The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 16, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” "VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5618. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1931. ~ MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PR ESS PRICE TEN CENTS WEALTHY CHICAGO MAN KILLED; FALLS FROM WINDOW DEATH FOLLOWS PARTY IN L. Ay LIQUOR SERVED Col. Ross, of RCA. Photo- phone Company, Dies, Acute Alcoholism | | LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 16— Col. Charles J. Ross, aged 53 years, of New York City, President of the | RCA Photophone, Radio Corpora- | tion subsidiary, died after what | the police described as a drinking | party, in his apartment with two | women and his chauffeur. The autopsy revealed death was | caused by heart disease and acute | alcoholism. | Ross came here | his wife. She was not at the: party. Ross's, business was with movie interests. - STAB WITNESS FORSTATEIN MURDER CASE j Mrs. Howard, of Portland, Is Reported in Se- | rious Condition PORTLAND, Oregon, Jan. 16.— For the second time since the sen- sational case of Nelson C. Bowles and his office wife, Irma G. Loucks, indicted for the murder of Bowles's wife, Mrs. H. W. Howard, aged 56, important witness, has been at- tacked. Mrs. Howard was stabbed twice above the heart, slashed on the jace and beaten last night. Her, condition is such that police will not allow anyone to question her. A man leaped on Mrs. Howard when she went to a back porch of her home last night. Previously Mrs. Howard was beat- en and threatened if she testified. Mrs. Howard appeared before the grand jury and it is believed she gave important evidence. Bowles denied any knowledge of the attacks. ————,——— DEAD SHAKEN FROM GRAVES MEXICO CITY, Jan. 16.—Urgent appeals to aid Oazaca, where Wed- nesday’s quake struck the hardest, have been received. Eleven bodies have been recov- ¢ved from the debris. The bodies of victims -are being incinerated together with bodies disinterred in the cemeteries by the quake. ———.————— ICE BREAKS;; T ARE DEAD ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, Jan. 16. — Six girls and a boy were drowned yesterday afternoon when a sled broke through the ice on the river at Point Hyphen-of-Hy- phen Bay. The bodies have not been recovered as they were carried under the ice. Thursday Island Has Smallest Daily Paper in World | | THURSDAY ISLAND, South Pa- cific Ocean, Jan. 16.—This tiny island, with its 2,000 inhabitants, lying to the north of Australia and forming a part of the common- wealth, claimc to have the smallest daily newspaper in the world. The owner is Mrs. Alice Corran. The staff consists of one man, who is composer, linotype operator, printer, Teporter, editor and business mana- ger. The Torres Straits Daily Pilot serves the interests of the Torres Straits pearl-fishing industry. It consists of three columns and is 11 inches long and 8 inches wide. The | subscription price is 25 cents a! recently with |i the || Désert R;u'iroad Is "B uili to Ht;o PROHIBITION ver Dam To main line 227 miles A railways over desert wastes (map) is being built to carry men Dam. pleting a new bridge at Boulder Junction, south of Las Vegas, Nev. Below a huge steam-shovel is shown building up grade for the line, and above are workmen com- IS DEFENDED | BY SHEPPARD |Eleventh Anniversary Brings Forth. Comment from Texas Senator WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 18.~‘ Senator Morris Sheppard, of Texas, | one of the authors of the Prohibi-| tion measure, sald the Eighteenth Amendment will stay in the Con- stitution of the United States for-| ever, Marking the eleventh anniversary of Prohibition, Senator Sheppard defended the law in the first Sen-| ate speech on the liquor question | made this session. He denied the law ' has caused an increase inj crime and said repeal meant to “let loose on the country evil means to arrest progress, wreck its glory and polution of its name and fame. Those who clamor for restoration of legalized liquor have short memories or do not know of lawlessness and corruption previous- ly. To call the enforcement group an army threatening the home, menacing privacy and imperilling liberty, is another wet absurdity.” ECKMANN BACK and materials to the site of Hoover LAS VEGAS, Nev, Jan. 16.