The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 7, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5637. FEDERAL JUDGE URGES REFERENDUM ON PROHIBITION “AEL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1931. SPECIAL SESSION MAY BE AVOIDED BY COMPROMISE Additional Loan Proposed| for Agricultural Rehabilitation BELIEVED FOOD LOANS)| CAN NOW BE GRANTED Appropriali;;l—Bills Expect- ed to Be Passed Dur- ing Next Week WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. '1.4-! Prospects of avoiding a special session of Congress looked better today than for weeks, An agreement has been reached, it is said, which provides for an additional $25,000,000 drought loan for agricultural rehabilitation. Senator Joseph T. Robinson, of| Arkansas, said he believed food loans will be made. The final decision rests in the hands of Secretary of Agriculture Hyde. Representative John Q. Tilson, of Connecticut, said he believed the extra drought loan will get away from the thought of a dole or be= ing made as charity, as by loans, every dollar will be secured. Several appropriation bills which have been held up are anticipated for passage next week. ! Representative LaGuardia of New York said the compromise is “econ- omically impossible, politically dis- astrous, morally insincere and prac- tically ineffective.” He is fight- ing to have relief cover everyone. 2 DYNAMITERS FOUND GUILTY — S . b Hengy Forp il 2 and FIRST CAR Maoe IN His FacTory ix Hours’ Sleep a Day Held " MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRE: sS Sufficient| American University Specialists Assert If Sleep Can Be Rs- duced from Eight to Six Hours It Will Be Beneficial to the Sleeper — Survey Among Prominent Peonle Shows Big Variation. THOMAS A. Eprson NEW YORK, Feb. 7. Times have changed since “Poor Richard” wrote: “Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” Statisticians, who have no other| aim in life other than the enumer-| ationr of this-and-that, have esti- mated that we spend more than one-third of our lives in sleep— which declaration has stirred cer- tain medical authorities to the point of informing us that the Sir William Orpen, one of our greatest contemporary artists, is | frank in ‘admitting that he could | not possibly get along with less than twelve hours sleep. Sir Henry Deterding, British oil magnate, says he .is perfectly satisfied if he can sleep uninter- | specialists experimented on a num= | ber of students and came to the iconclusxon that if sleep can be re- | duced from eight to six hours it | will be beneficial to the sleeper. ! One Fallacy CLAIMS ANDREE | | SUFFOCATED IN Carbon Monoxide Fumes Snuffed Out Lives of Arctic Expeditioners |STEFANNSON WRITES | OPINION IN LONDON| Conclusions Are Drawn from Own Experiences While in North LONDON, Feb. 6.—Writing in the current Spectator, Vilhjalmur Stef- why 'Salomon Andree never re- turned from the Polar balloon expe- dition in 1897. | Stefansson says the threce men in the expedition were overcome by carbon monoxide fumes from a ker- osene ‘stove in virtually an air tight tent. Stefansson said he developed this theory from evidence discovered at ‘White Island where the bodies were | found. | Btefansson sald he almost died ‘from the same cause himself in an Eskimo's -snwo hut at Coronation ,Gulf 20 years ago. | He sald: “Andree’s tent was near- ly air tight as it was made of bal- loon silk and the floor was sewed {in. The tent stood in the lea and {the first snow storm added to the [ air tightness. One man was cooking ywhen the others fainted. The stove \fire went out. I know that because jthe stove was half full of kero- sene when found. Then the cook- |fainted before he could make a hole in the tent for ventilation.” | The trouble is that an enthusiasti’' “mnere was plenty of food and on reading that report—if he be a' rupted for seven or eight hours—|gjy_hour sleeper—will endeavor to not less than seven. Another “eight- | cut his time down to four hours, hour” sleeper is Lloyd George, thereby running foul of another England’s war-time Premier. | law pertaining to sleep. | curious Back i History | Nerve specialists will tell- you that fuel at the time, Stefansson sald, so the group could not have MR TIGHT TENT ansson has his explanation as to| Virginia Plantation Is O’Neill’s Choice Life plans to leave his French chateau plantation in Virginia. NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—That grow- Ing literary colony in the valleys) of Virginia will have another dis- tinguished member next year when' Eugene O'Neill returns to this country. i The author of “Strange Inter-, lude” has chosen the tidewater| of Chesapeake Bay waters, as the place where he will settle down on Eugene O'Neill, shown above with Mrs. O'Neill in an informal pose, | (below) next year and move o a This will be the last year O'Neill will spend in his huge chateau, the Chateau du Plessis, in Tours, France. He has resided there for the last two years with his wite, Carlotta Monterey. It wes in his chateau that he region of Virginia, in the vielnity| wrote “Dyhamo,” and it is there! that he is writing his latest play, PRICE TEN CE e CHANGES FRONT ‘REGARDING DRY - LAW IN NATION | e [Member of Wickersham Commission Advocates Vote on Question ATTITUDE OF PEOPLE MAY CLEAR SITUATION 1Dec_]ares Present Condi- tions in United States Unsatisfactory FRESNO, Cal, Feb. 7.