The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 5, 1929, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. xi(xxv.. NO. 5143, JUNI:AUVALASKA FRIDAY, JULYS 1929 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CE TWO MEN MEET TRAGIC DEATH ON MOUNT RAINIER" FLIER DRUNK WHEN KILLED IN ACCIDENT Wilmer Stultz Dead 1 Plane Crash with Two of His Passengers MINEOLA, N. Y, July 5—Dr. Alexander Goettler reported today that he made a chemical analysis of the vital organs of Wilmer Stultz, flier, who was killed with' two passengers last Monday, when a plane crashed. “The man was very drunk at the | time of his death,” said Dr. Alex-| ander. The findings were made on order ! of the coroner who investigated the deaths. Dr. Goettler found a; large amount of alcohol in Stultz’s stomach and brain. BIG WELCOM GIVEN FLIERS, < At | Major Franco, Companions; and Rescuers Are Greeted in Madrid MADRID, Spain, July 5.—Major Ramon Franco and his three com- panions, with five British officers of the aircraft carrier Eagle, reach- ed Madrid yesterday and were giv- en the greatest ovation the Capital City has ever seen. At dawn yesterday thousands gathred at the station to greet| the fliers and rescuers. After re- freshing themselves at a hotel, thel men were taken to the palace and received by the Queen, then tof the Army Ministry where Gen. Primo-de-Riveria received thom. JLIVES LOST | IN EXPLOSION OMAHA, July 5. — An explosion of fireworks took the lives of two, men and destroyed the stock build~ ing of Briggs and Jensen Company, wholesale store. The dead are Har- ry H. Jones, Vice-President of the| company, and Mpyron Jensen, son of J. P. Jensen, President of the company. The loss on the stock and building is estimated at more than $100,000. e Col. Lindbergh and Wife Are in Mexico CLOVIS, Mexico, July 5. — Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and wife ar- rived yesterday from Amerillo, where they stopped enroute from Eaynoka, Okla, and they immed- iately went to a hotel. Col. Lind- bergh left orders for a service plane for a Albuquerque flight. & ———— Uxranian Peasantry ! Believed Revolting! BUCHAREST, Rumania, July 5. —Newspapers reported heavy fight- ing last night across the Ruman- ian-Russian frontier at Sorooka. | There was considerable artillery | fire and much rifle shooting. It/ is believed the Red troops are sup- pressing a revolt among the Ukran- ian peasantry. .- — MARSHAL WHITE LEAVES FOR TRIP TO KETCHIKAN" United States Marshal Albert| White left this afternoon on the| steamer Queen for Ketchikan on‘ official business. He will be ab-| sent severnl days i bilitate the community. Love for Child:'en Inspired To Give $10,000,000 Senator James Couzens (inscs! ruins of the Bath, Mich., school 1927, provided funds for a new building. stands this figure of a girl, school children., By DAVID J. WILKIE (A. P. Correspondent) DETROIT, July 5—~When Sena- tor James Couzens of Michizan gave-$10,000,000 to a children's trust fund he had done all he could to further the happiness of childhood —a hope nearest his heart. The Couzens fund is for “the promotion of health, welfare and happiness of children of Michigan and elsewhere.” It was not the former news "butchers’ only gift to children, Oth- er millions of the fortune he built on faith in Henry Ford’s automo- 'bile have gone into institutions for children. About $2,000,000 of a $5,000,000 pledge has been contributed by Senator Couzens to the Children's hospital of Michigan at Farming- iton, a Detroit suburb, where crip- pled children are treated and edu- cated. He established homes and set- tlement houses and in 1924 set aside $100,000 to be used to aid business handicapped persons, especially world war veterans. The appeal of childhood that |touched the senator's heart more | quickly and keenly, perhaps, was when a maniac dynamited the Bath, Mich., school, killing 44 chil- dren. The tragedy touched virtu- ally every home in the community and left the village paralyzed fi- nancially. Couzens viewed the ruins, and unobtrusively proceeded to reha- Today there stands of the site of the old school, the James Couzens agricul- tural school, a two-story red brick building, with 10 classrooms, a gym- nasium, library and other up-to- date appointments. As though mutely symbolizing Senator Couzens’ philosophy of childhood, there stands in a niche