The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 20, 1930, Page 1

» THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS 5570. ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIL, NO. PORTLAND CAPITALIST ARRESTED, MURDER CHARGE CHAMB EXTENSION FOR SALMON SEASON Asks O'Malley for Change | in Chatham and Icy | Strait Next Year Change in open season dates in! the Western District, Chatham Strait, relaxation of trolling re-| strictions in Icy Strait, protection of herring fisheries by regulations, will be sought by the Chamber of ‘Commerce, it was agreed at today’s | meeting of that organization. The Chamber also promised its sup- port to the Fishing Vessel Owners’ Association in its recommendations on halibut regulations. | Its recommendations will be made | to Commissioner Henry O'Malley ! of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, now conducting hear- ings in Seattle, by R. E. Robert- son and John W. Troy, who will appear for the Chamber. I Wires O'Malley Direct i Supporting its instructions to these delegates, the ,Chamber has cabled Commissioner OiMalley its position on the fisheries situation. It also advised the Vessel Owners Association it would join it in any | reasonable request after being duly advised of its program. : The Chamber was in receipt of a cablegram from that crgamza-j tion saying: “We are opposed to lengthening of the closed season, | and we are opposed to granting the | International Commission regula- tory power. We believe the Com- mission should be retained as an| investigating and advisory body to report their findings to legislative | bodies of the United States and| Canada for enactment into law.” The Association was instructed to get in touch with Mr. Troy and Mr. Robertson, and they, also, were | notified of the Association’s posi-| tion and the Chamber's support; of it. | Cold Storage Acts { President Wallis S. George, Presi- | dent of the Jungau Cold Storage| Company, informed the Chamber he had wired the Commissioner Recent relative to the use of herring. His| company had asked for regulations | restricting the use of herring for) reduction purposes, and prohibmng‘; the taking of herring from the| spawning grounds for bait or any| other purposes. * i The desire of certa=n North At- ER URGES cite Grex My ¥t s Rumors from Hollywood, home of the filzas, has it that Gilda Gray, the daacer (upper) and H. H. Van Loan, playwright, are engaged. Previously Van Loan (lower) in- dicated that he was engaged to Marjorie Rambeau. (Internationsl Newsreel) ROGRESS MAD IN NEW SYSTEM OCEAN TRAFFIC Loadline Conven- tion Outstanding Step Assuring Safety WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 20.— The steady progress which this country is making to assure safety " JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1930. i HOOVER OPENS | CONFERENGE ON - CHILD HEALTH Three Thousand Experts1 Gather—Task Divided | Into Three Parts i WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 20.; —Prosident Hoover last night open- ed the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection with| 3,000 experts assembled, { The President divided the task‘ into three categories, protection and | stimulation for the normal child.\} aid to physically defective and han-' | dicapped children, and problems of | | delinquents. | -~ President Hoover's purpose in calling the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection, according to Dr. Ray Lyman Wil- bur, Secretary of the Interlor and' Chairman of the, Conference, is to find out exactly what conditions of child education, health and mental! weli-being prevail and what further | steps ought to be taken. | | “The United States Public Health Service has recently stated that in (these enlightened days, no child | need die of smallpox or diphtheria,” | the Sercetary recalls, “also that it !'is possible to guard against typhoid |by sanitary control of water and | milk supplies; that children bitten by mad dogs may be saved by the | Pasteur treatment. | “All this is splendid but as yet |not every community knows how MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS P 41000 N DOLLARS DROPPED HERE® to make use of the precautions that are available and much still re-| mains to be done in the way of re- search and investigation. , “In the findings of the Confer- ence there will be given to the people of the United States the; answer of the” sélentific world to Prsident Hoover’s challenge that it sheuld produce some formula which will enable all those who care for! children to mold the boys and girls, of today info the stalwarts to! whom we may safely intrust our hopes of the future:” PLANARRANGED FORONEYEAR V. A. Gnaga (lower inset) Go;nér T;) Cairo | cated by arrow on map) and escaped in a stolen automobile. their getaway car, the route being indicated from top of flat car where sacks were thrown from the mail ¢ Below, R. E. Lemery, engineer, | the floor of the engine as the miil car was rifled. Passengers were not molested. was an eyewitness. lantic fishing interests for the im- at sea, is revealed