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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXV:, NO. 5383. . MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1930, MEMBER OF ASSOCIA TED PRESS TEN CENTS PRICE SEVENTEEN ARE KILLED 1,500 FEET UNDERGROUND LABOR MARKET ANALYZED:NOT NOW ADEQUATE Rustgard and Associates Greeted by Capacity House at Ketchikan KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 14— The Alaska labor market, the non- resident fishermen issue, and the Paul legislative ticket, were high lights in an address delivered here Saturday night by John Rustgard to a crowded house. He, C. T. Gardner, and Walter P. Scott, Ju- neau candidates for Republican nominations, opened the campaign here in an impressive manner. Mr. Rustgard made the principal oddres He reviewed the ground already covered in speeches at 'Amrmyfiziéli»r Corps Planes Break Record, Flying in Formation, for Altitude SACRAMENTO, Cal.,, April 14—| .. ° , | Nineteen planes of the Ninety-Fifth |Eielson’s Name | Pursult Squadron, Army Air Corps,|J¢ Gil’(’ll to set a world's record Saturday, in| combat formation fl |Alaska Mount taining altitudes 500 to 30,000 fee | Previous records, | were 17,000 feet. \ The commander of the squadron, Capt. Eimendorf, d he attained 30,000 feet and lost his oxygen tank tube from his mouth, and was | forced to dive four miles to keep | from losing consciousness. i —————— | | | {Claims Five Powers ying, by at- ing from 27, WASHINGTON, April 14. —The Nye bill to name Cop- per Mountain in Alaska Mount Eielson has passed both the Senate and the House. officers said, | | @0 e e vesscoeooe e~ DIST.ATTORNEY ALASKA JUNEAU MARCH OUTPUT TOTALS $286000 Local Company Has Oper- ating Surplus of $76,- 000 for Past Month Showing a total recovery of $286,- 000 in gold, silver and lead, th? Alaska Juneau in March +had an operating profit of $92,500 and a surplus of $76600, according to the monthly estimated results of opera- tions issued from company head- quarters at San Francisco and made public here today by General Sup- Will Soon Sign !Historic Pact ASSASSINATED . Wrangell and Petersburg, touching : o on the several planks in his own |q platform and those set up by the | o legislative candidates, the need for |, LONDON, April 14—One week from tomorrow, barring mishaps, representatives of Five Powers will affix their FROM AMBUSH capital for industrial development, urging fair play for outside invest- ors, and the so-called Indian suit issue, He then turned his attention to the A a labor market and non- resident employment legislation. His remarks on these subjects follow Employment of Home Labor “In my platform I have pledged myself to do all in my power to secure such legislation as will leave the fisheries of Alaska open only to the bona fide residents of the Territory, wherever that is practi- cal, and where, by such policy the settlement of ‘the Territory can be materially stimulated. “The Bureau of Fisheries has done all it can do under the present laws along this line. It has limit- ed the size of the seine boats to hut out the beats frem the Sound. It has limited the permissitile lengtiy of the seines to render the seines {rom the Sound unavailable in Alas- ka waters. = This is the extent of its powers. The Legislature has put a tax of $250.00 per head on non-resident trollers. That will help some. But the question must always be before us: when is a non resident not 4 resident? “If a person who spends seven months fishing in Alaska and spends the rest of the year in the south is a resident, the law will be of little avail. Asks Pointed Question “But I can hear some of you say that a person must have been a resident continuously for a period| of one year before he will be en- titled to a resident fisherman's li- cense. True. But let me ask you this question. Would Will Steel be entitled to a license as a resident fisherman? He spends two months in the Territory during the legis- lative sessions, then goes south and stays away until next session two years later. ‘To be sure, this last time he came back a little sooner because his term as a lawmaker for Alaska was expiring and there was another election coming on; but he departed as soon as the last session closed and did not show up 'till it was time to file for reelec- tion. He has not spent over seven months in Alaska during the last six years and does not own within the Territory