The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 7, 1931, Page 1

L VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5661. | SECTION OF EUROPE IS DAMAGE VICE RING IS REPORTED U REVISION FOR |MOVE | CORPORATIONS | BOUNTIES GETS ARREST THREE IN LOVE MART, L0S ANGELES Twelve Year Old Girls Are Listed for “Entertain- ment”’ Purposes CARD INDEX SYSTEM GIVEN TO OFFICERS' Wealthy Ofiomoter In- volved with Dancer and Former Press Agent iR i LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 7. —John P. Mills, wealthy oil pro- moter; Mrs. Oliver Clark-Day, a dancer, and William Jobelman, a former press agent for Alexander Pantages, have been arraigned on statutory charges involving a love market. MUDDLE OVER REINDEER NOW GROWS DEEPER Situation SCems to Be Near- ing Deadlock Over Future Policies SENATOR KENDRICK "SIDES WITH NATIVES Secretary Wilbur Urges Some Scheme to Bene- fit Alaska Industry WASHINGTON, D. C., March 7. —United States Senator John B,’ Kendrick, Democrat of Wyoming, Chairman of the Wilbur Reindeer Ccmmittee, told witnesses at the hearing yesterday that the “na- tive's distress” must be climinated before controversics between the white and native herd owners could International Movement to The hearing of the three is set for March 31. A disagreement over money mat- ters and a fist fight between Job- elman and Mrs. Day led to the exposure of one of the most morbid vice markets ever revealed in this section. be settled. Senator Kendrick said the co- operative plans for developing of! the industry is impossible until all| dcubt of integrity of the praoeed-; ings are cleared up from L)ze minds ' jof the native herdsmen. Wilbur Urges Action | Card Index System ____MEMBER O F ASSOCIATED PRESS D BY FARTHQUAKES Predicts Shortage Of Gold Stabilize Prospect- ing Is Urged OTTAWA, March 7.—Predicting the possibility of a world shortage of gold, 8. N. Logan, Manager of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, jurged international action toward | stabilizing prospecting, Logan made | his plea in an address before the Canadian Mining and Metallurgy Acsociation here yesterday after- noon. DEER DRIVE T0 | CANADANOWON. COLVILLE RIVER Long Trek Across Arctic Wastes Half Completed | —Animals in Fine Shape | | 1 With 600 miles in its rear, LAW PROPOSED| BEFORE. HOUSE New Law for Corporation |Johnston Introduces Meas- Filings Is Introduced by Sen. Shattuck ure to Increase Fee on Predators to $15 Revision of the Terrivory’'s gen-. A bill proposing an increase in eral laws of business corporations bounties on wolves and coyotes is proposed in a measure presented from $10 to $15 was introduced n to the Senate yesterday afternoon|the House yesterday afternoon by by Senator Allen Shattuck, Juneau, Representative Fred B. Johnston,; by request. It is a lengthy docu-!Fairbanks. It is a re-enactment ment and detailed information on}of the present statue, except for the its provisions were not available asjsums paid, and a minor addition copies of the measure had not been{which permits certification by post- prepared for publication today. masters who are also notaries. It is understood that one or two| The $10 bounty was adopted by important alterations in the exist-|the 1920 Legislature after it had ing code and some additions are|approved the continuation of the proposed. The purport of the bill|predatory animal control program is said to be to liberalize®laws re-|and made a substantial program lating to the organization of do-|for that work. Prior to that time mestic corporations in an effort to|the bounty fee on both wolves and induce such companies to organize|coyotes had been $15. NCOVERED T0 RAfstw‘ W(;In(:l;i;;ic;luittcd of Killing Her Husband as Result, Bridge Game Spat KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 7. Mrs. |years, has been acquitted of the !charge of feloniously Kkilling husband John G. Bennett, wealthy perfume salesman The jury deliberated eight and one half hours, Former United States James A. Reed, attorney for Mrs, Bennett, contended the was accidental ,after a bridge game quarrel. > Erraged when his wife, his part- ner in the game, “bum player,” Bennett slapped . her face four or five times, said Sena- tor Reed, then the husband de- cided to leave immediately on a business trip. Scnator Reed told the jury that Bennett ordered his wife to bring a pistol from his room he was in the habit of carrying on his trips. She stumbled over a chair, the {evidence showed, and the weapon was discharged. Benneit grappled Myrtle A. Bennett, aged 35 her Senator shooting | called him a | locally instead of in the States. Several Bills Introduced One bill and a resolution were introduced in the Senate session to- day, and three other measures yes- terday, making a total of nine bills introduced in the Senate since the session opened. Senator Dimond The Governor, Tiis message early this week, told the Legislature he thought that the $10 feet should be retained at least until financial and industrial conditions had im- proved, and expressed his opposition to raising the bounty level at this time. with his wife and the pistol wnsj k¥ discharged again and he was killed. | fo Bennett's $30,000 life insurance | will be subject to litigation. | MRS. MYRTLE A. BENNETT HOLMES WILL THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1931. * PRICE TEN CENTS BALKANS ARE SHAKEN:MUCH DAMAGE DONE Residences and Public Buildings Are Top- pled toGround STORMS PREVAILING OVER WIDE SECTION Atlantic Is gvTep! by Gales s in France ! —Snow in U. S. VIENNA, March 7.