The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 17, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIIL, NO. 5851. MI:MBk R OF ASSOCIATED PRI:SS PRICE TEN CENT& IN MANCHURIAN ISSUE APPEAL IS MADE RID CHICAGO OF GANGS TER, SAYS JOHNSON Gray Haired Prosecutor Presenting Argument in Tax Case EXPLODES THEORIES ADVANCED, DEFENSE Government Attorney Re-| quests Sinister Influ- ences Be Removed CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 17.—United States Distriet Attorney C. E. Q.; Johnson today pleaded before the Federal jury to convict Al Capone, charged with evasion of income taxes, and rid this city of “his) sinister influence.” { The gray haired prosecutor, speaking slowly and emphatically, said: “Capone’s counsel suggested this man as being a modem Robin Hood. “I ask, did this Robin Hood buy’ a thousand dollar diamond belt as a blanket for unemployed? “Did this Robin Hood buy.thou-, sands. of dollars worth of meat and food for the poor and hungry? “Were those $27 shirts to pro- | tect the men who sleep beneath the city’s streets?” Yesterday afternoon, Albert Fiak, ' former well known Nome, Alaska, attorney, charged the Government was attempting to convict.a gang- ster “only to appease and respond to public clameor.” - e — WORRY CAUSES TRAGEDY; FIVE DEAD IN OHIO Mother fil:Her Four Young Children then Takes Own Life WILMINGTON, Ohio, Oct. 17.— Mrs. Russell Ward, aged 35 years, shot and killed her four children, and then suicided in 'her home; near here during yesterday after-| noon. The children killed were Arlene aged 11, Audrey aged 8, Edith aged 7, and Richard aged 4 year The authorities blamed financial troubles fer the tragedy. They said she told neighbors she was| ing so worried she could not think. The woman went to the village, school early yesterday afternoon,! got her children and took them home and the tragedy followed. The bodies of the five were found n the husband and, father returned home late yester- day ' afternoon. EDISON GROWS | WEAKER TODAY WEST ORANGE, New Jersey, Oct. 17. — The strong heart of Thomas A. Edison is weakening.| This is indicated by the pulse' which Dr. Howe described as; “poor.” The Doctor intends to stay all day at the Edison home. . ©f English invention is a case- ment window that can be reversed in its frame when swung into a room for ease in cleaning. { will find work this winter on public’ CONVHCT CAP@NE Public f;fo jects’in Westérn States to Help Take U Ip Employment Slaék DAM AND ULDUCT PROVIDE WORK muwuumm—mmmt&um Above are excavators at work on Hoover Dam in Nevldl which st present is employing 6,000. The dam is showii in sketch. ' Below is a contour map of the recently approved Los Angeles aqueduct project which is expected to' provide additional employmenL Rattles Mellon REV. WOODLEY HUNG TO ROCK bald, tative Wright Patman ( Democrat, of Texas, has reitérated his intention .of bring- impeachment proondinp against Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon when Con;rau convenes. Representative Patman cites the law that bans a Secre- tary of the Treasury from being interested in trade and commerce, either directly or indirectly. Mel- lon is said by Patman to have violated oah. FORMER ALASKA ENGINEER DIES W. H. Archibald Passes Away in Seattle—Sis- ter Lives in Juneau SEATTLE, Oct. 17—W. H. Archi- aged 71 years, old time mining engineer, is dead re as the result of an attack of the heart. A sister, Mrs. J. W. ‘Woodford, resides in Juneau, Al- aska. Mother Disinherits Disciple . of Gandhi; Is Left Out of Will LCNDON, Oct. 17—Miss Made- line Slade, daughter of an English admiral, who forsook her high po- Sition to become a lowly disciple of the Mahatma M. K. Gandhi, was not mentioned in the will of her mother as published here. Lady Slade bequeathed an estate of about $50,000 to another daugh- ter, Mrs. Edward Vernon. Miss 8lade said she had requested omis- | sion of her name from the will. “Many years ago, when I first ‘became a disciple of Mr. Gandhi's,” she said. “I took a vow of celibacy and non-possession. Therefore it goes without saying that inheri- tance of worldly wealth from my mother’s estate would be contrary to my code' of living.” THEN DROPPED Hands of PE;[ Lacerated Indicating Strength Finally Gave Out ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 17.