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

T THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVI., NO. 5465. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1930. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PR PRICE TEN CENTS FLIGHTS TO TOKY0, OV 55000 PAID. FUR FARMERS . HEREFORMINK Wisconsin Interests Declare Juneau Animals Are Best Fifty thousand dollars is a fair estimate of what fur farmers in the Mendenhall Valley will realize on the sale of mink this season to the Associated Fur Farms of New Holstein, Wis,, according to staté- ments made last evening by B. N. Stiefvater and P. W. Langenfeld representatives of the company, whe in the past week have visited every fur producer in this district. Con- tracts have been made for 400 pair of mink, at prices ranging from $75 to $150 a pair, with the hulk of the animals of the best grade. Ne- gotiations are in progress for blue foxes, and deals for some of these will be effected. All together 200 or 150 pdir of blue foxes are wanted. but it is not expected to get all of these here. The Associated Fur Farms, which MACMILIAN casset, M Bowdoin, cabin koy d s said to be ¢l Com, Donald B. MacMillan (left) with a veteran crew and a 10-year-old cabin boy sailed from Wie- on a three months’ trip to Newfoundiand, Labrador, Greenland and lceland, Thelr shown leaving Wiscasset at the start of the cruise.. Willlam Thomas, jr. (right, 2 youngest aver ty sail with am Arctic expedition, y Associated Press Photo chooner, (1for the current year between $140,- 4000 and $150,000, it is estimated or ,l IN WEST WILL CUT REVENUES Bristol Bay—!iGFish Short- age Will Cut Heavily Into Tax Revenues The short pack of red and king salmon in the Bristol Bay district will reduce Territorial tax revenues the basis of tax receipts from thar district in 1929, Records of the Territorial Treas- durer's office show that a total of [$430,000 derived in taxes last yea) SAILS ON EIGHTH_TRIE TO NORTHEAND PA[:K FA"_URE [President of Canadian National to In Juneau Son of American parents, reared and educated In ‘American Insti- tutions, twenty-five years after his graduation from ‘the 'University o. Pennsylvania, Henty Thornton had seen knighted by the King of Eng and and held rank:as a Major jeneral in the British Army. ‘Tomorrow Sir Henry Thornton >resident of the Canadian Nationa® | dnes, Lady Thornton and party jill visit Juneau on their firs! | vlaska trip. The entire party wil e guests of the Chamber of Com- | nerce on an automobile ride over Flacler Highway to. Mendenhal Flacier and Auk Lake. om the pack license taxes of the entire salmon canning industry. Of this sum, $174000 came from the reds and kings packed in Bristo! Bay, said Walstein G. Smith, Terri- torial Treasurer, The totel pack of all varieties in Bristol Bay, it*is estimated, will be about 350,000 cases this season The red and king pack should range around 300,000 cases. The base tax on those varieties s 10 cents per case, which would § ineering with the degree of Bache- are about 60 miles from Milwaukee, are now stocked with 500 pairs of produce $30,000 in revenues on a 300,000-case output. Five cents mink and 2,000 silver foxes. The enterprise is conducted for pelt re- sults only, no effort being made to market breeding stock. and 1,500 silver foxes will be pelted next fall. Mink Thrive Here “Mink thrive in the Juneau dis- trict,” said Mr. Stiefvater. “We bought 40 pair of breeding stock last year, and we have been well pleased with the purchase. strain here is called the Yukon, and I am inclined to think it is the best in Alaska. It is certainly better than our Wisconsin strains. I belleve the superiority of thel Juneau mink is due to their feed. Pish is the staff of life. Here, plen- ty of salt water fish in the best of condition is fed t§ \the animals. In ‘Wisconsin, fish aré hot so bountiful and all are from ytesh-water—not 50 good as salt. Sup?lies are some- what old, too, more atten than oth- erwise, before they réich the mink. There are about 1000 pairs of mink ready for sale|in the Ju- neau district. \ “With respect to slver foxes, however, I regard our \\nimals as superior to those in ufii locality. Our-animals are larger. 