The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 17, 1932, Page 1

o VGL XXXIX.. NO. 5980 HEAVY HAND OF CIVIL WAR IS TIHI WATER TROUBLE T0 BE REMEDIED R, F. LEWIS SAYS Recent Sho@e of Supply Will Not Be Allow- | ed to Recur 1,400 FEET OF NEW PIPE WILL BE LAID Statement Regarding Bet- terments Is Made to Chamber Commerce solution of Juneau's water lem was forecast today by R. , President of the Juneau Company, in a short talk the Chamber of Commerce. | the past two hours, 1| have received asurances that con- vinces me we will have all our dif- ficulties settled within the next two days,’ he said. 1 The nature of the settlement and | involved, was not indicated . Lewis. He added that he woul d have a further statement to make to the Chamber during his} stay here. Must Not Recur The serious conditions arising | from water shortages here this/ winter were commented on by him. | “We are going to use every effort to get things in shape so such a uation will not recur. It must not allowed to happen again,” he declared. | The company will continue, un- abated its program of betterments | to its local property, he said. New pipe lines will be laid on both Second and Gold Streets, work to b2 done this summer. He has or-| dered 1,400 feet of new cast iron| pipe for additional mains. This| pipe, he told the Chamber has a life of 120 years, sdying, “We are| building for permaneney.” Freighting By Plane 1 Mr. Lewis gave the Chamber an; interesting account of how a big| gold dredge and a power plant and other materials and equipment have | been fregihted during the past year | by airplanes from the coast of New Guinea to the interior without the loss of a single pound of {freight. Nais dredge has been assembled and the 2,000-horsepower hydro- electric plant installed and opera- tions on a rich gold deposit will start dn a few days. The interests carrying on the op- eration could probably be induced to look at promising mining prop- erties in Alaska and use planes| similarly here if necessary, he said. | “Water made to “Within MCOMBE MAKES | NEW STRIKE IN CHICHAGOF BELT Reports Dlscovery of 415! Foot Vein Carrying Excellent Values Bob McCombe, wellknown pros- pector, arrived here this week from | Chichagof Island and reported mak- ing a new quartz discovery in the old Chichagof mine zone. The smkeI was made in exploratory work on a prospect found by him several months ago. He said he had uncovered a 4%% foot vein of good ore and had stripped along it for a distance of 60 feet. H. I. Lucas of this city is| associated with Mr. McCombe. Mr. McCombe came here to con-| sult with him and brought samples | of the ore with him. Two men are employed by them and explorafioml will be continued. The vein, Mr. McCombe believes, is an extension of the orebody that was first struck on the Bez prop- erty and which is being developed now. It is almost directly across the bay from the Bez ground and in line with it. Minister Indicted for Murder at Still Raid PALATKA, Florida, March 17— The Rev. E. H. McGaha, militant| minister, has been indicted for murder in the slaying of John W 1 Gang Boss Capone St!ll Man of M ystery ¢ What’s to Become of Mob?, Chwago Ponderc Born about 1897 reputedly in Naples. Grew up in gangsterism in Brooklyn, N.Y. 1919~Went to Chicago as bodyguard for *Big Jim’ Colisimo, then citys gang boss 1925~ Succeeded. Johnny Torrio,who had followed Colisimo, a5 Chicago gangdom’s ‘big shot” 1931~ Convicted of income tax ‘evasion. Al Capone, Chicago gang boss, has been in the public eye nearly a | dccade, but his exact power and the scope of his operations still are a .y one of the most gigantic]®anization to quell Comimunists re- mystery. What will happen to his “mob” if and when he goes behind | Federal prison bars is a question puzzling Chicago. » Associated Press Photo Aase Clausen, 18, blond native of Denmark, won the title “Miss Europe” at Nice, France, over a field of 15 competitors from various eountries GUARDS PLACED AT MANSION OF MISS. GOVERNOR Demonstration Staged Over Result of Proposed JACKSON, Miss., Plain-clothes men are on guard at Martin S. Conner’s mansion Gov. Sales Tax March 17— as the result of a demonstration against the proposed 3 per cent retail sales tax approved by the House and now before the Senate. A crowd