The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 25, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5574. “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, ALL THE TIME” 1930. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS N N EN CENT 1CE 1 LG | BURKE AND PARTY BELIEVED ALIVE; PLANE IS FOUND [jUEER MAMMAL Paris Puts Quietus On Jazz Bands from American Campuses COUGHED UP BY LOCAL GLACIER Cordova Reports Strange Find—Scientists Pre- pare to Investigate The reported discovery of a pre- historic amphibian mammal at Co- lumbia Glacier was today attract- ing wide note from scientists over the country, and an investiza- tion of the matter has been ord- ered by Regional Forester Charles H. Flory, who has instructed W. J. McDonald, Supervisor of the Chug- ach National Forest, to proceed from Cordova to Glacier Island without delay. If he finds the story is correct | he was directed to take charge of the mammal and make all neces- sary arrangements for preservation, probably taking it to Seward to put in cold storage pending a full scientific inquiry. Is Fully Described An Associated Press dispatch from Cordova said the creature “resem- bles a lizard. Its body is 20 feet long and the tail is 16 feet in| length. It is covered with fur in perfect condition and hblood in color.” The dispatch said the body was perfectly preserved. It was be- lieved at Cordova that it was en- tombed centuries ago in the upper reaches of Columbia Glacier and gradually worked down to the sea, encased in the glacier ice. It was washed ashore on Glacier Island which is occupled by a fox-farmer. Supervisor McDonald reported the matter to local United States For- est Service headquarters here to- day. He was at once instructed to proceed on the Forestry boat Chugach to Glacier Island and make a thorough investigation, and to take charge of the creature, if found to be prehistoric, and use every recaution for its perfect preservation Museum Wires Bunnell The Associated Press, in a New York dispatch, said Bernard Brown, Curator of the American Museum of Natural History had telegraphed Dr. C. E. Bunnell, President of the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, requesting him to investigate the carcass of the strange creature. The Museym Wwas informed ten days ago of the find. “So far we know of no prehis- toric creature of the dimensions given in the Alaska dispatch,” said Curator Brown. “If the creature was incased in ice it must have lived when the ice formed. “Prehistoric animals in Alaska which are known were the mam- moth, buffalo and - many small creatures, none of which reach the dimensions of the lizard-like ani- mal. The description suggests & reptile similar to the dinosaur but they died millions of years before the ice formed. The only other possibility is of it to be a creature like the whale COMMUNISTS CLASH WITH N, Y. POLIGE NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, Nov. 25.—Nearly one thousand Commun- ists struggled with 150 police in front of a cafeteria on Thirty- Fourth, street last night. The Com- munists were finally routed and a score arrested. The Communists had dignored orders to disperse. RIOTING AT LIMA LIMA, Peru, Nov. 25. persons were injured in rioting with Communists meeting in the same place with 400 members of the Civil Party, which was protest- ing President Cerro's Cabinet choices. Stones, clubs and revolvers were used. Thae disorder followed only three months after Leguia had been oust- ed as President. The Army and Navy younger of- ficers made a protest to the new Ministry but pledged loyalty to Cerro. - ee— - NORCO IS NORTHBOUND SEATTLE, Nov. 25—Motorship Norco sailed at 9 o'clock last night for Juneau and wayports with ten first class passengers. There are no ‘passengers booked from Seattle for Juneau. Fifteen | | | | 25.