The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 8, 1931, Page 1

o THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE "ALL THE NE'WS ALL THE TIME" VOL. XXXVIIL, NO. 5765. DISARMAMENT IS FULLUWING MORATORIUM Long Stride Indicated - To-! wards Curtailing Arm- ies and Navies SECRETARY STIMSON HAS REACHED ITALY Debt Suspensnon Already' Revives Business; New German Action HINGTON D. C., July 8— A 1ong stride toward World dis- armament is viewed by the Govern- ment today as a possible outstand- ing result of the moratorium. President Hoover hopes the gen- | eral Disarmament Conference at Geneva next February will brinz curtailment of growing costs of the armies and navies and fortifications and thereby ease the world’s eco- nomic burdens. STIMSON IN NAPLES NAPLES, TItaly, July 8,—Amefl-j can Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson has landed here to begin a circuit of European capitals for discussions of disarmament and economic reconstruction. BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT WASHINGTON, D. C, July 8— —The moratorium proposal is cre- dited by the Department of Com- merce officials as having already brought about an improved busi- ness sentiment throughout the world. Department officials said a study of reports from several wide- ly separated foreign countries since the war debt postponement plan was _anounced, showed a phycho- logical effect on business. GERMANY'S NEW MOVE BERLIN, July 8—Thousands of Germany's strongest banks, indus- trial firms and shipping concerns owning properties valued at many billions of dollars stood ready to- day to guarantee with all their as- sets the Reichs business credit abroad. The mere fact that the naton’s greatest firms are united to under- write, where necessary, foreign Joans of individual companies or banks is expected to restore con- 1ls Brought ck from ldB ond Man Belleved Dro ed Is Revived by Physicians |- and Nurses After Nine | Hours’ Work. | PHILADELPHIA, Penn, July 8.| —Believed to have drowned after five minutes at the bottom of Lau- rel Lake, New Jersey, Willlam| Dugan is alive and well today. For nine hours' physicians and nurses made efforts to revive him although his heart and pulse had| ’stoprped and his body was blue | |with cold. Dugan was wrapped in blankets | Jlined with hot water bottles and given hypodermics. Inhalators were used. Dugan finally sighed and opened {kis eyes. “It was so comfortable I was | Just resting in space yet I had a feeling to rouse myself and make an effort to go somewhere,” sald Dugan. “Then from a great distance I| {heard mother cafling and I had to| answer her. After a great effort I onenéd my eyes." Dugan said he had a feeling of | obiivion, a peaceful long sleep,| his mother calling. Then he ral- lied. - e DISCOVERY OF - WITHERITE IS MADE ON KUIU George Comstock Finds New Mineral-Barium Carbonate, Kuiu Isl. Discovery of barium carbonate, (witherite) the first of that metal in Alaska, was anounced today by B. D. Stewart, Supervising Mining Engineer for the Territory. It was made on Kuiu Island, Frederick Sound, recently by George Com- stock, oldtime prospector. Associat- ed with him are Dr. Robert Simp- son and a pjrospector named Kelly. The discovery was in the form of a deposit of pebbles on the beach, about two or three tons be- with no dreams, before he heard " fidence of foreign leaders in the solvency of German business. The Government has legalized ing found. Owing to the sweight of the mineral, Mr. Stewart said the action. . J. B. WALKER PASSES AWAY Publisher, E:;ineer, Cru- sader, Dies at Home in Brooklyn NEW YORK, July 8.—John Bris- ben Walker, aged 84 years, publi- sher, engineer and crusader for World Peace, died at his Brooklyn home here yesterday. ‘Walker formerly published and was editor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine and owner of the Stan- ley patents for steam automobiles. He was a rancher, educator, road builder, humanitarian, politician and soldier in the Chinese Army. 108 College Men Seeking Wings, Army Air Corps ‘WASHINGTON, D. C, July 8.