—A national referendum on Pro- hibitien to clarify the issue ;is advocated by Judge Paul J. McCormick, Federal Judge | of California. Judge McCormick is a member of the Wickersham ‘Law Enforcement Commis- sion. Judge McCormick said the refendum “would clearly in- | dicate the attitude of the ma- | tion and aid in bringing about some change from the present | unsatisfactory conditions.” | In the ‘individual reports made by the members of the Wickersham Law En f or ce- ment Commission, Judge Me- | Cormick urged further trial | of Prohibition under existing laws and acts. all detalls of which he is keeping | a plantation when he brings his new play here in 1932, O'Neill will find many of his| | contemporarfes settled near by his In Virginia he will | starved nor frozen to death. in secrecy. When O'Neill cames home it will mark the end of a four-year pil- grimage begun shortly after GOUNGIL FIXES PREGINCTS FOR average man sleeps too much. | | future home. i BY FED. JURY Convicted of Attempt to Blow Up Spokane Newspaper Plants SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 7.— Henry Ilse, former Spokane fire- man, and Thomas Boyle, San Fran- cisco bookkeeper, have been con- victed by a Superior Court jury of attempting to dynamite the Cowles Publishing Company buildings in] Spokane, Wash. They were charged with transportation and handling of dynamite sent to the Associated Press office, between the buildings of the Spokane Chronicle and the Spokane Spokesman Review. Ilse and Boyle announced they would ask for a new trial and they were granted 30 days in which to make a filing. The trial started January 26. Boyle said he was hired by Ilse to aid in the transportation of the dynamite. Tlse’s attorney charged a con- spiracy of the Spokane County Democratic organization and news- papers in opposition to bootleggers and said they drove their client out of town. The jury recommended leniency for Boyle. S e — Fishermen ‘on East Coast Face Problems BOSTON, Mass, Feb. 7.— There is something wrong with the fishing industry. Fishermen say the individual catches are growing smaller and the fish in the North Atlantic are growing smaller and are becoming scarce. The Massachusett Fisherles Asscciation deny the reports of the fishermen, showing by sta- tistics that the actual number of fish brought in are greater and nct falling off. Many trawlers are idle, how- ever, the men claiming they cannot make sufficlent money to pay expenses. ———————— GIRL CAN'T EAT CANDY Betty Nordland, 5 years old, has to satisfy her taste for sweets with pop. She can't eat candy for several days, the doctor says. He | J A survey of the lives of some of | our “Princes of Industry” produces | some very interesting facts on the| subject. Four Hours Sleep Thomas Edison, inventive “Wiz- | ard” of Orange, N. J. states that| up to a few years ago he found | that four hours sleep gave him| sufficient rest and renewed vitality | to start another day’s work. Re- cently, however, he has been hav- ing six hours. Not that he feels in need of more sleep, but because | Mrs. Edison, who, he says, knows best, has persuaded him. Henry Ford, the man who made America automobile-minded, con-| fesses to six hours sleep, but adds, | that, as it takes him three hours| to get to sleep, he actually spends nine hours in bed. A VETS’ BONUS LEGISLATION IS HELD OVER Senate Committee Awaits Action to Be Taken by House Committee WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 7.— The Senate Finance Committee has deferred action until next| week on the veterans’ bonus leg- islation, awaiting action of the House Ways and Means Commi- tee. Senator Watson said there was no doubt but that the House would pass som: legislation and the Sen-| ate commi'tce wanted to give the| House opportunity to originate| measures. Representative Hawley, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, served notice the House | would not conisder bonus legisla- tion originating in the Senate. —————— WILL KNOW HIS A. B. C’s Mrs. Albert B. Clark is the mother of a son that was born last evening at St. Ann’s Hospital. Mr. A. B. Clark is employed at the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Com |pany. : ——e———— Napoleon had some very pronounc- | amount of sleep is six hours, de- ed, if not radical, views on slumber. i cide to get along with four hours; He insisted that six hours of the|then his adverse balance of two twenty-four was ample for anyone.| hours per days is carried forward His remarks to his troops on the with cumulative effect until he be- — .- — To go further back into history.