The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 10, 1931, Page 1

LA g B Lt Tham et £ sy 2 0 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5639. COMMUNISTS THREATEN INVASION NATIONAL CAPIT0 _ JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1931. " MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS FIGHT IS BEGUN FOR LARGE SUM FORALASKARR. Alaska Committee of Seat- tle Chamber Makes Request for Million ASKS APPROPRIATION BE SAME AS FOR 1930 Protest Also Made Against Any Increase in Taniff Rates SEATTLE, Feb. 10.—The Alaska Committee of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce passed a mction yes- terday afternoon at a special ses- sion recommending the same sum! this year for the Alaska Railroad as last year, which was $1,000,000. The motion also protested the 50 percent cut for maintenance of the railroad and the raising of the freight and passenger rates. A sub-committee with E. W. Al- len as Chairman, Ralph Lomea, Judge George Schofield, Richard Lang, A. V. Love and Volney Rich- mond was named to present the resolution to the Chamber of Com- merce Trustees and speed it with' necessary data to Congress. | Should Double; Not Cut Carl Strout, Superintendent of the Pacific Steamship Company, said: “Instead of cutting the ap- propriation in half, the amount should be doubled. Congress has a mistaken idea regarding econ- omy.” Many Alaskas met with the Com- mittee. Among the speakers were Frank Foster of Cordova, Ray C. Larson of Anchorage, Lomen Broth- ers of Nome, Capt..A..E. Lathrop | of Fairbanks, and L. V. Ray of Seward. “ The Alaskans stated there was absolutely no truth .in the report | of a direct steamer line between Seattle and Anchorage. | Protest By Alaskans Frank Foster, Representative- elect to the Territorial Legislature at Juneau, said: “The Alaska Rail- road is a highway and of a charac- ter vital in Alaska. In the states where the Federal Government owns most of the land, the Govern- ment pays most of the cost of pub- lic highways. n Alaska, the Federal Government owns 99 per cent of the real estate too, and should sup- ply the greater part of the main- tenance of the highways and the Alaska Railroad is such. The Fed- eral Government is taking out of Alaska far more than it is putting | in.” | Schofield’s Protest | Schofield said abandonment of, the Alaska Railroad will be a vio- lation of a moral contract with the people in developing the Territory. He said a ‘privately owned railroad would not be permitted to discon- tinue service, even if the manage- ment wished it, and he accused some ‘members of Congress as ad- vocating this for the Alaska Rail- road. L. V. Ray said entrance of the Government in road operation in Alaska ‘precluded private capital i {Canning Process -./\-wedwbg Sudden Fame Lyda Roberti, shown in two poses above, daughter of Roberti, the noted Polish clown, had been a circus performer since babyhood. But when she started a career on the stage, her English was so bad that di- rectoxs fired her. Because her | | manager owned an interest in “You Said It,” new musical show, she got a chance to make | good. Her ability, combined with | 8 foreign accent, have made her | the new comedy sensation of | Broadway., Now she can't un- | derstand why. | SLOW RAISING HANDS, 3 SHOT DOWN, HOLD-UP 2 Women Are Killed, ManI Believed Fatally Wounded ST. LOUIS, Mo, Feb. 10.—Bessie | Lynn, aged 30 years and Dorothy Evans, aged 37 years were shot to death as three gunmen wrecked a North End Saloon early this morn- ing. William Goebel, notorious gangster Dewey Goebel, killed several months ago, is be- lieved to have been fatally wound- ed. Another brother, Harry Goebel, who was bartender, said the gun-| men entered the saloon ‘and shot the trio when they seemed slow in raising their hands. ST i | brother of the May Let U. S. Sip | Real French Wine| PARIS, Feb. 10.—French wine- grape growers see a glimmer of hope that a new condensation pro- cess may enable them to market their products in the United States in spite of prohibition laws. Experiments have shown that the unfermented juice of the wine grapes can be condensed and pre- derved as satisfactorily as milk, to| be transformed later into perfectly {shore. !male quarters last night when now and the Government is bound good wine of authentic French fla- to continue the Alaska R.anroad‘vor_ The condensation process and support it. | costs only 20 cents for 25 gallons. 2 Lose Lives Near End of Month’s Trip| Young Men, Retu rning! from Prospetcing, Die in Water PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., Feb. 10.—Harold Corbett, aged 26 and George Taylor, aged 33, returning here after a months' prospecting | trip, were drowned when a 14-foot | boat capsized at the mouth of the| Skeena River. ! The tiderip swamped the heavily laden boat 50 feet from shore at Haysport. | Oliver Anderson, third member of | the party, was able to swim to‘ Insane Gain Freedom;Fire InHospital, Officials Searching for Mi sing, Including Dan- gerous Ones S~ | ' NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 10.