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

» HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXV., NO. 5369. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1930. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS SMUGGLING SEAPLANE IS FORCED DOWN IN CHASE FAVOR RENAMING PEAK IN HONOR OF COL. EIELSON Senator Nye Receives Two Endorsements from Cabinet Officers WASHINGTON, March 28—TWwC Cabinet cfficials have endorsed the name Copper Moun- enalor Gerald P. Nye, of North ota, said he had received let- ters from Secretary of Interior Wil- bur and from Asssistant Secretary of Commerce Young, acting for Secretary Lamont, hoping that his resolution would be adopted. Assistant Secretary Young wrote that the “people of Fairbanks” were in favor of the renaming of the tain. enator Nye said he would press tion on the resolution as soon as the Senate reconvened. Secretary Wilbur enclosed a mem- orandum in his letter from Horace Albright, Director of National Parks, which said: “The name of Copper Mountain, in the Mt. Mec- ey National Park, is found on maps because there has been a slight trace of copper de- ts found and the mountain’s sent name is of little signifi ance. The late Col. Carl Ben Eiel- only P pr I , to Eielson l\I’)un-l | . | | makers to be placed cn the honor of arts and sciences of George and Edith Brookhart, daughter of HIGH SCHOLARSHIPS Hich scholarships caused these two daughters of national law- | Geraldine Free (left), daughter of Rep. Arthur M. Free of California, HONORS [HELENE MA GIVEN GREA WIN FAIR AT NOME IS BEING HELD: MANY EXHIBITS Reindeer Races and Also | All-Alaska Sweepstakes | Dog Derby to Be Run NOME, Alaska, March 28. — The ‘| first exhibition in this section, that' by the Northwestern Alaska Fair Association, opened Thursday with 'a dog team show in the afternoon land the grand opening last night. i Approximately 2,000 exhibits are on hand representing every phase !of Arctic activity and more exhibits |are arriving via plane, dog team | |and reindeer teams | The airplane companies are of- ([ering special fair rates. | { The fair will continue today and tomorrow and is being held in the $100,000 auditorium.. Reindeer races are to be held tos and tomorrow. Four of the fastest racing .deer in Alaska were, killed early yesterday morning when dogs jumped into the corral and attacked the deer. assuensced Press Photo roll of Columbia coliege, the college Washington university. They are | Senator Smith W. Brookhart. ‘i son landed the first airplane in| Mt. McKinley National Park and“ I believe the renaming of the peak i g o S to Mount Eielson will be a fitting | HERSELF AFTER tribute to the aviator's outstanding! / character.” | | WILKINS AT HATTON | HATTON, North Dakot 28—Sir Hubert Wilkins by | airplane today and laid a wreath| on Col. Eielson's grave. He had} hoped to reach Hatton in time for| the funeral last Wednesday but was | delayed at Detroit, Michigan, on| account of bad flying conditions. | The explorer was accompanied | here by Arthur Schlosser, balloonist | of Detroit, and Walter Deal, pilot.| After spending a few hours with| the Eileson family, Sir Hubert and | party departed for Milwaukee by | plane. | Sl i e S0LD MEDAL IS | GIVEN ECKENER ! Commander of Graf Hon-| ored for Globe Encirl- | ing Trip by Air i | 4 Associated Press Photo WASHINGTON, March 28—Dr.| Eleanor Boardman, screen star, Hugo Eckener's name has been in- | Was fined $2000 in Los Angel scribed on the Toll of modern im- | %hen she pleaded gullty to Indict mortals in geography exploration‘:::: :::ml“ Jhilite b, pay Xl when the National Geographic So- | ciety presented its special gold| medal for the globe encircling trip | of the Graf Zeppelin. “We honor Dr. Eckener for the years of experiment, inventive ge-| n and patient research which | culminated i his astonishlngl achievement,” Dr. Gilbert Grosve- nor, President df the Society, said in presenting the medal to the; Graf's commander. | SHORTAGE FOUND BANK S CLOSED NORTHAMPTON, Mass., March Hey " 5 28.