The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 6, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIII., NO 5963 JUNEAU ALASKA MONDAY JULY 6, 1931 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY Max Schmelmg De/eats Stmblmg, 1 echnical Knockout CONDITIONS IN TERRITORY ARE DECLAREDGOOD Gov. Parks Finds Business and Industry Better than Were Reported After a month’s absence from the capital, in which time he visited points from Circle to Nome and Alaska Railroad towns between Seward and Fairbanks, Gov. George A. Parks returned home today much encouraged over the condi- | tions he found to exist. “Conditions in business and in- dustry are generally good. In fact, much better than had been re- ported to e before I started on this trip,” the Governor said. People at Work Everywhere he visited, the people | are engaged in gainful employment. There where. However, pointed out, there are no extra jobs, no surplus work, and, therefore, no chance for additional labor. be unwise. “Gold mining in the interfor is! seemingly prosperous. It seems ap- | parent that the production this | year will be larger than for. sev-| The big d.redges% in the Nome and Fairbanks areas, eral years past. are operating steadily and, I un- derstood, having excellent results.” There is some discussion of new are no idle laborers any- | the Governor | The | balance between work and workers | is about even now, and any influx | of men seeking employment would | YOoL20G STRIBLING~ oo R o mining ventures, dredging projects, | at Nome. At Fairbanks there is a revived interest in quartz mining and some -substantial de-~ velopment may result from this. Fishing on Upgrade Salmon fishermen are active in| Cook Inlet and Prince William Sound, the Governor said. returns those areas. Reports from Ko- diak and Bristol Bay, he added, are encouraging. “‘Altogether, I found that the sH:- uation is not bad. There is no " (Continued on Tage Eight) B A ke STOCK MARKET DRAGS; PRICES UP, THEN DOWN Pool Activity ty Resounds for. Alaska Juneau—Some Issues Lose Heavily NEW YORK, July 6—Wall Street today began the post holiday week ‘wearily. Sentiment improved a little after the midday and markets reflected | considerable disappointment in the continued dragging of the war debt! megotiations. Early ! are promising and indn-; cate good packs will be put up in| WANT FALL TO | SERVE 1 YEAR BRIBE GHARGE Government Counsel to| Appear in D. C. Su- preme Court WASHINGTON, D. C, July 6—‘ | Government counsel will appear be- ifore Justice Bailey, of the District |of Columbia Supreme Court, to- I motrow to ask that Albert B. Fall, | former Secretary of the Interior, be brought here at once to begin his jail sentence of one year, follow-| mg conviction of having accepted a $100,000 bribe from Edward L.| , Doheny, in connection with award- ‘mg of contracts and leases on the, Lnaval oil reserves. District Attorney Rover said on| | the basis of reports of Fall's phy- sical condition made by Army phy- sicians in Texas, the Government felt he will be able to come here to begin serving his sentence. Fall, at El Paso, Texas, had no comment to make, according to Lhe‘ Associated Press dispatches. T |members of his family, however, Share prices fell back weakly at sajd he is not feeling well since! the opening and then made partial recovery in sluggish trading later. Losses ranged from 1to 6 points. Professionals made half hearted ef- forts to bolster the market by bid- ding’ for motors. Chrysler and ‘General Motors cancelled the morn- ing losses. - Pool activity rebounded Al- aska Juneau mine stock, Recoveries of & point or so ap- peared after declines of 2 to 4. points in Steel, American Tele- phone, Dupont, American Can, Al- lied Chemical, Westinghouse, Case and Eastman. Auburn dropped 8 points and re- covered most of it. National Biscuit dropped more than 2 points to a new low for the present before recovering. | returning home. ; | l 20 DROWN, RIP TIDES | | LOS ANGELES, Cal.. July 6—A possible death toll of 20 is con-| jceded to rip tides which swept 'the beaches in this area on July Fourth and July fifth. Seventeen met death on Satur- (day. All bodies have not been re- covered. | The treacherous tides continued | Knlong nearly 50 miles of the wind-, 'ins sea eout‘ TOPAY'S STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 6. — Clodng quotation of Alaska Juneau mlne stock 'today is 14%, American Can 112%, Anaconda Copper 29%, Beth- lehem Steel 52%, Fox Films 24, Gen- | eral Motors 39%, International Har- vester 46, Kennecott Copper 21%, Checker Cab 11%, 11%, 11%, Cur- tiss-Wright 3%, Hudson Bay 4%, Packard Motors 7%, Standard Oil of California 38%, Standard OIll of New Jersey 39%, Standard Brands 18'%, Trans-America 8%, United Air- eralt 