The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 11, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS LL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIIL., NO. 5820. INEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1931. ~ MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ABANDON HOPE MISSING FLIERS BE FOUND ALIVE ADMINISTRATION| COSTS PILE UP, RECEIPTS DROP Federal Administ ration Costs in Alaska Rise $1,000,000, 1930 WASHIN'GTO?D‘ C., Sept. 11.— Mounting costs of Federal admin- istration in Alaska and slightly diminished receipts from Territorial i sources are reported for the fiscal year ending June 30, last in a statement issued by the United States Department of Agriculture. | rose ap- |} Administrative 2osts proximately $1,000,000 over the pre- ceding fiscal year and receipts to the Government $500,000, the statement said. The net cost to the Federal Gov- ernment for running Alaska for the period covered was placed at $7,485,371 as compared with slight- ly less than $6,000,000 for the pre- ceding year. These figures reflect the difference between total ex- penditures of $12,321,646, and re- ceipts to the Government of $4,- 846,275, from Territorial sources. ———————— FOSHAY SPENT | CASH'IN MOST LAVISH STYLE Thousands ;f—[;ollars Went for Personal Expense, Jury Is Told MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Sept. 11. —Testimony that thousal dollars were spent for tickets, valet service and of per- sonal purposes by W. B. Poshay, was given to the Federal Court jury yesterday in the. trial of sev- en officials of the company charg- ed with using the mail to defraud. The jury heard testimony that in 1927 the sum of $46988 was paid by the Foshay enterprises for ex- penses incurred by Foshay, who usually traveled with a retinue of stenographers and other assistants. In 1928, when the stock selling ac- tivities of the Foshay concerns was near the peak, the treasurers were called upon for $60,878 to defray the personal expenses of Foshay. E. J. Bouchard, former Assistant Treasurer of the parent concern, testified that in 1929 outlays for Foshay's expenses were $33,600 on western trips. He said an assist- ant would frequently allocate por- tions of the expense to the various companies. SUIT IS FILED SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11.—Suit to recover $54,683, allegedly pald as dividends in 1928 by the W. B. Foshay Company firm here has| been filed in the Federal Court by J. C. Rockwood, Receiver, against J. E. Dorsey, Piedmont capitalist, and former Director of the Com- pany. The suit alleges the Directors vot- ed dividends when no money was in the treasury to pay them. The suit charges Dorsey approved of the resolution voting the dividends. CHARGE THREE WITH MURDER, AGED RANCHER Claim Torture Resorted to in Robbery Which Netted Two Dollars OLYMPTA, Wash., Sept. 11.—Har- old Carpenter, aged 30 years, a roustabout, and Mrs. Ethel Willis, aged 26, mother of two children, were described by their counsel as illiterate, when the two, and Wal- ter Dubuc, aged 16 years, accused of the torture murder of Peter Ja- cobson, 86 years old rancher, went on trial for their lives in the Su- perior Court. Carpenter and Mrs. ‘Willis signed purported confessions and each entered a plea of not guilty by reason of mental irre- sponsibility. Prosecuting Attorney Harold Troy said he would ask the death penalty for all three defendants. The state contends the accused tor- tured Jacobson in an attempt to force him to show them where he kept money they believed he had in his house. The trio obtained slumped about | § Looks Lil;; >Love f H urrica_nev Strikes in Porto Rico Blows at R;t;f 110 Miles an Hour — Lives Reported Lost SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Sept. 11. —A hurricane, blowing at the rate of 110 miles an hour, struck here last night causing considerable damage and cutting communieation with the interior parts of the island. Railway service is paralyzed and electric power plants have been put out of commission. Telephone serv- ice is completely knocked out. TOLL OF LIVES MIAMI, Florida, Sept. 11—R. L Dunten, General Operations Man- ager of the Pan-American Airways announced he has received official information from Belize, Britlsn Honduras, that 200 persons were killed in a tropical storm which swept over the city yesterday. GANDHI MAKES FELLOWES MADE PREDICTION ON MEDICAL CHIEF, INDIA'S ISSUE INDIAN BURE AU Believes Seli-Government Will be Granted by Seattle Man to Be Director| British of Medical Relief Work ! MARSEILLES, France, Sept. 11. in Territory ey won't say they will and they won't say they won’t, but it