The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 30, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIL., NO. 5630. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1931. BUTLER SEEKS OLD FRIEND TO MAKE DEFENSE Maior Leonard, Buddy in' Boxer Rebellion, Will Aid General OFFICIAL BOARD IS HARD Ol_WE_ TO SELECT| Court Martial Proceedings Are Delayed—Musso- lini Is Pleased ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 30— Major General Smedley D. Butler| has asked Major- Henry Leonard, retired, an old friend in the Boxer| Rebellion, to act as his counsel at the court martial ordered as the | Tesult/of his recent utterances con- cerning an alleged statement made, by Premier Mussolini. | Since retiring from the Marine' Corps in 1911, Major Leonard has practiced law in Washington, D. C.| At one time he was Assistant Judge Advocate General of the Navy. | Major Leonard saved Gen. But-| ler from probable death near Tient- | sin while his own arm was badly shattered by gun fire. | Hard to Get Board | The Navy Department is hav-' ing difficulties in getting officers outranking Butler to sit on the, Board and probably will recall re-| tired officers, Only Major General| Fuller, of the Marines, outranks, ONDON, Eng., Jan. 30.—“Dame| Heir to British $hrone Plans Trip to S. America Which May Provide Another |BE SOLVED BY Chapter for His ‘Book of Brides’ Wales’ S.ec;‘eg Record of Choic:es.M.ade by Dame Rur.no.r (;f Future Queen of the Empire Would Reveal a Remarkable Versatility of Invention, a Series of Tragedies and Disapproval of the Prophets. U PRince of Vares Gen. Butler in active service. |Rumor,” silent for so 1o ! mg anent Gen. Butler continued to refuse the matrimonial affairs of H.R.H to talk or see anyone 8t QuUantico, The Prince of Wales, is about due Virginia, where he is nuder self-it, limber up her artill % arrest pending the court martial 5 Ve . pep | daughter of the German Emperor.” If there was any truth in the sug- gestion the Great War wrote finis to¢ Eddie’s first romance. country as next Queen of England Another selection was Princess |Helen of Greece, who afterwards |became Queen of Roumania (an MYSTERIES MAY From As proceedings, Gen. Butler is highly thought of in Japan. He received many honors from the Japanese people, including the “Umbrella of & Thousand Prayers.” Gen. Butler is the only American general to have received two Con- gressional medals. Two More Witnesses P. M. McGinnis Nielson, of Pitts- burgh, Pennsylvania, and C. White, of Portland, Oregon, said they heard Cornelius Vanderbilt, jr., tell the same story as related by Gen. Butler, of Mussolinl striking a child with his automobile and then not stopping, but credited with say- ing: “What's the life of one child in the affairs of state?” Cornelius Vanderbilt is quoted as saying: “I am sorry, but I have nothing to say at this time.” DUCE FEELS BETTER ROME, Italy, Jan. 30.—Premier Mussolini’s feelings seemingly havel been assuaged by the official apol-| ogy from the United States over Gen. Butler’s statement. The Duce is represented as con- sidering the views of Gen. But- ler as those of only one American and not the entire country. BODY OF PILOT CASE FOUND IN PLANEWRECKAGE Mail Carried on Fatal Trip Intact—Seven Days’ Search Ends PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 30.—The mangled body of Walter E. Case, Varney Air Lines Pilot, has been removed from the wreckage of his plane on Bluff Mountain, sixteen miles north of Washougal, Wash- ington. The mail was found intact. The wrecked plane was sighted “aratlon for another barrage of con {jecture; for Prince Eddle is goifig ,on another trip—to South Ameri- ca this time—and the trip will not | be a success if “Dame Rumor” fails ,to provide the love interest. Book of Brides The Prince is not, as one would expect, annoyed at the attentions of “Dame Rumor.” On the con- jtrary, every scrap of gossip she (has promulgated concerning him |land “his brides-to-be” has been |saved and carefully filed for in- |clusion in the most interesting vol- ume of the royal library. HR.H. calls it his “Book of Brides.” There