The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 4, 1931, Page 1

{ { | - THE DAIIY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5658. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1931. MEMBER OF ASSOCIAT[:D PRESS PRIC E TEN CENTS | CONGRESS ADJOURNS WHILE TENSE SCENES CONTINUE | LEGISLATOR CAUGHT IN LI{QU@R RAID | ECONOMY PLEA IS E MESSAGE GIVEN T0 LEGISLATURE THIS AFTERNOON Governor of Territory Urges Curtailment in 4 Appropriations GIVES REASONS FOR CUT IN EXPENDITURES Several Suggestions Made for Change in Present Alaska Laws Voicing a powerful plea for econ- omy in appropriations, urging the elimination of everything except the absolute essentials of Govern- ment, Gov. George A. Parks today presented his third biennial mes- sage to the Alaska Legislature, meeting in joint session in the Hall of the House of Representatives. Emphasizing the soundness of Alaska’s basic industries and pre- dicting early development of the pulp and paper industry, the Gov- ernor asserted that temporary set- backs resulting in curtailed reve- nues make it imperative that cur- rent grants of money from the Treasury be sliced to the bone. House Gallery Jammed Gov. Parks, escorted by Senator Allen Shattuck and Representa- tive Fred B. Johnsfon, appeared in the House at 2:07 pm. and was greeted by a capacity crowd with applause as it stood to receive the Territory's chief executive. Introduced by Senator L. C. Hess, President of the Senate, presiding over the session, the Governor plunged intd his message without more than a brief acknowledge- ment. The gallery of the hall of the House was jammed to excess of its seating capacity, and the crowd overflowed into the floor of the chamber itself and filled the doorways. Parks from manuscript. He an- nunciated clearly despite the rapi.d- ity of his utterance. At the conclusion of his address,' a motion by Senator Dimond and Representative Murray expressing appreciation for the “thoughiful, well considered, analytical and luminative message,” ernor was passed by a unanimous vote. Expenses Have Mounted “You are confronted with a very great respo lity, perhaps the greatest that has ever been faced by any other Legislature of this Territory. Those who are charged with the administration of the Territorial Government have ob- served with deep apprehension the increasing demands on our treas-| ury. We know they cannot con- tinue without distressing conse-, quences and you alone can control them. Appropriations must be carefully considered and the strict- est economy observed. “I regret that under present con- ditions it is necessary for me to; come before you and recommend such drastic reductions in appro-| (Continued on Pag Page Three) It required one hour | and eight minutes to deliver the, message which was read by Gov.| 924 of the Gov-| BY PARKS SUBMITS HIS THIRD BIENNIAL MESSAGE | ; Governor Parks advises members of Alaska Legislature to go slow and be careful on spending money out of Territorial Treasury High Lights and Recommendations Contained in Gov. Parks’s Message Drastic restriction of appropriations, with specific cuts recommended aggregating $160,000. Two-year suspension of all public building con- i struction. Budget reform, including creation of “real Bud- get Board,” consisting of Governor, Auditor and Treasurer. Extension for two more years of present schedules of taxation. Change in present manner of selecting Commis- sioner of Education and Highway Engineer, now elected by popular vote. Additional duties for Highway Engineer. Suspension of eagle bounty for two years. Fifty per cent reduction of hair seal bounty. Opposed increase in bounty advocated on wolves and coyotes, until there has been some improvement in economic and industrial conditions. Recommended placing upon cities of first class the responsibility of caring for indigents within their borders, with Territory providing 50 per cent of | funds provided for that purpose. Disposal of fish hatchery property by sale or other- wise. Suspension for present of airplane landing field | construction. | Asked an appropriation of $2,500 to cover ex- penses of caring for homing pigeons to be used by | airplanes for emergency communication purposes. | Asked $6,662 for deficiencies. Requested appointment of committee to prepare plans for building home for pioneer men and women, to be constructed about 1933. Recommended appointment of a commission