The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 20, 1931, Page 1

"THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIIL, NO. 5802. THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1931. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FOG AND ENGINE TROUBLE HALT LINDBERGH FLIGHT LEAGU SUGGESTIONS ON WAR DEBTS GET QUICKATTENTION Pan-American Commission ! Will Meet at Geneva on September 4 REPARATION REVISION' WILL BE CONSIDERED United States Government Is Asked to Have Rep- resentative Present BASEL, Switzerland, Aug. 20— To consider the recommendations and suggestions of the Internation- al Bankers Commission for im- provement of the world-wide eco- nomic depression, the Pan-Ameri- can Commission will meet August 31 at Geneva under auspices of the League of Nations. The league will assemble September 4, to give| consideration to the report of in-| ternational financlers, headed by Attending the greyhound racing at Saint Gemme, near Paris, Albert Henry Wiggin of the Chase France, during the running of the Grand Prix Du Levrier Club season, National Bank of New York. | the Maharajah Tukoji Rao Holkar, and his wifc, the Maharanee, for- The Pan-American COMMISSION merjy Miss Naney Ann Miller, of Valdez, Alaska, and Seattle, Wash,, ;‘;B S;:f;n‘:;ze:ns:r;gm;;m:;:yrg are shown above, apparently an example of East meeting West and vision of war debts and repara- getting away with it. Their marriage caused an international and tions. The Commission has com- religious turmoil which subsided when the bride embraced the faith municated with the’ United States, of her husband. The Maharanee was born at Valdez. Her father, government with a view to having John Miller, took out several million dollars from placer mining ground President Hoover send a United on Slate Creek in the Valdez district from 1900 to 1914. States representative to the Com-| v ] mission’s - meeting. t 3 A . = BOOTLEGGERS STATESMEN ARE'q) » N BULLETS SILENT ABOUT Europe and America Re-; Side of New York Are serve Comment on Shot from Ambush . < Bankers’ Suggestions 20—Shots| SEATTLE, Aug, 20—*Tt is not | unusual for Alaskans to offer their TALLAPOOSA'S OFFICERLAUDS ALASKA'S BREW Kodiak Fisherman's Bever- age Kept Party in Kitch- en Going Three Hours NEW YORK, Aug. from gangsters' revolvers made WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Com-| ment throughout the world on the| report made yesterday by the In- women and children enjoying the cool breeze on the doorsteps of ten- ement houses on the Lower East ternational Bankers Committee as-) sembled at Basel, Switzerland, m! generally reserved. Side of New York yesterday aft- ernoon scurry back into the stif- fling heat of their apartments The committee, which is he"'dm‘When police arrived on the scene, | hospitality to’ officers and seamen of the United States Coast Guard and it helps to maintain amicable relations between the people of the Territory and the personnel of the Coast Guard,” testified Lieut. W. E. Moody of the Cutter Tallapoosa yesterday at the trial before a Coast Guard court martial of Lieut. James A. Hirschfield, accused of having failed to report to Com- {mander C. N. Dench of the craft | drunkenness on the part of fellow 1 officers, | Lieut. Moody’s testimony was in explanation of a visit that five officers and the surgeon of the Tallapooza made to a fisherman’s home in Kodiak the night of June |20 while the vessel was in port the report as the most candid di- MOVE UP MIDWEST GOLF MEETi agnosis of the international finan- | cial malady sincet1929. ——a——— by Albert Henry Wiggin of the| ti- Chase National Bank of New York, ‘, i‘r’:pi;of;gg""b::;gggtsh °?Xy J::a d and which has the approval of thei /" (W iieqalk They had been Lea.iue o:’:Ns:on:t, urgerdt;e vg::rn shot from ambush by three gun- of the entire structure of e = man war debts and reparations; as-| ™™ who made thelr escape. sailed tariff laws @s obstructive of commerce, and advised Germany . and her neighbors to compose thelr,$100 000 leen political differences. ] 2 5 The majority of European capi- A d Ch tals as well as Washington were tO l ln(’se reticent with respect to the report. German statesmen halled the re-| < \GHINGTON, Aug. 30. — One there. The party from the cutter port as a great advance OVEr , .q.eq thousand dollars has been spent three hours drinking home previous declarations. lallotted by the American Red Cross brew in the fisherman's kitchen. Government officials in Great . .. 4 aiging sufferers in flooded| Lieut. Moody said that after he Britain were so busy studying their |areas in China. +had drunk the first glass of 'the own budget crisis that they were | {brew, he went to the Tallapoosa, unable to digest the International 10,000 ARE DROWNED |got some pretzels and returned Bankers' report. SHANGHAI, China, Aug, 30.