The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 16, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY JUNEAU ALASKA THURSDAY JANUAR\ 16 1930 VOL. XXXV., NO. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE MEMBER OF AS.JOCIAT ED PRLSS PRICE TEN CENTS REPORT EIELSON, BORLAND ARE NEAR SIBERIAN RIVER WHARF 60 INTO GAST. CHANNEL Submarine Landshde Di- | rect Cause of S. O. Dis- aster, Statement Made L0OSS IS ESTIMATED AT ABOUT $60,000 Ww. l Bank Along g e High- way Caving-in—Wreck- age Strewn on Channel Seme viclent subterranean disturbance at the bottom of Gastineau Channel was the se of the collapse of the andard Oil Company’s dock and half of the warehouse Wednesday night about 7:30 ¢’clock with an estimated loss of $60,000 to the oil company and slight damage to the Al- aska Electric Light & Power Company’s service wires, Part of the Thane highway angerously undermined out 150 yards north of the Standard Oil station and the road has been closed to traf- fic temporarily. A submarine landslide was' the direct cause of the dis-/ aster. The first intimation o the dis- aster was received by J. D. Helps, logal Manager of the Standard Oil Company, from R. A. Reichel of the Unien Oil Company, who heard the noisé of the collapse and tele- phoned the news to town. Dan Kausen, a fisherman, who lives a short distance north of the Stand- rd Oil station, also witnessed the breaking up of the dock and hur- ried io the nearest telephone to summon Martin Jorgensen, an em- ployee of the company. Roll Into Channel Helps and Jorgensen reached the station before the warehouse col- lapsed and began removing the office fixtures and records to a place of safety. Taximan Phil Jolie, who was waiting with his car on the approach to the dock, saw the outer end of the warehouse begin to sink slow drums of lubricating oil and gasoline began to roll off into the water. The bank along the Thane high- was caving in rapidly and ne of the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company's poles toppled over, interrupting the circuit and causing a big arc when the wire touched the water. Jolie drove to the nearest telephone and informed eneral Superintendent L.H. Metz- gar, of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company, that the ‘power line across the tailing pile was in danger. The power was then ordered shut off. Men Are Summoned Men were summoned from town to help salvage the drums and cases of oil which were floating about in the channel. Fortunately the disaster occurred at a time when the tide was out, and the greater part of the stock was re- covered. A crew of fifteen or twenty men worked along the beach, carrying case oil and roll- W ing drums to safety while others; in skiffs made fast to floating drums and towed them ashore. By midnight most of the oil had been salvaged and stowed along the road or on the approach to the dock. Breaking Timbers No one saw the dock go, but nued on Page Eight) AR s e s ecesveccecce TODAY'S STOCK . QUOTATIONS L4 ®eJe0cevoscce NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—Alaska Ju- neau mine stock is quoted today at 7%, American Ice 36%, Ana- conda 70%, Bethlehem Steel 95%, Central Alloy 32%, General Mo- tors 37%, Granby 53%, Grigsby on! Grunow 18%, Kennecott 55%, Na- | tional Acme 19%, Packard 15%, Radio 38'%, National Brands 27, Standard Oil of California 60%, Standard Oil of New Jersey 62'%, U. 8. Steel 170%, Gold Dust 43, . ary War " STAN] ARD @EL DOC WAREHOUSE AND H VANDERBILT !\ND DE ciated Press PRoto wiftiam H. Vanderbilt of Newport, R, 1., and New York and his bride, the former Annc Gordan Cclby, after their wedding at the | home of the bride’s parents, Mr. | Orange, N. J. {Children Blinded In Use of Wrong Fluid at Clinic LONDON, Jan. 16.