The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 22, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIIL, NO.5726. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1931. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ARREST FORMER OFFICIAL ON SUSPICION OF MURDER GOVERNMENTAL EXPENSES NOW MILLS’ PROBLEM Huge Deficit Reported by Treasury; Readjust- ments Necessary 'WASHINGTON, D. C., May 22— How to adjust governmental ex- penses to the receipts is puzzling Under Secretary Mills who is con- vinced some changes are necessa:y, also that the $984,268,517 deficit that existed Tuesday is not a fai basis for consideration of the prob- lem . The Internal Revenue Bureau an- nounced collections for the first ten months of the fiscal year ‘were $360,346,408 less than for the corresponding period last year. Under Secretary Mills indicated that the December Congress will be asked to make readjustments. “We are facing a large deficit. This does not mean that taxes have been reduced too far or that taxes that have been retained do not constitute a sufficiently well balanced system to provide for the even flow of the revenue from year to year,” said Mills, ARMY POST TO BE SOLD; PLANS ARE ANNOUNCED Return of One Hindred Million Dollars Expect- ed By Government WASHINGTON, D. C., May. 22.— ‘The return to the Government of $100,000,000 over a ten-year period through direct sales of Army prop- erty and transfers to other depart- ments of needed land, and also minor savings, is expected by the War Department as the result of the proposed army post disposal program. Two of the largest returns ex- pected from the direct sales are the Newark Army base, estimated to have a sales value of $5000400. and Fort Wayne, Michigan, esti- mated to have a sales value of $4,000,000. Department officials said the es- timated value of these and other salable posts and transfers of abandoned posts to other govern- mental departments, are expected to save a huge sum which other- wise would have to be appropriated by Congress. Since 1919 the Government has Tealized more than one hundred million dollars from sale or trans- fer of army property. They expect a similar turnover during the next ten years, officials said. 4 Plunges to Death from His Plane Mysterious Circumstances Surround Tragedy; May Be Suicide YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, May 22.— A 700-foot plunge from the open cockpit of a plane causad the death of Daniel Mills, aged 29, amateur pilot and salesman, under circam- stances remaining a mystery. Witnesses said Mills apparently Jumped. The widow and relatives said they knew no reason for suicide and believed it was an acciden, Plane Passenger Travel Promises Big Increase LOS ANGELES, May 22.—More than 1,000,000 passengers for air lines this year is foresee nby Har- ris M. Hanshue, president of Trans- continental-Western Air, who based his statements on the increase ‘n passenger travel between here and Salt Lake City, Utah, for the first 60 days in 1931. Officials of the company belleved this was the greatest air passenger increase in the history of the new methed of transportation. Pass- enger travel last year totaled 450,- 000 persons. - e - An average of one student of every 35 fall at the University of Utah. The enrollment is about 3500, Geological Survey Gives Out Detailed Program on Work for Current Season The Interior Department an- nounces that plans for the field projects to be undertaken in Alaska by the Geological Survey this sea- son have now reached an advanced stage and the several parties will start for the field during this month. By far the most intensive work that will be done by the Geolo- gical Survey in Alaska this season will be that financed by the special appropriation for research along the Alaska Railroad and directsd toward the examination of mineral deposits contiguous to the railroad that may contribute to its revenues by furnishing tonnage. Nine Parties Used Nine separate parties will be as- signed to this work. Most of them will be stationed in mining camps from one end of the railroad tec the other—Fairbanks, Kantishna Copper Mountain, Valdez Creck- Chulitna, Willow Creek, Anthracite Ridge, Girdwood and Moose Pass— but one party will carry on certain general -studies throughout the tract adjacent to the railroad. Di- rect supervision of all these proj- ects has been assigned to S. R Capps, whose long service in the Geological Survey's Alaska work and whose personal familiarity with most of the mining camps near the railroad make him es- pecially fitted to conduct’ and di- rect the work. Geologists will be assigned to all these projects, but the personnel of different parties will vary great- ly, as it will be determined by the individual requirements of the spe- cific job. Thus, in the Kantishna, Copper Mountain, Anthracite Ridge and Girdwood areas, where ade- quate maps for platting the geo- logic information are not