participate in Chicago World’s Fair in 1933. FOSHAY AND ASSOCIATES to |Veterans’ Hospital Bill Is Signed By Presuient ( WASHINGTON. D. C., March 4. — President Hoover signed the Veterans’ Hospital bill with- I in an hour after the $20,800,000 l program was finally authorized by the House. “Broadway Butterfly” Is Found Strang Dies in Gas Filled Room AUDUBON, New Jersey, March 4. —Senita Bischoff, aged 16 years, dsughter of Vivian Gould, the “Broadway Butterfly,” who was slain by strangulation last week in New York City, died last night, an hour after she was found un- conscious in a gas filled room by her stepmother. Officers believe the girl suicided because of the notoriety attend- ing her mother’s death, who the police believe was killed because of testimony she threatened to give to Charge of Defraud- ing, Using Mails led;Daughter W. B. Foshay and six former asso- ciates of the W. B. Foshay Com- pany and subsidiaries, yesterday in the vice and graft investigation in New York. | The girl remained away from school after learning of her moth- ler‘s death. The father of the girl is exoner- ated by the Police in her mother’s death although the mother sent a letter here a few days before she was slain, accusing Bischoff of “framing her” so she would be “railroaded” on a vice charge. Bischoff was granted a divorce from Miss Gordon six years ago. ing the mails to defraud. Federal Judge J. W. Molyneaux set the trials for June 2. Federal officlals estimated the states and Alaska, and Central America, cost the investors more than twenty-five million dollars. Foshay said that after the trial he intends to devote his time in aiding investors to recover tl.cit losses, ENTER PLEAS Says They Are Not Guilty !sion to the States was to obtain afternoon pleaded not guilty to us-| crash of the companies operating, utilities in more than a score of, MUSCLE SHOAI.S BILL IS DEAD, HOOVER'S VETU Ten Year Old - Conlroversy Passed on to Future | Congresses i SENATE SUSTAINS BRESIDENT'S STAND Author of Measure Declares President 1s ““With Power Trust” | —President Hoover has vetoed the Muscle Shoals bill and thus ex- pressed opposition to the Govern- ment entering into business “in competition with ecitizens.” The President suggested that | the States of Alabama and Ten- nessee set up a commission with | representatives from farm organi- lease Muscle Shoals in the “inter- est of local communities and agri- culture generally.” The President stated in few which many believe will be a politi- cal issue in 1932. “The power problem is not to | solved by the Government goil | into the power business. The rem- |edy for abuses in the conduct of i that industry lies in regulation,” said the President. ceived by the Senate, Senator Wat~| | son, Republican leader, claimed! | enough votes to sustain the veto.| | VETO IS SUSTAINED WASHINGTON, D. C, March 4. {—The President and the Senate combined to pass to future Con- .gresses the 10-year-old controversy of Muscle Shoals. The Senate has voted 34 to 49 to sustain the veto of President! Hoover. Sixteen Republicans, thirty-two ' Democrats and one Farmer Labor- ite voted to pass the bill, lacking a two-third majority needed. | Democrats Ransdell, Steck and Tydings supported the President. During the debate Southern Democrats contended the President ‘vlolated his campaign pledges. Senator Norris, author of the bill, !said President Hoover is “with the power trust.” Uohnson Is Named Receiver 1To Take Charge of Aflalrs( | of Closed Seattle Loan Assn. SEATTLE, Marc h4.—State Di- rector of Efficiency H. C. Johnson /has been appointed receiver of the 'Puget Sound Savings and Loan |Association. The appointment was imade by Superior Judge Howard M. Findley. Receiver Johnson said the initial |payment to shareholders may be made within six months. ———~—.—— CONTRACTOR GETS SUPPLIES t R. M. Keeny, interested in a ander, came to Juneau from Seat- tle on the Northwestern. His mis- supplies and equipment. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 4. | zations and Army Engineers and| | words his stand on the question| Immediately the veto was re-| ' NOTHING LEFT Government contract at Port Alex- OLYMPIA HOTEL SWOOPED DOWN UPON BY DRYS, Several Persons Are Ar- rested During Night i —Liquor Seized 1 SUITCASES THROWN | FROM HOTEL WINDOWS Inloxncants Sald to Have i Been Found in Rooms of Lobbyists OLYMPIA, Wash., March 4.