The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 8, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY VOL. XXX[I., NO. 4811. SOUTHERN CROSS IN : SAYS HALIBUT INDUSTRY NOW IS THREATENED International Fisheries Commission Makes } Report to U. S. NEW REGULATIONS URGENTLY NEEDED Closed Areas | S—uggested—i Also Further Limita- tion of Season | WASHINGTON, June $—De-| struction of the great halibut in-| dustry of the Pacific ocean which produces 60 percent of the world’s annual catch, is forecast in a ve-| port of the International Fisher-| jes Commission, representing Canada and the United States. d made to cretary of State | Kellogg. ngent regulations are urged | for the halibut industry with e tablishment of large “closed nu * for immature fish, off | British Columbia and Southeast- ern Alaska and further limitation of the fishing season. Both governments are urged to take prompt action to prevent de-! struction. Undersized fish are being taken. Decreased catches | are made despite the use of large | quantities of gear. Large fish are disappearing and inroads are | being made on the undersized fish. 3 Year Investigation The commission found much to report upon in the three years of | study along the 1,800 miles of | the Pacific coast line and in, Bering Strait. The report says that the pree-! ent mated to be worth $7,000,000, is| only 40 percent of the yield of the | Pacific waters 20 years ago. The comm jon reported that the an- | 7(éontinued on Page Eight.) | GOV. PARKS ON FLYING TRIP FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 8— Gov. George A. Parks, Major Mal- colm Elliott and R. J. Sommers, who hopped off yesterday in a| plane piloted by Floyd Bennett, for an inspection trip to Nenana, thence to the upper Kuskokwim, Iditarod, lower Kuskokwim, Holy Cross, Nome, Candle, Kotzebue and Wiseman, plan to return here between June 18 and 20. | will then plot a program of im- provement and chart routes. Gov. Parks intimated night fly- | ing equipment, light, have already been for Fairbanks. ordered | Leaves Takotna Harry G. Watson received a cable today from Gov. Farks that the party had arrived at Takotna actual cateh, although esthg, .., They | beacon and flood | ship | Atlantie IN F RANCE Wl TH RAJAH-HUSBAND — - i Here’s Nancy Ann Miller, Seattle eirl, pictured on her arrival | in Marseilles with her new hubby, former Mahnraph of Indore, on their honeymoon which is now being spent in Paris. | DECLARES THAT NOMINATION OF HOOVER UNWISE| {Will Mean Hard Fight for| G. 0. P.—Is Boost- ing Three Others KANSAS CITY, June 8.—Mrs, Ruth Hanna' McCormick, Director of Publicity for the anti-Hoover deslared today that the campaign of opposition was not based on personalities and that {it" Hoover is nominated all Re- publicans will support him Mrs. McCormick said she is trying to bring forcibly before the delegates to the Republican National Convention the super- ior availability cf Lowden, Cur- tis or Watscn cver Hoover for ||w nomination for the Presi- dency in order that the Repub- lican Party will be placed in a bétter position to carry the elec- tion,” and also to show that Hoover’s nomination will mean a hard fight for the party in November. ————— Plane Friendship May Take-off for Sea Flight Tonight TRESPASSEY, Newfoundland, {June 8.-—A light wind make it unlikely that the plane Friend- will take-off before night on the projected flight across the Ocean. NEW YORK, June 8. — The monoplane Columbia is expected to take-off about dawn tomorrow cn the second attempt to fly to and would leave immediately but destination was not given. 