—The French capital will not open its arms ‘¢ American college boy ja bands next summer as it has been doing. PARIS, Nov. re¢ forcing the sician’s Union to tighten up strictions ar g to foreigne Three hundred native players wer: put out of jobs recently in one day Simultaneously, police began to de- mand working permits from fuizign The talkies | crchestras in night clubs and chic restaurants and several were forced to leave the country. French musicians college jazz bands a summer, having “played” across on ocean liner: assured return pa | steamship compan that * for the el tainment they give paying passen-' gers. But between crossings they invade Paris and in order to make expenses, offer their services at 'lew prices. C. H. MARKHAM PASSES AWAY Man Who Inaugurated Railroad Advertising Dies in West LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, Nov. 25. —The death of Charles H. Mark- ham, Chairman of the Board of the 1llinois Central Railyoad, near Los- Angeles, Cal, Is announced here. % STARTED AT BOTTOM ] Charles Henry Markham, as pres- ident of the Illinois Central Rail- road, became a leader in the rail- road fraternity, electrified the road’s Chicago terminals, and in fifteen ars doubled the assets of the system. Beginning at the proverbial “bot- tom" of the business he devoted his life to it, with the ecxception of six years spent in the oil industry. First substantial recognition of his organizing abilities came in 1911, when he gained the presi- dency and nine years later he inaugurated radical changes in operation and policy which marked his vision. At a time when most railroads were retrenching in the wake of the post-war deflation, he sponsored the appropriation of one hundred millioA dollars to electrify the II- linois Central’s Chicago terminals. This doubled the speed of trains within city limits, rid the city of its principal cmoke nuisrance and began a movement for electrifica- tion of other terminals there. The system has physical assets of $300,000,000 on his ascendency, and the doubling of this sum show- ed the profits accruing from a sys- tematic campaign of taking the public into confidence of utility op- eration. His plans crystallized in 1920 when he sald: “The public is going to run the railroads from now on. Tt is run- ning the Illinois Central now.” Inaugurated Advertising He inaugurated the first consec- utive series of advertisements ever |run in newspapers by railroads, is- | suing a monthly bulletin to aid his ties served by the road in touch { with its affairs, and solicited let- ters from the public. These received his careful attention. elled up and down the Mississippi Valley acquainting the people with the facts of railroading and win- ning their confidence was the same years earlier had been to become chickens. Born in Clargsville, Tenn., on May 22, 1861, and schooled briefly at Addison, N. Y., to which his parents moved when he was a boy, Markham entered railroading on a handcar. At twenty he was a section hand in Kansas on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe. At forty, however, he gave up 'the assistant traffic managership of the Southern Pa- cific to become vice president of |the Houston and Texas Central read, and although in the next de- cade he spent six years in the oil busifiess, he came back in 1911 to his first love, as president of the Illinois Central. The most notable of the many improvements he carried Gut as president of the road was the elec- trification of the Chicago terminal. Ninety million dollars were expend- ed in substituting electric engines for steam; in creating a new freight classification yard; in construction of new passengey and suburban terminals; in elimination of every grade crossing within the limits of Chicago and its suburbs, and in preparation fo eventual electrifi- cation of all freight handling at the terminal and for the extension of the road northward. 1 ‘The Illinois Central was the first employes fn keeping the communi- | | Alaska. He came to Fairbanks from | This railroad executive, who trav- | man whose highest ambition 20| a station agent in some quiet Cali-| fornia town where he might raise! [TlL‘O Youths Off On Flight to %S. A. Continent | RUTHERFORD, Maryland, | Nov. 25.—Wingarter and Joseph Jones, two youthful fliers who | started yesterday from Caldwell, New Jersey, on a flight to ‘ South America in a cylinder | plane, stayed last night at Ful- | lerton, Maryland, near Balti- more. The plane used is slight- 1y more than a glider. The youths plan to fly down the Atlantic scaboard, thence to Havana to the nearby islands and on to the South American continent. of the scores of lines emanating from the nation's railroad center to adapt electricity to its terminal MAN IS SHOT Harvey Larglois in Fair- ,‘ banks Hospital— John { Armstead Suicides | | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 25. —Harvey Langlois died last night as the result of a wound received in the neck. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 25.