The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 23, 1931, Page 1

B THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIIL., No. 5753. ; JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1931. L. SUBY DROWNS IN TAKU INLET WITH AID NEAR Local Man Sinks as Res-| cuer in Skiff Almost Reaches His Side Luther Suby, 26 years of age and a resident of Juneau'for the past three years, lost his life by acci- dental drowning in Taku Inlet early this morning. Efforts to re- cover his body were in progress this afternoon. Mr. Suby is survived by a widow and two small children, a boy and girl. her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Karels are also here at present. After Errant Skiff The accident occurred while Mr. A sister of Mrs. Suby also resides here with the family; and ) Suby and two companions, Harold Fjarlie and David Flemming, were on a cruise down Gastineau Chan- | nel into Taku Inlet, on Suby’s sma}' gasboat. The three men went ashore near Pt. Bishop about 1 am., to get some fresh water, according to a statement made by Fjarlie and Flemming to United States Com- missioner Charles Sey this morn- ing. They anchored the gasboat and rowed ashore in a skiff, which they pulled up on the beach but did nat tie up. They went up a small stream and were absent from the beach about 20 minutes. When they returned the skiff was afloat Failure Of Seattle Loan AS' and drifting away. ' Thinking the water was not deep there, Fjarlie waded out toward the skiff but was unable to reach if,| Suby, discovering the other man could not swim, called to him to come ashore and sald he would swim after the boat. He threw off his coat and plunged in with the remainder of his clothing on. - He made it to the skiff without diffi- culty but could not raise himself high enough out of the water to: grasp its side. | Flemming Goes To Aid | After trying for several minutes' to secure the boat, Suby abandoned ! the effort and turned over on his! back to keep afloat. Flemming, who is a strong swimmer, then went to his aid. He swam out to! the skiff and with some difficulty got into it. Suby by this time was 70 or 80 feet distant. i Flemming then started to row! over and pick him up. Just be- | fore he reached him, Suby sank beneath the water and never re-. appeared. Flemming dived a num- | (Continued on Page Seven) ' KETCHIKAN MAN MISSING; CLEW NOW REPORTED Water Soaked Hat on the Superior Court charged with grand HEAVY SURF MURMURS HARVARD’S SWAN SONG Assoriated Press Phore Coastwise liner Harvar¢ wkich grounded off P:int Argucllo on the California coast Memorial Duy was rapidly torn to pieces by the pounding of waves. Photo shows the wreck two weeks after all of the 500 passengers were saved by the LINDEN PLAGED ON TRIAL FOR | GRAND LARGENY sociation to Be Aired in Court | SEATTLE, June 23.—Adolph F. Linden has gone on trial in the larceny in the first of several trials in connection with the fallure of the Puget Sound Savings and Loan | Association. He is a former Pres- | ident of the Association. E. W. Campbell, Carl G. Nelson and W. L. Nicely must stand trial for alleged embezzlement of the Association’s funds and W. D. ‘Comer, another former President, is charged with misrepresenting the Association’s financial condition. 2 Birthdays, 2 Cakes for Lindberghs Junior Is One Year Old and His Mother Is 25 Years Old | June 23.—There | at the a tiny and a NEW YORK, were two birthday cakes Lindbergh home Monday, one with a single candle larger one with 25 candles. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., was just one year old yesterday and his mother was 25 years old. The joint celebration was safe- guarded to such an extent that the place where the birthdays were ob- served was unknown even to the Beach May Denote Fate of J A. Talbot, Sr. }chfld‘s grandparents, Senator i Dwight W. Morrow and Mrs. Mor- KETCHIKAN, Alaska, June 23.— TFOW. Discovery of a water-soaked hal on the beach, six miles south of here, gave a new clew as to the probable fate of J .A. Talbot, sr,’! who has been missing for the past ten days. He is 67 years of age,! the father of J. A. Talbot, jr., Commander of Alaska Department of the American Legion, and George S. Talbot, who is repre- senting the ‘Ketchikan Elks at the Seattle convention. 