The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 16, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVL, NO. 5462. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1930. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FOREST FIRES ARE BURN WALSH, BALEN NOMINATED FOR SENATOR Democrats Renominate Senator for Fourth Term —G.0.P.Names Justice HELENA, Mont., July 16.—Early returns from the Montana primary assured the nomination of Judge Albert J. Galen of the Montana Supreme Court for United States Senator by the Republicans and the re-nomination of Senator ‘Thomas J. Walsh by the Democrats. Sena- tor Walsh was unopposed and Judge Galen had a two to one lead over O. H. Shelly, Red Lodge news- paperman. Senator Walsh had served three six-year terms and was running for the nomination for the fourth term. The Democratic - nomination in the First Congressional District is in doubt. J. P. Monaghati of Butte, only 25 years of age, led John M. BEvans of Missoula, veteran Con- . @ressman, by a vote of 4239 to 4211, with slightly less than one- third of the precincts counted, Evans had been successful in nine successive elections and was run- ning for his temth term. Judge Albert J. Galen, who is serving his second six-year term as Associate Justice of the Montana Supreme Court, is a brother of James L. Galen, of Cordova, one time candidate for the Republican nomination for Delegate to Con- gress from Alaska. He has been a | Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of are Mrs. Roosevelt and their son, T, UTAH GOVERNORS’ tending the Conference of Governors in Salt Lake City. "CONFERENCE ' | Associated Press Plioto New York, photographed while at- With him Franklin, Jr. 'New bry Chi:zf Says Law | ALONGCOAST Baby Eagle to Have First Flight Soon NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, July 16.—Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., may have his first airplane ride within the next four weeks, his father said here today, although no definite plans have been made yet for the flight. Mrs. Lindbergh and the baby are now at the Morrow summer home at Borth-Hav-~ en, Maine. Charles, Jr., is four weeks old today. CRC U NN B R A ————— ICE PACKED ‘o009 eseeesssesee . o Conditions Growing Worse | —Many Food Staples Sold Qut at Stores POINT BARROW, Alaska, July 16.—Ice conditions here are worsz instead of better. Contrary winds have kept the fce in a pack and the warmest weather in two years i eating the shore ice full.of holes but pressure behind fills the gaps. For several days a 20-mile off shore wind failed to make any im- ‘Baby Lindbergll’s first exp Associat nce before the umnin brings a frown as shown In this ccnyr |rression or open a lead as former (off shore winds have done before. {Last year the first ship arrivéd July 15 but none so far this year. Will Be His Only Guide By E. E. BOMAR (A. P. Staff Writer) Press te[ophoto. The son of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh was born Juns 22. IN ation; Wide' TTéi;zvisidn N ;t-work frequent visitor to this Territory. UNITED STATES OF EUROPE HAS NEW APPROVAL Germany Replies Favorably to Proposition—Ex- presses Anxiety BALTIMORE, July 16.—A lawyer, a student, a writer and a bachelor is the New Director of Prohibition Enforcement, Amos Walter Wright ‘Woodcock—but above all, he is a {lawyer. United States District Attorney guided by the law alone, he says, as chief ‘administrator of America’s ! most argued legislation. ‘Woodcock’s record in Maryland, which has no state enforcement law, made him acceptable to pro- hibition leaders too, but he has made it clear in many addresses he {never would go beyond the law to obtain a conviction. He is per-| BERLIN, July 16—Germany has Sonally dry. | replied favorably to a memoran-, Born Oct., 20, 1883, at Salisbury, dum of Foreign Minister Briand Md. in 1903 he was given a bache- proposing the creation of ‘the llor of arts degree by St. John's col- | “United States of Europe.” {lege at Annapolis. There for six The reply expressed anxiety that years he taught mathematics) at Russia and Turkey be included in St. John's and studied law at the the Union and European coopera-|University of Maryland, getting tion generally and should make in- | his degree in 1910. In 1912 he took dependent military guarantees for his master’s degree at Harvard. security. He is a Republican but not an —_———————— ardent political worker. [ o | Woodcock’s war record tells some- 1 TODAY'S STOCK | |thing of the man. | QUOTATIONS || Enlisting in 1917, he served in » ® | France as a member of Company NEW YORK, July 16.