as much as a chair to sit on or a plate to eat from. If he is a resident of Alaska sufficient to be a lawmaker for us, he is also a resident sufficiently to be entitled to a resident fisherman's license. But if Will Steel is entitled to be classed as a resident for any pur- pose, then every roving fisherman who drifts into Alaska for a few months a year, or every other year, is with greater right entitled to be classed as a resident. Makes Great Noise “My opponent makes great noise abeut wanting to shut out every non-resident laborer, though he knows very well that this cannot be lawfully done, but if such wander- ers as Steel are to be classed as residents, such laws, even if valid, would be of no yalue. “And my opponent claims Steel is a resident and urges you to vote for him. Any law enacted in that spirit to protect home labor and home industry, would be futile. “Steel himself does not patronize signatures to a historic pact which evolves from the Nav- al Conference. This announcement was made tcday by Premier Ramsay MacDonald at general conference las only 24 minutes. I I |® le e ° ° o000 0 ce oo o o0 B e PAY: STREAK 1S MISSING ON BEAVER Many Holes Sunk to Bed- | rock but Gold Is Not { Located Yet \ ! i | | i ! RUBY, Alaska, April 14—Thirty | prospecting plants are now operat- |ing in the vicinity of Beaver Creek. So far no favorable results have jappeared since discovery on Janu- jary 22. There are favorable indi- jcations but no pay has been found on No. 3 above on Beaver Creek. Good prospects are found on adja- cent claims which lie on Pox Pup, the right tributary which empties into Beaver Creek. Above No. 3, at least 15 holes \have reached bedrock but have Ibeen blanks. The same condition prevails in holes sunk below. | Prospectors have been drowned lout on several other holes. Developments may be slow and until machinery is installed and Self - Styled “Enemy of Bootleggers™ Is Shot | and Killed | MABSTON, Wisconsin, April 14— An assassin, firing from ambush, caused the death of Clinton Price, militant District Attorney of Ju- neau County as he started down a flight of stairs in his home. i Price, self-styled “enemy of boot- leggers,” was shot down by an un- identified assailant who lay hidden |outside of the kitchen door. | Price died on the operating table four hours later. | Price’s threat to “blow the lid off the Juneau County hooze sit- uation” was unfiiled. Less than a month ago, he made this promise, after being acquitted of Federal charges of viclating the dry law. ! An unarmed. suspect has been orrested. Sheriff Hempelman said ithe suspect was found with blood jon his hands. ] - e (0000000000000 ‘e . TODAY'S STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 14.—Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted today at 7%, Alleghany Corporation 33, Anaconda T71%, Bethlehem Steel 106%, General Motors 52%, Gold Dust 45%, Granby 55, Grigsby Gru- now 23, International Harvester 113%, Kennecott 52%, Missouri Pa- |cific 93%, National Acme 23%, ! Packard 21, Standard Brands 26, Standard Oil of California no sale, Urited Corporations 48, U. S. Steel 192%, Simmons Beds 50, Ward Bak- {show the extent of the pay on Dis- jcoevry, the proposition is doubtful ‘and does not warrant anyone going jinto the district. There is great lexpense attached to the trip. On other creeks claimants are busy doing the necessary annual labor to hold claims before July 1. FuR DIVURBE il H BUTLER INJURED AT Son of Noted Novelist Is CAPITOL BUILDING Being Sued by Pub- ! lisher's Daughter Ford Buuer receivea minor pain-| ful injuries last Saturday afternoon!| RENO, Nevada, April 14. — Mrs. when he fell from wooden frame- mMary Doran Rinehart, daughter of work on the Territorial and Federal George F. Doran, of the publishing Building to the ground below. !firm of Doubleday, Doran Com- He was cutting wires preliminary pany, has filed suit for divorce to releasing framework around the against Stanley Rinehart, Jr., son newly set first story posts on the of the novelist, Mary Roberts Rine- side of the building when he felt hart. He is a book publisher. himself slipping. He caught a| Mrs. Rinehart charges neglect piece of two-by-four near at hand over a period of five years and but he had previously cut the wires constant discord. She says her holding this and was precipitated to husband refused to speak to her the ground. for days at a time and she was Butler landed in one of the holes/compelled to go to social affairs| dug recently near the building. An alone. He told her, according to ambulance was summoned and he|the divorce papers; that he did was rushed to St. Ann's hospital.