in the lobby of the school, a bronze statue of a laughing girl holding a zitten under her arm. While the Bath school gift was one of the lesser Couzens benefac- tions, it made the widest popular appeal. Undor the terms of the latest U.S. REAL WAGE IS HIGHEST IN WORLD NEW YORK, July 5—An analy- sis of wages and prices throughout the world, prepared by the na- tional industrial conference board, shows that American workmen can buy more than four times as much with their wages as Italian work- men. The average Italian wage, which the survey indicates, has the lowest purchasing power in Europe, is worth only 23 per cent of the aver- age wage in the United States. Canada approaches the level of the United States with an average wage that is worth 78 per cent of the average American wage. Wages in the whole of Europe, based on an average of 11 countries, are worth in purchasing power only 35 per cent of American wages. The percentages in other coun- tries, States, as 100 per cent, are Den- mark, 57 per cent; Irish Free State, 56 per cent; Great Britain 51 per) cent; Sweden 44 per cent; Nether- lands, 43 per cent; Germany, 35 per cent; Belgium, 27 per cent; Czecho- | 261® slovakia, 27 per cent; Austria per cent; Poland, 24 per cent, in comparison with United | Couzens ) (above), destroyed by a maniac in In the lobby of the new symbolic of Couzens’ love for | Couzens’ gift the entire principal of $10,000,000 and the estimated year- ly income aggregating raust be expended in 25 years. It is | characteristic that nowhere in con- nection with the establishment of the fund does Mr. Couzen’s name appear excepting in the signature of the deed. The Michigan Senator, Canadian born, went from news butcher to telegraphy, joined Henry Ford as bookkeeper, acquired a fortune, be- came Detroit’s mayor, won a fight to give Detroit a municipally own- ed street car system, and when Truman H. Newberry resigned frora the Senate, Couzens was named Senator—the office that Ford had ansuccessfully sought against New- berry. QUEEN IS SOUTH THIS AFTERNOON The Queen, Capt. A. W. Nicker- son, arrived in Juneau at six o'clock last evening after making the triangle trip to Haines, Skag- way and Sitka. Passengers arriv- ing here on the Queen were Mrs. N. Green, Mrs. A. Beach, Miss Alice Beach and M. B. Dahl. There were 90 through passengers aboard. Those taking passage on the Queen, which sailed for the south at two o'clock this afternoon, were: For Petersburg-=J. M. Livenny, M. G. Glause, A. Van Mavern, L, Stupple. For Wrangell—Karl Theile, Jphn C. Severson. For Ketchikan—W. Fromholz, J. | Federspiel, and Albert White. For Seattle—Warren S. Harding, Dr. J. F. Petrisch, Mrs. Martin Lee, Ernest . Sawyer, W. E. Beckstrom and Forest Fennessy. O’Malley Grants an Extension for Trollers on Baranof ° Extension of the local e trolling season was an- ® nounced today by Commis- sioner Henry O'Malley, of the United States Bupeau of Fisheries. Two weeks addi- tional time has been granted in the area between Whale Bay and Point Armstrong on Baranof Island. Originally the regulations closed down trolling on Aug- ust 24, This date was un- satisfactory to the trollers, fresh fish buyers and mild curers. They united in an appeal to the bureau for an extension. The Commission- er said today that the clos- ing date has now been changed from August 24 to September 5, in the area named. This, he said, would take care of the Port Alex- ander situation. of Michigan, after surveying the | $7,500,000 PROSPECTS ARE 600D FOR FINE SALMON PACK Commissioner O'Malley Be- lieves Output Will Be | Good—Here for Season The prospects are good for a fairly prosperous year in the sal- mon fisheries with conditions some- what spotted and some uneasiness is felt over the pink salmon run in the Ketchikan district, said Com- missioner Henry O'Malley of the United States Bureau of Fisheries noon from Seattle, on the Brant, Capt. E. L .Hunter. Dr. C, A. Cramton, of St. Johnsbury, VE., is acompanying the Commissioner. They will remain here until to- 'morrow, sailing then for Seward and points as far west as the Pribilof Islands. The Commissioner will return here between July 20 and 25 and remain several weeks. | Nushagak Run Heavy Reports of fishing conditions up to July 1, it was said, are not dis- couraging. The run has been heavy ‘at Nushagak and the boats in that larea