— The hands of the Rev. Father fall over a cliff in the Chickaloon | district while hunfing mountain | sheep, are baldy lacerated indicat- ing he clung to the rock ledge as long as his strength lasted, then dropped to the ravine below, the fall breaking his neck and crushing his head. ‘While hanging to the rock ledge, Father Woodley answered his brother Arthur's call from the op- Posite side of the gorge, a mile distant, when he heard a signal shot. The priest called: Dan all right?” When assured his two compan- lons, his brother and Dan Kennedy, merchant of Anchorage, were safe, he informed them, ‘I need help.” “Are you and It is presumed the Father short-: ly after relinquished his hold on the rock ledge as nothing was heard later from him. This was after dark last Monday night. The body was found Wednesday and brought here where it will be sent, to Boston for interment. ———————— “Witch” and Son Found Guilty in Insurance Death DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 17.—Mrs. Rose Veres, “witch” landlady, and her son, William, 18 years old, has been convicted of killing Steve Mak, a lodger, by throwing him from a second story window, to! realize on insurance policies Mrs. Veres carried on his life. Mak was the twelfth lodger in the Veres home to die within eight years. The inquiry which followed Mak's death revealed that Mrs. Veres had paid premiums on sev-, enty-five insurance policies on the | lives of her lodgers. oo — Toy factories in the United States have an annual production valued at approximately $100,000,000. (Editor’s Note: This is last of a scries of five cutlining unemployment ditions throughout the nation.) By W. A. WELLS SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct, ~—Public construction by cities, states and the federal governm LEGALITY OF plus local relief measures will help | |* the Rocky Mountain and coast states care for the unem- ployed this winter. A Governors of two states, Arizona and California, have under con- templation calling of special Ees- sions of the legislature if the situa- tion should become sufficiently acute. Of the western states, California with its large population leads in| ! the number of workers idle. ‘The total is estimated at approxi- mately 400,000. Dr. Louis Bloch, ! state labor statistican, estimates ! that of this number approxima! | 140,000 are in Los Angeles and w 1000 in San Prancisco. Stored Food Aids Idaho Idaho plans to meet her relief | problem by providing local ' labor food from stored surplus crops. No extreme conditions of hard- ship are expected. | In the lumber districts of Wash- {ington and Oregon the lumber- men's assoclation says mills will operate at about 30 per cent capac- ity ‘as agalnst 356 per cent In .Aumt ‘when 95,000 were employed. Public: 'work Will help California take ‘up the slack in employment. The Califormia’ state highway tom- mission has arranged work for 8,500 %o 4,000 extra men on road | tion will employ about 2,150. | “Other: projects expected to pro- | vide ‘more jobs include the $220,- 000,000 Los Angeles aqueduct and allled projects which the voters of the district recently approved; and the $33,000,000 Golden Gate bridge at S8an Francisco the fate of which is in the hands of the state su- preme court. Bridge May Provide Jobs Further work may be provided by the $78,000,000 San Prancisco- ‘Alameda county trans-bay bridge; the $5,000,000 United States navy (Continued on rage Four) RIOTS REVIVE DOLE AS ISSUE ; J | | George Woodley, priest killed by a | BHIT: Pul-r"cs iStreet Fights Dim Discus- sion of Free Trade— Very Startling Il By EDWARD STANLEY LONDON, Oc¢t. 17.—The dole, which broke the back of the Brit- ish budget, is fast becoming the ibig dragon against which the poli- tical 8t. Georges of England must {tilt in the coming election tour- | ney. | Demonstrators against cuts in | unemployment allowances have ibeen going on rampages beside which the strike in the navy and the dignified protests staged by school teachers and postal em- ployees seem pallid affairs. Crowds ‘have tried to storm the courts of justice, mounted police- men have ridden their horses upon the sidewalks in London and mill |town jobless have fought fiercely {with the police. | It is all somewhat startling to Britishers, bred for generations to the idea that the word of the | “bobby” 1s law and must be obey- led. | Tnus the dole, overshadowed for & time by tariff talk, has been forced again to the front, and the game goes on with the same old political football in play. British Trade Blocked Established in 1911 as a piece of social legislation under a conserva- tive government, the dole for the first ten years paid its own way. After the war the tune changed. British industry, stepping out confidently to take its old place in world trade, found its path blocked {by modernized and expanded com- merce from other countries. That competitive trade had flour- ished while Great Britain was mak- ing munitions. It showed no incli- (Conttayeq op ?n'e TW0) | where possible and by providing H { tenance. - Btate ‘builduu.eonml Its mooring mast at Akron, ‘CHICAGO, I, Assoclated Press telephoto showing the Akron, greatest dirigible yet built, floating into the alr from HUGE CRAFT IS ON' TWO-DAY TRIP Oct. 17.