The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 30, 1929, Page 1

VOL. XXXIIL, NO. 5061. ]UNEAU ALASKA, SATURDAY MARCH 30 1929. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE ThN CEN[b TRIP ACROSS NORTH POLE IN SUBMARINE IS PLANNED IL OTHE T REP. de! S { i s ——— (R | \ HAS LIQUOR IN BA[‘GAGE Hiha L Conq‘rcssman of Oh!o’ Brings Whiskey from | Panama, Officials Say EMPHATIC DENIAL IS MADE ;REPORT GIVEN Claims Grips Were Opened epeated Protests T"l(’?‘l Is Made | NEW YORK, March 30. — Not- g the emphatic denial sentative William M. Mor- of n, of e Ohio, that he brought liquor in his baggage upon his rival from Panama on the liner 3 al last Mond two Ct cors reported to found fou two otk went into c their nsid- and in organ threatened to ‘“take f the Inspectors upon his| ngton. learning the Cong man’s identity, the Inspectors one of his. grips were opened unyer | i AR LToabapted, Difsasy oy e LB E S ~ had' the right of free entry with- out search. y ILLLINOIS CONGRESSM!/ I IS TO BE ARRESTED| ch 30. — Unless Alfred Michaelson | ers to the Federal authori-| United States Comm oner‘ announced he will BE AT MEETING IN VANGOUVER i was issued yesterday after! .months after his indict- | alm ment in Florida by a Grand Jury To At d Cnnfe!":uce of } F15'11K1g IVXC“ ’Al;lska Conditions Good SEATTLE, March 30.—Henry O'- Mali Commissioner who has a d here from Wash- on charges of poss ta sion, transpor- on and importation of liquor. The bond has been set at $2,000. | Efforts to find Congressman Michaelson since the news raeched here, have failed. Federal officials are sure he will give himself up. Neighbors sald .45 1., expects to spend sev- I]‘_CL lR(Dl \:At:ivc and his Wife o0) months at‘the Bureau head- eft home yesterday. b % s ‘Wil attend tha el Michaglson has served as Repre-|Juacters. He will attend the In ternational Salmon Research Com- mission meeting and conference at ‘\ ancouver, B. C., Apri 14 and 5 with esentatives of the salmon in- sentative from the Seventh Illinois District since 190 and has been own as a dry but did not receive the support of the Anti-Saloon N A T X TSRS » Lo Flfth avenue, New York, with the Laster morn f s | | | | of Fisheries, [ ® | i IX‘N/,, e | ion pa- S i Good Feliows Excursion to Alaska in August OR. WILLARD - PASSES AWAY | DURING NIGHT Former Haines and Juneau 1 Misstonary Dics in Chicago | . BELLINGHAM, Wash., March 80. —Word has been reccived here that Eugene Willard, yterian missionary of Alas n Chicago last night Frederick Willard, who resid said his {\thu’ went to 1831 and“founded Iia Mission on Lynn Canal. Frederick was born there, the first e child, in 1832. Later Dr. Wil established the byterian Mission Juneau. i 2 esidence in Juneau, Dr. became F r of Bac a. the stern Uniy in Chicago, position held at (" time of death. Willa the Alaska- 1kon Pacifl on prize for he Al novel, “Kinda- HENRY ALLEN 70 BE NAMED U. S, SENATOR Slx Hours, Lo ndo 1 L Drawing shows one scheme for which are at upper left and right, would be connected by a ¢ the tube would be less has werk for a tunnel. baencinso | | 22—London be only LONDCN, March and Paris will horshg 1y js estimaged that only. threc |#part by trafn, if the proposed tdh-"] a tunnel beneath the English hour than an hour, but the capitals are some distance inland. Sir William Ball is its most active pmpunent in Parliament, two tunnels has fully ]upcificd c0n~ struction, K res quarters of an hour would be »nm under the English channel is quired to traverse the prop d; I\“wupaper Man of Kansas| | Wil Fill Vacancy i from that State {built, Tk s project, first considered 6" ago, has received the support | authorities provided military officials can | 5 {16 pecariaded, wilha started shor -| e SEATTLE, March 30—The ® WASHINGTON, March 30—Af- Y. it is believed. The cost of th o sccond “Good Fellowship” ® tor a conference with President |tube is ¢stimated at from $50,000 - | e r is to ))l* made to Alas- @ Hoover, Gov. Clyde M. Reed, of 000 to $175,000,000. | a ° mer spon- @ Kapsas ,announced he will appoint! qyo tuyulent waters of the chxm»} L4 ® former Governor Henry J. Allen t0 01 a1qay : as iR bt . ® |the United States Senate to fill the go, . Britis . © |vacancy caused by the elevation of o105 and Burope s plans ° Senator Charles Curtis to the V”"Aha'c been suggested to overcome $ A \',l?l be @ presidency. !the troublesome crossinz by boats e made at Victoria, Ketchikan Allen for years has been 8 na-|pror Dover to the Frenen ceast. | © Wrangell, Takii Glacier, Ju- @ 'tiona] figure in politics and jour-| Now the ,public demand for o # peay, - Shugy Sitka. @ nalism. Last year he was Pub-ltnnei seems so imperative that . licity Director for the