The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 2, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIIL, No. 5735. BIRTH CONTROL SANCTION STIRS PRESBYTERIANS Relations of Church and Federal Council are Quickly Severed REPORTS ON ISSUE CAUSE DISSENSION General Assembly, Meet- |, ing in Pittsburgh Strong Against “‘Paganism” PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 2—The General Assembly of the Presby- terian Church of the United States has voted 175 to 79 to sever rela- tions with the Federal Council of Churches cf Christ in America. The birth control of the Council brought an issue and prominent ministers said they read the report “with shame and chagrin.” i The General Assembly was asked | to give the practice its first offi- cial ecclesiastical sanction. Qualified Official Sought | Qualified approval of birth con- trol was given in the report by the Council, giving sanction to the use of contraceptives when impelled by economic, necessity or considera- tions of maternal health. The General Assembly's special Commission also made a report saying it “clearly makes it wrong to bring children into the world | without adequate provision for | their nurture and proper consider-! ation for the health of the mo- ther.” This report caused wide discus-’ sion . The attack on it was read by | Dr. Clarence Edward MacCartney, | former Moderator, and in 1927 a member of the assembly’s special Committee on mariage and divorce. | Pagan Recommendations Dr. MacCartney said: “Men have a perfect right to recommend pagan and anti-Christian practices if they ' so desire. But this ought not to| be done under the guise of Chris- tian teaching and faith. “The Protestant church by these! colossal follies is simply digging its own grave and renouncing the moral leadership which it has so; grandly held in the world since the sixteenth century.” of the group. By JOHN W. STAHR | RAPID CITY, S. D, June 2.— The rattle and roar of big electric | drills once more reverberates| through the peaceful Black Hills region. | Work of carving the gigantic memorial monument on the face of Mount Rushmore, 25 miles from here, has been started again with another spring. Through the vast canyons of | granite resound noises akin tothose of riveters in man-made steel can- | yons of metropolitan centers, for art has joined hands with engi- neering genius to carve this me- morial on Nature's mile-high easel. The head and face of George ‘Washington, dominating figure in the group which will honor four presidents, already is clearly dis- cernible. ‘This summer the head of Thomas | Jefferson will be “roughed out.” and work started on the head of Abraham Lincoln. Theodore Roose- velt, the fourth heroic figure, will | probably be left for another sum- | mer’s labor. | Five Years’ Work Ahead ‘Work on this sculptural colossus has been going forward, except during winter months, since 1927, | and it probably will be another Six Hundred five or six years before it is finish- 2 Thousand Borglum Resumes Task of Sculpturing Colossal Group of Heroes on Mountain * || biles, On the rocky face of Mount Rushmore, in westen Scuth Dakota, workmen with air-hammers are sculpturing the faces of four presidents as part of a gigantic memorial designed by Gutzen Borglum. The photograph at left shows vividly the difficulties of the task. Borglum is shown at right beside a model Villa are his assistants and super- visors. About 30 men are engaged in the actual carving—a precarious job in- heavy, bucking, jolting compressed- air jack hammer while suspended in a leather sling with “nothing but scenery” below for a mile or so straight down! In order that the men in these slings may be lowered or raised or shifted from side to side on signal, an elaborate system of winches is installed on the top of Rushmore. Ponderous cable and electric lines span the “valley, bringing “supplies and power to the little construction camp. Heads 60 Feet High The figures are to be of tremen- dous size—iff the proportion of men | some 450 feet tall, which means that from chin to the top of the head they will measure about 60 feet. Keeping the images in true pro- portion was acomparatively simple