can surely be no other book quite like it in existence. For it contains all the newspaper and other publication references from |all parts of the world to his mar- riage prospects, and especially the choices made by “Dame Rumor” of his Queen-to-be. The “stories” number many hun- {dreds and cover a period of many years—ever since the Prince be- icame of marriageable age, in fact. Series of Betrothals The earliest entry records how the heir to the British hrone “i§ shortly to be publicly affianced to |Princess Victoria Louise, only 'wo other early rumors affected d Duchess ©lga, eldest daughter of the late Czar, and the Grand Duchess Titania. It is now generally accepted that both were murdered with the rest of the Rus- slan royal family by revolutionists at Ekaterinburg. There follow “betrothals” to the Princess Yolanda of Italy, who is .now married to the Crown Prince of Belgium and will one day be Queen of the Belgians instead of Queen of England. Then came rumors of another Anglo-Italian romance. This time Princess Giovanni was whispered as the future Mrs. Wales. The Prin- cess is now the Queen of Bulgaria —having recently married King Boris. There are many stories that have appeared from time to time of his “forthcoming engagement to a Princess of the Near East.” Not once but many times has it been published that a match was im- minent between the Prince and Princess Ileana of Roumania. Other Roumaniap Princesses men- tioned are Marie/and Elizabeth. ‘unhappy Queen) by her marriage |to Crown Prince Carol. kD American Entrants There are scores of chapters on the Prince's Book of Brides, some reaching the sublime heights of romantic imagination, others delv- ing into the uttermost depths of absurdity. The most absurd are exported from the United States, |where the gossips periodically af- |tiance HR.H. to the daughter of one of our industrial “Kings.” Free to Wed | It is now generally accepted in England that the Prince may mar- ry whom he pleases whether she be of royal blood or a commoner— with one stringent constitutional reservation. No King of England or heir to the throne may marry a Roman Catholic. Were he to do so, it would involve forfeiture of the right, of succession unless such a union were made valid by special act of Parliament. We will leave “Dame Rumor” to the task of oiling her tongue mus~; |cles for her mnext campaign in |which she will doubtless provide “Dame Rumor” next travels to|another entry in the Book of Denmark, where she selected the Brides—this time, mayhap, a bright' charming Princess Margaret of that {daughter of the pampas. ! FLU SPREADS; MANY DEATH Epidemic Increasing in In- tensity and Violence in Europe i i | LONDON, Jan. 30— From the| |Balkans to the British Isles an; |epidemic of influenza is increasing | |in intensity and violence with thou- | sands of new cases appearing daily ' (and the death rate mounting rgptd- ly. | Spain so far appears to be the (hardest hit. There were 260 deaths during the week ending anuary" 24. | | One English town reports 240 !deaths in -one week. | lC W ARREST OF TWO § Petersburg Arrests May| Uncover Murder Trail, Says Marshal White The arrest of two men at Peters- burg Thursday by Deputy United | States Marshal W. H. Caswell, on | charges of violating the National Prohibition Act, may uncover a murder trial which will clear away | ‘he mystery that surrounds the dis- ippearance of two men and their ossible death, and the death of a | third man, it was said today by United States Marshal Albert White. The arrested men are Clarence “angton and Charles Anderson. They were arraigned yesterday be- fore United States Commissioner Clausen at Petersburg and bound over to the Federal Grand Jury on an N. P. A. charge under a bond of 510,000 each. Believe Solution Near Deputy Caswell has been in Pe- tersburg for several days -making i investigation of the mysterious iisappearance of Albert Farrow and L. C. Davis. In reporting to Mar- thal White, loll«iwing the arrests| and binding over' ) the two men, he said: “I am confident we have Lincoln Ellsworth, the Arctic explorer, presenting President Hoover with the American flag he carried over the North Pole . MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRE PREMIER BENNETT OFF TO WASHINGTON; RUM CASE sS " PRICE TEN CENT§ astes to fl#pit‘;] UE IS fiILED *IN LATEST RUM * RUNNING CASE |Canadian Liquor Boat Not Faster than Coast Guard Cutter SHELLING OF CRAFT DEEMED UNNECESSARY Race Demonstrates Rela- ! tive Speed—Report Being Written OTTAWA, Jan. 30.