The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 5, 1931, Page 1

AY, NOVEMBER 5, 1931. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS VICTORY, STUDY FUTURE MILLIONAIRE ON _ MISS PRINGLE TELLS ALLEGED ATTACK STORY| Prosecuting Witness in Pantages’s Case Is Again on Stand PAST LIFE OF GIRL STARTS ARGUMENTS Judge Makes Ruling Re- gard Evidence to Be Decided Today LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 5— Miss Eunice Pringle retold again yesterday the story of the alleged attack upon her of Alexander Pan- tages, millionaire showman, when she called at his office to obtain a dancing engagement in August, 1929. Attorneys engaged in & bitter battle during the course of the ex- amination of Miss Pringle when the defense counsel began hinting at irregularities in her past life. It was on this point of the right of the defense to question the character of the prosecuting witness that a new trial was grant- ed Pantages after being once con- victed. Judge Makes Ruling The session finally ended with a statement from Judg> Clair Tap- paan that “when there is a case of attack, with force, such as there is alleged In'this case, T-be- lieve the jury is entitled to con- sider the character of the witness to decide as to the testimony of the prosecutrix, regarding the ac$ alleged. The jury should have the right to go into her past.” Is Near Collapse Judge Tappaan stated, however that his opinion was not final and he instructed the attorneys to ap- pear at the opening of the court today with additional authorities on the point at issue. Miss Pringle was near collapse at the adjournment of court yes- terday afternoon. e CABLE SYSTEM - SALE OPPOSED BY FAIRBANKS Group of Business Men Start Protest—Many Reasons Are Cited FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 5.— A group of business men announc- ed yesterday they would oppose vigorously the proposal of the War | Department to sell the cable sys- tem to private interests. As the first move, the Chamber of Commerce wired Judge James Wickersham, Delegate to Congress and other Chambers in Alaska, t0 enlist their support. The local chamber contended the sale of the system will bring cur- tailment of service and increased rates. It is also. contended that abandonment of the cable system by the CGovernment will prevent the Weather Bureau from obtain- ing airways' weather reports thus seriously hindering the airmail service as well as cutting off from communication large areas of the ‘Territory. Increased press rates would also work a great hardship on the daily newspapers in ‘Alaska, is another point raised. ——— Suicide Telephones for an Undertaker SANTA ROSA, Cal, Nov. 5.~ Frank L. Blackburn, sixty, former Public Administrator of Sonoma County, telephoned an undertaker to come at once for him. He then lay down under a tree at his summer home at Rio Nido, placed a wet towel across his breast and fired a bullet into his heart. Blackburn was distressed over ill health. e, A new type of lawn rake uses prongs of flexible rubber to pro- tect tender grass roots; anctura', who is backing the project. Cr’ Route of America’s First Inmigrants Traced i Asia Down the Alaska Coast by Dr. A. Hrdli TRAIL PLAZED BY EARLY TRIBES Dr. Ales Hrdlicka (upper. right), anthropologist who spent the past saummer in Alaska, traced thc route early tribes followed in coming from.Asia to North America.. -Arrows on map indicate the path Dr. Hrdlicka says they took In skirting the coast southward and crossing the Alackan peruinsula, rather than going through the interior of Alaska | POSITION OF U. S, SAID TO BE BEST EVER Gold Standard and Dollar Makes Nation Practi- cally Impregnable Romance Ended NEW YORK, ivov. 5—Dr. Edwin Kemmerer, of Princeton University, who has helped dozens of nations |back to monetary stability, said the position today of the United States, |with the gold standand and dollar, is virtually impregnable. Dr. Kemmerer said New York now has the opportunity of re- placing London as the world's fi- nancial center. Dr. Kemmerer, who was the principal advisor in the formation {of the Dawes plan, labelled as ig- norant or timid or envious those persons who expressed fears of a {breakdown of the gold standard. ———.——— PETER KORTH PASSES AWAY ‘First Native Born Alaskan J\ to Enlist, World War, Dead SBATTLE, Nov. 5. — Peter R. Korth, son of Frank C. Korth, is dead here after an illness of more than one year. He was the first native born Alaskan to volunteer his services in the World War. Puneral services will be held here The romance that unite Reynolds, 19, son of the late to- bacco magnate, and Ann Cannon Reynolds, daughter of a millionaire Concord, N. C., manufacturer, (s headed for a Reno, Nev., divorce court. She has taken up residence In the Nevada city. BRITISH GIRL MAKES FLIGHT CAPETOWN, Nov. 5. — Peggy| it it | i P :x‘r?l?l‘;:" l]f;gedwm: &;‘:fig‘wmonow and burial will be in this % flight from England. She made|city. World War veterans will the flight in five and one halt | have charge of the funeral services. i —————————— days, shortening the time made by the late Glan Kidston, noted' sportsman, last April. | Bobbie Trout to v Try Ocean Flight Freedom Is Urged by Rupert Hughes SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. 