The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 12, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXVI, NO. 5459. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, 'ALL THE NEWS 4LL THE TIME” - ULY 12, 1930. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS DESTROYERS IN PORT FOR TWO DAY STAY HERE Sixth Destroyer Squadron Arrives Today with ; Naval Reservists ‘With approximately 800 men and officers aboard, regular Naval forces, and Naval Reservists from the Pacific Northwest, the Sixth Destroyer sqaudron, Fourteenth Di- vision, United States Navy, arrived in port this morning for a two- day visit. Division Commander Leigh Noyes is in command of the squadron which is composed of the Twiggs, No. 127;, Tatnall, No. 125; Badger, No. 126; Babbitt, No. 128; Jacob Jones, No. 130 and I-Imm-i ilton, No. 141. Waiting on Commander Noyes, Mayor T. B. Judson, H. G. Watson President of the Chamber of Com- merce; Lieut. J. Simpson Mac. Kinnen, U. 8. N,, retired, and aide to Gov. Parks; H. O, Adams, Chair- man of the Entertalnment Com- mittee of the Chamber of Com- merce, and Claud Helgesen, Com-| mander of the local American Le- gion Post, formally welcomed the squadron to Juneau. Twiggs First in Port The Twiggs, Commander Noyes’s tlagship, was the first ship to ar- rive. It is piloted by Capt. W. C. Ansell, chief pilot, who is a vet- eran navigator of Alaska waters, commanding the old Alki and sev- cral other oldtime Alaska steamers, It docked at 8:35 am. and was followed by the other units of the squadron at about 80 minute in- tervals. Shortly after 11 am. all of them were moored to the Gov- ernment dock and Hberty parties began to make their appearance up In addition to the regular Naval personnel and crews, reservists from Seattle, Portland, Aberdeen, Ta- coma and Bremerton are aboard on their annual training cfuise. The vessels will remain in port until Monday morning when they sail for the south, taking the outside pas- sage. Target practice will be stag- ed on the voyage south. Rendezvous at Port Angeles The squadron’s rendevous was at Port ‘Angeles. It sailed from that port on July 5, stopping at Alert Bay, Swanson Bay and Prince Rupert enroute here. A two:day stop was made at: Prince Rupert. This is the first stop and will be the only one, made in Alaska waters. The squadron came through Chatham Strait and around Point Ketreat. + The Twiggs is commanded by Eleut. Commander T. Starr King with Lieut. James A. Crocker as Executive Officer and Navigator. It carries reserves from Bremer- ton Liéut. Commander F. B. Conger. Jr, is in comamnd of the Tattnall, and Lieut. M. D. Sylvester is Ex- “geutive Officer and Navigator. ‘and tomorrow. D * The Badger is commanded by C. L. Best and Lieut. H. 8. Nel- son is Executive Officer and Navi- gator. These two ships have reserv- icts from Seattle. Lieut, Commander E. W. Broad- bent commands the Babbitt, and Lieut. K. C. Caldwell is Executive Officer and Navigator. It has re- serves from Tacoma. The Jacob Jones is under com- mand of Lieut. Commander W. Perkins, and W. W. Warlick is Fxecutive Officer and Navigator. Aberdeen reserves are aboard. it. Lieut. Commander C. H. Fort is in command of the Hamilton and Lieut. Commander N. N. Gates Is Executive’ Officer and Navigator. It has reserves from Portland. Smoker and Baseball A smoker and. three baseball fames will be staged for the en- tertainment of the visitors tonight The first ball game will be played at 6:30 'p.m. today between a picked team from the Amgrican - Legion and Elks teams of the City League and the squad- ron téam. At.8:30 p. m. the Le- gion smoker will be staged. A double. header ‘ball game will be played Sunday afterndbn. In the opening game, the City League club will take on the squad- ron team. The second game will be the regular league contest: be- tween the Moose and the American Legion clubs. There will be two dances tonight cne at A. B. Hall and the other at Elks Hall. A farewell dance will be given the visitors Sunday even-{ ing at the Fair building under the auspices of the Chamber of Com- merce. Mske Fishing Trips Some o1 the officers in the squadron, €thusiastic fishermen, were today making plans to fly 1, Hasselborg, one of the finest LN the Philadelphia navy yard where I Ready for business, the 10,000-ton crulser g Associated Press Photo Chester is shown at it was commissioned and turned to the command of Capt. Arthur Philip Fairfield (inset). trout fishing places in Southeas® Alaska.” The seaplane Taku was expected