The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 21, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIIL, NO. 5776. ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 2 1521931, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY MERICAN PROPOSALS MADETO 7-POWER CONFERENCE CONGRESSIONAL PARTY HERE ON INTERIOR TR Nine Congressmen and Bureau Chiefs Pause Briefly on Way West GREETED BY OFFICIALS AND BUSINESS LEADERS Entire Delegation Taken to Mendenhall Glacier During Short Visit Pausing here for three hours en- | route to the interior where they will inspect the Alaska Railroad | and other major projects of the Federal Department of Interior, nine Congressmen, most of whom were accompanied by their wives, and heads of two Interior Depart- ment Bureaus were greeted by lo- cal business men and Federal of- ficers, and escorted by them on a ride to Mendenhall Glacier. | The distinguished visitors arrived | here shortly after 1 o'clock this! afternoon on the steamer Yukon FLIGHT TO PARIS Assoctated Press Phore Laura Ingalls, New York and St. Louis aviatrix, is grooming her monoplane, shown above, for a projected New York-to-Paris sole flight. M she is successful she will be the first woman to fly the Atlant! plans to and the United States Coast Guard | at 4 pm. | - were: Congressmen Frank Mur- GRAND MASTER ment subcommittee of the Hous:, and Edward T. Taylor, Colorado, all T. Smith, Idaho, Chairman of the| to Call on Juneau and Chairman of the Commiitee on on Public Lands, and ardent good ter of Masonic, the Grand Lodge of the Masonic order in this city cently completed calls on Masonic BACK SOUTH BY !kan to discharge fraternal duties, This evening he will be present . | Tomorrow evening at 6:30 o'clock spection—Leaves Par- dinner for Masons only. The re- death of a brother and the latter's. 4 ;.30 pm. tomorrow, Mt. Ju- through Juneau early this morning Today and tomorrow, the dis- where the deaths opcurred. ‘and other places of interest in the trolship Penguin in Bristol Bay late from ‘resident Masons. from accidental drowning. He had o Rt e Mr. Sisson visited here over July: o vy areanum Lodge of Masons go to interior Alaska and possibly, e tragedy. i from Dillingham to Seward. There | told local friends of the tragedy, F. Edward Hamaan, air mail pilot Cutter Tahoe. They were sched-| Appropriations Committee if the Democrats and members of the| Committee.on- Irrigation..and . Rec- | Douglas Lodges Indian Affairs, and Don Colton, A (Contmued on Tage Eight) | of Washington and Alaska, is here fmd Douglas. He came today on bodies to the Wostward. On his DEATH BRUTHER but deferred visiting Juneau until y |at a meeting of Gastineaux Lodge in Scottish Rite Temple, Mr. Ask- ty at Bristol Bay past will be served by ladies of son, Charles P. Sisson, Asst. United ;.0 154ge will convene and Mr. in the steamer Aleutian. He Will oy isheq visitor will be taken on He received word of them Wwhile | iopyomood, and he will be the last week. While he was not, Thursday evening he received no details when he reach- " \r aeien gs g lawyer. His homs 4 with Commissioner Henry OMal- .4 o pggt Potentate of Nile Tem- make a plane trip to Nome. His| ‘With H. B. Friele, managing dx-l but did not mention where it oc- on the Evansville and St. Louis| uled to leave for Cordova and| Murphy Heads Party phy, Ohio, who probably will be| ! entire trip beyond Bristol Bay was ' rector of the Nakat Packing Cor-| i 5 | he made connections with the! curred except that it was in south- route, was killed in a crash early other western and interior poxnts‘ Those in the party on the Tahoe Chairman of the Interior Depart- | Republican organization is con-| tinued; William W. Hastings, Ok-' lahoma; J. W. Byrns, Tennessee,ll OFFlclAL VISIT Appropriations Committee; Addison Thomas M.