5.— People should be allowed as far as possible to do as they please, said LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 5—|the St. Francis Hotel here. fe Trout, noted aviatrix, will| : Etz:;pt a nonstop flight xmm‘rlage and divorce and on the pe- Honolulu to Los Angeles either in culiarities of the human rslneA January or February, 1932, accord- | He said our Prohibition law was ing ‘to an announcement made w‘undoubledly prompted by the high- local manu- est virtue — but it has multiplied b o B T v crime and multiplied drinking. 11932 BOOM FOR AL' SMITH DEAD, PROCLAIM DRYS By F. B. COLTON b i (Assoclated Press Science WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 5 Retracing a migration that thousands of years ago, Dy Hrdlicka, anthropologist- Smithsonian Institution, ‘new evidence concerning 1! that early men are believeds | have followed from Siberia {04 erica. i, Returning from a summer g in Alaska he reports that his ploration definitely has settled “the peopling of America tookp mot through the mainland of ka,but along its western coast through the Alaskan pe Some scientists hold | route was through the 1 People closely related to &fi-’ golian and Siberian nomads ably were the first humans to | to North America, starting about 6,000 B. C, Dr. says. Finds /Consolation in New York Returns WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 5— The Drys, defeated in every Con- t essional election last Tuesday, evertheless claimed some consola- on as the result' of the outcome g\ the New York State election. \the result of a/referendum on one' constitutional ‘amendment, the lational! Prohibition Board of 'Strategy affected to see a per- gonal defeat for former Gov. Al- fred E. Smith of that State. ‘The ' New York Democratic lead- -~ er had opposed the adoption of an S amendment regarding reforestation which was supported by Gov. 2 PFraknlin, D. Roosevelt. The amend- ment carried, by a large majority. Bones Are Found Dr. Ernest H. Cherrington, head He found bones of a vanished of the Dry Board of Srategy, in a people who may have been amONE statement said: “Smith’s elimina- these early pioneers from Asia,and tion from' the list of 1932 Presi- i | eled down the coast because that ing fact |in Tuesday's elections. route was so much er and This blow to his prestige in New shorter than through the interior.|york State, and thus throughout The bones were found oOn am the country, ends abruptly the re- island directly in the path of the cent move to rehabilitate him for coastwise route southward. = They the Democratic nomination.” are identified asbelonging to apre-' There ,was no changs in the historic race whose members were New York Assembly alignment in cannibals. Tuesday’s returns. The Democrats ‘Weapons, tools and art objects lost two and won two seats in uncovered with the bones fer the State Legislature, thus break- from any previously brought from ing even. f the far north, indicating tha! thss' Although Tammany Hall was the makers belonged to a previously target for .a vigorous attack by its unknown people. New York City opponnents, it | ‘These ancient folk carved faces more than' held its own in the 'in ivory and bone so photographic elections. in their detail that Dr. Hrdlicka, ———— believes they are portraits of indi-/ N PRlcEs Alaskan peninsula extending from | ENTIHE quI_n the southwestern corner of Alaska | which would have been the only| e would be far easier, he points out,| NEW YORK, Nov. 5. — Grain than on the turbulent mainland Prices scored substantial gains streams of Alaska. i throughout the world today accord- viduals rather than mere images. ! | Estimating, Age f‘ barrieir to canoe parties moving to . Farmers of Six Western !ing to all reports received here up | Estimating the age of some or‘ the bones is difficult, because they | had been frozen solid in the| ground for centuries and hence, preserved as if in cold storage. | Dr. Hrdlicka explored the narrow | the south. | He found that people with skin| = States jn U. S. Realize !boats easily could have crossed it, 9 A !by way of rivers running from both‘ Blg Pl‘OfItS coasts into the interior, and short portages. ‘Travel by this route “This season’s work has opened a great and highly promising new‘w Bis AtiEpRopn. field for American archaeologv in| ‘cproAGO, I, Nov. 5.—Wheat Wwhich the ®mithsonian explora-'g,pre geljveries were scarce today. tions will be continued” Dr. Hrd~ mne grain market closed with net licka says. gains from seven-eighths to one and three-eighths cents gain a | bushel. Corn went “up two and one- |fourth cents a bushel above yes- WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 5— terday’s prices. Evidence that the Mayas, remains | " i of whose mighty cities, now buried | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. 