—The Hampshire County Trust|U- S. Steel 192%, Humble Oil 112%, | Ford Motor Limited 19%. Company has closed its doors fol- | lowing discovery of a shortage of about $285,000. The blame for the‘BRlTISH COLUMBIA MINER CERTIFICATE EXPIRES ON MAY 31 loss is placed on Haroid Newcomb, | Under the Mining Code of British former Manager of the Savings De- | partment. Plane Crash u"d ‘Cnlumbla, all Special Free Miners’ | Certificates issued by that provincé, Loss of 3 Lives expire on May 31, of each year, LOS ANGELES, Cal.,, March 28.— jand all property rights held under A coroner’s jury has decided !hat}such certificates are forfeit unless, o e s s eavacees o ° TODAY'S STOCK . g QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 28—Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted today at 8, Alleghany Corporation 34%, American Ice 41, Anaconda 77%, Bethlehem Steel 105%, Central Al- lcys 33%, General Motors 50, Gold Dust 43'%, Granby 58'%:, Grigsby- Grunow 18, International Harvest- er 93, Kennecott 59%, Missouri-Pa- cific 947, Montgomery-Ward 36%, |National Acme 23%, Packard 227, American Radio 51, Standard Prands 23%, Standard Oil of Cali- fornia 65%, Standard Oil of New Old Bolt Caused the use of an old bolt by George on or before the day following the. Maves, pilot, for installing a fin;‘cxpiranon, the holders obtain new on the plane owned by Wallace certificates. Beery, film actor, was the cause o(‘; Thus, certificates issued in 1929 the plane’s crash, with the loss of |expire on May 31, 1930. Persons three lives last Monday afternoon. | holding mining claims under them, Capt. C. T. Morgan, of the Sher- by provisions of the law, must not iff’s Acronautical Detail, testified |later than June 1, have new certifi- -that he found one of the fin bolts|cates in order to retain their rights had snapped. 'm such property. " £~ W “IN TROUBLE,” MOTHER HANGS The All-Alaska Sweepstakes championship dog race is scheduléd today. There are 12 entries for the 160-mile race to Golovin and return. The first prize is $1,000, second $275 and third $100. SMOTHERING OR G HER SMALL SONS HARRIMAN, Tenn., March 28.—| e Because she was “in trouble,” a 28-! year-old mother, Mrs. Dorothy cabin home and either drowned or! smothered her three young sons; DEAN’S T I‘ before taking her own life. | The sons were Freddie, aged 8, |Edgar 7, and Sherman, 5. o The Police said she left a nom‘l-‘lgh{een[h Amendment saying she was in trouble but did not say what was the trouble. The bodies of the boys were found !in a pond near the home, ecach wrapped in a blanket. Will Be Discussed To- night at Cathedral Special services are being held in Holy Trinity Cathedral during Lent jon Friday evenings at 7:30 o'clock. | The subject for the address this evening, by Dean C. E. Rice, will be the “Church’s attitude toward Legislative enactments, especially CABINET OF DOWN, OUT)yr, coL. AMYOT DEAD {Prominent Canadian Found Dead in His Bed at Palm Beach PALM BEACH, 7ia., March 28— Lieut. Col. George Amyot, of Que- bec, former member of the Canad- { jan Parliament and holder of many | f i Canadian and foreign decorations, Lnough' for U. S. a ‘prominent member of the winter Says Atterbury|colony, was found dead in his bed 1 this morning. He was 74 years of | NEW YORK, March 28—Rail-|age. Death Is. blamed to heart |roads will spend $10,000,000,000 in disease. the next ten years, Gen. W. W. American Magazine. One bnlion“PRflFEssnn of this will be spent this year. H | | will solve the transportation prob- 5 lem. He advocates three systems| Lo, 1 Atterbury would dismantle com-|years, Associated Professor of Soils peting lines and make them motor |at the University of Wisconsin since railroads to alleviate transportation|pus. It is believed he shot himself Eproblems by adding trucks andithrough the head with a shotgun. palatial vehicles. “Airplanes,” he‘mormnz- says, “will supplant both busses b 58 A —il — AMERICA ENTERS YACHT SANTA CATALINA ISLAND, Cal Atterbury, president of the Pennsyl-l vania system, declares in the new| American railroading is obsolete, he adds, and mergers henceforth operating in the East, West and| MADISON, Wisconsin, March 28. South. |—Prof. Griffith Richards, aged 41 | highways for freight transportation.