The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 16, 1929, Page 1

THE _DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIIL, NO. 5075. CREW OF JUNEAU TELLS GF TRIP; ALL ARE MODEST Here for bcveral Days to Study and Work on Flying Preparations h its of the Must a plane from Seattle i< made yesterday by the Jur i, came out today plane named Juneau and letters on the side of Yo sea- wote this. '‘more the seaplane mace op flight from Los Angele: hours and with nonstop flight to Juneau frum in 7% hours, makes 1¥ for the double flight. Whar ; Los Angeles the plane wat type of ship, and the wheel: d by pontoons at Se- a nons to Seattle in 7% the Seattle hour ¢ the Juneau hop. s the crew of the sea- dressing ship after the and also after a rest they told the of the air adventure ous!y praising theix ship and giving credit for the firSt suc- top flight to each of Pilot Anscel C ann also told of the real pur- of the flight and details of comp: which fully expect; r the air service in Alaska, and from the States to Alaska. Period of Pioneering o pilot spid: “Like any new g the Seattle to Alaska must go through a per- pioneering and studying of s before it is to become an accepted success.” He added "\ (N mal\ ng this flight to the Ter- itors out for our company tc that. werk with. the.view. of, entering the field and with of maintaining a sched- ce.¥ Officials of tHe Washington- s Company feel thfl! nd i« ying end a pro- \mlure, according to pilot He went on explaining ir mail part of the serv- more up to the people af- cted than to any company enter- the field. Alaska Must Show 'Em “When these people show the proper authorities that they want air mail to the extent that the 1 officiagls can see that the of an air mail contract will e tifiable, then and not beforc that time, will the Territory of Alaska have its air mail service from the States, for there will be concerns willing to bid for the mai .md the Washington Alaska Air- s company will more than likely be one of the first,” said Mr. Eck- mann, Flying Since War Mr. Eckmann has been {lying since the war. Entering the field when it was hazardous at its best and always considered the height of daring, Jie soon qualified for a pilot’s license and shortly after, at he time when competent men were few, he started instructing pilocts at the Army flying school at March field, near Los Angeles. Pilot Eckmann has worked for commercial companies, flying mail and passenger routes in the mid- west and just recently ended three years of flying on the Seattle to Victoria air mail route. Mr. Eck- mann is now a commissioned flier in the naval reserve. When the Washington Alaska Airways company was organized last October Mr. Eckmann was the first pilot to be engaged by the new concern. He, like his shipmates of the Juneau, is a fully qualified and licensed flier in all its branch- es. Today, when being interviewed, the pilot was reticient about telling personal details. He was more for praising his navigator, Robert Ellis, and his mechanic, Jack Hal- Joran, for their skilled work in navigating the craft and attending technical details, as he piloted the ship northward. Ellis Also Medest Navigator Robert Ellis, like his chief, was not prone to talk of his perscnal air exploits. He said that the trip just ended showed him that no great problems con- fronted the crew of a plane in suc-lfrom 7,000 in 1914 to 40,000 in shipment cessfully navieating the course north or south. He also stated that the proper equipment would, of coursc, have to be used. This he explained, meant planes of a large carrying capacity, reliable power plants and prior study and work involving all the details that (Continued on Page Two) " JUNEAU, ALASKA TUESDAY APRIL 16 1929 MEMBER OF ASSOCKAI'ED PRFjb PRK'[-. TEN CF)UE First Pictures of Lindy’s Sister ,W—““_ It was only recently rev that the Flying Colonel had a sister. hown above with her cl.xh]rgn is Lindy’s half-sister | @ Schacht, g in corr parative obscu Christie and is liv She is a child by the flyer's fat} Alat ernational ‘ed by tlie reticent Lindbergh family | Mrs. Eva Lindbergh y at Red Lake Fal rst marriage. ;usrul) 1ls, Mina. e HOOVER RLTAIMS WOMAN WHO CAME ’I() U.. 8. /LS l\l’llI WASHINGTON, Mary Andercon, ountry from Sweden at-the age f 16 with no knowl: 2 of the English lan has baen re- quested by President Hoover to TR ds tead