The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 17, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5669. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1931. ALASKA AVIATOR MISSIN — ., MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS RICE TEN CENTS ON FLIGHT IN INTERIOR EXPLOSION ON SEALING SHIP STARTSFLAMES Twenty-five Aboard Lose Lives—Others Escape to Ice Drifts OVER 100 IN PERIL TWENTY-FOUR HOURS Missing Dory with Seven Aboard Seen in Jam— Relief Now Enroute ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, March 17.—The captain and one hundred and seventeen men aboard the sealing steam- er Viking, which exploded and sank off Horse Island last Sunday with a loss of 25 lives, have reached the island after 24 hours on ice floes. Capt. Abraham Kean, Miss 0. Bartlett, 18-year-old radio operator; Varick Frissell, movie operator; E. Penrod, cameraman, and Russell Sar- gent, explorer, are among these on the island. A missing dory containing seven men, five apparently hurt, can be seen five miles off shore making an effort te reach the island. Miss Bartlett, in a radio mes- sage received here, said it is doubt- ful that the dory will be success- ful because of the ice jam. The inhabitants of Horse Island are carrying for the rescued, many of whom are reported sick or badly injured. Capt. Kean said he was on the bridge when the explosion occurred and was thrown to the ice. Fire followed the explosion. Supplies are practically exhaust- | ed on the island. Rescue boats are not expected to reach there until late today. Five houses on the island are GEORGE WINS SZNORITAS’ HEARTS | | | | | | | | | Associated Press Photo Prince George is stealing the show from his o'der brother, tne | Prince of Wales, in winning the admiration of the charming South i American senoritas. The young Briton’s good fortune may be judged by the group of in-America’s fair daughters shown above. In Chile George danced frequently with Anne Chilton (below), daughter of the . British ambassador, but he has shown interest in several Chilean girls. SENATE TAKES ;SECURE JURY ' TIME ON HOUSE | FOR TRIAL OF PROBEMEASURE, ~ CABARET GIRL iGets Foster Resolution and{Case Is Opened in Salt Lake| Treats it with Routine City, with Jean Dayle ! Consideration as Defendant The Senate this morning showed | SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March :no disposition to hasten its consid-[17.—A jury has been completed | eration of the Foster resolution|after three days for the trial of |calling for a Legislative inquiry|Jean Dayles, former cabaret enter- {into the conduct of Territorial of-|tainer. i | fices. This measure, which was| The State started the narration [ tension of the Government's com- | | paragraph from War Department crowded with the most serlouslylpused by the House yesterday un-|of the story which it seeks to PROPOSED SALE OF CABLE HITS CORPS PROGRAM, Improvements Are Halted and Any Extensions: Now Prohibited SUGGESTS TERRITORY | | MIGHT ASSUME BURDEN, Suggestion from Army /! Until the proposed sale of the Alaska cable and telegraph system by the Government to some private company has either been effected or dropped, there will be no ex- munications systems, no improve-/ ments and no modernization and plans for proposed stations at Ket- ! chikan, Juneau and Anchoragéhave been abandoned. ! This was revealed today in a instructions to the Chief Signal Officer of the Army which was quoted by Gov. George A. Parks in a communication to Senator Alfred J. Lomen, who had sought the Governor's assistance in, ob- taining a Signal Corps station for Marshall. [ Asks Senate’s Opinion 1 In another letter, addressed to President Hess' of the Senate. the Governor directed attention to the| proposed sale of the Signal Corps, facilities, and to a recommendation | made by the committee which ro, far had not been made public in! other announcements of the prop-| osition. | This was a suggestion that in! case the Army $6ld the system south from Anchorage to Seattle the Territory should take over the| system north from rail headquart-; ‘(Continued on Page Eight) s i o i | COVERNMENT OFN.Y.CITY Governor Transmits Official § Authorities il SIX Representatives of Six Compan who submitted the lowest bid for cluded (upper, left to right) H. J. 117 REACH SHORE FROM ICE FLOES Associated Pres: les, Ine., of San Francisco, a combine of that many enulnurlrrq 'lh’-’rfi: construction of Hoover Dam when they were opened at Denver in- Kaiser, 8an Francisco; Frank T. Crowe, Boise, Ida., who will probably be general superintendent of construction; Charles Shea, Portland, Ore.; H. W. Morrison, Boise, and (lower) W. A. Betchel, E. O. Wattis and Felix Kahn, all of San Francisco. Inset: William H. Wattis, Ogden, Utah, president of Six Companies. HOOVER OFF THURSDAYON 1-DAY TR Will Go to Porto Rico and Virgin Islands on Bat- tleship Arizona MacDonald_ STARWITNESS Government - \NYTHING BT e Fieht . SENSATIONAL Liberals Join Conservatives| Howard Testifies in | ——_Sl??uts of “Re- ‘Mrs sign’”. Unheeded Trial of Nelson-Loucks LONDON, March 17.