problem. Borglum constructed a huge plaster model of the trio—ona 1-to-12 scale—in a studio in the valley. From the end of a swinging steel boom, pivoting on a point in the ex- act top-center of Washington's head, a plumb-line drops on the model, and by this the distances to various points on the figures are measured. | A similar boom, but 12 times as large, swings from the top center | of Washington's head on the moun- tain-top. Measurements are taken idved, drilling dynamice-holes witha | on the model, then transferred to | the actual work, where “inches” become “feet.” Borglum, profiting by his experi- | ence on the Stone mountain sculp- tural group in Georgia, has not at- | tempted to do this job by hand- | chisels. From the first it has been | art on a sky-scraping, mechanized | seales. Dynamite An Art Tool consists of three major processes. Pirst some 40 feet of rough rock surface is removed by drilling countless holes and filling them with dynamite charges, which send great avalanches of rock sloughing off into the valley. When the Tock has been trimmed to within a foot or so of the face, | the stone is chipped off more slowly with pneumatic hammers that re- semble machine guns. Finally “buffers,” another kind of air-ham- mer using a four-pointed bit, are used to smooth the surface to its final state. Supplementing these four figures will be a great entableture on which will be engraved significant dates in American history, and a 500- word history written by Ex-Presi- | dent Calvin Coolidge. 3 | Lose Titles, AR Y ed. Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor, |is in charge of a crew of some 40 Spamsh Cabmet Issues De_’mcn. W. 8. Tallman and Hugo cree Affecting Members | o Nooliy \DECREE SIGNED MADRID, Spain, uJne 2.—The Cabinet has issued a decree abol- ishing all titles of the nobility, be-| cause “Spain has entered a new, regime of liberty and Democracy.” IN RuME G ASE The decree places the members of the aristocracy virtually on the same basis as the French nobility.| ROME, Ttaly, june 2—Dissolution | They may use their titles private-|of all Catholic youth associations, ly but must sign their names %0 not directly connected with the legal documents. { National Fascist Party, is announc- About 2,600 members of the no-!eq by the Italian Government. bility are affected. | "1t is expected in some quarters The Government, by the decree, that as a result of this, the Pope will lose about $300,000 yearly in will recall the Papal Nuncio ‘o Hile. saxes, Rome leaving the Charge d' Af- :tnm as arepresentative. | The decree for the dissolution PRESIDENT UF !was signed by Premier Mussolini. FRANGE WEDS;"* oK visf o stares ‘ ON VISIT TO STA ' Thomas Judson, Jr. son of the PARIS, June 2—The Sava‘s mayor and vice-president of the News Agency announced President junior class in the high school, Gaston Doumergue and Mme. J. left Juneau today to spend the Graves have been married at a pri-|summer vacation in the States. He vate ceremony. 'wm stay a little more than a The “Bachelor President” retires!month in Seattle at the home of from office on June 13 {his classmate, David Tewkesbury, g v who also sailed south, and then C. M. Gregg, prominent Wash- will go to Los Angeles to visit an ington, D. C., banker, is a passgn- uncle, ger on the Alaska for Seward. He| This will be the young man's will be taken from there on the first visit to the States since he cutter Chelan to the Pribilof Is- came here to Alaska, a very small lands for a visit. boy. Injunction in Seattle - Recall Election Denied SEATTLE, June 2—Superiorthe grounds the city had no money Judge Ronald has refused an in- |to pay the expense of such an junction to prevent the election to | election. recall Mayor Frank Edwards. The decision of Judge Ronald will Eight taxpayers, supporters of the |be appealed to the Washington Axel ] dhnson, Alaska Bound, Gets in Jam BURGLAR TRAP SURELY WORKS; DOCTOR KILLED ‘Actual treaiment of the grw.fiu:{ Approaching Train Causes| NEw “NADA | Crown Chicag TARIFF HITS U.S. HARD BLOW Bennett's Budget Increas- es Duties on Many American Products | OTTAWA, Ont., June 2—Increas- ed tariffs in effect on more than two hundred commodities many of