The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 27, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIIL, No. 5730. J UNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1931. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS __PRICE TEN CENTS PROMINENT NEWYORKERS MEET DEATHIN SLOOP WRECK 2 SOAR INTO SPACE TODAY IN BIG BALL Giant Balloon Carries Pro- fessor, Assistant, Into Stratosphere EXPEDITION IS OFF INTO HIiGHER REGION New Data on Origin of Cosmic Rays is Sought by Physcist BULLETIN—Augsburg, May 27.— The balloon with Prof. Piccard and his assistant was slighted at 7 o'clock tonight ncar Garmisch des- cending from an altitude of 13,000 | feet. | Bhat i AUGSBURG, Germany, May 27. —Hermetically sealed within an' aluminum ball, Prof. August Picard, | Brussels physicist, and his assist- ant, Charles Kipfer, soared away | today in a giant balloon on a sci- entific mission into the strato- ! sphere, the eerie fringe of the earth’s atmosphere, never seen by | man. The basket shot up to an altitude of 1000 feet and drifted north- west. The ball is seven feet in dia- meter and carries artificial oxygen. The balloon is the Iargest ever built in Germany, 100 feet in dia- | meter. Pref. Piccard hopes to explor? from 40,000 to 60,000 feet above the | earth and obtain new data on the origin of cosmic rays and demon- strate that human beings can travel and live in such rarefied at- mosphere. e KING ALFONSD CHARGED WITH MANY CRIMES Spanish Supreme Court| Outlines Accusations Against Former King { [} MADRID, Spain, May 27.— For- mer King Alfonso today stood ac- cused by the Supreme Court of criminal responsibility for his of- | ficial acts. The exiled Monarch is charged specifically with having failed to put down the rebellion in 1923;] ‘with not having executed its in-| stigator General Primo de Rivera, instead of placing him head of| the military as Dictator, and per- mitted the constitution of "6 to| be abrogated. Therefore he is re-, sponsible for all events occuring thereafter. All members of the Cabinet are | also accused of negligence in the revolt of the Jaca garrison last December. CAPT, . HAWKS WINS HIS BET LE BOURGET, France, May 27.— Capt. Frank Hawkes landed here late this afternoon winning a bet he could have breakfast in Lon- ! don, luncheon in Berlin and din- ner in Paris on the same day. He' completed the tour in seven hours and forty minutes flying time, av- eraging 186 miles an hour. INew Cable Official Will jon June 3 for Southeast Alas- | kan points, according to word just Hoover to Memorialize War Dead Where Many of His Faith Braved Qu aker Ban b i 5 George Washington’s headquarters at Valley Forge still stands —the Isaac Potts farmhouse. President Hoover (insert) will go to the scene of the colonial army’s winter of horrors, 152 years ago, to dcliver his Memorial Day address. OLMSTEAD T0 INSPECT U. S. CABLE SYSTEM Leave Seattle June 3 for Extended Trip Col. Dawson Olmstead, who was recently assigned to duty with the Washington Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System as Officer in Charge, will sail from Seattle received by Gov. George A. Parks. He will relieve Lieut. Col. Frank Griffin, in charge for the past three years, on June 1. Col. Griffin has been assigned to duty in Ha- wail. | On his first trip north, Col. Olm- stead plans an inspection of the| entire Signal Corps communications | from Ketchikan to Nome. It is understood he will make only brief stops at each point, and will visit here only while the steamer Ad-| travel, is in port. | He is an experienced Signal/ Corps officer, having served 20 out | commissioned from West Point in 1906 to the Cavalry, later trans-| ferred to Field Artillery, and in! 1911 to the Signal Corps. He is| ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETED FOR MEMORIAL DAY Exercises to Be Held in Elks’ Hall, at Wharf and at Cemetery Arrangements have been com- pleted for Memorial Day exercises to be held in Juneau next Satur- day under auspices of the local post of the American Legion. In the absence from the city of T. J. Petrich, commander of the post, the program will be under the di- rection of Royal Shepard, vice- commander. The day's exercises will begin at 11 o'clock in Elks Hall and will be continued on the waterfront and at the cemetery. Program In Hall The program in Elks Hall fol- !system in Alaska, visiting stations lows: “America” . Juneau City Band Invocation .....Rev. C. C .Saunders “Christ In Flanders"—Vocal Solo : <.........Brice