The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 19, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY VOL X)\XV., NO 5259 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA TUESDAY NO\T;MB]:R |9 192‘) MEMBER OF A SOCIATE D PRm SECRETARY OF WAR G0OD HAS LOST A FIGHT Passes Away in Washing-1 ton—Courage, and Re- sistance Overcome PRESIDENT AND WIFE COMFORT MRS. GOOD Funeral to Be Held Tomor- row from White House —Burial in Jowa WASHINGTON, Nov. W. Good, Secretary of War in President Hoover's Cabinet, died! night after blood poisoning | ly overcame his courage and| nce. Several days ago he| underwent an appendicitis opera- tion at the Walter Reed Hospital. Before lapsing into final uncon- | sciousn Secretary Good turned to his physician and said, feebly: | “I never lost a fight in my li and I am not going to lose Lhis: one.” | Mrs. Good ‘and two sons were near the bedside at the time of Lhe Secrciary’s death. dent Hoover was among th(" f to learn of the death and with his wife went to comfort Mrs. | Good. | | | 18.—James Funeral Tomorrow * ¥ The funeral will be held fromi the East Room of the White House | Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock and burial will be at Cedar Rapids, | Iowa. { The Senate adjourned the night session last night and the President postponed his business conference scheduled for Wednesday until[ Thursday night. Fiags a7 Half Staff All flags on public buildings throughout the country were last night ordered placed at half staff beginning this morning and dis- played so until Friday. The regular Tuesday conference | between the President and press | cerrespondents, and, also the Cab-, inet meeting were pnmpuned today. | ! Secretary of State Stimson 1ssued\ a proclamation, at the directio of | President Hoover, closing all Ex ecutive Departments in the cily until 1 o'clock Wednesday after-! noon. s amppis o SO T them has not been a succe wife decline to give rcas HITS ITS IN MA By WILLIAM R. KUHNS Financial Editor (Aszociated Press Feature Service) NEW YORK, Nov. 19.—Invest- " hite ent trusts and trading corpora- ng‘fé ’3‘5;0 thf:n ne a\z?onm:asv;oln- tions received their baptism of fire ored many distinguished sons, win'in the recent selling crisis on the be the place for the final mark Stock exchanges. They experienced of respect. The body will be taken ® sharp decline in the market value to Cedar Rapids for burial, accom- Of their securities. ! panied by Mrs. Good, the two sons’ Many of them, .however, with | Acting Secretary Hurley, Gen. Sum- |large liquid reserves, were able to merall, Chief of the®Army Staff,|Dick up large blocks of securities Senate and House delegations, and_dt attractive prices. Charles Francis Adams, Secretary Charles S. Mott and Mrs. Dee F of Navy, as representative of the President. When James William Good be- came Secretary of War in the cabi- net of President Hoover, he was fa- miliar with the needs of the army through long legislative experience. | He had served as a member of the House of Representatives for | twelve years, from 1909 to 1921, and rose to the important position of chairman of the house appropria-| tions committee. In that capacity Heavy financing py these corpo- jrations earlier in the year raised |the ageregate total of their capital it around three billion dollars. This accounted, in part, for the large |increase in brokers’ borrowings. Most of those organized within {recent months saw their securities drep' to prices far below those at which they were offered to the pub- lic. The more seasoned issues, a few of which had doubled or trebl- {ed in price, “fell back sharply ir common with the shares of all ]Lau- {ing railroads, public utility and in- Mr. Good had much to do with the { dustrial companiss. i appropriations | Z fagiation” ale-he . ADpEY Estimates of purchases by invest- o) ment trusts during the height of PRSI ) (Continued on =age Two) Brookhart “W?