—Of- ficials of the Central State Hospital | are searching for a score of inmates who escaped during a fire in the, Al of the 600 hospital inmates were; freed when the fire was discovered.! Two of the inmates who escaped are considered dangerously insane. ‘The majority of the inmates were Juf unopposed bills. Ibe in active operation, was of & ATTACK IS MADEIPROBE ON FOOD ON COMPROMISE| PRICES START DROUGHT RELIEF | iSenator La Follette Talks{Senate’s Investigation Be- Against Proposal to Deaf Senate ROBINSON IN FAVOR OF NEW PROPOSAL Senate Conferees Als%) Drop Two Items from War Dept. Measure WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb, 10.—| United States Senator Robert M., La Follette, Jr,, of Wisconsin, had the floor today for an attack om the compromise $20,000,000 farm re- habilitation loans for the drought sections but the Senate was not moved by his opposition since Senator Robinson yesterday ap- proved of the compromise. Senator Robinson read a letter from President Hoover in the Sen- ate promising sympathetic admin- istration which the Arkansas Sen- ator said was sufficient, contingent on approval of the compromise. The Senate conferees agreed to drop from the War Department Supply Bill a provision for distri bution of 20,000,000 bushels of wheat and $5,000,000 for agricultura} credit. A night session has been ordered for the Senate to act on a number STILL SEIZED THIS MORNING ON WILLOUGHBY: Dry Agents Raid Distillery, Seizing Whiskey and Arresting One In a raid on a house on Wil- loughby Avenue near where it} crosses Gold Creek, Federal Pro- hibition Agents T. L. Chidester and E. H. Myer early this morning dis- covered a complete distilling plant, | moonshine whiskey and mash, it was reported today by Gerald Church, Deputy Administrator. C. J. (Shorty) Graham, alleged, to be the operator, was arrested in the building by the officers.; He was scheduled to have had a hearing this afternoon before Judge: Charles Sey in the local United State§ Commissioner’s Court. The still, which was declared to 50-gallon capacity. Between 60 and 70 gallons of moonshine, some in} kegs and the rest first run stuff,! some glycerine and a large quan- tity of mash in vats were seized. e ——— BAR RUSSIAN ‘mher products. IN WA§!INGTON' gins Today — Promi- nent Men Summoned BAKERS AND MILLERS TO GIVE TESTIMONY Bread and_F—l_our Given First Attention—Meat, Milk, Sugar Next WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 10— Some of the Nation’s leading bak-) ers and millers haye been sum- moned among the first group of witnesses in the Senate's investiga tion of food prices which opened today. George Livingston, Execulive Vier President of the Millers' Nationa! Association, of Minneapolis; Syd- ney Anderson, Vice-President of the General Mills; Henry Stude, Presi- dent of the American Bakers’ Asso- clation, of Chicago, and M. L. Mar- shal, Chairman of the Continental Baking Company of New York, arc among those called. The Senate will investigate the prices of bread and flour first and then take up meat, milk, sugar and Sixty-Nine Feared Lost Boat Crash French Steamer and Jap- anese Craft Collide in Tokyo Harbor TOKYO, Feb. 10. — Sixty-nine persons are feared to have beer lost today in a collision belween the French steamer Prothos and| Japanese steamer Kikusui Maru in the harbor here. The Japanese vessel sank quickly. The Prothos picked up 25 mem- bers of the Kikusui Maru and re- turned to port. Louis Noter Is Killed in Plane Crash Manager of Boeing Air Field at Elko Is Dead —Pilot Injured RENO, Nevada, Feb. 10.—Louis Noter, Fleld Manager of the Boe- ing Alr Field at Elko, Nevada, was killed, and Burr Winslow, pilot, was seriously injured when a mail plane crashed in attempting to land | at the emergency Field at Wells, Nevada. There was a severe storm prevailing at the time and this LUMBER, PULP |was the cause for the forced land- 'ing. The plane crashed into a WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 10.— beacon. & & T captain was killed when it was fired in outer New York harbor. The tug, the Josephine K was also taken in FIGURE IN RUM-RUNNING DRAMA { Associated Photo The liquor laden Canadian schooner, Josephine K (above), whose on and seized by coast guardsmen , Dauntless 6, which was alongside charge by coast guard cutter 145 (both shown below). International complications arose over the case. REINDEER ARE DISCUSSED AT WASH. HEARING Alaska Problem of Herd- ing, Grazing Same as in Old West Days ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb 10.