marched through the the Capitol. |city yesterday and milled around One man drew a pistol but was quickly puiled back into the crowd. — et o—— TURKISH BEAUTY FADES ISTANBUL—The storied beauty of Turkish girls has come a sad cropper, Turkey” the election of a “Miss for 1932 having been |abandoned because of the paucity and inferior pulehritude of the can- Malone, shot last Christmas in a raid on a still. didates, FOSHAY CASE 18 GIVEN TO Iz TWELVE MEN {Deliberations Started Late Yesterday on Mail | Fraud Charges MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 17. —The jury late yesterday afternoon began deliberating the case against W. B. Foshay and H. H. Henley to decide whether the collapse of the Foshay enterprises was due to an honest failure or a culmination of fraud. The two men were charged by the Government with using the mail {o defraud. Foshay expressed confidence last night that the jury would free him and Henley. The jury in the first case de- liberated one week and then dis- agreed because one of the jurors, Mrs. Genevieve A. Clark held out for acquittal. She was subse- quently convicted of contempt of court. No verdict had been reached in the second trial at midnight last night. e ALASKA BORN FIGHTER WILL TRYCOMEBACK Billy Wallace Flgh!s Sam- my Fuller in New York on Friday Night NEW YORK, March 17. Walla Cleveland’s clouting light- ght, fights Sammy Fuller in Madi son Square Gardens tomorrow night in a comeback ‘stunt. Billy Wallace was born 31 years, ago in an Alaska town where Tex Rickard was running a gambling | house. Billy's mother was a vaude- | ville singer. Billy, who is also an amateur, radio crooner, will also learn Satur- day night the results of a deal for a professional radio contract. Rickard was Billy's god-father.| His mother now lives in Los Ange- les, California. —_———— TULLAHOMA, Tenn—What city Tullahoma, residents of this city claim. Atlantic streef, 330 feet wide, is broader than the Champs Elysees, in Paris, 250 feet,or Canal street, in New Orleans, 200 feet. Tullahoma also has a public square containing 14 acre§7 — Billy, CITY CLAIMS WIDEST STEEET has the widest street in th eworld?, ] OHICAGO, March 17. — Unless |some modern ‘Sherlock Holmes gets | busy, some of the most perplexing ,]mystcries about Alphonse Capone |may never be solved. | For no one—except ‘‘Scar | A" himself — knows the Wi story of this most notorious of ‘&l | post-prohibition gangsters, | exploits have made 'nis na a |'synonym for organized crime racketeering on five contis Even now, as Capone facesa {eral prison sentence for the time in his life, he still is a of mystery despite all the “revs | tions” made about him during most a decade in the public eye. His exact underworld power—and | the exact scope of his gang’s oper~ ations—are almost as much of a secret today as when ‘“Scarfape” underworld in 1925. Why He Was Convicted It was failure to pay taxes onin- come from an admittedly huge lig- | uor business that convicted the bur- 1y gangster and brought his 11-year federal prison sentence, but— | Just what was the extent of that underworld business of which the |Capone liquor trade was only & | part? Exactly what role did Capone the Interior further said the Hitler play personally in what has been | crime “syndicates” in history? ¥ ! And what of that “syndicate’s” operations now—and in the mm when Capone may be just another | convict? ‘ ‘Will the so-called “Capone mob" xsm:egrfle or will it convinug %o the Mfifld *t*xfl&'b and other cities? apone himself can't answer all thmc questions. The world came to know “Scar- face Al” as the chief of a gang whose profits from widespread liq- juor trade ran into millions . and whose guns were blamed—unoffi- cially—for scores, even hundreds of underworld murders. { Underworld Boss It knows him as the man who became Chicago's underwold boss —nominally, at least—after Johnny Toriro gave up the helm nearly seven years ago. Capone himself has said, “They have blamed me for everything but the Chicago fire!” Yet despite the millions of words By F. A. RESCH ( | H | first grasped the reins of Chicago's ~ |GOVERNMENT ~ HAS EVIDENCE OF BIG PLOT ‘Headgquarters jers of National Socialists Are Being Raided 'PLANS FOR GENERAL REVOLT ARE FOUND "Grandmofl?er—ls Dead”| Was Signal — Storm Troops Suppressed ) BERLIN, March 17.