jof the “women's sureau of the Department of La- sor. She is one of the few women in overnment service who hoid their ositions by direct presidential ap- »ointment. ! Having her way up; workea hrough the hardest kind of toil, a! tranger in a strange land, she now | s recognized as a leading author- ty on the subject of women in- lustrial employmy Ambition her to America, of | shich she had heard much, from | he sparkling, snowy slopes of her native land. Domestic service eemed the only opportunity for one who did not speak our langu- age. The Viking spirit of the girl re- selled against the hot hours over he kitchen stove, the lonely ones | n her drab room. She got a fac- ory job stitching ebellion drove her from that after 1 week. Then for 18 years she worked in hoe factories in and around Chi- rago. She attended the conclaves >f the labor union workers and was nade union organizer among the vomen in her trade. She was so men's trousers. | OFFICIAL | MARY AND ERSON successful that elected to the executive committee ion, a place. When the w son’s call from Washington to act in an; advisory capacity with the women in industrial service of the depart- ment of labor. When that service w organized by act of Co'wress in 1920, as the women’s bureau, Mary Anderson received the ap- pointment as director. came Miss Ander- | (NOME MAN 1 MARRIED; OFF ON HONEYMOON SEATTLE, April 16—Granville Jackson, of Nome, and Miss Lora Beverly Thornhill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Thornhill, were married here yesterday afternoon. Walter C. Jackson was best man| and Mrs. C. W. Welch, of Nome,: assisted. A reception was held at the home of the bride's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson left for a motor trip to the South and will go to Nome by way of Fair- »anks, then by plane. The newly weds will make Nome their future home. B 40,000 Millionaires In U. S. Excite Berlin. BERLIN, April 16—Berlin has been amazed by figures from the Statistical Society of America show- ing that the number of million- aires in the United States had risen 1928, Newspapers printed the item under captions like “America, you| are in better luck” and “Happy America.” Thé American colony in Berlin is none too pleased at such pub- licity which has a tendency to raise prices for anyone with an' American passport. BEN EIELSON FORGED DOWN IN AIRPLANE ! CHICAGO, son, Arctic flie other persons ition, were f Michigar April 16.—BeBn Eiel-} and a number of prominent in avia- d down on Lake n in their plane yesterday rnoon and after being buffeted about in the choppy waters for about an hour, were towed to shore by Coast Guardsmen. After minor mechanical adjustments the plane was flown to an airport.| None aboard the plane was injured. B \Fur Auction Is Held At Hiamna;Shipment s Valued at $30,000 | SEWARD, Alaska, April 16— | Thirty thousand dollars worth of furs were purchased at the iliam- na fur sale conducted by Seversen and Bailey. The furs arrived here 'for 1. Koslosky, fur buyer. is comprised largely of - red fox and other fox, mink, ermine land land otter are included. Seversen and Bailey announced they will hold an auction in Sew- la.rd next year. e~ In Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt, the number of, motor vehicles has risen from 19,000 in 1924 to 55,995 iin 1928. GRANT ability was recognized by a| The | SSUVIETS ARE - UNDER GUARD GENEVA MEET Detectives Sun‘ound Rus- sians Attending Disarm- ament Conference GENEVA, April 16.—Extreme pre- caution will be taken by the Swiss to sce that no harm befalls Maxim Litinoff, Soviet Vice-Commissar of Foreign Affairs who is attending the Preparatory Commission the Disarmament Conference. A large coterie of detecti have been assigned to guard him and his ! Soviet. ascociates, The detectives remain with the Soviet officials al- most constantly in fear that at-! tempts will be made against them. Limitaticns in the attendance at; the Conference have been made § and only cards are iss to the wives and daughters of those par- ticipating. German Expert Says Reparations !Are Too High PARIS, April 16.