to make several trips| there begininng at 2 a.m. SBunday. Shipa in the squadron were thrown open for visitors this after- noon and will be Sunday after- noon, between the hours of 1:39 and 4 oclock. All Newly Commissioned The vessels in the squadron were all commissioned since the first of this year. Its base i1s in San Ciego, Calif. All. are of the same type. They are approximately 314 feet overall length, 32-feet beam, drawing 11 feet anhd are of 1,200 jlons displacement. They have a maximum rated speed of 35 knots. When attached to the main battle fleet' they move al about 10 'knots. . Enrouteé north they averaged 15 knots, and 13 knots from Prince Rupert to Ju- neau. They carry an oil supply cf 8,500 gallons. For armament they are equipped with four 4-inch guns, electrically operated, one anti-aircraft rifle of 3-inch caliber, and each has four triple torpedo tubes capable of dis- charging 12 torpedoes simultan- eously. —_——————— MANY RESERVE OFFICERS ARE ONDESTROYERS Headed by Division Com- mander Brugland, 31 Make Alaska Cruise Thirty-one Naval Reserve offi- cers,, headed by Lieut. Commander Hugo Brugland, Commander of the Reserve for the Third Division, which has its headquarters in Bremerton. He is assigned to the flagship Twiggs.. . On the same ship with him are Lieut. Starnes, Lieut. Roof and Ensigh “Brooks. On the Tattnall is the first Se- attle’ branch composed of Lieuts Flagg' and , Metcalf, and - Ensign ‘Baldwin. The .second ‘Seattle branch, composed of Lieuts. Hoffman, Far-{ rel, Petts, Morris and Ensign Grant, is aboard the Badger. On the Hamilton are: Ueuu.' Béckwith, Keller, ‘Tililman, Tooper, Upshaw, Coombs and Barton, of Portland. The ' Aberdeen contingent, Lieuts. Steglet, Ingram, Bruener, Bloom and Baker, are aboard the Jacob Jones. L The Babbitt carries the Tacoma contingent, Lieut. Middleton, Brad- ley, Osborne, Hudloff and' Corthle, and Ensign Creichton. Aviation Pioneer Is Successfully Operated Upon for Appendicitis BUFFALO, N. Y., July 12—Glenn Curtiss, aviation- pioneer, under- went an operation yesterday for ‘lppendlcmx and is reported rest- !ing and gaining strength. - e Capt. Charles E..Ahues, General Superintendent for Libby, McNeill and Libby in Southeast Alaska, was a Juneau business visitor yesterday ,aud today he left for Kake. 4 CONSIDERED AS CHEEF U . MARINE CORPS Soldiers of Sea Lined Up As Successors to Maj. Gen. Neville WASHINGTON, July 12, — Four outstanding soldiers of the sea arz funder consideration to succeed Maj. Gen. W. C. Neville as Command- ant of the Marine Corps. of rank, are: Major Generals Smedley Butler end Logan Feland; Brigadier Gen- erals Ben Fuller and John Henry Russell. All four have seen ' service the Caribbean Sea and all have decorations and citations. ing Commandant, is favored for the past. ————— SOUSH INJURED SHIP AGCIDENT Famous Bandmaster Slips and Falls—Four Stitches Are Taken on Head NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, July 12. — John Philip Sousa, famous bandmaster, returning from Eur- ope, slipped and fell in a com- panionway of the Leviathan as the liner was docking today. He was knocked unconscious. Four stiches were taken to close a gash on the head. Surgical measures complet- ed, Sousa attended to his de- barkation as if nothing had hap- pened. He is 75 years of age. —————— — Attempt to Secure Grape Contract Is Cause of Shooting FRESNO, Cal, July 12—Willle Maglio, aged 23, and his younger half-brother, Joseph Egileo, are keld by the, authorities who are Frobing the death of A. L. Matig- non, fatally shoot while seeking the signature of the boys’ mother, Mrs. Angela Egileo to a co-opera- tive grape contract sponsored by the Federal Farm Board. The shooting occurred as Matig- non and Wilbur Berry, another grape campaign worker and 10 other: persons were leaving the Egileo home after seeking to per- suade Mrs. Egileo to sign. The shots came from the ranch house. Street Car Falls Into River; 60 Persons Dead BUENOS AIRES, July 12—At least 60 persons lost their lives today when a street car fell into a small river, called the Racho, which separates Buenos Aires: from the town of Avellaneda, in Loses Consciousness * Miles Above Earth; Record Perthayis Broken SAN DIEGO, Cal, July 12. Losing consciousness several miles above the earth, Ruth Alexander awoke to find herself gliding downward still 18,000 feet from -the earth. A few minutes later, after she safely landed, she. was informed she had prob- ably set an altitude record of 26,600 feet, breaking Her