The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 24, 1930, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS VOL. XXXVL, NO. 5521. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESD ALL THE TIME” AY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1930. " MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS EPIDEMIC AT DILLINGHAM; ANTITOXIN REQUESTED LYLE IS OUT OF DRY UNIT: NO VAGANCIES Acquitted Former Prohibi- tion Administrator Must Apply for Job COL.WOODCOCK MAKES HIS POSITION CLEAR Will Be Given Same Con- sideration as Any Other Applicant PITTSBURGH, Penn., Sept. 24— There is no vacancy in the Pro- hibition Bureau at Seattle for Roy C. Lyle, recently acquitted of con- spiracy and bribery, while Pro- hibition Administrator of the Pa- cific Northwest. Should a va- cancy occur and Lyle makes appli- cation, he will receive the same consideration as any other plicant, Col. Amos W. W. Woodcock, National Director of Prohibition, said here. Col. Woodcock that explained Lyle had not been in the present eyperienced speakers, and almost | Prohibition Administration in his department because he was un- der suspension when the Enforce- ment Bureau was transferred to the Department of Justice. There is now a new Administrator at Se-, attle. Col. Weodcock said he knew noth- ing of Lyle’s case, and should he make application for a position he will be “investigated” with the same thoroughness as all appli- cants are investigated by the De- partment. “I am working to bring about higher standards in the Prohibition forces,” said Col. Woodcock. “If Lyle makes application for a posi- tion and he does mot come up to those higher standards, he will not be given a position.” ———————— KODIAK HUNTER SERIOUSLY HURT BY BROWN BEAR Bear Turns on Native Hun- ter, Inflicting Se- rious Injuries Suffering from serious injuries inflicted by a brown bear, Mike Kalmanoff, a native hunter, was brought to Kodiak early this week ard, the steamer Starr and )med in a hospital there, accord- ing to telegraphic advices received by Charles W. Hawkesworth, Act- ing Chief of the Office of Educa- tion. He is expected to recover. Kalmakoff was hunting with the chief of his tribe when he was at- tacked by a brown bear, said the telegram to Mr. Hawkesworth. No other details were given. The in- jured man was without funds, and ap- Two W idows, Rivals, Seek Illinois Senatorship — Both Know Politics | CHICAGO, Sept. 24.—Alike in their zeal for women’s rights and their devotion as mothers and home | makers, Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCor- mick and Mrs. Lottie Holman | O'Neill, rivals for the Illinois sena- ilm—ship, come from widely separ- ated social circles. Mrs. O'Neill, a republican and militant prohibitionist, who entered the campaign as an independent, is the widow of a business man of moderate means. She was born and reared on a farm in Pike coun- ty, Illinois. The Republican standardbearer, now congressman at large, is the widow of a former senator, Mediil McCormick, and the daughter of Mark Hanna. Drys, dissatisfied with Democrat- ic and Republican state platforms, sponsored Mrs. O'Neill's candidacy. Mrs, O'Neill, first woman mem- ber of the Illinois legislature, has attributed several misfortunes of .her recent political career to Mrs. McCormick. Both women are in their early 50's. They have worked since girlhood in the interests of wom- en’s political rights. Mrs. O'Neill has two sons; Mrs, McCormick two daughters and a son. Both are tireless campaigners. In previous campaigns each has had tne sup- port of women's organizations and prohibition factions. While Ruth Hanna was bein FLAMING RED HAIRED GIRL NOW IN BAD Question Is — Did Clara | Bow Gamble and Lose, Pay in Checks, Stop LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 24— Clara Bow today remained in the middle course, refusing to deny or confirm reports that she was tag- ged “it” at the James McKay gamb- ling resort at Calneva, Nevada, on the shores of Lake Tahoe, last week. | McKay said a girl with flaming red hair was introduced to him as Clara Bow, and was tagged for $13,900 at the roulette tables and other gambling devices in this es- tablishment. She apparently had her figures crossed when playing the games, and payed by checks, four