The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 9, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVI, NO. 5483. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDA! AUGUST 9, 1930. ESS OF ASSOCIATED PR MEMBER " PRICE TEN CENTS HOOVER CALLS CONFERENCE ON DROUGHT SITUATION RAILROADS ORDERED TO CUT RATES COOLIDGEIS MISTAKEN ON ONE SUBJECT Navy OfficiE—Deny State- ment Best Plane En- gines Made Abroad WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 9.— The Navy Department, which not‘ so- long ‘ago took Calvin Coolidge’s | slightest word as law, is on record | today with an objection to the pm-‘l nouncement of the former Prcsi-} dent. In a recent syndicated article dealing with aircraft, written byl the former President, occurred the following: | “A Navy Officer reports that the best engine is made abroad.” | ' Acting Secretary Jahncke and Rear Admiral Moffett were quick to .say the United States Navy has the best airplane engines ever made. - e+ - PETERSBURG DUE HERE TONIGHT OR TOMORROW Sitka Has Busy Day— Treadwell Yukon Plane | Goes to. Carcross In accordance with plans an- nounced yesterday, the seaplane Petersburg is thought by Larry Parks, local representative of the Alaska Washington Airways, to have left Seattle today for Juneau, inasmuch as he has received no advices to the contrary. Possibly, the craft may reach here late this evening, but more lkely it will stay at Ketchikan tonight and pro- ceed to this city tomorrow. The seaplane Sitka had a busy day yesterday. In the forenoon it went to Hawk Inlet to bring Hans Floe, superintendent of the P. E.| Harris and Company cannery there, | and his two children to Juneau. n‘} then went to Kake to meet the| seaplane Wrangell and to mmsfer“ to..it E. Harry Freedman, vice president and general manager of the United States Alaska Packing Company, who was to be taken by the Wrangell to Port Herbert. On the flight to Kake the Sitka also had as passengerg Grover C. Winn, attorney; Arthur Ficken, Talman Gross and Georgia White, all of whom returned here with the plane. New Pilot Comes Here The Sitka brought from Kake Clark Wing, who had come from Ketchikan on the Wrangell and who will serve as relief pilot here for, the Alaska Washington Airways. | ©On return to Juneau ,the Sitka,. with Mr. Floe and his children,| went to Hawk Inlet. Last evening| the seaplane went to Funter Bay to do patrol work for the Alaska Pacific Packing Company, and in' coming back here it brought Mrs.| Florence Holmquist. { This morning with Pilot Wing and Mechanic Hatcher, the Sitka went to Funter Bay to pick up Gil- bert W. Skinner, president of the Alaska Pacific Packing; Mrs. Skin- ner, and Mrs. Frank Clancy. It took them to Kake, whence they were to be taken by the seaplane Wran- i | “Alimony Club of America” To Seek Divorce Reforms of Tennis Court :for contempt or committed to jail |for failure to pay alimony, today sought incorporation of the Alimony Club of America. The articles of ‘Incorporation of the club, sent to Springfield for filing with the secretary of state, limit membership to men who are divorced, have been sued for divorce or are suing for divorce. Among others, the articles set out the following purposes: “To obtain more deliberate action | FLEISCHMANN ONHIS$1,250,000 - YACHT IS HERE Multi - Millionaire of Cali- fonia Likes Southeast Alaska Fishing “So the Glory Hole's filled with water,” commented Major Max C. Fleischmann, multi-millionaire of Santa Barbara, Cal, as he looked in divorce cases and a more just|across Gasineau Channel toward| ‘Alleghany Corporation 20, Anacon- and equitable adjustment. “To test the constitutionality in all state and federal courts of laws k] under which men are imprisoned for failure to pay alimony. “To advocate the enactment of laws requiring courts to examine the merits of a divorce case before allowing temporary alimony. “To procure the establishment of a court of domestic arbitration in which ordinary domestic diffi- culties may be arbitrated by a Jjudge in private. “To protect men and society gen- erally against the so-called mod- ern woman who considers marriage a mere step incident to a suit for divorce that she may engage in the business of collecting alimony.” SEVEN MINERS DEAD, CAVE-IN Sixteen Are Injured—Ac- cident Occurs 1,900 Feet Underground If the celebrated Helen Wilis ' Moody is the queen of tennis, then | this smiling American must be hail- | ed as the crown princess of the | POTTSVILLE, Penn., Aug. 9.— same sport, She is Helen Jacobs, Seven miners were killed and 16 2::}'"&‘“}35;:"& sc"‘:]i;‘;":?a!