own 20,000 foot records set BELFAST, Ireland, July 12—S8ir ‘Thomas = Lipton, - 80-year-old Irish sportsman ,is ready for his fifth and probably last attempt to win the America’s Cup. B The $500 yachting trophy already has cost him seme $2,500,000 of his private fortune. His new challénger, V.” as ttim and frail as a thor- oughbred race horse, will start the The four officers, in the order 9 O'clock this morhing " with 140 | enviable war records, numerous Larsen, Miss M. Messerschmidt, I Brigadier General Fuller, Act-(88n L. 8. Roack, E. C. Anderson, !12—Sixty Gold Star negro moth- ithe steamship American Merchant dangerous voyage across the At- lantic oceati ‘under her own sail, atcording to the rules of the con- test, this month. on July 4 in the same plane, e0ecececcecscoce R R N R R ) CRCIC I B ) e o 00 Shamrock V Soon to Cr_o—.;Bc—ean To Attem pt to Win “Shamrock || Am erica’s Cup The voyage will be as epic as the trophy race itself. 'There will be TARDIED ROUTS 0PPOSITION IN | FOURTH BATTLE Weary of New Assaulfs, | Premier Adjourns Parliament V. and she will carry a crew of 22. A month’s rations and fresh water will be carried: " The Shamrock V will be accom- panied by Sir Thomas's steam yacht “Erin” which will act as a tender. The route will be by way of the Azores, “where the Erin will stop to refuel. The Shamrock V. will be yawl Irigged for the ocean voyage, al- |though she will carty a towering Bermuda rig for the actual races. ‘Her deep-sea rig will include a PARIS, July 12.—Premier Al | try-sall, a squaresail, & jib and stay | Tardieu routed the opposition for sail. A jigger mast, specially step- the fourth time in three days onl & Ped in for the ttip, will complete vote of confidence, by a good = ithe yawl-rig. ! | no wireless aboard the Shamrock | He 15" He remémbers living in a Glas- |his own clerk and salesman, porter | gow’_tenement house Whén - he was id- wihdow drbsser. . ot In boy, afid how at'the age of 17 he | At 22 he opened @& ‘secand shop. i i | mmk V, which is to make in September what will probably be, Sir Thomas Lipton’s final effort to capture America’s Cup, soon is to| start across the Atlantic with Capt. Ned.Heard in command. ‘spending & large sectlon of it m! He returned-home with $500, the | the 'English-American yacht con- |value.of America's Cup, and opened tests. a shop™in Glisgow: where he was, went to the United States to make |He has been’ o] his fortune. | since. first class passengers and 12 steer- age. Passengers . booked» for Junean are: " . ’ Mrs. L. Ask, Capt. J. J. Rey- nolds, Miss Gladys Reynolds, Mrs. A. Bartolane, Frank A. Boyle, 8. Langenfeld, Ben Stiefvater, A. Mo:- Miss D. Royal, Miss V. P. Pipen- berg, and three steerage. Sixty Gold Star Negro Mothers Off for Franec; Given Reception in N.Y. DELAYING OF BIRTHS IN ANIMALS . IS ANNOUNCED; SCIENTISTS GIVEN NEW MEANS OF INVESTIGATION NOW COLD SPRINGS HARBOR, N. Y. July 12.—A method of having ani- mals born “older” and less helpless was disclosed by the Blologicali | Laboratory here. n | JBOYSDEAD IN 0"- FIRE | Births arc delayed apparently to the benefit of the young by an ex- IN KENTUGKY'&“& of corpus luteum, a sex hor- mone. Isolation of this extract was fnnnounced a year ago and today . | some of the first results were made OWENSBORO, Kentucky, July 12. public. ——Three hoys were burned to death| The extract also shows results NEW YORK OCITY, N. Y., July ers embarked at Hoboken today on to visit the graves of their sons in France. The mothers were given & reception yesterday at the City Hall, the first given any mothers since the one for the first con< tingent. INFORMATION WANTED CONCERNING 8 MEN| Inquiries have been received aif the Governor's office concerning the following persons supposed (o be in Alaska: Erik Larson last heard from while working for the Alaska Rail- road in 1921, {jorlty. Weary of facing assaults,| A supply of oll'is being carried the forestalled new ones by Id}flufl]- by' the Erin and- this will be used The Radicals had challenged the|Weather to give the Shamrock V. Department of Finance and other; what protection “is possible from subordinate administrative divislons!the tremendous 'waves of the At-| of the Government. "“{1antic. ing operations, while Sir Thomas | ! A will cross on a- liner to meet the Shamrock V., on her arrival at 3 New York. ABUAHB YUK tempts to win the trophy. 