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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”
VOL. XXXVII., NO. 5701.
JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1931.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRICE TEN CENTS
LIQUOR CONSPIRACY CASE IN OREGON IS ENDED
DEMOCRATS
ARE OUT TO
GET $1,000,009
Unterrified Leaders Wish
to Pay Debt and Have
Fund for Campaign
REACTIONS TO SHOUSE
SPEECHESENCOURAGING
> Big Three Estimate that j
$5,000,000 Will Be
Needed, Campaign
NEW YORK, April 23. — Jouett
Shouse, who has just completed a
' speaking tour of the West in the
I interest of the Democratic Party,
conferred today with Alfred E.
Smith, former Democratic Presi
dential nominee, and John J. Ras
^ f kob, Chairman of the Democratic
National Committee, on party fi
nances.
* The conferees said that their
S immediate objective toward financ
; ing party operations would be rais
ing $1,000,000. This amount, the
, party chieftains said, would fund
| the present debt of $650,000, and
j leave sufficient money on hand to
carry on the work up to the 1932
•, National Convention, and leave a
i balance for the new National Com
mittee.
It was estimated that approxi
mately $5,000,000 more will be need
ed for the next National cam
„ • paign.
It is said that Mr. Shouse took
*«• encouraging news to the East as a
result of his tour of the Wept ,
which was extended to the Pacific
i Coast where he spoke at Los An
** geles, San Francisco, Portland and
' Seattle.
CAPTAIN HAWKS
MAKES RECORDS
FLYING ABROAD
Two Speed Marks Broken
—Forced Down by
Fuel Shortage
5 HESTON, England, April 23 —
| Capt. Frank Hawks, American av
) iator, with two speed records,
climbed into his monoplane yes
terday afternoon when forced down
because of lack of fuel, and 59
minutes after he left the Lebourge
1- Airport, outside of Paris, landed
here, covering the distance of 229
miles in 37 minutes faster time
than any other aviator has ever
flown it.
Capt. Hawks also set a new record
. > of 5 hours and 20 minutes for
a flight from Rome to Heston.
BRITISH AIR
CHIEF KILLED
PLANE CRASH
Sussex, England, Apri 123.—Air
r ( Vice-Marshal Felton Vesey Holt,
Commander of the Air Defense of
, Great Britain, and his pilot, Henry
Moody, were killed this afternoon
in an airplane collision 100 feet
in the air. The occupant of the
other plane was not injured.
Vice-Marshal Holt was one of
| t the pioneers of the Royal Air
Force.
The prison industries of Indiana
► > were operated at a loss of 18,3501
during the fiscal year of 1930. *
POWER SUBSTATION TO SERVE HOOVER MACHINERY
Associated Press Phota
Active work on the power substation, five minutes walk from the “top" of Hoover dam on the Colo
rado river, is shown hert with the foundations In and walls going up. It will supply the power to run
rn-wa than 100 tons of electrical machinery engaged in construction. Seventy-five men are employed.
UNEMPLOYMENT
WARNING GIVEN
BY CHAMBER
Telephene Service Will Be
Extended Seven Miles
on Highway
Possibility of an unemployment
problem in Juneau in consequence
of an influx of workers from the
States was the chief subject of
discussion at today's noon lunch
eon of the Chamber of Commerce.
Reports of progress in the Clean
up campaign, remarks by legisla
tors and by a prominent cannery
man, the introduction of a new
member, statement of plans for
establishment of an information
bureau on Front Street and an
nouncement of government inten
tions to extend telephone service
along Glacier Highway completed
the rest of the program. Atten
tion was called to the unemploy
ment possibility by Attorney Jack
Hellenthal.
"By reason of our gold mining
resources," he said, “the belief is
likely to become general in the
States that Juneau can absorb a
large supply of labor. Our min
ing industry is doing well, but our
other industries—fish for instance
—do not enjoy pleasant prospects.
Unemployment Now
“There is considerable unemploy
ment here. We should take what
precautions we can to prevent the
coming of any considerable number
of workers.
