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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL XXXV., NO 5357 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” COAST TO COAST RAIL SYSTEM NE JUNEAU ALASKA FRIDAY MARCH 14 1930 C anada A umts Resulta Of Giant Wheat Pool FINAL TRIBUTE FROM AIR PAID DEAD AVIATORS Fairbanks Planes Dip Over }V:Unci'al Tl'ain*cl‘oS' ! » sons Remains Behind FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 14| —When the train bearing the bod ies of Col. Carl Ben Eielson and; B 1 steamed n members of Alaska Airways Incorporated, per- | e 1 al tribute from the quadrop of six planes dipped omed. e Crosson, al the last minute, abandoned plans to accompany the p the entire personnel of ers is needed to complefe rian work, including re- to the Soviet | Stavropol, completion of haulage from the Nanuk to the Fairchild planc L ABORITES WIN FIRST SKIRMISH effec | economists believe the o y in May. British Government Wins Out—Fight to Finish, HO\NC\'CI’, Promised as Wheat farmers in Canada still sling The world's largest g owned by the Canxdian wheat field. of (shown - below) cpes o8 in ele hur is pool. al scene smashed. WASHINGTON, M. Canadian d 16,000,000 y summer the heat won or lost what i organized in 1924, mand for co- facilities. Alberta, Saskatenc- combined to n Cooper: e td., the peo!l of 5 fallen co! bet, s 11928 an av £1,000,000 the Cana turnover as $323,000,000, rnover every any for of gest enterprise in pool 2 of hort crops in Can March 14.- t beat off a C the House ing a motion Form Pr say the pool owns 1417 LONDON vators it con- Governme attack in by defeat large ators which bring its t storage capacity to' 86:000000 busl Port Arthur terminal ing 200,000 t ommons eensure r Bald- a vote o of 308 to 235. Baldwin's motion was to cen: r('(vlr:.'xl to ex-| .14 "”‘tp,:' at | Since. loggosiion it iy Officials of the pool say it trols one-fourth of w wheat supply. Of 248,000 farmers in the prairie provinces, the pool's | membership includes about 142,000 world's , was the largest in his prices have od steadily r the pool 20 countries on four handled 222,000 bush: 000,000 in internati amount re of all wk Canada as of the 828,- de. That per cent western | and protecting T the 's 1al ese 515 marketed in motion " from ance of s drawn up in a way to attract the support from the L)b':l'alm The real test is yet the House of Commons Conservatives or Libe a motion of censur: If this is done, Premier d will have a fight to the BRITISH PLAN Big Game Hunter Has Served Year on Islanc if either in Canadian in 1023 and re- | of more than| working day, | 1 | ALASKA JUNEAU FOR FEBRUARY 500 Is Shown by Local Mine for Last Month The Alaska JH 1e, ling profit for the mo lary was $71.500, ding to the | statement of resuly of | |operations for that month pAepared | by the San Francisco o and re- leased today by Superin-! {tendent L. H. Me | Atter deduc s net h of Febru- es local oy )nqvnm r and ! 1600, the com month w $ The statement Tons mined and tr to n , 298,410, RECEIPTS a0, per ton 8343 218 Gold Lead $240,000 and Silver 6,500 Total OPERATING $255 500 8 EXPENDITURES $ 85,000 7,500 2848 other Juneau ating Costs York Stock Transfer and S. F. office expenses. 9,000 Total 5184 000 Operating Profit. $ 71,500 23.96 | OTHER EXPENDITURES AND ACCRUED CHARGES Taku River Manville, $ 11,600 $ 50,900 s B BI6 TAX REFUND TO U, S, STEEL GIVENAPPROVAL O\ 61.65 | Ebn Group Etc. SURPLUS er Thlrty-three Million | Dollars to Be Refund- ed Corporation RESULTS SHOWN |Operating Profit of $7|,-3 operat- com- { Cents 20,32 PLAN CAMPAIGNS FOR RE-ELECTION TO CONGRESS ! to $115=/ v Q ——0"0 These women with the exception of Ruth Hanna McCormick, who is campaigning for a seat in the senate, are candidates for re-election to the house of representatives. They are, left to right (sbove): Ruth Baker Pratt of New York, Ruth Hanna McCormick of Illincis, Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida and Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts. Below: Katherine Langley of Kentucky, Florence P. Kahn of California and Mary T. Norton of New Jerscy. A, S, HARDY IS | | | 'Double Life Termer Killed in Attempted Break Woman Lion Tamer Clawed I"umH\': DEAD; PASSES "= . AWAY ATHOME 14.