—Premier R. B. Bennett has left for ingten, D. C., for discus- t 5 of great importance to the Unitcd States and Canada. The Premier is expected to talk with Precident Hoover about the fatal shooting of Capt. William Cluett and the seizure of the rum schooner Josephine K. NEW YORK, Jan. 30.—The Jose- phine K. rum runner, and Coast Guard Cutter 145 peacefully re- peated last Saturday’s race when Capt. William Cluett was killed by a shell that crashed through the pilot house of the liquor-laden p ‘“Norge. In re- turn President Hoover presented him with a medal com moca= tive of the great flying feat. in the af cleared up the disappearance of several parties in the First Division this year.” Langton and Ander- on, it was said, were equipping a ‘secreted” still house and had ma- terial to start operations when they were arrested. It was reported they had told conflicting stories to offi- sers which led to the belief they had done away with both Far- row and Davis. Federal officers, including a spe- cial agent of the Bureau of Investi- gatron, Have oeen working on this and other cases of similar nature for several weeks. Evidence was at hand sometime ago, said Marshal White, that Farrow and Davis left Petersburg on November 12, for Langton and Anderson’s camp in West Coast of Prince of Wales| (Continuea on fage Twn) R SR MILLIONS | PEEVED OVER MOSES’ WORK | penses Are Printed— Subject for Gossip TODAY'S STOCK QUOTATIONS —— | ' R ® | WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 30.— 30_0105in2553nntor Gerald P. Nye, Chairman NEW YORK, Jan quotation of Alaska Juneau mine|©f the Campaign Funds Commit- stock today is 8%, American Can|tee, assailed in the Senate Senator 111%, Anaconda Copper 30%, Beth- | George H. Moses for placing in the lehem Steel 51%, General Mowrs;Congressional Record the itemized 38%, Granby Consolidated 16%, In_"stabement showing the Nye Com- ternational Harvester 521, Kenne- Mittee spent $97,000. cott, Corporation 24%, Nationall Senator Nye said: Acme 87, Packard Motors 9%, I can see the pages of the Con- Simmons Beds 16%, Standard!8ressional Record in the hands of Brands 18%, Standard Ol of Cali-'€Very one of my political foes in fornia 47%, Standard Oil of New North Dakota® when I seek re- Jersey 47%, U. S. Steel 140%,|election next year, and the tongues Curtiss-Wright 4%, Hudson Bay,Wagging, how lavishly Nye lives 4%, General Electric 44%, Pacific|8% Government expen: I can Gas and Electric 46% pmmsy]_‘xalso hear it whispered around the vania Railroad 62%, Westinghouse | Chamber that a scandal is coming Electric and Mechanical 86. {Involving the funds of the Com- x e ol mittee .and one member has been Alaska V olcanoes To Become Active Says Hubbard SEWARD, Alaska, Jan. 30.— Major activity will occur this year among the Alaska Penin- sula volcances. This is the pre- diction ¢f Father Bernard R. Hubbard, professor at Santa Clara university who has left for the interior of Alaska. He bases his prediction on a study of quakes during the past year. E— PIERRE LAVAL * FORMS CABINET 'Youngest of French Pre- | miers Asks Factions to Get Together | i E PARIS, Jan. 30—Plerre Laval, !one of the youngest of French Pre- miers, took his Cabinet hefore the | Chamber of Deputies this after- noon with a plea that warring | political blocs bury the hatchet and give the Government a chance to carry out policies of peace and reconstruction. { STUDENTS WILL DANCE TONIGHT =225 = The Student Dody of the Juneau fOr better ' understanding among Bill Passes 370 HANG FOR late Wednesday afternoon by Case’s| fellow pilot, Al Davis, atter a Children Forbidden seven-day search. Pilot Case disappeared flying the For Bank Employees; / { BUDAPEST, Jan. 30.