|not love her. The couple married Examination’ showed no fractures,|€ight years ago and have two chil- but air was issuing from under his|dren. ribs and he remained confined un-| A til today in order that the puncture. Many Seek to Ride ht heal. oSl Figtits On Dirigible Across Ocean,Turned Down | | | LONDON, April 14—So many ap- | ing B 12%. BRINGS SUIT 1 ) Shaben Reaches Seward;| Alaska labor. He publishes an|Missing Airman Was to plications have been received for! s Envoys of Gr U. S. atitude in erintendent L. H. Metzgar. The company mined and tram- med to mill 327,700 tons of ore dur- ing the month. The statement of estimated oper- ations results follows: Tons Mined and Trammed to Mill 327,700 Cents Per ton $280,600 85.63 5400 1.65 RECEIPTS: Gold Lead and Silver Total $286,000 OPERATING EXPEN- DITURES: Mining and Tram- ming $ 96,500 Milling 85,000 All other Juneau Op- erating Costs New York Stotk Transfer and San Francisco Office Ex- penses ....... 9,500 2,500 Total $193,500 Operating Profit $ 92,500 OTHER EXPENDI- TURES AND AC- CRUED CHARGES$ 15,900 Surplus $ 176,600 .- SCREEN STAR 1S T0 MARRY THIRD TIME iPortland Newspaper Says| Pauline Frederick Is Soon to Wed PORTLAND, Maine, April 14— The Evening Express says Paunne{ Frederick, thrice divorced stage and screen star, will marry Hugh Chis- holm Leighton, former Portlander, and President of the Interstate News Company, of New York, somei time this month. Relatives of Leighton, who was divorced by Elizabeth Wilcox Leighton, in Paris in 1926, would not make any comment. The cou- ple was here last week and then! returned to New York City. Rather than Face Separation, Man Shoots, Kills Wife| | LOS ANGELES, Cal, April 14—/ John Fetter, aged 29, shot and killed his wife Mildred, aged 25, then fatally wounded his daughter, aged four, and fatally wounded himself in the head. The family came from Kansas City two months ago. Nelghbors said Fetter and his wife separated recently because of his inability to hold a job. Saturday night, Petter went to| his home and announced he was| going to Santa Barbara. He said | good-bye, but later returned, intent to kill rather than face continued separation. Third Grandchild For Hoover; Born in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, Cal, April 14— | rendered in the 1923 carthquake. Nakamura, Yckohama; Toshiko Matsudaira, all of Tokyo. Mayor James Rolph, Jr, of San Francisco (right) American tour of Japanese girls who have come to the United States to express Japan's thanks for aid Yoshiko Matsudaira, greets H. Yokoyama who is in charge of an The dainty repre entat| Ki SEBRING, lorida, April 14— The Atlantic Coast Line passen- ger train No. 191 was seized here, by Sheriff Oscar Wolff last Sat- urday night in an attachment or- der issued by State Comptroller Er- nest Amost, against the Railroad for delinquent taxes. No passen=- gers were aboard the train The (Sheriff first expected to at- '|tach the carrler at Avon Park but waited until it arrived here because the mail contract did not run out until the train reached Sebring. The County Attorney said he had given the railroad 48 hours to sat- isfy the county in payment of taxes and had received no reply. It is feared the whole thing will ATLANTIC COAST LINE PASSENGER TRAIN IS SEIZED IN TAX CASE be tied up in long litigation. The company took quick action to prevent such a procedure with three other locomotives, with mis- cellaneous freight cars, and they did not enter the county. | Several motor cars and other equipment of the company were; also seized. All Aboard for The Moon; Travel Expected Soon NEW YORK, April 14.