The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 8, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE « ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5688. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1931. PARTS OF EAST UNDER SNOW IN GENERAL STORM Power and Light Sqrvice in| Many Communities ' Is Crippled BUSSES REPORTED _ BEHIND SCHEDULES| Traffic Hampered in New England States—Heavy Rain in N. Y. City NEW YORK, April 8.— Sections of upper New York,! Pennsylvania and New Eng-| land States are covered with! snow today. | The storm has crippled power and light service in| several communities and| hampered traffic throughout!' the affected areas. | A blanket of snmow is laid| from the Adirondacks to Al-| bany from three to six inches| deep. | At Salem many telephone! lines are down. | There is ten inches of snow| at Olean, New York. All busses are behind schedules. Towanda, Pennsylvania, re-| ports sixteen inches of snow. Hundreds of a ut o mobiles art stalled in New Hamp- shire. | New York City has heavyi rain but Massachusetts,| Maine and Vermont report deep snow. SHOUSE OPENS DEM.CAMPAIGN, MIDDLE WEST Invades Normally Republi- can State—Adminis- tration Attacked DES MOINES, Iowa, April 8.— Jovett Shouse, Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee, | formally opened a drive to elect a Democrat for President by in- vading this normally Republican state. Shouse attacked the Hoover Ad- ministration in the bhandling of the Farm Relief problem. He said from th e time of 1928 the Demo- crats thoyght they might win Towa but ver's campaign prom- ises prevented. “But what did Hoover do? The sum total of the 20 months’ efforts of his Farm Board is the ad- vice tp.cut down your acreage.” | | CYRUS McCORMICK WED IN CUBA || Wa Assoclated Press Phote Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus McCormick are shown In Cuba following their | marriage at Havana. The bride is the form Florence Sittenham Davey of New York and McCormick is vice president of the Interna- tiona! Hzrvester company, Chicago. erc’s a Challenge MA N Y Tuums.rs GOMING NORTH DURING SUMME Several Special Excursion Announced by Int. Department [‘ WASHINGTON, D. C., April 8— (More than 85,000 persons visited | Alaska last year and prospects this year are that almost double that number will visit the Terri-| tory. The Interfor Department an- nounces several excursions into the Territory, planned by Pacific Coast organizations and the Alaska Rail- road. Tourists indicate trips will be extended to inclyde Seward, Mount McKinley and the Fairbanks dis- trict. ELKS COMING NORTH SEATTLE, April 8. — With the Elks convention here during the | summer, transportation companies are preparing to handle a huge ocker wou! ave to admit defea unless some of his charming daugh- number of tourists to Alaska. ters quickly step forward to ac-| Numerocus gqueries have already cept the challenge of Miss Leneta been received concerning trips to Lane (above), Washington’s per-| Alaska. fect girl, who is ready and anxious’' Mzany Elks as well as delegates to match her physique and features . i}. conventions holdin; % i ) g ses ;;flg'fivaf‘}‘;’, }’:}lsmeia:l;es‘t‘seo; sions in Seattle, will continue Formed and Healthiest Show Northward. ‘PREs IDENT IS "BIVEN RAP BY V.. NEWSPAPER Editorial Says He Is Devoid of Decency—Country Utah Court Upholds Ban on Tobacco Ads SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, April 8.—~The Supremz Court by a 3 to 2 decision, has upheld the validity of the law pro- hibiting advertising of tobacco on billboards and in street cars, Colombia Natives F kght Jungle Pests with Giant Ants; Misery Minimized BOGOTA, Colombia, April 8—In the southern jungle fastness of Colcmbia giant ants are pitted against insect pests so the misery of human life is minimized. Dr. Cesar Uribe, a former asso- ciate professor at Harvard medi- cal school, has returned from an expedition into the Caqueta, Co- lombia’s southern jungle, with a tale of how natives protect them- selves from household insects. The region is not only infested with “poison arrow indians,” but, what is more bothersome to white men, the poisonous insect called “chinche.” The chinche is an overgrown bedbug which does its best to make human life miser- able. Every well regulated home in the Cagueta maintains a colony of an- other insect called the “chinchera,” which is @ deadly enemy of the Is Not Poorhouse ST. THOMAS, Virgin Isles, April 8—The St. Thomas Mail, news- {paper, in an editorial captioned | “An Ill-Mannered Visitor,” declares the islands were “no poorhbuse” when they were acquired by the i United States but that application of “stupid ani unsuitable F2d- eral laws” made them so. chinche. The chinchera is an ant about the size of a bumble bee, “Thus HANLON LOSES MAYOR CONTEST, SITKA ELECTION Iker Is Reelected Mayor% in Ketchikan — Re- sults Elsewhere SITKA, Alaska, April 8—~In the city election here yesterday, W. R. Hanlon lost in the contest for mayor to Fred E. Schrey. The vote was Hanlon 113, and Schrey 190. John Hollywood was elected to the school board for the three= | year term defeating Thomas Tilson; | ir.. by a vote of 162 to 137. E. W. Harris, William M. Cook land C. E. Wortman were elected | to the city council. The vote was Harris 262, Cook 208 and Wort- man 245. | KETCHIKAN ELECTION | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 8.