— |the building of the huge Hoover Through shifting sands of Nevada|dam in Boulder canyon will be desert wastes a railroad to Hoover |carried over the new road, which dam is being built. Track layers are following grad- | months. ing crews near here in rushing to Although the railroad traverses a completion 2271 miles of railroad | barren, desolate country, the line is from Boulder Junction, a few!to be prqtécted by dykes against miles south @f m.v;gas, eastward | the fllm‘ Mfiug:‘ of early spring to Boulder City. ‘wh E: én storms occasion- This section of the line is to be |ally “ekperienced on the desert. ready for operation by January 31. Preparation of the roadbed in- It is a branch of the Union Pacific. | volved the excavation of 375,000 From Boulder City an additional | cubic yards of dirt and rock, con- 717 miles of government railroad |struction of 42 bridges and 66 cul- is to extend to the dam site in the verts. A maximum grade of 135 will be formally opened within five | Black canyon of the Colorado. This will be built at an estimated cost of $1,600,000, while $900,000 will be spent on the 22-mile stretch. Men, material and supplies for ‘pcr cent was maintained. | When work was first started on | the rail project the contractor en- | countered an unforseen obstacle in the freezing of radiators on trucks and in hours. Work trains have followed the tracklayers to ballast the track. As another preliminary to ac- tual construction of Boulder City and the Hoover dam the Southern Sierras Power company has begun work on a power line to the dam | site. It will represent an invest.aent of $1,500,00 and more than 200 will be employed. The line will extend from San| KETCHIKAN, Jan. 16.—Pilot An- | Bernardino, Cal,, over the San Ber-|scel Eckmann has arrived here nardino mountains to Victorville after a fruitless flight around An- |and from there go in an almost di-|nette Island searching for further rect line to the Colorado river's traces of Pilot Robin (Pat) Rena- Black canyon. The power line prob- han’s party and wreckage of the ably will be completed before bids:Plane. are opened for construction of thei Pilot Eckmann brought Mrs. Ren- dam project March 4. ahan of Vancouver, to this city from Prince Rupert. Mrs. Renahan tractors early morning IN KETCHIKAN | FROM SEARCH ICarries Mrs. Renahan from Prince Rupert—No Trace of Plane To Wed Heir to the DuPont Millions b Ruth Foster, popular debutante, whose engagement to Lammot Du- Pont, Jr., son of the president of the bu?one Powder Com] , WA | PUBLISHER 1S EXPELLED:TOLD T0 LEAVE CUBA HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 16—John Wilford, owner and publisher' of the Havana American, daily Eng- lish speaking newspaper, has been ordered expelled from Cuba in re- taliation for editorials carried dur- ing the past year against the Ad- ministration of President Machado. Wilford has been on the fsland| for 21 years. Wilford’s son Alfred, aged 19 years, is in prison following par- ticipation in recent student demon-| strations. The Havana American was re- cently suppressed with nine other newspapers. Fastest Transport Plane Built for Army Air Corps, has practically abandoned hope that her husband and his companions, Frank Hatcher and Sam Clerf are alive. | . ——— [ TODAY'S STOCK QUOTATIONS . DAYTON, .O., Jan. 16.—A bullet-| 8 | | nosed monoplane, sald to be the| i KIDNAPPED NEW YEAR'S EVE Associated Press telephdtc of old grandson of August A. Busch, naped near shown with his younger brother James. Adolphus Busch Orthwein, 13-year- , millionaire brewer, who was kid- his home in St. Louis New Year's Eve by a negro. He is| his mother, Mrs. Percy J. Orthwein, nce Clara Busch, and DOAK ASKING FOR MORE TEETH FOR DEPORTATION LAW $45,000,000 Drought Relief Bill Signed . WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.— ® President Hoover has signed ® the $45,000,000 drought re- ® lief bill. L] ® 0 0000000 00 00 AVIATOR JONES | WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 16— | Deportation of any alien convicted of any crime, an additional $600,000 for inspectors and general tighten- |ing of the alien deportation law { have been recommended in a letter to the Senate by Secretary of Labor Doak. @he secretary, responding to a re- quest for information regarding the | number of ‘aliens illegally in the United States and legislation neces- sary, sald no one could tell exactly how many there were, but all esti- lmates indicated the figure was around 400,000. Of these he esti- PRESIDENT OF " PACKING FIRM MEETS DEATH E. Edson me, Head of Armour Company, Ac- cidentally Killed TRAGEDY FOLLOWS BANQUET INCIDENT Body Is Picked on Ground —Wias Left Alone for Few Minutes CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 16—E. Ed= son White, aged 57, a multimillion= | aire packer and President of Ar= | mour Company, was killed when | he fell last night from a bedroom window at his home, which the coroner said was accidental. White suffered a light head in= | Jury earlier at a banquet when ;he fell climbing to the speaker's | table. P. L. Reed, Treasurer of Armour Company, said he left White sit- i ting on the window sill of his bed room getting the air. Reed return- ed a few minutes later and White had fallen out of the window and was found dead on the ground be= low. §50,000 FUND IS WANTED BY INVESTIGATORS Chai.rman Nye Promises to Disband Committee Unless Money Given WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan, 16.