° Sure for “Wildman” Senate Agrees By KIRKE SIMPSON (A.P. Feature Service Writer) WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—It was not very long after Smith W. Brookhart crashed his way into the Senate in 1927 that his Republican cclleagues began ‘commenting on the fact that the “W.” in his name stood for Wildman. He had literally crashed in, with the political scalp of that one-time Towa <“radical” the late Senator Albert B. Cummins, dangling at his belt. And when he wound up his re- marks on “wet Washington,” deuv- ered as a Senate segsion with u:w w o( Colum- uray Mott agree that marriage with eral Mators viee president and his ull against each other. INVESTMENT TRUST BIG TEST RKET SLUMP the hysterical sclling movement range from $300,000000 to $500,- 000,000. Some of these funds were with- drawn from the call loan market, where they had been placed for temporary investment in anticipa- tion of just such an emergency. On the eve of the break officials of one trust made known that more than 90 per cent of its assets were in cash but the proportion generally was believed to be much smaller. Some investment groups also were believed to be heavy sellers of securities in the early s the reaction and Wall Str ly awaits their quarterly and semi- 5annual reports to discover the changes that have taken place in their securn.y holdmga FALL'S RANCH IS PURCHASED | | |Pride of Former Secretary of Interior Sold to Satisfy Note and Mortgage ALMOGORDO, New Mexico. Nov. 19—The far flung lands of the Tres Ritos Ranch. once the pride ‘Trip from Juneau To New York Cizy, IH!”IIH[II{’([ EUREKA, Cal, Nov. 19— the attempt to sail from Ju- neau, Alaska, to New York City in a 16-foot skin boat, was interrupted when high seas forced Alfred Voight to desert his craft and swim ashore, thirty miles north of here. Voight has started his plans to rescue his‘craft and continue thz journey, however. eec0o0ecoe 600000000000 ©co0 000000000 D (QUAKE SHAKES EASTERN COAST ~ LONG DISTANGE: Nova Scotia Reports D age—New England' States Rattled BOSTON, Mass., Nov, 19—A quake shook the eastern coast line from | Rhode Island northward to New- foundland at 3:55 o'clock yesterday afernoon and continued at inter- vals until 4 o'clock. Shocks were severe in Nova Seco- tia districts, several places report- ing houses being torn from their foundations. A long, iron bridge, near Capg! Breton, was knocked out of n]ign; ment. - " Buildings shook, pictures rattled, doors slammed and furniture danc- ed in the New Eng]and states. RECEIVERSHIP MISUNDERSTOOD Counsel for—W: B. Foshay and Company, of Minne- apolis, Makn: Statemenl MINNEAPOL. 1\ Minn,, Nov. 19. —Liquidation of the assets in the j three W. B. Foshay holding com- § panies in an orderly manner is one of the purposes of the fricnd- 3 ly recievership action involving the companies, J. E. Brill, one of the counsel for Foshay said. Brill asserted that the receiver- ship is generally misunderstood. The receivership does not involve any bankruptey petition as stated by @ in first reports and carried the Associated Press. He said it was a petition for a receivership brought in a friendly manner in the Federal court by officers the company with the/ companies’ consent. of P el Wum o | | | | —famv:z:‘ 5 { Pretty Elizabeth Morrow, daughter of the United | States Ambassador to Mexico, who has been granted her request to teach Mexican children without salary. | She is a sister-in-law of the famous “Good-Will Ambassador,” Colonel Charles Lindbergh, whose mother has also devoted her llfs to wachinz youth, (T | Wife Who Namcd “Peaches” Remarries Deaths | Two Mcney, Science, Loving Care Fail —Money. science having failed to cure {ism of 17-year-old Beatrice Bar- of Two Harbors's wealthiest citizen, gone, Barton kilied her and then |ton, daughter himgelf. Coroner there and he | inquest, The bodies i has of i M«-xu-an Puplls Their FII‘ l l.esson KILLS INVALID -| “2 " = DAUGHTER AND | | | THEN HIMSELF i TWO HARBORS, | and loving care l : | Thomas is no other possible theory | decided to of Barton, President the First National his daughter, were found in Bar- i 'ton's car, parked on a county road ! | The officials of the bank said the ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS DIES At the extreme left Miss Morrow is shown in her usual pose. At the right, she is receiving a splendid welcome from her future pupils, who all turn out to pay homage to "their new teacher. The lower plctum shows the daughter of the Ambassador as she gives _her Me“can pupll! their fl:jt leuon. | 'On Third Honcymoon H .