The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 31, 1930, Page 1

- THE DAILY A ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVI., NO. ASKA “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1930, MEMBER GRAF ZEPPELIN R SIANT Amsmp Outdoor Life Lures New Associate Justice! ARRIVES FROM | SOUTH AMERIGA Reaches U. S on Four Con— tinent Flight—Passes Through Storm LAKEHURST, New Jersey, May 31.—Rolling up from Rio de Jan-| crio to complete the next to the! last leg of the four continent flight,| the Graf Zeppelin has arrived au the Naval Air Station under escort| of the Navy dirigible Los Angeles, commercial blimp and a half a, dezen planes. The Graf appeared out of the| south at 6 o'clock this morning | and came to the mooring staff here. Dr. Eckener seemed more fatigued | then on any previous arrival and speaking through an interpreter, after sinking into a chair, said that about 8 o’'clock last night the ship passed through the worst squall ever experienced and a 40- mile an hour wind from the north; prevailed north. The Graf will head for Seville next Monday. FIFTEEN LOST WHEN FISHING BOAT FOUNDERS | Death List May Be Increas- ed—Three Bodies Washed Ashore | SANTA MONICA, Cal, May 31 —Fifteen persons, passengers on the fishing boat Ateco which foundered three quarters of a mile off shore, are officially reported missing. Officers, after checking various reports, announced that the may be increased by three The bodies’ of three victims were recovered last night. It is feared that the bodies of other victims will not come ashore for several days. | A great kelp bed lying between the shore and where the ship foundered probably holds some of the bodies. — e | IS STRUCK ON HEAD BY GOL BALL; IS DEAD Shot Driven by Mrs. Wal- lace Langley Proves to Be Fatal One ‘ SEATTLE, May May 31—Struck on the head by a golf ball driven by Mrs. Wallace Langley, of the Rain- ier Golf Club, John Hawcroft, cad-‘ die, aged 21, died today. The ball knocked the youth down but he quickly regained his feet and said: “I hope I do not get a cauli- flower ear for this.” Hawcroft collapsed about yards from where he was struck while being taken to his home. s R e MRS. ETTA PAYSON HERE TO VISIT WITH BROTHER nor General has given his assent to Trow Mrs. Etta Payson, sister of H. T. Tripp, arrived here Thursday from Goddard’'s Hot Springs, where she makes her home, to visit for a time with her brother and his fam- ily. list (b \EXGURSIUNIST OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CEN'IS REACH SKAGWAY| . Mr. and Mrs. Owen J. Roberts (below, left) desert their town home (below, right) every week to spend two days on their farm, where they are shown above. PHILADELPHIA, Penn., May 31.| —Owen J. Roberts, nominated by President Hoover for the Supreme Court bench, and confirmed by the Senate, has been too busy with the law to develop any serious hobby. But he jumps o a4 horse and rides every time he gets a chance. The Roberts have a town house ihere, a short walk from the city hall and business section, but in Chester county, near Birchrunville, about 30 miles from Philadelphia, they have a 700-acre farm. There they spend about two days of every week for rest and recreation. “Owen rides over the whole place as often as he can,” Mrs. Roberts related. Roberts likes to be outdoors when e can. He is very fond of the woods and roughing it in camp. He is an expert with a canoe, too, having spent summers in Maine camps in his youth. There are but three in the Rob- EARLY EVENI ,Leave for Whitehorse Th | Morning — Ideal | Weather, Interior (Special to Empire) SKAGWAY, Alaska, May 31 |The Alma arrived here from neau at 7 o'clock last night the excursionists bound for Whil chartered by Juneau school teach ers, arrived at 8 o'clock. Ji contented lot and joined in flhé;" dance at the White Pass Club. | | Whitehorse at 6 o'clock this marn,i‘f, ing. ©Haynes. & horse and the Valkyrie, specially | All excursionists were a hap] The excursion train left here fof. l | The weather turned bad loclluj fbut it is mcal at Whitehorse. N WASHIGTON vacation, Their one child, Miss Pilgrimage to Arlxngtofi Hills Is Made—Annual By L. A. BROPHY ;:rli {:n:i * e G (A. P. Staff Writer) abeth, is in er early twent 5- * She is abroad now, studying voice, ! Homage Paid WASHINGTON, May 31.