The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 31, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1928. 'VOL. XXXL, NO. 4752. U. S. SENATOR WILLIS DIES SUDDENLY -Lé\RGE PAPER | DEATH COMES OMPANIES IN 70 CANDIDATE CONSOLIDATION FORPRESIDENT Crown-Zellerbach Corpaes- : s : . Ohio Senator Expires When tion, ~ $100,000,000 ‘ About to Make Ad- Assets, Announced j dress, Home Town HEMORRHAGE GIVEN AS CAUSE OF DEATH ONE CANDIDATE ALASKA wggns Spurm Movie Offen|scH0m_ HOUSE | SUPERIOR FOR | POINT BARROW l ALL _PUHPflSESi IS DESTROYED Gardner Quotes Govern-| Fire Rages Eanly on Cold ment Figures to Prove Ml)l nl“g Durln[, Heavy Quality Local Lumber Snow Storm Beauty-——Wine DEATH REMOVES ]"";. TTLE, March team, io and cable brought news today that the farthest north school in America and probably) the worid, was burned to the| 3 ground January 18. The school e 3 3 & | was operated by the Government's - 3 Bureau of Education at Poini Bar row and was valued at $10,000. | Seventy-two children, practically all BEskimos, are now going to| school in a vacant store building. | The school will he replacaed this! summer as soon as the schooner Boxer reaches Point Barrow with | carpenters and lumber, Word of the burni school house was carried team to Kotzebue, 100 mile tire is believed to have from a defective flue. Mr. and Mrs. Leon of Seattle, and a native teacher, Miss Ethel Kerek, were awakened by the blaze at 2:30 o'clock the morning and forced to fight the fire in the cold and during a heavy snow storm. They suffer- ed severe frost bites. School sup- plies were taken to Point Barrow e e ¢ by dog team from Wainwright. 125 4 t | miles southwest and school re- Inumml in the store building R 31 Dog | SAN FRANCISCO, March 31.,— ! The consolidation of ‘the Crown- Willamette Paper Company and the Zellerbaeh Paper Company, with combined assets of about $100,000,000, was announced yes- terday. The new company will * known the Crown-Zeller- I Corporation. The union of | two companies is subject ‘to| pproval of the stockholders two corporations. ! Crown-- Willamette Paper; Company is the largest pulp and| paper manufacturing concern on the Pacifie It owns large plants at Oregon City, at the Wil-| lamette Oregon, at La! Camas, Washington, on the Co-i western hemlock at the head of Iumbia River, at Ocean Falls, B.| R YPRdh. ol AN ol s ang L | : s wood for the tests were gath- Zellerbach Corporation ered hy him in 1922 all the largest wholes: Shrinkage Is Less i alon R oy W e man who orders Louglas if Sl s exlonaloiy ohc] building on the theory hemlock Pacific pur- and other building Gardner, at Chamber of Alaskan e | » i spiu superior to woods for declared C. T © meet of the ‘ommerce last night, in a talk in which he urged local buiders to 1se lumber manufactured from Alaskan timber in preference to sther woods. He illustrated his talk with graphs and cited G ernment stat prove his rontention of superiority Tests conducted by the Forest g experiment station at Madison, Wis., said Mr. Gardner, put Alaska Sitka spruce and Yoast Political Tangle Arises in | State — Various | Issues Arise as to DELAWARE, Ohio, March 31— United ates Senator Frank B. Willis, of Ohio, Republican, died here suddenly last night. He had been sitting on the platform of Grays Chapel, where 2500 per- sons had gathered to listen to the city’s native son speak in his own behalf as a Presidential can- didate. Suddenly he arose and walked to an ante-chamhor where it the | dog The | started Coast of by Lady Georgiana Sholtd Douglas Wealthy Londoner, who journeyed all the way from her home towr to Hollywood, intending to work in the movies, is on her way home disgusted. “All this talk of big salaries pald stars is what you call the bunk” avers Lady Douglas, as Alie turns her back on screen offers. (nternstional Newsres!) N S. Vincent, ' is | “The for in ysiciar audicnce pronoune dead. Cerebral hemorrhag the cance of death Senator Willis told his private Secretary he was feeling very bad and collapsed soon after entering the ante-chamber. His wife waw called from the stage where she ~had been sitting with her hus- band and reached his side a few minutes before death. The National Guards and