The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 8, 1930, Page 1

THLE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXV., NO. 5352. MEMBER OF ASSOCIAI l:D PRESS WILLIAM HOWARD 'I'AFT PASSES AWAY LATE TODAY FUNERAL PLANE MAKES LAST LEG OF ARGTIC TRIP Aerial Fune;;l_Cm‘tege Cir- cles Fairbanks Field then Comes Down FUNERAL SERVICES TO | BE HELD WEDNESDAY RC"]H;“S Of TV\'O Fliel‘s to Be Sent South on Train Thursday FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 8— in close formation over at 1:30 o'cloc! 3 , the aerial funeral cortege inging the bodies of Col. Carl Ben and Earl Borland, slowly the town and then landed n quick succession. The Fairchild plane, with thel »dies aboard, with Pilots Crosson | and Young, landed first. The Junk- | crs plane with Soviet Commander Slipenov and his mechanic landed next. Pilots Gillam and Capt. Pat 1 with Mechanic Hughes, in a| man plane were the third ' down. 1 Ol Fair| I)dn' Eielson, the Crosson, father of Col. Eiel-| first to reach and! Young and Reid. | . a few moments he lked over to the Russian plane and oted Slipenov and his compan- | ace the Russians crawled out \of| open cockpit plane theyl ped to greet Gillam, Reid and | s made a p Ruby where they night Thursday on account of ibility om over YUNERAL BE HELD SERV l( AT The bodie train ! _|and to tele, today by from t B ar recei gement. ied in Seattle ton, N. D Fune Hat- | ces will be held Fairbar r both men on Mar 12, the day prior to the de| of the funeral train. The will go south from Seward on the| mer Alaska about March 15. Ole Eielson, father of the dead; flyer, and Mrs. Earl Borland and her two children will accompany ! the remains south. ; in| h | e i THO WOMEN DIE IN FIRE; MANMISSING | Six-Story Bufldmg Is De-| stroyed — Origin of Blaze Not Known DULUTH, Minn., March 8—Mrs. | Thomas, aged 70 years and Hel Todd, aged 75, her sister, were burned to death, and Nels Sv\anson! is unaccounted for, in a fire that| destroyed a story office build- | and rooming house late last| The loss is estimated at. $70,000 | The bodies of the two women| were found on the third floor three ! hours after the fire started. | The origin of the fire, on the second floor °F d rapidly, hi termined. _———-- ni whi and | Wanted to His See [ Family :Refused.Climbs ‘ 100 Foot Smokestack | LAS VEGAS, New Mexico, March 8—Afler 30 hours atop of a 100- foot smokestack, at the insane asy- lum here, Pete Pesican, aged 29, was lured to the ground and safe- He scurried up the stack irsday, armed with a bottle of cid gnd a monkey wrench because lum authorities refused to let him see his wife and children. When | he descended he repeated his en- planted on Montana farms in 1929. rest on the west shore of the river tralia kill mice which destro; lOrders indicate 300,000 this year. treaties, rday | |ing someone else cut in right away | Lindbe ni EIGHTEEN COME HERE |solid packed snow to a depth of| Sister-in-Law Of Lindy Likes London Dances !l(BruIc Confirmed by Senate for Third Term as Collector The Senate today confirm- ed the nomi on of J. C. McBride for a third term es Collector of the District of ng to an As- dispatch re- ceived by Empire this morning. The nomination was, sent to the Senate last by President Hoover. McEride now holds from three S ren G. Hard- ing, Calvin Coolidge a Herbert Hoover. He was re- cently in Washington attend- ing a conference of Customs officials and is now enroute to Berkeley, Calif., where he will spend a short vacation before returning to his home here seceeccecece Mr. 80000000900 0000000000000060 @6 0000603 800 - ELEVEN ARRESTS ARE MADE WHEN RAID IS STAGED i r(’dm al Agents Swoop Down on Farm Houses Near Chicago AUTO SEARCHLIGHTS TU'{NED ON SUSPECTS MiSS ELIZABETH MORROW LONDON, h Morrow, r Dw March 8.