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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVL, NO. 5481. X JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, I§30. STREAM SUDDENLY OVER CHAMBER IS T0 |LONE SPINSTER, AGED 80, RULES | ENTERTAIN OLD TIMERS AU 14 Will Commemorate 50th $100,000,000 BEHIND SHUTTERS Anniversary of Found- | ing of City Next Week s rLooRs ! TOTAL COST a8 $22,000000 Old Timers Day, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the found- ing of Juneau, will be featured by the Chamber of Commerce next , Thursday at its regular weekly meeting, it was announced today by E. M. Goddard, Acting President. The anniversary date is August 17. It is the hope of the Chamber to have present as many of the pioneers of the community as pos- sible. W. John and Richard Harris, who with Joseph Juneau made the original discovery of gold, will be among those present. Special Stamp Refused A special -cancellation stamp boosting the projected Pacific Yu- kon Highway, asked by the Cham- ber of Commerce from the Federal postal authorities, was not attain-| able, the Chamber was advised by Postmistress J. L. Spickett, who took | the matter up with the Department | at Washington. She was informed | that the policy of the Department is not to permit any special can-| cellation stamps to be used unless they advertise some of its own ac-! tivities. A resolution was received from the Cordova Chamber of Commerce expressing resentment at what it termed “unwarranted and illadvised propaganda” appearing in special articles in the Seattle Star alleg- ing graft and corruption in the construction of the Alaska Railroad. Want Territorial Meeting A communication from the An- chorage Chamber of Commerce sug- gesting a convention at that city v One of the few remaining I LINCOIN |7 1046 FT. TO SPIRE i@ ‘73 FLOORS . 08T BUILDING 674 FEET 55_FLOORS brownstone fronts” still standing, implacable in the path of New York's progress—the $2,000,000 home of Miss Ella Wendel, 80-year-old recluse and sole heir to $100,000,000. 70's with full black skirts and tlghfi} bodices—and they wore them until | they were shabby. | Not in 25 years has the front door been unbolted and the sisters never appeared in public. | Only after dark did Miss Ella | Inset is her father, John Wendel, founder of the estate, Diagram shows the encroachment of skyscrapers. BIG NEW AMERICAN SHIPS TO OUTCLASS “LEVIATHAN” NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—A $90,000,- 000 shipbuilding program, designed to give America supremacy on tne rich North Atlantic ocean trade | routes, has been launched by the United States Lines. In 1929 this country stood sev- enth among the world’s shipbuild- next month to be attended by dele- 2 gates from all Alaska Commercial 4 ' bodies was referred ‘to the officers 5100].;):!0[,41)‘00 FORTUNE | of the Territorial Chamber of Com- T BY FOUR RULES | merce organized here in 1920. M. NEW YORK, Aug. T.—Here | S. Whittier, Secretary of the All-{| are the rules of real estate by | Alaska Chamber, is not in the clty, | which the $100,000,000 fortune | but is expected to return shortly.|| in New York property left to | It is understood that a meeting of | | Ella Wendel by death of her i that body is contemplated here sister, was built up: | sometime during the 1031 session of | | o0, ik nythi the Alaska Legislature. | R bt 658 The Territorial organization, it Never sell any property. was pointed out, was never entire- Remember that Broadway | ly completed. Only two Chambers moves 10 blocks north every | perfected their affiliation. Thel | decade. | first was the local Chamber, and) | Tenants must make their | Nome later joined. No responses| | own repairs. | were ever received from any of the| There are no helrs. other clubs. E. R. Tarwater, Anchor- | age banker and member of the 1929 .' Legislature, was elected President of the Territorial Chamber. Letter From ‘Dauntless In a letter to Acting President Goddard, Capt. H. R. Moore, com- mander of the British cruiser Dauntless, expressed the deepest ap- preciation for the “cordiality and welcome” shown officers and men af that vessel during its nine-day stay in this port. He also thanked Mr. Goddard personally for his ef- forts to aid in making the visita- tion a success. “I hope T will be my good fortune to again visit you all in Juneau,” Capt. Moore said. Henry W. Wright, Supervisor from the Fifth District, Los Angeles, a member of the Los Angeles Cham- ber of Commerce'’s goodwill tour to Alaska this summer ,wrote thank- ing the Chamber for the courtesies extended him and others of the party during their stay in Juneau. During the past week the Secre- tary’s office received and answered 41 requests for information on Alas- ka, Secretary G. H. Walmsley re- ported. Bullish Enthusiasm Again in Wheat Pits CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 7.