The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 3, 1931, Page 1

1 et e o A et 1 Y S A M L e i o THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5657. "AIL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA T’UE.SDAY MARCH 3, 1931. MI:MBER OF AbeLIA T[ D PRLSS PRICE TEN CENT§ CHAIRMEN OF HOUSE COMMITTEES TO VISIT ALASKA OAKLAND BANK ROBBED RANCHER HAS CONFESSEDTO BOLD HOLD-UP Secures Large Sum by Check Signed at Point of Gun EMPLOYEES BECOME SUSPICIOUS AT DEAL Authorities Are Quickly Notified — Arrest Speedily Follows OAKLAND, Cal, March 3. — A confession has been obtained from J. B. Palmer, rancher of Hayward, California, by the Sheriff’s officers, that he took $44,300 from the Oak- Jand Branch Bank of America yes- terday. Palmer said he forced J. W.| Cardoza, banker, to approve cash- ing of a check for the amount. Officers recovered the money, from beneath a board sidewalk on, Palmer’s ranch Cardoza said Palmer called him' to the ranch on pretext he wanted an advance on a real estate deal. The rancher then confronted Car- doza with a gun and forced the banker to go to Oakland and assist in cashing the check. Employees of the bank became suspicious and called the police. Palmer was ar- rested on his ranch. | ANE FORCED DOWN BY FIRE FOUND IN MAIL Two Passer@s from Se- attle Suffer Burns— Others Uninjured ROSEBURG, Oregon, March 3.— H. E. Smith was burned on the arms and face and P. E. Hanson was injured in the eye when a Pacific Air Transport air mail plane piloted by Grover Taylor, was forc- ed to land 20 miles east of here at midnight last night. Smith and Hanson were passen- gers from Seattle. Another passenger, C. L. Stevens, of Boston, and the pilot were not injured. Pilot Tyler was forced down when fire was discovered in the mail compartment. Both wings were ripped off in landing. The mail was slightly damaged. TWENTY-FOUR ARE VICTIMS OF PARALYSIS Ex-Service M_er-\- Are Treat- ed—Drank Adulterat- ed Ginger Extract LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 3.— Twenty-four ex-service men, vic- tims of paralysis caused by drink- ing adulterated ginger extract, are being treated at the National Soldiers’ Home. County and Federal officers are investigating the source of the supply. Dr. Maurice Smith, of the United States Public Health Service. said 180 cases have previously been-re<, ported. He further said he under-' stood the extract was purchased from drug stores. ’ —ee—— RETURN TO PETERSBURG Charles A. Hawthorn and Neil MacGregor, movie theatre men of Petersburg, who have been in Ju- neau on business for several days, returned to their home town aboard the Alameda. e ————— Mrs. T. E. Wildes, who has been visiting her son, Keith Wildes and his wife for several months, is re- turning to her home in Seattle, a passenger aboard the Alameda. w DAUGHTER OF NOVELIST MARRIEU ’ { | | | | | | J Ly | Assocratea Press Phon ‘ setty Zane Grey, 18, daughter of the writer, and her newly ac- quired husband, Robert W. Carney, Hollywood motion picture camera- wan. Thoy will lpand their honeymoon in the South Seas. L[]GAL GUMPANY QueenHelen ;. IS ORGANIZED | FOR BUILDING | ! R. J. Sommers, Former | Highway Engineer, Heads New Contracting Firm | | | | Organization of the R. J. Som- | mers Construction Company, head- | ed by Mr. Sommers, was revealed | here yesterday. It is organized | under Territorial laws and is &' closed corporation. adequately fi- nanced, and it will enter the g=n- eral contracting figld at once throughout the Territory. Mr. Sommers ie-. here yesterday ¥ ¥ » bt i |er Jury Recommends Agamst ‘Wllson, aged 62 years, father of six Ichildren, is to be sentenced GRITICISM 1S MADE AGAINST THREE PARTIES ‘Hoover, chkersham Com-, mission, Senate Com- mittee Scored SENATE AND HOUSE | AMERICAN PEOPLE MEMBERS INVITED| HOWEVER ARE O. K. Govérmors'ol Seversl States Annual Report ort of Associa- Indicate They Will tion Against Dry Attend | Amendment Made WASHINGTON D. C, March 3 WASx{II\GTON DC March 3.