The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 4, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIV., NO. 5194. JUNEAU, ALAS A, WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 4, 1929, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS (PRICE TEN CENTS SEARCH STARTED FOR MISSING PLANE AND 8 PERSONS ! TARIFF FIGHT STARTS TODAY READY TO 60 Borah Leads Opposition and Smoot Is Spokesman for Senate Regulars WASHINGTON, Sept. 4—Demo- crats and independent Western Re- publicans in the Senate have mar- shalled forces for a vigorous fight , on the majority organization tariff bill when the Senate takes up the measure today. Senator Borah, of Idaho, is the main stay of the Republican op-‘ position group and Senator Smoot, of Utah, is tariff spokesman for the regular Republicans, Both Senators - said: ready for a fight.” —————————— FORMER NAVY “We are By KIRKE SIMPSON WASHINGTON, Sept. 4—As al- lied and German conferces have | been struggling along in the Young plan discussion at the Hague,| America could well sigh with relief | at one of the parley's aspects—final ‘ evacuation of the Rhineland. Departure of the last United | | States troops from occupicd sec- | |tions of Germany six years ago | marked the lifting of a burden from Washington which has not returned to trouble it. | Recent developmerts in the rep- | araticns fuss, with England willing | Ito take her remaining 6,000 Tom- | mies out and France standing pat ion Keeping her 54,000 there, re- calls the sudden withdrawal of the residue ¢f American troops from | Coblenz in 1923. | A year before the war depart- iment sought permission to bring ihome Major General Allen's com- mand from Coblenz, the Yankee icontingent had dwindled to a thiid {the size of a wartime infantry reg- | iimcnt. The smallest force at pres- i i eni in the region is Belgium's—- 2,800 men which she, in sympathy with England, has agreed to re- cude by evacuating the ten-year zone. AMERICA’S FORESIGHT R ON YOUNG PLAN POINT TOU Not since the transport St. Mi- hiel landed the last thousand regu- jlars from the Rhineland at Sa- | {vannah, Charleston and New York Tl‘l omas Reid, Kllled in ’1 has Washington had any connection with military sanctions for en- gle‘/;ilell"ld $aces’ yas | forcement Lof peace treaties terms. or Wo Iears go The whittling down of Aller force was in line with the policy CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 4.— | of President Harding and Secretary Mrs. Dorothy Reid, widow of Hughes to decrease Germany's eco- Thomas Reid, has arrived here nomic burdens to facilitate a rep- from Downey, California, to collect |arations settlement. $4,000 prize money which her hus-| France, however, pressed for mili- band earned\ by his death flight.|tary occupation of the Ruhr, to The two were married one day be-:compcl payments which Germany fore Reid came to Cleveland to|declarad were outside her capacit'. undertake a flight. | Into this situation Secretary In addition to the $4,000 prize Hughes threw himself. In his fa- money, the widow will be givcn‘moug New Haven speech he point- $1,500 from purses won by other|ed the road uitimately toward the 11IETs at hale races. | Dawes reparations plan: Reid’s funeral was held at Hoosic January 10, 1923, word came o0i- Falls, N. Y., Sunday. Jrzciauy to Washington that occupa- Reid was with the Navy Air yion would be carried through by Mappers in Alaska two years ago. wyanco. A year earlicr the state Reid crashed after a solo endur-| jenartment had successfully op- ance flight, condition of the fuel ELIEVES HER OF ALL Arcas o occupa- tiom in 152 [ Dr French tioh [} THE adverse influence ‘on tne repara~ tions problem in Europe from which | Washington stood rigidly aloof. French determination to pro- ceed with the occupation change: the whole face of affairs. After a conference with Hughes and War OTHER POILUS) FOR WHOM tank, etc., showing that he dropped to sleep from exhaustion and the poscd the war department’s desire to withdraw Allen’s troops on the Secretary Weeks, President Hard- ing announced that orders had gone to Allen for immediate and plane come down i;;mum‘l that action might have an 5 WAR HAS OCCuPrYInG fpsl gvacuation. 5 =] Only a handfull of Arerican so!- | | diers connected with the graves|unmoved. registration service, were to rvmnm.i American withdrawal created re- | direct expression of American lack |the air. free gret in Paris. French officials felt it would be construed in Ber- lin as a rebuke to France and stif- fen German resistance to French and other allied reparation de- GRIEF | A MEMORY ~ | YANKS CROSS/ING | THE MOSELLE RIVER INTO GERMANY ~ Anglo-American Naval Accord Being Reached GENEVA, Sept. 4.