The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 18, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5670. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1931. SUSPECTED MURDERER B " MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRES: S EN CENTS e PRICE [EVED LOCATED IN JUNEAU STATE PRISON AT JOLIET IS ON FIRE SMOKE POURS ABOVE WALLS: SHOTS HEARD IN LINGLE MURDER MILLIONS ARE TRIAL Shouts of Convicts Mingled with Bark of Rifles of Guards STATE TROOPS ARE SUMMONED BY WARDEN Flare of Flames Seen fromj Outside—Second Out- | break in Progress | JOLIET, Illinois, March 18 —Late | this afternoon the Statesville pris- | on is on fire. Rioting and gunfire within the walls. Warden Henry Hill rushed from | the old prison to the new peniten- | tiary across the town and found | the prison in flames. Shouting and shooting is heard. | Nathan Leopold, one of the slay- | ers of Bobby Franks, had just been taken to the Statesville prison with 19 others, when rioting began. - The outbreak is the second major disturbance at the twin peniten- tiaries within a week. Warden Hill called for State Militia and North- ern Illinois regiments have been ready since the disturbance of last Saturday. Buildings Gutted The dining room, kitchen and laundry have been gutted by the flames. The walls are swarming with armed guards. | There is a sinister thunder of shouts of convicts punctuated by barks of rifles from the towers. | Scores of highway and city po-| lice have surrounded the prison. i Billows of Smoke | Billows of smoke rose above the walls and the flare of burning buildings can be seen from outside. One newspaperman who man-| aged to get inside, tells of seeing 50 guards charge 100 prisoners and force them into their cells with tear bombs. Four companies of State Infantry are enroute from Chicago. | St | DEPUTIES ARE AMBUSHED;GUN | BATTLE STAGED. Old Indian -'I:tics Resort—y ed to in St. Louis Labor Trouble ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 18.—Re- verting to tactics of Indians of the: covered wagon era, 25 automobile; loads of men ambushed six deputy sheriffs, wounding four slightly, in a gun battle. { The officers were guarding non- union boiler workers erecting gaso- line tanks. ‘Chief Deputy Jack Johnson, was perhaps seriously wounded in the gun battle. It is estimated that 400 shot-gun shots were fired. : | is heard | revolvers. The . raiders dispersed at the approach of aid. 1day night at Yunnanfu. lof the Seventh Day Adventist : Church. ,were not harmed. Leo V. Brothers is now on trial in Chicago before Judge Joseph Sabath (right) for the alleged murder of Alfred (Jake) Lingle (center), Chicago Tribune reporter. Charles cutor, is one of the attorneys for the State. above with his mother, Mrs. Cordell Jesson, whose testimony may be, | one of the high lights of the trial. 'REQUIRED FOR LOANS TO VETS [Half a Bililon Dollars Need—! | ed to Cover Payment ' on Applications = | | 'TREASURY MUST NOW | | ISSUE CERTIFICATES Seventy-five Per Cent & : Certificate Holders Are Seeking Aid WASHINGTON, D. C., March 18. —Demands of veterans for loans is | forcing the Treasury to raise $200,- 1 000,000 in less than a month, Sec- 1retary of Treasurer Mellon an- | nounced today following a request | of Administrator Hines for $500.- 000000 to cover the payment of ,372,008 applications previous to March 15. | It was previously estimated that 1$300,000,000 would suffice and one | and one-half percent Treasury cer- | tificates were issued to get this | amount. | Administrator Hines said that half a billion dollars will be needed by April 11, How the extra $200,000,000 will be | raised is not announced. Administrator Hines told Secre-, |tary Mellon that one billion dol-| | | | | | RN, S % SR F. Rathbun (left) Special Prose- The defendant is shown TWO: WOMEN MURDERED IN THEIR SLEEP Washington State Mission- ariés Are Killed in China Mission PEIPING, China, March 18— Mrs. Vera White, of Battle Ground, ‘Washington, and Mrs. Victoria Miller, of Spokane, Washington, were slain in their sleep last Sun-; The two women were missionaries The crime is attributed to dis-| charged Chinese servants at the Mission. The two husbands are on a busi- ness trip to Talifu, 150 miles nwny.‘ The skulls of the two women! were fractured by hatchets. Two white children in the house B | TODAY'S STOCK QUOTATIONS [ | | NEW YORK, March 18.