The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 15, 1931, Page 1

i =N THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5617. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1931. MI:.MBER OF ASSOCIAThD PRESS " PRICE TEN CENT§ MODIFICATION OF JONES BILL SIGNED BY HOOVER NAVY BUILDING PROGRAM IS GUT MANY MILLIONS Housd Committee Approves | of Spending Ove: $74,000,000 6-INCH GUN CRUISER OF ADAMS ELIMINATED Navy Secretary Estimated| Expenditure of Over $126,000,000 WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 15—A §$74,030,000 naval con- struction bill has been approved by the House Naval Committee. The Committee did not ap- prove of Secretary Adams’s recommendation for a $16,605,~ 000 six-inch gun cruiser. The bill authorizes the fol- lowing: A 13,800 ton airplane carrier to cost $27,650,000. A flying deck cruiser with a complement of 36 planes to cost $20,780,000. Four submarines to cost $17,- 600,000 One hundred and thirty air- planes to cost $5,000,000. Sceretary of Navy Adams es- timated a building program to cost $126,330,000. - ———— MEXICO CITY IS SHAKEN BY SEVERE QUAKE Fires Are Started, Build- ings Cracked, Resi- dents in Panic MEXICO CITY, Jan. 15—The sharpest earthquake in Mexico City in 19 years started fires in two parts of the city, cracked buildings and threw the inhabitants into a panic. One woman was killed by falllng walls. Four other persons were in- jured in houses. The quake lasted two minutes with subsequent minor shocks. The first quake started at 5:48 o'clock yesterday afternoon. SITKA REGISTERS QUAKE SITKA, Alaska, Jan. 15.—A heavy earthquake lasting several hours was recorded here yesterday after- noon on the seismograph of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. The first wave reached Sitka at 20| seconds to 5 o'clock, Sitka time, yesterday ‘afternoon. It is esti- mated the distance was 3,600 miles. PSR R 8, Prince of Wales Leaves Sunday For South America LONDON, Jan. 15. — The Prince of Wales is prepared to leave for a tour of South Am- erica on next Sunday. The Prince and his younger brother, Prince George, will fly (o Paris tomorrow and join the liner Oropisa at Santander Saturday. sheriff. | ! | | .Dakotans Move to U nite | Voters on Farm Issues Hailed Utah’s Most Beautiful' Baby This beautiful little two-year-old girl. Barbara Jean Rowley, has just een acclaimed “the most beautiful baby in Utah.” She is the daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Rowley, of Springfield, Utah, and was an entrant in the recent baby contest at Provo. Radio Station to Be Installed at Kodiak SEWARD, Alaska, Jan. 15.—Wil- liam Wagner, radio electrician of the Signal Corps, will install a new radio station for the United States Army at Kodiak. on the next steamer and the sta- tion is expected to be completed within a month. will have charge of the Kodiak station. The Army is to take cver all commercial business in that Iterrlwry 3 SOUTH DAKOTA SEND! TO SENATE; HE IS WM. J. BULOW [out of- the country or indefinitels linto storage. By FRED ZIMMER PIERRE, 8. D, Jan. 15—"“There aren't any issues. Mac's got the job I want.” That is what South Dakota’s Democratic Governor, William J. Bulow, told voters before the No- vember election—so they -elevated him to the United States Senate, displacing W. J. McMaster, Repub- lican. During the campaign, Bulow mixed blunt statements with humor and funny stories. Hundreds came to his speeches to laugh. Some stayed to vote. His scorn for the conventiomal caught the fancy of the rural vot- ers. His story telling brought a trib- ute from Will Rogers that “he 1is funnier than I am.” Told by newspaper men after his election that he would have to wear a full dress suit in Washington, Burlow said, “I guess not. At a Democratic banquet in Washing- ton a few years ago Will Rogers S HUMORIST and I were the only ones not for- mally attired. only ones you could distinguish tfmm the waiters?” | A bull gored and killed the demo- icratic nominee for Governor in 1924, and Bulow was chosen