The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 3, 1931, Page 1

. I3 R e B SR S g, PO e Al e e gy e Ty T ———— THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1931. SEAPLANE NOW | ENROUTE HERE FROM SEATTLE Seaplane Petersburg, with; Pilot Ellis, Flying | " oward Juneau TWO OTHER CRAFT | TO BE SENT NORTH| Twice a Week Service to Be Maintained to South- east ‘Alaska BULLETIN — KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 3. — Pilot Ellis Mrs. Ellis, Parks and ; Wadham leave here at 3:30 ¢’clock, Coast Time, for Juneau. Ellis arrived here at 1 o'clock from Seattle. SEATTLE, April 3.—The Alaska- ‘Washington Airways today inaug-' urated a twice a week passenger service from Seattle to Ketchikan and Juneau. | The five-passenger airplane Pet- ersburg departed at 7 o'clock this| morning for Juneau. Stops enroute north will ‘be made at Alert Bay and Ketchikan. Pilot Robert C. Ellis is in charge of the Petersburg with Frank Wadham as mechanic. Others in the party are Mrs. Ellis, Larry Parks and Lyle Davis. The seaplane Sitka will leave next Tuesday with Pilot Gene Meyr- ing, and the Wrangell will prob- ably depart one week from today with Anscel Eckmann as pilot. { The Petersburg will remain in the north and engage in fish patrol and other Government work. The seaplane goes to Kodiak for Aleutian Island work about May 1. The bhig Seattle hangar depot may be moved to Ketchikan next month. Miss Marion Tompkins, of Los Angeles, Cal, inspecting some of the 1931 lilies grown in the open air plots for the Easter sea- I Easter Liiies A huge crop of hundreds of thousands of blooms is repdy for shipment all over the United States for tho festival. son. ABSENTEE VOTE BILL RECEIVED -IN THE SENATE Shattuck and Sundquist| Joint Authors of Measure | for Absentee Voting The creation of a system per- DEER INDUSTRY [N ALASKA ON FIRMER-BASIS Carl Lomen Returns to Se- attle from Washing- ton Hearings SEATTLE, April 3.—Expressing | Prefers TWO THOUSAND PERISH, QUAKE IN NICARAGUA Fire Raging—flncontrolled Because of Lack of Wat- er and High Winds INSURGENT SANDINO PLANNING AN ATTACK Natives from Mountainsj Carry News to Marines | in Managua MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April*3 | —Col. F. L. Bradman, Commander here of the United States Marines, | estimated 2,000 perished in the) earthquake and fire of Tuesday lmomlng and 700 bodies have been ! taken from the ruins. Mary Jane Kane, the New York American to Prince of Wales to the British throne, is pictured Natives from the mountains re- port Augustine Sandino, Insurgent, !ls preparing to attack the pros- trate city. Marine officers sald {they could hardly belleve the re- port but nevertheless ammunition is ready to give him a welcome. Surgeons performed 150 major operations yesterday. Seventeen American Naval and Medical Offi~ cers and 72 enlisted men-of the Navy's Hospital Corps, bore the brunt of the work. kS ST raGE M | WASHINGTON. &. T.. April 3.— Dispatches received last night by |the Navy Department said 17| Speaker Winn’s measure codify- |blocks of Managua were destroyed|ing and revising the Territory’s | by fire with the flames not yet un-|jury laws was passed by the House | der control. The fire fighters are|this morning by a vote of 10 to {hampered by strong winds and|6. The main objection to the | wrecked water mains. measure voiced by its opposition JURY BILL IS PASSED TODAY BY THE HOUSE Winn Measure Passed 10 to| 6—Community Prop- I erty Bill Reported mitting absentee voting in the | confidence that the reindeer in- Territory is aimed at in a measureidustry is about to be placed on a| introduced today Jointly by Sen- | far firmer basis than formerly, Carl| LEAVE BY AIRPLANE MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 3.— ators Shattuck and Sundquist, and The planes will carry many spare parts. Weather may hold up busi- ness for a while. | i ADM, SCHOFIELD machinery to accomplish that pur- pose is provided for in the meas- ure, This was one of three new meas- | ures introduced at the Senate’s| session this morning. The others were: a bill to increase the salary . of Highway Engineer from $4,000 | J. Lomen has returned home here Ty, hundred wives and children from Washington, D. C., where he| ¢ the United States Mariries have attended Department of Interio™ peen taken by airplane to Corinth hearings of the industry commit-|yhere some expect to stay until tee. The committee is composed|the city is rebuilt while others will of Senator John B. Kendrick, of| continue to the United States. was the requirement that Clerks | of Court shall put the names of all voters in the boxes from which jury panels are drawn. At present the law requires only | 75 per cent of such names to be deposited. The Winn bill also car-i ries a provisio for a literacy test for jurors, similar to that required of voters. Community Property Reported ‘to $5,000 a year, by Senator Di- mond; and an amendment to sec- Tu HEAD FLEET tion 81 of Chapter 97, Session Laws ,of 1923, relative to redemption from > - 11 icipalities. Will Succeed Admiral ‘* s in municbaitier.