The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 9, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVL, NO. 5405. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1930, MEMBER OF ‘AéSOWCIA'IED PRESS . SUPREME COURT HOOVER MAKES SELECTION FOR U. S. SUPR NEBRASKA CITY SWEPT BY HIGH ALE Nine Illustrious Americans Added to HITS HASTINGS ... " |e NEW YORK, May 9.— e ® Bronze busts of nine more © DURING NlGHT ® illustrious Americans have @ ® leen placed in the Hall of @ ® TFame in the New York Uni- e | & versity, filling all of the ® . | Shed Lifted from Founda-{e maus 6 pedestals. . 5 X L] The busts are of James e tion and Carrlqd 50 ® Fenimore Cooper, author; e Feet—Man Killed e James Russell Lowell, poet; ® o B3 ® Elias Howe, inventor of the e THREE THOUSAND AT ® sewing machine; George ® i ® Bancroft, historian; Joseph e CEREMONY’NEHPANIC ® Sorey, one time Assoclate e ,® Justice of the Supreme @ ] S @ Court; John Lathrop Motley, ® Band P"“(fi« pur and {® historian; Patrick Henry, or- e Half &t . ! events |e ator; Jonn Quincy Adams, e G lD fb |® sixth President of the Unit- © eneral Disturbance o ed states, and Horace Mann, . {® educator. ) HASTINGS, Nebraska, May e Seven of the busts were 9.—A wind storm with tor- ® unveiled by direct descend- e i !e ants. . nado '(ury swept Hastings | 4 last night. leoeoesoncoccsce One man was killed and several persons were injured. the loss is not reported as be-| THRuw FlRST ing large, probably only aboul: $100,000. i The wind lifted a small shed in which John Waltersi was working and hurled it al distance of 50 feet. Walters Governor to Be on Mound was thrown to the street and| Sunday—Parade Will killed. | e 03] Precede Contest The storm struck while a dedicatory ceremony was tak- Gov. George A. Parks will hurl ing place in the Ci _ the first baseball in the City . g P iy n the City Auditor +League for 1930 and Mayor Thomas g tree was blown g judson will receive the delivery, against the sidewall causing it was announced today by Karl one sectio 4 Theile, League President. Iz d h“ _to colldpse a'!d Preceding the game, which is to alarme .t e 3,000 persons in siart at 2:30 pm., there will be the audience. la parade from the Elks' Hall. Ball The ban players from the Legion and EIks d played an hour teams will be present in uniform and a half and did much t0 as will the Juneau City Band. Fans prevent a panic. |and automobile owners are asked BE OBSERVED HERE SUNDAY . Forty-six Babies of Past Year to Be Honored on Annual Occasion i | | |a big success. form at i2 p. m. | Before the first ball is tossed Sunday short ceremonies and the }raising of the flag will take place |at the ball park. j Umpires for this season were an- nounced today by Mr. Theile. They are Dr. W. W. Council, W. B. Kirk, '!G. W. Norstrand, J. B. Bernhofer, !R. R. Herrman, H. G. Watson and 3. J. Woodard. Mervin Sides will 'be in charge of the scoring staff. Tonight and tomorrow evening all players and managers are ex- pected to be on hand for the final !practices of the season befcre the !opening game. MRPLANE HITS National Hospital Day will he observed in Juneau at St. Ann’ hospital from 3 to 5 p.m., Sunday, May 11, it was announced today by Sister Mary Ludovic, Superior, Each year this day has been ob- served in Juneau and has always been the occasion of a large num- | TREE, CRASHES ber of local residents visiting St ) Ann’s hospital. In honor of the 1 e Il SR e;iSon of Late Novelist Sus- a bank account of one dollar for tains Broken NeCk, Fractured Skull each child born there from May OWOSSO, Michigan, May 9.— 1 to May 1. This year he will start’ 46 accounts according to the James Oliver Curwood, Jr., aged ;19 years, son of the late novelist, records. {was probably fatally injured today LEAGUE BALL { KELLER NAMES TEACHERS FOR 1930- 31 YEAR All But Five of Present Staff Will Return to Juneau Next Fall With all but five of the Juneau Public Schools teaching staff -con- tracted to return here next year, the complete list of teachers for both grammar and high school was announced today by W. K. Keller, Superintendent of Schools. The turnover this year is less than 25 per cent of the total while mately 50 per cent, according to Mr. Keller. Those who are leaving are Miss Gladys Buehler, who has accepted a scholarship Brown University, Providence, R. I; Mrs. Thomas