1t is feared the elder Talbot fell overboard from a boat and was drowned. Convict Builds Own Talkie Picture Set SAN RAFAEL, Cal, June 23— San Quentin penitentiary has talk- ing plctures with a sound pro- ducing apparatus constructed “by a convict who had never seen or heard the latest of the motion picture screen. Edward OCarlton, prison photo- grapher, got together odd bits of apparatus to build his talkie. Anti-Monarchists Split Up Since King Put Out of Way| By CLARENCE DU BOSE MADRID, Spain, June 23—To the right and to the left, Spain's political forces already are dividing, presaging some bitter struggles. in the early life of the new republic. How. much actual voting strength communists and extreme left groups can muster for the June 28 elec- tions is one of the unknown fac- tors in the uncertain situation. Another is what effect the divi- sion among the republican ailies will have upon the constituent as- sembly when that body meets in July to frame a constitution and install a more or less pamlnept overnment. cnhnbeenmopenmm mdrmmmmmmm was upon the verge of a break-up. The cause was sub-surface friction between right and left, republican | and. soclalistic, conservative and| radical, elements which had united to overthrow- the monarchy. ‘Alcala Zamora and Miguel Maura, secretary of the interior, were ready to resign one night and turn the power over to Alejandro Lerroux, minister of foreign affairs, Only after a long and deeply seri- ous_cabinet session did the factions| agree that the hatchet should be, buried until after the elections. ‘There scarcely is a doubt but that the republican-socialist bloc which dominates the provisional govern-, ment, will control the assembly. octopus, the first large one ever to| (Centinued on Page Three) ,be reported hereabouts, was landed.' U.S.8. Louisville. Completes 7 Round Trip by Autogiro Amelia Earhart Putnam Returns to Atlantic After Flight NEWARK, N. J., June 23.—Ame- | lia Earhart Putnam arrived at the Metropolitan Airport yesterday in her autogiro completing a flight to the West Coast and return. The aviatrix said the flight was a “huge success.” X ——— 111 DIVORCES GRANTED; RENO JUDGES SPEED in One Day in Ne- vada Courts RENO, Nev., June 23.—All rec- ords were broken yesterday when two Judges in the District Court granted 111 divorce decrees. Judge B. F. Curler, for the great- er part of the day, maintained a schedule of a divorce every five minutes, granting 58 and closing shop on schedule at 5 o'clock. Judge Thomas F. Moran waded through 53 cases but was forced to continue on the bench until af- ter 5 o'clock to do so. Among the 111 obtaining decrees | was Mrs. Martha Nicholson Double- day from Nelson Doubleday, pub- lisher. AGED COWMAN 1S SHOT DEAD Widow Admits She Is Slay- er; Placed in Jail ' Without Bail 'GLOBE, @Arizona, June 23.—Al Hollinger, aged 60 years, Gila County cowman was shot and kill- ed instantly yesterday and six hours later his widow admitted she was the slayer. She was formally charged with first degree murder and lodged in jail without bail to await trial. Mrs. Alma Hollinger, the widow, is several years younger than her husband. She sald she rested a rifle on & window sill and shot Hollinger in the back as he walked away the house. The coliple married less than a year ago. Shifting Sea Currents Bring Octopus to Texas BROWNSVILLE, Tex., June 23— Strange deep-sea fish, apparently brought in by shifting currents off the coast, are making their appear- ance near here. Last year a great school of rays, or ‘floating barn doors”, came to the region, while this year a 14-foot HENRY FORD HAS VISIONS NEW NATION {Perfect Industrial State Is Outlined; Scheme Be- ing Worked Out DETROIT, Mich, June 23— Henry Ford has visions of a Na- tion of the future as a perfect in- dustrial state—a nation made up of factories surrounded by farms able to sustain them. The farms will supply the fac- 'tories with carrots, cantaloupes, corn, wheat and other agricultural products from which automobile building material, clothing and other necessities of life, with food as an incidental product, will be turned out. Great industrial centers will be no longer necessary, Ford theorizes, since factories and farms will be scattered over the Nation. Work |Record IS Set fOl‘ Decrees wil be brought from remote sec- ‘ltlons with modern transportation {and intermediary. The theory is ythat agriculture and industry must \be interlocked. Ford is eniarging his experimen- tal farm near here. It extends over 3,000 acres. On it engineers, sci- |entists, soil experts, and chemists will work on a lavish scale, at- tempting to prove Ford's contention ,that agricultural products may be iturned into something other than ;!ood, ——ee———— | i READY FOR SEA FLIGHT | HARBOR GRACE, Newfoundland, June 23.—Otto Hillig and Holger Hoiriss arrived here late yesterday afternoon from S8t. Johns, New Brunswick on the second leg of their trans-Atlantic hop. They plan |to take-off as soon as the weather | permits. —_————— | THOMAS COLE AND FAMILY | VISITING RELATIVES HERE Thomas 8. Cole, Mrs. Cole and thelr two children, Marcella and Stevens, who arrived last Sunday on the steamer Prince Henry, are house guests at the home of Ter- ritorial Auditor and Mrs. Cash Cole. They will visit here all week, leaving next Monday for Seattle on the Prince Henry. | Leaves Sitka in 'Homemade Dory For Trip South SITKA, Alaska, June 23— e e 0000000 POST AND GATTY IN AIR FOR BERLIN OVER THE ATLANTIC HARBOR GRACE, June 23. —Wiley Post and Harold ‘Gatty hopped off for Berlin at 4:57 o'clock this morning, Newfoundland daylight time. ‘They took the air a few hours after their arrival from New York. The take- ® " off was without event. They ® refused to take time to be ® photographed. saveeesessscse — - STOCK MARKET SETTLES DOWN; SPREE IS OVER Price Reaction Is Moderate However; Copper Shares Advance NEW YORK, June 23.