—The Akon reached here today on a two-day, came from the southwest and spent the night cruising over Illinois. LOCAL PEQPLE ORGANIZE NEW COAL CONGERN Company to Mine Coal at Old Harkrader Mine Incorporated Here To continue development of the coal depvsits on the famous old Harkrader property on Admiralty Island, a new company has been incorporated whose stockholders and officers are comprised of the owners of the ground which was recently taken over on a labor lien attachment. The tompany’s title s the Southeastern alaska Coal Company, and its authorized capltal stock ' issue is $150,000, all common stock with a par value of 1 each. The ‘incorporators are listed as: Joe Burlovich, Frank Percich and Frank Afric, all residing at Ju- neau. The directors to serve the first year are: Frank Afric, Elmer Garpnes and Frank H. Foster. Mr. Foster filed the articles of incor- poration this week in the Auditor's Office. The Harkrader property was Iirs:l worked many years ago and then lay idle until some six years since when a company was formed here, the Admiralty Island Coal Com- pany, which acquired the ground and opened development opera- tions. Coal mined in this work was marketed locally and to canneries in the :Chatham 8trait and Icy Strait areas. About two years ago, the company ceased operations ow-, ing to lack of finances. Workmen later filed a labor lien and were| awarded judgment, buying in thej property on, execution. Since tne 1grmer company quit operations, the lienors kept up the. development operations and sold coal from them to several canner- ies. It is the new company's plan! to continue work and to enlarge| its scale. It plans to market its) product here as soon as possible Warns Democrais ' DISCUSSIONS IS INVBLVED Tokyo Makes Contenhons Known to es at Geneva Meet ARMY CLIQUE SAID TO BE BACK OF DEMANDS Military Authotities Aver U. S. Is Extremely Meddlesome TOKYO, Oct. 17.—Japan is un- | decided whether to defy the League of Nations in the event of the lat- ter's refusal to reconsider Tokyo's coritentions regarding the question of legality involving the League's | Councll in discussion of the China- | Japanese dispute in Manchuria. | Japan will probably adhere to |the view the Kellogg Peace Pact |was not involved when Japan oc- |cupled Chinese territory in “self- | defense.” It is a question here whether the League of Nations is able to {prove anything to the contrary, than that of “self-defense.” “Extremely Meddlesome” Japanese Army authorities char- acterized the attitude of the United States as “extremely meddlesome.” ‘This was the opinion expressed fol- lowing overruling of the objection made to the League by Japan that the United States should not be invited to engage in arbitration of Potogv S T A should be asked to advise in the Far Eastern trouble when it has STOGK GOES UP K C Al | - Prentiss Gilbert, American Con- ennecott OPPC}'A SO sul General at Geneva, yesterday Advances—Securities |took his seat with fourteen other o members of the League's Council, Market Is Quiet NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—The se- ,In Geneva, to ald in a search for curities market was quiet and fair- 2,000-mile trial flight. s |ALASKA JUNEAU She the jury. |Fishermen ; ‘Two Injured n way for pesce in Manchuria. Further Objections After a special meeting of the ly stable in the short session today and only slightly more than half a million shares were turned over. Shares closing a point or so lower {rom yesterday included Am- erican Telephone and Telegraph. New York Central, Allied Chemical, Southern Pacific. Issues gaining included Alaska Juneau, Kennecott Copper, Ameri- can Smelting, National Biscuit, Corn Products, American Sugar. Associated 17eas Photn | " Senator K. D. McKellar, demo o crat, Tennessee, warned his party that nothing but a wet plank would | stand In the way of a democratic victory In next year's campaign. CLOSING flTOLI( PRICES | NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 15, American Can 82%, Anaconda Copper 