— —A call for a Nonpartisan Con- President Hoover, the Wicke: rsham ference to formulate a ‘“construcs Law Enforcement Commission and | tive legislative program” has bcen the Senate Lobby Committee drew lssued by Senators Norris, as Chair-' sharp criticism in the annual re- man; La Follette, Cutting, Wheel- port of the Association Against the and Senator-elect Costigan »f Prohibition Amendment but the | Colorado, a Democrat. | American people are found to be An invitation has been sent to all right. independents of both .parties to| | join the conference. The dates for Association, claimed a clear major- | the conference are March 11 and ity now in favor of repeal of the 112, | Eighteenth Amendment. He said Governors invited and indicating the Association membership totals willingness to participate are Roose- 350,000. velt of New York, Pinchot of Penn-[ sylvania, La Follette of Wisconsin, Ccmmission with ‘“bald discrep- Olson of Minnesota and Meler of ancy” in issuing the summary of Oregon. 1conclusions that read like a “dry Representative LaGuardia of New brief” together with the text paint- York, said sixteen House members ing the “noble experiment as a dis- will attend the conference. mal failure.” | Curran sald President Hoover, K.ll M \wlth his message of trnnsmmal to an “ithe pflmstaklng findings and re- 'ccmmendations of his commission.” Because He """l s Jealous HENRY GOOPER NONPARTISANS ARE TO MEET IN CONFERENGE Call Tssued for Sesion Be Held During Next Week Death Penalty—Life | Imprisonment i e | YAKIMA, Wash., March 3.—C. E. Oldest House Member, in| to life for Seattle to get into contact with dealers in construction materials and manufacturers. He will return here late this month, A veteran builder of roads, bridges and trails with experience dating back to the ploneer days of the Territory, Mr. Sommers "has been offigjally connected with Alaska road development for more than 15 years. He was the Territory’s first Highway Engineer and retired from that office March 1, after a serv- ice of seven years. He was con- nected with the Alaska Road Com- mission under Gen. Wilds P. Rich- ardson and succeeding presidents of that organization, and was dis- trict superintendent of both the Nome and Fairbanks districts. He resigned from the Fairbanks district in 1919 to become Sur- veyor General and Ex-Officio Sec- retary of Alaska and- upon the completion of his tenure in that office returned, after a brief in- terim in private business, to the Alaska Road Commission, and left it upon his appointment by then Gov. Scott C. Bone as Highway Engineer. Mr. Sommers will direct the nc- tivities of the new company which | will specialize in highway and bridge contracting. Harry Orton,' pioneer merchant of Fort Yukon who retired from active business RO Associated Press Photo Queen Helen of Rumania, es- tranged wife of King Carol, ic Il with the grippe. Reports In Bucharest society are that she Colonel Skeletti, RONUS LOANS MADE OUT AT SPEEDY CLIP Ten Thousand Applications \imprisonment for the murder of !Samuel Elke at the home of Mrs. Louise Laugon last October. | The jury recommended against /the death penalty. | Testimony was brought out at the trial that the slaying was be- |cause of jealousy of Mrs. Laugon |who is the mother of six children. STOPS WORK ON EATH VALLEY [Scotty Returns to Los An- geles — Government { Survey Being Made LOS ANGELES Cal,, March 3.— ‘ “Death Valley Scotty” is back here with the announcement he has laid /off 80 men and stopped work on i his $2,000,000 desert castle, he and !'his Chicago partner, A. M. Johnson |are building. see what the Government is going to do,” sald Scotty. “Buzzards are flying overhead - DESERT CASTLE plans to marry a Rumanian officer, | “We have got to wait until we, Point of Service, Passes Away ”‘ol‘IATED PR AERRYIALLEN COOPER: ‘WASHINGTON, D. C, March 3. —Represencanve Henry Allen Coop- , aged 80 years, of Racine, Wis- some two years ago, and local peo- | le are associated with Mr. Som- e ' e | Million Disbursed { - e — | —_— | WASHNGTON, D. C, March 3! cUMPLETE | —Veterans’ Bureau Administrator | Hines has informed President Hoov- | er that 10,000 applications for sold- | f ier bonus loans are being handled ! daily. | i The Veterans Bureau expects RY TGDAY this will be increased to 50,000 | soon. | Ju { Administrator Hines said he ex- | i pected favorable action tomorrow ‘TWCIVC Belng Chosen to from the Federal Reserve Board | members on the plea they can take r’ Hear Cas.e Of BOWICS ]care of the applications for loans and MlSS Loucks | made at a great distance from re- HILLSBOR.O Oregon, March 3.