The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 2, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5632. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1931. " MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS RESOLUTION FOR DRY REFERENDUM INTRODUCED COAST GUARD PATROL BOAT WAS IN RIGHT Crew Exonerated in Cap-|Senate Republican Floor| ture of Rum Schooner Josephine K KILLING OF CAPTAIN REGRETTED HOWEVER Under Conditions Tragedy Could Not Have Been Prevented | WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 2.—| The report of the Coast Guard Board on the capture of the rum runner Josephine K exonerated the crew of the patrol boat of any wrong doing and said the rum run- ner was “clearly within 12 miles of the coast of the United States.” The report has been made public by the State Department which has sent a copy of’the report to the Canadian Legation. The board said the charges that Karl Schmidt, commander of the patrol boat 145 was intoxicated at the time were unfounded. The report further said the death of Capt. Willlam Cluett, killed when a shell from the patrol boat smashed the pilot house of the Josephine K “though regrettable was unavoidable under the condi- tions.” BENNETT ENDS VISIT EXTRA SESSION CHALLENGE HAS | BEEN TAKEN UP Leader. Accepts Ulti- matum of Demos \SIX POINT RELIEF | PROGRAM IS ISSUE House Republicans Going| to Stand Pat Present Stand on WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 2.— Senator Watson, Republican floor leader, has accepted the Democrati: challenge for an extra session of the new Congress in a battle ovan relief measures. “It looks like an extra session if the Democrats are going to insist. They- apparently are willing to have it even if the country does not want it. I accept the challenge,”| said Senator Watson. The Senate Democrats continued to stand on the ultimatum of an extra session unless their six point relief program is enacted. The House has rejected the main point, $25,000,000 for the Red Cross for relief of drought sufferers. Republican leaders of the House have sent word to the Senate they will stand pat on their stand. { | IS UNAVOIDABLE ! WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 2.— o s 'AVIATORS WHO DISCVEREL™ .GANGSTER'S DooY./ i An anonymous letter, followed by fast police work, solved the murder of Stephen Sweeney, New York gang leader, whosa | riddled body was found recently fi' aviators on the Long Island . Motor Parkway. At the same ' For Meat in ’ WASHINGTON, D .C., Feb. 2.— Even the “Yellow Soviet Convicts F ight for Dec;l Horses PY’ASmN?;o% s Fd:i 3~ Administration and Democratic Nearly a score of affidavits, sworn LAne MBI B i lone leaders concurred today that a to by eyewitnesses, picturing the END oot SwEmNEy | " B time the police rounded up the ¢4 capture by squad under Captain gang flutl;;u held up more than | Patrick McVei h, Left to right, Captain McVeigh, and captives, 500 stores in Greater New | p5.0id MacFarland, Fred Schoen: York, Here the murder and hardt, Timothy Finn, Harry Mc- banditry gang with their arma- | Cormick and Joshua Murray. ment, including knives, and Captured weapons are piled on brass knuckles, is shown table, Schoenhardt and “Hand- STEPHEN SWEENEY Dog” of Bandit Mob Has His Day some Harry” McCormick are held for murder of Stephen Sweeney. Schoenhardt admits killing the gang leader, because Sweeney called him a ‘“‘yellow dog” and hurt his pride. The olice net also closed in on argaret Mvrray, sister of a ! ANGSTERS [AND| 7 4 MesJULIA MUBRAY MARGARET HURRAY member of the bandit gang, who is held as a witness in Sweeney’s murder. Pretty Julia Murray, wife of John Murray, realized that the thrill of gang life had lost its savor as she was placed under arrest and confessed to participation in 500 hold-ups. Camps; Horrors Graphically Related; Sworn Affidavits Are Obtained, five hundred million board feet in 1929 to 22,000,000 board feet in 1933. death sentences for incompletion of (six billion the allotted daily task. The affidavits also tell of fights MR. GROUNDHOG ENTERS CONGRESSIONAL ACTION ON DRY LAW IS URGED Referendum Is Requested Taken on Eighteenth Amendment 'RESOLUTION GIVEN BY REPRESENTATIVE Bases Conclusions on Re- | port of Enforcement } Commission ‘ WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 2.