The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 24, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIIL, No. 5754, ARE EXPECTED ON WAR DEBTS| U. S. Government Inform- ed French Reply May Be Unsatisfactory COMPLETE TEXT TO BE KNOWN THIS EVENING Germany and Great Britain Give Approval; Other Nations Hold Off PARIS, June 24. — The Unlted States Government has been informed that the conditions France is expected to attach to her acceptance of President Hoover’s morator- ium proposal will probably not be regarded with favor. ATTITUDE OF NATIONS WASHINGTON, D. C,, June 24— President Hoover’s suggestion for a. one year moratorium of war debts and reparations has brought action from two governments. The -French Cabinet has com- pleted the text of its reply. Premier Laval said he would present the reply today to United States Ambassador Edge. The Pre- mier refused to discuss the contents of the reply, it is sald. Italy has accepted the proposal but Premier Mussolini is reserving the liberty of making “observa- tions” of its application later. UNCONDITIONAL AGREEMENT WASHINGTON, D. C., June 24— Indications were that substantial agreements might be expected only from Germany and Great Britain on President Hoover's moratorium proposal. Washington has heard discussions intimating possible reservations by France, Italy and Belgium. Official quarters here fear that any reservations will delay comple- | {ion necessary to preliminaries and prevent speedy consummation of Hoover’s avowed intention to stimu- late world business by suspending war debts and reparations for one year. EDGE HAS REPLY PARIS, June 24—Late this after- noon the French reply to Hoover's proposals were handed to American Ambassador Edge by Premier Laval. The reply is understood to agree somewhat with Hoover that sorae- thing should be done to aid Ger- many and Europe but disagrees on the plan of carrying out the pro- posals. It is understood the reply makes no effort to maintain the integrity of the Young Plan on unconditional reparations payments which France considers inviolable. STIMSON’S STATEMENT WASHINGTON, June 24—Secre- tary of State Stimson, in a formal statement, said the broad outlines of Hoover’s moratorium proposal are not to be departed from. DECISION ON SILVER ISSUE S LAID OVER WASHINGTON, D. C, June 24— President Hoover does not intend to decide what to do about silver until the moratorium proposal is settled. » A new depressed plan to deal with the silver industry has been presented to the President by Chairman Smoot, of the Senate Finance Committee. acting for a group of Utah silver men. The I Senator himself declined to discuss “he suggestion and the President temporarily set it aside. - MACHINES CULTIVATE CORN i Raleigh, N. C—R, H. Crowder, Wake county farmer, ‘is cultivating 100 acres of corn with a tractor and machinery ¥xclusively this year. He plans to use the grain for miling and hog feeding. 2 POST AND GATTY CROSS JUNEAU, ALASKA, ESDAY, JUNE 24, 1931. Cornelius Vanderbilt. jr., sued weck. Yesterday she filed her decree: They are pictured above. | York cartconist, mixed up, | trouble. ANSWER FILED IN VANDERBILT - DIVORCE SUIT IWife Asks Decree, Grounds of Extreme Cruelty; Wants Alimony RENO, Nev., Juné 24—Mrs. Cor- Inelius Vanderbilt, jr. yesterday fil- led an answer denying her hus- !band's allegations of extreme cruel- ty in his divorce action filed last | Friday, arid asked that she and not Vanderbilt be granted the de- | cree on the same grounds. Mrs. Vanderbilt, jr., asked tem- iporary and permanent alimony. | She stated her husband's income | was in excess of $2,000 a month. Vanderbilt refused to make ady statement. Mrs. Vanderbilt was not in Reno when the answer was filed. Neither of the Vanderbilts men- | tioned Peter Arno, caricaturist, over ;whom the two are said to have | quarreled. x Arno has intimated he might file suit for slander against Vanderbilt but it is believed he is awaiting the outcome of the divorce suit before deciding