Home Troops who had participated in a parade previous to the meeting, took charge of dispersing the ex- cited crowd. Mrs. Willis was unconvinced for 4-hnmbrr on the verge of hysteria and taken to the family home. is f less was ublican of Onlo, TSI d t prev- low townsmen in Presidential nom- whe ! ous to mi a on g o8 behalf E ination ] Lid Is Blown Off Stock Prices; 100 Issues Soar; Sales Over Four Mtllmn T ALASKA GIRL CONFESSES T0 DOUBLE CRIME Says She and Accomplice Robbed, then -Mur- dered F; isherman his fe Republican “Coolidge Prosperity” Half True | CHICAGO, Ill., Mareh 31, can hoast of - Fhe. P‘“l “Hoolidge prnéfififlv“ T true in ‘the opinion of United States Senator James A. Reed, who is here campaign- ing for the Democratic Presi- dential nomination. The Sen- ator said this is true as it applies to the great financial houses, transportation com- panies and the steel indus- try, also manufacturers. But the Senator added, in a radio broadcast, that the “entire agricultural class composing more than<0 per cent of the population, is struggling with adversity.” " i 1 ARd Nas .. NEW YORK, March 31—The lid veste:day was blown®off the Stock Market and prices of speculative favorites soared from 5 a share. Nearly 100 issues cr: ed through to high records one of the most tumultuous ses- sions of the roaring bull market which started four weeks ago. Total 'sales' crossed the 4,000 000 mark for the fifth time this month. The days' sales were 4,-| 586,000. An average of 20 industrials ad vanced nearly five points ing the 200 mark for the time in history. Radio Corporation advanced' $24.50 a share to a new peak of $129 and General Motors advanced i L a share to swz EDITOR NAMED AS SUCCESSOR T0 SEN. FERRIS Green Makes Ap- pointment to United States Senate Political Tangle WASHINGTON, March 31-—The death of Senator Frank B. Willis brings to an end one of the most spectacular contests of the Re- publican Presidential campaign but at the same time leaves the Ohio State Republican polities_in a tangle, the solution of vhlc‘ 1 ¥ difficult to foresee. Senator Willis and Herbert C. » Hoover were entered against each - other in the primaries to be held April 24. Under the Ohio law it is neces- sary for a candidate to express his willingness to enter the pri- mary and the date for filing such expression expired more than one month ago. Whether it is possible to re- move Willis' name from the situ. ation {8 for Ohio leaders to de- cide. It is also for the Senator's triends to determine whether they will give up the campaign against Hoover and®permit the delegation to go to him by default or wheth- er they will continue to fight in Willis's ‘name with the view of swinging the delegation to some other anti-Hoover candidate. If thé latter course is adopted, it is WASHINGTON, March 31 a margin of a single vote, 36 35, the Senate has confirmed the! nomination of Prestes Caldwell, of | New York, a member of the Radio | Commlssion, the ballot being ta-| ken after a bitter fight of three hours. Then without discussion the Senate completed the perSon- nel of the Radio Commission by confirming the nominations of | Sam Pickard, of Kansas, Demo- crat; Ira Robinson, of West Vir- - ginia, Republican, and Harold La- 3 | fout, of Utah, a Republican. "l'wo Dilue“ed Bo‘t.': Off Coast Appear 0. K IS ATTEMPTING cr.nco o ONE HOP FROM NOME,FAIRBANKS NOME, Alaska, March 31 ning to make Fairbanks hop, flier Noel Wein ha rying two passengers, worth of furs and first class mail He expects to return immediately for more passengers, furs and mail. Curtis of i i Cross first LOS 98, Cal, ANGEL Word" from March 31 Portland and Se- attle police is awaited to check | the confession of Henrietia Nel- son, aged 18, that she and a man robbed, then murdered Frederick Johnson, Seattle . fisherman, in Portland, a year ago. The local police said a prelim- inary investigation of the Port- land police failed to reveal any |record of such a murder The girl, who says she is a daughter of Harry Nelson, Jack son Island, Alaska, fisherman, | made a confession to the police after seeking pglice protection from her alleged accomplice. She .. med an attempt will be made {declared that George Soward, ac- to line up the Ohio delegates for | complice, accompanied her here a candidate who has expressed and threatened her life after they ,.. wilingness to join forces with became estranged during their ca- the Willis contingent in Ohio and reer of gasoline station hold-ups. on PORTLAND, Ore., March 31 'wo distressed sailing vessels off Llu- Oregon Coast are in safety Itoday. A six-masted schooner be- |lieved to be the Helen B. Sterl-| ing, of Seattle, which called in | distress yesterday, appeared to be | out of danger off Hecata Head The four-master schooner K. V Kruse is under sail off Willapa | Plan.