The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 28, 1930, Page 1

¥ ¥ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVL, NO, 5448. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1930. Mm OF ASSOélA’IED PRESS ESIGNATION OF BISHOP ANNON IS NOW DEMANDED MINISTER IS SHOT, KILLED IN HI ITALY IS TO PROVIDE +OR NATL. DEFENSE Council of Ministers Hold Important Session Re- garding Plans PROBLEM ARISES BY ACTION OF FRANCE French Fortifying Border Causes Italy to Be- come Apprehensive ROME, June 28.—The Council of Ministers, with Premier Mussolini presiding, took up national defens2 problems today. A statement was issued saying that action was taken because of France’s preparations toward tom-i fying her frontier. In order to raise money for de- fense, the Ministers’ Council, on the Premier’s recommendation, decidel to raise the tax on exchange tran- sactions. It is planned to increase the budget for armed forces to wmore than $26,000,000. B OFFICIALS T0 LEAVE SUNDAY FOR INTERIOR Parks, Elliott and Atkins| Sailing for Skagway | Aboard Alameda ‘ Gov. George A. Parks, Major! Malcolm Elliott and Major Layson' E. Atkins, wiil leave here tomor- row morning aboard the Alameda| for Skagway, on their way to the Interior on official business trips. While Major Elliott and Major Atkins, with the Alaska Road Com- mission, are to make the side trip to Atlin, Gov. Parks will not take that part of the journey with them. They will go from Whitehorse to Dawson, where they will confer | with the Gold Commissioner and others with respect to the Pacific- Yukon-Alaska Highway. At Circle City they will leave their boat and continue to Fairbanks by auto- mobile. There the party will separate. Gov. Parks will do as much flying out of Fairbanks as weather and airplane service will permit. He hopes to fly to Nome and the low- er Kuskokwim. Returning he will! visit in Anchorage, and arrive in| Juneau late in July. He is to| return here in time to’ greet the H. M. S. Dispatch, British flagship, which is making a cruise of South- east Alaska. L Major Elliott plans to go over| the Alaska Railroad to McKinley, National Park, where the Alaska; Road Commission is spending $220,- 000 this season. He will spend a week there, and return here about July 28. Considerable traveling is ahead for Major Atkins. From Fair- banks he will go over the Rich- ardson Highway for an investiga- tion trip, later returning to Fair- banks. From there he will fly to Nome making numerous stops on the route. His return to Juneau is not definite, but he will remain in the Interior most of the sum- mer. AT THE HOTELS Gastineau Mr. and Mrs. A. Gunderson, Cha- tham; Joseph T. Mandy, Prince Rupert; E. C. Pickett, Vancouver; B. F. Johnson, Snettisham; Anna Jensen. Alaskan Steve Ruzich, Tacoma; John.Cul- gate, Tacoma; D. Stanks, Tacoma; leight stealing RUSSIANS FIRE ON JAPAN FISH BOAT; KILL ONE Critical Stage Reported Reached on Kamchat- ka Fishing Rights TOXYO, Japanese, June 28.— Japanesc newspapers today reported dickerings of Japanese fishermen with the Russian authorities for fishing rights of Kamchatka Penin- sula, have reached the critical stage. One report is that a Russian pa- trol boat fired on a small Japanesc crab canning boat, The Mikuni wlMaru. No. 2, off West Kamchatka, killing one Japanese. The members of the crew of the Japanese boat, including the Cap- tain, were ported still being held. — - M'GORD HERE i | 1 | | \ {Sheep and Cattle Raiser of Sitkalidak Island Comes to Juneau [ After a busy winter spent on Sitkalidak- island off the*coast .of Kodiak Island raising cattle, sheep #nd fur-bearing animals, Jack Mc- Cord, oldtime Alaskan, well-known promoter, and head of the McCord Alaskan Company, arrived in Ju- neau Thursday. He came here on a short business trip to confer with Judge James Wickersham, who is now in the