The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 13, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5615. JUNEAU ALASKA TUESDAY JANUARY 13, 1931. MEMB[;R OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SEARCH IS STARTED FOR BODIES OF MISSING FLIERS DRY BUREAU IS GIVEN MILLIONS T0 ENFORCE LAW Appropriatimor Prohibi- tion Is Included in Supply Bill MINORITY REPORT FILED BY TINKHAM Says Additional Enforce- ment Officers Means More Resentment WASHINGTON, D. C, July 13.— The Prohibition Bureau is given $11,369,000 for next year, an in- crease of more than $2,000,000 out of the $135739,668 of the Supply Bill of the Justice, Labor and Commerce Departments reported to- day to the House. The Justice Department receives $51,239,000, an increase of more than $5,000,000. The Labor Department receives $13,830,000, an increase of more than $1,000,000. The Commerce Department re- ceives $53,988,000, a cut of less than $1,000,000. Minorjty Report Representative Tinkham of Mas- sachusetts, member of the Appro- priations Committee, filed a.min- ority report against the appropria- tion for the Prohibition Bureau saying: “ive hundred additional enforce- ment officers add a new measure of corruption, lawlessness and per- Jjury, generally connected with Pro- hibition, and also an increase of resentment of contempt for the law of the government and jus- tice.” Prohibition Enforeement In the hearing on tHe bill, rector Woodcock said: “When traffic in liquor is pre- vented, you will see no open saloons and speakeasies and no liquor manufactured or transported. Then we will have Prohibition enforce- ment.” Di- ——.———— $1,000 WANTED HERE TO HELP DROUGHT AREA B. M. Behrends Will Have Charge of Local Red Cross Campaign One thousand dollars is wanted by the Red Cross from the Juneau Chapter as its contribution toward a national fund of $10,000,000 for' relief in drought-stricken areas in the States. The quota here will be raised under direction of B. M. Behrends, chairman of the local organization. He will appoint a can- vassing committee chairman im- mediately, and the work of solicit- ing subscriptions will be started within a few days. “The amount allotted to this dis- trict will be obtained without de- lay,” he said today. Cablegram From Arne Mr. Behrends this morning re- ceived the following cablegram from R. E. Arne of San Francisco, acting manager of the Red Cross, Pacific Ccast Division, which includes Alas- ka: “Greatly increased demands dur- ing the last ten days have made imperative an immediate campaign for a Red Cross relief fund to meet an emergency situation extending through parts of 21 states in the drought-stricken area. A mini- mum of $10,000000 is needed to prevent untold suffering and ac- tual starvation by thousands of families. Pollution of water supply, caused by dying cattle, has been added to the winter hardships in some sections. President Hoover, in a proclamation tomorrow, will urge (Continued on Page Two) g — Will Rogers to ‘Make Addresses to Aid Drougkt Sufferers BIG SPRINGS, Texas, Jan. 13.—Will Rogers, enroute to Fert Werth by plane from Hol- Iyweed, said he would make a ceries of addresses for the bene- fit of families in Texas, Okla- homa and Arkansas, stricken by drought, BIG FIVE IN RAIL MERGER PLANS | holds the confidence of the Jlegis- lative branches. ociated Press Photo r once, giants of the ralls now, they are the big five | coasolidation of eastern roads into four systems—Wil. ury (upper left) of the Pennsylvania, Daniel Willard Baltimore and Ohio, Patrick Edward Crowley (cen. Central, and O. P. (lower left) and M. J. Van GERMANS RESENT TAX ON DRINKS; MAKE THEIR OWN BERLIN, Jan. 13.