which Canada imports the greatest | quantity from the United States were declared in the budget pre- | sented by Premier R. B. Bennett to the Dominion Parliament. Among | the American products imported | most heavily from the States upon which the tariff has been heavily increased are coal, steel and steel products, automo- oranges, corn and other things, The Prime Minister explained “lthat he had told the House he would bring down the budget be- fore June, but the last day of May fell on Sunday, and there had been certain delays, due to the lateness of arrival of a cable from one of the overseas Dominions, and also due to the great amouni of physi- cal work involved in the prepara- tion of the budget. He hoped the House would not think he had fail- ed in his undertaking as to when the budget would be brought down. He would leave it to Rt. Hon. Mac- kenzie King, leader of the official opposition, to decide when the de- bate on it would be started. He suggested Thursday or some other date. Particular interest seems to at- tach to the proposed increase of duty on bituminous coal. In sup- vort of it Premier Harrington of Nova Scotia has been here a week. ‘Against it is the influence of some large manufacturers, mainly in On- tario, who claim that they will have to use American coal any- way, and object to paying $1 per ton duty. In Liberal cireles it.was. forecast that the debate on the principle of the budget from their side of the House will be restricted to a few members from each Province, but that on the detailed resolution it will be = “free-for-all.” An amendmentis also indicated to the tariff board Blll to reduce the term of office from ten to five years. The opposition intends as well to insist upon a declaration of unem- ployment policy. THRILL SLAYER UNDER ARREST: HAS CONFESSED Member of Prominent Syr- acuse Family Charged With Murder WEST ORA: , N. J., June 2.— Philip K. Knapp, member of a well-to-do Syracuse family, who liv- Crash of Cars, Arrest and Lecture SEATTLE, June 2—Axel John- son jammed on the brakes of hi automobile so suddenly Wl saw a train approaching a ~rossing that two cars behind him pile” into | his machine and tied up ‘raffic. Johnson was taken to the Coun- ty Jail and lectured by ‘a State Highway patrolman and later re- leased to catch a bost bourd for Alaska. The train, in the meantime, kept going on like an illuminated sign- board. OFFER TO WED TEXAS GUINAN HAVRE, France, June 2.—Texas Guinan will not only have to leave France tomorrow but she will have to pay her own fare home, the French Lines Director said. She and her “gang” of blondes will be deported on the liner Paris as the visa stipulated she and her girls were not coming to France to work. Texas has been confronted by a shower of proposals of marriage, one of them from Harry Aslett, of London, who offered to marry her so she could enter England. Later she could obtain a divorce. ———— The Aniakchak crater in Alaska has an inside area of 30 sqare miles Mayor, asked for a restrainer on |State Supreme Court, within walls 3,000 feet high. he | 3ol {Investigation Is Started by Authorities in Penn- sylvania DOYLESTOWN, Penn, June 2.— Death of Dr. Ralph Hustled Bell, apparently a victim of his own purglar trap, is under investigation. The body of the alienist, natur- alist and author was found at Sycamore Lodge, his summer home with a gunshop wound in his chest. A shotgun, set on a closet floor and wired to a door, apparently was discharged, killing him in- stantly, last Friday. The body was discovered today by the caretaker. Years ago, Dr. Bell vowed he would put an end to the practice of motorists who pulled up flow- ers and shrubs. He stretched barb- wire throughout the lanes of his estate, rigged up traps and fixed shotguns about the house and oth- er buildings that would be dis- entrance. Al Dano Taken To Hospital In Seattle SEATTLE, June 2—Bound to a stretcher, Al Dano, Alaska canneryman injured in an air- plane accident near Ketchikan, on May 4, was swung off the steamer Admiral Rogers and taken in an ambulance to a { hospital, charged if an intruder attempted ed under an assumed name for six years, has been arrested on a 1925 indictment