The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 18, 1931, Page 1

. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIIL, NO. 5800. jUNEAU ALASKA, TUESDAY AUGUST l8 1931 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS - NAUTILUS STARTS VOYAGE TO GO UNDER NORTH POLE WICKERSHAM BOARD URGES WARON SLUMS Law Enforcement Report Made Up of Findings of Experts COMMISSION AT LOSS FOR EFFECTIVE CURE Virginia Member of Com- mittee Criticises Asso- ciates for Silence WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—Activi- ties of gangsters in large cities are made possible by “the demand for intoxicating liquor and the tre- mendous profits that are realized in supplying it,” declared one of the expert sociologists in the twelfth report on law enforcement submitted to President Hoover yes- terday by the Wickersham Com- mission. The report suggested that war be waged on slums, which were char- acterized as breeding places of crime. The report consisted chiefly of findings and recommendations by half a dozen experts that had been employed by the Commission. A brief statement by all the Commis- sion members, except one, was in- cluded to the effect that it felt itself unable to discuss the slum and gangster question more in- formatively or to make suggestions of more constructive value than the discussions and suggestions con- tained in previous reports on li- quor traffic and other criminal ac- tivities. The one exception to this atti- tude of the Commission was Col. Henry Anderson of Virginia. He wrote his own report, criticising other members of the Commission for failure to comment on slum and gangster conditions and for neglect to make recommendations. DEER AND GOAT HUNTING OPENS NEXT THURSDAY Open Season on Birds and Other Game Will Be- gin Here Sept. 1. The Fall hunting season will be ushered in in Southeast Alaska Thurgday morning when the open season on two varieties of game animals—deer and mountain goats —will start. The opening date on other game animals and birds is September 1. For residents no hunting licenses are required. Non-residents are required to have licenses for both large and small game. The deer season , extends from August 20 to November 15, identical with the dates of 1930. On migra- tory wild fowl, the séason opens September 1, and ends December 15. The bag limits are: 15 ducks, four geese and brant, 20 jacksnipes, daily, but not to exceed 50 in pos- session at any one time, nor more than 30 ducks -and eight geese. The seéason on grouse and ptarmi- gan will begin on September 1, and closes on February 28, with a daily bag limit of 15 grouse, 25 ptarmigan, and not more than 25 combined in possession. The bear season for non-residents in Southeast Alaska opens Septem- ber 1, and ends next June. Except| on Yakobi, there is no close season locally on thisyspecies of game. Moose shooting, also, opens on September 1, and closes Decem- ber 31. OLD-TIMER ENJOYS FIRST AIR JOURNEY Christian Larson, who has lived in Alaska and Yukoa Territory 40 years, enjoyed his first and prob- ably his last airplane flight re- cently when he flew from Chicken Creek, back of Eagle City on the Yukon River, to Fairbanks. He said the trip was wonderful. From Fairbanks he came to Juneau by railroad and steamship. He is on his way to Sitka to enter the Pio- neers’ Home there. HUSBAND COULD NOT REFUSF HER ANYTHING Adrienne Ames’ husband, a member of the New York Stock Ex- change, couldn’t resist her plea when she coaxed for permission to ac- cept a screen offer. And who could in Hollywood, and even in that ah ? The pretty young matron is now ode of stylishly attired women she is regarded as one of the best dressed of its feminine beauties. STOCKSADVANCE EARLY AND THEN HAVE REACTION Selling* in Motor Shareh| Surprises Wall Street Traders NEW YORK, Aug. 18—On the New York Stock Exchange today, a fresh bull drive ran afoul of un- expected selling orders. Shares gen- erally reacted abruptly after early gains had been recorded by prom- inent issues. Advances were re- placed by recessions. Net losses of | a point or more were suffered ' by General Motors, New York Central, Pennsylvania Railroad, Un- ion Pacific, New York, New Haven and Hartford, DuPont, American| Power and Light, Internaitonal Harvester, Case and Auburn. The selling in General Motors took Wall Street by surprise. Large blocks were offered after midday.| ————.——— L N TODAY'S STOCK | QUOTATIONS ! NEW YORK, Aug. 18—Closing prices of stocks today on the New, York Exchange ‘were: Alaska Ju-! neau 16%, American Can 94%, Ana- conda Copper 25, Bethlehem Steel 40%, Checker Cab 9, 8% and 9, Curtiss-Wright 3%, Fox Films 13%, '), International Harvester 37%, Ken-, necott Copper 17%, Packard Mot-| ors 6%, Standard Brands 19%, Standard Oil of Californig 39%, Standard Oil of New Jersey.41%, United Aircraft 28%, United States Steel 90, General Motors, no sales. | QUAKE IS 4700 | MILES DISTANT JUNEAU, Alaska, Aug. 18—-An-} other heavy earthquake was re-; corded on the seimograph of the | United States Coast Survey at Sit- ka today. The first tremors were! registered at 2 minutes, 11 seconds past 5 o'clock this morning. The distance of the shocks from Sitka is estimated at 4700 miles.