in the annual position of tariff duties in fish|report of Commissioners of Navi- landed in American ports by alien-|gation A. J. Tyrer made public to- owned vessels, regardless of resi»‘day by the Department of Com- dence, caused the nationwide in-| merce. vestigation of fisheries and vessel! Pointing out that ihe recent in- ownership, the Chamber was told| ternational convention on load today by Lawrence T. Hopkinson, |lines which was ratified by all the Special Expert of the United States) maritime nations was supplemen- Tariff Commission, who With tary to the 1929 convention on safe- Charles A. Carter of the same|ty at sea.” It is probable that the organizatio, were guests today. |load line convention will come be- = L P fore the next Senale for ratifica- AGpuumed, On, Baxe Te0) tion, the report states o g | Cordial Cooperation | satisfaction is expressed in the report with the “cordial cooperation lon the part of steamship owners and masters the administration Mauretania Beats America clubs, motor-boat organizations, and motor-boat publicantions, accord- to Scene of Found- ering Vessel ing to Mr. Tyrer, have educated | their members and readers in the requirements of the law. During the jvear under review 7417 violations of our navigation laws were re- ported to the Navigation service {and dealt with. Patrol boats of the service in this period made more than 27,000 inspections. ¥ Americans in Service NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, NoV.| Of the 334780 men shipped be- 20.—The liner Mauretania which |fore shipping commissioners dur- yesterday took off 27 members or‘mg 1929-30, the report shows, na- the erew from the foundering Swed-|{ive anq naturalized Americans ac- ish freighter Ovidia 400 miles soulh-}ccumpd for 70 per cent. The work east of Cape Race, is expected t0|,r tne shipping commissioners in- :ZM“ New York quarantine tomor-|yyuec the supervision of contracts e % of employment by seamen, and FHE ML qutdistanced the 4o ho existing practice which st?amsh)p America, Capt. GEOT8€| . icion results in the protection Fried, to the scene. The }':’“e”“ of the rights of seamen under the stood by, however, until the orew |, .. " yniteq states statutes have of the Ovidia was safe aboard the axténded to ich seamen Wwige pro. Mauretania, then proceeded east-|° : pros Ward on her voyage. tection covering their wages, length of employment, character of the voyage, food required, quarters and care in foreign ports when sick and disabled. Statistics cited in Commissioner | Tyrer's report strikingly reveal the HIGHLAND HOPE LOST LISBON, Nov. 20. — With the| masts alone protruding from the Atlantic, the Nelson Line steamer Highland Hope lay today beneath the waves off Farilhoes Island, Portugal. The steamer went aground in a fog in the darkness of yes- terday morning. Five hundred and|On June 1 of the current year, this! At present several curves add 10 po) of the service. Boiler Rules thirty-seven passengers and crew | tonnage amounted to only 3,319,000 hazards of driving through New-| were saved. Only three aboard are|a falling off of 7480,000 gross tons. unaccounted for, a Spanish emi-|On the other hand the tonnage of grant and two Spanish women. The | vessels engaged in the coasting steamer was enroute from London trade, exclusive of the Great Lakes, to Buenos Aires at the time of the has increased nearly 5,000,000 gross disaster, tons, " ” § NAVY BUILDING Tentative Program Is Out- lined to Cost About $100,000,000 WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 20. —Representative Britten, Chairman of the House Naval Committee, has outlined a tentative one-year naval building program which experts said would c about one hundred million dollars. The program was drafted from recommendations made by the Navy General Board. The recommendations will soon be presented to President Hoover for approval and made ready for presentation to Congress. LA T AT e Missing Personal Pilot to Secretary Of War Located DEMING, New Mexico, Nov. 20.—Lieut. Cornelius Cousland, personal pilot to Secretary of War Hurley, is safe here. Fear had been expressed when he was not located in a flight be- tween Tucson, Arizona and El Paso, Texas. Lieut. Cousland landed here late yesterday afternoon and spent last night with friends. Six planes from San Diego were sent out this morning to lock for him as it was feared he had crashed in the moun- tains. Rl ST [Tunnel to Cut Off Town from Principal Highway NEWCASTLE, Cal, Nov. 20—A tunnel under this little town’s bus- iness district will cut off Newcastle }from a transcontinental highway. ; A 30-foot bore, 531 feet long, will | decline in American tonnage en- be constructed to enable traffic to! senger vessel 1 gaged in foreign trade since the|continue without passing on the‘Ax:gerlcan # ;ro:?d};rero‘r‘:,,‘ | high-water mark reached in 1921./main streets by a circuitous route.'jynossible with the former p castle. . The tunnel will be electrically |lighted and lined with redwood | timber, except for concrete portals. !The project now under way, willl lcost California $226000, I¢ Mildred Huston, daughter of Claudius Huston, former chairman of the republican national commit- tee, will be a guest of Marion Jar- dine at the American legation in | Caira- Egypt. | GREATER SAFETY TO VOYAGERS ON | OCEAN NOW SEEN iBenefils Derived from Ex- | pansion of Federal S.S. Inspections WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 20.