— | | Harvey Langlois is in a serious con- ;dmon in the Fairbanks Hospital neck. John Armstead, aged 50 years shot Langlois last Saturday night and later committed suicide. | The shooting took place in a ilonely cabin in the woods twenty miles south of here. Armstead is believed to have {gone insane. Langlois stayed in the cabin all night and Sunday walked and crawled to a neighbor's cabin haif |a mile away. | At the outbreak of the World | War, Armstead enlisted in Vancou- i ver, Washington, and was sent to {Seward two months ago. He had lived. in Seward for two years. i B “NIBS” PRICE HAS RESIGNED BERKELEY, Cal, Nov. 25—C. M. “Nibs" Price has resigned as ihead foctball and basketball coach |of the University of California. The Student utive Commit- ftee has accepted the resignation with regrets. Price explained: “It is the only way to prevent dissension which is bound to follow the present unsuc- cessful football season. The Committee voted to pay Price his next year's salary, the last year of his contract. - e Beauty Contest Be Staged for Eskimo Flappers to WINNIPEG, Nov. 25.—A froz- en shiny-faced blackhaired Es- kimo girl is going to be crown- ed “Miss Northwest Territories” sometime during the winter. Andrew Brown, of Baker Lake, an isolated Chesterfield Trading post, plans to stage a beauty contest among the “ladies” of the neighboring tribes. Brown says the Eskimo flap- pers pay more attention to their personal adornment since the white man entered the territory. Many of the Eskimo women even wear skirts now. THROUGH NECK with a bullet wound through the| CONDITIONS IN FISHERIES ARE | b Governor in Annual Report Fou Declares Salmon Catch N orma 1 ‘Was Conditions in respect to the fish- eries of Alaska as a whole in 1929 HUNTERS' BOAT BRISTOL DOC LOST: CLING 4 r Prominent Residents ] of Sitka Are Res- | cued by Estebeth havinz clung daes of a were very satisfactory, declares Gov. George A. Parks in ‘his annual re- port to the Secretary of the Inter- 10T, The salmon output, al- thqugh considerably less than in |the preceding year, was on a fair| | the herring in-' dustry, however, there was a mark- | |normal basis. In ed variation from the usual trend. While abundant runs of herring appeared in various localities, most of the fish were too small for cur- |ing and therefore larger quanti- |ties were used for meal and ofl [than in previous years. The halibut (and clam industr showed in- | creases over 1928 in both quantity and value of produots. There Was a gain also in the total amount land value of whale products, al- |though fetver whales were taken |than in the preceding year. Personnel In Alaska regular personnel of the of fisheries in Alaska in | The | Bureau ! were fisheries ployees, of whom 8 scientists engaged in studies of the salmon and herring of the Terri- (tory. In connection with the en- forcement of the laws and regula- tions for the conservation of the | fishery resources 216 stream guards and special workmen were em- ployed for varying periods. Many of them provided their own launches and patrolled waters near the mouths of salmon streams to pre- vent fishing in the closed areag. Fourteen bureau vessels, manned by with 17 men were engaged in g ieral patrol of the fishing grounds. {In addition, an auxiliary air patrol was undertaken for the first time in Southeastern Alaska, where a | seaplane was chartered for a num- ber of flights, This service was | largely of an experimental nature, {but it served to demonstrate the fu- ure possibilities of the use of air- craft for the more effective control of the fisheries. Salmon Runs Observed Careful observations were made of the condition of the salmon runs in all districts in order to determ- ine the adequacy of the existing regulations and the need for modi- fication thereof, Supplémentary or- ders were issued by the Department from time to time, and a general revision of the regulations was made in December to be effective ithe following year. The Commis- | sioner of Fisheries spent seve weeks in Alaska during the a | fishing season, giving personal at- tention to fishery matters and also observing sealing activities on the | Pribilof Islands. ! Attention was given to the |moval of obstructions, such as log | jams, that impeded the ascent of |salmon to the spawning prounds, jand in certain districts, espe |in the Bristol Bay region, | protection for the young was accomplished by the des tion of predatory fishes. The work | was furthered materially by the co- | operation of the Territorial Legis- |lature in appropriating $40,000.00 | for these purposes. | Scientific