|Harbor, A tug tried to tow her| one linto the Columbia River vester- | ! without success. The hawser R e e ok anchors. They dragged and | then set her sails | e Bureau of Education plans to visit Juneau and other Alaskan towns in the near future, accord- ing to Dr. Charles Firestone, sur- geon in charge of the local Gov- ernment Hospital who recently returned from-Seattle. Mr. Wag- ner is deeply interested in the life No. fun- after- the in left car. $10,000 brc her she day Jacobs and Herbert Johnson are the two passengers enroute to Nome and expect t return. here on the first steamer NAME ON BALLOT Old Time Prospector | Of Nome Region Is Found Frozen, Death Many Passengers Injured in Crash Of Fast Trains NOME, Aiasika, March 31- Charles Akasi, Japanese miner, has been founl frozen to death in his cabin on Buster Creek. He was an old time prospector and {had been in the Nome region for 25 years. - —————— HEFLIN'S SUGGESTION PITTSRIRAH. P WASHINGTON, March 21 -Sene s o PH. Penn., March ., . peflin has suggested to Mrs. 31.—Sixty-three persons were in- iy to have the contents of her |'|;:rednrhu; AJERL ;"‘:‘b v’;“';‘i“' husband’s stomach chemically ex- e Brondwn d rty Lim- e g n‘t "v:’n:«'\lflvam: R:llrnrr'xxd nined saving in a telegram thats Willis’s death is stranee sinee hq ed . 5 LANSING, Mich., March 31.- . |Gov. Fred W. Green has ap-, has entered the primaries as sec. | {pointed Arthur H. Vanderberg,!Soward is also accused by the .4 chojce candidate. ’ ! Republican,” Editor of the Grand girl of aiding two other men in J F M DUNALD Rapids Herald, as United States|the hold-up of the First Natfonal | (B N | Senator from Michigan to succeed | Bank at Seattle last June when ! ithe late Senmator Woodbridge N||$16,000 were secured. | Nn i The death of Senator Willis will 12’{3“"1I'IVlanr:d:z,l;rl;er;.J h:}lrl?rl on the not alter the preference for ':.l ce ho primary, J. Brown, Secretary It had been rumored that Jos- | State, ruled today, saying Willis's rFuneral R“es for Local PIO- «nh Warren Fordney, Republican, pame will remain on the ballot. former Congressman and co-| need at Elks Hall Under \l‘m‘lfl Law of 1921 stooed ont as [the most likely appointee of Gov. | Green t ( o Funeral services for the late 'y, VA RRAteed oG Wy, Beny torial position. John F. McDonald, prominent lo-| s o and craft paper and owns a large | WRt - ahowm ;shrinkage than sprint il ot PoEtkhaelan) the local lumber is making a mis- hington. Tt has pulp and| take,” Mr. Gardner said, - In sup- tfon*st ‘Hoqdiaim and Port Téwn figures from the Madison station Washington and California. | compared ta five pericént 1‘ The Zellerbachs have Govern-| Lydia Diaz (above), granddaughter | DOUELAS fir. Alaska western hem- power sites in the vicinity of| In New York court charged with |Cent. or less than fir. Ketchikan, Alaska, and, in con-! selling wine to a prohibition agent. |EPruce from the Pacific States had j sT NE v TE e associatds, - wha -habe sithilar | hemlock about the same. “ 0 0 fondos . to timber - and Dok ~ b} The Southeastern Alaska Fair ‘eI vvestigations in out, has a floor made fxom local Mokn With s tH puPGIRE T visw wprice and despite the fact that|O€nate thcn Confirms All paper mills there. the floor has frozen and thawed ey ¥ several times, therp Is no indica- + Commission of the late John G. Brady, former iovernor of Alaska, is floored is in almost perfect condition In concluding, Mr. Gardner i way Last nght Life torial products. Reindeer herds ! of the north are furnishing meat, 31— "uw Member of Elks interior wheat fields providing clared sane by the Court of peals, George Remus still seem-| farmers growing the best of 8 vegetables, and the best lumber before he is released from the & AGWAY, Alaska, March for general building purposes insane hospital where he was(-——Herman Grimm, aged 62 vears, |died at 6 o'clock L ight atter | o for slaying his wife the |died a o'cloc ast night after W, : e 4 fons. ey i aener Coming North grolinds bt being fnsane. ja four;months™ illness. Besides| jonnathas “.ngnfir_ f1y R lease were erected by Prosccuting |tor Grimm, of the 30th Infantry, Attorney E."M. Botkin who asked |stationed at the Presidio, San ned to seek a new trial. 