—An “epidemic” 1 43%, luech-moal 86%. of “Schankverzehteuerjammer” has broken out in Germany. Tt means “over the counter tax fever” and is an “irritation” caus- ed by the new 10 per cent tax on non-alcoholic beverages such as coffee, ' tea, cocoa. and lemonade served at cafes and restaurants. Nearly every German is disgrun- tled about the tax and tries to think of some way to avoid paying the tax. Restaurant lunchers have taken to carrying a hip pocket lemon presser and make their own lemonade with water which, so far, costs nothing. As for cogoa or chocolate, it ceas- es to be a beverage when taken as “choeolate soup” from a deep ! plate. And there are “wine soups,” too. Coffee has to pay, but milk goes free, so a popular demand has sud- | Genly sprung up for “milk with a dash,” leaving it to friend waiter, who knows who's who and what’s (what to make the “dash” of coffee | as strong as he dares. DAUGHTER OF MILLIONAIRE STRAYS AWAY Believed Kidnapped But| Found by Chauffeur, Returned to Home Her Jewels Gone i Associated Press Photo | Mrs. Edgar F. Luckenbach, wife A the steamship man, costumed for | a ball at Palm Beach on a previous visit and wearing jewels reported to have been stolen on the train en route from New York to Florida. Her loss Is said to be $200,000. DENVER, <Tolo, Jan. 13.—Alice; . Humpheys, aged 13 years, daughter of Ira Humphreys, millionaire, be- l lieved to have been kidnapped last ! night, was found this morning in !a neighbor's home. The chauffeur for Thomas Lawr- ence, friend of the Humphreys, {seid he found the child wandering o |Dear the garage at 1 am, and {put her to bed. He did not know { her identity until he read the extra | newspapers then called the Hum- phreys and returned the child. TODAY'S STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, Jan. | 13.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 8%, American Can 109%, Anaconda Cop- | per 31%, Bethlehem Steel 49 General Motors 33%, Granby Con- R . . solidated 16, International Harvest- To Lose Pension ngllb er 50%, Kennecott Corporation 23%, Montgomery-Ward 174, National, ROME, Jan. 13.—Ttalian war vet- Emigrants from Italy | 1 i LONDON SESSION |Round - Table Confer {HOUSE AND SENATE | and British systems, a plan for the | GOVERNMENTFOR INDIA OUTLINED, Developg Plans fo Dominion Status® ! ARE TO BE CREATED| ngs Representahve Will | Be Governor-General, Not Viceroy LONDON, Jan. 13. — Embracing characteristics of both Ametican future government of India has de- veloped at the round-table confer: ence. The plan virtually outlines a Dominion status. There will be two houses ‘of & Legislature, House and Senate: The Senate will number 100 members and the House 250 members. A Minister will form the governs ment which will last as long as it The King’s representative’ will become a Governor-Geenral rather than a Viceroy. He will be re- sponsible for the defense and ex- ternal relations. The plan must be approved by the British Parliament before it beomes effective. RASKOB DENIES CHARGE OF THE BALTIMORE SN Says Sun Arucle Untrue .and Foments Religious, Class Hatreds WASHINGTQON, D. C, Jan. 13.— John J. Raskob today defended his! Chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee and termed as untrue the statement published in the Baltimore Sun alleging " bought and paid for the party.” Chairman Raskob said the one| million dollar reduction of the, party debt was made by close friends of Gov. Alfred E. Smith. Chairman, Raskob further said: “I am only loaning money to the party and I will be repaid.” Raskob denied what he termed| the inference “I became a Demo-| crat solely because of Smith’s can-/ didacy.” “When your article infers I was a Republican and changed to ‘a Democrat because of religion, you are merely joining the Republican National Committee that has been fomenting religious and class hat- reds,” Raskob wrote to the Balti- more Sun. e CLEMENT SCOTT DIES SUDDENLY AFTER SPEECH Washmgton State Legisla-| tor Expires at Open- ing of Session OLYMPIA, Wasn., Jan, 13.—Rep- resentative Clément Scott, of Van- couver, died¥in the House yester- day afternoon after making a speech at the opening session ofj the Washington State Legislature. He had been suffering heart trou- ble and high blood pressure for| some time. It was Scott’s first term in the Legislature. e ———— éwin Army Grows Despite Peace Talk BERNE, Switzerland, Jan. 13—} Although most of the peace and| disarmament conferences since the Acme 8, Packard Motors 9%, 51m4 erans or members of. their families mons Beds 15%, Standard Brands who have emigrated and taken 17%, Standard Oil of California American or other nationality will 47, Standard Oil of New Jersey‘lose their pension rights. 