The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 27, 1931, Page 1

f THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5678. _]UNEAU ALASKA FRIDAY MARCH 27 1931, N'I:MBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 'BOWLES AND LOUCKS MAY KNOW THEIR FATE TOI)AY BERT M'DONALD INDICTED, GRAND JURY - LLOYD CLOSE IS ALSO HELD AT KETCHIKAN Is Indicted for Alleged ® Grand Larceny in Another Case GOVERNMENT IS READY FOR TRIAL Marshall Murder Case Wil Probably Be Heard in Short Time KETCHIKAN, Alaska, March 27. —A special grand jury has indicted Bert McDonald, arrested in Port- land, Oregon, and brought here re- cently, on a charge of alleged murder and death of George J. Marshall, elderly fish buyer, last October. Lloyd Close, who was arrested here, held on a similar charge, has been indicted on a charge of grand larceny with another case. McDonald has also been indicted for grand larceny, the theft of tools here which were recovered from the bay by a Government diver sent down at the instigation of a witness who involved McDonald and Close in the case recently through investigations of T. N. Henry, Special Department of Jus- tice Investigator. District Attorney H. D. Stabler and Deputy Marshal W. H. Cas- well, for the Government, are ready to proceed 'with the cases. | The defense counsel is yet to re- port. ——————— HOLDS POSITION TWO HOURS AND IS THEN OUSTED Seattle Ligfiuperintend- ent Is Removed by | Order of Court : SEATTLE, March 27.—Two hours after George Roberge, Secretary of the Board of Public Works assumed charge of the City Light Depart- ment yesterday, he was ousted by a temporary restraining order is- sued by Superior Judge William J. Steinert at the request of H. E. Nelson, business man and tax- payer. The city authorities were ordered to show cause Monday why the temporary order should not be made permanent. Roberge was appointed by the Board of Public Workers pending an agreement between the City Council and Mayor Frank Edwards, as to a successor to Superintendent J. D. Ross. dismissed March 9 by the Mayor. \ — e C.P.RTRAIN HITS BROKEN - RAIL, WRECKED Cleveland Man Dies Short- ly After as Result | of Shock I | WINNIPEG, March 27. — The COPENHAGEN, March 27-—-Un- employment doles and other im- | proved social conditions in Den- !mark have brought many Danecs Canada in the last few months, There also has been a decided decrease in the number of emi- Dole Draws Danes Home From U. S. and Canada y g INTRODUCED grants, 1930 having witnessed only | | 3,348 departures, the lowest figure, | except for world war years, since 1890. For | group of Danish emigrants but the United States supplanted its north- | ern neighbor in 1930. several years Canada has back from the United States and been first choice for the largest | 'EIGHT MEASURES| and N arcotic The American College of Physi- cians has voted a protest, at the Boyle Author of Measure for Ro!ative Ba“Dt annual convention here against . Federal and State laws limiting System in Alaska the rights of physicians to pre “BRO. JOSEPH,” LEPER WORKER, | PASSES AWAY Great Humarltanan of | Modern Times Dies in Hawaiian Islands SURA.BUTTON HONOLULU, H. I, March 27. Ira = Dutton, “Brother Joseph,” Trappist Monk, widely known among lepers on Molokai Island, is dead following a long illness, at the age of 87. For forty-five years he has been among isolated lepers. He entered a hospital here last July, weakened by burden of his age and work. By his devotion to the unfortun- ates of the little leper village of Kalawao, on the Pacific island of Molokai, Ira Dutton achieved re- nown as one of the great humani- tarians of modern times. Bearing the ecclesiastical name of Brother Joseph, he went to the leper village in 1886, a compara- tively young man, never to re- turn. Why he chose the cloister- ed life amid such surroundings probably will remain a mystery. To Brother Joseph it was a se- cret of which he never spoke. He served his country in the Civil War and afterwards aided the government in collecting and bury- ing the bodies of his fallen com- rades. He devoted years to as- sisting others of his comrades who had come out of the war broken in health and unable to earn a living. Brother Joseph, still Ira Dut- ton, then settled in Memphis, Ten- ! nessee, and engaged in