The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 11, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXV., NO. 5330. JUN EAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1930. PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRELSS CAPT. REID REACHES NOME WITH NANUK PASSENGERS NEW YORK HOTEL FACE EAroufid World ifi H) Days RAID 1S MADE IN NEW YORK Many Atrests Ave Made, and Warrants Are Issued for Others 1,750 ROOM HOTEL MAY NOW BE CLOSED Padlock Proceedings Are Promised on $3,000,- 000 Structure YORK, Ieb. the newest NEW one of hostelrie: 11.—A hotel, ; and largest in the city, situated in the heart of theatrical dis- | trict, faced padlock proceedings to-| / as the result of a raid by Fed- Prohibition agents. squad of 25 Federal agents| fescended upon the hotel and ar-; rested 13 men, two bootleggers, six | be and five waiters. » Campbell hibition Ad-' said warrants have issued for eight other bell- the head waiter, captain of iters. and two other boot- legger: He also stated that pad- lock proceedings will be started to close the 27-story, 1750-room struc- ture which cost $3,000,000. DOCTOR DIES. | AS RESULT OF PARROT FEVER the boys, the w | Director of Baltimore Bu-, reau of Bacteriology Feb. 11 - William Royal Stokes, Dire tor of the City Health Department Bureau of Bacteriology, died last night of the parrot fever. He was stricken a fortnight ago. . Serum made from the blood of a' recovered patient was twice ad- ministered. ) During the investigation and fight of the disease, Dr. Stokes| handled many parrots and became infected BALTIMORE, Maryland | | - > Hoovers Married 31 Years; Do Not Celebrate | | LONG KEY, Florida, Feb, el -Yesterday was the Thir- dding anniversary ident and Mrs. Her- bert Hoover but neither made any formal observance. They never make any practice of ating birthdays or an- niversaries. They were mar- ried in Monterey, California. | 1 { ) | | i J LA P ° ° ° ° » ® ° . ® ° ° . ST SR Miss Victoria Spaulding, clerk in local headquarters of the Alaska| Game Commission, night from & 60-day vacation which she spent visiting friends in Van- couver, Seattle and other points. 124 days; Is His Goal with a Plane s Harry A. Husted, Cleveiand manufacturer (left), who, in a Fokker F-32 plane, hopes to_encircle the world in 10 days. Western Air Express flier, will be chief pilot. route. CLEVELAND, Feb. 11.—A Jules Verne steps forward tc circle the werld in 10 days by air plane. The Jules Verne ared man gird 45 days; Mears an pleted their globe tour in less than Harry A. Husted, Clev land manufacturer, hopes to pa wild fancy and solid achievemer Husted, arranging chang Fokker F. he has ord the trip, plans to leave the west of ar red coast June 15, off the beaten track over boldly projected routes. The flight over the Pacific may be non-stop, with a refueling over the Hawaiian islands and first s in China He then will fly north rd through Siberia, heading for occow, Paris, England, New York and the west “Newer developments in multi- motored airplanes, in the manufac- ture of fuel and oil, and in refuel- ing,” he said, “will make ocean hops in heavier-than-air craft regular ventures in the future.” James Doles of Western Afr Ex- press will be chief pilot. There will in the for James Dole (right), be plenty for the crew of four to do besides operating the ship. Hu- sted will have maps to check the yout of strange countries. In the selage will be still and motion ure cameras, hal tone and colored, and over everj inch of the way he hopes to keep them clicking These will be the first pictures of a world dling flight and because of their educational value, several hundred thousand feet of them will be given to the bureau of educa- tion in Washington. There will also be “household duties.” Husted will be cook. He can cook everything, he says, ex- cept pies. Catwalks around each of the four Pratt and Whitney Wasps will per- verhauling of motors in flight. tandems The fuel and oil wi cial type and the p! weigh 12570 pounds, will be able to carry 15,500 pounds of fuel. Be- tween 60 and 88 gallons an hour is the anticipated gasoline con- sumption. High School Orchestra To Play in Two Groups CHICAGO, Feb. 11.