~ | Ends Case |S8" . v 1 to Cure Minn,, Nov. 19. the invalid- | and with hope Brown said | hold no Bank, and 1IN Brill said that if ligquidation of " ‘ assets were carried out “as I be-| | licve they can be, there is on ap- | Mrs. Katherine Allen, who has re- | parent reason why the crec nm.m married in Paris after (h\ul"(‘m[: should not be pzid and the cor-| Edgar Allen, theatrical agent. She | {bank’s condition i5 excellent. | Barton'’s daughter was crippled |and mute. He had “gfieved over {her for years. s aa_cpenne, BY E.L. DOHENY: bia grand jury, no doubt theyiof Albert B. Fall, former Sccre- thought again of the possible sig- jtary of the Interior, have been nificance of that middle name. |bought by Edward L. Doheny, oil They had been listening to a|magnate, at a special masters sale very unusual speech,, even for the for $132,000. Senate, which has lately grown| Fall is in El Paso, Texas. Under hardened to the unprecedented. |order of the Third District Court, Yet any Senate gallery god would |following the mortgage forclosure, iexpect Brookhart to say just aboutfaction of the sale was made to what he felt like, and say it blunt- ‘sansry a note given the oil man ly. He has a bulldog look and very[on December 20, 1928 for $124,000 much of a bulidog habit about him.!and six per cent interest. The ‘When he draws bead on a poll-‘?nof.e covered a personal mortgage tical situation or any other matter held by Doheny. in the Senate, he aims every word ——————— straight at the bullseye. : Texas suffers from a dearth of And as a one time national cham- I"scuoox ma'ms” The State Univer- ——_Isity received requests for 1,351 and ' Continued on Page Eight) jm ‘only 506, poration returned to the holders in a sound condition.” RS FISH SHIPPED SOUTH The Juneau Cold Storage ship- ped 66 boxes of frozerd halibut, 4 tierces of mild cured salmon, and 5 boxes of frozen fish south on the mer Yukon. The halibut ship- nt is for the San Juan Fishing and Packing Company in Seattle; the tierces of salmon are for 1= ous parties in Seattle; and the frozen fish is consigned to Ketchi- kan. Col. Lindbergh’s Shoulder “Snaps Out”; Is Reset Again ENGLEWOOD, N. J., Nov. 19.—Authorities of the Engle- wood Hospital today said that X-ray photographs re- vealed that the dislocation of the shoulder Col. Charles A. Lindbergh received in an airplane mishap in Mexico last winter had “snapped out” again. The shoulder was reset by Dr. Attler Phil- lips. The flier suffered no ill effects. The X-ray plates were made Sunday at Lind- bergh’'s request. CRCRC N . » stock- | | named *“Peaches” Browning in her | | divoreé suit. Frederick E. Shoin- | ger, cinema representative, is the <room, STUDENT FINED $500; 1S CAUGHT N LIQUOR RAID ‘International Newsreel Magazine Prepares Plea In $1,000,000 Libel Suit| i | | BROWNSVILLE, Tex., Nov. 19 |Plans to plead “truth and ji cation” were announced by C |E. Keeley, an attorney for Col Weekly who is here preparing jdefend the magazine against a lion dollar libel suit by R. B. C ger of Brownsville, Republic tional committeeman from T The suit was based on artic - Hiquor mil- a- [ the na- (,um ty Court to the charge of pos- | URBANA, Ti, Nov. 19.—The raid upon the Gamma Eta ma law fraternity house is so far as the law is con- ’|cerned but W. J. Sherman, senior |in the law school, arrested during raid, pleaded guilty in | Gam: ended sion apd was fined $500 and 5 | costs which amounts were paid by |- the | o Mrs. Frances Van Clief of New York, who is on her third honey- moon following her marriage to| Eugene Van Clief of Valley Stream, Long Island. She had previously | been acquitted of the murder of Dr. | D. Glenn Kirkwood, her second hus- | band, who died from a knife thrust after a jealous quarrel. International Newsreel e eeees 0000000 . TODAY’S STOCK . . QUOTATIONS @ | e c o0 s 0000 Nov NEW YORK 19.