Howard 'miral Watson, on which he will,'“In Flanders Field"—Recitation Murial Jarman Address of the Day Major L. E. Atkins, U.8. A, |of his 25 years Army duty in that “Star Spangled Banner” |branch of the service. He was| s ..Juneau City Band Benediction . Fr. Wm. G. LeVassuer Will March To Wharf TImmediately after rendition of 'the program in Elks Hall, Boy and also a graduate of the Army Sig-|Girl Scouts, school children, mem- nal Corps School. | bers of the Leglon and public will ., \form in front of the hall and march | to the wharf of the Pacific Steam- SKAGWAY MAN ENTERS PLEA | i, company, where, in honor f OF GUILTY, IS FINED $200 yiioq 105t at sea in behalf of the| f ik | nation, flowers will be strewn on Dominic Prelle yesterday plead-|in. waters of the harbor, a prayer ed guilty to violation of the Alaska will be said by Capt. R. B. Lescher Bont. iy, fLey, 4 BRREEAT, after 8 | of the Salvation Army, and a salute jury in the United States Com- {will be given by a firing squad un- missioner's Court had failed 0l4er command of Frank A. Met- reach a verdict on the charge. He iealf, Wwas fined 4200 ‘and costs. | “From the wharf the procession Ample Gun Supply, 2,100 i Men Is Boast of Sandino MEXICO CITY—Dr. Pedro Jose General Augusto Cesar Sandino, says that his chief is starting his fifth year of revolutionary warfare in Nicaragua with 2,100 well eq- uipped and disciplined raiders. His movement started at Ocatal, May 4, 1927, when Sandino refused to accept the Stimson settlement terms by laying down his arms. A bitter battle resulted and he fled to the north with home foilowers. “Many of his 1200 men and some 300 civilians were killed in that battle,” said Zepeda, “but it only’ made him resolved to carry on his fight. Since then he has lost 3,000 men in fights with American ma- rines and Nicaraguan guards. Zepeda asserted that Sandino to- day has 4000 rifles, 36 machine; T lwill proceed to the Legion’s Plot |in Evergreen Cemetery where, for soldiers who have made the su- preme sacrifice for their country, ‘a prayer will be offered by Rev. Dean C. E. Rice and a salute will J17e given by the firing squad. guns, adequate ammunition and| Stores will be closed Memorial plentiful supplies. Day. “There is no mystery about where Sandino gets his arms and supplies,” said his agent. “Early in the fight about 400 rifles were sent o in from outside, but that is all the| Mrs. 1. A. Williams and two chil- sutside help he has received. ,dren, Donald and Irene, arrived “In the earlier days the marines |home yesterday on the steamer Yu- used to send supply trains over-|kon after an absence of several land. We captured several of these (Weeks, most of which was spent and got 2,000 rifles and some ma-|in California. Enroute north, she . | MRS. WILLiAMS AND TWO i CHILDREN ARRIVE HOME chine guns, We captured 24 other and the two children stopped at | machine guns from guards and ma- | Ketchikan to visit relatives while rines and got several more from Mr. Williams came directly here. airplanes which our men shot| IR & AR down. We are still capturing am- | INFORMATION WANTED ‘munition. i | Information “Sandino doesn’t pay his men,|Jack or John Kelly, supposed to be but gives them supplies and to-|in Juneau. Important news awaits bacco. For food, they live off the |him which can be obtained from country.” Mzrs. J. C. Spickett, Postmaster. %3 desired of one| to F ight for Freedom WASHINGTON, D. C., May 27.— When Herbert Hoover, of Quaker peace heritage ,voices the nation’s tribute to its war dead he will be |on ground where Quakers fought |and died with fellow Americans in | the war for independence. At Valley Forgz, where the presi- dent will deliver his Memorial day address, many members of the So- clety of Friends who were “read out of meeting” for going to war rest in graves of the revelution’s unknown. In the peaceful countryside, pre- |served as a memorial park, there | were buried more than 3,000 men who wore the ragged blue and buff that terrible winter 153 years ago Many of the soldiers died of starvation and exposure. Unsani- tary conditions and disease added to the toll, with smallpox a vicious scourge. At no time were more than half of them fit for active | service. | Most Graves Unmarked Before the spring of 1778 men died so fast that common soldiers were buried without ceremony in unmarked graves. There was no complete listing of the dead. | Sl standing in colonial gray | stone simplicity is the Isaac Polts | farmhouse, where