—Eleven Lib- erals joined the Conservatives last | at Hillsboro, Oregon injured and others are being pro- tected from the storm in tem- porary shelters. e ————— JAPANESE STUDY CHINESE TOKYO—Chinese has been add- ed to English, French and German as the fourth foreign language of- fered to students in the secondary schools of Japan. e ee——— dent Hess this morning intimated| Witnesses will start testifying Strap Man. to he would merely name a member | today. Chai of the Committee as Acting Chair-| The defendant sits with her “hair, Rob Store man. He took under advisement|mother, Mrs. Ida Lane ,of Seattle. Of Lar, {the matter of filling Senator o WS AR f e sfl Dunn's place on other committees. BELL] HAM, Wash., March Commenting on this matter he 1-1._.1-,,:N lgndh ;:M them- |said he would like to have the ad- ¥ selves in the rear of a cigar store early this morning and then overpowered H. B. Petty- john, proprietor, after he had . locked the door of the store and began checeking his cash for the night. The bandits escaped with $2,500 after they tied Pettyjohn to a chair. - After the robbery, the victim crawled to the front door, still strapped in the chair, and at- tracted the attention of a ped- estrian. { the Committee on Education. This der a suspension of its rules, reach- ed the Senate this morning. It was treated in accord with the routine proceedings. It was read for ‘the first time and referred to Committee is at present without send her to face a firing squad or hangman’s noose, for the murder of Sam Frank, elderly jewelry auc- tioneer of Memphis, Tennessee. The State alleges the girl used a drug, a blow from a liquor bot- tle and a silk stocking crammed in NOW SCORED ! WASHINGTON, D. C., March 17. | —President Hoover starts on a 10- | day vacation Thursday aboard the | battleship Arizona. He leaves here tomorrow night and will breakfast {aboard the Arizona Thursday morn- (ing as she salls for Porto Rico Drive for Legislative Inter- vention Is Now Be- ing Sought night 'to defeat the MacDonald Government, 246 votes to 242 de- feating the clause abolishing Uni- versal conrstituencies in the elec- alternate voting. Shouts of “resign” were made but toral Reform Bill which provides | —Mrs. H. W. Howard, close friend of Mrs. Nelson C. Bowles, failed to prove the sensational witness expected at the trial of Nelson C. Bowles and Miss Irma Loucks, accused of murdering Mrs. Bowles. i HILLSBORO, Oregon, March 17.' the mouth to kill Frank. The State is expected to stress robbery since connected with homi- cide it constitutes first degree mur- der in the state of Utah, |a Chairman owing to the critical |illness of Senator John W. Dunn who is its head. Acting Chairman Probable For the present, at least, Presi- NEW YORK, March 17.—Kings-| land Macy, Republican State Chair- | man, advocates a concerted effort by all civic bodies to support de-' mands for an investigation of the city government. Macy said various movements should be coordinated in a drive for, vice of the Senate, adding: “There | seems to be practically no question that Senator Dunn will not answer any more roll calls in the Senate.” Most of the Senate's session this morning * was consumed in com- {mmee of the whole in consideration iof the measure revising the general j business corporation code of the! i\ Territory. It resumed that work this afternoon. New Bills Introduced Senator Hess yesterday afternoon | introduced a bill providing for the { ¢ (Continued on Page Eight) SCUFFLE FOR ONE REVOLVER Sailor Is Charged with Manslaughter of Sweet- heart, Employer ! SEATTLE, March 17.—Following “a preliminary hearing in a Justice Hula Girl Leaves Romance For Job WASHINGTON, March 17.