—Widespread destruction from two earthquakes this morning is reported from Bal- kan Cities. Residences and public buildings in numerous towns, including De- mir, Kapia and Valandova have been shaken down. The shock drove the population panic stiicken to the open field. In the Valandova section a moun- tain slide swept a shepherd and 200 sheep to death. thens Express was stopped its yesterday introduced a bill to “au-| The House meeting yesterday was Sk ThE A by quakes which tore up the road bed. | | PR keeping. The friend found the Secretary of Interior Wilbur rg- journey 50 per cent over in distance thorize banks to give and the Mrs. Day, following a disagree-ijed the Committee to formulate ang mors than half complete in Treasurer to accept collateral se- ment with her partners, gave a card grazing areas for protection of time the great reindeer drive of the curity in place of surety company | index system to a friend for safe-jowners and to permit driving of romen Reindeer Corporation en-|bonds to insure Territorial deposits He predicted youte from Buckland to the Cana- {in_banks.” deer to market. name of his 13-year-old sister-in-, herds of more than 3,000,000 head gjan Arctic, reached Colville River| law listed with the names of hun-|and the reindeer would be a future Valley cn January 2, according to presented a measure for the relief!California State Fair and Western dreds of other girls and scores of men clients, This friend turned the index over \meat supply. | Experts . Recommended Leonard D. Baldwin, President advices just received here by Sen- ‘ator Alfred.J. Lomen, Nome, who is field superintendent of the cor- to the District Attorney and ar- of the Alaska Livestock and Pack- poration. vests followed. Records Fcund In luxurious apartments which were the headquarters of the love market, were found records of week- end asignments of young girls to “trips,” notations of fees, etc. The index showed numbers of 1ing Company, recommended five ‘government experts to have charge of the five grazing districts. He said business interests will be forc- ed to withdraw without the protec- tion of the Government. Secre- tary Wilbur urged consideration of Baldwin's plan for cooperative herd development. | “We are over the tough part now and the rest will be comparatively easy,” Mr. Lomen declared today. “The drive has made splendid pro-| gress and the herd is in as fine shape now as when it left the home grazing areas in the early winter of 1929.” Nucleus for Canada brief, lasting about 15 minutes. A message to Speaker Winn was re- \ceived from the Governor trans- ,mitting an invitation from the Gov- ernor of California to Alaska to Senators Sundquist and Lomen participate in the Seventy-seventh {of George H. Wagner for monies|States Exposition to be held in lexpended in accompanying Dr. L. n‘Sacnmento, September 5-12 of this Benson from Nome to the northern ryear. No action was taken on areas of the Second Division in|this communication. 1929 when the latter- was engaged Reports were received from var- \Xn combatting small pox epidemics. An appropriation of $2,605 is sought. A bill to amend Section 739 of Territorial Library and Museum, Trustees of Alaska Agricultural Col- the Compiled Laws of Alaska re- lege and School of Mines, and Sup- lating to personal property that plementary Report from that in- may be mortgaged was introduced 'stitution ,Dependent Children and by Senator Hess. ious boards and offices including: ! . BROADCGAST ON ‘Associate Justice: of U: S, Supreme Court Will Go on Air i WASHINGTON, D. C. March 7. | —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Associate i Justice of the United States Su- preme Court, will make his debut as a radio speaker Sunday night - SUNDAY NIGHT girls listed between 12 and 20! Kendrick's Views A bill for the relief of Harry Ga- | Mothers’ Pensions, Highway Engi-|at 10:55 o'clock, Eastern Standard ineer’s Report on Roads and Trails,| Time, in celebration of his nine- Condénses H—HC'HES ‘to Say to Legislature in Under Seven Pages | y | In what is the briefest report ever rendcred by that office since its establishment in 1917, Attorney General -John Rustgard has trans- mitted to the Legislature an ac- o1 count of the activities for the past| SHORT REPORT FOR LAWMAKERS, \ | Rivers are overflowing in France. 