_ccm}"d injured in a cave-in in the Gilbert aristocracy of the cou o Mios Jae| Colliery of the Philadelphia and cobs i3 shown as she arrived on| Reading Coal and Iron Company. the 8. S. Mauretania following par-| Twenty-three men were in a gang ticipation in affai. imbedon,) in a stope when the top of the rock - became loose and fell 50 feet, car- rying debris and timbers, 1900 feet }under the ground. B 5 2 D, T R COL, LINDBERGH =555~ on the steamers due in port to- night or tomorrow. The steamers HICKSVILLE, New York, Aug. are Princess Alice, Alameda, Ad- 9.—Col Charles A. Lindbergh and miral Evans and Alaska. his wife took off this morning in ST Mrs. Lindbergh's new biplane fron PENN A. C. CREW “DOUBLES” the Aviation - Country Club for Norih Haven, Maine, the Morrow PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 9.—Each summer home. This is the first member of the Pennsylvania A. C. flight Mrs. Lindbergh has made eight-oared shell, which will par- since the son was born. 'ticipate in the international regat- {ta at Leige, Belglum, in August, is TO RECEIVE GOLD MEDAL | a sculler as well as a sweep-swing- WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 9.— €. The crew averages 173 pounds. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh will fly S here next Friday to receive from, WILLARD AGAINST FOUL RULE the hands of President Hoover, the Congressional Medal commemorat- ing his achievements in the ad- vancement of aviation. ——,———— | LOS ANGELES, Aug. 9. — Jess !Willard, the realtor, but formerly | heavyweight champion of the fistic | world, says in his opinion, the foul rule now enforced by the New York boxing commission will “demoralize boxing and will fall through.” ———— Woods Morton, manager of the Canadian Bank of Commerce of Vancouver, B. C., and Mrs. Morton, visited in Juneau Thursday while the steamer Prince George was in port. ‘They are visiting at Skag- way and Atlin today and will re- [turn south on the same vessel. ———————— . . | TODAY’S STOCK | | QUOTATIONS | . . NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. Aug.! 9.—There was no sale of Alaska Juneau mine stock today. Closing quotations on other stocks are: da Copper 49%, Bethlehem Steel 8%, General Motors 43%, Granby 23%, International Harvester 77%, Kennecott 381, Montgomery-Ward More than 70 foreign countries 133%, National Acme 12%, Packard &re using Ameircan-made bathing bl 8 |Motors 13%, 13%, 13%, Simmons C&ps and slippers. Do Xake, P |Beds 23%, Standard Brands 18%,] Late this afternoon and this T Standard Oil of California . 61%, Linotype Punches evening the Sitka will take Hishing o000 o of New Sereay 8811 Y P! parties to Lake Hasselberg. To- vy Aircratt 52%, U. S. Steol Out Story Whichls morrow, after patrol work for the j.o,." Apoioan can 116%, Fox sl Peril Straits Packing Company, it gy o g O RN GE Set in Six Towns will again take out fishing p""‘es"stewut-WBrner 24, 235, 24. | | gell to Ketchikan. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Aug. 9.~From a single keyboard, a White Plains linotype machine operated in six cities in West Chester County last night on a tele-typesetter. The operator punched out a story which was automatically set up in lines and moulded by linotype ma- chines in six other plants of the West Chester County Publishers, Inc., which operates seven newspapers in the country. The tele-typesetter is a com- bination of linotype machines The Treadwell Yukon Mlnlngl Company’s airplane left Juneau this morning for Carcross, Y. T. It was Efl'idl Tribesmen Ar e piloted by E. Wasson and it carried | . | but one passenger, Livingston Wer-{ Advancmg on P eslmwar., necke, General Supefintendent of | i the Treadwell-Yukon Company, at| PESHAWAR, India, Aug. 9.—Ef-| Wernecke, Y. T. For a week, he'ridi tribesmen, undaunted by fire has been looking over the mining from British planes, are advhncing | situation in the Taku district. {upon this city. They have had sev-! ————— eral advance encounters with the British troops but the casualties are | not divulged. The march is said| |to be inspired by priests of the: Herbert J. Johnson, Chicago, comptroller of the Chicago, Bur- lington and Quincy Railroad, ac companied by Mrs.. Johnson and Efridi. | s bheh? son Robert W., is making the | ———.——— now used by the press associa. Southeast Alaska tour on the' J. B. Shobert of San Francisco, tions in sending news from city steamer Prince George, js staying at the Alaskan hotel. | to city, L5 2 s i the Douglas’ side from a Juneau wharf this morning after he hndi come ashore from his palatial yacht, | Haida, anchored in mid stream.