—Closing I, First Maryland infantry, and then successively. as captain, major, and quotation of Alaska Juneau mine lleutenant colonel in the 115th In- \ stock today was 5%, Alleghany Cor- \| | poration 23%, Anaconda 49%, Beth- fantry. He is now a lieutenant lehem Steel 85, General Motors|colonel in the National Guard and 44%, International Harvester 82%, O. R. C. for Maryland since 1922; he Wil be | i i WO W , Most of his friends call him “Col- onel” because of his military bear- ing, his war service and the fact that he is a former state com- mander of the American Legion. { Bald, except for a fringe of hair, of medium stature and ready smile and pleasing voice, he makes friends | quickly. ‘Woodcock's social and family life | is largely bound up with his old home at Salisbury, where his three sisters live. He seldom fails to visit there over the weekend. He maintains a bachelor apart- ment here but uses it little for en- tertaining. Many of his evenings he devotes to reading and study. 36, National Acme 14%, Packard \Motors 15%, 14, 15, Simmons Beds 45%, Standard Brands 21, Standard O1 of California 63%, Standard Oil of New Jersey 74%, United Air- craft 60%, U. S. Steel 1647%, Amer- jcan Can 126%, Hupp Motors 15,/ 14%, 15, Stewart-Warner 25%, 23%, 25%, Fox Films 45, Granby 23%. \\ Kennecott 38%, Montgomery-Ward \ GRAF ZEPPELIN MINER, BELIEVED TO BE IN ALASKA, IS SOUGHT ; IS HEIR TO $500,000 Four Killed, Two Are Injured, when Freight Train Hits Automobile BURLINGTON, Iowa, July 16— John Bosch and A. A. Bosch were killed; Dr. E. E. Kirkendale and E. O. Parks were fatally injured in a collision yesterday afternoon, between their automobile and a freight train. Mothers Helpless To Aid Children; Burn to Death “FLYING NORTH Off on Cruise to Spitzber- gen with Gen. Nobile Among Passengers FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, July 16— With Gen. Nobile aboard as a pas- senger, the Graf Zeppelin left today !for a cruise to Spitzbergen. It is planned to visit the section norta ot North Cape where the Italia came down. Twenty-two passengers are aboard the Graf, including seven Ameri- cans. SAN PRANCISCO, Cal, July 16. —Frank Olcese, miner, believed to| be seeking his fortune in Alaska, is heir to $500,000, his wife. Mrs. Emelia Olcese, revealed. She said her husband went to Alaska 14 years ago to prospect. Efforts to trace him have been fruitless. His wife has been named trustee of her husband’s estate, cattle and oil lands, left by his brother, Louis Olcese. ——— Sixteen Persons Hurt In Collision of Trains On Elevated, N. Y. 16.—Sixteen persons were hurt, three seriously, in a rear end col- lisign between two crowded elevated trains at the Chambers Street station of the Sixth Street “L.” {other " game to take'the place of STOCK IS LOW BIDDER ON. NEW | The village is empty of natives, scatteréd around seeking seals and ; flour, sugar, coffee and other |stapies the stores are lacking. The natives are daily bringing in hopes of tradirig them for a littla to roll their own, sirice the tailoc- made are gone. Lo e amm ] ROAD PROJECT Aberdeen Road Builder to! Get Extension Job of Tongass Highway | R. H. Stock, Aberdeen, Wash.| road builder, was the lowest of, three bidders for constructing the new Wards Cove-Mud Bay section of Tongass Highway out of Ketchi- kan, it was announced today from local district headquarters of the United States Bureau of Public, Roads. Other bidders were Seims Spokane Company and Johnson- Gardner. The Btock bid, which has been recommeénded for acceptance (o Washington by District Engineer M. D. Willlams, totalled $88,685. Seims-Bpokane was second with a| figure of $89,560, and Johnson- Gardner’s bid was $98,112. The extension is about three| miles long. The work will consist ari clearing, grubbing, excavating, grad- curfos dug up from old igloos ‘n tobacco while the whites agesforced: LEOPOLD AUER PASSES AWAY Celebrated Violinist Dies in German Sanitarium, Pneumonia ASSOCIATED PRESS (KESSLERE) LEOPOLD AUVER DRESDEN, Germany, July. 16.— Leopold Auer, celebrated violinist of New York City, died yesterday at jthe Soschwitz Sanitarium with L] SACRAMENTO, Cal, July e 2 e 16—While the mothers wn’.’ . Form'e_r Typograp. hwal_ The accident threw hundreds of dAT::k:meBdum British Columbia ar o hused the tragedy, neipless o| President Is Dead in |nhomebound passengers into a state| 135S Butts admitted killing o o ‘to rescue, Alton Kemp, aged e E. Blood I . bordering on a panic. J ast, nfection e 2% years, and his cousin e VlSlTORS HERE FROM e Douglas Hinsdale, aged & o gyp,ousy N. v, Juy 16—|Monoplane Out for . o years, were burned to death ®|yunes M. Lynch, aged 63 years d. Crashes B BEVERLY HILLS, CAL. e in an automobile in a garage ® g, many terms President of the Record, Crashes Dut sk » ® on the John Rose farm near ® |1nternational Typographical Union Occupants Are Safe| wmrs. George W. Jones, of Be: e here, late yesterday. The ®|anq leader of the organization's L erly Hills, Callofrnia, arrived ® older by is believed to have ®ipgttle for a nation-wide 48-hour| BOSTWICK, Georgia, July 16.