—The but she will be Lhome by the ls.ll’ great American vacation beckons WASHINGTON, D. C., May 31—~ to President Hoover this summer. Known now as a lewyer of great"rhe Capital led in the National, pike uncounted thousands of folks ability, Roberts wanted to be & cbservance of Memorlal Day yeés& from seaboard ‘to seaboard, he is teacher when he was in *“prep” terday with a pilgrimage to Arling- Igoing to “get into a car” and tour school. He did not think lawyers|ton Hills, across the Putomac,me heaped up wonders of nature in pursuing their profession could |Where the clustered graves of Vvet-|.. ..q which the government has be honest, but after arguments by lerans received the annual homage thrown a protecting arm in the na- his father and advice from the Of lovers. A prayer by Sergeant|, .o, yarks system. head-master of the academy, chose Edward Younger, who selected the! ™\ .o "vonowetone Estes, Yo- | the profession which has led him Unkown Soldiers, wes sald at the| ... "o " "Grang’ can i 1 yon are so high. |Unknown’s tomb, and Col. Grantj s which the presi- Me i only §5.nd one of tne|the Third, enogised!the " deaaoriis naticnal PEEKA Whch the Preflc youngest men ever named for the the Civil War. Elsewhere in the ERUBLTER W s year. It is expected to increase this year. Each of the five national play- | grounds the President will visit has a personality of its own, from the richly colored rocks of Glacier, pig- mented by the upthrust of a wurld! in the agony of formation mil-| |lions of years ago, to the world wonder of the Grand Canyon. | Glacier National Park where the | President is expected to spend a week in fishing, is in northwestern | Montana, and encloses 981,681 acres | The territory was formed, in some | dim time, by the earth cracking un- DRY OFFICIALS MAKE SURPRISE RAIDS, DALLAS Round-Up Made of Private Residences and then Speak-easies DALLAS, Texas, May 1.— More than 100 pérsons have President Hoover, uhown ut his desk, is going tu join the great tourist caravan this summer on hls‘ Visiting five National Parks he will see Old Faithful Geyser o | sibly the scene in the Grand Canyon shown at top. (left) in Yellowstoric and pos- to a magnificent panorama of the chromatic scale. Ninety glaciers are enclosed by the governmental| limits and lakes almost ~without number det the ups and downs of | its terrain.: From (lacier the execubive party will go to the Yellowstone and Es- | tes parks and then the President will continue on to his home at Palo Alto, Calif. On the return trip, Yosemite and the Grand Can- yon parks will be viewed. The national parks now cover an area of 7,753,861.36 ac: an ar equivalent to 12,113.50 square miles, Officials of the national park serv- place, the sixth Pennsylvanian since i the court was erected 150 years ago. Not only has he practiced law but he has taught it in the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. He was a leader of the bar before President Capttal hevues of ‘$He NaHOE were{Order damad der the pressure of tremendous remembered. The motor cavalcade of clerks, se- | forming forces, resulting in one side ice of the department of the in- | eret service men, photographers, | | thrusting up and overlapping the terior figured the summer was go- and newspapermen, will be part of | other. |ing to be a great year for visitors| ‘n summer procession of flivvers anrl‘ For grandeur of scenery it is re- to the government playgrounds. FUUR KILLED !limousines that will carry upwards |garded as surpassing the Alps. Its| They see attention focused ou\ {of 2,000,000 tourists. That was the | mountains and rocky formations the parks as never before by rea- Coolidge shot the spotlight of fame attendance at national parks last "have been colored by natural force on him by naming him to prosecute | the celebrated oil cases. i IN ACCIDENT Going to Fairbanks Wlute Woman Hunter Bags 2 Kodmk Browmes L(uge Party Seurchmg for issing Boy SEWARD, Alaska, May 31.—Nine- |ty -three persons from Anchorage, ]ed by the father, arrived at Bird yesterday morning from Anchor- age, to continue search for Johnny ‘Myers 16-year-old section man on the Alaska Railroad, who disap- peared on a hike last Sunday fore- noon. It is said that the youth had only a hunting knife as a weapon ALL OFF NOW; ’ " RUM RUNNERS | MUST BEWARE - OTTAWA, May 31.