—British Prime Minister Ramsay Mac- Donald told the Assembly of the League of Nations that a preliminary under- standing on naval matters has been reached with the United States on 17 of 20 disputed points. The Premier announced that the Anglo-American ac- cord will be a document that will establish peace and will not merely be an agreement as to naval armaments. ©eeececoeveee e | BUSY 6 MONTHS IS ENDED TODAY BY PRES. HOOVER Period Passed Has Seen Many Accomplishments | Being Attained : WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—Presi- 1 ( i MAIL SERVICE 1S SUSPENDED T0 HUNT LOST | Plane with Five Passengers and Crew of Three Is Missing LAST SEEN LEAVING NEW MEXICO CITY Plane Chang; Course to Avoid Arizona, Which Was Wind Swept LBUQUERQUE, N. M., Sept. 4.—The Transcontinen- tal Air Transport Company today suspended air travel on the line between Waynoka, Oklahoma, and Winslow, Ari- zona, to place all planes at Waynoka, Clovis and Winslow in a search for a plane car- rying five passengers which was lost yesterday west of dent Herbert Hoover reached the- {TYPICAL CONTIN. ARMY G mands, in The Washington government was | counsel For the United States, however, leulated as a | withdrawal of the last men cl It left American policy economic and other non-military aspects of the| 1t not to be doubt- | ed that the order of sympathy in the French policy. In England opinion was divid further occupation. prevailed, to deal with sne latter end of his first six months as {Chief Executive and looked back on a busy period which has seen | weighty problems of the Adminis- tration enunciated and important | projects undertaken. Six months ago Herbert Hoover stood in a drizzling rain and took |the oath of office and instituted |conversations with England which are expected to soon result in an international agreement on naval disarmament. } The President declared himself |unequivoeally for the strictest pos- |sible conseryation of oil resources ,and has taken a step toward that end. | The President has demanded the reorganization . of .#he Republican Party in the Southern States, a commission has been appointed to make a study of law enforcement and another commission is at work on problems of child education. The farm bill embodying the Some leaders urged that Briti troops also be recalled; others that 1 |reparations problem and to press jdeah of the President has becn |the offer of unofficial American approved by Congress and a Fed- aid in solution of that difficulty. leral Farm Board has been ap- they remain, while taking no part ————— W. L. Ketchen, Gencral Manager of the British Columbia Pulp andi Paper Mills at Port Alice, B. C. | and Mrs. Ketchen, are making the round trip on the Princess Chnr—! lotte. | | Treasury Gain Over = Last Year Totals | $133.356.46, Says Smith The net cash balance in the Territorial Treasury at the close of business on Aug- ust 31, last, was $1,000,360.51, according to the monthly financial report made by Treasurer Walstein G. Smith to Gov. George A. Parks. This is $133,36546 in excess of the balance reported for the same date in 1928. A significant feature in the report was the improve- ment in the Public School Current Fund. vast year on the date of the report it showed a deficit of $449,- 637.91 while this year the de- ficit had dropped to $133,- 769.53. | Governor of Missouri, as Secretary { HYDE PICKED FOR FARM PORTFOLIO .BY GOOD UNDER HOOVER COMMISSION EDITORS NOTE: President Hoover’s selection of his Cabi- net brought many surprises and much conjecture as the choices werc made known. Many of the seleclions were regarded as politically unprecedented. The story of the men and events behind the scenes in thesc en- grossing moves now is told by James L. West, Associated Press staff writer, in a series of six articles, of which the following is the fifth. By JAMES L. WEST (Associated Press White Housc Correspondent) WASHINGTCN, Gept. 4. In choosing Arthur M. Hyde, former of Agriculture, President Hoover caused much arching of political eyebrows. For he picked a man who had been definitely in the opposition | camp during the soul-racking pre- convention period. @000 cceseeceoe In importance this post was rat- MAC CRACKEN SEES FLYING BOAT AS LOGICAL WASHINGTON, Sept. 3—The huge flying boat, plying along the routes of an earlier mode of trans- portation, the steamboat, is seen by William P. MacCracken, assist- ant secretary of commerce for aer- onautics, as a logical step in air transportation in the United States. The thousands of miles of navi- gable streams and lakes are poten- tial flying boat routes where space for alighting and taking off is un- restricted and where emergency landing places are always at hand. MacCracken, who recently return- ed from a three-month trip abroad, said he was much impressed by the use of large flying boats on vari- ous air lines in Europe. “Europe is far ahead in the de- velopment of flying boats,” the air secretary said, “and there should be more development along that line in this