States. Mr. McCord may go i0 Seattle to see Judge Wickersham, or await him here before returning to the Westward. In spite of bad conditions at Sitkalidak last March, the stock weathered the season well. Only a few of the 1,200 sheep were lost, while no trouble was experienced with the cattle, said McCord. Favorable progress is being made iby the company. Things generally at the Westward, however, are quiet, McCord declared. A - good fishing season is anticipated by the numerous canneries in the vicinity of Kodiak. - THIRTY-NINE . DEAD, FLOODS SUDBURY, Deaths from Ontario have Ontario, June 28.— floods in Northern reached 39 persons, a ride on a Cana- dian National Railway freight train meeting death when the train was | derailed by a washout at Capreol. Four children were drowned in the sweollen Vermillion River. ‘The other deaths are reported from various sections. Governor’s Salary Is to Be Increased WASHINGTON, D. C., June 28. —+The Senate has passed the biil to fix the salary of the Governor of Alaska at $10,000 yearly. The bill has been sent to the House. ‘Gov. George A. Parks stated to- day that he had not been advised of the action. He said the salary of the Governor of Hawaii Terri- tory had recently been raised to $10,000 and supposed the same action is now taken for the Gover- nor of Alaska. The present salary of the Alaska Governor is $7,000. - e THIRTY MINUTE SERVICE AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH For the remainder of the sum- mer months the mording worship services at the Presbyterian church will last only thirty minutes, ac- Art Hedman, Taku; H. L. Reid, Taku; James Calvin, city; C. D. Arnold, Taku; E. B. Sparling, Taku; M. Storey, Taku; J. Peacock, Taku; Albert Jack, Taku Harbor; M. M. Higgins, Whiting River; Dan De- cording to announcement made to- day. ——— One hundred and seventy-six stu- dents at Texas Christian Univer- sity earned all or part of their ex- arrested and are re-| ON BUSINESS Pilot Balloons To Be Installed In Alaska WASHINGTON, June 28.— ‘The Weather Bureau plans ectablishment of pilot bal- loons at Nome and ' Fair- banks, Alaska, expanding aid to air navigation. s eeceeocooe — e PRESIDENT AND SENATE CLASH ON NEW ISSUE {Law Enforcement Commi: sion Duties Are Again to Front S~ WASHINGTON, D. C. June 28. | —Striking back at the Senate, | President Hoover declared that the Law Enforcement Commission {will continue investigation of gen- icral crime conditions. The Senate defeated the amend- ment to the Second Deficiency bill to provide $250,000 for the Com- mission by a vote of 35 to 30. | The Senate did approve of $50,- 000 for the Commission but restrict- ed the use for the study of the {Prohibition Laws. | President Hoover said: “With the growing of crime of all kinds, and to . recommendations _ of every Bar Assoclation, the Commis~ sion_1s concerned in the study of |reforms hecessary and we cannot allow the work of the Commission to cease.” - e - OTTER DISTRICT MAKES ADVANGE District Increases 36 in Population Although ! Towns Show Decline ‘The Otter Recording district gain- ed 42 inhabitants in the decade between 1920 and 1930, according to preliminary census estimates is- sued today by Oharles E. Naghel, Supervisor of Census for Alaska. Its population on the preliminary returns is shown to be 388 as com- pared to 346 ten years ago. i The towns of Flat and Iditarod showed decreases, but ihere was ) House Veterans’ Relief Measure Reported to Senate COL. THOMPSON PASSES AWAY, YONKERSHOME Copper Magnate and Phil- ' anthropist Dies as Re- i WASHINGTON, June 28. The House Veterans' Re- lief measure, the substitute measure for the one vetoed by President. Hoover, was today unanimously reported to the Senate, with minor amendments, by the Senate Finance Committee. sult of Pneumonia YCNKERS, New York, June 28., Col. William Boyce . ThoMPSON,iman of Helena; Mont, in 1896, copper ma;nam and philanthropist, ', . couple had one daughter, Mrs, died at his home here last nim!mfl,e Thompsen - Schulze of New as the result of pneumonia. 