The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 2, 1930, Page 1

E DAILY VOL. XXXVI,, NO. 5502. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS FRENCH ORIENT STRUCK BY ADM.NULTON EARLY MONDAY Captain Rudd and Nine Members of Crew Lose Lives THREE SURVIVORS ARE FOUND AND PlCKED up Collision Occurs in Dense Fog in Strait of Geor- gia Early Yesterday SEATTLE, Sept. 2—Capt. Sedolph H. Rudd and nine members of the crew of the Seattle halibut schoon- er Orient were drowned when the halibuter was sunk in the Strait of Georgla, early Monday morning, in collision with the Admiral Nulton.! The accident occurred in a dense fog off Sisters Island. Word of the tragedy reached here late last night from Capt. F. L. Stevens of the Admiral Nul- ton. Three men aboard the Orient escaped and the others were drowned. Those drowned were: MATE H. POLSON, attle. TONY ANDERSON, of Seat- tle. CHRIS PEDERSON, of Seat- tle. HARRY SMITH, of Seattle. BOB PERRY, of Seattle. MARTIN BURNS, of Seattle. TORTAIN, the Cook, of Se- attle. of Se- ANDREW LAKAE, of Va- shon Island. DON HUSUEBY, of Vashon Island. CAPT. SEDOLPH H. RUDD, of Seattle. The three men saved were: HAROLD HANSON, of Seat- tle. ALFRED ELINGSEN of Va- shon Island. EDWARD LANDSTRES. Vashon Island. They were thrown clear of the vessel and saved. The three survivors were taken to Bellingham on the Admiral Nul- ton and brought to Seattle last njght by automobile. i * Believed Asleep IMost of the men drowned are belived to have been asleep at the time of the collision. The Orient did not sink, being kept afloat by the oil tanks. The Admiral Nulton stood by six hours while boats searched in the fog for survivors. The Admiral Nulton was enroute to Bellingham from Ocean Falls,: B. C.,, and was only slightly dam- aged. of The Orient was returning to Se-; attle with 30,000 pounds of halibut. The Orient drifted ashore on Sis- ters Island. Landstres was found unconscious on the beach of Sisters Island and the other two survivors were found clinging to wreckage. Japanese Avigtor llfs from U. S. Tokyo Hame TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 2— Azuma, who fled from his home and a priestly career, has returned here from Los An- :dumdmhhnfihfllfier 14 years. He is a Hollywood Cafe owner and learned to fly in America. He crossed America, Europe and Asia alone in a bi- plane and the last leg of his !journey was from Eurasian, Ko- Tea. TEN FISHERMEN ARE DROWNE QUAKE DOES ‘Alaska Post :Presents Hoover 'With, 'Totem Pole | ez by . BALTIMORE, Maryland, ® |® sept. 2—A totem pole, about e ® one foot high, carved from a |® walrus tusk, was presented ® |® to President Hoover today e t® when he arrived here to re- e /e view the parade of the Vet- e |® erans of Foreign Wars. The e e gift is from Denali Post, An- ® chorage, Alaska. L . . DAMAGE IN LOS ANGELES, VICINITY LOS ANGELES, Sept. 2—A quake of approximately 30 seconds dura- tion struck Los Angeles and adja- cent cities at 4:39 o'clock last Sat- urday afternoon, causing slight damage in some outlying communi- ties. No one was injured. The center was in the Santa Monica Bay district where three distinct shocks were felt. Pictures went askew on the walls, clocks stopped in all parts of the Bay district, a bridge sagged and part of a wall fell in Venice. The metropolitan district was shaken badly. Buildings swayed visibly and wires bobbed up and down. Some chimneys were shaken down. 1 MAJ, GEN. ALLEN DIES SUDDENLY LAST SATURDAY Collapses from Heart Trouble—Body Falls Fifteen Feet ! BUENCISTA SPRINGS, Pena. l Sept. 2.—Major General Henry T. Allen, aged 71 years, died suddenly last Saturday afternoon of heart {trouble while viewing the scenery )at the summer home of the offi- cials of the German Embassy. He lived in Washington, D. C., As he collapsed he fell from the veranda ‘and dropped 15 feet. Dootors sa‘d \the fall had nothing to do with his death. ONCE VISITED ALASKA From start to finish of his army career, Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen took on constantly ascending re- sponsibilities, culminating with one of the most delicate tasks ever un- dertaken by an American army of- ficer—command of the Army of Occupation in Germany after the armistice. He had been fitted for the final major task of his life by contacts with men and conditions in many parts of the globe. Born at Sharps- burg, Kentucky, April 13, 1859, he went from preparatory school to West Point as a cadet. Soon after {his graduation from the Military Academy in 1882 he made an ex- cursion to Alaska as an explorer. Then in rapid succession, army assignments carried him to {Russia, Germany, Cuba, and the