have been placed on a limit. Naknek and Kvichak have been poor to date. Egegik runs were fair. season opened on June 26 but has gradually improved. The Port Moeller been fair but the pack of last season. This possibly is due to severe storms that have been persistent in that area. The Paeific American Fisheries reported 7,000 cases, which is 2,000 cases under the pack of last year up to the same date. The Ikatan, King Cove and Squaw Harbor area shows the Pacific Am- erican Fisheries with 32,000 cases at SquawEiaibor, 20,000 beingdods. | It will be reealled, the Commis-| sioned said, that this area has a 96-hour weekly closed season im- posed upon it due to the expansion of gear in the area this year. King Cove has 4800 cases and Ikatan is reported to be normal. | The latest report from False Pass indicated the run to be consider- ably below normal. Chignik in Fine Shape The Chignik area is in fine shape, said the Commissioner. The escapement through the weir to date is 966,000 and the commercial catch is 289,000, or 26,000 cases. The | ifish continue to run very heavily. On the other hand Karluk is very poor. The escapment to date has been but 332,041 and the catch 64,- 308 red,s 514 kings, 32,796 pinks and ' a few cohoes and chums. Fishing| operations have been closed down for the first three weeks in July| and the area may be kept closed for the remainder of the season | unless there is much improvement in the run. No reports are avail- able for the balance of the area around Kodiak Island. Prince William Sound, particular- ly on the west side, is having a fine run of pinks for the so-called off season. Copper River has shown a marked improvemnt over the last few years. The red pack will be about 75,000 cases as against 45,- | 000 for last year. Icy Strait Normal The Icy Strait region s normal so far and the indications point to a good season there. The Com- missioner was uneasy over the out- look for the pink rum in the Ket- chikan district. This variety has a two-year cycle and the 1927 run was under normal. A close watch is being kept on the area. At Anan Creek the weir escapement to date has been but 15,000 fish. This is one of the smallest in the past five years. Survey Spawning Areas The Commissioner will make a personal inspection of the spawn- ing areas in the Illiamna section. Leaving here tomorrow, accompan- jed by Dr. Cramton, he will go to Seward and take the Teal from there to Iliamna Bay. He will go to the village of Illiamna and be met there by another one of the Bureau's boats. He will go through the spawning grounds and proceed to Bristol Bay, visiting Unalaska, touching at Kvichak and inspect the weir installed there, then pro- ceeding to Pribilof Islands for an inspection of the seal herds. He will return via the south side of the Alaska Peninsula and visit var- ious coastal points enroute here. He expects to be back here be- |tween July 20 and 25, and remain juntil the end of the fishing season. BRI 6 i oty Glen Carrington, traveling sales- |man, who has been in Juneau for several days, took passage on the Dorothy Alexander for Seattle. who arrived here yesterday after-' Ugashik was poor when the | district ' has | is short | PLANE UNTIN Springfield Gunman | Shots Oflicer; Caught; Uses Dynamite in |Effort to Cover {Up His Shortage LOS ANGELES, July 5.— The Los Angeles Grain Ex- change was damaged by dyn- amite last Wednesday after- noon which Perry E. Par- con, cashier, admitted he placed in hope of destroy- ing records covering a $1,- 500 shortage in his accounts The blast damage is esti- mated at $3,000 but the records were not obiiterated. Further damage was pre- vented when office workers extinguished a lighted candle in a lavatory near open gas jets. PIONEER OF Pal Clalms Bulk of Rlckard’s Estate ALASKA DFAD SEATTLE, July 5. — The last rites for Mrs. Anna Nicholsen- Hall, pioneer of Alaska, who died last Sunday in Worcester, Mass., were held this afternoon at Ren- ton, .Mrs. Hall was born here 67 years ago and went North with her first husband in the gold rush days and lived in Nome and other districts for more than a quarter jof a century. She came out two | years ago. husband, George Hall; her mother,| Mrs. Anna Wurst, of Renton, flv(‘ sisters and two mehv IS FLYING ON CHICAGO, Jlll\' 5.