The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 28, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA TUESDAY JAMJARY 28 1930 'OL XXXV., NO 5318. MhMBLR OF ASSOCIATED PRhSS PRICE TEN CENTS MEN DIGGING EIELSON PLANE WRECKAGE FROM SNOW * * » * * * PLANE CRASHED, FULL SPEED, Ml CLE S H()4I ‘ (,R()()MEDA\DREAD) TO GO GREAT BRITAIN * * * * * * * NOT BUILDING Announcement Is Made at, Na\'al Conference London TONNAGE COMPROMISE NOW BELIEVED NEAR Proposals of Italian Parity Is Discussed by Delegations LONDON, Jan, 28.—As the Naval Powers moved toward a compro- mise on two of their most trouble- some problems, physical methods of limiting fleets and Italy’s demand for ity with France, Great Bri- e a new gesture in faith of the Conference and success by an- ¢ neuncing that construction of two cruisers has been Muscle $46,000,000 W a view cf the the on Dam on the Shoals, Governm £ nessee river he British announcement coin- cided with the meeting of the “Big| During the decade that Five” and Downing Street, at which tunss have been debated by a further program has been made gress, the great nitrate plant toward a compromise on tonnage, two power its, Wilson dam an designated to settle the and the auxilia cam plant, have perennial argument on this tech- peen kept in nd-by condition, hic phase of naval limitation. ready to go. Faxity Solution Wheh Rep. W. Frank James, At the same ‘time it was disclosed Ghairman of, the, House Milifary tRat seridus cofifidertion hias véen (Xirirs Committes, recently made | given by several delegations to the y,;c orrieia inspection he stated proposals of Italy for parity and yne project could be placed in of the solution of this problem, was eration within a few days. to meet this by a treaty declara-| qpere seems a fair chance tion in which all powers jeln for n;,.cio gnoals will have some sovereign rights, that every nation .o . 'youce warming before long an adequate fleet fully recog- ;). struggle to place the plant but the signatories voluntar- o o avion’ is to reach another e not to exceed certain con- n programs between now and 1936. Cruiser Con and its v D. that sort for cli- work has also been can-| celled at Surry and Northumber- land, it is announced It wa stated that work on ships was ne actually started. Tonnage Proposals At today's Naval Conference s sicn the French tonnage proposals were put ahead in the agenda but the Italian counter proposals will al=o pe en their day at the n open session of the full Conference on Thursday. ! Invoking the alphabet procedure.' the Conference, meeting in St. James Palace, decided to call the| roll of nations, thus giving France | -of-way over her Italian neigh- | | France will present her proposal | to limit fleets as a whole but not, in separate categories. | Great Britain will reiterate brief-| preference for the category| regulation. TItaly will then make her plea for actual relativity of, fleets and this to be decided b~- fore all else. \ The United States and Japan have nothing to propose on this| general phase of the discussions. ) e ly Racial Disturbances Start, San Francisco; | { | | i Precautions by Police SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 28.! —Three Fjlipino youths were se- verely beaten by two unidentified ! taxicab drivers last night as the‘ police were preparing to take extra! Joseph P. Cotton (left) is the precautions against serious racial ington while the naval parley is under way. graph taken from a paintlng» now is Acting Secretary of the Navy. disturbances in this city. BRITISH CRITIC FINDS U. S. CHILDREN DRIN BRIGHTON, England, Jan. 28— St. John Ervine, the British dra- matist and critic who sojourned in New York for a few months last year, has some interesting things to say about life in the United States . nations;. they contend the exx.shm\ nation is too vast for one gov- ernment. American laws seem harsh IL‘ the Enghsh but there’s a reason. | for “so many thousands of mesc\ people are not merely ignorant bu: uncivilized. In 1927 12000 per- The average Englishman, he sg)d sons were murdered in the United ina leclgre here, has no conception | states; the average annual figure ir of the immensity of the country y England and Wales is less than and the complexity of its task of 