business. | He was successful and led an ac- |tive life until 1883. Tt was then he suddenly joined the Catholic Church, forsook the world and en- tered the Trappist monastery at | Gethsemane, Kentucky. Two years later he went to the Redemptorist Fathers in Louisiana, from whom he first heard of the sacrifices of Father Damien among the lepers of Molokal. The work appealed to him. He wrote to Father Damien and a few month« later he was on his way to the little Pacific island. Carried Secret There have been several ventur- Canadian Pacific passenger train eq opinions why Brother Joseph No. 3, westbound, hit a broken rail tyrneq from worldliness to holi- near Swift Current, Saskatchewan,|ness byt an authenticated rea- Wednesday and five cars, including son pever has been established. four sleepers, plunged down a 24~ Some have told that the suffering foot embankment. iand privation he witnessed during Manning F. Fisher, of Cleveland, the Ciyil War left an indelible im- aged 67, died a short time later|pression upon him; others that he as the result of the shock. ifelt a “sin upon his soul.” A few Eleven other passengers were cul even insisted that it was a “blight- and bruised. ‘ed romance.” Brother Joseph nev- i £ Tt ler said why, but it was recalled Enrollment at Notre Dame Uni- that on one occasion he merely versity will be limited to 3,000 next said that he realized his folly and fall. Quotas for the five colleges decided to redeem himself during are: Arts and letters 1,000; sci- the remainder of his life. ence, 500; engineering, 500; law,' Brosher Joseph was born April 200, and commerce, 800, 27, 1843, at Stowe, Vermont. FIRST ARREST MADE IN N. Y. | CITY CLEANUP | Tammany y Takes Atio | Before Legislative | Probers on Job | n NEW YORK, March 27.—R:>llin‘ | Bastress, former Chief Building In- spector ot New York Citv was ar- rested this morning and charged scribe drugs for remedial measure: Elght new measures made their| The resolution is in genera | appearance in the Legislature, six Federal, S*ate Prohlbmon Laws Subject of Protest by Physicians but said members of is understood the| the it terms | College jre State laws. Dr. * Francis Monrovia, Cal., fent and the convention n San Francisco next year, Prohibition and Narcotic M. Pottenger, |in the House and two in the up-| per Chamber. The House passed‘ i one memorial and a Senate bill, and the Senate passed one of its IN MID-SEA own measures which now goes to the House for action. Seattle Couple Center At- traction, with Dia- Included in the bills introduced n the House was one by Represen- monds and Money . tstne Boyle providing for a rota- tive ballot system in Alaska elec- tions by an amendment to Chapter | 25, Session laws of 1915 relative to the form of official ballots. Method of Rotation ! The measure provides that the! names of the candidates shall be placed on the ballots “in such man- [First Gov;:or of Free State—Hard Fighter for Home Rule ner as to successfully rotate, with each 100 ballots, the surnames ol BAN" FRANCISOO; IOKL, March with arcepting a bribe. 27. — Diamonds worth $6,000 and | b, | candid 1. that h di i 5 that a ecity-wide legislative inve: ‘be mcxed oha’ litie upwan‘ig < puxsers :afe on the liner Slerral tigation. will be preceded by “ today pending settlement of a fam- | clean-un of Tammany leaders. Rumors indicated Tammany in- tended to make a thorough clean- the City Government before the probers got on the ground. AL A PG e e FUR CATCH AT POINT BARROW IS SMALL ONE Natives Kept in Village for Greater Part of Sea- son by Epidemic POINT BARROW, Alaska, March 27.—The #ituation in the diphtheria epidemic continues to improve. Two cases only were reported in the last three days and both are be- lieved to have developed in quar- antined houses. One is a very bad| case. The epidemic has seriously af- fected the villagers financially as during the better part of the trap-! ping season they have been forced to remain in the village. Prices are low and there has been relatively a small catch. Dr. Greist has allowed trappers to return to the trapping grounds but all have been thoroughly ex- amined upon their return. They have been ordered not to mix with other natives on the trapping grounds. MACHINE GUN ASSASSIN NOW UNDER ARRES Most Dangerous Criminal in America