1|attribute this. difference to food.|We feed horse meat; our enterprises uses about 1,000 horses yearly. | Horse Packing Plans “This food is bought \fom a horse-packing plant in | Illinois. There are two other pllncs\of this kind in the United States, \dne of them in Oregon. . “Incidentally, the time may not be far distant when horse meat will not be available as food for foxes. In anticipation of such a condi- tion, we have inquired of Lomen Brothers of Nome as to the likell- hood of getting reindeer meat. At present transportation rates make deef prohibitive to us, but eventu- ally such food may be obtainable at prices we can afford to pay.” Mr. Stiefvater and Mr. Langen- feld will visit fur farms at Haines, Skagway, Cordova, S8eward, Anchor- age, Fairbanks and Valdez. - They will ' take a steamship to Cordova and Seward, the Government rail- road to Anchorage and Fairbanks, and then the Richardson Highway A few hundred mink and between 1,000 The Phillippa and Marion Bosanquet, . daughters of Mrs. W. S. B. ?ol- anquet, daughter of the late ex-! ident Grever Cleveland, arrived in Boston with her children as passengers on the — Kin of Former President PLANE CRASHES 'ONWAY HERE; ' THREE INJURED New England Fish Officials Hurt in Accident at Butedale, B. C. . Enroute to Jureau from Vancou- ver, B. C., with four passéngers, & Canadian airplane crashed at Bute. pants were injured. The aircraft is 50 badly damaged that it is out of commission for the present at !least. The injured passengers are in a hospital at Prince Rupert. With' A. L. Hager ‘of Vancouver, vice president and managing direc- tor; R. R. Payne of Vancouver, pro- duction manager; Lotii§ B. Good- speed and William J. Rich, of Bos- ton, directors, of the New England Fish Company, the plane left Van- couver last Monday to inspect the company’s eighteen canneries and three cold storage plants in British Columbia and its six canneries and | three cold storage plants in Alaska. Details are Lacking At Butedale, scene of the acci- (dent, the company has a cannery |and a cold storage plant. No de- tails of how the mishap took place, have been received, and it is not known by Juneau representatives of | occurred in landing or in taking off. Mr. Goodspeed suffered a frac- [ture to one of his thighs, Mr. |Hager was cut in one of his ears |and also bruised and Mr. Rich was cut in the head and bruised. They were taken by the oll tank steamer Gardena, from Butedale to Prince Rupert. Notice Given Taku S. 8. Cedric from England. Th were met by Mrs. Thomas Preston, widow of President Cleveland and mother of Mrs. Bosanguet, Nowarealy | GRAF ZEPPELIN RUNS INTO GALE Company officials had intended to stay in Juneau ope day. They had chartered the Alaska Wash- ington Airways' plane to take them to Yakutat and Cordova to inspect company interests there. As a result of the accident the $200,000 FIRE | dale, B. C., and three of its ocoyt|YeAT. NO records are the company whether the crash |l per case is collected on each case in excess of 10,000 up to 25,000 cases from each individual cannery, ten cents 25,000 to 40,000 cases, 15 cents 40,000 to 50,000 and 20 cents ahove 50,000. Last year the graduated taxes from Bristol Bay amounted to $64282 and ‘the base tax to $110,043. On the basis of current pack re- ports, the base tax this season will be: approximately $30,000, and the graduated tax, it is belleved, will be practically nothing. Federal pack taxes, collected by the Federal ‘government and re- mitted in part to the Territory, will also. _be reduced this available here Of the normal receipts from that source in Bristol Bay, but this sea- son's returns. will be about 25 per |cent of normal. GREAT DAMAGE BY TYPHOON ON | ISeventy Known. Dead, 100 | “Persons Missing, 737 | Injured—Homeless | TOKYO, July 19. — Incomplete Ireports from 'the typhoon stricken | |Rsushu Island listed 70 known dead, more than 100 persons miss- | and 737 injured. ur thousand, two hundred homes have been destroyed and 13,000 homes damaged. Hundreds of boats sank and (scores are missing. The wind reached a velocity of 112 miles an hour in Negasaki, the Prefecture reports, where 37 dead snd 450 are injured. The total property loss will prob- ably reach $50,000,000. [Rising, Falling of Earth Seen as Origin of Caves CAMBRIDGE, Mass, July 19.