looks like love! Here is Fred Waring, opular _orchestra leader, an Boroth Lee, of the films, at Syra- cuse, N. Y., where, rumor has it. they will be married soon. {—Mahatmi Gandhi, setting foot on European soil for the first time in , 15 years, told the Associated Press Dr. F. 8. Fellowes, Past Assistadt | {545y that he believed the British Swrgeon, United States PubliciGovernment was faced with such Health Service, has been dcsxgnabed% i e HARD SLEDDING |COMING WINTER [Security to FACES DRASTIC COTTON PLANS Doubtful If Unanimous SPURS MOVE TO END COAL TIEUP | !Quarrel of Operators and | Workers to Be Put Up to Hoover Support Will Be Ac- corded Program By W. J. DAVIS By L..W. SHERIDAN ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 11.—Grad- PITTSBURGH, Penn., Sept. 11.— ual readjustment of the farm pro- Shackled by economic and labor gram is apparently considered the‘dlmcumes, the bituminous coal in- safest method for relieving the cot- | dustry looks hopefully toward the ton situation by most southern national capital. agricultural leaders. | Western Pennsylvania, harrassed ‘Though the air is thick with sug- by the long strike of its miners, is gested remedies, it seems doubt- | facing another winter, and oper- ful that any of the so-called emer- ators and workers, through embit- gency programs will meet with the tered by months of futile negotia- unanimous support needed to make | tion, nevertheless are prepared to as Director of Medical Relief.Work for the Alaska Branch of the Ui- fice of Indian Affairs, according to a letter received from him by Al- len Shattuck. He wrote Mr. Shat- tuck at the suggestion of Charles D.! Garfield, Manager of the Alaska| Department of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, asking nim to secure a house for his family. Official confirmation of this ap- pointment could not be had here staggering domestic problems thas |it is not. likely- to refuse India’s demands for self-government. o Refusal would mean a renewal of the OCivil Disobedience cam- paign and a boycott of British goods on a scale greater than ever before, Gandhi said. “If the fight should be renewed, the consequences will be infinitely more terrible than the last struggle and would mean that not only the Indians would be shot down but today. Gqv. George A. Parks, who t i has recommended this step for sev- g‘:ndak:x‘ BITNOYRS SuR kiljed ) Belly eral years, said he had no Infor-1 “.yoy” cannot hold 360,000,000 of TRRRIOT BEOR L. people, without liberty, in leashes of non-violence forever,” concluded An Associated Press despatch 0. qp; The Empire this afternoon from Seattle said the appointment had been announced there. Dr. Fellowes is 32 years old and a World War Veteran. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin. ‘4 He will sail for Juneau October 1, to establish his offices here. He has been stationed at Seattle since 1929 in charge of relief, quarantine stations and immigration inspection | Seattle in that area. He will be the first Federal health supervisor for the Alaska Indians . FIGHTING HAS STARTED OVER CHINESE GOVT. Conflict Between National- ists and Canton In- surgents Begins IS SHOTBY OWNPISTOL Motorcycle Patrol- man Wounded when Gun Falls SEATTLE, Sept. 11.—Shot near the heart by his own revolver, Henry J. Carter, motorcycle patrol- man, is in the hospital. His con- dition is said to be not serious. The weapon slipped from the holster as Carter was preparing to retire. The pistol was discharg- ed as it struck the floor near a Mrs. Carter found her hus- band lying across the bed suffer- ing from the wound. B — STYLE SHOW HONGKOW, Sept. 11.—The long deferred and oft predicted = start of the physical conflict between, the Nationalists of* Nanking and - the Insurgents of Canton broke| mne annual style show ‘at the out suddenly today in the Tayuling|goytheastern Alaska Fair will be mountain district in the southern)giageq tonight starting promptly at. part of the Province of Kiangsiig gclock. The show will be put on where the Nationalist authority|py Halvorsen's under the direction has been limited recently. of Mrs. Harry Cowan. The newest Fighting 1s also reported below|fa) modes will be shown. Hengchow in Hunan Province. The RS Southerners have decided to make|wRANGELL WOMAN BOUND an effort to capture Henchow OVER TO GRAND JURY them effective. The federal farm board's sugges- tion that one-third of this year's crop be destroyed was discarded by a majority of southern governors and farm experts. ‘Governor Huey Long's proposal that cotton planting in 1882 be prohibited by law has won more support, and was endorsed by the New Orleans cotton