| CUSTOMS GETS WORD | OF SUICIDE’S NAM: Word has been received by the Customs Office here from Capt. J. Livingston, of the steamer North-, .l ,the island, FURLESS FUR FARMER FACES PRISON TERM G. R. Flynn Guilty of Theft in Connection with Foxless Fox Ranch LOS ANGELES, Aug, 18—For conducting a foxless fox farm and a minkless mink ranch on Long Island in Kasaan Bay, near Ketchi- | kan, Alaska, G. R. Flynn, 67 years |old, faces a term in prison in Cali- fornia. He was convicted yester- day on five counts of a criminal complaint eharging him with grand theft in connection with his meth- 'ods of financing his furless fur en- terprise. Pive witnesses testified at his trial that they he had obtained |from them a total of $4376 to start a fox and mink farm on Long Island, permission to occupy which he hud secured from the federal government. He bought no foxes, no minks; did not even | construct a ‘single pen for fur-bear- ing animals, the witnesses declared. In defense, Flynn's attorney de- !clared that the investors could be reimbursed for their monetary out- {lay from the sale of timber on The prosecution re- plied that the government permit of occupancy did not confer the right of commercial logging or lumbering. - Flynn is expected to be sentenc- led late !his week. WORK BEGINS ON $3,500,000 DAM CLE ELUM, Aug. 18— Work on the $3,500,000 power and frri- gation dam at CleElum began to- day, the contract for the under- {taking having been let only yes- terday by the United States Inte- rior Department to Winston Broth- ers, Minneapolis. The small force of men that was put to work this morning will be gradually augmented. ——— LEAVE FOR MINNEAPOLIS Mrs. J. P. Williams, wife of the Forestry official, sailed for Seattle on the Prince Henry, accompanied £2 by her two sons, Donald and Dean, |enroute to Minneapolis, where the two boys will enter school. Donald will enter Minneapolis School of Art, and Dean in the eighth grade western, that Mrs. B. Affenby com-|of the public school. mitted suicide aboard the ship by sévering an artery while the; Northwestern - was northbound nz‘ Petersburg. —————— U. 8. Deputy Marshal H. D. Campbell, of Wrangell, arrived in Juneau on the Yukon. S (BOTH DEMPSEYS WANT DIVORGE FOR CRUELTIES Former Champion Files in Reno, Wife Counters in Los Angeles DISAGREEMENT OCCURS REGARDING PROPERTY Husband Refuses to Pay $100,000 for House that Was Wedding Gift RENO, Nevada, Aug. 18.—Jack Dempsey, former champion hegvy- weight pugilist of the world, yes- terday started a fight in court that he hopes will result more favor- ably to him than his two ‘last battles in the ring. He filed suit for divorce charging mental cruel- ty against his wife, famous mo- tion picture actress by her maiden name, Estelle Taylor. Dempsey’s attorneys declared that | VB i s their client and his wife were agreed that a divorce is the only| The navy’s new lighter-than-air craft, ZRS-4, was named proper solution of their domestic problem, but they ditfer as fo monetary arrangements, His law- yers said that her offer to sell back to him the house he gave her as a wedding present could not be accepted because of the exor- bitant - figure—$100,000—she pltc d on the property. ESTELLE QUICKLY COUNTERS LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18.—Estelle Taylor quickly countered to Jack Dempsey’s suit for divorce. Im- mediately after learning of Demp- sey’s action in Reno, she instruct- ed her attorneys to institute di- vorce proceedings on her behalf in court in Los Angeles. For weeks, the couple through their lawyers have been sp.varx'lngl over a property settlement. Joseph Scott, attorney for Miss Taylor, said her claim for divorce would be identical with that pre- ferred by Dempsey—mental cruelty. - e DORBANDT FLIES IN NEW PLANE SEATTLE, Aug. 18.—Aviator Frank Dorbandt, accompanied by Mrs. Dorbandt, took off In a new seven-passenger plane from Seattle yesterday for Anchorage, He stated that his route would be by way of Ketchikan, and it is expected that he will call at Ju- neau. Alaska, | the dock in which it was constructed. This Asso: Train, White House naval aide; wife of the Pre nany; Rear Admiral W. A. Mof'ot{ and David Ingalls, assict. ted Precs tels nt; TALLAPOOSA'S {Amdtors Pay LINDBERGHS ON FRANK L. SMITH DOCTOR TIPSY, ? SAYS SEAMAN Men Off Ship Stepped on! Partners’ Feet When Dancing at Kodiak SEATTLE; Aug. 18— would hate to have Dr. Hahn work on me in the condition he was in,” testified D. E., Taylor, a seaman on the United Btates Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa at the trial be- |fore a ‘Coast Guard court today of Lieut, James A. Hirschfield, one of. the officers of the ship accused of having failed to report drunk- enness on the part of fellow of- ficers. 