|1919, was found shot to death in 'He emphasizes the efforts made by his office on the agricultural cam- {busses to their systems for small|The body was found by his stenog- | cities. These, he adds, may be’rapher when she went to work this and trains for fast, long distance HORNSBY SEES ANOTHER travel.” i CUBS-ATHLETIC SERIES IN INTERNATIONAL RACE March 28—Rogers Hornsby's pre-| |dictions on baseball are almost as; | GOTHENBURG, Sweden, March keen as his bat. 28—Great satisfaction has been| This year he sees another Chi-| expressed by the Swedish that the cago C ub-Philadelphia Athletlcs‘l United States finally decided tolworld series. H compete in the Gold cup six-meter | “I don't see any team that can |international yacht race this year. even give the A's a fight,” the Competition for the cup which ‘Rajah said, “while we have im-; |will begin June 22 will find Ameri- proved at least 2 per cent with ca racing against entries from Hol- Leo Hartnett back behind the b"‘; land, France, Finland, Denmark, catching, Lester Bell at third and | BERLIN, March 28.—The Coali- |tion government of Chancellor Her- {mann Tueller, has crashed on one |of the many rocks threatening its ancial program and the Cabinet resigned. znations of the Cabinet mem- | bers were presented when the Coal- |ition government's component par- ities failed to agree on the unem- ployment insurance qugstlon. L eve— |Tl:ree Rail Lines - HOME BY SEATTLEITES DISON IS T WELCOME SEATTLE, March 28 —Weeping tears of joy, Helene Madison has returned home after a serles of great aquatic achievements in’Flor- _ She flew here from Tacoma, her Tirst air ride. ‘The champion swimming star was met at the airport by 6,000 cheering | admirers and paraded through the Streets in the greatest reception ever shown any athlete in the his- tory of Seattle. Miss Madison and her coach, Ray Daughters, were guests of honor -t a “Welcome Back” in the Civic Auditorium last night. Miss Madison will' continue to train for the Olympic Games 1n‘ 1932, | | | ————e COSGRAVE AND MINISTRY 0UT Resigns After Defeat of Measure by Opposition | —New Election : DUBLIN, March 28. — President Cosgrave and his Ministry has re-; signed after defeat of the Govern- ment in the Dail by a vote of 60, The opposition announces that it will nominate Eamonn de Valera for President when the Dail meets next Wednesady. re-elected. Boy Is Shot W hile Being Spanked —Two investigations have e been started into the death e of Benjamin Aluman, aged 10 years, shot through the heart as he was being spank- ed by Stephen Sodie, aged 26, his brother-in-law. Sodie told the police the child was killed when a rifle leaning against a wall was kicked over when he scuffled with the boy in an attempt to discipline him for coming home late last TUNNEY FREE OF ALL SUITS Litigation at End When Second $500,000 Case Withdrawn BRIDGEPORT, Conn,, March 28. —With John 8. Fogarty's with- drawal of his $500,000 alienation of affection suit filed last May against Gene Tunney, the former champion is free of all court litigation for the first time in nearly a year in which he became involved with the filing of two half-million dollar suits. Tunney recently got judgment ‘n the breach of promise suit brought by Mrs. Fogarty. Railroad Has Plan To Aid Employment SAN FRANCISCO, March 28— The Southern Pacific Company, through Paul Shoup, president of the railroad, today announced the inauguration of an “employment clearing house” through which all departments will cooperate in a campalgn against unemployment. Under the plan, Shoup said, em- ployes temporarily laid off in one occupation will be given an oppor- tunity