The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 13, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXV., NO. 5305. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1930. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT EIMENEN REACHES NOME; REID IS AT UNALAKLEET NEW ENFORCEMENT PLA HOOVER BIVES CONGRESS NEW SYSTEM. NOW Submits Report Recom- nended by Law Enforce- ment Commission MITCHELL, MELLON CONCUR ON SUBJECT Proposal Would Strengthen Court Procedure and ! Unite Forces WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Three days before the Tenth Anniversary of Prohibition, President Hoover today submitted to Congress an ar-| ray of opinions and recommenda-! tions for strengthening enforce- | ment which brought the question | into even great relief than the recent controversies which sur-| rounded it. In the main these recommenda- | ti prepared by the Law En- forcement Commission, Attorney General Mitchell and Secretary of Treasury Mellon, were: ! For reorganization of the Federal | Court strugture so as to give re-| lief from congestion. b Cencentration, responsibility for detection and prosecution for Pro- hibition violators. Censolidation of various agencies Kenneth Hawks, well- known motion picture direc- tor, shown with his wife, Mary Astor, B was one of the ten victims of the fatal mid- § air crash R between two cabin planes which were filming a pic- ture above the sea, at Santa Monica, Cal. Immediately after the planes collided both burst into flames and plunged into the water, making it im- possible for the doomed men to escape alive. (International Newsreel) WILL CLIMB MT. M'KINLEY NEXT SUMMER 1 Grants Pass, Oregon, Is Announced ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 13.— tion to many tourists who isit the Mount McKinley Na- tional Park dur mer, that playground will atain climbing [ red by one of the active clubs or America. The expedition is being organ- ized by C. E. Rusk, of Grants Pass, Oregon, the purpose being the ex- ploration and ascent of Mount Mg- also the Cascadians, mountaineering S Kinley. Muldrow Glacier, The plans are disclosed in a let- ter to Harry Liek, Superintendent of Mount McKinley National Park. Early in April, with full equip- ment, the expedition will proceed to where at 14, feet altitude, a base camp will be established. expedition will wait there for fay- orable weather for a final dash to the top. There will be five pe¥r- sons in the expedition. THIRTY LIVES Formation of Expedition at the coming sums | expedi- | The members of the| | | | | | i | PRESENTED WITH 2 OTHERS Neimenen Safely Takes Off from Nulato with Deck- ard and MacAuley CAPT. REID EXPECTED (| NOME ANYTIME NOW Plans Made for Further Search for Missing men, Eielson, P NOME, Alaska, Jan. 2. — Matt INehmm:n with his =axrenild plane, arrived here Sunday bringing Ma- lJor H. C. Deckard and Mechanic Sam McCauley from Nulato where the trio was forced down on Jan- uary 4 after turning back over Norton Bay in a fog and snow storm while enroute to Nome from Fairbanks in company with Capt. “Pat” Reid, the later being lost and not reported until last Satur- day from Unalakleet. The three | &re now waiting here for Reid. It is believed Reid made the trip to Unalakleet to obtain gaso- line to bring them to Nome. Reid was forced down and he found it necessary to employ a !large force of Eskimos to pull his LOST IN STORM: 'Her Husband Seeks $100,000 for engaged in preveiition of smug- gling of liguor, narcotics and other merchandise, and aliens over the American frontiers. Provision for adequate court and prosecuting machinery. Expansion of Federal prisons and reorganization of parole and other practiges. H AMAKNAK ISL. | IS WITHDRAWN FROMRESERVE Hoover Takes Island Out of Aleutian Island Bird and Game Area Under an executive order signed «ast month by President Hoover, all except the south end of Amaknak Island was eliminated from the Aleutian Island Bird and Gama Reserve, according to information received at the Governor’s Office. The south end was continued in the reserve for use by the Depart: ment of Agriculture and the Alas- ka Game Commission. Amknak Island is suited for graz- ing purposes and some portions of it are already occupied by sheep ranchers. It was set aside with other islands in the Aleutian grouv by an executive order signed March 3, 1013, The part now restored is an- nexed to the open public domain and put under the jurisdiction of the Interior Department and is subject to the usual public land laws. Six Persons, Five of One Family, Burned to Death in Ohio Home FINDLAY, Ohio, Jan. 13.