The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 23, 1931, Page 1

- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “AEL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23 1931. MEMBER OF ASbOCIATI;D PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS PRE—ELECTION VIOLENCE STARTS, CHICAGO PRIMARIES PULVER KILLED IN FALL DOWN STAIRS DEATH TAKES HEIR BEFORE HE GETS ESTATE Legatee to Valentine For- tune Made Unconscious and Suffocates ACCIDENT OCCURS IN STORE FURNACE ROOM v 8 { Body Is Found with Head Twisted Under it by M. H. Truesdell ‘\ “Accidental death by suffocation” was the verdict of the coroner's jury that Saturday night inquired into the demise of Ernest Lee Pul- ver, 61 years old, pioneer jewelry worker of Juneau, a few hours aft- er its occurrence. His tragic end resulted from a fall down the stairs to the furnace room of the Valen- tine Building, and in striking the floor he was rendered unconscious with his head twisted under his bedy in such a way as to prevent him from breathing. No doubt he had started down the stairs, which are very steep with narrow treads, to shut off the oil furnace, which was generating excessive heat. Quite probably he pitched head foremost from the top step. No one witnessed the accident. The jewelry store off the rear of which is the little room containing the trap door leading to the fur- nace room stnlrway, was vacant at the time. Truesdell Finds Body The body was found by M. H. ‘Truesdell, gunsmith and dealer in fire arms, whose place of busi- ness is on the Seward Street side of the Valentine Building, and who having entered the jewelry store tc see Mr. Pulver, was attracted to the furnace room by the noise of the furnace. Mr. Truesdell fixes the time about 7 o'clock in the evening. He felt the prosirate figure’s hand. It was still warm. He hastened to the second floor of the Valentine Building to the law office of A. W. Fox who was talking with G. W. Nostrand, deputy Ter- ritorial auditor. On being informed of the oc- currence they telephoned to United States Commissioner Charles Sey, who is also coroner, and to the of- fice of United States Marshal Al- bert White. No Foul Play Evident Deputy United States Marshal C. J. Sullivan visited the scene of the accident. He concluded at once death was accidental. He sum- moned a coroner’s jury at the di- rection of the Commissioner, and the body was removed to the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. The inquest was held in the par- lor of the mortuary at 8:30 o'clock, Saturday evening. The jurors were E. F. Rodenberg, J. N. Wahl, U. G. Norton, C. C. Rudolph, F. W. Heniker and R. R. Hermann . Tells of Finding Body Mr. Truesdell testified as to the incidents in connection with the finding of the body. ‘When I went to dinner at 5:15! o'clock,” he said, “I noticed the Jewelry store was not lighted. I (Continued on Page Eight) ————.——— WET VIEWS OF 16 STATES NOW WANTED, SENATE Studies of All Sections Not, Included in Re- i port Made WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 23— ‘The Senate has adopted a resolu- tion asking the Wickersham Law Enforcement Commission for Pro- hibition Enforcement data collected from sixteen states not covered in the report made to the Senate last Friday. Senator Tydings, Democrat of Maryland, and author of the ori- ginal proposal, offered the resolu-| tion asking the Commission to state reasons for withholding the data the Committee did not include in studies of states which indicated ! opposition to the present dry laws. Pbliticrrll Beeils Bfizzing For Senator-Elect of I1l. ¥. g JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS DAME MELBA PASSES AWAY BOOM LAUNCHED FOR J. . LEWIS FOR PRESTDENT Heads of Democratic Party |Famous Soprano Dies After | In State of Illinois Short Illness— Start Action Strange Malady CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 23.