1 York. '; In “Covered Wagon” Westerners remember with affec-| TRAGEDY TAKES PLAGE; MISSION SHOOTING SCENE Pastor Shot Down as Ut- ters: “‘In Midst of Life, We Are in Death” 'ASSASSIN THEN TURNS | GUN ON TWO OTHERS Murderer I;aptured Ear- ly This Morning—Of- e S PULPIT Indicued by Cop. ;RESULUTI‘UN e v wow| URGES THAT GANNON QUIT MELBOURNE, Australia, June 28 —Capt. Charles Kingsford - Smith, | Bishop of Southern Metho- dist Church in Bad talking over a wireless telephone . from New York to his fiance2 | Mary Powell, said he intended ‘ol leave for England at the end of July on a solo flight to Australia. |He will use a light plane and at-| Itempt to beat the record of Bert Hinkler. | Wlth OWl’l HOCk Capt. Kingsford-Smith has just‘ NS completed a flight across the At- |lantic from Ireland, with three ONE CHURCH TAKES cemparions | DEFINITE ACTION AL N A Sentiment Ex;ressed that All Churches Make STOCK SALE silver, and copper, stayed with him INTERESTED IN EVERYTHING! f (tion and respect the father of Col.! | Col. Wiliam Boyce T! N, Thompson. The elder Willlam trek- | with mines in Montana, d 'ed out of the East with a covered | interests in Africa, a greenhouseé in wagon, | | Yonkers, N. Y, and an office In| Young Willlam treked too, but in- ,Wall Street, was ‘“Interested ln;uegd of moving weicw&rd, he went everything and anything that €ame|east to seek a thorough technical out of the ground.” itraining in his chosen fleld. That interest fostered in hilI The young man was educated at childhood in a raw and treeless'phillips Exeter Academy—of which West, where he saw mounfains he later became a trustee—and at crumble before diggers after gold,!the Columbia School of Mines. In . 1921 the University of Pittsburgh' dadded an honorary fouch to his ‘tacademic life by bestowal of the degree of LL. D. and in 1923 Ken- {tucky followed with a similar hon- | or, Oil in American territory, sulphur in Texas, copper in Utah and Mon- tana and clsewhere,” diamonds and coal in Africa, gold, silyer and cop- per any place, engaged his inter- ests, ey e, ‘William Boyce: Thompson identi- fied himself with the AngloSouth | African corporation, the Texas Gulf | Sulphur company, and for many ‘;years served ‘as chairman of the (board of the Newmont Mining icorporation which sent engineers _neath the surface of the earth. | Thompson was even interested in the air, and in 1915 was reported | connected with the Wright Aero- plane company. (] s A friend of Roosevelt, he identi- wogep' fled himself in 1919 with a move- SQfilf. ment to raise funds to perpetuate ithe dead president's memory. He contributed more than $200,000 to the fund and was virtually the fa- Wie WM. BOYCE . THOM 4sSOCIATED PRESS (TIMER through his life, and carried him through not one, but half a dozen ther of the Roosevelt Memorlal as- careers. sociation, of which he served as To him and men including Col.|first president and later as hon- D. C. Jackling, with whom he orary head. was early associated, is latgely at- | Scientific Interests tributed present low cost produc- i eolantielo ‘interedts, | fostered tion of both copper and sulphur| mining men say. by training during college days, ’cxpruud themselves most signally A ploneer in this field, he fol-| lowed in the footsteps of another D the founding °th:‘ 1“;‘““‘;“11‘: pioneer—Willlam - Thompson, his (Plant research which, when from father, owner of Tties that Cated in 1024, drew praise ot tne e . | President Coolidge. !into virgin fields in the hope of | | uncovering new deposits under- an increase in the scattered popula- 'later went into the gigantic Ana- | tion. |conda Copper Company, and one| The census figures announced by time vigilante mayor of rough and Mr. Naghel, follow: rowdy Butte, Mont. s Recording District Maurice Smith Named As Deputy to Jackson for Dry Administration SEATTLE, June 28. — Mauric? Smith, Acting Federal Prohibition Administrator, has been named De- puty Administrator under Casl Jackson, newly appointed Adminis - trator. Smith was named Acting Ad- ministrator recently followed the indictment of Roy C. Lyle. COAST GUARD OFFICER GOES TO BIGGER SHIP Lieut.