1 WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE REPORTED SEVERE NEW YORK, March 7.—Storms today are lashing the Atlantic from Iceland to Northern Africa. Snow blanketed the prairies in the United States. High waves and tides have flood- |ed the flatlands along the English Coast and endangered shipping. Gales have blown violent sand- storms along the shore. In the United States, the storm centered over southeastern Mis- souri, moving eastward. Almost every section In the Mississippi Val- ley experlenced snow, sleet, rain r a cold wave. Kansas and Nebraska are under two years of the Territory's Ieg:fl;x years. Makes confession Placed in technical custody as The Canadian Government pur- vin, in the amount of #284, for ex- etc., Commissioner of Health, Board tleth birthday. His speech will be | Senator Kendrick said coopera-’chased the herd, 3,000, from the 'tion of the Lomen Company and'plaska company whieh guaranteed native owners in education of the gelivery at Kittiguisitte Peninsula, penses incurred in the death and burial of Henry Rothen, Taylor, Alaska, was introduced this morning a witness, Mrs. Day, on the verge natives in business methods is es- of a collapse, confessed to furnish- gentia) ing girls of any age to business men for entertainment purposes. Mills has been charged with as- saulting Clarice Tauber, aged 16. The information was given to the District Attorney by the girl's mother. PLANE IS DOWN; FLIERS FORCED T0 MUSH TRAIL Salvaged Burke Plane Is Damaged at North End of Tacla Lake denied ————— AMEES SON 15 T0 MARRY; " DAUGHTERHAS LOS 'ANGELES, Cal, March 7.—' | Aimee "McPherson’s 18-year-old son' Rolf is to be married when Aimee 'east of McKenkie River Spring of 1932. in the When cut out of the home herd at Buckland for the start, the bunch consisted of 300 bulls, 2700 slick cows and 300 steers. The last were for feed for| the herders. Last spring 2,000 ani- | mals were driven back from the trail herd to Buckland, represent- ing the year's increase, and the Canadian herd is untouched. “When { | Carl Lomen charged lack of ‘knowledge of the Animal Husband- | ry of the Office of Education caus-! ed the present trouble. Ernest Walker Sawyer that assertion. Representative Leavitt, member of the Committee, said the natives (should be given every chance to in little more than a year from now, it will number more than 5,000, deer,” said Mr. Lomen. The increase from fawning. Arrange- ments have been made for disposal of the increase to the Canadian au- thorities. Costs Real Money The drive has been no light un- dertaking and requires a not incon- siderable investment. Up to date, Mr. Lomen said, the company has invested $66,000 in the project and is only half way to journey's end. by Senator Lomen. Sale of Tramroad Sale of the Tolovana Tramroad, connecting the town of Livengood with the head of navigation on the Tolovana River, is authorized by the provisions of a resolution brought into the Senate today by Senator Hess. It empowers the Alaska Road Commission to sell if g iconsider whatever plan is adopted.|the drive reaches its destination|in the opinion of the Territorial Road Board the money now ex- pended in operating the property can be better used to connect lgrowth will represent this year's Livengood with the existing Fair- banks road system. The Territory purchased the tram in 1923. Prior to that time it had been owned and operated by private interests. In the last biennium costs of maintenance and operation aggregated $15,969.39, according to a memorandum submitted by Sena- tor Hess. It carried 98,156 pounds of freight at a charge of one cent per pound in the same period. Several reports from Territorial 0f Medical Examiners, Report ofithe first public notice he has ever Auditor Cash Cole, Territorial Vet-|taken of his birthday, although |erinarian, Report on Cleaning of on numerous times. in the last few | department and submitted a few recommendations for legislation at the current session. rom three to ten inches of snow. Sub-freezing temperatures en- danger the fruit crop in the mid- dle west, The entire document is embraced | ASHCROFT, B. C., b ,L__ireturm from the Orient. This was Pilots R. I. Van Der Byl and W. A.{ Joerss of Vancouver, and Emil Kading, missing since last Satur- day when they left Telegraph Creek have arrived at Fort James, mush- ing from Buckley House at the north end of Tacla Lake, where they left their salvaged plane be- longing to the late Capt. E. J. A.