The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 10, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVII., NO. 5690. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1931. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT§ Only White Girl HOOVER PAYS RESPECTS T0 DEAD SPEAKER White House Flags at Half Staff—Longworth Fun- eral Be Held Saturday ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., April 10.] ~—Flags hang at half staff atop| the White House by Executive Or- | der as the Nation's Capital grieves for the passing of Nicholas Long- worth, Speaker of the House, who | died suddenly yesterday morning at Aitken, North Carolina, as the! result of pneumonia. Funeral services will be held at Cincinnati, Saturday afternoon. The | body will be taken there Satur-| day morning by special train. Dur-| ing the day other special trains| will take President Hoover and 2 ' HOUSETHISAM, TEN NEW BILLS INTRODUGED IN | [Measure to Underwrite Wrangell Bonds Passed | and Goes to Governor Ten new measures were intro- | duced and .one House bill, two Senate memorials and one Senate resolution were passed in the House | of Representatives this morning. | | Two bills were introduced in the| Senate which had a short session and considered three memorials in second reading. | The House by unanimous vote| | passed Mr. Benjamin’s resolution | underwriting $40,000 of the Wran- | gell School Bond issue. This di- rects the Treasurer to invest this year's allotment to the Pioneers’ T |Agents of Mining Compan- MINE INDUSTRY OPENS DEFENSE AGAINST RAISE ies File Protests Against Johnston Tax Bill Mining is the backbone of the Territory and that industry should not now be subjected to an in= crease in the rates on the Terri- tory’s “net income” mining sched- ule declared representatives of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Com- pany, the Hammon and Fair- banks Exploration companies, and private citizens who appeared yes- terday before the House Waye and Means Committee at a publie hearing. s. a. Hellenthal and L. H. Metz- gar appeared for the local com- Northern Bears and Huskies Renew 30-Year Rowing Feud; California Outscales WASHIN HUSKIES Rival 8 Pounds | | | | to a Man RN BREWER KIDNAPPED; HELD FOR RANSOM OF $150,000 WISCONSIN MAN DISAPPEARS IN ANSWER T0 CALL AppointmenTI-s Made Over Telephone—Leaves Home and Not Seen Since ABDUCTORS BELIEVED TO HAVE USED AUTO Demand for Large Sum for Release Is Made from Dlinois Town MONROE, Wisconsin, April 10.— Fred Blumer, aged 50 years, brewer of near-beer and former President of the Wisconsin Brewers' Associa- Congressional delegation to cm-‘ Home building fund in the Wran- | pany, Judge O. D, Cochran, of’ tion, is apparently in the hands of | | pany g: cinnati. The Congressional dele-i gell securities. | Nome, for the other two corpora- | kidnappers. gation will include twelve Sena- Other Measures Passed | tions, The kidnappers have demanded tors and eighty-nine Representa- FUNERAL TRAIN LEAVES The House also passed a meas- ure authorizing the sale of prop-i erty of defunct schools and de-| made a brief statement. One Real Industry “Wa have only one real, hon- and H. L. Faulkner nlm[ tives. ! | i { There are some 40 school houses,|tory and it is the mining indus- funct incorporated school districts.| est-to-God industry in this Terrl-' $150,000 for his release. Blumer disappeared last night after he left his home to keep an appoinitment with a man who tele~ phoned a request that Blumer meet o Sué\;g{?g-m I%eagfig f:kr::flbo;%—‘y L ;t;r:: o:b;k:‘%r:nzzulptx;c:, ;2‘1;:; h‘:;e; try,” éietc}!lared Mrr. I;I:llenihial who :lm and anot};elr man in ze(lioc:: > = | Assocratea Press Photo | 3 S | opene e case for the mining op- otel. Later lumer inten it A o lek“ t}r\?r 1cm-!