The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 26, 1931, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” AY, JANUARY 26, 1931. VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5626. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MON MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS FORMER GOVERNOR, FORMER SENATOR, KILLS HIMSELF FOUR PER CENT BEER BILL INTRODUCED SUBSTITUTEFOR | PROSEcCUTED BY cLara sow: WAY IS CLEARED EDW, |, EDWARDS HOWELL BILL IS T0 START WORK TAKES HIS OWN .~ BEFORE SENATE ' ON BIG PLANTS Brings Promise of Real 'Agreement Reached on All Shoots Himself During Strength on Modifi- | - Points with Cameron! Night and Passes cation Proposals { and Zellerbachs | Away Today WETS AND DRY JOIN | TIMBER AND POWER 1 DESPONDENCY 1S GIVEN AGAINST ONE ISSUE. PACTS SATISFACTORY | 'AS CAUSE OF TRAGEDY | ! i m-’ ‘Was Conceded “One of Referendum Advocated but De{i‘:jf:: LE\::Z}(::; o{:m with Little Chance of i Wettest of Wets”—Did A Construction Program| Not Use Intoxicants Coming to Vote B WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 26.— United States Senator Hiram Bing- ham, Republican of Connecticut, | has introduced a bill to make four per cent beer legal. This is a sub- stitute for the Howell bill which| would give drastic enforcement for Daisy DeBce (above), former secretary to Clara Bow, is shown in the District of Columbia. | The proposal brought the fiwoti=} court with her attorney, N. O. Freedman, during trial en grand theft o ot RO HE AR Senate Charges in Los Angeles. The “It” girl of the movies charged Miss on modifict tion. ;DeBoe took $16,000, buying herself jewelry, automobiles and clothing. The Wets admit little prossibil- Miss DeBoe was convicted last Friday of one count for grand iheft, ity of success. | involving an $825 check spent on a fur coat. She was acquitted on the MEMBERS OF THE LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION Negotiations for the waterpower . : | and timber for the Juneau #nd Ketchikan pulp and newsprint manufacturing plants have been concluded, and all details are ar-) ranged to the complete satisfaction of everyone concerned—the Gov-, ernment and the private interests| connected with the projects—it was made known here today by H. F.' Heintzleman, Assistant Region For- JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, Jan. 26. Edward I. Edwards, former | Governor of New Jersey and former | United States Senator, committed | suicide in his home here. Edwards |had been ill for some time and iwas despondent, his son Irving | said. The former Governor was alone at his home when he shot himself last night and died today. Opposed Prohibition | United States Senator Edward I. Edwards was one of those men in life whose stand on Pro- hibition was somewhat anomalous. On that issue he was one of “ssociited ess Photo Here are members of President Hoover's Law Enfcrecement Commission who prepared an extensive | report on Prohibition. Seated, left to right: Roscoe Pound, Ada M. Cemctock, President Hoover, Chairman | George W. Wickersham and William S. Kenyon. Standing: Kempeth R. Mackintosh, Monte M. Lemann, ester. , { | . 80 /il . Grubb, New . Baker and Henry W. Andarson, Everything is in readiness for| Paul J. McCermick, Frank J. Loesch, William J. Grubb, Newion D. Baker an enry VA initiation of construction, and that! they will fight against the pro- mended leniency. posal in the Howell bill allowing search and seizure in houses. ) N REFERENDUM ADVOCATED EGLARA Buw Tn WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 26—! An early move to consolidate Re- | ASK FAVoR oF publican Wets and Drys on & pro- . posal for a political referendum already advocated by the Wicker- sham Law Enforcement Commis- | definite upward trend has been gs- 3 " | business, conditions, in his opinion. {Just when that will be no one the most vigorous and outspoken K"_I_s PULIIBE UP 31 “uu BA‘IL‘Upponents vet he did not use ln- toxicants. knows or cares to predict, but Mr4| g o & % v i % | ' " : Heintzlemen is confident that this T . : ! f Y-aitlionuts “holdialy . dibeeal. ViR { vear will witnas B8k Vurning “Sint PERJURY cHARGE concerning the use of intoxicants, | ' . [f° | the Senator's opposit UFFIBER w‘TH 't least for the dooal project. ‘ | the Senator’s opposition to the | Differences Are Ironed Out - 3 X i After leaving here last Augnst, | 5 g ' i ' | Mr. Heintzieman went to San Fran- | Both Wets and Drys indicated 34 remaining counts and the jury, seven men and five women, recom-| step will be taken as soon as a| NYE WOuLD CUST SENATOR DAV]S J& E Y M 0 UR PUTS public tablished in financial, industrial gnd ) i 2 | rohibition Amendment and the Volstead Act was based primarily on,.hiscopinion