} The engine of the plane Burke. is damaged. The trio salvaged the plane from announced at Angelus Temple to- .day. Lorna Smith, aged 19 years, | daughter of an Okiahoma oil man, is to be the bride. Mrs. McPherson’s daughter Rob- ierta, has been married to the pur-' ser of the steamship President Wilson, on which Aimee is tour- ing, at Singapore, according to word received here. r(Ihilean Air Line Plans ,Communications have been main- But the hardest part is over. Moun- (tain passes, unknown to either white man or Eskimo have been negotiated. Areas across which no trail-blazer had left his mark to point the way, have been traveled. Caches have been built on the line, tained by airplane. Ahead the going is easier. Down the Colville Valley the drive will move to the Arctic shores, thence across the McKenzie River to the location selected by the Canadians boards and commissions were re- ceived yesterday and referred to the Committee on Education. Janitor to Be Hired A joint resolution originating in the Senate has passed both branch- es, authorizing the employment of {a janitor to care for the legisla- tive assembly and committee rooms. The expenditure of not to exceed $300 was authorized for this pur- pose, Committees from the House and Senate have approved the mileage Balmon Streams and Destruction of {Predatory Animals, and graphs showing disbursements and closing treasury balances for the past 11 years, and Report of the Super- {visor pf Mines on the Mining Op- erations and operations of the Pros- xl)ect(n"s' Ald Act. i L3 Stone Is | Successor To Legge |President Hoover Names New Chairman of Fed- eral Farm Board WASHINGTON, D. C, March 7. |—President Hoover has appointed James C. Stone, of Kentucky, {Chairman of the Federal Farm years, frlends and assoclates have in six and one-half printed pages. been attempting to have a cele- | bration. The radio broadcast will open at 10:30 o'clock with Chief Justice Hughes and other notables speak- iin& MEARS TO TRY WORLD FLIGHT, BEAT RECORDS Leaves New York in June —Part of Route Will Be Over Alaska LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 7.— |Board to succeed Alexander Legge, the Liard River headwaters. They entrained at Vanderhoff today for! New Route Across Water Vancouver. They were flying from | Atlin, B. C., to Vancouver. SANTIAGO, Chile, March 7— | Statistics from the national air Handcuffed Prisoners Are Carried Down to Death in Collision BELGRADE, Jugo-Slavia, * March 7.—At least ten lives were lost when the steamer Karageorges collided in the Danube with a ferry boat at dawn this morning. Four of the victims were peasant women, ‘another a po- liceman, who carried four pris- oners, handcuffed'together, down with him. All casualties were on the -Icompmd to only 762 passengers |line show that this line, running| 'north and south from the capital, ' !carried 5,108 passengers, and 3,- 1386,085 kilos of mail in 1930, as and 724,600 kilos of mail in 1929.! Due to increases in schedule and addition of new branches, the num- {ber of “air voyages” increased from 1,450 ip 1920 to 2,583 in 1830. {for their experiment. Sure of Success Canada is confident it will be as successful in building up great (Continued on Page Two) tables and transmitted them to the Governor for payment. Eleven Trapped e =T T - S i Gl e DA’ BTOCK T%mr‘;:noul { In Flames NEW YORK, March 7.—Closing goutation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 9, American Can 123%, Anaconda Copper 40%, Beth- lehem Steel 64%, General Motors The national air line now runs'443%, Granby Consolidated 20%, over a land course, but there is a International Harvester 56%, Ken- r tentative plan to make it largely necott 29%, Packard Motors 10%, an over-water line, using amphi- Simmons Beds 19%, Standard blans. With both land and sea Brands 19%, Standard Oil of Cali- planes in use, the air line would fornia 46%, Standard Oil of New be able to train military pilots for|Jersey 46%, United Aircraft 34%, ihoth naval and army service. 'rhz; army and navy now have no air branches. I U. 8. Steel 146%, Curtiss- 5%, Hudson Bay 5%, Kolster dio 1%. Fod right | KENANSVILLE, N. C., March 7~Trapped in their cells, 11 negro convicts were burned to death today as the stockade in Duplin County was razed. | Forty-one other prisoners, all except 12 being negroes, werce led from the building by guards. The flames started in the kit- chen and the cause is unknown. The stockade was bullt of heavy timber and was virtually without fire protection. ——————— State Senator Patrick L. Farnand, | and helped carve it to its present home for several weeks. genger in the legislative halls. who has resigned. Stone was former General Man- ager of the Burley Tobacco Co- operative. | Legge said the “Federal Farm where the organization may be |classified as a going concern.” {UPHEAVALS HELPED EROSION CARVE BIG GORGE OF YOSEMITE WASHINGTON, March 7.