4 about 50 now. At 23 he salled as > g seaman in_the third “Shamrock” m ms 4 That ‘was in 1803. the, past two Sir Thomas has spent his entire | SEATTLE, July 12, — Steamer life bullding up a fortune and LAKE KACHESS, Motorboat Overturns—; Only Two Occ;lg)ants Are Rescu were drowned in Lake - Kachess, near the Sunset, Highway, in the Cascade Mountains, when a motor- boat overturned. 'Two. occupants Those losing théir lives aré Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schweighart. Mr. and Mrs. Davison, caretakers of the lodge Lake Chelus, near Man named Hasgas, watchman. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Harrigan, aretakers of the Snoqualmie Lodge, jwere rescued. }lng Parliament. freely on the sea In case of rough/ ————— Capt. Ned Heard will direct sail-| Captain Heard is a veteran in at- races he was-first mate. Yukon safled for Alaska ports 8t NEAR SEATTLE SEATTLE, July 12—Five persons ‘were saved. Lake Kachess. ——— o TODAY'S STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, July 12—There Was no sale today of Alaska Juneau mine stock. Closing quotations on Karl John Karlson, 42 years old stocks are Alleghany Cor- born in Borstil, Sweden. Lfl\",‘ n 23%, Anaconda 49%, Beth- heard from in 1917 from Juneeu }lehem Steel 82%, General Motors Johin Francis Mulvehill, about{43%, Granby, no' sale, International 67 years old, blue eyes, supposcdiHarvester 82%, Kennecott 38%, to have worked for the ;\luk.\' 'Montgomery-Ward -~ 35%, National Railroad in 1915, Acme 13, Packard Motors 13%, 13%, David Baird, supposed to haveél13s;, Simmons Beds 23%, Standard landed in Alaska in April, 1930. AlBrands 19%, Standard Oil of Call- painter by frade, fornia 61%, Standard Oil of New Algot Johnson, age 43, occupa-fjersey 70%, United Aircraft 53%, :Lgolx;—n waiter. Came to Alaska in “ 8. Steel 180%, American Can s , 14%, 14%, Louis or Bill Diedering, about 88 fi':!:gpwmtzfzr: ru::o aal‘a. l,:,fix years old, has been in Alaska about Flims 41% i 35 years. STEAMER ALAMEDA Harmon boell, dark eyes. dar brown hair, -weight about 185 pounds, Last heard from in An- chorage. IS IN PORT TODAY ber by trade, who lived in Alaski} The Alaska Steamship Company's for a number of years, and wh[steamer Alameda, Capt. Gus Nord, left here in 1927 or 1928 for Seaftlé |arrived here today at noon from please communicate with the Gov-| Passengers for Juneau were: A ernor’s Office, fGillany;, J. 8. Grimet,” Mrs. J. F. ————a-———— and M. C. McGuise erners on a tour of the Yukon'on her way to Skagway at 6:30 River. The party is aboard thz'c'clock this evening, returning ‘o Alameda, | Juneay Monday moming. Anyone having- any information about one Lawrence Oake, a bar~ snd San Prancisco, or any in-ithe south. She has about six'y formation about his relatives will yound-trip passengers aboard. g A Dr. B. J. Palmer of Davenpori, from, Seattle and five steerage. Towa, is escorting a group of East-{.. The Alameda will sail from here Y | |Steamship Company, is due to ar-|treatment. 'had called upon the year before to and three men were burned prob- |of évercoming sterility. ®bly fatally when an ol rig caught‘ Births of rats have been delayed fire on a farm near Haynesville. ;20 per cent longer. At birth the The dead are James Crowe aged | heaviest have .been 48 per cent 12, Matt Crowe aged 14, and Elmer above the average natural weight. Fuqua agéd 14 years. Delaying births gives scientists The rig caught fire after a well | means of investigating why some| was shot and oil began flowing. It|young born are almost helpless and ls belleyed a spark from the ma-|others are able to care for them chinery 'ignited the gas in the oll 'selvas from the start. The ‘boys were watching the op-| L e el s eration. | g | DENALI DUE SUNDAY | Ludwig Carlson entered St. Ann’s Freighter Denali, of the Alaska |Hospital this morning for medical T e e HOSPITAL NOTES Mrs. L. Reed, who entered St. Ann's Hospital on July 1, for a was discharged today and returned to her home. rive at 9 o'clock tomorrow morn- ing. Special freight aboard in- ciudes material for the Feder-\l‘mnjor operation, and Territorial Building. CLAMOR TO END CHICAGO KILLINGS . MAKES AND BREAKS POLICE CHIEF | i CHIOCAGO, July 12—A wave of civic revulsion against hoodlums and gangsters swept Willlam F. Russell into office as Chicago’s police com- er in Sicilian circles, was killed in | daylight, downtown. Russell then began the pracucel, | he followed for the next two years | missloner, and a second wave of | —rounding up all the known hood- popular indignation washed him lums and tossing them ih jail. out. | And at the six-month mark of ‘The clamor against his