The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 1, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL XXXlV NO 5140 JUNEAU ALASKA MONDAY JUL\ I |9Z9 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS DELEGATE TO CONVENTION IS FOUND MURDERED, AUTO SURPLUS FOR GOVERNMENT, FISCAL YEAR Treasu ryfi Over One Hundred Eighty-five Mil- lion Dollars on Hand PROSPERITY GIVEN AS REASON FOR SUM Income Tax Returns Increase of Many lion Dollars al- WASHINGTON, July 1. — The United States Government finished the fiscal year of 1929 last night with a surplus of $185,000,000. The public debt has been cut to| $16,931,000,000, the lowest since the World War. Secretary of Treasury Mellon said the surplus is attributable to the nation’s widespread prosperity. The year’s receipts were $4,033,- 000,000 and expenditures $3,848,- 000,000. The receipts are $9,000,000 less than collected last year and expenditures increased $204,000,000 over the fiscal year of 1928. he income tax receipts gain, the Treasurer said, is dne to gen- eral prosperity. The total income ax collections went t0$2,033,000,- 000, a gain over 1928 of $156,000,000. BREUER HEADS DEPARTMENT OF EQUCATION NOW New Commissioner Oath Today—Plans No Radical Policy Changes L. W. Breuer, Alaska’s second Commissioner of Education in 12 years, took over the duties of that tment this morning, the oath administered by Judge Frank A. Boyle. He succeeds L. D. Hen- derson, head of the department since 1917. “I expect to conduct this office to the greatest benefit of the child- ren of the Territory that physical conditions and finances will al- low,” Commissioner Breuer said. H¢ added that there would be no radi- cal changes, at least for the present, from the polici established and followed by Commissioner Hen- derson. Commissioner Breuer will spend most of the next few months in his headquarters here, studying the school system thoroughly, familiar- izing himself with its ramifications as far is possible from the of- fice end. Late this summer or early in the Fall he will visit all of the more important schools in Southeast Alaska. Mrs. Breuer, who is at present visiting relatives at Bellingham, will come to Ju- neau late next month. being as FREAK FIRE IN ROOF ON MAIN ST. GARAGE | A freak fire in a garage on Main Street between Front and Second streets, had the Firemen puzzled| for a few minutes this morning. Smoke issuing from the rear of the building at the roof corner led to its discovery. h revealed a smoldering , the fire being confined to a small spot on top of the wood di- rectly beneath a corrugated iron roof. Investigation showed that elec current wires crossing the building rested on the metal roof | and had shorted through it. The/ damage was nominal. -, —— TWO ARRESTS ARE MADE BY KETCHIKAN OFFICERS| Sarah Shields Pitt, Ketchikan,) was arested there last week by\ Deputy Marshal C. J. Sullivan, on! a charge of violating the Alaska | Bone Dry Law. She was sen- tenced by Judge Arnold to 30 days| imprisonment in the Ketchikan| Federal jail. i A Mrs. Matheson was also arrest- ed at Ketchikan Sunday by Deputy | W. H. Caswell. She is said to be; violently insane and it was neces-|e sary to employ a special matron to guard her, and prevent her from inflicting injuries on herself. s ENDEA VOR MEETING (ul LGdbergh |Takes First Ride WILL HEAR BOR AH’lu Glider Romance Broken Associated Press Phott young Men's Christian association Grace Bryan Hargreavea Dr. A. E. Cory of North Carolina, daughter of William J. Bryan, hat ;, g Mrs. separated from her husband, Rich ard Hargreaves, southern Califor nia financier. J0S. STEWART PASSES AWAY *:--* INWASHINGTON Reputed to Have Known More About P. O. Dept. than Any Other Man WASHINGTON Stewart, Executive Postmaster General Walter F. Brown and ecial Assistant to Attorney General Willlam D. Mit- chell, died at his home here today after a long illness. He was 70 years of age and had spent 47 years in Post_Office Dgpart- Tment, 1o Tiimber”of years being in charge of all statistical work and in charge of the supervision legal affairs. Mr. Stewart