The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 19, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5671. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1931 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ____PRICE TEN CENT§ NO TRACE OF MISSING ALASKA AVIATOR IS FOUND [RON HAND TODAY RULES PRISONERS EXTRA GUARDS VROHIBITION DEBATE OPENS pEMOCRATlC ET Fuuu LANDED |'To Fly to‘Ould Sod’ BERT M BUNALD YUKUN VALLEY ARE STATIONED | | @ ! HORSE ISLAND & CROUGHTBACK | SEARGHED FOR IN ILL. PRISON FOR OVER 100 TOFACECHARGE PILOT MOLLER Militiamen' and High w ay| Medical Supplies Also| Alleged Slayer of Fish Buy-|Flier Hines and Game Wass Police Are on Duty Reach Survivors of | er G. P. Marshall, | den White Unsuccess- at Joliet Sealing Ship in Ketchikan ful in Hunt FOURTEEN CONVICTS SEVEN SEALERS MAKE FIVE HUNDRED AT TWO MORE PLANES WOUNDED ; ONE KILLED | | WAY THROUGH FLOES DOCK TO GREET HIM| LEAVE FAIRBANKS Yesterday's Riots Result in Flier Balchen Preparing for Special Grasd Jury Will Further Efforts to Locate D ion by Fi | Flight with Aid—Help Probably Be Called by Missing Man and Plane estiiction by Fire of U. S. Asked Judge Harding Are Made of 7 Buildings : JOLIET, Illinois, March 19.—Of- ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, March KETCHIKAN, Alaska, March 19.| FATRBANKS, Alaska, March 19. 19.—Food and medical assistance —More than 500 persons were at|—Pilot Art Hines and Game War= ficials today ruled the new States- | have been landed on Horse Island the decking of the steamer Ala-|den Sam O. White failed to find ville Prison with an iron hand where more than 100 survivors of meda yesterday when the liner ar-|any trace of Pilot Fred Moller, who to prevent a repetition of yester- $hoe Yok -otl Hires ; Associated Press Photo | the sealing vessel Viking are shelt- riyed from Seattle to sce Bert Mc-'!left here for Eagle, Fort Yukon ST RUAIGLIPEORE (ie Walls Al Chairman John J. Raskob (left, standing) as he opened the meeting of the democratic national com- ered. Donald, one of two men accused and Circle on March 9. The landing was affected by of the alleged murder of G. P. Hines and White scouted the 1 the o gmingrefioti “to peevept mittee in Washington. Jouett Shouse, chairman of the executive committee, is standing beside him. A further disorder. thundering debate over prohibition rocked the meeting as Chairman Raskob, asking the committee to i [ | united efforts of seven sealers all, Ketchikan fish buyer, Yukon Valley to Eagle but found vhich pounded the ice many hours rd his boat, last October. Ino trace of the missing flier or Two hundred National Guards-' suggest a 1932 platform plank for modification, was answered with sharp counter attack by stalwart drys. 'in an effort to make a way for i held aboard the his plane. men and a like number of High- AR the rescue ship Sagona. | boat several hours before re- Two planes left here yesterday way Police are on duty in the TGRS B WO T SRS S T A B | Reports received by wireless said ,moml Lo the Federal jall to await afternoon to aid in the search. y . most of the survivors of the ex- 1N Preparation of her battle with | preliminary hearing Pilot Ed. Young, of the Alaska ‘Modern Leochinvar GHAMBER DUES plosion and fire aboard the Vik- ey, Atlantic Pinds, 18-year-old | 1t is belleved Federal Judge Jus“AlrWnys. with General Manager 5 " ing were in “fairly good condi- N. Y., has obtained her ar(‘n:;: tin W. Harding will call a speclal Arthur Johnson and Bob Bartlett, prison. Fourteen convicts were wounded in yesterday's riot and one died to- | day, Raymond Barney, shot through | | tion.” consent to her attempt to fiy from | Crond Jury | representative of the News-Miner, the head when he refused to obey Is s 0 u s H T l N HEAVY B IN | Wireless Operator King is suf- the United States to lrelnn She McDonald was spirited away from left in one plane, followed by Pilot Warden Hill when ordered to ,-e. | ferlng from gangrene in a leg. is