The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 29, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” NO. 5422. VOL XXXVI JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY; MAY 29, 1930. MEMBhR OF ASSOCIATED PRFSS PRICE TEN CENTS FILM ACTRESS IS ROBBED ABOARD TRAlN BY BANDIT SEATTLE MAN INDICTED, IS NOT ARRESTED Search for Former Assist- ant U. S. Attorney Di- rected Towards South SEATTLE, May 29.—Search for C. T. MeKinney, former Assistant United States Attorney, indicted slong with Prohibition Adminis- trator Lyle, his assistant Whitney and others of the Northwest Pro- hibition Tnit, has turned towards | New Orleans. | Department of Justice agents said McKinney might have gone to the southern city. They said he had made arrangements some time ago to make his home in New Orleans. | RAMSAY GOVT, WEATHERS ONE | MORE STORM, Opponents e to Muster Sufficient Votes to Upset Laborites LONDON, May 29.—The Lnbor. Government has weathered anoth-| er attempt by the opposition to upset it. The opponents failed by 29 votes to pass a motion calling for a deduction in the salary of J. H. Thomas, Lord of the Privy Seal, and unofficial minister of Unem- ployment. The motion was introduced for the purpose of obtaining a debate . on England’s unemployment prob-| lem. | GANG GUNNERS LEAVE NO BODY Police Belie;.M‘urderTooM Place — Witnesses Describe Scene | CHICAGO, Ill, May 29.—A gang gunning left no corpus delicti and has mystified the police in a mur- der. 1 The police are certain blood stains are still at the entrance| of an alley in the Edgewater resi- dential section. | A man has identified one gun- ner jailed. Three youths witnessed | the shooting. They said severalj men leaped from a sedan and fired many shots at a man who started to flee at the sight of the gunners. | The man fell, the youths said, his head almost shot away. The gunners picked up the body, dump- ed it into the automobile and started off. One man failed to get inside and he was arrested by policemen who came running up.| He denied any part in the shoot- | ing. Amy Johnson Crashes With Her Plane W hile Flying in Australia BRISBANE, May 29.—Miss Amy Johnson and her plane in which she flew from England to the Austral- jan continent, crashed today as she was coming here from Charles- ville. She was not hurt. e ZAPORA TAKES LUMBER The Zapora, - Wills Navigation Company coastwise motorship, ar- rived in port from the south at 5 p m. yesterday and left at 1:30 p. m. today after loading 75,000 feet of heayy clear lumber at the Juneau Lumber Mills for the Northwest Spruce Company of Se- attle. In honor of Col there memorial structure to be known as the Carl| Ben Eielson Memorial Building of | |each year the people of the di- |nation. |sembly of Althing, is viewed by his- MUSKRATS RELEASED Alaska College Will Have Eielson M emorwl FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 29.— Carl Ben Eielson, will rise on the campus of Alaska Agricultural College s, & permanent taking the form of a Pro-nautical Engineering. By a unanimous vote, repres tatives of 14 local and fraternal and | civic organizations voted approval| of the project. The representatives also voted to request the Dorman Baker Post, No. 11, of the American Legion, Ralph Reeser, Commander, and David Adler, Adjutant, to take charge of the entirg project. At the post meeting last night it | was voted to accept the project. | The building will be constructed at an estimated cost of $100,000. 5 | known today. | telegraph of the movement for the Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, dent of the College, expressed ap- | proval of the appropriateness of such a memorial and became Lhe} first donor with $1,000. Gov vitation extended by the American | Legion post of Fairbanks to become a member of the Eielson Memorial Advisory Committee, he made He was advised by memorial and asked to accept an advisory membership. “I am glad to act in that capacily fand am in hearty sympathy with the movement,” the Governor said. No more fitting memorial co:ld be erected in Col. Eielson's honor, and 1 am sure the movement will have the \uppurl of every Alaskm ICELAND MARKS 1,000TH YEAR OF FIRST POPULAR ASSEMBLY e t"flv'« %' R W ¥ LY m,,,‘m,.,'.‘, SN Xceland will celebrate at Reykjavik (below) in June the 1,000th Presi- | Parks has accepted an in- CONFEREES ON TARIFF I]EVISE {Flexible Provisthis Agreed to — More Power for President WASHINGTON, May 29.