—The grain pits are again the scene of bullish enthusiasm after many weeks and prices soared today, wheat gaining from 5 to 6% cents & bushel and corn values rising trom 6% to 7% cents. Both leading NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—Alone In Fifth Avenue's “house of mystery” 80-year-old Ella Wendel lives to- day—last of a line ruled by real! estate for two centures—sole holder of $100,000,000. Until a few days ago two were cloistered in the only dwelling that clings to midtown Fifth avenue, among its soaring sky-scraper neighbors. The other occupant, Miss Ella's sister, Mrs. Rebecca Wendel Swope, is dead and Ella is alone in the tshuttered brick house. The house, built in 1856 for $5,000 and now valued at $2,000,000 was one of the first links in the real estate chain begun by John Wendel who laid upon his descendants the duty of buying the choicest of New York property and never thereaf- ter letting it go. For many years Miss Ella lived with five sisters and a brother, John Gottlieb Wendel. He refused to allow his sisters to marry on the ground that it would put portions of the pretious property under other names than Wendel. He died in 1015. - Only one sister defied the broth- er’s edict. Late in life Rebecca mar- ried Professor Luther A. Bwope, a ‘lmend of the vicar of Trinity church—and thereafter John Wen- I gers and 26 steerage. venture forth for & few moments to | ing nations. Then Paul W. Chap- give the poodle, Tobey, an amnglman, who was born on an Illinois in the high walled garden. But Tobey is dead, the garden is | bare and Miss Ella walks there in the dusk no more, RUM RUNNER RUN ASHORE Chased by Coast Guard Cutter — /Boat and country, says Chapman. Liquor Cargo Fired |“Costing jointly more than s21-1 1000,000, the ships will be 705 feet) NEW LONDON, Conn. Aug. 7.— long, with a beam of 86 feet and A Coast Guard Patrol boat, in a gross tonnage of 30,000. Each will two hour race, failed to overtake accommodate 1,300 passengers. i the speed boat Estelle of New York.' These ships, td be launched in The patrol boat fired a one-pound 1932, will be similar in design to shell across the Estelle's bow. The the Leviathan, but will have two Estelle was beached at Gardiner's funnels instead of three. Their in- Bay and the cargo of liguor ruin- teriors will be even more luxurious ed. The crew escaped in the dark-'than the present flagship of the| ! ping business. | | He bought the United States Lines for $16,000,000 from the gov-| ernment. A policy of expansion, en- | couraged by the Jones-White bill;) | which provides government aid for, | shipbuilding and operation went | into effect. Now America has more, | merchant ship tonnage under con= struction than any country except: Great Britain and Ireland. | Contracts already are signed for | the first two units of the United States Lines’ program. They will{ be two huge 20-knot first-class lin- ers, the largest ever built in this} (farm and never had crossed thej ocean, décided to go: into the ship-| UNDER ARREST CHARGEDWITH - MURDER, WIFE Two Newspapermen Un- cover Evidence Against Texas Attorney BULLETIN—Stinaett, Texas, Aug. 7.—Attorney A. D. Payne, charged with murder of his wife by a bomb explosion, is said to have admitted his guilt. He said he would make a confession. Payne said he was the “mean- €5t man in the world.” He up- | held the reputation of Nirs. Thompson. AMARILLO, Texas, Aug. 7—In- criminating evidence uncovered by two newspapermen has caused the filing of a murder charge against A. D. Payne; Amarillo attorney, more than a month after his wife was blown to pieces by a bomb in the family automobile on June 27. | Payne was arrested and had on “his person two pencilled notes from (safe blowers confessing they placed bombs by mistake in Payne’s automobfle. His son, aged 9 years, jwas permanently maimed by the { blast. to assist in the investigation. { A. B. McDonald, of the Kan-' {sas City Star, and Gene Howe, Edi- | (tor of the Amarillo News-Globe, obtained a statement from Mrs. Verona Thompson, formerly Payne's secretary, that he answered pro- I‘ Payne asked the newspapermen {“he could fix that” The two had | gone on trips together. Feeling against the man and woman caused their removal to the Stinnett jail. NAVAL TREATY " UNDER ATTAGK ‘Rear Admiral Says United