conference, at- tended by several governors and state representatives, but has drawn the fire of many editorial pens. Urge Gradual Reduction Most comimissioners of agriculture and other leaders who live close to the fatmer and share his view- point seem to belleve a better plan lies in & gradual reduction of cot- ton acreage and an increased plant- ing of feed and food crops. Seth P. Storrs, commissioner of (Continued on Page four) WEALTHY MAN BELIEVED DEAD lay their quarrel before the federal government. | Government Operation Urged | Weeks of peace efforts were cli- maxed recently by the proposal of Pittsburgh mine owners that the government take over the industry This plan met quite generally with approval. Operators, blaming over-produc- tion and economic conditions for the market collapse, agreed that non-profitable operations must be eliminated. Some proponents of the govern- ment control plan suggested merg- ing of the more substantial oper- ators, but others pointed to the shadow of the Sherman anti-trust law across such a project. Readjustment of freight rates is necessary, most operators insist. The recent lake cargo decisions coupled with demands of the min- (Continued on Page Seven) R STOCK MARKET HAS FLURRY IN MYSTERY CRIME! MORNING HOURS Attacked Aboard Private Yacht, Thrown Into Water, Drowns NEW YORK, Sept. 11. — The Coast Guard and metropolitan po- lice are today searching Long Island Sound for Benj. Collins, rich Stamford, Connecticut, yachtsman, aged 38 years, who his wife said was attacked and drowned by two men who boarded the cruiser off Syosset. She is under police guard at the home of a friend. Mrs. Collins said she was taken off the cruiser in a canoe after her husband was thrown into the water after being attacked by two men. Mrs. Collins’ five-year-old daugh- ter Barbara, left aboard the yacht, was later found in an open motor boat, which evidently had been stol- en, after her cries for help had been heard. U. S. DECLINES 70 AID CHINA Indicated Nation Will Not Meddle in Present Controversy WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 11.— The State Department has indi- cated the United States will de- cline to use its good offices in the Mexican-Chinese expulsion con- troversy. A It is unofficially stated the Unit- ed States may aet in the present trouble provided both countries in- volved make a request. So far only China has asked intervention. e, HOME COOKING PRIZES Lists Slump from One to Four Points—Many Shares Recover NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—The stock market was well supported late this afternoon despite the morning flur- ry, on a large scale of liquidation, which finally drove General Motors and General Electric below the market to the lowest of June. Efforts to rally the market early was premature and the list slumped from one to four points as stocks were dumped on the market in large blocks. The market soon re- covered much of the decline, early in the afternoon and a few shares galned a point or two. United States Steel, American Can, Loews, American Tobacco “B”, Union Pacific, Alaska Juneau, Homestake and American Telephone and Telegraph sagged more than two points, then almost cancelled the loss or completely recovered. General Motors and General El- ectric staged a fine rally before the closing. e TODAY'S STOCK | QUOTATIONS | . NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today was 19%, American Can 91%, Anaconda Copper 207, Beth- lehem Steel 37'%, Checker Cab 8, 1%, 8, Curtiss-Wright 2%, General Motors 32, International Harvester B3%, Kennecott 15'%, Packard Mo- tors 6%, Standard Brands 18%, Standard Oil of New Jersey 36%, United Aircraft, no sale; United States Steel 82%. MRS. L. G. MORRISON PASSES ON; PRIVATE FUNERAL TOMORROW Mrs. L. G. Morrison, wife of the assistant operator-in-gharge of the quickly and establish a new Pro- vincial Government under Tand Seng Chi, former Governor. TWO ARRESTED FOR Charged with grand larceny, Ag- gie Dubke, Wrangell woman, was yesterday bound over to the Fed- eral Grand Jury, according to ad- THm 0]" me vices received by United States Marshal Albert White. She was unable to raise $1,000 bond set by Charged with stealing lumber|the Commissioner and will be from Capt. J. V. Davis, Elmer Davis brought here to await the action and William Paul Edgar were ar- of the Grand Jury. y rested last night by Federal offi- — eee cers and were awaiting arraignment| PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., Sept. today on a charge of larceny. 11.