—Ten | With them to the fisherman’s home. In Paris, official comment WaS '\ usand persons are estimated w\ —————— withheld pending cabinet action.!y, . peen growned in towns along Pr:nch newspapers made but sllsht”he Lu Ho River, which overflowed PLANE anEs SoltTaTmed. !its banks. The Lu Ho inundation : In Washington, Preeldent Haoverd:s similar in its tragic consequences and Acting Secretary of State Cuuw the 'Yangtse floods in Hupes’ tle studied press dispatches, but .7 we” provinces. 1 |N Mu 1 5 URT reserved comment. st i ' Wall Street hgnkers applauded | PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 20— Aug. zo_l‘six persons were injured when a 11.;Chicago-w-New York passenger SPRINGFIELD, Mo, | The second renewal of the al Matthew M. Reese, well known mining engineer, has taken a dia- mond drill and crew to the Jerry Galvin property on Baker Island, where they will test the property to avoid conflict with the vacation | by drilling. Ozarks Golf Tournament, to be played over the Hickory Hills course here, is down on the program for early September. It was set abead season. Four in Search Plane Die When it Crashes While Men That W ere Sought Are Safe RAINEY LAKE, Ont, Aug. 30.— Four members of an airplane res- cue party were killed yesterday when their aircraft plunged 200 feet into Rainey Lake River. They were seeking two men that had been lost since the wrecking in a storm last Monday of two provin- cial planes. The searchers’' plane crashed yesterday a3 it was de- AL scending in response to a signal from American campers on an is- land in Rainey Lake conveying the information that the two missing men had been found. The names of the victims of yes- terday’s accident were Phillip Hun- ter, pilot; R. V. Greecer, J. Stewart and -A. J. Runciman, all Canad- ians. | airplane operated by the Trans- i continental and Western Airways, !made an emergency landing near here to avoid stormy weather. In coming down, the plane touched the top of a hill and after shoot- ing off it nosed into the mud. 'Grove Wins 16 'Straight and Equals League Record CHICAGO, Aug. 20.—Bob (Lefty) Grove, Philadelphia American League pitcher, equalled an ‘American League record yesterday in winning his sixteenth straight game. His victory over the Chicago White Sox was his twenty-fifth tri- umph in 27 games . R — . g s— | Engineers have found there are 700 defects pessible in the manu- 'l!lc'.ure of a radio tube. E TO STUDY CHAMBER URGES| GOVERNMENT 70} PRES S_EFFURTS Local Organization Answers Eastern Protest Against Timber Sales INTERFERENCE WITH | POLICY IS UNWANTED Government Should Press Local Timber Sales for Paper Making In a resolution of the Chamber of Commerce, prepared by its Leg- islative Committee, is Juneau's an- swer to the protest of the Ameri- can Paper and Pulp Association against the sale of timber in South- east Alaska to prospective manu- facturers of pulp and newsprint paper. It was made public today by Secretary G. H. Walmsley. The resolution is addressed to President Hoover, and copies are being sent to the Secretary of Ag- riculture, Delegate James Wicker- sham, Charles H. Flory, Alaska Commissioner for the Department of Agriculture, the Alaska Terri- torial Chamber of Commerce and the Ketchikan Chamber of Com- merce. Text of Resolution The text follows in full: “Whereas, the officers of the American Pulp and Paper Assocja- tion recently requested the Presi dent of the United States and the Department of Agriculture to re-; fuse to enter into any contracts| for the sale of pulp timber from the | National forests of Alaska, and to} halt pending negotiations for the sale of pulp wood timber, advanc- ing as a reason therefor that there is already an overproduction ‘of paper in the United States, Canada and Newfoundland; and, “Whereas, if the request of the} American Pulp and Paper Associa-l tion should be granted, and the President and Department of Ag- riculture should take any steps to halt negotiations for the sale of pulp wood timber in Alaska, or place any further restrictions upon such sale, or make any regula- tions which would discourage pros- pective purchasers from entering. into contracts for the purchase of timber in Alaska for the manufac- ture of pulp and paper, the same would be detrimental to the best interests of Alaska and of the country in general; and, Would Hurt Territory “Whereas, it is generally recog- nized that the vast forests of Alas- ka which have been placed in res- ervations by the Government of the Utinde States, thereby reserving them from entry and preventing their use for any other purposes save the manufacture of pulp and paper, will remain unsettled and unproductive and of little value to the Territory or to the nation un- til the paper making industry has been established in Alaska; and, “Whereas, the Government, dur- (Continued on Page Two) CHARGE OFMAIL THEFT IS DENIED BY EX-ALASKAN John P. Greenwood, For-| merly of Nome, Sur- renders n Seattle SEATTLE, Aug. 20— Insisting that he is wanted by the post- office