—A Presi- | dential boom for James Hamilton Lewis, Senator-elect from Illinois, | has been launched by the heads of the Democratic Party. | Anton Cermak, State leader and | candidate for Mayor of Chicago, formally set the Lewis movement Sn; I motion with a speech in which he | said: “We are sending James Hamilton | IN MELBOURNE SCHALL'S SEAT 'INU. S, SENATE 1S THREATENED {Democrot of Minnesota } Start Fight—Counsel i Will Be Engaged | BLIND SENATOR IS TO | | FACE CORRUPT CHARGE| UtterancesDuringCampaign | Also Basis for Politi- | cal Action = ST. PAUL, Minn., Feb. 23—J. J.! Farrell, Chairman of the Demo-| cratic State Committee, has an- nounced the election of Senator; Thomas D. Schall, Republican, in' November, will be contested in an) attempt to prevent his being sworn in on March 4. Farrell said counsel will be en- gaged and would file charges im- mediately before the Senate Elec- tions Committee in Washington and | will ask the seat be declared vacant and a new election be called. | Charges Made | The charges, Farrell said, will be |that Schall violated the Corrupt | Practices Act of Minnesota and the |Federal Laws by misusing the | Postal franking privileges ; Other Democrats said utterances| {of the Blina Senator during the "ROSSING THE DETAWARE The Man We Honor loday AS FirsT */ PresipenT Lo % G EORGE WASHINGTON 'campaign, especially over :h: radio, (Wil be one basis for th» Co:rupt Practice Act violation char ;2. 1 Frank Privilege ol Huber! Dautremont, of Duluth, tormer Drmocratic State Cnairmean. (repeatacly protested to the Post |Office department regarding Schalls use of the postal franking privilege Big Damages For Mayor of Windy Ci ty Thtrd Smt Is F Lled for in Campaign CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 23.—Munici- pal Judge John H. Lyle, candidate for the Republican nomination for mayor of Chicago, has filed suit for $100,000 in the Superior Court, charging slander and libel, against George Fairweather, assistant busi- ness manager of the University of Chicago. Fairweather was quoled in last Saturday morning newspapers with having said he attended a bur- lesque theatre with Judge Lyle and | |during the smpaign. “Because of a technicality in the | Corrup® Fractice Act, we shall not ask that Einar Hoidale, Schall's Democratic opponent in the last |election be declared electel, but jwe shall ask the seat be declared vacant and a new election cailed,” said Farrell Republicars Support Move Farrell said the move is receivingi |vide suppot and other Damocrats inumated Minnesota Republicans|geseribed him as a “patron, attor- ore {riendly ‘o0 it because of disa-|ney of g former stockholder, if not greement be'ween Senator Schallly present stockholder in the cheap- {ish bull Lewis to Washington to become ac-| quainted with the members and| familiarize himself with conditions. In 1932 we will send him back as| President.” Simultaneously, V. Y. Dallman. Springfield Editor, and William L. O’Connell, Chicago manager of the Lewis landslide campaign for Sena- tor, announced Lewis' name will be | entered on the ballot in 1932 in the Presidential Preffirmtm! Primnry. IS NEARLY KILLED BY ANGRY BULL Sidney Franklm, American Matador, at Mercy of Animal in Ring NUEVO, Laredo, Mexico, Feb. 23. —Sidney Franklin, of Brooklyn, N.| Y., known as the American mata- dor, was gored in the right leg and painfully injured Sunday after- | noon fighting a bull. Franklin slipped in the sand in| the bull ring and was at the mercy of the bull for several minutes before picadors distracted the at- | tention of the animal. Marcial Lalanda, famous Span- fighter, rushed to the rescue of Franklin and killed the bull. - During a heated argument in the stands which resulted from |the tragedy, an unidentified Am- | erican spectator was stabbed by |a Mexican. ——.