The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 17, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1931, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRE SS VETERAN'S COMPENSATION PRICE TEN CENTS BILL PASSED BY HOUSE GUNS FLASHED I WET PLANK FOR DEMOCRATS 1S 10 BE OPPOSED Southern Senators Aroused | and Serve Notice | on Party RASKOB AND SHOUSE | ARE UNDER ATTACK Fast Comeback Madé for | Secret Testimony on | ProhibitionReport | WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 17.—' Irate Southern leaders led Sena- | tors Sheppard of Texas, and Mor-| rison of North Carolina to serve! notice on the Democratic Party they would bitterly oppose any at- | tempt to adopt a wet plank in 1932. | Chairman Raskob, of the Demo-' cratic National Committee, and Chairman Shouse, of the Executive Committee, were the targets for the | dispute over Prohibition, 1 Senator Sheppard challenged | Shouse to name states the latter| said had turned against prohibition and whose delegates would have a majority. This brought Senator Tydings of Maryland into the action and he presented a resolution requesting the Wickersham Law Enforcement | Commission to give the Senate the | secret testimony on which the re-| port was based. This was adopted | without debate. | COMMISSION AT WORK | WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 17— The Wickersham Law Enforcement Commission returned to work to-| day. Chairman Wickergham refused to! POSITION OF THIS COUPLE IN DOUBT T \ present Government crisis. T | | | | | | 1 King Alfonso and Queen Victoria of Spain, central figures in the ORE SHIPMENT MADE SMELTER FROM NEW LODE Bez Arrives from Chicha- gof Discovery with Ore for Tacoma Test A test shipment of ore, the first ever shipped from the new prop- erty being ' explored on Chichagof' Island by the Alaska-Chichagof Mining Company, Nick Bez, Pres- ident, arrived here Monday on the motorship Estebeth. It will be shipped on the Northwestern to- answer questions as to when m_}morrow to Tacoma for a mill test. how the commission would comply & mpe discovery was made last with the Senate’s request for the gummer and exploratory work has secret testimony and data upPOD|p.on carried on there since that which the Prohibition report was based. The opinion is expressed at head- time. Assays made from samples taken as the development pro- quarters that the task will be‘messed are said to range from $150 difficult until the commission has|!® 8 Digh as $1,100 per ton. had an opportunity to rearrange it.| The present development con- The commission does not meet |Sists mainly of a 175-foot tunnel officially until March 4, the day driven by hand horizontally on the Congress adjourns. {vein which has widened from a stringer on the surface, to five feet. Work has been suspended for the present, but will be re- sumed early next Spring when a compressor and air drills will be installed to continue the explora- tory program. The ground adjomns the famous Chichagof mine and the surface discovery was made within a few hundred feet of the beach workings of that property. - W ho Started Wor War, Is Again Up in Congress WASHINGTO::, . C, Feb. 17. A resolution has been in- troduced in the Senate by Sen- ator Shipstead to place the Sen- ate on record favoring the Unit- i ed States Government making it clear beyond a doubt, that it dees now “acquiesce in the formal charge” in the Versailles | treaty, that Germany is alone responsible for the World War. The Minnesota Senator said history brought to light since the treaty has proved the un- i truth of the accusation. CHISHOLM BOUND WEST J. J. Chisholm, Western Alaska representative of West Coast Groc- ery Company, is a Yukon passenger for Seward enroute to his home in Anchorage. _Long Pipelines Soon May Cu t Gasoline Costs TULSA, Okla, Feb. 17.—A new era is dawning in the transportation and distribution of gasoline, the pe- troleum industry’s principal money product. Shipment of gasoline through pipelines built specially for the pur- pose is about to be inaugurated. By the first of February the Great Lakes Pipeline company expects to be conveying gasoline from Ok- lahoma refineries to Kansas City through a new underground carrier. Work on a second gasoline pipe- line from Borger, Tex., to St. Louis is being rushed by the Phillips Pipeline company, a subsidiary of the Phillips Petroleum company. These are the first pipelines built expressly to carry gasoline, although the fuel previously had been ship- ped through Pennsylvania pipelines originally built for crude oil. Cuts Delivery Costs Material lessening of distribution costs and delivery of greater gal- costs and delivery of greater gal- lonage are advantages claimed for the new form of transportation. The Great Lakes company esti- mates its line, which is to be ex- tended as far north as Minneapo- - lis and as far east as Chicago, wil carry the refined product at a