The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 29, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL XXXIV NO. 5139 MEMBER OF AS%CIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FOUR MISSING SPANISH FLIERS FOUND ALIVE ON OCEAN WOMAN ROBS TWO CLERKS OF BIG SUM Daring Hold—up Committed in Daylight in To- peka, Kansas TOPEKA, Kan, June 29.—A young woman, unassisted with a re- volver, believed to have been un-y loaded, cooly. held-up two employ- ees of the Security Benefit As- sociation late yesterday afternoon and escaped with approximately| $14,000. The woman forced A. J. Perlich, of Kansas City, to drive her six blocks to the scene of the rob- bery. | Escaping on foot, the woman fled { to an apartment building a block away where she discarded her hat, smock and other articles of cloth- ing, then ran out a back door and disappeared. The woman dropped her revolver near the building. It was found| empty. The woman is described as being a brunette, between 25 and 27 years of age, medium height. She stopped two clerks as they were returning from a bank with payroll money. She held a hand- kerchief over her face. “Drop that package or I'll blow your insides out,” she commanded, Jdrawing her revolver. The woman caught the money satchel as a clerk attempted to throw it into the street. Finding her car gone, she ran into the apartment building, chang- ed and discarded identifiable cloth- ing. ——— > —— 6 KILLED, 22 ARE INJURED INBUS CRASH YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, June 29.| —Six persons were seriously injured | and 22 others received severe cuts| and bruises in a crash of a bus, bound from Pittsburgh to Detroit.| The bus struck a culvert at the foot of a steep heel, turned over and toppled into a seven-foot ditch. The driver of the bus said an- other automobile blocked the de secent down the hill. Col. Lindbergh and Wife Entertained in St. Louis; On Flight | ST. LOUIS, June 29.—Entertain-| ed by the backers of his Paris| {light, Col. Charles A. Llndbergh\ and his wife today had a program of informal business and pleasure before them with the intention of taking off for Kansas City in a leisurely Western flight late this afternoon or tomorrow. Southern Cross Off On Another Hop to Goal, British Isles SINGAPORE, Straits Settlements, June 29. — The plane Southern Cross has left for a continuation of the flight from Sydney to Eng- land. The next stop is expected to be Singora, Siam, on the eastern coast of the Malay Peninsula. Sorrow, Anxiety Circle With Fliers Today ROOSEVELT FIELD, June 29. — There is sorrow and anxiety in three musketeers as they circled today over Long Island striving for an endurance record. Snatches of radio conver- sation between the plane and the field station indi- cated that Martin Jensen and his wife are in a con- spiracy to keep from Bill Ulrich, -the details of the tragedy which befell Miss Viola Gentry when her plane “The Answer” crashed in a fog during Friday morning, killing the pilot and Miss Gentry suffering internal in- juries and a broken arm. Ulrich knows his fiancee is injured but not how se- riously. Grimly, he keeps on with his grind. @000 00c0c000sc0000000000 0 | doing.’ | Wednesday night. F ord Pre;ers Employees Between 35 to 60 Years Of Age; Reasons Given PHILADELPHIA, June 29.—Hen- | ry Ford, in the July issue of the Ladies Home Journal, says he would prefer to have all his employees between 35 and 60 years of age” for |then we should have a stable ex-| perienced force. “We would not care how much over 60 years of age the men were so long as they could do their work. Henry Ford said he would not consider a working force made up entirely of young men. “It is ab- solutely necessary to get thorough work and have a solid framework by older and more experineced men who know exactly what they are — e THE KETCHIKAN HERE YESTERDAY FROM THE SOUTH Anscel C. Eckmann Com- pletes Eighth Trip from Seattle After Delny After being delayed