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 8%, American Can 125; Anaconda Copper 39, Bethle- | hem Steel 63%, General Motors 45%, Granby Consolidated 20, In- ternational Harvester 567, Kenne- cott 28%, Packard Motors 10%, Simmons Beds 18%, Standard Brands 20%, Standard Oil of Cali-| fornia 457%, Standard Oil of New | Jersey 46%, United Aircraft 35%, Hudson Bay, no sale; Checker Cab 13%. Mussolini Halts Cities’ Age-Old Levies at Gates ROME, March 18. — Jealously- guarded Hheritage of the Middle Ages, municipal import duties have disappeared in Italy on order of Mussolini. Greece is left the only country of Europe where duties are still charged at the city gates on incom- ing shipments of goods. One of the chief annoyances of American tourists in Italy has thus been removed. The traveler who coities into a corporate city by thé open road no longer is stopped at the corporation line, his baggage examined and duty imposed. And the merchant and farmer now pass directly into the city with their merchandise or vegetables without paying duty. . The city customs police have | | l | | gene into other employment, and their little stations beside the road dre abandoned. The customs police at the railroad stations have also disappeared. The government has instituted a consumption tax to take the place of the old “octroi” or “dazio.” The list of objects formerly tax- able at the becundaries of Rome filled a booklet of 20 pages. The list began with wine and ended with toys. Meat was divided into three qual- ities, good, not-so-good, and frozen, which paid different rates. House- hold furniture, building materials, | cloth, rubber, phonographs, um- brellas, bottles, hot water heaters, almost everything under the sun ‘was taxed, INCOME TAXES U.'two new serious diphtheria cases mythical accidents. The deputies replied with their S. Steel 147%, Curtiss-Wright 5%,!have been discovered. ione half. | — lars will be needed to pay all| ‘Ilonns, It is estimated that 75 per | icent of the 3500000 certifigate’ ‘!holders would borrow. Hines. said ninety million dollars will be re-| | quired this week. | i | Loans so far have been granted| UF to 282,874 veterans totaling $104,- 035,368. First Day Totals This Year Far Below Amount of Last Year ‘WASHINGTON, D. C.,, March 18.1 —The first day’s collection of in-' come taxes dropped $5,000,000 be- low the first day of last year. It is reported that on March 16 the income tax returns amount- éd to $13,100632. Last year, on! the first day, the income tax to-| taled $18,148,963. Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, said he expected the treasury de- ficit would be larger than the Treasury Department estimated, following release of the income tax figures. 'Cabinet of Mayor Out | \ in Chicago New Wrinkle Appears in Mayoralty Election on April 7 CHICAGO, Ill, March 18.—The | mayoralty campaign regained at- | tention of the voters again today iby the resignation of Mayor Thompson’s Cabinet, ;accompanied by a pledge of “loyal support” at kthe April 7 election. Anton Cremak, Democrat, Presi- dent of the Cook County Board, and candidate for Mayor on the Democratic ticket, and Mayor Thompson declined to make any comment. | | > SITUATION AT POINT BARROW STILL SERIOUS Two New Cases of Diph- theria Develop—Fi- nancial Aid Given "Phone Pests Keep Sofia | Shivering at False News| SOFIA, March 18— Telephone| ‘of Bulgaria's capital a merry chase. In several instances the wives |and children of leading politicians, | (literary and artistic lights of the! POINT BARROW, Alaska, March city have been subjected to severe 18.—Despite the strict quarantine,'shock by false messages about One favorite trick is to put in Handicapped by lack of hospital a long distance call to some provin- space and the small nursing staff, cial official and inform him that Dr. Griest is forced to return to the cabinet has resigned or that homes those cases showing the a revolution has broken out in the slightest improvement. This has re-| capital. sulted in one dangerous relapse.| Last year the hospital appropria-| tion for Barrow was cut more than| ———-—— PENSIONERS PAY ITALY ROME — Italian war veterans; There is a shortage of food sup- have reduced the nation's public plies. | debt by nearly $300,000 through re-| Dr. Griest yesterday examined nunciation of pensions and insur- the entire village and suspicious ance and by turning in Govern- cases will be isolated. { ment bonds. The National Asso- The natives are growing a little ciation of Combatants contributed reckless as they do not understand $21,000 in January. | posure. !to identify the men except &s! INVO LVED IN = Investigation of an alleged wealthy men for parties resulted in the ar P. Mills, (right) wealthy real es! - ALLEGED LOS ANGELES VICE RING rest of William Jobelman ( tate