is reputed to have known more about the Post Office Department than any other man and ranked as the important ad- visor of many Postmaster Generals. Mr. Stewart took an important part in the ereation of the parcel vost and railway mail syslrms - e BOBBY JONES STILL CHAMP MAMORO NECK, N. Y., July 1. —Bobby Jones has ground out his third open championship for the United States with Al Espionosa, his victim. Jones crushed his rival in a smashing margin of 23 strokes in a 36-hold play-off on Sunday. - July 1—Joseph Secretary to FROM John T. Spickett, pioneer and well known entertainment man of Juneau, and former owner of the Palace Theatre, returned on the Princess Alice Saturday from the South, where he had been for sev- eral months. Mr. Spickett who recently underwent a serious opera- tion in Los Angeles, and returned north from that place by steamer, is looking fine and said he was glad to be back in Juneau once more. He was preceeded home a month ago by Mrs. Spickett, who accompanied him south. R A AR SOUTH TO BE HOUSE GUESTS MRS. CHARLES GOLDSTEIN AIrs. J. S. Adler, of San Francis- (co, a cousin of Mrs. Charles Gold- stein, and Mrs. J. Danzinger, also of San Francisco, arrived on the were kings and sockeyes, be the mainder being humpies. house guests of Mrs. Goldstein for the first time in his own experi Princess Alice and will about a week. Charles F. Solomon, who is making the Alaskan trip have been taken in the inlet. with his aunt, Mrs. Adler, is staymg at the Gastineau hotel. e sececosscovoeoe . . . . . ° . GIRLS MUST TAKE THEIR OWN EGGS, SPOON FOR CONTEST The Fourth of July Com- mittee today announced that all girls participating in the Fourth of July contest of carrying an egg on a spoon, must take with them their own eggs and spoon for the race. jee 00000000000 il | | | | | | of |bring with him a cook and other { York ' Mabel | made \tenders were covering the traps to- | day. {up to the present time, slightly bet- . KANSAS CITY, July 1.—Senator Willilam E. Borah of Idaho will be | o one of the speakers to help dissect | o the problems of youth when 15,000 | o members of the International Chris ian Endeavor meet here July 3-8. Another leading speaker will be | the Rev. Daniel A. Poling of New | president of the organiza- | ST. LOUIS, July 1.—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has had his first glider flight and soared over the St. Louis field. More than 10,- 000 persons were spectators. Paying his first visit to his legal home since his marriage, Col. Lindbergh spent most of Sunday around the flying field and when offered an opportunity for a ride in a glider, readily accepted. Col. Lindbergh said he was well pleased with the flight. He expects to leave today with Mrs. Lindbergh for Wichita. tion From Scotland will come James | | Kelly of Glasgow, general secre- t of the World’s Sunday School ociation for Europe and India, and president of the European Christian Endeavor union. Canada will send W. A. MacTaggart, of To- ronto, a leader of youthful religi- ous movements. Addre: will be made by Mrs. Walker Willebrandt, Fred general secretary of the FINANCIAL AID RSP S Ramsey, Frederick A. Wallis, of New York, former commissioner of immlgra-’ e - sevevcvo0cooe TODAY'S STOCK QUOTATIONS X GO . NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 1.—The first month’s revenue tax levied on Imalt extract for the avowed pur- ipose of “making the home brew jindustry pay” yielded the State 1$15,000. Experts of the State Fi- nance Department said investiga- {tions revealed that almost all of the extract sold went for home {brew. It was announced that the isale of malt extract amounted to 300,000 pounds during June. This was the first month of the law’s operation. It is estimated that 2,000,000 bottles of home brew were !made. The tax is 5 cents a pound fon the malt (‘mect TIWENTY - TWfl AT WEDDING NEW YORK, —July 1l.—Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted today at 5%, American Smelting 109%, American Tobacco A 170, Tobacco B 170%, Bethlehem Steel 112, Con- tinental Motors 16, Cudahy 52, In- ternational Paper A 29, Paper B 13%, Matheison Alkali 56, Mis souri 85', Standard Oil of Cal fornia 73, Stewart-Warner 74, U. S. Steel 192%4. GASTINEAU CAFE TO OPEN FOR JULY 4TH| Charles Richards, a well-known cafe man of Montana, and Mrs.| Richards, will driye in Juneau on the steamer Yukon to take over the management of the Gastineau Cafe and will '‘make every effort to open e Cafe on July 4, according to J. H. Cann, part owner of the Gas- eau Hotel, who returned from a business trip to the south on the Princess Alice. Mr. Richards recently sold out| his business in Montana and was | highly recommended to Mr. Cann | by numerous restaurant and busi-| ness people in the States. He will CHICAGO, 11, July 1~Twunty- itwo guests at a wedding last Sat-! urday of Louise Assaro and Mrs. \[‘dn.h Comrata, are suffering from |food poisoning. The wedding cake held responsible. Those taken ill complained short- |ly after the ceremony and the | wedding scene was turned into a hospital. help, and intends to carry out the policy of buying exclusively from local merchants. Thoroughly experienced in e | cafe business, Mr. Richards is com- ing to Juneau with the idea of giving the people an excellent res- taurant, with good food and fine service. TAKU HARBOR CREWS TO CELEBRATE HERE; PACK ABOVE NORMAL| the Taku Harbor cannery of Libby, McNeill & LAleyi who desire to do so may spend the | o Fourth of July in this city, and a | large number of them are sure to| be here, according to Capt. C. E. Ahues, Superintendent, who was in | port today for a few hours. He| came in to get a supply of rash; for those who will come here for the | the rooms. The doctors were un- able to say whether the poisoning | will be fatal. Joe Sando, baker, from whom the cake was purchased, gave him- |self up to the police. He was un- able to account for the illness Doctors suggested that a prcp- {aration sometimes used for making |icing contained trace of lead and| [hn may have caused the sickness. - Alaska Railroad Men Killed; Train Runs Into Speeder Employees of SEWARD, Alaska, July 1.—O. A. Robertson and George Valler, of the celebration. Anchorage, members of the Alaska The pack at the cannery, he said, |Rallroad survey gang, were killed is slightly ahead of last season at|When they were run over by a this time, and totals about 2,000 | Passenger train near Jultus Sta- cages, - The company has in all of | Hon. Meager details said the men its traps except one, which will be|%eré thrown from a speeder onto hung this week. No lift has been| since last Thursday, but|"6 2 CUIVe ran into them. Ela Finishes Survey Line, Speel River Of Transmission The transmission line sur- vey, covering the route from Juneau to Speel River is practically completed from Point Greeley on Taku Inlet to the upper end of Snet- tisham Inlet at the projected plant site, according to A. J. Ela, engineer in charge, who arrived here Sunday. Mr. Ela is accompanied by his son, Byron, and J. A. Cam- eron. There are a few odds and ends yet to be wound up on the section covered, Mr. Ela said, but most of these will be finished this week. Good weather conditions have fa- cilitated the survey which was completed well on sched- ule time. A phenomenon was reported in Taku Inlet in the form of a run| of humpies. Late last week, four| seine boats took 1,000 fish each. Of this number slightly more than 300\ the c-L. This is . ence that this variety of salmon The runs of pinks and humpies, said Capt. Ahues, have been fair ter than early last season. He expects both to show a marked in- crease after the big tides about July 10. PR SR Tmana Home Burned; All Contents Los TANANA, Alaska, July 1. — A house cecupied by Martin Noble | has burned to the ground. Mrs.| Noble and four children escaped unhurt but Noble cut his foot on!® broken glass. They lost all of ® their belongings. 