1If that| Herman Grimm was a plan fails it is announced Botkin|member of Skagway Lodge, preme Court. eral will be held tomorrow e B G AN {noen under the auspices of development of the Alaska sta- tions of the bureau, he said. It Herman Grimm alls hoped that X equipment resident of Skagway 3 cen-|Government hospitals in the more tury except for a few years spent |Témote sections of the Territory. at Seward. He went to Skagway| While in Seattle, Dr. Firestone NEW YORK, March 31.—Hen- ; T Dalbeen a resident of Dawson for|had been made in the Capital-to- today on the liner Majestic, It |a Short time. He purchased the)Capital yacht race. Word had is Ford’s first trip abroad since ontinued: on ht) soon wonm a place in the heam g e, gl B s the *peace ship” in 1915 which|of the people of that town was designed to “get the boys|his good nature, gencrosity .md HusE IcE JAM mas.” man,” a nickname bestowed by ] v ) , March 31— Mrs. Ford is crossing the ‘At- himse presshodyia, ftiend. y | Ferris, Democrat, who died March| * | COLUMBHE ONE, Manes lantic for the first time. After the Territory went dry, [] fined to England, Scotland and|remained there for a few years, Ireland and did not think -there {engaged in business. He then re- would be “any business connect-|turned to Skagway and opened a author of the Fortne; was conducting at the time o! . A e Fortney-McCumber his death. He was always #|Thirty Thousand Acres of| Masonic Auspices Skagw booster and never lost Rich Land Damaged in Canada : cal pioneer whose death occurred REGISTRATIGN TOTALS Four Governments to Be Given All Notes On Anti-War Treaty od in the manufacture of pulp | that he getting wood that craft paper mills under construc port of this assertion, he cited erating plants at other points in| shrunk only four per eent ment leases to timber lands and| of Mexico's one-time “Iron Man,” s lock had:a-shrinkase Bf 4.5 00 N FIRMED BY nection with George T. Cameron | Tharimtibgnt Niwiostly 1 shrinkage of 4.3 per cent, and the yicinity of Juneau, have been Bll!lm OF building in this city, he pointed of establishing pulp and there has been no heat in it and| Nominations to Radio tion of srinkage. The old home with spruce and despite its age NUT OUT YET Herman Grlmm Passed|urgea greater 1ocat use of Terri- LIMA, Ohio, March Ap- | REPARE the finest flour obtainable, local ingly has more fight facing him | (Special to Empire.) § - ; comes from 1m-alf' sawmills, he de- placed following his ‘“acquittal” |oldtimer of this v and Alaska, Barriers to his immediate re- his wife, he leaves one son, Vie-|he Alaska section of the Federal for a stay of execution and plan-|Francisco. will take the case into the Su-|431, B. P. O. Blks, and the Blks. the|can be added this year to the early d of _the pri {trom the Koyukuk, and he had [ Was informed that eight entries ry Ford and wife left for Europe Seattle Saloon at Skagway, andG |~ o his famous voyage to Norway on out (,r the® trenches by Chrlst~ puhhu spirit. “Poor Littie Her- Ford said his visit will be con-|Mr. imm went to Seward and with it."” motion picture theatre which he s fafth in the final outcome. He believed that Skagway was des-| tined to become a large and| WASHINGTON, March 31— France has announced readiness to submft. to German, British, Italian and Japanese Govern- ments all of the Franco-American war and anti-war coprespondence along with a draft on a general treaty pledging them mot to re- sort to war. The purpose of the submissions as outlined in a note handed fo Secretary of State Kellogg by Am- bassador Cloudell will be that the four Goverments might “join in