man, (center) Identified him as a patron of the ring. ARE RESCUED FROM FLOES ON ATLANTIC Three More Survivors of Ill-fated Sealing Ves- sel Reported 8T. JOHNS, Newfoundland, March 18 —Three additional have been rescued from the ice floes by the sealer Beothic. Radio messages said the three| were suffering severely from ex- The meager report failed “Johnson, Kean, Best.” Previous reports described the| three men as having been located. | Kean is believed to be the mate of the Viking. Johnson is believed to have been master of the watch, and previously unaccounted for. Best may be one of the crew. It is not known whether the men were part of a group prev- jously reported as rescued by the, Beothic. It is now believed approximately 20 persons were killed in the ex- plosion on the Viking and subse- qunt fire which burned the vessel| to the water’s edge. Messages said the explosion was caused by a spark igniting dyna- mite used to break a way through the ice for the ship to escape the Jam. i One hundred and seventeen were first reported to have escaped rrom‘ the ship, seeking safety on drift-, ing ice floes which were drifting] to sea. The survivors finally man- aged to reach Horse Island, over the ice, where they are being cared | for by the small number of vil- lagers. BODY REPORTED FOUND sur- vivors of the sealing ship Viking | newspaper, says State Senator Har-| | porary re sidents of Olympia into court under his own name.” AVIATR Edna May Cooper, co-holder of women, was found in a Monterey, ited the girl flier who was suffering STATESENATOR | OF WASHINGTON ADMITS GUILT Makes Plea to Possessior-\1 of Liquor—Fined | Fifty Dollars SPOKANE, Wash,, March 18— The Spokane Chronicle, afternoon ry Williams, of Spokane, “slipped quietly down to Tenino Saturday and entered a plea of guilty to having liquor in his possession.” He was tried under his own name and was fined $50 and “thus has the distinction of being the only one of three Spokane men, tem- to go Dry agents arrested Willlams and NEW YORK, March 18.—The) pests have been giving the police {Bowring brothers, owners of the|ynoton Regent, {Viking, have received a message that a body has been found near the spot where the ship sank last Sunday night. The sealers Eagle and Neptune found the body on the ice. A message iand timbers, wreckage and clothing have been found on the ice. | One message said conditions were critical on Horse Island where the surviyors are being cared for. Food is low and there is little shelter. — e — | BUILD FREE ROAD PARMA, Italy — When public funds were not forthcoming to con-| nect the village of Pellegrino with nearby highways, citizens turned out and constructed eight roads, totaling 20 miles, without cost to the village treasury. the seriousness of the situation. | _ Capt. Pedersen, of Oakland, Cali-} fornia, commander of the Arctic' trading vessels of the Northern Whaling and Trading Compan, wired Dr. Griest as follows: | “Note from newspapers you are retarded by lack of funds. Com-| pany will gladly donate 31,000.‘ Draw ‘on us for that amount.” c . L ———— CARSON CITY, Nevada, Marchl California’s birth rate in 1930 18 _The Nevada State Senate by was 14.7 per cent per 1,000 popula- a vote of 13 to 3 has passed a tion, or 84,382, which was an in- wide open gambling bill. The bill crease of 2,884 over 1929, | provides for a license fee of $50 a Wide Open Gambling Is Almost Certain in Nevada game to be paid County Sheriffs ‘The measure goes next to the As- sembly where it is said to be as- sured of passage and has the Gov- ernor’s approval, \ two lobbyists, Thomas Gaston and Roscoe Balch, University of Wash- | The latter two| pleaded guilty under fictitious| names. The Chronicle said: “Willlams, hearing a raid was on, rushed to his room and started down the hall | with a bottle of whiskey in each | hand. Had the liquor not been taken from the room, Williams would not have been arrested as the dry agents did not have a search warrant for his room.” - Five Men Reported Killed in Cave-in of Railroad Tunnel to have 18 —Five | QUINCY, Cal, been | men are reported killed in a cave-in of a tunnell under construction for the West- ern Pacific Railroad, north of here.