—Today witnessed the anticlimax of the stock market as it calmed down after & spree of yesterday's price advances. The price reaction was moderate in view of the violence of the advance of the past two ses- sions. Copper shares extended their ad- vance. Trade was moderate. The market rallied after a de- cline, despite further strength, London and Berlin trading turn- ed heavy after midday. Losses appeared in prices of Am- erican Telephone and Telegraph Company, U. 8. Steel, North Am- erican, New York Central, Dupont, Westinghouse, and Case while Gen- eral Motors, General Electric and Standard Ofl of New Jersey which sagged a point or so. Kennecott, Anaconda and several other coppers gained a half point 'St more, Magma four. A National Stores were up for a gain of more than three points. Motion pictures were firm. The Street is still highly opti- mistic over the war debts relief prospects although a delay of the French in announcing a decision has added a note of uncertainty, vitalizing the effects of the war debts project. ‘The most notable improvement in the copper industry was yes- terday's report of sales of 11,000,- 000 pounds and the price marked up today from 8 to 8%. Foreign buying continued good. | TODAY’S STOCK QUOTATIGNS NEW YORK, June 23—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 12%, American Can 107%, Anaconda Copper 27, Beth- lehem Steel 46%, Fox Films 20, General Motors 36%, International Harvester 44%, Kennecott 21%, Checker Cab 10%, 10, 10, Curtiss- Wright 3%, Hudson Bay, no sale; Packard Motors 7%, Standard Oil of California 37, Standard Brands 18%, Standard Oil of New Jersey 37%, Trans-America 7%, United Aircraft 27%, U. 8. Steel 96%. - GRAF ZEPPELIN, NAUTILUS WILL NOT MEET NOW Proposed Gamring at Top of World Abandoned by Eckener FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, June 23—Plans to meet the Nau- tilus by the Graf Zeppelin have been abandoned by Dr. Eckener but the huge airship will make a |six-day cruise to the Arctic re- glons next month carrying a scien- tific expedition. Dr. Eckener sald mishaps suffer ed by the submarine eliminated the possibility of meeting the sub- marine at the top of the world. REPAIRING NAUTILUS CORK, Ireland, June 23—The Nautilus is undergoing repairs pre paratory to resuming the trip to the North Pole. Sir Hubert Wilkins said he hop- ed {0 be there within two months The submarine arrived here yes- terday In tow of the U. S. Battle- ship Wyoming and Sir Hubert and his crew were given a reception. it Walter Graves, Rockton, Wis.. farmer, harvests and thresnes red cloyer in one operation with a ma- chine he made from an old binder. HORATORIUM RATIFICATION TO BE SPEEDED " MEMBER OF MUSSOLIN! IN ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS UP RECENT POSE 3 Photo saociated Pre An excellent likeness of Premier Mussolini of Italy. The pict was taken as he reviewed Italian troops recently. % iR FORMER HEAD FRENCH GOV, BROWN BEARS MEET HUBBARD _-DASSES. AWAY...ON.ANIAKCHA Clement. Armind ‘FaBieres Dies Suddenly at His Home in Mezin 1 ASSOCIATED PRESY (Ui CLEMENT A FA MEZIN, France, ment Armand Fallieres, former| President of France, died suddenly! at his home here. | One of the few surviving found- | ers of the Third Republic passed | away in Clement Armand Fallieres. | As Senator, Minister and President | he aided the growth of the French | nation, but his strong Republican tendencies did not deter a most active social life among Europe's| royalty when he became President.; His career encompassed the entirs | period from the Franco-Prussian)| War until 1910, when, it since has| been revealed, the rumblings of the World War already were being| heard in the Continental capitals. Fallieres was elected deputy from ' his department in 1876, the first really Republican Parliament after | the Royalist party had been routed and their leader, Marshal Mac-| Mahon, forced to abandon power. | Spectacular Career Becoming under-secretary of the Interior Department in 1880, he; began a spectacular career as hol- der of government portfolios which | 1DER WO00) LLIERES June 23—Cie- | with ' one which blew out | within the old one cn May 1 is ed; Crater of Volcano Is Changed CHIGNIK, Alaska, June 23.—Rev. B. R. Hubbard and his college stu- dents, who have returned after climbing volcano Aniakchak, with- out guns, tell of two bear encoun- ters, ¢ Ohe Kodiak bear suddenly ap- peared in their path and they frightened it away with the use of ice picks but the climbers could not turn away another brown bear a cub which met the part; at the crater rim. They fled across the black glacier, down into the volcano. The cliff was too steep for the bear, however, and it ram- bled off. The Rev. Hubbard madz obser- vations of gases and air currents. The old crater is quiet but a new a huge pit still erupting. The interior of Aniakchak, said the Rev. Hubbard, is a ‘“grucsome black nightmare.” i A SUBURBS GAIN ON PARIS PARIS.