of them, $6,000, $7,000, $300, and two or three possibly for $100 each. McKay said the turned from a Hollywood banl marked “payment stopped.” The actress said: “If anyone in the world feels he has a rightful claim aganist me for any sum what- soever, which I deny, 1 will gladly accept service of any legal docu- ment.” | ———— checks were: re- k educated in fashionable eastern schools, Lottie Holman was attend- ing rural schools in Pike county. Mark Hanna’s daughter at Wash- {To Battle Dope ;Tm//i(' on Pacific Coast ® SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. e 24—Frank Eble, Commis- sioner of Customs, said a special Unit of the Custqms Service will be instituted on the Pacific Coast to battle o the narcoti¢ tratfic. see s eevesvesce e MYSTERY SHOT KILLS WOMAN {Investigation of Tragedy Is Turned Over to Col- fax Coroner . . i COLFAX, Wash, Sept. 24—In- vestigation into the death of Mrs. Robert Warner, aged 28, shot by a mysterious assailant as she was preparing to retire, has been turn- ' ed over to the coroner’s jury. | Orville Gossett, aged 19, Mrs, Warner’s husband, and a nephew, have been arrested after a 16 guage shotgun shell, similar to one !found near the Warner home, was found on the porch of her grand- ,mother’s home. | The lasts words of the woman were: “Tell Orville I love him.” ! COLFAX, Wash., Sept. 24—Dep- iuty Prosecuting Attorney Clegg an- CONFESSION CLEARS TRAGEDY ington eagerly watched the gov- PILOT SMITH BRINGS PLANE ican Bar Heads New,-bld Am;al ernmental machinery of the Mc- Kinley and Roosevelt administra- tions. = Lottie Holman learned her poli- tical ABC's as a clerk and secre~‘Br0ken Strut Fpund After tary with various Ilinois women's| Take-off This After- organizations. Marriage and moth- | ‘ orbeod snatened ner trom the st-| noon—None Injured frage sidelines. As her two boys| - - grew she returned to the arena, this | time as a participant. | Ruth Hanna married Medill Mc- | Cormick. She is credited with aid- | ing his successful senatorial effort.| McCormick defeated James Hamil- | ton Lewis, again the Demacratic | candidate this year. Deneen elimi- | nated McCormick in the primary six years ago. | Mrs. McCormick defeated Deneen | in the primary last spring, and now | the cycle is complete with Lewis as her opponent this year. Mrs. McCormick lists her vocation | as farming. She has a fine coun-| try estate near Byron, IlL | Mrs. O'Neill lives in a comfort-| able, though not pretentious house| in Downers Grove, a village near| | Chicago. She keeps house. for| | her bachelor sons who operate the | | business left by their father. The women differ widely in ap- | pearance. Mrs. McCormick, tall |and slender, has brown eyes and |auburn hair liberally touched with| | gray. Mrs. O'Neill, also tall, is some- | what heavier. She has blue eyes \and gray hair, once blond. DOWN SAFELY | After returning from a flight to Haines, the scaplane Sea Pigeon, with Jerry Smith as pilot, and two men and a wom- an as passengers, started for Skagway, shortly after 2:30 c'clock this afternoon. Soon after leaving the water, Pilot Smith noticed onc of the struts connecting with the pon- toons, was broken. Smith circled in the air, sig- nalling distress. A emall power boat put out into the channel and after it got under the Sea Pigeon, Pilot Smith brought his plane down. It turned up on its nose. The passengers had opencd the side door of the seaplane’s cabin, and climbed up on the boat, hardly getting their feet wet. Smith followed. The seaplane, upside down, was towed into the Alaska Ju- neau dock. Many other craft in the har- bor rushed to the scene but their assistance was not need- cd. The passengers on the sea- plane were Vernon Nelson and wife, and ‘Robert Coughlin. Coughlin had made a trip to Haines and was going to make the trip to Skagway. DRIFT AT SEA IN OPEN BOAT | * === FOR 72 HOURS 6.0.P. LEADERS Schooner (E;in “Two byl IN NEw YuRK Lightning—Six Survi- - ARE TR““BLED vors Are Rescued Empire State Republicans Do Not Know Whether to Be Wet or Dry | NORTH SYDNEY, Nova Scotia, Sept. 24—8ix survivors who fought | hunger and storms in an open. boat for 72 hours, have arrived here and bring a story that light- |ning struck the schooner Carranze, |last Thursday night, splitting it§ ALBANY, N. Y. Sept. 24—With !in two. The schooner sank al- trouble threaténed no matter what |most immediately carrying downjthey decide, State Republican lead- |the Captain, eight passengers and ers are struggling over the problem |the cook, 20 miles west of the Sca-]n to whether to go wet or dry or | tari Islands. moist in the State convention to- The survivors drifted until last morrow. 