-Commander F. J. Birkett, for three years commander of the Coast Guard S. S. Snohomish, with headquarters at Port Angeles, has been transferred to Oakland, Cali- fornia, to supervise the construc- tion of the latest Coast Guard cut- ter, Sebago. The order says he will command the new vessel when she is commissioned. The Sebago will be the finest ship in the Coast Guard service when completed. It is believed she will be assigned either to Porto Rico or Galveston. Lieut. Commander Birkett was in Juneau last year at the time the Flat Village 124 Tn addition, Col. Thompson de-' Iditarod . 8 | veloped copper mines and diamond | Shageluk village 86 mines, the largest sulphur mine in Balance of district 170 |the world—the Texag Gulf sulphur‘ — |company—was a presidential elector | Total for Otter ey for the Republican party, bought and sold properties on Wall Street, and grew flowers for a past-time. In Diplomatic Uniform When Washington signalled, he! got into a diplomatic uniform and went abroad on a mission. When he was not bringing back reports on Russia, business conditions, or peace in Peru, he brought back ;seeds from Tutenkhamun's tomb for {his backyard research. He was a director of the Fed- eral Reserve Bank of New York |from its founding in 1914, until | December, 1919. He was presiden- tial elector in 1912 and a delegate to the Republican national conven- jtions in 1916 and 1920 and Wwas mentioried in 1921, for the post of ambassador to Germany. In 1917, he was commLsswncd{ lieutenant colonel of the United| ‘States Army and for four months headed the American Red Cross| mission to Russia, and in 1918 urged the allies to be tolerant of the country’s difficulties. | In July, 1921, he was chosen en-| voy extraordinary of the United States to the first centennial of the | Proclamation of Independence of | the Republic of Peru; and he was| a member of the advisory commis- | sion to the American delegation mt Conference on the Limitation of Armament, 1921. Col. Thompson was born in Vir-| yachts participated in the Capital |ginia City, Mont., May 13, 1869, 500 | ing been up 402 hours. The plane ,went into Wall Street, and during |that phase of his career, according varaex, Whiting River; .{ohn J.ipenses this year, a survey mad: oo SRR AR R Ao S R to Capital race were here. He made of William Thompson and Anna M. | many fricnds here at that time. |Boyce, and married Gertrude Bl,:k—J His roving interests catried him to Europe several times, and once he returned from Egypt with rare sgeds from the tomb of Tutenk- hamun which he subjected here to experimental development. ‘Thompson was taken ill in 1926, in London and was forced to can- cel a visit to his diamond proper- |ties in Africa, but was greatly im- |proved when he returned to this | country in December of that year. On the return from Europe the next time, July 15, 1926, Thompson said investigations convinced him that the world “was on the eve of a great boom period.” It was not until he was nearly forty years old, that Mr. Thompson to his associates, he was never fers No Resistance NIAGARA FALLS, New York, June 28.