the holder of a pilot's license |Portland, Oregon, by Deputy U. 8. Vic Ross of the Northern Afr turn to his cell. Navigator W. Kennelly has a se- !Crom the U. 8. Department of |Marshal C. V. Brown on an ex- Transport, accompanied by Dr. Overcrowding of both the new vere attack of pneumonia. ommerce, tradition warrant charging first' Scwartz and Deputy Marshal Fred and old State prisons and resent,‘ The sealer Imogen broke a pro- degree murder. | Parker. ment against the Parole Board are| blamed by Warden Hill ‘for the! riots. The riot yesterday began in the McCutcheon Sponsors Bfll chair factory by a prearranged to Subsidize Radio signal, officials learned. The prisoners signalled with two | Broadcaslmg Statlons fingers that the rioting was to! start at 2 oclock. At that hour| A Territorlal subsidy to com- | 1,800 convicts were in the chair mercial broadcasting stations in factory. They attacked three Alaska is sought in a measure in- guards, lit torches and then ran' troduced in the House this morning into the prison yard. Almost im- bY Representative H. H. McCutch- | |pellor in an effort to reach the | - — 1 It is evident Pilot Moller was | island. E DESTRUYS | forced down bhefore reaching the }‘Iukon Valley. Ba%quet, PRPEEEI O S S Bessemyer ’ ennis Courts and BOSTON, Mass, March 19.—/ I_A HGE PA RT UF | INFENSIVE SEARCH | July 4lh Discussed Bernt Balchen is preparing ais Plan 8 for IT)S-:}:C;IE;‘)IB:LZ“:;E N:::nrvcex:'e;a; | amphibian plane here for a flight w ‘C B ’ I I: { k this Yukon River community to Announcement of detailed plans | > Y SnLea AR Mok RA!G |1aunch an intensive search for Fred to the survivors of the Vikin, on‘ | of a banquet to Legislators, ”p"”’)florse Island. i = \ | Moller, missing Fairbanks aviator, | | |lost since March 9. {on the proposal to purchase for en ordered ext as tanks parking purposes the entire block ER\te o oramied. exan Gl el s ‘Former HO“waOd Fman- The three planes have already ! searched across the mountains to | of ground in front of the cheral:and S oveies Nine Buildings Are Razed mediately they were joined by hun-| €on. Anchorage Democrat. A sum | : ; | In addition to carrying of food . % cier, in San Quentin i dreds of other prisoners. | of $10000 from the treasury s re- o torial bulliing, donation o | ynq. medicine, Baichen will fiy over| and Shift of Wind el Quentin, | ieh cre, ne toonis and ats Seven buildings were destroyed qufifllesdu;?ergx:;dfi‘:;m:xefii celebration, discussion relative to}f:e ;:;ermmi:;fii: Zrur:lx\grsb‘)d:;: Saves Rest of Town R |country between Circle and Hot s spon- Pl e | % e LT lsored by station KFQD operatod ol e and Sewara Blans o siop ai Harbor Grace, St.| i b e stotes: vas. SR TRMUENTIN | PRISON, - Dl S w"hhlxlso Sll«B:eO’ e | by an Anchorage company. It was Streets, and brie: talks by Terri-J0nns or Corner Brook, Newfound- ‘aum;ts‘:“f- "}; Sding stores, res-|March 19—Gilhert H. Bessemyer, 108 1CAT OF Dis Piage, ¢ AT i referred by Speaker Winn to the | torial vsenator Robert S. Bragaw | 18nd: o nd residences, were wiped | former Hollywood financier, con- | Commiztee on Roads and High- ! A out by a conflagration in Craig|victed of embezzling $8,000,000 from ! of Anchorage, George L. Swan of early today, and the town was!the Gi SK# . 8. b : o & uarantee Building and Loan Portland, Oregon; N. A. McEach- wA‘;;li:lCl;‘lg‘ngog l]{a::ch 19. saved from almost complete de-lAssoclncIon. Los Angeles, is plan- ran of Seattle and B. M. Behrends S t ¢ Biotal Stinison todi struction by a sudden shift in the ning his rehabilitation in the world of this city, featured today noons4;fl“°re3ryi U" T,e ‘T imsan Dey wind, according to advices received | of business, luncheon program of the Juneau | ’t‘sm‘ L”‘ i “Lt rxensur(}; nsul Dere by United States Marshal Al-| 1n his first interview since en-I MlssluNARlEs Chamber of Commerce. | partment a e ks Dh bert White from Deputy Marshal| tering this prison, he told news- E. M. Goddard, chairman of the CGeneral Edward Dow at St. Johns, yoc0n papermen he wouid stage his at- committee aranging for the Cham- | Newfoundland, that an A"‘e’l‘”’g The origin of the fire was not|tempted “comeback” in Hollywood, | ber's banquet March 24 to theice-breaker proceed to Horse ISland, giscovered, No estimate of the dam-| the scene of his peculations lasting Legislators, announced that it would carrying food and supplies to the goe was received. A wire received p i .Albert K. Darling (lower) member | be held in Elks Hall; that ladies | survivors of the sealing vessel Vik- pu” Max Pitshmann from 2, M.