The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 4, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 'VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5685. MEMBER OF ELLIS MAKES FLIGHT RECORD SMASHEDFROM SEATTLE HERE Seaplane Petersburg Makes | Trip in 6 Hours and 55 Minutes Establishing new records for fast flights bétween Seattle and Ket- chikan and Ketchikan and Juneau, the Alaska - Washington Airways' seaplane Petersburg, with Pilot Rob- ert C. Ellis at the controls, ar- rived here yesterday afternoon from the Puget Sound metropolis. With a stop at Namu, the distance be- tween Seattle and Ketchikan was covered in five hours and five min- utes, and on direct course the trip from Ketchikan to Juneau was made in one hour and fifty minutes. ASSOCIATED PRESS FAST TRIP TO JUN ANOTHER HARNESS ON N Rock Island dam, being built south of Wenatchee, Wash., on the Columbia for the Puget Sound Power dnd Light company, will coat $28,000,000. it employs 1000 men. powcrhouse at right and beside i it is the fi ATURE IN COLUMBIA RIVER lay Jor salmon going upstream te spawn. WINN APPOINTS 'HOUSE MEMBERS OF PROBE BODY Donnelley, E_l‘l erich and Mutray to Act with Winn —<Hess to Act Today Spbaker Winn of the House of RepréSentatives today appointed i thrée -members who with him will 1 compose ' the’ House mahagers in . the Joint Legislative Inquiry Com- " mittee: authorized by the Foster Resolution which has bgen approv- ed by.Gov. Parks. Mr. Winn named Representative " Harry ‘Donnelley, Fourth Division . Chairman, Representative George iHenerxch, Second Division, and Rep- | resentative Joseph H. Murray, Third ' Division. President’ Hess of the Senate had made no appointments Associated Press Photo Photo shows ‘the 880-foot long at noon, but said he probably | Brothers Convicted of Assassinating Lingle in Chicago;l Leo V. Brothers -has been corvicted it “Cliicago "ot Alfred “Jake” Lingle, Chicago Tyibune crime reporter reommended a sentence of 14 years imprisonment acccrding to Asso- ciated Press dispatches to The Empire. entirely on identification of Brcthers as the man seen' fleeing from the pedestrian tunnel the day Lingl him fire the shot. week of the trial. The verdict was given at the end of the ihird Brothers was impassive. The verdict is regarded as a compromise between acquittal and death in the eclectric chair. 4 Year Se nience | - assmssinating | and” e jury, The case was built almost| i No one testified seeing e was shot. In the picture above Leo V. Brothers (right) looking into the Chi- cago courtroom. Below, his mother, Mrs. Rose Jessen of Webster | PRICE TEN CENTS§ JEVES IN STRICKEN CITY EAU TWENTY SHOT AT MANAGUA FOR LOOTING Red Cross Representative Reaches Scene by Air- plane from Miami MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 4. —The task of directing rehabili- tation of 40,000 residents of this stricken earthquake and fire swept city has been taken over by Er- nest J. Swift, of the American Red Cross on his arrival here from Miami, Florida, by airplanc. Food and medical supplies have been brcught by naval ships to Corinto from Balbca and will be brought hers by airplanes, trucks and trains. Twenty looters have been shot to date. NO INSURGENT RAIDS MEXICO CITY, April 4. — Dr. Pedro Zepeda, foreign representa- tive of Gen. Augustino Sandino, Nicaraguan Insurgent, has received a copy of Sandino’'s order calling off hostilities until the quake dis- aster is relleved. The Sandino order said: “All di- visions of our army will abstain until further order from offensive | against the enemy, no matter what strategical advantage would result, and will limit action only to. main~. taining a position of repelling any | attack.” NAVAL OFFICER LEAVES WIDOW Groves, Mo., with Elsie Mackacek and Esther Dick, the latter Broth- ers’ sister. Road Commission Allotments Fund Totals $947,000 | self, The Alaska Road Commission has made its allotment of Federal funds for the 1931 working season, according to an announcement to- day by Major Malcolm Elliott, President of the Commission. The bution to the cooperative program. | total amount of federal funds available exclusive of McKinley Makes for Season; which has just been adopted hy‘ the Alaska Road Commission in-| |cludes all allotments to federal| ! projects and the amounts that have been set aside for federal contri- No announcement has been made ,as yet as to the territorial proj- 5250 A MONTH " Coroner’s Jury Blames Wife for Causing Husband * to Take His Life SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 4. —The will of Emory Winship, for- mer naval officer who killed him- provides $250 a month for his widow, who is blamed by the coroner’s jury for her husband’s suicide because of alleged