The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 31, 1929, Page 1

THE DAIIY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXV., NO. 5294, JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, | 929, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS COLD WEATHER PREVENTS SEARCH PARTY FLYING BLOCKADE AGAINST RUM RUNNERS COAST CUARD | MAINTAINING GREAT PATROL Twenty Boats Including Destroyers Extend Along East Coast RUM RUNNERS ACTIVE TO MEET BIG DEMANDS “Mother Ship” Reported Off Shore But Has Not Been Located NEW YORK, Dec. 31.—A fleet of more than 20 Coast Guard patrol boats and destroyers with the cutter Champlain are main- taining a blockade off the shore from Montauk Point, Long Island, to New Jersey to prevent rum run- ning. Although three foreign ships, supposedly loaded with liquor, are reported off Montauk Point, Coast Guard officials said there was no chance of any liquor ship getting through the blockade. They point- ed out that several small craft have been 'seized within the past few da; While vain PS—— i the Coast Guard searched in the waters for 50 miles WILL KEEP A TRYST IN ROME WATSN CHOSEN CHAMBER CHIEF FOR NEXT YEAR | G v | { |Is Elected President, God- dard Vice-President and ‘ Walmsley Secretary i i | H .G. Watson, former Secretary George A. Parks. and whoe retired from that position to enter the contracting field here, was to-' |day clected President of the Juneau | ‘Chamber of Commerce at the regu- kly meeting of the Board of : Directors of that organization. | | E. M. Goddard, Assistant Exccu- Itive Officer of the Alaska Game| | Commission, was chosen Vice-Presi- | {dent. H. G. Walmsley, local mana- | ger of the Pacific Coal Ccmpany.; was named to be Secretary. He| /has been acting in that capacity for {the past two months. | | Mr. Watson has resided in Juneam | R} (for more than four years. He is a |pioneer of the Territory and has| resided in Fairbanks and other in- terior communities prior to coming here. | | ‘Mr. Goddard is also a ploneer Alaskan, @ |at Goddard's Sanitarium, which is owned and operated by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Goddard, and at Sitka before coming here sev- eral years ago. | Associated Press Photo off the Long Island coast, the , Mr. Walmsley has lived in Ju- “mother ship” has not been lo- Mrs. Agnes Aurelia Church and her ex-husband, Francois Louis leamfl ovmpatioagiimlngh L) cated. The ship was reported two ~Church, son of the “Baking Powder King,” whom she divorced in . "o %0 ke ago transferring liquor to two Reno to satisfy the Church family. Mrs. Church is on her way to g a small auxiliary craft. Rome to meet her ex-husband, w Qne rum runner has been seiued off the New Jersey coast. NEW IRISH A SHOOYING “UNFORTUNATE | BUT UNAVOIDABLE” WASHINGTON, De* 31. — Sey. mour Lcwman, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, in a statement tc- aid the killing of thiee liqucr % % smugglers and the wounding of a Seeks Divorce fourth at Newport Sunday “was 1 unfortunate but unavoidable,” that the smugglers, having defied the Government, “have no one to blame but the Ives.” Lowman said because of the New Year’s demand, the smugglers were making unusual efforts to land liquor along the Atlantic coast. Lowman congratulated the Coast Guard upon the work and said it had been “done well.” ————— WHITE PASS | T0 REMODEL RIVER BOATS Greater Tonnage Capacity for Ore Will Be Cre- | ated, Says Hahn f i V. I. Hahn, of the White Pass and Yukon Route, is a passenger to Skagway on the Princess Norah, after spending six weeks with his' family in San Francisco. Mr. Hahn said that one White Pass Company’s Yukon steamers will be | “Assoclated Press Photo remodeled to give greater tonnage, Mildred Harrls Chaplin McGo capacity for' the transportation of ¢rMformer wife of Charies Chapll ore from Mayo and that the work wgl.:l:‘!