The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 13, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “AEL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIII.. NO. 5769. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY JULY 13 193| MLMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS e GERMAN NATIONAL BANK IS CLOSED RICH OREBODY 4 ghglrgtgoo 1S DISCOVERED bt $10, AT CHICHAROF ,_ e ific Cc.;)laint Not Made Yet Aiamst Freeburns Reveals Discov-! Seattle Banker ery of New Orebody E Below 1,300 Level | searrie suy 1s—tast satur- da3 four days after the State had Discovery of an orebody carrying 'closed the Home Savings and Loar high values below the 1,300 foot Association, specific charges of em- level, the lowest there, in the old bezzlement had not been filed Chichagof mine was revealed here against A. E. Plerce, Vice-President yesterday by James L. Freeburn,|and Manager. He has a $10,000 General Manager of that property bond ready to post but Prosccuting under the Rust-Wallace regime and Attorney Burgunder said further now owner, who visited here Sun-|investigations will be made before day night and left by plane today for Seattle. The outlook is promising. The discovery was made 113 feet below the 1,300 foot level and some drift- ing was done on the vein which runs from two to four feet in; width. It will take some time to carry out the exploratory work necessary to determine the exent of the body, but Mr. Freeburn said it was prob-| able that mining and milling op- erations would be resumed on the property. It will jrequire several months to do the necessary ex- ploratory and development work be- fore milling cah be launched. Mr. Freeburn was reluctant to discuss the discovery at this time. Development and exploratory work will be continued unabated. time returning here in about ten days. He took with him specimens of the ore from the newly discovered vein. They showed the richness of the deposit, and were remarkable even for the Chichagof which earn- ed the reputation for high ore values when that property was operated by the late W. R. Rust and Hugh C. Wallace of Tacoma. PANTAGES-NOW FREED GHARGE OF CONSPIRACY Three Oihe—r_C‘odefendants in ‘Love Mart” Case Are Dismissed SAN DIEGO, Cal, July 13.-—Alex- ander Pantages, millionaire theat- rical man, and three co-defendants. Jessie H. Shreve, wealthy and in- fluential broker; and William Jibelmann, the later two being the asserted proprietors of the “girl mart” or “love ba- zaar” of Hollywood, were today freed of conspiracy on a moral charge, by Superior Court Judge Turretine on a motion of Dis- trict Attorney Tom Wheelan. Wheelan informed the court he did not believe a “jury from the county” would bring in a verdict of guilty as the result of the, showing made at the first trial on account of the past life of Lydia Nitto, complaining witness. TWO PATIENTS BEATEN, DEATH EL PASO, Irxas, the Liberty dospital at Juarez were beaten to death by an iron pipe by Eutomio Lovata, another inmate who later died from acute indiges- tion. Phys‘cians beli made violent by the heat. The victims wers Mamn Cam- puzano and Jose Cuellar. o California and New York, with 2,886 and 1587 licensed pilots, re- spectively, are the only states num- bering more than 1,000 fliers. — .- — More than 3,000 miles of roads will be constructed in Missouri dur- ing 1931, the highway commission has announoed Lovata was He | will remain in Seattle but a short| Olive Clurk Day | July i2.—Two | patients of the insanity ward of | | The fishing filing of specific charges. Like in the case of Adolf Linden, |former President of the Puget {Sound Savings and Loan Associa- tion, closed last February, Plerce is also accused by the Prosccutor with $1,000,000 illegal withdrawings over 14 years. Plerce Is also President of the Northwest Broadcasting system, stations KJR in Seattle, KNY in San Francisco, KEX in Portland, and KGA in Spokane, which he took over when they went bank- Erupt under Linden's management. Linden will be tried again in September on charges of misus- ing funds of the Puget Sound Sav- }ings and Loan Association to fin- ance the radio system. The closing of the twd loan as- soclations here within a very few months jeopardizes a total of $21,- 000,000 in small savings of thous- ands of persons. Post, Gatty to Return to Europe i Winnie Mae—to Be Placed Alongside of Spirit of St. Louss OKLAHOM CITY, Okla., July 13. —After a tour of the principal cities of the United States, Wiley Post and Harold Gatty will cross the Atlantic. again, but by steamer to visit European cities, F. C. Hall, sponsor of the globe flight an- |nounced Hall also said the Smithsonian Institute, ' in Washington, D. C, { has requested that the Winnie Mae, the round the world plane, be placed in the exhibition beside the Spirit of St. Louis, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's plane. @ SR i START FLIGHT FOR BUDAPEST ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., July 13.