150.” government. Some people expect| p. and hope that the United States one. day will break up into five (Continued on Pa"z- Eight) Ervine admm.ed it shocked Tennessee orsepower power g An Array of American Exporl y§5 n%i" great nitrate and power project, River with the power house at the right. nerators. is ready to go on a few days' no Lower left is the $67,001 tice. The upper picture snows ue 0,000 nitrate plant. Lower right is 000. In the last seven years the | average annual expense has been about $67.000, although the average annual income was $254,000, army records show. | For the same fiscal year, the pp-/ eration and maintenance of Wil- | son dam cost $231,000, with an in- | come of $179,000, according to the | report of the commanding officer. | On the other hand, revenue from | the sale of power from January 1, 1928, to December 30, 1928, tataled | $454,000, with expenses approxi- plant has been picking up pin mon- |mately the same as for the federal | ey by .selling pewer, keepir fit | fiscal ‘year, The contract for gale with these light ex: |of power during the calendar year. n ities and a power cc 1929 called for a minimum payment | are customers. The plant is oper- | of $500,000 ated, by the' Asny Total revenue from the sale of During the fiscal year ending |power since September 12, 1925, to June 20, 1929, cost of maintenance |July 1, 1929, was $2,639,000, with and operation of the nitrate plant expenses in the same period fixed was $67,000, while the income from |at $735,000. Operation expenses of the steam plant was $129,- would be increased but little if the ngs on the Nor in the House the Senate as soon as tariff measure is disposed of. or Norris’ proposal provides gov- ernment operation, but also con- tains a section which permits leas- ing at an annual rental of a dollar to any firm which will carry out the provisions of the bill, with profits limited to 8 per cent Designed to produce nitrogen, for munitions or fertilizer, the s bill w this month the Sen- to start and in |Attorney General ‘I"tu ors Transfer, S L(,fl at 110"1(, Enforcement Unit WASHINGTON, —Attorney General ell urged the House Expen ditures Committee to expe aetion on legislation to transfer the Prohibition En- forcement Unit from the Treasury to the Justice De- partment, Attorney General Mitchell said he is in accord with the recommendation of Secretary Mellon now before the Com- mittee favoring the transfer and endorsed the Willilamson bill to- effect this change. Jan Mitc dite | | | | Lee is |Adams of the Navy, Ernest Jahncke, Assistant Secretary, Acting Chief. Joseph P. Cotton, Under tary of State, is acting for Secre- tary Stimson and is the Presi |dent’s chief adviser. Cotton ac- (tively directed the negotiations be- tween Ambassador Dawes and Prime Minister MacDonald which resulted in a basis of agreement |between the two countries that {made possible the confernce | Diplomatic officrs contributing to the work of the at-home dele- are Prentiss B. Gilbert of ster, Assistant Chief of the on of Western European Af- fairs; Pierre de L. Boal of Boals- burg. Pa.; Rellins R. Winslow of Grand Rapids, Mich,, and Robert McGregor Scotten of Detroit Throughout the parley, the Presi- dent and his group here will be in tant communication with the don delegation with questions of major policy decided by the President. e . Secre- Di President’s chief adviser in Wash- Ernest Lee Jahncke (photo- | | WASHINGTON, Jan. 28—While | Secretary Stimson and members of | Lon | his delegation to the Naval Con- rerence are busy in London, sm\llm group of diplomatic and naval experts is doing equally im-!| portant . work here. In marked contrast with the lux- ury surrounding their London col- leagues, this group is quartered in mo small, bare rooms in the Stan Department. Their principal duties include the liaison between President Hoover and his Secretary of State, as well as the chief delegates to the Lon- don Conference. Assisting them are a similar number of experts of the Navy Department, with whom the President confers. In the absence a |W ater Situation Is Serious One at Sitka (Special to The Empire) SITKA, Alaska, Jan. 28.