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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1931, MEMBER SIGNAL CORPS TOMAKE MORE USE OF RADIO Prominent Persons Address Chamber of Com- merce Luncheon Plans for Improvement by the Pafii&ées, 4 Others,Held For Trials Bound Ov?tc Superior Court on Charges of Alleged Immoral Acts SAN DIEGO /Cal, April 16.— At the conclusion of the prelimi- nary hearings yesterday, Judge Arthur L. Mundo ordered Alexan- LIBERALS PLAN TO GIVE VOTES MacDonald Ministry Prac- tically Assured of Ma- jority Tonight LONDON, April 16.—A Govern- T0 GOVERNMENT FAMOUS EYE DOCTOR WILL AID ROYALTY 1Specialist Who Treated President’s Eyes to Help Siam King | BALTIMORE, Md., April 16—An United States Signal Corps of | gor Pantages and four other co- wireless communication between|gefondants be bound over to the Alaska and the States were terse- :Superior Court on charges of con- ly explained at the noon luncheon|spiracy to commit immoral acts ment majority at tonight's session | eye specialist as famous for equal | is believed assured following a vote | treatment of rich and poor as for taken by the Liberals. Twenty- | his skill will examine King Prajad- | cight of the Liberals favored sup- | hipok of Siam when he arrives in porting the MacDonald Govern-|the United States soon for treat- OF ASSOCIATED P RESS SPANISH QUEEN, KING, CHILDREN Victoria Decia;'es Alfonso Has Not Abdicated in Present Crisis MAJESTY TO ABIDE AR IN FRANCE NEW SPANISH AUTHORITIES HAVE TROUBLE \ {Communists and Separat- ists Staging Demonstra- tion—Report Clashes GOVERNMENT TAKING BY NEXT ELECTION|” Fiem HAND IN CRISIS Royal Couple Feared They today of the Juneau Chamber of | Commerce by Lieut. Glen Palmer | of the Seattle headquarters of-; fices of the Corps, who racently! came North to investigate power Ppossibilities and station site facili-! tles in Ketchikan and this city. He, confidently predicted bette:qem:i in service. | Other speakers at the luncheon | were Vietor Elfendahl of the Skin-! ner and Eddy Corporation of Se-| attle, prominent in the salmon| packing industry; O. D. Cochran, Nome lawyer, who urged repeal: of laws imposing restrictions on| mining activities in Alaska; Staff | Capt. Joseph Acton of the Salva-| tion Army, Wrangell, who asked| cooperation of the Chamber in the! Army's building plans here, and John W. Troy, manager and editor of the Alaska Juneau Empire, who referred briefly to his recent va-, cation trip to Hawaii. Fine Cable Offices } Lieutenant Palmer oongratulat.ed‘ Juneau on its fine cable offices in the Capitol Building, saying they | were the best on the entire cable| system. i “We propose” continued the Lieutenant, “to rearrange and im- prove methods of communication by the enlargement of wireless facilities. At present, the corps’ main cable station to the West- ward is at Seward. We are erect- ing a high power wireless station' at Anchorage. Conditions there for ROWBOTTON IS FOUND GUILTY, TAKING BRIBES Former Indiana Congress- man Immediately Sen- tenced to Prison EVANSVILLE, Ind, April 10— Harry E. Rowbottom, Representa- tive In Congress from the first In- diana district up to last March 4, was convicted in the Federal Court ‘last night of accepting bribes from | persons who sought Post Office ap- pointments. Judge Charles E. Woodward im- mediately sentenced Rowbottom to serve one year and a day in Leav- enworth Penitentiary and fined him $2,000. Sentence was imposed first on four counts in the indictment on {which the jury voted convictions. Similar sentences were imposed on the three remaining counts but ithe court ruled they might run concurrently. Rowbottom’s attorneys said no { appeal will be taken. ment and seven favored voting with the Conservitives on the motion of censure. Eight Liberals abstained from expressing their opinion. The caucus was held to determine how to vote after former Prime Minister Baldwin, Conservatve leader, at- |tacked the Government's unem- ployment policy. TROLLERS SEEK TREATY :RELIEF FROM SEIZURE Association Wants Same Privileges as Embraced in Halibut Pact ABERDEEN, Wash,, April 16.