The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 14, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ‘ ALASKA EMPIR VOL. XXXV., NO. 5306. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBLR OF ASJOL[A-[ ED PRLSS PR‘ICIL IEN CENTS SOVIET WILL CONCENTRATE ON SEARCH FOR EIELSON ROBBERS BATTLE POLIC TWO BANDITS; Greets Nation’s Chmf Lu'( ulive ‘ PRESIDENT Is ONEDETECTIVE, SHOT, KILLED Burglar Alarm Summons Police — Fatal Battle Ensues in Chicago ROBBERS RUN INTO POLICE AMBUSCADE Tear Bombs Used in Final Effort to Rout Burglars in Apartment | CHICAGO, I, Jan. 14. — Two robbers and a detective were killed this morning as the robbers were rushing from an apartment they had just robbed and ran into a police squad responding to a burg- alarm. The third robber, who barricad- ed himself in the apartment house hallway, was routed by tear bombs lar end captured. The bandits, floor entering the first tment of Harry Sucher- , set off a burglar alarm in adjoining apartment, occupied by Sucherman’s robber Joseph. The two robbers, after lining up the Sucherman family at the point of pistols, were at work on the safe, when the police squad responding to the burglar 2larms, roared up in front of the ilding. With escape cut off at the front, the robbers ran to a rear window and saw Detective Jerry Murphy cutting off flight in that direction. Officer Drops One of the robbers fired three shots and Murphy dropped, fatally a] wall Motor Boat Capsizes; Five Persons Are Killed by Sharks wounded. Attempting to get out of the e CAPE TOWN, South Afri- e | ont door, the robbers were met e ca, Jan. 14—A message from o a blazing of police guns. The e Pcrt Louis, Island of Mau- e robbers returned the fire and ¢ ritis, says five persons were © Lieut. Edward Conroy was wound- e killed by sharks in the Bay ® | eq in the shoulder. e of Tamorino after a motor The robbers retreated and there ¢ poat capsized in a squall. The © was firing on both sides for many ¢ fiye persons were members of o | minutes J e a party of six engaged in e | Tear bombs were tossed imto the ¢ .0 fishing. ° hall y to rout the gunmen. ° . Sergeant O’Malley, heading a ° S SRR St second squad, was sent to the Hid scene. He climbed up to a side i window, enother rendered. e il L found one robber dead, dying and the third sur- Trolley Company | Approved Plan of f Taxicab Purchase KANSAS CITY, Three Prominent J Alaskans Visiting sen. 14.—Direc- J tors of the Kansas City Public Seattle TOday Service Company, which operates the strcet cars and busses over SEATTLE, Jan. 14. — Three of gansas City thoroughfafes, have Alaska’'s prominent citizens are approved a plan to buy the Yellow Lirs. Alic Roosevelt Longwerth, a daughter of the late President Roosevelt and the wife of Speaker Nicholas ongworth of the House of Representa- tives, at the White House, where she was among the New Year’s Day callers or. President and Mrs. Hoover. (Internatjona Newsreel) 1 Society Matron Seeks Arrest of RlvaY Lere today, Gov! George A. Parks, who spent Christmas with is par- ents in Denver and sails tomorrow for Juneau; Col. Q. F. Ohlson, General Manager of the Alaska Railroad, here to buy supplies, and Donald "McDonald, Locating En- gineer for the Alaska Road Com- missicn, here on his first holiday in 10 years. B Sam Godfrey, well known mining man from the Interior, is a pas- senger to Seattle on the Alameda. ! ormerly of Livengood, Godfrey is »w operating a dredge on Nome Creek. He is taking a two months’ vacation to visit his wife in Los Angeles. Colds Cut 40 Per Cent In Artificial Sunshine ITHACA, N. Y., Jan. cerner room up under of its old armory, Cornell the rafters uni- versity this winter is making arti- | ficlal summer sunshine to help guard its students against colds. Electrical apparatus makes the light in, two kinds, one for boys and the other for girls, offering for the first time to large numbers | of dents a method of mitigating | colds that is based on three years cf meeessful experimenting upon small selected groups. Hundreds of students visit the! place, for it' requires only 10 to 16 minutes once a week to absorb this sunshine armor. 