5.— iin the Central American jungles; Farmers of six Western States who ! were the first people to ever live Deld on to their wheat profited be- in that section, has been discov- tween $15,000,000 and 820‘000’.000 ered by the Carnegie Institution On the increase of prices. The here. | Western States in which the farm- | Oliver Ricketson, jr., archaelogist, &8 realized handsome%y are Mon- reported his expedition has dug tana, Colorado, Washington, Ore- 'down in red rock, at the site of 80R, Idaho and California. Unaxactum, ancient Maya City, | e in Guatamala, and found Maya FIREMEN TO ANSWER MAYAS ALSO PROBABLY WENT SOUTH VIA ALASKA Prohibition Strategy Board) evidence that they must have trav- dential possibilities is the out.szand-" !~ || Aarold Gatty, navigator of the record-holding ‘round-world plane “Winnie Mae” (seated), is working with Commander P. H. Weems on an instrument which is to affect the *‘drift” of airplanes. Gatty, known as an expert navigator even before his epochal flight with Wiley Post, hopes ‘to make aerial navigation more accurate with his invention, Commander Weems is shown studying it. BULLETS FLY 21 STATES NOW _ ASRESULT.OF CONTROLLED BY KY. ELECTION THE DEMOCRATS iFormer Democrati¢ Lieu-’Eleclion of Moore and Laf- tenant Governor Shot foon Gives Party 27 by Republican of 48 Governors WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 5.— ‘Nov. 5.—Henry Denhardt, aged 55 The election Tuesday of Harry | years, former Lieutenant Governor, Moors, New Jersey, and Judge (was shot and wounded today in the Ruby Laffoon, Kentucky, as Gov- | BOWLING GREEN, Kentucky,, first serious clash in Kentucky's ernor of their respective States, heated election. !gives the Democrats 27 out of 48 Five shots were fired at the States. Democratic leader on a downtown| Judge Laffoon, who got a sub- street by W. K. Dent, Republican stantial lead in the early returns, worker. maintained it on later reports. Only one of the shots fired by(Moore overwhelmingly defeated Dent took effect. This shot struck | David Baird, Jr., in the New Jersey Denhardt in the shoulder and pen- | contest. etrated a lung. The States in which Democrats Dent immediately surrendered. |control the Governorship are: Ala- Although the condition of Den-|{bama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, hardt is serious, it is expected he|Connecticut, Florida, Georgla, Ida- will recover. ho, Kansas, Kentucky, Lonisiana, Dent said Denhardt approached |Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, him on the street and made z|MlssLssmpL Nebraska, New Jerszy, motion with his hand toward his New Mexico, New York, North pocket. Dent thought Denhardt|Carolina, Ohio, South was reaching for a gun and pulled | Carolina, Texas, Utah his and fired. and Virginia, Election cards in his pocket saved Dent from a bullet wound | last Tuesday and he said he fear-| ed he was to be shot at again so pulled his gun and fired quickly. BAR SILVER REACHES NEW Oklahoma, Tennessee, SLAY MINISTER - FROM AMERICA | Pl Rev. Vinson, of Presbyter- { dan Mission, Kid- relics at the deepest levels. CALL OF TIE WILD | 1Indications, according to Ricket-| son, are that that part of the' Juneau firemen will feast on !world must have been uninhabited moose and venison meat at a din- before the Mayas arrived 600 years ner which will precede their regu- B. C. They probably came down lar monthly meeting this evening. from the north after crossing Ber- A big turnout of members is ex- ing Strait from Asia. . Civilized? Then Youw’re Not Happy Declares Philosopher | i ; hired others to do the amusing. Hence arises the peculiarly modern conception of leisure as an occasion for being entertained, and of en- tertainment as something for which one pays. “The main sources of entertain- LONDON, Nov. 5. — (Universal Service)—Modern civilization is not a success in terms of human hap- ! piness, according to Prof. C. E. M. Joad, eminent British philosopher. ‘We are governed too much by our stomachs and pocketbooks, and Rupert Hughes, famous author, at therefore we have no time to live. | ment are machines and sport. To| ‘Americans are the worst sinners in |step on foot throttles, insert coins He adds: | “Inevitably they have been driv- en to invent positive reasons, de- _manding in their leisure that they {should be amused. Incapable of inmuflng themselves they have |crowd through clicking turnstiles, rush headlong over the surface of the earth or through the air in machines propelled by gasoline are samples of the good life as con- cieved by most modern Americans.” LEVEL TODAY Predictions Made Metall Will Advance to Fifty ! [ Cents an Ounce —_— | NEW YORK, Nov. 5.—Bar silver shot up one and one-half cents an ounce today to a new high for the year and reached 32% cents More optimistic brokers are pre- dicting that silver will go to 50 cents an ounce in the present movement. Other brokers declare there is no basic causes for such value, that the principal reason for the upturn is speculation in sympathy with the genera! com- modity advances. | ———.