15%, Beth- | lehem Steel 28, Curtiss-Wright 2,1 Fox Films 8%, General Motors 25%, International Harvester 25%, Ken- necott Copper 12%, Packard Motors 5, Standard Oil of California 31%. | Sbandnrd Oil of New Jersey 32, United Aircraft 15%, United States MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Oct. 17-~ Steel 68%, Fox Theatres, on curb, | The W. B. Foshay case, in which 1y Foshay and six associates are, charged with alleged using of tne' mails to defraud, went to the jury late yesterday afternoon, follow- ing long instructions given by | {Judge Molyneau. Verdicts on 17| counts against each of the seven' defendants must be PG i New Magazine to Print Work of College Poets GRINNELL, Iows, Oct. 17.—A {written by college students is to be published here starting this fall. The magazine is sponsored by lhe College Poetry Society of Am-! |erica, embracing 23 colleges and universities in the United States. Fish Hooks | The coal.is said to be of high heat yvalue, free burning with a light ash residue. The geology of | the district is regarded as favor- able for a substantial deposit of commercial fuel, it is said i —_—————— ARTIST WITHOUT ARMS | PAINTS WITH TEETH| | CHICAGO, Oct. 17. Henry | Wiegman, a student artist of Cice- T0, a suburb, was born without arms. | But he is one of the promising students of an art school here. | Weigman holds the brush be- tween his teeth and manipulates it with his tongue. He intends to make his living by commercial il- lustration” or 1n “his own gift shop His ambition to paint dates from the time he learned to write by the |*ame method. He 'is 23 now. ten by students in these schools. LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 17. | ithe United States. returned by national magazine devoted to poetry | It will contain only poems$ writ-! Japanese Oabinet Friday night, it was learned that the Government had cabled its Geneva representa- tive to stand firm on Japan’s ob- Jection to America’s unofficial rep- resentative taking any part in the League of Nation’s Manchurian discussions. It is said here that the Army clique is back of this position, and that it has forced the Government into a position that is repugnant to it, but which it dares not aban- don now that it has assumed it. The Japanese press generally sup- ports the Government's objection to participation in the matter by One leading prominent newspaper, however, said the United States ought to be ai- lowed to come in, but not before 1t became a member of the League of Nations. ——eo——— CREDIT BANK T0 FUNGTION COMING WEEK NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—The Di- rectors of the National Credit. Corporation Bank, a stabilization pool which may raise one billion dollars, held the first meeting to- day. It was primarily an or- ganization meeting to elect officers lend arrange final details before the wheels of the new financial machine are actually started which |Mll probably be early next week. 2 —When a fisherman hooks a fish it's just an ordinary occur- rence and no news, but when a fish hooks a fisherman it is news. And that’s why Julian Eltinge’s fishing trip off the coast near here yesterday broke Cancer Cures Are Reported Increasing; Cases Are Cited into the newspapers. Eltinge and a ccmpanion were swordfishing and hooked a big fellow which they succeed- ed in landing after strenuous cfforts. After the fish was in the boat he turned on his cap- tors and worsted them both. Eltinge was rushed here for an intectinal cperation as the re- sult of wounds inflicted by the fich, and his companion was cut abcut the hands and arms. He was treated for infection, ATLANTIC CITY, Oct. 17.—Dr.|Quick, of the New York Memorial Henri Coutard, of the Curie Insti- | Hospital. The three physicians pre- |tute, Paris, told members of the|sented results of the treatment of American Roentgen Ray Society, |cancer under various methods. It y-second annual session, the | was brought out that many cures cure percentage is increas- | had been effected through a treat- th improved methods of | ment combining radium, X-ray and treatment and diagnosis. | surgery. Dr. Coutard made it plain, how- | Dr. Coutard said that out of 212 |ever, that no set cure or cures for patients suffering from cancers of !cancer had been discovered. the tonsillar region from 1920 to Concurring in Dr. Coutard’s find- | 1926 at the Curie Institute, the ings, were Dr. Elis Berven, of Stock~ | proportion of verified cures. after 'holm, Sweden, and Dr. Douglas | three years was 23 per cent, L]