—A woman lion tamer en- tered a cage here with only a wire whip and freed a bear Was Dlplomat Wnl(‘\ For- mer Minister to Many Countries TRENTON, N. J, Charles Evans, aged prison who completed eleven years of a| double life sentence, was killed by | |Guard Ernest Gordon in an at-! tempt to make a break for libe { Guard Frank Butcher was ki and two other guards were wo |ed when Evans was cornered in I |cell and shot it out with the guard Evans was sentenced from Ho- boken for killing a policeman, and also William Byroff. e —— GIANT LINERS ARE PRUPUSED .)1',’»'.r diplomat and author. | March 14. from a lion's deadly claws. The lion leaped on the woman and clawed her fatal- ly. Her dying cries attracted attendants who shot the lion to get the woman's body. The bear died from in- juries The beasts started after had crushed the cage en partition. ° ° ° ° ° ° ° . ° ° ° NEW YORK, March 14.—Arthur ® Hardy, diplomat-writer, died to- © \day his home in Woodstock, ® |conn,, according to word received ® |nere. He been minister to ® |Gre Rumania, Servia, Switz- e |erland and S| eeesescvovosoe | BABAS { e 00000600000 between the the lion 's wood- S battle |8, at hag e VARIED CAREER TODAY'S STOCK QUOTATIONS lines of endeavor © e 000000000 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS RLY NEGOTIATED PRICE TEN CENTS BIC RAILROAD DEAL IS ABOUT READY,REPORT First Transcontinental Sys- tem Is Now Near Final Completion ONE CONNECTING LINK YET NEEDED 0. P. and N-I_—]— Van Swer- ingen to Have Line from Atlantic to Pacific CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 14.—Formation of America’s first transcontinental railway stem under control of O. P. and M. J. Van Sweringen, 'is near completion, it is learn- cd in financial circles. Only one more railroad is needed to complete the Van |Sweringer coast to coast |chain, according to informa- (tion of various railroad ob- servers. The two brothers re- (cently acquired working con- |trel of the Misseuri - Pacific stem which goes as far West as Salt Lake City, Utah. | There now remains only the irequired link, which is believ- \ed necessary to join the At- Jlantic with the Pacific, the Western Pacific, from Salt {Lake City to San Francisco. { O.P.and M. J. Van Swer- ingen first obtained control of the Great Erie Railroad and merged it as part of itheir 10,000-mile railroad system, numbering in it the |Nickle Plate, the Chesapeake and Ohio, Pere Marquette, | Virginian and Pittsburgh and West Virginia. - eee U. S, AND JAPAN | } | | 1 sh on his hands. e Bnhsh Broaches Sale EXPEDITION TO ANTARGTIC AREA 0f West Indies to U. S. PORT-OF-SPAIN, March Lord Oiliver of England, head. of | the West India Sugar Commission, is regarded here as a very bold man, | inasmuch as he has dared publicly| LONDON, March to refer to the proposal to sell the!pBritish Antarc British West Indies to the United | paily Herald s States. Recently Lord Olivier said: 'jzed under Commander Frank “When you have concluded yuur]w<~r,~1cy, who W kipper of the ons with Washington, and|Endurance in Shackleton's South proposal to the British|Pole Expedition Government that the islands be put; The Herald up for sale, then you can see about!will be on an a " |might include airplanes as did Rear Taken literally these remarks sug- | Admiral Richard E. Byrd's expedi- | gest that overtures have already|ticn and also the Norwegian ex- been made in Washington. !p(-u'muns - | The cost of the new expedition New Zealand says 17 out of its 20 |will be about $i25,000 and will be m.mr pouular cars are of American [for both scientific and Lommcmdl | purposes. POLAND CUTS HER DEBT TO LOWEST FIGURE IN WORLD buildings, railways, and telegraphs, has been erased 'by the Young | plan. | The “liquidation treaty,” signed between Germany and Poland last October, providing for mutual can- cellation of all claims arising from the war and from the transfer of Poznania, Silesia, and the Polish Corridor to Poland by Germany,, has cleared up liabilities in this fant lof an indeterminate sentence for An agreement between Poland|gn,oiing pey husband, Dallett H. and Auystria made at the recent = . Wilson, lawyer. Hague conference relieved Poland | of financial responsibility in that e} o Mary Wilkins Freeman " IWill Be for Both Scientific | and Commercial : Purposes 14 A new edition, the is being organ- says the expedition ambitious scale and 1 WARSAW, Mar 14—Poland’s complicated financial accounts with countries have finally been d through direct agreement g individual - countries and by the acceptance of the Young plan. As a result her indebtedness per capita is now the lowest in the world. The complexity of the financial cituation arose from the fact that Poland was given help by the allfed pcwers during the war, and from the fact that reborn Poland in- cludes provinces belonging in pre- war days to three countries, two | of which fought against the al- lies. The burden of more than a bil- lion dollars resulting from stipula- tions in the treaties of Versailles and Trianon that Poland pay for guch national assets as government Esther De Forest Wilson, woman of Washington and game, has been re- leased from the penitentiary at| Welfare Island, N. Y., on parole: after having served almost a year society hunter | direction, and provided that Poland give up all her elaims in return for certain economic advamages{ PBSSCS Away at Home The debts resulting from the re-| MEUTCHEN, N. J., March 14— |lief work of England, France, Den- Mary Wilkins Freeman, aged 68 | mark, Holland, Norway, Sweden, years, noted author, died at her and Switzerland, during Poland’ S;home here today. Her first novel | rehabilitation, were funded in De-/was published in 1887. She wrote cember, 1924, '25 books, |refund of $33,586,000 to the United |proposed by the Internal Revenue | | a Prohibition Hearings |14—Count Alexander von | ! 14— Joint W ASHINGTON, March Chairman Hawley, of the imittee on Internal Revenue ‘Lum‘.lwuon announced today that the committee approved the tax| | States Steel Corporation for 1928, Bureau. This action brings to a close the controversy carried on between the corporation and Treasury Depart- ment Chairman Hawley said the re- fund will probably be executed not Jater than tomorrow and will either \,( paid in cash or in the form ur’ Men and Women Sent To Hospitals After Clash, New York (,'ily NEW YORK, March 14. — One} dozen men and women are in h ){ pitals and several others were treated by ambulance surgeons fol- lowing a fight between the Left and Right Wings of fur workers. The clash occurred in front of a fur store operated by Benjamin Axel, controlled by the Right Wins workers. Fighting broke out whe: group of the Left Wing tempted to force its way into establishment. the Recessed to Next Week! WASHINGTON, March 14.—The | House Judiciary Committee has re- | cessed the Prohibition hearings til next Wednesday. This was after | Mission Workers from New ‘ York | and Philadelphia today asked that the dry laws be upheld, asserting they have improved conditions ma- terially. - AGREES TO FORGET ILEA BUCHAREST, Roumania, March Hoch- berg, son of the Prince of Pless, has formerly consented to breaking off his engagement to Princess Ileana, it is officially announced. The en- gagement was broken several weeks ago, soon after it had-been an- P..O. UeDartment Makes| Oecan Mail Contract— Certain Provisions NEARAGREEMENT ON NAVAL ISSUE NEW YORK, March 14.—Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted today at 7%, Alleghany Corporation 30%, American Ice s, Anaconda 70%, Bethlehem Steel 100%), loys 34%., General Motors 45, Gol Dust 43, Granby 54%, Grunow 16%, International vester 90%, Kennecott 55%, 93, National ard 21%, Radio Standard Brands 22%, Oil of California - 62, 179%, Montgomer Standard Oil of New Humble 98%. | | [ i WASHINGTON, March 14.—I 5t | master General Brown announc the award of an ocean mail c tract to the United St Line. | and calling for the construction of | two vessels which will be peers to| any ship sailing the high 8 The contract is for carryi he | mail from New York to Southamp-| ton and stipulates that two ne vessels be constructed by the com-| pany which operates the Leviatha and the cost shall not be less t $60,000,000. They must equal not exceed both tonnage and sp of any vessel, the Department s: now in the Trans-Atlantic —————— Hal Mi. —e W. B. Batcheller, loc: ise broker, took passa burg on the Queen. N. C. Lemieux is a Wrangel is accompanying made the is also bound for Wrangell ness 5 4 i W. D. Gross, wh _ARTHUR SHERBURNE HARDY on hus At age the of 17 he ran away 11 rom home to enlist in the Union | Central Al- Grigsby t merchan- ge to Peters- bound passenger on the Queen. He round trip to Sitka and 1d |Details Said!