The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 12, 1930, Page 8

¥ 1.G.C. CHAIRMAN T0 COME NORTH Frank McManamy to Ac- company Senate Com- mittee, Investigation TTLE, * Aug. 12.—The Sena- torial Committee to inspect the Alaska Rallroad leave tonight on the destroyers. Frank McManamy, Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion, will accompany the Senate Committee to investigate the Alas- ka Railroad on its mission to Al- aska, it was made known today by Gov. George A. Parks, The party, numbering eight, will sail from Seattle today aboard tht destroyers Wasmuth and Perry. Rear Admiral R. C. Coontz, re- tired, will have charge of the ex- pedition, on account of his fam- iliarity with Alaska and local con- ditions. He was recalled to active duty for the assignment. Members of the committee are: Senators Howell, Nebraska; Thomas, Idaho, and Kendrick, Wyoming. Other members are: Mr. McManamy, Le- 1oy Price, Frank Milberg and W C. Helfner. The destroyers are scheduled to arrive here next Saturday. The hour of arrival, however, is not known, SPENDS ONE DAY, SEATTLE SEATTLE, Aug. 12—Frank Mc- Manamy, of Washington, D. C. Chairman of the Interstate Com- merce Commission, who accompan- ies the Senatorial Committee nortn to inspect the Alaska Rallroad, is accompanied by Secretary W. C Heffner and stenographer F. C. Milberg. Chairman McManamy spent yes- terday with officials of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and railroad men. He saw active rallroad serv- ice with the Pennsylvania, Pere Marquette and other Eastern and Middle Western railroads as loco- motive firemen, engineer, air brake inspector and became Inspector of A We Suggest— DILLARDS —the New crat but President Harding ap- rointed him to the commission in 1023, GOV. PARKS AND GUESTS MAKE VISIT TO SITKA the week-end at George A. Parks and several guests returned here yes- terday, making the trip aboard the Brant, flagship of the fieet of the United States Bureau of Fish- eries. In the party were: Miss Mary Cathering Thompson, niece ot the Governor, Miss Beryl Reare, Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Saunders, +all house guests of the Governor, and Miss Elizabeth Pullen. The Brant left here Saturday afternoon and went through Peril Strait to Sitka where most of Sun- day was k])en! ———— NEW HORRORS PROMISED IN CHINA FIGHT Reds Threagto Butcher All Persons Between 15 and 35 HANKOW, China, Aug.12—Gov- ernment troops are reported to have evacuated Changsha and re- occupation of the city by the Com- munists is said to be imminent. Thousands of Chinese are fleeing from the city in terror. Reports from Honan said tortur- ing and eexcuting of about 250 Communists daily progresses. It is said the Reds have sworn to butcher all persops between the ege of 15 and 35. SIX MILLION ARE JOBLESS LONDON, AIIL 12. — Unem- ployment has reached a new high record in the Old World. Germany announced unem- After spending Sitka, Gov. CHOCOLATE CREATION 118 Seward St. Phone 25 DT | Pire ployment now numbers 2,757,000, | Great Britain's unemployment | passed the 2,000,000 mark last month. | It is estimated that nearly 6,000,000 are jobless in six Eu- | ropean countries. ————————— Joseph Zaloudek, Omaha grocery clerk, won $24,000 on the English Derby, and had never seen a horse race or bet on one before. — e Ola papers row saie at The Em- ainst ~and positive protectionn 30!’ er runs ROLLINS RUNSTOP HOSIERY “Tomorrow’s Styles Today” “Juneau’s Own Store” Ladies’ Fin Priced at $4.95, $5.50, $6.00, $6.50, $7.0( e Footwear ) and $7.50 ! J. M. SALOUM FRONT STREET Next to Gastineau Hotel Safety Applianc for the Inter- state Commerce Commission in 1908. He was a member of the committee which drafted the pres- ent safety standard. During the| World War he was in charge of| locomotive and car maintenance | for the Government. He is a Demo- | y |[manding influence in the South. SULZER RETURNS OF 3343 MILES {ernor of New York, who first came |Most of them are placer mining,” 'be the most valuable in its his- E.B. STAHLMAN, PUBLISHER OF TENN,, IS DEAD Fighting Journalist Passes Away as Result of Overwork (Continuea trom Puge One) authoritie: portation. n the country on trans- and circuitous career, 1843, his father died, lgaving his mother and seven children depend- ent upon this son. Crippled in School Although he had been crippled when a school bench fell on his leg, the boy became a member of a railroad construction gang near Gallatin, Tenn., during the Civil ‘War. When the general managor of the road chanced to pass and see the frail youth, he remarked that he was “too light for that heavy work.” The boy replied: “I was hired to do a man's work and I'm going to do it.” The general manager was im- pressed by his determination, and promoted him to a clerkship. Sub-| sequently he went to Bristol, Vir- | ginia-Tennessee, on a railroad lum- | ber job and while there became | connegfed with the Southern Ex- press Company as traveling audl-‘ tor, and moved in 1866 to Nash- ville. Five years later Mr. Stah!