— Basing his demand on the Wick= ersham Law Enforcement Commis~ sion's report, Representative Fred- erick R. Lehlbach, Republican of New Jersey, has asked Congress- fonal action looking for a referen~ dum on the Eighteenth Amend- | ment. Revresentative Lehlbach urged | the House to take up his resolu- | tion for submitting the question ta ‘the people. He said: { “The commission, by the report filed, is practically unanimous the | Eighteenth Amendment is not ob- served and is not enforced by the , majority.” | Never Can Be Enforced | The Representative said tha amendment never could be forced now. “The tumult has died down and the people turn to Congress to ask what it intends to do about it inasmuch as there is no reason- able doubt that the great majority left for Ottawa without disclosing publicly the purpose of his three- day visit here. He conferred with President Hoover and Secretary of State Stimson. The Premier said he was “looking over the legation” here. ‘When the Premier left Ottawa it was reported he was coming here to confer regarding the shelling of the Canadian rum schooner Josephine K off the New York coast by a Coast Guard cutter. No intimation has been given whether . this was discussed. { | | CHILDREN CHEER AS FLAG GOES UP special session of Congress lies un- conditions within Soviet Prison avoidably ahead unless someone is camps devoted to producing and willing to compromise. ;exwtmg lumber, have been Tre- Chieftains of both camps today corded in the State Department stcod inflexibly on the battle lines. |gathered by Carl Bahr, Special In- | - eee | vestigator for the National Lum- 4 ber Manufacturing Assosiation. | { l ‘The affidavits swore to horrors iranging from’death of 1900 in a ’singln prison camp from typhus to UNDER ATTACK %liofusf'E‘ RULE OF UNDERHLL " 1 gy REAL DEBATE [ i Thousands of Dollars Spent| —Got Nowhere—Ac- | complished Nothing gf,?genf mih;e;xjaners e M The British Government has also Investigator Bahr said a flood of [published documents dealing with Russian lumber will soon hit Amer- |Soviet labor legislation, confirm-| ica unless provisions of the tariff ing assertions that much of the are enforced. He said Russian - |grain and timber sent abroad is| vict ‘lumber has already - | produced ‘under forced labor, and ed the European market production plans. He said plans of the So- viet called for an increase from BUTLER AWAITS COURT MARTIAL, TIME AND PLACE | showing that others besides prison- lers are compulsorily employed, un- der horrible conditions. ERRORS CITED BY VANDERBILT INITALY CASE | | | i | | | | | WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 2— e 2 3 virate and Oneumvirate | {Control in Hands of Trium- Specific Charges Are Being| $ys He Did—Meet Musso- lini—Writes to U. S. ,convinced that spring is still six wecks distant and he will promptly 'of the people share in the con= clusions of the commission. The plain duty of Congress is to act and the party that refuses to face the facts and meet the issue with firmness and courage and wisdom will be overwhelmingly repudiated at the next election,” said Lehl- bach. Representative Lehlbach said if his resolution was passed now the people will have a chance during the spring and summer to choose delegates for a convention the fol= lowing spring. PREVENTS SALOONS' RETURN CHICAGO, 111, Feb. 2—Frank J. Loesch, Vice-President of the Chi- cago Crime Commission, and a ! Ol Man Ground Hog does his traditional annual appearance today member of the Wickersham Law to perform his task of forecasting the ensuing six weeks' weather. If the ground hog sees his shadow, fhen, says the old rule, he is Enforcement Commission, said the commission sought primarily to prevent the return of the saloon. “The closing of the saloon was Prepared by Ad- An attack on the expenditures of ] miral Sellers the Nye investigators has been made in the House by Chairman Underhill of the Accounts Commit- WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 2— tee. Although he did not men-!who shall rule the House in the tion Nye, Underhill called attention|next Congress and how hard the OVER CAPITO Governor and Custodian Participate in Cere- | scurry back into his underground home to stay there in comfort until one big accomplishm | ent an ,spring arrives. But if the sun stays veiled by clouds, the ground hog is why the com?nluion recom‘:n:::f PHOENTX, Arizona, Feb, 2—Cor- :né)lmcla{lly gxeclar;s v,:at 'sprmfi has sprung” and prepares accommo- edlda ’:Deevmun but opposed repeal,” inellus Vanderbilt, Jr., In a briet 9atlons for himself above ground. g o | statement, indicated the Italian| or and industry appeared —Take Your Pick State Department BULLETIN—Washington, D. C., Feb. 2—Late this afternoon the Philadelphia Navy Yard mony Upon Roof Shrill cheers from some 400 boys and girls in Juneau’s grade school greeted a brand new American flag when it was raised at 9 o'clock this morning to the top of the staff on the roof of the Capitol by Gov. George A. Parks. The event sig- nified the formal occupancy of tha new $800,000 Federal and Terri- torial Building. The ceremony on the roof was brief and simple. There were no addresses. John C. McBride, cus- todian of federal structures in the ‘Territory, handed the flag to the Governor, who forthwith hoisted it. Present besides. the Governor and fot the Committee to the expendi- tures as reported in the Congres- sional Record, saying Fifteen Hun- dred Thousand dollars had been expended last year in the Nye and other Senate investigations and further declared “the investigations