The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 7, 1932, Page 1

i » . > THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XL., NO. 6127. JUNEAU, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1932. HOLLYWOO0D SUICIDE PRO ES T0 BE DEEP MYSTERY MEMBFR— OF AESOCIATED PRESS FARM STRIKERS, DEPUT 100 DEPUTIES RUN AGAINST 500 FARMERS Threats that Officers Will Shoot It Out Are Not Heeded LIVESTOCK TRUCKERS FORCED, BACK TRACK Sheriff FinIly— Surrenders in Trouble in Jowa County SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Sept. 7. — Nearly 100 Plymouth County Deputy Sheriffs, arni- ed with pistels, clubs and shotguns, were turned back by a crowd of 100 farm holi- day strikers this forenoon when officers attempted to escort 22 truckloads of live- stock through the picket lines near James, Iowa. The cattle truckers asked Sheriff Ralph Rippey to pro- vide an escort and deputies in four trucks preceded the caravan. Sheriff Rippey ordered the men to remove the barriers and told the strikers he would shoot the first man who in- — Former Public Defender Frank J. Egan, of San Francisco, Cal., and former convict Abert Tinnin, have elderly Mrs. Jessie Scott Hughes, for property. Her body was found Apri! residential district. | Egan forced him and Tinnin to kil life imprisonment. Sentence will will appeal. Doran, also charged w trial. In the picture above, Egan (left) the defense. F ofmer I;;bli; Defender: Is Found Guilty of Murder is Mrs. Egan as she appeared in court. been convicted of the murder of the alleged purpose of securing her 1 29 on a street in a San Francisco Verne Doran, young paroled convict, testified that 1 the woman under threat of send- ing them back to prison. They disposed of her body to make it appear she was the victim of a hit-and-run driver. The jury recommended be passed tomorrow. The defense ith murder, was granted a separate ) and Tinnin are shown. The inset She was also a witness for terferred. The strikers surrounded the deputies ,and forced them back into their trucks and told them to return to Le- mars. The strikers hurled stones, bricks and clubs. Several de-‘ puties were hurt. No shots were fired but 'several fist fights took place. Sheriff Rippey later advis- ed the livestock truckers to return home with their loads. ————— GOV. SCRUGHAM WINS FIGHT FOR U. . CONGRESS Former Governor Carries SIR GILBERT PARKER DIES, LONDON HOME Celebrated Novelist, States- man, Passes—Married American Heiress LONDON, Sept. 7—Sir Gilbert Parker, celebrated British novelist and statesman, is dead here at the age of 69 years. He suffered a heart attack Sunday @&t his Lon- don' home and mnever rallied. Although he achieved interna-| tional fame as a novelist, the lit- erary career of Sir Gilbert Par- ker was said to have been some- what dimmed by his activity in Dolitics. In England he was regarded as the Richard Brinsley Sheridan of the twentieth ceatury, because the y s author of “School for Scandal”; Nev.ada Demo(}rallc and “The Rivals” also gained Primary Election fame in letters and statesman- ship. Sir Gilbert traveled extensively in Northern Canada and the South Seas and was an associate editor et Sydney, Australia, four years before going to Lordon in the ear- ly '90s. He soon began to mcquire a reputatior as a writer of ro- mantic fiction building his stories around the adventurous life in the great Hudson PBay country of Northern Carada. 4 Writes of Pioneers In these stories he portrayed the characters of the French Can- adian settlers and the English and American pioneers in the great woods. At first his novels failed to attract wide attention. Then he developed his favorite type of leading character—half hero, half villain, and esseafially an adven- turer—and his success was made. i About that timc he began to| teke an active intcrest in politics. His Canadian connection and his experience in Australia and else- where in the British Empire made | him a strong Imperialist. He be- gan to devote more of his time to politics and finally in 1900 was €lected to Parliament from Graves- RENO, Nev., Sept. 7—On the basis of unofficial returns from two-thirds of the counties of Ne- vada former Gov. James C. Scrugham has apparently won the Democratic Congressional nomina- tion over Maurice Sullivan, Reno attorney. Sullivan this morning conceded his defeat. The returns today gave Strugham 6,887 votes to 8,763 for Sullivan. ‘Senator Tasker L. Oddie was unopposed for . renomination as United States Senator by the Re- publicans and Supreme Court Jus- tice P. A. McOarran was unop- posed Tof ‘the Detwiocratic' nomiina- tion ‘to oppose him in the Novem- ber election. ARE VIETIMS OF OWN BOMB PORTLAND, Oregon, Sept. 7.