—Miss Eliza- daughter of Ambassa- w. has found Morrow : stml Mrn Try te Escape /\m Captured— tement Bu CHICAGO, Ii, March 8—Eleven * lmen were arrested, two bombs, four shotguns and several pistols were eiz in a raid last night on a near Park. ‘The the police officials assert, is wdquarters of the “bomb farm arm w | the r | trust. The young man asked f number, Miss Mo t he intended to cut in la of his reque hus it happened that a dance might find several claimants king the favor. Miss Morrow finally discovered that English girls scribble the order of their dances on a small piece of paper to pre- vent confusion. It’s much more fun in one way,” Miss Morrow said. “If you get a good d you least have a full danc b instead of hav- da h ar farm house was surrounded after midnight by two squads of letectives. Automobile headlights were turned on the buildings from all sides. ‘The occupants of the farm houses were ordered to surrender. Several tried to escape by climbing out of windows but they were covered by guns of the officers and captured Most of the men arrested are former members of the once pow- erful Genna Gang that ruled the West Side several years ago. The raiders said they were posi- tive from information that the gang supplied a number of bombs which have shaken Chicago re- cently. KILL OFFICER IN GUN BATTLE Detroit, Mich., March 8.—Patrol- man D.I)Lcll Winegar was shot to death in a gun battle with two robbers fleeing with $6,000 ob- tained in haberdashery holdup. The robbers escaped. R e sin at W do in America. you draw If, on the a bad part- as they |other hand, tner | i3 Wo (l, seemed rgh's pretty u ————— to fail Colonel ster-in-law at this ju Son of Former German Crown Prince Is Flier BUENOS AIRES, 'March Louis Ferdinand Hohenzollern, son | of the former Crown Prir has | jbeen granted a license for third | Q air pilot after a successful} test ght He is now employed at the Ford plant here and bezan, takmrz lessons at Hollywood, Cali- , more than a year ago. Of- said he was an excellent 8= \Crack Navy Racing Pilot Resigns FROM TAKU COUNTRY | Bound for the States, where they | | |will go on a business trip to pur- chase stock for their stores in the| Taku district, Mr. and Mrs. William Strong arrived in - Juneau from Lieut. Alford Williams, crack Navy | Taku yesterday afternoon. racing pilot. ‘The resignation will They came here in company v\,ll.h‘bt‘ signed by Acting Secretary of ixteen others who made the trip |Navy Jahncke, within a week and down from the mining district.|it will become effective within two WASHINGTON, March 8—Rear Admiral Leigh, Acting Chief of Na- val Operations, announced the res |ignation has been submitted by s SRRIES ¢ b been practically at a stand-| still the last few weeks owing t”\Explosmn thcn FLre Lon, On Oil Barge,Causes Death of Three Men KEARNEY, New Jersey, March 8. CHARLESTON, 8. C., March 8.— Three men are believed to have met Ed Pritchard, chairman of Charles- 'death when a fire, preceded by an ton’s delegation in the South Caro- |explosion, destroyed the Pure Oil lina house of representatives, is a|Company’s oil barge moored in the nifty leather pusher. He is a box- Passaic River. ing star at the Universuy of South; The barge carried 9,000 gallons Carclina, fighting as a heavy al-‘'of gasoline. thpugh within the light heavy-! The blazing barge was shifted up ht limit. He is a law student. and down the river by the tide and R« 2 3 O for a time threatened other ship-| were ping. Finally the barge came to| several feet. TGRS Sl RIS LEGISLATOR-BOXER i | | | I More than 250,000 trees (and sank, not been de.lhcapecung and diamond drill work 'months from the date of signing. | | h E. T. SANFORD OF . SUPREME GOURT, DIES SUDDENLY Associate Justice of High- est Court in Land Passes Away WASHINGTON, D. C., March 8. Edward Terry Sanford, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United tes, died suddenly of uremic poisoning this afteruoon. He collapsed in dentist’s chair and was rushed to his home whex he died. After 15 ye: tonsecutive sery- ice on the bench of the Federal | District Court for Middle and East- lern Tennessee, Edward Terry Sam- {ford was made Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United | States by President 'y 31, 1923. He ‘ the vacancy ated ignation of” Justice Pitney, who had been compelled to retire by ill {health. His appointment restored | the numerical representation of the | South on the tribunal as it steod | at the time of the death of Chlef\ Justice White,—Justice McReynolds, also from Tennessee, being thet |other member whose home was! south of the Mason and Dixon line. Before entering the Federal Judi- | y Justice Sanford had for ohe ar been an Attorney General of the United States undey Fresident Roosevelt, who appointed |him to the bench, and in that ca- pacity had