—A few seconds after Rev Edgar R. Woods, of a small mis- slon here, finished his sermon last ]nxgm containing the common pray- er passage: “In the midst of life, we are in death,” Frank Ross left A rear pew and shot the minister dead. Ross swirled around and shot; end seriously wounded his Mildred Ross. Leonard Towe, who had takea Mrs. Ross to the mission, was shot in both legs trying to prevent the \escape of Ross. Mrs. Ross had been attending \the mission against the wishes of her husband. Ross was arrested this morning on a road near the city, He ha1i no pistol and offered no- resistance. ' DEAD:MURDER AND SUiciDE No Motive Is Known for Tragedy in Indi- dna City TERRE HAUTE, Indiana, Jun» |28.—The bodies of Wesley Oakley, jaged 56 years; Mrs. Clara Raney, jaged 28 years, and her son, aged five years, were found in Oakley's |apartment, | OCircumstances indicated that the jwoman killed Oakley and her son jand then. committed suicide. iwas housekeeper for Oakley. |motive is known. MAN RTED LOST IN INTERIOR PARTS Ernest C. White is believed to be lost on the Yukon River near Stevens Village, according to word received today by Gov. George A. Parks. wife, LOWAT SHORT SESSIONTODAY Speculative Apathy Show ! —Transactions Record- ed Only 580,000 | n NEW YORK, June 28-—Specu- lative apathy reached new levels on the New York Stock Exchange today during the short session. (There were only 580,000 transac-. | | Similar Move NEWMAN, Georgia, June 28.— Resolutions asking for immediate resignation of Bishop Cannon were adopted at the quarterly conference of the First Methodist Church here. There was only one dissenting vote. - The laymen attending said the ,sentiment of the gathering was 'that other churches throughout the Methodist area in the South should follow the same action by a pre- ponderance of requests and force Bishop Cannon out of the church. Bishop Cannon has been befora She ! No* tions in shares. This is the small- tpe public during the past months est almost in two years. 'owing to his alleged stock specula- The following are the closing tions and for investigation into his quotations on various stocks: anti-Smith campaign activities. He Alaska Juneau no sale, Alleghany left the Senate Lobby Committee Corporation 19, Anaconda 50, Beth- hearing several weeks ago claiming lehem Steel no sale, General Mo- that the committee, had no iight tors 39, Granby 21%, International to " hifm on certain sube | Harvester 1%, Kennecott 39%, jects. § | Montgomery-Ward 32%, National 5, tamon Beds 4%, stan. DOR: Aléfil;‘o%% i ‘Tdard Brands 18%, Standard Oll of !California 8%, Standard Oil of| New Jersey 64%, United Alrcraft, SEATTLE, June 28—Excursion 51, U. 8. Steel 156, Hupp Motors steamer Dorothy Alexander of the 13%, 18, 13%, Stewart-Warner 20, Admiral Line, sailed for Southeast Fox Films 40%. Alaska ports at 10 o'clock yester- |day morning with 331 passengers . COMING HERE oy pgoanp FSeneva Junesu e | YUKON COMING dst_Chuh |10 THIS PORT According to Associated Press dispatches to The Empire, Rev. G.| g SEATTLE, June 28—Steamer Yukon sailed for Alaska ports at |E. James has been assigned to the | pulpit of the Metropolitan Metho- 9 o'clock this morning with 274 including 144 L |cist Episcopal Church in Juneau. ! succeeding Rev. Henry Young. The |assignment was made at the recent Northwest Conference held in Se- |attle. ! | Other appointments are as fol-| (lows: Hyder, Rev. H. R. Cross;’ Ketchikan, Rev. C. L. Walker; | passengers aboard | steerage. The following passengers are booked for Juneau: C. E. Boyer, Miss Carmichael, Mrs. E. R. White, Miss O. Tower, A. H. Miller and wife, V. Fulton, |Nome, white, man supplied later: He was reported lost at StevensiNome, native church, F. W. Bald-, Village June 14 and a searching win; Seward, Rev. E. E. Reisner, 'Mrs. A. Moore, C. M. Garber, Cor- inne Duncan, Mrs. A. R. Duncan, party was immediately sent out. A;mfl.u,, Mrs. Reisner and C. T.,J. E. Olick and wife and three three day trip failed to reveal any- i thing but some dead campfires of White. He Is said to know little country covered with thick brush, the message said. Pioneem Klondike, Seattle, Dies; Burial Today Bar- SEATTLE, June 28.