The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 7, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5687. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1931. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT§ REPUBLICANS, DEMOCRATS ARE BATTLING IN CHICAGO HOU SE CHANGES COMMUNITY BILL BY AMENDMENTS Bill, if Passed, Would Be| Elective—Mining Prop- ity Is Classified The House yesterday afternoon made vital changes in the Com- | munity Property measure, adopting | thzee major amendments and two cthers of lesser import. The prin- | cipal alteration was in making the act, if passed, an elective one, re- quiring notice of acceptance by either husband or wife, but not by h. This change was said by Mrs. R. R. Hermann, Legislative represen- tative of the Alaska Federation of Women's Clubs, to be acceptable to that organization although she ad- mitted it would entail an _inten- sive campaign of education on the | part of women's organizations. { Exempt Certain Property | Mr. Ziegler proposed the amend- | ment for election, and a second, amendment which exempts from | the bill's operation, certain prop-| erty already covered by settlements | between husbands and wives not now living together, but not di- vorced. Should they resume mari- tal relations, they could then come | under the law by election as in| all other cases. H An amendment classifying asj personal property and therefore ex- | empt unpatented mining claims, | fish trap sites and fish traps, by Mr. Boyle, was adopted by the House after a vigorous fight by the Federation's representative who| assailed it as the work of mining} corporations. A second amendment by Mr. Boyle to the effect that “no spous2 of any married person shall have any community interest in the property of such married person as against the latter's debts or other such liabilities that are in- curred or arise during such as the marital claim of said spouse is not recorded.” A third amendment required “all community personal property shall be subject to the post nuptial debts and ‘other liabilities not only of each spouse separately but also of the spouses jointly.” Mcthod of Acceptance Mr. Ziegler's amendment requir- ing acceptance of the act before it can become operative declares that “every husband and wife shall be presumed to have elected not to come under the provisions of this Act and to have elected not to have their property affected by this Act unless a notice in writ- ing of an election to the contrary shall have been given to the pub- lic by recording such notice with the United States Commissioner ex-officip recorder in whose re- cording precinct his, or their, property is situated.” If such property is held in more than one recording preginct the notice must be filed in every precinct where it is located. A joint acceptance of the law is not required. Either may elect to come under it and that action will be binding upon both. Raise Curator’s Salary The House this morning approv- ed a raise of $50 per month in the salary paid to Rev, A. P. Kashe- varoff, Curator and Librarian of the Territory. His present salary is $2,400 per year. Mr. Brosius re- cently introduced a bill increasing! it to $3,600. The House Ways and { Means Committee offered an| amendment to reduce this to $2,-! 700. When the measure reached the floor this morning, Mr. Murray moved to amend by making it (Continued on Page Eight) ——————— King George Is Suffering From Bronchitis WINDSOR, England, Apri: 7. | —England is shocked today. It is learned that King George is suffering bronchitis and not a slight cold as supposed. Doc- tors said the patient is pro- gressing rapidly and able to be up and around in his apart- ment here. * * Assures Sociclogy Class of Northwestern University the Gigolo Is Sure To Become An American Institution. Gallant Already Not Unknownin U. S. Barry Carman Made | $500,000 in Twelve Years As a Glorified Gigolo | iNew “Headache” Waits‘ CHICAGO, Aptil T7—“It won't be long now,” Professor W. S. Byron assured his sociology class at Northwestern University, Chi- cago. And the learned gentleman was not forccasting the length of woman’'s dress during this Spring. He was discoursing upon the next plague that he believes will strike these hospitable shores. It is nothing less than “gigoloism.” ‘The professional gallant and dancing partner is an accepted European institution. Foreign gov- ernments have even recognized the gigolo as a member of a profession and subjected his fees to income tax. He is a familiar figure at all the European resorts where weal- thy women seek surcease from the growlings of business - maddened husbands, where the jaded orchids of society who have lost the bloom of youth and are satiated with all their own circles have to offer, seek new thrills that will for a moment dispel their blase lethargy. The successful gigolo is invari- ably a handsome, sleek specimen of the genus homo. He is as nearly a gentleman as a tailor can make him, with a studiously-copied Ches- terfieldian manner. Always there Warns ojNé;vMefi * * * cetoAmerican Society * * Professional I ‘ ¥ I b i u "A SCENE IN i 1IN.