‘ Seven year old Beverly Morgan informed by Mr. Foster, author Of'ef:tors with a review of theshu- attend a meeting of the directors cinnatl at 11:40 oilock this fore- | daugnter of the radio operator, it the bill. This measure would per-|tory of the Alaska Juneau opera- of the Monroe Country Club. He noon and is due there at 7 o'clock | k‘l;:’k"ay white child in Pt. Barrow, mit disposal of property of this| tions and developments. Mining never appeared there or entered tomorrow morning. Cincinnati, who 3 5 _ | kind. was first started on the property b EnR A the hotel where he was supposed knew him as a child, 15 prepared Two Senate memorials—one urg-|50 years ago, and about 20 years CALIEIGRL to go. to receive their beloved “Nick” in {ing the Interior Department to give | ago the modern mine was launche ULBRICKSON BEAR ¢ | Leading authorities believe the death. | due attention to the findings and | ed. ' P, b " abductors forced him away in his e T ¢ | recommendations of the survey of| A capital stock issue totaling Coach “Ky” Ebright sends his California crew against the Washington Huskies of Al Ulbrickson, gyutomobile. the Alaska Indian school system by | 415 000,000 was floated, bonded and | April 11, on Oakland Estuary, near Berkeley, Cal, in a renewal of a 30-year racing feud. The Bears have Later in the evening, R. C. Wells M ANY Tu SEEK R Dr. H. D. Anderson, working undfl‘ unbonded debts, entalled during |an eight pound pull at the weights. The crews are identical in height, each averaging 6 feet 2 inches. | was notified of the ransom, de- [ a Carnegie Foundation grant, _am:l;me many years that the com-| SR 1% o SR IS S G SR SR — |mand by a telephone call Irom | anob_her_ requesting Morningside pany was carrying on its program | | ' Rockford, Illinois. Wells is a busi~ I PUINT BARRUW‘Samtanum authorities to giveiat a deficit, amounted to more "7 etZler ‘ESTUARY GLASH ness partner of Blumer. 3 i proper notice of the discharge or|than $3000,000. During the past : QB cack oL RN death of Alaska insane—were|tyo years, the funded debt as well | n' 2 . !|passed by the House. as the unsecured, has been pald Fll,neral ‘ I': GLA Native Reaches Quarantin-! Indigent Rellef Tax oft. Bub up to_this yekil bo} ome ; | " | . . ¥ . |penny in the form of vidends I H ld ] s ey | edKAfi!‘Y T—h.Ele“mS rolef und 0 be sopperied by a(Dis ever been received by the CULT REVEALED s Hel HUDSON CLASSIC OF DEMOCRATS 1 stockholders. is year a four- | | Threg Western Re:presen- Hung: 1heu Uogs :f»ém ’:c‘l”yooi’"xfi":i ”Eepf;:fg:; percent dividend has been listed. k I i | 3 tatives Are Mentioned POINT BARROW, Alaska, April{for in a measire introduced in Put Money Back 5 e nler(xinent ;s Maqle b Sew-’ T T ” 1 e J b inati 10—A Native from the eastwatd|the House today by Mr. Foster. A| It Is true, Mr. Hellenthal said, ie] ard — dervices m MEANS DEFEAT for Nomination lo-h Native from the eastwafd | milar position was advanced in|that the company had not pald a Woman Slays Ecce'.'.”’c Ch f Elk : }An&;{filB B§ttle~ og O?]rs WASHINGTON, D. C., April 1. |sickness of any kind on the entire ;};25;::9 Legislature but failed of;"l‘?;ie“z:ym L:tm::z:“?:fl?g: ';:12; Wealthy Spmster—— Her arge o o | 1 e Run mn Sout L i 3 f . e | » —A wide field of conteners to the |east coast. . A Foster also introduced a bill|of losses, 1t wa# contributing direct- Life or Mine SEWARD, Alaska, April 10— on Saturday gz Republican Speakership nomination| The diphtheria epidemic here | ¢ v | —— William McAd Mak P pt o obditinics’ th - IthbAdvd.x "TH have | t0 amend the school poll tax law ' 1y in other sources from which di- Funeral services and interment of C oo akes at the party caucus preceding the | ™ fd s A e 7€ | by exempting from its provision