'The extreme wets, under Sunday night and were then picked the leadership of Dr. Nicholas Mur- up by the schooner Vinigette and ray Butler, President of Columbia brought here. University, and former Senator ——————— James W. Wadsworth, remain un- MAYOR, DETROIT Iwet candidates and a wet plank DETROIT, Mich, Sept. 24— ‘uklng for the absolute repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. Frank Murphy, aged 37 years, has been sworn in as Mayor of this Adding to the troubles of the troubled leaders is the general be- Icity. He defeated Charles Bowles in the_ recent recall election by lief that recently resigned United States Attorney Charles H. Tuttle, !12,000 otes. Bowles lost his long fight after being elected on the believed to be first by many votes among those being supported for the Governorship nomination, would inot accept a nomination for Gov- with his demand for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. Upson Sims (left), past t of the American Bar Association, is shown congratu- lating Josiah Marvel, nationally known attorney of Wilmington, Del., newly elected president of august body, at its 53d con- vention, assembled in Chicago. (International Newsreol) WEATHER 1S HOLDING UP ~TWO FLIERS HARBOR GRACE, Newfound- land, = Sept. 24.—Adverse = weather conditions held up temporarily the hop-off of the monoplane Colum- bia across the Atlantic on the pro- posed flight to Croydon, England. Heavy rain fell during the night and today. After being stranded at lottetown, Prince Edward Island, Capt. Errol Boyd, Canadian flier, and Navigator Lieut. Harry Connor, brought the plane here yesterday. 1S TARRED, FEATHERED Tailor Is Victim in Miami as Result of Commun- istic Beliefs MIAMI, Florida, Sept. 24 —Tarred and feathered, bound and gagged, then wrapped in a white hooded garment, David Weinberg, aged 44, a tailor, was hurled from an auto- mobile in the downtown district at midnight last night. Char- |CONGRESSMAN C.M.STEDMAN House Dies in His Ninetieth Year | ) | { . ASSOCIATED PRESS (HEE) | 'CHARLES_M, STEDMAN, | WASHINGTON, Sept. 2¢—Repre- {sentative Charles of North Carolina, Democrat the PASSES AWAY Only Civil War Veteran in M. Stedman, | DIPHTHERIA 1S REPORTED:AID WILL BE SENT \Pilot Dorbandt and Me- chanic Cope Expected to Hop Off Today WILL CARRY 60,000 UNITS OF ANTITOXIN Bristol Bay_T;vn in Need | of Help—Advices Are Received Locally | NOME, Alaska, Sept. 24.— | Pilot rnk Dorbandt and his |Mechanic Cope have received an urgent request to make a flight to Dillingham, in the | Bristol Bay district, to relieve {a diphtheria epidemic. The fliers have been asked to rush to that district with !60.000 units of antitoxin. | It is expected the two fliers will take off from here dur- ing today for Holy Cross, then fly down to Dillingham. They will possibly make the itrip in one day. | Matt Vaughn, oldtimer, is at Holy Cross awaiting an airplane to transport him to the hospital at Anchorage. He s seriously ill. | | | | WORD RECEIVED HERE | Acting Chief of the Bureau of |Education Charles W. Hawkesworth 'has received word from Dr. W. A. (Borland that there are five cases ’ot diphtheria at Dillingham and |antitoxin is requested. Mr. Hawkesworth is sending anti- toxin westward on the steamer Northwestern but has also been advised that Dr. Haverstock, at |Seward, has a supply and will also |make a dispatch from there by plane. Mr. Hawkesworth was advised by The Empire of the Associated Press dispatch from Nome that Pilot Dor- |bandt “expected to fly to Dilling- {ham today with i | y with antitoxin. | —————— NEW REVOLT DISCLOSED IN SOVIET LAND MOSCOW, Sept. 24.