stewart, widow of former President Stewart, of the Stewart-Mellom Title Company :|of Tampa. The woman said Jones was slain by a man who talked like a wom- an. The assailant approached the car and said: “Now I've got you where I want you.” The assailant began firing through the closed door of the automobile. Mrs. Stewart has been detained for further questioning. EPUDID Motion for New Trial Filed in Merger Case YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Jan. 2.— A motion for a new trial has been Mrs. Maude Bell Ford, wealthy real estate operator, with her attorney W. G. Gardner outside the District Supreme Court building, Washington, D. C. Mrs. Ford is suing Mrs. Marguerite Du Pont (inset), in Slander 69-year-old member of the Du Pont family, for $50,000 for slandering her. She says that Mrs. Lee accused her of trying to get the Rev. William Reynolds drunk, President Hoover and " Wife Shake Over 6,000 Hands WASHINGTON, D. C, on January One Jan. 2.—President Herbert Hoover and Mrs. Hoover shook 6,429 hands ycsterday and gave wishes of a Happy New Year to that many persons. The White House doors were open from 11 o'clock yesterday forenoen until 3:30 o’cleck in the afternoon, except for 45 minutes taken in which to lunch. In the forenoon, officials and diplomats were greeted. The line of the public reception formed early. Two persons, Charles Ruby and Arthur Demars, were in the line at 7:45 o'clock yesterday morning. They were invited in out of the cold and shook hands with the President who gave them a breakfast card. MUSSOLINI ON AIR; TALKS T0 U.S. LISTENERS Explains Training of Fascist Youths—Gives Praise to Americans NEW YORK™CIi'x, N. Y, Jan. 2. —Italian Premier Mussolini, speak- ing for the first time to American radio listeners, over an Internation- al hook-up, declared Italy never initiated war. In the short, vigorous address, which came through excellently, the Premier was emphatic in say- ing that neither he nor the Italian people knew the horrors or war. He said the training of the Fascist youth was merely to make them strong, self-rellant and disciplined. Premler Mussolini gave the Unit- ed States credit for winning the World War. He sald without co- operation of the United States, the world cannot recover from the post-war crisis. The Premier sald his nation is behind Fascism and he expressed | confidence for peace in the world that would mean a new era of pros- perity. Political Expenses Reported by Parties WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 2.— Expenditure of $612,000 in 1930 was reported to the Clerk of the House by the Democratic National Committee. The Republican Congressional Campaign Committee reported it had spent $264,000 and the Re- publican Senatorial Committee $50,- 000. | flled“in the 'court here by counsel | of the Bethlehem Steel and Youngs- town Sheet Tube. The merger was enjoined last. Monday by Judge David Jenkins. - The Democrats closed the year with a deficit of $636,000 of which $225,000 is owed to John J. Ras- kob, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Prohibition Report Again Delayed | WASHINGTON, D. C,, Jan. 2. —Prospects of a report on Pro- hibition in the immediate fu- ture by the Wickersham Com- mission were further dimmed today when word came from the commission’s headquarters that the recess will continue until next Monday or Tuesday. — e J. O. Stenbraven ana P Feterson are among the guests a’ the Alas- kan Hotel. i TRAGEDY MARS JANUARY FIRST, * INTERIOR TOWN |Domestic Trouble, of Sev- erl Years Standing, Comes to End GEORGE HARDY SHOTS [EMMA HARDY, SUICIDES ‘Deed Fulfills Threats Made Several Days During Past Year FAIRBANKS, Aiaska, Jan. 2~A domestic rift which oc- curred several years ago and resulted in a separation, was climaxed yesterday when George Hardy shot, and it is believed fatally wounded, his wife, Emma Hardy. Hardy used a shotgun. After he shot his wife, Hardy took his own life with the same weapon. The shot Hardy fired pene- trated Mrs. Hardy’s abdomen. No hope is held for her re- covery. Hardy - enteved -his. - wife home, calling to offer New Year greetings. She arose and attempted to persuade him | to leave. ! The shooting fulfilled | threats Hardy made at inter- ’vals during the last year. ! Three daughters and two | sons survive. Baby Sole Survivor Of Two Families in Train-Auto Crash CHICAGO, I, Jan. 2~A three months’ old baby is the sole survivor of ten members of two families killed when a Grand Trunk passenger train struck a small sedan at a grade crossing here on a newly open- ed road. Wreckage was carried 150 feet along the right-of-way and the bodies were scattered in all directions. The .baby apparently had been thrown clear by the mother, The known dead are Charles Olson, wife and daughter; Mur- ial and Frank Novel, two girls, two boys and a woman. VIEWED AS NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—Continuous improvement in the volume of resi- dential contruction offers substan- tial warrant for hope that the na- tion is on its way out of depression and working toward normalcy. Such is the opinion of Clarence Woolley, chairman of the board of the American Radiator and Stand- ard Sanitary Corporation. “The construction industry,” says M. Woolley, “is the largest in the country. Its normal volume is eight billion dollars a year and, directly or indirectly, it employs four mil- lion workmen. Fop 23 months the volume of residential construction continuously declined. Under nor- mal conditions, it has in the past exceeded the value of nonresiden- tial construction Home Building Gains “It's importance to goneral busi- ness cannot be over-estimated. The housing of 900,000 families yearly is of far greater importance than construction of less than 50,000 buildings for a greater variety of other purposes. “It is significant, therefore, that HOME BUILDING GAIN PRESAGING MUCH BETTER TIMES tion is rapidly becoming less and less. Month after month the volume of residential contracts awarded was running between 40 and 50 per cent behind the corresponding month of 1929. “Up to August this decline was not less than 43 per cent in any month. In September and October, in terms of square feet of floor space, it was 23 per cent and in November only 12 percent lower. Construction Costs Drop “In addition to the increased vo!- ume of residential building a re- markable reduction in cost per square foot is shown. The cost ‘n November was lower than in any month since April, 1923. Such re- duction is approximately 20 per cent. “Mortgage money is now avail- able at reasonable rates in all parts of the country which, in com- bination with lower cost of con- struction, should impel steadily in- creasing activity, as it has in form- er like periods.” Improvement in the building in- dustry, says Mr. Woolley, has in the past been a forerunner of im- l the decline of residential construc- provement in general business.