14—In a| Cab and Checl taxicab companies of Kansas C thus giving the Public Service Company virtually exclusive transportation control here. Frank J. Dean, President of the Yellow Cab Company, which also operates the Checker Cab Com- pany, while admitting the deal had been agreed upon, said details would not be completed for some time. R OO R T Mrs. Nellie Neal Lawing, well known as the former prnpriehor. of Curry Roadhouse and now op-! erating a summer resort on Lake | Kenai, is a passenger to Seattle on’ the Alameda. Mrs. Florencé Quintard Bonnell, society matron, of Syosset, s | wife of Major Geoffrey Bonnell, has sworn out a supersedin% war- rant against Mrs. James Fargo. Mrs. Bonnell has long tried to get | Mrs. Fargo and her husband be- fore the law, but without avail. Mrs. uonnelf claims that Mrs. Wargo is her nval. disrobe and dress for the light in not much more than a pair of dark goggles to protect their eyes. | Awaiting them is a room that at a turn of a switch shimmers in| the glow from a dozgn mercury: | vapor tubes, blue-green, sol shafts of light, more than an in in diameter, each standing in ver- | |tical position upon the floor and| NEW YORK, van. 14. — Alaska |as tall as a man. Juneau mins stock is quoted to- These lights are placed around day at 8, American Ice 36%, Beth- {all sides and down the middle of |lehem Steel 96%, General Motors {the room. In front of each, foot- 39%, Kennecott 57%, ~National iprints painted on the bare floor Acme 19%, Standard Oll of Cali- mark the proper distance to stand | fornia 61, Standard Oil of New Jer- 130 inches away from the light. |5¢y 04%, Radio 41%, U. S. Steel The boys stand on these mafls‘”l’ and at regular intervals shift to ® 0o 00 00 TODAY’S STOCK QUOTATIONS ® 0 00000000 00 dl B g— During the men’s hours the boys | arrive about a dozen at a time un- der an allotted schedule. They another light, thereby moving| (Continued on Page Three) Oscar Johnson, fur farmer from cmzmm, arrived in Juneau on the | Margnita. LONDON, Jan. 14, shoulders of four men rests, in great measure, the future of the| Labor Government | IMPROPR'ETIES Those men are the Prime Min- ister, Ramsay MacDonald, and the three Cabinet me who will| o . Ye his aides in rej iting Great | Senate Lobby Committee|pritain at tne navai conference| ’ 3 ary 21 Clcars HOOVCI’ 8 Name culd the conference be a suc- | ess, the prestige of in Sugar Inquiry SAYS EFFORT MADE TO STIR UP SOME STRIFE e ¥ of No Censure. No Criticism Should it A mnt recon- he party when P venes after the is composed ter, R"\ ing next to Mr. MacDonald | | is hur Henderson, the Secretary Can Be A“aChed to of State for Foreign Affairs. Efforts of Hoover The man known as “Uncle Ar- ! thur,” is who began as an iron mould- a veteran in politics, but he :rprised commentators here. WASHINGTON, Jan. 14—Presi- er, dent Hoover has been absolved by has the Senate Lobby Committee of There were many who, after the any impropriety in connection with Henderson appointment, believed !negotlnuons of Cuban and Am- that MacDonald intended to be the lerican interests charged against real Foreign Secretary, the Chief Executive in testimony in 1924. {before the group. | But “Uncle Arthur” !made to stir up Latin-American group is A. V. Alexander, First Lord |antagonism against the United of the Admiralty. He is only 456 and tariff on sugar and listed the total|ly in his seat when his colleagues | expenditures of those for against such increase With reference to the testimony reputation. President Hoover sought to bring| Alexander's opposite in tempera- | labout an agreement among the ment is Capt. Wedgwood Benn,' sugar interests on a sliding scale| {Secretary of State for India, He \for sugar duties for 1ncorporatlon is a short and dynamic man of 52, the Labor Par-| ical test for | as he had | | fooled them. | Reporting to the Senate, the He is Foreign Secretary in his own |committee asserted in additiona] right. | that a “reprehensive” effort was| The youngest member of the |States by those opposing increased he looks younger, and he sits calm- | and [often are stirred to nervous exer-; IN Lubor Regzme $ 1‘ ulm e W lth British "Bl 4” — On the ‘ | | 1 1 ! | | | | A. V. Alexander (lower right). record. Benn's knack for making pithy |in the pending tariff bill, the a war veteran with an enviable speeches first drew attention to! |committee said, “in all this, your| e = 4k i jcommittee finds no impropriety g Anamnns | por anything open to censurs or| ‘umclsm G(]I.E FLES " FOR OFFIGE | - OF A AUDITOR | Is First to Declare Candi- i i | dacy for Office that He 2 Is Now Holding | Cash Cole, Aa@stor for the Terri-| tory of Alaska today filed his de-| claration of candidacy for the of-| fice of Auditor subject to the p“-i |mary election next April. | The 1929 Alaska Legislature cre-| ated the office of Auditor, placing | in it duties formerly held by other | Territorial offices, and named Mr. Cole to that position. | | This is the first sign of activity in the expected fight for the of-| fice of Auditor, there being no, 'other filings until today. | Mr. Cole was a member of the| !Territorial House in 1921 and 1923.