—Even the hula girl from Hawaii has gone into the business world. The romantic grass-skirted hula girl now is found only at enter- tainments and pageants. She has been supplanted by the modern young Hawaiian who works every day in store and office. Investigations by the National Federation of Business and Profes- sional Women in connection with their international program reveal that the girl typist and clerk now are more representative of Hawail than the dancing maiden. Court, manslaughter charges have (been placed against Willard Kre- ger, aged 24, a sailor, for the death of his sweetheart, Ada Ross. and {J. F. Van Hoff, and transferred to |the Superior Court by Prosecuting Attorney Burgunder. The woman was a waitress a.m!l | VanHoff her employer . They were |shot during a scuffle for posses- |sion of a revolver in the Van Hoff home, on February 15. |Funeral of Earle Blossom Held Today| SEATTLE, March 17—The fun- in Office World The former props her back against a typewriter chair instead of swaying in a moonlight dance as her grandmother did as a girl. She clings to her beloved flow- ers, however, and their scent often fills the prosaic office as she nim- bly types business letters. Ameri- can business men in Hawali find her good tempered and industrious. The hula girl, who has contrib-| uted so much to song and story in Hawaii, has not entirely passed from the picture, and her flower- decked presence is still part of the ieral of E. Earle Blossom, formerly lof Juneau, Alaska, was“held here ‘thls afternoon with ceremonies by .the Elks. He died here following legislative intervention. New York’s pulpits resounded| Sunday with denunciations of the| City Hall and pleas for a house-| cleaning. The Rev. John Holmes, of the/ Community Church, and Rabbi Ste- phen Wise, ‘'of the Free Synagogue, who are drafting specific charges, of incompetence against Mayor James J. Walker, carried the cam- paign to their parishioners. Mayor Walker ,in California, said | his opponents did not like wise- cracks or laughter. Plots Against M HAVANA March 17.—Cuba’s crit- ical political storm, which has raged for nearly a year, shows few signs of abating. Foes of President Gerardo Ma- chado have sought to unfeat him and while he has kept his large but disorganized opposition at bay, scarcely a week passes but that some move by his enemies gives | him cause for worry. Economic troubles, due to the sugar slump, have added to his dif- ficulties. Strives to Hold Army The balance of power rests with an operation. | istand’s charm. '\ the army and the president 1is - and tHe Virgin Islands. Mrs. Hoover is not accompanying the President and plans to spend the time with her convalescent son Herbert, Jr. at Asheville, North Cdrolina. S iy et If. Radio Is Weak, Switch on Lights NEW YORK, March 17.—Radio receivers powered through the lighting circuit, which is tied into |the set through the power SUPPLY|j7_ wmrs william Allison of Sayles- equipment, acts as an auxiliary an- tenna. Turning on the switch, in effect, adds more wire to the pick-up cir- cuit. —_——.e that all that' was the matter was| The three-year trail building pro-:’nshore’ but the others drowned. gram in Sequoia National Park, Cal, will be completed this year. achado Bring Cuba to Crisis, | bending every effort to keep his, 15,000 well-trained troops satisfied The latest plot against Machado, however, involved some of the sol- diers. A private on guard on the 100f of the presidential palace low- ered a bomb through a ventilator with the intention of exploding it in the presidential bath room. It failed, however, to reach its mark The opposition is centered in the Nationalist Union, a political or- ganization headed by two former Menocal and Zayas. gressional elections, and threatened (Continued on Pag‘.: “Three) Premier MacDonald refused. It is thought probable the elec- toriad reforms will be dropped. | The substance of M:s. Foward's testimony was that she talked over the telephone with Mrs. Bowles in the morning and planned to meet - ker downtown during the after- noon, on the day of her death. Mrs. Bowles, according to the testimony, told Mrs. Howard of going to Miss Loucks's apartment. Mrs, Bowles seemed cheerful, said the witness. Mrs. Howard was alleged the vie- tim of two attacks after it became known she was to testify in the case. She told the police she was beaten the first time and stabbed and slugged the second time. D 2 CHILDREN ARE DROWNED MA'X'I‘APOISET'I" Mass., March ville, Rhode Island, hurled three of her children off a dock here and then jumped into the ocean| after them. ‘Wayne Allison, clung to a rock and pulled himself In altitude tests at Rockwell | Field, Cal, an army 98-foot bomber climbed 21,730 feet. The pilots had | to use oxygen apparatus. took | - - - aged 9 years, COMPANIES OFFICIALS AT DAM BID OPENING VPILUT MOLLER " EAGLE, GIRCLE Flier Left Ffianks Week Ago Yesterday— Not Seen Since FRIENDS START INQUIRY AT POINTS IN INTERIOR One Clew Given that Plane Was Heading for ‘ Charley River NOT REPORTED FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 17.