Philippines, and into Mexico with Pershing’s punitive expedition. He went to France as a division com- mander, and later was a corps 'chlotuln in the A. E. F. Distin- !guished service there during the ,world war won for him the coveted thonor of heading the American Forces on the Rhine. General Allen’s ascéendency in the military firmanieit* erminated only formance of more than 44 years' ! continuous service. He was retired at 64, after which he lived quleuy in Washirfton, devoting a part of his time to writing of his full years of military adventure. Bromley and Gatty Are Looking for Long Field; TOKYO, Sept. 2—Lieut. Harold Bromley and Harold Gatty are still searching for a larger field for a take-off on their projected Trans- Pacific flight to Tacoma, Washing-! ton. Gatty has left here for Hachin- che, where there is much prairie, in hopes of finding a suitable stretch where he can get the plane into the air with a full load. PLANS SUICIDE SO THAT CHILDREN WILL GET $10,000 INSURANCE MONEY ’MAR!I-XD. Texas, ept. 3.—A. D. yne, confessed wife slayer, timed suicide in the county jail here last Saturday morning so his children would have a to collect his $10,000 life insgrance policy which would have been voided if he had taken his lifebefore August 28. 1 have waited so my children wenld receive the benefit of my Mance which is now more than! one year old,” Payne wrote in a diary before he killed himself by exploding a small bottle of nitro- glycerine under his body while he was lying on his cot. The insurance policy carried a one-year suicide clause, C. B. Rit- tenbery, insurance agent explained and added that payment would be contestable for two years though nothing is said in the policy about suicide after the first year, nis! when he had given a noted per-! FLOOD; STREAMS Lower Section of Interior City Inundated— Heavy Rains FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 2.— Rains which continued almost un- interrupted for almost the entire month of August, were particularly heavy last week and brought In- terior Alaska rivers to flood stage. Chena Slough, flowing past Fair- banks, inundated the lower sections of the city and flooded many cel- lars. It raised one foot and a half in 24 hours and on Saturday was rising with greater rapidity every hour. The highway in the vicinity of Chatanika was overflown. Traffic over the Richardson High- way was blocked 25 miles south of here with two feet of water jon the road. . Train service has been delayed ]by slides. The Healy River bridge was damaged at Ferry. MAN SHADOWED; NO EVIDENCE OF PLOT REVEALED Investigator Gives Testi- mony Conspiracy Case in Florida | JACKBONVILLE, Florida, Sept. 32.—Augun Krieger, private investi- gator, related in court here how he spent nine days shadowing Henry Halsema, one of three men charged with conspiracy to assassinate Gov. ,Doyle E. Carlton, but said he se- cured no evidence of a plot. Krieger, who was employed by Vincent C. Giblin, Miami attorney for Al Capone, said he saw Frank Ralls, another defendant in Hal- sema’s company on many occasions and also saw Ralls and Fred O. Eb- |erhardt, third defendant, together, !but not Halsema and Eberhardt. At Giblin's request, Krieger said he installed a voice recording in- strument in the attorney's room and listened to conversation between 'Ralls and Eberhardt, but heard 'mthlng of a plot. CHARGES DISMISSED JACKSONVILLE, Florida, Sept. ~—T==*' 2 of the Peace J. C. Madi- .S dismissed charges of con- Ispiracy to cause the Assassination of Gov. Carlton which have been preferred against Fred O. Eber- hardt, Tallahasse¢ publisher; Frank Ralls and Henry Halsema, both of Jacksonville. Judge Madison dismissed the charges on the grounds of insuf- ficient evidence. He said the State failed to make the case sufficiently strong to justify binding the men over to the Criminal Court. Chief of Police Is Killed, Pistol Duel BARBOURVILLE, Kentucky, Sept. 2—G. T. Lockhart, Chief of Police, and Pete Goodwin, a carpenter, killed each other in a pistol duel on a downtown street Sunday night | when the Chief was called to quell‘ a disturbance, FAIRBANKS HAS AT HIGH STAGE AGEDWOMANIS | FATALLY HURT BY: FIRE TODAY Mrs. Ada Van Wort Fatally Burned when Clothing Catches on Fire Mrs. Ada Van Wort, vic: tim of a fire at her home here this morning, died at 4 p.m. tvaay. | St. Ann’s Hospital about 2:45 | Bodies of Polar Explorprs Found xwwwa’w—g Mrs. Ada Van Wort, 72 yeiKTfid was injured, probably fatally; burns received this morning at home on Fourth and Harris s Her clothing is believed to~ ignited from an electric hot and the flames enveloped h most instantaneousty. She ran