adminis- | Russell'’s tenure, the St. Valentine's tration, which resulted in his resig- | day massacre of seven was enacted.' nation, arose after the fatal shoot- | “Prohibition’s to blame,” shouted; ing of AlMred “Jake” Lingle, Tribune | the commissioner, and he explained reporter and intimate friend ol’}mat the profits in fllictt liquor was ! Russell. | the pawn of rival gangs. Genial “Bill” Russell, before his| Twenty years ago when Russell retirement from the commission- was walking a beat, he became al er's office, never had gone back-ilriend of Al Lingle, who developed ward in the 30 years of his police |into a crime reporter. service. | ‘When Lingle was shot, Russell In August, 1928, he became “boss” | said: of the department. There had been| “I loved him as a son.” gang killings; reform organizations| The commissioner did hot have complained the city was “wide any children. open,” that vice was rampant. | “I'm glad to get out of this mess,” They demanded and got the of-|said Russell as he handed in his ficial head of “Mike” Hughes, whom | resignation, and he looked it. Mayor Willlam Hale Thompson| During his term Russell instigated ‘campalgm to provide cleaner stage and movie shows, and to stop “jay- “rid” Chicago of crime {an absolute falsehood.” pening ‘thém ever |y, STAR WITNESS, MOONEY TRIAL, HASCONFESSED Claims He perjured Him- self in Trial in San Francisco HELD BY AUTHORITIES IN BALTIMORE, MD. John McDonald, Makes Statement that Testi- mony was False BALTIMORE, Maryland, July 12. -~John McDonald, principal wit= ness for the prosecution against Tom Mooney and Warren K. Bil- lings, principals in the Prepared- ress Day Parade in San Francisco in 1916 and now serving life sen- tences, said he perjured himself and desires to “undo the wrong” at the trial. McDonald was recognized by a neighbor last night and taken into custody and held on a nominal charge for investigation. In & statement McDonald issued, he said: “1, John McDonald, aged *8 years, never saw Mooney until tak- jen into the Hall of Justice in San Francisco. I was told by an of- ficer, ‘this is Mooney,’ pointing him out to me. “My testimony in the various cases was untrue and false. “The authorities got me to tes ;my. “I identified Mooney but this is \ ACTION IS TAKEN SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 12. —The Tom Mooney Defense Com- mittee announces it has asked ney, to y John McDonald to eturn and submit to questioning regarding the statement he mads in Baltimore, confessing that his testimony against Mooney was GORST FLANE IS REPORTED T0 BE MISSING A report received here this af- ternoon sald that Capt. Clayton Scott, flying a Gorst airplane from Cordova to Ketchikan, had been missing for two days. The Empire cabled its Ketchikan correspondent about the report, but at a late hour nothing had been heard. Capt. Scott, it is understood, had been on a barnstorming trip to Cordova and was returning to his headquarters in Ketchikan. He had been expected to arrive here yesterday. He is wellknown in this city. He was here last year with the Gorst machine that made its headquar- ters in Juneau for sometime and since' then has been flying between Seattle and Bremerton, and came to Ketchikan early this Spring. Tt is not known what mechanic ac- companied him. " Officials of the Alaska Washing- ton Airways here were prepared to start a search for the plane as soon as definite information can be obtained. The seaplane Taku, they said, was ready to take off at any minute. 1 Capt. Scott left Cordova Thurs- day afternoon, according to Tre- ports received from there. A radio inquiry to Port Althorp brought a response that he had not been seen there, and no other place has re- ported sighting the plane. e TACOMA FLIER STARTS FLIGHT LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 12.— Harold Bromley, of Tacoma, took off at 6:30 o'clock this morning in a new high wing monoplane built for another attempted trans-Pacific flight to Tokyo. Bromley was accompanied by Harold Gatty, aged 27, Australian, as naviagtor. Bromley did not divulge if he will attempt a nonstop flight. If is assumed he probably will stop at Oakland or San Francisco to check his plane and for refueling. Three low wing monoplanes built for Bromley for the flight during the past two years, have all met Scarcely had Russell comfortably |walking.” After a week of activity fixed his bulk in the commissioner's [the “jaywalking” ordinances were | repealed, chatr when Tony Lombardo, a lead- with disasters,