Selby and Mrs. here recently; Miss Loretta O'Malley and Miss Mildred Abrahamson, who have not announced their future plans. The list of high school teachers is as follows: Mathematics, Marjorie Tillotson. Girls' Gymnasium, English and History, Enid Burns. Manue! Training and boys’ gym- nasium, Alex Dunham. Home economics, Helen Gray. Languages, Blanche Kelly. English, Dorothy Israel. Commercial, Gene Lytle. Music and Art, Dorothy Chisholm. Instrumental music, Dorothy Fisher. High sthool principal and scienc R. S. Raven. ~ Superintendent, W. K. Keller. Grade Teachers Grammar school teachers will be: First grade, Mrs. Iva Tilden. First and second grades, Alice Erb. Second grade, Violet Bourgette. Third grade, Donie Taylor. Fourth grade, Dalma Hanson. Third and fourth grades, H. Sam- uelson. Fifth grade, Josephine Tupper. Sixth grade, Alma Olson. Fifth and sixth grades, Starr. Seventh grade, Ruth Creveling. Eighth grade and grammar school principal, Etta Shaw. New Teachers Miss Alice Erb is a graduate of Valley City North Dakota Normal school and took advanced work at the University of North Dakota and the University of Southern Califor- nia. She has had nine years’ ex- perience, three years in North Da- kota, and six in Puyallup, Wash. After finishing at Iowa State Teachers College, Miss Helen Starr took post graduate work at that institution and at the University of Ghicago and also Columbia Univer- sity. She has had two years' ex- perience in both Webster City an Mason City, and three years in Osage, all in the state of Iowa. Miss Marjorie Tillotson gradu- ated from the Oregon Normal and later from the University of Ore- gon. has had eight years' experience in Oregon and comes to Juneau high- ly recommended. She is now instructor in mathematics in Pow- ers, Oregon. A graduate of Oregon State C lege where she majored in com- merce, Miss Gene Lytle did advance work at the University of Oregon and California Commercial College. She has had four years experience, all in Oregon with the exception of one year when she was & teacher in the School of Commerce in San Francisco. - Only one vacancy remains to be filled, that created by the resig- nation of Mrs. Thomas Selby. The teacher for this grade will be an- nounced later. e, Helen | i IMARGNITA LEAVES FOR SITKA ROUTE the Territorial average is approxi-| in mathematics at| Gilbert Pruscha, who were married | d |sharpest clashes of the yea During the year ending May 1, 1930, there were 625 patients ad- a0 as the result of an airplane crash hospital days. There were 45 births as against 38 deaths. One . StemPpiing to make a landing tions were performed 199 x_mys]hh skull tmt_ured. Two other pas- taken, and prescriptions were issued | > oo > Wore 1ajutees jof. 50 feet after one wing struck .a tree. can nominees for the House of Rep- Prince of Wales and Am {resentatives, arrived here early this ericon olfer Hav * |He is a witness in a local tax suit G € being tried for the past three days SUNNINGDALE, England, May 9—With the Prince of Wales as mitted to the hospital and 8,250 Shridheq and asveniy-tev opera-!here' His neck was broken and to 945 out-patients. | The ship crashed from a height | NEARLY LGSES J. E. Johnson, one of the Republi- . ! week from his home in Ketchikan. CIOSC Call in the Federal district court. partner in’ the Scotch foursome against Harrison Johnson and Sir| Victor Sasson, Bobby Jones barely escaped defeat in his first golf en- counter for the year in ' Great Britain. The Prince and Jones were saved at the last hole when the Prince made a sensational shot, | The suit was brought over the! municipal tax levy of two yeaxs! lago, at which time Mr. Johnson! was City Tax Assessor. .- e 000000000000 Motorship Mnrxnl’u,’cupt. Sev- erin Swanson, sailed from Junean at 6 p.m. yesterday for Sitka and | wayports with the following pas-| sengers: L TIDES TOMORROW e | Father Menager, Mr.,Mayers and o000 seesoeos e oCus Sagerlend for smu;‘w. A, Low tide, 5:25 a.m., -1.1 feet. |Brown, Bill Houliaras and " Henry High tide, 11:37 a.m.,.15.6 feet. |Kuchen for Chichagof; H. Williams Low tide, 5:27 p.m., 06 feet. High tide, 11:39 p.m., 18,0 feet. Fuller for Tenakegy = =~ ™, Fifteen Thousand Reported Massacred Chinese Province SHANGHAI, May 9.