—Hjalmar German Repara- 'e Expert, told the Allied ® Reparations Commission to- |e day that the annuities pro- posed last Saturday exceeded Germany’'s capacity to pay and thus began a long per- icd of real bargaining which |® is expected to result in whit- e tling down of the proposed ® © payments. . U S. GUNBOAT - - HIT BY FIRE, - MACHINE GUNS One American Killed, An-' other Wounded in Chinese Strife SHANGHAI April 16—One Amer- ican is dead, an American gunboat way through Shanghai result of Chinese flared without respect to foreign life. According to belief, Herbert Smith, Seventh Day Adventist, of | | Zionville, Indiana, is the dead man. | A man named Marshall, working ,hls way around the world, was !wounded in the hand. | Details are lacking. The gunboat {was raked with machine gun fire, \as it proceeded up the Yangtse {River. Those firing on the gun- |boat has not been determined. | Chinese are reported to have fired | 'on the British gunboat Tern. — e+ . PLd {Shimmying \Machine Tests Welded Steel PITTSBURGH, Penn, April 16. |—a process of tiring out steel un-) til it breaks has been devised here, | | welding. The apparatus, made by Dr. J. M. Lessells, Westinghouse research engineer, bends a steel shaft 20| times a second until it breaks. It irecords the number of shimmies break occurs. By its tests, stand- K |ards have been established for | comparing virgin steel with the welded article. Virgin steel, Dr. Lessells finds, tends to weary after long strain. A bar that stands a load tension of | 60,000 pounds a square inch when| inew, may break finally under a |load of but 25000. An interesting| ldszcovery is that if the bars tested itless endurance. ! e ! ALASKAN SNOW COVER twere on the ground at sev: askan stations Monday April 15: Point Barrow, 30 inches; inches. — e, ! Czecho-Slovakia goes dry the day | preceding an election and remains so until two hours after the de- lchrluou of the poll. of | strife which | ito test the structural safety of| | stand up under 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 bendings, they have apparently lim- ! Gorst Plane \To Hop Next For North |® SEATTLE, April 16.—The ® projected start of the Gorst ® Air Transport amphibian | ® plane for Alaska, on an easy | ® stage flight to Juneau, was ® postponed today because of ® unfavorable weather. The plane will leave as soon as ® weather permits and fly ° ng the inside passage. ° . ° . ° ° ° . ° . ° ° . RESULT RAID N BLIND PIG One Denuty Shenff Dles from Wounds—Blind | Pig Man Also Dies | | | | i | : MONROE, Mich, April 16—A |Deputy Sheriff and an alleged \bhn(! pig operator died last night jas the result of a liquor raid Sat- jurday. The dead are Deputy Sheriff Ed- ward Kinsey and Walter Hoffman, accused of selling liquor. end another deputy went shack which was reported as | a place where Hoffman was {selling liquor. | Hoffman met the officers at the |door and began firing. It is said |the officers sfruggled with him and | |Kinsey had received a shot in the | breast. Deputy Sheriff Wright received a flesh wound in the arm. Quantities of liquor and several ‘]oa"l d firesarms were found in the i shack. | clubbed him into submission after | | | Illness May Halt Divorce Strérp; HOOVER URGES FARM RELIEF; OTHER LEGISLATION MES SACE CIVEN CONGRESS TODAY - ON MANY ISSUES Federal Farm Board Is Recommended for Ag- ricultural Ills | EXPLANATION GIVEN ON TARIFF REVISION :‘President Goes Fully Into Subjects with Brevity and Directness WASHINGTON, April 16—Piesi- |dent Herbert Hoover, in a message 'of unusual brevity and directness, today recommended to Congress the creation of a Federal Farm Board with authority and resources to remedy recurring causes of de- pression in the agricultural | dustry. | Thoroughly broken by the charges which her husband, John Ware, 2nd, inset, millionaire lumber king of Augusta, Me, bringing against her, Mrs. Helene Milc dred Ware, above, ill to face the court where the divorce Court Judge Barnes has appointed a doctor to examine her for is 18 !no is being heard. Supreme | the court, which opens next week, to determine her ability to attend. (Interaations | - ‘ooo.ooooooo}oo TODAY’S STOCK . QUOTATIONS . -no-ocooooao-o‘ NEW YORK, April 16— Alaska J\'neau mine stock is quoted today | Amcrican Smelting 191%, Chesnpe’\ke Corporation 85%, Cud- lahy 54%, General Motors 84%, |Gold Dust 64, Mack Trucks 103%, | Missouri 79’4, National Power and |Light 43, Packard Motors 127%, {Postum 69%, Texas Corporation 66, | Bethlehem Steel 110%, Continental Motors 19%, Mathieson Alkali 188, Goodyear 132, International Paper ——— bore scare of machine gun fire A 30%, International