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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIIL, NO. 5792. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS WICKERSHAM COMMISSION Immigration Officials Us- ing Inquisiton Day Practices “UNCONSTITUTIONAL, TYRANNIC METHODS” Claims ‘“‘Plamest Dictates of Humanity” Are Being Violated WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 8— The Wickersham Commission charged the Department of Labor immigration officials used practic- es in vogue with the Inquisition of the Middle Ages in departing aliens. The report was submitted yester- day to President Hoover. | The report asserted that “uncon-, stitutional tyrannic and oppresstvc‘ methods were employed in the ex-| amination annually of about 100,-| 000 supposed aliens.” Hardships Wrought An additional report said rigid enforcement of rules in actual de-! portation of about 15,000 persons annually often wrought hardships that “violate the plainest dictate: of humanity.” Among others, the Committee recommended some sort of a judi- cial bedy to pass on findings of Departmental officials, asserting that the zeal of officials as prose- cutors and investigators sometimes overshadowed their judicial func- tions. ! Dissenting Opinions | Dissenting opinions were filed by two of the Wickersham Commis- sion, Col. Henry A. Anderson of Richmond, Virginia, and Kenneth Mackintosh, ‘of Seattle, Wash. Both said, in effect, they did not believe. there were such flagrant violations of the law as the report charged. NEST FOR SIXTEEN MACHINE GUNS EIGHT MOTORS CARRIED INSIDE oD HARE S FIVE FIGHTING PLANES CARRIED HERE & — world, its designers believe. Carrying five military planes within its | s, it will be a veritable flying fortress. 7 avy’s Né';v Dirigibl;,zargest in World INFLATED WITH NON - EXPLOSIVE GAS RADIO AND TELEVISION EQUIPMENT The Akron, which Mrs. Hoover will dedicate today, is the largest, fastest and safest airship in the hull and mounting 16 machine gun Checking Up o; Wo;'l(l’s Biggest Airship ARGEST airship the world—785 feet from stem to stern, nine feet longer than the Graf Zepp-:lin. Gas capacity, 6,500,000 cubic feet, almost twice as great as the Graf. Maximum diameter, 1329 feet—Graf 100 feet Powered by eight motors, with a total horsepower of 4,480. Maximum speed, 84 miles an hour. Can cruise 10,580 miles without refueling; Lifting gas non-explosive helium. The motors are located within the hull, and can bz repaired in flight, in ILL carry Duralumin, a lower or retard Armament, 1 Graf 6,125. body. Man power, 7 Commander, dahl. GERMANY ASKS |MILESTONE IS complete radio equipment, including television for transmission of maps and mili- tary photographs. light metal, used for flooring and furniture to keep down the weight. Propellers are movable and can be used to railse, the speed of the speed. 6 heavy caliber machine guns and five fighting planes, carried in a hangar within the 0 officers and men. Lieué. Commander Charles E. Rosen- STOCK TRADING ALSO WOMAN NOW SCORED Methodist Board of Tem-| perance Makes Double- | Barreled Attack | PROHIBITICN HIT BY GRAPE BUSINESS Mrs. Willebrandt Does! *Disconcerting” Bit of gal Busmness ‘ | WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 8.»‘ The Methodist Board of Temper- ance, Prohibition and Public Mor- als, has opened an attack on the Government and Mrs. Mabel Walk- er Willebrandt, former Assistant| Attorney General, and their part | invthe widespread sal> of grap?| concentrates, convertible into wine. The attack appears in an article in “The Voice,” the Board's pub- lieation. ‘The Board, in the article, eon- sidered the grape business a “flank | attack upon the very -citadel of prohibition.” Censure for Two The Government and Farm Board are censured Jor loans to the grape interests and the article says it is “disconcerting” that Mrs. Wille- brandt had become counsel for the Fruit Industriés, Limited, a concern manufacturing grape concentrates Mrs. Willebrandt was formerly identified with Prohibition enforce- ment, Follows Reed's Attack The attack follows that made by. former United States Senator James A. Reed, of Missouri, in the September issue of the Internation- al Cosmopolitan magazine. He charged the government with boot- legging by opening speakeasies to catch violators and also charged | the: Farm Board's subsidy of $20,- 000,000 to the California grape growers and grape concentrate manufacturers, as indefensible. Whereflfj%[fi%fig TODAY- Alaska.