—The Prus- sian’ Government has accepted the challenge of the Hitler forces. The Goveérnment today began raiding National Socialists’s head- quarters throughout the State. The raids were started following disclosures purporting to reveal plans for a civil war in Germany.| The Minister of Interior issued | a statement saying that the signal for a.march on the big cities of the German Republic would be a flash “Grandmother is dead.” The staiement of the Minister of “storm troops,” ostensibly an or- volts, are no longer to be toler- ated. The “grandmother” message was found attached to maps and plans| of the Hitler forces which Goy- ernment authorities have seized, ac- cording - to official Teports made Py ko STOCK PRICES HOLDING OWN, QUIET TRADING Many Lead@lssues Ad- vance from Fraction to Several Points NEW YORK, March 17—The Stock Market maintained a fairly i RO printed about him, nobody except perhaps some of his own right- hand men knows exactly what Ca- pone has done. Some have said he was merely the “front man” for the gang—that others were the real power behind Capone's apparent throne. The “Big Eight” Al's brother Ralph,Jackand Sam Guzik, and Frank “The Enforcer” Nitti all have been mentioned as probable members of the so-called “big eight” which allegedly con- trolled the gang's affairs. But nothing about Capone gang leadership ever has been proved in a courtroom. | Chicago has wondered for months | what will happen to the Capone lmob when and if “Scarface Al" is | lodged behind prison walls. It still | wonders ime Absence of major gang murders or other outbreaks since Capone’s | federal trial last summer has been | mentioned as some evidence, at least, that the gang still rules the underworld roost. If Capone were “through,” it has| been argued, rival minor vice lead- | ers would be battling with guns to take over his ‘business.” | Yet nobody outside the under-| world has claimed to know the an- swers to all these and dozens of other Capone riddles—and the un- derworld doesn’t talk. (Coutinued on Page Eight) good undertone today during list- less trading. Auburn rose two points. Allied Chemical, American To- bacco B, International Match pre- ferred, gained a point or so. American Telephone and Tele- graph and United States Steel had | a fractional advance. ' CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, March 17.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine! stosk today is 15%, American Can 67, Anaconda 9%, Bethlehem Steel 19%, Curtiss-Wright 1%, Fox Films 3%, General Motors 19, Interna- tional Harvester 23%, Kennecott 9%, Packard Motors 3%, United States Steel 43%, Bunker Hill22%. ————————— “Buy American” Slogan Is Finn’s Boycott Move HELSINGFORS, March 17. “Buy American” and “Buy British” are heard in Finland nowadays almost as often as “Buy Finnish.” The reason is the new German Drys Gnen Body Blows from Ohio Majonity of G. 0. P. Dele- gates Are Wet — Gov. White for Referendum CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 17.— Two surprising anti-Prohibition de- | velopments are reported today Ohio, Maurice Maschke, National Re- publican Committeeman, disclosed for the first time since Prohibi- tion, that a majority of the Ohio delcgation to the Republican Na- tional Convention are known to be wet. The second development was when Gov. George White, Demo- crat, listed by the Anti-Saloon League as a dry, when elected two years ago, declared at a W. C. T. U. meeting last night in Columbus, that he fayvoréd an Eighteenth Amendment referéndum. Gov. White declared the drys erred in opposing a popular vote. Semi-suppressed nays from the W. C. T. U. members greeted the remarks of the gray-haired Gover- nor who started his cereer as a gold digger in the Klondike. ————— CHAMBER PAYS A.R.C. FOUNDER WARM TRIBUTE Prause Bestowed on Gen Richardson and Organ- ization He Founded in In its annual meeting in honor of the Alaska Road Commission and its members and field chiefs, trib- utes were paid to its founder and first President, the late General Wilds P. Richardson, and praise bestowed on the organization gen- eraly for its great service to the ‘Territory. President Allen Shattuck voiced the sentiments of the Chamber, and John W. Troy, Editor and Manager of The