all [Tect taxation was received by the| WILKESBARRE, Penn, April 10./E. G. Wetzler, Chief Clerk of the| By RUSSELL J. NEWLAND | Giatement Regardin next Congress is foreoast by Rep- |been now new cases during the| ;o "o eiimos” e also in-|government. —Authorities said Mrs. Frances| Rallvay Mail Service in Alaska, (A. P. Sports Writer) ! SeLOMD resentative Willam R. Wood ot|Past few days and all pat ents are| i oduced a bill to re-enact the old| Its local expenditures for labor, | Thomsen, Wellesley College grad-|who died suddenly last Tuesday | 2 { Party Pollcxes Indiana. rapidly improving. It is probable | i i 1al uate, has confessed she killed Min. | were held this afternoon under the | , BEREELEY, Cal. Aprll 10—Call- te that the quarantine will be lifted | Territorial statute under which the jsupplies and materials now aggre- ) Bed #ub. Kl n- ) er the | rornia’s Bears and Washington's = Representative Wood believes the ; 218 W18 Boards of Children’s Guardians|gate almost $2,000,000 annually.|nie Dilley, aged 76, eccentric wealthy | auspices of Elks. Wetzler had | g E LOS ANGELES, Cal, April 10.— next Speaker will be a Republican. wThn e e functioned originally, and making|This supports company employees | spinster who was found slain in|been in Alaska since 1908. Husl lles'h rmls zr $he CHtBI S0P | What he believes are roads to vie Representatives mentioned for the : e nnnve_dwho arrived from the A0 O the language |and their familics, merchants,|her home near here last Satur- | — e e ol ylt g dlec‘" - Wil hold their | 4oy o gefeat for the Democratic nomination include William C.|eastward said there was a short-|y toW CARORSS T8 The TADEVRES (o o tation and other local in- | day. R o 1S % Party at the next Presidential eleo~ Hawley of Oregon, Homer Hoch)gge of seal meat at Halkeet and g,/ ©0 oo o "0 lid ot be subject |dustries and from all of these| Mrs. Thomsen told the police STATIUNS GIRD B sminy o edl ¢ tion, were outlined today by Wil- A of Kansas and C. Willlam Ram-|tribesmen were forced to kill most ¢4, eCii W E A% TR cources the Territory receives reve- | Miss Dilley exercised a “strange e salt water course, 87 M Of | g @, MeAdoo in & letter f8 seyer of Iowa. of their dogs. He said it was a @ San Francisco Bay, will be the| " 4 o 1 Ith | A measure to allot $12500 from |Due. influence” over her husband and soens of three mile crew races for | T ch he took lssue with the Ple R s A poor year for foxes although fairly',, ' v i Division's road fund to| It has for several years sought!wanted him to become leader of th it of d | varsity, | les advocated by National Chair- good catches had been made by‘me town of Seldovia to co-oper- |t develop other properties all overla “love cult composed of former The rvar; 4 an““ {)um:;rt ;m;s ¥-|man John J. Raskob. EE ADvucATES isome trappers. {ate with it in building a bridge in | the Territory, expending many | school teachers.” ng_m’;;’: é;‘g?eg:‘ e tested In & yntelligent treatment of unems . | the municipality, and requiring the|thousands of dollars in thisf “I did it in self-defense. It ! For many years the races have ployment probably would bring p | city itself to contribute $2,500 toisearch. It has examined a large|was her life or mine” Mrs. Thom- el Uk TROOBIA Disriosa. ot ket back the Presidency to the Demo- | Afraid to Come the work, was introduced by Mr.