Washington hag his headquarters and Mrs. Wash- ington knitted socks for the ol diers. s There also is the schoolhouse |erected by Letitia Penn, daughter |of William Penn, and used as & | hospital by the continental army. | Preserved too, are ithe farmhouses | where Lafayette, Von Steuben; |“Mad Anthony” Wayne and othets |of Washington’s high command had {their headquarters. . | Valley Creek, site of the histord |forge, ripples past Washington's ;hoadquart,ers, which has been re- stored with colonial furnishings and (relics which belonged to the oo ander-in-chief. | Log huts which housed the con- (tinental soldiers have been repro- | duced, redoubts and entrenchments | reconstructed, and memorial arches land statues erected. Famous Leaders Recalled Among those who spent the | memorable winter of 1777-78" at ianle’y Forge was Lleut. John Mar- shall, later chief justice of the United States. In command of the southern troops was Gen. Lachlin MacIntosh, “the handsomest man in Georgia.” Leading the Virginia regiments was General Peter Muh- | lenberg, who doffed a pastor’s garb for the regimentals of the briga- | dier. | Generals Jed Huntington of Con- | necticut and Enoch Poor of New |Hampshire commanded veterans from New England, among them Marblehead sailors and fishermen who had manned the boats that saved the army in the retreat from ‘,Long Island. — - ASH PLANS TO HOP SATURDAY ” m; Will Leave Tokyo and De- sires Good Breakfast in Tacoma, Sunday TOKYO, May 27.—Thomas Ash, | jr. who plans to take off Saturday | for Tacoma, Washington, tried out a two-wheeled dolly of his monoplane which he said will |enable the plane to take off with a 6,786 pound supply of gasoline. ‘Ash said the dolly worked suc- cessfully and added: “The weather |is perfect now. Tell the Tacomites {I'll see them Sunday and please have a good. breakfast ready.” — ., — BRIAND WILL NOT RESCN PARIS, May 27.—Aristide Briand, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today withdrew his resignation at a |meeting of the Council of Minis- ters. He sald he would remain in the French Cabinet after urgent demands of Premier Laval and other Ministers. The Cabinet ap- proved the policy of the delegates at Geneva. mastodons and mammals roamed 'about the place now Chicago, ac- cording to Prof. Elmer 8. Riggs of ,the Field museum, | steel ACROSS OCEAN | drinking, and of Virgil and Arlene |either he or Thompson had rela- B Dot Tt it only about 10,000 years since | STOCK VALUES ARE DROPPING N. Y. EXCHANGE Bear Movement not Stop- ped; Lists Drops; Alaska Juneau Up NCW YORK, May 27.—Despite the New York Stock Exchange's| action to restrain bear trading, the expressions of optimism and also decline of values went stubbornly forward today. Steel and rail shares were parti- cularly week. The general list one to more than four points to naw lows for the bear market al- though selling was light. Trade reviews reported further slackening of outputs. Steel common dropped four noints, a new eight year low, others losing two to more than four. American Telegraph and Tele- phone, American Can, American ©melting, Eastman, Bethlehem, Du- Pont and New York Central, after turning up in the first hour, be- gan to slide and prices went almost steadily lower. Tt is felt the selling represents the needless pulling out of securi- ties from strong boxes and dumping them on the market by flighty in- vestors. COPPER TAKES DROP NEW YORK, May 27.—A reduc- tion of a quarter of a cent a pound today brought the price of export copper to 9.025 cents a pound for European base ports, the lowest level in more than 25 years. The domestic level is 8% cents a pound. . TODAY'S STOCK | QUOTATIONS | ° NEW YORK, May 27.—Closing quotation- of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 18%, American Can 95%, Anaconda Copper 23%, Beth- lehem Steel 40%, Fox Films 14%, General Motors 35%, Granby Con- solidated 11%, International Har- vester 43%, Kennecott 18, Packard 6%, Standard Brands 16%, Stand- ard Oil of California 34%, Stand- ard Oil of New Jersey 33%, United Aircraft 26, U. 8. Steel 92%, Cur- tiss-Wright 2%, Hudson Bay 3%, |Checker Cab 9, 87%, 9, California Packing 23'%, Trans-America 7%. - ] FOUND GUILTY OF ASSAULT IN DEATH OF GIRL Virgil Kirkland Case End- ed; Two Pals Testify at Trial VALPARAIZO, Virgil Ind., May 27— Kirkland, 21-year-old Gary worker, was convicted last night of assault and battery in an attempt to attack Arlene Draves for whose death the state sought to send him to the electric