Republican the project now appear !whose channel | ably (h'\xmcl tunnel. Customs inspec-| tions and running time on the lx:nd] journey cach side of t! | nel between the two capitals |bring the time required for the whole rail journey to about six hours. The full forcz of the pi agitation for the tunnel, whi Ir by the r steamers I would be put out of bu; D! will not be felt after the new parliament assembles, fol- lowing the general election in M;x\" or June. Many channel supporied even until observers think that tunnel question will the | be | 1 nearer of taken up immediately and that in! Coumy P00 8,0 6,00 0 0NN = ‘N‘uonnl Committee and actively fulfiliment than at any time since the end the proponents of the pro- | - SON CONFESSES SLAYING FATHER | supported Hoover. As Governor of Kansas from 1919 to 1923, he attracted nationwide at- | tention to his forceful dealing with | 1abor disputes. | The appointment will carry for |four years as Curtis was elected to| o . VEATE OF of the Pacific Coast and 'serve until 1933. :lxt:dn;l"fin m;f tl;e :::;dl]l)ullm?duu 1.;: state authorities of California, Ore- | I N L 0 S ANGELES For 23 years, Allen has been cd years ago. yon, Washington and the Dominion tor and publisher of the Wick {of Canada. J xBeacon He sold the controlling | He sald there were no contro-| |interest last summer. For lrnt BIG DIAMOND |lations in Alaska fishing waters and | | conditions there are reported most | favorable. | — - GRAND AND PETIT ROBBERY;TWO ARE ARRESTED ueies to reeorr, " TOPEKA, Kan., March 30.—Dia—l‘ mends valued at $150,000 are re- | ted to have been stolen from a g:rn Francisco salesman, were seiz- | |kan is over and Judge E. Coke Hill ed by officers and two men were and the Court party plan to leave arrested as they left an east bound | there for Juneau on the Admiral| Ie ed today. | | LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 30.| —Tt have™filed a charge iaga Crawford, aged 18} (\'vrsles this year over Federal rmm-‘Unexpected Angle Comes times he was publisher of Out in Shooting Af- fray in L.A. Home he father, vears, confessed to the John Crawford, after killing of hi vears, sr., aged 45 er, wa | witn: obson all expected to appear-as a 1 Councilman Carl I. Jac- d frame-up case. train. The diamonds were found |Rogers, it w : t £ the po did not di-| in the luggage of the men who| Both the Grand and "_.!\e Petxt‘mct lmn, ation into the slaying were arrested at the request of the |Juries are to report at the Court |4 1 emie believing san Francisco authorities. Two !Vnu se in Junezu on Monday, April Crawford had been shot by a women, waiting in an automobile, 1, for the term of court here. The n interested in the Jacobson at the station, were arrested as ac- Gxand Jury reports at 11.o'clock! ot the station, were arreste das ac- | and the Petit jury at 2 p.m., Mon- Widow Tells Officers plices. POLAND TRIES TO UNTANGLE CHAOTIC 'day. LAWS ON DIVORCE ™™™ duced by the reclamation of the provinces which had been under Germen, Austrian and Russian rule has produced a condition in which many persons moving from one part of Poland to another are un- WARSAW, March 30—Poland’s marriage and divorce laws are in a state of chaos, for which the gov- ernment is seeking an orderly solu- A new marriage code is be- | ing drafted by an eminent Warsaw stiorney. Before the World War divorces | sere almost unknown in Poland, for most of the population was of the Catholic faith and adherred to the doctrine of indissolubility of mar~‘ riage. But the civil confusion pro- married. (Continued on Page Three) The widow first told the officers n killed his father, and then sobbed out a confession un- | aware his mother had told the of- ficers. The revolver used in the shoot- ing, was found wrapped in a bath- Confession John'’s confession, in part, was: “Father came home drunk. He 'often abused mother and us boys, | certain whether they are legally|t stop. Some unhappy marriages are re-[head solved by obtainirig annulment from ' Foom and he followed. I picked the Catholic church. Others, un- UP @ revolver. able to obtain release this way, him. hursday night he did it again, beating mother and throwing dish- es. I saw her hand was bleeding. I argued with him and asked him Fe started to abuse me and broke a bread box over my I backed into the sitting I wanted to scare He continued to abuse me nnd punch me. Then everything ent blank and I ctarted to fi former police- | concealed in a tree. e |Omaha Bee-News for William x( an- | ‘dolph Hearst. ! - - - | RECORD ESTABLISHED IN SEALING UP LAKE K AX R. C. Gehling, oldtimer of the Lake Kenai district, arrived in lcky yesterday for a week's V | Mr, Gehling reports that as far The spring term of the United ..p, jy their home Thursday night'as can he learned a new record States District Court at Ketchf- pecaice Donald Crawford, @ broth-|has been established in the late- iness of the lake freezing over for fon March 14 it became sealed for {its entire length and breadth. The previous late mark was said to be February 25. The late is still sealed and is unsafe for traveling. {Mr. Gehling also reports three and one-half feet of snow on the level wmaking the going extremely ardu-{ | ous.