002000000000 FOR ONE STATE L ARE POISONED Six physicians were called and| they put the patients to bed about | the track when the train, round-| DIRIGIBLES MAY FLY ON THE PACIFIC {Dollar Line s Goodyear 1 Concern Are Report- ed Negotiating SAN FRANCISCO, July 1. — The San Francisco Examiner today says negotiations are under way between Zeppelin Company for inauguration of a trans-Pacific diri- | gible service. | Stanley Dollar, Vice-President, is |quoted as saying he had held con- |ferences with the Goodyear offi- 'clals and while agreements have not been reached, negotiations are continuing. | between San Francisco and Ha- awail. If this service is successful, |other lines connecting the Asiatic mainland will be considered. Passengers, mail and freight will be carried. The Goodyear concern is build- |ing two large dirigibles. | these started construction it was announced that one would be for the trans-Atlantic scrvice and the other for trans-Pacific service. JUNE WEATHER Slightly Wc;e—r«and Cooler than Average, Says Official Summary as slightly cooler and wet- ter than the average, according to the monthly summary issued today by the local office of.the weather Bureau. The mean temperature was 54.2°, jor 027 below the normal. The (warmest June on record was that of 1926 with a mean of 574° and the coolest was that of 1904 with a mean of 50.6°. The highest temperature during | the month was 74° on the 15th and | (the lowest was 40° on the same .(l.\tc Previous extremes were 87 land 31°, respectively. The total precipitation was 4.15 |inches, or 0.61 inch above the mnor- mal. Measurable precipitatation occurred on 18 days, and the great- (est amount in any 24-hour period was 0.72 inch on the 18th-19th. The wettest June on record was that of 1904 with a total of 11:50 inches and the driest was that of 11913 with a total of 0.72 inch. The mean relative humidity at |4 am. was 90 per cent, at noon 68 ,per cent and at 4 p.m. 656 per cent. | The prevailing wind direction was |from the southeast and the average velocity 5.6 miles per hour. The maximum velocity for any five- | minute period was 19 miles per hour |from the northeast on the 15th. There were 5 clear days, 7 partly icloudy and 18 cloudy days. The percentage of the possible amount of sunshine was 36 and there were | two days with 100 per cent sun- shine. The total hours of sunshine during the month were 195.3. e [PRINCESS ALICE the Dollar Steamship Company and | ® | Goodyear b The first service will probably be | ‘When | IS SUBNORMAL bCHOOL BOARD BANS IRK TEACHERS’ UNION | | CHICAGO, Jul_\ —Th(‘ right of school boards to prescribe a curfew for teachers, determine the length of their skirts, ban cigarets, danc- 'ing and bridge, will be assailed at the convention of the | American federation of teachers in p]xicaaa. beginning tod: nd end- ing next Saturday. Delegates likewise will attack the policy of school trustees to separ- ate women from the payroll when they acquire a wedding ring. “It certainly is a joke that wom- en employed in the very profes- prejudice, and raise life’s stand- (ards, should need emgncipating,” observed Mrs. Florence Curtis Han- on of Chicago, national executive ecretar but they certainly do. ‘Chambers of commerce don't jprattle that marriage lessens the girl stenographer’s proficiency when he is ‘Mrs.’ instead of ‘Miss.’ Why then the attitude that matrimony decreases a woman's value as a teacher?” Many of this year's resolutions will deal with the principles of “academic freedom,” an outgrowth of the query, “Are teachers peo- ple?” propounded by the federa- tion. These resolutions will tell world and school boards that teacher ought to be permitted stay up as late as she likes, write fan letters to movie heroes, we unfastened galoshes and get mar- |ried if she wants to. | Mrs. Hanson said it is expected that the Brookwood Labor Colleze of Kendona, N. Y., which was de- nounced by the American Federa- tion of Labor as a radical school spreading communist propaganda will be discussed. Teachers at th> Brookwood college are members of the teachers’ federation, and the federation is a member of the American decmuon of Labor. YUKON IS NOW ON WAY NORTH SEATTLE, July 1.