The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 28, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE EIELSON SEARCHERS T0 * * » » * * “ALL THE NEWS ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1929. ALL THE TIME” * * * » L » * * * * * * * MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS LEAVE FAIRBANKS NEXT WEEK PRICE TEN CENTS * * * SOVIETS PLAN ANOTHER EXPEDITION MEXiCO'3 NEW P COALITION IN HOUSE SCHEME OFTEXAS MAN Representative Garner Makes Proposal to In- dependent Republicans FURPOSE OF PLAN TO CONTROL TARIFF BILL 'Obj(‘cts offim Worked Out by Democratic Leaders WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—' Representative John A, Gar- ner, of Texas, Democratic leader, has extended an in- vitation to the Independent Republicans in the House to join in forming a coalition! similar to that of controlling the tariff bill in the Senate. The object of the move, Garner said, is to insure final enactment of the tariff rates as written into the Smoot-Hawley bill by the Sen- ! ate combination. This can be done, | the Texas Representative said, by| the House approving the Senate, rate sections and sending only the; Above Is closeup of Pascual O elect, taken at Brownsville, Tex., during his journey to Hot Springs, Ark., for a rest. Below he is shown with his family. RESIDENT IN U. s RADIO STATION AT NOME BURNS CIRISTMASDAY {Station Desa;ed by Fire ; Crew and Families Al‘e Hon)eless NOME DEPARTMENT HAS HARD FIGHT | Go to Sce;x;~0ver Snow | Covered Tundra Mile fl'oln TOWn———SOS NOME, Alaska, Dec. 28—The Gov- crnment Radio Station here burned to ‘the ground Wednesday (Christ- mas) morning. It is believed the fire was caused by a defective fiue. The station was nearly a mile from town and the City Fire De- partment had difficulty in reaching the scene over the snow covered tundra |tos and the fire ran around the in- ner walls and the roof fell in. A small amount of equipment |was saved. Communication was finally es- tablished Friday with St. Michael, 250 miles away. An SOS was sent out before the Associaled Press Ploto rtiz Rubio, Mexico's new president. administrative. measures section to| \eme discussed and work- | ed out by the Democratic leaders, | includes a demand for a record | vote when the Senate bill comes | B BTG T iwhether it was picked up. \ | The station crew and families ar2 \PANTAGES Mustmadv homeless. They lost every- i ;‘Lh:ng. TELLER WAS WORRIED | The station was lined with ssber-[ |roof caved in but it is not known( COAST st 1 | { | i i SO GUARD CUTTER CHELAN RUSHES PLANES FOR RESCUE Three Fairchild airplanes taken aboard the Chelan at Seaitle were rushed to Seward tnen over the Alaska Railrcad to Fairbanks where th | thence to North Cane to search for Col. Car are b nd - Earl {one of the planes being put aboard the Cheolan just before denarture i s Hard Working G By HERBERT PLUMMER (A, P. Feature Service Writer) | WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 28— |A stocky, florid-faced bachelor— |Joseph R. Grundy—a familiar fig- nbled read 1y for the flight to Nome or Teller, Borland. The photo above shows from Seattle. /Yfi._ 3 AIRPLANES ARE READY TO - TAKE THE AIR |Fairchild Planes Are Quick- ly Assembled at Fair- banks for Air Search ISOVIET GOVERNMENT WILL GIVE MORE AID iExpedition of Three Planes, Specially Equipped, to Hunt for Eielson | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 28.—Two of the three Fair- child airplanes of the Eielson Search Expedition were yes- terday practically ready to take the air, 24 hours after arrival here. The third airplane, accord- ling to an announcement last night, was expected to be ready this morning. The planes will be tested this afternoon or Sunday for the departure to Nome and Teller on Monday or Tues- ‘day. It is understood that Matt { Niemenen “is” returning here |from Anchorage to accom- |pany the Fairchild planes to STAY IN JAIL; back to the House. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 28— ure throughout the country, al- Nome. WILSON PEACE PRIZE AWARD IS ANNOUNCED League of Nations Gets $25,000 — Baker Makes Announcement NEW YORK, Dec. 28. The ‘Woodrow Wilson Peace Prize for 1929, amounting to $25,000, has been awarded to the League of Nations for “ten years of service in the cause of world peace.” Sir Eric Drummond, Permanent Secretary of the League of Na- tions, has accepted the award ten- tatively. Final acceptance rests with the Council of the League of Nations which meets in Janu- ary. Newton D. Baker, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, said, in announcing the award: “The money is expected to be ap- plied by the League of Nations to erect a suitable memorial to Woodrow Wilson in the new build- President of ing to be erected by the League! in Geneva.” e — GOLDBERG FUNERAL TODAY i | | | | | | | associated Press Photo | Shipping men of Los Angelus | harbor have chosen Gladys O'Cor | | mell as this year's most attractije | | Pacific ocean traveler. i \ 1 | “Kip” Rhinelander COURT RULING Is Denied Release on Bond Pending Appeal from Conviction LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 28.— Judge Fricke, of the Superior Court, has denied the motion of Alexander Pantages’ counsel for his release on bend pending his appeal, because imprisonment is alleged to have endangered his health. The Court ordered the prisoner and jail attendants to procure the best medical and surgical advice possible. Judge Fricke said he believed Pantages’ condition was principally the result of “prison physhosis,” a mental depression. Pantages' counsel is preparing an appeal from his sentence of one to 50 years following conviction of arsaulting Eunice Pringle, 17-year- old coed dancer. Counsel secured 2 hearing asking for release of Pantages on the alleged grounds that he was a sick man. PRSI 55 Ten Indians Belicved Drowned; Search Fails To Find Trace of Party PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., Dec. 28. —A long and diligent search has The Nome Radio Station has not though the only public office he {been heard from since December ever held is a seat on a small Penn- |24, and the cause is not explain- sylvania town council, has taken the able. The station has an auxiliary oath of United States Senator. power plant but the supposition is| When Willlam 8. Vare was de- ithat a fire has put it out of com- nied his seat In the Senate, the mission. {name of the 67-year-old Pennsyl- The United States Signal Corps vanian came to the front immedi- has dispatched a plane from Teller ately. From the outset it has ap- |to Nome to ascertain the cause and peared that it was a question of return to Teller and report. whether Grundy would accept an TR L o, T TR appointment as Pennsylvania’s jun-] GRAF ZEPPELIN v " WILL NOT FLY, POLARVOYAGE {Flight for 1930 Definitely ! Called Of—Plans, How- | ever, Made for 1931 Will Rogers once had a wisecrack which never failed to get a laugh: | “I can't say. I haven't seen Joe Grundy.” i The humorist always pulled this | one when he was poking fun at Re- | | publicans and their attitude on gov- | |ernmental principles as they af-| {fected big business. And the in-| ference was _that the party first| saw Grundy before a definite pol- icy was declded upon. | There is no one who will dispte | that Grundy is a power in the Re-! publican party. And his power lies in the fact that he is a tariff | expert, To many the name is synony- mous with tariff. It is the man’s specialty—since 1890 he has had a ! i lled off for As presi- Zeppelin has been called of OF | ont of the B vania 1930 but fully expected that the| Manu- SR ed as indus- flight will be made in 1931. |facturers, he is regarded as in itry's leader in all matters relating i f- mg: o?if:‘ ;i;pi:;mugo::&: :n_\to the economic structure of the tion. nounced the flight had been can-|P® celled. Previously there had been| Grundy s noted for |some difference of opinion between [P€5S: BERLIN, Dec. 28.