Empire and intimate friend of Gen. Richardson, warmly praised him and the Commision generally. Doing Great Work “We are not unmindful of the great work the Alaska Road Com- mision is doing and we want you to know ne appreciate your ser- vice,” Mr. Shattuck said. “I have been cognizant of the Commission and its work since it was first con- ceived and later organized by then Maj. Richardson in Skagway. It has been one of the most influ- ential, T might say the influential, organization in the Territory's his- tory and played a major part in its upbuilding,” declared Mr. Troy. As it adjourned, the Chamber members, standing, drank a toast to the memory of Gen. Richardson. Members of the Commission’s staff were presented to the Cham- ber by Maj. L. E. Atkins, Engineer Officer, in the absence of Maj. Malcolm Eliott, President, who was unable to attend. Those acknowl- eqging introductions were: E. F. Bauer, Assistant Superintendent Nome; Frank Nash, Superintendent Fairbanks; M. C. Edmunds, Super- intendent, Anchorage and McKin- ley Park; T. H. Huddleston, Super- tariff on Finnish butter. There is a widespread boycoti of German products and the mer- its of American and British goods are set forth to lend impetus| to the campaign. - MATSURA IN HOSPITAL John Matsura is a patient in St. Ann’s Hospital, having entered yesterday. David Lloyd (yeorge Asks ' Progressives to Save | LONDON, March 17. David | Lloyd George reentered the politi- I cal arena yesterday with a chal-| lenge to progressive men of a11| parties to rally around him and | save Great Britain from what he| declared would be four years of re- | actionary rule under a “sham” Na- tional Government, | The Liberal leader recently re- | to Aid Him Great Britain | covered from an operation He flayed the Government lead- |ers on the grounds they had be- trayed the principles of free trade, | electoral reform and national re- construetion upon which the Lib- | eral platform was based. Lloyd George was stricken last |summer and yesterday was prac- ticxlly his first appearance as a leader, since then. intendent, Valdez; R. J. Shepard, Superintendent, Chitina; and As- sistant Engineer, Tke P. Taylor of this city. Each responded briefly. People Become Adjusted People of the Pacific Coast at any rate are becoming adjusted <o changed financial and economic conditions, Mr. Troy told the Cham- ber in briefly commenting on con- ditions observed by him during his recent visit to that section of the country. For some time there was a multitude of remedies offered as panaceas to cure the situation, all conflicting and none getting any- where. Now each individual seems to have decided it is up to him to work out his own salvation and wait patiently while general condi- tions right themselves, Mr. Troy said. Saved From Movies In introducing his son-in-law, Robert W. Bender, as General Manager of The Empire Printing Company, Mr. Troy remarked hum- orously that he was “saving Mr. Bender from the mevies” in which ¢ has been cnzazed in responsible (Continued on Page Two) DEMOC RATS GAIN GREATLY IN N. DAKOTA Less thanfil:l;lf Precincts Give More than 65,- 000 Votes ROOSEVELT ASSURED OF LARGE MAJORITY New York Governor Rups Nearly Two to One Over Opposition FARGO, North Dakota, March 17. — An unexpected Deémiocratic sentiment in this State has been established by the primary party vote which is a record. From only 1047 of 2235 pre- cincts, nearly five times as many votes has been cast as the previous record of a Democratic primary which was in 1924. Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt is assured of a victory with 40,622 vates. Gov. Willlam H. “Alfalfa Bill” Murray, of Oklahoma, has a vote of 24,350. Tabulation of the Roosevelt and Murray votes has been delayed be- cause of the counting of votes on special State measures first. THEO. JOHNSON, OLDTIMER, HAS PASSED AWAY Former @ent of Ju- neau, Later of Skagway, Fairbanks, Is Dead rites for Theodore Johnson were held here today. He joined the gold rush to Alaska in '98 and later engaged in business in Fairbanks. He had been living here since 1919. Mr. Johnson is survived by his widow and two daughters, all re- siding in Seattle. Theodore Johnson was a resident of Juneau in the early days and was employed by ‘A. A. Anderson, hardware