The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 12, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIV., NO. 5149. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1929, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ELEVEN DIE IN FLAMES AS IMMENSE CROWD LAUGHS QUINLANMEETS LOCAL FEDERAL BUSINESS ASSN. Discusses Problems of Co- ordination — Leaves ' Tomorrow for Sitka D. P. Quinlan, representa- | tiv. T President Hoover on a mis- | sion ¥ ) Alasea, nnd special assistant | to tke Chisf i-ordinator of the Unitec States, was the guest this afternion at a special meeting of the Federal Business Association of this city. President J. C. McBride, Collector of Customs, presided at! the meeting. Col. Quinlan discussed both gen- erally and specifically the work of | the Co-ordinators and the part played by the business associations of Federal employees. The meet- | ing was fully attended. Yesterday Col. Quinlan made a | trip over Glacier Highway to Eagle | River, looking over the develop- ments that have taken place along | the route. Today he and Mrs. Quinlan went through the mill o(} the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining. Company. He and Mrs, Quinlan | will leave tomorrow morning for Sitka on the Tahn, accompanied by Asst. District Forester B. F. Heint- zleman, returning here Monday. MUCH DONE BY | NAVY MAPPERS DURING. WEEK Baranof Island Completed and Parts of Chichagof Island Mapped The two amphibian planes of the Alaska Aerial Survey Detach-; ment which are used for taking mapping photographs, made flights on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, and in the two days completed the mapping of Baranof Island, about one fourth of Chi- chagof Island and a portion of the mainland. On Wednesday, which was the second perfectly clear day exper-| ienced since the detachment ar- rived in Juneau over three weeks ago, one plane made two flights and the other made one, and on Thursday, one flight was made by each of the two planes. The outstanding features of the week's flying were two trips made on Monday, according to R. H. Sargent. In the morning, planes 2 and 4 with Harold Smith and J. P. Williams, of the U. S. Forest! Service as passengers, made a trip| over Admiralty Island to allow the Forest Service men to make an! inspection of the timber resources of the island. On Monday after-| noon, planes 1 and 3, made a flight over the Stikine River coun- try with Lieut. W. B. Scaife of the| U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, who is in charge of a party now making triangulation surveys in the Taku River district. The trip to the Stikine country was of the greatest value and the observation of the vicinity which he was able to make from the’ air would save several days of arduous labor when the triangulation sur- veys of The Stikine district are be- gun, Lieut. Scaife declared. Lieut. R. F. Whitehead, who pi- loted the plane which accompanied that in which Lieut. Scaife was passenger, obtained some splendid photographs of the vista at the international boundary line up the Stikine where a 30-foot swath is cut through the timber, 15 feet on each side of The line. ————— SEAPLANE KETCHIKAN TOOK PASSENGERS TO PORT ALTHORP TODAY The Alaska-Washington Airways| Incorporated seaplane Ketchikan left at 10 o'clock this morning tor‘ Port Althorp with Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Skinner, Mr. and Mrs. Aug-| ust Buschmann and Mrs. O. T.| Carlson who came to Juneau on| the seaplane yesterday. It returned to Juneau at 2:45 this afternoon. Short passenger flights around Juneau will be made by the Ketchikan tomorrow, with possibly a trip to Sitka in the afternoon., ¥ —e,——— LIEUT. TODD IN HOSPITAL Lieut. D. E. Todd, of the U. S. Coast Guard cutter Unalga, en- tered St. Ann's Hospital for modlull treatment yesterday afternoon. |collect the company’s bills. LEGGE, HOOVER FARM BOARD CHOICE, EMPLOYED BARTER TO AlID FARMERS\SEVENTH MAN CHICAGO, Ill, July 12.—Alexan- der Legge, President of the Inter- national Harvester Company, has been selected by President Hoover as Chairman of the new Federal Farm Relief Board. So reticent is this raw-boned 65- year-old Westerner that the pub- licity department of the harvester company knew scarcely more about him than his associates. And they knew about as much as the “Who's Who"” which has exactly seven lines on this man—head of the world’s largest farm implement house. Legge came out of the Nebraska hinterland, virtually an untutored plainsman, one day in 1891, and went to work for the McCormick Harvester company as a collector. It was a tough job for the silent Cornhusker, who stood six feet two in his socks. Money was not so plentiful in the corn belt, even in those days, and Legge had to work hard to He did it, however, working a side line of selling the debtors some- thing new in the implement