that both were an sion, is forecast in Congressional quarters with no expectations of a| vote at this session of Congress. The vote is believed probable dur- | ing the next session of Congress. Representative Fort, a Dry of New Jersey, has been active slnoe‘ last fall in an attempt to get the problem before the people. He 8aid: “We must find out what the peo-| ple think of Prohibition as this is fundamental to any solution of the annoying condition.” | Representative Fort is a close’ friend of President Hoover but it is said the resubmission idea is Fort's and not the President’s. —_———— ! TO REPORT ON | PRODUCTION OF REINDEER MEAT 'Sentencing of Miss JUDGE DORAN | Werites Letter Requesting it Be Opened Before Sentence Passed LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jdn. 26.— Clara Bow has sent a letter to Judge William Doran with the re- quest that he read it just before sentencing Daisy DeBoe. Miss Bow refused to divulge the contents. The announcement came in reply to reports that Miss Bow would be in court to plead for leniency for Miss DeBoe. When the verdict was returned, Miss Bow sald she hopeéd the Judge would be lenient. Miss DeBoe is to be sentenced sometime today. SENTENCE POSTPONED LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 26.— DeBoe was postponed this afternoon until next Monday after the defense made a motion for a new trial and asked delay to prepare arguments. STOLENPISTOL Slayer Caught in Oregoni May Be Man Wanted for Seattle Crime i MEDFORD, Oregon, Jan. 26—J. {C. Adams, aged 33 years, admitted here to shooting to death Police- cisco for conferences with the) George T. Cameron and zellerbuch} interets relative to tneir applica-! . tions for hydro - electric develop- | 'mcnt licenses then pending before | the Federal Power Commission. He | then went to Washington to take| charge of the final preparations for the timber sale contracts and confer with Federal Power Com- mission authorities relative to the man Sam Prescott, of Ashland, when the officer stopped him for questioning last Saturday. Adams was captured shortly after Prescott was shot in the back and then three times while lying on the ground. Adams admitted that an auto- mobile which was found abandon- ed had been stolen. granting of the two licenses. 1 The permits were granted at the last possible minute by the Com- mission. At 5 p. m. on the day before the old Commission organi- zation ceased to function the Sec-| retaries of Agriculture and Inter-| for, composing a maojrity of the old board, signed the licenses which gave the Cameron people and the timber, when his companion, Earl Remington, aged 19 years, of We- (natchee, Washington, told the offi- cers which way he ran. This cleared the way for final; Remington said Adams gave him |negotiations on the timber sale a lift on the highway on Friday. |agreements. A suit filed by J. T., Officers said Remington had |Jones, of Tacoma, to enjoin thc‘ nothing to do with the shooting or | Power Commission from granting Adams was captured in the heavy{ZcIlerbach group authority to pro- ——— ceed with their power development it - J UYNEMPLU Suit Delays Action | Associated Press Photo The unseating of Senator James J. Davis (right), republican, Penn- sylvanla, on the grounds that his ticket in the last primary and general elections spent approximately $1,200,000 will be demanded by Chairman Gerald P. Nye of the campaign funds investigating committee, YED MAY ABANDON FURTHER HUNT epabhicen Dedder] ormer i ! Appears in Nebraska | | Campaign Case i LINCOLN, Nebraska, Jan. 26— r Symcur, former Republican {leader, indicted for perjury in con# nection with testimony before the Nye Committee, has furnished $1,- 009 bond. invasion of the liberties of the people. He was elected Governor of New Jersey in a campaign conducted on the issue of personal liberty, and in his inaugural address at- tracted national attention by his bold denuggiation of Prohibition and the Volstead law. He urged the Attorney Gencral of the State to institute proceedings totest the Seymour 1s accused of parjury in‘cunslltununamy of the amendment onnection with the candid f i n:f et George Nerrls, Broken Bow grocer,| gy Unbrecedented Plurality inst Senator George W. Norris, 96 Seach: Inter when Mr. B in -the. Novesibak tals wards made the race for the Unit- eyt faa fied he ed States Senate against Senator ,na'unr it '1‘U“ 3 " the N Joseph 8. Frelinghuysen, he again ']\':_ijkfl "i;l‘n“pm’;““;nd" m‘d I‘l"; injected the personal liberty issue _ into the campaign and was el- kr \:;]udgelof the gr‘oc:'r’lx Fl]mfl ,"rf"ected by the unprecedented plur- e story appeared in news-| gty in New Jersey of 89,000 Dapers. A | votes. C.)uwr' !esumuny rrwalr.;l that Throughout