screaming to the of the cottage, seeking to af the attention of neighbors. She in the doorway where she lay when the Fire Department truck reached the scene. Husband Unable to Rescue Her husband, E. VanWort, who has been confined to his bed for sometime with sickness, was unable to rescue her. He was in an adjoin- ing room when he heard her screams. He threw two basins of ) did not check the blaze. Mrs. Joe Patterson and others in the Bergman Boarding House, heard the woman's cries, but so in- distinctly that they thought they. were from children at plaj, an" for some little time paid no heed to them. Mrs. Patterson went to the doorway of the boarding house af- ter a few minutes and saw Mrs. Van Wort lying in the door from which smoke was emerging. Chances are Negligible The Fire Department réachefl the place about the same time. Mrs.| VanWort was put on a soft blan- ket and, with six men holding it, taken in a truck to the hospital, where she recelved immediate at- tention. Early this afternoon she had not regained consciousness, and | it was said there .that her chance for recovery was negligible. Mrs. Van Wort is believed to have been operating a sewing ma- chine when the accident occurred. | A small hot plate, which she ap- | parently was using for heating, was at one side of the machine and close to where she had been sit- ting. It is probable, said Chief J. L. Gray of the Fire Department, that her dress caught from the heated plate and flared over her in an instant. She sprang from her chair and rushed toward the door to seek aid, falling in the doorway. Her clothing was entirely burned away and the skin and flesh almost cooked. The house was not damaged by the flames. The Van Worts are ploneers of Juneau, and have resided at times in interior communities. “Bad” John Wright Is Found Shot to Death POKESVILLE, Kentucky, Sept. 2. —Melvin Branha, aged 35 and Sam Wright, son of “Bad” John} Wright, one of the characters of John Fox's “Trail of the Lonesome Pine” were found shot to death in the front yard of the Wright home, Saturday night. Both had been shot through the head. ————.——— Dies in Interest Of Aviation; Jury Returns Verdict CHICAGO, Illinois, Sept. 2.— A coroner's jury decided that George G. Fernic, killed last Friday in a plane crash at the National Air Races, died acci- dentally in the interests of avi- ation. The daring Rumanian flier flew his own homemade plane. | of a radical design, which Ma- | jor R. W. Schroeder testified at | the inquest, was a plane ‘“ex- cellent in theory but not prov- en feasible in practice.” Trean Ducur, friend of Fer- water on her flaming dress but that | ABOVE—N. Strindberg and Solomon Andree members of the expedition. 5 DEFENDANTS {Ready to File Petition when | : {Fox Films 51%, LS //‘NHEQE THE ANDREE =77 PARTY WAS FOUND N :;n HORN X, o &, N\ ANDREE STARTED FROM DANES \sL. FOR _THE NORTH - POLE, JuLY Thirty-three years after the first_bold attempt to reach the earth’s northern axis by air, the Arc- tic wastes have given up the bodies of the ill-fated Swedish balloon party of 1897, all of whom perished. | At their right, the balloon | they used. BELOW—Map showing starting point and end of the actual take-off of the daring attempt. » expedition, and the FOUR DROWN, 3 IDAHO LAKE *Scores Look on But Are § Helpless — Six Chil- | dl‘(‘n Al‘e Ol’phans Meml)er 1897 }‘xpmhuon -mm SEATTLE CASE ASK DISMISSAL Federal Attorneys | v Rest Case LM M'CALL, Idaho, Sept. 2—Four B (Nampa, Idaho, residents wi SEATTLE, Sept. 2—The five de-|f - £ ® . |drowned in the rough waters of fendants' in the conspiracy and ’ | Payette Lake yesterday, Scores of bribery trial, Lyle, Whitney, Cor- win, ‘Fryant and McKinney were | prépared to' petition for dismissal of the Government's case against | horror-stricken people watched but | were unable to go to the rescue of those imperilled. Mr. and Mrs rtt etts a e tocay. WDk Jhe Biederal At~ | Mr lvuu;ISn-wc :ln]‘:-rnefh\::- “;x‘i torneys rested the case. | A 4 |a boat which was overturned by a Judge Frank H. Norcross must first rule whether Frank Gatt, boot- legger, can testify he cashed a check for $1,500 for Ed H. McInnis the same day McInnis testified he gave | ‘Whitney that amount with as,sur<! - ance that McInnis would be ac-| K. Frankel as he looked the quitted at the first Olmsted trial.| day of his take-off with other McInnis. was convicted ahd has explorers of the party of 1897 served most of his three-year sen-| jn the first effort to reach the tence at McNeil Island Peniten-| North Pole by air. tiary. He also paid a fine of $4,000. | PR T . breaker. It {warned to stay off the lake. ! children are left m-pham is sald they had been Six | —e——— [ ! 