‘:::::ud:rm ‘;‘:‘mfli: will begin immediately, at White | - v Horse. This is done to take care Pl of the increased tonnage from| Mayo, and to eliminate, as far as possible, the use of barges. Dr. and Mrs. k. H. Williams, of Skagway, who have been spending A busy tourist season is expected :;;hh‘g:]dsgf gueg:neau. i next summer, Mr. Hahn said. | . 3 A i George B. Grigsby, well-known U. 8. Deputy Marshal E. H. Sher- Ketchikan attorney, arrived on the man left on the Queen for his sta- Queen to attend court. tion at Haines. STIRS OPPOSITION IN THE SAORSTAT Pacific Coal Company. | All three of the new officers hove been - @csive ai the work of ‘the !Chamber of Commerce, serving on | various committees many times. Mr. {Watson was acting Secretary for |several months earlier this year. — SACKETT FOR hom she intends to marry again. RMY sition has ectual” {class and older s who ! vividly remember the late civil war {and fear what they call a “milita- | rist movement which may be used to break strikes or keep Irish citi- zens in subjeciion.” The authorities, political observ- op] - T0 GERMANY United States Senator from matic Post residing for many years ~ AMBASSADOR Kentucky for Diplo- | Members of an expedition wh lost somewhere between Alaska an iam Broatch, H. A. Oakes, Capt. Pat Reid, C. F. M wes, Swartman. Year’s Trend in Steps To Stardom Eielson Rescue ers say, are handling the with tact. undoubtedly be an | fact before much longer. ficers in the new army. situation The work of organiza- tion is proceeding apace and will accomplished Most of the trouble so far has to prepare for early departure for; centered on the attempts to enroll Berlin, if his nomination as Am- National University students as of- bassador to Germany is confirmed. Some of it is undoubtedly sponsored by the HAVANA, Cuba, Dec. 31.—United | States Senator Fred M. Sackett,| of Kentucky, said he would return to the United States at once and | tender his resignation as Senator | Germany has informed the United | States that Senator Sackett is ac-; secret, iliegal Irish Republican ceptable. H e Army which is still in exi 2 i — Exciting scenes took place at Na- {tional University College when the |Frec State army officer. hpeared |to enroll students in the Officers’ {Training Corps. A large number |of students objected, the gist of | their protest being: “It is not right | that the university should be turned {into a recruiting office.” | AMARILLO, Texas, Dec. 31.— | After the speeches the students Lieut. Gray, pilot; Mrs. Gray, H. L. rushed into the room where the ' allison, Robert Moore and C. M. army officers were enrolling appli- Dillon were killed when their plane |cants and threw a number oOf craghed to a golf course late yes- | “stink” bombs (terday afternoon in an attempted | T e landing. All except Dillon were dead when ambulances reached the ‘chREs DEAD [scene. Dillon died shortly aiter L} |aid reached him. THEATRE FIRE‘King and Premier |Of S]‘;am Untangle Traffic Snarl | PAISELY, Scotland, Dec. 31.—Be- tween 60 and 80 persons, most of them children, are officially esti- mated to have perished in a fire MADRID, Spain, Dec. 31.— i &ssovigied Fress ©ioio Sixteen-year-old Margaret Perry | stepped from a Park avenue girl school into the chief role of a Sroadway stage hit when Muriel Xirkland, leading tady of “Strictly Dishonorable,” fell Wi BOY BLAMES - MOTHER FOR | EFour-Year-Old Lad Sa | Mother Fired Shot Kill- ing Highway Patrolman BELLAIRE, Ohio, Dec. 31 jof Police Moran today announced ~ FATAL SHoT . |ditional common stock. c Pariy Hastens North . —Associated Press Photo. Scaitle to s h for Ben FEielson and Earl Borland, Left to right—N wil h left d Siberia. fliers Hughes, Samuel McCauley and Gifford By STANLEY W, PRENOSIL | (Assciated Press Financial Editor) | } NEW YORK, Dec. 3L—Col- | lapse of the bull movement in ’ stoek prices is the outstand- ing financial development of this year. | The rising tide of prices came to 'a dramatic halt in October in they most extensive and destructive pe- iriod of ligquidation in Wall Street's ‘history. Prices of stocks on all the ex- changes and unlisied markets of i the country