— The police today advanced the theory that two men killed in an explosion which partialy wrecked the fifth floor of the New Willard Hotel, were victims of an infernal machine of their own manufacture. The bodies were badly mangled .. but cards in the pockets of the ‘ victims Curing his official life, although far more numerous, were mot the of the initial Canadian stor- i of Sir Gilbert Parker MAYOR M’KEE CUTS HIS PAY, NEW YORK CITY General Slas_hi—l;g of Other BEARS SHOWING COURAGE, BULLS ADVANGE PRICES| Traders ‘Buy on Reactions' —Stock Issues Con- tinue Up FIVE DIFFERENT GROUPS IN LEAD Some Shortglling Report.; ed—Little Stimulus | Given Market i NEW YORK, €ept. 7. — With traders still eager to ‘“buy om reactions,” the Stock Market had little difficulty in resuming the advance after a lote setback yes- terday. Trading was moderate and ad- vances modest. Outside of covper, the market received little st'mulus. Steady Advance ‘Commoditics, utilities, coppers, oils and miscellaneous industrials lead in a steady advance. Pl X 8on, returned aftor her victories in HELENE MADISON ACCLAIM An Impressive cemonstration was staged by Seattle, of ticker tap: and paper as she rode through the streets. (Associated Press Photo! IES IN CLASH ED BY HOME TOWN HE ¥ Wash., when its famous mermaid, Helene Madl. the Olympic Gam es. Here are two views of the champion in a shower ALASKA LOSING In thinly traded coppers, Federal Mining gained 14 points at 32 and Utah 10 pcints at T, Issues up two or three points included American Telephone and Telegraph, American Smelting, United Aircraft, Western Unioa and Stone and Webster. Issues Up One or More ....Issues up one point or momr included United States Steel, Gen- eral Motors, Radio Cornporation, International Telephone, Standard Oil of California, General Foods, American Sugar. The bears showed a little cour- age in opposing the advance al- though some quarters took the view the market was overripe for reaction. Some short selling was reported Traders in the main were ex- tremely wary of the short side of the market. SAYS HRDLICKA Action Imperative to Save Valuable Objects, De- clares Scientist Alaska’s relics of antiquity, the evidences of former tribes and cul- tures, are being more or less wast- ed and even those of which use is being made are largely going out of the Territory, according to Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, world famous anthropologist, who has just com- pleted another season of study CLOSING PRICES TODAY NEW YORK, Sept. 7.—Closing ANCGIENT RELICS, McKee, Mayor of the metropolis for less than one week, has tight- quotations of Alaska Juneau mine stock is 10%, American Can 61, Anaconda 18%, Pethlehem Steel 29, OCurtiss-Wright 3, Fox Films 5, General Motors 19%, Interna- tional Harvester 31%, Kennecott 19, Packard Motors 4%, United States Steel 52%, Armour B 1%, Salaries Announced by Executive NEW YORK, Sept. 7—Joseph C. ensd the purse strings by slicing $15,000 off his own salary of $40,- 000, and other salary slashes which he said will give an annual savings of $2,000,000. City employees receiving $2,000 or less a year are not affected by the wage slash. In some cases the pay cuts amount to more than 50 per cent, including the Corporation Counsel, Superintendent of Schools, Sanita- tion Commission and heads of the | Police and Fire Departments. The cuts in some cases amount to $3,000 to get inside the $12,000 limit. Mayor McKee said the city pay- roll has increased 46 per cent since 1926. 3 UNMARRIED MEN DROWN NEAR CORDOVA CORDOVA, Alaska, Sept. 7—' Five men were drowned in the Copper River near here as a smail boat capsized. The dead, all unmarried, are: Jim Swalley, aged 52; Erick Pezrson, aged 38; Neal Noohan, aged 29; Frank Nord, aged 50 and Erick Sandberg, aged 51. The five were bridge carpenters and were out «in a boat at Chit- ina Crossing on the Copper River and Northwestern railroad, where !a bridge was recently taken out by high water. The line they were handling became fouled over- {turning their boat. No bodies have ever been re- ccvered from the river at this point. Rosenwald’s Estate Is i Valued at $32,000,000 Rosenwald, late Ohairman of the if he had given up to public|Board of Sears-Roebuck, left an estate valued at $32,000,000. ‘Colorado Fuel and Iron 14, Chrys- ler 21, Standard Brands 16%, Cal- umet and Hecla T%. — e — SCIENTISTS AND in western Alaska and is now en- route to his headquarters in Washington, D. C. His work is done for the Smithsonian Insti- tution of that cily, of which he is a4 member. vent ‘these valuable relics from be- ing lost to the 7Yerritory, declared ing destroyed by acts of ignorance and thoughtless vandalism; others are being sought out and collected by speculators who sell on the best market regardless of consid- Some action is recessary to pre-| Bank Deposits Increasing in Coast Cities SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. 7.—~Bank deposits in the I larger Pacific Coast'cities con- tinned an upward trénd show- ing a gain of $16,000,000 last menth with a total of §I, 444,000,000 both time and de- mand deposits, compared to $1,438,000,000 last July. DINNER RINGS DOWN CURTAIN ON BASEBALL Fire Department’s Annual Party Marks Close of | - League’s Best Season |ierday. ' sior pupils said she left |during the afternoon session with Ball players, umpires, City League g man who called her from her CHARGE PRIES WITH KIDNAPING SCHOOL TEACHE Warrant Sworn Out by Brother of Girl, in Hands of Sheriff OTTAWA, Ill, Sept. 7.—Miss Col- lette Haley, aged 22 years, country school teacher, is being sought to- day by the authorities after dis- appearance for the second time within a week. Sheriff E. J. Welter said he has a warrant sworn out by the girl's brother charging Willlam Courtney, aged 40 years, described by the Sheriff as a Catholic priest of Alexis, Illinois, with having kid- naped her, Miss Haley started school yes- Dr. Hrdlicka. Some of them are be- | {gether in Moose Hall last might {in their yearly .love feast and |buried the hatchet, for this season |at least, at one of the best at- tended and most enjoyable affairs lo( the kind ever held in Juneau. The occasion was the annual {officials and fans sat down to-' classroom. Miss Haley returned to her home| CONFLICTING STATEMENTS, SUICIDE CASE Motive for Paul Bern Shooting Himself Be- ing Investigated DOMESTICS DO NOT AGREE ON STORIES Jean Harlew Cannot Ex- plain Queer Note— Goes%nto Hysterics HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Sept. 7.~In an effort to uncover the motive for the apparent suicide of Paul Bern, motion picture executive, and hus- band of the screen actress Jean Harlow, whose marriage took place two months ago, Inspector of Detectives David A. Davidson, announced late yesterday he would question the Harlow woman as soon as her condition would permit. She was reported near a collapse following the finding of her husband’s body, shot through the head, in the home he gave her as a wedding gift. She is at the home of her mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. Marino Bello. A queer angle is given to the ~|case as the result of the note Bern left which said: “Dearest Dear: Unfortunate- ly this is the only way I can make good the frightful wrong I've done you and wipe out by abject humiliation. I love you. (signed) PAUL.” Conflicting Stories Conflicting stories of the week- end which culminated in the dis- covery of the body of Bern entered the police investigation. p Inspector Davidson said he was not satisfied with the progress the Homicide Squad had made on the case and sald he would again ques- tion the domestics whose stories differ concerning the events of Saturday and Sunday. P In a few minutes of Qquestion~ ing of Jean Harlow today by the in Streator on Sunday after what|Inspector, he said she said: the Sheriff- described a&s an unex- plained absence of several days during which time she was re- ported missing. | erations of future usefulness; and cothers are going to thoroughly re- liable institutions, but like all the others, they too, are lost to the Territory. Dr. Hrdlicka spent tHE present season working on Kodiak Island where, he caid, he had a very successful and satisfactony results. This year, as in former expedi- LOCAL TEACHERS T0 BE GREETED Chamber of Commerce to tions, he found that many objects of historical value were disappear- ing. He believes that the Terri- tory ought to have these things in its official museum in Juneau where they would be available for everyone visiting Alaska and who are interesied in such sub- Have Guests of Prom- inence Tomorrow Visiting scientists and local school teachers will be guests tomorrow of the Chamber of Commerce at its. weekly noon luncheon meeting at Bailey's Cafe, it was announced today by G. H. Walmsley, Secre- tary. Out of town visitors will include professors from the Uni- versity of Washington and Yale. Lieut. Col. L. C. Sturdevant, District Engineer here from his headquarters in Seattle, had been invited to attend, but his sched- ule called for his departure early tomorrow morning, making it .im- possible for him to attend. The visiting guests will include: Drs. Thomas G. Thompson, Lyman G. Pfifer, John E. Guberlet, Clinton L. Utterback and George B. Rigg, University of Washington who ar- rived here Sunday night on the scientific ship Catalyst, and C. B. Osgood, Yale University. Al of the instructors of the local High School will also be guests tomorrow. Next week, the Jects. Dr. Hrdlicka, who is a passenger on the steamer Admiral Evans, visited Gov. Parks yesterday. He has promised to make him a com- plete report on his observations this summer. RUDY VALLEE'S WIFE IN REND RENO, Nevada, Sept. 7. — Mrs. Rudy Vallee, the former Fay Webb of Santa Monica, California, ar- rived here yesterday from New| York and said she would establish her residence here with a view of obtaining a divorce from croon= e er. She may file a suit October 18 under the Nevada State law. Ketchikan Woman | teachers of the elementary school will be entertained by the Cham- ber. Mrs. F. S. Scobee, who has spent Marry in Seattle! the past two months in Juneau, TO | has returned to Seattle. Mr. Sco-| BEATTLE, Sepi. 7—A m bee has the Alasks agency for anjlicense has been issued : insurance company and makes this|H. Jemsen, 38, of Ketchika city his headquarters. Kay |was_covered by signatures. | —_—————— baseball banquet giveni by Ttde Ju-| neau Fire Department and it form- ' g ‘ed a fitting climix to what Chlef'ltal-y s Delegates J. L. Gray characterized as th:| To Legion Meeting miost successful season in the his- !tury of the City League, now 10 Headed by Woman | years old. ‘As President Karl Theils RS Istated in his cepacity of toast-| ROME, Sept. 7.—Italy’s depart- master, the dinner was in celebra-|Ment of the American Legion will {tion of the ‘“tinth” anniversary of nd to the Portland National jthe League. convention' & delegation head>d ! “We have had a superior brand Y @ woman. She is Mrs. Julla of baseball, the largest gate re-|Wheelock of Newark, N. J, who ceipts since the park was bulg W8S commander of the Legion here and more enthusiasm among the for three years. |fans” declared Chief Gray. Other members of the conven- The playground committee of tion delegation named at the an- {the Pire Department, consisting of Bual convention here are: Ameri- |A. . McKinnon, C. H. MacSpad- 180 'Weilll, re-elected commander; |den and H. M. Porter, reported Ricardo Zucchi, vice-commander; that the net profits for the year the Rev. John Maynard, secretary; was $108.85. ;nnd the three voting delegates, The silver cup, emblematic of /Carmine Casolini, Felix Martini the season’s championship, won by,8nd Gieusseppe Spimucci. the Elks' team, was presented to| Fourteen years after the end of Manager Walter 2Andrews, who ad- the war, thero are said to be in mitted that the Fiks were the best Ttaly many Italian-born veterans team in the League and possibly Of the American army who have the luckiest. The trophy was Dever made any claims for pen- awarded this year by the Wilson Sions, insurance or bonus payment baseball manufacturers, represent- and the Legion has undertaken ed by Thomas Hardware Com- t0 aid them in establishing their pany. |rights. At the conclusion of the “feed” The Ttalia legion has 750 mem- short talks were made by a num- bers, almost ali naturalized Amer- ber of the guests, and incidents of icans who have retained their this season and previous seasons @dopted citizenship. ‘Were fanned over as only hueball“ T e fans can do. season. By the time the crowd| NEW YORK, Sept. 7—An ad- broke up every one of the balls vance in copper to 6% cents a (Continued on Page Seven) Jsince early in this year. |pound lifted the domestic price of |\ men were killed and Of greatest interest was the the metal to the highest price|hurt in a “I can't understand., As for the note be left, I.have no idea what he meant. This frightful wrong, he apparently believed he had done me, is all a mystery. 1 can’'t imagine what he means. He often talk- ed of suicide as a general topic but never intimated he contemplated such an act him- selt.” Differences Related John Carmichael, butler, who found Bern's body, said Bern and Jean Harlow dined together Sat- urday evening. Harold Garrison, chauffeur, said Bern left the studio at Culver City and went to a downtown hotel without Miss Harlow, who was at the home of her mother Saturday evening. Sunday, Miss Harlow, in a fit of frenzy and hysteria attempted to throw herself over a 10-foot bal- cony at the home of her mother but was restrained by friends. She is known as the platinum bilonde. DROP 50 FEET; 3 MEN KILLED CHICAGO, Sept. 7.—Three work- men were killed and eight were injured last night when a cable hoisting bucket hroke and plunged more than 50 feet down & tunnel shaft in which ‘he men were em- Souvenir Baseballs | PPE water tunnel. The men were be- At each diner’s plate was a souv- ing lowered when the accident enir baseball in form of a| curred. s Falre ST 000D ADVANGE “Dolly” Gray, as the answer to the incessaut call of players !m" Tbree AI’C m i more baseballs Guring the past! —_— h Pmm VINALES, o_;—;. m'vm‘ six severely political riot between Conservationists and Liberals,