had got nowhere, accomplished nothing and had returned nothing to the taxpayers.” Representative Underhill said the Nye Committee spent $100,000 in- vestigating Mrs. McCormack of Il- linois, defeated for the Senate by James Hamilton Lewis. He said the Republican hands are upon the |crats has been debated in the House. | Chairman Snell of the House | Rules Committee, described control of the Democrats as “Czar like.” Chairman Snell defended Repub- lican methods of control and pre- dicted control would continue in the next Congress. Representative Charles R. Crisp, of Georgia, who recently demand- ed liberalization in legislative pro- | cedure, charged Speaker Longworth, reins compared with the Demo- | was selected as the place for the courtmartial of Gen. Smed- ley D. Butler. The trial starts met Vanderbilt.” Monday, February 16. Vanderbilt declined to make di- | rect comment other than to recall WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 2—|two cables from Rome in 1926, re-' | The time and place for the court!ferferring to the meeting, and said: | martial of Gen, Smedley D. Butler | “The cables are true. Anyone has PILOT ECKMANN and the specific charges are await- only to look at the newspaper files ed by the General and his coun- in 1926 and see my interview wlth: | sel. Mussolini, which was copyrighted, | ; ) stating Premier Mossolini “never | ! OF HOLD-UP MAN, | | vocate of the General Navy Board tion by Mussolini, also copyright- | |is preparing the charges. He has ed.” | | Gen. Butler's letter to Secretary| Previously, through his attorney, Forelgn Office was in error In|NJNE.YEAR-OLD GIRL SLAPS FACE HE LOSES NERVE; STEALS AUTOMOBILE, DRIVES AWAY SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. .~Ignoring his gun, Bernice Sapper, aged 9 years, slapped a hold-up man’s face which so confused him that he was un- able to finish the job of rob- bing the girl’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sapper. The girl slapped the robber. Mrs. Sapper removed a dia- unanimously against the open sa= loon,” continued Loesch. Loesch said the report will be an issue in the 1932 election. He denied anyone attempted to influ- ence the report. He said he fav- ored a plan for the appointment of a nonpartisan commission to supervise private liquor handling by a corporation. BAD WEATHER Committee was like Amos '’ Andy | nrgjority Leader Tilson and Chalr- of Navy Adams telling of the ac- Vanderbilt said he had advised the| | Admiral David Sellers, Judge Ad- and a story from Rome of recep-| | FORGED TO LAND DELAYS DO-X mond ring from her finger. | cusations against Premier Musso- lini made in a recent speech. —talked in millions, but did noth-|nan gnell with constituting a g | triumvirate that dominates the YA T State Department concerning the statements of the story he told of The robber threatened to shoct Bernice but instead got 'Had Dismantled Radio Out-| the Custedian, were Miss Miriam McBride, daughter of the cus- todian; M. 8. Whittier and Hazen Fuller, assistant custodians; John Newmarker, United States Inspector of Boilers, and E. M. Goddard, act- ing executive officer, Alaska Game STEALS PLANE T0 COME NORTH Commission. Where Ground Was Broken The scene upon the roof was al- most directly over the spot where the custodian September 18, 1929, handed to the Governor a spade with which to break ground for erection of the building. Pupils in the grade school march- ed from their classrooms, immedi- ately after having entered them, and gathered on the grounds in frent of the school and on Sixth Street. Students of school witnessed the ceremony from their study hall windows. The custodian this morning an- nounced the following appoint- ments to the staff of the build- ing: C. F. Keiller, promoted from lab- orer to engineman helper; P. J. Horan, named fireman laborer; Bert Bertholl, O. A. Goff and L. O. Peters, firemen watchmen; Har- ry Crane, foreman of laborers; George D, Benson, elevator con- ductor laborer; K. H. Lassiter and —_— e ——— (Continued on Page Six) the high| | HARLOWTON, Montana, Feb: 2. |—Jailed here in an attempt to steal an airplane, George Blend, of Great Falls, and Don Williams of Brady, told the authorities they wanted to go to Alaska where jobs awaited them. The plane crashed in the takeoff. [Trees to Be “Adopted” By British Princesses LONDON, TFeb. 2—Early next |spring two flowering cherry trees .which have been growing at a roadside for two years will be dedi- -'c‘t.ed to Princess Elizabeth and ‘Margaret. The trees will be “adopted” by a tablet inscribed with their names. The ceremony may be Princess Elizabeth’s first public function. The trees have been planted by House legislative action. | Chairman Snell sald Minority | Leader Garner ruled the Democrats and said: “Instead of a triumvirate {on your side, you have a oneum- | virate and the best part of it is {he makes you like it. There is not a single one of you who dares to