Studies Continued | Scientific studies of the life his |tory of the Pacific salmons W | continued, the work dealing prin {pally with the red salmon in cen | tral Alaska and the pink species in the Southeastern district. Tagging experiments were carried on in |Cook Inlet and Prince Willi |Sound, and considerable numb |of young red salmon were mar |at Karluk and Chignik. We! | counting the escapement of sp: ling salmon were maintained "unportam. salmon streams, of which |6 were in Southeast Alaska, 7 | the Kodiak area, 1 at Chignik, anc 12 each in the Cook Inlet, A | Peninsula, and Bristol Bay @ Progress was made in investiga | concerning the Alaska h which have been carried on sinc 1925. Imon 20 Operation of Hatcheries cultural stations were operate the Government and one under ¥ vate management. The priva owned hatchery released during for which at the rate of 40 cc for each 1000 fry the operz company was entitled to a rebaté of $4514 in Federal license la (Continued on Page Seven) 4 11929 consisted of 20 statutory em-| ‘| a moderation of ’| which rode ing mailboa r homes, bruis but suffering no They were Theo- tendent of Dr. H rlous injuries. 3 Kettleson, ska Pione: den of the Tilson end Capt. Hugo dore the A J. Hodg proprietor Company. 15 Transfer Fred- r and master of the aft Theresa, whi as lost at 3:30 o'clock last F |day afternoon in Steamboat | nel, 60 m! o ¢ | B | me | ning | Purser Tells of Wreck | Robert Coughlin, purser on the | Estebeth, got the details of the | near-tragic affair from Mr. Kettle- json. Mr. Coughlin said: | “The four hunters in the Theresa |left Sitka November v {hunted around Lisianski, | Harbor, Dry Pass, Chichagof From Yakobi to return to Sitka by wa Arm and Steamboat Channel. They encountered a southwest gale. ! morning by the which landed the spor at Sit at ir the Wall, one -of their ifts | was swept overboard. As they tried six-ton craft, 35 feet long, horsepower Atlas ide 7 {ped with into | engine, 2 tion system and put her engine out of commission. Her position labout a mile from the | breakers. Those aboard put up sail to beat away from shore, but the sail s carried off by They ri a ithe breakers, but it Frederickson put out three anchors. They were lost when heavy seas a pinnacle rock, over which waves break at high ftide. Help Each Other By helping on anot! reached the rock and mar cling to its side The tide ebbing. They managed to s some rope, which they looped ov wa vaged blankets, pockets were made and suspended from the circlet of rope. By the aid of these [ the four men were able to stay with the rock. They also saved some firearms and food from the hoat before it broke into pieces and was |carried away, six hours after the | wreck. The gale persisted. At high tide, they were submerged at times by occasional heavy waves From 3:30 Friday afternoon until 7 o'ciock {8unday morning, they observed no- body ashore, or saw no passing boat. Gun Reports Heard “Sunday morning, Capt. Gecrge Bach and Pirst Mate Gunnar I. Gustafson of the Estebeth as e was going, through Peril S°raits, heard three reports of gun shois. The captain and the mate sighted sbeth ans poin The was with her whistl prow toward shore rough . and the quarters of a mile > the o breakers: ~The Estebeth as far as she could, and then lay- te for about an hour awaiting for the high wave launched a the reached the distressed hunters and brought them aboard the mailboat se thre s went 1n Finally she surf Kettleson Worsi Injured “Mr. Kettleson was the most bad- ly hurt of the four. He cut and bruised about the head, arm. and legs. Injuries of the others co: sisted of cuts on arms and These injuries were caused by bar- nacles and sharp points on the rock. “Once aboard the Estel 7tbonufluéd or Pagc Three) h, which lifeboat, | SATISFACTORY HOURS T0 ROCK Tilson, ! Chan-| ast of Hole in the wmw.}‘ X PV 3 H i s north of Sitka. The reseue |'Simply Got to Come’ Says Hirst - Chichagof 100 Per s effected at 8 o'clock last Sun- | . motorship 7:30 Sunday eve- ! In| Steamboat Channel, opposite Holc | ‘not to cut wages,” tf 45 men, and 10 chartered vessels to recover the skiff, the Theresa, 2| 10, feet wide and 5 feet draft, r*q\m)-i the | {swell. Water poured over her igni-| was | nearest | the wind. | ged up a blanket as an/| improvised sail, with a like result.| “The wind forced the craft into| touched no| rocks, and got past them. Capm\u: broke their ropes. The surf ran| high. The boat was smashed against | the | The | hunters were thrown into the sea.