The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 9, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5612. JUNEAU ALASKA FRIDAY JANUARY 9, 1931. ALASKA EMPIRE MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CEVTS ECKMANN STARTS INTENSIVE SEARCH FOR RENAHAN EXTRA SESSION EXPECTED BY MANY SOLONS Congress Shlo: on Relief Despite Flood of Telegrams WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—Among Alaska Delegate in Accord with Report On Alaska Railroad WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 9.— Delegate Dan Sutherland agrees in part with the report of the Sen- ate Committee on the Alaska Rail- '10ad. “I can't say I sympathize with the radical increases proposed, al- fow,” said the Delegate. “The pas- senger rates are less important but I think they should be raised to the extent suggested. Especially due machinery and livestock for should remain ing farmers, I believe that such items as min- | ARCTIC_HERO PASSES AWAY A |Capt. Acton Jochimsen, | Rescuer of Karluk | Survivors, Dead unchang- | | NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. Jan many Representatives and Senators | though there is room for some cor- in Congress there is anxiety over rection in some of the rates such the slow progress of legislation. In|as lignite coal into Fairbanks. This some quarters the opinion is ex-|was fixed by a former railroad pressed that immediately after management and is ridiculously | crease in the freight tariff. The report of the Senate Investi- 9.—Captain Acton P. Jochimsen gators recommended an increase in | whose skill as an ice pilot in 1914 the passenger fares from six to ten | brought rescue to starving survivors cents a mile and a 50 per cent in- of the ill-fated Karluk at Wrange Island, died yesterday in the Brook- March 4 a special session will be!— necessary to enact essential meas- |lyn Naval hospital. | As skipper of the King and ures. Drought and unemployment bills dents of agricultural sections and labor leaders in flooaing federal lawmakers with telegrams demanding quick action for the relief of conditions caused by droyght and unemployment. Senate leaders are on the verge of bringing forward a rule for night sessions. The situation in the upper branch, however, is not so complex as in the lower. The House is having no trouble in passing routine bills, but among members there is strong opposition to the amendment for a $15,000,000 food loan that was made by the Senate to the $45000,000 fertilizer and seed fund measure. ‘This amendment is impeding the pas- sage of the bill, which otherwise would be speedily enacted. For four days, the Senate has debated the proposal to reconsider President Hoover's nominations to the Federal Power Commission. Some supporters of the adminis- tration declare the President will not send the names back or make other nominations to this commis- sion, during the present session, re- gardless of the action of the Sen- ate. Legislation with respect to Muscle Shoals at this session is very un- certain. INSTIGATOR OF HIRED MURDER FOUND GUILTY: Jury Comviets: Man Who' Had His Divorced Wife Shot to Death LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 9.—A Superior Court jury has convicted Emory Ells, aged 26, of first de- gree murder for his part in the “hired execution” of his divorced wife, Mrs. Merle Ells. The jury recommended life imprisonment. Mrs. Ells was shot to death by Benjamin Franklin Brown on No- vember 2. Ells and Brown both) confessed to the plot. Brown was paid $2.20 cents for the slaying. Ells wanted his wife killed so he could secure possession of the 18- months old son who had been awarded to his wife by the Court. Roof Guides for Airmen To Be Provided by Navy' ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—A pro- gram of providing roof signs to guide aviators has been undertak- | en by the Navy. Commandants of Naval Districts; and other shore activities in the country and outlying possessions have been ordered to air mark a: least one prominent building in each locality and all obstructions to air navigation. The system to be used will be the one outlined by the Depart- ment of Commerce as the pattern| for all air marking in the country. | .- - Children Only Scratched After Rolled Under Car CHICAGO, IlL, Jan. 9—As a street car rumbled down a street this forenoon, two little girls stepped in front of it and were rolled under it. Police cars, firemen, street car wreckers and an ambulance responded to the motorman’s call. At the end of an hour's work, Elaine Rosenkranz, aged 6 and Loerraine Dobemeir, aged 5, crawled out with only a couple of scratches upon their little large cities are' W.C.T.U. NOW are subjects of disagreement. Resi- | ENTERS FIGHT FOR DRY LAWS Statement Tesued Denying Prohibition Has Caused Depression WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 9.