— Norman B. Walker, unopposed, was ! reclected mayor in yesterday's elec- tion. Lem McKay, Percy Charles and J. H. Davies were named to the city coquneil. Ray G. Hall and Mrs. W. C.| Dibrell were not opposed for the' school board. BANKER FOR MAYOR WRANGELL, Alaska, April 8— C. P. Kirtland, Vice-President of |the Bank of Alaska, in charge of the Wrangell Branch, was yester- s< day elected mayor. He was opposed | by W. C. Waters. { "B M. Campbell, H. R. Coulter |and James Nolan were reclected’ to Ithe city council. | B. Y. Grant and Mrs. M. O, Johnson were elected to the School Board. | | OHMER BEATS LOCKEN PETERSBURG, Alaska, April 8.} —One hundred and elghteen votes| were cast in the city election heréi‘ yesterday. For Mayor—Ohmer 88, Locken | 10. § For council—R. M. Allen 88, Charles Greenaa 94, A. B. Hold 82, C. R. Pechette 42. The three high- est will take office. | There was no name on the bal- |10t for the School Board but For-| lest Fryer's name was written in and he was the highest with 13 votes. i | MULVIHILL IS MAYOR SKAGWAY, Alaska, April 8.— With no oppesition, W. J. Milvihill was elected Mayor yesterday. He | was on the Citizens' Ticket and his vote was 152. | For the city council, the can-| didates on the Citizens' Ticket,; ,wl!h no opposition were elected follows: H. Ashley ‘150, E. H. Rich- ter 147, and George Rapuzzi 160. | The Citizen's ticket candidate O.| ‘s:-lmer‘ for City Treasurer, with ‘inu opposition, received 154 votes \ For City Clerk, L. E. Reynold- | son, Citizen’s ticket candidate, w: |elected by a vote of 116, Two in- ; dependents were defeated. They |were P. H. Ganty with a vote of 47 and Mary Pullen who polled| 126 votes. \ P. 1. Dahl, Citizens’ Ticket, had no opposition for the three-year term on the School Board. His| {vote was 145. | ] One hundred and ninety-one cit- ligens cast their ballots, eleven| 1reglstrams being out of town. | NO CONTEST AT CORDOVA CORDOVA, Alaska, April 8— There was no contest in the city election here yesterday. W. H.| Chase was reelected Mayor as were | W. H. Liebe, Paul Bloedhorn and E. F. Schroeder to the City Coun-| cil. Swanberg was reelected cu,vj |other one-year term, .well, who ran on an Independent | Bothwell EDUCATION BILL (effort by Senator !strike out the heart of the Shat- OF RE-ELECTION; DOGS WIN 0UT Leash Planflracts Chief Interest of Voters at | City Election At the city election vyesterday Thomas B. Judson was chosen Mayor; G. E. Krause, Gunnar Blomgren and John E. Green were named Councilmen; Grover C Winn was retained as School Di- rector, and the proposal that dogs be held on leash when on the street was defeated. | With a registration of 724, «a total of 518 votes was cast. The heaviest balloting was on the dog issue and the result was closer than in the only other contest,| which involved one of the coun-; cilmanic positions, There were 191 votes cast on the dog referendum, | 27 fewer than the total poll. Those | in favor of putting the animals; on leash numbered 215; those op-! posing the leash system and sup-| porting the present license policy | amounted to 276, giving opponents | of the leash a majority of 71. Mayor Judson, who headed the| Citizens' Ticket and who had no opposition for re-election for an-| polled 470 votes. The three councilmen on the! Citizens' ticket were chosen for | two-year terms. Mr. Krause's re-; election was effected with 411 bal- | lots. Mr. Blomgren was high councilmanic candidate, getting 447. Mr. Green polled 382. D. M, Both-| Ticket, failed of re-election inas- much as he obtained but 174. Mr. Winn was unopposed as a candidate to succeed himself on i the school board for a three-year |l term. He polled 363 votes. The vote by precincts follows: For Mayor 1st ' 2nd 286 96 For Council . 244 85 274 87 235 5 100 36 School Director 228 69 Leash for Dog 130 43 174 54 3rd Judson 88 82 86 2 38 Krause .. Blomgren Green 382! Winn .. 