—Two radio | messages told the Chicago Tribune that its plane Untin, a bowler, had taken off from Remi Lake, Ontario, for Great Whale River, north, on the second leg projected flight to Berlin. is reported good. — ., s 00 evsc0s e . TODAY'S STOCK . . QUOTATIONS o ©ceeeescesssecoe 400 miles of the Weather NEW YORK, July 5. — Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted to- |day at 6%, American Smelting 1107%, Amreican Tobacco A 178%, iAmerican Tobacco B 178%, Bethle- |hem Steel 112%, Continental Mot~ ors 15 Clldflh) 55%, International Paper A 30%, International Paper | B 187%, Mathieson Alkali 557%, Mis- [souri 96%, Standard Oil of Cali-' |fornia 73%, Stewart-Warner T4%,' ‘Texas Corporation 62'%, U. A. Steel 1197%, Atlantic Refining 75. o O N L R /Dustin Farnum Passes Away in New York City/ NEW YORK, July 5—The the- atrical world today mourned on of its best known figures, Dustin Farnum, who died after a year of ill-health at the age of 55 years. e n SPRINGP’[ELD Ohio, July 5.—A | gunman killed one policeman and seriously wounded another and was {wounded himself three times as he shot his way from a hotel after | police attempted to question him ownership. | regarding automobile The gunman was captured s {terward as he sought medical treatment in a hospital. He is under gi and charged with murder. A phy:ician said he will recover. A woman who occupied the room with the, man is being held. ——- Not Much W hoopee In Juneau; One Arrest on Fourth There wasn't a great deal of whoopee in Juneau on the great and glorious Fourth as far as the police court records show, and they are usually considered the reliable whoopee baromcte Only one arrest was made here during the celebration for too much joy-juice Deputy Marshal Sibley ar- rested Willlam Mothe on the night of July 3, charged him with violating the Al- aska Bone Dry Law. He was admitted to bail yester- day morning by Judge Frank A. Boyle so spent the Fourth on his own. “ Bellingham, Chloe Walkley, Haines; She is survived by her!| Mrs. Tex Rickard uurl her daught with the loss of nearly every doll moter, via the lawsuit route. Fra friend, is now endeavoring to pre Garden. If successful in net about $300,000. HELEN WILLS - STILL CHAMP his sev WIMBLEDON, England, July 5.— Helen Wills has reasserted her su- premacy over the world’s women tennis players by defeating Helen Jacobs, fellow Californian, in the final of the British women’s sin- gles champlonships, scoring, 6-1 and 6-2. | The victory was won easily and Igives Miss Wills the title for the |third straight year. A few days '\uo Miss Wills won the French hampionship for the second straight time. > AT THE #OTELS 8. A. Stiles; Henry O'Malley, and three boys; W. Ford Kaye, Washington, D. C.; M. B. Dahl Vancouver, B. C.; Jacob Marty, VKlll Lake, Wis.; Elsie M. N. Cald- well, Los Angeles, Cal; Dr. J. F. Petritsch, Seattle Allred McLearge, | Chilkoot Barracks; E. H. Geuche, |Gannet; Mrs. Jack Gudker, city; James Federspeil, Seattle; J. Boyle, Seattle; Orven K. McManus; Ar- thur J. Ela, Ketchikan; John Ela, | Ketchikan; Dennis McLaughlin, Seattle; W. H. Smith, Wrangell; J. A. Thayer, Keichikan; Thomas A. Bishoff, Tacoma; H. A. Heron, Seattle; G. N. Allman, Secattle; J. |Rosegard, Seattle; H. H. Lawson, | | M. W. Glasser and wife, Haines;, Frank Shagard, Chilkoot Barracks; \ B. G. Long, M. H. Hyah; Jack | Turkovich, City; H. Carmier, City; Fran k Morris, Haines; Frank| |Schmiltke, Taku; M. Schmilke, | 'aku; Gunnar Johnson, Taku; S. 0150)\ Taku; Gust Johnson, Taku; \A N. Minard, Taku; Charles B.} Wheeler, Seattle; J. Carlson, Seat-| tlee A. N. Stewart, Washington, |D. C.; W. M. Scaife, Washington, . C.; H. L. Strande; Pete Miller, 'S, er; J. A. Smith; A. Mey- lers; A. Brigham; 8. A. Stills; L.! | H. Rinks, Haines; Harold Jacobson, | Seattle; E. E. Mead and wife, Point | Retreat; Edward Felch, Taku; H.| Nielson, Chilkoot Barracks. Alaskan M. L. Young, Hair D. Gro man, Haines; W. C. Hagy, Haines; | |W. B. Cummir Haines; Ted Birkeland, Taku; W. E. Baines,' Ketcnikan; William Thorald, Taku; | Markus Solvang, Taku; Ragnar | Lake; ! | Alexander. i MEN FALL TO " DEATHWHILE ~ ONMOUNTAIN Seattle Football Coast and Milwaukee Attorney Are Killed FALL INTO CREVASSE DESCENDING RAINIER Four OthersdBaltered by Fall But They Manage to Reach Safety I’ARAI)ISE INN Rainier National Park, July 5.