to fill the vacancy on the ticket. The Senator-elect is a tobacco chewer. The Republicans said he entered the campaign with great “expectorations.” Bulow countered with this: “I may chew tobacco, but you can always have a bite off my plug.” Asked to make public his stand on National issues, Bulow said: “During the campaign I was ac- cused of pussy-footin’. I guess I'll keep right on pussy-footin'” When Al Capone, Chicago’s num- ber one “public enemy,” was of- fered a haven in the Black Hills, Bulow. protested. “We’'ve got too many Republican candidates for Goverror now,” he said, PRISON BARS FOR A CENTURY Associated Press Ploto Gilbert H. Beesemyer (center), Hollywood, Cal., banker, before the gates of San Quentin prison where he was sentenced to 10 to 100 years for embezzlement involving $8,000,000. James B. Holohan (left) and Dan Miller, Los Angeles county deputy He is shown with Warden By FRANK L WELLER (A. P. Farm Editor) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15. DROUGHT RELIEF BILL IS PLACED BEFORE HOOVER {Both Hous;f Congress. Finally Approve $4§,- | 000,000 Loan ‘SIDETRACK_SENATOR ' | CARAWAY’S PROPOSAL' {Fifteen Mll]lon Dollars for Food Loans Is Eliminated WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 15—~The cmergency appropris- ticn of $45,000,000 for sced loans to drcught siricken farmers has boeon approved by Congress and sent to President Hoover. | | | lLos Angeles Will F ly to Panama For Scout Work in Canal Defense The Senate receded from Scnator Caraway's proposal for an additional $15,000,000 for food loans. Senater Robinson, of Arkan- proposed a direct appro- priation from the Treasury of $25,000,000 for Red Cross drought relief for the needs of the farmers to be added to the Agricultural Supply bill. —o——— RED CROSS I8 Lient. | Wi \moorcfl to the Patoka, which will WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. Los Angeles, of the skies,” lems into the annual winter ncuvers of the fleet. Retracing the trail she blazed to Panama almost three years ago in a nonstop flight, the dirigible i3 scheduled to be used as a scout- ing ship in aiding the defense of the Panama canal. — The ma- navy department, is the least in- Comm. Vincent A. Clark, Jr. hen the dirigible flies to Panama in February for the winter fleet mancuvers, the navy’s “old maid | will inject new prob- | “The flight to Panama, to the | (i) (inset), C be its base in sou'hern waters. are no more hazar s than on an) other normal flight. While the hu- | midity s high down there, the only ' corrosion effects are those to be ex- | perienced by any aircraft used in | that territory and these are not| immediate. | “Various bits of work are being done to prepare the ship for the | trip, though these would have been ‘done anyway, including work on the motors, and re-covering some of the envelope, part of which is still the original material put on in Ger- planned for February 10. be in charge of the flight employment of the ship canal will be the duty of | Jehu V. Chase, commander i but th supervise the maneuvers. a tail wind on the last lap of th trip since the general prevailin, wind beyond Cuba is from the mmander of the Los Angeles, will be at the helm The airship is shown Lieut. Comm. Vincent A. Clarke, Jr., commander of the airship, will Panama-bound the ship will have STOBBS BILL - NOW APPROVED BY SIGNATURE OF EXECUTIVE Maximum Penalty Is Re- duced to Six Months in Jail or by Fine of $500 WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15.