line. In 1894 he jumped to Council Bluffs, Iowa, as collection manager, and | became branch manager four years | later. While at Council Bluffs, Legge met Harold McCormick, son of the founder, who was learning the busi- | ness. MecCormick’s impression of the branch boss remained and step by step Legge mounted. ‘When | McCormick retired as head of the | International, Legge was his choice as the successor. Legge is particularly familiar with farm conditions in general, and specifically, too. His company main- tains an elaborate system of cor- respondence whereby community situations are reported. Sam Thompson, president of the American Farm federation, calls ALEXANDER LEGGE Legge the “farmers’ friend” and a corn bartering incident in his life attests to that overworked desig- nation. A few years ago when the bottom went out of the corn market, Legge's concern announced it would accept corn at the last nominal quotation in payment of debts. The mere announcement arested the slump. Of farm conditions, Legge says, “the farmer must receive a better financial return before the farm industry is on a sound and equit- able basis. His program for im- provements lines up with that of the President: “Better cooperation among the farmers with respect to production standards and marketing methods, and in more general usage of la- bor-saving devices and profit-mak- ing farm operation equipment.” Legge was on the war industries board during the world conflict, and served as an industrial observer at the peace conference. French Premier, Urges War Debt Ratification . PARIS, July 12—The ® French debt to the United e States has the same value ® as the French Treasury bond, ® Premier Poincare told the ® Chamber of Deputies today ® in opening the debate on ® ratification of the war debt ® settlements. ® The Premier declared cate- e gorically there was no other e issue than pure simple rati- ® fication. . . e0s0ce0ccc e — BIG COMBINE 1S ORGANIZED Sixty Million Dollar Organ- ization Is Formed for Theatre Equipment NEW YORK, July 12.—The for- mation of the General Theatres Equipment Incorporated, a $60,000,~ 000 combine of manufacturers and distributors of motion picture equipment and theatre supplies, is announced. The combine will manufacture for the market several new devices, one of which gives illusion of third dimension to pictures. {Start Annulment of Marriage of Heiress To Son of Poor Man WHITE PLAINS, N. Y:, July 12. —Action to annul the marriage of Mrs. Nathalie Guggenheim Gor- man, one of the heiresses to the copper fortune, to Thomas Gor- man, son of a Long Island Railway station master, was started today in the County Court. Guggenheim’ attorney seid Gorham had been served with summons two months ago today and filed notice of ap- pearance in.the suit as defendant. Action grounds are not disclosed but it is understood that Guggen- heim was strongly opposed to the marriage, he being a Jew and Gor- ham a Catholic. ————————— MEAD FINED $25 Simon Mead, arrested yesterday by Deputy United States Marshal C. V. Brown, was fined $25 and costs by Judge Frank A. Boyle on a charge of violating the Bone Dry Law. CLOUDBURST AT EL PASO IS SELECTED FARM BOARD { N. Y. Commissioner for Federal Organization— One Member Lacking! ‘WASHINGTON, July 12.—Oharles Wilson, New York State Commis- sioner of Agriculture, has been 4p- pointed to the Federal Farm Board. There is now one vacancy remain- ing and President Hoover is looking for a wheat industry spokesman is expected next week after the is scheduled for next Monday. The other six members of the Board are Alexander H. Legge, of Chicago; Charles C. Teague, of Los Angeles, who is the first chairman; Carl Williams, of Oklahoma; James Costone of Kentucky, and C. B. Benman, of Missouri. — e TWO AIR LINES ARE IN MERGER LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 12— Merger of the West Coast Air Transport Company and Western Air Express has resulted in the formation of a new organization to be known as the West Coast Air Transport Corporation, of Del- aware, headed by James Talbot, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Richfield Oil Company and Harris Hanshue, President of the Western Express. A daily 10-hour passenger service between Seattle and Los Angeles will result from the combination and also the inauguration of a flying freight service. o E———— s eeosvecsrevso . TODAY'S STOCK . . QUOTATIONS o e eecescscssscroe NEW YORK, July 12.