— Con- {ferces on the tariff bill have agreed to a new flexible provision that will considerably broaden the power of the President and restrict the authority of the Tariff” Commis- sion. The proposal is to authorize the Tariff Commission to recommend} increases and decreases of raf and the President could appro' or let the rates lapse by inaction. LOMEN DENIES OPPRESSIONOF DEER GROWERS Refutes Chazges Madd Against His Company by Former School Man Charges that the Lomen inter- lests are ‘“stealing reindeer” from |the Eskimo owners of the north- west and that conditions among the Eskimos are worse for the opera- tions of the Lomens were today branded as untrue by Carl J. Lo- men, Nome, who was a guest of the Chamber of Commerce at its regu- lar weekly luncheon. He gave a brief account of the operations of the company of which |he is a member, and declared it was seeking to develop an indusisy that would be of direct benefit to all deer owners and to the Territory at large. Answers Andrews’ Charges ‘The charges to which he had reference were made somefime ago by C. L. Andrews, pioneer em- ployee of the United States Bu- reau of Education, in which the latter alleged that the Lomen in- |terests were oppressing the Eskimo year of popular assembly founded on the site from which view at oD deer owners, and gradually acquir- may be seen. U. S. delegates. land’s founder. Rep. Olger B. Burtness (inset, right) will be one of‘ing control of the industry through Inset at right shows statue of Ingolf Arnarson, Ice- unfair tactics. Mr. Lomen declared \his company was simply endeavor- ling to create a market for surplus WASHINGTON May 29.- —Nauons | clude ng Chnsunn x and Queen !deer meat and in so doing had in- lof the world will join with Iceland June 26-30 to celebrate the thous- |andth birthday of the first populsr‘ assembly. | Potentates, princes, and emis- saries of republican lands will meet | at Thingvellir, historic plain where minutive island gathered from far‘ and wide to discharge the parlia- | mentary and judicial duties of the | There, in a vast, natural amphi- theater and under the canopy of heaven, the seeds of popular gov- ernment were sown while feudal Europe struggled im the grip of the dark ages. Sounding the beginning of the end of imperial oppression, the as- torians as the most startling phe- nomenon of the times. | ‘Guests of me sagaland will in- | Alexandrine, rulers of Denmark and Iceland, Crown Prince and Princess Olaf, of Norway and Crown Prince | and Princess Gustaf Adolf, of Sweden. All nations with representative forms of government will send dele- gates and from the United States, as personal appointees of Presi- | dent Hoover, will go Senator Peter Norbeck, South Dakota; Represen- tative Olger B. Burtness, North Da- kota; Frederick H. Fljozdal, Detroit. Prof. Sveinbjorn Johnson, Univer- sity of Illinois; and O. P. B. Jacob- son, St. Paul. A memprial, to the venturesome Leif Ericsson, who is reputed to have pushed a dragon-prowed ship onto the shores of America from Iceland, but 70 years after the Althing was founded, will be the United States government's gift for the occasion. ON WEST COAST FOR BREEDING PURPOSES | Nine pair of muskrats were plant- ed this week on Prince of Wales Island by agents of the Alaska Game Commission under' the joint | stocking program of the Territory and the Commission, it was made | known today by E. M. Goddard, Acting Executive Officer. This is| but one of several projects spon- sored by the Territory for rehabili- MACABRE GIFT SENT TO ITALIAN ACTRESS! | quotations today for Alaska Juneau ANCONA, TItaly, May 29.—Nanda Primavera, soubrette of a theatre company here, stood on the stage at the end of the second act, re- ceiving gifts during a performance given in her honor. An usher handed her a small rich-looking box. She opened it. With an exclamation of pleasure she turned it so the audience could see it. ‘beautiful chased-gold knife. , the macabre gift, | They saw a heart pierced with a They | applauded. Nanda Primavera lifted the gift from the box. She cried in horror and dropped it. The heart was real, even if not human. It was still dripping blood. | ; tating’ and conserving its game and fur-bearing animals. ‘The rats were obtained at Haines from C. H. Hanley. They were re- leased in a lake two miles back of Klawock Lake on the west coast of Prince of Wales Island, - warden Prank Dufresne having charge of the work. The locality in which they were planted is said to be ideally located for the experiment.| This project, like all of the oth- ers on the program, is financed by Territorial funds. The * animals released are protected under Ter- | ritorial and Federal laws. - : TODAY'S STOCK . . QUOTATIONS . I . @000 00 8008I0 NEW YORK. may 29.—Closing mine - stock is 6%, Alleghany .Cor- poration 26%, Anaconda 60%, Beth- lehem Steel 95%, General Motors 51, Gold Dust 447%, Granby 32%, Kennecott 48%, Montgomery Ward 44%, National Acme 18%, Packard 17%, Standard Brands 23%, Sim- mon Beds 37%, Standard ‘' Oil of It is believed one of the sou- brette's rejected admirers sent her California 70%, United Aircraft 7%, U. 8. Steel 173%, Curtis lwrlght 9%. 