chair The jury recommended that he be | sentenced from one to 10 years in prison. Second Trial Two pals of Kirkland, on trial for the second time for the alleged murder of his 18-year-old sweet- heart, took the witness stand against him during the trial. They were Paul Barton and Hen- ry “Tony” Shirk, who attended the Gary party which preceded the death of Arlene, and were with Kirkland on the fatal automobile ride during which Arlene was found to be dead. Girl's Clothes Torn Barton told of the party, the embracing on the sofa of the front room of the David Thompson home, at which the party was held. He told of finding Kirkland and Ar- lene in his car outside the Thomp- son home, and declared the girl's clothes were so badly disarranged that she was partly nude. He stated that Kirkland had re- lations with the slain girl, and that the defendant invited him and Thompson, who accompanied them, to get into the back seat with Ar- zne. Barton admitted he attempt- ed to attack the girl, but denied tions with her. He admitted he had about six highballs, that he was too drunk to ncw what others were doing though he remembered what Kirk- land had done. R WS Stunt flying is opposed by the Professional Pilots' association of declined from | Indianan 7AfrangingRou‘,ql»Lr(lw ; SEVEN %MEN of Pleasure for Visitin g Governors, Annual Meeting ¥ RN ity G. Leshie of India for the Governors’ Conference this year, and his wife 2] hust executive who has , who will be the devoted weeks to preparing for the numerous sccial events, PROGRAM IS PLANNED FOR | BIG SESSION Conference of Executive| Heads of States Held at French Lick FRENCH LICK, Ind., May 27.— A full round of pleasure has been arranged for state executives *and their wives when they come to Indiana for the annual governor's conference here June 1, 2 and 3. Four general subjects will be con-, sidered at the business sessions— excessive costs of local govern- ments, land utilization and state planning, motor safety, and execu- tive duties and responsibilities. Mrs. Harry G. Leslie, wife of In-| diana’s governor, has devoted weeks to preparing the social features of the conference. ‘Governor Leslie has invited mem- bers of the conference to be his guests at the 500-mile automobile race in Indianapolis May 30. Following the race, the execu- tives will be given a dinner and a dance at the Columbia club. Edward V. Rickenbacker, Ameri-| can war ace and part owner of the | Indianapolis motor speedway, will| make an address at the dinner. The governors will start for French Lick the following morning An informal dinner has been ar- ranged for the first evening atthe conference hotel. Mornings and afternoons of Mon- day and Tuesday, June 1 and 2, will be devoted .to business sessions. Bridge parties for the wives of the zovernors, tea parties, garden par- ties and a carnival dance have been arranged. The conference will end Wednes- day night, June 3, with a formal bangeut. KOLSTER RADIO CASE GOES TO SUPREME COURT STRIFE LOOMS BETWEEN STATE AND VATICAN Diplomatic Broach May Follow Anti-Church Student Riots, Rome RCME, Ttaly, May 27 matic breach between the and Ttalian® Government caused by rioting of Fas dents and renewed demons tions against students of Catholic insti- tutions. Repeated disturbances might bring the breach, according A diplo- Vatican may be !to those in well informed circles. Rioters surrounded the Catholic Student headquarters and stoned the building. The ricters broke all windows to the fifth floor. The po- lice were called and dispersed the rioters. The Fascist students then went to other Catholic headquarters and broke windows. Hundreds of Fascist students staged a manifestation last night in front of the Catholic Siudents Club but no violence was then re- ported and the Fascists marched through the streets singing the Party Hymn and directing impro- vised derogatory stanzas toward the Church. s Al GORILLA JONES FINED HEAVILY Must Pay $1,000 for List- less Fight; Suspended for Six Months CHICAGO, Ill, May 27.—Gorilla | Jones, Akron, Ohio welterweight, who made such a flop in his match with Buckey Lawless, Syra- cuse welter, here Monday night, has been fined $1,000 and suspended for six months by the Illinois State Athletic Commission for his indif- ferent showing. Lawless won the decision but the |10-rcund bout was so painless and | unsatisfactory, both fighters we ‘ land AND MEN DEAD - SHIP ACCIDENT |Widely Known Educators Lose Lives in Long Island Sound COAST GUARD CRAFT SEARCH FOR BODIES Former Stanford Students are Victims of Disaster in East NORWALK, Cennecticut, May 27. —The body of Miss Doris Dewey has been recevered from Long Is- Sound. A partly burned life Prescrver has also been found which led to the belief the yacht burned. NEW YORK, May 27.