—President Herbert Hoov- ler has signed the Stobbs bill | designed te clarify the Jones | law. ! The bill amends the Jones Jaw limitirg the maximum ‘per'nlt\ to $500 or six months !in jail where the sale of li- quor is not more than one gallon provided the defendant 'has not been convicted of previous violations. | The bill also permits a trial e before a United States Com- at the miggjioner for minor viola- Admiral in chiet of the United States fleet, who will ask for a trial by jury. tions unless flle defendants “The Jones bill placed a minimum sentence at five mum at ten ¢ years and ma e years. GIVING AID TO OVER 400,00 teresting phase of the dirigible’s | many.” | participation,” said Lieut. Comm. | |Charles E. Rosendahl, who com- |first employment as a {is the role it may play as a scout |longer useful life than The venture will mark the ship's military manded the ship on itc trip in 1928. | weapon in her six years of serv- “What is expected to be learned | ice, during which she has had a any rigid northeast. Tt will be based at Pan-| the ship took 40 hours from lhr Dbt Saierers: i oA or reconnaissance vehicle. There 1s Rumblin ' discontent with cer- tain "p) distinet. In the wake of farm belt political | realignments in the November elec- tions, 300 North Dakota Republi- |can leaders have launched a cam- C. E. Wessinger, now in Seward, | gives” | ls surgival operation. paign to pull the party's warring factions together on a militant ag- ricultural program. They. plan to unite as “Progres- sive” Republicans the old Independ- ent Voters' Association and the Non-Partisan league, formed in 1916 as a result of dissatisfaction with | both the Independent and Regular wings of the party. Wheat Surpins Issue The plan reflects, says Lynn J.| Frazier, Non-Partisan League Sena- | tor from North Dakota, a growing sentiment in the wheat belt against | 1 the present method of handling the wheat surplus. Farmers, he says, belleve the farm | board should rescind its intention of selling stabilization corporation holdings when the price reaches ithat at which they were acquired,! S. of .the nation's farm | |relief program have become more } Coun‘ies in 2‘ Stales lnothiag new in flying m‘Pammn for we have done that before. | Get Relief “TTe' ship has shown that | can make the journey WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 15.—| ——— The American Red Cross is now | caring for 405,000 persons in 383 cULDEsT wAvE counties in twenty-one States. Lo { i Freezing Temperalures Re-| Cash grants have so far totaled $614,781. CENSUS TAKERS | ported from North GOUNT JOBLESS " £ Total expenditures for all reliM’ so far is $1,3528317. Drought relief is expected reach at least 31500\!000 CHICAGO, IIL, Jan. 15.—Tupper | Lake in New York State, in the Four Thousand Enumera-| Adirondacks, is the coldest town today in the United States, the | tors Start Work > | . o | temperature registering 21 degrees in 20 Cities below zero. she | and there | | airship in the world. Forces of the navy will concsn- trate in Panama bay February 12/ navy department has not | to complete their maneuvers March | wigether the new 2,265-mile journe, 24 ‘The dmgibles dcparzure is | will be non- s’op or in eas; FEDERATION OF ' SALE OF BEER LABOR SEEKING = BY GLASS NOT MODIFICATION Will Eslabhsh Headquart- Residents ol British Colum ers in Washington— " bia City Vote Against Other Aims l Proposal MIAMI, Florida, Jan. 15, — The | mooring mast at Lakehurst to | | mast at France field. However, mu decided stages. FOR VICTORIA ama with the Patoka, a naval oil- er equipped with a mobile moorlng mast. The normal crew of the ship is 40 officers and men. Seattle Chamber of Com- merce Featuring Terri- In the flight of February, 192'{‘ y tory in Publicity Alaska is getting a large share of the publicity—advertisements and literature—issued by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. This waf revealed today in a letter received by the Chamber of Commerce from |the Seattle organization in which | details were given. The Territory will be featured in \a spread from the Seattle Chamber “m appear in an early issue of the | saturday Evening Post, and Alaska VICTORIA, B. C., Jan. 15.