charging him with the “thrill murder” of a cab driver at Mineola, New York. Knapp has been in the Coast Guard for four years. He was known here as Allen Kingsley Phil- lips. He marrled Eleanor Hill of Boston. A search started after the body of Louis Penella was found in a shallow pit buried under tin cans and other rubbish. Penella had ‘been shot through the head. “I shot him,” the police said he told them. He said he had decided he had been fed up in the air ser- vice at Mitchell Field and the best thing to do was to rob a driver and take his cab. “I'm glad it is all over. I want to go back and take my medicine,” the police sald Knapp confessed. e Two Alleged Abductors Are Given Heavy Fines LAREDO, Texas, June 2.—Charges against C. C. Julian, oil operator; C. C. Boren and Clay Marn in connection with an alleged at- tempt to abduct Lamar Bolling, San Antonio business man, have been disposed of in the District Court. Julian and Boren were fired a toial of $5,000. Indictments aza'n.i been dismisso ———— Output of canned grapefruit in the United States has grown in 10 Mann have United | Curtiss-Wright 2%, Hudson Bay 3 Sy Mrs. Louis L. Emmerson, wify right placinF Chicago girl, famous artists. Some queen, eh? Lucille Oakley (left), is not so bad either. as many beauties as its reputation would indicate it has gunmen. RALLY STARTS IN STOCKS ON N, EXCHANGE Overnight Selling Pegs Up Share Prices; A. J. Goes Up NEW YORK, June 2—The stock | market wobbled today on an un- even keel, lacking strength to fol- low up a rally after they opened and sagged into new low ground in a large volume of over-night selling. Pivotal stocks met sufficient sup- | port to encourage short covering and rallied from one to four points, followed by loses this afternoon for most of the gains in full trading. Steel yielded one point and re- bounded one and one-quarter net which was surrendered in subse- quent selling. Eastman, National Lead, Conti- nental American Can and Atchi- son lost ground, the latter four points. New York Central lost more than two points. Oils were quiet. COPPER GUES DOWN NEW YORK, June 2.—Export copper price reached another new low. The Exports Inc., announc- cent to 8775 cents to reopen base! ports bringing the foreign price to parity with the domestic price of 8% cents a pound delivered. TODAY’'S STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 2—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 18, American 93%, Anaconda Copper 19%, Beth- lehem Steel 38%, Fox Films 14, General Motors 31%, Granby Con- solidated 10%, International Har- vester 39%, Kennecott 14%, Pack- ard Motors 5%, Standard Brands 15%, Standard Oil of California 31%, Standard Cil of New Jersey 30%, United Aircraft 22'%, U. S. Steel 83%( Checker Cab 8, 7%, 8, California Packing 21%, Trans- America 7. — e Statue of Confederate President Is Accepted | By Federal Government WASHINGTON, D. C., June 2.— The statue of the only President of the Confederate States, Jeffer- son Davis, has been accented hv the Federal Government from the home in the State of Mississippi. The bronze figure of the states-! man has been placed in Statury, Hall near the statues of noted of other States. Miss Adele Hayes | | Davis, granddaughter of the Con- federate Prasident, is designated to years from 2,000 cases to 1,850,000 |unveil the statue. | e of the Gove a crown on the head of Charlotte Gunkel, 73-ye chosen queen of the city’s jubilee by a committee ofi i ed a reduction of one-quarter of a | SURRENDERS Can' "PRICE TEN CENTY ‘SUPREME COURT DENIES REVIEW INFALL'S CASE \Highest Ju_cfill Body in [ U. S. Refuses Further | Consideration 'MUST SERVE ONE YEAR, PAY FINE OF $100,000 Daughter Faints When News Is Received at Home in El Paso WASHINGTON, D. C., Junc 2— The Supreme Court has refused to jreview the conviction of Albert B, Fall, on a charge of accepting a bribe in connection with Naval Ofl Reserves as Secretary of the In- | terior under President Hardizg. | | | DAUGHTER FAINTS WHEN | INFORMATION IS RECEIVED | BL PASO, Texas, June 2.