5 3 ;vested some $2,500,000 - in various ways, including herds, corrals, an |abbatoir, cold storages. and vessels to transport . meat from:' Seward Peninsula points to Seattle. Last year, he sald, the company {employed 579 Eskimos and 70 whites in" its operations in the northwest. Its' payrell for the year jamounted to $209,000. This is the largest single payroll in the Second |Division of Alaska, he pointed out. There are now more than 1,000,000 deer in the Alaska herds and, as Ibhey are prolific and hardy, the problem of profitably disposing of (the annual surplus is becoming larger each year. “Of course, as we develop, ex- pending more money and hiring ‘more people, theré are some whe think there must be something wrong about the business. But it is yet in the future when the industry can be said to be on a profitable basis. We are confident, however, that it can be put on such a basis and maintained there, but it has yet to be done,” he declared. Still Producing Gold The gold mining industry of the northwest is still healthy, he said. Nome, which has produced more than $100,000,000 since It was dis- covered, is still - producing some $1,500,000 each year and this prom- {ises to grow. The fleld is good for another 25 years at least, In the meantime, the reindeer industry will continue to grow and will give permanence and stability to the population of the northwest glon of the Territory. He predicted eventual Bering Sea waters. Just what form it would teke, he was not prepared to say as there has as yet been no survey to determine the extent and potential value of these resources. Except for salmon and herring fishing in a limited way, there is no fisheries industry in the district. ‘Tribute to Survey Mr. Lomen paid a high tribute to the United States Biological, Survey which has co-operated W hi the deer growers during the past decade. If it had not been IoF (Continued on Page iflm; Ie-i develop- | ment of the fishing resources of, Alden i ). Sampson. Peter The Memorial Day race at Indianapolis speedway (above) this year will feature two-passenger ma- chines. Louis Meyer will carry his financial backer, Alden Sampson, as mechanic, ing of the new type machine is shown (lower left) with Louie Schneider at the wheel. (lower right) is a former winner. INDIANAPOLIS, May 29.—Greal- er hazard, color, and glamor will mark the 500-mile auto race May 30 at Indianapolis speedway. Where 33 men dared death on the gray-bricked, treacherous turns the last seven years, 80 will take that chance this year in pursuit of the $110,000 prize money. Victory will be worth $40,000 this year. This includes the first place money and side prizes. The other prizes scale downward. Two thou- sand dollars, at $100 per lap, will be distributed. The riding mechanie, dramatic figure of by-gone races who was outlawed seven years ago, is back. The number of cars that may start has been raised from 33 to 40 and motors may be four times as large as they were in the last Memorial day race, Only two carburetors will permitted on a car, whether it has four, six, elght, twelve or six- teen cylinders. rule dealt may be understood when it is explained that many of the inder cars. Another factor demanding per- fect carburetion is the outlawing of the super-charger, which drove the gas into cylinder chambers. Louie Meyer, winner in 1928 for the .Jast .two 'years “America's V-type racer. He ran second last year. Riding with him as the me- chanic will be Alden Sampson, his financial backer, who will be going {in for his first taste of major auto- moblle racing. | be | The blow that new | cars used last year had from four to eight carburetors on eight cyl- driving champion, will gamble his| chance oh a brand new 16-cylinder Peter De Paolo Indianapolis winner now active in racing, will return from retirement | for this one race. He has in- vited his uncle, Ralph De Palma, to drive the other racer of his two- car stable, Baconl Borzacchini, Italian who !set a European record of 15255‘ miles an hour for 10 kilometers, | will drive his 16-cylinder speedster. | Lou Moore, Louie Schneider, Dea- | d | con Litz, Pete Krels, Bob Mc- ' Donogh,: Billy. Arnold, Babe Stapp, | Rutissell Snowberger, the veteron Leon Duray, CIiff Bergere, Tony Gulotta, and others of the young- er group will compete. Ray Keech who won by some fine driving a year ago, will be missed. He was killed at Altoona a month after his victory here. FIRST GLIDER Geraldine Free, daughter of she. is in the club's CLUB MEMBER Associated Press Photo Rep, Arthur M. Free of Californla, was the first member of the George Washington university glider first glider. CASTLE.NAMED FOR OLD POST WASHINGTON, May 20—Presi- \dent. Hoovér has nominated Will- iam R. Castle, Jr., to be Assistant Secretary of- State, the post he held before going to Japan as Ambassador during the Naval Con- ference. \Five Brothers Are { Indicted: for Tar And Feather (,(m' 'HAMMOND, Louisiana, May 20.