The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 24, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALI THE TIME” E PRICE TEN CENT$ 'MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5651. * JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1931, CIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT IS UPHELD BATTLE OF BALLOTS STARTS EARLY 3 CANDIDATES DAY ELEMENTS = CLAIM VICTORY CHICAGO RACE Balloting Started Early To- day in Republican Primaries MAYORALTY CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN HECTIC ONE Mud—slinginfiesorted to, Said to Be Worse City’s History mn CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 24—“Big Bill” Thompson, Judge John H.'proposals to create a single all-' Lyle and Arthur F. Albert are today fighting for the Republican nomination to compete against An- ton Cermak, Democrat, to be Chi- yigorous objections at the Prchibi-' cago’s World Fair Mayor. All three contestants claimed vic- tory as balloting started rapidly this morning after one of the most hectic mud slinging campaigns in the history of the city. “Big Bill,” thrice Mayor, seeking a fourth term, accused Judge Lyle of being ruled by a newspaper. Judge Lyle carried machine guns into his meetings and showed them as gang weapons and claimed Thompson's chief support came from gangland. Albert fought both, Lyle who is known as a gangster enemy, and Thompson, claiming conditions will be as bad under one as the other. ———e————— . GRAND 16LOD WILL CONVENE ON WEDNESDAY Corttied gk Mayor Will | Welcome Delegates at . Capitol Theatre Delegates to the Grand Igloo of the Pioneers of Alaska and of the Grand Auxiliary of the order, will meet in biennial convention at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning in the hall of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at the corner of Second and Franklin Streets. They “HAVE STARTED 1332 WORRYING ’ ) Wants to Unite Forces but | Object to Too Close E Affiliations METHODIST BOARD IS | i GETTING IN LIMELIGHT Issues Sort of War | Democratic Party ! About Policies WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 24— ning to embracing dry organization to fight ,through the 1932 Presidential cam- ipaign is reported to have drawn tion Board of Strategy meeting held here Saturday. The Board, at a closed meeting, is reported to have agreed upon the necessity of cooperating to |eliminate overlapping efforts of sev- |eral organizations but some leaders object to too closely a unit organ- ization. The Methodist Board of Temper- ance warned the Democratic party to “stop slapping Democratic Dries in the face, and to keep meoral is- sues out of the 1932 campaign.” The Board's statement further said: “In 1928, the same men who are today saying the Democratic | Party must be wet, were hooting at the idea Smith would lose the {Southern States because of his at- itack on Prohibition. What hap- pened then is almost certain to 'happen next year if the leaders once again play with the buzz saw.” iOle Eielson Will- Visit | Alaska Soon \Father of Colonel Eielson i Will Fulfill Promise ! He Made | WENATCHEE, Washington, Feb. {24—Ole Eielson, banker of Hatton, North Dakota, father of Col. Carl will be called to order by Cal M.|Ben Eielson, said here yesterday Brosius of Seward, Grand President, he will leave soon for a visit to and on the platform with him will K Alaska to keep a promise made be George J. Love, of Valdez, Grand | when his son’s body was found. He | | —— FRANGE VIEWING DEFENDANTS WIN CHANGE OF VENUE SIX - SIDED RACE FOR PRESIDENCY Successor to Doumergue ! Will Be Chosen at l Session in May FIVE MEN ARE OUT | IN OPEN FOR HONOR Boosters ofadidates Ad- dressing Members of Two Houses By T. T. Topping PARIS, Feb. 24— Parliamentary | lobbies are buzzing with talk about ithe coming presidential election, the twelfth in the history of this Third Republic of France. The successor to President Gas- ton Doumergue will be chosen in May by a joint session at Ver- sailles of the senate and the cham- ber of deputies. Consequently it is to members of the two houses of Secretary. The morning session tomorrow | will be devoted to the presentation of an official flag of Alaska