available, the parties will be accompanied by topographic engineers afd other personnel needed to make the es- sentlal maps. In certain projects, as at Anthracite Ridge, consider- ble test pitting and other manual work will be required, which will call for the services of a number of laborers. Some of the parties will maintain their own camps, and others will be able to obtain accommodations for much of the time at the mines or in the set- tlements. Thus the work near Fairbanks will be conducted mainly from that town as a base, whereas the parties in the Kantishna, Copper Mountain, Valdez Creek-Chulitna, and Anthracite Ridge districts will maintain camps supplied by pack trains. Although each region pre- sents different problems, the work of supplying as much information in each will have the common aim as possible in answer to the ques- tion, “What quantity of mineral products appears to be available that might swell the railroad’s bus- iness?” Other Work Planned The Alaska projects that will be financed by funds appropriated di-| rectly for Geological Survey inves- tigations as distinguished -from those carried on for the Alaska Railroad are eight in number and are dis- tributed geographically as follows: Topographic mapping near Wran- gell, in southeastern Alaska; min- ing investigations in southeastern Alaska; general investigations in the vicinity of Glacier Bay; topo- graphic mapping in the Klutina Lake region of the Copper River Basin; geologic investigations in the headwater portions of the Cop- per River Valley; general studies in the western part of the tract between the Yukon and Tanana Rivers; geologic and topographic exploration and reconnaissance sur- vey of the Tikchik Lake region‘ north of Bristol Bay; and general field studies of mineral resources. The work in the Wrangell dis-| trict will be a continuation of that undertaken as an outcome of the two aerial photographic expeditions of the Navy Department in 1926 and 1929, whereby photographs of practically the entire panhandle of southeastern Alaska were made. The general program for this ma- jor project requires as a first step | working up the photographs in the | office so as to prepare drainage maps of the country. These drain- age ‘'maps are then used in the! field by a topographer as a base on which to show the height of the hills, valleys, and other natural features, so as to produce a com- plete topographic map. The fleld work on this project this season will be done in the vicinity of FIVE HUNDRED . KILLED; BURMA HAS UPRISING Thousands Wounded in In- surrection Against Au- thority of British SIMLA, India, May 22.—Ncarly 500 persons are reported to have been killed and thousands wound- ed or captured in the current in- surrection in Burma against British authority. American missionaries returning from Burma say the rebellion is spreading throughout the country. Colonial officials are rushing fresh troops into the upper section of India. The Burmese Nationalists are agitating for a Dominion cevarate from India. investigations in southeastern Al- aska have nct yet been completely formulated, but they will corre- spond in general character with those that have been made in that region in the past. They will in the main be concentrated in the northern part of the region, es- pecially covering recent mining de- velopments in the Juneau and nearby areas. This work will be carried on by B, D. Stewart from his local headquarters at Juneau. The work in the Glacier Bay re- gion has been planned to bring started some time ago but had to completion a project which was been laid aside and will be directed toward furnishing information re- garding the general geology and mineral resources of this region. The party incidentally should cb- tain much information regarding advances and retreats of the gla- ciers of the region that will be of considerable sclentific importance. ‘Through cooperation with the Bu- reau of Mines it is planned that C. W. Wrignt, who is ncw a mem- ber of the Geological Survey, shali have the principal direction of this project. in the Klutina Lake country, which lies south of Copper Cenier and west of the Government road— the Richa:dson Hignway, which runs from Valdez into the interior of Alaska—is a tract of several thousand square miles much oi which lies in rugged mountainous country. In this district a topo- graphic party in daarge of C. F. Fuechsel will conduct reconnais- sance topographic surveys during the summer ot 1931 as a basis for mineral investigations to be car- ried on there when a map is avail- able. Moffit To New Area In the porthern part of Cepper River Basin, including part of the high mountains of the Alaska Range and extending northward so as to include portions of the valleys of streams tributary to the Tanana River, is a large tract of couniry whose general geologic features and mineral possiviities are but little known. Fred H. Moffit will con- duct