47%, U. S. Steel 141, CurtissWright, A bill which is said to be assured 3%, Hudson Bay 4%, Pacific Gas of prompt passage will abolish pen-- and Electric 47%, Pennsylvania sions for all who forsake Italian Railroad 59%, General Electric citizenship and also for all who lose | Westinghouse Electric and their ‘ivil rights at home as a re- ‘sult of criminal condemnations. i ‘uon of 4,000,000 against aggression. world war have been held in Switzerland, this country has ex- perienced a growing military spirit. The condition is reflected in the fact that the national militia now numbers 330,000, an increase of 60,~ 000 since 1921. The new military budget calls| for $20,000,000 to protect a popula- DEEP STUDY A SECRET NEARLY TWO YEARS, SOON TO BE TOLD IN REPORT WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 13— Anyone claiming that a woman or | ten men can't keep a secret must look elsewhere than President Hoo- ver's Law Enforcement Commission for corroboration. Drawing near the close of two years of the most extensive investi- | gation ever made into yrohlmnon at least ‘ten of the commission’s | members can point to an unmarre d | | record of silence. Its members include such figures as Roscoe Pound, Frank J. Loesch, Ada M. Comstock, William S. Ken- yon, Kenneth R. MacIntosh, Monte M. Lemann, Paul J. McCormack William J. Grubb, Newton D. Bak- | er and Henry W. Anderson ‘QUICK PORTRAITS “Iron Man” at By ALEXANDER R. GEORGE WASHINGTON, Jan. 13—Some call him “Iron Man” Wickersham At 72 he is still going strong, ap- parently as agile-minded and work- devouring as he was 20 years ago when directing the government's “trust-busting” operations. When George W. Wickersham ended his term as attorney general in the Taft Cabinet in 1915 he was in his 55th year. Apparently he was leaving public life to ease up a bit after an extraordinary active career. There followed 16 busy years in the practice of law in New York City and the devotion of spare time to civic, national and international affairs including distinguished war |work and vigorous advccacy of the League of Nations. Then at the age of 70, with virtu- ally all his colleagues of the Taft vegime either dead or long since retired from the tumult of public affairs, he was chosen by Presideni Hoover to head the national com- mission on law enforcement. Its re- |port is expected soon. And that task deals with proba- bly the most troublesome and con- His capacity for work, his ::pcedi in getting to the heart of a prob- lem and his unflagging intensity in all that he does is the marvel of | {his associates. | troversial question of receut years.| OF PROHIBITION {hibition deliberations the ccmmis- ion itself apparently has refrained iding on the major recom- concern- It was the eleventh member an chairman, George W. Wickersham who imposed the secrecy rule soon after the commission held its or- ganization meeting May 28, 1929 Except for a few addresses dul ing 1930, he himself has remain | silent on the subject. Repert Expeotzd Socon rom dec. nendations it would make ng the dry law. Proviso Is Added { Even in preliminary report submitted last January the commis- ion added a proviso. In recom- ] } report is ex-|mending six bills, ranging from pected soon, but rumors and guesses {those to decrease congestion in the |as to what the members might or|ccurts, to those to strengthen pad- might not recommend have flown |lock proceedings and transfer pro- so fast and covered such a wide|hibition enforcement from the es that the com-|treasury to the justice department, a blanket statement|it added official view of | “Wi its mission 1ssued saying ncne was tha body. Up unti] the v to any ulti- think that in I'hree) ut prejudice conclusions, we (Continued on y end of its pro-) Page C. W. Wickersham| 72 Prepares Report on l,.