definitely. Last week Vanderbilt went gun- ning for Arno but changed his {mind before reaching the Arno :hom& FIRE STARTS ~ ON DIRIGIBLE | | | ——e,——— LAKEHURST, June 24—Fire de- \stroyed a small section of the fa- \bric covering the dirigible Los An- geles in her hangar this after- | noon. The fire started from a short cir- .cuit in the electric apparatus being |installed aboard the dirigible. The fire was extinguished within a few ————————— M. Goldsterz, who arrived here this week from a fur-buying trip to the Interior and who has been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs Charles Goldstein of this city, left ,today for Seattle. aceording to Vanderbilt, FRANCE MAY OP RESERVATIONS his wife for divorce in Reno last answer and is herself seeking a The insert is Peter Arno, New in family MUSSOLINI IS TAKING STAND ACTION CLUBS, Firm Position of Italian Premier Revealed in Note to Pope ROME, June 24.—Premier Mus- solini took a firm stand against the Catholic Action Clubs in a re- ply delivered to the Vatican to a recent note from the Holy See. The Premier insists in his note he learned from excellent authority the dissolved clubs were anti-Fascist and illegal and he saw “no reason to renew discussions of measures taken against the Associations.” The Church, the Premier explain- ed, had only itself to blame for violence incited by the alleged Catholic political activity. ‘The forma! apology, which the Pope demar.ded and later modified somewhat, was met in the note with a statement' an inquiry was proceeding regarding insults to the Pope and damage to church prop- erty and gave assurances of perse- cution of the guilty. There is implied, in the note, the plea ‘“these occurrences are de- plored.” e NEW CHURCH FOR WRANGELL ‘WRANGELL, Aiaska, June 24— George Bottler, of Spokane, con- tractor now building the Wrangell school, is low bidder for the gen- eral construction of the new Pres- byterian church with a tender of $12,458. The work will start immediately. The church replaces the one burned last October, said to have been the first Presbyterian Church in Al- aska and built in 1876. — Miss Dana DeVighne, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. H. C. DeVighne, is home on vacation from the soarding school she has been at- tending near Victoria, B. C. She returned on the steamship Princess Alice. THIRD COMPANY | LAUNCHES WORK AT CHICHAGOF | ; Seattle Interests Acquite Property Adjoming Chichagof Mine Entry of a third company in the mining district at Chi of on ground immediately adja¢ to the famous old Chichagof propeérty was made known here yesterday by Edwin Kendall, Seattle banker, who arrived late in the afternoom; by plane from Chichagof and - ued south shortly afterword. The new firm is incorporated as ‘the McKallick - Chichagof Gold Company, with Mr. Kend M. McKallick, M. H. Nickerson I Kincaid as officers. b The ground comprises nine claiis, located by McKallick, and lying ‘Be- tween the old Chichagof P Alaska-Chichagof owned pi ly by Nick Bez and William vert, Seattle banker and he the San Juan fish interests. Financed for Devel “I consider the area OnE ¢ most promising anywhere ¢ worth serious exploratory QML?Mr. Kendall said yesterday: “Our com- pany will proceed immediately to do this. We are financed for the program and there will be no de- lay in initiating it. “Machinery necessary for sinking a double compartment shaft was | purchased several days ago im Se- | chagof. |sor, operated by a gas engine, and adequate to keep three air drills busy. We will put a crew of 15 men to work at once. Mr. McKal- lick will remain at the property to direct the drilling, and J. L. Free- burn, who is doing development work at the old Chichagof, will act for us as consulting engineer. I expect to make frequent trips from Seattle to Chichagof and keep in close touch with developments,” he declared. Mr. Freeburn's own development (Centinued on Page Three) S e STOCKS SOAR AGAIN TODAY ON EXCHANGE American Tobacco Leads in Gains; Radio, Oils, and Steel Advance NEW YORK, June 24.