cost of about one cent a gallon for the long haul, as compared with 238 cents by rail. Bulk stations at 50-mile inter- vals along the lines will serve adja- cent territory. Dangers Minimiz>d Engineers say the operating prob- lems or dangers in transporting gasoline by pipeline do not vary greatly from those involved in the transportation of crude oil. The Great Lakes Pipeline com- pany was organized by the Barns- dall corporation and the Conti- nental Oil company, but other com- panies have completed negotiations for use of the line. The Phillips line will run from the company’s Borger, Tex., re- finery northeast of Wichita, Kas, thence to Kansas City and across Missouri to St. Louis. At the lat- ter point docking facllities will be available for shipping by barge up the Mississippl to the Twin Cities, southward to Memphis and New SAYSMEXICANS IN ALASKA ARE HELDASSLAVES Five Thousand Reported Under “Contract” La- | - bor—Official Denial | MEXICO OITY, Feb. 17. — The newspaper Universal Grafico pub- lishes a protest against the alleged “virtual slavery” in which 5,000 Mexicans are held in Alaska. ! The newspapers printed reports from California Mexicans charging | Mexican laborers contracted for | worls in the mines and forests of { Alaska are obliged to live under } inhumane conditions. | The newspaper said contractors find it easy means to supply la.hor; with Mexicans who are stranded in California and entice them to Alaska with promises which are {not filled. OFFICIALLY DENIED Gov. George A. Parks was shown the above Associated Press dupatch‘ to The Empire this forenoon and| officially denied there was any! contract laborers in Alaska, Mexi- | cans or others. His office as well! as offices of other officials are in constant contact with every man, woman and child in the Territory and no contract labor exists in the | mines, forests or any other in-| dustry, the Governor said. 3 Perish; Tenement | Destroyed 1Six-Story Brick Building | Flame Swept Early I This Morning NEW YORK, Feb. 17.—Rachel Rosen, aged 38; a Mrs. Mass, aged 60 and an unidentified man were burned to death when a six-story: brick tenement was destroyed early this morning. The remaining tenants, clad in their night clothes, were helped down fire escapes and aerial lad- ders by the police and firemen. —eeo—— ALASKAN SNOW COVER | The following amounts of snow, in inches, were reported on the ground Monday, February 16, at various Alaskan stations: Barrow 8, Bethel 8, Cordova 6, Eagle 22, Fairbanks, 13, Fort Yukon 23, Ket- chikan trace, Nome 11, Sitka 2, Juneau 1. The depth has increas- ed during the week except at Bar- row, Eagle and Fort Yukon. Ice on Chena Slough at Fair- banks is 28 inches in thickness land on Snake River at Nome 25 inches, an increase of one inch at each place. — e Charles A. Matheson, locomotive engineer on the Alaska Railroad,! GUERRA FAILS, |Marshall the mahogany case con- | W. Hawkesworth, Acting Chief orl ALVAREZ MAY FORM GABINET King Alfonso Summons Re; formist Party Lead- er to Palace MILITARY MOVEMENT BECUN DURING DAY Machine Guns at Strategic Points—Troops Held in Readiness BULLETIN—MADRID, Spain, Feb. 17.—A military movement apparently intended to estab- lish a military dictatorship, be- gan late today. Two artillery units near here mounted long range guns, train- ed on the Capital. Civil guards are being mob- ilized throughout the city. Machine guns have been plac- ed at strategic points and troops are held in readiness for action. MADRID, Spain, Feb. 17.— Shortly after Sanchez Guerra announced his failure to form a new government, following the fall last week of the Ber- enguer Government, King Al- fonso called Melquiades Alvares, ancther Constitutional Revis- ionist, to the Palace. Alvarez has been leader of the Reformist Party for many years and in th. past defended the King as a Democratic Mon- arch. But after the De Rivera regime and dictatorship, Al- varez blamed the King for its acts and has recently been a sirong supporter of thg Consti- tutional movement to determine the future of the Spanish Gov- ernment. | ASSOCIATES OF MARSHALL GIVE FRIENDLY TOKEN Set of Drafting Instruments with Letter Pres- ented Engineer To Jesse I. Marshall, construc- tion engineer with the Treasury| Department, who supervised erec- tion of Alaska's capitol, friends in the Federal service here yesterday presented a fine set of Paragon drafting insrtuments and a letter of appreciation as manifestations of their good will toward him. The | presentations were made at lunch- eon in his honor in the Arcade Cafe, where fifty of his coworkers | and associates in the Government's employment were assembled. John C. McBride, Collector of Customs and custodian of Federal buildings in the Territory, handed taining the drafting instruments, “the tools of his trade.” Mr. Mc- Bride’s remarks were brief. He praised the work of Mr. Marshall, and said the gift was a “token