| oo boriod of eight years. He| f t New York famil expressed hope losers in the loan |, NANKING, China, March 19— ;:,A:{,J:Eo:;ni?ed ?:ndex?ru.rr;t z,': would be present and that the ing. Bradford, former local resident and | association would be reimbursed, | TDé slavers of Mrs. Vera White Philadelphia, where it is alleged charge per plate would be $3. The Consul General said that if pow standard Oil Agent at Oraig,| Bessemyer will be eligible f-r and Mrs. Victoria Miller have been the youth, equipped with an air- Interesting Program the ice-beraker was sent immed- gaiq his residence was not injured. parole application in {2 j ..t captured by Provincial authorities, phme an automobile, a pistol and | The program will consist of ad- iately it would be guided into the| e fire started in Brown’s store it Ahé ‘rlson board desides to give the Foreign Office has been ads Jial)‘ of handcuffs, attempted to | dresses by Dr. W. W. Council, pres-lthmnest ice to get to the island.'and, fanned 4 vised. X Miss Elizabeth F. Converse | ident of the Chamber; Luther C. | s e S0 BT | through *a The two women, missionaries from Cond!tlon.s are Specified { The conditions on which such mid would be extended are set up 'in the bill as follows: the station M applying for the subsidy must holti a valid Federal license to or not less than 100-watt capacity within S b = i the Territory; that it has actually Flve-Man Board Of Educa—‘been in operation continuously for 3 : o at least six months prior to apply- tion Wlth Broad POW |ing and has during that period ers Is Introduced | broadcast daily programs, and at {least 90 hours during any one Re-organization of the Territorial month in the Six-month period; School System, including creation | that its programs have been receiv- 7 high wind, swept|him the maximum sentence he will ge part of the town.|pe in prison 100 years of a new Board of Education with|ed by the public over long-wave re- (up er) social registerite of the | mess, of Fairbanks, president of | |1t destroyed Brown's Store, the the State of Washington, were broad powers of administration, is| %€iVers, over a radius of at leas 'uf"" City an$ Bryn Mawr 8t- | tne ‘Senate; Senator Anthony z {*TTopAY STOCK | |Craig sk e e s slain at Yunnanfu while asleep, proposed in a measure introduced | 300 miles from the station location; Dimond, of Valdez; Grover | UOTATIONS land warehouse, Cogo's store, bak-| BERLIN POPULATION DROPS | their heads crushed in by blows in the Senate this morning by, that the applicant has actually in-|—— T Winn, of Juneau, Speaker of the! 1 9 o e ery and residence, Owl Restaurant R from axes. Senator Allen Shattuck. [tfen ot Aot B0 T egly i House; Representative H. H. M- |and residence, and the United| BERLIN — Business depression The husbands of the two women The proposed board would adopt |PW A ings, equipment, etc., used and INcuME TAXES Cutcheon of Anchorage, and (vuver-g NEW YORK, March 19. —Closing ' States postof! building. Many|and the resultant unemployment were absent at the time, on a busis policies for the Department of “5;:1 "(‘305““0" operation. nor George A. Parks; vocal selec-quotation of Alaska Juneau mine other structures were threatened. |discouraged thousands of Germans ness mp to Talifu. e Dowernion o aiihogissd. 