66 363 | 215 | 286 42 58 Yes No I PASSES SENATE, BY VOTE 5 T0 2 Shattuck Bill for Reorgani- zation Passes—Radio Subsidy Enacted After a short debate over an Sundgquist to tuck Measure for reorganizing the Territorial department of educa- tion, the Senate this morning de- feated the Sundquist amendment and passed the measure five to two. The vote on the emergency clause was six to one. Senators Sundquist, Second, and Benjamin, first Division, voted against the passage of the bill and for the amendment. Strike Appointive Power ‘The Board of Education cre- ated by Mr. Shattuck’s measure is among other things, empowered to appoint a Commissioner of Edu- cation. The bill also carries a re- peal clause wiping out the Act of " MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Model of the proposed $250,000,000 radio city which is to be erected in mid-town New York. The city dozen blocks, Include the broadcas casting company, RKO vaudeville Corporation of America, banks, stores, offices and subway. Work on the central skyscraper will start in May. VOTE IN SPAIN T0 TEST POWER OF REPUBLICANS Municipal Elections Are to Be Held on Sunday, April 12 By CLARENCE LUBOSE MADRTD, April 8—8pain’s mu- Inlclpm elections April 12 are con- strued as a test of strength be- tween monarchists and republicans. These are the first elections of | any kind in Spain in eight years,| e ~ PRICE TEN CENTY B[]THWE[_L FAILS‘MDEL OF POPOSD RA CITY M”_LmNG—flf]'—o POLLS,GANGLAND 1.0SES ELECTION Democrat Wins Over Re- publican Who Served Twelve Years VICTORY PARADE HELD, BROOMS ARE SYMBOLS Mayor -Elect Issues State- ment that Streets of City to Be Safe CHICAGO, I, April 8.— Anton J. Cermak, Democrat, | President. of the Cook County | Commission, has been elected Mayor of this city defeating | William Hale ‘‘Big Bill””? Thompsen, Republican. Last night, 2,300 precincts out of 2,987 gave Cermak 516,107 votes and Thompson 354,902 votes. Mayor-Elect Cermak issued a statement last night that “corruption shall go from our midst and criminals will find no hiding place. The streets will be safe.” It was a warm spring day and brought out more than 1,000,000 voters to the polls. Thempson is 62 years of age and had been Mayor for twelve years. He conceded his defeat in a congratulatory message to Cerm;lk. A victery parade, with brooms as the symbol that Cermak would “sweep the city clean, was held early in the evening. L P S Mothe:ghooh and Associated Pr will house 50,000 people, cover a ting studios of the National Eralfi- and pictures, television, The Radio Nijchoila;; Longworth Sick Man Condition Is Reported Se- rious— Wife Hurries to Ber;lside P, and are slated to pave the way ifor district and then parliamentary general elections. Spain has had no parliament since Gen. Primo de Rivera sus- pended the Cortes when he be- came dictator in 1923. The new | parliament is to convert itself into “Cortes Constituyentes,” or a constitutional convention to revise the constitution. Theoretically the municipal elec- tions involve only local issues but those April 12 will be inter- preted as revealing the real politi- cal voting strength of parties op- posing and favoring the monarchy. About 50 “Parties” There will, however, be no clear- een only two par- s and republicans. and directly upon that issue. On the contrary there are 45 or 50 so-called parties. Of import- ance there are about a dozen par- ties supporting the monarchy. Thus in some towns and cities the votes may be split between at least 20 or more party tickets. In other towns the different varieties cf republican and monarchial par- ties are attempting to merge tem- porarily, so the April 12 vote can be divided between a fewer num- ber of parties on each side. If Left Parties Win The final importance of it all, irrespective of the number of par- ties or what they call themselves, is how manay anti-monarchist and how many monarchist aldermen can be elected If the Socialist, Republican, La- bor and other left parties make a Kills Two Children COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, April 8—Mrs. Christiania Volgin, aged 45 years, today shot and killed two of her children and wounded a third with a revolver. Her husband heard the shots and rushed to the bedroom and took the gun away from her. She was recently released from psycho- pathic hospital. ———— Alaska Juneau Net In First Quarter Far Ahead of 1930 4 The Alaska Juneau's net operating surplus for the first quarter of 1931 was about two and one-half times as large as for the same period in 1930, accord- ing to an Associated Press dispatch received today by The Empire. For the three months end- ing March 31, the total sur- plus was $406,750 as com- pared to $185750 for the same period last year, said the report. For March the company’s net was $136.250 as compared to $76,600 in March, 1930, e s e e 00000 e 'M(;si;ys Stake