of appreciation” of the latter's “splen- did cooperation and faithful serv- ice.” Letter Is Presented | Immediately afterward, Charles the Office of Education, as chair—: man of a committee of the Federal | g | Ht—lthin Riné V‘I;‘No,,] oke;VIs There to Win MADRID STREETS William Hale Thompsen, Chicago’s Mayor, is fighting for a fourth term. campaign trim, but only a few weeks ago he was a hospital patient taken about the time of his first term, 15 years ago. (right). In center he is shown in Picture at lower left was Reindeer Troubles Up Again 4 Committee Hearing Resum- ed Today—Sutherland and Others Appear WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 17— Carl Lomen is on hand to defend his reindeer company in Alaska as the Reindeer Committee prepared to continue hearings. Delegate Sutherland blames the Lomens for most of the reindeer troubles in Alaska. Delegate Sutherland, the Lomens, o Interior representatives amd both white and Eskimo reindeer herd owners are to testify during the hearing today. Carl Lomen denied all charges made against the company, of en- croachment upon Eskimo herds and grazing lands. He said his com- pany has invested $2500,000 and controlled less than four per cent of the grazing land in Alaska and owned only twenty per cent of the herds but did have 85 per cent of! the meat business. Lomen said the weakness of Fed- eral supervision in that a million reindeer were being handled by “Government school teachers who are unqualified and untrained in the livestock business.” Lomen said a great deal of the criticism against the Lomen Rein- deer Company is due to ignorance. O e MACKINNONS ARRIVE TO MAKE HOME IN JUNEAU Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Mackin-| non, whose marriage occurred last month in Seattle, arrived this morn- ing on the steamer Yukon to estab- lish their residence here. Mrs. MacKinnon, formerly Miss Alice Case, lived here most of her life andeis an alumnus of the Ju- neau High School. Mr. MacKin- non, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lockie MacKinnon, is con- nected with the Standard Oil Com- pany. ——————— ties are named for men who saw service in United States military (Continuea on Page Two) forces. ‘Gandhi Confers With Viceroy Irwin; Looks Like Peace for India NEW DELHI, India, Feb. 17.—Mahatma Gandhi emerged from & league, a reform organization, for four-hour conference with Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India, this afternoon lalderman of the second ward—and and said: “I am satisfied. I am even optimistic.” Gandhi said he would talk with the Viceroy again tomorrow on political chiefs of the rosy decade Orleans, and eastward via the Ohio|passed through Juneau today on plans for India. waterway to Louisville, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. the Yukon enroute to Seward after’ & vacatioin in the States. Viceroy Irwin has promised to release political prisoners if Gandhi °red Big Bill will stop the disobedience campaign. BATTLING FOR ANOTHER TERM AS CITY CHIEF ;"Big Bill” Thompson Gives| Answer to His Foes in Chicago | More Facts Are Wanted Foshay Case Further “Tés'iimony to Be Secured Before Indictments MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 17.— | | | States Attorney, said that though he had enough evidence to obtain indictments by a Federal Grand i un | Fred Sorowitz, Special United TWICE CALLED OUT, MEASURE FOR - VETS'LOAN IS ~ UP TO SENATE 'Bill Goes Through House | Late Yesterday by Vote ! of 363 to 39 CERTIFICATE VALUE PLACED AT ONE HALF Proponents Hope to Get Issue to President | Within 10 Days i WASHING1ON, D. C., Feb. 17.—A bill te redeem the vet- erans’ adjusted service com- pensation certificates at half of their face value has gone | to the Senate. It carries more i than enough vetes to override 'a Presidential veto. | The House passed the bill |late yesterday, 363 votes to 39, despite the opposition of President Hoover and a warn- ing that Secretary Mellon of the Treasury would have dif- ficulty in financing the pay- ment of the loans. The bill provides an in- crease from 22, per cent to 50 per cent loan value on the certificates. | All opposing votes were from the old line Republicans who rallied behind Majority Leader Tilson and Chairman | Hawley of the Ways and Means Committee. ASPECTS l; SENATE WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.— IS STAGING COMEBACK Is Seeking Fourth Election Jury in connection with the de- Senate Administration lead- funct W. B. Foshay Company, 20 ers conceded the veterans’ persons will be subpoenaed to ap- Biological Survey and Departmem‘ pear before the grand jury in St. Paul and give further testimony. | as Mayor — Long ! Service Record Those to be subpoenaed include Joseph Chapman, Receiver of the CHICAGY, .., Feb, 17.