geologic investigations in this region during the coming field season. This work will be a con- tinuation of work started in 1929 by Mr. Moffit but temporarily dis- continued in 1930 because of pres- sure of other duties. The region is of special economic interest be- cause valuable mineral deposits are already known in nearby areas. Ever since the earliest investiga- tions of Alaska’s mineral resources Geological Survey parties have traversed parts of the great belt of country lying between the Yu- kon and Tanana Rivers. The di- verse reports from these various parties, working Tfider different conditions and will different points of view, have furnished a large volume of technical data that re- quires coordination and reconcilia- tion to current knowledge. For several years the task of thus co- ordinating all the observations in this region has been in progress by J. B. Mertie, jr., and that task is now approaching completion, but before it is finished certain special problems require further field con- | sideration, and in order to get the needed supplementary data Mr |Mertie will visit as much of the Wrangell and will carry northward jWwestern part of this region as is the topographic surveys that were | Practicable during the season. completed in the neighborhood of Ketchikan, assisted by V. 8. Seward, and it is expected that the party will map an area of a thousand square miles on a scale of about 4 miles to the inch. Detailed plans for the Southwest Mapping Project The mapping project in the Tik- chik region is a continuation of work started in the same general region in 1930, where the. Wood lluver and lakes and the southern (Continued from Page Two) TEN MILLION WEAR POPPY ON SATURDAY Legionnaire Women of Na- tion Mobilized for Sales Effort Millions of Americans tomorrow ~il pay honer to the country’s War dead by wearing the little red poppy of Flanders Field. Early Saturday morning an army of women, estimated at 100,000 strong, mobilized for this work by the American Legion Auxiliary, will take the streets throughout the nation with baskets filled with the memorial flowers. By nightfall, it is expected that approximately 10,000,000 persons will wear poppies and that more than $1,000,000 will have been received for the welfare of disabled veter- ans and their families. The women of Alfred Jolin Brad- ford Unit, Number 4, of the Aux= iliary, aided by women of other local organizations, will the people of Juneau with their poppies. Preparations for the sale have been worked out in such de- tail that no one in the city will be without an opportunity to buy and wear a poppy, according to Mrs. R. Reischl, General Chairman of the Poppy Committee. A larger sale of poppies than ever before is expected by the committee. | Of special interest to the people of Juneau and Alaska is the fact that this year the poppies being offered for sale throughout the territory were made by the dis- abled velerans at the United States Veterans Hospital, at Walla Walla, Wash., so that many of these that will be worn by Alaskans were made by Alaska veterans. The workers, working in the hospital convalescent work rooms, maintaing ed by the various Auxillary Units, are paid one cent each for the flowers they produce, and are lim- ited to from 250 to 300 a day in order to prevent their overtaxing their strength and also to distrib- ute the work among as many men as possible. The making of the poppies is interesting and pleasant work and is of inestimable value to the men in addition to the money it brings them. It helps them to pass the long hospital hours and gives them the satisfaction of be- ing able to do worth while work again. No set price will be asked for the flowers, each purchaser being al- lowed to contribute any amount he wishes for his poppy. As heavier demands are being made on the Auxiliary this year than at any previous time in its history, the Committee is hoping that more people than ever will “Honor tne dead and serve the living” by wearing a poppy tomorrow. S0L B, JOEL PASSES AWAY British Financier, Race Horse Owner, Million- aire, Dies in"England NEWMARKET, England, May 2. —Sol B. Joel, widely known finan- cier and race horse owner, died here today. His principal business interests were in the diamond in- dustry in South Africa. His fo.- tune is estimated at from $75,000- 000 to $100,000,000. Joel's Humorism won the Derby in 1921. His stables still include a dozen of the best horses in Enz- land. FALL CARRIES HIS GASE UP WASHING 1O+, D. C., May 22— Albert B, Fall, former Secretary of Interior, will carry to the Suprems Court his conviction of acceptin? a $100,000 bribe while Secretary. This is the announcement made here today by Counsel for Fall ——————— Engineer On Four Big Projects Here C. O. Greely, engineer with the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company of Seattle, is on a busi- ness visit to Juneau. His com- pany has government contracts 03 four projects in Alaska. They are the Thomas Basin work at Ketchi- kan, harbor improvement at Por! Alexander, a harbor refuge at Sew- ard and redredging of Shoal No. 2 in Wrangell Narrows, provide | ® STOCK MARKET RALLIES UNDER RAIL REVIVAL Other Securties Hit by Selling; Stocks How- ever Are Firm NEW YORK, May 22.