—The |tours are to be prominently men- Miami Herald says sanction of the|residents of this city have voted tioned in other ads appearing in Executive Council of the Ameri- against the sale of beer by the‘add.ugna; magazines and news- can Federation of Labor has been glass glven for the establishment of a! The vote was as follows: | Washington, D. C.,, headquarters for| In favor—3,335. papers. Name Shell Alaska The suggestion of the local Cham- | From St. Louis to Boston the the modification of the Volstead Against—>5,048. |ber that the name “Alaska” be WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15_‘5‘1“ greeted a freezing day. ’ACt Under Canadian Government Li- given to the shell rowed by the and declare against liquidation un- Census takers are busy in twenty til the entire wheat surplus has cities again counting the unem- been removed. | Ployed. Farmers fear, he continues, that| the grain trade will not buy wheat the request of the Emergency Em- in sufficient quantity to enhance plovment Committee. the price so long as it knows stab-! More than 4,000 enumerators are ilization grain will come on the at work. market as soon as values advanoc‘ The census counting includes Wagner leaves,;g perhaps jeopardize then posi- | Seattle, Los Angeles and San Fran- cisco on the Pacific Coast. —— e — Chayote, New Vegetable, tions. National Platform | The platform of gthe “progres- is national in character and, it is suggested, may influence farm thought in neighboring states. It approves the farm board but recommends the application of Mc-' ATHENS, Ga, van. 15—Georgia | g Nary-Haugen principles in surplus 1S growing a new vegetable—the contrcl—namely to get the surplus chayote. off the market either by getting it war and college farm experts see the terest, be used to provide long-time crop. storage facilities under direction of belongs to the cucumber family but ls more hardy and prolific. The h c&myote is pear-shaped and con- to agriculture. e i Farm Where Lindberg Spent Boyhood to Be Created State Park ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 15.— State Senator Chris Rosenmeir has introduced a bill in the Legislature to create a State Park of the old Lindbergh farm where the Colonel passed his boyhood. The present own- ers of the farm have approved of the plan to deed it to the may be eaten boiled, creamed, | salads, baked, stuffed. fried, !soups, stews or pickled. The seed |to be very nutritious. —_—— - ‘13.000,000 PEOPLE MAY BE DE! | WORCETER, Mass, Jan. 15— | Three million children and 10 mil- |lion adults probably are afflicted State. with some degree of deafness in T 5 e T the United States, estimating by Mrs. Sam Shabaldak has entered the proportion of deafness found the St. Ann’s Hospital to undergo in children already tested in Mas- sachusetts, says Dr. Gordon Berry. 'The count is being taken at Has Many Culinary Uses The delicacy, full of vitamins for children and adapted to many culi- nary uses, is a native of tropical It proposes that the $57,000,000 America. Department of agriculture |profits of the government's “And, do you know we were the (time wheat board, plus accrued in- vegetable as an important southern The chayote is a fall and winter | the farm board, and it attacks the vesetable produced on a climbing Smoot-Hawley tariff act as unfair vine with perennial roots. The plant tains a single edible seed. The flavor |1s that of a summer squash. They in in |has a nut-like flavor and is said Even New Orleans is below freez- ing. Temperature at Jacksonville, | Florida, is reported at 28 degrees above zero. Norfolk, Virginia, reports 24 de- grees above zero. It is 8 ‘degrees above zero at Boston, 12 above in New York and Chicago, 16 above in Philadelphia, St. Louis and St. Paul and 20 above in Washington, D. C. Many communities report coldest weather of the winter. e the | TODAY'S STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, Jag 15.