—Alaska Ju- eau Mine stock is quoted today at i Alleghany Corporation 23%, American Ice » American Alcoho! 26" ethlehem Steel 87%, Corn Products 88, General Motors 43%, concerning the political situation in |the students. jHidalgo County, Tex., scene of blttex' factional fight last Nover ber, and the patronage : m in Texas, which was investigated by a congressional committee. 121 !is scheduled to come up hrr: in| |Pederal Court December 2 — - ABBOTT GOES TO SEATTLE Paul H. Abboit, Alaska re; presen- tative of the Dupont Company, left Junedu on the steamer Yukon for Seattle where he was called by the ing a consultation with specialists as to his present health. Mr. Ab- bott w:l‘be gone for an indefinite company for the purpose of hold- j Tw gallons of assorted liquor were seized in the raid. Other students face diseiplining by the university authorities. I ) STOCKHOLDER OF FUNTER BAY MINE PASSES AWAY Mrs. who Peter Falk, Seattle woman was well known here, passed last week &t her home, ac- cording to word received by local She visited in Juneau two |sidewalk last 1go, and was the house guest and Mrs. W. E. Nowell. Falk was a stockholder in of M Mr { International Harvester 80, Kenn cott 66, National Acme 81%, Pan- American B 61, Standard Oil of salifornia 71%, New Jersey 60%% Texas Corporation 54, Combustion 11, International Paper A 26% Paper B 16%, Paper C 13% — e — ERNEST MARTIN SLIPS AND BREAKS HAND BONES Ernest Martin, driver of George Brothers truck, slipped on a frosty night while making deliveries and broke several bones in his right hand. Mr. Martin will ARCTIC FLIER HAS ACCIDENT; AID IS RUSHED |Head of Alaska Airways, Inc., in Disaster—Ice- bound Eight Days |DETAILS ARE MEAGER; RADIOED FROM NANUK Believed Dog Teams Carry News to Swenson— Dorbandt in Trouble NOME, Alaska, Nov. 19.—Wreck- ing his all-metal cabin plane, of the Alaska Airways, Incorporated: Pilot Carl Ben Eielson was ig" bound on the Siberian coast eight « days ago, according to advices re- ceived here from the Swenson fur trading schooner Nanuk, whose valuable cargo of furs and pas- sengers I Jlson was flying to res- cue. Only meager details of the wreck- ing of the plane have been re- ceived but it is believed a dog team driven by natives traveling along the coast, took the news to the Nanuk, as the radio 5 aboard the Nanuk, reported Olaf Swenson, head of the pany, also aboard the Nanuk, sending a dog team from the vessel' to the scene. No word of the f. of Elelson WS e Mocksal lan celved Dorbandt Has Accident Pilot Frank Dorbandt, with an- other cabin plane, broke an axel in an attempt to take off from Teller, Alaska, with a heavy load of gasoline to fly on a mission to rescue Eielson. Repairs are be- 5 i ing made to Dorbandt's plane while the arrival of another Alaska Air- * ways, Inc., plane is being awaited. 2 A Dblizzard is raging at Teller and here at Nome and conditions are regarded as serious. Mechaniciaz. Pl Borland, is & wephew of Dr. W. A. Borland, of his city, and visited here early last summer when on a trip to the outside and on his return. ————— CURTAIN FALLS ON JOHN CORT Formcr Wellknown Seattle Theatrical Man, Dies Suddenly in East NEW YORK, Nov. 19.—John Cort, who gained fame as a theatre man- ager more than 40 years ago by installing in his Seattle theatre the new FEdison incandescent light,” |and also an electric sign outside of = | the theatre, died suddenly last night at the home of his son, Harry Cort, in Larchmont. John Cort in the days following A the great fire in Seattle, built and operated Cort’s Standard Theatre, an old-time variety house, with | boxes, girls, bar and stage presen- tations from single turns to big icts. The theatre was in a brick constructed building at the corner of Washington and Occidental Ave= ontinued on Page Two) AFTER TODAY THEF ARE ONLY 29 be off duty for some time and is the Alaska Dano Go’d Mining Com-|now at his home on Willoughby ipany at Funter Bay. Avenue, MORE SHOPPIN