intima- cies with her handsome chauffeur. Miss Helen Thompson, who claim- ed she lived with Winship a long ! time, is not mentioned in the will “almough she says he promised her Park appropriation will be as fol- ects nor is it expected that its*SZW monthly as long as she lived. lows: Cash on hand, March 1, 1831 $ 17,000 ‘War Department appro- priation 800,000 Alaska Fund—65 per cent of various fed- eral taxes collected in Alaska (estimated) 130,000 $947,000 Federal Fund Same Although the War Department appropriation is the same this year as for last year the total federal resources of the board will be con- siderably smaller, because of the expected decreased yield of the Alaska Fund and the smaller hold over from last year. In 1930 there was a considerable sum left over from the previous year due to an early winter shut down in some of the districts. This year practi- cally all funds were exhausted on March 1st leaving a very small holdover. While this decrease in federal funds will make necessary a curtailment in the program the plans of the Commission contem- plate necessary maintenance of existing roads and the adoption of a reasonable program of expan- slon. The $947,000 will be allotted to both federal and cooperative proj- ects. The federal projects those which have been built and are maintained with federal funds exclusively. The cooperative proj- ects are those where the cost of construction and maintenance has been divided between federal and territorial Road Commissioners. In addition to the federal and co- operative projects there are a num- ber of territorial projects that have Total | program can be determined by the | Territorial Board until the :7ila ture has made its appropriations. |All such territorial work will be |in additicn to the federal program | edopted by the Alaska Road Com- mission. First Division ) All projects conducted by the Alaska Road Commission in the first division are either cooperative ——— ATTEMPT T0 . BREAKWILL Action in Spokane Over Big |or territorial. Funds for strictly federal projects in this division accrue from the Department of Agriculture and are not handled by the Alaska Road Commission. The Alaska Road Commission allot- ment for cooperation in southern Estate Dismissed by | Federal Judge | | SPOKANE, Wash, April 4— Judge Stanley Webster, of the Federal Court, has dismissed the attempt of 17 Ohio heirs of Mrs. Alaska for 1931 is $4,000 as com- pared with $4,350 carried in the program for 1930. The alloiment for | this year plus such allotments as may be made by the territory will be expended for maintenance of| the Haines-Pleasant Camp group|tended the settlement of Mary Arkwright Hutton, wife of the Spokane millionaire philan- thropist, to break his will leaving $1,500,000. The estate was left to an orphanage here. The heirs con- $175,000 are | of roads, Sitka group, and other small projects. The Haines-Chil- koot road, Gastineau Bar and the (Continuea on Page Two) !on them misrepresented the value ‘Ol their share. | Hutton made his wealth in the | famous Hercules, silver-lead mine )in North Idaho. Two Convicts Confess to . . | o Setting Pris & . . to Die i | COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aprili 4— Clinton Grate and Hugh Gibson, convicts, have been indicted for murder in connection with the Ohio Penitentiary fire. They con- fessed to starting the fire A tor- would They told Prosecuting on Fire; Ask n Chair at Once Gibson sald he did not want to return to the penitentiary. He said he did not fear the other prisoners but he feared the prisom officials. % Both denied there was premedi- ated murder. They said they only wished to burn the new cell blocks . ') been built and maintained by the Alaska Road Commission with Ter- ritorial funds exclusively in ac- cordance with allotments thereto by the Territorial Board. Aboard the Petersburg, beside the ¥ e pilot, were Mrs. Robert C. Ellis, Helregs WQrk' Or. ' Beauty Elopes would make his selections this Frank* Wadham, mechanic and i laftemoon. Larry Parks, Alaska district rep- —— SR Study Community Property % resentative of the Alrways. '» The House this morning spent ‘Weather permitting the plane is E 0 NE ‘I most of an hour reading the Winn scheduled to leave here at 3 o'clock + Community Property bill which was tomorrow afternoon for Ketchi- iin second reading on the calendar. kan by. way of Petersburg and IN SWTH BEN Three amendments were offered Wrangell. Mr. Parks will accom- by Mr. Boyle and one by Mr. Fos- pany the airship. ' Mrs. Ellis will ter. None of them were voted on. remain here. The plane is ex- » ' The measure and all amendments pected to be back in Juneau next Last Rites Are Broadcast _ were continued in second reading ‘Tuesday. 