to the! Grand Igloo by the Grand Auxil-| iary and to appointment of com- mittees—credentials, order of busi- ness, legislative and resolutions, and any others that may be deemed! desirable for the expedition of the| convention’s proceedings. " Reports of Committees The afternoon session tomorrow will be occupied in hearing com- mittee is ready to report, chiefly the committees on credentials and order of business. Tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock Igloo and Auxiliary delegates will| assemble in the Oapitol Theatre. At this gathering brief addresses of | welcome will be delivered by Gov. | has been here for several days visiting his daughter, Adeline Eiel- son, school teacher. parliament that boosters of the |various candidates are addressing | their pleas. } There are five men openly in the |field and another ,Aristide Briand, anate Flllleflll ‘0!’ [P‘rance's “apostle of peace” in the ,near background. Electrocuted Slayers b | . Usually the president of the sen- WHEELING, W. Va., Feb. 24— ate is considered as having the ‘The body of W. Glenn Dague, who|st.rongesb claim to the honor and was electrocuted yesterday morn-'hence Paul Doumer, incumbent of | ing in the Pennsylvania State prison the post, is much discussed. | for killing Corporal Brady Paul,| Politics to the Front highway patrolman, lay in the home, But party politics has invaded | of his parents here today, prepared the situation this year. Doumer for a private funeral tomorrow. |is backed by the rightists and the The body of Mrs. Irene Schroe- moderate centerists. The left groups der, who was electrocuted for the‘am rallying behind Fernand Bouis- same crime, is still at the Peniten- son, president of the chamber of tiary jbut expected here late today. deputies. | Funeral arrangements have mnot|! There is open advocacy also of George A. Parks on behalf of the| Territory, and by Mayor Thomas B. Judson on behalf of the city.| (Continued on Page Twn) ; been disclosed but the body will three senators, Henri Cheron, M'i probably be buried at Bellaire, bert Lebrun and Albert Sarraut.| ©Ohio. Relatives here have sought! French presidents are chosen for' police protection to insure privacy a term of seven years, but only| against the curious. five of them have served out their —Famed Swiss Dogs May Go For Snow Rescues BERNE, Switzerland, Feb. 24— Two brethren of the Great St. Bernard Hospice, famous Alpine refuge for snowbound travelers, have left Switzerland to choose a site for a similar institution in the moun- tains of southern Tibet. They are working under auspices of the Foreign Mission of Paris which, it is understood, plans to erect a refuge on the heights of the Salwin Valley, near Menkong, in the land of the lamas. The investigators - are expected |full terms. These were Jules Grevy, | 1879-1886; Emile Loubet, 1899-1906; |Armand Fallieres, 1906-1913; Ray- mond Poincare, 1913-1920; and Gas- ton Doumergue, 1924-1931. Death cut short two terms. Sadi iCarnot was assassinated at Lyons (Continued or Pagc Three) ————e——— to Tibet back in Switzerland in July. If their mission is successful they will return to Tibet with two or three other monks and some St. Bernard dogs, trained to find the weary wayfarer on blizzard-swept mountain trails. The Tibetan Pass frequently is used by travelers and, like the dis- trict of the Great St. Bernard, it frequently is swept by snow.storms. The Swiss hospice is more than 1,000 years old, having been found- ed in 923 A. D, ‘ Nomination of Judge Hill Is : Given Approval | WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb, 24.