The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 3, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5607. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1931. 'MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS " PRICE TEN CENTS MARSHAL JOFFRE, FRENCH MILITARY LEADER, IS DEAD PILOT ECKMANN. COMING NORTH, SECOND SEARCH FLIER’S WIDOW ACCEPTS MEDAL DR. ALFARO IS TO/ARE PLANNING BE PRESIDENT OF T0 GET CHINA | BACK TO EARTH FAMOUS MILITARY LEADER PASSES GREAT PATRIOT OF FRANGE HAS PANAMA NATION PASSED BEYOND Will Make Another Attempt | to Find Renahan and Companions TO EQUIP PLANE WITH RADIO AT VICTORIA Mechanic fik Wadham with Flier — To Ex- plore Inland Country SEATTLE, Jan. 3.—Anscel Eck- | | Minister to United States to Return Home— Become Executive REVOLUTIONISTS MAKE SUCCESSFUL TURNOVER Newspaperman Is Critical- ly Wounded While Re- porting Revolt WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.~Dr. Rehabilitation Is Proposed | —Discussions Are | Taking Place i GREAT BRITAIN AND U. S. BEHIND SCHEME Turn Armies Into Indus-| trial Units, Build Rail- | roads, Highways ‘ VANCOUVER, B. C, Jan. 3—| Leader of French Armies | During World War, f Loses Last Battle |JOFFRE DIES WHILE | IN STATE OF COMA ‘ it |[End Comes Peacefully ins i Paris Hospital — } Crowd Bares Heads mann, chief pilot of the Alaska- : | Washington Airways, will today | Ricardo J. Alfaro, Minister to |The Vancouver Dally Provincz says 5 4 start on his second search for Associated Press Photo the U. S. from Panama, has ac- a plan is being discussed in Lon- PARIS, Jan. 3. — Death Pilot Robin Renahan and his two companions, Frank Hatcher and Sam Clerf, missing since October 28 while on their way to join in a search for Capt. E. J. A. (Paddy) ions Emil Kading and Bob Marten. The latter two were recently res- cued by Pilot E. L. Wasson and Pilot Burke was found dead in the Liard district. 3 Burke and his compan- ~ From Ernest Lee Jahncke, assistant secrelary of tne navy, Mrs. Florence Shaw Page, widow of the received the distinguished flying c hushand. Captain Page was killed late ‘Capt. Arthur Page, U. S. M. C,, | ross awarded posthumously to her | during the Chicago air races. Gen. Ben Fuller is watching the ceremony. MYSTERY ABOUT GEN, ESCOBAR IS copted the Presidency of his Republic in a cabl> message scnt to his home. PANAMA CITY, Jan. 3. — The Supreme Court has administered . the oath of office to Harmodio! Arias as Provisicnal President. At- ias immediately telegraphed Dr. Ricardo J. Alfaro, Minister to thel United States, requesting him to| don, New York ,Washington and Ottawa for the rehabilitation of China and a general reorganization of the Oriental trade. The plan calls for a conference of the five or six factions in China now fighting each other. The Province says the plan is to “gell the Chinese leaders the idca that everyone is better off if the Chinese armies are turnad into ceme tedey to Marshal Jof- fre, last of the chief French military leaders of the World War, after a fortnight’s ill- ness in which it was neces- sary to amputate his left leg. The Marshal would have been 79 years cld tomorrow. The end was peaceful. Pilot Eckmann plans to leave return home and assume the Presi-; Industrial units carrying out pub- for Victoria,” B. C., where a radio | dency. lic works, if a semblance of peace Three members of the fam- ;lxll(lnbuscl;sl:::f]d :E?Brgle:ls r?yxanteo. SULVED AT LAST Alfaro is said to have previous-)xs;_g b; ma{lnmi;wec:vr;' i lily, his wife, son-in-law M. V] H sai i S| 3 s I e Province further says: “Great " 4 s ly sl e Welhewh. e Lafile, and his brother Ferdi- Vancouver, B. C., with his me- chanic Frank Wadham and there confer with Harry Blunt, then pro- ceed to Prince Rupert, B. C. From Prince Rupert ,Pilot Eck- mann intends to fly inland. Blunt expresed belief that Rena- han will be found inland according to reports made by both whites and Indians. - PIONEER DIES ON TRAIL; BODY | | lIS LIVING IN MONTREAL Unsuccessful Mexican Rev- olutionist is Under | Assumed Name WITH HIS FIRST WIFE! Second Wife Seeks Annul-: ment of Marriage—For- tarie 15 Tnvolved EL PASO, Texas, !' | Jan. 3.