—Alexander Magyar and George Enders took off on their long de- |layed flight across the Atlantic to iBudapest, They planned to stop for fuel at Harbor Grace. Favorable weather reports made them decide ;to start at once. MISSING FISH BOAT LOCATED SEATTLE, July 13.—Cutter Alert reported by radio Saturday night to the Coast Guard headquarters here that it had located the hali- but schooner Eastern Point of Ket- | chikan, reported mising on Friday, at Little Daykoo Harbor. schooner had a broken cylinder head. The Alert radioed an attempt will be made to tow the schooner to Ketchikan when weather per- mitted. A gale was blowing last night. - e —— Five specimens of a cave-inhabit- ing fish-a fresh-water sculpin from Onondaga cave, Leasburg, Mo.— have been presented to Field mu- seum in cmcngo Crater of World’s Greatest Active Volcano Is Explore by Rev.Ber d nardB.Hubbard CHIGNIK, Alaska, July 13.—After one successful trip into the crater of volcano Aniakchak, the Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard is preparing for another dip into the ash strewn and gas filled world’s largest active volcano. The Rev. Hubbard said the crater ' is entirely devoid of animal and plant life. ‘The explosive 30-square mile area consists of a main up-built hub {three miles in circumference sur- rounded by pits and hills. The crater is stull pushing up new lava plngs - SEATTLE VOTES ON RECALL OF MAYOR TODAY Mayor Frank Edwards's Fate in Hands of El- ectors of His City SEATTLE, July 13—The issue of recalling or retaining Frank Ed- wards as Mayor is faced today by the voters of this City at a spec- ial recall election. It is the second recall election in the history of the City. Mayor Hiram C. Gill was recalled just twenty years ago and Ceorge W. Dilling was elected to fill the vacancy. A very light vote is forecast, though more than 25,000 registered voters signed the recall petition asking for the special election. The recall is the outgrowth of Mayor Edwards's dismissal on March 9 of J. D. Ross, Superintendent of City Lighting. The charges against Mayor Gill in 1911 involved incom- petency. Two specific charges are laid against Mayor Edwards and appear on the official ballot being used today. They are: “Frank Edwards, Mayor of Seat- tle, King County, Washington, is harged with acts of malfeasance or misfeasance in office and of having violated his oath of office, as follows: “1. That on or about March 9, 1931, he filed alleged reasons for (Continuea vn Page Six) .. SEATTLE LIGHT BONDS BEGGING FORPURGHASER Recall Electlon Causes Slump — Only One Bid Received SEATTLE, July 13.—While both camps lined up in the battle to recall Mayor Frank Edwards and last Saturday rounded up the last details of the campaign, a slump for City Light Bonds was seen when but ons bid was received for the block of $2,000,000. Arthur Blum, Spokane invest- ment banker, representing C. W. McNair Company of Chicago, said,) the Mayoralty situation had dis- creditcd Seattle in the Eastern bond market. Blum came here to bid on the bond issue but received a telegram on his arrival here to withhold the offer. Only one bid, by a Seattle firm, was received hy City Comptroller Harry Carroll’ and he said it was $250 000 tco low. NAVY OFFICER CALLS WEDDING OFF SUDDENLY Brilliant Cer_eE;)ny Is Can- celled Six Hours Before Slated to Occur SAN DIEGO, Cal, July 13.— Within six hours of the time set for the wedding and brilliant cere- mony last Saturday which was to have made Edwinta Troplett Put- man the wife of Lieut. William V. Deuterman, U. 8. N, everything was cancelled by the prospective bridegroom who notified the Put- man family in a telegram there would be no wedding. No explanation was given. Miss Putman denied herself to everybody, going into seclusion at the home of a friend of her father, Lieut. Col Putman, officer at the Marine Base here. Deuterman is the son of Mrs. William Deuterman, of White Plains, N. Y., and graduated from Annapolis in 1924. Quake Swallows Hill in Mexico, But Leaves Lake MEXICO CITY, July 13.—An earthquake near the town of Sakiago on June 16 swallowed a small hill and left a lake in its place. Word of the phe- nomenon was brought to the Oaxaca State authorities by a runner, there being no other i means of communication. FOUR FLIERS TAKE T0 AIR, RETURN TRIP Robbins and—Jones Fly to Fairbanks with Mat- tern and Greener Robbins and Jones took off from Fairbanks last night at 7:18 o'clock for Whitehorse., They did mot arrive there and reports spread north and south they had crashed. Selkirk, Daw= son, Whitehorse and Atlin tele- graph operators reported the plane had not been seen and just about moon planes were. to be dispatched to make a search when a dispatch from Burns Lake, B. C., said a plane identi- fied as the Fort Worth had passed over there at 11:15 this morning headed directly for Seattle. The plane was also sighted over Hazelton. | SCLOMON, Alaska, July 13.