0ld Orchard on the first leg of the proposed trans-Atlantic flight. CHICAGO STOCK EXCHANGE BOASTS FASTEST GROWING MART IN. WORLD CHICAGO, June 8—The Chicago Stock 'Exchange’ wore its swad- dling clothes for 45 years. Yet when the Exchange moved across LaSalle Street recently to don the more ample habiliments of an adolescent financial mart, cne 0p- timistic member surveying the spacious mnew quarters in the State Bank building, complained they would soon be outgrown. A year ago memberships on the Exchange were selling under $3,000. Today the prevailing price is around $50,000. And this sen sational advance of 1,500 percent in a year is only one symptom of the growing pains wracking an Exchange that was in a moribund state when R. Arthur Wood be- came president in June, 1927, Exchange seats then were & a::g on ‘the market, The Ex- change itself seemed almost ready for the last rites when the direc- tors, under Mr. Wood's leadership, adepted an aggressive mew policy and purchased 14 inactive mem- berships for $3,000 each, reducing the roster to 2356 members. Then the directors hunted new issues. Corporations operating in the Middle West were urged to give Chicago investors an oppor: tunity to. buy their securities here. Pennsylvania Raflroad stock was written up on the board in January and the transfer to new quarters found Beatrice Creamery and Illinois Central added to the list. A total of 75 new issues was booked during the year. Execution of orders has been accelerated by establishment of speciali: books and the opening of a c#ll money market. Until last February 16 the surplus mon- eys of Chicago banks flowed through the New York money market and back to Chicago brok- ers. Now Chicago traders are on an equal credit basis with New York. Finally the Exchange discard- ed the shoddy, outworn garments that cramped its growth, moving to a new trading floor three times as large and equipped with eyery modern device to facilitate trans- actions. It is adequate to handle the transfer of 500,000 shares, more than three times the cur-! rent volume of trading. Chicago still is a poor second to New York as a securities mar- ket, but President Wood boasts that the Chicago Exchange has become the world's fastest grow- ing market for stocks and bonds. Transactions have multiplied 180 ] Pocket Veto of Coolidge Kills Muscle Shoals . WASHINGTON, June §— | President Coolidge has exer- cised the pocket veto on the Muscle Shoals bill when he | failed to sign before midnight, the end of the 10<day period. | The bill was for government | | operation of the Muscle Shoals property for govern- | ment purposes. | WHITE BILL DEAD WASHINGTON, June 8 President. cw*n ‘has_failed to sign’ (he ‘White bill propos- ing a $3,500,000 fish conserva- | tion program. As a result the measure i3 believed to be | automatically killed. It was | previously announced by Sen- ate officers that the measure \lm«l been signed, MYSTERY IS CLEARED UP WESTALASKA Finding of Suicide in Cabm Bares Murder Mystery of Last Fall AKIAK, Alaska, June 8—Discov- ery of the body of Charles P. Lindford hanging from the rafters of his cabin, bared a murder mys- tery of last fall. Lindford’s partner, Arthur Kirk disappeared and was supposed to have been drowned when his raft was wrecked. His body was dis covered at the mine where it had been burned in a retort. The partners had been mining | | | | quicksilver on a tributary of the Kuskokwim and had made a large sale of minerals just previous to Kirk's disappearance. The coroner’s jury decided that Limdford had taken his own life because of remorse or fear he had been suspected of foul play in connection with Kirk's death, but there was no evidence. Unfavorable Weather' Delays Rescue Flights For Dirigible Italia KINGS BAY, June 8, — The base ship Citta di Milano keeps constantly sending out messages of confidence and cheer: to the missing members of the TItalia expedition but as time goes on doubt is expressed ahout the mes- sages picked up from the airship as being genuine. The radic operator of the base ship believed he picked up faint messages yesterday but he was unable to get any answers. Weather conditions are again unfavorable for rescue flights to- day. “Red” Youths Are Arrested, Executed CANTON, China, June 8.