—The Gov- jernment announces the disclosure of a powerful counter revolutionary soclety embracing organizations of meat, fish, vegetable and other food industries as well as banking institutions. | The society included a former |General in the Czarist army and scores of high officials in all |branches of food producing insti- SECRETARY OF the Government is defraying costs | " of his treatment and hospital care. |nounced late this afternoon that|Reform Ticket last November. Orville Gossett has confessed mur-| e tutions The police claim the society was NEW MEXICO G. O. P. The Police attribute the attack only Civil War Veteran in Con- «galmakoff couldn't possibly have‘ been hurt by a’brown bear, since it is wellknown they do not at-| tack people,” satirically commented | Gov. Parks when he was informed | of the matter. “Probably he was, run over by a mule” | Conference to Stress Attractions of Farms MADISON, Wis.,, Sept. 24—A comparison of city and farm u(e,i with an emphasis upon the desira- bility of living in the country, will be made at the American Country Life conference here Oct. 7-10. The general theme—standard of living—will be approached from| three angles, says J. H. Kolb, rural] sociologist of the University of Wisconsin. They are income, how | it is spent and cultural advantages.| Miss Betty Eckhardt, West Vir-| ginia state recreation worker, will lead a forum dealing with the rural | cultural arts field. Authorities in, rural dramatics, music and other forms of rural recreation will aid| Miss Eckhardt. GOLF PLAY NEX YEAR IN CHICAGO| ARDMORE, Penn., Sept. 24— The selection of the Beverly Coun- try Club at Chicago as the site tm'l the 1931 National Amateur Cham- plonship is announced by the Unu-l ed States Golf Association. | party, has resigned. (for his resignation are |dering Mrs. Warner and wounding her husband by shooting through a |window of thelr ranch home. The imotive was not stated. . — FASCIST QITS ROME, Italy, Sept. 24,—Auguill Turati, Secretary of the Fascist e The reasons| | not ex-| plained but it is said they will be ® brought out tonight in the issue of| npw vORK CITY, N. Y. Sept. TODAY'S STOCK QUOTATIONS v sheet. Turati will be succeeded by Glo- vanni Giuriati, President of the Chamber of Deputies. —_———e——— lMember of Two Antarctic Voyages Dies in Poverty ‘WELLINGTO! land, Sept. 24.—Harry McNeish, member of two Antarctic expe- ditions, with Scott and Shack- leton, died here penniless at the age of 64 years. McNeish was a member of the Scott expedition and vis- ited the Arctic in 1901. In 1914 McNeish went with Shackleton aboard the Endur- ance. He was one of five voi- un teers who accompanied Shackleton in a small boat from Elephant Island in or- der to bring aid to 22 members of the crew of the Endurance left on the Island after the ves- sel had been crushed by the ice. jFoglio Dordini, the Faselst Order 54 __ (Closing quotation of Alaska |Juneau mine stock is 5, Alleghany 'dated 19%, American Can 123%, !Anaconda Copper 39%, Bethlehem [Steel 83%, Fox Films 46%, General |Motors 41%, Hupp Motors 11%, 10%, 11, International 12%, Kennecott Copper 31%, Mont- gomery-Ward 32%, National Acme 10%, Packard Motors 12%, 12%, 12%, Simmons Beds 24%, Standard Brands 187%, Standard Oil of Cali- fornia 57%, Standard Oil of New {Jersey 65%, Stewart-Warner 24, 161%. NORTHWESTERN DUE | AT MIDNIGHT TONIGHT Delayed by tide at Wrangell Nar- rows and also fog, the steamer Northwestern, Capt. Jock Living- stone, is due to arrive in port at midnight tonight. This s accord- {ing to radio advices received dur- |ing this afternoon by the local agent. Corporation 19%, Granby Consoli-| Harvester | \United Aircraft 50%, U. S. Steel T2 INJURED IN THEATRE FIRE MINSK, Russia, Sept. 24.—Sev- enty-two persons were injured dur- !ing a fire in a picture theatre here |last night. A roll of film ignited. The exits were found closed. [MRS. F. L. GODDARD IS HERE TO VISIT SON Mrs. F. L. Goddard, mother of |E. M. Goddard of this city and pio- neer Alaskan of Sitka Hot Springs, arrived today to visit a few days |with Mr. and Mrs. Goddard. ~She |will sail for Sitka on the Admiral Rogers next week. Mrs. Goddard has been visiting for the past three months with her daughter, Mrs. Don Wright, of Oakland, Cal. While there she met many former residents of Ju neau and other Southeast Alaska towns. —— e ——— Lila Brougher, a nurse, who has been at the Sheldon Jackson School at Sitka, is in Juneau for a few days. She will be detailed to one {of the Government schools to 'he ‘Westward. i ing at the Gastineau. TURNS DOWN GOV. DILLON ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Sept. 24.