—The Gover-| the bill refusing clearances of liguor bearing vessels and making Jllegal exportation of liquor into the Unit- ed States to the outlaw fleets of swift rum running craft operating on the Great Lakes and Detroit River. Glenn Curtiss Retraces 1 Plane Flight of 191 | NEW YORK, May 31—Down the old air way he fook 20 years ago to write a new page in history of aviation, Glenn H. Curtiss yester- day flew from Albany to New York City at the controls of a giant twin-motored transport plane. He retraced the distance of May, 1910, in almost half the time he took! the first time. In 1910, Curtiss flew the 137, miles in 152 minutes. Yesterday| he flew the distance in 80 min- utes, ] To Be Married; Flight To Nome for Honeymoon ‘Racing Carzkes Plunge | Into Grandstand— | Tire Blows Out | KODIAK, Alaska, May 31 *“ WINCHESTER, Indiana, May 31 Bringing seven pelts of Kodiak —Four persons were killed and 20 bears, five of which will go to the Were injured, one probably fatally, liott, aviator employed by the Al- State Museum at Springfield lly‘_‘when a racing car blew out a tire aska Airways. A honeymoon flight nols, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Barr,| land plunged into a grandstand from Fairbanks to Nome is planned. of Springfield, arrived here from |Vesterday afternoon. | Miss Mudd is the daughter of| the Karluk Lake region, on the One woman saved her baby by Benjamin Mudd, prominent S(at- west side of Kodiak Island, after tossing it over the heads of vmxu tle lumberman one of the most successful hunts| spectators to safety, =, ! ) e on record. Mrs. Barr, believed to be the first ]udge Refuses a Kodiak | | brownie, brought down two, one DlUOT(‘e Both | INeed Spanking SEATTLE, May 31— Bar- bara Mudd sailed wday on thc steamer Yukon fer Fairbanks where she will be married to Grant El- | white woman to ever kill being a 9%-foot specimen. The party sighted 31 bears dur- i lng the 16 days of the hunt FRESNO, Cal, May 31.—Declar-' S A _ The members of the party wxl]lrmg that “marriage would soon he Plane Flymg Dunng Holl- leave here today on the Admiral nullified” if all young couples \sho‘ ;. day Celebration Watson for the States. |quarreled were to seek divorces, B Superior Judge Denver 8. Church| Down in Crash . deni Ry, |King Recovers from IT‘;’;}"&;‘ divorce to Mrs. Gladys| : ale following a hearing Of | pATRMONT, West Virginia, May | Attack of Rheumatism; |her plea, contested by her husband, 31 pverett Arnholt, aged 30 years, Will Attend Concert AP Trousdale. “You should both|yag killed, and Lieut. Loren Scott | LONDON, May 31.- 'rm-/ Km’g is-be spanked,” Judge Church said.|was critically injured at Arnetts- s far recovered from his recent| . Trousdales were married fehville last night- as their plane 5 o \ettack of rheumatism that he plnns‘ye“s ago when Mrs. Trousdale was | crashed while fireworks were being to leave Buckingham Palace tomor- fourteen and her husband eighteen. set off from the plane during a They have three chudren holiday celebration. and attend the New York foedilh The T o L Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra | | ne was in concert, MIZE IS LEAVING (the engine failed. SRR OE e ON ALASKA BOUND FOR THE lN'l'ERlOR R. C. Mize, meterologist in cha of the Juneau Weather Bureau sta- tion, will 1leave here tomorrow aboard the Alaska for the westward “Cowbell" Divorce Suit Brings Echo | WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., May |31.—Charging her with fraud in |obtaining a title to their winter |home here, Reginald Brooks, prom- |inent New York clubman and win- HUSBAND OF FORMER ,‘ JUNEAU RESIDENT IS | | DEAD, YAKIMA, WASH. Word has been received i Ju- neau by Mrs. Stella Young, of the |death of C. R. Jeans, at Yakima,'°% Dis way to Fairbanks. | Wash., husband of her sister, Mrs.;F’l“i7 “‘kmi:“flz ansxmcul trip '3, ‘airbanks to consult with How Mildred Jeans. 4 {to his wife’s petition for separate Mrs. Jeans is well known here| ROmpson, formerly of the local| .. tenance ror she was nurse at St. Ann's ::;:]‘:’“-or‘" f?za-rd to t;k;le establish-| Cyrrg Brooks recently filed an ac- minor weather Statlons) ., on the ground that her nerves hospital for over three years before hi ¢ |her marriage in the states. She :e ch will make reports for thei oo o"spattered by her husband's was then known as Miss Mildred (PeRefit of aviation companies ober-|,\nye ringing cowbells in their Leod. ating in the Interior and elsewhere. McLeo Mr. M3 ' |home and setting off numerous Besides his wife, Mr. Jeans! '% ze expects to return here 25|,1,m clocks at late hours to dis- Iemry as possible, turb her rest, ) leaves two small children, ENGINE FAILS ter resident, filed a counter suit| [GOLUHED MAN IS VICTIM OF | Alleged Negr—o— Assaulter of|+ White Woman, Shot and Stabbed, Lives | | CHICKASHA, May 31.