—The Daily Express reports that 40 children have been blind- ed at an Eye Clinic at Ke- sarion, near Athens, because attendants mistook a power- ful cauterizing fluid for a medicinal syringe fluid. The children had been taken to the clinic to have their sight tested. Athens reports an uproar over the incident and the at- titude of the populace is so menacing that the Minister of Health has ordered prose= cution of all occulists con- cerned. ©E 000000000000 00060000 ®00000e00ees0000000 0 coeeeseees e - Premature Birth Results in Release Of Woman Prisoner SALINAS, Cal., Jan. 16. — Mrs. Sue Brown, sentenced from 25 to 75 jails in jail following a plea of guiity to a charge of possession of liquor, has been ordered released on her own recognizance pending a hearing for appeal Mrs. Brown, who gave premature |birth to a stillborn child in the |County Hospital Tuesday is report- ed recovering. Justice Ray Baugh said he did not know of the woman's condition when sentence was passed. Third Cousin of Abraham Lincoln Passes Away, Texas DALLAS, Texas, Jan. 16.—Will- iam Russell Lincoln, aged 65 years, third cousin of Abraham Lincoln, died on January 8 it became known today. He was a great grandson of Capt. H. Lincoln, of Revolution- days and distant ceusin |of Damvl Boone. | JCol Parl(er Made Aid To Commander Booth NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—Comman- der Evangeline Booth announces Col. Edward J. Parker, chief secre- tary of the Salvation Army, East- ern Territory, has been appointed national secretary. Colonel Parker, who is a native of Elgin, Ill, thus becomes chief aid to Commander Booth, succeeding Col. Walter Jenkins, who has reached the age limit and has retired, and Mrs. Everett Cziby, in West COAST GUARD RUN BY STERN EX-PROFESSOR i Tremblors Vary in Inten-| B yL. A. BROPHY (A. P. Feature Service Writer) WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 16.— ally compact former teach- 1, given to saying things succinctly s R. ar Admiral F. C. Billard, com- iant of the Coast Guard. rs on his desk jiggled as taps emphasizing finger punct emarks about his npow fa- statement that the coast will not use “amiable ges- tures” in stopping liquor smuggling. The Billard pronouncement, drop- the restless sea of c r prohibition enforc caused widely varying com- ment here and brought a ne focusing of national atiention on the Coast Guard, its work, and its men. “The Coast Guard is indoctrinat- ed with the idea of doing any job given to it—expeditiously, efficient- ly and fairly,” Admiral said. “Preventing liquor smuggling the most difficult task that ev has confronted the coast guard, or any sea force, for that matter. “We are going and we have gone| about this thing strictly within the | law. If somebody gets hurt vfll regret that. But we cannot help it if they violate a fundamental law (Continued on Puge ’I'hree) = 'FLOODS, COLD WEATHER HITS MISS. VALLEY Temperatures from Freez- ing to Near Zero Are Experienced RIVERS RUNNING WILD; FREEZE CHECKING RISE Five Hundred rxmllles Are' Forced to Leave Homes in One Section CHICAGO, II., Jan. 16, — The‘x Central Mississipsi Valley is today | experiencing freczing weather and many localities report zero tam-| peratures. | Rivers are choked with slush lc‘j which made misery more rampant | among those driven from homes by | floods, caused by unseasonal mild- ness in many valleys of the Mis- sissippi, which are covered with) melting snow. | Rivers are running wild bcvond flood stages, but the freeze has halted further rise | Along the song-praised Wabash, in Indiana, conditions equa llecl{ those of 1913, still recalled as the ! year of the most disastrous flood the history of that section. | Water is -encircling the city of | Vincennes and more than 500 1am-' jlies have bean “driren. Jfram thajy | homes: when the waters of the Wa- | bash lapped the George Roger | Clark boulevard. | SOUTHERN PART OF CALIFORNIA: SHAKEN,QUAKES sity from Pacific to | Far luland LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 16— Southern California, from the Mo- jave Desert on the north to San Diego on the south and from the Pacific to the Coachella Valley and | other sections, was shaken by-brief earthquake shocks at 4:25 and 4:35 o'clock yesterday afternoon | A few broken dishes and brica- | brac and temporary disruption of telephone service in spots, was the only damage reported. The temblors varied in intensity. In Los Angeles the movement was! of a distinet rolling nature. the northern section the st were sharper and more jolting R e Another Diplomat Quits U. S. Foreign Service | | | WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Arthur