authorities on the charge of a mail theft committed at Nome Alaska, seven or eight years ago, John P. Greenwood, 52 years old surrendered himself today at the office in Seattle of the United States Marshal. Greenwood sald that he had heard that he was under charge: for stealing letters. The letters in question, he explained, had been entrusted to him to mail by a friend. One of the letters Greenwood declared, was believed to contain money. He lost the letters, he insisted. Greenwood was taken into cus- tody. The marshal's office har cabled Nome to ascertain if any charges are on file against him, WIGGIN REPORT COUPLE PUT IN RESTLESS NIGHT ON BOARD PLANE |Fliers Are Guests at Break- fast on Japanese Steam- ship Shimushiru AIRCRAFT TOWED TO BETTER ANCHORAGE Message from Ketoi Island Says Flight May Be Continued Friday NEMURO, Japan, Aug. 20.—En- gine trouble and dense fog com- |bine to hold Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, flying from New York to Tokyo, at Ketoi Island, 15 miles from Muroton Bay, at the southern end of the Kuriles Is- \lands. The famous pair experienced an uncomfortable night Wednesday night. They got but little sleep in the cramped quarters of their air- plane. Breakfast on Steamship | This morning, Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh went aboard the Japan- ese steamship Shimushiru, which had arrived at Ketoi Island. They The latest outbreak of revolution in Cuba, in which many have been killed, numerous other wounded were guests at breakfast on the and quite a few of the most prominent men in the country placed under: arrest, is the culmination of a craft. They were invited to sleep series of disorders that began last chher when th Government suspended Constitutional guarantees, put- on the vessel tonight, but may re- ting the country under a form of martial law. Although the opposition puts the respensibility for the main on their plane, as the Col- trouble on the shoulders of President Machado, charging that ac he “made over” the Constitution to give onel 15 anxious to get it in good himself a six-year term in office, his Presidency is iliegal, that the decline of sugar prices to a_point below thee cost of production is the chief cause of the’ trouble. Among the seventeen arrested In the latést outbredk are two biothers and ¥ son of Geéheral and former American obssrvers of Cuban_affairs declare ¢Ondition again. | After breakfast this morning, Col. Lindbergh tried to taxi the plane from Ketol Island to Muroton Bay, President Mario Menocal, besides the Gemeral himself, whe, it is charged, is the prime instigator of the .t (e maotor trouble developed anti-Government revolt. and he had to abandon the at- BRADLEY GUEST Bulls Stalled REBELS MENACE OF CHAMBER AT, NOON LUNCHEON Urges it to Express its Views on Local Matters to | { Visitors of Importance | “It is fine tnar the Chamber of Commerce recognizes the im- portance of contacting men of prominence visiting Juneau, but it should not forget that it is the function of the Chamber to tell these men of importance what it knows and what is needed to aid jn industrial and commercial de- velopment of the Territory,” de- clared P. R. Bradley, Consulting Engineer of the. Alaska Juneau Gold - Mining Company, guest of honor at today's meeting of the local organization. Other guests included Dr. R. E. Henning and F. A. J. Gallwas, prominent Douglas business man and officer of the island town's Chamber of Commerce. | More, Prominent Visitors | “Each year as I come here, I am' impressed by the ever increasing| number of impertant men coming to . Juheau—men of large affairs,| of commegreial activity, Government; officials—" Mr: Bradley said. “I am glad to see that you are alive to the importance of impressing them with the possibilities here. It is a fine think to have them here and listen to them tell you what they think. “But it is still more important that they know what you think. It is a function of the Chamber to tell these men of importance what the Chamber knows about conditions, about your needs and the opportunities here for develop- nent,” he concluded. Mr. Bradley sxpressed his appreciation of the Chamber’s courtesy in having him as its guest. | Gallwas. Urges Bridge Mr. Gallwas presented to the Chamber, the Douglas plea forlocal 20-operation to the end that bridge construction across Gastineau Chan- 1el may be initiated without delay. de pointed out that such a project would be of mutual benefit to both Juneau and Douglas, and asserted t would be more beneficial to the former than to the latter. “A bridge across the Channel would bring the two communities 30 closely together that they would oecome one town,” he said. He icouted any idea that it would re- (Continued on Page Eight) in Advance by General Sales; Stocks Are>md Back by: Soggy Condition that Prevails in Bonds |tempt. As the aircraft was rest- ing on water that was subjected to treacherous currents, it was towed to another anchorage by the Shimushiru. RU L E R 0 | Plenty of Supplies ! At the Colonel's disposal have |been placed the supplies that were jcached at Muroton Bay for the Japanese aviator, 8. Yoshihara, who who contemplates another recently failed on an attempted jJapan-United States flight German Ship Repo{'ted to make the trans<Pacific and effort air Landing Revolutionaries | journey. > = ] | According to radio advices from and Pres‘dem n Pel’ll etol Island, Colonel Lindbergh hopes to take off from there for HAVANA, Cuba, Aug. 20.