| Chase—Order Effective in Sep[mber any elector, belev- {pmv!des that be ‘“umavoidably ab- ing he will & {sent” from his home and more WASHINGTON, D. C, April 3.)4pan 50 miles away from the pre- —Admiral Frank H. Schofield, ginet where he is qualified to vote, aged 62 years, now commanding may yote at the general by ap- the battle force in the Pacific pearing before a Clerk of the waters, has been promoted as the ooyt or his deputy, and obtain- next Commanding Chief of the i jng from him an official ballot.| United Fleet, effective next Sep-irphis would be marked then and tember. He succeeds Admiral Jehu!tnere and sealed for opening aft-| V. Chase who has served one Vear|o. the election is ueld. It is fur- and resumes his position with the | iy .. provided that such ballots Navy General Board. The an-ignay not be issued more than 40 nouncement is made by the Navy|gays before the.date of the gen- Department. ! eral election. Mr. Benjamin’s proposed amend- |ment to the law relating to prop- —e——— | ‘erty sold on tax levies seeks to| L] |have applied rentals collected IN|ioung the Printing Committee to {excess of expenditures on such l'propeny credited to the person en- T |titled to redeem it. ¥ | Pass Wolf Bounty | Johnston’s bill increasing the HOLLYWOOD, Cal, April 3.——!bountles on wolves and coyotes Prince Mdivani, on receiving word(trom $10 to $15 was passed ths that Pola Negrli had been granted ;morning by the Senate by a vote a divorce from him in Paris, im-{of 5 to 2, Senators Hess and Shat- mediately called on Mary McCor- [tuck voting against it. The latterl mick, opera star. It was announced |said his opposition was on account later they would be wed within|of the need for economy in Gov- four days. ‘ernment at this time. He predicted LEG BROKEN WHEN TREE FALLS ON HIM, MAN SAWS HIMSELF FREE, THEN MAKES CRUTCHES AND HOBBLES TO HIS HOME much effort, cut the log and freel ‘himself. MARENGO,, Wis, April 3.—The story of how he suffered a broken The absentee voting measure|- P. Sisson. e Mr. Lomen said: “The committee will recommend a reindeer council of five members. Alaska will be given executive authority over tnc industry.” the larger bounty fee would double | the sum expended during the past biennium and probably call for an appropriation of $50,000 to meet all demands. He sald he was In- formed that the Federal govern- ment this year will allot $5,000 for predatory animal control work in the Territory and beginning with next year would increase this to $12500 annually for a period cf years. This will require at least a small co-operative Territorial ap- propriation, he added, thus in- creasing materially the-total cost to the government of its cam- paign against preédecessors. The Senate also passed a reso- lution, under suspended rules, di- have 500 coples of the Biennial Report of the Highway Engineer printed. It considered several meas- ures in second reading. School Bill Postponed At the request of Senator Di- mond, who said he would not be able to be present today, the hear- ing slated for Shattuck’s bill to re-organize the Department of Education was postponed ‘from this afternoon to 11 o'clock tomorrow morning. MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS GO TO CAMP TONIGHT Andrew M. Taylor, trapper and guide from the McCarthy district, ‘was an incoming passenger on yes- Without any recommendation for action to guide the House, the Community Property Bill was re- ported back today by the Judiclary Committee. Members of the Com- mittee considered it carefully but were not able to reach an agree- ment. It will be on the House calendar tomorrow for second read- ing. Ziegler’s memorlal urging Coz - gress to amend the Alaska Fish ‘Wyoming, Chairman; Congressman Lt e e Scott Leavitt of Montana and As- sistant Attorney General Charles:To s AFEG“ ARD | ~ NORTH N SALE [Major General Gibbs Makes Statement While erles Law of 1925 s0 as to permit . ee the Legislature to control and pre- Visiting Seattle soribe methods of taking fish was| reported today with a recommen- dation that it do pass. Mr. Foster did not concur. It will come up for consideration by the House to- morrow morning. Senator Bragaw’s measure re- quiring persons collecting for char- itable or eleemosynary purposes to obtain city licénses, etc., met with disfavor in the House Judiciary Committee which reported it todav with the recommendation 1t do not pass. Mr. Ziegler did not concur. Pass Three Bills SEATTLE, April 3.