—[night on the Princess Louise e turned on an ignition switch ., yeek, died here today as the result!The monoplone K, of New Haven,|spend a Yew weeks visiting e which caused a short circuit. ®of blood infection. Conn, attempting a nonstop re-|her uncles Frank and Nor . Intense heat prevented res- o LS IR Y o TN 1 fueling in air flight to Buenos|Cook, and cousin, Mrs. Edwin ® cue of the two boys. ®| Only twice in three years have|Aires, crashed near here today. The|ton. Mrs. Jones is accompa: e O‘Qhe Chicago White Sox been rained [occupants saved themselves by us- by her daughter. They have seeeev o9 e e % outof aSunday at-home game. |ing parachutes. apartment a{ the MacKinnon. ing and covering with a crushed ' pneymonia rock surface. Work will start as| . soon as the contract -has beenl pypjj of two of the greatest vio- signed by the Secretary of ASri-linigts of the 19th century, Leopold DEBIE | Auer in ‘the latter decades of that : | hundred-year. cycle became recog- HSHERMAN lS FI.NED Inlsed as one of the great masters FOR DEER SLAUGHTERQI the instrument and in turn the teacher of several who achieved o R | international fame as performers Eugene Butts, non-resident fish-|in the twentieth century. erman, pleaded gullty early t Came to U. S. in 1918 week to killing a deer out of sca-| Although a native of Hungary, son, and waé fined $50 by Judge A.|Mr. Auer before coming to the W. Fox in the United States Com-United States in 1918, had lived missioner's Court. Butts and !0 jn Russia 30 years during Wwhich companions were brought here 1as! time he was one of the outstanding week on liquor law violation figures in the muslcal life of the e old capital, St. Petersburg, when A logbook on the boat operaid that city was one of the prominent by them contained entries showinZ|musical centers of Europe. Many honors were conferred upon him by the Czarist: government. Born at Veszbrem in Hungary, |June 17, 1845, Mr. Auer at the age |of 12 became a pupil of Jacob Dont at the Vienna conservatory [lnd after two years there studied |with Joseph Joachim, regarded by - 'many as the greatest violinist of {his_time. Years later it was sald yof Auer that for nobility of style he was second only to Joachim. Leader of Orchestras By the time he had reached the age of 20 Mr. Auer had served (Continued on Page Six) Five Years Away, ‘By C. E. BUTTERFIELD (A. P, Radio Editor) NEW YORK, July 16—National television on a par With sound broa ig 1§ " ‘considerable dis- tanice in the future, ‘When such a development will materialize, éngineers hesitate to say.'Dr, Alfred N. Goldsmith, vice- president .and general engineer of RCA and long identified with broad cast engineering, thinks it will not be possible until three years have elapsed, and it may be longer. “It seems likely that natlonal tel- evision service of proven value within a year would be a miracle,” | he said. “Within two years it would |be an amazing feat; within three | years it would represent a fine yachievement of hard work, and vithin five years, it would be a development’ proceeding at a good and normal ‘pace. “If television is developed as a service of real entertainment and instructional yalue to the public it will take its place beside radio broadcasting ag one of the greatest agencies of human progress and enjoyment, but it is not to be ex- pected that the day of television is as yet near at hand. “Laboratories are doing excellent work in the development of tele- vision and wiJl probably ultimately bring the equipment to a satisfac- tory stage for public use. It is dan- gerous to make any definite predic- ILlon as to how long this will take.” Dr. Goldsmith pointed out that the term television means so many different things to various people that a clarification is important. “Some think it means small, dim, blurry and shifting images. Others think it means perfect, large, bril- liant pictures like the finest movies. Each viewpoint is regarded as ex- treme. & 3 “Television is a radio service of pictures in thotion of sufficient de- tail and quality.to have continu- ing entertainment value to the public, month after month and year after year. Tt is believed that it is necessary to be able to show clearly the head and shoulders of several people in a closeup and also action of a group at a greater distance with a reagonable amount of back- ground detail. “It is necessary that receivers supplied the public be simple, com- pact, quiet, and fairly automatic and reliable in operation and rea- sonable in ¢ost. Pictures must be brilliant enough to be seen in an ordinary dimly lighted room, of good color, of adequate detail, of real pictorial value, without an- {noying flicker, and visible to per- sons seated in various parts of the | “In order that the people of the United States shall enjoy such a ‘service, it must be carried out on a |national scale. = This means erec- tion of numerous television trans- !mitters. ‘They must be located at proper points all over the country, and on occasion be interconnected Iby wire, radio or through shipment anted Engineer Says of film subjects so that programs of interest may be brought to the public “promptly. “Establishment stations and oreation of programs for the entire United States is a lengthy and expensive job. To be of value to the public programs must be arranged so that they will coordinate sight and sound proper- ly. Correct wavelengths for tele- vision for city, suburban and rural service must be determined: In- correct choice of wavelengths means ruined or unreliable transmission.” e o on et $0. CALIFORNIA HAS HEAT WAVE Temperature Ranges from 95 to One Hundred Eighteen Degrees LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 16.— Two' deaths both in below-the-sea- level Imperial Valley are attribut- ed to the record-breaking heat wave which has hovered over Southern California for the past three days. James Generonis dropped dead at El Centro where the thermom- eter soared to 111% degrees. An unidentified hitch-hiker died near Coyote Wells where 118 de- grees was the register. Calexico and Los Angeles have 2 temperature today of 95 degrees. Col. McCormick Aided His Sister -in-Law in Her Campaign Expenses! CHICAGO, Illinois, July 16.—Col. R. R.. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago ~Tribunhe - and - brother-in- law of Mrs.. Ruth Hanna McCor- mick, today told the Senate Cam- raign Funds Committee he had given $15,000 to the support of her campaign. Of this amount only $2.500 had previously been includ- ed in her expenditure of $327,000! so far accounted for as her ex- G, EAST AND WEST STATES CHARLES AUGUSTUS, JR,, POSES FOR FIRST PICTURE SCORES OF FIRES REPORTED TODAY MANY SECTIONS Much Damage Reported to Department in Wash- ington by Agents SUMMER’S FIGHT TO SAVE FORESTS BEGINS Eight Thousand Fires Last Fiscal Year Cost Heavy Expenditures WASHINGTON, July 16.— With smoke from a score of forest fires still hovering over parts of the East and West, the United States Forest Service officials said the sum- mer’s fight to save the na- tion’s forests has just begun. Telegrams have been re- ceived here stating fires have already done much damage. The cost of fighting about 8,000 fires during the last fiscal year was more than $3,200,000. BROMLEY ON TEST FLIGHT * OVERTACOMA of transmitting|Oil Pressure Insufficent— Plane Re After Up One Hour TACOMA, Wash,, July 16—Har- old Bromley who is planning an attempt to fly from Tacoma to Tokyo, tried a test flight today over the city and bay. He carried three men and 500 gallons of gaso- line. The plane came back after an hour in the air because of in- sufficient oil pressure. Bromley said he does not expect to take-off on the flight before next Monday. Bromley will refuel at some place in the Aleutians, West Alaska. —— MOSLEMS AND HINDUS CLASH Troops and Police Are Dis- patched to Scene— Eastern Bengal LONDON, July 16.—Dispatches from Calcutta to the Daily Mail reported rioting of Moslems and Hindus in Eastern Bengal has as- sumed a serious aspect over an area of more than 150 square miles. Troops and police are being rushed to Mymensingh and Kishor- ganj. The outbreak of rioting was pre- ! mediated and well organized, re- ports said. Says Two Nations On Verge of War During London Naval Hearing WASHINGTON, July 16.—United States Senator Kenneth I. Mo- Kellar, Democrat of ‘Tennessee, ‘told the Senate today that France and Italy were “brought to the verge of war by the secrecy, bad blood and jealousy surrounding negotia- penses. tions of the London Naval Treaty." W AR LORDS OF CHINA TOY WITH BOM BING PLANES By MORRIS J. HARRIS (A. P. Correspondent) SHANGHAI, July 16. — China’s war lords have found a new toy in the bombing airplane. Although 15 years late in adopt- ing this weapon, they are having lots of fun with it. Three or four years ago armored cars were all the rage. Generals who owned one took great delight | in roaring through the streets of the towns they captured, running over anything or anybody who did not get out of their way. Before the armored car age, the railroads were the chief playthings of the militarists. Special trains, some of them camouflaged after a fashion and all luxuriously fitted out, crowded regular passenger (Continuea on-Page TWO)