—Six persons, five being members of the Wilson Long family, and one a guest; were burned to death early 3 day morning in’ a fire which destroyed the Long home. The firs is believed to have been caused by an overturned kerosene lamp. BURDICK ARRIVES TO ATTEND CONFERENCE ~ AUTO IN CRASH One Boy Killed, Two In- jured in Seattle—Auto Driver Is Held BULLETIN—SEATTLE, Jj=n. 13. —Helen Haw, aged 15 years, and Margaret Chadburne, died I afternoon as results of the bobsled- auto accident, making three dead. Others are still in a serious condi- | tion as resuut of injuries. | Her Affections | Uihant Light. I SEATTLE, Jan. 13—kay Whitte- man,aged 15 years, and Ann Eggan and William Walters, each’ 19 years of age, were injured seriously on a| bobsled on which 16 persons were riding, when it met an automobile head-on on Queen Anne Hill yes- | terday. Bud Jensen, aged 22, driv-! er, is held by the police. He is said to have been drinking. The street | on which the accident occurred had been set aside for coasting by a police order. - Fireman Kiiled When | Plunges Down 40 Feet SHENANDOAH, Penn. Jan. 13.— Frank Kurskimski, aged 23, a fire- man, fell 40 feet to his death yes-| terday in a fire which destroyed a shirt factory, 15 houses and| threatened the entire northwest | part of the city. The loss is $300,- 000. Fifteen persons were injured‘ during the fire. Soviet Waging Bitter Mrs. Martha Wiegand is suing her husband, Paul Wiegand, Hamilton, Ohio, business man, for a divorce. Mr. Wiegand has filed suit for $100,000 against Joan Sawyer Rentschler, charging her with alien- ating his wife's affections from him. e Mr. and Mrs. Mathew Watson, of Carcross, Y. T., were passengers to Skagway on the Princess Norah. Mr. Watson is a well-known mer- chant at Carcross. War Against Religion NEW YORK, Jan. 13—Russia is making constant war on religion, | Prof. Paul Monroe of Columbia writes in International Conciniation, a magazine of the Carnegie Endow- ment for International Peace. Professor Monroe’s article, de- clares the revolution is a complex, not a simple phenomenon. He goes on to say: “The anti-religious propaganda is carried on by poster, by dramatic presentation, by direct instruction in schools and in other organiza- about which the people talked the most was that received or antici- pated from great American capital- istic concerns. Chief among these are General Electric, American Har- vester, the Ford Motor Works, United States Steel and the oil companies. “Economically no stress is placed on saving. The people are influ- enced to spend all their wages or income as it comes in. With the old age and sickness cared for by the state, with the commune taking Twenty Victims Are Re-l ported from Sea Disaster | —High Wind LONDON, Jan. 13.—Thirty per-| sons lost their lives in a tr:rriflr‘i storm which swept England yester-| day. Twenty of the storm’s vic-| time* were members of the crew of the tug St. Genny which sunk during last night, 30 miles north of Only five men were | rescued from the vessel which was| enroute’ for service with the Gi-| braltar fleet. | At least ten deaths occurred on| land, when the wind, at various| places, reached a velocity of more| than iC0 miles an hour. WORLD PEACE PROGRAMWILL BE DISCUSSED Prominent Men of Juneau Will Talk on Subject | i | | | | | i [ { { President and Mrs. Hoover were hosts to all comers for the first tir House reception on New Year's day. the ceremonies. President Hoover is shown ab. Below, waiting