frequently appeared before the Bupreme Court in the ergument of cases. On January 6, 1891 Justice San- ford married Miss Lutie Mallory ! v ruff of Knoxv « of the charter me Gec Peabody College for lers, and alsox @3 the Board of Cwe- ernc of the Knoxville General! Hospital, In both the Tennessee and the American Bar Association he held high offices, and was a member of the honor court of the Boy Scouts. A fluent speaker and extremely popular personally, he frequently was called upon to deliver address-{ at public functions, and was a {requent contributor of magazine articles on jurisprudence and other subjects. B9TH BIRTHOAY N CELEBRATED BY Assistant JUSTICE HOLMES Tribute tomeran Jurist Is Paid by Walsh in U. S. Senate WASHINGTON, March 8—Thel Eighty-Ninth birthday of Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, of the Supreme Court of the United States was celebrated today by the United States Senate which listened to a tribute delivered a short time before members of the Supreme Court gathered in the conference chambers of the highest tribunal to extend personal greetings to the veteran jurist. t United States Senator David I. 1 Walsh, of Massachusetts, inter- rupted the tariff debate to call at- tention to the birthday of Justice Holmes, recalling the 27 years of service of the jurist which has set| 'a record in the Supreme Court. Senator Walsh referred to Justi Holmes as “one of the most noble and most patriotic members of Ihe' American judiciary.” ——tli e e 0000000000 . TODAY’S STOCK . QUOTATIONS eee000 000000 NEW YORK, March 8—Alaska {Juneau mine stock is quoted today |eaped after a running gun lat 7%, Alleghany 31%, Ame sale, Anaconda 74%, Be’ Steel 105%, Central Alloys General Motors 42%, Gold Dust 437%, Granby 57%, Grigsby Grunow 15%, International Ha vester 947, Kennecott 59':, Mi souri Pacific 96%, National Acme 23%, Packard 20%, Radio 49 Standard Brands 26, Standard Ol of California 59%, U. 8. Steel 181 {Montgomery-Ward 461, Standard 011 of New Jersey 62%, Humble 0il 91 n Ice, no lehem 32%, ? SABRSa A A Owls imported to Fiji from Aus- co- goanut crops, 3 . VETERAN AR !Jimmy ‘ard John Slaton were Boles | panions. |beer baron of North New Jersey lof an office building by three men FORMER PRESIDENT PASSES AWAY . UNITED ST 'FORMER PRESIDENT OF ATES DIES AT WASHINGTON HOME End of Former Public Service Official, While Ex- pected, Terminated Suddenly This Afternoon— Resigned Several Weeks Ago as Chief Justice of Supreme Court of United States Because of 1Iness. BULLETIN — WASHING- TON, March 8. — William Howard Taft, former Presi- dent of the United States and fermer Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United | States, died at the family |home this afternocn at 5:15 o'clock, following a scrious illness of several months. This morning it was an- nounced that his condition !was not as good as it was i yesterday but the end was Inot then predicted. Several weeks ago, the for- mer President became so ill that he resigned as Chief Jus- !tice of the Supreme Court and was succeeded by Charles Evans Hughes, I —— The enduring rame of the great- est traveller in American public life, William Howard Taff, twenty- seventh President of the United — States and its tenth Chief Justice, may be ascribed in history to the confidence he radiated, and his ability to inspire in others an ap- preciation of his scrupulous hon- esty of purpose and justness of de- cision in 8'l problems emr'm.cd o his arbitrament. Caring nothing for politics, he was not influenced by partisan mo- tives. With an equitable judicial mind, inexhaustible patience and a dependable serenity ,he had the exceptional faculty of impressing Given as Cause for upon, others the genuineness of his | friendly motives and his purpose to help them bear their burdens; to Buflalo Murder 'enlighten them whenever possible, | BUFFALO, New York March 8. and to present the hest available —Two Indian women are in jail solution for their problems. ' |charged with the murder of Mrs.; Lif>’s Dedication Clothilde ‘\Auchand wife of !hc His life was unselfishly dedicated famous ar Henry Marchand, to the service of his government, Curator of [!w Buffalo Museum of and like a patriotic soldier, he re- Science, one of the women, sponded to all demands made upon Lillian Jimerson confessed she used him by his commander-in-chief. an ouija board and also tribal su- the President. His real introduc- perstitions which incited Mrs. Nan- tion to public life came through cy Bowen, aged 63 years, to kill the President McKinley, of his native artist’s wife. !state of Ohio, who commissioned Unrequited love for the artist, 18 him to assist in bringing order out blamed for the killing, Miss Jimer- of chaos after the Spanish-Ameri- son said. She Is 35 years of age, can war, when the United States } ., |whom Marchand used as a model. found that it had inherited from Co-pilot A. W. Bleber and SteW- g, pocame infatuated with him. 