—Cli- maxing China’s unparalleled banditry in recent months, 15,000 Chinese of Yungyang, Honan Province, were killed on April 23, said unverified dispatches to Chinese news- papers. The killing | . . | ‘e | | le . looting, burning and K lasted four days. . e cescoovocc e SIX WINNERS GET SHARE IN ] i i Last Evening—$9,- 600.70 Is Share | night, tickets, May 8, three o'clock last six winning banks, in the are money. ceived from the Nenana Ice Pool Committee . Dave Housel, who handled the sale in Juneau for the committee announces the winners of the $57,- +604.20 pool as being Guiseppina and Company, M. Pamucina, John Wackowik, Newell and Boyle, Pit Siverson and Ed Young. of these will receive $0,600.70 when the winnings are distributed. The following dates are given showing when the ice has moved: 1917—April 30, 11:30 a.m. 1918—May 11, 9:33 am. 1919—May 3, 2:33 p.m. 1920—May 11, 10:46 a.m. 1921—May 11, 6:42 am. 1922—- May 12, 1:20 p.m. 1923—May 9, 2 p.m. 1924—May 11, 3:10 p.m. 1925—May 7, 6:32 p.m. 1926—April 26, 4:03 p.m. 1927—May 13, 5:42 am. 1928—May 6, 1929—May 5, 1930—May 8, o —— MORO OUTLAWS KILL IN CLASH Officers and Privates of Philippine Constabular Are Victims 4: 3: T e of the r between the Philippine Constabulary and Moro outlaws occurred on the i&- land of Minidanao. One Constabulary officer al three privates were killed, and threg MANILA, May 9.—On She majored in mathematics, officers and fifteen privates were wounded. The Moro casualties have nob an | been determined. The fight took place in the moun= +|tains, the Moros being entrenched ol-|in an old fort. BABY BOY BORN TO MRS. DAN RUSSELL A five-pound twelve-ounce baby son was born at St. Ann’s hospital at 6:15 oclock this morning to Mr. and Mrs. Dan Russell of Ju- neau. Mother and boy are doing nicely today. Mrs. Russell was formerly Miss Leota Robinson of this city and the father was raised in Juneau, and Is a graduate of the Juneau High School, class of 1924. —————————— HALIBUT PRICES SEATTLE, May 9.—Four vessels with 24,700 pounds of halibut soid yesterday at 12 and 14% cents. PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., May, 2. —Thirty thousand pounds of hali- but were sold here Thursday. Cana- dian fish sold for 6 and 11.2 cents and son for Excursion Inlet; J. L. and American fish for 6 and 111@ cents, B ICE POOL Ice Moved at Nenana Early The ice moved at Nenana at 7:03 and from | Anchorage and three from Fair- The | share of each ticket is $9,600.70. This is according to advices re-| Each W'BRIDE IS CALLED FOR STATEMENTS Declaration that A. S. League Is “Born of God” Is Resented WASHINGTON, May 9.—Describ- ng the Anti-Saloon League as “born of God” F. 8. McBride, National Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, today said before the Sen- ate Lobby Committee that “those things in the way of progress in the Kingdom of God, must get out of the way.” | Senator Blalne, of Wisconsin, de- | scribed the dry leader’s remarks as “sacreligious and outrageous.” Senator Blaine said he did not believe “God approves of some of your practices.” H ————— WILKINS MA | BUY 0BSOLETE - SUB FOR TRIP, Makes Ofier—to- U. S. Navy for Old Craft for Under- the-Ice Voyage WASHINGTON, May 9.—Sir Hu-! ibert Wilkins may undertake his| Inropcied: trip beneath the - Arctic fce in-an obsoleté United States | submarine, converted into a “sub- , mersible boat” for ihe explorer by Simon Lake, submarine boat in- ventor. Wilkins called upon the Assistant Secretary of the Navy today to ne- gotiate for the purchase of such a (boat, but whether the Navy will: sell has not yet been decided. | Wilkins said he planned to make ia sub-ice voyage into the North | sometime next year, probably in I'May, in a craft he hopes to use. | Scientific apparatus will replace all {the fighting equipment and the boat may be made over gencrally | for the specific end of cruising into the North and emerging from un-' idcr the ice when necessary, but ’cumng its way up. TWO FIRES CALL OUT DEPARTMENT Two fires, one yesterday after- noon from Box 43 at about 4 p.m., and the other at 1 p.m. today from Box 21, called out the Fire De- partment to extinguish a few burn- ing shingles. Yesterday the roof of the Geyer home opposite the Governor's Man- sion was the cause of the difficulty, hile today fire broke out on one of the Harris Row cabins on Wil- loughby Avenue. The first fire gave all the ap- | | i | (sitting pro tem in place of Jus- | bedience Campaign. STATE SUPREME COURT SPLIT ON PANTABES' CASE Deadlock Reported in Plea of Theatre Man for Re- lease, Pending Appeal | SACRAMENTO, Cal, May 9.