—EBullish- ness bloomed again in the world financial markets, and New York stocks swept upward with a vigor equalling Saturday and Monday. Amazing reversal of sentiment inspired by the war debt proposal showed no signs of wavering des- pite the fact some midweek busi- ness statistics were distinctly un- favorable on reports that the French acceptance of the debt plan in- volved various conditions. Shares advanced from two to more than 12 points, American Tobacco issues making the maxi- mum on the news of higher whole- sale cigarette prices. Radio shares surged up five points on news that the Radlo Commis- sion decided to remew licenses of subsidiaries. Long depressed oils moved up Steel is also up. Westinghouse Electric, Baltimore and Ohio, New York Central, Sears, Roebuck; Case and others advanc- ed. Pennsylvania gained more than two points as short covered on reduction of quarterly dividend. el = . | TODAY’S STOCK } | . QUOTATIONS — NEW YORK, June 24—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 13%, American Can 110%, Anaconda Copper 287%, Beth- lehem Steel 49%, Fox Folms 217, General Motors 39%, International Harvester 45%, Kennccott 23%, Checker Cab 117, 0%, 11%, Cur- tiss-Wright 4%, Hudson Bay 4%, Packard Motors 8, Standard Brands 18%, Standard Oil of California 38%, Standard Oil of New Jer- attle and is now enroute (6 Gbi- | We will install a compres- |~ is Harold Gatty (insert). MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRES Seven and a Half Days Around World 1s Post’s Cherished Goal a: thence to Khabarovsk. Wiley Post (left), Oklahoma pilot, hopes to circle the globe in seven and a half days. His navigator The map below shows the course Post desires to follow. The Russians have designated a route from Moscow into Siberia, to Irkutsk, from Harbor Grace for Berlin yesterday morning. The two hopped-off s ated Press advices received by the took off. dicted on the other side of the Al 16 CONVICTED OF BIG LAND Eight Million Dollars of Thirteen Million Given to Promoters Alexander Hursh, former President of Romola, Incorporated, a $19,000,- | 000 California and Arizona land de- | velopment company, today faced a 12 - year Federal prison sentence | and a fine of $42000 in a huge land fraud scheme | Fifteen other persons were also convicted of charges of using the | mails to defraud in a nation-wide | campaign by which the Federal prosecutor charged $11,000,000 were | collected on Romola contracts. | Of this amount, the prosecutor contended $3,000,000 were spent in developing the land and $8,000,000 | went into the ‘“expense money” account of the promoters. Witnesses testified that fig trees sey 40%, Trans-America 8%, U ed Alrcraft 20%, U. 8. Steel 100. on the land were planted upside down. expected to be reached in about 28 hours. | Stinatf, Akron ‘ mPair Off —Acrqgs' Aflzinf'l;u":',()cean for bénmark 2% FNEW v Empire. “Don’t let the wind die tlantic. Acwnclated Press Phote Otto Millig (right), Liberty, N. Y., photographer, and Holgar Hoiriss (left), pilot, took off from Harbor Grace at 3:24 o'clock this morning, Eastern Standard Time, and swept gracefully out on the air on the shoulders of a brisk west wind and head:d across the Atlanlic Ocean, according to Associ- down,” Hill'y shouted as the plane The plane Liberty was headed in the directi>n of Copenhagen, Denmark, destination, which is The weather was most auspicious and clear skies are pre- The plane has a speed of 100 miles an hour. Holder of Air Record Is Killed jured; Plane Goes Into Tail Spin AKRON, Ohio, yune 24.