—Major Gen- | eral George 8. Gibbs, Chief of the |Army Signal Corps, sald he could not predict when the Army will | withdraw from operation of the i Alaska Cable System but not until Iall necessary safeguards have been | provided against any possible in- | jury to either Washington or Alas~ 'ka industry. “The cable was installed 30 years ago purely as a military aid. In the last 20 years there has been no military significance but it has been continued because it was essential to the Territory,” said Major General Gibbs. He is here on an inspection tour of the couns try. The House yesterday afternoon passed Mr. Ziegler's bill for labor liens on chattels. It also passed M. McCutcheon’s memorial asking for 4 land grant for Alaska World War Veterans, This morning it passed two Sen- ate bills. One, by Mr. Dimond, au- DEPALMAS ARE NOW DIVORCED Famous: Racing Driver and Wife are Legally Separated thorizes the appropriation of $10,- 000 and the allotment of a simi- lar sum from Divisional road funds for repairing and maintaining the Valdez dyke. The other, by Mr. Hess, establishes fees for Commis- 'sioners and witnesses In cases arising from the Board of Chil- dren’s Guardians. Two House Bills, No. 38 and No. 39, were withdrawn today by | their author Mr. Boyle. They leg when a tree fell on him, how he set the break after freeing the leg from under the tree and how he made a pair of crutches on which to return to camp was told here by Charles Maki, a lumber- jack, when he hobbled into town. The tree, Maki said, fell on himn three weeks ago while he was cut- ting it down. Unable to lift the trunk off the leg, Maki said he managed to get his saw and, after He then set the bone, making splints from chips of wood and, using a type of plant common in| this region, to tie the splints. The leg firmly bandaged, Maki next faced the problem of reaching camp. He made a pair of crutches from limbs of small trees and got back to camp after an hour’s hob- bling. The leg mended so well, he terday afternoon on the steamship| LOS ANGELES, Cal, April 3.— sought to limit appeal cases from Northwestern. He came here to meet Br. W. 8 .Ladd and A. Carpe of New York City and Terris Moore of Boston and will accom-! pany them in the attempt to climb Mount Fairweather. The party will leave this eve- ning on the power boat Yacobi, Capt. Thomas Smith, for Lituya said, he did not consult a doctor. He sald he expects to walk nor- mally soon. Bay where permanent camp will be established. * I|Divorce has ended 22 years of 'munlc!pal and commissioners’ !married life of Ralph DePalma,'courts to the District Court. | famous racing car driver. He said — e his wife insisted that he give up NO STOCKS TODAY racing but he declared it is the There is no session of the New |only thing by which he can make York Stock Exchange today on ac- 'a lving. His wife has been givan count of it being Good Friday. $25 weekly alimony for the first —— eight months then $50 a week for It is estimated that every seventh the remainder of her life, unless dollar expended in Illinois goes for | ishe remarries. Upholds Receiver Ousting Washington Supreme Court Sustains Superior Court 3 s Judge’s Ruling RSEY OLYMPIA, Wash.,, April 3.—The State Supreme Court, 5 to 4, has affirmed King County Superior Judge Howard M. Findley’s oust- ing of Harry C. Johnson, Director of Efficlency, as Receiver of the Puget Sound Savings and Loan Association and his appointment of Caldwell and Lycette, Seattle law firm, as Attorneys for the recelv- | er. KNUTE ROCKNE FUNERAL WILL BE TOMORROW No Mass Will Be Said at Notre Dame, Simply a Burial Service SOUTH BEND, Ind., April 3.— Funeral services for Knute Rockne, victim of an airplane crash in Kansas, will be held Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Sacred Heart Church on the campus of Notre Dame. There will be no mass only the burial service. The arrangements were approved by Mrs. Rockne upon her arrival here from the south. The celebrant will be tha Rev. Father Michael Mulcaire, Vice-President of Notre Dame, and the sermon will be by the Rev. Father Charles L. O'Donnell, Pres- ident of the University. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 3. —The Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce reported the Rockne death plane's right propeller had been broken, prob- ably by a piece of ice falling from the hub and had wrenched the wing asunifler, tearing' it off. COLLISION IS INVESTIGATED Thirty Victims Will Be Bur- ied in Spain—Liner Badly Damaged MALAGA, Spain, April 3.