— Its harder these days to keep Joe College's feet on the ground, for he’s turning to flying. Of the 245 students forming the new primary flying school class of the army air corps, 108 were ac- cepted because they were college men. it was not probable that the de- posit was not far distant from its source. Claims have been located by Mr. Comstock on ground composed of limestone carrying barite veins. Mr. Stewart will visit the ground within a few weeks to investigate, he said. Barium carbonate is one of the rarest of minerals. It occurs in only two places, so far as is known on the North American continent. One of them is near Lexington, Ky., and the other in Ontario, Canada. It is used extensively as a filler for paints, wall-paper, in oil drilling, in refining sugar and has -other industrial uses. The latest quotations are $47 per ton for 200 mesh and $44 for 100 mesh ground, finished product. The discovery was described by [Mr. Stewart as “most interesting.” If Mr. Comstock can locate the source of the pebble deposit found on the ‘beach, and develop- a suf- ficient quantity, he believed that no difficulty would be found in ob- taining a ready market. The specimen analyzed by Mr. Stewart was practically pure, and had no metallic mineral content. L — e STARTS ON VACATION Kent G. Robinson, agent for the Pacific Steamship Company at Cordova, is a passenger on the| steamship Admiral Watson, which called at Juneau today. He is tak- llng a vacation trip to San Fran- cisce. Woman Finds Self : “Without a Country” PARIS, July 8.—The well-known ' “man without a country” had no- thing on a pretty English woman, Peggy Vere, who makes her home in Paris. Some years ago she mar- ried an American dancer, Oscar Mouvet, and thereby took on his nationality. ~ Later, her husband died and now, on the eve of seeking work in England, she has been told she must first obtain a Home Of- fice permit, After her marriage, she did not automatically become an American citizen, because she lived in France with her husband, and she would have had to live two years in ‘America before being able to take out papers for her citizenship. ‘The Women's Congress which will meet in Geneva early this month, FEDERAL GOVT. IS CRITICISED FOR SYSTEM Wickersham_Eommi ssion Deals With Youthful Lawbreakers WASHINGTON, cism of the Federal Government and its alleged dealing with its youthful lawbreakers on the same busis of older and hardened crim- inals was launched through the White House by the disbandec Wickersham Commission. A formal report on ‘“child of- fenders in the Federal System of Jastice” asserted the Government lacked the proper equipment tc mete out this type of justice. The report of the Commission recommended that the treatment of Juvenile Delinquency be rele- gated almost entirely to the states Harsh Treatment The Wickersham Commission’s report to President Hoover on “child offenders and the Federa! System of Justice,” is described as la bit harsh on disciplinary treat- reent accorded minors and asserted many jails in which they are kept “present a situation of filth and ery impossible to convey.” Flogging Reported In some instances, the report says, flogging 1s not infrequent, ‘while in others calesthentics to the point of exhaustion and torture positions, shackling and drenching with cold water, and confinement tn bread and water, have been in vogue. Diet Restriction The report said discipline ofteu took the form of diet restriction. In the Washington State Re- formatory 'at- Menroe, correction ceils are said to be kept in total darkness. ~ Young boys sometimes are forced to . sleep ~on | wooden planks, sometimes for. ten ‘days. GHAMBER IS TO PLANTO MEET NOTED VISITORS Directors Consider Forth- coming Visit of Big Congressional- Party Plans for meeting the Congres- sional delegation due here July 21 on the Coast Guard Cutter Tahoe and the steamer Yukon were ten- tatively discussed yesterday by the Directors of the Chamber of Com- merce and there will be some fur- ther discusion at the regular week- ly noon luncheon meeting of that organization tomorrow. There are 22 members in the delegation in- cluding several influential members of Congress, National Park Service and Indian Office officials. This party is now engeged in an inspection of many governmental projects in the west. It is directly interested in projects under the In- terior Department since it is com- posed chiefly of Interior Depart- ment Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee and heads of bureaus of the same de- partment. A report of the Fourth of July celebration is expected to be made to the Chamber tomorrow. A