——l:skren Here lamation; Scott Leavitt, Montana,| Utah, Chairman of the Committe¢' Thomas M. Askren, Grand Mas- SN R 2 R to make official visits to the lodges SISSUN GALLED {the steamship Aleutian, having re- way North he stopped at Ketchi- his return trip south. Unable Finis_h_ Alaska In- in Douglas. |ren will be the guest of honor ata Called south by the unexpected the Eastern Star. States Attorney General, pPassed oo will be in attendance. go directly to southern California ’oior drives to Mendenhall Glacier he was on board the Fisheries Pa- ,oqiient of other social attentions certain, he thought they resulted . ' <wyite pass Lodge Lo is in Seattle. He is a Past Master ley's party He "had ‘siwuned t0 ple of the Mystic Shrine. cancelled when he heard of the poration, Mr. Sisson took a plane | steamer Aleutian last Saturday. He| CENTRALIA, Illinois, July 21— ern California. today during a blinding rainstorm. Jibes at Famous Furnish Fun for Capital Art Club |gan’s sister, Mrs. Robert W. Ben-| WASHINGTON, D. C, July 21 —Highest dignitaries of the nation Recently a display of figurines carved out of soap representing On the Square Grand Master of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Washington and Alaska. ALBERT B. FALL GOES TO PRISON INNEW MEXICO Former Secretary of Inter-| ior Starts Serving His Sentence SANTA FE, New Mexico, July 21. —Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior, today became No. 6991 in the New Mexico Prison, stripped of citizenship rights in the State which heaped honors on him. The 70-year-old ex-secretary was | committed to serve one year and one day for taking $100,000 to negotiate oil leases. His imprison- ment ends eight years of ' legal battle. Fall has been bolstered up by heart stimulants. He has been put in a private room in the prison hospital. LIEUT. MORGAN VISITS HIS ‘OLD HOME TOWN’ Lieut. Harry E. Morgan is a guest of his father-in-law, John W. Troy, while the U. 8. S. Swal- low is in port. Mrs. Morgan and little Joan Morgan and Mrs. Mor- der have been guests of Mr. Troy for two weeks and will remain here for two weeks more. are not immune from the good na- tured jibes of the Arts club of ‘Washington. In an historic old house once oc- cupied by President James Monroe, the club, whose membership in- cludes noted artists, actors, writers and musicians of the country, often entertains during the summer. Dancers fling their chiffons and do light steps in the old garden, and impersonations of leading con- gressmen and diplomats bring amusement, some of the well-known Congress- men caused many chuckles. Former Senator Tom Heflin of | Lieut. Morgan was reared in Ju- neau. He graduated from the Alabama seemed to enjoy the cari- |Juneau High School, and was ap- catures as much as anybody and|pointed to the U. 8. Naval Acad- on several occasions gave impromp- | emy from this place. This is his tu humorous talks before the club_:first visit here since 1923, the year Sipping iced drinks in the gar-|of his graduation into the U. 8. den, the club members are already | Navy. making plans for the spectacular| Lieut. Morgan is in the Aviation Bal Boheme next January. {branch of the navy, temporarily de- NEW HIGH NET INDICATED FOR ALASKA JUNEAU Financial Paper Says Earn- ings of A-J for 1931 About $1 Per Share SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 2L —A new high record for net earn- iugs this year is indicated for the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Com- pany, said an article appearing here in the Coast edition of the ‘Wall Street Journal. The net profit, after all charges except depletion have been deduct- ed, will be about $1500.000, or about $1 per share, that paper said. In an interview given The Ems pire recently, P. R.- Bradley, con- sulting engineer for the company said net protits, without deducting for deplotion and depreciation, for the first six months were about $850,000, If this rate of earnings is maintained for the remainder of the year, the total would reach $1,700,000. The company’s dividend require- ment is 40 cents per share. Thus the $1 per share indicated by the Wall Street Journal article is 60 cents per share in excess of the earnings necessary to- meet the dividend for the current year. .