—Ollie Stratton, charged with ‘The lumber, it is alleged, was first degree murder of Willlam taken from the site of Capt. Davis'| Frawley, Army Sergeant, entered a new home on Glacier Highway. niplea of guilty today in the Super- was used by the two men to finish|ior Court. The defendant was $2, up a log cabin they are said to oc- Aperfectly calm when he made his cupy, | ple: ARE AWARDED AT FAIR Juneau Cable Office, passed on Honors for the baking exhibit at)during the night at St. Ann's Hos- the Fair have been given to Mrs.|pital. Funeral services will be held Ross and Mrs. Roy Rutherford for{at 2 o’clock tomorrow afternoon at oatmeal cookies; Mrs. Hans Loken, {the Juneau-Young Undertaking of Douglas, and Mrs. John Feusi, | Parlors, The funeral will be private of Douglas, for sugar cookles; Mrs.|and it 1s requested no flowers be Tom Allen, for Swedish Christmas{sent. Interment.will be in the cookies; Miss Finnie Fields, for|Masonic Plot at Evergreen Ceme Gisbourne, New Zealand, has re- Passes Away Today HEDR She was a member of the Eastern years, President of the Republic of [the many friends for the flowers doughnuts. Sery. sided for many years in this sec- KARLSRUHE, Germany, Sep.|Star. Baden since November, 1930, died |Sent to the hospital during his 4 Mrs. Morrison, who was born in President of Baden tion and leaves a host of friends. 11.—Joseph Wittemann, aged 65| Mr. Morrison desires to thank here today. g !:1&"- illness. Come Before Disarmament | | French Foreign Minister Reiterates Contention of His Nation GENVEA, Sept. 11 —Foreign Min- |bly of the League of Nations, re- iterated the French contention that «the problem of security must be solved before real reduction of ar- maments can be realized Briand promised France would |help make it clear that the first task of the new year's Disarma- ment Conference be to “make the crime of war legally impossible. The French Foreign Minister did not mention the proposal advanced by Foreign Minister Grandi, of Italy, for a truce in armament building unti] the end of next year's Disarmament Conference After Briand completed his speech, delegates from Denmark, Holland, Sweden and Switzerland l1aid before the Assembly a resolu- | tion embodying the suggestion ad- vanced by Italy for a truce in arm- ament bullding. ———— - CUT BRITISH DOLE, RAISE INCOME TAX Chancellor Snowden Pre- sents Emergency Bud- get to Commons LONDON, Sept. 11.—A 10 per cent eut in tha dole and a boosk of the income tax to 25 per cent of taxable incomes was announced late yesterday by Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his emergency budget, and read in the House of Commons. Labor members of the House booed Snowden and others cheer- ed. The duty on beer will also be raised a penny a pint. The duty on imported leaf tobacco will be raised eight pence a pound and the duty on gasoline will be raised two pence a gallon. Snowderys emergency ‘taxation measures, to produce $202,500,000 additional revenue, went into force today as the people clinched their belts for the sake of national solvency. ——e———— SPEEDRECORDS BY AIRPLANES MAY BE BROKEN Four Hundred and Twenty Miles an Hour May Be Made Tomorrow CALSHOT, England, Sept. 11.— Man may fly at a speed of 420 miles an hour, faster than he has er Cup Races to be staged here tomorrow. Two new British mystery air ma- chines, Built for the races, are ex- pected to make 420 miles an hour speed. One achieved 405 miles an hour in a practice flight recently, when the engine was well throttled down. France and Italy have withdrawn from the races. EXPLOSION KILLS TWO ROCHESTER, N. Y., Sept. 11.— An explosion in the Eastman Ko- dak Company's building -late this afternoon killed two workmen and injured 14 others. E—— LU U I R BN B ) ENROLLMENT IN SCHOOLS GROWS Additional pupils have en- rolled in the Juneau public schools since classes were resumed last Tuesday, ac- cording to Superintendent R. 8. Raven. The enrollment today is 428 for the grade school and 158 for the high school. More students are expected to present them- selves ‘next week. 0000 c:Ter0e | Moose Dictator PLANES, COAST BUARD CUTTERS MAKING SEARCH ! b 3 | Allen Are Reported to ister Briand ,of France, making his | first speech at this year's Assem- | No Trace .o—f_Moyle and Have Been Found RUMORS TRACED DOWN AND NOTHING TO THEM {Aleutian Islands, Northern Britis h Columbia, Reveal Nothing SEATTLE, Sept. 11.