| “Too bad,” he said. “Too bad from | industrial considerations; too bad {from the viewpoint of the tourist. It was an interesting attraction easily seen, as it were, in a show window—Juneau'’s show window. “The poor condition of the sal- salmon is a moderately priced feod. It ought to hold all its old con- sumers, besides appealing to many new ones—the porterhouse orowd that played the wrong side of the stock market. It will be in strong demand again when bereft specu- lators becomz aware of its merits. Fish Ladder Urged “Speaking of fish,” Major Fleisch- mann continued with earnestness; “the federal or the territorial gov- ernment, or some of the cannery interests ought to spend a little money in installing a fish ladder in Pavloff Cove, Freshwater Bay. The ascent is not high to'spawning grounds in a nearby lake, bat thousands of salmon bruise them- selves to death in trying to make it. I lifted some over the rocks.” “I have been in Southeast Alaska several times, the last occasion in 11907. Mrs. Flelschmann- and my cousin, K. W. Watters, who are with me, are making their first visit, and the present voyage was under~ taken chiefly for them.” Guests Aboard Yacht Guests of Major Fleischmann aboard the Haida, besides Mrs. Fleischmann and Mr. Watters, whose home is in Boston, are Mrs. Watters and Clarence McDonald, of Santa Barbara. The craft left San Francisco July 21, proceeded up the Pacific Coast to Seattle, and then came to Ju- neau. Her owner is an ardent sportsman, particularly fond of fish- ing, and the voyage north has been leisurely with frequent stops to per- mit him to indulge in his favorite pastime. This afternoon or tomor= row morning the vessel will leave Juneau, go to Taku Glacier, and then to Rocky Pass in Hamilton Bay to fish. Agcall at Sitka is doubtful. The craft will not cruise Westward. Her early return to the States is contemplated. The Haida is captained by J. D. Lond. She was bullt in Kiel, Ger- many, last year at a cost of $l- 250,000. She has two Diesel en- gines, each of 800 Norsepower, i§ 215 feet long and carries a crew of 28. Her equipment in every re- spect is designed and make for ef- ficiency without regard to expense. Her Iull'nishmgs are luxurious. Sold Yeast Interests Major Fleischmann succeeded his father in the control and manage- ment of the Fleischmann Yeast Company. He was chairman of the Company's board of directors wi it was merged a few years ago with other yeast companies into a giant combination under ‘the financial wizardry of the famous Wall Street banking house of J. Pierpont Morgan and Company. Major Fleischmenn is of medium height, with a strong, well-knit physique devoid of fat, yet not slender. He is 53 years old, a vei- eran of both the Spanish-American and the World War. Possessed of commanding business ability and still endowed with wonderful encr- gy, his retirement' from comm cial activities is astonishing. The fact that his vigorous, dominatin nature can be content with i complaisant existence that obt2 on a yacht, even though her pointments leave nothing to be de- sired in the way of ease and ¢ {fort, offers another instance of biological truth that the hun species can be adjusted to an: vironment. ——————— Alfred Axtell, sawmill worker cessfully underwent a surgica eration &t St. Ann's Hospital Lo n mon trade surprises me. Canned| Bennett’s Life \Story Has Plot {Of Horatio Alger MONTREAL, Aug. 9. — The Rt. Hon. R. B. Bennett, who is the new prime minister of Can- ada, may credit much of his success to his regular attend- ance of the Methodist Sunday School in the days of his youth. His Sunday school teacher became Mrs. R. B. Eddy, whose husband died leaving her mil- | lions amassed in the lumber | business. When she died she left Bennett, whose friendship with the Eddy family began in Sun- day school, a share of the for- tune so large that today he is one of the wealthy men of Canada. His wealth is said to be between $5,000,000 and $10,- 000,000 ————— APPEALS COURT 'REVERSES HILL IN'LOGAL CASE ‘Suit Over Winter & Pond Property to Be Retried as Result of Ruling | | | | | | In a decision handed down re- cently in the Ninth Circuit Court jof Appeals at San Francisco, the {decree of Judge E. Coke Hill in the local United States District itie Goldstein and Mrs. Belle Simp- son, against E. P. Pond, involving the ownership of the Winter and Pond building on Front Street, was reversed. The Appellate Court held that the local court had erred in refusing to admit evidence