country.” ‘With unlimited space in which to take off and land, huge flying boats could carry heavy cargoes b2- tween the waterway cities which formerly relied on the steamboat as the principal means of, transporta- FOR INLAND W ATERS tion. They could carry heavier loads than land planes, aeronautic ex- perts point out, because their run- ways for taking, off and landing would not be restricted as it is on land. Trans-lake service already is in operation across Lake Erie be- tween Detroit and Cleveland. This soon will be extended by the Stout lines to Buffalo with two Dornier super-wahl flying boats purchased in Germany. To stimulate development of the flying boat in the United States, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics has unflertaken the building of a seaplane test channel at its laboratories at Langley Fiela, Va. In the 2,500-foot channel, expect- ed to pe completed next year, mod- | els of flying boat hulls ‘will be | ed by many sccond only to that of Attorney General, since farm relief had been almost as great an issue in the campaign as Consequently, it was not surprising that Mr. Hoover carly set himself to the selection of this official. How he proceeded has only now become known. In years gone by agricultural secretaries had been chosen largely from among farm paper editors and heads of agricul- tural colleges. Naturally, the new President first turned to these sources. Many names were pre sented, only to be rejected after careful canvasses. For a time the task appeared almost insurmountable, and there was talk that William M. Jardine would be continued as Sccretary. However, soon afterword dine announced that he cepted an important post outside of the Government and would retire March 4. At this juncture James W. Good, § who had conducted the campaign in the great western farming re- gion and subsequently was made Secretary of War, tock a hurried trip to Washington to consult with “the Chief,” as Hoover was called by all of his political licutenants. In his vigorous, nervous fashion he told Hoover the idea that the Agricultural Secretary had to come from the farm colleges, papers or organizations was a mistaken one. “What, you need is a big execu- tive, he said, and proceeded to hammer home arguments to sup- port his position. Hoover listened, adopting a role which comes easy with him. Suddenly he made his decision. “All right; go find him,” he said | in substance. Good set out and Hoover went to Florida for his pre-inaugural vaca- tion. After a process of elimination Good centered upon Hyde, who then was in Florida fishing. The President-elect was communicated with, and the former Missouri Governor found himself suddenly summoned to Belle Isle. The two had met once before. Prohibition. | jward appearances he itypes which will have a minimum |COnVersation and soon afterward of drag in the water and which will ]Hfi"; Rt the Z(;:f{ng e supporters of former Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Illinois, the most studied in the development of hull |NOW there was a sort of sizing up VETERAN SLAYS RED CROSS WORKFR EXPLOSION ON | PLANE:JUMPS, - LANDSSAFELY {Mechanic Miller Found on Desert—Search Start- ed for Major Wood [ NEEDLES, Cal, Sept. 4—Wan- | dering aimlessly and near collapse, | Ward Miller, aged 25, mechanic, who accompanied Major John 4 | Wood, of Wausau, Wis., on the ill- [fated aitempt to each Cileveland {from Los Angeles in a nonstop race, was found Tuesday on the | desert by a prospector. | Search is being made for Wood. Miller said he just remembered an explosion in the plane before he jumped. He pulled the string of his parachute and then lapsed into unconsciousness. He knew nothing more until he awoke to find himself crimpled on desert sand. >-re - 00 en-ue000000 . TODAY'S STOCK . QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 4.— Alaska u mine stock 1s quoted to- Assocrated Press Photos Believed to he mentally deranged, David W. Licarraga, disabled Ju to Hoover at the Kansas City con- vention, but now he is in the Hoover fold. Judging frem out= is a most trusted adviser of the Chief Ex- ecutive. ——————— 0000000000000 . HALIBUT PRIC . ®000c0vecscvoe SEATTLE, Sept. 4—Forty-one thousand pounds of halibut were sold here yesterday at 17 and 19'% cents. PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., Sept. ¢ require a minimum of horsepower to get into the air with heavy loads, —One hundred and eighty-one thousand pounds of halibut were sold here yesterday. American fish sold for 8 and 15 cents and Cana- dian for 8% and 136 cents. World War veteran, fatally stabbed Miss Egie M. Ashmun, executive |day at 8%, American Tobacco A secretary of the San Francisco Red Cross. 