— Reg L. Robbins and H. 8. Jones, in their plane Fort Worth, and Jimmy Mattern and Nick Greener in their refuelling plane, hopped off from here last Saturday after- noon at 3:15 o'clock for Fairbanks where the refueller will be left to aid in the projected second attempt for a non-stop flight, Secattle to ‘Tokyo. The fliers hope to install a new Wasp motor in the Fort Worth before proceeding to Seattle. REACH FAIRBANKS FAIRBANKS, July 13. — Robbins and Jones, in the Fort Worth, and Mattern and Greener in the re< fueller, arrived here Saturday nightl from Solomon at 9:24 o'clock. S eee- 2 FRENGHMEN ORIENTAL LAND Joseph LeBris andl Marcel Poret on Nonstop Flight to Tokyo MOSCOW, July 13.—LeBrix and Doret, winging their way across Russia, on their intended non-stop flight to Tokyo, which may also carry them around the world, passed over Moscow at 6:30 o'clock last night or 11:30 this morning, Eastern Standard time. The fliers hope to reach Tokyo in 62 hours. The distance is 6,000 miles. HOP OFF SUNDAY LEBOURGET, France, July 13.— Joseph Le Brix and Marcel Doret hopped off from the airdrome here at 4:43 o'clock S8unday morning for a nonstop flight to Tokyo. The getaway was without inci- dent. Friends of the aviators and other fans began to arrive at the air- drome at 3 o'clock and began to surround the plane which was under guard. The fliers arose shortly after 3 o'clock, gave the plane a last in- spection, warmed up the motor, then sped away in the breaking dawn Just before the take-off Le Brix said they had no plans beyond an attempt to break the world’s dis- tance record. He said they carried fuel for 75 hours flying and hoped to reach Tokyo in half of that time. He denied they had plans for flying beyond Tokyo or flying are around the world. “All we trying to do is to break the d ance record of Coste and Bellonte Le Brix said. - e YOSHIHARA IS PLANNING HOP Supply Ship Is Preparing for Cruise to Aid in Flight DUTCH HARBOR, laska, July 13 —Officers of the Kokusai Maru, supply ship, which left gasoline and other supplies along the Aleutian Island several weeks ago, for the proposed Tokyo-United States hop by Selyi Yoshihara, said the flier's plans are to attémpt another off before the end of August. The Kokusai Maru will st west touching at Attu, Adak Atka within a few weeks to aic the flight. Yoshihara's first flight was given up when his plane was damage am nd i Young Strlblm o on Floor in Fifteenth Round JDEGREE ISSUED & 5 BY COVERNMENT T0 SAVE NATION |Guarantees of Inst itution | Are Taken Over in ‘ Financial Crisis 'STOCK EXCHANGE 1S ALSO CLOSED TODAY \Efforts Being Made to Pre- vent Spread of Panic Among People RS RS s T ol BERLIN, July 13—Directing all | energies toward saving the nation | from financial ruin, the German | Government today issued an emer- gency decree taking over guaran- |tees of thirty million dollars of the Darmstaedter and National Bank which suspended payments because of a drain on its resources by constantly rising demands for |foreign currencies. | The run which closed the Darm~ staedter and National Bank ex- Itended to some degrees to other Jbanks today and to help prevent a | panic from spreading, the Govern- ment closed the Stock Exchange for today and tomorrow. Hans Luther, President of the Reichsbank, arrived at Basel, Switz- erland, this morning by airplane |and went immediately to the meet- ing of world bank directors who A were waiting for him. The above Asspciated Press picture shows challenger of Heavy ght Champion Max Schmeling | 1n quarters usually well inform- in almost prostrate condition in final round of their match in Cleveland, Ohio, on the night of July |eq it is suggested that an extension 3. .Stribling got up shortly after the picture was taken and was fhen knocked to the ropes The {of short time credits is likely to bout was .stopped when the Champion pleaded with the referee to end the uneven contest. Max and {be the measure the bank directors Tlcfcxee are shown standing over Stnblm" will take for Germany's relief. SHADOW IS THROWN LONDON, July 13.