by fog and adverse weather, the new Alaska- Washington Airways, Incorporated, plane Ketchikan, Pilot Anscel C. Eckmann, arrived here yesterday afterncon from the First City, where it stopped over Thursday night on the way north from Se- jattle. Ketchikan and Juneau Similar The Ketghikan, which is- a-Loek- heed-Vega plane with a Wasp mo- tor, similar in every respect to the |seaplane Juneau, was given a rous- ing welcome in its name city when it arrived Thursday afternoon after being storm bound in Lowe's Inlet Heavy rain and foz in the vicinity of Ketchikan decided Mr. Eckmann against con- tinuing to Juneau Thursday after- noon, and they remained there un- til yesterday afternoon arriving here at five o'clock, two hours after they |left Ketchikan. *Yesterday morning Mr. Eckmann made an emergency ‘trip to Water- fall for Eagle Buschman and re- -iturned with him to Ketchikan to |the bedside of a friend who was said to be dying. To Skagway Last Night The Ketchikan made a round trip ‘to Skagway last evening taking B. | F. Heintzleman, Asst. U. 8. District Forester, and Wellman Holbrook, Forest Examiner, who will remain there until Monday making an ap- praisal of the Home Power Com- pany. Miss Pearl Peterson made the round trip, which was complet- ed in two hours. At five o'clock this morning the Ketchikan left for the Taku dis- trict with I. Goldstein, W. V. Man- ville, O. C. McKechnie, Lloyd E. Bowler and Robert Simpson. They will look over the mining property recently discovered by Mr. Man- ville in the Taku River district ana return to Juneau about noon. This afternoon a trip to Sitka, Chichagof and Port Althorp is planned. Ketchikan Tomorrow Evening The Ketchikan will leave for Ket- chikan tomorrow evening and spend Monday in the Hyder district. Mr. Eckmann expects the seaplane Ju- neau, piloted by James R. Hen- nessey, to arrive in Ketchikan on |Wednesday from Seattle where it is undergoing an overhaul. He will take the Juneau after its arrival there and return with it, leaving the Ketchikan with Mr. Hennessey to be based at the First City. The seaplanes will be housed in the hangar, recently completed by the Morris Construction Company, which is anchored at the end of Keeney's float. When Mr. Eckmann arrived at Seattle on‘the seaplane Juneau last Friday, he was accompanied by two young live eagles from the Craig district, which he turned over to Woodland Park. — - MR. AND MRS. LORAIN TAKE PLANE TO CHICHAGOF S. H. Lorain, Engineer at the Chichagof Mines, Limited, and Mrs. |Lorain, who have been in Juneau for the last ten days, returned to the mine on the plane Ketchikan, IS ARRESTED ON CHARGES, | Washington Siate Super- visor of Banking Ar- rested, Two Counts | OLYMPIA, Wash, June 20.—H. C. Johnson, Washington State Su- pervisor of Banking, has been ar- rested on charges of accepting a | bribe, two separate counts. Peter Wallerich, President of the North Pacific Bank of South Ta- | coma, and Glen A. Reeves, Cash- |ler of the same bank, were accused ‘0! offering Johnson $3260 to re- | fuse applications for a charter of the other ‘South Tacoma bank. Johnson was released on $2,500 | Johnson said: “I don’t know what I can say, except the charges are | absolutely absurd and ridiculous. They are the outgrowth of the re- fusal of two charters for banks in | South Tacoma.” ~ BRIBE TAKING 'PROSPECTIVE FARM BOARD HEAD IS ACTIVE IN FARM RELIEF ll ()RI\ WASHINGTON, June 29— President Hoover has announc- ed Carl Williams, of Oklahoma; James - Costone of Kentucky, and C. B. Benman, of Missouri, as members of the Farm Board created by the new Farm Re- lief Act. ANl are prominently identified with farm organiza- tions. The President said he hoped to have acceptances of three or four more members from the Middle West by next week and believed the full board of cight members will be com- pleted by August 1. |20. — 1t President Hoover selects | carl williams to lead the Federal | Farm Board, its destinies will be | directed by & man whose work has | been synonymous with farm relief | movements 20 years. To this practical ,idealist, who was trained as a newspaper man and later pioneered many of the southwest's leading cooperative marketing movement:, is aseribed a dynamic desire for a"tion in agri- cultural affairs. Even a cursory check-up of his life history tends to prove it. Mr. Williams' multifarious execu- tive posts, both regional and na- /tional, have kept him in intimate |contact with the livestock grower, \the small farmer and the cotton |magnate. | Since he organized the Oklahoma Cotton Growers’ Association, the OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, June! South Tacoma has only one bank. first large scale cooperative cotton The complaint and charges al- marketmg business in America, his lege bribes were made through Jan- \SETV“:CS have been sought so fre-. uary and June 1927, through J. E.| Hansell, Tacoma Times. WATCGHMAN IS Service Station—In Critical Condition SPOKANE, Wash., June 29.—Rob- ert Sanders, watchman at County rock crusher at Rock Ford, southwest of here, was shot three times in the abdomen when he in- terrupted two unmasked men hold- ing up a service station. Sanders is in a critical condition. One of the hold-up men, who gave the name of Fay Carter, is held and the other, who is believed to have done the shooting, escaped in the darkness. The Sheriff has been informed that the pair first visited the rock crusher where machinery and tools had been stolen recently, but they were surprised by Sanders and made their escape. A few minutes later they held up the service station, a short distance away from the rock crush- er. The attendant “beat them to the draw” and covered them. Sand- ers came near and one of the men ldrew his pistol, and escaped. ROGERS SAILED SOUTH FRIDAY AFTERNOON ‘The Admiral Rogers, Capt. J. E. Kolseth, sailed for the south yes- terday afternoon at five o’clock with the following passengers from Juneau: For Petersburg — Gus Holcomb, Charles Edwards, J. Burge, John P. Van Orsdel, Mrs. T. F. Brown, T. F. Brown, H. L. Simonds, H. Roden, James Wickersham and H. L. Faulkner. For Wrangell — H. Fairley, Roy Pepe, John Costello, Andy Cezer. For Ketchikan—R. Parks, Mrs. J. O. Messer, Marguerite Weighman, J. W. Davidson, W. O. Scott, John Niznik, Melvin Larson, Paul E. Yarger, Bart E. Riley and Vera T. Stewart. For Seattle — Alexander Mayer, George E. Hayes and Mike Ang- eloff. e ANNUAL SERBIAN PICNIC AT SALMON CREEK YESTERDAY About 70 adults and 25 children, attended the annual picnic of the lodge at Salmon Creek yesterday. The picnic lasted from eight o'clock in the morning until nine oclock in the evening and a mnelous time was enjoyed by everyone there. Fishing, games and an abundant| banquet at which barbecued beef then editor of the South SHOT 3 TIMES Surprises Hold—up Men at: the | shot three times| members of the Serbian Flag Locze, | |quently that pecuniary gain long ago lost its appeal. Colorado was the scene of his | first efforts to aid the farmer. He quit a newspaper career that began in Michigan to edit a magazine jcalled “The Scientific Farmer.” It iwas influential in causing farmers of that State to call a dry farming/|$ | eongry In lfi) he became ill and doéors told him he had three months to live. After a successful operation and more than two years’ recupera- tion, however, he was in Tulsa to| {help stage another dry farming congress. Next he became editor of the Oklahoma Farmer-Stockman, |which is read by thousands of farmers. CARL WILLIAMS In six years after 1914 Mr. Wil- liams crganized more than 100 suc- cessful cooperative grain elevators and cotton gins in Oklahoma. When Oklahoma cotton growers formed a cooperative movement that later| i spread to 11 States, he was its President. He likewise headed the American Cotton Growers Exchange for three years after its formation in 1921. It was on this job that Mr. Wil- liams gained the reputation of