—Eight Coast Guard cutters are searching Long Island Sound for the bodies of the vietims of the Sea Fox, a pleasure slcop, which apparently foundered Saturday nigh: loss of four men and three we | all widely known in New York Edu- (cational and medical circles. | The body of Mrs. Marcia Sned- den, aged 25, psychiatrist, was washed ashore at Darlen, Connecti- cut last night, the wife of a New York University instructor and own- er of the Sea Fox, who is also missing. He is a former Stan- ford athlete. The others of the missing party are: Mark Coyne, New York instruc- tor. { Mrs. Florence Mendenhall, former | actrass and Robert, her husband, | statistician of Columbia University; A brother of Mrs. Snedden, Rob- ert Johnson, night club entertain- er; Miss Doris Dewey, psychologist of Bellevue Hospital. Most of the missing are former Stanford students. Friends of the missing notified the Police the motor of the sloop was not working well when it start- ed on a 40-mile cruise. A 40-mile an hour gale was blowing at the time. STEAMER AFIRE ON OCEAN; FATE CAUSES WORRY One Craft Radioes Crew Taken Off; Another Ship Says Impossible | | | | \ | | | | LONDON, May 27—The fate of the Portuguese steamer Corretora Primeiro, which caught fire in the Atlantic ocean 100 miles off the Northern Coast of Spain,, is sub- ject to concern in shipping circles, The steamer Dunkwa wirelessed the Portuguese vessel was blazing from end to end and had sustain- ed several explosions. The Dunk« wa indicated she was alongside and had lowered boats to take off the crew. | The German ship Ubena later wirelessed the Dunkwa had report« ed she had taken the crew aboard which the German captain des- cribed as impossible as the ship was all flames. X The stricken vessel carried a gas- oline cargo. - S P An appropriation of $2,000,000 for e prison construction has been asked (b |refused thei rses he consi y the esiden Charqes Made Of Unlaw-" used eir purses at the end of in Wisconsin by the president of ful Conspiracy;” Ac- counting Is Asked NEW YORK, May 27.—An echo of the collapse of the Kolster Ra- dio Corporation was sounded in the Supreme Court Tuesday when Krit- zler Barnes, a stockholder, charged Rudolph Spreckles, capitalist, and two others, Frederick Dietrich and Ellery W. S‘one, with destroying the corporation by “unlawful con- spiracy” to monopolize the stock market sales of Kolster stock. He charged the company made $17,- 000,000 for the three men. Barnes asks for an accounting. Selecting Jury For Trial of Pantages SAN DIEGO, Cal, May 27.—Se- lecting of a jury is still in progress for the trial of Alexander Pantages and others in the Hollywood “Girl Market” case. It is believed the Los Angeles, jury will be selected tomorrow, |the bout pending an investigation. | | 1 to make its air force the most effi- cient in the world. The reorgan- ized overhead army of 1,600 pla claims third position, in numbe: lafter those of Franc For the moment no great addi- tions are planned, but better train- ing and better craft are on the program of the unified air indus- [try headed by Italo Balbo, the black-bearded member of Musso- lini’s cabinet who led his men cn the memorable squadron flight to South America in January. Air maneuvers with hundreds of | fighting craft in mimic war over | northern and central TItaly this | summer are expected to add much to the battle qualilies of the 1863 | officers and 20,000 men. Defense the state board of control. Italy Now Aiming to Make Air Forces Best in World ROME, May 27—Italy is seekins »f the industrial centers, portsand nilitary reservations is the staff roblem to be worked out. For six years Italy has been spending about $30,000,000 a year, which is the present budget. This, it is commented in parliament, ls about half what France spends. It is admitted that France has more planes, but pariiamentary commis- sions say superiority isn't deter- mined by numbers. Under Balbo there is a formida- ble group of dashing young officers, with high rank and extremely well- cut uniforms. There are five squad- ron generals, 68 colonels and 1,002 captains, majors and lieutenant colonels, all in combatant and nav- igating ranks. There are the usual other staffs besides,