—The| | | i man employed on a Panama City’ would accept the Presidency and; would leave for home scon to take| charge of the affairs of his country. | { NEWSPAPERMAN WOUNDED PANAMA CITY, Jan. 3.—Hart-| well F. Ayers, American newspaper| newspaper, was critically wounded | as the revolutionists fired on the Presidential Palace in the present| revolt. | Ayers went to the Palace where the fighting was the heaviestito| - “cover the story,” a few minutes} before the Revelutionists captured | { the Police Headquarters, which ( Britain and the United States are jointly to arrange a loan of One Billion Dollars to spend in open- ing China by railroads and high- ways and Jending support to the sgheme to bring an era of orderly civilization.” { e e TWO START ON FLIGHT FROM N. Y. TO PARIS JOSEPH JACQUES CESAIRE JOFFRE iMARSHAL, W HO STOPPED GERMANS AT GATES OF PARIS,WAS REALFIGHTER (By Asscciated Press) cus terrific at although num empts nand; General Issaly, his Chief of Staff, Colonel Des- mazes, also of his staff, doe-: tors and a few others were present at the bedside. He died witheut coming out of a coma which came over him Thursday. Announcement of the death s made at 8:30 o’clock this morning by a member of his military household. Capt. St. Cernin, pale with emotion, wi ing to the newspapermen, FUUND FHUZEN mb);stery surrounding the where- overturned the Government. | 9801 7 e to break through were made by emerged from the hospital abouts of Gen. Jose Escobar, unsuc- When the attackers opened fire . . reasy, the English histarian, |tne Geym notably in Flanders, and jn a h y Voi :pea ? | brd Gr tabl a husky voice, ¢ - cessful revolution leader in Mexico Associated PressPhott o the Palace, Ayers was strack by|[Red-haired Widow and Her|years ago wrote nis “Fittcen De- | ot yiers in the Argonne, at Ver- - ) » s in 1929, was removed when attor- Anton J. Cermak, president county pyjlets in the neck and abdomen,; commissioners, Is democratic choice Instructor Take to cisive Battles of the World.” Th2 the dun, between St. Quentin and La said: . 3 neys o{ Mrs. Esc_obnr r.gld the rev-| T5c pinuos of Ehicade: He' ls unop. and fell in the street. Durmg; A E l Tod sixteenth—the first }:am.o of ; Fero toward Amiens, at Chemin Becomes Panic Stricken on|(Clutionist was living in Montreal et ,Yn ik pmy“ Mayor Thomp. the cxcitement it was some time| 1Ir rarly ay Marne— won by General Joseph | gas Dames. b n Rhelms and gpp o Marshal is:dead a0 et i gon, seeking re-clection, has twe before he was taken to a hospital | AREW Jacques Cesaire Joffre, commander giseons and at the Marne, ATRRAL 18 4EAG, T Mush from Long Creek to.Ruby, Interior FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 3.— Searchers have found the body of Thomas E. Garneau, aged 76, pio- neer who froze to death while at- | tempting to mush from Long Creek to Ruby. The searchers said evidence showed Garneau travelled in circles | Reports said the General living with his first wife. The second Mrs. Escobar revealed | & suit has been filed in the Quebec courts for annulment of marriage. She said the General had never divorced his first wife. The annulment proceedings seek te impound approximately $1,000,000 in banks in the United States] which Gen. Escobar is said to have taken from Mexican banks during was | primary opponents. ARE GIVEN ONE WEEK TO PLEAD, MURDER CHARGE Ayers once worked in the Atlantic office of the Associated Press. His father, . Thomas Ayers is a member of the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Church. s iy g MANY INTERESTS INVOLVED WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 3.— Secretary of Staté Stimson indi- cated the State Department will NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., Jan. 3.