'Spain, along with its colonial pos- €OMm=| " Miss Jimerson said she told the sessions in the Pacific, the grave |older Indian woman that messages opligation of shaping the destinies |from her husband, in the Spirit of the Asiatic races inhabiting the ;Lmd cried out to avenge. Then jslands. |the cuija board did the same thing | By a strange coincidence it was as well as. spelling out instructions another Ohioan, President Harding, to go to the Marchand home and who made it possible for him to woman. The woman did realize the greatest ambition of his truck Mrs. Marchand with )ife. Mr. Taft was the first man r over the head, then in our history to fill the two great thrust a wad of paper and chloro- offices of Chief Executive and Chief {form down her throat. | Magistrate. Representatives in Con- GALI.[]NS WINE = OV WirLiam Howarp Tarr OULJA BOARD SPELLED OUT. WORD ‘AVENGE’ | Tribal Supcrafiion Is Also PILOT FOUND DEAD, CRASH Doles and Two Companions Found in Plane Wreckage LOS ANGELES, Cal, M: Jimmy Doles, veteran of the and two companions, have found wrapped in the twisted nwml of their transport plane at the bot- tom of a 1,000-foot canyon in the San Bernardino mountains after missing for 12 days. The plane was sighted Thursday rom the air and searchers arrived at the spot late yesterday Doles’ plane droppe the storm clouds to see to safety, a wing snagged on a canyon ridge, the searchers said ist after belo a path MILLIONAIRE 'BEATEN, SHOT {Retired Beer Balon of E aal Is Victim of Assault by Three Men HOBOKEN, March 8—The Pu\u blamed a feud engendered by his beer-running days for the kh]mv of Franks Dunn, retired millionaire once became a Congressman, but| nr-u-r before had any one served as ead of the two great adminis- lrauve and judicial coordinate branches of the government. In Politics Taft was precipitated into from a law office in Cin- cinnati, Oddly enough both he and Theodore Roosevelt became {ued at $1,000,000 have been cOn-'yn,wn in Washington public life fiscated by Federal Agents In & ap,u¢ the same time. They first raid on the Silva Brothers bonded | o when Mr. Roosevelt ry, 12 miles east of here. Service Commissioner and Mr. T b s Manuel and King Silva, brothers, was Solicitor General. They w The machine gupngs, Frank DU-| were released on $5,000 bond each.|o i1y attracted to each other gan, of New York, committed st The arrests resulted from reports|¢nere began the friendship wWhick cide when the Police cornered him/| . wl(' to unauthorized parties, the! ociited in the dominating influ- a tmen ol s R e ence Mr. Roosevelt later exercised Winee: ISl & over his friend’s political career. - % | RECEIPTS PASS MILLION | Mr. Roosevelt generally was cred- IN NEW CHICAGO STADIUM ifed with making Mr. Talt Presi- i dent, and most political observers CHICAGO, March 8—Within 12 agree that he unmade him four boxing matches in the Cm_‘)ears later. Backed by the Roose- velt influence, Mr. Taft was elected President in 1908 by the overwhelm- ing gnajority of 321 electoral votes out ¥of a total Roosevelt influence against him and Colonel Roosevelt himself a! ‘Cdndlddl(’ on a third party ticket {in 1912, Mr. Taft received but a turer, to be ambassador to Poland, |paltry eight votes out of a total has been confirmed by the Senate.