The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 7, 1930, Page 1

“ALL THE N VOL. XXXVL, NO, 5454. MASKED RIDER TERROR JUNEAU, ALASKA, MON POPULATION OF UNITED STATES SHOWS INCREASE Twenty-four States and District of Columbia Give Census Totals WASHINGTON, July T7.—Census taking and reporting have beel completed in half of the States and others are adding away toward a new sum which the Census Bureau hopes to announce this! month. The combined population of twenty-four States and the Dis- trict ‘of Columbia totaled 50,198 - 250, an increase of 7,440,000 in ten | years, the gain being 17.4 per cent. California is the greafest gainoe: ) among the States, passing Michi- | gan and Massachusetts, making her | the sixth State. New York, Penn- sylvania, Illinois, Ohio and Texss | will remain the leading five St.atcsi in the order named. California’s | gain was 64.6 per cent. | Vermont has shown . the least gain of any of the States, increas- | ing only one-tenth of one per cent. A gain of 174 per cent. that of, T — S along the ctreets of Shelton, Wash. 'V-VORi(ER KILLS MILLIONAIRE’S SON Arnold George, 35, injured mill worker, rolled his wheel chair ., to the home of Sol Reed (right) ard chot and killed him. Reed was the son of a lumber operator in cne half of the States, applied to the States yet unreported, would give the United States a population of 124,104,000. The remaining States are expected to lower this per- centage. The Census Bureau esti- mates the population was 122,597~ 000. HAWAIL" THRIVES ‘WASHINGTON, July 7.—Thriv- ing Hawalii's census returns shows that the lure of the land of the lei brought the 1930 population up te 368,336, an increase of 439 per cent . The only States showing a greater increase to report up 1> now is California with 646 per cent. Honolulu, the chief city of Ha- waii, was 137,582, an .increase of 65.1 per cent. She has passed San Jaan, Porto Rico, which has a population of 114,585, an increase in ten years of 63.3 per cent. WISCONSIN GROWS MILWAUKEE, July 7. — Coun'y totals tabulated by the Associated Press show Wisconsin had a popu- lation of 3,388,000, a gain of 14 per cent in ten years. BOULDER DAM CONSTRUCTION 1S T0 START Secretary of Interior Wil- bur Announces Work to Begin on Big Project WASHINGTON, July 7. — The announcement oI the commence- ment of construction of the $165- 000,000 Boulder Canyon dam pro_M ect was made today by Secretnr:r‘ of Interior Wilbur. The Secretary characterized the work as a signal of “our conques% over the great American desert.” | whose lumber camp George was hurt. The slayer committed suicide, SPECIAL SENATE ™ SESSION STARTS | London Naval Treaty to Be‘ | Taken Up for Con- sideration WASHINGTON, July 7. Senate was called to order at noo today in a special session for co! sideration of the 'London Nava' Treaty. A quorum was present. Represent U. S. In Beauty Pageant | JOHNSON URGES REJECTION | | WASHINGTON, D. C., July 7—| Opponents of the London Naval! | Treaty made their first move last | Saturday preparatory to this week's special session of the Senate to consider the pact. | | Senator Johnson, of California,! urged rejection, in a formal state-| ment, on the ground that the pact!| | was “iniquitous and inequitable,” | and asserted the treaty was “the| |tirst step, under the guise of al ;fictmaus limitation of armaments, | ,and in the holy name of peace to! | take the United States into interna- 1Nonal adventures which the people abhor.” | Tt is believed the debate will get Iunder way tomorrow. .o U, WARSHIPS VISITING KIEL Three Battleships Reach Port with Annap- i olis Midshipmen Beatrice Lee, the 17-year-old Salt Lake City schoolgirl, will be “Miss United States” in the first Inter- | national Pageant of Beauty in Rio de Janiere. The' contest will be held in September, Miss Lee will ! KIEL, July 7—The United States battleships Arkansas, Florida and He said the first work will be Utah, entered port late last Satur- staking out rallroad construction,!day afternoon with Annapolis mid- road surveys and then laying ou:!shipmen, to cheers of the populace. compete with the most beautiful | girls of South America and Eu- .N”' (International Newsreel) streets for a permanent townsite. Federal Agent Killed By Unknown Assassin AGUILAR, Colorado, July 7.