few other matters are to be taken up at the meeting tomorrow. TRAIL CREW LEAVES FOR SKAGWAY WORK; WILL RETURN SOON With a trail crew for Skagway, Ranger Harold Smith left yester- day for that port on the Ranger IX, Capt. George Peterson. He will return as soon as the crew and its camp and supplies are put in the field. ‘The crew is comprised of E. E. Loomis and three men. It will be occupied several weeks cleaning out trails close to the town and reha- bilitating the trail from Denver Station o nth eWhite Pass Rall- road to Denver Glacier. As soon as the work is finished, it will return here and complete maintenance work on the local trail system. ———————— UNITED STATES MARSHAL SMITH ENROUTE NORTH Lynn Smith, United States Mar- shal for the Fourth Division, visited Juneau friends yesterday while the is hoping to arrange a number of these perplexing questions which are arising for women who have married foreigners, steamer Yukon was in port. He is returning to his home in Fairbanks after taking a party of prisoners to|of the States, 3 July 8—Criti-| OLD YIELD IN 1931 EXPECTED BREAK RECORDS Shipments for Bitdd Six Months ,$3,178,380, Point to New High With gold shipments from. the Cerritory for the first six momn.n f this year over 50 per cent in ex- cess of the shipments for a likc seriod in 1930, there is a strong probability that the production of Alaska’s gold mining industry in 1931 will be the largest since 1917 The total of shipments for Jan- 1ary, February, March, April, May wnd June of the current year was $3,178,380, according to the official figures reported by John C. Mc- Bride, Collector of Customs. The same six months last year had shipments aggregating $2,048,906. GAIN IS MADE ‘The galn for this year was $1,129,- 174, or in excess of 50 per cent. It 1as been registered steadily, each month showing bigger shipments ‘han the corresponding month of 1930. The first half of the year, mat- urally, is the period when ship- ments are smallest. This is due to the fact that placer mining op- erations, including the big dredging projects at Fairbanks and Nome, and small lodes in the interlor, are closed down for ‘the winter. While this year, some of the dre- dges in the Fairbanks distriet opened in April,the whole fleet did not swing into line until about June 1, and the Nome boats did not begin work until later than that. Smaller projects were also later getting under way. The season, according to Gov, Parks on his re- turn here this week, was 15 d later than normal all over the terior and northern areas. This naturally retarded mining opera- “Itions somewhat. Despite these facs tors, the first half of the year was the most productive in many years. MAY, REACH $10,000,000 If the average monthly gain for the first half year should be main- tained for the last, the year's total would reach eleven and three- quarter million dollars. Mining men " (Centinued on Page Three) L e STOCK PRICES FLUCTUATE IN TRADING TODAY| Nothing Left to Excite At- tention Now that War Debt Plan Cleared NEW YORK, July 8—With the war debt plan finally in effect, the stock market was left today with nothing to ponder over for the moment, but reports of the condi-| tion of domestic industry and tradc which is unilluminating. prices fluctuated uncertainly, generally working lower. Listless trading opened, then rzllied for a time on the leadership of rails. Trading then held off sgain until after midday. Coppers were notably weak. Bear pressure against Steel was again apparent, it dropping thre: pcints. Anaconda, Anierican Telephone, Case, American Smelting and ott- ers lost about 2 to 3 points. . i TODAY'S STOCK | QUOTATIONS .. . NEW YORK, July 8—Closiug quotation of Alaska Juneau m! stock today. is 157%, American Can 107%, Anaconda Copper 25%, Beth- lehem Steel 48%, Fox Films 18 Gieneral Motors 37%, Internatinn- al Harvester 43%, Kennecott 187, ‘Cnecker Cab 10%, 10%, 10%, Cur- tiss-Wright 3%, Hudson Bay 4 Standard Brands 18, Standard Oil ot Californ‘a 36%, Standard Oil of New Jersey 37%, Trans-America 7%, United Aircraft 27, U. S. Steel 96%, Packard Motors 7%. Average Pilot in 1930 Found Paycheck Leaner WASHINGTON, D. C, July 8— Fliers' paychecks, on an average, were leaner in 1930 than the year before. An analysis of figures on the progress of aeronautics by the de- partment of commerce shows that: pilots