—(Seward Gateway.) AT A SN President Acts 1Quickly in | (Proposed Strike DALLAS, Texas, Marc —Four hundred employee of the Texas Pacific Rail- way, who threatened to wa out at 6 o'clock this mo ing, returned to their as the result of act President Hoover late terday. ‘The strike order was with- drawn by officials of the Big Four Brotherhoods after tk President issued a pro tion creating an Emergen Board of Inquiry to inve gate the dispute and report findings. ®eecoeboscececcescee |liament’s most act |and military aircraft Napulcon first suggested it in 180! The French government is in whole- hearted approval of immediate con- |struction, and authori for ths French section was granted many |years ago by the French mr]m- ment,. In England the expressed by a poll en by Sir William Bull entiment is b2st W be m' tak- M. P., pai yroponent, {the tube. He is ® papers, and members of ;urlnmeni | as to their positions. So far “r'\ {has obtained the following results: } Newspapers in favor of the tu ‘ nel, 47; against, none; neutr House of Lords: peers mmrmg the project, 109; against, 54; neu- ‘tral. 101, House of Com: members ; -|favoring the tunnel, -210; against, 113; neutral, 27. There are still many members of the house to be heard from, and the objecti to the tunnel on the part of the imperial peers and | defense committee, which have in the past blocked the project, have not yet been withdrawn. It scems likely, however, that the military, authorities will sancfion the tun- nel since their objections antedate | the invention of long range guns One of those w 1z hardest for the project is Sir Ribert Perks, who at 80 years still is one of the foremost engineers of Great Brit-] ain. He is thoroughly familiar with every phase of the tunnel proposition, as he has made a spe- cial study of it for many years, In former days the Alps offered {a similar obstacle as do the Straits Enginee! of Dover to easy travel plerced the mountains with a se- ries of famous tunnels France and Italy are linked together by the Mont Cenis tunnel while the, Simplon tunnel joins Italy to Switzerland. Before these two tunnels were built there were dire predictions on the part of reactionaries in the re- spective countries who foresaw only grave consequences to the different countries. The immense freight and passenger traffic through the = BEVINS IS IN | completing ject will be rewarded with victory. | It already seems to lmw reached | the band wagon stage with many | publicists clamoring Im seals near | the driver. | e < CRASH; 2 LEGS | ARE FRACTURED Plane Wre: l«v' W,wn Flier| Attzapts Hop-Off - | After Forced Down { | BLAND, Missouri, March 30| Okeh Bevins was seriously injured | when his Lockhead plane crashed | into a small tree erday after-| noon when he attempted to take-| off from a farm here. He suffered | fractures of both lezs and cuts on the front and back of his head. He | was taken to a St. Louis hospital. The plane was forced down on the farm of Amos Smith. After minor repairs, Bevins attempted to hop-off, but the motor cut out and the plane was wrecked against a small tree Bevins is reported to be attempt- ing a nonstop flight from New York to the West Coast He was unsuccessful last week in an at- tempt to fly from the Pacific Coast to the Atlantic Coast with- out stopping, being forced down in New Mexico. He took the air again and reached the Atlantic ani| was on a return flight when forced down on the farm e Mrs. Thomas Darby, whose hus- band died recently in Arizona, is aboard the Yykon bound for Ju- neau. She is accompanied by J. Kinghorn, associated with the late Mr. Darby in the U and I Restaur- ant, who went south some time ago and remained with Mr. Darby until his death, here. Channel. | White |Va, R_CONGRESSMAN VII@LAT@R MORGAN | [ Thebig Pamder CAPT, WILKINS ANNOUNCES HIS " LATEST STUNT Plans to Make Trip Across | Arctic in New Under- sea Craft SUBMERSIBLE IS * NOW BEING BUILT Commande;};—&’.lec[ed for | Vovage Which Will Be [ Made This Year NEW YORK, March 30. — Capt. George H. Wilkins, who has just returned from his Antarctic ex- ploration, announced today that he is considering a voyage across the North Pole in a submarine, pos- sibly this