Caught Without Struggle ST. JOSEPH, Missouri, March 27. —Fred Burke, long sought Chicago gangster with rewards totalling $90,000 offered for his capture, was taken yesterday without a struggle at a farm house, while he was in bed, by four policemen, a sheriff and rural constable. A warrant has been issued charg- ing Burke with being the assassin whose machine gun killed seven Moran gangsters in the St. Valen- tine’s Day massacre in 1929. } The capture followed a farmer's; observation of Burke who displayed bills of large denomination. Burke is known as the dangerous criminal in America.” | Charges are pending against) Burke for a dozen alleged murders | and robberies. It is said the rob-, beries have totalled loot amount- ing to nearly $1,000,000. ——————— GUESTS AT ALASKAN T. W. Haines and John Turko-' vich are among the guests at the Alaskan Hotel, ! ] *| wards the top of the list of names up of possible vulnerable spots in| 1ily quarrel in midocean between Mr. and Mrs. Robert Francis of | Seattle, Wash. 1 The Clerks of Court would be re- | Francis recently located his wife quired to forward the ballots to{in Honolulu after two years the several precincts, at least 100 | estrangement. They were reconcil- for every 50 voters in each, so|®d and started for home. that the supply for each wouldlstar(ed after Francis got his wife| consist as nearly as possible, “of| {to give him an order for the dm» an equal number of each of mavmonds from the purser and then! several serles of ballots” in ');e}he asked for the money. She re-] successive rotations. fused and a battle started. = She, Judges of election would be re- ‘ was beaten and called for aid. {quired in giving the ballots to the| Mrs. Francis was placed in the | voters, not to give ballots of the |hospital aboard the liner and Fran- | same rotating series to two or more cis in the brig. i consecutive voters, alternating t‘m‘ The ship's officers have been| series as each ballot is issued to|served with a court order to hold | the voters. both diamonds and money. ] Literacy Qualification | Francis produced the diamonds An amendment as to the chal- from a potted plant in the ship's lenging of voters is included which dining room | protects the Federal act on liwlac‘/‘ and reads as follows: “Any person who can qualify as UUARTZ STRIKE a legal voter in the precinct in wiiich he or she attempts or of- Prospectors Using Jack Knives to Dig Metal of candidates for that particular | {office for which he is a candi- | date.” \ frrs to vote, may uu®lity and vote, \ if such person’s vote be challenge iby subscribing to the qualificat ions | | required for registration in Lhw\ Act; but that any person, whose | vote is challenged upon the vroux\i‘ that he or she is not qualified vote under the provisions »* Soc , tion 2, of the Act of Congress of | March 2, 1927, shall not be per- | mitted to vowe uniess he or <hn‘ enall, in addition to cormlying! f V 7 | with the pro* ns of thi. At rom €ems i {mike and sihsoribe a writs 1 af-| fidavit, which saesll be filng W th! MEXICO CITY, March 27. — A the election bcard. stating affi ?colortul picture of the El Tamblor matively that he or she legally |gold fields in Sinaloa is painted voted at the general election of in a telegram received here from November 4, 1924, and giving thcfiManuer Llantada. representative of name of the place which his or the ownership claimants. her vote was cast at that election.! He sald there is enough gold “Any person who makes a false there to rescue Mexico from the | statement of his or her qualifi-|present depression. ‘catlons to vote, shall be punished A small town has sprung up| | upon conviction, by a fine of not,where gold was discovered less than !less than $25, nor more than $200,|a month ago. or by imprisonment in the Federal| The telegram said there has' jail for not less than 10 days, nor {been a rush of prospectors to the more than 60 days, or by both such | district, some using jack knives| fine and imprisonment.” {to dig the metal from the quartz, To Encourage Publicity veins. To give semi-official recognition| The Government is considering! to the All Alaska Review, published | means of keeping foreign pros-‘ nn.nually by=Harry G. Steel, Cor-|pectors from the field. | of 12,000 copies of the next two the Governor’s office. Copies would | Ketchikan Aviator Travels! !troduced in the House today by | Mr. McCutcheon, Anchorage mem- ber. It provides for the purchase 1 000 for that purpose. The publica- MERGY FLIGHTS tion would be made a part of Ter- ritorial publicity and distributed bv [ Chambers o0f Commerce of the re- spective communities for publici'y ) on 2 Missions campaigns. ! replied (Continueda on Page Two) ' Americans Are emost Musically About 16 Years Old COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., March 27.