- On Arctic Ocean. 630 wiles NW. of Aklavik CONSERVATION OF SALMON IS ASSURED FACT Senator White Confident O'Malley Has Solved S.E. Alaska Problem Declaring that the fisheries of Southeast Alaska are apparently in excellent condition so far as hz could judge from personal obsar- vation in several of the arcas and learn from personal contact with fishermen and other local residents, Senator Wallace M. White express- ed gratification at the situation, Just before leaving yesterday aft- ernoon for Seattle on the Fisheries vessel Brant. “I am confident that Commis- sioner Henry O'Malley of the Unit- ed States Bureau of Fishe: has solved your salmon conservation problem and is rapidly restoring the runs to normal size,” Senator White said. | Assaciated Press Photo = Mayor Brower, for 47 years a PRICE TEN CENTS FLYING THROUGH FOG, LINDBERGHS REACH BARROW GOVERNMENT | | NOTHER LEG SAFELY MADE ORIENT TRIP .Colonel and Wife Land at Northern Port Early This Morning GIVEN ENTHU A THUSIASTIC WELCOME AT BARROW Northland, with Gasoline, Is One Hundred Miles Distant, in Ice POINT BARROW, Alaska, Aug, 8—A short night overtook them and they flew through' heavy fog for an hour before Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Mrs. Lindbergh landed here at 2 o'clock this morn= ing, Pacific Time. The Lindb:rghs took off from Aklavik for Point Barrow at 7:30 o'clock last night. The flight from Aklavik to Point Barrow, a distance of 523.3 miles, {was made in six and one-half hours, one hour longer than ex=- | pected because of the fog. | The Lindberghs flew along the | (Continued on Page Eight) REPRIMAND OR ~ FINE FOR TWO As the author of the prezent Alaska Fisherles Law, popularly known as the White Act of 1324, the Senator has sald he is more than casually interested in the Ter- ritory’s |fisheries resources and the industry that is built up around them. During the past week, with the Commissioner, he visited almost all of the principal spawning areas in Lynn Canal, Icy Strait, Chnchamf Strait, Frederick Sound and Sum- ner Strait. He saw well-filled streams, large | numbers of salmon on the beds and! orekecper at Point Barrow, Alas- | ka, is chairman of the reception | committee that greeted Colonel and | Mrs. Lindbergh when they arrived at Point Barrow this morning. | AMER, FLIERS erndon and Panghorn CRAMER FLYING | Questioned Rbant Can- T0 GOPENHAGEN o | ticials concerning the finding of a TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 8—Clyde Panghorn and Hugh Herndon have the main run of pink salmon still American Aviator, Chart- | movie camera on their plane while coming in from the ocean. He vis-) ! flying over Hakodate fortifications. WealthyMan | LONG CREDIT; = REACHED U.S. AT LOW LEVEL, e, Indicted for T ax Evasion Reese B. B—;;\;n Placed Under Arrest in Seat- tle—Bail Fixed SEATTLE, Aug. 8. — Reese B. Brown, wealthy Seattle and Spo- kane realtor, has been arrested on grand jury indictments charged with evasion of income tax. Liens against him total $400,000 Bail was set at $20,000. Brown recently won a new trial after judgment of $175,000 against him had been awarded Miss Ivyl Barker, Seattle school teacher, for alleged breach of promise. | | Navy Will Examine \ Sea for Quake Data WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 8.— The navy plans to plumb the great Bartlett deep in the Carib- bean Sea between the Bay of Honduras and ‘Guatanamo, Cuba, in search of important data bear- ing on central American earth- quakes. This huge trough at the bottom of the sea, 1,000 miles long, fifty to sixty miles across and of uncertain depth, is known to be | an earthquake center, but ade-, quate soundings never have been made. —————————— Sometimes genius takes the form of being able to cash in on other people’s ideas. TURNED DOWN Offer Rejected on Proposal to Purchase Cotton in U. S. WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 8.