| | —A red-haired widow and the| |man who taught her to fly, point-| !ed their plane into the trade winds |for Paris in the pitch darkness lof the early morning hours today setting their sights for Bermuda and the Azores with a pay load., Mrs. Beryl Hart, one of the few women to hold an unlimited trans- port license, and Lieut. Wiliams | MacLaren, former Navy flier, took of the French armies in the Wes during the greal war. Ending a s ries of disheartening retreats, after four days and nights of incessant fighting, he stopped 2,500,000 Ger- mans and dreve them back when they were within 30 miles of Paris “I mean to deliver the big bat- tle under the most favorable con- ditions, at my own time and the ground I have chosen,” des Joffre to his generals. “If nec on e Offensive grea t German ives failing, the Allies found themselves in a pest rain to tal e cffensive in July 1918 and the following October they smashed the so-called “Hindenbu Line, cleared the Belgian coast and ad- vanced aleng the river Meuse, threatening all German communi- cations and compelling the enemy to ask for the armistice which was Allies T ve of the tlemen.” He then displayed a bulletin signed by physicians setting the end at 8:23 c'clock. A crowd outside the hospital bared heads and women made the sign of the cross. Given Last Rites Marshal Joffre was given the last rites of the Catholic Church short- ly before the end. He will be bur- ied at a national funeral as elab- about eight miles out. the revolution. refrain from any immediate de- 0‘“ from Queens Alrport at 5:50|1 shall continue to retreat. I sl erarted nis Sbvaniint. i1 1998 orate as that tendered Marshal After starting several fires he| Mrs, Escobar asked for a di- Icision in recognition of the new|o‘clock this morning bide my time. No consic L b goiat. s Foch but the body will not lie in apparently became panic stricken |vision of the property and custody ! Administration in Panama. The two fliers circled the field will make me alter Meanwhile, Joffre had reired gav0 under the Arch de Triomphe and threw away his pack and snow shoes and struck out again uniil of her son, Jose Escobar, jr. aged four years. | | Portland Millionaire and| Former Stenographer | The Secretary said while the question of ability of the new re- pseveral times in the glare of search- | lights, then flew over Manhattan 1and a few hours later steamships Great Smach Averted from active command and had been created a Marshal of France. After the first battle of the Marne, oc- for Marshal Joffre said he did not wish it because his troops and the people of Paris would be riske overcome by exhaustion. e e | . | gime to fulfill international obliga- The' omwuitl oty ot tHe Clers Several relatives survive in thel Are Arralgned | tions has entered into the problem, ! Yadioed they had sighted the plane . throush Bl i B burs | Chsional ARied/xeverags: sha- ing their health during the wintes state of Wisconsin. 'FUR E R | it | other considerations involving spec-, 375 miles out. mans through Belgium, Luxemburg | oy ypon the glory of the great to do him honor. s . 2 {al interes.s must be considered. | R R and Lorraine toward the French grench soldier. He had aroused Marshal Joffre expressed.the des | PORTLAND, Oregon, Jan. 3.— o g EeT capital had reached high tide on epemities in the Chamber of Depu- sire, when alive, that he be buried “Fired.” Trio Asked | Nelson 'Bowles, millionaire, and Sept. 5, 1014, despite the gallant go. yy pis dismissal of 14 generals ay Louceclennes, his country home. T Lt; ’l frw : ) [ e Dmod Loutkebarls, g forgier defense of Liege, the stand 2%'and his repmocement of them by ; 2 o Apply for | stenographer, indicted Jjointly on Mons-Namur-Charlerol and a coun-| yoynger commanders, Parls papers 2 3 . charges of the murder of Mrs. Le- ter invasion of Alsace-Lorraine.!o iviviaed him, notably for his HOOVER CABLES CONDOLENCE Their Old Jobs THENESCAPES ona Bowles, have been granted one week in which to plead. This was | “ALL WRONG” - OFF TO PRISON Flushed with succ numerically infer opposed by a force which T transfer of General M. P. E. Sar- rail from the Argonne to a minor WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 3.