in line at the gates of the White !fouc: to extend New Year's greet- Ings to the chief executive and first lady. l Claims Ex-Husband Wed Too Soon l | This Evening J Tonight at 8 o’elock in the Grad 1 School Auditorium, a discussion of ! world peace program will be hnlrl; at a public meeting sponsored by} the Juneau Woman’s Club. The program is as follows: { Piano Solo, “Polonaise,” Chopin | by Frances Harland. | Roll call of members; response | items of interest bearing on inter-| national relations. i Address, “England, America, and World Peace,” by John Dunn. Vocal Solo, by Jack Fargher. | Addr ,“International Problems,” by Henry Roden. | “Disarmament,” by H. L. Faulk-| ner. Ellsworth and i Weems Plan to Explore Arctic TACOMA, Jan. 13.—Plans for new polar explorations by Lincoln Ells- worth, famous as a member of the Amundsen-Ellsworth expeditior, and Lieut. Comdr. Phillip V. H. Weems, |inventor of the Weems system of navigation, are being worked out at DICK M’GINN LEAVES TONIGH;I'_leR SOUTH;j GOLD BASIS AFTER 1 Dick McGinn, who has been ganist at the Coliseum t 11 months to a day, is lea night on the Princess N Seattle enroute to Spokane, v an organist’s position awaits five months and gave perfect faction to the Coliseum p: then when the talkies were install he continued playing only for silent productions three nights ¢ the week. Lately he has be Mrs. Audra | Butt, of Los * | Angeles, titian haired beauty and first wife |of Wilfred Lawson Butt, Jr, who was recently mar- ried to Eu- geniaBankhead Hoyt, young | society matron of Washing- ton, D. C., who fl declares that young Butt is still her hus- band. This,she says, is because the divorce de- cree which she obtained through her at- torney will not become final antil January 19, 1930. Unternational Newsrealh \JAPAN BACK INTERV 2y WILLIAM R. KUIINS Financial Editor ciated Press Feature W YORK, Jan. 13 turday Japan swung into line > last of the principal war-time ies to put her currency on a gold basis In effect, she agreed to redeem Service) Last as Associated Pr Photo at the traditional White ove with his military aides during RUMOR SPREADS | ABOUT EIELSON BEING LOCATED iRadio Statement Is Made| from Nanuk—Dog Team Driver Has Information An The The Asscciated rress dispatch to | Empire last Saturday night from Nome, Alagka, said "unab]ci to confirm or deny rumor that Col. Carl Ben Elelson has been found No' communication from Nome and | the frozen-in schooner Nanuk for | 24 hours. Lomen I recelved no | |word. We do not believe there is| anything in rumor unless word was | ived via ‘Moscow where dog | ms conveyed the news 2500 But if Eielson was found | the Northern Siberian coast.! g teams, they could have sent | age back to North Cape, a tance of 600 miles.” fhe message stated that Alfred| omen, in charge of the search- sived a wire from Joe Cros-| | s m the Nanuk, throwmgl’ |more light on where Eielson may be found. Crosson said a dog team driver | (Continued on Page Two) i 1 NOW TO | AL, I2YEARS and Czecho-Slovakia in 1928, Den-| mark, Greece, Italy and Poland in| 1927, France and Bulgaria in 1923‘ and Rumania in 1929, el The Japanese government had | been preparing for months to meet pressure on its currency, expected January 11 when speculators : others who hold yen sought to coa-| Wing Is Damaged A damaged wing was fixed up by using a Christmas box and cutting spruce trees which were fitted into the damaged wing. The Pskimos gave great assistance in carpenter work. To Return to Fairbanks Major Deckard will return to Fairbanks as soon as the two Standard planes return to Nome from Teller, where Dorbandt and Neiemenen will pilot both planes back to Fairbanks, taking Mechanic Cope back to Anchorage. Ed Young and Capt. Reld will fly the two Fairchild planes to Si- beria to hunt for Col. Carl Ben Eielson, Major Deckard said. RUSSIAN HOPS TUESDAY MOSCOW, Jan. 13.