—The national high school orchestra, recruited from the best musical tatent in the high schools of the United States, |will split into two sections in 1930 | for th® initial concerts. After that, a speciany selected The first section will play in At- lantic City the last week in Feb- ruary under the direction of Wal- AMERICA TO BE HOST TOF. A. L. PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Ameri-| ca will be host early in March to the father of world sporting avia-| tion. Count Henri de la Vaulx, founder | and president of the Federation| Aeronautique Internationale, world | governing body for aircraft con-| tests, will pay his first visit in 25 years to this country. On October 14, 1905, the federa- was organized and shortly af- terwards the count came to. the United States to organize the Aero! Club of America. All world rec- ords in aviation must be confirmed | by the federation before officially | accepted. Wkile his complete itinerary has| | not been arranged, Count de la Vaulx will make an aerial tour on his visit to North and South Amer-| ica. He expects to leave France the middle of February, flying from Paris to. Dakar, French West Africa and shipping aboard a steamer for Brazil. By air he will visit many of the South .American countries. Over the lines of the Compagnie General Aeropostale he will visit Santiago and Arica, Chile, and thence, with a Bolivian airplane, to La Paz, capital of Bolivia. Visits will then be paid by air- plane to Lima, Peru, Quito, Ecua ( Contlnuad’ on P;\';'cw T&o) ter Damrosch and J. E. Maddy. The second section will play Chicago the latter part of Ma | directed by J. E. Maddy and Fred- erick Stock. | The selected touring section Wil ;1;1\'e concerts in Philadelphia Feb ruary 27, in New York February 28 and in Washington March 1. Each section of the prima: | orchestra will be made up of about 1300 high school musicians. i in | returned last!group of about 200 will go on tour. | {Edison Celebrates Eighty-Third Birthday Today FORT MYERS, Florida, Feb. 11 —Greetings from around the world came to Thomas A. Edison ludfl)‘.‘ his eighty-third birthday, while scores of congratulatory messages were received by the snowy haired | creative genius from: his neighbors Although a big celebration was |arranged, Edison found the great- est pleasure in the presence of his two old cronies, Henry Ford and |Harvey S. Firestone who visit him | ‘regularly on his birthday. { The inventor set aside this morn-| ing for the annua! interview always' given to the newspaper reporters and the unveiling of a bronze tablet in his honor in the City Park. | ... LOS ANGELES, Feb. 1—Mexico {City will be brought within 32 {hours of Los Angeles through a co- lalition"of the Standard Air Lines, |Ine, and Corporation Aernautica [’fi'anspmw:. Map. shows fentative | 1gines will be mounted in two | 1/One Girl Leaps from Eighth 8. land fell to the street. SUBMARINES TO CONTINUE AS WEAPONS Undersea Craft Will Prob- ably Be Given Place in World Navies | ACTIVITIES WILL BE “HUMANIZED”, .Eloquent Pleas Made at Naval Conference for and Against Craft | LONDON, Feb. 11. — Submarines are virtually assured a new lease of life as a weapon of war. This ,was indicated during a debate in | (the plenary session of the Naval onference today and subsequent resolution | Out of a wealth of eloguent | pleas, either for or against the Iretention of these weapons, grew la formal resolution which is gen-! im’nl]y taken as meaning submer- |sibles will be continued but their activities will be “humanized.” An effort will be made to restrict the size and number. The United States and Great Britain favored abolition of the submarines. | France and Japan spoke for re- tention. | Italy agreed in principle America and England but \reservations which will safeguard her interests as compared with thos$ | Jof other Powers. | with | WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Chair- iman Britten of the House Navalj the superdreadnought proposed yes-| | Naval Conference in London to equalize tonnage of Great Britain, will never be built and held the| plan up as just “hop” by American | naval enthusia;ls. Chairman Britten further serted that if the Ameri ‘3;mcn is “going to play into the ihands of Great Britain, it will be {well for the members of the dele- eation to pack up their trunks and come home.” TWO HUNDRED | TRAPPED, FIRE as- i Story, Perhaps Fa- tally Injured CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 11.