3 Dr. Howard Hahn is the Talla- poosa’s surgeon, and the witness | was referring to the night of June |20 when the cutter was at Kodlak and some of the officers attended a dance there. Several men off the vessel were drunk at the dance, continued Taylor, “Some were staggering and step- ping on their partners’ feet,” he added, National Capital Indulges Fine in Japan but Canniot Fly | American Bnbassy Tokyo Government to Permit Ocean Flight | | TOKYO, Aug. 18.—Hugh Hern- don and Clyde Pangborn, American ' aviators, today paid their fines of $1,025 each on their conviction by a Tokyo judge of having taken from the air pictures of Japanese fortified areas and of carrying a motion picture camera in the air- plane over Japanese fortifications. Their plane is still under the lock and key of the Japanese authori- ties, the judge having issued an order forbidding fliers from mak- ing any further flights in Japan. Today the United States Em- bassy in Tokyo asked in behalf of the aviators that they be per- mitted to fly their plane to Samu- shiro Beach in the northern part of Hondo Island, from which they want to start their proposed flight across the Pacific to the United States. The Japanese foreign office re- gards the penalty sentence xmposed on thé American fliers as severe, particularly that part restricting further flying activities in Japan. and favors granting the request of the American embassy. in LiqUOr 'DT inking F reely | 'The hope is entertained that the & ) 22 i {Japanese Department of Justice Like Country’s Other Cities will ameliorate that part of the By SCOTT C. BONE ,sentence which prevents the fliers from carrying out their trans-Pa- Former Governor of Alaska cific flight plans. | S e The national capital has not set an example to other cities in ob= servance or enforcement of Pro- hibition. No appreciable change has occurred under the Eighteenth Amendment and Volstead Act, ex- cept that the saloon has gone. Open indulgence there, as else- where, has given place to private consumption. Wine is served at fashionable dinners, sometimes pre- ceded by the customary cocktail. Liquor is not dispensed at ban- quets, ‘but flasks are brought into play, and usually a room is set apart. where a bar is temporarily maintained for the evening for free drinking. Pre-war cellars, long since exhausted, have given the bootleggers a rich field for thair illicit activities and telephones are kept busy calling them by num- ber. Hotel rooms are provided with bottle openers and utter disregard of the “noble experiment” is plainly to be seen. Smuggling of liquor is made easier there, because of privilege accorded foreign diplomats, which is said to be much abused and occasionally turned to profit by minor members of the corps, law and custom of the country to which he is sent, but emissaries to whom Uncle Sam throws wide his doors, are not characteristically observant ©of the proprieties en- cumbent upon them. The dean of the foreign diplomatic body finds it difficult to prescribe a workable set of ethics. .o Drinking is countenanced; drunk- enness is not. In this respect, a pronounced change has come out under the new era. A man or a woman must drink with discre- tion, or Jose caste. Evidence of unsteady limbs or muddled voices at once means cancellation from visiting lists.. A boisterous ban- queter at the large function open- ing the Congressional season is never invited thereafter. A test of a gentleman is that he must carry his load and not get under the table. Bow A Senator or Representative no- toxicants is marked for retirement. Shynned by his colleagues, he loses all standing and influence. Three especially those from the Latin Americas. The average right mind- led American envoy respects the decades ago, the hibulous member was not the subject of such taboo. (Contlaued on Page Two) ticeably under the influence of in-' KING AND RIVER Avsocratea Press Photo “Akron” by Mrs. lloover in ceremonies at sphoto shows (left to right) Capt. G. R. P. V/. Litchficld, president of the building com- .t sccretary of the navy, at the christening. GROUND;HELD BY F 066Y WEATHER Condltlons at Petropav— lovsk Shows No Sign of Improving NEMURO, Japan, Aug. 18.—Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, flying from New York to Tokyo, are still held by unfavorable wea- ther at Petropavlovsk, capital of Russian Kamchatka where they ar- rived Saturday night after having flown from Karaginsk, Siberia. The bay flying weather shows no sign of immediate improvement. Fog is dense in the neighborhood of the Kurile Islands, and is be- coming denser. The Lindberghs are scheduled to land at Nemuro after they leave Petropavlovsk. From Nemuro,!