- VIOLENT STORM VISITS JUNEAU AND VICINITY Thunderstorm of Unusual Intensity Breaks Over Gastineau Channel A spectacular lightning and thunder storm, one of the rarest of natural phenomena to occur in the north, swept Gastineau Chan- nel last night and for more than an hour its brilliant pyrotechnics spread across the heavans and low over the water. 1t was said to be the most violent storm of its kind on record here, and one of two typical thunder storms ever noted here in the official records of the United States Weather Bureau. Just two days more than five years ago to the hour and almost to the minute, the first was recorded and lasted about an hour. Visible Long Distance Last night's storm anproached from the south. About 10 p.m., the first sheet lightning flashes were faintly visible far to the south across Taku Inlet. At first they were hardly noticeable and infre- quent. As the storm moved northward, the flashes grew in brightness and frequency. Steamers coming into port, including the Aleutian, Ad- miral Rogers and Prince Henry, were clearly discernible as the flashes became more brilliant and oftener. The thunder did not start for almost two and one-half hours after the lightning was first ob- served. At 12:30 am. the first peal cracked sharply and for an hour, the reports grew in volume. The final peal followed a particularly vivid flash of lightning that seem- ed to set on fire the whole town from the Alaska Juneau rock dump to Gold Creek Canyon and the rocky cliffs of Mt. Juneau. Rainfall started a few minutes after the first clap of thunder, between 12:30 and 12:40 a.m. and in five minutes seven-hundredths of an inch fell and the total up to 3 am. was about one-quarter of an inch. No damage was re- ported from wind, rain or lightning. Is Rare Phenomenon The rarity of storms like last night's is indicated by the Weather Bureau's records maintained here sincz 1917. The one occuring on the night of July 18-19, 1026 was the first ever recorded. Prior to that single lightning sheets and lone thunderclaps occurred on three occasions. On July 10, 1926, a single flash and peal were noted. Similar occurreness were recorded on April 1, and September 17 and 18, 1929. These are the only times, so far as official records go that Juneau and Gastineau Channel have seen lightning flash and heard thunder. The storm in 1926 was about equal in violence to last nights. The former extended into FEagle River Valley and theré and at Many famous men and women |tached, however, and serving as are artfully impersonated at this' Executive Offiger on the U. 8. S. (Continued on Page Threp) * Swallow, other points on Glacier Highway la heavy fall of hail was reported Society; 50 Strong, ‘I akes {achting, as a society outdoor sport, has been supplanted in popularity by sky tours in theT latest model seaplanes. Here’s a general view showing some of the 18 seaplanes which took part } in the society aerial party resting on Long lsland Sound just off the pier of the Seawanhaka Yacht ‘ BULLS CANNOT | Tuwo Alaska Black Bears STIR MARKETS Steel Dividend Announce- thivsl—StgrlTThings ments Due Next Week IR P —Issues Go Up Club, near Oyste society folk who were: Mr. and right) ; ieft). The tour FALLS CHURCH, Virginia, July | “va——’l‘wo Zlaska black bears and | NEW YORK, July 21.—There was | several sccre of citizens fought a| little professional bullish activity ;tWo-hom‘ battle on the main street | injected into the dormant market | here yesterday and the score was today @nd it naturatly failed to|one-bear killed and the. Gier F6- attract an important following with | captured, Three men were slap- the London conference showing few | ped and clawed. signs of reaching an important | The bears were captured when turn. |cubs in Alaska by E. R. Makeley, Next week's dividend announce- | automobile dealer. ment of two important steel mak-| They broke loose yesterday, be-| ers are hanging over the market. ilficved made vicious by the extremz Gains of from one to three points | heat. were recorded today by the U. S.