—A sl.imu',usb given rail securities today by the launching of a project to increase freight rates failed to check the persistent trickle of selling in other divisions of the securities markets. | Stocks were firm. Early weakness cropped out. Copper and chemical shares gradually imparted a heavy tone to the entire list. Anaconda dropped two points, record for low. Eastman dropped five points, the lowest in four years. Steel, American Telegraph and Telephone, Kennecott, DuPont, Air Reduction and Westinghouse drop- ped a point or two. a TODAY' STOCK QUOTATIONS —_— o .NEW YORK, May 22.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 16%, American Can 99%, Anaconda Copper 24}, Beth- lehem Steel 427, Fox Films 15%, General Motors 48%, Granby Con- solidated 11'%, International Har- vester 46%, Kennecott 19%, Pack- ard Motors 6%, Standard Brands 17%, Standard Oil of California 357%, Standard Oil. of New Jersey 34%, United Aircraft 30, U. S. Steel 100, Curtiss-Wright 3, Hud- son Bay 4, Checker Cab 10%, 10%, 10%, California Packing 24. DOLLARS ARE MUCH LARGER THAN IN 1826 Some Radical Reduction in Prices Have Been Made in Last Five Years WASHINGTON, D. C, May 22— The 1926 wholesale dollar was worth $1.364 last month, according to the Department of Labor. The Department found that a dollar during the year increased more in rubber purchasing power than any of the other 550 commodities that were covered by the calculations. In April, 1931, one dollar would buy rubber that would have cost $7.519 in April, 1926. Last month’s dollar was worth $2.264, measured by prices in April, 1926, for petro- leum products; $2212 in silk and rayon, and $2.183 in automobile tires. There have been decreases this month in butter, cheese, fresh and cured meats, lard, flour, cornmeal and other foods. < The only in- creases have beeén in grain and au- tomobiles. WAGEREDUCTION CHEAP BUSINESS President of U. S. Steel Corporation Makes Comment NEW YORK, May 22—James Parrell, United States Steel Cor- poration President, told his fellow executives in the steel industry to- day that “big standard companies are not maintaining wage scales. I think it is a pretty cheap sort of business.” ERIC SMITH IS GOLF CHAMP WEST WARDHO, May 22.—Eric Smith, the little known golfer of Cambridge University, today won the British Amateur Golf Cham- pionship defeating John DeForest in the final 36-hole match, one up. ——ea Father Kashevaroff Goes On Sick Leave Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff, who has been feeling unwell lately, goes oA sick leave tomorrow for a period of ten days. He will spend the time at the home of Mr. and Mrs LeRoy Vestal on the shore of Auk Bay. Mrs. Vestal is the daughter L — Moss E. Garrison, 37, railroad shaw, 20, just before she disappeared, was held by San Diego. Cal., police who sald first degree murder charges would be filed against him. Miss Bradshaw, a telephone o near San Diego. Associated Press I'hoto worker, who was with Helen Brad- perator, was found stabbed to death Red Cross Birthday; | Golden Jubilee Is Cele- brated; Hoover Pays Splendid Tribute WASHINGTON, D. C., May 22— President Herbert Hoover cut the' first slice of an enormous white! iced birthday cake, topped with a Red Cross and 50 gleaming candles, as the American Red Cross took time off last night to celebrate the ‘Golden Jubilee. The story was told of how Clara Barton gathered a few f{riends in her Washington home in 1881 and formed the society of the Amer- ican Red Cross. { The Red Cross is “the chief glory and pride of American De- mocracy. It belongs to the peo- ple themselves. It is a living em- bodiement of their heart and soul. It has lived and grown because it is a natural outgrowth of their spiritual impulse,” declared the President in his speech which was broadcast over two systems. Lawyer Missing; Mystery Prominent mrney of S.| W. Washington Believed To Be Suicide TACOMA, Wash,, May 22.—Mys- terious circumstances in the de of W. Guy Heinly, aged 52 years, one of the most prominent at- torneys in Southwest Washingfon, are being investigated %y ‘he po- lice after his disappearance last Wednesday and the finding in a drifting row boat in the Narrows, near here, of a vest identified as his. Bloodstains have beca found on the boat. { No' reason is known for a possible suicide. | —_——————— i CABINET OF BELGIUM OUT BRUSSELS, May 22—The Bel- gian Catholic Liberal Cabinet has| resigned, the outcome of the sud—[ den crisis in the Chamber of the question of spending one million; seven hundred and fifteen thou- sand pounds sterling for construc- tion of frontier defense works. i S R A A hog buried under a straw stack on thé farm of Fred Reeves, Spen- cer, Towa, lived 40 days without focd or ‘water. When he dug him- | of the Rev. Mr. Kashevaroff. self out he weighed less than 100; pounds, l BATALLINO TO TWO AVIATORS WILL ATTEMPT - WORLD FLIGHT Post and Gatty Off for New York to Prepare to Make Record OKLAHOMA CITY, May 22.