—The Aero Arc- tic Society today issued a state-’ ment saying that the projected | North Pole expedition of the Grufj“ngcr in every revision thorough-~ He works all the time Jeseph R. Grundy, the Pennsylvanian tariff expert, is an indefati- gable worked. He is shown taking a walk and in portrait. |ing the day off, Grundy spent the he rely on others. | entire day at the Congri brary digging out tariff data. sional Li- When he enters his office for warm he removes col- Secures Divorce from Funeral services for the late . Lester Goldberg took place at 2i, His Octoroon W o'clock this afternoon from the| chapel of the Juneau-Young Un-! dertaking Parlors. The Rev. H. R. Allen of the Lutheran Church con- ducted the services and the in terment was in Evergreen Cemete Many friends followed the remain: to the cemetery. Pallbearers were George Cleme: Joe Hager, Fred Gregg, Gus Mat tilit, M. Goldberg and Joe Hunter. - SEEKS CUBAN SUFFRAGE “Kip” Rhinelander, scion of a weal- thy New York family, has been granted a divorce decree in the District Court from his octoroon (wife, Alice Rhinelander. She did not contest the case. There are no children and no property set- | tlement. The decree does not touch financial arrangements. “Kip" {has been paying his wife an allow- ance. . —— HAVANA, Dec. 28—Senora Ama-| lia Mallen de Ostolaza, president o::‘Tremors Alarm the Suffragist Society of Cuba,|Residents in plans an intensive drive before Cu- | Lk ban congress this winter seeking |(Oklahoma Cities ratification of the equal suffrage measure. .- U. S. IMPORTS OPIUM OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. Dec. 28.—Tremors sufficient to cause persons to forsake their homes in alarm, occur- red last night at El Reno, Union City, Tulsa and here. No one is known to have been injured and no damage has been reported. |o I l . I ‘WASHINGTON.—America’s opium I imports are listed from only four‘o countries, in the commerce depart- e ment reports. In September $71,938 e worth was purchased in Jugo-Slavia | e and Albania, ‘$56,973 in Turkey and e $5,130 in the United Kingdom. > | LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Dec. 28.— failed to result in any traces of a party of 10 Indians, five men and five women, who sailed from here Christmas afterncon in a small trolling boat for Kitkatla, where they expected to arrive be- fore 10 o'clock that night. There is considerable open wat- er to cross on the trip and it is |believed the small boat was | swamped. e U. S. HAS LION’S SHARE | OF WORLD POWER SUPPLY !Dr. Eckener and Capt. |Burns, Secretary of the Aero Arc- tic Society as to the feasibility of the proposed flight. Dr. Eckener said that neither |the Zeppelin Company nor the {Aero Arctic Society were able to ,obtain insurance and the Zeppelin \was worth more turning to other projects for further demonstrations |of serviceability. ! It is now announced that the |Zeppelin may be taken over long \distances and among other things lis a flight to Latin-America. Capt. Burns said, however, that |the Aero Society hoped to secure insurance from British companies. Sl L O seevs0e:000re . TODAY’S STOCK L] . QUOTATIONS . ece 00000000000 | BOSTON, Dec. 28—The national yindustrial conference board has computed that the United States produces 96 per cent of the world’s natural gas. This country also produces, says the same authority, 68 per cent of the crude oil, 39 per cent of the coal and 36 per cent of the water power. The totals for the world in 1928 NEW YORK, Dec. 28. — Alaska | |Juneau mine stock is quoted at |are given as 1,450,000,000 short tons 7, American Ice 37!%, Bethlehem (of coal, 1,323,000,000 barrels of crude | Steel 91%, General Motors 397%, Voil of 42 gallons each, 1,640,000,000,- Combustion 5%, International Har- 000 cubic feet of natural gas and vester 76, Kennecott 58%, Magma 38,000,000 water horsepower. |48%, Montgomery-Ward 467%, Na- ——————— |tional Acme 17%, Standard Oil of Pour thousand of Michigan’'s 7,083 California 59%, Standard Oil of prison inmates are single and only New Jersey 64%, Texas Corpora- ‘232 are divorced. ‘uon 56. Walter | cent holiday, while others were tak- |lar and tie as well. Seldom does INSULIN MONOPOLY IS CHARGED BY GERMANS ses that | production method was discovered the German insulin committee is by a recognized authority. If it encouraging a manufactur mo- | were merely a question of an addi- nopoly of that valuable edy by [ticn of a new preparation to the its refusal to test a new production four now being manufactured, method which is said to reduce its is pointed out, the committee’s soli- cost by 50 per cent, have been made ’cilude would be comprehensible. But in medical circles here. The com- |since it is, in fact, a new process of ymittee has been subjected to se-[manufacture, invoiving a saving to vere criticism because it is said to|the consumer, the committee's re- have granted four German chem- | fusal to investigate, is denounced |ical works the exclusive right to | - eee ~ }mm“tw"" g proauct |sT. Louls TO MAVE MARK TWAIN HOME ST. LOUIS, Dec. 28. origi- |nal home of Mark Twain, the house he com- |in which he was born, is soon to b no right jmoved from its site in the to the |village of Florida, Mo., to the Mark \fferers | Twain State Park, near ‘e town. BERLIN, Dec. 28.