— ‘The Women's Christian Temperance Unicn has launched an argument against the “widespread fallacy” that repeal of the Prohibition laws would “cure world wide business depression.” The statement said the United States would have been much worse off if on the “saloon era” basis, adding that other countries where the manufacture of liquor is legal, have not been saved from the slump. Further, the statement says, the dry laws are not responsible for conditions, as only two per cent of the grain crops were eyver used in the liquor industry and that there are now more uses for grain than in the “saloon era.” DAIRY HERDS REAGH SEWARD | | Pure-Bred Cows for An- FROM SEATTLE LAS VEGAS IS MOPPED UP BY DRY RAIDERS Thirty Agents Swoop)| Down on Dampest Spot in United States LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Jan. 9.— This city, relic of the Old West and United States, got a mopping last night when 30 Prohibition Agents swooped simultaneously into bar- rooms and cabarets and made ar- rects of 20 men. Padlocking proceedings are to be started agalnst the drinking places. It is said the orders for the mopping up came from Washing- ton, D. €., after leading contractors refused to hire thousands of men for the Hoover Dam construction as long as the town remained wet. Administrator Peters, of Los Afl- geles, said he would Xkeep Vegas dry if he had to leave a doz- ien men here MAJ. ATKINS T0 60 TO SEATTLE T0 OPEN BIDS Will RepreseTDistrict En- gineer when Alaska chorage and Fairbanks Aboard Steamer Jan. 9.—With SEWARD, Alaska, 26 cows and two bulls of the finest dairy stock procurable in Washing- ton, two herds, one in Anchorage and the other in Fairbanks, have been renewed. The Bentley Dairy at Fairbanks, recently destroyed by fire, has ob- tained thirteen pure-bred Holsteins | from the Carnation Farm near Se- attle at a cost of $700 a head. ‘Werner Ohls, of Anchorage, was in charge of the shipment which came on the Northwestern that also brought the balance of Jerseys and | Guernseys from Sequim, in the Olympic Mountain district in Wash- !ington, for his dairy. | Two calves were born enroute iand one was christened Capt. | Glasscock, after the skipper of the steamer. | The crew of the Northwestern ihad forty gallons of fresh milk daily from the dairy cows aboard. e e——— — “BIG” MUNN IS - DEADIN TEXAS {Former Heavywelght Wrestling Champlon Dies ] —Bright’s Disease | SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Jan. 9.— {Wayne (Big) Munn, former heavy weight wrestling champion and one time Nebraska University football {atar, died today at the base hos- pital at Fort Sam Houston of Bright's disease. Munn won the championship |trom “Strangler” Lewis when he sas City in 1925. In the same year, Lewis won the championship back in a bout in Michigan. ——e——— MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—The 32- story Foshay Tower—modeled after the Washington Monument—may be purchased by the Government for & new home for the -tossed him out of the ring in Kan-| ¢ Jobs Are Awarded | To represent the local United !sta!,es District Engineer’s office in the opening and awarding of bids on two Alaska improvement proj- eots, Maj. L. E. Atkins, Engineer Officer of the Alaska Road Com- mission, will leave tomorrow for Se- attle, it was announced today by Maj. Malcolm Elliott, District En- gineer. | The two projects are: Thomas Basin shelter for small boats at | Ketchikan, and Port Alexander. ! Bids on the former will be opened 'on January 16, and on the latter about January 21. “This work was authorized by Congress,” said Maj. Elliott. “as a |part of the national emergency un- \employmenc relief.” Successful bid- | ders will be required to initiate con- )strucuon as soon as possible after |the bids are awarded. WILL MOVE TO \UNSEATSENATOR Pennsylvania_n—fs Under At- tack — Spent Too Much Money WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 9.— Chairman Nye of the Senate Cam- paign Funds Committee today said he would Introduce a resolution next week asking for the unseating of United States Senator James J. Davis, of Pennsylvania, and former member of the Cabinet, Secretary of Labor. Chairman Nye said the unseating is on the grounds Senator Davis spent too much money in his cam- paign. 