Politic;;l Lives on Formation Now woren Carolina, April Nicholas Longworth, of the House of Representatives, has pneumonia and his condition is reported as being serious. He contracted a cold while the guest during the past ten days of James P. Curtis, of Washington, D. C., at, the latter's winter home. Mrs. Longwcrth has heen summcnad. " ©eee0eccesesese00e GOE5 SUSBAND WASHINGTON, D. C, April 8. —Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, daugh- ter of former President Theodore Roosevelt, has left for her hus- band’s*side at Aiken, North Caro- lina, but not poisonous to man. Chincheras are captured in gourds, to which they are at- tracted by honey. After their en- trance the gourd is corked up, and the chincheras are released in the houses to eliminate the chinches, which they accomplish promptly. The specimens of chincheras together with 500 other insect and animal specimens. They will be used as a nucleus for a national Colom- {bian Museum of Natural History. Other items in the collection in- {clude stone idols, hundreds of iyears old, paddles and other In- | dian implements carved and paint- led with religious symbols so old |that the modern Indians do not know their meanings. The party included 12 scientists and spent two months in the jungle, expedition brought back { any American who insultingly al- ludes to the Virgin Isles as a poor- house can only be devoid of de-| cency, even thought that individual @ be the President of the United States. He should have gnown| beter than to wound the ceptibilities of a loval peopl President Hoover, on returning from his trip to the Virgin Islands, stated ‘he Virgin Islands constl-' tuted a poorhouse. Bethlehem Steel 54'%, General Mo- o T tors 43, Granby Consolidated 16/, A 15-cent bounty on hawks in!International Harvester 50%, Ken- (the lower Rio Grande Valley has necott 23%, Packard Motors 9, \;been offered in an effort to save|Simmons Beds 15%, Standard I the quail. Brands 18, Standard Oil of Califor- Ty, nia 43%, Standard Oil of New Nocogdoches County, Texas, re-| Jersey 44, United Aircraft 31%, U cently elected a county judge wino S. Steel 137%, ‘Curtiss-Wright 4%. is not a lawyer and who never Hudson Bay 5%, Checker Cab 131, ] sludied law. 13%, 13%, (Continued on Page Eight) AT 8N R i TODAY'S STOCK QUOTATIONS '] | 1 . NEW YORK, April 8—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14%, American Can 122%, Anaconda Copper 327%, 1929 which made the Commissioner ! an elective official. ‘The Sundquist amendment was aimed at both of these provisions. | It would have struck out the para- graph giving the Board of Educa- tion appointive power and the re- nealer clause. Arguing against the {adoption of the amendment, Mr. Shattuck pointed out that the trend of modern legislation is to make such offices appointive by a |board similarly constituted as that proposed by his own measure. He declared it had the approval of W. K. Keller, Commissioner of Ed- ucation, his predecessor in office L. W. Breuer, and Anthony E. Karnes, Superintendent of City Schovls at Ketchikan and Demo- cratic candidate at the last ‘elec- (Contipued on Page Three) | | | good showing in the municipal| elections it will probably mean | that those left parties later will| enter the parliamentary general! elections. If the lefts do not win much in the municipal elections they will| probably make good their present| declaration to “abstain” from the parliamentary elections. — > Amelia Earhart Makes Unofficial Altitude Record WILLOW GROVYE, Penn, April 8—~Amelia Earhart ,mak- ing an altitude flight in an autogyre plane, made an un- official mark of 18,500 feet to- day, By FRANK HAVILAND KING LONDON, April 8—Young Sir Oswald Mosley, his wife, Lady Cyn- thia, and their parliamentary in- | fant, the “New” party, are headed either for Downing Street or po- {litical oblivion. Sleek, elegant aristocrat of 34 | active years, the sixth baronet o {the Mosley line, Sir Oswald tried |cut all the old political parties, found them wanting and pro- | ceeded to organize his own. Their !own, rather, for Lady Cinthia quit | the labor party with her husband. Adventurint ageinst tremendous ) odds, 1 Westminster of “New ” British Party |say they have have but slim chances of tangible success; that | Mosley is throwing away a bril- | liant future. The Mosley answer is that old England‘is in a bad way, facing a national emergency on such prob- lems as unemployment, slumping | foreign trade and industrial trou- ! bles. J‘ Desperate remedies are needed, | Mosley believes, and he offers a l"N-.moml plan,” parliamentary re- form, import tariffs and a mellow~ led dictatorship or executive control |of government. fecid 2 MRS s (Continued on Page Five)