The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 19, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXVI., NO. 5440. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” : JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JU NE 19, 1930. MEMBER AMERICAN HERO I M’KINNEY IS FIGHTING EXTR INDIGTED MAN HAS HEARING, SAN FRANGISED 1 Decision as to Removal to! Seattle or Freedom | Up to U. S. Com. ROY OLMSTED TAKEN SOUTH TO TESTIFY Prisoner at McNeil Island| Says He Gave Money, Also Gin to Official EXTRADITION IS SUDDENLY WAIVED!. BULLETIN—SAN FRAN- CISCO, June 19.—Clifford T. McKinney waived extradition unexpectedly this afternoon saying that he was satisfied he could defeat the charges against him in Seattle. United States Commission- er Fisk set his bond at $5,-' 000 and ordered him to ap-t pear in the Federal Court in; Seattle on June 30. | | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, June 19.! —Upon the decision of United; States Commissioner Fisk depends | the removal to Seattle or freeing! ot Clifford T. chlmg, under bribéry i connecs). indictment for John N. Willys (extreme left), geyxw::flf:rerigan ;Ahl:b“‘"d:; Po -leaving rai station upon his arrival at]gou- saw, to take up his official ‘New Eiivby- ArriVes mW;u:_saw e PRICE TEN CENTS WILKINS AND ELLSWORTH T CROSS ARCT {Plans Are Announced for Polar Expedition in- June Next Year |SUBMARINE TO CARRY PARTY OF SCIENTISTS Cotamander ‘and CRT®! Staff Announced—Under Sea Boat Chartered PARIS, June 10.—Cgpt. George H. Wilkkins and Lincoln th announced collabpration tod&y ir an attempt next year ta reach $he 'North Pole by means of a &b marine. y | Capt. Wilkins issued a statemient saying that the expedition will be known as the Wilkins-Ellsworth Trans-Polar Submarine Expedition | Commander Sloan Dannehower, will_be master ‘of the Submarine and Dr. H. Severup will be Chief of the Scientific Staff. | The expedition will leave New York for Spitzbergen in June, next year, The submarine will travel under the ice across the Nerth Pole and is expected to reach Alss- ka in August. | Ellsworth is undecided as to whether he will participate ' per- sonally. duties. Beside the Ambassador is Mrs. Willys, at whose left is Charles Dewey, financial ad- viser to the Polish, Government, Unternational Newsteel) | SUBMARINE CHARTERED | | ‘ 3 | AwasHNGTON, yune 19~ e tion with the recent Grand Jury investigatiors at ‘Seattle 'in whigh - past and present offieials of the Ed"so"’ fr om Home’ Pacific Northwest Prohibition Unit Talks to San Francico were indicted. ’Afld Borlin McKinney is a former Assistant United States Attorney of -Sgattle. | Roy Olmsted was brought here; ® from McNeil Island Prison, where, ® he is serving sentence following ® conviction of dry law violations ® and conspiracy, and testified yes- ® terday in McKinney's extradition ® hearing. |® Olmsted said he paid McKinney|e $3,000 to further the Gubernatorial e ambitions of former United Statcs e Attorney Revelle and in turn Mc- e Kinney informed Olmsted that'e United States agents were tapping e the latter's telephones. !. Olmsted further testified that he o delivered gin to McKinney every VSRR week and gave him from $40 %o $100 at the same time. 3 - ACTIVITIES OF He Seeks Free Board o ‘ And Gets i in Jui BANDITS, QUIET PITTSBURGH, June 19.—Police-! man Fay, Pittsburgh, Pa. saw . i Nick Marshall in the bread lne'Nicaraguan Outlaws Tak-| with the homeless unemployed of ! the city, receiving free food time | ing it .Easy 3% General and again. Fay had always under- Sandino Not Located stood Marshall was fairly well-to-i i g‘;i 5:2 5?ovezflmd‘l:dt£“:: n;‘:_} MANAGUA, Nicaragua, June 19, How much fibeevaik. hias "t othelj'—Naflonal Guard headquarters re- banks 15 not known. Now Marshall port an unusually quiet week for is in jail, where bom; N Le St e bandit activities and said what“ A ,contacts guards and 10 United| than in the bread line, though still 'y vo "yeo e had since Gen. San- | | | | , Germany SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, June 19.