— The Senate has approved of a $50,000 fund for continuation of the Nye Campaign Investigating Committee. Chairman Nye said un- less the money was made available, the committee would disband. The committee members decided they would not hear the Pennsyl- vania witnesses until the money was forthcoming to pay expenses. Chalrman Nye claims he has suf= ficlent evidence to unseat Senator James J. Davis. Approval of the $50,000 fund car- fastest transport ship in the world,! has been completed for the army, NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, Jan. 16—Closing quotation of Alaska air corps. {Juneau mine stock today is 9, Am-| Built by the Detroft aircraft cor- erican Can 109%, Anaconda Cop- poration, it has been timed in flight per 32%, Bethlehem Steel 48%, at 205 miles an hour though official General Motors 36%, Granby Con- figures will be determined in tests solidated 15%, International Har- here at Wright fleld by army pilots. vester 48%, Kennecott Corporation With places for a pilot and pas- 24%, Montgomery-Ward 17, Na- | senger, fuel tanks occupy most of tional Acme, no sale; Packard the cabin with a gasoline supply Motors 9%, Simmons Beds 15%, claimed to be sufficient for a 2,800,- Standard Brands 17%, Standard Oil |mile flight and placing practically of California 467%, Standard Oil of any military base in the United New Jersey 47%, U. S. Steel 140%, States or possessions in reach from Curtiss-Wright 3%, Hudson Bay a central point within 10 hours Refining and Smelting 4%, Pacific without stop. ,Gas and Electric 46%, Pennsylvania The basic design is that of stan- Reilroad 60%, General Electric dard Lockheed planes, similar to 43%, Westinghouse Electric and the one owned by Col. Charles A, Mechanical 86%. Lindbergh but differing from it in! DROPS, SEATTLE SEATTLE, Jan. 16.—Roy Jones, Alaska Aviator, was rescued yester- day afternoon in Lake Union, with his passenger, when the airplane| he was piloting struck the mast of | the steamer Curacao. | Jones was blinded when a blanket, he carried for protection, was blown | over his head. | Pilot Jones and a Customs In- spector were using the plane re- cently seized from liquor smugglers. The plane was towed to shore. D mated about one-fourth would be fled 8 provision that Senatar b must give an accounting and re- deportable. “There is no auvnority under ex- isting law to deport alien criminals as such unless the crimes of which they have been convicted involve moral turpitude,” the secretary said. Bill Before Senate He recalled the Senate now has a bill before it which “in a general way eliminates the requirement that the crime involve moral tur- pitude and bases the liability to de- | portation upon a sentence or sen- |tences to imprisonment amounting {to the minimum time specified in the bill.”, | It is suggested, he added, that |legislation along that line be en- |acted. port of activitiés. Some objection to the,fund is expected. ’ GUT RED TAPE AND GET BUSY SAYS COPELAND WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 16.— Administration leaders in the Sen- ate were today urged by Senator Royal 8. Copeland, Democrat of New York, to cut the red tape stead of a low-wing open cockpit ship. It has a new type landing gear | which does away with all but two‘ exposed struts, a streamlined tail being a high-wing cabin model in- MAN SHOOTS HIMSEI‘F | UNLOADING REVOLVER' With a bullet wound in the left groin, a tall, clean-shaven man 'ST. GODDARD IS TO announced by her parents, Mr. and Westover Hills, Wilmi n, Del. The wedding will take some = Prince of Wales and INFLUENZA Is Ready to Start to S. A. . LEBOURGE, France, Jan. 16— sENDmG MANY | er brother George, landed here this | afternoon from England on the to South America. They used the private plane of the Prince of ! and will go to Stander where they LONDON, Jan. 16—An epldemlc-wm take the liner Oropesa to the ope. Thousands of persons are m; Which opens at Buenos o Gintea, ogiand Tepiorts 101 doktha J0auh 143 The fwo will ke e so far this week in comparison In most of the countries the [talian Air bqundron disease is in a mild form. b Ends 6,000 Mile Trip even Italian seaplanes have ar- rived here from Bahia ending a Mrs. William B Foster, of time late next Fall Brother Fly to France The Prince of Wales and his young- Tu THEIR BEDS first leg of an 18,000-mile journey Wales to make the flight here " . 1 of influena s sweeping ovér" Eut- British Empire Trade Exhibition bed and many schools have been! two months. with 60 deaths last week. RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 16—El- 6,000-mile flight which 14 seaplanes ENTER DOG DERBY wheel, “pants” on the landing about 28 years old, who said he| wheels, new motor accessories IN- lived on the Gold Creek Road, went changes in the cowling covering the noon to have his injury dressed. single air-cooled motor. The circular fuselage tapers at dentally discharged a revolver about the tail to a point so that the ship,!g owlock this morning while at- minus its wings and landing gear,|tempting “to break” it to take out resembles a monster torpedo pulled |its cartridges. The missle touched |along by the motor in its nose. no bones and did not cut any large | Designed for