—Hope that | Don Moyle and C. A. Allen will be Ffrederick N. Zihlman, of Cum- berland, Md., (above), the newly elected Supreme Dictator of the Loyal Order of Moose. Mr. Zihl- man was named to his high fraternal post at the convention of the order held in Atlantic City, N. J. He is a former congress- man, having served his district in | Maryland for seven terms. found alive has been practically abandoned. Numercus reports of the plane of the two fliers reported having passed various sections of the Aleutians and Northern Canada have failed of verification. Experts and Coast Guard offics lials declared there is scarcely & ° -!chance to find the two fliers or leven a trace of them. Reports received from Dutch | Harbor, Alaska, state Coast Guard |cutters searching along the Aleu- tians have found no trace and no ¥ | confirmation of the two fliers hav- "mg been sighted anywhere. ! An extensive investigation over Vancouver Island and other sece |tions in Northern British Colum~ |bia by airplanes failed to confirm | rumors that Moyle and Allen land=~ led at any place. The two fliers left Samushiro Beach, Japan, last Monday after= noon on an attempt to make a Imm-smp flight to Seattle. The Dave Willlams, arrested at Pet- | plane was sighted only once, from ersburg Wednesday night and de-|a point 110 miles from the starts WILLIAMS' BON SET AT $10,000 DEFER HEARIN Man Suspe_cte—a of Being | Eastern Robber Is Held in Petersburg Jail clared to be E. M. Stewart, alleged ever traveled before, in the Schneid- Eastern post office bandit, wiil el i, prelipdapry. xamination ing point. in the United States Commission- | er's Court at Petersburg on Sep- tember 28, according to official| advices received here today. | He was arraigned this morning PLANES uFF before United States Commissioner | C. Clausen at Petersburg and his 3 bond fixed at $10,000. In delaulti FuR REcuRn of bail he is being held in jail. Steps are being taken to estab-‘ lish Williams's identity. His finger-' S prints have been taken by Federal officials and will be forwarded on the first mail to Seattle post office 'inspectors for comparison with! prints held by them. Stewart is wanted for robbing a | post office at Ashbury Park, N. J.,' and one at Steubenville, Ohio. Leave Paris in Attempt to Break Boardman- Polando Mark PARIS, Sept. 11— The plane Paris 2, manned by Joseph LeBrix, Marcel Doret and Rene Mesmin, MRS e iand the Question Mark, owned by Major Dieudonne Coste, which is {carrying Paul Codos and Sergeant QUIT TALKING | Henry Todida, left LeBourget Air- | 1 :drome at dawn today in the direc= | AND GET BUSY {tion of Tokyo, seeking to wrest the {nonstop distance record ribbon from ( | Paul Boardman and John Polando, | SAYS STRAWN “zzs Matching speed with each other, | the two planes took off within six [President of U. S. Cham-| | ber of Commerce [ minutes of each other. i Gives Advice The Paris 2, carried 2,112 gallons of fuel and the Question Mark 1,373 gallons. The latter plane is 112 miles an hour faster than the | {Paris 2, and has enough gasoline | WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 11 @board for a flight of 52 hours, | Encouraging ' signs are appearing ‘on the business horizon In the opinion of Silas Strawn, President of the United States Chamber of normal flying. Major Coste watched the take- Commerce, ,in a radio address. President Strawn said: ‘“More off. It is believed that Thitsikar, 8i= faith and fewer nostrums, is the need of the day . Let us quit talk- beria, is the goal, which must be reached to break the record of ing about our troubles and regard the present as an opportunity to 5,000 miles made to Turkey from New York City by Boardman and Polando. demonstrate our capacity for ac-,, N:)Da msmv({ve?p&,?';’wmm!"z complishment.” ¥ i Pl AR | headed for Kazan. The weather The Question Mark has been - | forced down at Nieukerk, near the i 1dox'( Germany, by gas tank leaks. [ RIEL‘NEML\‘ 1,000 gallons of gasoline are | Granddaugher of Rocke- tanks. i |is clear and there is no wind. | Netherlands' frontier, near Dussel= reported to have leaked out of the | feller Makes Announce- - - X | ment to Mother i 5 e| OCHICAGO, 1I., Sept. 11.—Muriel | ABUAHD lu“|SE ® McCormick, aged 29, grand-daugh-| s ter of John D. Rockefeller, an-| |nounces her engagement to Elisha | ¢ P. Hubbard, aged 52 years, wealthy| £ bachelor of Middleton, Connecti- cut Steamer Princess Louise due to- | The announcement was made in night from the south has the fol- a letter received by her mother lowing 14 passengers aboard for and was the first she knew of the this port: attachment, | Mrs. F. Dufresne, Virginia Du= | | fresne, Miss M. Leroy, Dave Tewkes- BAR HARBOR, Maine, Sept. 11. bury, David Tawkesbury, Franklin —Muriel MuCormick and Elisha P. Dufresne, Pete Jellich, Hazel Me- Hubbard, were married here scarce- | Auliffe, Elle Miekle, Bryce Miekle, ly 24 hours after announcement of |Dave Miekle, Willlam F. Thomp- her engagement, by letter, to her|son, Charles ‘Simmons, Fred Sel- mother. ‘kregg.