to obtain employment in an- other department of the road ‘Where travel is necessary to con- tinue an employee on the pay roll, the company will provide free . transportation. R S Alice Orton, Maryland senior co- ed, has won the national college rifle championship three years in Norway, Sweden and England. ,several promising pitchers.” a row. to 64 on an opposition measure. | It is stated that Cosgrave may be\ DENVER, Colo., March 28. e| Asa Keyes (right), who as district attorney at Los Angeles for a quarter of a century sent halt of San Quentin p=nitentiary’'s 4,000 population there, shown boarding a train for the prison to serve term With him is Sheriff Frank Cochrane. | of one to 14 years for bribery. 5 By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE (A. P. Science Editor) | 'NEWARK, N. J. March 28— Plans for leading American cancer {experts to investigate the new {eancer scrum at San Franeisco have been announced to the Academy (of Medicine of Northern New Jer- isey. | To inform the public quickly is |the purpose, Dr. Joseph Colt Blood- ‘good of Johns Hopkins University told the physicians. At the same |time he appealed for “some author- |itative body of cancer students and !sclentists to deal with cancer cures |announced by the daily press so frequently and in such an opti- mistic way that it reached thou- jsands of people dying of cancer fand ralses false hopes of a cure.” The invitation to investigate, he night. : said, came from Dr. Coffey and The child’s mother is dead ®ipr Humber, discoverers of the and the father lives in San Francisco serum. Wichita, Kansas. The boy e et i (e el had ‘besn Uving at his sis- o | O O ERACEE SEEIET 00 ter's home for several e'°2d describing i y jeancer given to a United Slates months, L 2 5 o Senate cubcommittee recently, “re- Sece s eecceae .|prated1y stated before this com- Imittee that in thelr opinion these injections of an extract of the ad- |renal "glands could not be con- |sidered a cure for cancer, or, as {both stated, even a treatment of cancer. It was as yet purely an ex- periment. “They felt they were justified in experimenting with hopeless cases, In spite of their frequent state- ments that their work was entirely experimental, hundreds of people rushed to California. “It is very important to state here that if the Randsdell and Jones-Parker bills and the Harris resolution had been passed by Con- gress there would have been an authoritative body to deal with this situation, to send to California can- cer students to investigate and an- nounce whether it was even jus- |tifiable for any one with incurable icancer to take the trip to Califor- nia. “Dr. Coffey and Dr. Humber have asked for a special committee of cancer students to investigate and they were willing to abide by the decision of such a committee. “Willlam W. Buffum, general manager of the Chemical Founda- tion has already offered financial aid for such a commission and it is hoped that other foundationd inter- {institutions will offer sufficient funds to allow representatives to go to California and make this in- vestigation.” $40,000 Is Found Hidden in Shack Of “Poor Reclise” OTTAWA, Ill, March 28.—Forty |thousand dollars in currency was |found this week hidden away in the shack of Frank Sawyer, 75- year-old Mendota recluse, whose body was found in his home after he had died from lack of nourish- ment and personal neglect. ASA KEYES GOES TO PRISON | U. S. EXPERTS TO INVESTIGATE i COFFEY-HUMBER C: |ested in cancer and cancer research | U. . DFFIGERS * MAKE SEIZURE NEAR SEATILE |Seaplane, Makes One Es- cape in Hail of Shot, but Later Captured AVIATORS RUN PLANE " ASHORE,THEN ESCAPE \One Man Arrested at Scene | —Caught with Auto- | mobile and Beer | SEATTLE, March 28.