The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 6, 1931, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL XXXVII., NO. 5660 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" * * * JUNEAU, ALASKA FRIDAY MARCH 6 1931. * * * * x * - * * * * * » - - MI:MBER OF ASSOCIATI:D PRESS * PRICE TEN CENTS RASKOB OUTLINES PLATFORM FOR DEMOCRATIC PARTY * * * EE——— * * * | PROHIBITION BROUGHT TO FRONT NANCY GARLSUN} TAKES HER LIFE WITH REVOLVER Wife of Taxi Proprietori While Despondent Kills Herself at Home Temporarily despondent, Mrs. | Nancy Berg Carlson, 28 years old wife of James G. Carlson, propr: tor of Carlson's Taxi, shot and| killed herself at 2 o'clock this| morning in the Carlson home on Gold and Second Streets. In the house at the time was Mr. Carlson who immediately telephoned W. W. Council. The physician, on glancing at the prostrate form,! realized death had intervened be- | fore his arrival and he communi. cated at once with the marshal office. Deputy Marshal i L2l Sullivan was detailed to the scene.; He concluded without hestitation that the tragic event was a case of suicide, and summoned United tates Commissioner Charles Say. Inquest Is Held | The Commissioner, acting in his capacity of coroner, ordered an in-‘ quest, which was held forthwith at| the scene of the occurrence and| the jury returned a verdict that death had resulted from a self- inflicted bullet wound. Mr. Carlson was the principal witness at the inquest. He testi- fied that he had gone home at 1 o'clock this morning. Mrs. Carl son, who was employed as night| waitress at the Gastineau Cafe was not at the residence then. After| remaining a short while in the house, he went in his automobile | to the Alaskan Hotel, in front of which he stands his taxi automo- biles. He stayed there but a short; time, returning home shortly before | 2 o'clock. i Lights Were On Meanwhile some person had! been in the house for he had left | it dark and lights were on in the kitchen and in the living room. While he was in the kitchen, Mrs. Carlson entered. They con-| versed a moment, and then hej walked into the living room and! began looking over some papers. In| a few minutes Mrs, Carlson came from the kitchen and, as she walk- ed through the living room toward the door of an adjoining spare bed- room, she said: “You don't care for me as you should.” (Continued on Page Eight) Chr. Legge’s 1 Resignation | Is Accept ed, Head of Farm Board Quntsli —Refuses to Con- | suelo St. Marie, a stenographer, may tinue in Position WASHINGTON, D. C. March 6.| —President Hoover today accepted | the resignation of Alexander Legge as Chairman of the Farm Board. | It has not been learned whether the President plans to announce Legge's successor soon or delay the appointment indefinitely. Chairman Legge submitted his resignation two weeks ago but the President attempted to persuade him to continue his duties. “GULL WING” TO AID VISION OF PILOT; “BLIND ANGLES” TO BE REDUCED BY NEW DESIGN| The upper wing of an ordinary pursuit ship (top) interferes with pilot’s vision and creates “blind angles,” so a new “gull wing” (sketch) has been designed as a remedy. Military aviation is experimenting wth4 the new wing on combat ships of the Army Air Corps. May Lose Them BILL APPEARS FOR COMMUNITY PROPERTY LAW Washington Law Introduc- ed in House by Winn— Other Bills Come in ! A measure providing for creation of community property rights in Alaska reached the Legislature yes- terday afternoon. It was Intro- duced in the House of Representa- tives by Speaker Grover C. Winn of (this city. Mr. Winn said later that it dif- fered in some respects from the Assoctatea Press Phore |€AsUre which was before the 1929 Because she Is alleged to have 'session and which was lost in the| tied her children, Robert, 5, ang |closing hours when the House re- Phyllis, 4, to a bedpost in her ,jected the recommendations of its Royal Oak, Detroit suburban home, |free conference committee. Mr. when she