be- ing the first farmer ever to ask Wall Street for a $50,000,000 loan— | and get it. He did that a few years| ago when the cotton co-ops needed money to finance the selling of $150,000,000 worth of cotton. Since then he has headed vari-| ous associations of crop and live- stock growers, guided the American, Agricultural Editors’ Association one term, served (s the Federal| Board of Meditation set up under | the Watson-Parker Railway Act, and has had active posts in na-| tional organizations devoted to solv- ing the problems of agriculture. An unprofitable farm in Porter County, Indiana, was his birth-| place. He is 51 years old, unmar- ried, and has no Chl]dl(‘n Lowman Has Not 'Resigned and Has Not Been Asked WASHINGTON, June 29. —Reports are circulated that Seymour Lowman, Assistant Secretary of Treasury, in charge of Prohibition, is about to retire from office. Both the White House and Treasury Department denied that Lowman has resigned or even has been asked to resign. Lowman said he had no intention of leaving his post. |Charles Boldt, Owner, with| HALF-MILLION DOLLAR YACHT ANCHORS HERE Wife and Friends Cruis- ing on Palatial Vessel The 570-ton, Diesel-powered, two- masted yacht Hilda, one of the finest vessels of its type to visit Southeast Alaska, anchored in Gas- s eserco0scooe . TODAY'S STOCK . QUOTATIONS CRCRC IR R I I Y ) o i NEW YORK, osune 29.—Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted to-' day at 5% ,American Smelting 109%, American Tobacco A 171, American Tobacco B 171, Bethle hem Steel 111%, Continental Mot. ors 16%, Cudahy 51%, Internation. al Paper A 287%, International Pap-' er B, no sale; Mathieson Alkali 56%, Standard Oil of California 72%, Stewart-Warner 73%, U. S.! '|Steel 190%, Atlantic Refining 72%. PR 7 G DEATH OF WALKER WAS FROM NATURAL CAUSES | | “Tiny” Walker, whose dead body | was discovered on a highway near;x Ketchikan early Friday morning, came to his death from heart fail- ure, according to the verdict of a coroner’s jury, sitting in Judge Ar-| 1 nold’s court there yesterday after-| noon. Foul play had been sus-' pected by Federal officers, but the autopsy revealed that he died from natural causes. B OFFICERS SEIZE HOME BREW, MAKE AN ARREST)| C. A. Woodard was arrested Fri-| day by Deputy U. 8. Marshal Wal- |ter F. Sibley and Prohibition Agent | Boyes and a quantity of home brew | | beer was seized. Charges of man- {ufacture and possession of intoxi- cating liquor were filed against » Boldt, a retired capitalist of Santa |Barbara, Cal,, who, with Mrs. Bo]dtlol Pisherios for ' Junsau, 'C. B. Flynn, former master of the| \ty-seven traffic law violations in- tineau Channel yesterday afternoon and will stay here for one or two days, before continuing its cruis;e,h The yacht is owned by Charles | {and a party of five friends, is mak-, mg a leisurely cruise in Southeast Alaska waters. The Hilda is commanded by Capt. | freighter Manhattan Island, which Capt. Frank Hawks Breaks Own Record, From West to East ROOSEVELT, N. Y., June 29 Capt. Frank Hawks, who left Los Angeles, Cal., at 3:37:47 o'clock yes: terday morning, broke his own velt Field to Los A les record for a nonstop transconti-| hours, 10 minutes and 28 nental flight west to east arriving|on Thursday. here at 1:16 o'clock this morning,| He took off from Los Angeles castern standard daylight saving | yesterday morning and headed into time. | a dense fog. . At that time he said As Hawks brought his plane to|he was going to give the plane all the fuselage but, Hawks was not hurt Capt. Hawks flew from -|en and ripped, in 19 seconds | earth, it taxied and struck a fence |she had and planned to fly all the surrounding the Meadowbrook Pol Club., Its landing gem’ vay at top speed of 187 miles an as brok- | hour, HOPPING SIERRAS THEIR l)AlL) TA Roose- |via the Azores, | feet. JReno-San Francisco {made at night before the route was Burr Winslow (left) and Claire Vance, mail pilots, daily fly over the Sierra Mountains which in some places reach an altitude of 12,000 RENO, Nev.,, June 29.