2 { I TODAY'S STOCK *|Aged Couple Killed; ks b o | QUOTATIONS | . . (The State s . .! Auto Is Hit by Train ) °5" g NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., Sept. i |new Peruvi Junta of 2—There was no sale of Alaska| VANCOUVER, B. C. Sept. 2.— Charles W. Sutton, Amerjcan En- Juneau mine stock today. Closing | |Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Embleton, of employed by the former quotations on other stocks -are as‘Rflhblfl"d both aged and about 60 gijy ent and an inquiry in his follows: Alleghany Corporation 22%, years of age, were instantly killed . quested in a note asking American Can 131, Anaconda Cop- |last Saturday when an automobile per 44%, Bethlehem Steel 44%,)in which they were riding was Naval General Motors |struck by a train from Seattle, in & od with etary ed a Amer Lir Grow on Au-| cted to| to ef- 46%, Granby 22%, Hupp Motors | suburb here. The car was hurled , 13%, 13%, 13%, International Har- against a telephone pole which was vester 81, Kennecott 34, Montgom- |split in half by the impact. Wit- ery Ward 36%, National Acme 14, nesses said the Embletons failed to Packard Motors 13, 12%, 127, Sim- stop at the crossing. mons Beds 26%, Standard Brands | e s do i o s 20%, Standard Oil of California| Joe George, of George Brothers, 60%, Standard Oil of New Jer- and Art Judson, of the same firm, ap nics, said Fernic planned a transatlantic flight following the air races, from New !orl City to Rumania, sey 69'%, Stewart-Warner 267%, 25%, |who have been south for several 26'%, United Aircraft 59%, U. 8. /weeks, are returning to Juneau Steel 170%. ‘aboard the Prineess Charlotte. ned by { al- v ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 2 |930 ) PRICE TEN CENTS FLIERS LEAVE PARIS FOR NEW YORK CITY SAFELY CROSS ) ATLANTIC NOW ON FINAL LES Dleudonne Costes and Mau- rice Bellonte Nearing : Curtis Field \REPGRTED FLYING AT | 100 MILES AN HOUR If Reach Goal at 6 o'Clock Tonight Will Have Made Flight in 37 Hours NEW YORK CITY, N. Y,, 1Sept. 2.—Two French fliers are along the cloud path of {Canada's coast toward the coastline of the New England |States. The fliers are Dieudonne Costes and Maurice Bellonte. They were winging their way over the last 1,000 miles ‘of the flight from Paris to New York City at 9:30 a.m. today, Eastern Standard Time when their plane the Question |Mark soared over Canso, Nova Scotia, on the Canadian main- |land, achieving the first flight from the continent of Europe to the continent of North Am- erica. One hour later the two passed over Halifax harbor, than 100 miles nearer New York City and heading true toward their goal where they are expected to land before sundown. In reversing the trail of Col Charles A. Lindbergh, Coste and iBellonte deviated but slightly orily jturning to pass over a small insular French possession south of New- foundland, the Isle of St. Pierre. That was at 6 o'clock this morn- ing. Subsequent progress indicated |they will arrive at Curtiss Field, |New York City, about 6 o'clock to- |night New York City is preparing to give the two Frenchmen the wel- come that would have been accord- ed other fliers if they had been |successful in making the Europe- !New York City hop. If the Frenchmen reach New York City about 6 o'clock tonight they will have made the Paris-New York hop in approximately 37 hours. fliers more PARIS ABANDONS WORK PARIS, Sept. z—This city prac- \tically abandoned all work when a !radio announced that Dieudonne Costes and Maurice Bellonte were speeding down the Nova Scotia |coast at the rate of 100 miles an hour on the last leg of their Journey to New York City. - Filipino Peasants Burn Roosevelt’s 'Book: at Shrine MANILA, Sept. 2—~Amid the shouts of 2,000 Filipino peas- ants, a book supposed to be | Nicholas Roosevelt’s “The Phil- | ippines, a Treasure and a Prob- | lem,” was publicly burned at | the shrine at Balintawak. The | crowd was worked into a high | pitch by patriotic speeches. 'TWO AMERICANS ARE = UNDER ARREST; HELD BY PERUVIAN JUNTA leged irregularities in his work un- |der former President Leguia. He has been in Peru nearly 20 years working on Government irrigation projects. TRIBUNAL IS ORGANIZED { LIMA, Peru, Sept. 2—The Mili- tary Junta headed by President Sanchez Cerro has decreed that an organization to be known as the | National Sanction Tribunal, will act las a trial court [for all offenders under the administration of the deposed President Augusto B. Le- g\lld The Tribunal is composed of the IPnesidenc and four Justices and |the services of a special prosecutor | will be secured. | Sentences imposed will be final