left for work, Mrs. Con. |Winn said the present bill is iden- |tical with the Washington State law on the same subject. Seeks Commission A special commission to study old |age insurance systems, present con- |gitions in 'the Territory, and to recommend to the next Legislature |a general old-age pension law was: introduced in the House yesterday | afternoon by Representative Joe' {McDonald, Fairbanks. It provides' that the Governor shall appoint three persons on the proposed body. 1 | While no regular salary attaches Construction Program and S tih co s P e s Other Naval Issues to | provided that members may receive 4 |compensation at the rate of $20! Be Consndered per day while actually engaged in WASHINGTON, D. C, March 6. the survey, but no member may be ,paid more than $2,000. The bill —The construction program to' declares it to be the duty of the| bring the American Navy up t0 u1® ooy pereby created to make, so London Treaty strength, pay legis-|r.; oo hossible, a complete survey lation and extension of benefits 10 ¢ iho conditions in the Territo Ty the Marine Corps and Staff COrDS yiih respect to the necessity or de-| of the Navy, are outlined as sub-'.o.piiy of an Old Age Insurance ' jects for consideration at the next system, and to secure and compils | Congress. !in condensed torm, information ! lose them. The probate court will determine. (OUTLINE WORK, NEXT CONGRESS Deaths from Fig In Political Clashes Rouse Berlin Police‘fi |® By WADE WERNER BERLIN, March 6—The death list of rough and tumble week-end politics in Germany finally has aroused authorities, though the general public remains phlegmatic over such casualties. Berlin police have inaugurated a campaign against cafes and saloons which encourage armed groups of radicals to use their lounging rooms as headquarters. Practically never in the past year| has a week-end gone by without at least two or three communists, na- tional-socialists or republican Reichsbanner men being fatally wounded in clashes over political opinion. i b (Continued on Page Eight) 1 — e o200 0eeccccsce . :. with respect to analagous systems WITH THE LEGISLATURE Bills Introduced In the House: H. B. No: 3, Mr. McDonald, Creating Old Age Insurance Commission, ete. H: B. No. 4, Mr. Winn, Community Property Law. In the Senate: 8. B. No. 1, Mr. Dimond, Repair Valdez Dyke and ap- propriating $10,000. 8. B. No. 2, Mr. Hess, To repeal Sections 752 to 762 in- clusive, C. L. A. 1913, 8. B. No. 3, Mr. Hess, To amend Thapter 32 S. L. A. 1923. . S. B. No. 4, Mr. Hess, To repeal Sections 1622 to 1628 inclusive C. L. A. 1913, House met at 2 p.m. today. The number of young men in jured by bullets, knives, beerbot tles, chairlegs and—more recently —scalding water or pitchforks has run into the scores. |® Communists Fire on Police |® Near Hamburg recently a group ® of about 100 communists traveling ® on automobile trucks stormed aj® national-socialist mass meeting, fir-|® ing at police who tried to block|® the way. Two men were killed ® and many seriously wounded. 1® The average German, unless he'e belongs to one of the polmcalvO parties intimately concerned, pays!'® PEACE RESTORED IN INDIA; TERMS ARE ANNOUNCED| Political Pri;r;ers Are to Be Released—Salt Manufactured CONCESSIONS ARE MADE BY GANDHI Signing of Truce Believed to Mean Independ- ence Nearer NEW DELHI, India, March 6.— Mahatma Gandhi and Viceroy Lord Irwin have been made public here. Great Britain promises to re- |lease all political prisoners, permit the manufacture of salt in cer- {tain areas, and also permit non- violent picketing. Gandhi’s concessions are lifting the boycott against Great Britain goods, cessation of the Civil Diso- bedience campaign and withdraw- |al of the demand for an investiga- | tion of Police brutalities. The signing of the truce clears the way for a meeting where Gan- dhl hopes to securg complete in- dependence for India. THREE MEN PAY FINES, RESULT OLYMPIA RAID Other PromEl Men Visit Sheriff's Office—Leg- islator