States Will Lose Influence WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Aug. 7. —America will go into the next Limitation of Armaments Confer- ence in 1935 with less influence than she has ever had in such gather- ings if she accedes to the move- ment now on foot to build tonnage permitted her by the London Na- val Treaty, Rehr Admiral Hepburn said today before the Limitation of Armament Conference of the In- stitute of Politics. Admiral Hepburn said that other nations could not understand “if we fail to take parity with other ratios than for which we strove at London.” . Admiral Hepburn then said that America’s only weight in world councils lies in her wealth and abil- ity to indulge herself to any de- gree of armament appeals. .- - SEN. HEFLIN IS BRUISED DECATUR, Alabama, Aug. 7.— United States Senator Thomas J. Heflin suffered bruises, cuts and sprained wrists, and three members of his party were cut and bruised when their automobile crashed to- day into a telegraph pole to avoid striking a heavily laden log truck which suddenly drove onto the highway from a side road. ness after setting the Estelle and American merchant marine. government, the United States Lines} Their cost is tentatively placed n‘ SEATTLE, Aug. 7.—Steamer Alas-| 'GUN CLUB TO HAVE | morning with 55 first clsas passen-; cargo afire. | In keeping with an aurvcmont' | ‘program also includes plans for| | 0N wAY NURTH more than 45,000 tons displacement, 1about $35,000,000 apiece. ka sailed for Southeast and South- SHOOT NEXT SUNDAY; | The following passengers are booked for Juneau: the Rev. George' ———p— |with the shipping board at the time Rs ,the line was purchased from the; I ||0 STEAME | construction of two super ships of} with a speed of about 30 knots. i — e | west Alaska ports at 9 o'clock this The Juneau Gun Club will stage Financing Proposal to Straighten Rio Grande MEXICO CITY, Aug. 7.—The In- |tests in his attentions by saying,| MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ARMY GENERALS CHANGE COMMAND | P s . . | | | | " PRICE TEN CENTS "LOWS; 40 PERSONS MISSING TWIN TOWNS FLOOD SWEPT: MANY MISSING |Torrential Rain Causes Stream to Rise Suddenly —Believed .25 Dead | NOGALES, Aug. 7. — Four per= |sons are dead and 40 persons are | missing, according to the police of |Nogales, Sonora State, and it fs | believed that the death list will be |at least 25 persons when full de= {tails are learned. | A torrential rain caused a_flood |that inundated the twin border Maj. Gen. Douglas MacArthur | Icities shortly after midnight ) | The bodies of three women have Sy Associated Press Phote | been found on the Mexican side (left) will become coinmanding gen- and the body of one man on the eral of the Ninth Corps Arsa with headquarters at the San Francisco |American side P! Presidio this fall as Maj. Gen. J. department, They relieve gach oth L. Hines takes over tha Fhilippine er, One hotel and sixteen Mexican |homes on the Sonora side were RECESS TAKEN IN HEARING OF BOMBING CASE State Supreme {Court of California to Decide ‘ About Billings SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug., 7— The California State Supreme Court hearing the 1916 Preparedness Day Bombing case has adjourned until next Tuesday to determine {whether Warren K. Billings can be brought from Folsom Prison to testify. Former Prosecuting Attorney Ed Cunna testified yesterday that Bil- lings and Thomas J. Mooney wers members of a gang of blasters or- ganized to stop the parade and were responsible for ten deaths which re- sulted from the bomb explosion. The hearing by the State Supreme Court is on the pardon applications of Mooney and Billings and result- ed after ‘bringing John McDonald from Baltimore, after he said he perjured testimony at the trials, Yesterday Cunna denied he forced McDonald to identify Mooney and Billings at the trials of the two men and said this was absolutely false. FUR SHORTAGE NOT INDICATED BY STATISTICS Official Figures on Pelts | Exported Controvert | Shortage Reports Statistics on the Alaska fur in- dustry, made public in Fairbanks by H. W. Terhune, Executive Of- ficer of the Alaska Game Commis- sion, controvert general reports that the fur catch of the past trappinz season was far below normal, said an Associated Press dispatch re- celved today by The Empire Mr. Terhune released figures showing the total pelts exported this year to be 173,169 as compared to 166,166 for the year previous. The gain in number was due to ian increase in muskrats taken. Rat skins exported this year numbered 112,000 during the past 'year, and only 89,000 for the year preceding. Excluding muskrats, the |Alaska fur catch declined 9% per jcent. There was an increase in 'otter skins. e BRSO swept away by the swift sweep of &Y . ' |the flood waters. Anti-Saloonist Says | The stream, usually dry and X ’ 4 {running directly between the towns, Lemocrats Will Be !suddenly became a swirling current el . and swept away abode houses. Strong in 1932 For more than three hours the wiraR flood swept on and then the crest ’ LITTLE POINT SABLE, |passed. | Michigan, Aug. 7.