2 THE WEATHER Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4 p.m. January 9: Rain or snow tonight and Saturday; moderate winds, mostly easterly. considered the dampest spot in the | | Winge, registered from Seattle, he | meandered through the ice off the Arctic coast and Siberia to Alaska hunting for furbearing animals and wr(\ding with the Eskimos. . Jochimsen won renown wth his prowess, in the treacher- |ous ice, when he reached Wrangel Island and saved seven men, One | woman and two children from starvation and the elements after two other vessels had failed. The Karluk was the chief vessel of the Canadial Arctic Expedition under the leadership of Vilhjal- mar Stefansson. The ship became frozen in the ice. All had left the ship before it was crushed by the ice. Capt. Jochimen’s rescue was pure- ly voluntarily as he was not com- missioned for the work. e SNAG REPORTED HIT IN STRIKE, - WALES’ MINERS Coiffeniipe. 10 Temporary Adjustment of Wages Breaks Down CARDIFF, Wales, Jan. 9.—A re- port that negotiations between the owners and miners for a temporary adjustment of the South Wales coal ‘dispute, have struck a snag, came this afternoon. It was previ- ously considered almost certain that a temporary agreement would re- sult before the day was over. Over 140,000 miners are out on strike in a dispute over wages. Representatives of the miners left the conference to hold a separate meeting. It is not known whether BODIES OF FOUR |« ITALIAN AIRMEN | WASHED ASHORE Vi sl Bake-off of| Squadron for Brazil Given Up by Sea BULAMA, ®Portuguese Guiana, Jan. 9—The bodies of four of five Ttalian airmen who lost their lives in a take-off of the Balbo trans- || Atlantic squadron Tuesday, washed ashore late yesterday. No trace has been found of the fifth vietim. The bodies have been placed in coffins pending - instructions from Rome. The seaplane with the four fliers aboard, crashed and burst into flames. The fliers were burned %o death. The fifth victim was killed when his plane hit the water. His three companions escaped injuries and were rescued. were TO RESUME FLIGHT NATAL, Brazil, Jan. 9.—The sea- planes of the Itallan squadron swung . at their anchors today in preparation for continuation of the flight to Bahia tomorrow. The squadron was to have taken off today but Italo Balbo, Italian Air Minister, in charge of the ex- pedition, decided to await the ar- rival of one of the ships forced down off the coast and towed to Fernando do Noronha where it has been refueled. This seaplane is ex- pected here during the day. CHURCH, BROKE, 1S T0 DISBAND LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 9.—Dr Charles F. Aked, lor five years pastor of All Soul's Church, reveal- ed he will end his ministry within the month or two and that his con- gregation will disband. Financial difficulties which arose when the trustees took over the Wilshire Boulevard Congregational Church and its $400,000 structure were climaxed when it was found impossible to pay Interest on a $330,000 debt, Dr. Aked sald. Receding W aters Of Lake Uncover Buffalo Traces another meeting with the mine|* owners is planned. BRGS0 U s B CHARGED WITH MATE'S DEATH Wife Indicl;d—by Grand Jury Despite Statement of Dying Husband SANTA CRUZ, Cal, Jan. 9.— Charged with the murder of her husband, Mrs. Leslie Thornewill, aged 28, is held under guard at a hospital. She was indicted yes- terday by a grand jury after the death of her husband, a former Northwest Mounted policeman, and operator of a stage line. Thornewill said he was accident- ally shot while strugging with his wife for possession of a pistol. He made this statement before he died. ——. e ] TODAY'S STOCK [ QUOTATIONS [ . | NEW YORK CITY, N. ¥., Jan. 9. —Closing quotation of Alaska Ju- neau mine stock today is 9%, Am- erican Can 112%, Anaconda Cop- per 32, Bethlehem Steel 58%, Gen- eral Motors 36%, Granby Consoli- dated 16, International Harvester 51, Kennecott Corporation 24, Montgomery-Ward 16; National Ac- me 8%, Packard Motors 9%, Sim- mons Beds 16%, Standard Brands 17%, Standard Oil of California 49. Standard Oil of New Jersey 50'4, {U. 8. Steel 142%, Curtiss-Wright '3%, Hudson Bay Smelting and Re- fining 4%, General Electric 45'2, Pacific Gas and Electric 48%, Penn- sylvania Railroad 60%, Westing- house Electric and Mechanical 91. - NEW YORK CITY, N. Y.—8ev enty of the leading boxing eritics of the country have decided that Young Stribling is the leading ®7heavy-weight boxer of the worid o000 c00000000 0 for 1930. PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 9.