— percent during the first year of Fourteen girls and three school his regime and the total value of shares traded daily is beliaved to be 'second only to that on York m Exchange. , the New‘ boys, arrested in Communist raids are sald to have confessed as being “Reds” and were immed- iately executed. { | He “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUN[:AU ALASKA FRIDAY, JUNE 8 1928. ONE ARREST IN FIRE, EXPLOSION; HOLLYWOODCAFE. Proprietor of Gift Shop Is Charged with Plant- ing Many Fires HOLLYWOOD, Cal, From the smoking ruins Russian Eagle Cafe, from which & panty of screen celebrities es- caped early yesterday 8- June just before a blast destroyed the| building and set it afire, the au thorities have pieced together the story of the fire and explosion. A complaint has' been accusing Michael Tocaze, proprie tor of a small gift shop in building, of planting a dozen or more fires on the roof. Several thousand cubic feet of escaped gas met the flames and exploded, causing dnjury to six men and $75,000 property damage. If any of the injured die, the | prosecuting attorney plans to file a murder charge, Tocaze left the lighted candles to start the fires and fled to San Francisco where he was arrested. contracted “for $10,000 insur- ance for his shop a week ago. PLAN FLIGHT T0 JAPAN VIA THEALEUTIANS Two Chicago Men An- nounce Proposition for This Summer CHICAGO, 1., Ju=e gene McDonald, Arctic and President of the Zenith Radio .Corporation, and U. J. Herrmann, sportsman and.theatre owner, both of Chicago, plan a Pacific flight to Japan via the Aleutians this summer, The flight will be made in a Zenith Albatross, described as tke largest type of monoplane ever ccnstructed. Charles F. Rocheville and Alv bin K. Peterson, designers, will | be the pilots. The plane has three motors and is capable of carrying 12 )mssenlzfls and making 60 miles an hour. Seattle or San Francisco will be the starting point across the Pacific Ocean. -, ——— Convicted Prisoners Sentenced to Hang SAC RAMENT() Cal, June 8-— The Folson Prison Thanksgiving Day riot leaders, recently convict- ed of murder, have been sentenc- ed to be hanged on Friday, Aug- ust 17., The six were convicted of killing George Baker, a trusty. ———e — A. J. QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 8.—Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted to- day at 3%. e MODERN MEXICAN HOSPITAL SALTILLO, Mexico—The finest railroad hospital in Mexico has been opened here. It will care for sick and injured rail employes in all northern Mexico. Few American hospitals surpass it in appointments. 8.—Eu- explorer | ————ea——— ITALY HELPS TOURISTS ROME—Italian railroads own- ed by the state are carrying pa- triotic societies, student organ tions and visiting foreign groups at reduced rates to make Italy known. Six Killed Returning' from Cemetery PBORIA, Hl, June S—Six persons were killed at Macki- naw late yesterday when a Big Four Railroad passenger train struck an automobile. The dead are Ransom Hasty, aged 46; his three children; Mrs. G. Hasty, aged 85 years. and Harold Watson, aged 47, a cripple. They were return- | ing from a cemetery where | they had visited Hasly'fl | wite's grave. of the' morning | issued the ! ANDY PAYNE Like a true- Horatio Alger h stcad and will build a new home triumph. CHAMBER WILL PUT IN FLOAT FOR SEAPLANES Appropriates Money for it —Many Visitors Speak at Today's Luncheon Immediate construction of @ float in the local harbor for use by seaplanes was authorized tc day by the Chamber of Com- merce, funds for that purpose be. Ing given V. A. Pain, acting a one-man aerial sei 2 commit tee for the Chamber. Materials for the float are available, he sald. The timbers for it were fur- nished by Sawyer Reynolds & Company and Charles Bender, and cables and anchors by the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company, all being donated. Labor costs and what other materials are needed will be financed by the Chamber. Have Several Visitors Today's meeting was held in the Elks lodge banquet room and was largely attended. Guests were: N. G. Nelson, Ketchikan; Heber