| One bear was killed by shotgun | Steel and Bethlehem Steel, Am-|and rifle fire and the other was | erican Can, Safeway Stores, Allied |driven into a garage and roped. Chemical, Case, National Biscuit, | United Aircraft and three Eastern railroads. Trading diminished after midday. L BATTLES WITH OFFICERS AND 1S SHOT DOWN Suspected Bootlegger Kill- ed by Detective Lieu- tenant in Raid 9 iy TR TR | TODAY’S STOCK l | QUOTATIONS . . NEW YORK, July 21.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 15%, American Can 106%, Anaconda Copper 27%, Beth- lehem Steel 47, Fox Films 16%, General Motors 38%, International Harvester 43%, Kennecott 19% Checker Cab 10, 9%, 10, Curtiss- Wright 3%, Packard Motors 7%, Standard Brands 18%, Standard Oil of California 37%, Standard | Oil . of New Jersey 89%, Trans- America 7%, United Alrcraft 287%, U, 8. Steel 97%. JACK SHARKEY IS FAVORED IN WALKERMATCH Unequal Battle of Fighters, However, Has Caught Public’s Fancy NEW YORK, July 2l.—Jack Snarkey rates a 2 to 1 favorite in the 15-round heavyweight fight Wednesday night at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn against Mickey Wal- ker. Sharkey will KANSAS CITY, July 21.—Joe Calio, aged 23 years, suspected hootlegger, was killed last night by Detf ive Lieutenant E. L. Nelson in a raid on what is believed to be the main depot of the city’s li- quor stores. One Federal Agent, Curtis 8. Burke, was shot in the abdomen causing paralysis from the waist down. E. C. Anderson, another agent. was wounded. He suffered a glanc- ing bullet wound in the stomach. Two others were also wounded Seven suspects were arrested. The officers said Calio fired all shots at them. Several jars of liquor were seized | CLASH RESULTS | FATAL SHOOTING ST, CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio, July 21 —The first killing in many weeks in coal mine strike disorders was| weigh 198 pounds | this morning. and outweighs Walker by 30} william Simon, aged 16 years, pounds. Sharkey is also a head|yas shot in a clash between work- taller than Walker who is a form- |ing and striking miners near Mar- er welterweight and middleweighl | ¢in’s Ferry. Simon was a member champion and a sentimental fav-|of the union directing the strike orite. Joseph Peterlid, one of thz miners, The unequal battle has caught|inas peen arrested. It is sald he the public's fancy, however. opened fire when his automobile eft), and Mr. and Mrs ‘Walker has been training the most serjously in his lifetime. DEAN RICE TAKING TRIP ABOARD CUTTER Dean C. E. Rice, of Holy Trinity Cathedral, is aboard the Guard cutter Tallapoosa, taking a frip while the officers and crew Min jail aboard are having rifle and target | cluded among Chicago's radio pio- futures administration of the Agri- practice, 1 1eers. was attacked by a stone barrage by striking miners. He was placedl and the guard increased | as a mob of 500 is today threat- ening violence to the prisoner. g gt B L i CHICAGO — Al and Pete, who bring their comedy dialogue and| Coast | songs to the networks almost daily, of specu are Al Cameron and Pete Bont- sema in real life. They are in-; p— to Sky Tour SECRETARY OF STATE MAKES POLICY KNOWN |Bankers offirld Should Maintain Volume of Credits to Germany FORMAL SUGGESTIONS APPROVED BY HOOVER France Insists on Political Concessions—Is Stumbling Block RULIETIN—Leondon, July 21. —The Financial Committee of the seven-power Conference re- ported late this afternoon it had rcached a decision and de- tails will be disclosed at a plenary conference tomorrow. ats (Continuea or: Pagec Three) SHAW CUSSES -~ OUT LOUD IN SOVIET TOWN Won't See Newspapermen on Visit—His Reply to Lady Astor MOSCOW, July 21. George Bernard Shaw, Nancy Lady Astor and other notables of a British |touring party, arrived here today and were cheered by a crowd of |workers and peasants. Lady Astor urged Shaw to see the newspapermen. “I will see them definitely and categorically damned,” replied Shaw, Shaw asked a young Englishman if he intended to stay in Russia and when answcred “Yes” he re- plied: | r Bay, . Some of the 50 nigh 8 \ookyp rt Iln the novel tour by fir LONDON, July 