—For- rest Greathouse, footbal coach of Lincoln High School, Seattle and Ed win Wetzel, young Milwaukee attorney, are believed to have been kill- ed when they fell into a crev- asse on Mount Rainier. Four others were badly battered but climbed to safe- ty after the fall. They were L. H. Brigham, of Seattle; Robert Strobel, of Tacoma; Y ancy Bradshaw, of Cam- bridge, Mass., and E. P. | Weatherby, of Kansas Cit. | The men were returning from=a climb to the top of Mount Rainier when the trag- ledy occurred. One of the par- er Maxine, above, are threatened | ar left by the preat sports pro- nk C. Armstrong, Tex's one time suit in which he claims that he Is entitled to half the profits t aken out of the old Madison Square | en-year-old suit, Armstrong would Malhassen, Taku; Ben Nelson, J. A. McGuire, Taku; Portland; Jacob L Stuppel, Haines. Zynda Mr. and Mrs. E. Lange; Mrs. H H. Waller, H. H. Waller, Scattle; Robert H. Padd J. Woodyard, Taku Harbor; Major A. M. Brais- ford, Chilkoot Barracks; Moetz, Haines; G. O. Russell, Haines; Cal Hall, Haines; T. M. Dunphy, Haines; A. Bond and wife, Haines; Capt. and Mrs. G. H. Totten, U. S. A.; Capt. H. Brooks and family, U. S. A.; Sgt. H. Rob- erts and wife, U. 8. A.; Pros Gan- ty, Skagway; Mrs S. Sheldon, Eli- zabeth Sheldon, Stephen Sheldon, Haines; Mrs. E. E. Bromley and son, Haines; L. B. Horner and Alice B. Horner, Haines; Ernest Kohl- tasc; Joe Hill, Jr.; Ruth Green, Sitka; Dennis McLaughlin, Seat- tle; Vincent Kerns, Seattle. B TO SURVEY TRAP SIGHTS IN SOUTHEAST ALASKA Harold Waller, of the Civil En- gineering firm of Hubble and Wal- ler, Seattle, who is in charge of surveying all the trap sights for the canneries of Southeast Alaska, left this morning on the Hyah, with his party. for the Taku Can- nery where they will be occupied for a day or so surveying the trap sights in that vicinity. He was accompanied by Mrs. Waller who arrived in Juneau on the Dorothy Mrs. Waller will re- turn to Juneau this evening and remain here for about ten days. Auk| Ruefer, | H. Carmier, City; George Morton, Alfred J.| Ity fell from exhaustion tak- ing the others down into thh 'crevasse, 100 feet. FIRES SPREAD INTWOSTATES; HEAVY DAMAGE Ninety Thousand Acres Are Swept by Flames— ! Homes Destroyed | } ; SAN FRANCISCO, July 5—The fire demon continued to raze choice aconery and homes in Mill Valley and started upon ranches, forests and grain fields in California and Arizona, in Mill Valley and the Apache reservation. In Eastern Arizona, fires are still burning. Only meager reports are received from the reservation fire which is said to be eating its way' into the pine forest. Telephone lines are down. | Ninety thousand acres have been swept over near Oneals, Cal. Homes, cattle, gain and feed have been de- stroyed. e - Autom;bile Leaves \ Bndge- Woman Dead ! VANCOUVER B. C, July 5— Mrs. Harold Smith, of Coquitlam, B. C, was killed and her eight-~ year-old son was injured, when an autombbile driven by the husband and father left a bridge near Clov. erdale, B. C. BRI CAPT. REYNOLDS VISITS OLD FRIENDS IN JUNEAU Capt. J. J. Reynolds, pioneer Alaska fisheries operator and navi- gator, arrived yesterday from Se- attle, for a visit with old friends here and will spend several days in this city. He expressed his pleas- ure at being able to get to Juneau again and at the evidence of con- tinued growth in the city. SLUMP CUTS VALUE OF EXCHANGE SEATS NEW YORK, July cellent financial barometer, price of seats Stock Exchange, reflected the re- cent drop in the volume of trading by decreasing in value $100,000. The last membership to be trans- ferred brought $525,000, compared with the peak price of $625000 ob- tained last February. In the early part of the year, when the average daily volume was approximately 15,000,000 shares, the exchange mem- bership was increased by 150. The present volume of trading is around 2,500,000 shares daily. This 5—That ex- the' on the New York | [ decrease, together with the in- crease in the number of member- ships, has made the business of floor trading less profitable. The prices paid for memberships | since 1869, when one could be ob- tained for $3,000, are an accurate picture of the ups and downs of American prosperity. The era of big prices began in 1919 when seats first sold at six figures. In 1921, 1922 and 1923 the highest recorded prices were $100,- 000. Beginning with 1925, the fig- ures leaped upward at an average pace of $100,000 yearly.