| During the latter term he was clected Speaker. | | Tn 1924 he was a candidate on the referemdum vote for Governor. He held the position of Clerk of the House in 1927 and two years later was Secretary of the Senate ngland’s Most Beautiful Peeresses. il : Lady Victor Great Britain’s delegation to the arms conference in London Janu- to morejtion. He has sat in the Commons ary 21 is composcd of Arthur Henderson (left, above) han $400,000 divided about evenly. |since 1922, with a steadily growing MacDenald (right, above); Capt. Wedgwood Benn (lower left) and CHICAGO * ENTIRE FORGE " OF AIRPLANES ~ HUNT MISSING 'Soviet Union Will Make ! Concentrated Search for | Eielson and Borland ) STATEMENT ISSUED ~ BY COM. CHAIRMAN Cites Cases Where Many Fliers Missing Long Time, Found Alive MOSCOW, Jan. 14. — Beginning /Jaruary 18 when the first rays of |the sun dissipate the almost total darkness now enveloping the Arc- | tice region, all airplane resources of the Soviet Union will be con- centrated or. a determined eifort {to rescue Col. Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland, missing off the Siberian Coast since last Novem- ber 9, in hope that the airmen may | be still found alive and that search should not be abandoned. This statement is made today in an article in Izvestiat, newspaper, by Gen. Kameneff, member of the Revolutionary War Council, and Chairman of the Soviet Arctic | Commission. Gen. Kemeneff cited cases of several Russian and foreign fliers He is feared by his oppo-|Who have been found and rescued alive after as many &s 49 days on the tce ' preos | UNFA\’ORABIE WEATHEB That the unfavorable weaiher hampering the Eielson search is unusual was the information re- celved by wire this morning by Karl Theile, Secretary of Alaska, e from United States Marshal Charles e D. Jones of Nome. e “Are having the worst winter o for storms in years,” the message e read, “many of them southeastern. and Ramsay | him. nents, for his specialty is asking cmbarrassing questions. LN B A, S 'Science Wins Over Nature; Steamship Is Freed from Ice ° | ° QUEBEC, Jan.14.—Sclence is credited with another vic- tory over nature after a chem- © fcal compound liberated a o steamship from an ice-lock- Donation to Schools Mount Berry, Georgia, Jan. 14— Mr. and Mrs, Henry Ford have been identified as the donors of a million | He is an old time on Gastineau Channel, having been here since| Deaths as Result of 1895. In 1911 he graduated from | Juneau High School. Bobsled, Auto Crash In Seattle Reach Four SEATTLE, Jan. 14. — With the death of Clyde Tucker, aged 22 deaths reached four as the resu g of Bud Jensen's automobile crash- for the U. 8. Forest Service, anJ‘mg into a bobsled on Queen Anne G. H. Skinner, chief clerk of the ‘Hill last Sunday on which there Alaska Road Commission, Were| e e 16 young people coasting. Jer elected president and secretary re-|gon yo jn ail roner | ending a coroner’s spectively of the Federal Busines |inquest wgdne:iay # i Association of Juneau when that organization met yesterday at the Negro Miners Are Killed, Gas Explosion Arcade Cafe. . About 30 members of the Association were in attendance. BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, Jan. 14 —Arthur Langley, Coleman Davis This group exists for the purpose |Chalon Brantley, Bob Vernon, Jack of cooperation between the fed- eral bureaus here, and discusses White, Bill Lanier and a man nam- ed Coleman, all negroes, were killed questions affecting one or more of in a gas explosion last night at the departments. It meets once Casaba Coal Company's mine at S( each month. A new executive board will be! {Raven. One other negro was in- jured. e { 'OFFICERS ELECTED " BY FEDERAL GROUP L H. Redlingshafer, fiscal agent| named by President Redlingshafer 16 at the next meeting. The present board members are Gov. George A. Parks, C. H. Flory, Commissioner of Agriculture, and M. S. Whittier, As- e s sistant Collector of Customs. J. C.