— The Farm Board has rejected the German offer to buy part of 1,- 300,000 bales of cotton. Germany offered to buy 600,000 bales on three-year credit. President Hoover approved of the} offer to sell on easy terms to aid! the German situation but his sug-| gestion was for 18 months’ credit. IS SUING FOR $60,000,000 AIR INDUSTRY Today After Three Years' Work AKRON, Ohio, Aug. 8.—Thir- ty thousand visitors joined to- day in the launching eof the world’s largest airship Akron which was christened by Mrs. Herbert Hoover. Admiral Moffett, in his speech, urged the next Navy dirigible, ‘constructicn of which will be- gin here soon, to be larger than 7,500,000 cubic feet capacity. He said the Navy should constantly build larger dirigibles. By R. P. CRON AKRON, O, Aug. 8—The flut- tering of eight white pigeons in a mammoth hangar here today will NEW YORK, Aug. 8.—Joseph A_"mark the passing of another mile- | Broderick, Superintendent of Banks, | stone in the history of American has filed a suit in the Supreme."mm““ml progress. Court against all of the Directors; Mrs. Herbert Hoover_. wife of the of the Bank of the United States nation’s chief executive, will re- for $60,000,000. lease the birds as she christens In the suit the Superintendent t:‘e tgldflfl; (‘i}llflllcbledAkro;. colx_m‘; misapplication of . Struct y the Goodyear-Zeppeli ?‘ir::nks kel 3 corporation for the United States o charges a Navy. xu,Tls:‘e sycsobrenr:laf;t bzl:kkeepings and | The Akron is not only the larg- est, speediest and safest airship in nccountlxi_‘..__ the world, but is also one of the It's hard to say which we'd rath- Ie;z-l/x in the world commissioned for listen to, & man singing his Military purposes. 3 :v:mprmses “or one telling his, The Akron will make her trial flights under command of Lieu- tpomes: | tenant Commander Charles E. Ros- New Poisonous Gases for 'endahl and 69 officers and men. | The history of the Akron goes /back to 1926 when Rear Admiral ,Willlam A Moffett convinced Con- gress that lighter-than-air craft Akron to Be “Baptised”| {Price Changes, However, Remain Negligible— Rails Are Hit NEW YORK, Aug. 8.—Trading in ' stocks today on the New York Stock Exchangz was around the lowest levels in several years. Price changes were negligible. U. S. Steel, American Can, Am- erican Telephone and Telegraph, | General Motors, Radio, and Con- |solidated Gas were unchanged. Atchison lost four points. New York Central lost two points |going below 70 for the first time in ten years. Union Pacific lost two points. Southern Pacific, New Haven, land Great Northern, preferred, | Frisco, and Wabash lost one point jor so during the short day's trad- \ing. TODAY'S STOCK H QUOTATIONS 1 | lo— —-e NEW YORK, Aug. 8. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 147, American Can 90%, Anaconda Copper 24, Beth- lehem Steel 37%, Fox Films 13, General Motors 37, International Harvester, no sale; Kennecott 17%, Checker Cab 8, 8, 8, Curtiss-Wright 27, Packard Motors 6%, Standard Brands 18%, Standard Oil of Cali- fornia 36, Standard Oil of New Jersey 37%, United Aircraft 26%, |U. 8. Steel 86. CITY CO! ‘ UNCIL HOLDS " FIRST AUGUST MEET ited canneries which were operat- | ering Air Mail Route, SHORTSESSION SECRETARY OF WAR GOING T0 PHILIPPINES Col. Hurley Leaving for| Islands on Mission for Hoover SEATTLE, Aug. 8.—Because of ill-health, Manuel Quezon, Presi- dent of the Philippine Senate, is not sailing today with Secretary of War Hurley and Mrs. Hurley for Manila. Quezon was advised to recuperate in a cooler climate. Col. Patrick J. Hurley, the War Secrctary, inspected Camp Lewis. He came here for the annual Fleet ‘Week ceremonies and is sailing to the Philippines on a mission for President Hoover, to investigate the situation there. PLANE CRASH PROVES FATAL RIVERSIDE, Cal, Aug. 8.