Schoenfeld, recently appointed min- ister to Costa Rica, has resigned from the diplomatic service. The resignation was announced by Undersecretary Cotton, who said that the department regretted los-| ing Mr. Schoenfeld but hoped that he would later return to the ice M bu Schoenfeld plans to e —egg 00000000000 Jjudge, practice of State for accepting what he | gifts Stokes of New York, and he torney for arbitrating a will pending in New York Court asked the Associated Press rect sentence in one of the disbarment decision T |tence read: NEBRASKA BELIEVES PERSHING WILL BE DRAFTED TO SENATE LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 16.— The proposed candidacy of Gen. John J. Pershing for Senator from Nebraska, is a proposition of Republicans from the state to draft him, and such a move will go for- ward despite the general's hesitancy in entering the race, says Mark Woods of Lincoln. “General Pershing drafted us when he needed an army. Now we will draft him when we need a Senator,” Woods declares. “We will go ahead with our plans.” 099902909000 o l EXPLANATION the Stokes case the Stokes) was able to obtain for two children approximately $3,000.- 000 from the estate of her former husband, in addition to $156,500 for .Thex‘ services as a guardian o lchildren under an order issued b o (Lindsey as judse of the Juvenil o Court.” Col. Charles Lindbergh and his recent bride, the former Anne Morrow, seatgd in the cockpits of their plane at its hangar at Curtiss Field, Valley Stream, L. 1, ready to take off on their inspec- tion tour over the alr-mzul route of the C ~ ,.— Transcontinental Air Transport, whose passenger service they inaugurated last July. At Los Angeles Lindy and Anne will inaugurate a new route from there to San Francisco. Lindbergh. Leads Russum Exiles in London to believe GIVEN AS T0 d that been handled in his court, he will contest was in a cou in New York City. ed by Lindsey was one rected Mrs. Princess Nin2 of Russia, liv- ing in London, is the leader of the exiled Russians mak- ing their home at che English capital. She is the sister of he Princess X enia, better known in lAmerica as (M rs. William B. Léeds, wife of the tinplate king. Both Princess~s are cousins of the late Czar of Russia. (International Newsreel) the will case had where- The order i in wh Stokes to file ot asking for letters of g in LINDSAY CASE -~ the The allowances Prok to Denver stokes as a guardianship were giv- n by the DENVER, Col, by Lindsey, former who was disbarred law by the C Supreme Court December 9 med w Jan. 16.—B: Juvenile Cou from ement. from Mrs. Helen to cor an impression created by its repor intere ir M he “Through Lindse;'s mothe. any more.” mas {ray, five, Lindsey said this caused persons | | Probate Judge Lindsey's court. ated Press is glad to make this LOS ANGELES, Jan twelve-year-old Illah Lella was the star witness for her father his divorce suit against Mrs. Bower, when, Superior Judge William Hazlet! old the court went away and I didn't Court and not The A Mother Went Away Testifies Daughter 16.—Little Bower Jes- upon questioning “that her moth- |the custody of the father, Mrs. | see her | @. Lone Eagle and Bride Blaze NewTrall | | | | 1 | (Inset) Col. and Mrs. | (nsemmption) Hasww . GRIGSBY FILES . FOR DELEGATE MOSCOW GIVEN REPORT ABOUT MISSING MEN Claim Fliers Eielson, Bor- land are Near Anguema River, in Siberia [RUMOR UNCONFIRMED BUT EXPEDITION SENT {Dogsled Part_y_ Dispatched to Locality — Reid Reaches Nome MOSCOW, Jan iport that Col. Car son and Earl Bor _ 1 since Noveml« near the River An beria, has been rcceived by the Soviet Government. confirmed, the Soviet authori ‘expedition to go to that h- | eality. The Soviet Arctic Commis- sion of Moscow, which has been in charge of the Rus- sian efforts to find the misu-' Former Delegatc Files De- claration of Candidacy, Democratic Nomination George B. Grigsby, ot Ketchikan, one of Alaska’s leading lawyers and citizer today filed his dec- laration of candidacy for the Demo- cratic nomination for Delegate to Congress. His is the first declara- | tion of candidacy to bo filed for | a Democratic nominatior any office. Whether or for not Mr. Grigsby