—H. Howlett, of the Radio Air Service Corporation of Cleveland, told the South- western Music Supervisors, that the American public was “mus- ically about 16 years old. Sev- enty-five per cent of the list- eners want dance music,” ! dova, 1s the aim of a measure in-! L R TR, years’ issues and appropriates $6.- |also be furnished by that office to Six Hundred Miles l KETCHIKAN, Alaska, March 27. —Pilot Jim Dodson traveled 600 miles in the air Wednesday in al Pioneer Airways plane. ‘Two errands of mercy were made, | the first to Waterfall where "he| picked up Hazel Woodward, of Ketchikan, who was injured in al fall down a cliff. He then made' a 200-mile trip to Chatham where! he picked up Fred Gillman, of Cordova, from the steamer Ala- meda. Gillman's mother was se- riously ill but she died before he returned to the steamer with medi-' cine, i T g R Trouble | SSOCIATED PRESS (UNDERWOOD) TIMOTHY. MICHAEL HEALY DUBLIN, Ireland, March 27.— Tlmothy Michael Healy, veteran Irish statesman and first Gover- nor of the Irish Free State. died| last evening. More than a gey’ratlon ago, at a time when Charles Stewart Par-| i . . iSeattle Man Commits Sui- nell's Home Rule party seemed {on the verge of success, and the; cabinet makers were forecasting the | |future Irish administration, Father |Healy, the famous Irish wit, was asked “What will Tim Healy be |in the new government,” and he “He will be a very old The most daring prophet would {not have ventured to foretell that Timothy Michael Healy would oc- jcupy the Viceregal Lodge as gov- ernor genecral of a Free State at the age of sixty-seven. In the intervening years which | saw the rise and fall of many rep- utations, while leaders came and| went and their history was for- gotlen save in books of reference, Healy was in every year an out- standing figure in Irish life. Irish of Irish Healy was Irish of the Irish. i Tender as a child, emotional, mov- ed to tears at a friend’s misfor- tune, he could be bitter, and utter against his enemies mordant phrases whose brilliancy made their point enduring. A born orator on the platform, in the House of the olution aims at the Federal ani of was elected Presi- will be VETERAN IRISH STATESMAN, TIM HEALY IS DEAD | | | [ WII]E SECTION COFU, S IS IN BLIZZARD GRIP 'Rages in Northweskern States and Spreads to Middle West SUBZERO WEATHER IN Fal 3 WESTERN STATES Drifting Snow. Paralyzes Traffic in Nebraska —Rain in.Texas KANSAS CITY, March 27. — A blizzard today spread fan-like from the Northwest and struck the Rockies, Southwest and Middlewest sect of the United States. The damage is thought to have predicted there as the storm mov- < eastward. Snow is extreme'y heavy in Wyoming. There e szven in- chi of in snow normal schedules today after be- ing late because of drifts. Zero weather and drifting snow paralyzed traffic in Nebraska. Snow fell in Western Kansas and this is of congiderable value to the wheat. Northern Oklahoma is gripped by a blizzard which reached the Texas | Panhandle lagt night. General rains “are reported ln Southern Texas. WINTER IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, March 27—Winter re- turned for a brief stay today with light flurries of snow reported at various points. Snow and winds prevailed ‘at Tacoma, Seattle, - erton and Vancouver, B. C. AT PSS GIRL UNTRUE AND IS SHOT BY SALESMAN cide — Leaves Note Telling of Murder RENO, Nevada, March 27.