34, U. 8. Steel 103%. NANCY CARROLL " WEDDED AGAIN NEWTON, Conn., July 6—Nancy| Carroll, who arose from the back | row of the chorus to a leading ac- | tress on stage and screen, was mar- ried here Friday to Francis Bolton Mallory, magazine editor, and form- er Princeton Professor, at a civil) ceremony. She immediately left | With her new husband for a hon- 354 Kllled in Two Day Celebration {Drownings, Auto Accidents Take Toll Over In- dependence Day CHICAGO, July 6—The Nation counted 354 deaths last night as !'it prepared to end a two-day cele- bration which started with Inde- pendence Day observance Saturday. All sections of the country were represented in the castualty list. The Mid-West led in fatalities, reported 68; and the Mid-Atlantic States were only two behind. The Pacific Coast States were third with a total of 65 deaths. Drownings led with automobiles next as causes of deaths. Fireworks, once the cause of numerous fatalities, took only eight | deaths, four fewer than last year. — .- SEATTLE ATTY, SHOOTS IT OUT WITH UNKNOWN SEATTLE, July 6.—involved in a shooting concerning which he re- fused any information, Willlam G. Beardsleee, attorney, was given emergency treatment in the City Hospital for a gunshot wound in ithe left side when he walked into | the hospital and showed his wound to a surgeon, without comment. Beardslee’s hands were badly lac- | erated and his clothing showed evi- dence of a struggle. He gave his name, occupation and address to Detective W. N. Miller and said: “The other fellow is in a worse condition than this.” |~ Champion Heavyweight to Take on Man Mountain of Italy for His Next Match, Beardslee was taken home later by surgeons who removed a bullet. William Garvin, of Spokane, triend of the Beardslee family, re- | vealed that the shooting occurred down town. | Beardslee’s hands were broken. King and Queen Celebn!e Today EDINBURGH, July 6—The Duke Jand Duchess of York, arriving at Holyrood Palace, were the first of the royal family to congratulate the King and Queen on their 38th | wedding anniversary. In accordance with the old. cus- tom, the servants of the royal household, drank the health of the King and Queen in champagne, He sald both of | Challenger Bad Gross Receipts of Championship Fight Less than $275,000 CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 6— The gross receipts of the Schmeling - Stribling fight amounted to approximately $273,710. Schmeling receives $106,138. Stribling receives $33,168. The Government receives §75,- 704 ; The Madison Square Garden | { Corporation will suffer a small flnlnehl loss. SLIDES OVER GLACIER AND Portland Man Killed Try-! ing to Ascend Mount Rainier Sunday TACOMA, Wash,, July 6.—Robert K. Zinn, aged 21 years, of Port-| land, member of a party of eleven’ who became exhausted in an at- tempt to climb Mount Rainier,! started sliding when 800 feet from the top, dropped over the ledge and fell 1,200 feet from Nisqually Glacier on Sunday and was ip- y - killed. A guide saved Kenneth R. Zinn, Robert’s brother, from a similar fate by grabbing him on a slide. The body of Robert has not been recovered yet LINDEN JURY CAN'T AGREE ON VERDICT Jurors Arefisc}mrged; Case to Be Retried in Next September SEATTLE, July 6—The jury| which tried Adolph Linden, former President of the Puget Sound Sav- ings and Loan Association, which recently failed, was discharged Fri- day night after having failed to agree after many hours of deliber- ations. The jurors sald afterwards that 19 ballots were taken, 11 standing for conviction for grand larceny charges and one for acquittal. The Prosecuting Attorney said Linden will be retried in September e ———— RED TOP MINE DECISION MADE VICTORIA, B: C, July 6—Baron {Harry Quickstad, Seattle mining man, has been awarded $10,000 igeneral and special damages by the British Columbia Court de- cision Friday against John McNeill and James J. Connors. The dam- ages are for alleged breach of |contract and sale of the Red Top |Mine in the Cassiar district. Baron Quickstad sued for $50,- 000. DROPS, DEATH : ly Battered . By Champion; German Asks | Referee to Stop Title Bout ‘Stribling Helpless on Ropes | 14 Seconds Before End of Final Round—Geor- | gian Puts UpGame Fight ( to Last | CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 6—Max Schmeling, heavyweight champion 'of the world, successfully defended Uhis title last Friday night by de- {feating Young Stribling, of Macon, ]Georgia. challenger, on a technical knockout in the final round of {their fifteen-round match. tribling was helpless on the ropes in his own corner 14 seconds /before the bout would have ended |in a decision when Referee George |Blake of Los Angtles,+ heeded | Schmeling’s pleadings to stop t‘lc {uneven contest. ‘ Stribling