Involved charges in the Tenino Justice Court, near Olympia, three men arrested in a Federal raid on the Olympia Hotel last Tuesday night were fined $50 each. The three men gave their names as Martin Jones, Pat McDonald and William Morton. A number of persons visiting the Sheriff’s office included Roscoe Balch of Spokane, University of Washington Regent and Col. Thom- as Ashton, Spokane attorney, both registered at the hotel when the raid occurred. Another man conferring with the Sheriff is Jay Thomas, State Printer. means of finding out where the three men fined resided or whether they gave their true names. A State Legislator will be charg- ed with possession after the session is ended. FOUR BURNED T0 DEATH IN HOUSE FIRE Mother and Three Children Lose Lives Early This Morning GRANTS PASS, Oregon, March 6.—Mrs. Alice Groat, aged 24 years, and her children, Billy aged 5, Jack aged 3 and Dorothy less than two months, were burned to death in a fire that destroyed the family home this morning. The range in the kitchen became overheated after the woman’s fath- er, George Caven, had left for work. Her husband, Willilam Groat, has been working in another sec- tion of the county and has been away !rom heme several days ‘Robert Morhamer Takel * Out License to Marry, SEATTLE, March 6.—A marriag? license has been issued to Robert Morhamer, of Cordova, and Ellen ,Twinging of Seattle. Senate met at 2 pm. to- day. small attention to such news. \® He has become so accustomed to,® (Continued or Pag¢c Three) A. ssscsss0s0ssss e of Cardova. He is also wellknown Juneau where he has property. O Bk The terms of the truce signed by | OLYMPIA, Wash, March 6— Pleading guilty to liquor possession The Sheriff said he had no| Robert Morhamer is a carpenter| SPRING CHASED FROM MIDDLE WESTSECTIONS Wheat Farmers Are Pleas- ed — Cattlemen, How- ever, Express Fears NEW MEXICO STORM IS WORST OF WINTER Colorado Shoveling Snow ‘ —Rain Falls in { 3 Regions KANSAS CITY, March 6.—March snowstorms chased Spring from a large portion of the Middle West today bringing happiness to wheat farmers and fears to cattlemen. | .The snow storms broke out of the Rockies over Nebraska, Kansas 'and Towa. | Clearing is forecast for Montana | 'and Wyoming as the snow storm| passed eastward. | New Mexico is at the mercy of one of the worst snow storms of the winter. Colorado is digging out and Northern Kansas is snowed under. Rain fell in Missouri, eastern Kansas and southern Illinois. Sleet and snow are reported in ‘Texas and Colorado. By OSCAR LE""NG . ,——— EPIDEMIC OF flops an (A. P. Aviation Editor) Tu wEsTwAHD‘ OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., March { |lower the record of the Graf Zep- —A flight around the world to pelin to eight days is planned for |the spring by Wiley Post, Oklahoma City aviator. Using the same Lockheed mono- plane with which he won the non- stop Los Angeles-Chicago derby of PN the national air races in August, he FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 6.— |expects to start May 20, or the first ‘Whooping cough is raging in the day thereafter when North Atlantic Goodnews Bay district and has al- flying conditions are favorable. ready caused fourteen deaths ac-! Oklahoma City has been estab- cording to reports received by Dr. lished tentatively as the starting |J. A. Sutherland, local Territorial point, Post said, pending comple- Health officer. tion of arrangements for a prize to | Dr. Myers, of the Bureau of be given if the 20 day record of Education, has been sent there. the Graf Zeppelin is beaten. Meanwhile a plane is prepared' The itinerary is planned to carry to fly to Point Barrow with diph- Post, with a co-pilot and a navi- theria antitoxin. Two hundred gator, from the home base to Har- {thousand units are on hand and bor Grace, Newfoundland; thence 300,000 more units must be sent to Berlin, Moscow, Irkutsk, Siberia; from Anchorage, Seward or Juneau. Tokyo, Petropavlovsk, Nome Alas- Fousieme. Deaths : Ars Re- ported from Goodnews Bay Section Air Race Winner Projects World Flight in Eight Days; | Part of Route Over Alaska This route for a globe-girdling flight is planned by Wiley Post | (above), Oklahoma City flier. He hnpcs to make the trip in ecight days. ka; Scattle and Okldhoma City. The cabin monoplane, in whi the flier covered the 1,760-mile derby route in nine hours, nine minutes and four seconds, has a, single Wasp motor and will be| fitted to have a cruising range oh 3,000 miles, Post says. Both the co-pilot and hlmselr,; he says, will complete training in| blind flying “to a proficiency that| is at least equal to that arrived at by anyone else so far.” He did not reveal the names of his crew, but said the flight will be | backed by F. C. Hall of Oklahoma City, and that the venture is fully, financed and assured. The itinerary is similar to the one mapped by John Henry Mears, veteran globe trotter, who circled the world in 35 days, 21 hours, and 36 minutes in 1913. In 1928, with the late Captain C. B. D. Collyer, he lowered the mark to 23 days, 15| hours and 21 minutes, WILL BE SHOT FOR CAUSING | ANOTHER CASE POINT BARROW, Alaska, March 6.—A thirG serious diphtheria and another milder case have appeared here. Antitoxin is exhausted. Only one fourth of the population is im- munized. The school and trading post have been closed and visiting is stopped. Dr. Henry W. Griest, of the Pres- | byterian Mission Hospital, has rad-' s S loed a request for a nurse as well # 2 s antitoxin to be rushed here. !Russmn Locomotive En- gineer Sentenced to Death “Screens —_——e—————— 7 tri It]V o‘ Elec MOSCOW, March 6—M. Bagat- Keep Fish in Home Water 'sky, locomotive engineer, is held responsible for a wreck on the YAKIMA, Wash, March 6— Eastern Siberian Railroad and has “Screens” of which the mesh is been sentenced to be shot. (only an electric current are used Twelve other members of the 1to_keep fish in the Yakima River train crew have been sentenced to from entering irrigation ditches. |prison terms, ranging from three to Chains are suspended several ten years. inches apart across the mouth of Investigators contend Bagatsky a ditch, under water. An electric and the others were responsible and curfent is sent through the chains blamed the accident as a result of and conducted into the surrounding sabotage. water. Fish attempting to enter| None were hurt in the wreck. the ditch feel the current’s “tingle” ., and swim away. The electric “screen” was a,dopt- ed when it was found ordinary screens collected refuge and block: ed the ditches. Fish are kept out * of the ditches because they be-| Dr. Griest claims there has been 200 exposures. 1 TODAY’S STOCK QUOTATIONS i | L] fields are drained. |cott 28%, Packard Motors 10%, | Simmons Beds 19, Standard Brands 119, Standard Oil of California 45%, |Standard Oil of New Jersey 46% United Aircraft 33%, U. S. Steel 144%, Curtiss-Wright 5, Bay 5%, Kolster Radio 1%. - e {Is Promised .LOS ANGELES, Cal, March ‘o—.luhh Coogan, who began his career when a kid with Charlie Chaplin, and who is mow 16 years of age, today scught court approval of a con- I | tract with the Paramount R Under the ccntract he will receive $7,500 a week salary. Freitas of Stockton, Cal, is law. TRAIN WRECK | COL JMINEZ WINS IN PERU Third Government Head Within One Week Is Duly Installed | LIMA, Peru, March 6.—Col. Gus- STATE CONTROL OF LIQUOR ONE PROPOSAL MADE Old Age U:mployment Insurance, Five Day Week Suggested CHAIRMAN OF DEMO. COM. WANTS ACTION Senator Robinson in Dis- agreement—Wets and Drys Receive Appeal WASHINGTON, D. C., March 6. —Chairman John J. Raskob pro- posed a platform to the members | of the Democratic National Com- mittee and other party leaders yesterday, which he believes will ‘be endorsed far and wide. Chairman Raskob’s program fol- lows: Pledging support to the Eigh- teenth Amendment but advocating a constitutional change, permitting State control of liquor and sub- stituting