|number of properties and render-|sen is said to have told the police. L g western supremacy and sery. | CTate Party said McAdoo, but he Home or Else They | Foster. ed a free assay service to pros- PSR 18 AR S Al Sg Aobing e Maitbrin Thvls Wil predicf_ed “certain and disastrous | . Aid for Douglas {pectors and is still doing these Broad P sy De. GxDEote’ fiom thelr Bae| Tt v I CRREY, (MG Don’t Want to ] Four thousand dollars is sought |things. Concrete Roof roadcasters F'repare to cific coast cousins in the naticaal liquor. quastion.s major: pisnkiiiy FURWAR {from the Territory to assist the New Program Mentioned Fight for Increase regatta ot Pougheopile. , . |i5, PASGOND, RECTESAERD (NPOES i » | WASHINGTON, D. C., April 'town of Douglas maintain and re-| Mr. Hellenthal described the C lla .T N o (B B - The letter was written to decline ! 10—United States citizens liv- |pair its public school building in|company’s new expansion plan 0 pses, wo of Privileges Washington won ali three coast the post of Vice-Chairman on the | 3 ing abroad willing or unwilling |a bill introduced by Mr. Winn, by here. The operating profits for the Lo events last year, but placed behind; committee which will plan a re= Decision Comes as Result| in exile numberea 386212 on ' request. past two years, he said, were suf- Workers D‘,ad WASHINGTON, April 10—Tho |the Bears in the national varsity | ception here on April 13 for Joe of Board's Decision on January 1, the State Depart- | Mr. Boyle brought in a measure, ficient to more than meet obliga- 7 battle between broadcasters for | 14¢% S‘;‘“’ 1908 the northern uni-| vet; Shouse, Chairman of the oo ment announced. | providing for the return of taxes|tlons, including this year's divi- L, maximum power privileges will bz |Versity has won 17 times, while|pemocratic National Executive Stabilization The figures are based on con- | illegally collected and paid under dend requirements. The company Th I g gk S renewed before the Federal Radio|California led the way, in the|Committee. e sular office reports. World tour- | protest. is expending the remainder in ex- rze nvestlg{atlons tart-| commission nhere April 14. coast classic seven times — e | By FRANK L WELLER Wis, susl Yeapatiky, sIAR ) [ Sapienance 'uil 100G of ploratory work on other propr- ed — Accident on The commission will hold a hear- | 12 11 trips fo Poughkeepsle the | = (A. P. Farm Editor) are not included in the figures |carrier pigeons for use in aviation |ties adjoining the Alaska Juneau, Cal. U.C: ing on the recommendations of its | Fluskies placed first in 1923, 124 J WASHINGTON, April 10—Oneof | announced. More than half of 'is the object of a measure intro-|Putting back into the ground a al. U. Campus chief examiner, Ellis A. Yost, that|2nd '26. They captured second po- 4 the most discussed and least un-| the exiles are in Canada. | duced by Mr. Donnelly. It author-|large part of the first earnings leight stations be granted increases | Sition four fimes, finished "third| 3 > derstood principles of farm re- PR B |izes the Governor to procure the|ever made for the holders of its| BERKELEY, Cal, April 10—With|in power to 50000 watts, and 11 twice, fifth once and sixth last| ! lief—the equalization fee—is bid- i pigeons, provide lofts for them, and {stock in order that the mine may{tWo men dead and ten others in- stations to 25000 watts. Several el I i To ding for the spotlight again as a | make arrangements for their train-|grow and become an even more jured—six seriously—three investi- |stations which were not recom- | California won both ufio na-| ] ] [ A result of the farm board’s decision) |ing. An appropriation of $2,500 is|Permanent and larger institution. gations are under way to deter-|mended for the maximum, and |tional and Olympic Games ovents - not to- stabilize 1931 wheat prices. sought. | " He cited the narrow margin of |mine the cause for the collapse of others which failed to receive|in 1928 to become world's cham-| SUUTH STATE : It faces four. possibilities—fail- | The Committee on Roads, etc.