\w anvncmonl char- ‘n ‘the exp'osive “straight from the shoulder” acter of his utterances. Not so leng ago he suggested to tre confer of the American Priscn association that the lash he applied as a curb on banditry “Inquiry into the rosults of flog- ging as a punishment may well be made,” he said, “to determine Lhe desirability of employing it in the war against racketeers | Other typical Wickersham state- ments: “We are coming to realize that scmething more than legislative | fiat 1s necessary to make good citi- | zens. | “It is more. important’ to |good habits than to frame | laws. | “We pride - ourselves upon the success of «democracy, but crime ‘It rampant, and every dally news- paper spreads before us tales of in- creasing lawlessness.” Speaking for the law-enforce- ment commission, he says: form good ‘When he carries a paper from a file to his desk he almost runs. When he walks from his ofrice to| his apartment or elsewhere 0o se's| “We believe there is a great sn fast a pace that his huskv young (body of calm, balanced sentiment secretary is hatd put to keep up in the country which believes in with him. | obedience to the law, which re- ¥or recreation he rides hoiscback | sponds to an appeal to support the and plays golf, the latter less often. | institutions of the country and Bridge and other card games are which will support public measures too slow for him. for improvement in machinery of He is somewhat lik(' Theodore | law en!orcement" NYE COMMITTEE RESUMES STuDY =" OFG.0.P.FUND Senate Campaign Commit- tee Seeks Further Light on Account WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 13.— FASCIST REGIME FIGHTS 'UNREST;; IDLENESS GROWS By HAMILTON WHITMAN ROME, Jan. 13.—The fascist re- gime, like many another national | administration, is feeling the reac- |tions of the business depression with accompanying unemployment and political unrest. There have been a number of recent instances of communist and anti-fascist activity. Attempts of the government to improve econom- Demands Apology The Senate Campaign Funds Com- mittee today resumed investiga- tion of expenditures in Kentucky and Maryland. For the $50,000 special account of the Republican National Com- [mitee, Chairman Nye of the com- mittee, called Matt Chilton, Ken- tucky National Committeeman and Galen Tait, State Chairman of Maryland, to tell the use made of the money. From accounts in the records, it shows Tait got $4,000 and Chil- ton $6,500 but $32,000 of the ac- count spent was pledged as secur- ity by Robert Lucas, Executive Director of the Republican Na- tional Committee for a loan for Anti-Norris publicity in Nebraska. APOLOGY DEMANDED WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 13— Former Governor Alfred E. Smith has written to Senator Robert F. ‘Wagner, Democrat of New York, | saying the Republican National Committee owes an apology for per- mitting Lucas to distribute 800,000 coples of a wet cartoon carrying a “false statement” during the 1928 Presidential campaign. {Paris School to Study Social Life in America PARIS, Jan. 13—The Institute of American Studies, founded in 1929 by the France-America committee, has set up a chair for the study of economic and social life in the United States, among them “Amer- ica Comes of Age.” The new chair is being financed by Edward Tuck, an American resi- dent of Paris, ic conditions by scaling down costs have not stifled all the undercover | mumblings. | Unemployment, government fig- jures show, is on the increase. Many | key industries are operating on part time; others have announced win- ter shutdowns. To combat this situation, Musso- lini's government started a rigor- ous campaign for wage and price !reductions. It sets the example by {reducing the salaries of govern- |ment employees an avedage of 121 per cent. | The pay cuts have spread through |all phases of Italian industry. But |rents and prices of manufactured |articles have followed the downward ‘trend somewhat slowly. The aver- 'I‘o“"‘;i'c':;":::t';:’;:?": age reduction in them has been the Lucas-Norris row and demandeq | 3POut ten per cent an apology from Senator Nye for Business interests are reaching calling the committee’s $50,000 spe out for markets in other countries clal campaign account a “slust and are getting every possible aid fund.” from the government. The out- standing accomplishment in this respect was the commercial accord with Russia, by which the soviets agreed to buy $10000,000 worth of| |Itallan goods with the year Pndm"‘ June 30, 1931, While it was not so nominated in the bond, there has been a na- LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 13— tural reciprocal purchase of coal,| Kay Francis, movie act stopped foil, timber and ores from Russia at the court house yesterday afler-/and industrialists see in this trade noon enroute home from a hos- a source of low cost raw material pital in an ambulance and filed her that will help Italy to get increa: intention to wed Kenneth MacKen- ingly larger slices of foreign mar- na, movie actor. The marriage will kets. take place Friday. The line of this vision takes in | Miss Francis has been ill & South America and it also sees op-| hospital with a jaw allment portunities in the Balkans and the MR - near East., Bees are reported aying of star-| ¥ Associated Press Photo Joseph R. publican KAY FRANCIS SOONTO WE in e I e EXPEDITION IS SENTTOPERCY ISLAND GROUP Troller LoisEves Ketchi- kan with Men to Seek Bodies of Airmen MRS. RENAHAN BOWS TO PROBABLE FATE Wife of Pilot Abandons Hope Husband Is Alive —In Prince Rupert KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. 13.— The troller Lois left here yester- day for the Percy Island group where fishermen found wreckage of Pilot Robin Renahan's plane. The expedition is financed by the Seattle Daily Times and Ket- chikan Chronicle. The expedition will seek the bod- ies of Renahan and his two com- panions on the ill-fated flight, Sam Clerf and Frank Hatcher. Pilot Anscel Eckmann is held here by bad weather. He is ex- pected to leave for the Percy Islands as soon as weather per- mits. At Prince Rupert, Mrs. Renahan relinquished hope her husband is alive. She took the news of the finding of a portion of her hus- bands' plane calmly and plans to come here. Eckmann may fly 1o Prince Rupert and bring her here. TRADE WIND DOWN NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, Jan. 13—The McKay Radio Company announces a message has been re- ceived from the liner President Garfield saying the Island of.St. Michaels radio station has broad- cast the following: “Understand Trade Wind fell into sea about 20 miles off St. Michaels Island. Advised to keep lookout and report to this sta- tion.” The Island of St. Michaels is about 800 miles from Portugal and 150 miles east of Fayal Island, destination of the plane on the second leg of the hop from New York City to Paris. If the plane dropped off St. Michaels Island, it indicates the two fliers overshot their goal. Rough Seas Reported Until the above radio had been received ships between Bermuda and the Azores continued to re- port rough seas along the route taken by Mrs. Beryl Hart and Lieut. Willlam S. MacLaren, on their flight from New York City to Paris with a pay load of 200 pounds of food products in the plane Trade Wind. The two fliers left Hamilton, Ber- muda, for the Azores last Saturday morning and have not been re- ported since. Weather observers said the plane could not have lasted many min- utes in the seas reporwd CONFIRM FOUR OF 6 NOMINEES OF TARIFF COM. Fight Is Ma—d—e_on Brossard and Dennis, Republi- can and Democrat WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 13— Four of the six men nominated by President Hoover as members of the Tariff Commission were con= firmed late yesterday afternoon by the Senate. Those confirmed were Chairman Henry Fletcher, of Pennsylvania, who was under fire; Thomas Page, of Virginia, a Democrat; John Coulter, Republican of North Da- kota, and Lincoln Dixon, Democrat of Indiana. Edgar Brossard, Republican of Utah, and Alfred Dennis, Democrat of Maryland, were not confirmed. Senator Harrison of Mississippi led the fight on Brossard because the latter favored the western beet y while economist for a previous commission. The fight on Dennis revolves around a commission's statement, signed by Dennis, who said tariff would benefit agriculture. Dennis repudiated this, saying the state- ment was changed before release suzar 1 Six months elapsed between rains 8% Frankfort, IIl, vation as a result of the drought in Kentucky. . and that he would not say things he did not believe,