voluntary cooperation for ! political control in business. Old age unemployment insur- ance. Five-day week. Robinson Roars United States Senator Joseph T. Robinson, of Arkansas, roared re- pudiation of the platform. Former Gov. Alfred E. Smith took Senator Robinson to task “for Jumping all over Raskob” and said Raskob had a perfect right .to present his views. James M. Cox, former Presiden- tial Democratic candidate, appealed for consideration of the differences between the North and South on Prohibition. Action Demanded Chairman Raskob said he would demand action on the platform at the next meeting of the Na- tional Committee, either in Decem- ber or January. Representaive Mary Norton," of New Jersey, insisted the women ! wanted modification. She accused Senator Robinson of changing his ‘posmon since she nominated him for Vice-President. All speasers at the committee session agreed that only the Na- tional Convention could commit | the party to any issues. A plan was launched to raise $1,500,000 prior to the National Convention toward a $6,000,000 cam-~ | paign chest and this was approved. APPEAL IS MADE WASHINGTON, D. C, March 6. —An appeal for all Democrats, both Wet and Dry, to unite to de- feat Chairman Raskob's suggestion for a party platfrom advocating State liquor control, has been is- sued by Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, after Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway, of Arkansas, asserted Raskob had lined up on economic issues with the “extreme standpat jportion of the Republican Party.” Senator Sheppard urged the NEW YORK, March 6.—Closing | ©f endeavor, is tougher. than it |come stranded and die when the quotation of Alaska Juneau mine Used to be. {stock today 1is 9, American Can | ,/teeth and complexion. | Hudson!than 16 nor more than 25 years |of age, unmarried, and a bona fide The first name of Attorney must be proficient in at least one tavo Jiminez has been installed as Democrats to devote themselves to Peru’s third government head with- | the “overthrow of rapicity, mon- in a week. Consolidated military ' opoly and greed.” forces alded in his ascension to ———.—— power and he appears to have the , Six mountain sheep captured in backing of the scattered military McKinley Park by Carl Anderson units whose officlals have pledged and Lew Campbell are at Eklutna, support. near Anchorage, and soon will be An officlal bulletin indicated an shipped to the private zoo of understanding is being made with William R. Hearst, newspaper and the insurgent forces at Arequipa,' magazine publisher, on his ranch where the revolt started. \at ‘San Simeon, Cal. BEAUTY CONTESTS NOT SO EASY NOW; GALVESTON ENTRIES FACE NEW RULES GALVESTON, Tex., March 6.— {smoke nor drink. The business of bathing beauty Appearance on the stage or in competition, like some other lines motlon pictures for a six-month period disqualifies her on grounds !of professionalism. Other minor restrictions in the final Contestants in the 1931 interna- beauty pageant here ————— 123%, Anaconda Copper 39':, Beth- 'anul must eliminations ban tiaras or ] ki C _Mwm Steel 62%, General Mozora"“"‘“u” up to new standards of |fancy headgear, fix a standard size ackre Coogan 43, Granby Consolidated 24, In-|health .appearance and physical name ribbon to be worn and Large Salary |ternational Harvester 55, Kenne-|Perfection. squelch the stockingless fad by Doctors will serve as judges in the preliminaries to testify as to the naturalness of entrants' hair, specifying full-length opera hose. But if the qualifications are more stringent, the rewards are greater, “Miss Universe,” the grand less (champion, will receive $2,500 in- |stead of the $2,000 awarded last year. Winners of second to fifth places wm receive prizes ranging from '$500 to $100, In addition to stage An entrant must be not resident of the locality she repre- sents for at least six months. She | l\,xtdoor sport, and she must not and screen opportunities. g e’