raise your voice above a whisper in opposition to his czar-like rule.” Steaks and Chops, |Not Stew and Beans Demand of Unemployed SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. malcontents battled with the police last night while attempt- ing to seize a “kitchen” char- ity restaurant. Five men were arrested. The “kitchen” offers unem- the little -princesses .and will benrl The average Newfoundlander eats! It is generally believed the i charges will be “conduct prejudicial | to good order and discipline of the | service.” Philadelphia and Washington or | Quantico, Virginia, are prospective ;sites for the trial with Philadel- phia favored. iMussolini’s automobile striking al child, which General Smedley D. Butler repeated. The attorney said: “General But- /ler is being courtmartialed for mak- |ing a statement against a Premier of a friendly nation while an of- ficer in the Marines and it is oA wholly immaterial where the Gen- — o |€ral got the information.” TODAY’S STOCK | QUOTATIONS | PHOENIX, Arizona, Feb. 2—Cor- ® nelius Vanderbilt, jr., may have a good many things to say concern- NEW YORK, Feb. 2—Closingiing the difficulties between Gen. quotation of Alaska Juneau m“‘e!Butler and Premier Mussolini if stock today is 8%, American Can cyoumstances “change sufficlent- 110%, Anaconda Copper 32%, Beth- 1y » He sald the Italian Forelgn lehem Steel 514, General MolOrs|ogrice 15 now backing down on the 38%, Granby Consolidated 16, In-|gtarement Mussolini never heard ternational Harvester 51%, Kenne-|,¢ yanderbilt. cottw Corporation 23%, National |Acme, no sale; Packard Motors 9%, Simmons Beds 16%, Standard Brands 18, Standard Oil of Cali- fornia 47%, Standard Oil of New Jersey 47%, U. 8. Steel 140%, Cur- tiss-Wright 4%, Hudson Bay 4%, Pacific Gas and Electric 46%,| {Pennsylvania Railroad 61, General; Electric 44%, Westinghouse Elec- trical and Mechanical 85%. Ten Thousand Dollars Sum Proposed for New Court House, Ketchikan WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 2— Allocation of $10,000 for a new court house in Ketchikan, Alaska, | Secretary of Treasury Mellon. — e —— ‘The bureat of standards has fit So Could Not Make Any Report VICTORIA, B. C., Feh. 2.—Anscel Eckmann, for whom fears were felt as he had not been heard from since leaving Ketchikan last Thurs- day, has arrived here. He made a forced landing in the fog at an island in Johnson Strait, then hop- ped to Campbell River and refuel- led. He could send no work of his whereabouts as he left his wireless outfit at Prince Rupert. Pilot Eckmann has abandoned his long search for Pilot Robin Rena- han and his two companions, Sam Clerf and Frank Hatcher, who dis- appeared on October 28 flying north to join in the search for the late Capt. E. J. A. Burke and his two companions. — e Youths Killed When Plane Crashes in View of Thousands 2 LETHBRIDGE, Alberta, Feb. —Isan Thompson, aged 19, a pilot ger, were killed here Sunday whea Thompson attempted to bank !plane and it went into a tailspin FROM FLYING LAS F.iIidAS, Canary Isiang, Feb. 2—The Do-X has delayed the take-off for Cape Verde Islands until tomorrow because of contin- ued bad weather and rough seas. into the Sapper’s auto and drove away. The car was found several | blocks away. The diamond ring was found in the battery box where it dropped after Mrs. Sapper placed it behind a cushion in the car. —ee——— The total area of national parks and monuments increased from 15,- 486 to 16,156 square miles in 1930. AU TR London has 35,000 Russlans and 31,000 Poles, but only 9,000 Ameri- cans. | The giant seaplane left here this morning for Gando Bay, twelve miles south, where a take-off is easier. The ship has been refuelled with more than 4,000 gallons. P M Bl e Electric trolley cars have been abandoned for motor busses in Huntsville, Selma, Gasden, Ala- bama City and Attalla, Ala. HARRISBURGH, Penn., Feb. 2.— Six city firemen have been ar- rested and charged with setting was reported to Congress today by and Donald O'Kenzie, 18, a passen- | thirteen fires causing damages esti- mated at least $1,000,000. Police Chief Shoemaker said the firemen confessed they set the the Roads Beautifying association,|112 pounds of fish yearly, seven been asked to test a radium con- ,of which the Duchess of York is a/times as much as the average Am-'u(nment worth $325,000, one of the ' patroness. erica.. 'largest single orders on record. a Eritain imports 16,700,000 bushels (of apples yearly, mostly from the 4United States and Canada. lin full view of 3,000 persons watch- | fires solely for the thrill of helping ‘lng a baseball game. Ito extinguish them. Firemen Wanted to Fight Fires, So Started Them; Six Men Are Under Arrest The men said they traveled about town in an automobile, and when a favorable opportunity came start- ed a fire, then drove back to the fire station and awaited the alarm. They would jump aboard the fire truck, go to the scene of the fire and fight the flames.