showing Mr. Pond had deeded one half interest in the property to his wife, Harriett M. Pond prior to entering into the con- tract with the plaintiffs. Allega- tions of fraud, made by the de- fendant, were unfounded, the Ap- pellate Court said. The effect of the decision will be to cause a new trial, it was said to- day by 8. Hellenthal, of the firm of Hellenthal and Hellenthal, who rep- resented Miss Goldstein and Mrs. Simpson in the trial. Just when this will take place is not known. The suit was based on an agree- ment entered into between the plaintiffs and Mr. Pond, dated April 26, 1927, under vhich the latter agreed to sell the property in question for the sum of $11,000. On April 28, $1,000 was paid to him as part payment, and later was re- turned by him but refused by the purchasers. On April 30, they ten- dered $10,000 to Mr. Pond to com- plete payment which was refused by him and deposited by the pur- chasers with the Clerk of the local Federal court. Suit being filed to compel per- formance of the contract, Mrs. Pond filed a complaint in interven- tion, claiming to be one-half owner of the property under a deed given in 1924, and Winter and Pond Company filed a similar complaint claiming certain rights under a five-year lease given in February, 1927. Both of these complaints were dismissed by Judge Hill. In its decision, the Appellate Court, while reversing Judge Hill, specifically as to its ruling against admitting in evidence the deed giv- €n Mrs. Pond, held that Miss Gold- Stein and Mrs. Simpson are en- 1'I‘WO BREMERTON, WASHINGTON, BOYS €LAIM RECORD FOR TREE SITTI 7 | | PRESIDENT ACTS ON RELIEF FOR STRICKEN AREAS Governors of Many States | Are Called for Con- } ference Thursday SITUATION REPORTED | AS MOST APPALLING Damage Caused in Ken- tucky Alone Is Estimat- | Court . for the plaintiffs, Miss Min- e 2 N LEARD (left) and STUART BABBITT PRESTO BREMERTON, Wash., Aug. 9.—Claiming the world’s record, Preston Leard and Stuart Babbitt, both 15 years of age, climbed down from their perch in a tree late yesterday afterncon after being aloft 518 hours and 50 minutes. They climbed down after being told that Nelson McIntosh, of Ashland, Kentucky, a tree sitter, fell to his death pulling | TWO MUST DIE ELECTRIC CHAIR Man and Woman to Pay for Killing Highway Patrol Croporal Census Bureau Makes Corrected Preliminary Report WASHINGTON, August 9.— A corrected preliminary report of the 1930 population of conti- nental United States, announc- | ed by the Census Bureau, plac- | es it at 122,698,190. This is an increase of 16,987,570, or 16.1 per | cent,, over the census rcturns of | NEWCASTLE, Penn, Aug. 9— 1920. This is 31,282 under the Mrs. Irene Schroeder and W. Glenn compilation made by the Asso | Dague were today sentenced to die clated Press on the basls of 8u- |, %0 c1oirie chair for the killing pervisors’ returns. i " 2 . lof Highway Patrol Corporal Brady ask: 2 his Alaska's. population in = this on December 27, last year. preliminary report is 58738, an "y 00 pigcirand sentenced the tul:‘; 1920 ::n::: per cent. OVer |, v after deny ing them hew trials. 3 The Goveruor of the state sets ' i the date for the execution. BLAST KlLLs The .wo were convicted 2, KIRKLAND Exploson Is Not Solved— Propose Special Not Believed Part of |U-S. Mission Be Cleaners’ War \Sent to Russia KIRKLAND, Wash, Aug. 9—A| blast in a cleaning plant here caused the death of two, James C.| Carey, owner, and Kirby Turner,| | | last, Spring following their capture in | Arizona after a gun battle in which was a Deputy Sheriff wounded. — - eee fatally MOSCOW, August 9.—Maxim Litvinov, Foreign Commission- er, has proposed that a Spscial Mission be sent to Soviet Rus- sia by the United States Cham- ber of Commerce. Following this proposal, talk of American rec- ognition of Soviet Russia again became prevalent. The Foreign Commissioner in- dicatcd that Soviet Russia might receive easier treatment at the hands of American dip- lematic groups than heretofore accorded. His announcement was made following the lifting of the ban on Russian wood pulp, truck driver. The explosion is unsolved al- though it is believed a gasoline! tank aceidentally became Iignited. | The authorities doubted connec-| tion with recent bombings of clean-| ers’ and dyers' plants in Seattle| during the price war. ! R g tJack Pickford Is to Marry Stage Actress i SALINAS, California, Aug. 9.