— President Hoover has cabled Presi- F W;?"::::y‘:’: ':" fl:e ’:l'; done late yesterday when they! 3“‘ G“’““‘"”“)l»" vielded ground,'command in the Near East. Joffre dent Doumergue his personal and - o were arraigned in court. ¢ he Germans have every eCLA~ | himself was 63 and late in 1915 official condolences of the Ameri- Federal Power Commission, in- |George Wilson Is Wanted "1, pau Cooper, who attended D 12, |tion of capturing Paris and, Prance, |, o o arding the plans’ can people on the deat 5 i P ; elaulter of Light Vhlhion 1mo 8! peop! eath of Mar. cluding Charles Russell, former . n re'swite atber 5 as'La Guardia Decl S once smashed, of turning t hi or Accident—War- the millionaire’s wife after she was'L.a Guardia Declares Fro. Doll S. | shal Joffre, Solicitor; Willlam King, former R s, o S B R ] ollars Says Good- |strength to finish then menac ks Pt LR :cconnuén pod Kfaak By, rant [s Issued business asosciate, and R. H. Shel-| SF€SSIves Drams ol Re- bye to Wife, Son Russia. The French government,| Georges Clemenceau, who later| “I am distressed by the news of Eape Expnu il 1T Secretary, 1y, Culler’s chauffeur, were ordered publican Party ok meanwhile had moved to BOrdeaux.|pecaime premier declared in the death of the Marshal who is who were all fired recently by | Chairman Smith, which caused EVERETT, Wash, Jan. 3— held on bond of $2,500 as material | George Wilson, former All-Ameri- “witnesses. | WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 3.— LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 3.— Gilbert H. Bessemyer left last night Joffre decided to strike on Septem- ber 6 with fast and furious flank paper I'Homme Enchaine, that the politicians were going to give Jof- so effectionally remembered by the American people. Both in their ;‘:"h a storm in the s“":” ‘can football player, has been —,———— |The activity of Robert H. Lucas,'for San Quentin Penitentiary to |2 'ack’ following the terrific front- y, .y pigh-sounding nominal ap- name, and personally, I want to tlu:l: old M“mw o oo ghatged with being a hit and run 4 . | Executive Director of the Republi-'start his 10 to 100 year sentence 2_‘ on\Iauuvhix of ke c";‘my( l"" pointment which would have the express the deep sorrow which is river, in a warrant sworn out ® =" ! mm 3 ierman right wing, under General p.oiical respl stalling a new ' felt in this country at the - Smith explained the action |0 b + by Aslistant: Baee: k¥ TODAY’S STOCK | can National Co ittee, in the for wrecking the Guarantee Bu“d'!A]exand(‘r Oik . RHiok. W hadiad Tt practical result f" \fh Tb. e h % y - pass- meant the “fired” emplo; OF s EUE AW P QUOTATIONS | |controversy with Senator Norris, s ing and Loan Association of which | ’ ¥ | Commander-in-Chief on the West-|ing of this great patriot. 1 g °employes an |cuting Attorney Phil Warnok. ' o described by Representative La~ he was Secretary and Manager,| C1- ¢S Unexpected and tremendous He asked: “Is the ‘pro- Pershing Sends Message apply for their former positions | ilson s said o have hit O, H. Guardia, of New York, as “all through thefts totalling $8,000,000, | COURter-offensive, fell back upon appointment & favor| Gen. John J. Pershing sent the and the applieations would be |pean, Bellingham man, Who lost wrong." Bessemyer Swas allowed @ few|tHe, ‘Alsne river on September 10 s the French front, following message to Minister of ‘. “considered on merits.” the sight of an eye. | NEW YOUR CITY, N. Y., Jan.| 25 g sfbe and extended itself northward I L jen- War Barthou: Y a| The New Yorker said: “At 10 minutes with his wife and son in cient scope of | Gen: Bonner said he resigned be- Wilson's car was abandoned ati3—Closing quotation of Alaska o=, " o) " pepublican Party the jail office before lea fop | tRYOUED Pic: Artois and Flan y or it is a dis-| “In the death of Marshal Joffre fore Smith fired him and would 1 t be located Juneau mine stock today is 7%%,| ¥ office ' before leaving “10r{ .5 to the Belgian coast Par's A the oS R e {the scene. He could not be located itried to antagonize anyone, let San Quentin. under the flow- the world loses one of the out tl not apply. Russell and King |t nis home after the accident in American Can 114:, A"‘mondu‘alom a Taction. When b Pro‘vr"w Sent 3 caenils sed by | "8 saved and Joffre was acclaimed 2 to pa: our standing military figures of France caid they were undecided. which three cars were involved. Copper 32%, Bethlehem Steel 53%,| 2 o mienoce wes recenily pass Ylthe ¥ of Franc 2 H 25 r and a devoted patriot. His con= i J 2 e sives walk out the brains of the Superior Judge Walton Wood. Court grea in -the .niche: of : i — oo —_ eneral Motors 37%, Granby Con-| " New Type of Warfare . duct of operations of the French 1 | soli 5% 4 ¢ .. |Party are gone. All of my stand- attaches pointed out that Besse- 2 {honor? t of operations {FLORY LEAVES FOR solidated 16%, International Hat- . por blican friends agree that!m: ight only have ¢ ix |, After the battle of the Marne.