—While a crowd of 5,000 watched, Margaret | | Paine, aged 25 years, one of 200 employees of seven different firms |trapped on the upper floors of a burning building near The Loop, "h-uped from an eighth story win- |dow late yesterday afternoon and !was probably fatally injured when ishe: struck the edge of a life net Others escaped without njury. serious |State Legion to Install Local Officers by Radio SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11— five thousand members of the erican Legion will put radio to a new test tomorrow, Lincoln's birthd when officers of every post are installed from San Francisco by that method. Two stations, KGO, S8an Francis- {terday for the United States at the | Another Boris III, King of Bulgaria, Giovanna of Italy may bring European royalty again this year. marriage of Princess Giovanna. ligion between the two, Britain 1'esis with || “HOP” SAYS BRITTEN ‘i Affairs Committee, predicted that| | 1 dele- | vhile the diplomatic ideali gates from four other other members of the Bri York, new, fast cruiser, is fueled siderations. (Inset) Sir Charles ! naval conference. Job Is Found For Man But Too Late; He Is Suicide PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 11. — A friend today telephoned Fred Bur- rows, 43, laborer, idle for the past two months, that he had found him a job. There was no answer. ner found Burrow's body suspended from a rafter, Mrs. Burrows said her husband had beéen desponder because of lack of work to ma tain his family, B T L Lorien McAllister of the dian Customs, was a pass Skagway on the Princess M after a 30-day vacation in ar co, and KECA, Los Angeles, will broadcast the ceremonial. south. Mr. McAllister is stati at White Pass. o Reno’s Divorce Revenue Estimated at $1,500,000 RENO, Nev.. Feb. 11.—Matrimon- entanglements enriched Reno by than $1,500,000 in 1929, ac- cording to an estimate by the county clerk, E. H. Beemer. He said the figure was conserva- tive. Fifty dollars each was paid by 2106 applicants for divorce as court fees and. their attorneys charged $250, a5 a mininmum re- tainer, while several paid $10,000 and $25,000 for the The county clerk estimaie costs at $25 a week and eac son had to reside wi ty at least 90 days. ‘With the 4210 permits issued during the same period, Beemer said newlyweds spent about $30,000 -for the permits and fees to the ministers of the cit 1 per he coun- to wed dience with His Holiness Pope Pius XI, thus g rumors that he is seeking the hand in The difficulty in the way of the match is a difference in re- Boris, by the constitu- tion of Bulgaria. must belong to the Orthodox s of England are convening with dele- owers regarding Admiralty The fighting power of the trim craft will be one of the major con- | British Admiralty, who will present Britain's E&p;a;iditur(es for 1930 Total $10.000,000,000' The corc- | PADLOCK Royal Marriage in Rome? SWENSONSAND “RUSS - GAPTAIN - NOW AT NOME Flight Is S;f;l; Made to Teller, then Nome, from Schooner Nanuk THREE PASSENGERS BOUND FOR SEATTLE Fog Prevents Pilot Crosson | from Flying to Eielson Plane Wreck NOME, Alaska, Feb. 11.—Conval- eseing from pneumonia, Capt. Mil- ovzorov, of the Russian steamer Stravrapol, is here waiting for a plane to take him on another leg of his journey “outside.” ! 'Miss Marion Swenson and her father, Olaf Swenson, of the schoon- er Nanuk, arrived with Capt. Mil- ~ ovzorov yesterday from Teller in \the Fairchild plane piloted by Capt. Pat Reid. Bad weather held the party at Teller three days. Capt. Milovzorov will go to Se- attle to enter a clinic for further medical examination and the Swen- sons are also bound for Seattle. Capt. Reid plans to return im- mediately to the Nanuk with gas PLANE GIVEN r plane but bad weather prevent the flight today. : Fog at North Cape prevenjed Pilot Joe Crosson from making' a (flight, ‘g, the wrec) nlane yesmd\gv‘. accor«:fin’x’:’4 to a rmg BERLIN, Feb, 11.—A “fool proof” gram received here today. Greek Church, while the Princess is of the Roman Catholic Church. Thus far it has been impossible for Boris to obtain the necessary dispensation from the Pontiff for the nuptials, A solution which has been considered is that the Princess retain her religion and bring up ber ehildren as except her first-born, who would be i in the Orthodox Greek religion in order succeed Boris on the Bulgarian throne. $o7guscced nnrnationa) Newsreet: \“FOOL-PROOF” and Princess a union of Boris had an New Cruiser Refuses to-T;p Over ol Go Into Tail Spin—New Wiag Copstruction al arms limitations, nt while H. M. S, in preparation for her trial run. t Sea Lord of the point of view at Madden, f1=+arnational Newsreel) BROCKTON, Mass. Feb. 11.