The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 24, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIL, * JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1931. LIQUOR QUESTION BLOCKS ALL * MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS " PRICE TEN CENTS WORK IN SENATE SECRETARY OF ‘ CLARA BOW 1 FOUND GUILTY Only on One Count, How- ever, While She Is Ac- quitted on 34 Others JUDGE ASKED TO BE | LENIENT IN SENTENCE | Irish Tenor Returns to U.S. Case Has Resulted in Start-! . ling Accusations, | Both Women LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 2t.— Dai: De Boe, aged 26, former tary of Ciara Bow, red-hcaded | “it” girl of the screen, has been| convicted of one count for grand| theft feom Clara, involving an $825 check spent on a fur coat. 4 Miss De Boe was acquitted on the 34 remaining counts repre- senting more than $15,000. | Next Monday was the date set| for passing of sentence. | A crowd overflowed the court room. The jury, composed of seven men and five women, ‘was out 49 hours. Miss De Boe was at the table where she had sat for eleven days with Alfred Mathes, her sweet- heart. She wept when the verdict was read. Clara Bow was ill at her home with a cold. The jury recommended leniency. Testimony during the trial was startling and recriminations were flung by both women about drink- John McCormack, famous tenor, with his wife and daughter, as he returned on the 8. S. Majestic, «tour of Europe. He will start his American concert season at Carnegie Hall during the latter I Puts Up Bail WILL ATTEMPT MODIFICATION BOLD RESERVE League of Nation’s Com-g mittee Recommends | Many Changes . sveess Associated Press Photo Mrs. Alice Watt of Denvci, Colo, who posted bail for Maj. Charlel Shepard, U. S. Veteran’s Hospita surgeon, pending his appeal fron conviction at Kansas City, Kan, o murd.ring his wife. 0T GUILTY IS PLEA MADE BY after a mine months’ concert part of January. | PAGKIING Flm " BEARING NAME | Severs All Connections ton, ! D. Armour has resigned as Firsf | Vice-President and severed all con- i bearing the-family name. The Jwolg- | nation followed ‘the action of the ' Board of Directors naming George DENIES CHARGESS SEEKING ORIGINATING A;T' SEPARATION, | LONDON SESSION ~ THATS ALL iU. S. and_ja—pan Not in Will Not Return to Hus- | Agreement, by Infer- | band and Have Another | ence, on Immigration | Baby—Wants Divorce | TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 24 —Charges RENO, Nev., Jan. 24—Denying a | | that during the London Naval report her father-in-law had of-| | Conference the United States prom- fered her $5,000 a month for life| ised modification of immigration if she would return to her hus- | exclusion if Japan accepted Am- band and bear another child, Mrs.! | erican disarmament proposals, were Elizabeth Pillsbury Phillips of Bos- ‘demed todey in Parliament by ton today admitted she expected to Baron Shidehara, Prime Minister. file suit February 2 for divorce Baron Shidebara denied the from Richard B. Phillips. | | charges and sald they were entire- “There is no use denying I am| ly unfounded. here for a divorce,” she said. “My | “There is no connection and nev- father-in-law did try to effect a er has been. Japan's position®on reconciliation between Dick and immigration is gradually bedng me He asked me to return to Dick understood throughout the UnMed and have another baby, with the States and this Government & idea such an evant would bring optimistic views there will soon be 5 together permanently, but he an adjustment,” said the PHMe nover made a suggestion of paying Minister. me any money. Of course, I sup- TN Ty pose some provision would be made for any child, but I have separ- ated from my husband for all time.” | Mrs. Phillips, a daughter of for-, mer Attorney-General Albert E.! Pillsbury of Massachusetts, said| she would charge non-support. Her | the Bemis Bag Company of Bos-| J | Mrs. Phi 3 h ere | when Dlrectors Name | rs. illips’ mother came h Te | i Another President | cade ago, and while here conducted | "s waffle shop to occupy her time. UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE NOW BEING PROPOSED Appropriation of One Hun- dred Million Dollars CHICAGO, I, Jan. 24—Philip it nections with the packing firm Lee, who worked up from the ranks, over Armour for president. Armour issued a statement say- ing: “It is the greatest disap-, pointment of my life.” Lee, who came to the company as a stenographer 35 years ago, succeeded Edson White, who fell accidentally to his death from the Is Sough[ seventh floor of his home, more PR than a week ago. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 24— Only two members of the Armour Appropriation of $100,000,000 an- family now remain on the Board nually to be used in cooperation .of Directors of the Armour Com- with the states in establishing of | pany. unemployment insurance was pro- posed in a bill introduced by Sen- ator 'Wagner, Democrat, New York. The New Yorker at the same time introduced a resolution pro- viding for a Congressional study of | unemployment insurance methods. ‘The $100,000,000 would be ap- portioned to the States according STORM AGAIN -~ HITS EUROPE FEDERAL POW NOMINATIONS UP AGAIN According to Associated Press husband is a student at Edinburgh | the Senate has recommitted the names of t University, Scotland. He is a son'Power Commissioners to the Interstate Commerce Committee, nrepara- of Alexander V. Phillips, head of tory to a court test of President Hoover's refusal to return the nom- inations. The three names returned ar Smith (left) of Maine, and Comu for a divorce herself about a de-|right) of Wyoming, and Marcel Gars: VAST OIL SUPPLY IS I COLORADO LANDS WHERE, W ALSH URGES AN INQUIR DENVER, Jan. 24.—Vast areas of | wastern | Colorado again will be brought to | oil-bearing black rock in national attention if the United States Senate proceeds with an in- vestigation of the administration of oil shale lands proposed by Sen. Thomas J. Walsh tana, Nearly one milllon acres of shale | land—952,239, to be exact, lying on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains, form the center of a controversy brought to head re- cently by charges of Ralph 8. Kelley, former chief of the general land office in Denver. Cnarges Made Before he was dismissed by Sec- retary of the Interior Wilbur, Kel- ley charged there had been a of Mon-| ER COMMISSION DRY MEASURE BY HOWELL HAS RIGHT OF WAY Bill for Drastic. Enforce- ment in District Takes Precedence | REPUBLICAN LEADERS "HAVE HARD PROBLEM Nebraska Senator Talks Right Out on Wash- ington Conditions WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan, 24— The liguor question is in the Sen- ate today with prospects of staying there for a long time. Senator Robert B. Howell's bill to establish drastic enforcement in the District of Columbia stood at the top of the calendar, designated as the first order of business. The bill was given preferred position after the Nebraskan author gave a vivid description of capital drinking. Republican leaders Watson, Borah and Smoot tried to prevent taking up the bill, arguing that legislation of national scope, especially relief projects, should have the right of way. The Anti-Prohibitionists are pre- pared to fight the Howell bill by | offering amendments, such as leg- Jeorge Ots alizing 4 per cent beer. Claude L. Draper, (upper| The Howell bill contained a ad (lower right) of Touisiana. \senrch and seizure provision which - — ————11is frowned on in the Wickersham Law Enforcement Commission’s re- | port and by Attorney General Mit= | chell. Senator Howell said at a recent convention entertainment in Wash- ington; D."C,, ‘the chairman of the Y‘enzertalnment committee ordered 19,000 quarts of liquor for the dele- ____|gates then gave them the names | of bootleggers if they wanted more. MARTEN FINDS - LOST VEIN IN LIARD REGION SEATTLE, Jan. 24.—Bob Marten, one of the two men of the Burke expedition rescued alive, said he is returning to the Liard District by plane in about a month. He said he rediscovered a gold vein there, discovered by Oscar Ander- son, Liard fur trader, who could not find it again. dispatches received by The Empire, e of the filve Federal e those of Chairman on, Co-Ed Files Suit ing parties, gambling and Jewelry | Clara bought her boy friends in-| cluding her-own-engagement ring: from Harry Richmond, actor. | The verdict was such that Judge, GENEVA, Jan. 24—Recommen- Doran made no attempt to stop dations that existing legal stipula- cameramen shooting the scene. tions concerning gold reserves be o i ¢ R modified immediately to allow cen- tral banks the liberty necessary for | a credit policy and to permit of | economy in the use of gold, ls| L contained ‘n a report of the Gold | ! Delegation of the League of Na-| 390 ufl“ 1 I- 0 s Es tion’s Finance Committee. Y ) | ‘The report itemized changes in (the functioning of the gold stan- GUURT BAI lLE dard, withdrawal of gold from cir- culation, generalization of the gold exchange standard and a more ERIE, Penn, Jan. 24—Tom Mix g;ge:;lsl’;::p"o" il T e lost his fight in comjt for alleged | The report said the whole or- brf:ach O Smiet Wil SOl Jeck ganization is most sensitive and Miller of the 101 Ranch Show and|gygins on, the gold reserves are the latter has been awarded $90,-| ... frequent. . | b "gah'f‘“ the movie cowhoy, { The report further stated that Col. Miller sued for $325,000. 1d for monetary uses will be ul- Mix denied he had agreed to g0 Ly, wiih 46 show. GOl Miller \skial immly achisved i the ROXAS M1\ Jolusd the, Sells-Floto Show | omcs, Eradually back 1o normnal at the time he had agreed to join the 101 outfit. Blonde Works Her Game Fast, With Borrowed Car, Too CHICAGO, Jan. 24.