— The origin of caves Is ascribed to ~JAPAN ISLAND| to Valdez. There are several farms FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, July 19.—The Graf Zeppelin has concluded a 60-hour flight over Norway, Iceland, France and Swit- zerland returning here during a violent storm that caused anxiety Mr. Langenfeld chartered the seaplane Taku for a flight to Haines and Skagway last evening, but on arrival over Haines the ~INB.C.TOWN charter for the Taku has been can- |y gins gng falling of the earth’s Penn. Railroad Man Sir Henry Thornton was born Logansport, Indiana, in 1871, thc son of Henry OClay Thornton, © Philadelphia, and Millaments Comegys Worth, + He was educated at St. Paul’ School, Concord, N. H, and at thc University of Pennsylvania, gradu- ating from ‘the ‘latter in civil en- tor of Science in 1894. Sir Henry began his railroad ca- reer with the Pennsylvania Railroad in the year of his graduation from Pennsylvania University as drafts- man- in the Chlef Engineer's office and held successively the position: of Assistant Englneer. of Construc- tfon on the Cleveland and-Marietts Rallway (a subsidiary of the Penn- Be Visitor During Sunday SIR HENRY THORNTON sylvania Rallroad), topographer on ‘ tEx ALASKA, ARE DELAYED HAROLD BROMLEY PLANS TO TAKE OFF ON TUESDAY pects to Leave Tacoma for Tokyo Next Week —Land in Alaska ASKS GOVERNOR TO CLEAR LANDING SPOT Waik andBrown' Not Dis- courged in Refueling At- tempt—Wait Weather TACOMA, Wash., July 19. —Harold Bromley is ready to start on his Tokyo flight at. the first favorable weath- er report after Monday, John Buffelin, backer, announced this afternoon. Bromley has cabled Gov. various surveys, Assistant on En- George A. Parks, at Juneau, 3ineering Corps, Division Engineer,|38King aid in preparing the and Division Superintendent. While|beach at Moses Point, or Cape smployed as Assistant in the En- Solomon, near Nome, Alaska, zineer Corps of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Sir Henry was . selectéd for a take-off for Tokyo, by the then General Manager, L.|after refueling there. (Continued on Page Six) VISITOR TO U S. IS 156 YEARS OF AGE, HAS OUTLIVED 11 WIVES; HAS GROWN 3 SETS OF TEETH ; | Social Secretary | . For Mrs. Hoover | Miss Helen. Greene, Mrs. Hoover’s mew acti) cial secretary, is Rfapped as M bntered tho White House grounds, Washington, D. C. | This is the frst. photo of Miss | Greene mads at the Capital. : (Ipternational Newsresl) § i I i TODAY’S STOCK awho "care ito pay the .privilege of MAY BUY FALSE ONES NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, July 18. —Zaro Agha, 156 years old, has ar- rived ‘here from Turkey prepared to enjoy the aesthetie, scientific and economic advantages of this world, to see, Amer) observing the man. Agha says he has never tasted alcahol, outhved eleyen wives, be- came the father of 36 children, one at the time he was 96 years of age, and grew a ‘third set of teeth when he was 105 years old. Agha fought dgaifist Napoleon in Egypt and was born before thete was any United States. His last set of teeth lasted 15 years. He says he might buy false ones here. Agha likes women, especially bru- nettes, and who are a little plump. Smam o o comane il Export Drop In June to Low Month Level WASHINGTON, July 10— e International trade with the e United States during June e declined to the lowest month- e ly level the country has ex- ‘e perienced in six years. ] Exports amounted to$299,- e 000,000 for June. . The Department of Com- e merce estimates that this is e less than in any month e since July, 1924, when the e figures were $276,000,000. . . . — e Bumming Rides, Two Men Dead; Train Is Derailed Robert Wark and Eddie L. Brown were not discouraged when informed the Alaska- Washington Airways’ plane could not refuel over