——— UNIQUE CHECKERBOARD | TOLEDO, O.—Newman Brouhard It covers his attitude on mar-'this respect, said Professor Joad. in metal slots, scan the headlines, has a checkerboard that he spent thres years making. It is made of {1,225 pieces of 48 kinds of wood iP‘ox and geese and peg game as well as checkers can be played upon it. Dominoes, dice, aces and butterflies make up the design. napped, Killed LEADERS STUDY PROBLEMS THAT CONFRONT PARTY |Shift of Burdens from Re- | publican Shoulders Bring Responsibilities GARNER UNOPPOSED, SPEAKER OF HOUSE |Dixie Congressmen Get 30 Qut of 45 House Stand- ing Committee Posts WASHINGTCN, D. C. Nov. 5.— Flushed with the surging crest of Tuesday’s election victories, leaders of the Democratic party today set down to take stock of their new Tesponsibilities. And they were cog- nizant that the obstacles previously heaped upon Republican shoulders have been shifted to theirs. Not only will John Nance Garner, Texas veteran, be unopposed in his party for Speakership but the chairman of 46 regular committee- of the House will be appointed from the ranks of his party. This is the organization which will have to deal with the problems of legis= lation which Republiczns heretofore have been charged with. Dixie Fares Well In a new organization, unless there is a change in existing rules, which is not impossible. Dixic will fare unusually well. For 30 out of the 46 standing committee chairman= ships will' 'go” to' Dixte Congress~ men through the seniority rule, with even more future holding Ppos- sibilities. Already northern Demo< crats are seeking a more even distribution of these election spoils. Realizing that there is a rocky legislative trail ahead, Mr. Garner probably will urge liberation of the House rules and that may include walving of seniority in the discre- tion of the leaders so that northern | Congressmen may be advanced to |'places of authority they would not otherwise be entitled to. The Texas representative with a generation of House service behind him is an able statesman, and a practical and successful politician. While consgervative in his makeup, he has been able to work with al! elements of Congress. Economic Problem First The Nation’s economic problems will be presented to Congress lmmedsat.gly upon the organization of the House and the equally divi- ded Senate. The question of find- ing new sources of revenue or ralsing some of the existing levies Is one of the most serious to arise. Governmental economies have to be dealt with Prohibition will be subjected to tests of strength. Bills to modify the National Prohibition Act so as to permit the manufacture of beer, and of beer and light wines, as well as the debate over repeal- ing the Eighteenth Amendment in its entirety will be pressed for action. Leaders of both the Senate and House already indicated their in- tention of recalling the Smoot Hawly Tariff onto the floors for downward revision. The Demo- crats are certain tto exert every Influence to reduce sharply proc- tically all of the rates established by that measure. First Hostile House P President Hoover is the first of NANKING, China, Nov. 5._Thg‘;[hl’ country's chief executives to Rev. J. W. Vinson, member of the face an opposing House since Wood- American Presbyterian Mission at|row Wilson. Both Harding and Haichow, has been slain by Chin-|Coolidge had the advantage of ese bandits. Congresses under the control of United States Consul General | their own party, at times in over- Peck has been advised the Rev.|Wwhelming majority. The Democrats Vinson was kidnapped last Sunday.|lost their control of Congress during His death presumably occurred the last half of Wilson's second yesterday. term, which fact contributed no Details of the tragedy have been |little to the President’s difficulties demanded by Peck from the Na-|from 1919 to his retirement. tional Government. | The approaching Congress may > |prove equally as embarassing to |Mr. Hoover, who will have to go | to with his moratorium plan, |revision of war debts and other | moot financial and economic ques- tions for approval. In the Senate, Yo . v where the opposing forces are al- WASHINGTON, D. C., Nev. 5—|most evenly divided, the Adminis- Home distribution of its wine con- yry tion ‘cannot be sure of centrates has been discontinued by | support from its own p.,-:y I;X:':: Fruit Industries, Limited, after pers as several of the Western Managing Director Donald Conn | progressives are openly anti-Hoo= had a conference with Farm Board | ver and commonly oppose his polie officials and Prohibition Director cies. The House, under Democratic Woodcock. « |control, is certain to sharply s o ¥ | | scrutinize the Administration’s leg- We spend so much for n | > . e O and have so little of it, | (Continyed on Page Five) Home Distribution, Wine Concentrates, to Be Discontinued fun