—Hopping the lofty Sierra mountains on the leg of the trans-continental air mail route is the daily task of Burk Winslow and Claire Vance, plists of that divi- sion since its opening. ‘The Slerras attain an altitude of 12,000 feet where the mail line cuts across them. Vance has jumped the frowning crags 1,800 times with mail and express and Winslow al- most thai many times. Neither has had an accident, al- though many of their flights were Plans Long Flight lighted. Often, too, they have fought squally weather high above the mountains, Winslow and Vancé often have flown together. They are veterans of the Boeing system. Associated Press Photo Edith Foltz, Portland, Ore., avia- | trix is preparing to try to beat Elnnor Smith's endurance flylna\ HERE SHORTLY & S i : | iCommlssioner of Fisheries‘NIGHT FI.YING Is Scheduled to Leave Seattle Today PROMISES BIG THING, FUTURE, and to, WASHINGTON, June 2¢. — The spend the remainder of the com-|time is near, in the belief of | mercial fishing season in Alaska.|Major Clarence Young, Director of He will stop at Ketchikan enroute | | Aeronautics of the Department of | | here, attending a meeting there to Commerce, when over night air-| discuss fisheries problems and hear Plane trips will be taken with as| Henry O'Malley, Federa: Com- missioner of Fisheries, was schedul- ed to have left Seattle today on; |the Brant, flagship of the Bureaul operates in the intercoastal trade, and carries a complement of 21| officers and men. The vessel wu* built in the Todd Yards in New» York two years ago and cost more; than $500,000. It is 171 feet long,| 27% feet beam and 13% feet in \depth. The yacht has accommoda- tions for thirty-five persons. Many Arrests Made Among Members of Diplomatic Corps! WASHINGTON, June 29.—Thir- |cluding that of driving while drunk | have been recorded against mem- bers of the Diplomatic Corps in| ,the last 13 years. A list of names has been pre-| sented in a report to the Senate| in response to a resolution of Sen- ator Caraway that 10 persons had | been halted for various offenses this year and 13 last year as com- pared with three or four each the;| preceding years and only one lnl 1917, il KING SALMON BROUGHT IN The Seaketch brought in a load | \0’CONNOR LEAVES TO trollers on the Fall close season af- |Much unconcern as now attends a| fecting their operations. inight ride in a Pullman car. For several years Commissioner| ~FeoPle were afraid of trains O'Malley has spent most of eflch‘when they first started but their |summer in Alaska, making his fear gradually wore away when/ | headquarters in this city. He spends ::;e "Klm"d p‘;"‘“’d fmcrm?gy- ‘Uk!" most of his time in the field, study- | >c_the people were afraid of au- ing fisheries operations, salmon tomobiles when they first were| runs, conditions affecting spawn- Ige'.nng a foothold but fear was, ing 'grounds ete., and gathermg,d”pe”ed as they proved a success. | >|The same thing will prove true| data on which to base regulations gy, airplanes. Many persons are for succeeding years, |still afraid to take a flight The Brant should arrive in Ket- they will get over this,” ;m g‘:f chikan late next Tuesday and may |yector Young. reach here before the end of the| young confident flying will week. |become as safe as other forms of Itransportation. - [ is PATROL FISH TRAPS| risu smiepep sourn | 1 Capt. M. J. O'Connor, Asslsl.mt: Eighty-one boxes of fresh halibut Agent of the Bureau of Fisheries, and salmon were shipped south on left here today for the regular|the Admiral Rogers yesterday after- week-end fish trap patrol, cmermg\noon from the various fish com- Iey Strait areas. He will return.pamefl represented ‘at the Juneau Cold Storage Company, in addi- nday or early Monday morn- % i:?s" o ¥ A tion to 41 tierces of mild cured Capt. O'Connor is making the salmon which was sent south. \trip on the Yukon, chartered by b g