0 tions by Brice Howard, Cash Cole stock today is 9, American Can| The building used by Deputy|from moving to Berlin and the A U Education and appoint the Com-| absetion - fin a1 missioner of Education. It follows rfs‘;';mv‘; s‘“m 50 r‘?;:’s“:‘bfo to dtihe DE N and a male quartette composed Of 1631, Anaconda Copper 39%, Beth- | Neilsen as an office and federal | metropolis in 1930 showed a decline| R. Singleton of Hoonah entemi more or less closely the plan recom- iy E. M. Polley, Max Pitshmann, HO- | jehem Steel 65%, General Motors|jail was in the path of the flames.|in population from 4,346,437 to 4,- St. Ann's Hospital today for medi= mended by former Commissioner | t@nces over which their programs mer Nordling and J. J. Fargher, 8nd 471, Granby Consolidated 20%, In-|All of the contents were moved out, | 335,880. cal treatment. L. W. Breuer in his final report‘:;z fsgzlv::h :’;gn:]h‘;n::s‘:’“mi :’f Instrumental selections by the high' ternational Harvester 57%, Kenne- but the shift in wind direction —_— to the present Legislature, and, ity 0 B MR TERORE 40 oo Orchestra. Piano accom- | cott 23, Packard Motors 10, Sim- |saved the house along with many, 5 is understood, was prepared in con- | 3 panists e Mrs. Trevor Davis! oo “Bloc 191, Standard Brands' others. [M C l C l S l junction with the present, Commis- $L500 8% & maximum of $2500 per for Mr. Howard, Earl Hunter f0ris), ' giandard Oil of California it ! onte Larlo Crowa Serzec Sioner, W. K. Keller, and had his | YEar are fixed for any station allot- ¥ Mr. Cole and Mrs. G. E. Krause 1 dard Oil of New J . Sproval M tory way tre | OOVETIENt Kept in Red— | rorthe quans, - ~ " 30%, Smnaaes, 0ot o fovy MUVIE THE ATRE | In Gambling Fraud Charge Five-Man Board In return for this financial as-| 1reasury Officials B opurchase Stressed itee | Steel 140%, Curtiss-Wright 5%, S The Board would consist of five! i i sistance, it is provided that the Hudson Bay 5%, General Foods members, to be appointed by the merritory “shall be entitled to use Make No Comment having In charge the matter Of iy "oy ot Cab 14%, 13%, 14%. 4 | MONTE CARLO, March 19.—A [pers were carefully steamed opem Governor for terms of six years, e i g:;l,msr‘nixen ‘?m;:mmtt :Jf the‘ G o g Al ik :S,GH\'HUOH has been caused here by and the cards subjected to a spe= (Continued on Page Eight) (Continued on Page Two) WASHINGTON, D. C., March 19. | a1 estate on Fourth Strect oppo- Airplanes kept at Clover Field, the discovery of the cleverest gamb- | cial chemical treatment. Eights, site the front or the Capitol, said W‘ Cal,, consumed 100,310 gallons of Despite streams of inccme taxes ——— ling fraud ever recorded on the | nines, tens and face cards were outgoing expenses kept the Govern- th;f dp';m h':: b o bw:,not' gasoline in' 1930, sufficient for an!| SEATTLE, March 19. — The|Riviera, resulting in the arrest of |marked in such a manner as to French People Mourn as ment in the red. % . e -? ?r??eny i f 3 extremely light plane to fly 3,009,- Franklin and Hughes Theatre an international gang operating a make the marks invisible to the x Sharp decreases in receipts for (Continued - Page Two 300 miles. Chain today announced the acqui- ' secret chemical method of marking | naked eye, but visible to anyohe A . % S S l' Tuesday over the same collection | sition of 19 moving picture houses | car: wearing specially tinted glasses. . mericans top p(’n( lng day of a year ago are shown this {in western states, 12 from Fred-| This, one of the few successful | It is believed that the gang cloais 7 [year. Last year the date showed Lone Man Guards erick Mercy, of Yakima. The the- grafts at Monte Carlo, was detected | ed up several million francs singe g 3“-129‘4173’;;01?‘;'&5 The total this | atres are secured on a 20-year lease |by special police who uncovered |it began to play with crooked cards PARIS, March 19.