—Reced- ing waters of Malheur Lake 1n Eastern Oregon have uncovered more than forty skeletons that have been identified as those of buffalo by Vernon Bailey, United States Biological Survey naturalist. Word of the discovery was brought to Portland by Stanley G. Jewett, Portland predatory ani- mal control chief for the bureau. He said Bailey believed the skele- tons had been hidden under the water for at least 75 years. The skeletons were found in groups in- dicating, he said, that the buffalo died while in partial herd forma- tion, Naturalists long have argued the question whether or not Oregon was the natural habitat of the buf- falo. Jewett said the discovery and identification of the skeletons defi- nitely established that the great beasts once roamed Eastern Ore- gon. f - e ®© 0000000000 0 0 0 Greely Relief Expedition ® and aided the Government durihg e the gold rush days in Alaska. Steamer Movements NORTHBOUND Norco due to arrive tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. Should have 6 days’ mall. Queen due tomorrow evening. Should have 1% days’ mall. Princess Norah due Sunday evening. SCHEDULED SAILINGS Alameda scheduled to sail from Beattle Jan. 10 at 9 am. Northland scheduled to sall from Seattle Jan. 12 at 9 pm. Admiral Farragut scheduled to sail from Seattle Jan. 14 at 10 am. SOUTABOUND SAILINGS Northwestern scheduled south- bound at 5 o'clock tomorrow morning and salls two hours later. LOCAL SAILINGS Estebeth leaves every Thursday night at 6 p.m. for Sitka and wayports. Pacific leaves every Thurs- day at 10 am. for Peters- burg. Kake and way ports, ® in Vincennes, ® 17, 1855. He became an Ensign iq| e July, ® through grades to Rear Admiral. ® He . served on various e Navy Boards during his lifetime |VE3r by making of congress boots on the second leg of their proposed ® and was at one time commandant ® of the Navy Yards at Norfolk and return to the fashion of nearly five 5 pay load. The ofl feed line was ® New York. ® |senior Prohibition ® |return to newspaper work. Mrs. Ida Lane of Seattle, Wash., (left) met her daughter, Day VIOTHER VISITS ACCUSED DAUGHTER FLIER WHUNT - MISSING PARTY IN LARGE AREA Will Remain on Job Until Fate of Airmen Is Determined ANNETTE ISLAND TO BE BASE OF PLANE | Act as Tender—Takes Canadxan Pollce Boat to - Assoctated Press Photo Jean in the county jail at Salt Lake City where Miss Dayle Is held on a ch:rqo of murdering 8am Frank, Memphis, Tenn., auctioneer. REPUDIATES singer, held in jail here for the mu ALLEGED CO! SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Jan. 9—Jean Dayle, aged 21, SSION ecr, several wecks ago, repudiated her alleged confession yesterday and also denied that Phil J. Quinn, a barber charged with being accessory to the robbery of Frank, was the the killing. man who helped her escape after cabaret | rder of Sam Frank, jewelry auction- | Gasoline Supplies PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, Jan. 0 —Pilot Anscel Eckmann and lc Frank Wadham to Annette Island wi an Intensive search begins to‘ |for Pilot Robin Renahan and two companions, Frank Hatcher. Pilot Eckmann will island his base. ! A British Columbia Police boat leaves here today carrying gasoline supplies. Eckmann intends to continue the Wy Sam Clerf ind make th The girl repeated her first story to the effect she gave Frank search until the fate of the three knockout drops intending to rob him when they took effect. She said missing men is learned, both in two men came into the hotel room, killed Frank and took his diamonds |Southeast Alaska and valued at $4,000, Miss Dayle said she confessed the killing as a ruse to protect ner\ | interior northern British Columbia. The Canadian and British Colum- aged mother from worry on promise she would not be informed of 'bia governments are financing this her arrest. weeks ago HIGHER-UPS IN LINGLE MURDER FACING ARREST Plans Launched for Send-| ing Leo Brothers to Electric Chair CHICAGO, 111, Jan. 9.—Plans to | GIVES AWARD - OF $125000, | Given in U. S. Re- turned by Jury ST. LOUIS, Mo, Jan. 9.