—Az Est,} mail from Portland to Pasco, Wash- ington. He probably Became lost in the heavy fog which was prevail- |Budapest paper, says a decree has; ing at the time. ibeen issued by which- employees The body must be raised over of Hungarian banks are ordered to a 200-foot cliff and packed out by have no more than four children men using snow shoes. ,and threatening instant dismissal —————— |to any member of a bank staff who | ALMOST EVERY WEEK |secretly marries. The paper says —_— Icertain banks have threatened fe- COMRIE, Scotland—This little male employes with immediate dis- village in Perthshire Jeads a shaky missal upon the birth of a child. life. In seven years it has had more e — than 300 earthquakes, all caused by| Steps are being taken to connect the great fault near the highland Mexico ‘with the northern part of border, rLower California, | | High School will give a dance to- nations without losing sight of na- night in the gym immediately fol- t0nal security.” lowing the two basketball games between the boys' and girls' teams “Home Brew" w" Waged in Australia; of Juneau and Douglas. The dance | will start abotit 10 o'clock and the | public is invited. This is one of the occasions when the young and the adult can get together in a| CANBERRZL, Jan 30.—Australia regular ’'rah ‘'rah collegiate affair, has a home brew war on its hands.; llncrensed taxes on liquor have! |raised the price and home brewers| Mnryland Legislature have grown enormously in num—i ibers along with many illicit dis- Votes f g Repe al 0/ tilleries. The minister of customs,| Eighteenth Amend. issuing a warning declared that| 1 his officers would track down every BALTIMORE, Maryland, Jan. 30. home brewer. —The State Legislature has passed “It's immaterial whether its a resolution for repeal of the Eigh- brewed for home use or sale,” he! teenth Amendment, 158id, ] {Seart Day in 50 Years 2 {warned he had better get off.” Old Age Pension | Senator Nye protestéd it was junfair to have the acount published | before checking. | Senator Moses aid the move was {made without any regard to the HARRY BUSBY PASSES AWAY IN FAIRBANKS ‘Pioneer Interior Rancher Dies Following Ex- tended Illness Wash. Senate OLYMPIA, Wash.,, Jan. 30.— The Senate has passed the Old Age Pension bill and it is as- sured passage by the House. In case Gov. Hartley should veto the meafure, sufficient strength is indicated to pass the bill over his veto. MURDER OF ONE CANON CIT?Y, Colorado, Jan. 30, —Claude Ray, aged 24; Andrew | Ml S Halliday, aged 22 years, and John' PATRBANKS, Alaska, Gulker, aged 45, will be hanged Harry Busby, pioneer in the State Penitentiary here to- rancher, aged 67 years night for the murder of Deputy here after an extended iliness. He Jan. 30— interior is dead ¥l Sheriff Coral Hickman, last March.'joqyes g widow, four sons and two | They killed the deputy while trying daughters. Four of h | fo escape after robbing a bank in yn ajagka now Manter, Kansas. | Busby stampeded to Nome in 11900 from QOregon and the following year moved to Skagway, then came |to Fairbanks in 1904 and has been here since then with the exception of a few years in the states to bene- fit his wife'’s health. He was born SEATTLE, Jan. 30.—Yester- in New dJersey. day's temperature reached 67 | il s K A degrees; the highest in 50 years . WONGS LEAD IN HONOLULU for a day in January, and | HONOLULU—The Wongs and breaking all records kept by the the Silvas lead the Joneses, Smith Weather Bureau, in service for and Browns in Honolulu's 40 years. In 1880 the tempera- |directory. The name of Wonz a ture was a few degrees higher pears 497 times, and the Silvas than yesterday, come next with 245, le Has Warmest January WAVE LENGTHS OF | TO BE FREE 300N SENATOR NYE {Campaign Committee's Ex-| is children live| craft, fired by the U. 8. Cutter. The race was to determine wheth- er the Coast Guard cutter might have captured the liquor ship with- out resorting to the shelling. The cutter walked away with the race, three miles off Ambrose light. Gerald Campbell, British Consul in New York, attending the in- vestigation at the request of the WASHINGTON, D, C., Jan. 30.