ST the bureau while the Widgeon is out. of commission. Greg' Man- gan, formerly engineer of the lat- UNDERGOES OPERATION Miss Esther Kaser, daughter of Pilot Anscel Eckmann, this after-|was the piece de resistance, occu- noon. The plane left Juneau for{pied the day, with plenty of ice Ohh:hlcol and Port Althorp at 1:15,cream, sandwichec and soda for, nhe children. | Pl |him. His hearing was set to be|of king salmon for the New Eng- {neld Monday before Judge Frankiland Pish Company this morning, A. Boyle in the United States Com- jand the Anna H. Capt. Martin | missioner’s Court. Holst, brought in a load of salmon. ter vessel, has been promoted to command of the Yukon, filling the vacancy left by the resignation of Capt. Carl Christianson. Dr. and Mrs. E. H. Kaser, under- went an operation for the removal of her appendix at the St. Ann's Hospital this morning. MAJOR FRANCO, 3 COMPANIONS ARE PICKED UP Aviators Are Found, Res- cued by British Craft —Plane Recovered {GLAD DEMONSTRATION TAKES PLACE, MADRID : Men Missing for Over Week When Started Flight for New York City MADRID, June 29.—Major |Ramon Franco and three com- panions, who started a trans- Atlantic flight to Amerieca more than one week ago, are enroute to Gibraltar aboard the Brit- ish airplane carrier Eagle. The four aviators were snatched from the water nearly 100 miles outheast of the Island of Santa Maria. The four airmen are re- ported as being “all well.” Even the plane, a huge two- {motored Dornierwal was sal- vaged, slightly damaged. The first news of the rescue i given out at the Spanish jof State which announced had been received from |from the Spanish Consul, as follows: Picked Up Alive “Franco and companions. up alive Comi Thi was later . by, the. Britih Adwh sy | don, whiCh received a message from the Eagle. The time cf the rescue was not given but is believed to have been during last night or early today, as it is presumed that !the Commander of the Eagle wire- lessed as soon as the rescue was affected. Far from Reported Scene The position where the airmen were found indicated the aviators had either flown or drifted a con- siderable distance since last defin- itely reported, 170 miles southwest of Santa Maria, last Saturday by the British freighter Glendon. A street demonstration of joy in Madrid began as soon as the word {of the rescue of the airmen was posted and notwithstanding a rain, crowds marched through the streets icheering and shouting, “Vico Fran- do TERHUNE TO DEPART MONDAY TO INSPECT INTERIOR DISTRICTS H. W. Terhune, Executive Officer of the Aalska Game Commission, will leave Monday morning on the patrol boat Sea Otter for Skagway enroute to the interior on a long inspection trip. He will be absent nve or six weeks, planning to re- turn not later than August 14. Mr. Terhune will go by the way of Whitehorse, Dawson and Eagle. {He will go down the Yukon River to Fort Yukon and then return to Circle. From there he will take an automobile to Fairbanks and by rail to Nenana. From Nenana he will go by boat to Russian Mission on the lower Yukon, across the portage to the Kuskokwim. He will be met at the portage by Warden Oddie Hallson and with him go up river to McGrath, fly- |ing from there to Fairbanks. ‘The purpose of the trip is to in- spect conditions affecting game and fur-bearing animals in interior Alaska. He will visit many of |the more important areas. Former Rebel Leader Sandino Is in Mexico; Appears Haggard,W orn VERA CRUZ, Mexico, June 29.— Accompanied by 25 armed men, Augustino Sandino, former Ni- caraguan insurgent leader, is en- route to exile at Merida, Yucatan. He has been given the Govern- ment’s permission to reside in Mex- ico, however. Sandino appeared haggard and worn from his ex- periences. He said, in an inter- view, that “right' now the Amer- ican Imperialists are provoking trouble between Honduras, Salva- dor and Cuatemala, striving to acquire nearby islands for estab- lishment of a naval base." s