J. Meeks, James Judd, Al- vin Englestead and Lowell T. Plowman, all of Utah, here on a missfon for the Mormon church; M. Middleton, Portland traveling man; L. D. Ryus, Ketchikan engi- neer, and F. P. Ulrich, Sitka. A snappy and highly entertain- ing program of songs, dances and “patter” was staged by Tom Parker and his company of Merrymakers who are appearing nightly at the Coliseum. It was deeply enjoyed and enthusiasti- cally applauded by the members. B, M. Goddard, representing the American Legion, said the Fourth of July program was well under way and that a varied bill of sports would be offered. It will embrace water sports, baseball, children’s sports, ddnces, a smok- er, band concert, and presentation of prizes in the Capital to Capital Cruiser Yacht race. M. 8. Whittier, chairman of the race . committee, Informed the Chamber J.. P. Bobrick, official for the American accom- Bobrick, will ar- rive here June 30 and will assist w‘ nued on Page 'i'v:o) C. Pylc’s trans-continental marathon, will uft we mootgage ALASKA EMPIRE MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS WILL LIFT MORTGAGE WITH $25,000 PYLE DERBY PRiZE) = ero, Alulrew Ps y 5 (left), winner of the $25,000 first prize in C. ¢n his family’s Claremore, Okla., home- to replace the present cabin (abeove). CLAREMORE, Okla,, The pot of gold which .\n(l)‘ l’d)ne found at the end of the long, long rainbow in C. C. Pyle's transcontinental rathon will wipe out the debts that for years have kept a mortgage over his | father’s farm. Part of the $25,000 wili build a new house and buy furniture for Andy's mother, and some of the noney will take Andy through colcge. ‘Then, he hopes, there still will be enough to make hig brothers and sisters happy too. As he trotted at the head of he cross-continental callous cara- van, Andy sent home brief let s, unfolding his dream of shar- ing $25,000 with the family, The runner's parents, Mr. and Mrs, L. Payne, and thelr six other children, in a small shack, badly in need of paint. It is by no means an imposing place, but Andy's friends point out that it bears some resemblance to the log cabin in which Abraham Lin- coln was born. The young man hero in Claremore and for many miles around. IHe has been an idol ever since he began winning races on high sehool tracks. “Of all the boys with whom I have had experience for consider- ably more than a quarter of a century,” says J. W. Redmsn, one of Andrew's teachers, “I consider him the most balanced, menta'ly, morally and physically.” Andy’s mother rel proudly that her son has always tried to excel in everything he did, wheth er it was pleking cotton, stadying geometry or rumning a race. His| father wasg puzzled by the boy's eagerness to run.. The lad had a June ATTEMPTS T0 KILL PREMIER TANAKAJAPAN TOKYO, June AN unsuccess- ful attempt was mmha wday to assassinate Premier Tanaka when the Premier arrived at the Uyeno station. A man, in working clothes, tried to stab the Premier. Guards frus- trated the attempt and arrested the man Premier N. W. Chief of Narcotic Agents Is Transferred Tanaka was not hurt. SEATTLE, .’Illll‘ 8.—Harry V. Williams, Chief of Narcotic Agents for Washintgon, Idaho, Oregon, Montana and Alaska, will assume charge of the Nar- cotic Law Enforcement agencies in California, Arizcna, and Ne- vada on July 1 Charles D. Writesman, San Francisco Agent, will. succeed Williams here. {Mine Explodes Aboard Mine-Layer; Six Killed KIEL, Germany, June 8.