“An injustice would be done
them, if they are lured here by
exaggerated reports of our pros
perity, and injury would result to
residents, for destitute arrivals
must be taken care of. We should
cooperate with the Chamber in
preventing an influx of labor.”
G. H. Walmsley, secretary of
the Chamber, declared that Cham
bers of Commerce in the States,
particularly in the Pacific Coast
States, had been notified that no
one should come here seeking work
unless he had means to pay return
passage. The secretary further
said that the Chamber had adver
tised in newspapers in the States,
setting forth that there was no
demand for labor here.
Citizens and Clean-up
The secretary reported coopera
tion on the part of all citizens in
connecticfn with the clean-up cam
i
i
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Ilf Gould’s Casino Doesn’t
Get Rich, Dining Room Will
NICE Prance. April 23. — If
Frank Jay Gould doesn't make
money on his Casino de la Medi
terranean it certainly will not be
the fault of his managers.
At an “Oriental” gala night at
tended by 1.320 diners and 3,150
others the charges ran as follows:
Entrance fee. $2; dinner $10. av
eraging $30 a person, including
wine and cocktails: coffee for the
non-diners, $1.25.
Added to this, every man was
forced to buy a special flower for
is buttonhole at the doorway at
a cost of 25 cents.
Alcoholic drinks were uniformly
priced at $1.25 each throughout
the evening.
Though the cost of operating
Gould’s Casino is estimated as
around $10,000 a day, it doesn’t
need an expert to figure the.t he
made money that night.
His famous baccarat room, which
seats 400. was packed. Thre;
chemin-de-fer tables with mini
mum bets of $40 were working
overtime.
There was scarcely an opening
stake less than $500. Bets of $2,00(
were not at all rare.
Sentenced To
Die 9 Times,
Nine Murders
Confesses to Nearly 100
Gruesome Slayings or
Attacks
DUSSELDORF, Germany, April
23.—Maintaining the same stoical
calm which characterized his be
havior throughout the tflal, Peter
Kuerten heard himself convicted
of murder today and sentenced to
death nine times, once for each
one of his crimes,
Kuerten terrorized the commun
ity several winters ago with a
series of gruesome slayings and
criminal attacks on women. He
confessed to nearly 100 murders
but was tried for only nine.
“LOVE LIFE” OF
SCREEN ACTRESS
CAUSES ARREST
Weekly Newspaper Pub
lisher in California
Held in Jail
LOS ANGELES. Cal., April 23.—
Charged with sending obscene art
icles about the “Love Life” of
Clara Bow, screen actress, through
the mails, Fred Girnau, publisher
of a weekly newspaper, is held in
the County Jail in default of $10,- (
000 bail.
The articles ran in four issues
of the Coast Reporter, Girnau’s
newspaper, and were preceded by
a purported affidavit bearing the
signature of Daisy DeBoe, saying
she agreed to give Girnau a "true
and honest story” in connection
with her services as Miss Bow's
secretary.
R. E. Bell, Miss Bow's friend,
told the officers that two men,
known only as Jordan and Rock
well, presented a plan whereby the
publication of the articles could be:
stopped by Bell advancing $10,-.
000. They put pp $15,000 to pur
chase Girnau’s paper.
Miss DeBoe denied making an
affidavit but admitted giving per
mission to publication of a story
of her life with Miss Bow.
STRIP TWO 1
OF JEWELRY
Society Women Are Rob
bed in Front of Home
in Chicago
CHICAGO, 111., April 23—Two
! robbers last night stripped Mrs.
j Claire E. More and Mrs. Horace
! L. Hayward, society women, in
: front of Mrs. More's Gold Coast
apartment, of their jewelry valued
! at $13,200. They were returning
1 home from a theatre.
T’he chauffeur was held power
; less until the jewels were torn
i from the women.
NEW REPUBLIC
RECOGNIZED BY
UNITED STATES
American Ambassador and
British Representative
Give Notice
WASHINGTON, D. C„ April 13.
—The United States has extended
recognition to the new Republic
of Spain.