— The Trolling Vessel Owners’ As- sociation revealed plans to petition the American and Dominion gov- the halibut agreement of 1918 to seek relief from seizure in Cana- ernments for a treaty similar to‘ | ment of cataract of the eye. | He is Dr, William Holland Wil- | mer, 67-year-old director of the | Wilmer Eye institute, which named for him. It is part of the great health center of the Johns | Hopkins hospital here. Dr. Wilmer is to examine the king April 30. His findings will help guide Dr. John M. Wheeler, another eye specialist, who Is to perform the actual operation on the king's eyes in New York May 9. | Cataract Is Disease | Cataract is a disease that causes blindness because it prevents light from passing through the lens of the eye to the retina, which re- ceives images of objects seen. gt may oceur at any age, but is com- mon cure it usually are successful, spe- cialists say. Wilmer has treated several presidents of the United States, in- cluding Theodore Roosevelt, and other public men, among them Viscount Gray of Fallodon and Sir | Auckland Geddes, former British | ambassador to the United States. Bill for $10 ! Friends of Dr. Wilmer tell of is | in later life. Operations to| dian waters, a successful operation he once The Grays Harbor members are Performed on a wealthy patient presenting their case to civil and 'After recovery the patient sailed obtaining sufficient backing to ef- | i ga check for §1.000 to Dr. Wil- fect recognition at Washington, D, mer. On his return he found a o letter from the specialist, return- political organizations in hope of for Europe, at the same time ‘m:.u-‘ Dr. William H. Wilmer (below), eye specialist whose aid has been sought by Presidents, will examine the eyes of King Prajadhipok of Siam when the King and his wife (above) come to America this month, SENATE URGED TOELIMINATE | UGED BY MANY BILLS WEDNESDAY P. M. {Twenty-three Bills Flood| Chamber, Many on Important Subjects HOUSE DEL | Amendments to Commun- ! ity- Property Measure | | A deluge of new measures flood- led the House Wednesday afternoon In a publie nearing beiore the Judiciary Committee, Senator Di- HOUSE CHANGES Would Be Killed— Blame Communists PARIS, April King and Queen {asylum in France. The weeping Queen Victoria and | five children arrived here and re- | tired to a hotel in virtual prostra- ; tion | King Alfonso has arrived at Mar- sellles, nervous and irritable. Queen Victoria said: “The King has not abdicated and has not jeven passed over his powers. He have found an | | | merely left the country.” | A similar- declaration was made | | at Marseilles by the King's spokes- | man, Duke Miranda, who said: { “His Majesty has retained all of | his rights and merely abandoned, | his power to avoid trouble, even a yelvil war. The King awaits the forthcoming elections and then will | abide by that decision.” i The King is to rejoin Queen Victoria here and take up their residence. “It is horrible, too horrible. They | | would have killed 'us if the King, i persisted. They would have cut |our throats. The Spanish people do 16—The Spanish | Martial Law—EDeclared in Several Localities in Name of Republic | MADRID, April 16. — The new Government is attacking the tre=- mendous problem of changing Spain’s autocracy and dictatorship {to a Republic. ¥ The officials are using a heavy hand to curb threats. There are disturbances by Com= munists and Separatists. Martfal law has been declared ‘in Seville after rioting by a Com= munist mob and the fire of a gar- rison. A sentinel and two persons were killed and 19 persons were wounded. Barcelona is also in the hands of the military after rioting which resulted in some casualties. Other * scattered disorders have been reported with Communists in some sections using the Red Flag as a symbol. The Government has decided that the Separatist movements in Barce- lona and Catalane for Republics will be suppressed. Mis. Harmeon. Asks More' wireless are better than at 8ew-: On four counts in the indictment ard. The Anchorage station will|the jury voted acquittal. serve Westward Alaska, Fairbgnks| Rowbottom is 40 years old, mar- and Nome. It will be completed by ried and has two children. next fall. It will speed traffic as Iy is the first time in the state’s well as improve accuracy of trans- mission. Ketchikan or Juneau “Whether the high powered sta- tion for Southeast Alaska will be at Ketchikan or Juneau has not yet been determined. T have in- vestigated conditions at Ketchi- kan. My mission now is to in- quire into the situation at Juneau. The principal point of cable con-| tact in Southeast Alaska is at Ketchikan, Wherever the high, power station is erected, Juneau may be assured of greatly improved ' communication facilities with the States.” Lieutenant Palmer said that all plans for the wireless improve- ! ments will be completed before the ifives has faced a charge of com- mitting a criminal offense against: the government, | Racketeer Killed in *Joe, the Boss,” Associate of Al Capone, Shot 5 Times in Back history that one of its representa-| Restaurant! transfer of himself to the East and the departure of Col. Frank J. Griffin, present head of the, NEW YORK, April 16.