took a terrific beatmg amely from the tenth round on. He was knocked down for the count | of nine a few seconds before Ref- | |eree Blake stopped the contest at| ‘Schme]lngs pleadings. crowd of about 40,000 -the bout. saw ROUND ONE | Stribling danced in his corner| 'and raced out and snipped a left into the face of Schmeling, The| |latter grinned and then backed the | challenger to the ropes. He hook- |ed aleft ond right to the chin then lunged in with a left hook which missed. Stribling eame close, clinch- ed, then rapped three short rights to the champion’s head. He then #t-ove fists to the champion’s ead bul Schmellg daln nated him on the ropes with a short left land right to the head. Schmeling |spun the challenger around with |a left and right to the head but Stribling came back, stabbing a to Schmeling’s mouth. The | challenger whipped a fine right to | Max’s jaw and backed away as the | bell sounded. | | ROUND TWO | The champion rushed but Strib- 'ling straightened him up with a left hook to the head. They fell into a clinch, Stribling beat the champion about the body and flick- ed a short right to the face as they parted. Schmeling whipped a hard left to Stribling’s head and Stribling poked the champion twice on the nose with straight lefts. The champion crowded and glazed the challenger’s eye with a {hard right then hooked a hard left to the chin. Stribling then drove the champion into the ropes with a barrage of rights and lefts. Stribling clipped the champion’s chin with a hard upper cut at the bell. ! | ROUND THREE Stribling boxed carefully and stabbed Max's head with a straight left then found an opening and sent a whistling right to the champion‘s chin,. Schmeling smiled but backed away. Stribling stepped into him with a smashing right uppercut to the chin and dropped another hard right asthey wrestled. In the clinch Stribling drove a right to the champion’s mouth but Max beat a tatto on Stribling’s body at close range. Schmeling took another hard right to the head just before the bell but was still grinning and slugged Strib- ling’s body as the referee waved the fighters to their corners. ROUND FOUR Stribling’s nose began to bleed a little in his corner. The chal- lenger tore into Schmeling with two left hooks and a crackling right to the jaw. Stribling then drove the champion back with an- (Continuea on Page iwo) | ¢ i CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 6.—Max Schmeling, triumphant in his cham= pionship battle, is ready to battle the Man Mountain from Italy, Primo Carnera. This engagement will be Schmeling's next defense of his title, his manager, Jacobs sald. The contest will probably be de- cided next September but the exictj, date and place is not known. Schmeling emerged from his bat- tle with Stribling with a lump under his left eye and reddened Check bone which did not pain him. Stribling presented a pathetic figure, his face puffed and bruised with cuts under and above both| eyes. | Stribling pralsed Max for a falr, clean fight. A hard blow .above the left eye in the eleventh round really start- ed defeat for Stribling. He said he knew he was bealen then. Champmn Retains His Tltle & a3 MOTOR STALLS, - SHIP PLUNGES - THOUSANDFEET ] Pllot with Fne Passengers Crashes Into Moun- tain Side GOLF STARS DEAD ;| Airplane Becomes Unman- ageable and Accident Results in California LUCERNE, Cal, July 6—Falling from a height of 1,000 feet, an airplane crashed into the side of a4 mountain Sunday, killing the pilot and five of the passengers, ) three of whom are California golf stars. Those killed are: George Ritchie, former profes- sional at Rio Delmar. Leon Keller, Southern California amateur. Louis Decker, Los Angeles reai- tor, Mrs, ancee. ! William Hoffman, pilot of the plane The motor went dead. ————— Sigmunda Lax, Decker's fi- of Berkeley, SCH \E,LINGv | CONGRESSMAN MGRATURIUM ISSUE STILL BIG PROBLEM Agreement Ea ched for| New Discussion—Chief Stumbling Block ‘ F ascism ' GRAHAM DIES IN NEW YORK Chalrman of House Judi- bR | ciary Committee Encyclical Letter Issued] Passes Away with Unqualified De- nial of Charges Attacked By Pope | ISLIP, N, Y., July 6.—Represen- |tative George S. Graham, aged 81, of Pennsylvania, Chairman of the VATICAN CITY, Italy, July 6.— House Judiciary Committee, died PARIS, July 6.