—Twice |Public Utilities Consolidated Cor- loan relief bill will be at the White House before the end of this week. | Republican Leader Watson Forty-nine of Kansas's 105 coun-| counted “out” as a political power, William Hale Thompson this year bids for a fourth term as Chicago's Mayor and a long-service record unequalled by his predecessors. Carter Harrison, jr., was Mayor '12 years, as Thompson has been, but he was in Zive terms, four for ltwo years each. (Carter Harrison, his father, also served four terms. Bulky, ruddy cheeked, as confi- jdent as ever, “Big Bill the Build- er,” as he dubbed himself, wants to be Chicago “World’s Fair” mayor, ithe executive who serves during the “Century of Progress” exposition of 1933. In 1923 and again in 1928, he was declared to be “through’ Back he came first in 1927 to win over Willlam Dever, the Demo- cratic incumbent. This year's elec- tions will determine whether the wreckage of the Thompson-Crowe- Galpin machine was prophetic. Strength Faces Test | February 24—the Republican pri- mary—Thompson’s strength will be tested against the surge of popu- |laflby that put Municipal Judge John H. Lyle and Alderman Ar- thur F. Albert in the race. Anton J. Cermak, President of the County Commission and suc- |cessor to Roger Sullivan and Geo. iGrennan as Democratic Chief, i3 ;slnted to oppose the Republican |nominee at the election April 7. Although personifying a brazen, |growing West, Thompson, now 61 iyears old, is of the conservative { East—Boston was his birthplace. “Big Bill's father was a million- {aire realtor, and Willlam Hale, jr., inherited much of his wealth. Once Reform Candidate The quiet entrance of young | Thompson into politics in 1901 was in contrast with the dramatic, dy- namic campaigns he since has waged. That year he was the choice of the Municipal Voters | won. | James A. Pugh, and Pred Lundin, that ushered in the century, spon- (Continued on Page Six) poration and Joshiah Brill, Receiver has appealed to Secr etary of the Foshay Investors Corpora- Mellon. to present his views tion. ’ Other witnesses are former stock- holders and employes of the W. B. Foshay Company which went into a recelvership in 1929 affecting property valued at $25,000,000. —————— e S TR BT i R S A TODAY’S STOCK .| QUOTATIONS | . L] NEW YCRK, Teb. 17.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 9; American Can 117%, Anaconda Copper 36%, Beth- before the Senate Finance Committee tomorrow. Proponents hope to get the bill to President Hoover ahead of the ten-day period before adjournment of Congress dur- ing which time the President could let the measure die without signing it and with- out returning it to Congress. Leaders are trying to re- lehem Steel 60, General Motors assemble their forces in an 41%, Granby Consolidated 17%, In- attempt to uphold a veto ternational Harvester 557%, Kenne- hieh b cott 26%, Packard Motors 10%, "Nich is expected due to the Simmons Beds 18%, Standard Opposition of Secretary Mel. Brands 18%, Standard Oil of Cali- Jon to inerease the loan value fornia 48%, Standard Oil of New Jersey 48'z2, United Aireraft 31%, U. S. Steel 144%, Hudson Bay 5%. from 2214 per cent to 50 per cent. Muscle Shoals /irgumentvs' Dim Any Chance of Law By FRANK I. WELLER (A. P. Farm Editor) WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—Disa- greement of Senate and House con- ferees on leasing the nitrate plants this " Congress which would put to this congress which would put to work the government’s property at Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The nearest it ever came to turn- | ing a wheel since the Armistice erased its original purpose was wvhen Congress passed a bill for federal operation, but President Coolidge stopped that with a ‘pocket” veto. Principal Fight Since then Congress has fought over the distribution of the hydro- electric power to be developad there —whether it shall be done at cost, by the government, or for profit by a private interest. Senator Hugo Black, of Alabama | charges that in its power wrangle Congress has forgotten what he "|terms the real purpose in utilizing the property, namely, low-cost pro- duction of fertilizer. Regardless of the form legislation takes, Black says he will introduce an amend- ment to lease the machinery to a co-operative organization of farm- ers, which would produce and sell | fertilizer at cost. Farmer Relief | “Operation of the plants,” he says, “would provide employment for thbusands, and if we manufac- ture nitrate we will do something to give the farmer relief. The ni- trate plants were intended for the aid of agriculture through the pro- | duction of fertilizer . “Last year "in Alabama, about one-fourth of the retrn from every ‘pound of cotton produced had to be |paid out for fertilizer. The same was true in most other cotton | states.” | Commercial sources estimate that there will be a probable reduction |in fertilizer consumption this year |ranging sectionally from 10 to 30 per cent, due to inability of many \farmers to obtain credit.