—Executives of More than 50 automobiles left in ‘ the Anti-Saloon League gath- cred here today for a confer- | debris. the streets were buried by the ence. Already the League is preparing for another wet and | dry fight in 1932 in the Presi- dential election. | Dr. F. Scott McBride, General | Suporintendent of the Anti-Sa- | The water was three feet deep in the houses. .- MISSIONARY STABBED T0 DEATH.CHINA Rev. ‘Allen Cameron Re- ported Killed in Chang- sha, Trouble Spot HANKOW, China, Aug. 7.—Rev. Mon League, conceded that the Demecratic Party will be strong- or n 1932 than in 1928, He siated however, that the chance of having a Democratic nomi- nee for President, who is friend- ly to Prohibition, “is not very hopeful.” - HUSTON QUITS AS CHAIRMAN | | Asserts He Has Been Sub-! jected to Unjust, Un- warranted Attacks | WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. T— Claudius H. Huston today resigned | as chairman of the Republican Na- tional Committee and asserted that| “no man in political life. has ever| been subject to more unjust and| unwarranted attacks.” | Huston presented his resignation| at a meeting of the members of | the Republican Executive Commit- | tee and made a public statement. | Before the Executive Committee meeting is over, a successor to Hus- ton will be chosen. | Huston said his withdrawal “will give the organization an opportun- | ity of selecting a leader free from the present factional opposition and | permit me, without embarrassing others, to pursue.a course that will | insure in the minds of the Republi- | cans of the country, my right to their continued es! m and confi- dence."” ELOLAPP IS SUICIDE NEW YORK CiiT, N. Y., Aug.! 7.—Edwin J. Clapp, former financial writer, and Olympic hurler, aged 49 vears, more recently employed by Willlam Durant, automobile manu- [to West ! hours, 50 minutes and 43 seconds. ary, is reported to have been stab- bed to death at Changsha, Hunan Province Capital, which was re- cently sacked by Communists. The report, while circulated, lacks confirmation, Rev. Cameron, however, has not been located. He represented the Broadcast Press of Denver, Colo- rado. He cameto China from To- peka, Kansas, in 1891. A Rmeame e o e somerod FRANK HAWKS G 0 P P ARTY!Auen Cameron, American mission- 1 Ul ! MAKES RECORD Flies from New York to Los Angeles, Beating i Turner’s Time LOS ANGELE§, Cal, Aug. 7.— Frank Hawks late yesterday after- noon completed his New York to Los Angeles flight in a record East Continental time of 14 Hawks stopped five times to re- fuel and yet lowered Roscoe Tur~ ner's East to West flight, one stop, record by 3 hours 52 minutes and 11 seconds. Hawks completed his flight in full*daylight. He plans to now as- sail Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's West to East record of 17 hours, 38 minutes and 56 seconds. R S N, WALTER HAGEN facturer, committed suicide today grains sold for better than $1 bushel. OUT OF MATCH del discouraged his sisters from go- ing to church. The sister remained in the old by jumping from the thirteenth | floor of a Fifth Avenue apartment hotel where he was a tenant. Indications for improved condi- E. James and wife, Mrs. C. Call, & regular shoot next Sunday morf-ternational Boundary Commission tions in the fur industry are prom- ! ing at 10 o'clock and as the “Quack,ihag recommended that the United | Oliver Drange, Martin. Holst, A"quleV over your head” season Will States pay 88 per cent and Mexico There is Heat Wave Abating, City of Baltimore BALTIMORE, Maryland, Aug. 7. house, lighted only by sputtering |gas jets, without electricity, tele- | phone, radio or phonograph. They made their own clothes Lindstrom and D. VanPatton. Steamer Queen sailed at 1 o'clock this forenoon for Southeast Alaska ports with 62 first” class passengers and one steerage. Orin 2 large number of the scatter gun artists will be on hand. Incide others will try to top L. F. Morris, | ‘dlly‘ o soon be here, it is anticipated that 13 per cent of the $6,000,000 required to straighten the Rio Grande River from El Paso to Fort Quitman, Tex. ising, Mr. Terhune said an increase in the numbers of grouse, ptarmigan and rabbits, on which fur-bearing animals subsist largely, he pointed out. This ‘s Clapp left a note reading: “Good- | bye, Sue. I've killed myself. Nobody Is to blame but me. I'm cr: e NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., Aug. 7.