— Minus one of its Justices, the Cali- fornia State Supreme Court is deadlocked three to three on Alex- ander Pantages’ petition that he be released on bail from the Los Angeles County jail pending appeal for a new trial following convic- tion of criminal assault. ‘The split in the Supreme Court was revealed by Chief Justice Waste following the withdrawal from the case of Appealate Justice Tyler, tice Langdon, who is ill. Justice Tyler disqualified him- self after informing the Justices of | the Supreme Court his brother,! Russell Tyler, a lawyer, asked four months ago to handle Pantages' de- fense. Justice Waste explained that a conference will be held to determ- ing whether it will be possible to appoint another jurist in Tyler's place. If no further Judge is selected, further consideration of the appeal will be postponed until the June session of the Court in Los Angeles. —— ARE MURDERED:; | BODIES BURNED Police Victims of Riot at' Sholapur, India— Serious Aspect | | LONDON, May 9.—Unofficial rc-; ports received today said yester-| day’s riot at Sholapur, India, great- | ly exceeded any disturbance since the beginning of the Civil Diso-| The dispatch sald three policemen | were murdered, their bodies soaked | in kerosene and burned in the| street. Five other Policemen are reported | missing and were propably mur- | dered. Several other officers were injured. RACIAL STRIKE BEING WATCHED Further Uprising of White Workers Against Fili- pinos Feared SEATTLE, May 9—The next move in the uprising against Fili- rances of being fed by fireproof shingles. Closer investigation re- lvealed, however, that the side of the roof visible from the street was the only one with fireproof roof- ing, while the fire, on the other side, was,burning on genuine wood shingles. —vo———— 'SUBWAY FARES IN PARIS ARE HIKED A HALF CENT PARIS, May 9. — The municipal council has decided that Parisians can afford to pay more than 4 cents for a first class subway ticket and 2% cents for a second class ride. The new fare rates are 4' cents for first class and 3 cents for sec- and class, e Plane Taku Goes To Taku on First Flight Tomorrow Owing “to splendid weather conditions for flying, the Taku will make the first flight this season to the Taku mining district leaving Juneau tomorrow morning about 11 o'clock. The first trip was scheduled for Sun- day but this has now been advanced one day. Seccessesee ® 0000000000 2299000000000 pinos by white -workers in West- ern Washington is awaited by the sheriff and deputies of King Coun- ty, following information that a Japanese vegetable grower near Auburn, has been warned that un- less he releases his Filipino labor- ers within 24 hours, “your place will be burned.” Yesterday, a fire that officers be- lieve to have been of incendiary origin, destroyed a five room dwell- ing near Auburn. Several Fili- pinos were sleeping nearby e ® 0 0 e 000000 00 . 3 . . TODAY’S STOCK . . QUOTATIONS . » . e 000 vccesseoe The clos- Juneau NEW YORK, May 9 ing quotation on Alaska mine stock today was 6':, Alle- ghany Corporation 26%. Anaconda 59, Bethlehem Steel 95, General Motors 47%, Gold Dust 44%, Gran- by 32%, International Harvester 105, Kennecott 46, Missouri Pacific 79%, National Acme 18'%, Packard 18, Standard Brands 23%, Simmons Beds 38%, Standard Oil of Califor- nia 69, Alrcraft 64, U. S. Steel 169%, ‘Ward Baking B 11':, American Can 137 American Telephone and Telegraph 247, Ford Limited 18%. Allis Chalmers 61, American Tobacco B 261%, Phillips Petroleum 41%., h"‘b’flh‘g“ “a*“minor ler Former Saloon Porter Appointed Poet Laureate LONDON, May 9.—John Masefield, English poet, has been appointed Poet Laure- ate succeeding the late Rob- ert Bridges. Masefield roamed the in hobo fashion and s once porter in a New York City saloon. Masefield is 35 years of age, and he is married. His wife and two sons reside here. e ceecs oo - REMEMBERS HIS MOTHER, DEATH HOUR Man Electr;uted for Mur-! der, Leaves Mother's | Day Telegram CHICAGO, Ill, May 9.