—Mrs lner: Unalaska, Rev. A. J. Arm- strong. : Hatten; Seldovia, Rev. E. E. Reis- children, N. Hinkle and wife, J. Jacobs, Mrs. P. Hoover and daugh- ter, E. L. Bernier and wife, C. W. about woodcraft and is lost in n[ {Hawkesworth, J. Heiney, W. D. {VACATION CHURCH SCHOOL WILL OPEN A vacation church’ school for children from four years old to {those in the ninth grade in high | school will begin at 9 o'clock Mon- |day morning at the Presbyterian | | | what is known as a “stock jobber."’bara Gallbraith, one of the first! 0. He kept his love for the ground women in the Klondike rush, a( “fresh and solid,” associates said, and always developed a property,| whether copper, coal or sulphur, before selling it. He waited in| to equal the endurance record. crack pistol shot, and pioneer here, died last Tuesday and her funeral is to be/held this afternoon. every case, they said, until he was @ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ 9 0o 0 ¢ 0 0 0 0 o (sure “the ground had proved itself.”te . When in the East he lived at|® NO WORD OF WRANGELL * yYonkers, N. Y., near a greenhouse e . filled with exquisite blooms, but in|e Up to a late hour this 1926 he spent considerable of his|e® afternoon no word had been |time in Arizona seeking to recover|® Tecelved here as to the from failing health. o scheduled flight from Seat- | He was a member of a number|® tle this morning of the new of clubs. e seaplane Wrangell of the ARG 5 S S ® Alaska-Washington Airways. ® . She was to have sailed e s ll.ltll e for Ketchikan and Juneau o Plane Clty 0‘ c 0 e this morning, and was due Up ‘Of Endurance Reffll'd e here this evening or early e tomorrow morning. Accord- CHICAGO, June 28—The plane|® ing to her schedule she will City of Chicago was still in the|® fly to Skagway and return eir at 10 o’clock this morning, hav-|® tomorrow, and leave for Se- e attle early -Monday. must continue to go 19 hours morz|® Lo 2 A 7 R O A A { The school is under the super- | vision of Rev. Chas. Personeus. The |work has been outlined, the Teach- ers have been selected, and the school is ready to go into opera- tion. There will only be nine days of school this year, because of July 4th coming on Friday of next week. All children, whether members of any church or Sunday school or not, are welcome. There will be some- thing special for those who have a perfect attendance record. ‘The following persons have been sleected to teach in the school: Rev. Chas. Personeus, Superinten- Mrs. W. E. Day, Mrs. R. E. Rob- dent of school; Mrs. H. M. Croag, | Howie and wife, Miss Branch, D. W. Branch and wife, Miss E. ‘Weighn and two steerage. i .- TAKU FLIES FRIDAY; | CLOUDS STOP ENTRY { FOR FISHING PARTY | Seaplane Taku, Pilot R. E. Ellis. with Ray Taylor of the U. S. For~ est” Service, and Mrs. E. W. Love- ridge of Washington, D. C., as round trippers, yesterday afternocn flew to Thayer Lake on Admiralty Island and brought B. F. Heintzle- man and Wellman Holbrook back to Juneau. The latter two made the flight out early yesterday morning. Last evening the plane flew to Turner Lake with Dr. W. W. Coun- ‘cfl. Mr. O'Neil, and Bob Murphy. This morning the Taku went back to Turner Lake to return the fish- ing party here, but low fog would not permit the Taku to gain en~ trance to the lake. A second attempt to enter Tur- ner Lake was successful late this ertson, Rev. C. C. Saunders, Mrs.|morning, and the Taku returned |'T. W. White, Mrs. Chas. Person- |with' her passengers about noon. eus, Mrs. Ronald Lister, Ronald ——————— | Lister, Mrs. C. C. Saunders, Super- LEAVING ON ALAMEDA intendent of the Primary Depart- ment; Miss Louise Deets, Miss Jean| Dell E. Sheriff is leaving on tha lc‘u-lsou and Miss Carol Robertson.|Alameda for Skagway and Sitka. .