—An unknown assassin, secreted behind a fence, Kerney, aged 30 years, Federal agent, as the officer walked down the main street of the town. The gunman escaped. e ——— O'MALLEY DUE TONIGHT Commissioner Henry O’Malley of | the United States Bureau of Fish-| eries, is due to arrive here tonight or early tomorrow morning on the Fisheries flagship Brandt. He left Ketchikan yesterday and will visit the Yes Bay hatchery and Anan Creek enroute here. Start Fire with Matches, 2 Children Burned to Death DULUTH, Minn, July 7—Mar- guerite, aged 9, and Francis Good- | rue. aged ‘7, brother ‘and sister, were burned to death in a fire they started with matches. Two dwellings were destroyed by the flames. The children started the fire under a porch of their home, crawled out and saw what they had done ,then crawled back and were burned to death. shot and killed Dale, The American battleships ex- changed salutes with the forts while the crews of the German warships | Schleswigholstein, Hessen, Koeings- iberg and Koeln, manned the rails. The Consul General of Keil |boarded the Arkansas and greeted Rear Admiral Cluverius who lnterl visited Admiral Hansen, Chief of |the Baltic station. . e — . @0 0000000000000 . TODAY’S STOCK ole QUOTATIONS oo e 0 000000 00 . | NEW YORK, July 7.—Closing|e ‘quotanon today of Alaska Juneau jmine stock is 5%, Alleghany Cor- {poration 20%, Anaconda 49, Gen- | eral Motors 39%, Granby 21%, Ken- |necott 38, Montgomery-Ward 33%, {National Acme 11%, Packard Mo~ tors 13%, 12%, 13, Simmon Beds |21, Standard Brands 18%, Standard Oil of California 597%, Standard Oil of New Jersey 64%, United Air- craft 49%, U. S. Sgeel 154%, Fox{sons for the deaths of 50 babies at Films 39%, Hupp Motors 14, 13%,|Luebeck foliowing innoculation of 113%, Stewart-Warner 20%, 20%,)an anti-tuberculosis serum, cleared 20%. the Paris-Calmette factory from —————— jany blame. It is said the prepara- Clifton Livingstone is an out-tion apparently was infected after bound passenger on the Alaskz |arrival at the Luebeck infant asy- He was called south by the illness|lum. of a sister. — {Death Rate of Nation Reported |Cut in Half NEW YORK, July 7—A revised report of the Ameri- can Medical Association and National Educational Asso- clation committees said the death rate of the nation had been cut in half since 1900. Some cases, notably dip- theria, have been cut 95 per cent. ® 06 0o 00 5 00 0 00 ———————— ’ |Deaths of Seventy Babies in Hospital, Germany,Investigated BERLIN, July 7—Federal Health Commissioners investigating rea- e o @00 o000 cccooce el Big Sandy and Friendship, Ten- day on the Northwestern from an)lation in 1930 that they had in 1920 extended visit to the Interior. —603 and 487 respectively. Mrs. Nancy Carlson returned to-|pressee towns, have the same popu-| ————————————— OLD RIVALS IN BALLOONRACE; § REPORTED UP Seven of Fifteen in Elim- ination Come Down: in Various Places HOUSTON, Texas, July 7. The Goodyear Zeppelin en Akron, piloted by R. J. Blaif, is indicated winner of the Na- tional elimination balloon Blair landed at Greensburg, Kentucky, approximately 850 miles from here, last night, out- distancing 14 other contestants. All others. landed safely. LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, July 7.—All fifteen ballodns which left: | Houston, Texas, on July 4 in She | National elimination balloon raee, were accounted for late Saturday night. Iclght were reported in the air dn | various places over Oklahoma apd {Arkansas. 2 | Eight of the 15 contenders gre {veterans of former races. Nine |civilian bags are pitted against # military contenders and the y and navy is evenly divided for pre- |mier service honors with three bal- loons each. | Two of the mavy balloons ‘vplloled by men who were partnérs {in winning the race last year. Lieut. i | ¥ e Bushnell, who set a world's dlfltl!‘ce‘ record of 952 miles to place fi’at in 1929, are staging an inter- y | race of their own. Bushnell Was Settle’s aide last year. All 15 contenders seek the Ameri- can champlonship, and the first three place winners will be desig- nated by the National Aeronautic iassoclauon as the team to repre- sent the United States in the in- ternational Gordon Bennett race September 1 in Cleveland. i A familiar figure of® past years, |Ward T. Van Orman, was missing. | With Alan MacCracken as aide he jwon the international trophy last/ |year. The two automatically are | qualified for the Sgptember classic 1as defenders. 2. | One of the oldest teams is com-| ! posed of Arthur G. Schlosser, aide, ‘an entrant of the Detroit balloon | | club, who won the Gordon Bennett | |race in 1927 and were entrants in 11928 and 1929. | The three navy entrants and their |aides are Lieutenant Bushnell and §l | Lieut. J. A. Greenwald; Lieut. R. R. :Dennen and Lieut. C. F. Miller; and Lieut. Settle and Lieut. R. G. | Mayer. | Army balloons are manned by |Capt. Karl 8. Axtater and Lieut. Rajph E. Holmes; Lieut. Walter D. Buie and Lieut. John P. Kidwell;| jand Lieut. Willlam R. Turnbull and | Lieut. Courtland M. Brown. The Detroit balloon club also has two other entrants, flown by the veterans Svend A. U, Rasmus- sen with Tracy W. Southworth, and Waldemar A. Klikoff with Roy | 8. Cunningham. Dr. George M. LeGallee, Detroit, an aide in 1927, and pllot the last two years, is in charge of his own entry with Robert W. Ebert as |aide. H. E. Honeywell, Clayton, Mo., winner of the race in 1912, 1916 and 1920, also piloted his own entry. | | George Hineman, another former lDetrolt entrant, directed the en- trant of United Van Service, Inc.