—Giuseppe Masseria, known as “Joe, the Boss,” associate of Al Capone and accord- Alaska Cable system, for Hawali ing to the police the “biggest rack- to assume new duties there. | eteer of them all,” died from foes’ Will Be Less Costly \ bullets while he sat in a restaurant “Wireless communication.” eX- a4 Coney Island last night thumb- plained the Lieutenant, ‘“can be‘ing a deck of cards. maintained at less proportionate| The police fear the crime is from cost than the cable system, one-|g gang war. fourth of the funds of which must| mye bullets were fired into Mas- be devoted to the upkeep and op- "soria's body, in the back of the eration of the cable repair sh\p:h”d and shoulders, from a car at Delwood, which is always kept at Beattle in readiness for emergen-i cies.” Frequent Alaska Visitor 1 Mr. Elfendahl recalled that he| had visited Alaska every year since | 1900, the year when the Skinner; and Eddy Corporation first became | (Continued on Page Eight) the curb. e Mangum ‘orréces are employed in Orange County, N. C., to re- claim wornout and washed soils. ————————— The Louisiana rice crop for 1930 is estimated at 17,676,000 bushels from 491,000 acres. Greater Speed Awaits Change in Propellors LOS ANGELES, Cal, April 16.— One of aviation's fondest dreams, transport ships that will cruise at 250 miles an hour, will be realized when one of the simplest pieces of mechanism — the propeller — has been developed, Capt. Carl Squier, speed plane builder, believes. And the time, he adds, is not far off. The present speed of airplanes, he says, has been reached by streamlining and the development of powerful motors. “Right now we can go no further. We havr _gilt a ship so streamlined that at a speed of slightly more than 200 miles an hour the plane actually catches up with the motor and coasts through the air. “The motor is turning at tre- mendous speed, but it cannot get away from the ship and pull it faster. When the propeller is de- veloped this ship we have ‘now will cruise at 250 miles an hour over long distances.” The propeller that will accom- plish this has been put through a limited number of experiments. The ultimate development of it will be, Squier believes: Cutting the Air “In flight, a pilot will be able to change the pitch of the propeller and make it revolve at different angles, thereby cutting the air at the most advantageous angle after high speed has been reached. In this way higher speed will be at- By changing the pitch, the motor | will not be forced for great speed and the propeller will continue to pull the ship through the air in- stead of coasting along with it. Seattle. ‘The trollermen insist upon rights equal to those of the American halibut fishermen and do not seek privilege to fish in Canadian wat- ers but want a8surance against confiscation when. driven to Ca- nadian havens by storms. BANK ROBBED: ‘Washinglon State Town Is Scene of Hold-up Dur- ing Last Night CONCRETE, Wash., April 16— Two bandits robbed the Concrete State Bank of $4,700 last’ night and kidnapped the President, George Campbell; Ada Seabury, bookkeeper, and George Harper, a customer. The bandits relased the kidnap- iped persons three miles out of town. The authorities of three North- west Washington counties are searching for the robbers. It is believed they escaped in a motor- boat after driving their automo- bile 15 feet into the water. .- RIGHT TO LOAF UPHELD BY U. 3, SAN FRANCISCO, Apii! 16— ‘The right to loaf on city streets ! | how lowly the idler may be, has jbeen upheld here by the United States circuit court of appeals. The question was brought before the court on an appeal from a con- viction in Honolulu, where the law prevepted idling in public places, even in parks. ‘The court made no comment on the legality of the oft heard or- der of policemen to “move on.” — S Dry Law Agent Near Death, Poisoned Booze BALTIMORE, April 16—David 1A. Gould, Prohibition agent, was | reported by Federal officials to be i near death as the result of drink- ing poison lquor in an effort to | obtain evidence against a local speakeasy. ——l A move 15 under way to preserve ‘the old Frenth Embassy in Aus- lun.ru.umhlmmflu. A similar move is under way in, 3 KIDNAPPED and in public places, no matter | (Continued on Page Three) GIRL PRISONERS START RIOTING; GLASS IS USED Officers and Firemen Are Attacked when Called to Quell Disorder LUMBERTON, North Carolina, April 16.