— Malaga authorities have nearly completed an investigation into the collision between the French liner Florida and British aircraft carrier Glorious two days ago dury ing a fog in the Mediterranean. The authorities are expected to permit of burial here of 30 of the victims. The Florida is being unloaded rapidly as it is feared she wil sink at her berth, + Bermuda to Cuba, when the “ine WALLAWALLA DIGGING FROM UNDER DEBRIS Removing Evidence of Worst Flood ‘in History —Plans for Future | WALLA WALLA, Wash, April 3 —This city is digging out from under debris deposited in the worst flood in the history of this sec- | tion and which sent great streams coursing through the business dis- NEW TRIAL FOR ALEX PANTAGES . NOW AFFIRMED \State Supreme Court Up- " holds Decision of Ap- | | pellate Court {ERRORS IN SUPERIOR | COURT TRIAL CITED [Chance Given Theatrical | Magnate to Escape } Going to Prison i SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 3. —Ancher chance to escape prison lls assured Alexander Pantages, the- ater magnate. " The Appellate Court’s order granting Pantages a new trial on icharge of criminally assaulting Eu- | the Supreme Court. Chief Justice William Waste said in making the decision: “The | Prosecution no doubt labored un=- | der stress of public opinion and | the excitement of the times and | was confronted with considerable { provocation, but the testimony of | the prosecutrix is so improbable as to challenge one’s credulity. The Jury should have been permitted to consider the evidence and have been uninfluenced by incidents and jerrors discussed in the main opin= fon.” Pantages was sentenced to from | che to fifty years in San Quentin prison. The Appellate Court found reversible errors in the transcript |of the Superior Court trial and reversed the conviction holding he was entitled to a new trial. Attor- ney General U. 8. Webb then ap- pealed to the Supreme Court. B | The property damage is placed| /.2 " dccorator who wouldn't | on the sands of La Playa Beach, | ternational ballroom incident” | nice Pringle, has been affirmed by at_$70,000,000. break a dance with an American | near Havana. She was aboard occurred. Necessary food and blankets are to tread a measure with the heir ' the S. S. Oropesa, en route from | arriving. = - e crnc s oo | trict. DEMOCRATS T0 HAVE CHANGE | Danger of a water shortage has | been averted. The main broke In | the hills, several miles from the city but workmen have succeeded in making new connections. ST Sand bags along Mill Creek have | pushed the water back into the ! channel and keeping it out of the streets which are covered from one to two feet with mnd, rocks and brush. The rallroads today resumed normal traffic and highways ave becoming passable. | Schools were dismissed until next ‘Tuesday. | NEW YORK, April 3—John J. Plans are being made to dredge Raskob, Chairman of the Demo- Positive Stand Must Be Taken, However, on Prohibition Issue a creek or build a levee to keep cratic National Committee, pre=- future. never had a better opportunity to - - |win a Presidency than next year, POSTA I.ER | “provided It takes a courageous L c K | particularly on Prohibitioh."” | Raskob estimated the American people pay THree Billion Dollara | annually for liguor. | A | Letters Will Be Cancelled, —Charge of One Dol- ; lar Assessed \ high water out of the city in the dicted that the Democratic Party |stand on platform declarations, — v — NEW YORK, April 3.—Sir Hu- PARANA DEL ASPALMAS, Ar- gentina, April 3.—Kaye Don, Brit- ish racer, set up a claim for a bert Wilkins announces that a duly appointed Postal Clerk with offi- cial equipment and an official cancellation stamp of the expe- dition will be aboard the Nautilus. Letters will be posted from the North Pole at a charge of $1 a letter. The proceeds will be ap- plied to the expentes of the ex- new world's speed boat record of 103.49 statute miles an hour. The record was made in the swollen Parana River in conneec= tion with the British Trade Ex= position. Kay Don was so elated that he immediately packed his boat and salled for England without waiting pedition. Aldé}fi; Wood Téstvéhotvs Good Strength and Supply Tests of Alaskan woods made by the forest products service labora- and Chugach national forests, which are estimated to contala 84,760,000 feet of saw timber. Only tory of the United States Forest Alaskan product is equal in strength and mechani- cal properties to hemlock. Sitka spruce and other woods which grow in the Pacific Northwest. Forests of Alaska comprise over 71,000,000 acres with most of the ;ommercial timLer In the Tongass Service at Madison, Wis., are re-| ported in a fechnical bulletin. The | said to be| like specles of | a fractlon of the growth is being | utilized at the present time, bub with abundant waterpower and s wood development, the forest serv ice predicts a steady increase of activity, Technical tests of the Madison laboratory are described in Bulle- tin 226-T, which may be had from | the office of information of th Department of Agriculture | Washingten, D. C. AIR SERVICE, SEATTLE-JUNEAU STARTS for a banquet planned in his honor. i T0 WIN PRES. SPEED MAKER particular opportunities for wb-k' |