| of Cleveland, with Milford Vanik as aide, Patrolman Wounded Battle with Three Men HUTCHINSON, Kansas, July 7.— Dow Parker, motorcycle patrolman, was shot and dangerously wounded Saturday night in a revolver battle with three men he accosted near| the Rock Island Raliroad station Parker approached the automobile | on foot. ' One of the occupants opened fire and he was wounded three times. He fired four shots. The men escaped. It is believed they were planning a robbery. Talkie Picture Troupe At Ketchikan Ready to | Film Alaska Feature| KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 7.—' The Radio Keith Orpheum troupe/ arrived here yesterday on the La-| kina to film a talkie pioture of| |Rex Beach's “Silver Horde.” 'rnel leads will be taken by Joel Mac-| Crea, Raymond Hatton, Evelyn Brent and Louis Wolheim. Ketchi- {kan will be used as the background Seven were down and the othier| MEMBER OF ASSOCIA'IED PRESS CHICAGO FLIERS WHO SOARED TO RECORD ‘The Hunter boys of Sparta, Illinois, who ended their refueling 4, coming to earth on account of a faulty oiling system, were in the of sustained flying, in their plane City of Chicago. T. G. W. Settle and Lieut. Wilfred! Walter and Albert operated the refueling plane Big Ben. Their sister, Irene, cooked for the boys dur-! ing the test flight. Left to right: Walter, John, Irene, Albert and being refueled in the flight. flight endurance record last July air 23 days, 1 hour and 41 minutes Kenneth. Inset’ shows the plane Wife of Senator {Pope’s Injunction Reiterated to All Catholics VATICAN CITY, July 7. .~The Pope’s injunction that Catholcs,”'as Catholi¢s,” no matter in what country, should “stand outside and above all political parties,” is reiterated in a statement | from the Papal Secretary of ! State's office, denying re- | ports of the founding of a “Cathollc League of Na- tions.” ‘These reports grew out of a meeting last Sunday in Paris, of Cardinal Bourne of . England, and Cardinal Verdier, of France. 0000000000 A:20ciat>d Perss Phots The former Mrs. Alice Taylor Sheets, wife of Bishop Sheets, recently became the wife of United States Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah. QUEEN HELEN fected — Annulment Proceedings to Start NOW INDICATED NOT MADE UP NARGGTIG RING Rcconciliati:Not Yet Per~‘ | BUCHAREST, Rumania, July 7.- CONAN DOYLE PASSES AWAY, LONDON | .Months Ago—Heart Di- sease Causes ' Death SIRARTHUR C DOYLE ASKA EMPIRE ALL THE TIME” PRICE TEN CENTS SECTION OF WYOMING LONE HORSEMAN NOW CREATING GREAT ALARM iMounted on White Horse, Rider Is Giving Mys- terious. Warnings {CATTLE DISAPPEARING { MYSTERIOUS MANNER i st Threats Are Followed by | Shots—Authorities | Are Vigilant , { CHEYENNE, Wyoming, July 7— A masked rider on a snow white horse, who has been terrcrling the | residents of the wild Fletchear Park | Country in Albany County, i§ being sought by Wyoming officerss It is beileved his activities pre- sage a miniature cattle war. Reliable reports said the jrider has posted notices throughou' the area where he operates, warning jcertain persons to leave the coun- (try. It is reported he had shot at sev- eral persons and wounded one. y The masked rider has become known throughout the country as the “Phantom Rider.” His mask dovers his entire face, John and Kenneth flew the endurance ship while except his eyes. Willilam Atkinson said the rider called at his ranch house and de~ ,manded admittance. When the rancher refused, the rider fired |through the door, wounding At- ‘kinson slightly. \ Officials report cattle have drift- jed in a suspicious manner .across ithe range, lately, of the Wheat Land distriet. Fletcher Park is a mountainous distrigt, .filled. . with eanyons and precipices; "™ e e HUSTON WILL NOT RESIGN - CHAIRMANSHP Republican National Chair- man Will Continue in Office for Time Being WASHINGTON, July 7.