—Alaska Residential Section of Tex-| N&W WYORK. Jul cod ol as City Is Laid at 5% ,American Smelting 108%, s Tpyie American Tobacco A 1831, Tobacco in Ruins B 184%, Bethlehem Steel 118%, Continental Motors 15, Cudahy 54, EL PASO, Texas, July 12—Resl-|nierngtional Paper A 20%, Paper dents of this city today surveyed| g yq5 Mathieson Alkall 61%, the wreckage and ruin in the wake| g ngorq Ol of California 72%, of the most disastrous cloudburst gioport warner 73, U. 8. Steel 203, in history of the South which h""Atlnntlc Refining 69 the exclusive residential section. & Damage is estimated at a quarter of a million dollars. ‘Without warning a solid wall of water released from clouds at the edge of the town, swept the streets| |carrying large boulders and stone foundations. Houses were swept away and| LONDON, July 12. — American parked automobiles were picked up|Ambassador Charles G. Dawes paid and smashed into poles and build-|another visit to Premier Ramsay ings. MacDonald today. It was not Ambassador Dawes and MacDonald in Another Conference | Chunks ‘of pavement were torn out by the torrent. Trains are delayed and traffic is demoralized. — e — Motion Picture Awards To Be Fewer Next Year LOS ANGELES, July 12.—Seven instead of fifteen awards for indi- vidual achievements in films will be made by the Academy of Mo- tion Picture Arts, and Sciences this year. Benjamin Glazier, chairman of the award committee, announced last night. The reduction was decided upon because of the advent of talking pictures and complicated judging, Glazier said. The awards will go to the actor, actress, director, cinematographer, art director, writer and company whose production is considered by the 375 academy members, repre- senting every branch of the film industry, the best of the year. The awards will be made without dis- crimination betweensilent and talk- ing films. Pictures produced be- tween August 1, 1928, and August 1, 1929, are to be considered. Th2 gold statuettes given as prizes will be awarded in January. — . ARE VISITING IN TOWN !stated what the subject was at the conference but it is presumed to ihave been a reassumption of the preliminary conversation on naval questions. R ‘\Florida Banker Under Arrest, Fraud Charges‘i BARTOW, Fla, July 12—John L. Fouts, President and Director of four Central Florida banks all |of which failed May 15 last, was arrested today and charged with having violated the state banking law. It is charged he borrowed bank funds without sanction of the directors. VIRGINIANS. ARE TO SPEND THREE MONTHS ! IN ALASKA TOURING Three Virginians, tourists to Al- aska in 1926, returned to the Ter-| ritory this week for a three-months automobile tour and hunting trip. Their time will be spent largelyi in the interior districts. Richard Lee Makely, President lof the Makely Motors Company of |East Falls Church, Va., Frank D. Hinkins and his sister Miss Ruth JE. Hinkins of Falls Church, Vl.,‘ passed through Juneau early this week enroute to Valdez. They have |their own automobile and will | Endurance Fliers Enter Eleventh Day in Air |® CULVER CITY, Cal, July ® 12. — Completing the 37th |® refueling contact, L. W. |® Mendell and R. B. Reins- hart, in the plane Angeleno, entered the eleventh day in the air at 7:30 o'clock this morning, completing the 240th hour aloft. The flight is progresing smoothly and no intimation is given as to when the two fliers expect to land. STEETEEE AL MILL FOR s s e FUNTERBAYTO - BEINSTALLED {Pekovich Announces Im- mediate Construction of Complete Milling Plant A ball mill of 250 to 300 tons jdaily capacity will be installed as soon as possible at Funter Bay by jthe Admiralty Alaska Gold Mining Company, it was made known today {by Sam Pekovich, general mana- ger, who has just returned from a {six-months business trip to the |States. Equipment anc supplies {will begin arriving at Funter Bay {by July 20 and everything will be on hand within 30 or 40 days from ithat date. 7 | Ample finances are available for ilnsta)laflon of the new machinery ’and putting the mine into produc- tion, Mr. Pekovich said. If the plant proves successful, money is already on hand for expanding Imlmug facilities on a large scale. Mr. Pekovich said the company |has purchased and will install a ball mill, crusher, flotation machin- ery and aerial tramway for a 250 to ‘300-ton daily capacity plant. This, he added, is intended as a pilot mill to experiment on the production of nickel, copper and “If the plant can treat success- fully this ore, it will be handled in this manner, if not, a smelter |will be put on the ground to pro- duce blister ore, and possibly later a refinery will be added to the establishment,” said Mr. Pekovich. Definite contracts have been sign- ed, he added, for all the products of the plant and prices are in pro- portion to the metallic contents either in the form on concentrates, matte or blister, of the combined metals or of each individually. The first shipment of equipment iwill leave Seattle July 20 on the |Latouche or Cordova and will in- clude the aerial tram and possible crushing machinery and flotation equipment. All of the materials Ishuuld be on the ground within 30 or 40 days from that time and in- stallation of the plant will be started about August 1, when the engineering crew to direct the work, will