—The unex< pected collapse of the Darmstaedter i threw a shadow over the Stock Ex- change and Foreign Exchcnge Mar- Boundmg \Ba.sque Wins Decision in Rmm F lght} T s g TS PSR — ARE FLYING T0 | kets while hopes were expressed by financiers now.in_Euorpe that some method. will be arranged giving <Germnny ‘the necessary credit or ‘suppcrt The situation is very un- | settled and dealings were difficult especially on Foreign Exchanges. PARIS, July 13—Germany's lat- jest appeal for financial assistance {was made today to Premier Laval ! by Von Goesch, German Ambassa- dor. The Premier is believed to have told Von Goesch that France is unable to help Germany, at ‘presem at least, because of finan- | cial as well as political reasons. ! The press seemed aware of the ‘dnnger of Germany's straits but are inclined to hold Germany re- ’spcnslble for her own difficulties. i [ APPEAL MADE TO LAVAL | | U. S. READY TO ASSIST | WASHINGTON, D. C., July 13.— | American banking interests are | understood by the Administration [to be ready to assist European | Central banks in relieving Ger- many’s critical economic situation. | The Administation takes the view /that any plan preventing a finan- |cial collapse should originate with { the principal banks. | | CREDIT REPORTS | LONDON, July 13. —Reports are I persistent in financial circles that |a credit of 60,000,000 pounds, or about $300,000,000 has been arrang- ed for Germany by a combination |of banks including American and . Brnlsh The reports are not con- LOSES APPEAL Jack Dempsey, referee and promoter, awarding the decision to Paulino Uzeudun over Max Baer at the end of 20 rounds of gruelling battle in Reno. Baer is facing the camera and Uzcudun is shown side on. The picture, taken by the Associated Press, was flown by Shell Oil plane from Reno to San Francisco 1n an hour and 20 minutes and then rushed to Thc Empire. TOWNISHIT, SEVERE FIRE 'ROBT. SPENGER | KILLS HIMSELF July 13.~.! BERLIN, July 13—The Com- !munists and National Socialist Par- ties have served a demand on the (nuw.rnment for early convocation the Reichstag in view of the ‘polmcnl situation abroad and econ- 18— NEW HOP‘E, Penn., zIOCSE JAW, sask., July 3 SAN FRANCISCO, Cai, July 13. omic situation at home. Fire last Saturday afternoon burn- Robert Spencer, aged 62 years, shot _Tne State Supreme Court has od out a block of the business sec- |and killed himself at his home|genied the petition of Daisey Do PARIS, July 13.—Marshal Petain, tion of the town of Webb, causing here. Friends blamed the need of ' ppe convicted of grand theft from Lyautey and other high ranking a damage estimated at $100,000, work. Spencer won many prizes a Bow, for a rehearing on her Officers of the French Army met about half coversd by insurance. for his paintings. | spplication for ‘& ekt of with Premier Laval and the Min- Sixteen buildings including the e ee— - | corpus by which she sought ister of War this afternoon. It is post office, Royal Bank and muni- . e aed !lease from jail in Los Angel understood conversations had to do cipal offices were destroyed. Canadian Pac 'f” \ The Supreme Court sus { the With the situation in Germany. —————— |Reports Larger fruling of the Appeals Court and' No decision Wflshlakm but a de- 2 25 ] 2 | she must complete her 18 months' nial is issued to the newspaper re- 0il Operators Will Net During May * |sentence. She has alrcady servad POTts that preparations are being | - two months, made to reinforce the frontier Shut' Down Wells in | MONTREAL, ug, July guard. earnings of the Canadian Railway for Pacific | the month of May| |were $1,445945 against $1.206,621 in Kansas; 30,000 Out May, 1930. The increase of $239,- WICHITA, Kansas, July 13"‘21? was the first since January. | Without a dissenting vote, more/ The gain in the net resulted from than 300 independent oil operators €COnOmMies In operation. Gross earn- | agreed to shut down immediately ings at $12,085359 for the month The shut down of the oil wells! Were $2932.35 below the corres- will throw about 30000 men out PORding month of 1930. Operating of work, it is estimated. * expenses Wwere cut from $13,810,381 ¥ in May, 1930, to $10,638,697 in May this year. two | For the five-month period ended with May, gross earnings were $58,- 065,258, a decline of $11148954. Net H fimdmtv s Plzght Plctured If Another War Breaks Out -A dire pic- | formity of exhaustion and mankind in the|Wwould almost be wiped out,” the | British Premier said. WhS GRAWAL T e e early part of the meet- ing, he was interrupted by the throwing of stench bombs by a | woman in the audience and heck- LONDON, July 13 ture of humanity's event of another war, by Premier Ramsay MacDonald at a peace meeting Saturday night at- tended by 10,000 in Albert Hall, plight lanes carrying more than pascengers for hire at night are re- to quired by federal regulation have flares with a light durat earnings in the five months were' “The Great Armageddon struggle ling. One man shouted something of three minutes and a candlepower $5951,697, a reduction of $827,908 would come at last and the end of |about Russia and was foreibly of 500,000. from the five-month period of 1930. it would not be defeat but uni-‘quwtcd.