in scheduled air transporta- tion operations received an averaze of $460 g month. $90 less than in 1929, . MLMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS BROADWAY ACCLAI‘V!S AROUND WORLD FLIERS world V‘«'l NNIE MAE AND FAMILY ON COAST | I Mrs. Winnie Mae Hall Fain of Olahoma City for, whom the around Associatea Press Phoro | New | wil Ascocisted Press telephoto of triumphal ride of Wiley Post, (left) pilot of the Winnie Mae, and Navigator Haiold Gatty up Broadway as New York f.ted the air heioes a.ter a quick flight around the POST, GATTY WILL GO ON NATION TllUR Aumen to Start from New York Next Week; Plans Completed NEW YORK, July 8—Wilsy Post d Harold Gatty, who recently circled th» glohe in "ecord break- |ing time, are to make a nationwiaz tour in their plane, the A. B. C, | Artis Service announced today frangements for the tour have been completed. The twe airmen will start from York next week and the tour cover six weeks. All import- oyt _cities: with “suitable will be on the intinerary. MAX BAER TO WED TONIGHT Heavywughl “and Former Screen Actress to be Married airports the world plane of Wiley Post and Harold Catty was named, joined her husband, Leslie Fain, in Long Beach, Cal., about the time the Winnie Mae was orought down oa Roosevelt Field. Fain is holding RENO, Iw'"‘:l(ld J'lly 8.—Despite parentai objection and asserted their son. FREIGHT RATE INCREASE HAS FIGHT COMING Organized Agriculture Goes to Bat Against Railway’s Increase By FRANK 1. WELLER (Associated Press Farm Editor) WASHINGTON, D. C, July 8— Announcement by American rail- ways that the proposed 15 per cent increase in' freight rates, if granted, would apply to all commodities, re- sulted in immediate plans by or- ganized agriculture to protest to the inter-state commerce commis- sion. O. W. Sandberg, director of the American Farm Bureau federation's transportation department, has pre- pared for the commission’s consid- eration a table of 28 principal farm commodities showing what he says is the amount paid by the farmer in freight out of each $100 he re- '{ceives for his products. How It Is Paid For each $100 of grapes shipped, $61 -1s represented as freight costs The freight on potatoes is given at $36.56 for each $100 worth; hay and alfalfa, $32.02; apples, $24.87; corn, $13.49; wheat, $11.87; poultry, $7.16; hogs, $5.21; cotton in bales, $3.08 and Jeaf tobacco, $2.20. Bandberg says the average freight rate for all commodities hauled by railroads, including such items as lumber and coal, is $7.08 for each $100 of value Farm products headed the list of commodities in the interstate com- merce questionnaire on what the rallways would exclude from the increase. Notkng Excluded ‘The reply that nothing was to be excluded indicated to farm groups that the proposed increase would (Continued on Page Three) REAL PROGRESS REPORTED MADE BY DRY BUREAU e New Policy of L Leaving Vio- lators to Own Con- | science Enunciated WASHINGTON, D. C., July 8.—| The National Prohibition policy of | leaving each private violator of the | Dry. Laws “to his own conscience | and forces of education,” was enun- | ciated last night by Prohibition | Director Amos W. W. Woodcock, in a radio address. ; Director Woodcock asserted that such “real progress” has been made by his Bureau during the past year that eventually it should at!aln‘ absolutely its objective by wiping out those wro deal in quantities ol, illicit liquor. Masonic Services Held | For an'banks Ploneer SEATTLE, July Br——Musnm( fu-, neral services were held today for the late Robert Lavery, aged 171, Dawson and Fairbanks pioneer, who | died in & hospital here. He was | brought from Fairbanks for medical | treatment several weeks ago. 1 e .