-| !man—who was known as “Major” —became contracting freight agent for the Louisvile & Nashville| Rallroad from which position he rose to General Freight Agent, Ceneral Traffic Manager and a Vice-Presidency, and later to Vice- | |President of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway, the \“Monon Route.” He also served a3 |commissioner of the Southern Steamship and Railway Lines. | Transportation Man i While he was with the Loulsville, New Albany & Chicago, that line! build a road between Chicago and | Indianapolis and established through | |lines for passengers and freight" the Southern Steamship and Rail- way Lines was organized after he joined it, taking into its member- |ship all the railroads south of the Ohio River and east of the Mis- /sissippi to Washington, besides five | coastwise lines. Major Stahlman was equally suc- cessful as a newspaper publisher, When he purchased the Nashville Banner, it had a circulation of only |a few thousand, but terminating |bis rallroad affiliations, he devoted Limself entirely to the duties of editor and publisher and developed the paper to a position of com- Major Stahlman was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and was -one of the organ- |izers of the national Young Men's Christian Association. . He was a thirty-second degree Mason. In 1866 he married Miss Mollie T. Claiborne of Nashville, and three children were born to them. Mrs. Stahlman died in 1915, and in 1920 he married Sarah Shelton of ‘Nashville. They had one child. - FROM FLIGHTS Former GoEor of New York Tells of Activity in Chandelar Having traversed 3943 miles on mining business in remote parts of Alaska since the middle of last month, Willlam Sulzer, former gov- North in 1881, is on his way to the States, well satisfied with de- velopment of his northern interests this season. About July 16, from Cordova, where he had arrived on the steamship Alaska, he flew to McCarthy; then to White River, Eagle, Chisana, Copper Center, Fair- banks, Beaver, Fort Yukon, Chan- delar and over the Endicott Moun- tains into the Arctic region. By airplane, he returned to Cordova last week to board the steamship Aleutian. | Gov. Sulzer is working properties in the White River, Chandelar and Ketchikan districts. 60 Working in Chandelar “About 60 men are working the Chandelar district this summer. he said. “I am confident this season the gold output of the district will (ory. I am developing quartz prop- erty there. My operations are pro- gressing nicely. Before the end of next year, I expect to have ready {for operation an Allis Chalmers stamp Mill. “In the White River district, there is considerable activity. I am very optimistic of the outlook there. marked by milestones | of hard wor When he retirsd at the age of 86 he had never had a vacation, even though he went to work as a boy. Soon after his! family came from Germany, where he was born on September 2, |the student body, according to W.| |rromises to be of even greater in- {elements, wherever it is possible. |Nowland B. Zane, art; M. H. Doug- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1930 to think has her most delightful climate. Summers are ideal. Win- ters record low temperatures but the air is dry and stlll, and the cold is not noticeably severe, Airplane Is Great Factor “The airplane is to be the most important factor in the develop- ment of Alaska. This summer 1 have flown in several weeks over an area that I could not have covered in fewer than several years by any other means of travel, “Anybody that feels at all de- spondent over Alaska’s possibilities or her future should take a flight like mine. He will see more and learn more than he has ever dream- |ed of. He will become convinced her development in wealth, her growth to grandeur cannot be de- layed much longer.” | Governor Sulzer will disembark from the Aleutian at Ketchikan, to spend ten days in connection with his mining interests in that neigh- borhood. He will then return to ‘New York. COLLEGE BRINGS STUDENTS NORTH Oregon University Sponsors i Second Annual Sum- mer Cruise Here (Special to The Empire) UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EU- | |GENE, Ore., Aug. 12—Their “cam- {pus” the shores of the Pacific clear up to Skagway, a faculty of ten| and a student body of over 115 will leave Seattle August 14 for the second annual Alaskan sum- mer cruise of the University of| {Oregon. The trip, which will take | in some of the most picturesque |scenes of the Alaskan country, will| last about two weeks on the boa‘, with one week of study on the campus before the trip starts. | Ten States will be represented in G. Beattie, director of the cruise These include California, Idaho,| ‘Washington, Utah, Illinois, Norta Dakota, Arizona, Nevada, Texas and Oregon. The Admiral Rogers has| been chartered for the