| Details are lacking as communica- | tion is poor as the highway is al—) most impassable with mud The tunnel is being hored for an extension of the Western Pa- cific which is to link the Great Northern. | > OF TO KETCHIKAN Mrs. John H. Newman and daughter left on the Yukon to join| Mr. Newman, court stenographer,! now with the Court at Ketchikan. IX FOUND IN HOSPITAL \so of the golden Associated Press Photo ‘love syndicate’ in Los Angeles providing young girls as companions to left) as an alleged operator. John was arrested on a statutory charge after Clarissa Tauber O Associated Press Photo the sustained flight record for Cal., hospital after being missing from Los Angeles several days. Her mother, Mrs. Mary Cooper, vis- DAUGHERTY IS SENTENGED T0 PRISON: FINED Former President of De- funct Ohio State Bank Will Appeal WASHINGTON C O URTHOUSE. Ohio, March 18.—Mal former President of defui Chio State Bank, coavicled on March 4 of misappropriating bauk funds, was today sentenced to 10 years in the State Penitentiary and also fined $5,000 and ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution. Defense attorneys said an appeal Daugherty, the will be made Daugherty is a brother of former United States Attorney General Daugherty. - - DR. SIMPSON IS NOW IMPROVED; HOME-BOUND Dr. Robert Simpson is now much improved in health and is leaving | Portland today for Seattle enroute This is according to v to Juneau. advices received here toda; thruso’; iomb Sealed To End Tale of “Cult” NAPLES, Italy, March 18.—Caru- voice, who died here in 1921, may at last sleep in peace. His glass tomb has been sealed up by indignant heirs as a result of widespread rumors that a cult has arisen to honor his memory through worshipping rites that in- cluded periodical changing of"the funeral clothes on his embalmed body. Caruso’s body, embalmed by Nea- politan morticians with a secret method which they claim to have inherited from the ancient Egyp- tian: in a little chapel in the cemetery of the Madona del Pian- to here. The chapel was built by his widow Mrs. Caruso decided upon the embalming so their daughter Gloria might see her famous fathdr, whea _ | June 4, ALLEGED SLAYER OF MRS, PATTY REPRTED HERE |Los Angeles Officers Said ' to Be Coming North with Warrants TRAIL OF NEARLY 2 YEARS IS FGLLOWED 'Local Authorities Have No | Information—"'Smoke Screen” Says Paper | O Radio Operator William Loren Tallman, supposed slayer of Mrs. | Virginia Patty in Los Angeles on 1929, is rumored to be in {Juneau or some other locality in the Alaska Panhandle. l District Attorney Buron™ Fitts, | of Los Angeles, according to As- | sociated Press dispatches received by The Empire, said Tallman, | charged with murdering his wealthy eetheart, has been located and being sought in -an unnamed far | northern city. Chief Deputy District Attorney | Robert Stewart and Detective Lieu= | tenant J. A. Sterritt left Los An- ! geles March 10 for Seattle enroute ‘tc Alaska. | Traveling Incognito | Dispatches received today by The | Empire claimed the two officers were traveling north incognito, pre- sumably having in their possession | extradition papers for Tallman to be signed by Gov. George A. Parks. | Last Saturday night, queries were recelved by The Empire from the | south for details as to Tallman's arrest by officers then supposed to I'be in Juneau, presumably having | arrived on the Admiral Farragut. There were no officers aboard that vessel. In order to have sailed on | the Admiral Farargut from Seattle, it would have been necessary for | them to have flown to Seattle. | Then queries came that the of= ficers were on their way - north, | this time on the Alameda or Prin= cess Norah. (Continued on Page Eight) THIRD PARTY ONLY BUGABOO \ SAYS SENATOR Bobs Up During Every Campaign But Fails i ‘ to Develop | | MIAMI BEACH, Florida, March 18.—Senator Robert M. LaFollette, 1 said the third party, which he | called a bugaboo, bobs up in near- !ly every political campaign buf i never develops into a serious branch of contention and will not in 1932. The Senator from Wisconsin as- . serted the recent meeting of Inde- pendents in Washington was merely to bring together experts to work out a basis of legislation at the next session of Congress. she grew up, as he was at the height of his fame. Mrs. Caruso also ordered a glass coffin, with one side removable, and hundreds of tourists have seem the body with full face as in life.’ But the embalming process cals not preserve the clothes, so Caru- so’s shroud must be changed ab certain intervals. This has usual- been done with one of the pre= . fessors of the Scientific Institute of Naples directing. And thus arose the rumor of the Caruso cult, a rumor which had it that - 48 members composing the cult met at the tomb at certain in~ tervals and observed a ritual whieh included reclothing the body. ok Caruso's heirs determined to W’ this = bizarre state of affairs, so stonemasons have walled up the sarernl and visits of tourists i be 1 3 cuy