—“Going seuth, mister?” Max Beren said he was asked by a young wom- an whom he described as a pretty blonde. “Sure,” he replied, and stop- ped the automobile to let her “I'll tell you, where I want to get out” she said. Beren said that was “0. K.” Opposite a drug store she | conditions. U, S, MARINES | | ! | | MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Jan. 24— | United States Marines were en- ‘gaged in a brief skirmish with in- surgents near Carsonal, |of Telapaneca, killing several and | wounding others. There were no | casualties among the Marines. H PLAN ARCTIC SURVEY | LENINGRAD—Prof. Rudolph I. { samoilovich, Soviet Arctic explor- ! er, has planned for 1931 a survey ARE IN FIGHT northeast | BOWLES, LOUCKS ‘One Thousand Spectators Throng Court Room in Portland PORTLAND, Oregoi, Jan. 24— Nelson C. Bowles, Portland mil- lionaire, and Irma Loucks, his former secretary, pleaded not guilty to first degree murder accused of the killing of Bowles' wife Leone, lin Miss Loucks' apartment |knife through the heart. They {claimed Mrs. Bowles committed sui- {cide. One thousand spectators thronged the court when the two were brought in to make their ' pleas. asked him to stop for a pack- age of chewing gum. He did, and left the motor running. When he came out of the store | of Russia’s entire Arctic Coast from | — e Archangel to Vladivostok. In mz:RESI’GNS AFTEH ihe hopes to drive a powerful ice- breaker to the North Pole. the was just driving off. Beren said he wouldn’t mind £o much if he had not bor- rowed the car from a friend. i ———— flast year. TO CLOSE SACRAMENTO, Cal, Jan. 24— Preliminary wprk has been started for the inauguration of trans-Pa- cific radio telephone service. When completed, within a year, it expected to close the gap in arcund-the-world voice communica- iand will serve subscribers of the'pomowed the money for guarantee| tion. Receiving and transmitting short wave stations near here will oper- ate in conjunction with Hawalian stations and will hook-up American telephones with the Pacific islands, Australia and Asia. The complete circuit of the world by telephone from San Francisco TRANS-PACIFIC PHONE CIRCUIT GAP vestment of the American Tele-| phone and Telegraph company in| .. meq out of $50,000 in cash and the Pacific Coast stations will bel‘m,,‘w paper winnings. She bor- approximately $1,000,000. The Ha- walian stations are to be con- structed by R.C.A. Communications, ‘Mirtual" Telephone Co. in -Hawaii. For the first time the interna- The American Hospital of Paris| i cared for 11,707 patients during the FARO SWINDLE WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 24— |Mrs. Myrtle Blacklidge has re- signed as Collector of Internal Revenue in Illinois and an inves- | tigation into the conduct of her i | | | office started after she was accused, lin a faro game swindle will be | continued. Mrs. Blacklidge reported she was |rowed the cash from Edward Lit- | singer, Chicago politician. ‘The |woman said Litsinger knew she iln a faro game. -Litsinger said he | thought she borrowed the money tional date line will be crossed iniso she could collect money for her a regularly established service. The electric impulse carring the voice of a talker in San Francisco t0 @ two men with whom she played friend in Australia will in the half second it takes to transverse the Illinois. lhusbancl‘s estate. Litsinger accused ‘her of plotting the swindle with iin a hotel room in Springfield, Rain, Wind, Thunder and Lightning Prevail— Shipping Suffers { LONDON, Jan. 24.—A 50-mile an ihour gale today swept Western Europe and the British Isles, ac- companied by a deluge of rain, | thunder and lightning. | High seas led to anxiety for | shipping. A Portuguese troller sank at the |mouth of the Tagus and two by a|members of the crew were dwwn-i |ed. The liner Vardulia, bound from St. Johns to London, damaged her | broadcast an SOS. ] i Rt Amateurs Te;t Phone, i Code in Speed Trials | HARTFORD, Conn., Jan. 24— | Tests to determine which is the faster for communication, the radio telegraph or the radio telephone, are under way this month. | Amateur radio stations under the supervision of the American Radio | Relay League are conducting the tests on the two remaining Sun- days of the month. Messages are started from ten stations on each coast, using half 'phone and half code. The object is to determine how quickly the relay ean be made 'and a reply received across the | country. ———.———— PLANE REPLACE ICEBREAKERS PUT-IN-BAY, Ohlo, Jan. 24— The winter mail route to this little island and its vicinity, considered one of the most hazardous in the United States and Alaska, is soon to be carried by airplane instead of by the combination icebreaker boat and sled used for years. |rudder in the Bay of Biscay and: to the number of workers in the |ugteady encroachment on the pub- Territory. For each Federal dol-|jic qomain in the form of conces- lar the expenditure of two dollars|giong which enabled several large on unemployment insurance by the|sy companies to obtain shale lands 'states would be required. iagainst the best interests of the an “odious oil scandal.” An inves- | tigation of the department of jus- PULIGE FnyRcE tice found Kelley's charges to be unfounded. Later