| Jack Chisholm, well known McBride is retiring President and resentative of the National Gr H. L. Redlingshafer was formerly Company, is a southbound passe n- Secretary. ger on the Alameda. y- lar group of four buildings at Schools, famous educational tion for mountain boys and The achievement The announcement was made ng exercises commemorating 1ding of the schools. ‘jV. ith 13 Hearts, He \Bids Diamonds And G the Bid BOSWORTH, Mo., Jan. 14—Be- side the niches of the hall of fame occupled by Roy Riegels and Fred Merkle, place West Stafford, hard- are dealer. Stafford drew a per- fect bridge hand in hearts—and bid diamonds. i His hand was “all red,” so Stal- ford, the dealer, bid one diamond without inspecting his cards closely. “Just to get the game started.” The three other players passed. When Stafford looked again at his hand he found thirteen hearts. He laid |the unplayed hand on the table. | (o p )0 the Attorney General Comment of Mrs, Stafford, his by partner, is not of record. ;:l;,fxr:)xji :slr;l;:admr(r;rgm:‘i;ec;;y e v ! v, cent charges that seventeen dis- ALASKA SNOW COVER trict attorneys were not doing their duties by prohibition, it was obvious that his statement was designed to answer Borah's blast. One of these district attorneys was removed from office, the other s WASHINGTON, Jan. 14,—An even dozen United States district at-| torneys have been ousted in the shakeup instituted some time ago by the Department of Justice, it was announced by Attorney Gen- eral Mitchell, The following. depth of snow in us Alaska areas up to 8 o'clock night, as reported to the Juneau Weather Bureau, follows: 1 las Warrender ® ed drydock in three min- e Also extremely heavy snow, all of isconsidered | utes. \ . gflch fielaz:“ seargh for Eielson. o Dr. Howard Barnes of Mc- e rsonally leve he is safe.” ona of ""’ ® Gill University, using a high ® - mosi ©® pressure puinp hose, sprayed o ~ . beautiful ~ |e the thick ice about the e Pay Car Is Dynamite; women in the |® Champlain drydock at Lau- e Three Men Are Kliled; British |® gon where the Itallan e . ritis |® freighter Concordia was froz- $33,000 Remains Intact peerage, in ® cn in and faced with the e addition | ® prospect of being held pris- e WILKESBARRE, Penn., Jan. 14, 5 | ® oner until the spring break- e —Three men were killed instantly to "‘f"’"‘! the [o up e and three were injured, one per- title of |® Under the action of the e haps fatally, when bandits dyna- “Best-Dressed | © chemical, the ice splintered e mited the pay car of the Glen W sman | ® with a thunderous noise and e Alden Coal Company. - % ® the ship floated free from e The dead are Arthur E. Webb, in":urope. . ?hv ice which was broken e aged 32 years, of Scranton, pay- She is the @ in such small particles that e master in charge of the car; Frank “ e even smal boats navigated ® Pimski, 49, a miner, of Pl h, wife of the i o o OF; & mor {'i h’lh o ;d.x,ut‘ the dock and its ap- ® and Martin Burns, 31 years old. 8 ® proaches. ® The explosion occurred near the Baronet of | ® Truesdale Colliery. Lochend, [*®®2%0+ve 90000 Thepay roll of $33,000 remained ..o Qm’nnial . ] l:et:ecttz;(:e;:t lo; a rebw l:;:ls which Member of |lenry Ford and i 0/ o by’ ihe SNEE Parliament. Wife Make $1,000,000 | No trace of the bandits was found and an organized search was begun. The explosive was placed under the track and set off by electricity from a barricade more than 200 yards away. John Sookil, aged 51, one of the injured, came to after being dazed, gained his feet and stood over the iron pay chest as a bandit approached. Struck by the menac- ing attitude, the bandit mgde no offer to make an attack, heard the noise of a motor car and fled. Do.,en Dzstnct Attorneys Are Dropped in Shakeup ‘Senator has not submitted any |evidence to the Department of | Justice to back up his charges of inefficiency on the part of the |seventeen prosecutors he referred {to. 1 “If anyone has information that | United States Attorneys are not qualified I should be delighted to have it,” said Mitchell, pointedly. | Fifteen vacancies as United States attorneys, exist either at this time or will exist during the next six weeks. Some of these attorneys are candidates for re- appointment and others are not. Mitchell said that a tabulation was now being made as to the dis- Juneau, 1 inch; Eagle, 11 inches; Fort Yukon, 15 inches, and Point Barr! 16 inches. eleven being permitted to resign.| ‘"m nmncy situation, for the Borah Challenged A SRR R LAAR V£ e s | Mitchell declared that the Idaho| (Continued on Page Three)