| should a person, whose mmimum}ALAsKA Ju NEAU | | DESIRES RENEW { | be a neighbor of James Branch Cabell, Sherwood Anderson and Ellen Glasgow. | Just over the Maryland border {he will meet Henry L. Mencken subject have often keen guoted by advocates of the “less sleep idea.” He said that six hours’ sleep was more than enough for a man. A woman, he though, needed seven; and for a fool he prescribed eight. One wonders how he spent all his | time on St. Helena. Now, these were all great men (some still are) in their own par- ticular field; but as the variation of their sleeping hours ranged from four to twelve hours, then obviously the recipe for greatness does not lie in the amount of sleep we have. Recently American university | comes so much in arrears that he | simply cannot go on ‘and nature' orders, in no uncertain terms, that he catch up on his sleep due him or have a nervous breakdown. A talk on sleep would not be complete without mention of the claim put forward by Mr. Paul Hern, ex-Austrian army veteran, | who claims that he has not slept | since being wounded in the head during the Great War. A lot has been written in substantiation and | contradiction of his claims and be- itween the pros and cons it is im- | possible to get at the truth of the | matter. Manufacture Of Whiskey Is Ordered Two Million Gallons to Be Made — Medicinal Supply Is Low WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 7— Orders for the manufacture of two million gallons of whiskey this year have been sent to distillers in Pensylvania and Kentucky by the Industrial Alcohol Bureau. The orders are given in com- pliance with the Prohibition law which requires an ample stock of medicinal whiskey. Replenishment wa started Replenishment was started 8,500,000 gallons. Seventy-two pei 22nt of the whis- key will be bourbon, to be made in Kentucky distilleries, and the remainder will be rye whiskey, made by Pennsylvania distilleries. last last | |U. S. Marines Take Field in Nicaragua To Fight Insurgents MANAGUA, Nicargaua, Feb. 1. — Expecting resumption of insurgent activities in Northren (REINDEER IN ALASKA WILL BE DISCUSSED White and Indian Owners Will Present Their Troubles Tuesday WASHINGTOX, D. ©, Feb. 6.— Controversies between White and Indian owners of reindeer in Alas- ka will be gone into next Tues- day at a special meeting of Secre- tary of Interior Wilbur's Reindeer Committee. The report of Ernest Walker Saw- yer, made to Secretary Wilbur, will be discussed. The members of the Committee, besides Sawyer, aré Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming, Repre- sentative Scott Leavitt of Montana and Assistant Attorney General Charles P. Sisson. Representatives of the disputed owners will be heard regarding leas-| ing ground and plans advocating a meat supply will be studied. ———.—.-—— MACHINIST ILL D. G. Mentrum, machinist the employ of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company, entered St. Ann's Hospital last evening for { in HOLD ON EBNER Discusses Extension of Working Agreement with Smelting Co. | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 7. j=—An unofficlal report -circulated |here today said that the Alaska |Juneau Gold Mining Company Is| now negotiating with the United| States Smelting & Refining Com- | pany for the purchase of the Eb- ner Gold Mining Company's prop- erties adjacent to the Alaska J“'i neau's holdings at Juneau. Confirmation of the above report was lacking here today. A. J.| Williams, Acting Geenral Superin-| tendent in the absence of L. M.| Metzgar, said he knew of no nego- tiations for purchase of the Ebner. For some time past the Alaska Juneau has had an operating agreement or lease with the United States Smelting and Refining Com- pany, he said. He thought it was probable that his company was discussing a renewal of that ar- rangement. ————— — NEHRU IS DEAD; BODY CREMATED Indtla, Feb. 6—A {number were injured in the crush {when ~over 100,000 Indians flocked here to pay their last tribute to Motila Nehru, aged 69, National leader. He died in Lucknow yes- |terday .and his body was brought here for cremation. Nehru was a wealthy Indian who |gave up his fortune to become a |leader among the poorer classes. | (‘Carl Lomen and Wife { Hurry East to Be at | Bedside of Volstead { SEATTLE, Feb. 6—Carl Lomen,| of Lomen Reindeer Corporation,| and his wife Laura Volstead Lo- | and Lizette Woodworth Reese, the poetess. Not,K far away, in the Carolinas, will be Paul Green, Julia Peterkin, and DuBose and Dorothy Heyward. } i “Strange Interlude” was first pro- duced. At that time O'Neill was in poor health, and he made a fu- tile attempt to travel incognito. He visited China and the Philip- pines, then turned back to his chat- eau In Tours, where he lived for many months in seclusicn. It was only Jast summer that he would consent to see visitors. FIRE ALARM; IS VOTED SUM OF 31,000} 1,000 Are Homeless By Flood Southern Part of Austral- ian City Invaded by High Water BRISBANE, Australia, Feb. 7.