—A combination of land wires, submarine cables and broadcasting stations, enabled Thomas A. Edison to last night address simul- taneously from West Orange, New Jersey, the National Electric Light Association Convention here and the second Plenary Session of the World Power Conference in Berlin, Germany. free. ‘dlno was supposed to have returnedl |resulted disastrously for the ban-| Stock Exchange Firm {aits. | Gen. Sandino has not been lo-| cated in Nicaragua since reported| 'to have left Mexico where his rep-| resentative is said to have given out that he had engaged Marines| in a conflict and killed two. PO Bl S PR LATIN AIRWAY TRIPLED Of N. Y. Is Suspended NEW YORK, June 19.—T7e Stock Exchange firm of Woody and Company was suspended today be- cause of solvency. This is the first failure since last fall's crash. . The company is a local/firm and has no out-of-town offices. el DA WASHINGTON, June 19— Latin! The once mighty Seminole tribe Amcrican countries have 44,0001 of Indians now numbers 468, ac- miles of airways in regular opem-l cording to the 1930 census. That is tion, three times the number t.hcy} an increase of 14 since 1920. ‘had the first of 1929. { i I [ ’ Football Star Wins |Brien, scion | family dismantled- battersd Navy sub 0-12 has been chartered by Capt. Wil- kins and his expedition at a sum of $1 a year. The submarine was bullt by Si- mon Lake. | Commander Sloan Dannehower said the sub will probably not move faster than four knots an hour, thus eliminating the danger of collision with the ice. PARKS LEAVES FOR HAZELTON - ONGORST SHIP Noted College Beauty | chikan to Make Trip | to Prince Rupert r have hopped off from here about 4 pm. today for Prince Rupert en route to Hazelton to meet the Brit- ish Columbia motor caravan travel< (ing there over Caribou Highway from Vancouver. H. G. Watsof, "Presldent of the Chamber of Com- ,merce, was expected to have ac- rcompanied the Governor as a repre- sentative of Juneau. 3 | The Governor chartered a Gorst plane from Ketchikan to make the \trip after the local plane failed to {return here from Yakutat. THE ioom craft left Ketchikan at 1:30 pm. local time and was due here iat 3:30 o'clock. It was to have |started at once on its flight to Prince Rupert as the Governor jwanted to reach there early this evening. :h“f" | He will join a big delegation from 'Ketchikan at Prince Rupert and |the entire party will leave there :’Fflday morning by train for Hazel- ton. | The motor caravan is headed by | British Columbia officials including | Lieut. Gov. Randoiph Bruce and Premier S. F. Tolmie. Representa- tives of Washington, Oregon and California chambers of commerce and motor clubs, the International Highway Association, newspapers 'and newsreel agencies, E. W. Saw- Jean Smith, University of Soush- ern California beauty (above), will become the bride of Frank Anthony (lower), l’oqtbnll 3 some time in July. Miss Smi pictured as she apgeared when re- cently adjudged the most perfect ic subject in the nation. otogripnic Sinternational Newsreel) Wed Three Months, Ace Asking Decree DENVER, June 19.—James O'- of a rich Canadian internationally known and Charters Plane - from Ket-! Gov. George A. Parks was duc to] ADITION AT WEST POINT THEY ARE 1930 HONOR STUDENTS | | | | | | { | Here during g the clas netka, i, William Carter, Ruleville, Miss.; Willlam Whipple, Baton Rouge, La qatpn P, Swofford, Independence, Mo.; James Herbert, Boston, Mass, and Frederick W. Castle, Mountain Lakes, N. J. Charles Keller, Win- UNITED STATES CAUSES PROTEST {Committee on Customs,’ | Chamber of Deputies, i Makes: Suggestions { “ Slain Reporter PARIS, June 19.