CALLS ON MINISTRY
MADRID, April 23. — United
States Ambassador Irving Laugh
lin called on the Spanish Ministry
and notified the new government
of America’s recognition. His call
was followed closely by that of
Sir George Graham. British Am
bassador, who accorded recogni
tion of the British Commonwealth.
All the principal nations have
now acknowledged the new Re
public.
FAVORABLY IMPRESSED
MADRID, April 23.—Following
official recognition of the United
States of the Spanish Republic,
generally favorable impression was
heard in Government circles and
among the people.
Foreign Minister Alejandro Ler
roux said: "The United States
withheld recognition naturally
enough until after the Spanish
and European nations, closest to
Spain, also England, had extended
recognition. The United States
has recognized it because of good
reports on the Republic sent by
Ambassador Laughlin.”
ANCHORAGE IS
PROTESTING TO
WILBUR’S PLAN
Against Proposal for Al
aska Railroad to
Construct School
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 23.
The Anchorage Chamber of Com
merce is protesting to the plan
of Secretary of the Interior Wil
bur to have the Alaska Railroad
erect a new Indian Office Indus
trial school building at Eklutna.
The Chamber claims that this is
an encroachment on the business
of the local contractors. Protests
have been cabled to Secretary Wil
bur and Delegate Wickersham.
Aunt of Exiled King
Passes Away in Paris
PARIS, April 23.—Infanta Isa
bella, aged 80, aunt of exiled King
Alfonso died here this afternoon.
COLLAR BONL IS HEALED
Lloyd Owens, logger, who entered
St. Ann's Hospital April 11 with
a broken collar bone, was discharg
ed today. His fracture is almost
completely healed.
i
EARLY SEASON
SPEEDS WORK,
DROUGHT ZONE
Weather Helps Hard Hit
Area to Stage Real
“Come-Back”
PLOWING, PLANTING;
GOOD CROPS EXPECTED
Southern Section Making
Amazing Progress
Fruits Doing Well
By FRANK I. WELLER
(Associated Press Farm Editor) I
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 23.
—Benign winter smiled where a j
truculent summer had frowned,
and most of the drought area has;
its farms well ahead of the sea
son.
Dr C. W. Warburton. Federal!
Director of Agricultural Extension
Work, says that with few excep
tions farmers were in position to
take advantage of the pre-seasonal
opportunity to plow and plant, j
and with good growing and har- i
vesting conditions they are ex
pected to have good crops where
a year ago they so signally fail
ed.
Moisture, the devastating ab
sence of which seared tne coun
try from the Rocky mountains to
the Potomac river last year, is
sufficient for present needs.
Except for Montana and the
Dakotas, there is both surface and
sub-soil moisture west of the Mis
sissippi river. The spring wheat
country complains of slight sub
soil moisture.
East of the Mississippi and south
of Kentucky the surface moisture
is insufficient. Over the Ohio
valley and on east there is hardly
any sub-soil moisture for current
needs.
South Plants for Food
The south, which of all sections
was worst hit by the drought, has
made amazing progress, Warbur
ton says, in the planting of home
gardens.
Farmers who had nothing to eat
when their cash Income was cut
off are planting sufficient truck
crops for a winter's supply—many
of them for the first time.
Except for Virginia, which ap
pears to have reduced the potato
acreage 1,000 acres under that har
vested last year, all the south is
expanding the crop. All show in
creases in corn, sweet potatoes and
peanuts. As a whole, the south
will increase its acreage on soy
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ALASKA CENSUS
ANALYZED: FOUR
SECTIONS MADE
Single, Married, Widowed
and Divorced Persons
Enumerated
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 23.
—The Director of the Census has
announced the results of the tabu
lation of returns for Alaska by
marital condition. The total num
ber of males 15 years of age and
over in Alaska on October 1, 1929,
was 26,350. Of this number, 13,001
or 49.3 per cent, were single; 11,
089, or 42.1 per cent, were mar
ried; 6.0 per cent were widowed;
and 2.4 per cent were divorced. Of
the 14,818 females 15 years of age
and over, 2,867. or 19.3 per cent,
were single; 10.419, or 70.3 per
cent, were married; 8.8 per cent
were widowed; and 1.6 per cent
were divorced.