—Claudius H. Huston has no intention of re- s'gning as Chairman of the Re- publican National Committee at the Republican conference that will convene here Thursday. He con- ferred with President Hoover for an hour and a half last night. Asked about the meeting, Chair- man Huston declined to comment. He sald he was not going to give any credence to the many stories published recently about his inten- tions of resigning by either affirm- ing or denying them. There are very definite indications that he is going ahead as Chairman for the ,time being. It is pointed out that if Mr. Hus- GANGSTERCASE Although it had been understood that King Carol the Second in- tended to see his divorced wife ton intended to resign the actioa would not be in order at the LONDON, July 7. — Sir Arthur Thursday meeting. The Chalfman and young son off for the Ruman- fan Royal summer residence last Saturday night, the King was nof, at the station when Queen Helen and young Michael entrained. Telegrams Found in Fash- ionable Apartment of Frank Foster LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 7—| This is taken as an indication ‘The authorities said telegrams |that the reconciliation of the Royal found in the possession of Chicago |Pair was further off than believed. gangsters arrested here, indicated| It is understood that legal pro- a narcotic racket between Chi-|ceedings seeking annulment of the cago, Los Angeles, and Mexico, |divorce will be started this week, Telegrams were seized in the|but In Court Circles it is sald that fashionable apartment of Frank |necessary legal investigations might Foster, gangster, held for the mur- [require some time. der of Alfred “Jake” Lingle, Chi-| Reports persist that the King cago reporter. and Queen will be reconciled even- The investigator said one telegram | tually. read: “Will ship 20 packers.” Other telegrams exchanged be- 5 tween Chicago and the Foster gang 22-Year-Old Girl were similar. > iy Foster is awaiting extradition. Wins Klng s Cup George Davis is under arrest and [In Air Races faces extradition to Detroit on charge of assault to kill. LONDON, July 7.—Wini- fred Brown, 22-year-old girl, has won the King's Cup in the air race here, beating many of England’s crack pi- lots, around the 750-mile course. Miss Brown's average speed was 1027 miles an hour. Eighty-eight planes, six of them piloted by women, took" off at Feltham. . . EXTRADITiON APPROVED L4 SACRAMENTO, Cal, July 7—|® Approval of the extradition papers|® providing return to Chicago of @ Frank Foster, is announced at the|® Governar's office. . y R . Frank Dufresne, Alaska game|® warden, returned home Sunday on|e® the Prince Henry, after accom-|® - panying' Mrs. Dufresne and their |® . Jtor the picture, ‘cmldren to Prince Rupert. je e s s ssseccnce Conan Doyle, aged 71 years, died ot heart disease today at his home here. With him at the time of |his death was his wife, two sons end daughter. He was stricken seriously 1l about two months ago and his condition was aggravated recently by a severe cold. His death, how- ever, took the family by surprise, A serles of lectures last October (in the Scandinavian countries are believed to have brought on his weakened condition. His last words were sald to his wife. “You are wonderful,” he said. His family believes he will com- municate with them from the other world. PLAYED MANY PARTS In his time, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle played many parts, and most of them famously. To scores of country folk along the sands of the English Channel at Southsee, he was family physician. That was in the eighties. To millions of readers. all over the world, he be- writers. That was in the nineties. The chief chdracter of his imag- ination, Sherlock Holmes, got to be the common coin of conversa- tion.. Any detective felt flattered to be called a veritable Sherlock | Holmes, l After the dawn of this century, "7 (Continued on Page Three) came the doyen of detective stoiyr| could only, it is said, resign to the whole National Committee or its Executive Committee. Thursday's meeting Is not a meeting of the National Committee or the Execu- tive Committee. At the meeting will be the major officers of the National Committee and of the Congressional Campaign Commit- tee and a few others. — Goes to Death Y . In Maelstrom of ar ) Niagara Falls NIAGARA FALLS, July 7.—An- other dream to fame and fortune (has ended and taken the life of || George Sathakes, aged 46, of Buf- falo, a chef, who last Saturday at- tempted to ride the maelstrom in a barrel of his owh construction. ‘Thousands along the banks of the river saw the barrel of wood and steel plunge. No trace of the man’s body had been found late Saturday night. | B, | SUFFOCATED ! NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, July 7. | —George Sathakes was suffocated in the barrel in which he attempted to navigate the rapids above the falls and plunge over the cataract, ,Coroner Thompson said today. The |barrel was found late yesterday afternoon and the body was re- moved from it today. ot o