—Mildred irl aviator, who set a world's loopilng record a year FRAU—D DEALSjAkron Aviatrix Fatally In-i LOS ANGELES, val, June 24— |ago for women, was fatally injured | last night when her plane crashed near the Akron Airport. S8he died in an Akron Hospital a few hours later. Miss Stinaff was flying at about 1,500 feet elevation when the plane went into a tail spin. She was about 19 years of age. - ‘TRADER HORN' REPORTED ILL LONDON, June 24—Alfred Aloy- sis Horn, better known as “Trader Horn,” is critically Il in the Mer- cy Home at Whitstable. He was taken sick at the homz of his daughter a few days ago. 4 VOLCANOES ~ ERUPTING IN |Japanese Press Reports! | Unusual Activity; Join With Quakes of two more volcanoes |in activity within one week. | Two of the volcanoes acted | conjunction with earthquakes. } Experts said such activity is most | | unusual. | Mount Togeetake, in the Gulf TOKYO, June 24-—The eruption | in Japan | was reported today in the vernacu- {lar press, making a total of four in PRICE TEN CENTY FLIERS MAKE RECORD TIME OCEAN FLIGHT ‘Reach England 17 Hours, | 17 Minutes After Leav- ing Harbor Grace ITAKE 20 MINUTES | OFF, THEN FLY ON |Plane Averaged 117 Miles an Hour; May Continue ‘ Direct to Moscow BULLETIN — BERLIN, June 24. — Post and Gatty completed the first lap of their world flight landing here at 2:30 o’clock E.S.T., or 24 hours after their departure from Harbor Grace. German officials welcomed ' the airmen with flowers and a bottle of champagne.” Post land Gatty broadcast their greetings to the United States. The wife of Gatty, in Los Angeles, Cal, heard | Gatty. The two men will stay here tenight and continue their flight early tomorrow. { R CHESTER, England, June |24.—~Wiley Post and Hareld | Gatty, making an attempt to girdle the world in the fastest time yet made, the two young men “in a hurry,” landed near i here, after a flight over the Atlantic, snatched a bit to jeat and hopped 20 minutes |later for Moscow, via Berlin, ‘with the possibility that they might not even halt at Berlin. Post and Gatty landed here jat 7:45 o’clock this morning, | Eastern Standard Time. They made the 2,000-mile flight in 17 hours and 17 minutes, av- {eraging 117 miles an hour. Post and Gatty expect to reach Moscow tomorrow. Their Magic Carpet Wiley Post and Harold Gatty {hopped off from Harbor Grace for Berlin at 4:57 o'clock yesterday morning in an attempt to circle the world in record time. The magic carpet on which Wiley Post and Harold Gatty hope to ride around the world in record time is a sleek-looking monoplane —and their only good-luck charm is its motor. Post, the pilot, likes his plane but he loves its supercharged engine. It carried him to victory in the non-stop derby from the Pacific coast to Chicago in the 1930 na- tional air races; now its throbbing nine cylinders are expected by him |to power the plane for 16,000 miles around the globe. “Any mascot or good-luck charm for this venture?” Post said, repeat- ing a query. “Yes—that Wasp en- URIENT LAND }gme. T've spent all my efforts on it i and with it rides our luck.” Microscopic Inspection It is only a shell of the engine that carried him on in the derby, for parts have been replaced, but ‘not until they had been X-rayed, (etched, and gone over area by area with a powerful microscope. “We've spent as much moneyon it,” Post said, “as a new engine {would cost—but we wouldn't trade it for two new ones, I'm sure. “It is the most economical engine T've ever flown and I don't believe 11t will be necessary to check it at all on the round-the-world flight. Maybe I'll clean the oil screens once or twice—but that will be all.” He says he wouldn't trade his Prefecture, and Mount Hachido, on | plane, eithe; 3 T, for any m Kuchiyerabu Island, are memioned]gew ones. e lin today’s reports. | Yesterday Mount | erupted twice | and surrounding territory. UMD CBINLNY. T Twenty-three Indiana Yakegatake | and Mount Asama also spouted but at the same time las a severe quake shook this city Named for Backer’s Daughter It is a Lockheed-Vega, a high- wing cabin monoplane owned by F., C. Hall, Oklahoma oil man finane- ing the venture, and named Win~ nie Mae in honor of Hall's daugh- |ter,'an only child. 3 farmers | Post, once chief test pilot at the | grew more than 100 bushels of corn Lotkheed factory, spent a month to the acre last year, (Conunuea on Page Twa) ¥