—Mrs. LOVE THEFT Third Large:t‘{/erdict Ever! Her mother learned of the tragedy and came here several isem'ch CANADIAN CRAFT TO BE ECKMANN'S FUEL BASE Permission was granted by the United States Customs House here today for a Canadian vessel to op- erate if necessary in American waters as a gasoline supply ship for the réfueling of the alrplane belfg used by Anscel Eckmann in his search for trace of Robin Renahan and his two associates off Southeast Alaska and northwest British Col- lumbm coasts. | United States Consul Woodward jat Prince Rupert, B. C. sent the i following cablegram to the customs | officials. “Provincial aufhorities intend to place Leo Brothers, St. Louis gang- | Grace Howard, onetime candy shop leave with supply of gasoline for ster, slayer crime of Alfred reporter ‘of (Jake) the in the electric chair as the clerk has been awarded $125000 use as base ship for plane In Lingle, | against Mrs. Sydney Emeline Boyle, charge of Pilot Eckmann. Launch Chicago | foster mother of Lloyd Boyle How- may operate partially in Alaska Tribune, are being pushed today. ard. Mrs. Boyle was charged with waters without calling at Ketchi- Reports have been circulated that Brothers confessed but the officials will not say this is correct. The authorities said an immedi- ate trial will be asked by the State Tt is said nine witnesses to the shooting have positively identified Brothers as the killer. It is also learned that four men are wanted as higher-ups who de- sired Lingle’s death. REAR ADMIRAL USHER IS DEAD Aided Gover:qnent in Al- aska During Gold Rush Days POTSDAM, N. Y., Jan. 9—Rear Admiral Nathaniel Reilly Usher, retired, died at his home here to- day. He was a member of the fleet that took part in the battle of Santiago in the Spanish-American war. He also participated in the in 1884 Rear Admiral 1919 while commandant in the vsher retired of ® Third Naval District to which he | ® was appointed in 1914 Usher was born | on April| Rear Admiral Tndiana, 1876 and was promoted important | S SOUTH BEND, Wash—F. A. Hazeltine, nationally known veteran | @ 'of the Prohibition Enforcement Bu- ‘(“onnnu;ng reau, announces his resignat investigator, ion as to .- NORTHAMPTON, Mass— Calvin | Coolidge, in a special article, (lnubm the time is now ripe for a 'mrd party. —————— | More than 10,000 have been kill- | ed in English mines in the last 10 ® 06060000000 0 0 0 years allenation of the affections of Howard from his wife. he verdict is the third largest ever returned in such a case in the United States. Mrs. Boyle admitted wealth ot from $450,000 to $550,000. Mrs. Howard has a threc-yoar« old son. el ST PR Unplanned Display Draws Wndow Mob OLNEY, Ill, Jan 9—A window decorator’s desire for realism has presented a stinging problem. . John Flock, the decorator, put a hornet's nest in a display of guns and camping equipment. He forgot, though, to include the hornets in his plans. He pulled a plug out of the bottom of the nest and im- | mediately left the place. The hor- | nets were finally bottled up in the window and there they buzz angrily. Art Goudy, owner of the win- |dow, is glad that the display is drawing attention, but he would | rather have a dull window than | one full of hornets. e Authorize Survey of Wra.ngell Harbor WASHINGTON D. C, Jan. 9.— | The War Department has authmu ized the survey of the harbor at Wrangell, Alaska, B LYNN, Mass.—Lynn shoe manu- |facturers hadve inaugurated the | with elastic sides and no laces, a drcadex ago. — .- — E ndurance Fliers Attempt To Set Mark | LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 9. —Bobby Trout and Edna May Cooper are still in the air in an endurance flight. They passed the 114th hour in the air at 8:30 o'clock this morning. They want to break the mark set by | the Army's Question Mark of 150 hours. | kan. Please telegraph if any ob- Jection.” The Customs House replied: “Permission is granted.” .o THREE KILLED - PLANE CRASH AT AIR MEET MIAMI, Florida, Jan. 9.—James Riddell, Rob Smalley and Harry Ware of Chicago, were killed and an unidentified man lost a leg in the crash of an airplane this aft- ernoon at the All-American Air Meet here. The plane was rounding a pylon hen the wheel caught on a tele- plone wire, the operator of the pylon reported. Officials said the plane was n entered in the meet and had no been given permission to leave th field. TRADE WIND IS READY FOR HoP | HAMILTON, Bermuda, Jan. 9.— |With tail winds and fair skies (hoped for, Mrs. Beryl Hart and ‘Lleut William MacLaren were pre- |pared today to take off in their plane Trade Wind, for the Azores flight from New York to Paris with |repaired here. | Last night the two were guests |at an official reception given by |Acting Governor Evans, and a din- ner in their hotel. -, — WAsmNGTON D. C—The Navy {has again hung out the sign: “Join |the Navy and See the World.” Re- |cruiting has been resumed. | . CHICAGO, IllL— Forged share certificates of Fox Film A and other large corporations have been |revealed in this city. Stock. Ex- changes everywhere have been ‘rurntd. i