— More than 1,000 are homeless here as the result of one of the worst floods in history of this section. The flood waters struck the southern part of the city last night. Rain has ceased but the country- | ?ALASKAN LOSES FINGERS TURNING IN WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 7~—James E. Dethlefsen froze his fingers while turning in a fire alarm at Nenana, Alaska, and lost the fingers and thumb of one hand. Since it was a government building that was afire, the House pasced the Welsh bill awarding Deth!:f-on the sum of $1,000. The bill now goes to the Senate. PAPER COMPANY PAYS DIVIDEND SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 6.—| CITY ELECTION |As Preliminary to Munici- pal Election, Three Precincts Fixed As a prelude to the 1931 muni- |cipal election, the City Council last night formally passed a resi- lution establishing the election precincts and locating the voting booths. The precincts will be un- changed in ‘boundaries from those |of the past seweral years, and the | number remains at three. It will be almost a month before |there is any real activity. The registration period lasting 30 days, !does not open until March 4. Elec- (tion this year falls on April 7, the latest possible date under the law fixing the day as the first Tues- day in April Only four Councilmen answered |the roll call at last night's meet- ing, presided over by Mayor T. B. Judson. In attendance were: M. D. | Bothwell, E. G. Krause, Lockie MacKinnon and H. G. Nordling. Councilmen W. S. George and H. Messerschmidt went to Seattle on business. Miss A. B. Coleman was granted side is flooded for 1000 miles botn|The Crown-Zellerbach paper com- inorth and south of here. . |pany officlals sald the earnings from November to January will be ‘|less than in the first and second i i ° TODAY'S STOCK Pacific Gas and Electric 46%, Penn- o A QUOTATIONS | . .NEW YORK, Fev. 7.— Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today Is 9%, American Can 113, Anaconda Copper 337%, Beth- lehem Steel 527, General Motors 40%, Granby Consolidated 16, Inter- national Harvester 52%, Kennecott | Corporation 24%, Packard Moi,ol'si 10, Simmons Beds 16%, Standard Brands18%, Standard Oil of Cali- fornia 49, Standard Oil of New| Jersey 48, U. 8. Steel 140%, Cur- tiss-Wright 4, Hudson Bay 4%, sylvania Rallroad 62%, General Electric 45%, Westinghouse Elec- trical and Mechanical 87%. e, President Signs Bill Carrying $400,000 for New Vessel for Alaska quarers of last year but there is no change in the financial position and regular dividends will be pay- able on March 1. Puzzles of New a two-weeks' leave of absence from her dutles as City Librarian in order to make a trip to Seattle. Monthly bills were ordered paid. ——————— Secrecy of proceedings is blamed for the increase of divorce cases in I England. Congress To Be Analyzed in Series A new Congress o: the Unitec States, the Seventy-second, nomi- nally comes into existence March The date of its first session is highly indefinite, but whenever it convenes its leaders will be faced by the greatest phalanx of con- gressional question marks ever en- countered. Pigured on paper, Republicans hold control of both the Senate and House by a theoretical margin of stories 1o appear in The Empire next week. The presidential campaign of 1932, reapportionment of congres- sional districts, important legisla- tive problems, party irregularity, sectional strife—all will be import- ant considerations when the na- fon’s legislators answer the organ- lzation rolicalls in the two houses. Deaths in the ranks of the elect- ed members may decide the issue. Simpson's series will explain the Lnportant possibilities of the 72nd men, left last night for the bed—l WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 7— one vote, but the situation is filled Congress, accurately and interest- took out her tonsils at St. Ann’s Nicarazua, United States Ma- medical treatment. | with considerations of history-mak- ingly, and also review the history Hospital this morning. — e — HOONAH MAN AT ALASKAN C. Zellefren of Hoohah is among the guests registered ‘at the Al- GIRL UNDERGOES OPERATION Mary Williams, 15 years old, suc- cessfully underwent a surgical op- eration at St. Ann's Hospital this askan Hotel. Ior rines" have .been sent to gar- rison the towns lof Pueblo Nuevo and Smoto. Small groups eof insargenis are reported concentrating near the two villages. ——e—— Two Chicago robbers held up six taxicab drivers at the-same corner the same night, but accosted two policemen on their seventh attempt. ) J side of Andrew J. Volstead, author President Hoover has signed a de- of the Volstead Act, in St. Paul, ficiency appropriation bill Minn. He was operated upon for includes $400,000 for a new vessel appendicitis last Tuesday and ‘is'for the Bureau of Indian Affairs doing well as can be expected, ac- to operate on the west coast of cording to advices received here. Alaska, which ing importance. |of similar situations in the past, Kirke Simpson, veteran Washing- 2lthough there never has existed on staff writer of The Associated|3 comparably uncertain lineup of Press, will analyze the congressional Party power, nor one so potentially situation in a series of three daily important.