— Jack Pickford, aged 33, screen lumi- bt - Itoday. titled to at least one-half interest in the property, and in the “event E. P. Pond is able to convey only nary, and Mary Mulhern, aged 22, New York stage a ured a marriage license esterday. Large Plane Is {Piloted at Night by Instruments, Beams he; a half-interest therein. the pur-|They will be wed at Pebble Beach/ chaser seeking specific performance |in three days, the time required to, is entitled to have the purchase|intervene, under th;’cmxfomla law, | DETROIT, Michigan, Aug. 9. price diminished pro tanto.” from the issuance > marriage| _A transport pilot brought a license. tri-motored plane, loaded with Law Students, Poli RO Detroit Tast night, fying. phind rol t blind e Shnaeals, Pavice [EQUALIZATION BOARD | J53"suiaca onty by instraments Clash, Brazilian Town| TO MEET NEXT WEEK directed by radio beams. Pilot W. E. Larned was seat- ed in the. cabin in front of the plane leaving only a small space for his observer to watch for any approaching planes, but octherwise guided only by instruments. Pilot Larned said the flight demonstrated effectiveness of the instrfents and radio beam for flying of large cross- SAO PAULO, Aug. 9.—One Brazil-| The annual session of the City| jan soldier was killed i a clashlgoud of ' Equalization will open {between law students and the Police |next Tuesday, it was announced to- and eleven persons were wounded. day by City Clerk H. R. Shepard.| The students rebelled when they |1t will review the annual tax assess- were not permitted to parade iniment rolls and be ready to hear honor of Joao Pessoa, assassinated protests from tax payers on the cur- President of the State of Parahyba.|rent assessments, | The first meeting will be held| continent passenger planes. Sam Robb of the Alaska PacificTuesday from 2 to 4, pm. and bt s < bide Salmon Corporation was in town other hearings will follow at the| Texas officials have ordered var on cougars which cross from ‘Mexico and kill deer, l He is a guest at the Gas- same hours on successive days up tineau, ‘to and including Friday. ed at $100,000,000 | ' ASHINGTON, D. C, iAuyz. ¢.—As the result of the ‘appalling drought situation in Ythc Mississippi Valley States ‘and those extending to the ;castward, two important ac- :liflns resulted today, one a {call for a further conference lof important officials with {President Hoover and the !second an order by the In- |terstate Commerce Commis- ’\"inn authorizing reduced freight rates by railroads to the drought stricken areas. President Hoover has sum- moned Secretary of Agricul-” ture Hyde and James Stone, member of the Farm Board, 10 his: Virginia camp for fur- ther coriferences brought by the drought situation. At the White House it is announced replies have been received from Gov. Clyde M. Reed of Kansas, and Gov. Harvey Parnell of Arkansas, saying they will be on hand at the conference of the President and Government of - ;ficials, and Governors of other |uffected States. The confer- |ence will be held next Thurs- |day. In issuing the authorization for |reduced freight rates to the drought !stricken areas, the Interstate Com- |merce Commission asserted the em- lergency was created by the long dry goell. | The order issued authorizes all !interstate carriers to lower tariffs (on “livestock feed, water and such |other articles of traffic as may be |found necessary,” without observ- imgr the usual requirements as to | Publication of a notice announcing rate changes. The authorization ex- |pires October 31. “ GREAT DAMAGE, KENTUCKY | LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, Aug. 9. \-—As seared crops, burned pastures jand dried streams gave mute tes- |timony of the extent of the drought damage. Damage is estimated by ithe Louisville Courier-Journal in excess of $100,000,000. State and county officials arz busy collecting data to determine steps to be taken to relieve the stricken areas. | County agents . throughout the State report the situation as “se- rious, very acute and alarming.” Livestock slumped from 1 to 3 cents a pound because of lack of pesturage. Damage to the tobacco crop is estimated at from 25 to 50 per ceat or about $30,000,000. — .-~ Temperature of 111Y% Registered In Idaho Town SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 59— | The highest temperature in the | Inland Empire yesterday was approximately the highest in the country. Orofino, Idaho, re- ported a temperature of 111'¢ degrees, a high record. The temperature in Spokane was 102 and Couer d'Alene 105. | \ | | | i | | | { { ‘Chinel:ReE:;re VBemg— i Executed by Nationalists HANKOW, China, Aug. 9—Con- tinuing rigid reprisals against Com- munists, Nationalist troops have executed 10 Chinese Reds,