—Six marines were killed today when la mine exploded aboard a mine- |layer during maneuvers, {marines were injured. is everybody's Dad and Mother Payne | (lower left); Andy’s six brother and sisters, including six-year-old Will Rogers Payne (lower iright) ; and even Prince the horse he used to race to school, share Claremore’s elaticn at the lad's PRICE TEN CENTS IR; MORE GALES IPLANE LEAVES SUVA; STORMS ENGGUNTERED, Radio Operator Tells of Experiences—Tremen- dous Drops in Air 'LAND STATIONS HAVE | FEARS FOR SAFETY ‘Messages Slop then Ro- | newed—May Reach * { Australia P. M. SUVA, n‘ljl I:]:\mhh Jun2 8. ~—The Southern Cross took off from Naiclal Beach for Brisbane, Australia, at afternoon which 6:52 o'clock, Pacific Ceast time, un the flight of 1,762 miles which is expected to take 18 or 20 hours. The tike-off was perfect and the weather favorable. The fliers were confident and cheerful, Lieat. Harry Lycn, navigator, lost his spectacles and is some- vhat hampered reading the navi- gation charts. | G BRISBANE PORTLAND, Ore., June .8—At 7:40 m. todav the Southern Cross signals were coming in strong to the MacKay Radio Sta- tion. The plane was then be- lieved to be about from Brisbane. RUNS IN TO STORM 3 SAN FRANCISCO, June 8.— Storms and vielent tropical dis- turiances, pulled, twisted bounced the Scuthern € through the worst contortions pevienced fir, the fliers the sSonthern Oross: radlo. 'The filght threaten: a time 1o be cast into history marking the venture as a ‘“‘dis- aster.” Thiogs went smoothly until last night, then the plane ran into the storm. Barly today the plane was buzzing along “ amoothly again. One ‘radio mess:ge staled the. fliers expected to about 2:30 o'clock noon, Pacific Coast time. Was Bad Storm After passing through . one storm last night, Radlo Opera- ter Ulm wirelessed: “We didn’t want to worry anvone while we were in it Now that we are out of it, we will tell you that for two hours we battled the worst weather of the whole flight at 7,500 feet. FHeavy rains and bumps gave up severai drops of over 400 feet.” \hout that time a messagec was ‘ntercepted at Honolulu from the Sydney brcadcast to the fliers telling them they would probably experience two repetitions storm Heard Wild Shrick It was not Southern Cross struck another storm, At one time tle fliers it i i " (Continued on Page Eight.) >-e— — i on oo Another Motor | Boat Enters i | Alaska Rm‘v | OL\'MIIA Wflsh June 8. The Maidie, owned .by Jack Powers of the Queen' City Yacht Club, 43% feet in length wa | in the. Capital-to-Capital ! race. This makes eight fast | boats already entered. Four horse to ride to school, bat he preferred te put o young brothe on Prince’s back, and then the horse to school, eight miles, But the elder rmc ’ayne has never failed to be the tape when Andy finigshed, and he went to New York to see him end the cou- test. LONG BEACH, Cal, June $— The cultural and commereial evo- !lution of the area once embraced In the father's absence, Andy's in the old 19-year-old brother, Hansell, look- the Colorado River will be reflcct- ed after the crops. The mother!ed in the Pacific Southwest Ex- would have been happy, too, to Zo! position here July 23 to Sept. 3 to the sceme of Andy's greatest|It will commemorate the coming triumph, but she “just couldn’t of the Spanish padres to the Pa- leave” the younger children:|cific Coast, and will have (he Mary Beth, 46 vears old: Faye,| participation of 11 western states 13; Pauline, 10; Charles Alexan-|and 22 foreign nations or posses- der, 8, and Will Rogers, 6. | sions. The youngest bears | boy the | name of the cowhoy comedian,| With some 50 buildings of Moor- who, like Andy, is one of the mot- xh(h architecture waking up the ables of «Claremore. Rogers and|Eeneral exposition scheme, there Andy’s father bhunked together, Will be created on the 60-acre site | when they worked on ‘ranch years "ago. into Long Beach narbor, an orien Spanish empire along ! - OLD SOUTHWEST %0 BE tal city suggestive of Northern Africa. Belgium is to <onstruct a builds ing duplicating the town hdll at Brussels, set in a Flemish garden. Germany -will featare the part that nation has playrd wultfi wide trapsportation. A Hawailan ' | village is to be transplanted in its | entirety from the wld-Pacifie. ‘Spaln’s participation will dej IIL- strial development, au ure, and ita building supplemzntod by exhibita Spunish cuterprises. % 7 the same,©n the peninsula which juts out' vesterday - 450 miles of i long before the Y55 HOST AT EXPOSITION