—Five officers and five firemen were injured today in quiet- ing six girl prisoners who rioted in the Rosebon County jail for an hour. The girls tore down the electric | fixtures and broke windows after setting fire to their bunks. They attacked a jailer, cut one of his fingers nearly off and slashed his {face with glass. Firemen and officers were at- tacked similarly before the girls were overcome. The girls were charged with arson after a dormitory at the State School for Delinquent Girls had been burned. Soviet Will Trade Wheat to Italians For Motor Trucks WASHINGTON, D. C., April 16. —An agreement whereby Soviet Russia will exchange wheat for Italian motor trucks is announced by the Commerce Department. M. M. Mitchell, American com- mercial attache at Rome, told the department Russia had placed an order for approximately 2,000 trucks with an Itallan manufac- turer and the Itallan government had signed notes for 75 per cent of their cost, but the manufactur- er would not be permitted to dis- count them. Mitchell said Italy would receive the wheat from Rus- sia and sell it to meet the notes. t Pioneer Church and School Builder in N.W., Alaska, Dies ! SEATTLE, April 16. — Matthew Brown, aged 80, pioneer church and |school builder in Alaska and the | Pacific Northwest for the Presby- {terian Board of National Missions, is dead here. Among the Alaska buildings he constructed was the ;hmplhl at Point Barrow. when 23 bills and four memorials buried Clerk Lawrence Kerr's desk inches deep. In the mass were many of first importance, includ- ing eight-hour bills, an excise tax measure, radio subsidies, a ship- ping subsidy, regulation of motor vehicle traffic, bills creating and modifying commissions and many of lesser import. ‘The House passed two measures —making the passing of bad checks larceny, and appropriating $375 for relief of Williams Mortuary, laid the McCutcheon“fur-farm measure on the table, and considered three others in second reading. Two Eight-Hour Bills ‘Two eight-hour measures were | introduced. One, by Nerland and Johnston, Fairbanks, covers hy- draulicking; dredging, ground thaw- ing, and other placer mining ac- tivities. The second, by John- ston alone, is in the nature of a ) i | mond, Chairman, yesterday after- noon in the Senate chamber, the Senate was asked by Mrs. R. R. Hermann, Legislative representa- tive of the Alaska Federation of Women's Clubs, to strike from the Winn Community Property meas- ure, the Ziegler amendment mak- ing that bill elective, and the! Boyle amendments classifying un- patented mining claims, fish traps | and fish trap sites as personal | property. | She declared the Ziegler amend- | ment was adopted with her con- sent but not approval as she had | been told if that that change were | made the bill would pass the| House almost unanimously, and the Boyle amendment against her protest. Urges Their Deletion In a vigorously-worded state- ment affirming the rights of wom- ;venung a recurrence of the indus- trial and economic depression such not understand. been duped by Communists who |are the real agitators in the pres- ent revolution,” the Queen said. NEWSPAPERS! HELP WANTED, PRESENT TIME Editor of Philadelphia Bulle- tin Calls for General Discussion WASHINGTON, D. C. April 16. | —The newspapers of the Nation are | urged by Fred Fuller Shedd, Editor of the Philadelphia Bulletin, to en- courage discussion of means of pre- £ HOOVER ASKED T0 AID REPEAL OF DRY LAWS Five Hundred Women Op- ponents of Prohibition Visit President , WASHINGTON, D. C. April 186. —Ald of President Hoover, in an effort to bring about the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, was sought yesterday by more than 500 feminine opponents of Prohi- bition who filed through the White House offices to shake his hand. The women carried a petition adopted by 1,100 delegates to the ccnvention of Womens' organiza- tlons for National Prohibition Re- form. President Hoover received the plea as he accepted pledges to support him, brought during the past week by two feminine Pro- as the country has just passed through. Shedd said the newspapers have en to ask for such legislation, Mrs. Hermann urged the passage of | the measure, not in the House general eight-hour law, excepting dairying and agriculture, and is almost identical with a similar done their share but must lead the | way to an adequate exposition of | hibition conventions in silence, with “Pleased to have you,” as they filed past. ——ee——— measure introduced in 1929 Yy ‘Walter Fisher, another Fairbanks ‘member. Mr. Ziegler introduced a measure to impose an excise tax of 12 cents per case on all food fish packed in the Territory in fibre- board containers. Mr. Nerland brought in a measure to create a form, but with the objectionable amendments deleted and the bill restored as nearly as possible to its original conditian. She was the only witness to ap- pear. After the public meeting was closed the Committee went) into session to consider the meas- ure section by section. No measures were passed by the | | | remedies to prevent a recurrence of | such situations. | Shedd made his appeal today speaking at a meeting of the Am- erican Society of Newspapers Edi- tors of which he‘is President. - EXTRA SESSION AGAIN LOOMING TODPAY'S STOCK QUOTATIONS tax commission to be appointed by Gov. Parks to study the local tax situation. List of New Bills A complete list of the new meas- ures in the House follows: H. B. No. 90, McCutcheon, new radio subsidy for station north of Gulf of Alaska, $5,000. H. B. No. 91, Foster, to trans- fer title to hatcheries at Ketchi- kan and Cordova to the respective communities. H. B. No. 92, Foster, to reim- burse Walter Kotoff for money expended in rendering aid to Miss Bessie Howe at Ninilchik. H. B. No. 93, Foster, to appro- priate $6,200 for a shipping subsidy for Kodiak. H. B. No. 94, Ziegler, to impose an excise tax of 12 cents per case| lon all salmon packed in fibre-| board containers. H. B. No. 95, ‘Winn, to amend section 1,665, Compiled Laws of Alaska relative to sale of real and| S. B. No. 62, Dimond, to create personal property under probate. the office of Superintendent of H. B. No. 96, Nerland and John- Public Works and prescribing its ston, to establish an eight-hour |duties, fixing salary, etc. A day in the placer mining industry,| S. B. No. 63, Dimond, to amend | including hydraulicking, dredging, Section 1377 of the Compfledl‘ ete. | Laws, relative to Writ of Review H. B, No. 97, Johnston, to estab- | by providing that the district court lish an eight hour day in all ln-!may summarily review any judg- dustries except dairying, agricul-|ment or sentence of a lower court ture, ete. lin a criminal case entered or made H. B. No. 98, Johnston, to amend jupon a plea of guilty when it | Chapter 27, Session Laws of 1929, |appears such judgment or sentence to provide for legal holidays, mak- is excessive, and empowering it to (Continuea on Page Two) Senate yesterday. It considered | several measures in second reading, advanced most of them on the| calendar for final disposal today. Many New Measures The forty-fifth legislative day, the last on which bills can be in- troduced except by suspension of the rules, was characterized by the introduction of cleven bills and one joint resolution. Included in the measure were proposals for several commissions, |a Bureau of Budget with ample powers, a bill to maintain exist- ing wage scales on public works. A complete list of the new meas- ures follows: 8. B. No. 60, Sundquist, contin-, uing the Prospectors’ Aid Act and authorizing biennial appropriations thereunder. | 8. B. No. 61, Dimond, to create! a Board of Budget, defining its duties and penalties for violations. (Conuinuea on Page iwo) NEW YORK, April 16.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 13%, American Can 117%, Anaconda Copper 32%, Beth- lehem Steel 4974, General Motors 43%, Granby Consolidated 17%, In- ternational Harvester 49', Kenne- cott 23%, Packard Motors 8%, Sim- mons Beds 15'%, Standard Brands 18%, Standard Oil of California Senators Walsh and Nye Are Insisting Upon Convening Congress WASHINGTON, D. C., April 16. —Renewed insistence on an extra session to deal with unemployment and agricultural distress came to- day from Senator Thomas J. Walsh, Democrat of Montana, and Senator 42'%, Standard Oll of New Jersey 42%, United Aircraft 20%, U. 8. Steel 132, Curtiss-Wright 4, Hudson Bay 5%, Checker Cab 13, 12%, 13. Gerald P. Nye, Republican of North Dakota. Administration leaders maintain oposition to any such proposal. Gandhi Yields to Trousers For Official AMRITSAR, India, April 16— Mahatma Gandhi, making his plans | for his forthcoming visit to London | for the second Round Table Con-| ference on an Indian constitutional | status, said he had decided to wear trousers in the British capital after all. Discarding his first intention of appearing there attired only in loin‘ cloth and shawl, he said that if the| weather is sufficiently cool he will | wear ordinary European trousers. He indicated that it was even| possible that he would appear at| the Round Table sessions with his pigtail, or chutia, shaved off. The Trip to London religiously by Hindus whose popu- lar Interpretation of the mode is that it enables friends when the fearer dies, to pull him out of hell. Gandhi wears a chutia habitually, although otherwise he is bald. Although decided to wear trous- ers in London, Gandhi declared that he would not submit to a white starched shirt and would de- cline to attend any formal public banquets. Neither will he wear the sllk knee breeches which are de rigeur for appearance before the King at Buckingham Palace. “No, thanks,” he said, “I am ugly enough without such floppery. I ‘chllul is @ long tuft of hair worn| was never made to be ornate.”