arrive from the States. A crew of 40 or more men will be engaged in construction of the plant. It is planned to rush this work as rapidly as circumstances will permit. “We hope to have the mill in operation and producing late this fall, and to make initial shipments before the end of the iyear,” Mr, Pekovich added. He and Mrs. Pekovich left here ilast January and spent about six weeks in Seattle. They went to New York where financial arrange- ments were made for plant con- struction, operation and expansion. They visited St. Louis, Salt Lake City, Denver and San Francisco in purchasing equipment and reach- ed Seattle early this month, coming north at once. Mr. Pekovich came here from Funter Bay last night and is returning there this eve- ning. Pope Will Leave Vatican Grounds For Mass, July 25 VATICAN CITY, July 12.—Pope Pius’ first entrance into St. Peter's Square bearing the eucharist has cobalt, as well as gold and silver. | TEAT PACKING FAMILY SCION TO WEL | Michael J. Cudahy and Muriel | out a marriage license in Riverside, LOS ANGELES, Cal, July on charges of reckless driving while minor injuries. Officers said Cu at an excessive speed y was drivinj He was alone comment, Associated Press Phoza Evans of the screen have taien Cal. 12.—Michael J. Cudahy has been jailed ! intoxicated. The arrest was made following collision with a machine driven by Charles Lang, who suffered g on the wrong side of the street e at the time. Tt WAR LOOMING NOW BETWEEN CHINA-RUSSO Soviet Troops in Eastern Siberia .Ready to Move to Border TOKYO, July 12—Rengo dis- | patches from Harbin, Manchuria, said that as the result of the Chi- nese authorities taking over the Eastern Railway and ordering de- portation of more than 300 Russian |officials and employes, Soviet troops |in Eastern Siberia are ready to move at a moment’s notice towards the Russo-Chinese border. Besides seizing the railway, the Chinese authorities closed all So- {viet agencies and disbanded the Russian Labor Unions in Northern Manchuria. Thirty Russians were started for the border yesterday and about 300 others are to follow today by or- ders of the Chinese authorities. I GOODBYETO | '(.'oming to Alaska On Start of Proposed World Trip ABERDEEN, Wash, July e 12—On the first leg of a e proposed world trip, the 37- e foot ketch Edna Mae, with e Mr. and Mrs. Stanton Price, e of Aberdeen aboard, was e sighted far up the Washing- e ton Coast bound for Juan e de Fuca Strait, which they ¢ will enter and follow the in- o side passage to Alaska where they will spend the summer. ® They plan to hunt seals for e bounty to finance the trip youth’s mother | and his wife of six days, Muriel Evans Cudahy, refused to make any GALA AFFAIR " TURNED INTO Tragic Event Takes Place at Festivities—Bodies Badly Charred, Fire GILLINGHAM, England, July 12. —While laughing thousands watch- ed today what they thought was a fire-fighting show, 11 boy naval cadet firemen were burned to death and six were seriously injured and taken to St. Bartholomews Hos- pital in aid of which the fete was given. A specially constructed model ’houso was designed to be the scene |of a fire brigade rescue but in- |stead became the horrifying death trap of the boys who so eagerly were taking part in the festivities. The youngsters, dressed in clown suits, made frantic efforts to es- cape, bringing only great applause |from the throng of spectators thinking it part of the show. In five minutes the flames had |destroyed the oil-soaked canvas and all that was left were charred | bodies of the youths and the | gaunt skeleton of the model house. Frantic parents gathered at the mortuary seeking their son's bodies. Only five of the 11 dead have been identified, so badly charred were the bodies. . <D R CONFESSES T0 ~ ROBBERY;L0OT IS RECOVERED {Woman Who Pulled Off $14,000 Hold-up Tells Officers About it D TOPEKA, Kan, July 12.—Mrs. south next fall on their way to the Atlantic. They expect to spend next summer en- route to the Mediterranean. Price built the ketch here. The craft is powered with ® | Vivian Scraper, aged 25 years, con- ® | fessed to holding up and robbing ® /two employees of the Security Bene- © |fit Association of approximately ©1$14,000 on June .28. She took the A8 oo ¢ lofficers to her apartment where a 10 horsepower oil burn- {all of the money with the excep- ing motor. He is commis- tio: sioned {o write for the Na- e |"%, O $40 or $50 Bl tional Geographic Society. o/ y (her apartment with Cecil Streit, aged 25, employe of the association, and Marie Rainey, aged 14. Streit was held without a charge. Mrs. Scraper is the mother of a , TURNADU HITS 1seven year old daughter. She has {not been living with her husband N D SEGTIUN‘M several months. r U | AR \George Eastman 00000 00s00s000c00000 s0eee-000c0se e e into the thousands of dollars was idone and communication erupted | by a tornado which struck three cities last night. PEMBROKE, Wales, July 12— The British Navy has said goodbye . to 21 . men . Awbe wert: down to! John and Frank VenDerlyn, liv-| |ing near Grady, were severely in-| death on the submarine H-47. Aci(ured T & St Honss' wbioh sl sunset last night, the battleship|” | | DEVILS LAKE, N. D, July 12.