——— MOOSE CHIEF LEAVES S. Wallstedt, Deputy Grand Dic- tator for Alaska of the Loyal Order of Moose, left on the Queen for an official visit to the Moose Lodge at Skagway. | | | | | —_—— ASSOCIATED PRESS (UNDERWOOD) +NELLIE MELBA MELBOURNE, Australia, Feb. 23. —Dame Nellie Melba, famous Aus- | tralian soprano, died today after | an illness of several weeks. She | suffered a strange malady believed ‘contracted in Egypt. The ailment | was apparently caused by a toxic condition in her blood. Nellie Melba, “The Australian wN\ghungale.” known to music lov- ‘ers the world over for the won- ‘derful purity, flexibility and sweet- ness of her voice in its dazzling ‘upper registers, was universally ac- | claimed by critics as one of the | greatest sopranos of any era. | | Well Known in U. S. Well known in the United States, | which she toured numerous times both in grand opera and in con- cert, Mme. Melba also was the {pride of London musical circles jand idol of the Parisian public. Her success in Italy, Russia, Ger- many and in her own native Aus- tralia was equally notable for the [high honors accorded her. The musical education of Mme. Melba, whose real name was Nellie Porter Mitchell, began when she only through long years of hard, determined work that she advanced rank of great singers. Stage Debut Her stage debut was made in %3 (Continued on Pagc Three) and Presideat Hoover over the ap- rointment of 1 Federal Judge. The contest will be the seccnd Senator Schall faced in the Sen- ate. When he defeated Magnus Johnson in 1924, the latter con- tested but lost. In the last election Schall won by 11,500 votes. — .- DIE IN CHAIR FOR KILLING OF GORPORAL Penn,, Feb. 23.— Mrs. Irene schroeder and W. Glenn Dague were electrocuted here this morning in the State Penitentiary State Patrolman in December, 1929. The woman went to the chair at 7 o'clock this morning and was for killing Corporal Brady Paul,, est burlesque theatres in Chicago.” The statement was represented as an excerp from a letter in which Fairweather endorsed Arthur Al- bert, another mayoralty candidate. Judge Lyle denied all assertions. | The suit was the third to result {from the present mayoralty cam- pnign. Mayor Thompson started action against Judge Lyle and against the Chicago Daily News asking $100,000 from each, charging they libelled him by referring to the disposal of flood relief funds he collected in 1927 known as the “Gangsters’ Foe.” JUDGE JOHN H. LYLE I Judge Lyle is JOINNG OF | < DRY FORCES | CONSIDERED dead at 7:05 o'clock. t;'I'hn'ty-fxve Prohibition Or- Dague followed in the chair af 7:08 and was dead at 7:13 o'clock. gamzatlons Plan Unification Mrs. Schroeder, mother of a five-year-old son, kept the calm she has maintained since sen-| o tenced except for a short period WA.SHTNGTON D. C, Feb. 23.— of hysteria when told Gov. Pinchot Plans to unify action of 35 Prohi- refused to commute her sentence. hition organizations were discussed; Dague went to the chair in the last Saturday at a conference by same calm manner he has shown members of the organizations se- since sentenced. lected to outline coordination plans.} | The meeting was an executive ses- : islon and the members declined to) Data on Mar""es |discuss what was being considered In Nwaragua jand would not admit they were Gi H ‘seekmg a ‘“czar to take charge of wen to Hoover the Prohibition organization under wsa three years of age, but it was, WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 23 —Secretary of State Stimson ! one leader.” 1 R AT herself to a place in the foremost ' Brussels when she was 28, when| has forwarded to the White FREIGHTER COMES AND GOES House for transmission to the | Senate documents requested in the Marine occupation of Nica- With a shipment of general mer- | chandise, the freighter Bellingham arrived in Juneau yesterday from Seattle. S8he stayed but a short| time, discharging cargo, and then ragua. Senator Hiram Johnson of California, was author of the resolution for the documents, which comprise 33,000 words. left on*her return voyage to Se- attle. AI.ASKASLAVERY ON SOVIET GOVT. {Investigation Shows Only About 40 Mexicans in Northland WASHINGTON, D. O, Feb. 23.