— Dr. John Q. Stewart, Associ- ate Professor of Astronomy and Physies of Princeton, be- lieves that within a dozen decades Rence, travel will be R2 e 10660 - He based “his calculations on t pro- gress at rate of travel dur- ing the past century in an address before the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sci- ences, He sald a speed of 1,000 miles per hour is pos- sible by 1950 and 50,000 miles an hour in the year 2500. THREE PERSONS ELECTROCUTED, PLANE ACCIDENT Flying Craft . Hits High Tension Wire, then Bursts Into Flames HOSPITAL 18 DESTROYED BY FIRE AT NIGHT YPSILANTI, Michigan, April 14. —Three persons were electrocuted when a plane attempting a land- ing b2came entangled with a high tension wire here yesterday after- ncon. Levi Kepler, of Ann Arbor, a pas- senger, was electrocuted. Leon Hanselemann, of Ann Ar-| | d | ibor, owner of the planc and also| |the pilot, jumped and was injured. | Seventy-eight Children, Alaska newspaper every year, but every page of it is printed and every copy of it is bound in Seattle by Seattle printers and binders. Not cne dollar’'s worth of work by Alas- ka labor goes into that paper. Every penny paid for labor on that paper is paid in Seattle and not in Alaska though he parades it as an Alaska product. Shows Up Imsincerity I refer to this to show my opon- «Continued on Page Eight) ,Have Picked Him Up| SEWARD, Alaska, April 14— George Shaben, who expected lost Pilot Merrill to pick him up in the remote Iliamna and Lake Clark regions last fall, has arrived here. Shaben mushed 300 miles to Iliamna Bay when Merrill failed to appear, then waited four months for arrival of the motorship Dis- coverer. Merrill's fate is still a mystery. notification that the flight is an well. accommodations and also for con- President Hoover's third grandchild, veyance of freight on the proposed a six-pound girl, was born to Mr.| flight of the dirigible R-100 for|and Mrs. Herbert Hoover here yes- | Canada next month, that the Alr terday, following a caesarian opera- | Ministry has issued an officlal tion, The mother and child are, experiment and no ordinary pas-' Hoover, Jr, the father already| TWO KIDDIES FOUND BOUND Police Find Little Girls' Bound Hand and Foot with Hemp OAKLAND, Cal, April 14.—The police, breaking into a home on complaint of neighbors, found two| small girls bound hand and foot with hemp. The oldest, aged four, was bound to a chair add the other, aged two years, was bound in a crib. Black and blue welts on the bodies. indicated beatings. There was also a 10 months’ old boy in the crib. The scene was one of squalor. The police ar- rested the parents, Mr. and Mrs Ernest Tymn on their return home. GODDARD BACK FROM | TRIP SOUTH ON SEAL After an absence of several weeks in Seattle on official business, E. |M. Goddard, Assistant Executive | Officer of the Alaska Game Com- | mission, returned Saturday after- noon on the patrol boat Seal, Capt. John Sellevold. The boat was taken south by Mr. Goddard for extensive repairs and overhauling. Capt. Sellevold was recently ap- pointed as master of the Seal. He is an oldtime Alaska transportation man. For a number of years he was first officer on the steamer sengers, freight or mail will be of a boy and girl, was out of town carried . but returned today. He heads the| GBS it s S iradio department of a commercial; Traveling men arriving on the ajr line here. His wife is t«hei Queen included A. C. Black, Eddie former Margaret Watson, ‘of San Sultan and R. Bob Lee. Francisco. Victoria on. the Seattle-Nome run, and recently has been acting in a similar capacity on Alaska Steam- ship Company. boats on ,Seattle- Boutheastern and Southwestern- Sixteen Bedridden, Taken Out Safely IRVINGTON, New York, April 14, —The Irvington House, the Cardiac {Home and Hospital for children {with heart disease, was burned to | the ground late last Saturday night? All of the 178 children, 16 of |them bedridden, were either car- |ried or led to safety. Edward Bryce, aged 28, a work- man, was badly burned and died later, in a hospital. Heated wax ignited in an unde- termined manner and exploded. The loss is estimated at $100,000. Lammnd o o ] The plang, suspended on the high tension line, burst into flames, Harry Walters, Superintendent of the Airport, and Willam Clawson, a farmer, were killed when turn- ing a stream of chemicals on the fire. ~ The current followed the stream to them, Slays Mother, and Also Girl He Wooed, Then Takes Own Life | SAULT STE. MARIE, Ontario April 14.—Mrs. Thomas Campbell.l aged 40 years; her daughter Millie, % = aged 15 years, and Andrew sxmms,IStage Demonstration aged 24 years, were found dead| For Higher Pensions: sne H from gunshot wounds at the Camp-' bell farm on Saint Joe Island. | Many Arrested,lnjurcd The Provincial Police said Sim- | ons apparently killed the two and| BUCHAREST, April 14—A dem- then committed suicide. He “Ved"gnstra“on for higher pensions for with his mother two miles away |disabled war veterans and widows and had been courting the CBmI"]here resulted in 28 arrests and se- bell girl for nearly a year, neigh- vere injuries to 20 persons, bo’;sh ::1\:; A o RN | Agitators incited manifestants to o r of the|ma o - girl, 1s in Detroit undergoing Lrefl!