his service in the ?;3];"“:2;‘132:: :L“ qfi‘;‘”“‘:‘""l’ufim?’;‘upper House of Congress, Senator cl(tux;mi/nfl Senator i\Iorr‘s suLtcns-fEdwards 54 I-OSt 8L ODpOrRIE g Sk i > o8 |to express his views opposing Pro= sor and that a statement ed bY ! hibition and he frequently made grocer Norris at the time o fllod,[them the subject of addresses ab was typed In the office public and private functions other not tak- | S SR SO | than of a political nature. i | By his consistent stand against Farm Help Aucticned | Prohibition, he came to be known 1p | 85 “one of the wettest of the wets.” At Frencb Town Fa“'i'l‘hls was the cause of one of the i |amusing and surprising incidents VHA"-[TTIT;%U!TO'JUKI F“‘;‘f"- ;":‘” lof the Democratic National Con= 1e labor fair for which ) yention at Houston in 1928. [this town is famous, where farm| The Houston Democrats named hands parade before employers|as g reception committee for the needing help for the season Of| New Jerseyites made thelr plans ("M}l’.ll rpnn'hs_ xr?m-!)hr.—d» ""flj "“vr"ul(mu lines which they deemed ;’-”5 ‘h” top prices at $128, alllproper for the entertainment of ound | delegates from a putative “wet” General farm laborers brought|giate After the px:hmmnry wel- $120 for the season. Cooks Were|.ome and at what the chairman p:‘e:;:)!ul at $100 and milkmaids| ¢ the reception committee deem- al A i ed an opportune time, he invited General female helpers, claiming | genator L Sehsp il no special knowledge, leased their . i 5 plans 0 XPWUTD{uorvices for the eight months for| . bl B0y, drink the SUAEE the weather' oati=| gng (Continuea on Page Twn) unsettled il Possibilities of New Supply Source Will Be In- vestigated the stolen car. the Zellerbach permit to Swan; Lake, delayed Mr. Heintzleman's departure for the West. It was heard in the Supreme Court for the District of Columbia early in FOR RENAHAN Conference Held in Prince' Rupert — Eckmann and Authorities PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, Jan. 26.—The possibilities of abandon- ment of the search for Pilot Robin Renahan and his ) compan- ions, Sam Clerf and Frank Hatcher, who disappeared on October 28, |British Aviatrix [Drops American Flag, |Mother’s Birthplace WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 28.— Ernest Walker Sawyer laid before ! Secretary of Interior Wilbur a re- port on the possibilities of Alaska reindeer furnishing a meat supply| Secretary Wilbur presented the Europe and Asia alone in a report to a special committee,. Sen- | tiny biplane, dropped an Am- ator John B. Kendrick of Wyom-| erican flag -Sunday over the ing, Representative Scott Leavitt of | birthplace of her mother here Montana and Assistant Attorney! and continued to New York General Sisson to make recommen-| via Columbus. She will ship dations. her plane to London. Sawyer said the area could sup- N AT o SRS port 5,000,000 reindeer with an-| Increased enrollment of women nual production of 33% per cent'in courses of law, medicine, busi* utilized for food. He said the cost| ness and dentistry were shown in of feeding the herd is small. la 1930 coliege survey. NEW WIRES SPREAD TO SPEED WEATHER WHITE HOUSE Two Hundred Men, Many Former Soldiers, Hike from Philadelphia Jan. 26. WANTED IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, Jan. 26.—Chief of De- tectives Charles Tennant said he is convinced that J. C. Adams, captured near Ashland, Oregon, is James Kingsley, who disarmed two !Seattle Policemen and escaped the bullets of a third when surprised in a drug store hold-up here on January 6. Tennant said Adams is one of Kingsley's ailases. According to advices received here from Medford, Adams boasted that the pistol with which he shot and killed Prescott, was taken from a Seattle policeman. {LABORER IS WANTED, —| CUSTODIAN SERVICE The U. 8. Civil Service Commis- sion announces an open competi- tive Classified Laborer examination for filling vacancies in the position (Continued on Page Eight) NEW ALBANY, Indiana, Jan. 21.—Mrs. Victor Bruce, daugh- ter of a British Peer, making a world land flight, who crossed 2 | BEER THIRST HIT: PARIS — WINE ME) ‘ployed demonstration. C 2 ing clothes. Many carried food mledim Ketchikan but ross Province Into Eckmana fl e i B c PREMIER | PHILADELPHIA, Penn U " | —Approximately 200 men started The leaders of the march said|flying north, is shown here as the most of the men were unemployed [result of consultations between Pi- haversacks for the 138 mile trek. [tinued Alaska | Before the group left, impromptu| py o —_— Mrs. Robin Renahan VICTORIA, B. O, Jan, 26—Pre-;°8D flags were waved len up all hopes that |from here last Saturday afternoon su‘G’GEsTs ‘NEw |to march .to the White House in ‘Washlngton‘ D. C, as