—Two forces of nature working against June 10 from New York. days. In 1913, Mears circled the globe in 35 days by train and boat. In 1928 he made the world trip in 28 days by plane and boat. Last summer, Mears and Pilot | Henry Brown cracked-up attempt- !ing to take off from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, on a globe circling hop. The route planned by Mears and | Breese is from New York to Harbor Five recommendations are made. Complilation of Laws “The need for a compilation of | the Statutes of the Territory,” said Mr. Rustgard, “Is growing apace, jand we have now reached the point where it is next to impossible for |one who does not specialize upon knowing the present statutory law (of the Territory to find from the | books the: present statutory provis- fons on any particular subject. Heretofore, I have each biennium reccmmended a compilation and do so now. I suggest that a suitable appropriation bé made and placed at the disposal of the Governor for | the purpose of paying the expenses of the undertaking. “By Chapter 45 of the Laws 1921, the Legislature provided summary method for disposing | estates left by persons who die as| inmates of the Pioneers’ Home ol iwho had been receiving an allow- jance from the Territory. When two mile trip of the Ketchikan High ot a of | |retained in the compilation, but! |time no method provided for dis-| ,posing of property left by decedent | beneficiaries of the Territory's gra- |tuities except by administration | jof the estate in probate court. I| | believe that it would be greatly From the Virginia Capes to Jack- sonville, Florida, shipping has been warned of storms along the At- lantic. ————— TWO EPIDEMICS IN FAIRBANKS CANCEL TRP Ketchikan Five Not Going to Interior to Play Champ Games KETCHIKAN, Alaska, March 7. —An epidemic of diphtheria and influenza in Fairbanks has neces- sitated cancellation of the 1,200~ John Henry Mears announced to- years ago, this office presented to|School basketball team to the in- day that with Vance Breese, chief the Legislature a bill for a com- [terior to play Alaska championship test pilot of the Lockheed Aircraftipilation and revision of the 18 games. Corporation, he plans a flight different acts dealing with the sub-| Cancellation of the trip was re- around the world starting about ject of indigents, this chapter was|quested by School Superintendent Harry Moore, of Fairbanks, to Su- Mears said he expects to better' was by the Legislature eliminated.'Perintendent A. E. Karnes here. program has progressed to a point | the Graf Zeppelin's mark of 21 There is, therefore, at the present ANTITOXIN FOR BARROW Two hundred thousand units of diphtheria antitoxin were sched- uled to leave Fairbanks this morn- ing by plane for Point Barrow Where an epidemic is reported. !’l‘he dispatch of the plane was au- |thorized by Gov. George A. Parks. Four hundred thousand units of antitoxin are to leave Anchorage Tax Law Changes |on today's train for Fairbanks and “In my last report I recommend-|a supply to replenish the stock at ,to the advantage of the Territory were the provisions of the law of 11921 restored. jeach other cut out the gorge Of|Grose ‘then to Dublin, Berlin, the Yosemite Valley in California, the Geological Survey has discov- ered. The Merced River, flowing i through the valley, eroded it to | considerable depth. Then the vast earth block of which the valley is ments of the earth’s crust, nullify- a part was raised higher by move-| Moscow, Siberian towns, thence to Chignik, Alaska, to Seattle and back to New York. {Philtp Snowden Is Seriously Il in |Ing the rivers work. ! His London Home | The river began again to cut| | back to its former level. Then the| LONDON, March 7. — Philip | whole area was uplifted once more. Snowden, aged 67, Chancellor of | This process was repeated several the Exchequer, is confined to his times. bed with an i{llness which prob- | Later glaciers invaded the valley ably will not allow him to leave his Ra- of Hibbing, Minn., once was a mes- | depth of from 2,500 to nearly 5,000 inflamation of the bladder, follow- ; { feet. 4 .ing an attack of the flu. He has| ed the following amendments to the general taxing act of the Ter- iritory (Chapter 31 Laws of 1921).| As no action was taken on the sub- | Ject, and as I deem the amend- ments essential, especially if it be| the intention of the Legislature| to make a permanent compilation of the statutes, I therefore repeat the recommendation on this sub- ject in the form they were made two years ago: “(a) Sub-section 20th of Chapter 121 of the Laws of 1921 levies a |tax of ‘T per cent of the net income |in excess of $5,000.00' on mining. The last provision of this sub-sec- tion provides that where a lesser (Contlnued on Page Eight) Anchorage was supposed to have \left Seattle this morning aboard the steamer Yukon. {Fourth Daughter Born to Emperor, Empress of Japan TOKYO, March 7.—A fourth daughter was born to the Em- peror and Empress of Japan in the Imperial Palace today. Still there is no heir in a “line un- broken for ages eternal” Only a male may occupy the thronme. Prince Chichibu, the Emperor's bre*her continues to be heir to the throne.