Senator Walsh proposed a Senate investigation. Three Sergeant Hand in Their Stars — Are brought to bear on Wilbur in the leases. President Hoover denounced Kel- Potential Worth Colorado’s shale deposits have been estimated to be worth poten- tially 40 billion dollars. They con- sist of layer after layer of friable rock, all filled with the shells of He said “political pressure” was; | Associated Press Photo | As an outgrowth of a University of lllinois fomance, Rosemary John- son, 21, Chicago, filed suit in Monti. cello, I11,, against Willlam Lodge, 111, son of a wealthy Monticello cons tractor, asking $25,000. Invention to Make Man | { Rich, Snuffs Out Life SAN FRANCISCO, Jap. 24—An | invention which he thought would | {make him rich, snuffed out the iife | (of Theodore E. Winar, 44, here| itoday. The invention was a char-| |coal heater. It exhausted the oxy-J |gen in the room and Winar suffo- Headlights Off ; |Cigarette Puffs; Case Dismissed EVANSTON, I, Jan. 24.— A few cigarette puffs blew up the case against Miss Barbara Holden. Accused of violating traffic rules by parking her car with- out lights, Miss Helden, a coed at Northwestern University, told the court: “When I parked my car in front of a sorority house the lights were burting. I think some of the girls wanted to smoke so they turned off the headlights, had a puff, and for- got to turn them on again.” “Probably so,” said Magis- trate Harry H. Porter, “case I ] i Under Suspension | 7 Jan. 24—Police Jacob CHICAGO, I, Sergeants ‘Jack Herdegan, Coleman and Peter Bernacchi have! been suspended following a special small crustaceans and skeletons and scales of fish from lagoons that existed thousands of years ago. From 10 to 68 gallons of oil may cated, t dismissed.” be taken from a ton of shale. Ge- rackets and politicians ological experts say this shale pos- Herdegan 1is accused of pflymg]sibly may control the future oil $1500 for promotion. The money |SuPPlies of the world. was borrowed from Jack Zuta, Recoverable Oil gangster, recently killed. Dean E. Winchester, geologist, The names of Bernacchi and|Teported to the President through Coleman were found on checks seiz- | the Federal Oil Conservation Board ed in a recent raid in a vice joint|his estimate of 79,625988,000 bar- which was in their policing terri-|Tels in the Colorado shales, of tory. which he figured 47,625598,000 bar- rels recoverable. The amount estimated re- jcoverable equals the entire output Bel A'e i of crude oil from all wells in the Just Don’t Grow Tln.umud States for 50 years, at a | production rate of 900,000,000 bar- BRUSSELS, Jan. 24—The Bel- rels a year. {gians are mighty, as they have) shown in time of war, but they! are little men. | 1 Figures issued by the GovemnPlane P"’d“thon L&St ment show that 29 per cent of the| population ranges in height from 4 feet, 3 Inches to 5 feet, 2 inches. The next 69 per cent are not | much taller, heights only running grand jury investigation of police — e as | | | e WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 24— United States aircraft companies produced 2,684 planes in 1930. The Year Was 2684 Machines. NEW AIR LINE TIE-UP . MAY NOW LEADTOFAR | WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 24— An air route near the top of the world to the Orient is envisioned by W. Irving Glover, assistant pos master general in charge of air mail, He termed his idea “nebulous” and lying far in the future but sees the first step undertaken in (the proposed tie-up of American |and Canadian lines by air mail service between Winnipeg and St. |Paul and Minneapolis. | | This line would join America’s network of mail routes with exist- ing Canadian services which run from Winnipeg to Regina, Calgary and Edmonton. There is a gap be- tween Fort McMurray, which is | EAST ROUTE FORMAIL Somewhere along the northern line, Mr. Glover said, a route could be branched across Alaska and Bering Strait into Soviet Russia and down to China and Japan. “This is not an improbable route by any means,” he said. “Careful study has been given the proposi- tion by the postoffice departments of Canada andl the United States and they do not intend to stand idly by and permit this opportunity for a direct hookup with the far t to be supplied by any other countries.” ‘With inauguration of proposed transatlantic service connecting through United States mail lines with a route crossing into Asia, Pacific ocean, pass from “today” to — ———e— fup to a maximum of 5 feet, 7 in- sales, ~however, totaled 3125 as to be closed and a line continues he sald, mail from Great Britain Milwaukee has spent m,oou.mol More than half of Chicago's 3,- ches. And only 2 per cent are on a sewage disposal plant. 375,000 people live in private houses. taller than that. some planes sold were produced in through Sydney, London 'and New |“yesterday” and back to “today” s York will be 21,475 miles. The in-| again. due north to Aklavik, beyond the [to China and Japan could be spesd~ |Aretic circle. ed up two weeks. ¢