— Secretary of Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur told the Alaska Reindeer Committee today that raisers of reindeer were facing a problem similar to that in the Western cattlements 50 or 60 years ago be- fore the establishment of range and grazing laws, Secretary Wilbur advocated es- tablishment of an observance code governing ‘herding, grazing, brand- ing, butchering and sale of meat. The Secretary called attention to the report of Ernest Walker Saw- yer, of the Interior Department, setting forth in defail the entire reindeer industry. Delegate Sutherland and several herd owners appeared before the committee which 1s composed of Sawyer, Senator Kendrick of Wyom- ing, Representative Leavitt of Mon- tana and Assistant Attorney Gen- eral Sisson. Delegate Suinerland charged the Government failed to protect the rights of the Indians and Eskimos in development of their herds and permitted the Lomen Company to preempt their lands. He also pro- tested the recent transfer of the reindeer industry from the Office of Education to Gov. George A. Parks and that * Gov. Parks be refused permission to take part in the settlement of the con- troversy. requested —— - e .! It is planned to try the systém | TODAY’S STOCK |;1n France to reduce the cost of QUOTATIONS |transport of wine in glass and in . .| wood, both for the colonies and for foreign countries. {kept closely bunched during the pymper and pulpwood from four| —_——————— NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—Closing, In the case of foreign countries, quotation of Alaska Juneau, mine it is pointed out, the grape product,’ stock today is 9, American Can ' not being wine, would benefit by 116%, Anaconda Copper 37, Beth-|low customs tariffs. lehem Steel 58%, General Motors | ——————— 43%, Granby Consolidated 17%, In-| Assessed valuation of farm lands ternational Harvester 56, Kennecott in Georgia ranges from $2.27 per Corporation 26%, Packard Motors' acre in Charlton County, to 242,37 10%, Simmons Beds 19%;, Standard in Fulton County. Brands 18%, Standard Oil of Cali- | ———.——— fornia 50%, Standard Oil of New K Farm terracing in Alabama is one Jersey 50%, U. S. Steel 146%, Hud- method used to protect soil from son Bay 5. erosion. Commerce Drives “Millionaire Row” Off Fifth Avenue of 5lst strest. It is occupied by Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Cornelius Van- derbilt. The others are the Gould house on the northeast corner of 47th street, now the home of Finley J. Shepard and his wife, Helen Gould Shepard; and the home of Robert ‘Walton Goelet, on the southeast corner of 48th street. NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—Only three of the old-time Fifth avenue man- sions in “millionaires’ row” of the nineties, between 42nd and 59th streets, remain amid the commer- cial skyscrapers of today. . Most impressive of the three is the survivor of the twin Vander- bilt houses on the northwest corner conflagration which caused damage estimated at $2,500. .- Mednl:_ ilonor Farmers For Record Corn Yields, LAFAYETTE, Ind. Feb. 10—Ches- ter Troyer and R. H. Ellis, Indiana ! farmers, could wear almost as many medals as an army general. The two this year received their| ninth decoration for raising more! than 100 bushels of corn to an acre of Indiana land. Troyer is from LaFontaine, and Ellis from Tippe- canoe County. Troyer and Ellis, to whom corn| growing is almost an art, were; awarded medals at the Indiana corn growers banquet during Pur-| due University’s agricultural con- ference. Hoover Asks $15,000 To Replace School Burned in Alaska WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 10.—President Hoover has ask- ed Congress to appropriate $15,- 000 to replace the school at Shungnak, on the Kobuk river, above Shinknek Creek, in the Kotzebue Sound district. The building was destroyed by fire | late last month. Russian localities are barred by the Treasury Department from entry! Mrs. A. H. Mize, R. W. Mize, Miss into the United States unless ship- E. E. Mize and Miss D. J. Mize ipers prove the two commodities returned home on the Princess Norah. They enjoyed a trip in the have not been produced by convict labor, States, Riviera Marriag So Simple; French Red Tape Bal_ks Americans NICE, France, Feb. 10. — The “want to be married but can’t” colorty on the Riviera is growing. At one period no less than six American couples were moping in Nice and digesting the fact that a valid passport does not cover every ‘emergency. Getting married in’ France may sound romantic, but much red tape is connected with the entangle< ment. Startled lovers are asked for their birth certificates and, show- ing thelr passports, are told to run home and get some other doc- ument or two. Divorced persons are politely told that the proper document sworn to by the French consul nearest their residence in America is essential. Even the death of a former hus- es Not band or wife must be officially at- tested, The after-marriage situation oft- en is complex. Attempting to regis- ter his first-born son, an Ameri- can resident of a small commun- ity in the district handed in the name of Donald. “Nothing doing,” the clerk In- formed him brusquely. “There’s no such name as Donald in the official book of names. Call him Donat if you like.” It required an official letter from the American consul to assure the clerk that Donald was a recognized | name in America. Delegate Sutherland sald the In- dians consider that Gov. Parks is friendly to the Lomens and he also called attention