dealer. Mr. Anderson moved his stock to Skagway soon after the Klondike rush and Mr. Johnson accompanied him. Mr. Anderson later died and Mr.John- | son joined the staff of E. R. Peoples, hardware and furniture dealer at Skagway. Mr. Peoples established a business in Fairbanks and Mr. Johnson went there and acted as manager for many years, then going south and locating at Seattle. MOVIE STARS HONEYMOONING SANTA MARIA, Cal, March 17. —Two movie couples aré honey- mooning today in this oil town after weddings yesterday. Ludwig Laurhaus, North Carolina youth, ‘and his bride, Be’ty Bron- son, is one couple here Gene Markey, film writer, and his wife Joan Bennett, is the other couple. the Markey-Bennett wedding Los Angeles hotel. Markey and his bride are on their way to William R. Hearst’s ranch. The destination of the other couple not an- nounced. LIGHTS BURN; ALASKAN DIES is SEATTLE, March 17. — Aroused | by lights in a house burning steadily for two days, neighbors '-n'.ered and found Albert J. Lewis de:\d He was 05 years of age and was a former Alaska miner. Death was apparently caused by heart trouble. — ., TWO UNDERGO OPERATIONS Mrs. Mary Lindstrom and Mrs. Jeanne Swanson successfully under- went surgical operations this morn- ing at St. Ann’s Hospital, SEATTLE, March 17—The last; The public was invited to| in a| NO MERCY IS SHOWN FOR FIVE CONVICTED MEN {Abduct O:Face Stern Judges When Before Court for Sentence {TEN YEARS TO LIFE, PENALTY FOR CRIMES Latest Clue in Lindbegh Case Collapses, Ac- cording to Police WASHINGTON, March 16 —While the search for Baby Lindbergh was going on, five men were sentenced to heavy terms of imprisonment yesterday following conviction of kidnaping. Judge Lynn B. Griffith, of War- ren, Ohio, gave Dowell Hargraves a life imprisonment for kidnap- ing 1l-year-old James DedJute, Jr. In New York, Samuel Hemfer, allas Harry Harvey, drew 50 years for seizing and extorting money, Sidney Mann, wholesale butcher, being the victim. Two companions of Harvey, in the Mann kidnaping, had previously been sentenced, one to life and the other from 12 to 20 years. Judge Charles Burnell, of Los Angeles, Cal., sentenced Ralph Shel- don, former Chicago gunman, and two, accomplices from 10 years to life for the abduction of E. L. Caress, Tilajuana betting commis- LATEST LINDBERGH CLUE COLLAPSES, POLICE ASSERT P HOPEWELL, N. J., March 17— The latest clue in the search for Baby Lindbergh, kidnaped from his crib in the nursery in the Lind- bergh home on the night of March 1, has collapsed. ‘The police investigated the story of residents of Franklin Park that their foreign servants left the day before the kidnaping. Wood sim- llar to that used in making the ladder the abductors of the baby employed, was also missing. The police said no suspicion is placed on the servants as the wood for the ladder could easily have been obtained in 100 places in the region. JUNEAU TO HAVE PLANE SERVICE ABOUT APRIL 1 Petcrsburg,_—N_:)w Chicha- gof, to Be Operated by Eckmann Aviation service will be restored to Juneau next month. The Alaska Southern Airways, organized by Nick Bez, prominent in the fishing and mining industries, and Anscel C. Eckmann, well known aviator, has purchased the seaplane Peters- burg, which was operated by the Alaska-Washington Airways in this part of the Territory last year, and renamed it the Chichagof. Be Here About April 1 The plane, which will be brought from Seattle by Mr. Eckmann, about April 1, will be based in this city and the head offices of the com- pany will be established here. He will be its permanent pilot, Attending Naval Class Mr. Eckmann, together with Gene Meyring and Robert Ebert Ellis, who were pilots with the Alaska- Washington seaplanes in Southeast Alaska last summer, are attending a two-weeks' class at the Navy's £and Point aviation base near Se- attle. They are lieutenants in the MNaval Air Reserves and are study- ing the latest developments in aviation. e VIOLIN PROVES TREASURE MARTINS FERRY, O.—W. W. Craig, veteran musician, owned a valuable violin several years with- out knowing it. He bought the in- strument for a few dollars when |a young man. Finally he sent it to a factory for repairs and word |came back that it was a Leopold Wittholm instrument made more ‘han 200 years ago. | /