— Three persons lost their Jives in a fire which swept the 47-year-old | the city farm early in- institution houses 80 in-| | irplane which refuses to tip Over| Marion Swenson gulded Reid’s r go into a tail spin was demon- plane for a few minutes before strated here yesterday before a Janding yesterday and it took a and newspapermen. Miss Swenson and her father ex- Although Herr VonKoeppen, Di- pect, to leave here for Fairbanks rector of the Airplane Testing In- and she said she hoped the trip Istitute, tried every conceiveab’e would be made in an open cockpit. over or even go into a tail =pin at 2 either full speed or when the motor was retarded. The machine, a five-passenger tion but the differences are appar- WRITEH ENGAG‘E ent_only to experts. LWES FlRE John Gilbert Is Knocked § Sl Tully Opponent i LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 11.— Wooden Structure Is vJulm Gilbert, film star, and Jim Tully, writer, admitted they staged Swept by Flames A58 ,Wwood Cafe several nights ago. “I don’t care to talk about it. I did only what any other man would have done under the offerings in 1930 will exceed thosc this morning. “I did what you or anybody 1920 if all projected govern-| TWO others were critically else would have done, if a man | and industrial expenditures JUred had come charging across the are carried out. | The room at you. I got up and cated for 1930, as already announc- |, The deed were found on the 0P| Other diners said Tully was seat- ed by municipalities, industries un(l‘rv';]”; of the ',";""“"’y WG, 8 (ed with May Cruze, sister of James the Federal government is estimated ‘?Ml _“ 00 L 2 Cruze, Director, and Nicholas Kelly, $10,000,000,000, b {when Gilbert entered the cafe with fell short of this figure by ap- - i , It is said that Gilbert shouted proximately $100000000 based or. legular Old West something to Tully about an ar= authoritative banking statistics [{,)[,[,pry St(l[led (ticle he had written two years ago Prospective security. flotations for in a magazine in which the actor if forecasts of greater foreign of-| | Tully replied and after exchang- rings materialize. Foreign bond AS ¥ ing more words, Gilbert took off in 1920 were less than ten COPYINg train robbery methods of his overcodt and charged. r cent of the total new the old West, two men last night| Tables were upset and chairs were crew and escaped in a waiting auto- |, Gilbert was knocked down. mobile with approximately $1,000. Bystanders interferred and Gil- {None of the passengers were mo- bert was persuaded to leave, his leste wife joining him at the door. large group of aeronautical experts series of bumps. stunt, the plane refused to tip ——————— plane, has a special wing construc- | Down in Cafe—Jim | Forty-seven Year Old an Impromptu fisticuff in a Holly- YORK, Few. 11.—3gcurity jdormitory of circumstances,” said Gilbert. Total construction work indi- “°S knocked him down,” said Tully. i Offerings of new securities in 1929 | |his wife. 1930 will be further augumented [T Washington was mentioned. 8 4 boarded a street car, held up tho kicked about. Predicts Fruit Fly, Unless Controlled, May Come to Pacific MONTGOMERY, Ala H. Montgomery of Gainesville Florida, quarantine officer, predict- ed here today that if the eradica- tion campaign against the Mediter- san fruit fly was not continued | Tructof Is Instrument Of Death; 2 Men Killed truit HOUSTON, Texas, Feb. 11.—An| Wade Gatewood, a pedestriam, da, the pests would get out ambling tractor turned into an en- |leaped to the seat of the tractor control and within fi rs gine of destruction late yesterday |and grasped the emregency brake. reach the eitrus producing 'afternoon when the driver, A. Mc- | qpe pr ) e brake broke and he was of the Pacific Coast. |Carthy lost his balance rounding a | thrown under the tractor and was >ee |corner, and fell beneath and was|gaico ki |also killed. M Farquarhson, teacher ground to death. | lat mission school at Haines,| The tractor lumbered on its way' The tractor continued on for an- was a northbound passenger on the |battering and smashing automo- |other 100 feet before it came to & Queen bile stop. Feb. 11— ye would {area ss Ruth €