—Sev- eral persons are under arrest, one |ef which, Federal Prohibition | agents said, is a member of the | State Legislature, as the result of a raid during the night on the Hotel Olympian, the State capital's| leading hostelry and headqunrters for many Legislators. While the raid was in progress, | Federal Agent Dunning, of Ta-‘ coma, who was in charge, said two suitcases filled with bottles were thrown into the alleys from win-| idows of the hotel. The bottles crashed on the pavement. q Twenty quarts of liquor were! seized, most of which was found in rooms supposedly occupied by lobbyists. Officers said identification papers | { were taken but the names of those' implicated are not lmmediate]y» available, Dunning said charges of posses- | sign of intoxicating liquor wiil be | ,med against the Legislator after! | the Legislature ends, members be- ing immune from arrest on such' charges during sessions. TO WIDOW OF SAMUEL HILL Will Is Probated in Seattle| —$500,000 Estate | Is Divided SEATTLE, March 4—Half of! the $500,000 estate of Samuel Hill, railroad executive and good roads enthusiast, who died in Portland last week, goes to Maryhill Museum, his castle on the Columbia River. The will has been probated here land it revealed that the other {half of the estate is to be held in trust for his daughter Mary, son |James and cousin E. N. Hill, none ‘golng to the widow. ‘The will said his widow was suit- ably provided for by her father, the |late James J. Hill, railroad builder iWho made her a marriage gift of $100,000. GG I S T TODAY'S STOCK .| QUOTATIONS | I - g —_— | NEW YORK, March 4—Closing |quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 8%, American Can {1191, Anaconda Copper 40%, Beth- |lehem Steel 62, General Motors 43, Granby Consolidated 20%, In- |ternational Harvester 55%, Kenne- cott Copper 297%, Packard Motors {10%, Simmons Beds 19, Standard Brands 19, Standard Oil of Cali- fornia 47%, Standard Oil of New Jersey 47%, United Aircraft 32%, |U. 8. Steel 144%, Curtiss-Wright 5%, Hudson Bay 5%, Kolster Radio 1%. wimnessons, ims, wueen + [300KS to Be Autographed In Submarine When Under W aters of the North Pole NEW YORK, March 4—Twenty- nine coples of a book to be pre- pared in advance and autographed when the waters under the North Pole are reached, have been added to the cargo of the Wilkins-Ells- worth Trans-Arctic Expedition Sir Hubert Wilkins is to write the book in advance, a story of the project and description of the submarine Nautilus named Jules Verne's mythical undersea craft. The books will sell for $600; each. The introduction will be by Vil- hjalmur Stefansson, who discussed iestate of the late Emery Valen-| {Pulver, but until the settlement of {the probate court for the {ment as executrix until (mmysometmng of which she can take Aassociated Press Photo Eager to devote his entire time to another business, W. E. Weeks, president of the Weeks Banking company, Augusta, Ga., advertised requesting depositors to withdraw their money and do their banking elsewhere. Instead of withdrawing his customers came in and de- posited more. Here are some of them doing it. I, F. MULLE N DIVORGE 70 BE HANDLES ESTATE EASIER NOW i OF VALENTINE ANOTHERSTATE Property Valued at $60-‘Idaho Leglslature Says 90 000, May All Be Ab- | Days’ Residence sorbed by Claims | Is Sufficient J. F. Mullen, vice-president of BOISE, Idaho, March 4.—The the B. M. Behrends Bank, today state of Idaho is to become a com- was appointed administrator of thCipelilm' of Nevada. tine. The bank is one of the ridden the veto of Gov chief creditors of the estate. |Ross to the bill which Mr. Mullen's action is in conse- |granting of divorces after G. Ben permits appli- iquence of the recent death of Er- cants have resided in the state for nest Lee Pulver, who was executor and principal heir of the Va tine properties ,whose demise occur- ring before the settlement of the Valentine estate, left it without any person to care for it. Mr. Pulver left a will making his heirs Ernestine Pulver, a niece, and Effa Hamilton, also a niece, both of Jamestown, N. Y. He px ed nothing other than his expectancy in the Valentine estate, and s there will be no Pulver estate to probate until after settlement and/| distribution of the Valentine es- tate. ninety days. .