— Failure of} Great Britain sends France the|Year was ,158,048. | involving more than 51000000. the fraud at the International c“n in January. * Americans to live up to their na-| largest number of visitors of any| Collections this year are running N ew El Dorado as { ng AU | Sporting Club. Scalabrini, posing as a wealthy tional reputation for spendthrift| foreign country, but the British do|far below those of last year and sz 000 000 Robb | The police arrested Louis Suan- Itallan gambler, sat opposite the habits is blamed as one chief rea- | not tarry. They merely pass on to|the thinning income has lowered G ld R , F obber ni, croupier at chemin de fer at|banker. Bruck, wearing tinted son for a drop of $200,000000 in|Egypt or to the other Swiss and |the Treasury further into a de- (1] usn orms Is to Be Paroled the sporting cuub; Felix Bruck, | glasses. stood behind the banker, France’s tourist receipts. continental resorts. ficit. | Maurice Maurette, croupier at the | carefully watching him draw cards. w.\sxmc,-ron, D. C., March 19_.Mumupal Casino at Nice, Pascal | Bruck would make a secret sign E CANBERRA, March 19—A Cen- may not seize the reef before the|—James Burray, sentenced to 25 Morabito, Giovannii Scalabrini and |the Ttalian, who would stake bets from foreign visitors at $400,000,000] 1931. It believes that the Inter-|Prospects are not bright. tral Australian gold exploration | company’s geologists and engineers | years in the Atlanta | entiary m’LOuls Ojedo, inventor of the meth- | accordingly. whereas the banner year of 1928 | national Colonial Exposition open- SES Bt 5 PO company, which has already fi-|arrive. connection with the $2,000,000 mail’ od cf marking cards | Al went well until showed Teceipts of $600,000,000. ing at Cincennes on May 2 will ULSTER TAXES HUGE nanced two airplane expeditions| Nobody outside the company robbery at Roundout, Iil, several| The latter induced the others to |confided in another friend, hoping He said 406,000 travelers sef sall | attract spenders. into the waterless heart of Aus-|knows where the field is located,|years ago, will be freed on parole join him, and Bruck persuaded his|to increase his own winnings. for Europe from the United States,| The officials are trying to per-| BELFAST — H. G. Mulholland,|tralia, is reported to have discov-|but prospectors with camel trains on May 25, it was announced by friend Suanni to help Ojeda have | second man's play was spotted | as against 313,000 in 1929, but still | suade country deputies in parlia- | Speaker of the House of Commons|ered a real El Dorado. have concentrated at Alice Springs,|the department of justic: access to the sporting club where |the croupier, Suanni, whose pro- there was no money benefit. The|ment to agree to a national adver-|of Northern Ireland, said 1930 ex-| At the reputed goldfield, in coun-|a little sun-baked town on the| The government took this action the new cards were kept. The | testations gave the show away voyagers were of a different class, | tising campaign. They argue that'Ports average $60.75 per capita,|try where even hardy lizards and|edge of the “big never-never.’ —James Murray, sentenced to 25 cards have shiny backs with no de- | the police. 7 and Germany, because of the Ober- | other countries have spent a lot|While taxes were almost $68 for|ncedle grass find it hard to sur-| They plan to rush the fleld if (000 of his share of the loot and sign and are in plain colors, and | Chemical products were found in ammergau passion play, got the|of profitable money in this way on|each man, woman and child in|vive squats H. B. Lasseter. He is|information leaks out. Special | aided in the capture of his fellow it was thought that marking was | Bruck's apartment along with .y-x bulk of the increased traffic, the other side of the Atlantic, Ulster. Jun guard so that eclaim-jumpers | troopers are watching them, | robbers, impossible. Ifowever, the wrap-!eral new packs of cards, { : ¥ £ The chief of the National Office But the national tourist office| Treasury officials declineq to dis- for Tourism put the 1930 “take” | has its optimistic banner flying for {cuss the situation but admitted the