—Walter Hagen, five times win- ner of the professional golfers’ championship, failed to qualify in | ¢ \ B ) T B ing. d then [ 4 . & F‘)Th:t k;‘e::s Y;vmn‘su:?-:;;%:wuhout the aid of a sewing ma-|rTyrin J. E. Wild and wife and one m‘l" Ts:hsfl?zn%tnllg'anh W. Dolorec Del R.lo, Fllm regarded as a hopeful sign for the Commumsts Urged to the Mezropoluar_a test “’_“_d took. ret 1 Ichine, designed In the style of the|steerage are booked for Juneau. Council scord a8 ds Di future. . . A 149 for 36 holes and missed the are reported under control. . sl W, Council. has made- s rec: i Actress, We irector LTSS Aid Chinese Revolution chance to enter the National Tour- - * 3 1 | . namgent here in September by four i S IONS T A E YE AR S T TODAY’S STOCK [ . | sANTA BARBARA, Cal, Aug. 'l,Tank Cars Carrying MOSCOW, Aug. 7—A clarion call strokes, | K i QUOTATIONS | {Hoover Invited to (e e dlovac | Water to Ky. Town has been isaled through the Pravda | — — | 3 edric 3 al orgs e Communist OFF WORKERS, LIVFS > ‘ Address Amer. Labor|ari Direcior, were married Venter | SHELBYVILLE, Kentucky, Aug.|Party, to the masses ana Commu- Flier Wark Has ¥ o 4 4 NEW YORK CITY, N. ¥, Aug. — jday atternoon at the old San Frah-, 7o 0l eather has Gaused |Rist ‘Parties throughout the world 1 Trouble Financing Flight to Tokyo I'L — Closing quotations of L.:la;im erage miss mine stock today ‘%, PamAn of Hib oL the o i‘l‘l‘::‘}‘)‘;ny Corporation 21, Anacon- ary is 73 per cent of that of the|gy 503, Dethlehem Steel 82%, Gen- WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 dent William Green, of the 2 can Federation of Labor, h2 tended an invitation to Presi to support the Chinese revolution The Pravda urges that “in each factory or enterprise throughout the world and in every port there Presi- ciscan Mission here. Graneville Davis a water famine here. Tank cars are due today to give the city a supply for drinking purposes. —————-——— ex- lent ' ;l—)bott VATICAN CITY, Aug. 7.—The missionary who ventures into far- off fields to convert pagans to|general average span. For mission-|era] Motors 46, Oranby 24%, In-iHoover to address the annual con= Di H Attack! should be established committees|® HOQUIAM, Wash., Aug. 7. ® Christiantty, ‘sacrificgs from 14 folaries in Africa this percentage I Sernational Harvester 80, Kennecott | vention of the.A. F. of L. at 5osion O Hoart h THE WEATHER ® Ltor enforcing a hands-off policy in|® —Residents of Ocean City ® 16 years ‘of 1. 1Mo, W3 Dures o |eyen Jower, batuk duly 75 sep centl @y, MmN IERT N kot S OAKLAND, Cal, Aug. T—Strick-/ | (By the U. S. Weather | |the Chinese revolution.” § Dear here, declined to donate & {8 ¥ the Cangregation for Propagation of (of the life of misslonarles in other |tlonsl ATRE, Ko 5 B4 24%, | en by & heart attack, Graneville Bureau) | S "TURNING|® DProposed flight from the' e i the faith. Jaae L dard Brands 10%, Standard Shortage of Water [Davis Abbott, aged 60 years, weal-| o - s | OLIVE RETURNING!$ Proposed flight from the: & This Congregation, which directs| In order to better this condition, Oil of California 63%, Standard T'I! B s lis thy, socially prominent, and a min- & g P and vistne | Oliver Drange of the Juacau Baid|® cnaidering Tacoma as thes il Roman Catholic misslonary activi- | the Congregation is considering|n) of New Jersey 7i%, United eatens apoli8 ing capitalist of’ Pledmont, died| Forecast for Juneau and viein-| Oliver Drange of the Juneau Cold |2 Cneidering Tacoma ss he |8 ties, is studying selentific methods means of instructing missionaries|si craft 59, U. S. Steel 166%, Am- — _ (here yesterday. He had'renredl y, beginning al pam. tod y,‘ | ge pia bl ki Tiew: Dl o ii thening the missionary’s ac-'!n medical subjects. It is also con-|erican Can 126%, Fox Films 45%,| ANNAPOLIS, Maryland. A 7—|{from active pursuits but still re- 'l'adl_r Lonighdz, FrIuIA- m{clreasnz trip to the o’ 1mumry, s :] p?: 2 of leng! 2 Virts E 5 i his ‘tained interests in Alaska and Ne- cloudiness and cooler; gentle var-%senger aboard the steamer Alaska, tive career. sidering establishment of a corps|Hupp Motors 13%, 13%, 13%, Stew: g:; WY::":Q:,‘;, ::raer:;:{ vada mines, iable winds, salling from Seattle this morning. ® ®# © © ¢ 0 0 9 ¢ 6999w S The statistics show that the av-|of medical missionaries, art-Warner 25%.