- — WOMEN NOT SELECTED IN MURDER GASF None of Female Sex Will Be on Jury at Bowles and Louck Trial ) Amount is Problematical Completion of legai proceedings in connection with the Valentine properties will take about three or four months. What the Pulver estate will receive is problematical According to the petition filed by Mr. Mullen through his attor- ney, Grover C. Winn, in the pro- bate court, of which United States Commissioner Charles Sey is judgz the value of the Valentine estate, real and personal, is approximately $60,000. There are heavy debts against it. One of the large claims against it is a claim of Mr. Pul- ver for wages for a number of years that he was in the employ of Mr. Valentine. HILLSBORO, Oregon, March 4. —Introduction of testimony at the trial of Nelson C. Bowles, Portland millionaire, and Miss Irma Loucks, his former secretary, for the al- leged stabbing to death of Bowles's wife, is expected to begin this afternoon. One juror and two alternates were yet to be selected when the court opened this morning. No women, according to indica- tlons, will be members of the jury. e OLSONS HAVE BABY BOY May Not Be Much If and when all claims, inclucing Mr. Pulver’s agair e Valenti estate are allow may not | be much of it remaining for Mr. Pulver as heir. H may At St.-Ann’s Hospital this after- son a baby boy was born to Mrs John Olson, the former Legia | Kashevaroff. The Idaho legislature has over- UNWANTED BANK CUSTOMERS ’FI“BUSTER |S | ATTEMPTED FOR CLOSING HOURS Senator fr:—n Oklahoma Makes Futile Attempt to Get Vote INQUIRY INTO OIL INDUSTRY PREVENTED Contentions of Past Two Years Carried Into Last ¢ Hours of Congress WASHINGTON, March 4. —Congress adjourned amidst tensicn reminiscent of the most exciting days of the two years’ contentions and spirit that swept the Senate from the start and prevailed to the end with a filibuster tying up activities in the clos. ing hours. With Cabinet members, the President went to the Capitol in the final hour to sign the last-minute bills and to say goodbye to the leaders. Senator Thomas of Okla- homa, a Democrat, held the floor in the Senate in a stub- born but futile attempt to obtain -a vote on his resolu- tion for an inquiry into the oil industry. He wanted an em- bargo on cil importatlons. NOMINATIONS OF ALASKANS ARE HELD-UP Die with Adjournment of Congress —Postmast- ers Not Confirmed WASHINGTON, D. C., March 4. —Three hundred nominations of Postmasters and scores of miscel- laneous appointments died with the adjournment of Congress. The nominations not acted upon include the Judicial nomination of Judge G. J. Lomen, to be District Judge of the Second Division in Alaska, with headquarters at Nome, and Charles D. Jones to be United States Marshal, also of the Second Division. Both are incumbents. Austin Is Nominated In Vermont Has Good l;i— Over Part- ridge for United States Senator MONTPELIER, Vermont, March 4 —Warren R. Austin, of Burling- ton, defeated Frank Partridge of Proctor 43,381 votes to 35434 for the Republican nomination for United States Senator. The nom= ination to election. is tantamount consist almost entirely of what he receives on his waj the Valentine estate. Mr. Pulver, as executrix his in his will, named niece, Ernestine the Valentine estate, three or four months hence, there will be mo| property in the Pulver estate, and: she may defer her application to| appoint- there !s LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 4— leharge. graduation from the University m‘ SR LA e Washington, shot himself e late W. D. GROSS GOES TO HAINES |yesterday because he 1 to obtair e Gov- a chain ernment W. D. Gross, owner of empl air se the plans with Wilkins after the|Of motion picture theatres in] Hughes died a few hours after wreck of the Karluk in the Arctic ISOULhesst Alaska, went to Hz 5 kissing his fiance, Ger Ward, The money received from the|l8st evening on the motorship Es-iaged 18 years. She flod from tm books will go towards the expense lof the expedition, tebeth His trip is in connection|room when she saw his ro ywith his theatre at Haines. The girl heard 'I¢ shoi Fred Hughes, of Yakima, sthu]g—J ton, who took up aviation fltl(““‘cfln National Committeewoman in e Kiss for thinbid iance, But ' Bullet for Himself; Univ. Of Wash. Grad Is Suicide Monday Miss Ward wrote a let= ter to Mrs. John Hughes, Republi- Yakima, telling her of her engage- | ment to Hughes. Hughes had been drinking and Iwas in a fit of melancholy, the girl is a Yakima | said Her father contractor. The body of Hughes will be ‘et mated he { Y.xr.mu. 2 and the ashes sent tQ