|Profit per ton of ore mined and|a section of the new concrete roof | Yost's approval for any increase plons that year. g 1ice 10 be | fefiitroduced - in Ooh- UFF Fn“ HuME brought in a measure providing for |Pointed out that a reduction, even|of the Mechanics Building under | already have filed briefs attacking| The Bears made their first trip + gress, defeat by the export deben- the punishment of persons con-|slight, of the ore values, would construction, on the University of his report. east in 1921, taking secun'd place. Agrtdics ture, a third faflure of enactment, |victed of destroying, injuring or | Wipe out that margin. He paid a,California campus Maximum Power After a four vear interval they |Statement Issued by Lucas = or substitution for the emergency| wpw vORK, April 10— gZaro defacing signs or signals posted high tribute to the Bradleys and] The skeleton frame-work sud-| Maximum power applicants in ‘;e‘“r"e k“’ r‘“ ‘i‘fl’ xth position in| S Tanift H Aid | stabilization clause in the agTi-|, o' q ok olime to be 157 8long public highways giving dis-|to General Superintendent L. H. denly gave way precipitating tons the first radio zone are WHAM,|1926, pick off third in 1927, were| Oays larl as Ald- cultural marketing act. e tance, direction, warning or other (Metzgar. of material rnd the workmen into| Rochester, N. Y., WBZ, Boston; |SWamped in 1920 and were fourth ed Prosperit X years old, shook the dust of the [ L ament WOR. Nowark: WIZEN Tic | last season. perty ki x Debenture Plan United States from his shoes and Dotice to the public. ERien 9 Rrpdicy SN Ak Pl oy YOIk | W rraining at California this G There is just as determined agi-| . | Mr. Ziegler introduced a bill to! It was due entirely to the faith Yost recommended 50,000 watts : “’ a; . Caliornia S year WASHINGTON, D. C.. April 10— | sailed today for home aboard the | 1 for W. 25.0 brought about a'continual turnover N, - April 10. tation for the export debenture, Bremen. The veteran of ff¥e amend section 746 of the Com-‘()f F. W. Bradley in the eventual | for JZ and 25000 for the other s : aid 11| The Republican * Part through which has passed the senate by| s and eleven marriages, who Piled Laws of Alaska, relating to|sclution of the problems that the three. The latter contended he |9 48 g Rl az.esv .Carrol Robert H. Lucas, Executive rRc ol record votes on three occasions.| o a % Napoleon, has had Cchattel mortgages. company is still operating here, he erred in failing to approve their | 'Ky” Ebright, former Washington | " ¢ the National Committas The debenture is backed by the in- | 5275 heatsathe Ug;’m States and| A measure by Mr. Hellerich pro- declared. At one time every en- | requests for 50,000. OnEAws L who took over the cfmm' has appealed to the South sayug‘ & dependents Who are expected to choue’ Of M o e in Istam- | vides a method of payment to post- | gineer of the company, all of Mr. BY E ARTH u AKE‘ Clear channel applicants for high (08 reins in 1024, started with &l 'ollipican’ taritt and othep | represent the balance of power lm::f” 3l | masters who perform duties of Bradley's friends and even his |power in the second zome are |f8irly well seasoned squad but has| o, T\l Gevelopment andiil the next Senate. | aay ot S S Ry | United States Commissioners, when own family were convinced that it Wik WOAU, Philadelphia, and WHAS, |ended up with a mixed crew. | oo 0 50 e gonen £ If passed, the equalization fee| o 'mone are available, in the rescne Wwould be impossible to make the 4 { Louisville, Yost recommended 50-| Reg Rheln, stroke, paced the|™ 0 Tlide hiarenion. politicalty, i} would still face the veto procedent ® TODAY'S STOCK | |and relief of lost. persons. property pay. . They argued with|Estimated Loss at Managua 000 for the Philadelphia station | freshman shell last year. He came |, /% W Bon o n o B0 COUE established by