— \Enhanced safety in sea trave (assured as a result of the material] | expansion of the Steamboat Inspec- | tion Service, according to the an- |nual report of Supervising Inspe |tor General D. K. Hoove | Secretary of Commerce made (lic today. The report show 145 new assistant inspect !been added to the organ | staff which will permit more fre- quent reinspections of ves not | heretofore properly covered. £ | For'{ | many years, it is‘pointed out, excur- |sion ahd ferry steamers in addition |to an annual inspection have been| -1 |subjected to three separat | 1{ "specnons‘ This same systen henceforth be applied to all p and | was | on-1 | Pointing out that existing boiler | 1 spon- | |sored by the Steamboat Inspec o, | Service, Mr. Hoover declares that lme Seven) s except as permitted by {tary of Agricul ; | telligent admini “|—one from each of the four ju “|elal divisions of Alas _ | tlons. | claimed. Juneau Newspaperman’: (left) and Fireman Way Of Explaining Brown Bear Law Changes Ideas of Rabid Critic Are Alaska brown bears given adequate protection, in theory and in practice under the law? “Yes,” answers John E. Pegues, Managing Em- Editor of The Daily Alaska pore, and he supports his with such sound reasoning Harold McCracken, Assoclate tor of Field and Stream, who wa one of the rabid critics of the treat- ment accorded the animals, admits de- they are provided with every sirable safeguard. Mr. Pegues’ cle and Mr. McCracken's acknowl edgement are printed in the De- cember issue, just received by news-stands, of Field and Stream | America’s oldest and most popular | | magazine for the outdoorsman Situation Is Explained Mr. Pegues' article, for the part, follows: “The Alaska game law is a ratl unique statute. It was written b practical conservationists in the United States Bureau of Biologi- cal Survey, and was passed by Congress in 1925. The national gov- | ernment is in absolute administra- | most Alaska’s seasonal industries, which require thousands of workers to be brought in for a few months each year. A large percentage of these go to Alaska every year, but do not remain except duri spring, summer and months. They would take a tremen- dous toll of game and fur animal resources of the ' if some check were not imp: The twelve months’ residence cl: combined with the compa high non-resident huntin trapping license fees, does th effectively “The Alaska Game Commissior meets once each year and drafts ively and trick | recommendations for regulations on all species of game and fur-bearers. These are submitted to the Secre- of Agriculture through the Bio- tar; logical Surve and those which he approves and signs become regu- lations which have the force and effect of law. Meets in Juneau “The Commission meets annually in Juneau, Alaska’s picturesque little tive control. The Biological Survey is largely an expert and scientific Federal organization employed to advise the national and state gov- ernments on matters pertaining to | game and fur-bearing animals and birds of all kinds. “The Survey laid the foundation | for effective conservation by pro- hibiting the taking or killing of any game animals, fur-bearers or birds the Secre- t Proceeding on the theory that he would not per- sonally possess knowledge of Im-.xl’ conditions nece: to an tration, the law up an advisory body known as the Alaska Game Commission. This is composed of four resident members | | | ssary in- et a—appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture, and a fifth member who is the Alaska agent of the Biological Survey. He dcts as Executive Officer, directs the force of game wardens and other , employees, and has control of the enforcement of all regula- Twelve Montns Required “The law sets up a distinction be- tween residents and non-residents. This places a period of twelve menths’ actual domicile in the Ter- ritory before residence can be “The reason for the distinction between residence and non-resi- dence, and for the twelve months’ capital. Here the Commission has its headquarters in which a record of the resources under its advisory jurisdiction is kept. It keeps an ac- count of all the game animals killed by non-residents and all of the fur- bear taken, this information be- ing secured from reports required of hunters, guides and trappers, It also has reports from wardens on the game killed by residents and sources as to abundance or scarcity. “It has been my good fortune to attend, in the capacity of a news- paper reporter, every session of the Commission since its creation in 1925. To these sessions come four men from very widely separated lo- ies 2 r instance, at the 1929 meet- ing, the President of the Commis- sion, Dr. Willidm H. Chase, an ar- dent