— Chairman Albert Johnson, of the House Immigration Committee, said he believed the charges from Mexl- co City that 5000 Mexicans are held in virtual slavery in Alaska, were inspired by the Soviet Gov- ernment. Congressman Johnson saw thi charge as part of a movement against nations seeking to bar forc- ed labor products. He cited the recent Mexico City dispatch telli of the alleged slavery and saic | “The Immigration Committee in- quired into the report and ascer- {tained that the number of Mexi- cans in Alaska was forty.” FOX FARMER ON VIisIT F. B. Crowell, fox farmer on Indian Island in Icy Straits, is in Juneau on business. ing at the Zynda Hotel. He is stay-, ~ MAY DEGIDE " VALIDITY OF U.S. DRY LAW |Supreme Court Meets To- morrow — May Give Opinion This Week WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. | 28.—~The Supreme Court of the United States, reconvening to- | morrow, may pass on the val- | idity of the National Prohibi- tion law this week. | Included in the decision of forty-six controversies on which the Justices of the Supreme | Court are preparing opinions, is the decision of Federal Judge Clark of New Jersey holding | the Prohibition law is invalid because ratified by Legislatures and not State conventions. - e ‘Guard Not . Looking; 14 ' Men Escape Ball Game in Prison Yard| Permits of Impromptu elivery including one| Fourteen convicts, |murderer and several life termers, are being tracked through the sage- brush today after scaling the wall yesterday when a guard was not. looking. The impromptu delivery had been going on two hours before discov- ered. A guard on the wall failed to see the men using a pipe to scale the wall during a ball game in the ,)ns;cn yard (ONE CANDIDATE IS SHOT AT; 2 SEIZED, BEATEN Day- Belore Ballohng Trouble Already Re- ported to Police POLL WATCHERS ARE CIVEN CREDENTIALS Seventy-five Thousand Are Planning to Mobilize to Keep Order CHICAGO, 1., Feb. 23.— Seventy thousand persons are planning to keep order in to- morrow’s mayoralty and ald- ermanic primaries. Reports have been received by the police and at the var- ious campaign headquarters | of pre-election violence. Theodore Clifford, Council ‘candidate, is reported to have been shot at while driving along the street in an auto- mobile. Bernard Sheehan and John Grady said they were seized {and beaten while electioneer- | ing for another candidate. | Credentials have been is- sued to 45,000 poll watchers {in addition to 15,000 judges ‘and 10,000 other election of- ficials. | The candidates for Mayor jare closing their campaigns | today. The Republican candi- ,dates are William Hale { Thompson, Judge John H. Lyle and Alderman Arthur I F. Albert. Anton J. Cermak, Presi- |dent of the County Commis- | sion, is slated to oppose the | Republican nominee at the | election on April 7. —— WET AND DRY FIGHT LOOMS - HERE SHORTLY Repeal of Alaska Bone Dry | Act to Be Put Up to | Legislature Unless all signs fail, Alaskans will mix shortly in a Wet and Dry argument, incident to a move- ment to repeal the Alaska Bone Dry Law, which has been effective in the Territory since 1917. The Legislature which convenes here next Monday will be called upon to take decisive action in this matter which has m de- bated for the past decade. Lawyers in Sympathy Most of the members of the legal profession in the Territory are in sympathy with the movement. At a recent meeting of the local bar association a discussion revealed that it was almost unanimous for “(Continuea on ?ue Two) Youthful Torturer Who Beat and Burned Woman, Displays Little Remorse SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 23. Charles Simpson, aged 19 years, who confessed Friday he killed Mrs. |Albina Voorhies by beating and burning her in her little store, said he would plead guilty and throw himself on the mercy of the court jeven if it means the death penalty. | Capt. Hoertkoern, in the prisoner, in an effort to bring home to the youth the realization of his crime Capt. Hoertkoern said: charge of, questioned Simpson | “Just | think of that little old lady who had been so kind to you—think of her begging for mercy with flames searing her flesh. Don't you feel sorry for her now?” Simpson pondered for a moment und his eyes filled with tears as | he answered: “Yes, you're right. It must have been pretty terrible for her. If I had it to do over again I would shoot the old lady instead of burn- ing her.”