— Jury has returned true bills against |the five Starnes brothers who yes- terday tarred and feathered Dr. |Sedie Newsom, a dentist, about the same time that Mrs. Starnes, wifc of one of the, brothers, denied her husband’s accusation of misconduct leth the doctor.’ | {The Tangipohma Parish Grand SILVER HITS - LOWRECORD , | LONDON, May 29 —Silver touch- ed a new low record of 17 7-16 pence an ounce on the open mar- ket. This is due to selling by brokers for Chinese interests of (bullion, Brokers say they will not| be surprised to see the price drop lower. - eee l QUEEN SAILED FOR S. E. ALASKA TODAY| SEATTLE, May 29. — Steamer| Queen sailed for Southeast Alaskn! {at 10 o'clock this morning on her| first trip of the summer season.| Bhe has aboard 116 first class pas- sengers and 42 steerage Thia following passengers are Hoover Vetoes Pension Bill Passed by Senate WASHINGTON, May 29.— President Hoover has ve- toed the Senate Bill to fix a new basis for pensions to Spanish American War Vet- erans, Senator Connally, Democrat, of Texas, moved to override the veto. Chairman Knutson, of the House Pensions Committee, sald the President expressed approval of the substitute Spanish-American war vet- eran’s pension bill in place of the one he vetoed ® 8 o000 00 00000 — . CRACK PROS HEAD ENTRIES FOR ST. LOUIS' BIG OPEN; ST. LOUIS, Mo, May 29.—Hor- ton Smith and Leo Diegel head the list of goMing notables who have entered the St. Louis $10,000 open tournament July 2, 3 and 4 The A view over the cowl- ' Pete De Paolo, the only other“ MARIAN NIXON IS VICTIM OF - TRAIN ROBBER {Husband of Screen Star Also Touched Up for Large Sum Money \BANDIT BOARDS TRAIN AT LOS ANGELES DEPOT Drops Oflm Darkness Seven Minutes Later— Star’s Plea Rewarded LOS ANGELES, Cal., May 29. — The police are today searching for an armed ban- dit who last night boarded the Santa Fe Chief, fast train Chicago bound, as it left the Los Angeles station. Seven minutes later, the bandit dropped from the train and escaped in the dark- (ness after robbing Marian |Nixon, screen actress, of rings valued at $7,500 and taking /$575 from her husband and another passenger. Locking the porter in the \vestibule of the de luxe sleep- {ing car, the bandit entered ithe compartment occupied by |the screen actress and her husband, Edward Hillman, | The bandit returned to 'Marian Nixon her wedding ing after she pleaded with /him not to take lt. T0 GATHER AT ' TOMB OF DEAD - FOR MEMORIAL | {Tomorrow Wlll Be Cele- brated Quietly in Na- [ tional Capital WASHINGTON, May 29. — The National Capital will celebrate Memorial Day tomorrow quietly at ;the tomb of the Unknewn Soldier and other historic spots of patriotic interest. | President Hoover will be out of Ithe city and will deliver the ad- |dress at Gettysburg. The Woodrow Wilson Foundation has arranged a pilgrimage to the tomb of Wilson. DAMAGED SHIP IS AT SEWARD Frelghter Oduna Sustains Hull Leaks When date of the tourney originally set for July 18-20,° was changed to Strikes Rocks SEWARD, Aiaska, May 29.—The avold conflict with the Metropoli- freighter Oduna, reported in dis- tan Open at New York City. |tress two days ago on Prince Will~ Gene Sarazen and Johnny Far- jam Sound, arrived last night. The rell have signed their intention of freighter sustained several hull | competing in the St. Louis meet, leaks and she will go on the dry but have not yet entered, while a long list of local golfers and Mis- | sourl stars have already filled out cards. dock at Seattle. The captain said he was using a sound device when he struck the \rocks near the Granite mine. New Gasoline I Quwker Starting, More Powerful TULSA, Okla., May 20.—Discovery of a more powerful gasoline, & blend especially for automobiles was announced to the Naéural Gasoline Association’s annual con- vention. The mixture restores what the motorist likes to call “the old- fashioned goodness” to gasoline, by which he means quick, easy start- ing in cold weather. The blending formula is a gift to the petroleum industry from the Department of Engineering Re- search of the University of Michi- gan. It is non-commercial, anyone who wishes being free to use it. booked for Juneau: Mrs. Willlam JDoucel.t. and two steerage. ‘The formula restores to gasoline ltwo ingredients which have been: largely removed in recent years by the methods of production and re- fining. One of these is natural gasoline, found in the natural gas removed at the mouth of the well. It is highly volatile, vaporizing so readily that it fires easily in cold weather, The other restored substance which gives the added power in hot weather s naphtha, usually re- moved and sold as such or included in kerosene. 1Its effect is opposite from that of natural gasoline, re- tarding vaporization. It comes into use when the engine is hot. In that stage the acceleration of mod- ern engines tends to cause com- plete vaporizing fuel to choke and drag.