Paper B 13, e was finally and another American made his 'Independent Gas and Ol 35, Stand- territory | of the Boet and Shoe Makers’ un- with a bullet in his hand as the-art-Warner, no sale. the first woman to hold such: ard Oil of California 79, Stew- JURY STILL OUT | IN DONALD CASE | The case of Jim Donald, charged | with violation of the prohibition laws, went to the jury yesterday- ‘.nfu:rnoon at 3 o'clock, and at noon | |today no decision had been reach- 'ed. George Folta handled the case for the Government and Grover C. Winn was attorney for the defense. | Those on the jury are: Thomas |Dull, Ed. Crowe, T. Hagerup, Mrs. | |D. Thomas, E. F. Cashel, \(‘albmlth Knut B. Anderson, Mrs. | and Helen Thompson. sary to draw an extra venire of jurors in order to get a jury for the case of Roy Thomas, charged {laws. Mr. Thomas was arrested last summer and the case trial has been {postponed several times. Those drawn on the extra venire are: Abel Anderson, Olgat Ander-| son, W. C. Barron, John Connor, | C. H. Helgesen, Mrs. E. J. Kirschof- | and stops automatically when me‘fer- D. L. MacKinnon, Mrs. Lenfl‘ Marshall, Mrs. Mildred Martin, |J. E. Masser, James Morrison, John |Murphy, H. M. Porter, Stanley ,‘Spumard named Bonillo. \J K. Kearney, John T. Welch, J.| ¥ 8 |E. O. Fields, Mrs. Martin Evans.! | This morning it was found neces- | with violation of the prohibition, AMERICAN PARIS, An tion of the New Yo:k Herald-T MAN AND WOMAN UNDER ARREST ON SPANISH FRONTIFR’ bune prints a story from Hendaye, Frontier, of Wash Spanish Wright, m C., D. Commission at the Seville Exposi- tiontion, have been ment, voman ish Gov | The is employez of the American and an American woman, arrested at Madrid, arged with criticizing the Span- married to a The cou- ple is said to have made audible (numsm in a cafe in Cranada in 'a manner which the Gov rnment handled student demonstrations in | Madrid and Barcelona. The American Emba {sulate have taken steps to obtain| the release of the two. e BROWN BEAR Prominent Men ninsula and Kodiak Isl 1 ‘The party includes comprising hunters. nd. 24 The and Cor T0 BE HUNTED BY BIG PARTY, Large predlnon LCEIVCS er, in the vicinity of Mendenhall' Seward This Month— Newsreel e R Nommatwm Are Made by Hoover . WASHINGTON, April 16. e ® President Hoover has trans- ® mitted to the Senate several e | | ® score of nominations in- (e cluding Charles G. Dawes {® to be Ambassador to Great !® Britain; Charles Rhoads, e wealthy Philadelphia banker, e/ e for Commissioner of Indian e ® Affairs, and Joseph M. Dix- e| ® on, of Montana, to be First e ® Assistant Secretary of the e/ @ Interior. . ° Within a few minutes after o |® Dawes’ nomination was e le transmitted the Senate made ® | e confirmation without roll e |® call. Dixon was also approv- ! {® ed and the other was re- e |® ferred to the usual commit- e I tee. . 0000 0v00000 00 |STEWART MAnES SETS FOR WOLVES NEAR MENDENHALL Several trap sets for wolves were .mnde Sunday by R. K. Stewart, | Territory Predatory Animal Hunt- Glacier. Some time ago Mr. Stew- art found wolf signs near the glac- iAer ice and Sunday, accompanied iby J. P. Kronhiem, went on a hike 'and made the sets. Most of the | Norwicka, Elizabeth Steinbeck, Mrs.|nel of big game huntsmen 'ncmd" ,Elx Tanner, E. F. Watkins, |H. W. Terhune, Mrs. J. T. Welsh, and Thomas E. Willis. —————— |ELKS AND FIREMEN WILL" ACCOMPANY SCOTT'S BODY The body of D. E. Scott, who died here last Baturday morning, will| the l be accompanied tonight to |Mr. Scott belonged. localities. |C. B. Goddard and M. L. Oklahoma; |fauver, of Philadelphia; O. O. Al- ‘lcn of California; William H, |ler, of Cleveland, and Robert Frot} TO ALEUTIAN TONIGHT ngham, of New Yorks The latter 'is an author and lecturer end has made two previous trips north. The der the personal superv e will be exhibited by Mrs, |1hmv prominent in their respective Among the hunters are Carl, of Mr. and Mrs. S. N. Kee- | hunt will be conducted un- ion of steamer Aleutian, on which 1t is to jthe Alaska Guides Corporation. The following amounts of Snow be shipped south, by members of | eral AI-‘Lhe Juneau Fire Department and | evening, ' of the Elks’ Lodge, to both of which 'ome A small model of an American the Members of pichigan State Normal College at Fort Yukon, 14 inches; Nome, 32 the organizations will gather at the |the meeting of the World Feder |{C. W .Carter Mortuary when the tion of Education in Geneva, Switz- |steamer Aleutian whistles in the | ,channel, and a short prayer will be given by the Rev! H. A. Allen - | before they take the body to the lbont 3 & next July. .