Juneau because the planes can only travel at a slow speed of 100 miles an hour. The Wark- Brown plane only makes 90 miles an hour. Wark and Brown are also waiting for favorable weath- er. With Gov. Parks out of this eity, it was not known today whether aid could be given to Bromley in clearing a runway as requested by his backer. At the Governor's of- fice it was considered doubtful i funds were available for any such purpose. The telegram to Gov. Parks said @ mile-long runway would be re- quired for the plane’s take-off after it was loaded with gas. Eith- er Moses Point or Cape Solomon was said to be suitable but both are covered with driftwood which will have to be removed in order to permit. landing and taking off. Bromley, it was said, would hop- off from Tacoma next Tuesday, if the weather was favorable. RED MONOPLANE COMING NORTH Plane for Use of Jesuit Mis- sionaries Hops from Roosevelt Field ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., July 19.—The red monoplane christen- ed “Marquette Missionary,” for use in Alaska by Jesuit missionaries, took off for Buffalo, N. Y., todav. At the controls of the six-passen- ger Bellanca, was George Picken- pack, pilot, with passengers, Very iRev. Phillip I. Delon, 8. J, in TRINIDAD, Colo., July 19.—Pete water was too rough for landing and the afrcraft returned here. To inspect fur farming conditions in ‘Burope, Mr. Langenfeld went abroad last April. He visited Swed- en, Norway, Finland, the Baltic States, Germany, Belgium, and France, in all which fur bearing animals are raised for their pelts. He also visited the large European cities to investigate marketing con- ditions. He returned to the Unit- ed States early this month, and without much delay came to Alas- ka. He and Mr. Steifvater will not go back to the States for sev- eral weeks. Two Lamar Bank Robbers Pay for Crime; Hanged CANON CI’ITCOIO.. July 19.— George Abshier was hanged at 9:40 o'clock last night and Howard Roy- for her safety among the ground watchers. The Graf was compelled to cruise for 20 minutes until the lull in the storm before coming down and mooring. Speedboat Crashes Into Yacht; One Girl Dead CHICAGO, 1Iil, July 19.—The saucy speedboat Whoopee, carrying a party of six young people and a pilot, crashed amidships early to- day into the 14-ton yacht Scarab, off Roger Park Beach in Lake Michigan, catapulting Betty Ayers, aged 18, to her death. The other five, including four men and the pilot, were taken aboard the yacht and brought to shore. Members of the speedboat party said the yacht carried no lights. ———— Independent peach growers of ston was. hanged at 10:37 o'clock, |california, who produce 325,000 tons poth for the same reason, taking pars in the Lamar bank holdup. of the State’s crop, organized to control this year's surplus. NANAIMO, B. C, July 19.—Fire | breaking out at 4 am. destroyed several buildings in the heart of the business section. The loss is estimated at $200,000. Several old landmarks were wiped out. Nick Mamer Flies to Seattle, Back to St. Paul ST. PAUL, Minn,, July 18.—Nick Mamer, of Spokane, has com- pleted a round trip flight from St. Paul to Seattle and return, but failed by 25 minutes of 24 hours in which he expected to make the flight. ———————— CITY COUNCIL IN SHORT SESSION, LITTLE BUSINESS In a short session last night at City Hall, the City Council held a routine session, approving a num- Swedish and Epglish song service Rev. Karlstrom will give short talks in the Swedish and English languages, and will assist Mrs. Karl- TR strom in singing several Swedish An annual shooting match fol-|songs and hymns. A cordial invita- lowed by a dance is held at War-jtion is extended to all to attend irentown, Mo. It dates from 1856. |the services, ; ordered paid. A short road leading to the Ralph Beistline residence in Seatter Tract was approved for construction. ber of monthly accounts which were | Mrs. Karlstrom will assist In a| celled. Information of the acci-lgyrrace by Prof W. M. Davis of dent was received in Juneau by H L. Faulkner, attorney for the com- {pany. He has been advised that the |company officials will not come north this season. REV. KARLSTROM TO PREACH, LUTHERAN CHURCH TOMORROW Rev. O. R. Karlstrom of Van- icouver, B. C., and recently of Se- |attle, will preach at the Resurrec- tion Lutheran Church Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Rev. Karl- strom for many years did work among the fishermen and lumber- men in Seattle. He is now pastor of a large Swedish Lutheran church in Vancouver, B. C. Mrs. Karl- strom will sing at the services. At the evening service, Rev. and | Harvard. : Caves, he says in a report to the | Southwestern Division of the Amer- |fean Association for the Advance- |ment of Science show evidence of |forming by dissolving of solid lime- stone in ‘water. This occurs while |the land is below the ground water | 1evel. Millions of years later when |earth movements have elevated this ')land above water level the caves |stand for ages, slowly refilling with | materials produced by -calcareous ‘drlpptnz. Alcohol Is Substituted For Gas as Motor Fuel | RIO DE JANEIRO, July 19.—Bra- zil's sugar surplus may be fed to |railway motor cars as fuel alco- hol. Buccessful substitution of the fuel |for gasoline, which must be im- |ported, has been made on a rall- way run from Rio de Janeirn to Sao Paulo. Alterations: were made on the |motors to consume the alcohol. The fuel consumption was slightly more '-hln with gasoline, * | QUUI‘A’F!ONS "ilaee and Carl Blanck, victims last \nlght of an attempt to wreck a NEW' YORK, July 19.—-Alaska!train, died today from thelr .in- Juneauy mine stock closed today at, juries. The train was partially de- 8%, Alleghany Corporation 23%, Talled. A rail length had been re- Anaconda ' Copper 50, Bethlehem|moved from the track. Both men Steel 84%, General Motors 44%, Were bumming rides. Granby. 22%, .international Har-{ vester 83%, Kennecott 39':, Mont- gomery-Ward 14%, National Acmel no sale, Packard Motors 15%, 15, 15%, Simmons Beds 27':, Standard Brands 21%, Standard Oil of Cali- fornia 63, Standard Oil of New Jer- sey 73%, United Aircraft 58%, U. 8. Steel 166%, American Can 128%, Fox Films 46%, Hupp Motors 15%, 15%, 15%, Stewart-Warner 25. e Loses Third Attempt To Escape Gallows;To Hang for Two Murders) | SHELTON, Wash., July 19.—Al- fred Schafer has lost his third and final attempt to escape the gallows for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kirk, ranchers. A commis- sion has found Schafer sane and he will be hanged within a week or two, i New Highway inmxico To Be Opened in August HOUSTON, Tex., July 19.—A hard surfaced national highway is being! cut through the mountains and mesquite of “Manana land.” By the first part of August a 717 mile almost direct route from Lar- edo, Tex., on the border, to Mex- | {ico City, is expected to be ready for travel. The road will touch Monterrey, Ciudad Victoria, Pachuca before swinging into Mexico City. From there it will continue southwesterly to Acapulco, a Pacific port. Three Texas cities—Laredo, Hi- dalgo and Brownsville—will be the main points of entry. Ted Gullic and “Red” Badgro, regular outfielders for the St. Louis Browns, not two years ago played in & Class D league. charge of the Jesuit Missionaries in Alaska; J. J. Feltest, Jesuit missionary, also a flier; and Wal- ter H. Kade, of Detroit, aeronau- tieal engineer. « The party planned to spend the 1night at Buffalo, NyY., and to- morrow or Monday, after the plane has been checked there, it will be flown by easy stages to Los An- geles. | From Los Angeles the plane will ibe flown up the coast to Beattle land will be shipped north to Sew- ard by steamer, then by railroad to Fairbanks. The ship will thea be reassembled and flown to Holy Cross, the Jesuit missionary base. The plane will be flown in Al- aska by Feltes. The plane can be converted quickly into a hospital iship. {Charles J. Schultz Takes Life, Seattle SEATTLE, July 19.—Despondent over separation from his wifs, Charles J. Schultz, hanged himself in a down town hotel. His body was found by his son, John. Tha widow and three other childrea |survive, Dorothy, Richard and Charles, in Juneau, Alaska,