trip, which terest than the one made last year. Stops will be made at Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Taku Glacier, Juneau, Skagway and Sitka, whers | spots of scenic and hlstoric interest will be visited. The instructors for the tour are| drawn from the University of Ors- gon regular faculty and from those of other institutions, while courses cover a wide variety of fields, with special emphasis upon the Alaskaa The faculty includes Frank Jen- kins, editor of the Eugene Reglster, who will teach journalism; Dr. Charles N. Reynolds, Stanford Uni- versity, anthropology; and the foi- lowing from the University of Ore-~ gon: Dr. Rudolf H. Ernst, Eng- lish literature; Mr. Beattle, educa~ tion; Dr. Earl Packard, geology; lass, librarian; Miss Kathryn Bai- ley, dean of women and registrav, and Dr. Fred N. Miller, physician. The University of Oregon also sponsored a cruise to the Hawaiian Islands this year, and hopes in this way to build for better understand- ing between the people in the var- ious parts of the Pacific Coast section. Mr. Beattie, who is director of the cruise, spent a number of years in Southeast Alaska. After|== graduating from Oregon University in 1901, he came directly to Alaska and taught at Wrangell for two years. Later he served for sometime as Superintendent of the Sitka Train- ing—now Sheldon Jackson—sSchonl. Following that he was Superintend- ent of the Southeast Alaska dis- trict under the Federal Bureau of Education. ———.——— RUTHERFORD LEAVES FOR SOUTH ON BUSINESS TRIP Roy Rutherford, President and general manager of the. Juneau Lumber Mills, which is having one of its biggest years, left this morn- ing on the steamer Prince Henry for Seattle on company business. He will return here in about two! weeks. EID Shirts and Pajama Sets TR VST Snappy New Patterns at SABIN’S “My extensive airplane flight [} this season convinces me that Alas- | ka's north country is her richest| mineral vault, and I am inclined | Daily Cross-word Pfizzle Weather Conditions As Recorded by the U. S. Weather Bureau ACROSS Solution of Saturday’s Puzzle s Pary Forecast for Juneaw and vicinity, baw~uing 4 p. m. today: 3 Mnn dirty . i 9. xn" Mlllvl Rain tonight and Wednesday, probably cleating late Wednesday; g7 e :1. moderate southeasterly winds. is. Tardy i LOCAL DATA 15 ll.u'ruc ofl enn :t i Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weathe b e e o, 14 p. m. yest'y ....3019 57 90 SE 8 Rain arographs 2% A 4 a. m. today ......30.10 52 100 S 8 Rain e 2. {Noon today ... . 2093 54 9. PR ‘4 Rain {5 G e CABLE AND RADIO REPORTS . Royal o Buekgrounds 2. Lignt and VESTERDAY T —TODAY — * |."‘,.. i 1 Highest 4pm. | Low 4am. 4am. Precip. 4am :; };Ifi-'. b Stations— ump temp. emp. temp. Velocity 24 hrs. Weather 84, Accumu Barrow e85, 48 B TN Nome B8 58 - | @B B Ee 0 Pt Cly o« 0 monkey [Bethel 52 50 | 48 M- 12 .08 Clear e Fort Yukon 56 56 46 46 - .10 Clear 4 4L Marchers . T E el Tanana B B2 [ s Cleor . Falry nte | Pairbanks 58 58 46 48 4 56 Clear 3 { . Tintenns o ananors 4. rnnmoe the |Eagle 64 64 50 52 - .01 Cldy 41, King of rubher 8. Rock moy !st. Paul 3 50 48 4 46 12 0 Cldy . Oval . Fruit i e o O wa W 'Dutch Harbor ... 54 52 | 46 48 — 0 Cidy 1. Long cul | Kodiak 60 58 | 44 50 0 [ Cldy . , I | ¥ DA i e cona | Cordova 66 56 48 50 4 32 Rain 4. 100 squnre ing in the 4 Erali arink &4 | Junean .. 57 51 52 8 40 Rain . ilo-g . Tenr on & & ke | Ketchikan 68 64 | 68 88 4 .02 Cldy H L k) Wi bl 2 | Prince Rupert — - 56 58 ¥ 0 Clay 3 [ oin i fiiinn eotn n.','.? i .'L.’.','.'fl..:'m.. fomss solnt | Edmonton 8% 84 5 5 4 0 Clear Seattle S84 8 | 60 - 60 . 0 Clear Portland . 96 94 | 64 64 o 0 Clear San Francisco . 0 66 | 58 58 i 0 Clear | Spokane 96 94 | 66 66 » 0 Clear- Vancouver, B. C. 80 80 | 68 58 0 0 Clear - *—Less than 10 miles, | The pressure is moderately low in the eastern Interior and the .Gulf of Alaska and is high from Southeastern Alaska to Californ.a and in Bering Sea and much of the North Pacific Ocean. Show- jers have fallen over most of Alaska, followed by clearing and considerably colder in the Interior and on the Bering Sea coas'. Temperature changes have been <light in other districts. Freezing temperatures were recorded at Tanana last night. SWIFT’S BACON—A new shipment, fresh and delicious, pound 40c¢ at GARNICK’S, Phone 174 BIG SHIPMENT IMPORTS CRIME TO BE INVESTIGATED, CITY, COUNTY Twenty - three Man Grand Jury to Conduct Probe in Detroit DETROIT, Michigan, August 12. —The crime situation here and in Wayne County will be investigated by a 23-man grand jury next Mon- day. The investigation was for- mally ordered yesterday by the Circuit Court and will be conducted by Attorney General Wilber M. Brucker and assistants. Brucker is a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor. He said he would abandon plans for a speech making campaign tempor- arily and stay here until the Grand Jury finishes. 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