| 1, 1915 General Robert Nivelle Armies from the beginning of the Earthquake Is j vester 52%, Kennecott Corporation| pU €U O 5 oRrd e e e e tn eyong|the Germans in the West took ol i 0o e s World War, to the end, was char- \ VISIT TO INTERIOR 2¢%. Montgomery-Ward 18%, Na-| % |years and six mont 0 event| .. trenches and dug themselves ... ¢ acterized by great leadership.” Registered; Perhaps tional Acme 7%, Packard Motors ilhe prison board set his sentence in and then began four years of and had announced the la - Centered, Aleutians | To confer with Alaska College:9%. Simmons Beds 16, lsc;mgg;d;l’rm;ision Made in ::w::ey:::f& i lfi""’gg‘x‘r’""w a-1a new type of warfare in which b i e S Former Secretary of e |authorities and United States Bio- Brands 177, Standard Oil of Call-|ygp/; : . ? TBUre 10 Xl every death-dealing device and ar- || (08 Texiiabia A o SEATTLE, Jan. 3—An earth |logical Survey agents in Fairbanks,|fornia 48, Standard Oil of New W ill f'or Widow, Also years and six montns {tifice of human ingenuity was em-(thoee ' AE BIATE A War Is Seriously Hl disturbance of mild intensity Charles H. Flory, Alaska Commis- Jersey no sale, U. S. Steel 143%,' Her Second Husband ! ’-—' | ployed. Reconnaisance showed that{ oo/ .- ‘:r Gecial ‘,““‘r;, PR starting at 1:54 o'clock yester- |sioner for the Department of Agri- Curtiss-Wright 3%, Pacific Gas and| T Wounded U. S. Marines |at one time the trenches in the, bere o olanace of dire JERSEY CITY, N. J. Jan. 3.— ‘ day morning and continuing |culture, left today on the North- Electric 48':, Pennsylvania Rail-| DETROIT, Mich.,, Jan. 3.— A Tak H. S 1 Western front consisted of 32 pa ie pik; e 0t &l Lindley M. Garrison, Secretary of . b until 3 o’clock was recorded by |western for Seward, enroute to road 59'4, General Electric 46,/ William Thompkins not only re lLaken to Hosputal |\ \eq which with communication | gt il Pt War in President Woodrow Wil the seismograph at the Univer- | Fairbanks. After completing his Westinghouse Electric and Mechani-' made provisions for his widow In Managua by Airplano trenches, aggregated 25000 miles \‘,“”’," g T el . oy son’s first Cabinet, is seriously il eity of Washington. mission there, he will go to An- cal 947, Hudson Bay Mining and! but for her second husband, ' | Joffre remarked: “We have only Y;I i e &1 of ‘At the home of friends in this Walter M. Chappel, of the |chorage on official business and ! Smelting 4%. | should she remarry. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Jan. 3.— to keep to the path we Are 'y . awe e city University, estimated the trem- 'return here in about 30 days. RETEAS 7 | Tompkins' will directs the ' Two United States Marines who now following to be of vie-j A e Gt | TR i 4 ors occurred about 1,700 miles | Commissioner Flory is scheduled| Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Newman and executor to make money avail- | were seriously wounded in a skir- tory.” Adbahginld fram tha nr! L. W. Turoff, engineer of the away, probably in the Aletitians. [to make his annual trip to Wash- daughter Frances, who have been able to establich a possible sec- |mish with insurgents in the in- From October 1914 t # Wgginoies “rliponld s . of|United States Bureau .of Public < The heaviest shocks registered | ington next month. He probably|spending a brief vocation in the ond husband of his widow in |teror, during which eight other however, the long entren % “,,‘ hal of. France, the victor of|Roads, Turoff and child, 8r- were between 2 and 2:15 o'clock | will leave heré for the east short-|States, returned home today on' bueiness or profession “if ad- |Marines were killed, have been front from th to i e Irived here today. after.an absence { yecterday morning, g |1y after returning from Fairbanks.ithe Nortawestern. i visable.” ‘brouem here by airplane, land remained almost stationary, (Continued on Page en) of several months, A A ‘ . ! 4 3 N [l pg