—Da.e Pinkes, Seattle salesman, charged with the murder of Florence Ben- nett Pinkes, in San Francisco last Monday, committed suicide in a hotel room here by taking poison. He left a note as follows: “I, Dave Pinkes, shot Florine Bennett at 5 o'clock Monday aft- ernoon in San Francisco. We were together for 18 months. I could not live without her. She had lied and cheated. She could not be true to any one man. She drove |me to murder. (Slgnedl Dave Pinkes.” N R S First Rock Dumped for Ketchikan Breakwater ; $272,000 Project Starts, KETCHIKAN, Alaska, March 21| —Contractors on Wednesday dump- ed the first scow of rock for the been large to both animals and plants Subzero weather prevailed in' parts of Wyoming, Montana, and Colorado but clearing weather is 1t Lake City ! rdey but trains are resuming EVIDENGE ALL IN; ARGUMENTS ARE PRESENTED Case May Co to Jury Late { This Afternoon in | Oregon Court UNCLE OF DEFENDANT MAKES STRONG APPEAL Defense and State Clash— Prosecutor Presents His Theories HILLSBORO, Oregan, March 27, —Freedom or death on the gal- lows rather than life in the peni- tentiary was the plea of attorneys for Nelson C. Bowles and Miss Irma Loucks in the concluding ar- gument to the jury yesterday and made by W. L. Thompson, uncle of Bowles, chief defense counsel. District Attorney Lotus Langley outlined the State's theory, the part not outlined before that “one 'ol these persons” pointing to the defendants, “one of these persons held the woman while the other used the knife. Our theory is that Bowles used the knife.” | The State attorney’s argument | was the signal for a bitter attack from the defense that the District Attorney’s office is being unfair in manufacturing evidence and sup- pressing other evidence. It is expected that Judge George R. Bagley's charge will be made {to the jury before adjournment "this nltemoon ALASKA JUNEAU STOCK CARRIES T0 12, EXCHANGE Monetarv Golcl Shortage, New Ore Body. Cause of Present Rise NEW YORK, March 27.—A rise of Alaska Juneau mine stock on the Exchange today carried it to above 12 from the January low ,of 7 and closed at 11%. The talk of a monetary gold shortage in the past year seems to have stirred interest in gold shares. The company also recently reported explorations of a new ore body having richer gold content. Quotations on other stocks today were: American Can 124%, Anaconda Copper 33%, Bethlehem Steel 59%, General Motors 44%, Granby Con- solidated 18%, International Har- vester 53, Kennecott 25%, Packard Motors 9%, Simmons Beds 17%, Standard Brands 19%, Standard Oil of California 43%, Standard Oil of New Jersey 44, United Aircraft 35%, U. S. Steel 143, Curtiss-Wright 4%, Hudson Bay 5%, General Foods ‘53 Checker Cab 15, 14, 14. JO TURNSEA - LEADS FIELD Commons or at the bar, a facile|breakwater which will be part of PINEHURST, N. C., March 27.— ist who could turn off ajthe $272,000 boat refuge project. |Joe Turnsea, of Elmsford, N. X wmy column factor and better The rock is being taken from the held one stroke lead over the than any map of his time in 'lyPennL)ck Island quarry. field y ay afternoon after 32 nation of orators and journalists,! A dredge of the Puget Sound holes of play in the 29th annual he had a tireless industry ‘Bridgv and Dredging Company is North and South 72 hole cpen. His among his character- an a.mumg personal | Foremost istics was 'Conunued on PMP SeJen: ——— {Small Crop of Spring Wheat Will Be Planted WASHINGTON, D. C., March 21~The Agriculture Depart- ment estimates that wheat farmers are suffering from ov- erproduction at home and abrcad and plan to plant one of the smallest spring wheat crops since the World War, 14.7 per cent less than last year. The Federal Farm Board on Monday hoped for a cut of only 10 per cent, due to come lvurlh later. was 142 SCOT 'F irst Amencans Had Blond Hair According to Scientist \ |and ethnology of the Colorado state | T i | March 27.—Con- the early hair. DENVER, Col, trary to general belief, American had brown, curly Examination of the s s of a number of Mesa Verde cliff dwell- ers in Colorado has revealed th; brown hair was the rule and not the exception, says Woodbury, curator of archaeology museum. The mo’arn Indian has hair of Dr. George the mongoloid type—black, straight and coarse, with a round cross=- section and is kidney-shaped. Dr. Woodbury hopes to trace the |origin of the Indian through hair | types. Many ethnologists believe the red man to be of Asiatic origin, |and an examination of the hair of tribes in the Bering Strait district | may throw light on that theory. was a Bering Strait that the Mongolian migrations are believed Lo have North America.