21. — America's Mrs. Rudolph R. Loening (lower Position in the economic crisis Grover C. Loening (upper as it env:lopes Germany was pre- ames B. Taylor, Jr., (lower, sented by Secretary of State Stim- of the air lanes took three days.' son to the Seven Power Conference, e - —— 'at the first session last night. | The conference is called for as- sistanc in the financial distress of Germany. | A communique, after the morn- ing sion today, said the con- ferees considered “methods for in- ternational cooperation whereby confidence in Germany's economic HBUSE GUNTRUL stability may be restored in the immediate future.” I It is said in well informed quart- . |ers the conference is encountering Democrats and Re publi- gisturbing difticulties attributed to ' |the demand by France that Ger- cans Are Bo.lh n ReaCh :many pay for outside aid with of Mastery in Congress | political concessions i It is also reported the United WASHINGTON, July 21-—With' States and Great Britain are seven Congressional se: emptied R by, death in six States the political | tug of war for the mastery of the' House is increasing in intenscness. The Republicans returned last No- vember a majority of two. Since then it has been reduced and re- stored and reduced again. At the present moment the House contains 214 Republicans, 213 Democrats and one Farmer Labor member. There are seven vacancies in Ohio, Wis-!| consin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New ! York and Georgia. The outcome' of the special elections in the var- ious States are doubtful because| of internal differences within the political parties and the economic| depression. Either party may con- trol the next House of Represen- tatives. U S SR John B. Madden Laid Off Because Would Not Takej}'_ansfcr i “If 1 were as young as you, I WASHINGTON, D. C., July 2L~“lhmk I would like to stay too.” John B. Madden, who last month was ordered transferred to Seattle, Washington, the central office of the Northwest and Alaska Prohibi- | tion District, from Kansas City, has been suspended. 1 HL n Protests of ministers followed the | announcement of the transfer. | Madden is credited with an im- NEW YORK, July 21.—Having portant role in the downfall of lost one plane in a crash at Kot- the Southern Kanass liquor ring zebue, Alaska, last fall when two The reason for his suspension|priests and Pilot Wein were killed, was given following Madden's re-|Brother U. Feltes starts tomorrow fusal to report in Seattle. | flying another plane to the 400,000 R, o4 !equare miles of Catholic Mission Use of photostatic equipment for'territory in Alaska. He will pick copying legal documents has re- up Brother M. Lapeyre, who hag duced expenses of St. Louis's city ju. completed flight instructions recorder’s office by $60,000 in two on the West Coast. The plane is years. large enough for ambulance work, Farmers Lining Up in Fight Against Grain Speculators WASHINGTON, Ju 2 -Legls- lation to restrict speculative trad- ing on grain exchanges again will receive the support the Amer- ican Farm Bureau Federation in the next Congress. The bureau has been behind the Capper-Dickinson bill. The measure will be reintroduced next winter and provides for limitation of any one operator’s trading to 2,000,000 bushels a day and his long or short positior amount. Pre. arralgnment | sell short in brought de- The grain Capper-Dickinson proposal. Chester H. Gray, Washington, representative of the bureau, in outlining important legislation in which it is interested and which probably will come before the next Congress, said amendment or re- peal of the Agricultural Marketing | Act, creating the Farm Board, un- doubtedly will be actively gonsid- ered. of to a unlikely the entire act will be re= | pealed because of the nearness of | tke presidential election campaign. The bureau, he said, will devote its: energies toward making the act . | stronger when amendments are of; Hoover's tors who times of stress has mands for restriction ‘(-ul:uz » Department also favors the | fered. He added, however, that it seems &