—On count of the unprecedented cold weather, the water situation herc is serious with the city mains froz- en in many places. The Sheldon Jackson School has been forced to haul water for the kitchens and y | dormitories, ac- | of Secre |ment to munitions or f linto the Presidency | States |Ansley Wilcox. plant were really put to work and' run at capacity. The aight line arrangement ol the nitrate plant permits a ste flow of the material in cou manufacture with maximum ciency The process roughly, is the burn- ing of limestone into lime, mixing it with an equal quantity of crushed coke and the fusing of the two into calcium carbide. This, when cool- ed and ground, is placed in ovens in contact with nitrogen gas ob- tained from the air Heat is applied then to form cal- cium cyanamide, and’ after treat- ment, ammonia gas results. A por- tion of this gas is oxidized to form nitric acid and the other part used to neutralize the ing ammonius nitrate, evaporated and grained 0« effi- ship- tories. FRIEND OF PRESIDENTS PASSES AWAY Ansley Wilc—;bies at His Home in Buffalo— Helped Roosevelt ASSOC/IATED PRE: ANSLEY wnLcox BUFFALQ, N. Y,, Jan. 28.—Ansley Wilcox, friend of four Presider and schoolmate of Woodrow W son, is dead here. INTO PUBLIC NOTICE Theodore Roosevelt was inducted of the United in the home and coat of It was in the Tesidence of the Buffalo lawyer and in a coat borrowed from him that Roosevelt was inaudurated and held his firgt Cabinet meeting. The incident brought Wilcox into public notice. Roosevelt was a guest at the Wilcox house on Dela- ware avenue when he went Buffalo at the time that President McKinley was assassinated while to (Continyed on Page Three) » form- | " Employment | ephs, Missouri » L] * * » L] Eggs Aboard ’2 FAIRGH".D Wrecked Plane Only FROM TELLER Alfred J. Lomen, in charge of the Eielson Search Party, has received a radiogram Pilots Reid and Young Hop Off for Nanuk, Stop Enroute at Wreck from Joe Crosson in which the latter stated that 18 'WORK IS OUTLINED FOR RELIEF PARTY . cases of gasoline aboard the - ® ® 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Bodies of Eielson and Bor- wrecked Eielson plane had land, When Found, to EIELSUFWAS been scarcely moved by the Be Taken to Nome impact when the plane struck and that a case of cggs also aboard the plane was only slightly damaged eesceccescssesoe ®escscscsscccce | | | | | [ | !Alfred J. Lomen has returned [from Teller, where he went {Sunday, with Pilot Vic Ress.| | Lomen said both Fairchild iplanes tock of from Teller Indlcatlons Are He Over iat 9: o'clock yesterday shot Nanuk in Fog— morning (Monday) and in Crashed,Mountain itended to stop at the scene AVIATOR CIRCLED LANDING SPOT| .2 23 ‘of the Eielson olane wreclk enroute to the Nanuk. Lomen said Pilots Capt. Pat jReid and Ed. Young, with Me- . chanics Bill Hughes and Sam Me-|Fethaps Was Trying to Re- \Auley will remain on the Siberian! turn to TC“CI’ Where Weather Was Clear side until everything has been | cleared up, meaning that search (will be made for the bodies of{ (Eielson and Borland and when’ NOME, Alaska, Jan. 28— |found they will be brought back to Th et th: . 5 Nome. . The fliers will also clean|ine fact that Eielson’s plane up the fur shipments from Swen-|wds 90 miles east of tThe son aboard the Nanuk and replace |gchooner Nanuk and 10 miles th J y - ”:%Bamlme opRiedt by ' the: 80 from the coast, indicates Col. Increase in trip to the frozen-in craft from Nome, and circled over s Shown WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.— President Hoover said today that reports of the Depart- ment of Labor showed an increase in employment dur- ing the week ending January 14 of 3.3 per cent over the preceding week. This in- crease, the Chief Executive said, is “encouraging” and extended to almost every in- dustry. deavering to find a vlace to land. Finding no landing place, Col. Eielson continued to retrace the direction from which he came. The plane was heard by a Ru sian not over 50 miles from the | Nanuk, going westward, Evidently, Col. Eielson endeavored to fly back towards East Cape and probably! intended to reach Teller where il was clear when he left on Lhc |morning of November 9. Evidently Col. Eielson hit the| side of a mountain, with the wind, which caused the wreck, which is rot many miles from a small vil- lafe, half way between Takakoko- gen and Cnpe ‘Wankanem. DIES