—Steamer Yu- kon salled for Alaska ports Sunday morning at 9 o'clock with 209 first | class passengers and 85 steerage. The following passengers are bound for Juneau: M. L. Merritt, Lily Kronquist, Mrs. E. M. Polley, F. Ross, Harold Gallwas, L. H. Waite, W. 8. Barber, R. A Reischc Charles Richards and wife, and D F. McLaughlen. - MAN CHARGED WITH CONTEMPT BROUGHT BACK FROM SOUTH the a to Steve Guanzon, charged with con- tempt of court, was brought here this morning from Wrangell by De- puty Marshal C. J. Sullivan. His hearing has not been set. as a witness in a case in the Tnited States Commissioner’s Court He failed to appear and a warran® charging contempt was issued by Judge Boyle. Deputy Sullivan, who has been, working at Ketchikan, fo. everal | weeks, left for Hood Bay this after- HERE SATURDAY; SOUTH TOMORROW Bringing 10 passengers to Juneau, the Princess Alice, Capt. T. Cliffe, _|docked in Juneau northbound at six o'clock Saturday evening and sailed for Skagway at 11 p.m. There |were 112 tourists for Skagway who are to make the Yukon River trip and 50 round trip tourists Those arriving in Juneau on the Princess Alice were: J. H. Cann, John T. Spickett, Steve Johnson, Mrs. Steve Johnson, Mrs. A. J. Mc- Intyre, Mrs. J. S. Adler, Mrs. J. Danzinger, Charles F. Solomon, F. W. Rising, and A. P. Miller. The Princess Alice had 140 tons of freight to discharge at Skagway for the Interior. — e, — VISIT MRS. H. L. FAULKNER Dr. A. J. Mcintyre, and Mrs. McIntyre, of Hoquiam, Wash., ar- rived on the Princess Alice to visit their neice, Mrs. H. L. Faulkner, while the steamer continued to Skagwaya They will return south on the Alice tomorrow. — - HAS MINOR OPERATION Mrs. Arnold Cutris underwent a minor operation at St. Ann's Hos- pita! this morning. noon to conduct a sale of property thefe under an execution of judg- ment. D QUIETLY MARRIED Miss Nell Wold and Fred Ordway were quietly marvied Saturday eve- ning at 10 o'clock at the residence | of Dr. and Mrs. H. C. DeVighne, the Rev. ing. They and Mrs. DeVighne and left im- imediately after the ceremony for la short wedding trip. i Both Mr. and Mrs. Ordway are well known and have a host of friends in Juneau. Mrs. Ordway has been employed at the Alaska| Electric Light and Power Company for sometime and Mr. Ordway is| |proprietor of the Alaska Scenic | Views shop > Two Fliers Are Off in LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 1.— Leo Nomis and Maurice Morrison took off at 7:30 a. m. yesterday in an attempt to break the refuel- ing endurance record. They are flying a Cessna monoplane. sion that seeks to dispel ignorance, | © BUCKINGHAM Guanzon was subpoenaed several| days ago by Judge Frank A. Boyle | Harry R. Allen officiat- | were attended by Dr.| Attempt to Make Record el PROFESSOR IS TAKEN ON RIDE; BODY IS FOUND Delegate Attending Educa- tional Association Con- vention Murdered POLICE HAVE THEORY DATING FROM 1920 Rifled Billfolds Are Found ‘in Automobile—Watch Is Not Taken ATLANTA, Ga., July 1.— Metropolitan g a n g methods confronted the police today in the mysterious murder of Prof. E. H. Johnson, who ar- rived last night to attend the National Education Associa- _{tion convention, which con- vened today. The body of Prof. Johnson was found on the driver’'s |seat of the car, head brutally crushed. Two rifled billfolds were found in the car. The professor’s watch was left. Detectives advanced the thoorv that the teacher had | been taken for a ride by a Imotor theft ring of feudists, Is Greeted wnh Great Ac-| citing the arrest of Johnson claim by His Admir- lin 1920 on an indictment of ing Subjects In Capltal Socletv Associated Preas Photo A new and unusual portrait study of Mrs. William D. Mitchell, wife of the attorney general. KING GEORGE RETURNS TO receiving a stolen automobile. Johnson was acquitted on con- : ¢ fession of Robert Grimes that m:O?nON;»,;:;:L1};,;5."11;71“;;3:55;\}"" stole the automobile and and heaith, came home to Buck-|turned it over to Johnson for ingham Palace today to the acelaim | lll‘iDO‘ial of one of the greatest popular dem- | onstrations of his reign. FUUR KlLLEn |the Castle after a ride through the IN AVIATIU* streets thronged by admirers. The band played the national anthem 'respond to too much excitement. Queen Mary also showed pleasure t the greeting. The King's figure was remark- (stirring the crowd to tumultuous TWO Burncd to Dealh m - ably straight and military for all -of the skkness he has sen. They /King appeared on the platform at | enthusiasm. His Majesty appeared thin of Wreckage in Sacra- face but took evident care not tc mento, Cal. CHICAGO, July 1.