— The Veterans’ Bureau has sent| Selection of a jury to try Nelson $20,000,000 to the regional offices. C. Bowles, Portland milionaire, and It is estimated that $10,000,000 have | his former secretary, Miss Irma already been loaned. der of Bowles's wife, is expected Joe Dunn, manager of the Bloom-| to be completed today. irgton, TIl, Three-Eye league club, Eight jurors, all men, were pass- Played in the first major league a ed for cause yesterday, the open- game he ever saw. It was as a Handled Daily—Ten | mers in the firn. lgflonal offices. Loucks for the alleged knife mur-! SR TR o T ing day of the trial, member of the Brooklyn Dodgers. And. iy up 3he:place; coyoles oonsln oldest member in the House are loping in from the hills and gop pomg of service, 36 years, died {Pob cats are comlng down [rOM gujgeniy gt nis hotel here. His the mountains,” Scotty concluded. wife was at his bedside It seems the Federal Govern- 7 ment is making surveys in Death tus H v €] Allen Coo] repre- VEien whichcis, § rederve. for Ne xl:yt,ed c}?:yfirkt Wisconsin district tional Park purposes. The Govern- yn ‘en. “gouse of Representatives ment surveyors found Scotty's 1and gng wity his reelection to the Six-| jwas “misplaced” but title to the ty-Ninth Congress became its oldest castle land seems secure. Scotty p, said he is holding off on further construction until the survey is completed. lember in point of service, and, dne of the oldest in point of years. | One Interruption | His long period of succeeding terms had but one interruption, Father of Ketchikan when in 1918, his defeat was brought about by an attack on his Woman Dies Following war record. He was one of the Automobile Accident half hundred House members who| voted against American entrance 1nto the world war. SEATTLE, March 3— M. O, Graham, aged 59 years, father of Mrs. Ethel Anderson of Ketchikan, Alaska, is dead as the result of injuries when struck by an au‘o- automobile accident about mobile a. week ago. His ,w, Weeks before election day. another daughter and a son, all of Seattle, survive, (Continued on Png(: Three) | | | | Henry Curran, President of the Curan accused the chkersham\ ( DIES SUDDENLY, Shots Poured CAPITAL CITY IntoGambhng | | | | For well over a quarter of a cen-|of 1929, has passed {a vote of 295 to 83 | This defeat was by less than 500 ternational Harvester 56% ve'es after Cooper's campaign was 'cott 30, Packard Motors 10% ‘A warm. supporter of the late 48'~ Alert photographer snapped this informal picture of Belgian roy- alty as they were leaving studio where little Princess Josephine Charlotte, aged 3, had been pho- wgraphe q.l‘he baby princess is shown in the arms of a court .tm:ha (center) whnla her Royal Pomp Mlssmg Here 5 - father, Prince Leopold, heir to the Belgian throne (left), looks on. At the right is Princess Astrid, mother of the royal babs and niece of the ing of Sweden. Man at back is just & casual pedestrian, showing ex- treme informality of the occa- sion. Former Chlef of Army Engineers Passes Away On Duty i Establishment rlve Machme Gunners Lay‘ Down Barrage in Chicago CHICAGO, Ill, March 3.—Five machine gunners shot and killed one man early this morning and wounded another but they failed to explode a huge bomb which was | tossed into the basement of a| gambling resart. Willilam Mayer, caretaker of the establishment was killed and Hilario | | Rodriguez was wounde ! e e | JENKINS' BILL PASSES HOUSE, | 600D MARGIN Would Restrict Immigra- tion, Especially from | European Lands WASHINGTON, 2. C., March 3.— ‘The Jenkins' Bill restricting the immigration quota from European countries 90 percent for two years |and limiting entrants from North and South America to 10 per cent of those coming in the fiscal year the House by It is doubtful if the measure will receive favorable consideration from the Senate at this session. EDADIRS — . g | TODAY'S STOCK | QUOTATIONS | L3 — a! NEW YORK. March 4.