-‘lecfeoi ::l:::r:&(:; :}::h.g;:;:. ment for rheumatism. | ment, ot 00 o e S st The authorities forbade the dem- onstration and the police and sol- diers used their batohs and fire hose, and the demonstrators stones and clods. e B Tw o Gun Hold-up Bishop Cannon Is Ready to Appear WASHINGTON, D. C., April 14— Bishop James Cannon, Jr., of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the South, has written to Chairman Caraway of the Senate Lobby Com- | mittee, that he would be glad to| appear before the Committee and testity to activities of the Metho- | dist Board of Temperance and So- cial Service. Representative Tink- ham had sald he would demand an investigation of ‘the activities of the Board. chairman. i Makes Haul of $30,000 NEWARK, N. J, Apgil 14—A two-gun hold-up man overpowered two men in the office of the Zieth- ing Company, jewelry manufactur- ers, late last Saturday afternoon, |and escaped with merchanidse val- ued at more than $30,000. The visitor trussed William H. Zieth-| ing, President, and his son-in-law Bishop Cannon Is|and seized the valuables from the|a medical open vault, MINERS LOSE THER LIVES - INEXPLOSION Twelve of Seventeen Viex tims in Mine Disaster Married Men SCENE OF EXPLOSION DEEP DOWN IN EARTH Gas and Flames Prevent Rescue Parties from Getting Bodies | TACOMA, Wash., April 14.—Sey- enteen miners were killed last Sat- |urday night about 6 o'clock in the ,Carbonado coal mine, 1500 feet underground and one mile and one- half from the entrance, by an ex-~ plosion. Four others in the vicinity of the explosion escaped unhurt. I'I\velve of those killed were mar- ried. Officials indicated that the ex- 'plosion might have been caused by blasting in that particular section of the mine, | s are, left to right: Yoshi Sato, Tokyo; Keiko' The explosion was one of the iko Ashino, Sumiko Tokuda and the chaperone, Mrs. worst experienced in the Carbon-~ |ado mine which is 20 miles east 1of here. | Rescue parties were first halted iby gas and flames but two hours after the explosion, they were able to reach the scene. The tragedy occurred on the see- jond level making it exceedingly ;dlmcult to recover the bodies. DELEGATE ASKS REVOCATION - MAIL CONTRACT ‘Sutherland TUacks New | Agreement for Carrying Seattle-Alaska Mail WASHINGTON, D. C, April 14, {—Cancellation of mail contracts \granted the Alaska Steamship Com- ipnny and the Admiral Line for ’carrylng mails between Seattle and |Alaska was demanded by Delegate Sutherland on the ground that the 150 per cent increase carried under 8 new agreement between the Post Office Department and the com- |panies is unjustified, and unauthor- {ized under the law. i In a letter to Postmaster General \Brown, he claimed the new con~ - tract gives the steamship carriers . a gratuity of $87,000 a year with= jout any corresponding increase in |service, , The Delegate said: “Under the [pew contract you are paying the |Alaska Steamship Company a rate jof 10 cents per pound for carrying ithe mail from Seattle to Seward. /At the same time the American |Railway Express carries all express |freight between these two points |for four cents per pound. Presum- |ably the Alaska Steamship Com=- | 'pany receives much less than four = {cents per pound for actual trans- fpm't.amm of American Railway ex- |press freight.” | Continuing, he said: “The normal freight rate from Seattle to Seward lby Alaska Steamship Company boats is $15 per ton, but you are. |paying them in' excess of $200 per ton for carrying mails.” 3 Senator Nye to Be | Chairman, Campaign Fund Investigators | WASHINGTOF, April 14—United | States Senator Gerald P. Nye, of North Dakota, has been de! A jupon as Chairman of the Senate |Campaign Committee to anelw ifunds of Senatorial candidates ‘place of Senator Hiram W. J E \who declined the lppolnlme::fi' ;mg to press of other duties. \Is Found Guilty |0f Attempting to |Commit Suicide LONDON, April 14. — Leinster, the former May Ethe: musical comedy star, has b {found guilty by the court of |attempt to suicide in an L {she rented recently as plain | Williams.” The Duchess has been /In custody until next Saturday report when sen will probably be pronounced.