| they are scheduled to make their final hop to Tokyo. S G LI PLANE'S VICTIM NOT YET FOUN SEATTLE, Aug. 18.—Despite, ceaseless efforts, the body of Al Mace, an airplane ticket seller, who was drowned yesterday in Lake' Union when the seaplane in” which | he was riding capsized in trying to take off, has not been found. Ac- cording to the four survivors of ithe accident, he struggled clear of | the wrecked plane and then seemed unable to swim. _'WII.KINS LEAVES SPITZBERGEN IN UNDER-ICE BOAT : jAll Abdurd Sibmersbll ‘r Are in Good Health ; and Spirits SEA SURFACE USED | AS FAR AS POSSIBLE [Vessel to Submerge on i East Side of Pole and Come Up on West L SPITZBERGEN, Aug. 18. — Sir | Hubert Wilkins and his company | of adventurers’ in the submersible | craft Nautilus started from Spitz- | bergen today to voyage under the | North Pole, The vessel will travel on the surface of the sea until she reaches the polar ice park on the eastern side of the North Pole and then she will submerge and pro- ceed under the ice until she can come to the surface on the western /side of the pole. The Nautilus arrived in Spitz- | bergen yesterday from Tromsoe. All |aboard the craft are in excellent ihealth and spirits. ——————.———— TELLS OF OFFER. INSENATERAGE Julius Rosenwald Said to | Have Tried to Induce Candidate to Withdraw CHICAGO, Aug. 18—Frank L. Smith, former Republican leader in Illinois, who was elected to the United States Senate in 1926, but was not permitted to take his seat, said in a letter made public today that during his Senatorial cam- paign he was offered 10,000 shares of stock in Sears, Roebuck and Company to withdraw his candi- dacy. The offer, he declared, was made by Jullus Rosenwald, Chicago ililonaire, chairman of the board of directors of Sears, Roebuck and Company. Smith stated he declined the of= fer without hesitation. His letter, ' | containing the assertions relative to Rosenwald, was addressed to | Prof. Charles Woody, member of the faculty of the University of Chxcago, author of a book, en= Ititled “The Case of Frank WL. Smith.” In the letter, Mr. Smith suggested that Prof Woody might relate the incident in some fu= zure book. At Rosenwald’s home, members of his family said that he was ill ,and that he had not been told of Smith's charges. s For - several years prior to the 'Illinois senatorial campaign of 1926, Smith had been chairman of the Tlinois Commerce Commission. Ha (was denied a seat in the Senatd because of his acceptance of cam= i | i The plane had been chartered to make a flight from Seattle to Lake LEFT ON PRINCE HENRY ipaign contributions from sources that had dealings with the Coms mission, INBABY'S NAME ™.~ e TEPPELIN TAKES MONTREAL, Quebec, AuLz 18.— George 8f. Lawrence Neulize, the first name being in honor of King George of England, and the second after Canada’s famous river, is the cognomen of the son born the oth- er day to Lady Bessboroagh, whose husband is Governor General of Canada. The baby was christened today. name of the river was suggested because * the infant’s birth took place in a city located on the great waterway. Neuflize is the family name of the parents. GOOD TIME MADE ON VOYAGE SOUTH Word was received today that William ©. Wright, well known jeweler of Juneau, passed Alert Bay on his yacht the Ptarmigan this morning, and was making good speed toward Seattle, where he is Mrs. M. W. Coolbaugh, who has been visiting relatives here for the past few weeks, left Monday night' on the Prince Henry, called south, by the sudden illness of her sister. ——————— Bait Fishing Opens In Seymour Canal ‘Waters for 3 Days King George is its godfather. The' 'lexpected to arrive Wednesday noon. ‘Temporary opening of her- e ring fishing for bait in Sey mour Canal and Pybus Bay has been authorized by De- partment of Commerce regu: lations issued late Monday, it was announced today by Capt. M. J. OConnor, As- sistant Agent of the United States Bureau of Pisheries. e The regulation, recelved by e | telegraph, permits the taking of herring for bait in the e waters of Pybus Bay and e Seymour Canal from 6 am. e today to 6 am. on August 21 . eeccccccccccene | ® |SEAPLANE WRANGELL GOES 22 T0 ENGLAND HANSWORTH AIRDOME, Eng., | Aug, 18—For the first time since | |the World War, a German Zeppe- {lin landed on English soil today. | The Graf Zeppelin arrived at the Hansworth Airdome at 7 o'clock this evening. The big airship brought 22 passengers. Included ' among them were two Amer'm ® |Mr. and Mrs. Paul Soehne. R —— SOUTH WITH PASSENGE] AL The seaplane Wrangell, G Anscel Eckmann, departed for S R attle this morning. N. L. Troast |and one other passenger emb for Wrangell, and two for Ketchikan. Pilot Eckmann e pected to reach Seattle at 6 o'clo @ |this evening. The seaplane Petersburg is 3 ported to be in Yakutat. i