| Kentucky's corn Lrop was worth of 531. Confirmation was made after Po- more than its tobacco in 1929, Corn | land replied that Willys would be was valued at $75523,000, tobacco zceptable, t 56,000 Dunn was set upon in the lobby SACRAMENTO, Cal., March 8— | Nearly 200,000 gallons of wine val- After two of the men had felled {him with their fists, the third man| turned a sub-machine gun on him, and two bullets passed through Dunn’s body. He died in the pital a few hours later. with the Police. Dunn is reputed to $2,000,000. be worth| months |cago stadium have drawn 257,174/ \[)Prh\lors with receipts at $1,056,- | | | Senate Confirms J. D. Willys to Be Ambassador,Poland * WASHINGTON, D. C., March 8 —The nomination of John D. Wil- lys, former automobile manufic 'J m' heaviest gate was the Tom- my Loughran-Mickey Walker fight, which opened the stadium on ch 28 last year. JRCFRLE0 " G TR Good Loser It was said of Mr. Taft at this time that .although he was the to the Presidency, and a President | was Civil | of 488. With the| worst defeated President he was the best loser of any. He left the. White House in the happiest frame of mind, apparently glad to lay down the cares of state, which had been far greater than he antici- pated. Official Travel His real officlal travel began in 1900 when President McKinley made him chairman of the Philip- pine Commission. Later, becomse ing civil governor of the Islands, it was necessary for him to visit Washington to appear before a | Congressional committee, and he made the trip from Manila ‘by way of the Mediterranean to confer with Pope Leo XIII, on the friar lands, thus completing his first cir< cumnavigation of the globe. Later on Colonel Roosevelt sum- moned him to Washington to join the cabinet, but he soon returned to the Philippines with a Congres- sional party, and two years later again visited the archipelago to jopen the New National Assembly, on the latter occasion returning to the United States through Siberia jand Europe, completing his second circle of the world. While Sec- retary of War he visited Panama seven times in connection with the construction of the canal, and was sent to Cuba to adjust affairs there arising out of the insurrection, be- coming provisional governor of the island. Toured Country Duriiyd his fisat campaign gsus . | Presidential candidate he _toured the country as far west as Denver, and as President he made two long trips through the country visiting the Pacific Coast as well as mak- ing innumerable short runs. When Colonel Roosevelt cast his hat into the ring, Mr. Taft took the road on a pre-convention campaign. Upon moving out of the White House he |went on the lecture platform, speak~ ing in all states except Florida. And his /travels did not cease when he became Chief Justice. Thoroughly enjoying to rub elbows with his fellow man, and feeling that so far as his official duties would permit his time belonged to the people, he accepted many of the innumerable invitations he re= ceived. He was always a good traveller, able to sleep well under all condi- tions, whether on boat, train or au= tomobile, seldom tiring. In all his experiences he was in but one ac- cident, and that was upon a rail- road near his home in New Haven, while returning from New York prior to becoming Chief Justice. Aided Pres. Wilson One of his hardest trips was made during the World War, to which he was called by President Wilson. After assisting in the suc- cessful adjustment of the relations between capital and labor, with the result that American produc- tion was at its maximum, he und- ertook to visit the army camps. |This trip was made during the winter, and because of the import- ance of quickly delivering his mes- sage to the rapidly-forming armies, he made two and sometimes three speeches a day, visiting all camps \ | | " (Continued on Page Eight) o e |Operator Suggests Radio Station at |New Gold Strike WASHINGTON, March §—If per- | severance is rewarded, Sergeant. Willlam Growden, of the United States Army Signal Corps, before long will open a radio station at | Poorman where he staked a gold |claim not, long ago. He recently obtained a leave of |absence from his post at Ruby, ' |Alaska, and traveled by dog team |to the new diggings, going to Dis- covery point. He radioed all de- tails to his Army Chief and sug- gested that if the gold holds, Poor= man should have a radio station of {its own. 1 His message was full of informa- tion. and gave the population of - |Beaver Creek. Growden said if (hm.ls turn out right, a good sized |town will be founded on the spot. lGrowden is hopeful his sunfi- tions will result in his moving hh station near the claim he staked, | |