—The nomination of E. Coke Hill to be Federal Judge of | the Third Judicial Division of Alaska, has been reported fav- orably by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Judge Hill was renominated fora second term. | {to review the royal navy Members Vof Higlzest Courr'iv in Land Maiw Dry Decision Ve UNANIMOUS DECISION IS MADE BY SUPREME COURT OF UNITED STATES ON Associate Justice Owen J. PROHIBITION LAW Roberts Delivers Opinion Refore Crowded Courtroom — Overrules Con- tentions Made by Federal Judge Clark of New Jersey — In Case at Issue Chief Justice Hughes Takes No Part WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 24—The Supreme Court of the United States today u ment overruling the decision pheld the Eighteenth Amend- made by Federal Judge Will- iam Clark of New Jersey last Fall. Judge Clark contended should have been submitted the Eighteenth Amendment to the State Conventions for ratification rather than to State Legislatures. The Supreme Court ruled the view was untenable. NOW ANOTHER OFFICIAL HAS BEEN TALKING Italy Sees New Attempt, Perhaps, to Cast As- persions on Mussolim FULL REPORT OF REMARKS WANTED INew Yorker Makes Ad- dress—Italian Embassy Gets Busy Quickly WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 24— The Italian Embassy has requested the Itallan Consulate in New York City to send to it for study a full report of the remarks made by Assistant Attorney General of State {John O'Brian. O'Brian is quoted as indirectly criticizing Premier Mussolini by |saying: “Thank God we do not live in a country, such as Italy, where the dictatorship of one man can make a horizontal slice of wages.” Asked to explain later, O'Brian said: “Perhaps it was a poor choice lof words expressing my ideas. It was not my purpose to cast asper- sions upon Italy or the rulers, I |was contrasting merely. I under- |stand that when depression came tol |Italy, Premier Mussolini issued a |manifesto ordering a ten per cent leut in Government salaries. I un- Nelson C. Bowles, (left) Portland, Ore., millionaire, and his farmer | secretary, Irma G. Loucks, shown leaving courtroom where they won a change of venue of their trial on a charge of killing his wife, Mrs. Bowles, to Hillsboro, Washington Bagley (inset) will preside at the trial. English LONDON, Feb. 24—William Hor- race de Vere Cole, king of England’s practical jokers, married, seriously. is going to be Cole is 48, if it isn't a hoax, and! his fiancee, Miss Mavis Winifred Mary Wright, is 22. A well-set-up man with gray hair and a mustache, Cole looks not unlike Prime Minister Mac-! Donald, and once gave a “red hot tory speech” to a group of work- men who mistook him for the lead-! er of the labor party. But that was only one of the minor incidents among his 95 prac- tical jokes. His most spectacular hoax as prince of Abyssinia, when he was accorded all the salutes laid down Joke King Serious for Once; i Will Be Married derstand this later was extended to private employment. The thougml |T intended to convene was the Fed- jeral Government here has taken no county. Circuit Judge George R. |such action.” X e Adssociated Press Photo ' TODAY'S STOCK 4 QUOTATIONS Bk i NEW YORK, Feb. 24— Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine !stock today Is 8%, lehem Steel 68%, General Motors 4 | International Harvester 58, Kenne~;‘ jin the regulations for such an im- COtt 81%, Packard Motors 11%, portant v?:itor. Simmons Beds 19%, Standard| 1 {Brands 19%, Standard Oil of Cali- | S le was shown oves C“;; fornia 50%, Standard Oil of New| e by suthpritice ‘who: thoug Jersey 517%, United Aircraft 35%, U. 8. Steel 149%, CurUSle'igh:i 4%, Hudson Bay 57%. | e | MAJOR ELLIOTT RETURNS ‘he was the Sultan of Zanzibar. Another time, disgulsed as a workman, he roped off a patech of Piccadilly Circus, London's business‘ The Government argued the question had already been disposed of by the Supreme SEAL HERD IS MIGRATING TO ALASKA COAST Leaders of at Least One Million Sighted Off California COAST GUARD WILL SOON START PATROL Covernment—\/essels Will Follow Fur Bearers to Pribilofs SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 24. —Leaders of at least one million fur seals valued at more than $35,- 000,000 have been sighted off the California coast on the annual mi- gration to Alaska. The Coast Guard is planning to escort the seals north from the mouth of the Columbia River about March 15 and foilowing them to the Pribilofs. There the seals will be guarded by the Bureau of Fish- eries. The seal herd has quadrupled since the 1911 treaty which pro- hibited killing of them on the high seas except by Indians with primitive weapons. The United States has been granted control of the seals by Great Britain, Japan and Russia because the breeding grounds are part of Alaska. i SR Court. Attorneys upholding the decision of Judge Clark argued the Eighteenth Amendment was invalid claiming the amendment granted new powers to the Fed- eral Government over the people and such an amendment must be | submitted direct to the people. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes withdrew from the case and took no part because he had filed a brief in a previous Pro- hibition case which he contended Idlsquallfled him. | Decision Is Made The decision today was deliy~ ered by Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts before a crowded courte room. Justice Roberts said Congress had been granted complete juris- diction to decide the mode of rati- fication of amendments and had a right to refer amendments to State | Legislatures. Justice Roberts said the attorneys upholding the decision of Judge Clark sald the amendment took the power from the people, which no other amendment did. He said that in the opinion of the Supreme Court, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Nineteenth Amendments did the same. He said National Pro- hibition in cases in the 1920 Court had been heard and the validity of the Amendment had been up= held and the Court now reiterated its position. The decision sustaining the vale idity of the Eightenth Amendment today was unanimous. MUSCLE SHOALS OPERATION NOW s = 1P T0 HOOVER: Killers of | sses Measure Passes Congress—- Buckley to Face Trial Trio Charged with Alleged, Murder of Detroit Radio Announcer | viding for the operation | Government's land nitrate | Shoals. | Is Sent to White House for Disposition WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 24— For the second time in the tem year controvery, Congress has sent to the White House the bill pro- of the power Muscle bill 55 $150,000,000 plants at The Senate passed the DETROIT, Mich,, Feb. 24.—The“to 28. seven months’ old killing of Jerry| Buckley, radio announcer, will now The bill authorizes the Govern- ment to manufacture nitrates and be aired in court as Ted Pizzino,|distribute electric power. Angelo Livecchi and Joe Bommarito went on trial charged with the murder. Buckley was killed following a the Mayor of Detroit was recalled. e ———.———— Mrs. Ross Kinney, whose husband sioner, is enroute to Seattle on the the States. | The bill previously passed the | House. It is predicted that President | Hoover will disapprove of the bill. | heated political campaign in which| Former President Coolidge pocket | vetoed a similar bill. e Fred Ekholm, bridge foreman of American Can |is superintendent of the Nome dis-|the Copper River and Northwestern 120%, Anaconda Copper 42%, Beth- |trict for the Alaska Road Commis-|Railroad, with headquarters in Cor= dova, s enroute to the States on %, Granby Consolidated 21%, Yukon and will spend some time in the Yukon for an extended vaca= tion. i Despite His Plea, Ex-Emperor Must corner, and proceeded to dig a| {hole, as workmen do the world jover. Then he walked away, leav- ling authorities to puzzle out the Maj. Malcolm Elliott, President of the Alaska Road Commission,| who has spent the past three weeks b in western and interior Alaska on But his wedding will be serious, ' epi0i0) buginess, returned home hé insists. ’ i Pk U last night on the steamer Yukon. | ——————— | st Loyis hockey team of the, Fern Wagner, Anchorage mining | American league is believed to have Man, is a Yukon passenger enroute set a mew record for consecutive to the States to purchase machinery defeats in pro hockey, 13 games. 1lm' next season’s operations. Pay Doorn Taxes : DOORN, Holland, Feb. 24.—De- spite ex-Kaiser Wilhelm's plea that he is an involuntary visitor here, he will contribute about 25 per cent of the municipality’s tax col- lection. ‘The former emperor, who claimed he shouldn't pay the regular tax, had some consolation, however, when the Dutch magistrates de- |cided his house and grounds would be placed under protection of the Preservation of Nature acts. 3 These laws require tenants to keep up the property and in ex- change for this service a rebate in taxes is given. But even with the rebate, the ex= Kaiser's income, ground and—iron- ically enough—defense tax, account for one-fourth of the town's tax roll. .