—The Havas News Agency said American Secretary of | Treasury Mellon and American Am-‘ bassador Edge, have arranged a new formula for an agreement on the moratorium plan and this has been telephoned to Washington, D. C., in hopes that the reply will be available for a meeting this after- noon. The sole stumbling block to the| accord appeared to be the problem of whether deliveries in kind by | Germany will be suspended. The United States is willing to delegate this issue to a commission of experts with the understanding the decision be in harmony with the spirit of President Hoover's proposal that there will be an entire suspension of the repara- tions' by Germany for one year. SOON SAIL 0 FIND TREASURE Cocos Island Expedition Is Being Organized in | I Vancouver, B. C. : | | VANCOUVER, B. C, July 6—! Lured by legendary tales of fab- ulous treasure buried by pirates, a party of Vancouver men, headed by Col. J. E. Leckle, will sail early next month for Cocos Island. It is popularly supposed 300 tons of treasure valued at $60,000,000 were ! buried on the island by pirates. It is also reported wealthy citizens of Peru hid gold and jewels in the! island during the revolution of 1883, A number of other expeditions have attempted to find the treasure in the past but none of them was‘ successful. i ———,—a———— (Fifty Injured when i Trains Hit Heacl-on| NEW HAVEN, Conn, July 6— Fred Russ, aged 70 years, died as ‘Lhe result of injuries received hst‘ night in a head-on collision be-| tween two trains in the local yards. ' Eleven others are confined in the hospitals. Fifty passengers suf- fered cuts and bruises. | lally Sll(‘nL In a vigorously worded encyclical last Saturday morning at his sum- letter. Pope Pius the Eleventh, has mer home here. He was the oldest issued an unqualified denia! of the member of either House of Con- Fascist charges that the Catholic gress and was dean at large of the Action participated in political ac-|Republican Delegation from the tivities. The Catholic Action is not | Keystone state. He served nine mentioned but it is implied in!consecutive terms. the reference to “irreverences and| Among the first condolences re- violences which took place in the|ceived was a message from Presi~ presencz and with participa: on of | dent Hoover. members of a political party.” | Sixth Member to Die The death of Representativa Graham {s the sixth among the members of the next House. The sibility of the withdrewul of the|Republicans and Democrats have Papal Nuncio at Rome is discussed |10st an equal number, three each. by the diplomatic okservers as the| The Republicans still have a ma- result of a widening breach be-!jority of one with 215 against 214 tween the Church and State f»i-|Democrats and One Farmer Lahor lowing the encyclical letter on Fas-|member. Five vacancies remain to cism. be filled. The Pope reiteated disapproval| Representative Graham became Premier Mussolini’s action againsi jthe oldest member of the House on Catholic clubs. |the death of Representative Cooper The Government remained ome-"of Wisconsin. He was an anti- | Prohibitionist and took a leading Ipart in Prohibition hearings by the Judiciary Committee at the last )sesslon of Congress. Dyer Next in Line | Representative Dyer, of Missouri, {is next in line for the Chairman- BIFFS ARNu'shxp of the committee in the event {the Republicans organize the next | House. [Two Meet on Statlon Plat-| Representative Graham served asg form——Real Set ta | Vice-Chairman of the Republican Is Result BREACH LOOMS ROME, Italy, July 6.—The pos-| Congressional Committee, resigning |last fall because he could not sup- | port Pinchot for Governor of Penn- RENO, Nevada, July 6—After D o 1 three weeks of gun waving, threats'm hzl;doi usslb‘l‘e" R‘;?u‘ b and counter threats, Cornelius Van- o nomination next year. He is sur- York cartoonist, actual 3 t blows and the sa!ai.rclclfi ]:rv,icstmceamg e wmfi S Semahier ot S children by his first marriage. He off, second best. had been ill for months chance meeting at the rallroad sta-| __ ) tion. Ketchikan Newspaper A remark by Arno caused the two and delight of a throng of on-| Chronicle Purchaser lookers. | Ketchikan, Alaska, July 6.—The Vanderbilt, in a statement, ac- Tribune, published daily here since remark regarding Mrs. Vanderbilt| Friday afternoon and the equip~ who has been sued for divorce. ment was taken over by the Ket- Vanderbilt hit Arno and the lat- | chikan: Chronicle, published daily The disturbance was quelled by!ly absorbed the Ketchikan Times Rallway Police. |and Dally Progressive Miner. PR S SOVl (versity of Washington football Willlam Suryman, 14 years old, squad wa sso anxious to have his came in from Dundas Bay Sunday |gridders ready for next fall's cam~ sylvania, derbilt, jr, and Peter Arno, New (ived by & widow, who is his sec- Witnesses sald thisre was a| to square off to the amazement' Cease’ Publicm':o"; {cused Arno of making an insulting |last March, ceased publication last ter hit the station platform. since 1919. The Chronicle previous- BOY’S HEAD IS HURT | Coach Jimmy Phelan of the Uni- to enter St. Ann's Hospital. He L!\pal& he kept them in spring prac- Isuttering from injuries to the head. tice about eight weeks.