There has been a decrease in
the percentage of single among the
male whites since 1920, with a cor
responding increase in the per
centage of married in the same
class; while among the male In
dians there has been an increase
in the percentage single since 1920,
with a corresponding decrease in
the percentage married. In the
female population the percentage
single is very small In all classes,
particularly among the foreign
j born white population. There has
been a slight increase, however,
j in the percentage single among
j the native whites and Indians.
I This low percentage single in the
! female pupulation is balanced by
the large percentage married
For the population as a whole,
the percentage divorced has in
creased since 1920, while the per
centage widowed has decreased.
i
HOOVER OPENS RED CROSS MEET
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Opening the convention of the American Red Cross In Washington
President Hoover praised the organization for Its drought aid and
lauded its stand against federal donations for drought relief. He is
shown on the platform with John Barton Payne (left), chairman of
the Red Cross.
ONE CHANGE IN
INSURANCE ACT
i MADE YEST'D’Y
I j
Nerland-Johnston Measure
Amended by Increasing
Foreign Awards
Proponents of a change In the
Workmen’s Compensation Act to
wipe out the difference between 1
compensation paid resident and
j foreign beneficiaries won a par
i tial Victory yesterday when they
I succeeded in amending the Ner- '
, land-Johnston measure relating to
j that statute.
! The amendment adopted raised
j to 70 percent of the full sums
| the amount paid to non-citizen,
| foreign dependents other than mi
! nor children or spouses, and to the
latter classes 85 per cent. The
; present rates are 50 and GO per
i cent respectively.
I However, the victory may be
! only temporary. The vote by j
i which the amendment was adopt-!
jed was 8 to 7. It followed an
I effort to wipe out the section en
| tirely. Mr. Johnston, Fairbanks,
| made both motions.
If the same situation prevails
! Friday when the measure prob
j ably will come up for final dis
1 position, the bill will fail of pass
age by one vote, since nine votes
j are required for enactment.
iTHREE KIDDIES
DROWN^SKATING
Tragedy Reported from
Fox Farm in Vicin
ity of Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 23.
— Three children, between the
ages of four and six, were drowned
on the Kasilof Fox Farm of Perry
1 Cole while skating on thin ice last
I Sunday. Two were the only child
| ren of John Sandvick, formerly of
Seattle, where they will be buried
The other child was the son of
Cole. The boy will be buried at
Kasilof.
[! V isitors Flock to
Supposed Birthplace
of Win. Shakespeare
, STRAFFORD-ON-AVON. April
. 23.—Visitors flocked here by the
, hundreds today for the celebra
1 tion of Shakespeare's birthday. The
. pilgrims came with the motive of
offering the Poets supposed birth
’ place to the Parish church. Floral
’ | tributes were placed on the tomb.
", i INFLUENZA IS CONQUERED
’I -
Clarence Geddes, who has been
in St. Ann’s Hospital with lnflu
. enza several days, has returned to
t his home, entirely recovered,
i
SIXTEEN BILLS
ARE PASSED BY
BOTHBRANGHES
Each Pass Eight Bills on
Wednesday — Senate
Clears Up Calendar
The House yesterday afternoon
passed six of its own bills, two
Senate measures and defeated two
others originating in the Senate.
The Senate passed eight bills
and defeated one. Its calendar is
completely cleared of Senate
measures and except for two or
three in abeyance to await the
appearance of House bills of like
nature it has nothing left of its
own making to consider.
Pass Compilation Bill
The House voted 11 to 4 to pass
the Senate bill to compile and
annotate the Session Laws and
Compiled Laws cf Alaska .appro
priating $12,000 for the legal end
of the work which it is contem
plated to do by 1933. It amend
ed the bill to put the matter of
arranging for the work to be done
in the hands of the Attorney Gen
eral instead of the Governor as
the Senate proposed.