—An air mall pilot and an official of an Air Line were among the aviation vie- tims of week-end mishaps on ths Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, whlch ‘NEW OFFICE ROUTINE | ANNOUNCED BY leTE cost four lives. Paldo Robey, mail pilot, was Under orders received from the|kjlled instantly when his plane |Department of Justice, the United |struck a radio antenna mast at States Marshal's office here will| Columbus, Ohio, during a fog. close 30 minutes earlier each day| Ira Wilkinson, official of the than in the past, it was announced |Capital Airways Company, and his Itoday by Marshal Albert White. The stepson, Charles Wilson, were burn- closing time has been advanced|ed to death in plane wreckage from 5 pm., to 4:30 p.m. which fell in the residential dis- The office, however, will not close | trict of Sacramento, Cal. !during the noon lunch hour, Mar-| Ira Martin, pilot, escaped, but 'shal White said. It has been the | Nicholas Englamann, of Philadel- custom heretofore to close between |phia, was killed when a plane feil 12 and 1 p.m., and this is to be dis- |and canght fire. (continued. Both changes in rou- i s tine were made effective today. JUDGE PAINE RETURNS Judge V. A. Payne returned Sun- day from a visit of several days at his fox ranch on Keku Island. The ilnst breeding season was very good, Many Injured in Attendance, First Mass in Mexico MEXICO CITY, July 1. — Fifty he reports, and the ranch had a|persons were injured, crushed al- | fine increase of stock. Mrs. Paine |most to suffocation, in attendance Hs remaining at the ranch for some [at the first Sunday mass in three |time longer. years, at Our Lady of Gualalupe - — Church. The Red Cross cared for C. J. Ekfelt and Mrs. Ekfelt, who [the injured. Tens of thousands of are touring Southeast Alaska, left | Mexicans crowded the city to visit for Scattle, by way of Skagway, on |the church which is the National the Alameda Baturduy evening. Shrine. SATURDAY EVENING!| [SECRET OF UNKNOWN, ANCIENT RACE } TO BE SOUGHT ON BANKS OF YUKON | By 0SC (A. P. | present time, the earth is perpet- ually frozen beneath the two and | one-half foot mark. , Historic even before the days of | the gold rush, the Yukon may have been the devious avenue traveled by an ancient Asiatic people into North | America. A second object will be the ex- cavation, as far as the river may | permit, of the old site in the bank | | at Bonasila. Human remains, un- | Revealed by remains found in|like those of the present Yukon crude boxes made of burned out|Indian, have been found, accom- logs, a form of burial wholly un-| panied by semi-fossilized bones of |known in Alaska, there is no other | animals, a good many of which no {knowledge on which to base an un- | longer live in the region. derstanding of “the lost race.” Another object will be to explore The burials, first reported last|briefly the sites of six or seven dead year by a former missionary, were:vmages on the Shageluk slough. found from five to seven feet in a They were, according to early Rus- bank of the river. sian accounts, of considerable im- Their occurrence at such unusual | portance. depth, indicates, according to the| More than 2,000 miles of the jour- anthropologist that Alaska once had | ney will have to be made in small a- much warmer climate In the 'poats. R LEIDING ience Editor) WASHINGTON, July 1.—Locked in the banks of the historic Yukon {in the northermost reaches of Alas- |ka, lies the et of a strangc« people, unknown to science, which | may be uncovered this summer by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of ianthrupolugy of the National mu- seum. | |