—The Commit-| ftee on Customs of the French| | Chamber of Deputies in an order |which was unanimous, requests |Premier Tardieu to make repre- | sentations to the United - States| against the enforcement of Lhef {new tariff, { The conifnittee recommended that {failing to obtain satisfaction, sus- ipension of the “most favored na-| | tion” Assoclated Press Photo " Lingle, gangland reporter clauge™ between the United 1Btates and France be taken. { .- ® 0 0 00 00 0 0 0 0> Chicago Tribune, was shot ad In a rallroad station tun- nel. The assassin escaped. FORD SPENDING MILLIONS:PLANS ARE ANNOUNCED DETROIT, Mich,, June 19.—New branch plants and additions and other improvements to the present facilities and equipment planned by the Ford Motors Company this year represent an expenditure of more than $30,000,000, officials of the company said today. o ol . . e 00 00000000 0 TODAY'S STOCK QUQTATIONS | B | NEW YORK, June 19.—Closing quotations of Alaska. mine stock today is 5%, Alleghany Corpora- tion 20%, Anaconda 49%, Bethle- hem Steel 83%, General Motors 41%, Granby 21, International Har- vester 82%, Kennecott 40%, Mont- gomery-Ward 36%, National Acme 12, Packard Motors 13%, 127%, 13%; Simmons Beds 36%, Standard Oil of California 61, Standard Oil of New Jersey 66%, Standard Brands 19%, United Aircraft 52, U. 8. Steel , 161, Fox Films 43, Texas Corporation 51, Hupp Motors 16%, { Characteristic fhoto of King Carol II with one of his favorite do 5 15 . o arner 3L which will probably stick to is ;:”‘i“;‘sA" Btewart Warner 2U%,| qpg expenditures, according to master as the latter ascends “ 5 the officials, include $18,000,000 on — e /the throne of Rumania five years \after his formal renunciation of it. The National Assembly voted 496 Lto 1 to nullify the abdication law of 1926. |- branch plants, those at Edgewater, New Jersey; Richmond, California, and Seattle, Washington. Three other plants are to be built and the locations will-be an- nounced soon. e — B. P. R. ENGINEER LEAVES FOR SURVEY NEAR SEWARD Visitors taking cures at Bohem- ian watering places totaled 135,- 000 in 1929 of whom 5000 were Gasenational Howscostdi) IR IGANEE 1 - Favorable industrial and financial conditions prevailed in the Saar territory last year. ... :Will Invite Hoover Ll To Visit'Here LOS ANGELES, dune 19—Four W hile On Vacation jobs are now waiting every day for Hoover, Jr., Has | Four Jobs Daily At L. A. Airport F. E. Swartz, engineer of the United States Bureau of Public Roads, left Tuesday on the steam- er Yukon enroute to Seward for surveys, largely on the relocation BYRD RETURNS HOME; 1S BIVEN CREAT WELCOME ‘Conqueror of Both Ends of Earth Is Back from Antarctic Trip PLANES AND HARBOR BOATS GIVE GREETING ! P Remarkable Demonstration Witnessed in Great- er New York NEW YORK, June 19.—The aerial conqueror of both ends of the earth, Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, set foot again at 10:40 o'clock this forenoon on the turf of lower Manhattan trom which’ he salled sixteen months ago for the White Wastes of the Antarctic. Surrounder on sea, sky and land by a roaring welcome from planes and harbor fleet, in which cheering thousands join- ed, Commander Byrd debarked for the city on the welcoming tug Macon to receive the third most boisterous greeting which Greater New York has tendered him for his great achievements. —ll DOCTORS URGE REPEAL OF DRY LAWS; REASON Statement Made in Address Before Chicago Med- ical Society ! CHICAGO, TIl, June 19.—Both the new President of the Chicago Medical Society, Dr. James Hutton, and retiring President Dr. Charles Reed, called upon American medi- cine men to fight for the repeal of the dry laws. The appeals were made in ad- dresses last night. | Dr. Hutton said American medi- cine men should seek the repeal ‘as the shortest cut toward elimin- ating a large part of the present crime conditions. ————— | CHICAGOMAYOR MAKES PLEDGE FOR CLEAN-UP Coopertion of Administra- tion Given in Evic- tion of Gangsters | CHICAGO, I, June 19.