The House also passed a minor
code amendment of the Senate
relative to the competency of evi
dence in civil cases. It indefini
tely postponed a Senate measure
making a slight change in the
Teachers' Pension Law and an
other relative to redemption of
tax sale property.
Establish New Subsidy
A bill creating a new shipping
subsidy, one between Kodiak and
Afognak and covering that district,
was passed by the House yester
day. It carried an appropriation
of $G,200.
Other measures passed included
the following: To amend section
878 of the Compiled Laws relative
to how summons are served and
upon whom; adding to game stock
ing projects: appropriating $4,000
for the relief of the town of
Douglas, to aid it in school repair
and maintenance; adding the Ter
ritorial Mining Engineer to the
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NOT GUILTY
VERDICT FOR
13 IN CASE
Three Others Are Convict
ed for Violation of
Prohibition Act
EIGHT PLEAD GUILTY
BEFORE TRIAL STARTED
Sentences Will Be Passed
Today in Portland—
Text of Charges
FCRTLAND, Oregon. April 23.
Walter L. Tooze, Jr , Portland ati
torney, and twelve other codefend
ants, were last night acquitted by
a jury of charges of conspiracy
to violate the National Prohibi
tion Act.
Three remaining defendants, Jos
eph Brown. Elsie Hodgson and
Rudolph Boutherllier were convict
ed of the same charges.
Eight other defendants were con
victed of other Prohibition law vio
lations.
The Jury deliberated more than
11 hours.
Judge Charles C. Cavanah will
pass sentence sometime today on
those convicted and nine others
who pleaded guilty prior to the
trial.
The Government alleged the de
fendants were members of a gang
organized for the purpose of manu
facturing and distributing liquor in
Oregon and Washington.
KETCHIKAN CASE
EXPECTED TO 60
TO JURY TODAY
Final Arguments Being
Made—Death Sentence
Demanded by Govt.
KETCHIKAN. Alaska, Apr’’ 23.
—United States District Attorney
Howard D. Stabler yesterday asked
the death penalty for Bert Mc
Donald, accused of murdering
George Marshall, Ketchikan fish
buyer, near here last October. The
Government's attorney made his
argument before the jury.
Harry McCain pleaded for the
accused man's life.
George B. Grigsby, second coun
sel for McDonald, was to address
the jury this forenoon and the
case is expected to go to the jury
late today.
LANDS PLANE
ON LAWN OF
| WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, D. C„ April 23,
j —While President Hoover and
Government aviation officials
i watched, an autogyro was landed
| on the south lawn of the White
House by James Ray.
The landing was part of a cere
■ mony for the presentation of the
i Collier Trophy to Harold Pitcairn
and associates for the outstanding
i development of American aviation
| in 1931, by the President,
. The windmill plane was the
' second craft to ever land on the
White House grounds.
Clarence Darrow Movie on
6Mystery Life9 Ready Soon
* %
! NEW YORK. April 23 —Clarence (
Darrow, vigorous foe of fundamen
‘ talism. has nearly completed film
ing of "The Mystery of Life." up
holding the theory of evolution for
which he fought in Dayton, Tenn.,
' several years ago.
j Completion of the film by Uni
versal Motion Pictures. Inc., is a
dream he has cherished for years.
Darrow admitted today. It is an
eight-reel picture in which he
takes the role of proponent of ev- 1
oiution and in which he hopes to j
destroy the theory of the funda- !
mentallsts.
Th» premiere of the film may I
be held In Dayton, officials admit
ted. It was there Darrow battled
with William Jennings Bryan in
defense of an obscure school
teacher named John Scopes, who
violated the Tennessee law by
teaching evolution. Scopes was
convicted and fundamentalism won
a technical victory. «
Darrow has collaborated with
Dr. H. M. Parshley. professor of
zoology at Smith College, in mak
ing the film.
Darrow said the film traced the
rise of man from the amoeba of
the primeval days to the present.
He and Tarshley are the principal
actors.