— Canadian Government, raised the |Wave lengths valied in the ag- question if the gun play was ne- |gregate at millions of dollars, will cessary. Evidence was submitted shortly be freed for commercial the first day. of the inguiry, Wy use as the result of an exhaustive a member of the cutter, that the | investigation of Army and Navy reason the shots were firad was radio activities now virtually com- because the Canadian rum runner | pleted by a special commission ap- was a much faster craft. The race pointed at the direction of Presi- did not prove it. dent Hoover. The speed of the 145 was a trifle This commission, which was ap- over 11 knots an hour and the pointed by the President to elimi- Josephine K made slightly over nate duplication of radio services 9 knots an hour. Testimony at by the Army and Navy and work the inquiry gave the speed of the out plans for better coordination Fum craft as 14 knots an hour. between the two national defense The Board of Inquiry began writ- services, already has recommended iNg the report to the Guarchqm- [that eleven of the wave lengths mandant at Washington, D. C., im- used by the Army and Navy in mediately after the race. communicating with Alaskan points S R should be released for private use. | Another possibility, it was iearned : today, is that the Army's radio net which has grown at a tre- mendous rate during the last few Prepared to Go Into Extra Session — House Is Stumbling Block years, may be sharply curtailed in the United States proper and the WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 30.— Senate Democrats have decided to business it now transacts for the various government de partments permitted to go to commercial com- panies. GIN MARRIAGES go to any limits necessary to obtain . their relief program. Senator Rob- _inson, minority leader, supported . 30—T0 yhe plan for a finished fight with and other progident Hoover and the Red Cross , @ three-day mar- or nis §25000,000 relief appropria- has been introduced ion He js also determined fo ure by Representative jngist upon an appropriation of of Lewis County. twenty million bushels of Farm . | According 1o the provisions of the Board wheat, a $3,000,000 fund for Ibill, all wedding licenses Wwill be medical supplies and $5,000,000 for post-dated so that a marriage could organization of a relief corpora= Inot be performed until three days tion, tafter the license is taken out. All of the relief appropriations “Too many couples are geiting have been approved by the Senate married on the spur of the mo- but the House has not acted upon ment as a result of drinking par- them ties,” Cory said. “The thre iay ban The Democrats have made it | would give ance to sober clear they are willing to force an fup and m marriages extra session to get the program twuul(l be prevented.” through Congress. DIVORCE SUIT FOR EVERY 2 MARRIAGES | LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30. ‘every two marriages, a divorce | Collected in marriage license |fees, $214,788! IN VALUE | ——.ee BILL WILL BAN | OLYMPIA, Wast prevent “gin marriages hasty wedding riage ban b in the legisl Arthur 8, Cor | | Tor [ 54,358 divorce suits filed. The two- t! | marriages to one divorce ratio has been maintained stadily through- out the years. Collected in California ranks sixth in the na- 1$380,486! |tion for the proportionate number Such is the record of Los An-|of divorces filed, statistics showing geles County in the last six ye {that 7.2 divorces per 1,000 popula= |brought forward in connection with |tion are asked. the action of the board of super- Twenty-nine per cent of the di- lvisors to raise divorce filing fees vorces filed in 1930 involved chils from $7 to $15 to meet the cost of dren, it was pointed out by Super- providing for children made coun- visor Shaw, on whose motion the ty wards through the divorce or‘supervxsors instructed County Coun- their parents. sel Mattoon to prepare a bill to In thé*last six years 107,394 mar- |submit to the legislature to in- ‘riage licens 3 Aiverce filin divorce filing fees, s have b S foss,