—Argo | is enroute in an ambulance to | Oklahoma City, although he was shot in the head and stab- | bed it is believed he is still alive. The rumor that the negro died was apparently cir- culated deliberately to give the officers a chance to spirit him out of the town. | | \? EVADES GUARD ) CHICKASHA, Oklahoma, 31 —Evading a guard of N'all')n'nl ,Guardsmen called to protect mp Ity Argo, negro alleged attacker of {a white woman, a member of an | | | | angry mob, probably fatally shot ‘thc prisoner after gaining entrance {to the Grady County Jail or climb- |ing a tree and firing through the prison window. While the negro lay dying | W. Skinner, husband of the woman [the negro is alleged to have at- |tacked, entered the jail and stab- !bed Argo. Skinner was arrested died from stabbing and {‘and his body was taken | morgue. G after Argo hooting to the P T | |Pioneer of Alaska Since 1888, Is Dead TANANA, Alaska, May 31.—Na- Ithan Fullmore Petterson, aged 72 |years, died in the hospital here last Thursday. He was born in Tennessee and had lived in Alaska ‘smce 1888. He was a member of |Igloo No. 13, Pioneers of / MOB IN OKLA.: » . . e linked him with his official e . . laged 14 years, on of President Hoover's visits. Hoover Enjoying Trip Into Alleghany Mountains . WILLIAMSPORT, Penn, e May 31. — President Hoover e today welcomed an oppor- tunity to rest and fish on e the estate of Way Cooke, of Philadelphia, in the deep e fastness of the Alleghany Mountains. He plans to re- turn to the Capital City to- morrow by automobile. Only a special telephone connec- tion with the White House duties. 2000 PROFESSIONAL KILLER SLAIN Phillip Gnolfo Is Shot mF Gang Attack 1 Chicago CHICAGO, Iil, May 31.—Phillip |Gnolfo, known ¢ a professional Chicago killer, was slain, two com- panions were wounded and a boy, was struck by a stray bullet in a gang attack on the West Side. A machine gun, shotgun and re- volvers were used in the attack Gnolfo was forced by his attack- ers, who trailed him by automobile | of which he was his own driver.| to the side of a curb Nineteen bullet holes were found in his car. el MISS KELLY ILL Miss Blanche Kelly, Juneau High School teacher, underwent an op- eration for appendicitis this morn- ing at St. Ann’'s hospital. been taken to the County Jail lafter they had been arrested in surprise raids executed by Federal Prohibition Agents. | Acting with complete se- lcrecy, the raiders first col- lected prisoners at private {residences .then made the !rounds of suspected liquor |selling places and when this was completed, all those ar- rested were taken to jail. Lawyers and reporters were |denied admission to the jail. ———.—— SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTLOOTED ' OF LARGE SUM 1 i ‘Robbery of Last Sunday Is Revealed by St. Louis Banker | ST. LOUIS, Mo, May 31.—Loot~ ing of a safe deposit vault in the |Grand National Bank last Sunday is revealed as a $1,000,000 burglary and virtually equivalent to $1,050,~ 000, combined surplus of the insti- | tution. President Ed Ma, announced as $43,000 in cash ,snd $350,000 in securities, custom- lers had deposited as collateral for |loans. The customers’ losses are npproxlmatoly $640,000. - \Wife at Work Loses Nonsupport Fight LOS ANGELES, May 31.—A wife |cannot claim a divorce on the lground of non-support if she earns enough for her maintenance, ac- |cording to a ruling entered in Judge | W. A. Anderson’s court, where Mrs. \Lunena B. Howsley was denied a ‘decree in her suit against Lucien ‘B Howsley. ‘le War Veteran Marries Girl of 17 |the bank's loss | i ! \ ENTERPRISE, Ala, May 31— Another May and December ro- mance was revealed here today ywhen it was learned that J. N. Cooper, 87-year-old Confederate (veteran, had taken for his bride | Miss Claire Sheppard, said by the ‘mcmbers of her family to be only 7. The couple are on their honey- { moon. | “Average Date Costs $2.50 at Univ. of C. LOS ANGELES May 31.—Date with coed, $2.50. This, a questionnaire at the Uni- | versity of California at Los An- ! geles today disclosed, is the aver- | age amount expended by male stu- | dents making engagements with | coeds at the university. Minimum expenditures of ten | cents were reported. The maximum ;wus $10. ;MexicoTflny Resume ‘ U. S. Oil Activity | | | MEXICO CITY, May 31.—Re- newed development of Mexico's vast oll resources by American com- panies was assured yesterday when |the ministry of commerce and in- dustry stated that all applications | for oil concessions would be acted | upon within' two months. | st e MRS. ULRICH HOME Mrs. Lois Ulrich, who has been in St. Ann’'s hospital since May 20, was dismissed this morning. i