|, LN Y ) |—Eighteen persons were injured Celebrates His .and property damage, esumsted~ 3 | | 75th Birthday ROCHESTEK, IV, Y., July 12—On his seventy-fifth birthday anoiver- sary, George Eastman, camera magnate, is going through his reg- ular routine despite the declara- tion five years ago he would adopt Rodeney led six destroyers unuid“"“’mhed' A farm hand suffered | five submarines over the spot; where the H-47 sank and rendered | impressive rites to the men 300 feet below. All salvage :\mets' have been abandoned. - Choice Liquor Seized; Arrest Made in Seattle SEATTLE, July 12.—Choice ll-l quors valued at almost $2,500 were | i taken to the Sheriff’s Office from a well furnished suite in a fashion- lable apartment house. Peter Mil-| ler, aged 30, was arrested with the" liquor in his possession. He said he catered to an exclusive clientele in the first hill apartment district. \Williams and Yancey To Have Reunion with | French Ocean Fliers, ROME, July 12—Roger Williams| and Lewis Yancey, accompanied by Italian officials, inspected the plane Pathfinder, on which the flight Capt. Charles W. Ackerman, Mrs.'spend the remainder of this month Ackerman and their daughter, sts!and all of August visiting points of Violet Ackerman, who are round interest along Richardson High- trip pasengers on the Admiral Rog- way betwen Valdez and Fairbanks, ers, are visiting with Dr. and Mrs. and on Steese Highway between E. H. Kaser and their daughters. Fairbanks and Circle. the Misses Esther and Elizabeth| wWith the opening of the big Knur,vhihthem been fixed for July 25, the feast|from Old Orchard, Maine, U. 8. A, | of St. James the Apostle, on the iwas made to this city, with a view a broken leg. Fifteen laborers were | injured, none seriously, when eight cars of a Great Northen Railway train was blown from the rails. — .- Lee Meadows, veteran pitcher, who was sent to the Indianapolis Club under option several weeks ago, has been granted uncondition- al release by the Pittsburgh Nation- al League Club. He has suffered an arm injury. in which leisure \was to play a part. “I do not care for any fussing on my birthday and I will not alter my daily routine in any way | Eastman said. | The day also marked the thir- |tieth anniversary of the motion | picture. In 1889, Thomas A. Edison invented the kinetoscope, opera- {tion of which was made possible by Eastman’s transparent flexible | film. |a new program LEGAL PROTECTION FOR IDEAS SOUGHT WASHINGTON, July 12.—Origi- nal thoughts and ideas will become the sole property of their creators instead of the property of the world at large if a resolution of Senator King of Utah is adopted at the next session of Congress. The measure would give to hu- man thought the same protection that now guards writing and pat- entable articles. Its author con- tends that thoughts and ideas are the basis of invention and should, Miss Ackerman Kaser are sorority sisters at the University of Oregon. two or three weeks out of Fair« occasion of the International Pil- grimage of Seminarians. It will mark the first exit of a Pontiff from the Vatican territory in port.|game season ‘on September 1, they since 1870, being made possible by Misses' will take the field for a huntrof |the recently concluded agreement between the Holy See and the Ital- lan State, . lot making a Paris flight shon|y"thererore, be reserved to their cre- for a reunion of the Old Orchard #%0Fs: Club. The Americans want to keep; He would give the property rights a promise to the French fliers,|now granted for “means of doing” Assolant, Refevre and Lotti tohave to the “idea of doing” and the “use a reunion at Montmarte if bothfo( doing” so that original ideas and ing the progress of science and the useful arts would receive equal statutory protection with dimen- sional, physical, material or tangi~ ble “means of doing.” “It is contended by artists, au- thors, scientists and mventors, Senatpr King says, “that proprie- tary and property rights and own- ership, morally and ethically exist in an original idea or combination of original ideas, if definitely form- ulated and forwarded and function- able, and that proprietary and prop- erty rights and ownership flow to | the use or application of the origi~ nal idea or combination of ideas, provided that they be reduced to record form, irrespective of, or in combination with physical, material planes succeeded Atlantic Ocean. in crossing lhejnovel and operative utilization of original ideas capable of porward- or tangible means of making the ideas practical and functionable,” ¢ '