—Parisian suburbs are growing at a faster rate than the capital. Since the census of five years ago Paris has added but 20,- 000 to its population while the De- partment of the Seine, which sur- rounds the city, increased by 280,~ 000. American Merchant Marine | | | IMPROVEMENT IN SITUATION RLREADY SEEN Proposed Holiday for War Debts, Reparations, has Good Effect iNO BARGAINING SAYS SECRETARY STIMSON Washington and Europe Watching France for Next Big Move WASHINGTON, D. C., June 23.— Cificials today sought to speed rat- ification of the moratorium pro- posal for war debts and repara- tions and to maintain with undi- minished force what they see is already materializing in econcmic improvement. Secretary of State Stimson warn- ed there must be no bargaining and that the plan must be acted on quickly to pull the world out of the business morass. EYES ON FRANCE PARIS, June 23.—Not before to- morrow will France write a reply to President Hoover's proposal for a moratorium for war debts and reparations. The Cabinet was not able to reach a decision about the nature of the text which will be drafted at a special meeting tomorrow. _ Premier Laval refused to make any comment. The eyes of Europe's capitals and also the eyes of Washington, D. C, are on Paris for from France the next big development in the reparations situation is expected. COUNTER PROJECT PARIS, June 23.—Information re- ,Two Experiences Repor(. vealed in diplomatic circles late this afternoon indicates France is now working on a definite counter project to President Hoover's war debt proposal which will be sub- mitted to the Cabinet tomorrow. ‘The counter plan, it is said, takes Into consideration France's desire to keep on with the Young plan and assist Germany by pay- ments through the Bank of Inter- national Settlements. RUTH NICHOLS INJURED WHEN PLANE CRACKS ST. JOHNS, New Brunswick, June 23.—Ruth Nichols, who seeks the honor of being the first wo- man to maké a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, was injured when her plane cracked up on landing here from New York. Her injuries are believed confined to a wrenched back, gashed leg and gen- eral shock. Miss Nichols crashed when she was blinded by the setting sun, mis- judging the distance. The plane pancaked and the un- dercarriage and one of the wings were damaged. It is not stated when she can resume her projected flight. Slightly Improves Standing NEW YORK, June 23.—Faced with the keenist competition in many years, the American merch- ant marine has slightly improved its position as carrier of American commerce, Percentages calculated from United States shipping board sta- tistics indicate that in 1930 Ameri- can vessels carried about one per cent more of America’s total for- | elgn trade than in 1929, despite stringent competitive conditions brought on by the world economiz depression. Fostered by the Jones-White mer- chant marine act of 1928 and with lasted for ten years. That year he also became Min- ister of the Interior in Jules Fer- ry’s cabinet. Two years later hel received the same post under Du- clerc and the following year was called upon to form his own cab- inet, in which he was Minister of Foreign Affairs along with the Premiership. His other cabinet posts after he lost control of the government were: Minister of the Interior under Rouvier, 1887; Minis- (Continuea or Page Threes | the encouragement of easy govern: ment loans and mail contracts, this country’s passenger-cargo vessels‘ have been constructed in increasing numbers. Strictly cargo vessels carry -more than 60 per cent of America’s com- | merce—yet, says the New York Trust Company, in the past five years only three ships of this type have been built in -the United States. During the five-year period other countries launched 863 cargo ves- sels. Although some few of these ships already have been laid up, most of them, embodying the latest tech- nica improvements, are faster and can be operated at lower cost than the majority of American cargo ships. The majority of American vessels in foreign trade are slow speed cargo ships built during the war. They were purchased from the shipping board at low prices and could not otherwise be operated profitably against the competition of more modern foreign vessels. | Shipping men here feel that the | development of our merchant ma- rine definitely hinges on the round- ing out of our fleets with cargo vessels.. These, they believe, can- not be built in competition with for- | eign builders without government |ald equivalent to that given the passenger-cargo boats. . Congress yet is to act on several amendments to the Jones-White act intended to promote cargo ship | building.