-—Sec- ond Lieutenant Albert L. Dubeck- er died late yesterday as the re- sult of injuries received yester- day morning when a fast training plane which he was operating, crashed to the ground. His com- panion .escaped with minor injur- ies. D IS VISITING OLAFSONS ing at_capacity and sull unable to/ Off on Another Leg clear their bins. | sl Records of the Bureau of Flsher»} CCPENHAGBEN, Aug. 8.—Parker les show the take and escapement | Cramer, American aviator, and Oli- this year, the off-cycle year, to ver Pacquette, radio operator, took be larger than 1920 and that year off at noon for here via Bergen, was in turn larger than in 1927. | Norway, from Suderce Island of the ‘While so far this season, there has Faroe Group. been no great surplus of fish, the Cram:cr is charting an runs have been good and apparent- |route across the Atlantic. ly insure an adequate seeding of | Cramer landed at Suderce island the beds for the next cycle in 1933. | last night. Scnator White lett here at 4 p.m. Friday. He was accompanied by | his stepson, Richard D. Lunn, Law- rence Dodge, Jr., and H. G. Lum-! bard From Seattle they will proceed east. “We have had a wonderful trip, | a splendid time, and we hope to return sometime in the near fu-| ture for a longer stay,” Senator | White said. — e HOME OF GIVIL air mail > FRANK EVANS IS NAMED T0 - FARM BOARD 'Salt Lake City Man Suc- | ceeds C. C. Teague, Who Resigned WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 8 WAR VET SWEPT |ed by President Hoover. He has |appointed Frank Evans, of Salt | Lake City, Utah Evans succeeds gue, of California, who re- signed recently. ‘ANs was secre- !tary to the American Farm Board | Federation. Flames Gut the Interior of Four-room House Own- ed by J. N. Carver J. N. Carver, Civil War vc‘.:ran: and member of the G.AR., today suffered the loss of most of his| personal belongings in a fire that | The officials said the two fliers will probably be reprimanded or fined, although the regulations pro- vide for confiscation of their plane land prison terms, the maximum being three years. Late today it was announced that Pa. orn and Herndon plan to take off next week from Shami- shiro Beach on a nonstop flight |across the North Pacific to some port on the American Coast. Don Moyle and C. A. Allen, of California, both plane pilots, have applied for permission to fly to Shanghai before starting from here for a trans-Pacific flight, to fam-~ iliarize themselves with the plane City of Tacoma. - e, — - ROBBINS, JONES OFF FOR TEXAS EDMONTON, Alberta, Aug. 8.— Reg. L. Robbins and H. S. Jones took off at 6:30 o'clock this morn- ing for a nonstop flight to:Fort Worth, Texas. REFUELERS TAKEOFF EDMONTON, Aug. 8. — Jimmy Mattern and Nick Greener, in their refueling plane, took off at9 o'clock for Fort Worth, Texas. They will stop over night al Bismarck, North Dakota, after a stop at Calgary where Mattern will meet his broth= er. Frest oo mictir ot ws osom, Battle Spurred by Report house on Willoughby Avenue. pocketbook containing $100 saved for him by the firemen The cause of the blaze was un- Al was | | of Wickersham Commission Warfare Pass Army Tests ,was the present-day word in the, |air military program of the nation.| Congress authorized the con- struction of two giant dirigibles. And the government, in awarding its contract, helped to create a lighter than air industry in Amer-, ica. Miss Mathilde Thordarson, sister of Mrs. Erling K. Olafson, wife of the pastor of the Resurrection Lutheran church, is in Juneau on a visit of a week or ten days. Miss Thordarson teaches music in the public schools of Aberdeen, Wash. Her home is in Blaine, Wash. e Unemployment Data Called For by Hoover known. Mr. Carver, who had been | 4 Thre: § 4 away from the house for sometims, | SAN FRANOISCO, Cal, Aug. 8 Three California. governors have returned during the noon hour to SAD Quentin prison No. 31921—the |refused him a patdon. The fourth® find the whole interior in flames, “Dreyfus of America” as bel will have the same problem to face, . The department made a quick !0 Tom Mooney’s In for plans are under way to