— Driven by a crew of two men through a hail of lead from sawed-off shot guns in the hands of United States im- | migration agents, a seaplane, | believed to be used for smug- ggling aliens, narcotics and k- ‘quor into this part of the {country, escaped from the in- {let at Meadow Dale, 20 miles north of here yesterday only to be captured later by Unit- led States Customs officers on a beach, closer to the city iwhere it had run down out of fuel Two men in the seaplane escaped {but officers arrested Arthur Mun- |day, whom they said was trans- ferring beer from the seaplane to |an automobile parked on the beach. Officers said the car contained five sacks of beer and 35 gallons of aviation gasoline. Are Given Tip Acting on advance information, the immigration officers were post- jed on a lookout hill to watch. The plane was sighted and then it started to land but plane watchers, evidently aware of Government watchers, rushed down the beach ] 'and warned the aviators, who be- 'gan getting under way. The immi- gration officials opened fire but the seaplane took the air and escaped. Air Pursuit On The immigration men then com- !mandeered an air mail plane and took up the pursuit. The fleeing plane alighted on Brown's Bay and - the occupants ran it on the beach and abandoned it. | Later, Munday was discovered at the plane by Customs officers and arrested. The plane has been con= {fiscated. No fuel was found in the {seaplane’s tanks and this caused the | decent, sociated Press Phote NCER GERM; Ex-Governor Plans I Re-election Fight Former Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania as he officially took the field in his campaign for | re-election as the State’s chief executive, in an address to news- papermen at Philadelphia. The R S former Governor declared he is out to break up the big trusts, but avoided committing himself on the UGESTIL | NOW MISSINGS Sentchers Fai to Il - DISCOVERED o s’ 1 R i Given Up as Dead Had Daily Capacity of 10,-| NoME, Ataska, March 8. —charies 000 Gallons of 190 |sehoor grzzdfxi::.m:hoNor:s fs. ! Proof Alcohol !trapping 60 miles north of Nome, : ;ls now missing for almost one month. He has been given up for | :EWARK. New Jersey, March 28. dead as searchers have Xnil:'l to —Federal Prohibition agents are'ocate him. today busy dismantling a $100,000 | still with a daily capacity of 10,000 !, gallons of alcohol which was seized | Two Toes,” King last night. i 7, } ! An immense still was found in‘ol Timber Wolves, h 4 the center of the manutacturing Finally Captured plant with pipe lines running from six 20,000 gallon yats and four 10,-, MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 28.— 000 gallon vats filled with mash,|Old “Two Toes,” King of the Tim= pumped from a mixing vat in an-)ber Wolves, must spend the re= | cther section of the. building. !mainder of his life behind bars Federal agents sald the plant had |in the Memphis Zoo as a penalty been in operation for a month and [for his ruthless crimes he com- had turned out 500,000 gallons of mitted when he led a pack through | 190 proof alcohol. ithe forest of Arkansas. ¥ | ———.——-—— | After 10 years of freedom, the | 3 iglant beast was outsmarted i Several Hundreds !and dogs and brought hen-z:.’y b ()f Buil(lings Are } The wolf was named “Two Toes” | .. |because he lost all of his toes of [ Destroyed by Fire nis rignt hand paw, except two, in — | traps. E | TOKYO, Japan, March 28—Sev-| Famous in song and story, “Two eral hundreds buildings have been Toes” led the Eastern Arkansas destroyed by fire at Komatcumachi,|wolf pack for years and killed {Northwest Japan, and the damage|sheep and goats by the hundreds iis estimated at almost half a mil-|and often cows, and even bulls} lion dollars were pulled down. Last week 14 | The blaze swept the Town Hau.jgouts were slaughtered in one o Police Station and schools besides| A posse was organized and the hundreds of other buildings. glant beast was found exhausted One fireman was killed and three(in a hollow log and captured. lothers seriously injured when a ——— L fire engine turned over rushing to| Atlanta is the seventh capital of 'the center of the conflagration. \Georgla. The first was Savannal