—Ch The commitiee is further alleged to have promised the f facturers that it would refl test insulin products s competitors. - Critics of mittee contend that it ha to encourage a monopoly detriment of thousands of - - from, disbetes. ‘ Deputy Marshal J. M. Regan is a The committee’s attitude Is de- | passenger for Valdez on the North- |Plored also because the new insulin western. ~The litt) little it | If he wants |anything, instead of ringing a bell |for a secretary, he gets it himself. Grundy takes no time for play. | |work he sheds his coat and vest.|He has but one hobby: Politics as On a re- ‘If the day i |it affects the economic structure jof the country. ICY HIGHWAY PROVES DANGEROUS TO AUTOS It's an ill wind that blows nobody good The south wind blew into Ju- neau the other day, briging with it rain and snow which cooperated in the manufacture of the icy- coatings of streets and highways in and near Juneau. It also blew the Juneau Motor |company several hours of business, according to Harry Lucas, proprie- tor. The garage wrecking car spent almost the entire evening 13L‘sl(>x'd¢y on Glacier Highway, pull- |ing cars out of ditches and sending them on their way. Although no serious accide have been reported, driving condi- | tions, both in the city limits and “on the highway, are unusually pre- | carious. - eee The Williamses of Tampa have outstripped the Jones and Smith families. There are 699 families of {Wiltiams. | |ADDITIONAL RUSSIAN EXPEDITION PLANNED MOSCOW, Dec. 28 —Commander Menjaniov, of the Soviet Military Air Force, announces an additional Russian expedition of three air- | planes will be sent shortly to join | the search for Col. Carl Ben Elel- son and Earl Borland. The Soviet planes will be equip- . | ped with special apparatus and the pilots will be provided with spee- |ially made fur-lined clothing and a food supply to last for several months, | The Soviet Government has al- |ready ordered two airplanes at | Providence Bay, Siberia, to join in ithe search and also prepared a plane, similar to the Land of So- |viets which made the flight to |New York City, from Moscow, via Alaska, to go to Siberia. This is to be commanded by Pilot Shes- \takov, national hero, who com~ manded the Land of Soviets on the record flight. Y WILBUR HAS MADE REQUEST | WASHINGTON, Dec. 28—In re- |sponse to a suggestion from Ex- plorer Stefansson, Secretary of In- |terior Wilbur has asked further {ald from Soviet Russia in search for Eielson. The Interior Secretary has re- quested the Governor of Alaska to |ask the Soviet Radio Station at Wrangell Island to send daily weather bulletins to Alfred J. Lo- men, in charge of the search ex- peditions, Stefansson has telegraphed See- |retary Wilbur appreciation of the {latter’s prompt response to his pre- |vious suggestion that the Soviet |Government be asked to aid in {the search. | SECRETAR' DAILY WEATHER REPORTS ORDERED BY SOVIET GOVT. WASHINGTON, Dec. 28. — Ae~ cording to advices received here, |the Soviet Government has in- |Structed the colony of scientists * 8 and Eskimos on Wrangell Island, in the Arctic, to send daily radio reports of weather conditions to {Nome, Alaska, for the benefit of the fliers aidiog in the search for Eielson and Borland. b Secretary Wilbur of the Interior Department has been advised in- formally of this action which came indirectly in.response to a from the Interior Secretary sent onm. the suggestion of Explorer son through the Governor of aska. . BOY BABY FOR MOODYS A boy baby was born to and Mrs. H. A. Moody, at the ily home in Thane, this mom Mother and baby are reported