present’ run in answer to an alarm. It held him, or the “arch murd | a new application. b the flames to the inside of the is regarded by o continues to! Imprisonment has thinned And house, but the inner walls, ceiling peel potatoes in the Big 'House |turned gray Mooney's once massive and the building’s contents were | Where he has spent nearly 14 years. shock of dark hair. His cheeks badly damaged. It was not known K The Wickersham Crime are hollowed and a figure once if he had any insurance. gion's report ¢ g California’s | portly has shrunk, but Mooney is i G S legal procedure has not and cannot the same militant, uncoms= directly affect his destiny, but it promising “go to blazes” type of Boardmnn and Pnhndo has given new impetus to the world | laborite he was when prison gates The City Council, at its first meeting of the current month last night, approved and ordered ‘e usual monthly bills paid. No other business was transacted. The Council informally discussed for somg¢ two hours a program of ! permanent street improvement for the future, but without adopting any definite plan. ! ——————— Helene Brooks 'Gets clals made known that it is not the intention of this country to use airplanes in gas attacks on cities. Besides, others hold, equip- ment has not been developed for such operations. The experiments at Edgewood’ o ml hlverbee:s:::iflx largely | Corded the Akron corporation, 1. : and a year later $200,000 was made pliot- was at. first endangered .but avauabfe for construction. Shortly 8 system of spraying the gas from thereafter the Goodyear - Zeppelin WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 8— The development of the use of deadly poisorious gases by air- planes in time of war is the ob- jective of secret experiments being made by the Army at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. The tests have been made by the Army Air Corps and the Chemical Warfare Service and are under- stood to have been so successfu. Work Started in 1928 o In July, 1927, a contract was # the planes. in liquid form was de- thai military authorities believe < method of new warfare has been found that will prove mosi 2ffec- tive. Although some experimentors have claimed it would be possible by spreading gas from airplanes to destroy armies and inhabitants of cities, War Department offi-| | seven signatory nations, however, arted erection of the veloped. ‘When the gas strikes the COmPARY SATIEC Crech air it vaporizes and settles to the Zeppelin patents held in Ger- ground as.a gaseous substance. = ..y were obtalned and 13 ex- ‘The United States signed a treaty perienced Zeppelin engineers were in 1925 t0 not use poisonous gases ;4 .4 to come to Akron. Among in warfare, but the Senate did nob o a5 Dr. Karl Arnstein, world ratify it. Twenty-seven of forty- famous Zeppelin builder. agreed, (Continuedl on Page Three) ) Decree of Divorce LOS ANGELES, (Cal, Aug. B.— Helene Brooks, musical comedy ac- tress, was granted a divorce from Harold C.- Cobley today, when she testified that Cobley “was drinking. all the time.” They had lived to- ' gether four months. i WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 8.—President Hoover announced today he has called upon all agencies for data on the un- employment situation. “The problem, whatever it may be, will be met,” said the President, | wide campaign waged to free him. The pow to re-open a nal case after the legal period for appeal has elapsed means that now, as in past years, Are to Hop Tomorrow ISTANBUL, Turkey, Aug. 8— Russell Boardman and John Po- lando will take off ‘for ~Genoa,|the only hope of the man accused Italy, tomorrow and from there of participating in the bombing of vill go by steamer to New York a preparedness parade rests with City. the governor, ssness of the courts | ) first closed upon him. In the hours at his own dispos- |al, Mooney directs every ounce of his energy to his fight for free= |dom. He will countenance no sug= gestion of compromise. | In his most recent official state= | ments written from his cell Mooney (Continuea vo Page Sk 3