| —The Republican State convention in session here nominated H. B. Hold for United States Senator| and Judge C. M. Botts for Gov- ernor. Gov. Richard C. Dillon was boomed for both the Senatorship| and for renomination. Congressman Albert G. Sims of | Albuquerque was renominated. Should Be Possible For All to Own Homes Says the President WASHINGTON, Sept. 24— President Hoover told the ini- tial meeting of the placing com- mittee of his conference on home building that it “should be possible in our country for anybody of sound character and industrious habits to pro- vide himself with adequate housing, preferably by buying his own home.” The President said that fi- nancing home building, specially through second mortgages, as “the most backward segment” of our whole credit system. ernor unless the platform coincided i ——.————— BRONTOSAURU BIGGEST REPTILE b ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Of Ameri- ca’s prehistoric reptiles the biggest Ed Isaacson of Seattle, is stay- was the brontosaurus, sometimes 90 Ore. |feet long. to displeasure of Communistic be-|gress, died vesterday in his Nine- liefs frequently expressed, accord- ing to friends of Weinberg. Weinberg was thrown from the automobile in a neighborhood whera he is wellknown. His condition is not critical. He was removed from the Hospital to the County Jail “for his own good,” Chief of Detectives Scarboro said. |tieth year. | LAID ASIDE GRAY, GOES TO CONGRESS | Of the host ot southerners who, after laying aside the gray of Lee's battalions, went to Congress to |serve the nation from which they ‘had fought to secede, Charles Man- ly Stedman remained long after {the last of his one time comrades and foes in arms had passed from the roll calls of the House and Senate. TANANA, Alaska, Sept. 24»—Th£‘} Elected when nearly 70 years of old Post Building, the principal|gge to the Sixty-second Congress as structure of what was once Fort|s pemocrat from the fifth North |Gibbon, was destroyed by fire yes- | Carolina d t, his period of con- terday. The origin is unknown.|tin,ous extended for a The Land Office has used the'pumper . B! dexth Old Post Building at Tanana Destroyed, Fire ervice of years discontinued | wood of Ohio, the last of the army |in blue to hold a seat in the House. Stedman and Sherwood, both | Demo , became warm personal |friends during their service in the ‘Father of Aviatrix Dies in Los Angeles iy, aany times they P land swapped stories of the LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 24—|when they were on opposite sides |{Edwin E. Earhart, aged 58 years,iof the firing line, one a major in father of Amella Earhart, the avl-|the Confederate Army and the oth- jatrix, died last night a few hoursier 5 prigadier general under Grant after his daughter arrived here| Given Many Honors {by airplane from New York Clty.| In his closing years in the House (He was a prominent attorney. {Major Stedman was the r N R ST 30 {of many honors from his col j Fred 8. Huntress, former day ypon his eighty-fifth birthd clerk at the Zynda Hotel, has re-|mouse accorded him the unusual turned from a visit to Portland,|ponor of suspending proceeding He spent almost two months in the Oregon metropolis. |since the Fort was igseveral years ago. AL e A i (Continued on Page Two) |butlding for the storing of supplies|ot Representative Isaac R. Sher-| initiated and subsidized by a Brit- ish meat packing firm. ——a————— CHARGED WITH HIGH TREASON LEIPSIG, Germany, Sept. 24— |Adolf Hitler, leader of the Ger- man Fascist Party, is accused of |high treason by the Reichswehr authorities. He has been subpoe- inned by the Attorney General to be |a witness at a trial of three Reich- |swehi' officers, also accused of |high treason. e o i BERLIN-SIAM RADIO LINK | | BERLIN—Radio-telephone com- munication with Bangkok, Siam -nd several Japanese cities will ke |inaugurated soon by the German Postal Ministry. ————— {French Fliers Reach {Salt Lake City 'On Good-Will Tour | | SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept. 24.—French Trans-Atlan- tic fliers Coste and Bellonte landed here today on their good will tour of the United States. They will remain until tomor- row. 2