3.0 * until ‘Monday when discussion: will The flight of the Petersburg in- to Co.acfis Ofd Home Wegin, probably 1incommittee 1 augurates for this year the service mn Norway the whole. of the ‘Alaska-Washington Airways A House measure providing for in this Territory. Twice-a-week SOUTH BEND, Indiana, April 4. appeals from the Commissioners’ service between Seattle and Ju- —The funeral of Courts to the District Court from | Knute Rockne neau will be started a ]ml_e later was broadcast this afternoon and { conviction upon a plea of guilly, and be maintained indefinitely. was carried by a short wave in which was slated to come up for g L A T an attempt to send it across the final action today, was continued ocean to Norway, the coach’s birth- on the calendar until Monday. K A A A place. A personal representative 1 Mr. Bragaw's measure to control |+ of the King attended the services collection of funds for eleemosynary here. The deceased will be knight- and charitable purposes, adversely ed by the King. The broadcast reported by the House Judiciary was over the Columbia system, a Committee, was advanced to third national hook-up. ! reading and probably will come up ,for slaughter Monday. STARS AS PALLBEARERS { Mr. McDonald introduced a meas- SOUTH BEND, Indiana, April 4. |ure seeking an appropriation of bt —Six stars of teams of the last {8250 for the purchase of lving 1stril two years were active pallbearers quarters for the school tcacher of 18! or a 3 \ Newspa;?er D tnbm 4 nd of Knute Rockne at his funeral p b 3 Moorh b the Ruby School. Movie Theatre Man this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The uth J. Moorhouse, noted beauty; é 1 & X of Brookline, Mass,, and former New Primz— Measure Under Arrest ast rites were held in the Church -Queen of the May at Linden Hall, hE-J 5 of the Sacred Heart. is now the bride of Allen Prescott, In the Senate this morning Sen- T— | The pallbearers were Tom Con-' of Malden, Mass. The knot was ator Sundquist introduced a new gf“lzNngfi mmfi::;lbfig:l :i Associated Press Phote |ley, Tommy Yarr, Frankie Carideo,| tied at the Little Church Around Primary measure modeled partly ;1 ré e'cfl "Bl has 'been Although she Inherited a milllon | Marchmont Schwartz, Marty Brill| ‘he Corner, New York. after the California system and ar:e ans::r “Sl S Sedonandc dollars from her uncle, Edith Broder, | and Lary Mullins, - containing some of its nonpartisan sted ng 24, of New York say e will con= ————,o———— features. It provides as follows: on the Sabbath in a test of the ginue her stage work. 1 3 Y “The candidates equal in number state’s Blue Laws. A movie thea- o ear- = 1 to twice the number to be elected tre proprietor has also been arrest- to offi 1 if the total ed for showing pictures. Al C H I .t d e e B ot g Siate’ Attorney iGeneral Rpland apone ero 1nvue o [HEE tof candidates b less than Boynton, in an opinion, held sthe 5! cAUsED GRASH 3 twice the number of such offices ks 2 "7 to be filled, who receive the high- g‘mm“:;o:m:‘rprx;::’m:;sn; a.; ; F ree A galan h'fte H ouse'est number of votes cast on all buEt:“wiE M seek a ruling hawevexz I Ch. anKNE PLANE e the ballots of all the voters par- H . . ticipating in the primary election g from the State Supreme Court. | n "cag o . iPresident Hoover and Wife for the nomination to such offices, | —_ 8 i Ask Bryan Untied to |shall be the only candidates whose B . . . . names shall be printed on the of- Charges of Vagrancy AreMail Plane Pilot Gives His! Be Their Guest flcial i \dates for | s D A i i ballots candi or ? | Dismissed—No Officer Version of Trag- | — such offices at the ensuing gen- A to. Make Complaint o WASHINGTON, D. C.,, April 4— [eral election, provided, however, that o € mplal edy of Air Bryan Untied, aged 13 years, who|in case there is but one person " — | was responsible for saving the lives|to bhe elected at the November ! CHICAGO, M, April 4—Charges| KANSAS CITY, April 4—Paul E.[0f & number of children in the|election to an office, any candi- of vagrancy against ‘Al Capone,|Johnson, of the National Air| Towner, Colorado, bus storm trag-!date who receives at the primary 4 Chicago’s Number 1 undesirable,| Transport, said he flew his mail{edy by keeping them awake and|ejection a majority of the number | 1 have been dismissed. plane alongside the Rockne death|moving, has been'invited by Presi-| ot yotes cast for all candidates | | The prosecution said it was un-|plane a few minutes before the fa-|dent and Mrs. Hoover to be aleor guch office shall be the only H SEATTLE, April 4—Helene Mad- able to fine i kr:oliceman nti- ?al plunge and ice was then form-|guest at the XV‘W House, candidate for such office whose i ison and three women teammates mate enough wt' the resuted|ing on his own wings, weighting e v o e name shall be printed on the of- of the Washington Athletic Club 88ng leader to -wear he was «(his plane down, Johnson said he/g 4. —e | ficial ballot at the ensuing elec- left here last night for New York vagrant or did not support his|later learned of the crash of the}, TODAY'S STOCK | | tion.” to participate in the N“i‘mal'tamfly. Rockne plane. QUOTATIONS 1 Pass Three Bills Women’s Swimming tourmmem} Capone smilingly left thl_z c-ouxt < -+ 22| The Senate today passed three " from April 16 to April 19. There room surrounded by d:tectives. TREASURE SOUGHT measures and this afternoon was | | NEW YORK, April 4—. hort they are given an even chance to - COTTONWOOD, Kansas, April 4. , Apr! L—A win in their respective event { | —Attracted by a rumor that H. J,|tession was held today on the New considering in Committee of the vents. { = s, % -0r- Becides Miss Madison, the other EYPtian Match Taxes Christian of Chicago was carrying| York Stock Exchange. Closing quo-| W0l the Shattuck school xe-or h . P | tati f Al gnization measure. The bills pass- champion swimmers are Lucy Start International ‘Fire’|$55000 when Killed in the plane|tation of Alaska Juneau mine stock|oq "yore: “genate Bill No. 29, to Schacht, Dawn Giison and Edna‘ crash which took Knute Rockne‘s|‘5 12%, Amerfcan Can 122%, Ana- sty o, séction 3. Oihaier '40 ées- McKibben. Exhibitions will be giv-| CAIRO, April 4—Egypt's burn-|life, treasure hunters followed injconda Copper 33%, General Mo-|GBH T B ) re]’; pokigr <<l en in Minneapolis, Chicago, Cleve-| i h the wake of souvenir hunters comb- tors 44, Granby Consolidated, no i |ing question of the hour concerns le; administration of small estates; No. land and Buffalo enroute east. ' matches. ing the territory where the plane | $ale; Internatlonal Harvester 52'4.| 00 By "aortion 1773 Com- { It is through taxes on the lowly|fell. No trace of the large sum‘;‘,f‘";“l;‘ 24%, Packard Motors piied Sads 't Alaska relailie £ safety match, generally given away |was found and it is thought that, o™ mons Beds 16, Standard B Canada May 4 ! Brands 18%, Standard Oll of Cali-|8Ppeals from Probate Court to fhe in America, that Egypt seeks to|Probably Christian placed the money Conia A - istrict Court: No. 31, to suthor- ¥ Soon Produce overcome its budget deficiencies.|in & bank. g ardard Ol o e Al s Ssmissiootr acting: 'as -fux- Radi 1t is estimated that the revenue| Guards have been removed from i sesy m&.]vxlx:se ] Cfl:&::r;vsihc tice of the peace to allow attorney um produced under the proposal would | the scene of the plane crash. 4%, Hudson Bay 574, Checker Cab|fees in civil cases in justice courts. M ONTB!A!: April 4. ™ approximate $560,000 but countries brinsia 133 , i o At P! . — The |whose nationals’ business profits 2 H eomvet Geta pubies he 1 anrsened have oared o 17 mier Talen HAASANEN FUNERAL following today: i o . it g 9. Hespg Son of English Lord DURING NEXT WEEK Canada may produce Largely because of the Swedish|p . () orarion P " ol ] radium in commercial gquantl- |Match Trust's position in & num- pe eels Spuds in Hotel|: A AR ties. Samples from a discovery |ber of European countries, under _ The ersl services for Lo on Echo Bay, Great Bear Lake, |which the government is loaned| _ TOKYO,. Japan, Apeil 4— | LONDON, Aprll 4—To secure a ;:“ Haasanen will be held some- E Northwest Territorities, have |money in exchange for a momop-| Premier Hamaguchi has been | foundation for hotel management e during the coming week pend- been analyzed as uranium rad- |oly, “free matches” as Americans taken to the hospital for an |which he has picked for his ca- (iDg the arrival of Mrs. Robertson, jum. 'The ocontents are very |understand the term, are unknown,| Immediate cperation for the re- |reer, David Rhys, youngest son of from Vancouver, B. C. Mrs. » — moval of an obdominal obstruc- | Lord and Lady Dynevor is peeling | Haasanen, mother of Mrs. John Officials" declined to express | Dr. F.'C. Bowman, 82, has beem’ X k ' potatoes in a London hotel kitchen. Sofri, passed away last Thursday i as to the-valté of ' | practicing medicine in Duluth;| sesssin's bulled ‘last Noveufiber, | ' Rhys is 23 and' a graduate Ml'rhm are at the Charles W. ae s s the o6 G | % x i, % - Ohfter Mortuary. "ty PR p 8500 g, AaF. more. shan: 50 Years. ... PR The federal program for mlJ ney Donald Hoskins plead guilty Monday if he would promise electric chair. In unison, they said: |at supper time but it didn’t “Under glse' can w2 do? and help the inmates held in soli- | tary confinement in them. They sald they planned to start the firs they immediate death in the what | geing until the men were in kg cells where 320 disd, last April. SR PN A A A S A 1 A the circumstar:es