will have opposit for the Democratic | nomination is not known. One thing is certain, efforts to get Ter- ritorial Senator A. J. Dimond of Cordova to run, have failed. James J. Connors, Democratic National Committee, has received a telegram | from Senator Dimond saying posi- | tively that e would not be a can- » for the nomination. Ever since the last election in hich he was elected Representa- by an ov Iming majority, f s have been made to induce A. H. Ziegler, of Ke ikan, to run for Delegate. ~Whether or not he nds to file for office is not known in Juneau Mr. Grigsby was t nominee for De e to Congress at the last election, and he gave Delegate Dan Sutherland his clos- | Mr. Grigsby made a re- neau, Ketchikan, Sitka and Skag- markable campaign and carried Ju- among the larger towns of the First Division, and ran even in| Petersburg. He made a close run |in the Third and Fourth Divisions. :» Democratic | Teller and Capt. Anadyr, beena, which re-+f ceived the report Tuesday that Eielson and Borland | landed near the River Aug- uema. The report came from Rad- io Operator Kyrilenko at Pin- kignly who said he received a letter dated December 30, from Cape Wellen rapnrtmz the missing airme Despite lack tion of this report, ment gave irainediate . ipstr |to Captain Milovsorov, of the Stat- rapol to dispatch & dogsled ex- pedition to the area. tha o the ITWO PLANES ARRIVE AT NOME FROM TELLER NOME, Alaska, Jan. 16. — The weather cleared up yesterday and two airplanes landed here from “Pat” Reid, with a Fairchild plane, landed from Unalakleet. Matt Niemenen in a Standard plane, which was one of those ar- riving from Teller, with Major H. left for Fairbanks. Pilot Frank Dorbandt, with a Stinson plane, accompanied by Mrs. Dorbandt and probably Attorney O. D. Cochran, with the United States mail, plans to leave today for Fairbanks. Frank Graham, with a Nat plane, who has been stranded at | Deering on account of a broken landxng gear, will get relief through the Fairchild plane which is to taks loff today for Deering and Candle |with needed repair parts. fact, the gains made by Mr. g are assigned by many of ‘who follow politics as the [real reason for the retirement of | Delegate Sutherland. i Mr. Grigsby came to Alaska more (Continued on Page Eight) EVICE In the meantime, Capt. Reid's plane will have permanent repairs |made to the wing damaged in his | forced landing on the flight from |Fairbanks to Nome over Norton Bay, before going to North Cape to start search for Col. Carl Ben | Eielson and Earl Borland. IS SAID TO ELIMINATE . CARBON MONOXIDE IN GARAGES BALTIMORE, Jan. 16.—A practi- | cal means of eliminating carbon monoxide, the gas that takes an an- nual toll of hundreds of lives when automobile engines are left running in closed garages, is re- | ported in the discovery of a Johns Hopkins University professor. Dr. J. C. W. Frazer, professor of |chemistry at the university, made the announcement that tests had |shown a motor equipped with his Judge Hazlett granted the father, device could run indefinitely in a Luther Bower, a decree on closed garage grounds of desertion wer further testified that his|from > left him for another man. The child, Illuh, and James Mur- suppressed by the chemical action, |ical warfare service during the a son, were given into and smoke also will be entirely con-'Warld War to protect omuo‘ without liberatinz Offensive odors which can be carbon monoxide, automobile exhausts, labound in heavy traffic, sumed, Professor Frazer added. | Carbon monoxide is produced by incomplete combustion, and the scientist’s discovery is a chemical |catalyst which, when the exhaust vapors pass over it mixed with air converts the monoxide to harmless carbon dioxide. A device to ac- complish this has been made and operated successfully in road tests under all kinds of driving condi- tions, he said, but the present ob- Jjective is to simplify the apparatus and Professor Frazer believes ac- complishment of this end is in sight. Dr. Frazer's discovery resulted ix- directly from his work in the chem-~ guns in closed turrets, Although the report is not | ties have ordered a dog sled | C. 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