—Whil2 'his daughter, Mrs. C. C. Chase | fainted, Albert B, Fall calmly re- ‘chxv:-d the news the Supreme Court refused to review his conviction of accepting a bribe. Fall was sleeping when newspa- {permen arrived. He had been in Ibed all day. | Mrs. Jouett Elliott, another daugh- iter, told her father. She said he !did not appear surprised and | thought he expected it. Mrs. Fall cried: “They're trying jto kill us but they won’t kill me. |It's just persecution of innocent | people.” Fall was sentenced to one year in jail and pay a fine of $100,000. PARKS DEPARTS PRESIDENCY 'con L NG TRIP; shown at old rmor of Illinois, is But we're thinking the runner-up, Chicago evidently sports | G0V, PINCHOT - BOOSTED FOR - 'Sentiment Being Sounded} | Out by Friends; Sena- | RETURNS JUI_YB tors Approached | TR | WASHINGTON, D. C., June 2— » | Sentiment among Western Sena- Govel_'nor Sails TOday for tors over the prospects of Gov. 1 | Gifford Pinchot, of Pennsylvania, Tnp fo Intenpr and becoming & eandidate for e Re.| Seward Peninsula | publican Presidential nomination | next year, is being sounded out by | On a general mission that will some of his friends. |take him as far north possibly as Senators receiving overtures de- |Kotzebue Sound, Gov. George A. clined to divulge the names of the Parks left here today on the steam- Pennsylvania’s friends. er Alaska. He plans to be ahsent | Approaches have precipitated | about five weeks and to return here much conjecture in Washington. {July 6. | Sonators would not indicate their| The Governor will spend mest of attitudes and would not discuss the 'the time traveling, stopping a few | matter openly. :days each at Anchorage, Fairbanks | This is the first indication that and Nome. One of the main ob- a candidate may enter the field |jects of his trip to Nome is to or- against President Herbert Hoover |ganize the Alaska Reindeer Coun- |since former Senator Joseph I icil and get it into shape for ad- France of Maryland announced h's!ministering that industry. | candidacy. | En route North, Gov. Parks will | S e i T {stop off at Anchorage to confer { |with the management of the Al- \SHU“TS MAN aska Railroad. He will then go to ¥ Fairbanks and after a day or two there, will proceed by plane to (Nome. €. W. Hawkesworth, Su- perintendent of the Indian Sérviee here, will join him at Fairbanks |for the Nome trip as he is a mem- ber of the Reindeer Council. The Council will be organized at Nome immediately after their ar- rival. They will be met there by | Supt. Mozee of the Reindeer Fleld Service, representatives of the Es- Privett, aged 43, shot and fatally Kimo owners and & representative wounded W. M. Owen, aged 38,|0f the Lomen iuterests, ‘who com- pranch mansger of & furniture ex- |Prise the remainder of the Gounsll, change, Ho then walked into the | Whes its work has been compleeds Sheriff’s office and surrendered. ;;‘I“ZG::&‘I’; “fimemr‘;;;"“‘l’; Priveit s a sheep herder. Hei, . o pairbanks and the coast. explained that “family trouble” led | him to commit the crime which National Assembly of Spain Meets July 14 occurred in Owen’s office. Cwen died in a hospital. He is MADRID, Spain, uJne 2.—The Hair of several New York boys date of July 14 has been set for “Family Tl'oubfe" Is Given ! as Cause of Tragedy { in Yakima YAKIMA, Wash, June 2—Roy | survived by a widow, mother or‘. two children by a former marriage. | i otpn ' . turned green after they swam in convocation of the projected. Na- a river polluted with acids from a tional Assembly which will be | nearby factory. elected June 28. 'Alaskan Woman Proves Courage in Time of Need WASHINGTON, D. C., June 2.— The story of the courage of Mr3. E. C. Cushing, missionary, whose hus- band is inv s affect~ ing the reind in, Alaska is revealed in a letter to ‘he Agri- culture Department by Cuching. 'Wwo native men and one women, were in bed. Medical aid was not available. For four days Mrs. Cusa- ing took charge of the entire vil- lage, besides feeding and looking {a(ter the experimental animals. ‘She visited most of the homes daily _|for two weeks. The only medicine Cushing and his wife were caught | she had was caster oil and aspirin. there during an influenza epid | The natives were in a sorry plight. “By the tenth of April everyone |She distributed soup to the needy in Golovin, except Mrs. Cushing, |families.” ,