—Closina| quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 87%, American Can 121, Anaconda Coppér 41%, Bethle- | hem Steel 647%, General 43%, Granby Conscli Sim- | two 19%, Standard Oil of California'gpy 47%, Standard Oil of New Jerse United Aircraft 34%, U. S ecl 145. Hudson Bay 5'i, Curtiss- anht 5%, Kolster Radio 1% ‘L :‘Il_‘,na'}t General Edgar in Panama Cit PANAMA CIT March 3. B. Jad- , former chief of the Army En- , i5 dead here as a result of hemorrhage. He came hlw to determine whether the Nic- araguan Canal should b2 bullt or lh{' Panama Canal be fitted with | new locks. “ DELEGATION S COMING NORTH NEXT SUMMER Will Leave Washin gton Jure 15—Remain in Alaska 20 Days BUREAU CHIEFS WILL ACCOMPANY OFFICERS: Parks, Reclamation Proj- | ects, Reservations Are to Be Inspected - ! WASHINGTON, D.C., March 3. — Chairman Will | Weod, of the House Appro- | priations Committee and chairmen of cother House | committees as yet undeterm- |ined, with officials of the | bureaus of the Interior De- partment, will make two trips | to the West one of which will | extend to Alaska. | The trips will be made dur- |ing the summer, the second | starting June 15, visiting the | North. | The delegation will spend 120 days in Alaska. Director { Albright of the National | Park Service; R.e cla mation Commissioner Mead and | either Indian Commissioner | Theads or Assistant Commis- | sioner Scaternood will accom- | pany the groups. Parks, reclamation projects and Indian reservations and agencies will be seen on the trip. PARKS' MESSAGE Chairmanship of the Fodr-r'\‘ Power Commission and :\dopuon by I s s L A TE D Fo R .9 1P.M. TOMORROW | ;Senate Completes Commit- | tee Organization — No | Sessions This Morning The Alaska Legiclature this morn- | ing marked time while the organi- zations of both the Senate and | House were getting into shape for | the work of the session. Neither | met this morning, the House con- I vening at 2 pm. and the Sepate lat 3 o'clock. ( Gov. George A. Parks's message \lx completed and ready to be pre- sented. It will be delivered in per- son at 2 pm. Wednesday at a | joint. session in tHe hall of the | House of Representatives. Senate Names Committees At a session yesterday afternoon the Senate's standing committees for the term were appointed, and | the employee personnel of the Sec~ rvtarys office was completed. In thirty-nine years of active | The following committees were service as an army engineer, his!announced. tours of duty, in peace and war,| 1. Finance and Corporations, in~ ‘EDGAR_B. JADWIN Congress of nis tamous scheme for| | Mississippi River flood control cli- {maxed two score years of pub! |work by Licutenant Gen. Edgar B. Jadwin, U. 8. A., retired. took him from one end of the country to the other and from Cuba to Panama and France. Called Frem Retirement General Jadwin was called from retirement by President Hoover to become chairman of ‘the newly created Federal Power Commission in July, 1930. This body was o) of the pet projects of .the engineer- president and superseded an agency consisting of the Secretaries of War, Agriculture #nd Interior, who, ex-officio, had been trying for ten (Continuea o: Page Twn cluding Printing and Purchasing, Contingent Expenses, Banks and Banking, and Public Utilities— Senators Shattuck, Lomen, Dimond and Dunn. 2. Taxation and Transportation, includir Revenue, Highways and Navigation — Senators Hess, Sund= quist, Bragaw and Benjamin. 3. Rules, Election and Election Laws — Senators Sundquist, Hess, Dimond and Benjamin. 4. Education, Publxc Health and (Continued on Page Three) Nieminen Answers Slgnal Fire; Trapper Found Dead ANCHORAGE, Alaska, M.mh 3 short by a severe injury in an mons Beds 20, Standard Brands —Matt Nieminen flew across Knik and answ ng a signal fire, Carter e Little S him Qoorg found George who walked from River. Carter te! a trapper, died on February 27, apparently from a heart attack. Nieminen flew up to the cabin. He took Mrs. Clyde and the huc*‘ of her husband aboard the plane