transporting per- phlood vessels or ligaments. { | | guns or other armament but would|the wound, and says it is not seri-| |depend upon pursult planes fOr ous The injured man left the in- e— P — —_ HBUSE PASSES Grandfather a Clown; t CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 16. — From Barnum and Bailey to ballet in three generations tells the story, WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 16—| Runyan, ballet dancer. | The House has passed the War{ Miss Runyan is a member of the ship is not equipped with machine jn the hospital at the time, dressed protection in combat zones. stitution without glving his name. Girl Is Ballet Dancer, WAR DEPT. BILL Sy, thus far, of the family of Jane . Department bill for $446,000,000 for| cast of the Chicago Civic Opera| STRIKE VOTE BEING TAKEN MANCHESTER, England, Jan, 18, —Faced by a general lockout af-| cluding & 10-to-1 supercharger, and to St. Ann's Hospital this fore- fecting half a million members‘!‘ the Weavérs' Union announced a whether they will stand on the re- fusal to accept the mill owners’ proposal increasing the number of looms per weaver. ‘The mill owners have given the Weavers' Union until tomorrow for sonnel and military supplies, the| pr H C. DeVighne, who was & decision on a threat they will}, shut down every mill. Society Girl Drops All for Nun’s Vows SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 16. —Casting aside the gay life of a San Francisco society girl for the veil of a .nun, Miss Dominga Rus- sel, granddaughter of Gertrude Atherton, novelist, has entered the Dominican convent at San Rafael, Cal, it has been confirmed. Miss Russel, daughter of one of | “A serious difficulty,” said the|involving public buildings. |secretary, “which has arisen in the| Senator Copeland reminded the sections of the law that pertain to|Senators the Unemployment Relief | prosecution of aliens who enter un-|Committee urged action for build- lawfully is that as the offense is|ing to help the present situation. |entry, the place of entry determin-| The Senator introduced a bill les the district in which the alien|Which would permit of construction shall be prosecuted. Other Recommendations “It not infrequently happens that |aliens enter one district and are He explained that he had acci- vote is being taken to demmme:xocated in another many miles away |and in order to be prosecuted must be moved to the district court in | which entry occurred. “It is suggested that this diffi- culty be obviated by making the remaining in the United States aft- er an unlawful entry an offense as Iwell as the entry itself. This would permit of prosecution in any dis- trict where the alien is found.” Doak also recommended that per- 'sons having knowledge of an allen |unlawfully in the United States be |made guilty of an offence. | He also asked amendments so he can delegate to employes of the department the right to sign war {may be immediately arrested. — e DAUGHTER FOR GODKINS |rants in order that aliens located' starting at the same time con- demnation proceedings are started without waiting for termination of condemnation proceedings. Husband, 72, Needn’t Support Wife Only 22 CHICAGO, IlL, Jan. 16.—Denied separate maintenance “because it is against public policy for one sp young after a marriage so short,” Mrs. Hattle Rank, twenty-two, in- stead obtained a divorce from her® | seventy-two-year-old husband, Sam- | uel, a retired police lieutenant. She was given $500 settlement in liew of the alimony she wanted. Mrs. ‘Rank. who was married New Year Eve, 1929, following a celebration, | charged cruelty. HALF POPULATION | IS IN TEN STATES WASHINGTON, Jan. 16—Ten of began on December 17 from Orbet- ello, Italy. e Despite the stringent financial _situation in Prussia, the number jof civil servants is increasing. activitles during the next fiscal!Ballet. Her home ls in Barnes- the oldest familiss in California,| At 2 o'clock this afternoon, at year. ville, Okla. : made her debut two years ago. Her st Ann's Hospital, an eight-pound ———————— Years ago Miss Runyan's grand- religlous feelings had been known baby girl was born to Mr. and Five thousand new shade trees)father, C. A. Runyan, was a circus by the family and friends and her| Mrs. Miles Godkins. The proud will be planted on New Orlesnsiclown. At the age of 13 she decision to enter the sisterhood did|father is one of Juneau's taxi serv- streets and avepues during 1931. . Istarted training for dancing. not come as a surprise. kleeowmu. week, payable in advance, or 12| OTTAWA, Jan. 16. — Emil St.! cents a single copy to non-sub- Goddard will defend the Chateau- scribers. |Laurier Gold Challenge Cup, won! Thanks to the wireless, it carries last year, in the 100-mile Interna- mmhmnumungmmmy. ‘The race will nished by the Assoclated Press. ' + be run the week of February 2. the 48 States contain more than half the population of the country. They are New York, Pennsylvania, Tllinois, Ohio, Texas, California, sey and Missourl. £ s ko>