—Worried because of the failure of Pilot Fred Moller to return to Fairbanks 'from a flight to Eagle, Fort Yukon and Circle, friends wired those points and re- ceived answers he has not reported. | Pilot Moller left Fairbanks a week ago yesterday intend- Ing to stop at Eagle first, then continue to Circle. | Reports that a plane was heard about 30 miles from Circle heading for Charley River was not mentioned un- ‘!lll yesterday when the re- {port was received » plane was missing. { P'llot Miller. is the head of {an independent airplane com- pany. | ANXIETY INCREASES | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 17. | —Pllot Art Hines and Game War~ :den Sam 'O. White are preparing |to hop off to search the upper }Yukon Valley for Pilot Fred Moller 1who has been unreported from any |three points for which he was bound since leaving here March 9, i Fears concerning Moller's safety are Increasingly hourly following a dispatch from Circle saying a plane was heard headed in the direction of Charley River last {week. There has been no re i since then. e Moller should have landed at one of the Yukon River communities within a short time after having been heard at Circle. Trouble of some kind has almost certainly overtaken him unless he decided to continue direct to the Kobuk country where he is inter- ested in mining. This is held, how- ever, to be a slim possibility as he had cargo for Eagle. | B e — {1 i TODAY'S STOCK | QUOTATIONS 1 L] | NEW YORK, March 17.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |stock today is 8%, American Can 1227%, Anaconda Copper 38%, Beth- lehem: Steel 63%, General Motors 44%, Granby Consolidated 19%, International Harvester 56%, Ken- necott 28', Packard Motors 10, Simmons Beds 18, Standard Brands |19%, Standard Oil of California 45%, Standard Oll of New Jersey 45%, United Aircraft 34%, U. S. Steel 145%, Curtiss-Wright 5%, Hudson Bay 5%, General Foods 155, Checker Cab 14, 13%, 13%. Wayne sald his mother them to the dock under pretense of seeing a boat leave for New York. The husband of the woman learn- ed of the tragedy when he re-| turned home from work. ! | - | | Thirsty Riot for Job Drinking Free Beers | DORTMUND, Germany, March 17.—Announcement that an “offic- ial beer drinker” was wanted by | the-: Physidiggieal , Labor 1tute pany's application for removal of |here brought such & crush of ap-|ihe experimental restriction on the Iplicants that police had to quell|relay broadeasting of W8XK has them. been recommended by Ellis A. Yost, The sclentists were amazed by the | ohijat examiner of the Federal Ra- rush. They had acked for an able-| 4i5 Commission. bodied man willing to drink 14| yost holds that programs broad- hottles ©f beer daily, undergo tesis| cast to short wave listeners would of his physical efficiency and get reach a comparatively small audi- good pay for his services. | ence, The institute wished merely 10| Relaying programs between the find the fatiguing effects ob alco- ynited States and other countries holic beverages. lhas been carried on experimentally { WASHINGTON, D. C, March |17—Plans to pick up radio pro- |grams in all parts of the world |and broadcast them on a com- | mercial basis to listeners with short wave receivers have incurred a set- back. Denial of the Westinghouse com- Pro ject to Relay World Programs| Not Approved by various stations at intervals. Yost contends that the popular demand for a short wave service and development of the art does not yet warrant taking it out of the experimental class. Licenses have been issued to 10 companies for experimental relay stations, and 23 out of 27 channels available for such service have been assigned. Westinghouse has been experi- menting in short wave and relay broadeasting since 1922. The ex- pense of operating the relay sta- tion from 1924 to 1930, excluding program costs, was approximately $400,000. During 1930 its trans- mitters operated an average of 405 hours a month. - infrequent