TRYING T0 SAVE FIVE e FROM FLAMES KANSAS CITY, Jan. 28—The| FREDERICK, Colo, Jan. 28— burned and mutiliated bodies of ; Seven persons were burned to death four men and one woman lay in|in a fire which broken out in a the city morgue today, victims of | 2-room shack near Slope Mine a crash of a Central Air Lines!e€arly this morning. plane which dived and exploded | Mrs. Paul Martinez and her five in a mass of seething flames last children, ranging in age from 13 night within one mile of its des-'months to 15 years, and a miner tination, the Fairfax Air Port Inamed Newlon, lost their lives. The dead are: | Newlon . . e s occeesoce FIVE KILLED PLANE CRASH KANSAS CITY Bodies Are_Eurncd and| Mutiliated—Four Men, One Woman, Victims plane. window but was burned to death C. McKENNON, Chicago business | trying to rescue the famtly. man. JAMES EGGERT, Chicago xnust publisher. MARGARET DICE, of St. Jos- 1 OVER REINDEER CAMPS | Carl Ben Eielson overshot the/ I Nanuk in a fog, on his second | the rcindeer camps, 25 miles; south of the Nanuk, while en-! in discovered the fire and DYKE LAUDEMAN, pilot of the broke into the shack through a' * * * ELIEF PARTY TAKEN T0 SCENE OF PLANE WRECK Pllots Crosson and Gillam Fly with Men to Dig Plane from Snow 'BODIES NOT LOCATED . " DURING FIRST SEARCH Fliers Radlo Mone Particu- lars Regarding Wreck and Their Beliefs NOME, Alaska, Jan. 28.— The following message has been received by Alfred J. xLomen- “Gillam and I left the Na- nuk Sunday morning with yR“«lans Boitry Miroshni- |chenkn and Gostor, agent at INorth Cape, also Williams of | the Nanuk erew, and two Na- tives and are leaving them at the wrecked plane. “Two dog teams are over half way now. “Stayed at the wreck over two hours. “Bodies were not lovale “Snow js deep and ver: 'hard packed. = “Must have hit ai flving speed as plane is scaliered for several hundred feel. “The right wing is 200 feet from the cabin. “The clock stopped at 3:40 o’clock. “The altimeter showed 1,- 1000 feet. “The throttle was bent jover and wide open. “The propeller was badly i (Continus ¢ on Page Two) R KARNES IS T0 . FILE FOR TER, ~ GOM. OF EDUC. Ketchikan Sz—ool Superin- tendent Candidate— Dem. Primaries i | | KETCHIKAN Alaska, Jan. 28.— Karnes, now serving his thi year as Superintendent of the Ket chikan Public Schools, is send! to Juneau his application to fila for Territorial Commissioner of Ed- ucation, subject to the Democratic primaries. Supt. Karnes has had 17 years of school work, including service a1 Boise, Idaho, Grade Supervisor. Ha is a graduate of Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas. He has a Mas- ,ter's Degree from the University ‘ot California. Supt. Karnes is an overseas vets= eran of the World War and former Commander of the American Le- gion Pns! of Ketchikan CORN B BELTERS LOOKI NG win s, ks osl FOR HOT VOTE BATTLE | theatre owner. All are believed to P killed by the impact CHICAGO, Jan. 28.—The Corn burbed 3o G’ Belt is to have some old time poli- The plane side-slipped and dived |!icS in its 1930 primaries, with regu- from an altitude of about 500 feet. !ar Republicans in four states itch- It had circled the field and the|ing to oust Progressive Senators motors were apparently normal,; Whose terms expire. then the plane flattened for the| landing, faltered and dipped into corn field. Aviators said the most plausible explanation of the| tragedy is that the controls failed.| ———.—.-— have been and not! cratic incumbent of the prairie region seek to keep “U. S. Senate” ‘on their letterheads. George W. Norris of Nebraska Thomas D. Schall of Mannesota, well known fur- Willlam H. McMaster of South Da- is a passenger to kota and James Couzens of Michi- ‘pan are Progressives; Charles §. a Henry Moses, buyer of Juneau, Seattle on the Northwestern Five Republican and one Demo- | Deneen of Illinois is a regular and Dan Steck of Iowa is a Democrat. Chief of the Progressives is Nor= ris, and in Nebraska, the fight is likely to be the hottest . Norris, who opposed Pre: |Hoover in the 1928 campaign, ha intended retiring from the but a threat of the Adminis forces' to run Sam McKelvie, ffl- mer Governor and now nmnhu the Farm Board, changed his p McKelvie and Norris are the terest of political neemies. (Continued op Page Seven)