- erland, | Ignaz Moscicki, President of th lrnhsh Republic, is an enthusiast r.-dlo fan. | SEWARD, Alaska, April 16—On &3 bgel ke | April 27 there will be one of theiSi6DS seen were made by adult : %% .~ ‘animals and gave evidence that largest brown bear expeditions ever several of the datory hédats an |to leave Seward. The members of poVgie O HF ,“"‘ s v Ithe expedition will depart on the . o, iciity. steamer Starr for thé Alaska Pe-| | PARIS, France, April 16.—France, {importing seven movies for every one she produces, fes be among the domin tin films because a Frenchman, Lu- miere, invented the first flickering picture. American supremacy in the in- {dustry is so obvious that it is un- |questioned but there is feverish search bere for a method that will free France from almost absolute dependence on foreign films. Ad- mitedly, the way has not yet been found. Some of those who fiscuss the ,ub}ea in technical magazines, ask !picture men why they dont fol- low America's lead, risking money to make good pictures, presenting them in good houses and adver- Tariff Commission, also com- pletion of legislation initiated last « session; suspension of the National | Origins clause of the Immigration | Act; taking of the 1930 census and reapportionment of Congressional | representation. | Broad Powers | while proposing broad powers for | the Federal Farm Board, the Chief |Executive suggested no amount of | the revolving fund to be furnished ihy the Treasury, and proposed | safeguards for instrumentalities and |activities created under the Act. { No Tax Imposed | “There should be no fee or tax imposed on the farmer,” the Presi- dent said, adding that Government s be frnished gy spg‘;lc:{lgx?d of ‘the farnrér ;and controlled agencies, then oniy iwhen other services of credit are Inct available at reasonable rates. Tariff Revision Revision of the tariff rates, the President declared, will test wheth- ‘er there has been a substantial 'ilnckenlng of activity of industry !in past years and 2 consegeunce ;dccreasc of employment because of jcompetition in products of that {industry. He emphasized that no |discrimination against any foreign industry was involved and told & Congress that in determining changes in the tariffs, it must con- sider the interests of the country peL R whole. | Reorganization Proposing reorganization of the ® |Tariff Commission, the President ;uld it should be placed on a basis |of higher salaries in order that it may command men of the broadest |attainments. He asserted that sev- jen years experienced proved the |principle of a flexible tariff to be practicable, but the basis upon {which the Commission makes rec- |ommendations to the President for administrative changes in rates and duties should be more automatic rmd comprehensive. Special Mandate Declaring the Government had a special mandate in the recent elec- Ition not only to develop. waterways, 'revise agricultural and tariff laws, Ibut also to extend systematic relief 1in other directions, President Hoov- er said: “Multiplicity causes agricultural depression and can only be met by the creation of a greater in- trumentality clothed with suffi- cient authority and resources to assist the farmer to meet the prob- lems each upon their own merits, Out of Polities “The creation of such an agency would at once transfer the ques- | (Commued on Page Seven) FRENCH MOVIE YOKE IRKS FRENCH PRIDE tising their wares. It is observed that only seven per cent of French people go to the movies while Americans are credited with being eighty per cent picture fans. France last year made only 94 i pictures and brought abroad 681, more than three fourths of them from the United States. Germany contributed 122 films and was America’s only serious competitor. America is described as having 25 times as much money invested in movies as has France, employing forty times as many people, and getting at the movie box ‘office 25 times as much money in six times as, many theatres. It is con- cluded that a few people do a lot of shouting about the movie busi- ness here. in- He also urged limited tariff re- | vision to include reorganization of ! ; the