-Jok Zepli's PARIS RENDEVOUS OF GIG0LOS. is an unctuous piece of flattery on the end-of“his facile tongue ready to be unloaded into the eager ear of a “likely prospect.” And this gift of flattery brings him more profit than his invariably faultless dancing. On the European Riviera it is not an unusual sight to see one of these perfumed, professional exqui- sites in company with women of families closely akin to royalty. But American women are by far the best and ‘“easiest” customers. The gigolo who possesses a color- ful imagination—and many of them do—has only to hint at a noble but impoverished family back- ground and out comes the pocket- book and into the “nobleman’s” pocket goes a flock of hard-earn- ed American dollars. To return to Professor Byron and his fears. The study of such an abstruse subject as sociology may be responsible for that eru- dite gentleman's ignorgnce of oth- er national matters, but the fact remains that gigoloism had crept into our country long before the professor ever heard of it. As far back as 1923 the gigolo was known in these United States. In that year the famous Carman- Schoelkopf case crashed every!' front page in the country. . Barry Carman had the face of; a god and the polished manners of | a royal duke. He saw while still| in his teens that he could capital-' ize these advantages and he set about doing it. How well he suc-! ceeded may be gathered from the fact that in twelve years he “earn- ed“ $500,000 as dancing partner and paid escort to wealthy women. | He attained nation-wide promi-| nence in 1923 when Mrs. Schoell-| kopf, wife of a wealthy Burtalo,l’ N. Y., brewer whom Carman had| taken to a party was robbed urv $518,000 worth of jewels. I Later the wealthy brewer dlvorc-! ed his spouse and settled $36,000 a year on her, for life. She dis- appeared and finally turned up in, Honolulu, married to Carman. She gave him $100,000 as a weddlng‘} gift and three months later di- vorced him in Chicago because he beat her for refusing him more. It was said of this king among gigolos that his power over women | was so great that he frequently | compelled aspirants for his favor ' to polish his toenails while he' lounged on an ornate throne in an ermine-trimmed lounging robe. NEW RECORD IS SET FOR DEPTH DIVE Navy’s Submarine V-6 De-, scends 366 Feet—Con- stant Communication PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire, April 'i—The Navy's new submar- ine V-6 dove 366 feet today and set a new United States Navy record for depth., The submarine was in constant communication with the rescue ship Falcon at the sur- face of the water throughout the dive. The ship bears the name of Nau- tilus, the same name as the sub- marine Sir Hubert Wilkins proposes to use to dive under the Arctic ice during the summer. ———————— Oklahoma coal mines produced 665,333 tons in the last five mortas of 1930. San.:ples of Arctic Water ' to Be Analyzed at Wash. U. SEATTLE, April 7—One thou- sand samples of water collected by Sir Hubert Wilkins' North Pole submarine expedition will be brought to the University of Wash- ington's new oceanographical de- partment. The water will be an- alyzed ‘to determine temperature of currents and fauna. This is the announcement made by Thomas G. head of the Depart- ! Discharged Section Hand Thirteen Lose Lives in Plan to ‘Get Even’ Enters Guilty Plea | to Murder \ HENRYETTA, Okia., April 7.— The desire of George Darnell, aged 38, a section hand, to get even with a foreman who discharged him, sent 13 persons to death in| the wreck of a St. Louis and San Francisco passenger train near here | in August, 1929. Darnell pleaded guilty to a mur- | der charge. He confessed he cock- | ed a rallroad switch and thought! the train would jump the tracks, but no one would be hurt. R R ! TODAY'S STOCK ! QUOTATIONS . NEW YORK, April 7. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14, American Can 119%, Anaconda Copper 31%, Beth- lehem Steel 52%, General Motors; 42%, Granby Consolidated, no sale; International Harvester 50%, Ken- | Simmons Beds 15%, Brands 18, Standard Oil of Cali- fornia 42%, Standard Oil of New } Jersey 42%, United Aireraft 31, U. Standgrd, 8. Steel 135, Curtiss - Wright 4%, Hudson Bay 5%, Checker Cab 13%, 13, 13%. 5 |Construction Since Last De- | Engineer of the U. 8. Armv has MUCH WORK IS BEING DONE IN UNITED STATES | | i cember First Over ' Billion Dollars WASHINGTON, D. C., April 6.