secking in spirit and in letter of the last American note any adjustments which in the last analysis may be forthcoming with [tible in causing grave difficul-{Seeding operations are gmuy, respect to the possibility of re-|ties. . He divided the causes of delayed “and valuable sced de- obligationswar into two classes, intolerance |stroyed. conciling previous with the. m'm of zlw contem- thriving city. Mr. Grimm . will by a host of friends w him in his lifetime and him. Rear Admiral Gives Talk on Armaments MI.DDLE'I'OWN( Conn.,"” March 31. Rear 'Admiral Magruder, speaking before the Intercolleg- iate Parley. on War At the Wes- leyan University, pointed to arm- aments. as the kind of interna+ tional competition most suscep- be mourned ho knew liked u\d wmnmtlu, the first as spir- the - material. | loss SASKATOON, Sask., March 31, —With hundreds of thousands of tons of ice roaring down the Sas-| katewan River,. relief is today in sight for 30 familles who were | forced from their homes when a gigantic ice jam, caused flooding | of more tham 30,000 acres of farm land. The ice jam was 10 feet high and 12 miles long. 2 With the river now moving, much flood water is expected to! flow back into the river. Mean- while the hn;xjn faced probability of ng unable to made headway with Spring work. 1 | | thei ’ | Bread from Interior { Flour Feature | or buns, made from | Fairbanks-milled flour were a | special feature on the Cham- | ber of Commerce dinner last | night. The wheat from which | the flour was milled was | srown in the Tanana Valley. | The rolls were made by | Mrs. Harry G. Watson, former | Fairbanks resident. They | were delicious and, by prac- | tically unanimous consent, not 'l'hq ,flood euled ‘no mwn' | to be equalled on the Pacific | CouL . | | Of Chamber’s Dinner l || Rolls, here last Monday morning, will| be held in the auditorium of Elks Hall at 2 p. m. Sunday under the auspices of Gastineau Lodge, No,| 124, F. & A. M, of Douglas, of which he had been a member for many years. The services will be conducted by Past Masters of | the Juneau and Douglas Masonic | lodges. Vocal solo and quartet numbers will be rendered as a part of the services. - All Masons on the| Channel and members of the Or-| der ot Eastern Star are asked to be present. Pall bearerp selected are: F. A.| J. Galwas, Charles Schram, A. Goetz, Guy McNaughton, H. L { Lucas and Willlam Sherman. friends of du family are invited n——-—-—-—a—.—.__.._.-—n to ‘m | and number would approach the 800-! 745 TODAY; OFFICE IS OPEN UNTIL 7:30 P. M., Registrations for Tuesday’s nm-| niefpal election had reached 745 at 2 p. m. today it was announc- ed by City Clerk H. R. Shepard it was expected that the mark before the office closed . to- night. In order to facilitate registra. tioa of those finding it difficult| ito come to the City Hall between | the usual hours of 9 a. m. and § p. m. Mr. Shepard said the office wauld be kept open until 7:30 p. m. today. Registration will close The services will be public and 'at 5 p. m. Monday. Citizens who {dent von Hindenburg. fail to register cannot vote in the municipal election. |passenzer trains four miles west of Lima, Ohio. Raflroad officials announce the injured include 44 passengers and 119 railroad employees. The Liberty crashed into the rear end of the Broadway tel- escoping the club car. mail car and parlor car and-derailing some {of the coaches. Reidntlg Is issolved, Noon Today BERLIN, March 31. — The third Reichstag of the young German Republic was dissolved at noon today by decree of Presi- ‘The Cab- }:not continues in office until the lections on May 20, |was so well and strong. | INANGUPATEN GOVERNOR. [ COLUMBUS, 0. March 31— | When Frank B. Willis fonreved {from his home in Delaware.. 2§ miles north of here, on a wintor !rhv in 1915 to ba inangurated gov- * ernor of Ohio, he came to Colum- bus on the “4:30 accommodation train. There were gronps of highs hatted dignitaries waiting for hir. g hut the governor-elect wore a coms fortable “slonch” hat. { % An air of easvy democracy ‘ ways marked Willis as he : step by step on the political i‘ der, following the path that other Ohioans to the House, and then he climaxed swn career by announcing: