The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 15, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVL, NO. 5513. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1930. BROMLEY TURNS BACK ON PR MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ENTERPRISE WINS AMERICA'S CUP DEFENDER WINS “BY 10 MINUTES Enterprise’s Crew Make, British Tars Seem Clumsy Today ABOARD U. 8. 8. KANE OFF AMERICA’S CUP| COURSE, Sept. 15. — The, American cup defender En-| terprise won the second race, from the Shamrock V which; was almost 10 minutes be. hind. The Enterprise was three miles ahead at the end of the, 30-mile course. The Enterprise outmaneuv- ered the Shamrock V con-; tinually. | The fast stepping Ameri- can crew made the British tars seem clumsy in com-| parison. The American defender Enter- prise rounded the 10-mile marker| in the second race at 12:21 o'clock | this afternoon, leading the shnm-J rock V by a good margin, The British boat rounded the marker at 12:27 o'clock. Last Saturday won the first race against British challenger. ——e—— CAPTAIN BOYD FORCED DOWN BY HEADWINDS Aviators on First Leg of Transatlantic Flight | Make Landing | CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince’ Edward Island, Sept. 15.—Capt. Er-| 1ol Boyd and Lieut. Harry Connor landed here late Saturday after-| pg&n. having run into headwinds aad, rain. 3 “The two fliers left St. Hubert “K¥port, Montreal, at 7:39 o'clock | Saturday morning in the mono. plane Columbia for Harbor Gmce,' Newfoundland, on the first leg of; 'a trans-Atlantic flight to England. i The fliers expected to reach| Harbor Grace before dark Satur-| Qay but ran into storms and land- «ed-here. The fliers expect to fly from Harbor Grace over the great circle between New York and Fastnet, and, alung which they will be to pick up liners. Lieut. Connor, navigator, said they will take 450 gallons of gaso-, line for the flight of 2,400 miles d@nd expect to reach Croyden, Eng- land in 21 hours, | Capt. Boyd has been planning! the flight for years. IS FOUND DEAD the Enterprise the | al Marshall | Closeup of Marshall Field III, multi-millionaire scion of the famous Chicago department store family, leaving Ethelburga chureh in Bishopsgate, London, jeld and Bride with his bride, the former Mrs. Dudley Coats, prominent mem- ber of the most exclusive Lon- don circles and a friend of mem- bt g e, MacDonald Back Home A Load Off His Mind Declaring that it “was a terrible Joad\to carry around on my con- science for 14 years,” John Mac- Donald arrives_at his Baltimore home from California, where he went to correct his testimony of 14 years_ago which helped send Thomas Mooney and Warren K. Billings to prison for life. (international Newsreel) ADM. HUGHES WILL RETIRE Highest Ranking Officer of Navy to Be Relieved Thursday ] |Expedition by |Balloon Fails At Start ‘ 3 AUSBERG, Germany, Sept. ¢ 15. — Last Saturday night |® Prof. Auguste Piccard an- # nounced that he and Charles e Kipfer would start Sunflay mornihg at § o'elock on their, e projected 10-mile flight into e ‘stratos-phere by balloon, on a e seientific -expedition. ® Sharp at 6 o'clock: yester- e day morning, all ropes were ® cast off but the balloon ® failed to rise as the gondola ® was too heavy for the e amount of gas. s o0 000000000 ————— — TRADE ACTION T0 BE TAKEN BY GANADIANS {Legislation Proposed Prevent Dumping of Foreign Goods to OTTAWA4. Sept. 15.—Legislation designed to prevent the dumping of foreign goods in Canada, will be in- troduced in the House of Commons this week by the Conservative Gov- ernment. E. B. Ryckman, Minister of Na- | tional Revenues, explained his reso- lution asking an amendment to the |“dumping clause” of the Customs Act, declaring Canada has become the dumping ground of the world 'and was the principal sufferer in unfair trade practices. | “The United States has taken great precautions to prevent dump- ing in that country, but at the same time merchants and manufacturers of the United States found Canada (X EEEREREREREE NN 34 MUSK OXEN FOR ALASKA IN NEWYORK CITY {Reach U. S. from Green- land, wvia Norway, Bound for Fairbanks 15.—A herd of 34 young musk oxen |shipped from Geenland via Norway |under direction of the United | States Department of Agriculture arrived here on the steamship Ber- gensfjord. The musk oxen are on the way to Alaska to replenish their kind. E. A. Preble, of the Bureau r‘ Biological Survey, Washington, a L. J. Palmer, Chief of the Bureau’s Reindeer Experiment Station near Fairbanks, Alaska, met the ship, After a short gquarantine the animals will be sent to Fairbanks by way of Seattle and Seward in care of Palmer. The animals will be kept in a large enclosure, similar to a nat- ural range for study and breeding. LAST OF THE PRIMARIES TO BE TOMORROW [Hot Fights in Massachu- setts and Other States | ‘Are to Be Settled WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. =~ The last State primaries and nominat- ing conventions of the year will be held tomorrow in five States, in- cluding Massachusetts, New York, Delaware and Wisconsin. The | NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., Sept. Associated Press telephoto of Santo Dom Picture was taken from an airplane, sands. PATROLS CALLED OUT greatest interest probably centers in the Massachusetts contests, where there has been a hot fight between former Senator William M. Butler, and former Chairman of the Re- publican National Committe, dry, and former Clovernor Eben 8. Drap- er, wet, for the Republican nom- ination for the Sendte seat to be vacated by Senator F. H. Gillett. Mayor Bossy Gillis, of Newburyport is also a candidate. Democratic candidates for the Massachusetts Senatorial toga in-| clude Marcus Coolidge, manufact-| urer and former Mayor of Fitch- burg, wet; former Gov. Eugene D. Foss, dry; Peter Joyce, manufact- urer; Thomas O'Brien, former Dis- trict Attorney, and former Con-| gressman Joseph O'Connell. Goy. Frank G. Allen is seeking a Republican renomination for Governor, He is opposed by Mayor Dever of Malden. John Cummings of Boston and Joseph Ely of West-| field are seéeking the Democratic] nomination for Governor. DELAWARE DEMOCRATS HAVE SENATE FIGHT| WILMINGTON, Del, Sept. 15—/ Democratic contests for delegates to a State convention which will| decide the battle between Demo-| cratic National Committeeman Jos- iah Marvel and former Senator Thomas F. Bayard hold the chief interest in the State wide primary that 1is being held today. The State convention will be held Tues-! day. The contest is one of the, most spirited in many years in the ranks of the Delaware Demo-! damaged by a West Indie wind. been SNEEZE LOCATES WOULD-BE ROBBER; b HE WILL NOW GET SOMETHING FOR IT | EVANSTON, Illinois, Sept. | Aaron Johnson sneezed and proved unfortunate for him. | Johnson and Robert Thompson were hiding Saturday night under the counter in a store they had en- tered for no good reason. The Police had been called and were just about to leave when the atmosphere echoed with a violent kerchew. When I have to 15— this { IS THROWN “FROM CYCLE UNDER AUTO Son of Publisher of Seattle Times Is Fatally | “You ought to take something for it,” his companion suggested. In]ured “Don’t worry, he will get about 30 days,” said a policeman FAMILY OF 4 sneeze, I SEATTLE, Sept. 15.—According to advices received here, Alden Jo- seph Blethen, aged 20 years, son of Col. C. B. Blethen, Publisher of the Seattle Times, was fatally injured at Lynchburg, Virginia, Friday, 5 aiter it had been struck by a THOUSANDS KILLED IN WRECKAGE OF WIND i ety hurricane, killing tho TROPICAL STORM Soldiers patrolling Santo Domingo's streets are shcwn in this Asscciated Press telephoto after it had Unique Praise Is Given U. S Ambassador NOGALES, Mex., Sept. MEXICO CITY, Sept. 15 —The best American pro- duct ever exported into Mex- ico, in the opinion of Miguel Bejarano, commercial attache in New York, is Dwight W. Morrow. Bejarano spoke at a lunch- eon last Saturday given to the retiring Ambassador from the United States. e iCareening Motorcycle Kills Three, Injures 15, PRICE TEN CENTS 0JECTED OCEAN FLIGHT SECOND RACE BREAK IN PIPE FORCES FLIERS BACK TO JAPAN Bad Weather Also Report- ed as Another Reason For Decision BROMLEY AND GATTY COVER 2,400 MILES Plane Plows in Dirt on Landing But Not Dam- aged—Try Again TOKYO, Sept. 15—Lieut. Harold {Bromley and his companion Harold Gatty turned back in the projected 'nonstop flight across the Pacific and landed at 6 a. m. Monday at the village of Shisukari, on Cape Shirya, Aomori Perfecture, only a few miles from where the flight started Sunday. The fliers had been in the air |24 hours and 52 minutes. | Bromley and Gatty left the beach |near Sabongi at 5:08 a. m. Sun- day. U-| The return ended the fourth at- {tempt of Bromley to span the Pa- | cific Ocean. | Adverse weather and fog forced the fliers back, it is reported. Liners received messages that the fliers went 300 miles from Cape Lopatka, the southernmost end of Kamchatka Peninsula. They flew about 2,400 miles. TWO CAUSES FOR RETURN TANABE, Japan, Sept. 15.—Still defying theé series of misfortunes | preventing him from flying across the Pacific, Bromley told the Rengo News Agency reporter he would continue efforts to span the ocean to Tacoma by airplane. | Bromley said a broken gasoline feed pipe was the decisive factor that caused him to turn back and he added: “Adverse elements also contribut- ed,” to the decision. Break in Pipe The break in the gasoline feed pipe was noticed late Sunday off | Kamchatka Peninsula. Gasoline began spraying him, chafing his face and inflaming his eyes. | Gatty and Bromley alternated at |the controls and both suffered | great discomfort from the gasoline. A physician examined their eyes and found no permanent injury. Plane Plows in Dirt | The plane escaped serious injury at landing but plowed into the ldirt. It will take several days to dig the plane out. | The fliers estimated that their ’gns supply would have lasted until they reached Dutch Harbor. . * WILL TRY AGAIN o SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 15. ® —The Dollar Line radio station ® has received a message from the ® President Taft saying Bromley will ® again attempt a flight as soon as e sufficient supplies of gasoline are e sent to him. . . NO COMMENT . WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 15.— e Dr. George Lewis, of the Contest Committee and Vice-Chairman of the National Aeronautical Associa- tion, said any official comment by the committee on the turning back 5 of Bromley must await a report of the pilot on what happened. ! Lewis- said the committee relies A on the pilot's judgment. careening motorcycle threw a rider during a race here Sunday. The Associated Press dispatches re- crats. Former Senator Bayard is an avowed wet and Marvel is strongly when he fell under a passing auto- | mobile after he was thrown from the back seat of a skidding motor-| cycle. { Young Blethen was riding with ia convenient place to unload and WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 15.— the affect was disastrous and means {Admiral Charles F. Hughes, high- that a man honestly in business in p ;est ranking officer-ef the Navy, will Canada is unable to meet compe- Body Of Lleu!. Phelps' Wl[h be relieved as Chief of Naval Op—}tmon, and is driven out of busi- Bullet Wound in Tem- erations, Thursday, by Admiral Wil- ness,” said Minister Ryckman. Con- {liam V. Pratt, as present Comman- tinuing, he sald: ‘“Manufacturers ple, Discovered motarcycle plunged Into SPECtators, coiveq by The Empire Saturday 1 {killing three, a woman, father and ___ HIT BY TRAIN_NS son and injured five others. _o /his Toom mate at the Augusta Mili-| . ] o e | Relics of Expedition tary Academy, at Fort Defiance,, GEORGETOWN, Texas, Sept. 15} Virginia . They were going to the | —Four persons were killed and a University of l\?orm Carolina, where mn:mns believed to be fatally m-! Of 8'~ Years Ago C()me . . Out from Arctic Region young Blethen was to register for jured as the result of a Ml.ssourl“ his first year. {Kansas and Texas passenger train| - Istriking a light sedan ‘at a grade| FORT McMURRAY, Alberta, Sep-| tember 15.—A pair of bearskin |trousers, a blue jacket and part of crossing. J. B. Cousins, wife and| Star of Alaska ' a tent covering relics of Sir Joha i 'two small children were killed and Completes Long {another boy was injured. 'Service; Be Laid Up |Franklin’s expedition of 85 years |ago, have been brought from King ——— Two Questioned on Copper 34%, National - Acme noj o The S0 of Ausil HE ok 1552 |William's Island by Major L. T. Isale, Packard Motors 13%, 13, 18,|%0 h¢ OC SHMEE GO O be.| CHICAGO, ILi Sept. 15—Two|Burwash, pilot, and W. E. Gilbert Simmons Beds 27, Standard E i ol nigomesag: e Bt Julius Link, politician, and| Numerous graves rderly rows t ing towed here by the steamer mMen. Julius Link. D g f.s® % SERTES N QrOBIAY, TOWS, Solly Larson, a milkwagon driver,|were found, indicating that 169 are being questioned by the Police members of the Franklin Expedition compass dipped violently. 2%, Standard OUl of Callo™8Ryichak from Alaska. ~The old ST B of - Now sailer will be laid up upon arrival in connection with an alleged at-|died one by one and were buried | The Franklin Expedition set out tempt to extort $10.000 from Con-{by companions. |in two ships to find the Northwest 0 AEEWERE IV FT . 20% and the future business of the United Afrcratt 60%, U. S Association ‘will be handled orily 167%. by steam vessels. aressman Oscar DePriest, negro. 4 Scurvy and Passage, (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Three) | o e ider-in-Chief of the United States in the United States are making BT i fleet, '10,000 pieces of furniture and, sell-|® Admiral Hughes reaches the sta-|ing 9,000, get rid of the remainder : . TODAY’S STOCK | NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, Sept.’tutory retirement age on October! This is BPOxaTIONS iat any price in Canada. 15—Lieut. Woodward Phelps, aged 14 byt under legislation recently happening daily.” 29, U. 8, Navy, eldest son of Rear ensced, will be placed on the re- Admiral William Woodward Phelps, tireq list on November 1. was found dead this morning aboard | R e B S the U. S. 8. Northampton, in dry-| dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, with a bullet wound in the bemple.!ANOTHER FAMILY Capt Vermond, of the North-i ampton, said no reason is known why the officer should have wm-l | S mitted suicide and he declined to! Mrs. 5. A. Light and two children' call the death suicide until an of-|are passengers on the steamship, ficial report was made but believed ; Yukon, scheduled to arrive here‘ the Lieutenant shot himself. |from Seattle tomorrow. They wuli e |make their home here. Mr. Light Los Angeles, on the Pacific Coast, 'is manager of the United Food| is east of Reno, Nevada, which is Company, which was opened Satur-: east of the Sierra Nevada moun-/day in the Goldstein Building, Sec- tains, ond and gSeward streets. NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. Sept. 15.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5. Al= leghany Corporation 22, American Can 128%, Anaconda 46, Bethlchem Steel 88%, Fox Pilms 50%, General Motors 44%, Granby 21%, Hupp Motors 13%, 13%, 13%, Interna- tional Harvester 78%, Kennccott King Says Queen Helen Should 'Leave Rumania TO MAKE HOME HERE; sumed to have death. Burwash and Gilbert flew over much land unseen by white men to observe a shift of the Magnetic North Pole and seek the Franklin Expedition relics. been the cause of BUDAPEST, Sept. 15— Re- liable reports quote King Carol as saying that the “best thing Queen Helen can do is to leave Rumania.” This is said in con- nection with his perplexing sit- uation and the King’s problem is increased by reports that Madam Lupeseu is now at Sina- ia, the royal summer capital. They said when they crossed the Magnetic Pole the needle of the tarvation are as-