—oAlso Include Settlement of New Cruiser Ratio LONDON, March 14.—The Am- erican and Japanese Naval dele- gations are said in well informed circles to be near an agreement that is now only dependent on confirmation by the home authori- r- s~ | Acme | 50, S(Anr!ax d United States Senator Reed and Ambassador Matsudaira, threshing out difficulties, met today and ob- servers are led to believe that they discussed final details which in- cluded settlement of the Japanese claim for 70 per cent cruiser ratio. It is belicved that concessions |were made Lv both sides. 1- ho e SPRINGS FROM HOSPITAL COT, MAKES E$GAPE Rum Runner, Believed 1 Critical Condition, Makes Getaway LORAIN, Ohio, March 14—Fred |Hentrie, aged 42 years, of Detroit alleged rum runner, supposedls bed ridden from wounds receive when Coast Guardsmen shelled | tug, has escaped ' from a hospit here. Despite two serious bullet wounds ¢ in the back, Hentrie arose from his cot, leaped through a window on faculty of Dartmouth College. the ground floor of the hospital professor of engineering fm- and sprang into an automobile years and then of mathemat- standing outside with the 1 1893, when he resigned dntil er in experience. The Portugue running. The automobile was become editor of the Cosmopoli- | delesate at the Seville ed to a Cleveland gangster Magazine, which had been pur- ’"‘k“”“"’d"' q: this the license nymber. chased by some of his friends. He | Publicity Campalgn Hentrie’s condition was regarded remained in that post two years. | ‘”"”u".m')d Fortaal as critical and the authorities v Mr. Hardy en'cred the diplomatic an effort to bolster u awaiting’ his recovery to remove {Army, but his parents compelled him to return to school and the ame year he was graduated from Andover Academy. He then re-| ceived an appointment to the Unit- ed States Military Academy at \m Point, being graduated in vnu iving his cummxsslun as sec- | lieutenant . Hardy was as- | wed to the Third Artillery and | tationed at Dry Tortugas Is-| LISBON, March 14.—Spain ar land, off the Florida coast, thm‘PuxluguI are planning to act joi ed as a miligary prison. He re-|ly to develop tourist trade on t ied from the army in 1871 to|Iberian peninsula. pt appointment as professor of | This policy was prompted by tr mathematics and civil engineering | failure of the expositions of Sev it Iowa College. Studies in Paris |and Barcelons, which, 1873 he went to Paris for a |of their promoters, were to attra study at the Ecole des Ponts | |no less than a m touris from the two Americas. Accordin Chaussees and upon his return to the United States joined the GEORGE HALADJIAN (A. P. Correspondent) B; was 1l {of that ‘tum»mns But if Spain | poorer finan figure went through th and Portugal g ially they became ric was four ies Spain join it in nounced, the tou: |2 industry him to Cleveland for arraignment (Continued on Pase ‘Three) campaign of publicity. he in the words “0 sound estimates, only one tenth exhibition by means of The SPAIN SUGGESTS PORTUGUESE AID TOURIST TRADE |Marquis of Quentanar, a Spanish poet and writer, who has done much |to bring about an intellectual un~ ion between Spain and Portugal, is the author of this move. After his appointment as propagandist- in-chief by the Madrid government he came here to enlist the support of the Portuguese authorities. He has large credits at his disposal to ct | make Spain known in America and Ls |divert the stream of tourists from g | France to Italy. Rosy Days Ahead The marquis is confident that rosy days are ahead of the Span- ish tourist industry. He says that he has already established touring |offices in the big centers of the | United States and South America. ‘The marquis said that by the | industrialization of tourism the ad- 0l verse trade balance of the two 'mzounmos could be materially im- (Continued on Page Two) d e e ot | o se