Coolidge. $! QUOTATIONS | Senate Wins Point him and tried to convince him that Is Twenty Million |and 25,000 for the Louisville trans- | UP to replace Duncan Gregg, al = oo o c" . | » Substituted for the stabilization|e - e! After the Senate stood pat on|he was wasting money to continue. y Imitter. Counsel for the two sta- |Junicr. Norbett Murray, No. 7). B i tne people of tha s e agricultural market-|” NEW YORK. April 10—OClOSI€ its bill No. 9, appropriating $284| “He was the only man in the Dollars [tions will present competitive|Fowed With the freshmen in 1930, 5 %oniie aliance with & past ing act, the fee would be invoked | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine for the relief of Harry Gavin,|Whole bunch who could see ahy lclaims for 50000 watts at the|While Spencer Duguld, No. 6. 8. . o oonization that is so benkeil I he 'farm board whenever that! stock today is 13%, American C8h Nome, to relmburse him for cer- hope and he stuck it out” asserted| MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 10, | comumission's hearing SO, not out for ereW|, ot and disorganized that it cafi i body agreed with the advisory com- [ 121%, Anaconda Copper 33, Bethle- tain expenses encountered on an Mr. Hellenthal Shortly after that|_—Last week's earthquake and fire . Third Zone ast year. i 57 lars, {10t Dresent the American peopls mittee of any commodity that it)hem Steel 51%, General MOWIS errand of mercy, which the House |Ore-sorting system was evolved and | caused about $20,000,000 damages, High power applicants in the| Three of st year's megUIETS | nirate siehai was needed. {43%, Granby Consolidated 17, In-'redquced to $150, the latter this that with other improvements in It is estimated that about $2,000,000 third zone are WAPI, Birminz-lm‘/e Dunlap, Burton Jfl:l:‘am‘anfl bellevie And iakat o i B "The feo, once proposed as two . ternational Harvester 51%, Kenne-|morning receded from its position.|both the mining and milling de-|was covered by insurance but only ham; W8M, Nashville, WSB, At-|Harvey Granger, will hoid dowp, "o o b, "oiven “control of (Continued on Page Four> | cott 24, Packard Motors 9, Sim-'And Gavin will get the full amount | Partments pulled the property oub $100000 by an earthquake clause. |1anta; WBT, Charlotte and KVOO, | Nos. 5, 4 and 3 seats. Bill Hudb| o ot & o oo b e | mons Beds 15%, Standard Brands of the bill. of the hole. Twenty blocks of the business|Tulso. Yost picked WSM and WSB | 8ins, a junior in No. 2 place, fall- b i RIGHT ANKLE BROKEN {18%, Standard Oil of California Two measures were introduced | Must Foster Mining | section were razed. [for ‘the 50000 ratings and the|ed to make the grade lfmt year, o e S 5 144%, Standard Oil of New Jersey in the Senate today, together with| “You must foster mining and|{ In the evenings, after the day's other three for 25000 while Glen Rogers, .bov.. and Nor- S b 2 Dewey Rhinehart of Excursion 43%, United Aircraft 32%, U. S. two memorials. Mr. Lomen and Mr. (not hamper it declared Mr, Helr{s%ak fin the ruins is over, many| In the fourth sope a battle is|¥is Graham, cox, are up from the| .. o L0 Torrn -l in a measure| lenthal. “You ought not to put NeW homeless gather about the wreck-|being waged for the power “plums.” freshmen. Inlet entered St. Ann’s Hospital Steel 137%, Curtiss-Wright 4%, Sundquist brought | . < A fully underwent o this morning. His right ankle 1s Hudson Bay 5%, Checker Cab, N0 to provide for the installation of a burdens on such men as the Brad-jage of the market place and listen | Applicants for 50000 watts ar») Coach Al Ulb of ‘Wash- TN, ZRAEe ""n:s““‘fl‘!“"’“plm fractured. sale, (Continued on Page Eight) (Continued on Page Eight) o the radio, ! (Continueg va Page St (Conipued on Page Five) morning. 5