conservationist, came from Cordova, gateway to the Copper River valley and located on Prince Wwilliam Seund. Irving McK. Reed, keen student of wild life, came from Fairbanks. Frank P. Willlams, pio- neer reindeer breeder and mer- chant, came from St. Michael, on Norton Sound in northwest Alaska. Wwilliam R. Selfridge, timberman and sportsman, came from Ketchi- kan on the southern border. The fifth member, H. W. Terhune, Ex- ecutive Officer, maintains his resi- dence in Juneau, but spends most of his time in the field studying qualification period, is found in " (Continued on Page Six) data on the state of the game re-! —Associated Press Photo. Five or six armed men held up and robbed the Southern Pacific Oakland-Stockton train of an estimated $60,000 at Nobel, Cal, (indi- The holdup gang dropped $1,000, at spot indicated by cross, as they raced for | r to the bank of the roadbed. O'Brien were compelled to lie on I Hc;;ads Legion Women Associated Press Photo Mrs. Wilma Hoyal of Douglas, Ariz., was elected president of the women’s auxiliary of the American Legion during the national conven- tion in Boston. FLOOD SWEEPS HONOLULU have been recov ported missing d debris piled up by a flood Northern Honolulu as HARDBOILED RED-HE accepted the bird lived Jmerly ass e - 4 f MACHINE GUN BANDITS LOOT TRAIN OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS NOR. HONOLULU Trov. 20.—Ten bodies red and 20 persons workers as a gift and he in the humble quarters for- the parrots without | speak discreet English, 'PRICE TEN CENTS STENOGRAPHER "ALSO CHARGED - WITH MURDER Doctor Under Arrest for | Removing Body—Com- mitted Misdemeanor INVESTIGATORS PROBE DEATH OF WOMAN Found Dead in Apartment with Knife in Heart— ‘ Triangle Case PORTLAND, Oregon, Nov.?20. Nelson €. Bowles, Portland eapitalict, and Mrs. Irma Paris, | his former stenographer, are charged with the wife Leona, under arrves | murder of Bowles' wealthy young society matron, who died with 2 knife in her | heart in Mrs. Paris’s apart- ment last week. Bowles and Mrs. Paris were arrested this morning after in- | vestigators agreed that charges of first degree murder were warranted. Dr. Paul B. Coope | tended Mrs. Bowles, { made a false report that the | woman was dead when he call- , who at- said he ed an amulance. He previously said she died after the am- bulance came. Dr. Cooper was also arrested charged with a misdemeanor in removing with- ocut permission of the coroner, | the body of a person who met a violent death. The woman died in the kitchen | of the apartment of Mrs. Paris after a quarrel about Mrs. | Paris keeping company with Bowles. | EARLY ACCOUNTS OF CRIME The body of Mrs. Bowles was found by police on November 12 in the apartment of a former stenographer of her husband’s. She killed, a physician said, by a | (Continued on_ I-‘er«lger Ell;]t) MAIL PLANE FOUND WITH THREE DEAD |Wreckage Located Ending | Forty-thtee Hour Search i —Mail Is Intact | BURBANK, Cal, Nov 20.—Plung- led nose first into a slope of the Tehachapi Mountain foothills, a Pacific Air Transport night mail plane was found late yesterday. The three aboard the plane were dead | Discovery of the wreckage end- ed a_43-hour search by air and land. % The plane was not burned and 313 pounds of mail the plane was carrying to Oakland from Port- land was found intact. ‘The dead are: Pilot F. A. Donaldson Mechanic George Rogers. Miss Jean Markow, aged 18, of i Los Angeles, a passenger. ! It is believed the plane crashed in a fog which descended over the t 1e bodies were those of |region about the time the plane Orientals. Others were Hawailans was flying in the locality where and Portuguese, !the wreckage was found. ADED PARROT., WITH TOUGH VOCABULARY. LOSE HAPPY HOME: WHAT TO RBUY IT? ST. LOUIS, Nov. 20—A 1 e r it the St. Louis Zoo | distinctness of speec lary and repartee of | However, as soon as he was mov- talked himself ed into limelight of of a pleas home he new Bird House and admiring { House. His language was too stood before his cage he began to strong and too varied in epithets | preen himself and respond fluently for the e of women and I- | to encouragement to talk. But sueh dren visitors. He has been perma- | talk as it was. Entirely too clear nently removed from the parrot|and distinet. Visitors gasped and cage and is being kept in solitary looked about to see if others were it in one of the rear | hearing the same things they were. intil he can be sold or given ' More than once the attendants {had to remove the bird hastily a case of a bird not being | from the cage. But it was no use. able to live up to a better environ- | As soon as he was put back and me George Vierheller, dire r of | visitors y began to whistle the Zoo, explained. The parrot came and call he respond- into the possession of the Zoo about | ed in hardboi terms. A year ago when the Dpsitticosis Now the Zoo is looking for a fright caused many parrot owners |refined, well-educated parrot to en- to get rid of their pets. The Zoo |tertain e crowds. “Yacoob,” a talking mynah bird, who formerly | spoke ' Chinese, is being taught to