- \ MATCHES, BOXES; RESULT, BILL CITY $30 KIDS, Kids, some matches, a heap ol‘ boxes, and the combination pro- |duced a blaze back of the power- the fire alarm to sound and called partment. Firemen's fees, $1 to each| member of the Department, $30. And the bill against the City will amount to more than that since there is gas for the trucks and| wear and tear on the equipment 110 be covered, | prot - I ,than s of his manager, Max Bacr, |hc.xvywflwl\t, will marry Mrs. Dor 0- thy Dunbar Wells, eciress, tonight. The two met here several months ago when she was here and se cured a divorce from Jaime son, attachie of the Forelgn Legation in London Baer's parents sald they would rot attend the wedding. Baer is 22 years of age. His mother said Mrs. Walls is 38 years of age and “old enough to be Maxie’s mother. GUEEN HELEN LOSING OUT former screen| BUCHAREST, July 8— Queen |Eelen, alread horn of her Royal| {perorgatives, saw her personal| hts ands. The King has issued a procla- mation denying the truth of the ort the Queen will spend the| mmer at Constanza with Mich- which is taken to mean the will remain in Bucharest. fading ael, Loy under King Carol’s| 'PRICE TEN CENTS e TWU AVIATORS ~ HOPOFF EARLY - THIS MORNING Leave Seattle on First Con- tact Trip Ever Made | to Japan EXPECT TO BE IN ' FAIRBANKS 4 P. M. Sighted Flymg High Over British Columbia This Forenoon The Tckyo nonstop plane passed over Vandcrhoff, B. C., at 9:52 o'clock this forenson, flying high with a tail wind. The plane was seen over Prince George at 9:30 o’clock heading in the direction of Ha- zelton. The United States Cable Of- fice in Juncau received word frem Whitehorse at 11 o’clock that the two non-stoppers ex- peet to be over Fairbanks by 4 o'clock this afternoon: START EARLY TODAY SEATTLE, Jluy 8. — Receiving word from Fairbanks that the r-- | fuelling plane, piloted by Jimmy Mattern and Nick Greener reached | there from Whitehorse at 4 o'clock i yesterday afternoon and was ready to refuel in the air, Reg L. Rob- bins and H. 8. Jones, hopped off from here at 8:57 o'clock this morning. | Plane Takes to Air The plane took almost 4,000 feet to get off the field with a load of 1300 gallons of gasoliné The plane climbed a foot off the field at the 2,000 foot runway .mark, then bumpsed again. Robbins, piloting the plane, then gave her the gun ,and the plane rose slowly over the end of the field and the lights dis- | appeared northward within a min- | ute. | They Don’t Smoke | Robblns and Jones carried chick- sandwiches, two gallons of water, emergency rations of beans, rice, tea, bacon and chocolate, but |as neither smoke, no tobacco was \carrled They have lifesaving Jackets in case they are forced |down to the water but no para- " The plane is a white Lockheed | chutes. \Vega monoplane, N. R. 7429. The words Fort Worth, in black letter- ing, are painted on both sides of thc plane. (Continuea or Pagc Threel ‘GHARGEI] WITH - EMBEZZLEMENT OF ONE MILLION Seattle BanEReleased on Bond of $10,000; May Plead Guilty SEATTLE, July 8—A. E. Plerce, Vice-President of the Home Sav- ings and Loan Association here, | charged with the embezzlement of approximately $1,000000 of the funds of the association and its af- | filated company, the Washington | Loan and Securities Company, has been released on $10,000 bail. ? As in the case of the Puget Sotnd Savings and Loan Assicia- \(mn which was closed last spring, the Home Savings and Loan Asso- clation has been given approxi- Queen Helen is not included in|mately 20 days to attempt to re- |list of guests for Tlena's wedding a' Sinaia on July 26, although all o.her members of the Royal fam- ily are invited. | habilitate its finances or be liqui~ dated. Court officials said Pierce told them he would plead V\ully Says H oover Dam Will Draw Many Industries DENVER, Colo., July 8.- of the center of the nat: elec- tric-chemical industries the Niagara Falls region to the Colo- rado river basin as a result of the construction of the Hoover dam | was forecast by George W. Malone, | A shift n' from member of the Colorado river com- {ly conferring with representatives of the other western states regard- ing power developments on the Colorado river, “The Hoover dam, with its cheap~ est of all electric power, will mean many industrial plants will | (move to the west where we have | plenty of cheap sites and lower | taxes,” Malone said. “The electric- | chemical industries for instance, are centered in Canada and in the | Niagara Falls district, but they are lookmg for cheap power, cheap sites and lower taxes. The elec- house this morning which caused state engineer of Nevada and a !tric power of Niagara is more val- ‘uable for other industries. The out the Juneau Volunteer Pire De- | mission, who was in Denver recent- \Hoover dam will furnish power at 12 1-4 mills a killowatt-hour, the cheapest power in the United States.” The Electric-Chemical Engineers |Asocmqon of America will hold |its ‘next annual meeting in Salt Lake City in October.