1199, American Tobacco B 198%, e 7 B 3 | Bethlehem Steel 135%, Continental formidable candidate in opposition J,M"“ s 15; Corn Products 113%, 1Student Pilot £91 Cudahy A International Paper Under Arrest, \, Titernational Paper B 23%, ational Acme 34, Standard Oil Felonious Charge lof California 75%, Stewart-Warner |66 American Ice 50%, General |Motors 747%, Indepndent Gas 32%, 4—An 18- International Harvester '136. ———— NEW YORK, Sept. | year-old student pilot, who cracked up a borrowed plane while giving his sister a ride, is under arrest| i at the Coney Island Hospital under | Roy Biake, bound over to the the pilot, completed but four hl)urs'wn'“,, mfunluughcer for the death required of an 18-hour course jof Chris Arness, was set free fol- Enthusiastic over the progress, bhe! l?w““ 8o investigation by the took his sister aloft. The plane Federal grand jury at Ketchikan. sputtered out gas and Gustave,Arness is said to have died follow- headed for the open lot but landed,n# 2 fight with Blake, who is a nose first and the plane was de- S&ilor on the Coast and Geodetic stroyed, both occupants being se-|SUrvey boat Explorer. The grand riously injured. jury returned not a true bill ex- 3 "honrx-nluug Blake, ROY BLAKE FREED pointed. \INDIAN ARRESTED AT l ‘arrest at Sitka, charged with shoot- ‘in'r Eddy Jim, another Indian, ac- icording to advices reccived by ‘Umlcd States Marshal Albert White, | Eddy Jim, it was said, though seri- “ously wounded, will recover, b ooting took place at An- l;mon Saturday. Deputy Mar- shal William Schnabel, Sitka, under instructions from Marshal White, |immediately went there. He re- jturned to Sitka last night with |George in custody. He will be {given a hearing before Judge R. | W. DeArmond in the United States; ’Commls:ywnr-r‘s Cour: at Sitka. | ——re—— | iMARSIlAL SULLIVAN GO l SOUTH WITH 9 PRISONERS | United States Marshal Harvey |Sullivan of the Third Division | enroute south on the steamer Alas- ka, duc here tonight, with nine prisoners, Seven are insane pa- tients for Morningside Sanitarium and two minors for the Golden Colo., training school. He- will pick up another insane, Chris Rice, at Wrangell, Marshal Sullivan will go to Wash- ington from Colorado, making the trip to consult Department of Jus. tice officers | | ANGOON FOR SHOOTING | William George, Indian, is under Grants, New Mexico. The plane, City of San Francisco, carried besides the passengers, a crew of three. i The plane left Albuquerque and never reported at Wins- low. The ship headed slightly south on a course to avoid wind swept Arizona. | All available planes started at daybreak today to search the region in:an effort to lo- cate the plane and eight miss- ing persons. ARIZONA AREA " STORM SWEPT Rain, Wind and Electrical * Storm Does Damage— One Town Is Flooded PHOENIX, Ariz, Sept. 4.—This section is today recovering from a severe rain, wind and electrical storm. Highways are impassable, train service is delayed and air- planes lines are suspended. The cloudburst marooned 300 au- tomobiles when it carried away a bridge. 4 Business houses in Florence are flooded with 18 inches of water which ran through the streets. At Wellton, lightningfelled trees and telephone lines and did other damage. ——————— ' This Boy Is ‘Roully All \Broken Up | s . BELLAIRE, Ohio, Sept. 4. |® —Billy Neuhart, aged 13 years, who probably broke more bones than any other boy in the world, lay abed today with fractures of both legs. He recently recovered from two broken arms and was preparing to start for school when he fell in a basement and broke both legs. The boy's total fractures during the past 12 years ® number 32. e ccceccccccen sees0e et SET BERLIN, Sept. 4—The time when |human beings may be pushing each \other off this planet for lack of |elbow room is receding. | Only two years ago, it was esti- !mated that by 2100 the total popu- lation, growing at its current rate, would advance from its present 1,906,000,000 to 6,000,000,000, about Ithe limit for which foed could be "produced. But Prof. Albrecht Penck, Ger- many's leading geographer, in a /communication to the Prussian Academy of Sciences now gives an increased capacity. He places the maximum popula- tion at 8,000,000,000, an average density of 140 per square mile, or allowing for desert regions, a prac- lticnl density of 237, which corres- 'POPULATION LIMIT | AT 8 BILLION ponds to a little more than the present population density of New York state—2179. Europe is in a bad way, accord- ing to Prof. Penck. With its 3= 750,000 square miles, he says it can support only 550,000,000 and it al- ready has 480,000,000. South Amer- ica, with 6,800,000 square miles, could comfortably accommodate the whole present population of the earth. In fact, he looks for tre- mendous development there and predicts that Brazil is destined to become one of the most powerful nations. Before the limit is reached, he forsees deserts and other waste | places turned into productive areas, because there will be sufficient man power to do so,