to the position of Judge G. E. Lomen, of Nome, father of the five brothers operating the Lomen Company, and said he con- trelled Alaskan polities. He said the senior Lomen at one time cwned more stock in the company than all five sons. Chairman Kendrick said the rec- ords and also Sawyer's report showed the Lomen herds increased while herds of the Indians and Es- kimos declined. The Committee will resume hear- ings next week. ———————— Guarantees Are Suspended Another 90 Days in Cuba HAVANA, Cuba, Feb. 10— The Government has ordered a renewal for ninety days, sus- pension of the Constitutional Guarantees. This is the third time the Constitutional Guar- antees have been suspended within a few months. But the second name was not so | easy and officially the boy wm" ever remain Donald Jean instead of John. The decree revokes the right cof public assembly, freedom of the press and establishes vir- tually martial law. Vets’ Bonus Causes Stir In Congress, Republican Leaders At- tempt to Stop Contro- versial Issues WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 10- Tensior. grew today over the vet- erans’ bonus proposals in Congress. Republican leaders are attempt- | ing to stop any new controversial stirrings and maintained hope that some “safe and sane plan” will be brought forth. There is a general expectation that the House Ways and Means Committee will recommend a $500,- 000,000 increase in loan against the certificates. S e e INDICT SEVEN OFFICIALS OF CLOSED BANK President and Other Offi- cers Must Answer in New York City NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—The New York County Grand Jury has in- dicted seven officials of the closed Bank of the United States. The indicted inen include Presi- dent Marcus, Vice-President Saul Singer and his brother Herbert, Chairman i3tanley Mitchell of the Board of Directors, Isidor Kres and L. Consel, also Directors. ——eee - Salmon Curbs Goiters, Is Claim Made WASHINGTON, D. C.,, Feb. 10. — The (fifty-million-dollar salmon industry in the United States and Alaska plays an im- portant role, the bureau of fish- eries says, in the prevention of goiter. Old SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Feb, 10.— Admirers of Abraham Lincoln here have arisen in protest to Edgar Lee Laster's biography which de- scribed the Emancipator as “gro- tesquely dressed and unkept, and a |slick and crafty politician.” Among those protesting is Dr, John Thomas, pastor of the Pres- byterian Church which Lincoln and his family attended for years. | l Bioéraphy offl iincfi Causes Protest Among PRICE TEN CENTS L PRECAUTION IS TAKEN AGAINST PROPOSED MOVE Extra Policefiads Assign- | ed to'Duty—Guards Reinforced OFFICES OF CURTIS, LONGWORTH WATCHED Plan Contemplated to Gain Floor of Both Houses of Congress WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 10. — Special police sovads today reinforced the Capitol Guards as a precau- |tion against the scheduled visit of Ccmmunists. Additioral plain clcthesmen are stationed throughout the building and near the offices of Vice-President Charles Curtis and Speaker Nicholas Longworth, The Communists planned to gain access to the floors of both Houses of Congress and i demand enactment of a Work- men’s Employment Insurance providing payment of §15 weekly to every unemployed | person. | CONSTRUCTION RILL-OF NAVY T0 BE PASSED |Senate Leaders Expect to | Put $74,000,000 Bill | Through Congress | WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 10— | The Administration’s $74,000,000 Na- {val Construction Bill will be passed {at this session of Congress, Senate leaders said, despite the decision of the House not to press it until next session. Chairman Hale of the Senaté Naval Committee said he would make every effort to pass the bill before March 4 and predicted the House would consider the measure if the Senate approved it. Pictures from Air— May Aid State Map HARTFORD, Conn., Feb. 10.—* Aerial photographs may play & large part in compiling a pro- posed topographic map of Con- necticut. The General Assembly will be asked to approve the task, which will replace a map produced 45. years ago. It is planned that the map will be on a large scale, requiring five years to complete. Detailed ground surveys noting every ridge and de- pression in 10-foot intervals will be supplemented by aerial photographs taken from 10,000 feet. —————— Copper Is Coming Back; Going Up L] NEW YORK, Feb. 10— Copper has started to climb again from 950 cents, to which it dropped last week. Increased demand, both do- mestic and foreign, resulted in a raise to 10.05 cents a pound today. e s0ecccoee IR RN NN NN Illinois Friends Dr. Thomas said: “Defaming our great men seems to be sort of on in recent years. Ncne |are exempt and nothing is easier. None, has lived nor will live in whom no one might find faults or flaws, and samething out of the |ordinary may be found in all our |great men. I have no doubt but - |that Lincoln sought office. shrewd- |ly but I doubt if he sought above |all else, personal advancement.” |