—Presi- Ne‘::“ro Friday morning dent Machado of Cuba, who went to Santa Clara Province Tuesday | to hold parleys through messeu-] gers with rebel leaders in an ef- KEY fort to induce them to lay down| their arms, is in danger of cap- higher prices. Selling converged on ture by revolutionary forces, ac- | tobacco shares. |cording to advices received ‘today | Losses of a point or two points in Havana. Unconfirmed reports | were recorded by American To- | were current that he had been bacco, Liggett and Myers Common surrounded by rebel bands. and Class B, and Reynolds Class B. | volutionary forces are sald to, BY GREENLAND Advances of two to three points have landed from a German ves- — were made by American Telephone, 'se} oh the Upper Santa Clara coast b A Consolidated Gas, Case, Lambert, and also at Gabrari. ;Bl’ltls.h Expeumon Re.turns with Maps and Pic- NEW YORK, Aug. 20—For the third day in succession bull op- erators made early advances only to be stallad by midday liquida- tion, but the major portions of the forenoon rises held. Public apathy toward trading and a soggy bond market operated to the dis- advantage of interests working for ———————— T0 ARCTIC man Kodak and Union Pacific. | Increases of more than five points were registered by Tidewater Oil and Associated Oll preferred. pratsluiE ot (L . L] \ TODAY'S STOCK | QUOTATIONS it .. L] NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—Closing prices on the New York Stock Ex- change were: Alaska Juneau 17’ American Can 94%, Anaconda Cop. per 24%, Bethlehem Steel 40%,' Checker Cab 8%, 8 and 8, Curtiss-' Wright 2%, Fox Films 13%, Gen-| eral Motors 36%, International Har- | | fire. i Allied Chemical, J. C. Penny, East- | ——.—————— FOUR AVIATURS tures of Counlry COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Aug. 20.—Whether an air route can be T established over the Arctic zone cannot be ascertained until met- 5 i erological and geographical sur- veys are made of Greenland, ac- WARSAW, Poland, Aug. 20—Four sorqing to members of the British student aviators were burned 10 gaot Greenland expedition, which death yesterday when their plane joyirned yesterday to Copenhagen. crashed near Bzox, and then caught, ppe expedition spent 13 months 1in East Greenland mapping the country and taking photographs of it. More than 500 photographs are in the possession of the scientists. - — e — VALKYRIE ENDS SEASON'S WORK AND RETURNS HERE vester 38%, Kennecott Copper 17%,| pp, Valkyrie, Ca;;t 0. H. Wood, Packard Motors 67%, Standard A $ "~ |which has been used by the Unit- Brands 19, Standard Oll of Cali-loq grates Bureau of Fisheries on MRS. SPERLING AND TWO CHILDREN GO TO TAKU ' Yakataga beach where he ‘ noyed. fornia 41%, Standard Oil of New » . herring patrol in Chatham Strait Jersey 40%, United Aircraft 28%, i United States Steel 90%. |this season, returned to port ‘last Mrs. children, Harry Sperling and two Harry, Jr., and Mary, it R {night, after completing its work. left' yesterday for Taku River for '_' Special Pisheries Warden John Mc- a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Jack SULLIVAN REZURNS HERE Laughlin, who was in chargs of the Koby. They will spend three weeks FROM YAKATAGA BEACH patrol, was aboard the vessel there. After spending two months at| © & Bethlen G Fall Yakaiags, bench s, w3 Dethlen Government I.alls ; Sullivan returned here last mght\ . o seamer aamra waon A fter Having Held Power He acted a guard from Yakutat | ¢ (= for two Federal prisoners, Frank | S soa s Dass, Piipisos, son- | in Hungary for Ten Y ears tenced to six months’ imprisonment and fined $50 each for violating the Alaska Bone Dry Law. Mr. Sullivan expects to remain here for some time. ———-—a———— WOR, Newark, each night at 10:45 warns its listeners to turn down their loudspeakers so that sleeping neighbors will not be an- BUDAPEST, Hungary, Aug. 20.—a néw ministry. For the first time in 10 years, a| Count Stephen Bethlen became (change has been made in the|premier in 1921, a year after Ad- administration of Hungary's gov- | miral Nicholas von Horthay was ernment. The Bethlen cabinet|chosen regent. fell yesterday in consequence of | Count Karolyi, whom the regent the distressed condition of the|has asked to form a new cabinet, public treasury. Count Julius|is a cousin of Michael Karolyi, vet- |Karolyl has been asked to form |eran Hungarian statesman.