—August/ Vogel, aged 27 years, was electro-| cuted this morning for the mur-| der: of Lyle Perrenoud. * | Vogel left a Mother's Day tele-| gram to be sent to his mother who cannot read and believes her son| is in jail only for parole violation.! In a last minute confession, Vo- gel denied he was a “whim slayer.” He said he was watching for any- one worth robbing and that Perre- oud was killed in Ris car and one driven by Vogel. ., — NEW PACIEIC LINER BREAKS OCEANRECORD Beats Timemkohama to San Francisco — “Fly- ing Publisher” Aboard SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 9.— With Van Lear Black, “Flying Pub- lisher” of the Baltimore 8un, as a passenger, the new Japan Mail lin- Tatsuta Maru completed her maiden voyage from Yokohama to San Francisco in the record break- ing Transpacific time of 296 hours, 53 minutes and 14 seconds, a bet- ter mark than was set by her sis- ter ship Chichibu Maru, three weeks ago. Black's plane will be assembled and he will fly to Baltimore im- mediately. BRISTOL BAY FILLED WITH ICE;BOATS ARE UNABLE TO PROCEED Bristol Bay ice conditions are preventing boats from reaching their destinations there, according to telegraphic advices received to- day at local headquarters of the United States Bureau of Fisheries from N. O. Hardy, Fisheries War- de nin charge of the district. Thz Bureau's Bristol Bay fleet has been unable to get into their ports. . ‘The bay is said to be filled with ice above Ugashik. The pack appears to extend beyond Etolin Point. The Scoter, one of the Bureau's patrol boats, is following the edge of the pack attempting to get into the Ugashik River. Tt is impossible for boats to get to Nushagak River, Mr. Hardy wired. This is said to be unusually late for the ice to remain in the buy.j Whether it will result in delay inj preparatory work of the salmon canneries was not known here. Several cannery boats are now en- route from the south to the district.} t | 0, ). ROBERTS ,delphia, |Counsel in the Teapot Dome an ugfi nt iol-_‘* WIND T0 BE NAMED, HIGH COURT Philadelphia Man Selected by President for Va- cancy on Bench SPECIAL GOVERNMENT COUNSEL IS CHOSEN Prosecutor in Various Oil Cases to Be Nominated for Supreme Court BULLETIN — WASHING- TON, May 9.—President Hoover sent the nomination of Owen J. Roberts to the Senate late this afternoon. WASHINGTON, May 9.— Owen J. Roberts, of Phila- Special Government and other oil cases, has been selected by President Hoover to fill the vacancy in the Su- preme Court of the United States. It is expected the nomina- tion will be sent to the Sen- ate soon. g Senator Norris, leader of the, against the santion of odge. Jows 3. !Parker, is elated at the new 'selection. President Hoover consulted various members of the Sen- ate before announcing his se- lection. Roberts is a Republican and is 55 years of age. He first entered the public serv- ice 30 years ago as Assistant District Attorney in Philadel- phia. During the World War, |Roberts was Special Deputy Attorney General represent- ng the Government in es- pionage cases in Pennsyl- vania, THREE MILLION DOLLAR BLAZE Explosion on Gasoline Tanker Spreads—I13- Acre Plant in Ruins BAYONNE, New Jersey, May 9. —Starting from an explosion on a 10,000 gallon gasoline tanker, flames swept the 13-acre plant of the Gulf Refining Company and destroyed property valued at more than $3,000,000 last night. The fire spread to a nest of tanks of crude oil, 16 exploding. Seven persons are reported to have been injured. For a time residents feared the city would be destroyed. More than 100 persons were giv- en first aid. Crosson and Robbins Flying Back to Nanuk NOME, Alaska, May 9. — Pilots Crosson and Robbins returned to Teller Wednasaay and were expect- ed to start for the motorship Na- |nuk early yesterday for another load of furs. Pilot Graham is delayed at Golo- vin by a snow storm. It is be- Agent Dennis Winn, of the Bu-|lieved the storm will be over in reau, is enroute on one of these|time for him to fly to Fairbanks that sailed from Portland on May|and connect with the train for 5, for Bristol Bay points. {Seward leaving Sunday. - . eee - FERN SELLS HALIBUT HUNTERS GET BIG BAG { ST. PAUL, Minn, May 9.—Min- The Fern, Capt. John Lowell, ar- nesota duck hunters brought down rived in port from the halibut approximately 1,500,000 waterfowl banks last night, and today sold"dunng‘ the open season last fall, ac- 6,000 pounds of halibut to San cording to a tabulation of the state Juan for 10 and 640, game and fish commission,