an unem- World War Veterans. Several ofilot Anscel Eckmann and the F AT the men are dressed in soldier’s|incial Police. Oriental Air Line Should uniforms and others in their work-| Ppilot Eckmann ¢ with | speeches were made and Ameri- > has giy- mier Tolmie is making efforts to A bugle call soundc d o mf';ls alive. Mrs. Rer have the proposed International iNto marching order, ‘”y“l at thelchidren, two girls ¢ Air Mail Route from the United command of John Alferi, carrying| here husband has three nd a baby b e ‘Rcry O'Moore, who was born less a large American flag. the REPORTS TO FLIERS jew i s s30 s WASHINGTON, Jan. 26—A net of 8500 miles of automatic tele- graph typewriter circuits will be Camden and Newark, N. J.;Hagers- town, Md.,, and Washington, D. C. year. Receipt of application is to close February 14, 1931. For further information and blank applications should apply to States via Winnipeg and Western Canada, to Alaska, and eventually to Russia and the Orient, laid out through Northern British Colum- bia. It has been suggested that the line cross the mouth of the Mac- ers started off. The out marck expect: to reach Washington some- time tomorrow. Stragglers dropped march proceeded. as ithan a year ago ¢ - - the |BURKE’S PLANE TO BE START “COMEBACK” | M™ARIS, Jan. 26.—Appalled by flood of water and beer that The year-end holidays in Paris were the dryest since the Armistice, with mineral water bottles littering TAKEN TO VANCOUVER 'cd i ushering in of the New ea: French wine interests have start a campaign in favor of the coun- Was | try's national beverage of | Posters vaunting the cheering E. J.!qualities and robustness of Burg- s, 1s the |yndies, the happy psychological ef byl fects of Champazn:s > v of the gnd delicacy of B 1 on bifthyard Twelve stations will be estab-|the Secretary, Board of U. S. Civil - < lished in Oregon and Washington Service Examiners, Post Office, Ju-|Kenzie River along the rorh M on the Seattle-Portland-Pasco ir-|neau, Alaska, or to the Manager,|fi08€ Of the continent to Alaska. way. A third circuit will connect|1jtn U, 8. Civil Service District, 207| Fremier Tolmie has opened ne- Tos Angeles and Wichita, Kans.|post Office Building, Seattle, Wash- gotiations with Ottawa al?dv wa With nearly 6,000 miles of cir-|while a division will be made in 2! ington !ington government officials. The cuits in operation, aunwnzanonlmid-westem circuit to add stations Age .limic is 18 to 50, except that Premier is making representations has been given by the Aeronautics | from Pittsburgh through Ohio. Ithis is not applicable for men who |10 bave the route from Edmonton Branch of the Department of Com-| Radio telephone stations at King- are entitled to preference on ac- !to British Columbia along the route : merce for an additional 2,524 miles. | man, Ariz.; Winslow, Ariz.; Al-|oount of military service of the Prince George and H. day evening by ‘the Business and gers (rOm.Vu couver, Forty-nine new automatic tele- | buquerque, N. M.; Clovis, N. M, | e £ road or northwest from » Professional Woman's Club of Ju- Princess Norah, which left he graph-writer stations will be es-|and Waynoka, Okla., will be op-| B. P. Lauritzen of Hartington,|George to Telegraph Creek, thence neau. Prizes went to J. E night for Skagway. tablished. erated in conjunction with the au-| Neb., attended his first bridge to Atlin ahd Dawson. From Daw- and Mrs. Pat Lynch, firs they will proceed One circuit will stretch across| tomatic circuit to be installed h-omlpnrt,v when he was 84. He won son the route would touch at Gecrge Bolyan and Mrs. They plan to fly the Pennsylvania from Pittsburgh to| Los Angeles to Wichita. ! first prize. Alaska centers. Green, consolation back to Vancouver. : L ‘ 50 per cent of the tables. BUSINESS AND PROF. WOMAN'S CLUB HAVE SUCCESSFUL PARTY A very successful spread by the Federal Government by July 1 for collecting and dissem- inating weather information for aviators. To recover the plane abandoned in the Liard di British Columbia by the 1 A. Burke and his associa |mission of Pilot R. J. V bridge party|and Mechanic W. A. Joer was given in the Dugo st Sat Canadian Na Medical experts diagnosed this flood of water as due to congestion of the liver. Others ascribed it to congestion of the pocket book, the 7oodly number of tables decorated only with democrftic beer glasses ending authority to this latter an=- cea ¥ | 1= peared | France. ' alysis. Newspapers have published spec-| Many of the Montmarte resorts, ial editions devoted sively tolwhere in previous years one could wines and lquors anc he cam-|not buy a seat at a crowded table ane paign has taken on th of | for $20, closed around,two in the patriotie duty. ymorning for lack of customers. 1spec i