year or next. Commander Sloan Danenhower, technical expert of the Simon Lake Subarine Company, and who plans to navigate the craft, said the sub- mersible which will be used, is now London and Paris, views of The running time through 3ir Robert Perks long il trip. TASTER PLANS OFPRESIDENT ARF ABANNONED WA@AUN(:TON March 30— A t sleety rain has ups the ster holiday plans of President over. With Mrs. Hoover and his old schoolmates, Secretary and M Wilbur and the Presiden Secre- Lavv Lawrence Richey, the Chiel utive pla d to spend a lzlr_'.tcy part of today an ! tomorrow on an automobile trip 90 miles into the {mountains of Virginia to |the new trout fishing preserve on the Rapidan River in Madison This would have been the! {first outing for the President since he entered the White House but/ was called off because of the weather. — e LEAV HOSPITAL Mrs. James Grant, who entered St. Ann's hospital for a major op- | eration March 15, today. 2 oo Charles Goldstein, Mrs. after spending about three wecks visit-| ing in the States, is returning home on the Yukon, which left Seattle todny. inspect | left the hospital!ls being fitted out at the company's workers at Bridgeport. Capt. Wilkins said the idea of a submarine trip across the Arctic Sea has been in the sub-designers and explorers since 1899 when |Simon Lake advanced it to Stef- ansson and Peary and both con- | sidered it. “On the fact of it, it seems ris- ky. As a mathematical problem {hazard T consider it no more risky, |even less so, than an airplane flight over me Polar Seas,” said Capt. ’Ihc lrip will be taken in July, either this year or next and will Iaat only two or three weeks. , The submarine will be equipped with a special diving lock through {which a diver might be sent out to blast the ship free of retaining lice. The submarine will also have |a bar sloping up from the bottom, (o the conning tower to ease it _under unseen icebergs. The submarine will carry a large ‘?uflntlty of chemicals to melt the ice. Capt. Wilkins said there is need for such a trip to get informa- |tion on the depth of the ocean and to determine if it is a conical depression of basin Data concern- {ing currents will also be obtained. - e l Mrs. LeRoy Vestal, who with her | son, Junior Vestal, has been visit- {ing her mother- G. Day, in Florida since December, is a northbound passenger on the mer Yukon which left Seattle | this morning. | | <> | H. H. Post, Cashier of the First National Bank, is returning on the steamer Yukon from a month’s va- cation trip to the ,Pacific Coast | cities. SUMMER WHITE HOUSE FOR YEAR OF 1930 TO BE ON PACIFIC COAST WASHINGTON, ing holes for nearby Marylend beer oover in nia have President nd Virg Lawrence Rich so that during; the summer week-ends and dull! jdays in the White House the chief- éxecutive may be able to angle for brook, brown and rainbow President Ho has abar the idea tablishing a summer House at Mount Weather, He will have no summer White House this year as Congress of e will be in session most of the ot months, and after it adjourns, Mr. Hoover may make his projected trip to the West Indies and possibly Mexico. No plane have been made for a| summer White House next year, but the possibility is that the Presi-| dent will spend part of the vaca-| tion period at his home at Stanford ! University, California, thus giving | the Pacific Coast a summer White House for the first timé in history. | The fishing waters in “rglnia are at the source of the Rapidan River in Madison County in the Park area. The lease covers eigh- teen miles of the stream. March 30.—Fish-~ n acquired through his secretary, | A lodge will be built and $14,002 lexpended to construct a road con- inecting the fishing grounds with the Madison County Courthouse, a distance of nine miles. A report by Henry O'Malley, fed- eral fisheries commissioner, says there are feeding streams in Vir- ginie. which will form fine propaga- tion grounds where trout may reach |a size of five or six inches before ‘being turned into the main stream. The Virginia area is within a three hour ride from Washington by automobile and probably will be used almost exclusively for week- end fishing expeditions. The Maryland ground is twelve | miles from Frederick and probably will be used during the summer \when things are slack at the White House. This property known as Cacoctin Furnace and ... once formed a part of the estate of the first gov- iernor or Maryland, was bought by {Mr. Richey as his own personal | property. | Mr. Richey also obtained an eight | years’ lease on several miles of the | proposed Shenandoah Nntlonal{szream beyond the estate, rl'l:‘; a fishing range of more than tenm miles. in-law, Mrs. Ray . b