— More than one billion dollars of construction work has been con- tracted for since December 1, ac- cording to a report made to Presi- dent Hoover's Emergency Employ- ment Committee. Chairman Woods announced that | during the la¥ week 38 states re- ported 203 projects totalling $56,- 897,233 had been contracted for making a total since December 1| of $1,028,079,178. Resurrection Bay Bids Called For SEATTLE, April 7—The District called for bids for the dredging of a refuge harbor in Resurreciion Bay for the removal of 126,000 ._wm be opened April 29. g MAYOR WALKER, WISE CRACKER, HAS NEW FIGHT Chief Executive at City Hall HUMOR OF OFFICIAL !Administration, in All Phases, to Be Investi- gated by State Com. NEW YORK, April 7.—James J. Walker, blithe mayor of New York once remarked that his city “thinks more of a man's ‘personal- ity than of his attainments.” Certainly “Jimmy” Walker is a personality mayor. He is more famous for his wise cracks than for his statesmanship. His sartorial elegance has been re- produced in countless news photo- graphs. His dashing figure, always tardy, has visited the capitals of Europe and the playgrounds of America. He is closer to Broadway than to - Wall Street or Main Street. Whatever else he is, he is pic- turesque—the typical New Yorker 1of popular conception, except that he was born here. His wisecracks, however, are not | the manufactured gags of profes- sional comedians, but the spon- taneous wit of a fun-loving lay- man. As he was about to take office in 1926, he mournfully referred to “the headaches of the city hall” that awaited him. In the mayor- \alty campaign he had wondered if | the voters would love him in No- | vember as they were loudly assert- ing they did before the balloting began. He was, of course, paraphrasing his own song, “Will you love me in December as you do in May?” Now his administration, in all its departments, faces an investigation by a state legislative committee. Charges of Inefficiency Charges of inefficiency and lax- ity in the city’s government, pre- sented to Gov. Franklin D. Roose- velt by the city affairs committee, have been sent to the mayor for his' answer, On the mayor's foreign tour in 1927 the quips fell on Montmartre and Wilhelmstrasse. “This meal {s the best I have yet drunk,” he said. He called the Americans in Parls “fellow refugees from the .Eigh- teenth Amendment.” It is one duty of the mayor to greet distinguished visitors. Usual- 1y his speech begms, “As the repre- sentative of the great city of New York,® and ends with a welcome “to the gateway of America.” But when he greeted Senatore Guglielmo Marconi, inventor ‘wireless, he merely said: “Bill, you are welcome!” That exemplifies the informality of the man who Is head of a mu- nicipal corporation with 200,000 em- ployees and an annual budget of more than half a billlon dollars. Walker is just turning 50. His old-fashioned house in Greenwich Village is a few doors from the (Continued on Page Three) KID WCOY IS AFTER PARDON Application Is Reported Signed by Many Nation- ally Prominent Men SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Cal, April 7—Application for a full par- don for Norman Selby, known in the fistic world as Kid McCoy, allegedly signed by numerous na- tionally prominent men, is in the making or in official hands. McCoy, who has been here since convicted of killing his Los Angeles sweetheart in 1924, said he has ask- ed the Governor for a full pardon. The Governor said the application has not been received yet. McCoy said the application bears the signature of former Governor Alfred E. Smith, Senators Wagner and Copeland, of New York; Gov- necott 23%, Packard Motors 9,lyarqs of silt and sand. The bids| ernors Ritchie of Maryland, Pol- lard of Virginia, Hunt of Arizona, and former Governor Green of of [JAUNTY NEW YORK MAYOR | | | | elegance and humcrous quips, fac2s a State legislative committe. MAN;MAY NOT APPEAL CASE Former Secretary Makes Statement on Affirma- tion of Conviction THREE RIVERS, New Mexico, April 7—Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior, is not decided whether he will appeal from the Appeals Court affirma- tion of his conviction of accepting a bribe. He sald it is “remotely possible” that he might appeal but is not decided until he receives a court copy of the decision. Fall further said he is a poor man and has no money for further defense and could not pay the $100,000 fine. “The only income I have is from a small herd of beef cattle and my wife sells some buttermilk in El Paso, Texas,” Fall said. SHAREHOLDERS NOT CREDITORS JUDGE DECIDE Important Ruling Made in| Seattle Loan Asso- ciation Case SEATTLE, April 7—Ruling that shareholders in the Puget Sound Savings and Loan Association are not creditors and no act of Bank- ruptcy has been committed, Fed- eral Judge Jeremiah Neterer has dismissed the petition of invol- untary bankruptcy filed by three shareholders. Judge Neterer refused to enter- tain argument advanced that an act of bankruptcy was committed when the recelver was appointed and sald: “A shareholder is not a credi- tor. This is obvious by the statutes whieh provide that after paying indebtedness, assets shall be re- duced to cash which will be dis- tributed among sharehclders. This clearly distinguishes between ‘shareholders’ and ‘creditors’.” Meanwhile the Grand Jury con- tinues to investigate the Assocla- ltion, with Sue Randall, former | bookkeeper for President Adolf “unden. testifying. Linden is | charged with “embezzling $248,000. | — e ' MORE FRENCH STUDENTS ! PARIS. French parents are A temperature range from 9 be-|Michigan. He sald the application’ spending more on college education low to 110 above, and 7.37 inches|8lso bore the name of Asa Keyes, for their children, statistics show- of rain following the record drouth, | former Los Angeles prosecutor, who ing 73,000 young men and women broke four weather marks in Qua- nan, Tex., in 1930, prosecuted McCoy. in prison here. Keyes 1s now | in universities as against 42,000 five ‘ years ago. FACES 1 an inguiry of his administration by BE TRIED AGAIN DECLARESFITTS Decision ME;V Be Changed After Conference with ‘ Chief Deputy | LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aoril 7.— District Attorney Buron Fitts an- | nounced that Alexander Pantages |will be retried for alleged crimi- nally attacking Eunice Pringle, | coed dancer. Pantages has been granted a new trial by the Supreme Court following his conviction. Fitts sald: “After carefully di- gesting the decision, my present intention is to retry Pantages.” Fitts Indicated his decision may be changed following a conference with Robert Stewart, Chief Deputy, who tried Pantages. Stewart s out of the city at the present time. ——.——— FINE ART’S EXHIBIT | POSTPONED, APRIL 18 ! The exhibition planned by the Fine Arts Department of the Ju- |neau Women’s Club for next Sat- urday night, April 11, has been postponed. The exhibit and pro- gram will now be held on Satur- day, April 18 in the High School Gymnasium. L TR ALASKA SNOW COVER The following depths of snow on | the ground were reported from Al- aska stations, Monday evening, April 6: Barrow, 7 inches; Bethel, 7 in- ches; Fairbanks, 3 inches; Fort : Yukon, 13 inches; Eagle, 16 inches; Name, 12 inches; Tanana, 8 inches. i ok CUNNINGHAM WESTBOUND | J. T. Cunningham, Superintend- ,ent of Transportation on the Al- ;uka Railroad, is a passenger on {the Alaska enroute to his home in Anchorage after spending sever- al weeks in the States on vaca- tion and business. He is accom- panied by Mrs. Cunningham, THOMPSON AND CERMAK FIGHT AT CITY POLLS Both Striving for Honor to Be Mayor During Chi- cago World Fair BITTER CAMPAIGN COMES TO AN END Tammany or Gangster Rule War-Cry of Opponents —Both Claim Victory CHICAGO, 1., April 7.— I'l'hi< city is deciding today whether “Big Bill' Thomp- son, Republican, or Anton | Cermak, Democrat, will be the World Fair’'s Mayor. Both candidates c¢laimed victory as they closed their bitter personal campaigns last night. Thompson warned against electing Cermak because it will “bring Tammany into Chicago.” Cermak pleaded with the voters to clean the City Hall Mayor James J. Walker of New York, widely known for his sartorial | and eliminate gangster poli- ticians. Cermak is Chairman of the Cook County Board. FALL IS POOR PANTAGESWILL |SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL TURNS DOWN EDWARDS iThird‘ Appointment for Light Superintend- ent Is Rejected SEATTLE, April 6—The Seattle |City Council has rejected Mayor }P‘rank Edwards' appointment of 1Edwlrd A. Duffy, electrical engi- | neer, as Superintendent of City Light. This is the third appointment rejected since the Mayor ousted J. D. Ross, for 20 years Superin- tendent of the City’s Municipal utilities. ! The Citizen's League, sponsoring | the recall campaign against Mayor | Edwards announced it expected 22,000 signatures required before the end of this week. JAPAN GREETS SIAM ROYALTY, BODMING GUNS School Children, Boy Scouts and Reservists Line Route to Station TOKYO, April 7—Twenty-one guns boomed a salute of welcome - today as the King and Queen of Siam arrived from Yokohama on the liner Empress of Japan, enroute to the United States where the King will consult with eye specialists. The King and Queen traveled to Tokyo in a special train. Thou- sands of school children, reserv- ists and Boy Scouts lined the route to the railway station waving Si- amese and Japanese flags. e Miss Margie Neal, Texas' only woman senator, is backing a bill which would penalize tardy elec- tion judges. | WASHINGTON, D. C, April 7— Chairman John J. Raskob, of the Democratic National Committee, sent letters asking for a poll of the members of the Committee on {his plan to modify the Eighteenth Amendment and this resulted in Southern Party leaders demanding that prohibition be subordinated to economic lssus. Southern Democrats Want Economic Problems to Be Issue, Not 18th Amendment Senator Hull said: “Economic problems must have first place in any Democratic program.” 3 Representative Ayers, Kansas, Prohibitionist, admitted belief the Committee would favor Raskob's. views. | Senator Walsh said: “It is plains ly a proposal to repeal the Eigh- teenth Amendment.”