— Around the world in ten days is the aim of Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, aviators, who flew east from here yesterday to prepare to start con a projected globe-circling jour- ney on which they hope to better the speed record Of the dirigible Graf Zrppelin whicn flew around the world in 22 days in 1929. Weather permitting, the fliers expect to leave New -York within a week to circle the globe via Berlin, Moscow, Irkutsk, Khabar-- ovsk, Petropavtovsk, Nome (Alaska), Edmonton (Canada), back to New York. Permission to cross Russia, which had been withheld, was granted yesterday. —— MEET LABARBA THIS EVENING Featherweights Battle in Madison Square Garden For Title NEW YORK, May 22.—A test b;} fire of Christopher Batalino's cham- plonship ability awaits the rugged DAVID H. CLARK IN CUSTODY FOR DOUBLE KILLING |Former Los Angeles Dep- uty District Attorney Has Surrendered BELIEVED IMPLICATED IN KILLING TWO MEN Refuses to Answer Ques- tions in Shooting of Crawford, Spencer BULLETIN—Los Angeles, Calif,, May 22.—Late this afternoon De- tective Lieutenant F. H. Post said he aided David H. Clark fo pur- chase a pistol on Tuesday. Clark also bought a box of stezl jacketed bullets. The Police claim the bul- | lets are <f the tame type as used in the two slayings. Clark ind'cated he might make a statement later and “when I talk, 1 will have plenty to say.” Orders have been issued that a complaint charging murder be made against Clark as a holding | charge. LOS ANGELES, Cal., May 22— David H. Clark, former Deputy Dis- trict Attorney, has been booked on suspicion of murder in connection with the killings of Charles Craw- ford and Herbert Spencer, in the former's office here late Wednes- day afternoon. Clark’s candidacy for a Municipal Judgeship ~was opposed by Craw- ford and Spencer. Clark surrendered last night. He refused to make a statement to District Attorney Burton Fitts. The latter., said he recently requested Clark’s resignation. Is Identified The District Attoaney said fur- ther that Clark has been identi- fied as the man who fled from Crawfqrd’s office after the slay- ings, by office attaches, and as the man closeted with Crawford and Spencer. District Attorney Fitts said he had evidence that Clark bought a .38 caliber pistol on Tuesday. Ex- perts said that caliber of bullets killed both men. Refuses to Answer Questions To all questions as to whether he committed the murders or was in Crawford's office, Clark refused answers. 3 The District Attorney said the theories that the two men were killed as gangland reprisals have been displaced. Crawford was a real estate ex- ecutive and had been a figure in city politics for § long time. Spen- cer was once a veteran police re- porter and unremitting foe of gang- land. Prosecuted Daisy DeBoe Clark, a boyish looking lawyer, just before his resignation, and after eight years service in the District Attorney's office, prose- cuted the grand theft charges on which Dalsy DeBoe, Clara Bow's former secretary, was convicted and sentenced. District Attorney Fitts indicated he believed Clark would plead self- defense. CULTURED MAN 1S VICTIM OF Hartford Italian in Madison Squar: Garden tonight in his battle with Fidel LaBarba. | Despite LaBarba's greater expe- | rience theé odds are only 8 to 5| that Batallino will lose the feather- | weight title to the Los Angeles lad. | LaBarba, however, is and has a left hook that has caus- ed Batallino the most trouble in the past. | | LAST AMERICAN | ELIMINATED IN GOLF TOURNEY. LEEDS, Eng, May 22.—Tony Ma- nero, of New Jersey, was eliminated from the Professional Golf Tour- ney today in the semi-final round | by W. R. Whitcombe, British cup | player, 2 to 1. Manero was the last survivor of the five American players. . Whitcombe meets Tom Barber in the final match tomorrow, BRUTAL ATTACK Crime Leaves Memory Per- fect Blank; Authori- ties Investigating UKIAH, Cal, May 22-—Unable to his name, a well-dressed and cu'tured man is in a sanitarium. The authorities await wqrd from Boston, whére at intervals, the stranger said he lived. The man is apparently the vie- tim of a brutal attack and robbery. He was found near Cloverdale and take to the sanitarium. Dr. Ira Wheeler said he learned by snatches in the stranger's conver- sation that he lelt San Francisco, driving in an automcbile and ac- companied by an unidentifiad hitch-hiker; that he had been rob- bed in the automobile of $315 and jewelry, beaten and thrown from the car. A Gov. Julius L. Meier cf Oregon vetoed bills appropriating $626,- 92556 during the last session ef the legislature,