plunged downward s |rapidly that only a small part of he 15,000,000 or 20,000,000 security holders escaped without some de- | preciation in the value of their holdings. Thousands of margin specula- ftors were wiped iout. H In some quarters it was felt that the reduced purchasing power 01‘ the millions who had taken either | actual or paper losses in the mar- ket certainly would be felt. i In others there was a feeling that | the large volume of credit’ released from speculative channels would' be made available for business and agricultural expansion. Conflicting Opinions ( Associated Pry Photo Pilot Joe Crosson left Teller, Conflicting opinions developed in' banking and business circles as to §jaska to search e morthitmecn the ultimate effect of the securi- gielgon, missing Arctic el ties decline on general business. |\ * Signs of recession had begun to R . A appear in certain industries before the break, notably in steel and mo- NATIUNALISTS tors. The building industry had {been plodding along for several months under the handicap of high | ! interest rates which made financ-| ng of new construction difficult. | In striking contrast to the post- — war depression of 1921, there were [ 2 3 . no heavy inventories this year, ex-'r‘x”a by Temtonal nghts jcept possibly in the automobile in- try; no inflation of commodi- and no unusually heavy bank; Are Terminated— Ministers Notified di o1 1loans. i | | Maintenance of low inventories NANKING, Dec. 31.—The Na- with business activity at high lev- tionalist Goxernment's Foreign Of- els w made possible largely fice indicated last night it had {through improved transportation dispatched identical telegrams to | facilities. Chinese Miuisters accredited to var- : Corporations generally were in jous powers enjoying extra-terri- much better shape financially this torial rights in China, instructing year, mary of them having either the Ministers to “notify the Gov- eliminated bank loans altogether ernments of the Nationalist Gov- lor reduced funded and other in-!ernment’s mandate terminating ex- |debtedness through the retirement tra-territoriality.” |of bond issues and the sale of ad-| H. C. Deckard, W. J. McDonough, Will- | TEMPERATURE FIFTY BELOW IN INTERIOR Planes Ar;::\lready to Start Flight to Nome, But Too Cold 'MATT NIEMENEN JOINS | CANADIAN SEARCHERS Alaska Pilot Will Take Place of Broatch, Re- turning to States | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dee. 31.—Matt Niemenen arrived here yesterday afternoon in an open cockpit plane from { Anchorage. It was his third |attempt to penetrate the haze which surrounded the feild. The thermometer remained virtually stationary at 50 de- grees below zero all day yes- (terday. It was stated last night that if the cold spell | continues, probably the flight |of the Fairchild planes will net be attempted today. Niemenen relieves Canad- {ian flier Broatch who left for the States yesterday. THEILE'S REPORT WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—Acting Governor Theile, of Alaska; has informed Secretary of Interior Wii- bur that the Russians and natives |of Siberia are doing all possible |to find Eielson and Borland, dog |teams, as well as airplanes, being used. NEW LANDS DISCOVERED ~ BY WILKINS Radio Advic—es—indicate Ex- ploration Trip Bring- ing Results MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 31. — The first fruits of Capt. George H. Wil~ |kins' exploration flights over the | Antarctic are revealed in advices that he has discovered a previously unknown land in his last venture over the Polar ice. The Government radio station to- |day announced the advices of the discovery from the steamer Melville which carried the explorer to De- ception Island and which he uses as his base. Details are not given but it is believed that probably the territory is somewhere In the vicinity of De- ception Island or south of Hierra= del Fuego. ® 00000000000 TODAY’S STOCK L QUOTATIONS . ® 0 00000000 o NEW YORK, Dec. 31.—Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted today at 7Y%, American Ice 377, Bethle- hem Steel 94%, General Motors 40’2, Combustion 5%, International Harvester 80%, Kennecott 58, Mag~ ma 45, Mormgomery-Ward 48%, Na- tional Acme 20%, Standard Oil of California 61, Standard Oil of New Jersey 66%, Texas Corporation 56%. Steel Industry . ENGLAND WONDERING . [ King Alfonso played the part o | The steel industry, regarded LEAGUE SEEKS E [N I “h;Ch f;’el!: l})‘lrough nvlogl{)»:}il:: of traffic policeman and aid- e [that Donnfe Schroeder, aged four .,y quarters as barometric of X lpw ure“, :a«" °',f'1,‘§°“‘mm,m ed by Premier Rivera, late e vears, told him that his molher.|yygnegs conditions, continued at WHAT SHOCKS AWAIT yogx;gsi l; 'S;u: ohaylis' may|® Yesterday afternoon, quick- e Mrs. Irene Schroeder, fircd a S0OL yeeord breaking levels in the! B A S I S FOR WORLD PE ACE 2 o me st ly untangled a traffic jam e |which killed Gorporal Paul. of the spriny and summer, but tapered off C APIT AL IN ; el K 3 p g _|® which was baffling the e |Pennsylvania State Hizhway Pa- jn the closing months of the year. 1 GET More than 150 children were tak: | 4 len to a nearby infirmary suffer-|® Policemen. e |trol, near Newcastle, Peon. 1st| Tne ofl industry made notable | Leaders of the league's economic |ing from bur jved in the The King’s and Premier's e Friday night. I progress in solving the troubles of 50 bt - : By PLAUTUS L LIPSEY, Jr. |work, pleased and hopeful becaus:‘msd rush n-ux;xus t}:‘:c;mlding, automobiles were caught in e| The boy was found incle’s overproduction. The industry in-| . le BATES BANKY legislation for the taxation of land (A. P. Correspondent) of their political brethern's appar-| Tramcars and wagons were press- ® the snarl of hundreds of e home and taken to Pitisburch f0F gugurated —regional curtaiiment (Astoclated Press Staff Writer) |values. There are some who be- - GENEVA, Dec. 31—While thelent progress toward disarmament cd into service as they arrived to ® cars. The King stepped out e further questioning. agreements and obtained the en-' LONDON, Dec. 31—England is|lieve that this alone will yield world has been watching momen- 'and security, are striving to de- carry the children to the infirmary. ® and took charge, then Rivera o ! Chief Moran said the lad 7ave getion of State laws to eliminate Pe8lnning to wonder about the first |enough money to pay for all the the men budget of the labor party govern- | social legislation now contemplated ment which is to be submitted to by the Labor Government. parliament early in the new year.| Snowden, himself, has not eased It is rumored that Philip Snow- |anyone's mind on the subject. The den, chancellor of the exchequer.;othu night, when he was being has prepared a first class shockireu-d by one of the ancient Lon- (for Jlandowners in the shape orl (Continuea from Page Two) tous events in international politics ~chiefly concerned with Anglo- American relations and naval ques- tions—the League of Nations in the last quarter of 1929 has been carry- ing out an extensive economic pro- gram. waste. Public upility development went . on at a rapid pace, with' several important merger projects, consum- mated and others held up by the velop a spirit of economic cooper-| The fire started from the op- ation among nations as their con- erator's box and sped with terrific tribution to world peace. |rapidity through the crowded audi- Widest interest, perhaps, attach- torium and scores of children be-|® es to launching of the scheme for came jammed at the exits. e a “tariff truce.” The league's’ The picture being show was “The. e (Continued on Page Seven) ‘c‘rcwd.“ lo appeared. Between them they e ihlm a concise description of directed traffic and unsnarl- e ‘shooung and named tv ed the jam. Both received e Glenn Dague and Tom Craw the thanks of the Policemen : o “brmher of his mother and drove away. ® panions. % ®| Paul was shot down by e e o000 0 0 0 ¢ o ¢ accompanied by a small child { (Continued on Page Six)