— Governor Peer Meeneev, of Wrangell Island, reports by radio that four dog |teams have been sent from there toward Eielson. Word has alsd been received here from Krasnokarsk, Siberia, that Pilot Velerian Chukhnousky is ex- pected to hop off tomorrow for North Cape. North Cape to search for TO HOLD CONFERENCE NOME, Alaska, Jan. 13.—Pilots Frank Dorbant and Ed Young have been ordered to Nome to attend a conference with Alfred J. Lomen in charge of the Eielson Search Expedition, on arrival here of the Fairchild planes, before new plans are made for Elelson's rescue, REID AT UNALAKLEET An Associated Press dispatch re- celved by The Empire Saturday {night from Fairbanks, said that Capt. H. A. Oaks was preparing jto hop to Nulato on Sunday if weather changed. Further advices received at Fair- banks stated that Capt. T. M. “Pat” Reid and his companions, mechanics Willlam Hughes, of the Canadian Relief Party, and Jim Hutchinson, of Fairbanks, had land- ed safely at Unalakleet on Satur- day, after having been lost for one week, and all were safe. The mes- sage was to the Alaskan Airways, Incorporated, from Major C. H. Deckard, at Nulato. There were no particulars and it is assumed that Capt. Reid got his big plane into the air again after being forced down on the Fairbanks to Nome flight over Norton Bay, and flew into Unalakleet with his two com- conditions were not To attend a district ranger con-!tions, by public address and all ference at local headquarters of the forms of public propaganda. United States Forest Service Charles | “Freedom of speech or of the C. Burdick, ranger for the Sitka press cannot be said to exist. Re- |of the day. | Commander Weems wrote friends night. He was accompanied by pression, even tyranny is admitted.| “All concerned are, fully aware that Ellsworth is with him at his Mrs. Burdick, | The rule of the secret police was in {the present situation is one of home in Coronado and is developing The conference is being attended force as in the old regime. One |transition and that realization of plans which may lead to “startling” by Rangers C. M. Archbold, Pe- definite impression was that of the any phase of the social or cultural results. burg, Purdick, Sitlea, and H. A.|present political regime was in |program is only a beginning. No| Ellsworth was a member of the Smith, of this city, and is preslded;no danger of overthrow from with- ;mme has given as much atten-|Norge crew and landed in Seattle over by Asst. District Forester M. jn, {tion to the use of various social|June 27, 1926, after the dirigible L. Moerritt. “The chief form of assistance }lnsutuuom for educational ends.” Ihsd flown across the North Pole. vert their holdings into gold. {panions. On Novem :>r 20 the Bank of Ja- | % g pan arranged a credit of approx ELECTRIC IRON CAUSES * mately $50,000000 abroad, half in| APARTMENT HOUSE FIRE New York and half in London. This| & is something like insurance against| AD electric iron that fell to the a fall in the yen and, theoretical'y |{100F While the current was turned at least, may never be touched. (O Was the °E“5° of a minor fire When Great Britain restored her[i““g:y ':"el'boWfl in the Myren currency to gold exchange basisq partments above the Rice & e 8 : _lers Company's store. The (Centinued on Page Eight) {aze was slight, lover much of the responsibility for ,the family, the worker has only to consider the needs and enjoyment playing only during intermissions | her currency in gold on demand. ST and on Saturday nights as the Twenty-two countries preceded her talkies have been shown for the re- |in stabilizing their currencies since mainder of the bills, \the war. Eight were the so-called MceGinn bhas been popular w post-war countries of Europe. the fans of Juneau during his res! uania, Russia and Latvia re- dence hefe. He has kept up o umed gold payments in 1922, Aus- all of the latest music by practic- [tria and Germany in 1923, Sweden ing in the afternoons so he will be |and Esthonia in 1924, Great Britain able to go to any console and ¢ and Holland, Hungaria, Albania and _perrcct satisfaction as an organist. |Danzig in 1925, Belgium, Finland | | |Coronado, Cal, according to word received here. new Ahl- dam-