—Mayor |W. H. Thompson, emerging from a long silence, pledged full co- operation of his administration’ in a campaign to evict gangsters from Chicago. Mayor Thompson issued his state- R‘)bert MCKinnon ReaChes as a World War ace and sports- Fairbanks After 11 Months [ 5. e i seeona wte the former Helen Taylor, of Bak-| |yer, representing the Interior De- | partment, and Maj. Malcolm Elliott | representing the Alaska Road Com- mission and the Territory generally, With Indians,Upper Tanana FATRBANKS, Alaska, June 19.—|group working on a travelling Fel- After nearly 11 months in the iso- |lowship from Harvard. He selected lated Upper Tanana River District, | the upper Tanana because the In-| Robert McKinnon has arrived here | dians there have had comparative- enroute east. ly little contact with the whites. McKinnon has been engaged in|He lived among them most of the a scientific study of an Indian|winter gathering information, ersfield, Calif, whom he married, March 8 in Phoenix, Ariz., after a, e e———— whirlwind courtship. Describing his second mntflmcn-lTG;:d‘é'mt ‘:lduebs::dems ;)( 1al adventure as “out of one frying | X hris niversity live in pan into another,” O'Brien snid‘agi States and in five foreign coun- Tis divorde from his fist’ wife, G- 15195 FoeRds, filst colipied show. ——————— cille Marmon, Paris motion picture| Europesn coutnries lead as the actress, is costing him $1,000 a chief export outlet for American month in alimony, industrial machigery, are in the party. P ‘ [ Herbert Hoover, Jr., appointed chie ® The Chamber of Com- ®|pject’ on Russian River-Quartz ment at the moment the Gity 2 W capaclty hig, e (8> 3 s a of four men with him, Fred Teidt, ments, unications, operations ! ) ] 5 o st irmays and!® vacstion for the summer, o ueRiic Sione. F. Russell, airports, dissemination of weather ® The Chamber's Legislative @ — Bt RIS R e information and aeronautical en- ® committee was asked to draw e - Fi gineering. Each department has ® UPp a suitable invitation to be o WhOlCS(ll(’ Lo,nmo(l"ty 'a division head, working under ® forwarded to the President e s Hoover. J. 'G. Franklin has charge ® Without delay . . A C d of comm‘:miatfz‘)m, Fred C Whlgt— ® Reports received here this ® P rices re arrie to {ing of airports and airways, and'® Week indicated the m-.,men: ol ) {heads of other departments will be'® Would visit Rainier National e L 9 L l 13 Y announced Jater. 4 .® Park and Seattle when he o 0 "J‘)St eve . ears Chief Engineer Hoover joined ® makes his swing through e |Western Air Express service Feb- ® the national parks of the ’1 WASHINGTON, June 19—A de-| The Federal Reserve Board de- ruary 1, 1928, after taking a post ® West. It is believed it might @} ). . o 410 wnolesale commodity scribed the downward movement in |graduate course in engincering at ® be possible for him to board e e ¢ August, |PTiCeS as an important factor in i Columbia, and began as technician|® & Naval vessel at Bremerton | e eliioh © began , Jas BUSL | the recent. course of business and iin eharge of radio. ater he was,® and make a short cruise e|is found by the Federal Reserve |fyrther reported that the downs, :nflmed chief of the ¢ iction de- ® covering Southeast Alaska. ® Board to have carried the general (ward movement had been in pro- partment. e He has not been in Alaska ®|average of prices to the lowest lev- |gress in all commercial countries of —_——————— {® since he accompanied Presi~ @ el in 13 years. the world. g A Valparaiso, Ind., woman was ® dent Harding north in 1923. o! This report is made in the| The price level in April was convicted 49 times in 25 ! ® monthly ' review of business and | placed about 7 per cent below that, |lquor charges, L9929 99929 PY e financial conditions | of 1ast July,