—Closing quotafion of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 8%, American Can 107%, Aanconda Copper 317%, Bethlehem Steel 49%, General Motors 35'2, Granby Con- solidated 16, International Harvest- er 48%, Kennecott Corporation 24, Montgomery-Ward 17'., National Acme, no sale; Packard Motors 9%, Simmons Beds 15, Standard Brands 17%, Standard Oil of California 46%, Standard Oil of New Jersey 47, U. 8. Steel 139, Cur ‘Wright 3%, Hudson Bay 4!, Pacific Gas and Electric 45%, Pennsylvania Rallroad 59%; General Electric 424, Westinghouse Electric and Mechan- ical 84%. ———————— Dorbandt and Cope Report ;! Not Missing SEATTLE, Jan. 15—The Seattle gram from Pilot Frank Dorbandt saying that neither he nor Pilot Alonzo Cope have been missing at any time. Cope's plane overturned as he landed near Susitna, Cook Inlet, and Dorbandt had gone to look for him, Daily Times has received a cable-| The Herald says the Council also | quor Control sale by the glass approved a conference to plan an!permissable only by a plebescite o education program towards modi- | cities. fication as well as stamping oul} bootlegging, illicit distilling flnd fi:"f.'fi:fiim of alcoholic beverage IT A |. I ANS UN 'WIRE TAppms | LAST STRETCH INVESTIGATION | Thorough Examinatlon to Be Made of Practice of Dry Forces WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 15— | The House Expenditures Commit- | tee has decided to investigate wire| tapping by Prohibition Agents. A motion by Representative | Shafer of Wisconsin, a Wet, pro- | vides for a “thorough examination of the bureau's practice in tap- ping telegraph and telephone lines.” | Congressman Shafer said the At- torney General promised that wires would be tapped for lawful pur- poses only but he said Director Woodcock admitted at a hearing |on appropriations for the Prohibi- | tion Bureau that wires had been | tapped frequently. Rio de Janeiro—To Sell Seaplanes BAHIA, Brazil, Jan. 15. — The | Italian fUers are enroute to R I | | | I | hop from Italy. which started from Italy are mak ing the hop. The Italians expect to sell th and they will steamer. return home b; COLLEGE PROFESSOR CHICAGO’S RAC CHICAGO, Jan. 8—Slight spectacled Ben M. Squires, a colleg: professor with a soft voice, toda rules as “czar” of the racket-ridden |years. Chicago cleaning and dyeing 'ness. He follows a long line of bold eyed and blustering “muscle” exercising unqualified authorit busi Policeman Shot Five Times; Expected to Die FRESNO, Cal, Jan. 15.—Patrol- man Frank Campbell was shot five times last night as he was taking Leo Sadlo to the police station. adlo escaped. Campbell is ex- ed to die, price and operations. Terms of an agreement Squires and seventy-eight city’s 117 companies were public today. Under of mad it, OF OGEAN HOP. 'Fliers Off from Bahia to de Janeiro on the last leg of the Eleven of fourteen seaplanes planes to the Brazilian Government be-|owner disregard over sales, advertising, employment, between the 5| University of Washington crew this r‘)mr was endorsed by the Seattle lorgax'nzm:ion and approved by Dar- win Meisnist, graduate manager of ![ho University's student association, {who said he had presented the sug- |gestion to others interested. He caid that every alternate year the \shell which costs $1,100, is paid for by the student association, and in (the other year is donated. He had ><uzgesud to L. W. Baker, of the Alaska Steamship Company, that a $200 or $300 contribution toward thls year's shell might give the Imatter a boost. Mr. Baker, a guest of the Chamber here today, de- {clared that his company would do {whatever was necessary and he |was sure, also, that the Admiral Line would co-operate New Radio Equipment In its program of modernizing its radio equipment to insure continu- cus and uninterrupted communica- tion within as well as without the Territory, the United States Signal Corps will two and possibly three new stations in Juneau, the e o e erect ¥ I (Continued on Page Eight) MADE “CZAR” OF KET-RIDDEN CLEANERS an order, Squires ime complete control of the The agreement is for three Squires’ only obligation is to - |handle his funds without gross neg- { ligence. The cleaners solicited Squires’ as- e | may as y | pla men, |sistance and the compact was y agreed upon to avert disastrous price cutting and destructive rack- | eteering. Al Capone Wi ce linked with {the industry. Dr. Squires is an eco- e | nomics lecturer at the University of should an |Chicago.