| the top of the rock. Then with sal- | lof violation of the Sherman Anti- 3| Tope yesterday have died down but | | increase would be. and | sy started | y of* Ford | | Ten of the largest motion picture | more deaths | bu KERS POOL DOLES WITH PART TIME WORK governn full half nsur nkined man a crnm Thi he combined Governmen ing the bu - by turns STEEL PRI ARE TO SOON EVERY TOWN IN RE ADVANGED RED CROSS ROLL Cent—Others Places Go Cver the Top With all of the cept Juneau, in the dis un; ported, almost 800 memberships have been listed in the Red Cross An- nual Roll Call canvass, it was an- nounced today by Wellman Hol- brook, General Chairman Every town so far:heard from has ex- ceeded any figu recent y and the indicatic arc that the 1200 quota’ set for the Juneau Chapter will bs reached if not passed Statement—Industry Not Making Money CLEVELAND, Ohlo, Nov. increase in the prices of st duy has “simply got t J. Kulas today. He is President of the Otis Steel Com- pany and Midland Steel Producis Company. He said he would not predict how soon or how at t Ar 1 pro- come,” 5. large t in The statement of Kulas follow published reports that steel inter- ests would shortly announce mc erate increases as a way of revival of general business. 1 “The steel companies making any money al reports sub- $373.40 and Juneau, ‘incomplete, iptions regating xpected to4ireach $700 easily, ane, the only other Gastineau “Ore, limestone and cther - Channel community reported, had ties in manufacture as well as tax- iptions, an increase of 16 es, are not coming down so the o er last year thing to do is to raise pricc mr:‘—('h‘v}mtvx,’ has set a yecord Tt is sald that many s the entire Chapter to shoot at ducts are as much With a population of 30, it return- cent lower in 1930 as in 1929. ted 30 memberships. Chichagof re- 2 >————— riptions aggregating are 1 pro- per s as ‘bwenty el as compared to no mem- L !porting for the fi time, sent in CONCERNS HELD eight membership: Two Cases Aré Decided by | June bscriptions to were th some yet United States Su- preme Court st date to be re as compared to $611 last year. Among the towns still to be heard from are: Douglas, Skag- w Haines, Chilkoot Barracks, Sitka, Tenakee, Angoon, Kake, Yakutat and Petersburg, - e s | NO GANGSTER CONTROL LAW IS PROPOSED President Makes Denial to Rumors That Are Be- ing Circulated WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 25. distributors and thirty-two Film| Boards of Trade which distribute | eight percent of the coun-| films are held by the United! Supreme Court to be guilty Trust Laws. In two cases attacking the uni- form contract and credit system enforced by them, the Court said they were corporations which should | be competitors. FARMS WASHED 0UT BY FLOODS, LONDON, Nov. washed out through WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov President Hoover said today the re- |ports he would propose to Con- gress new laws to control gangster activi are untrue At the same time the said the Treasury rule barring convict labor made is not directed at Russfa. The Treasury has ruled that populous. cities in Eng- burden of proof is placed on the land, Ireland, Belgium, France,shipper in showing the goods art Germany and Holland, spreading not made by convict labor and the damage and destruction | Government did not have to prove Gales that lashed Western Eu- contention In regard to gangsters, the Presi- was needed is en- e present laws and of nmew ones. has sufficlent said there was no fon in reports giving the on that the only way to gangsters was through their to pay their income taxes activities. e President regarding goods 25.—Floods have farms and whirled the lowering barometers threatened |dent said what which are now esti- |forcement of t not enactment Paris is still endangered by a rise| Every of the Seine River which is up|to cor 20 inches. Low sections are flooded| The the main s n of Paris issatis: unless the rises to 40 |impre ‘eonvic mated at 45 te laws President fe river nchy The Bel ered but the ued to remain flood. Holland suffered losses broke although the seawalls held | at high tide. The Rhine and Moselle areas in Germany are still threatened. .- CHURCH ON TANNERY SITE an lowlands are not cov- failure Scheldt area contin-|0n criminal the grip of a o 1 when dikes Kills Two Women, Then Shoots Himself YONKERS, N. Y., Nov. Masone, aged 35, |and killed Alice Joster, aged 27 | 3 v - ’ and Miss Mary O'Connor, aged 45 POINT PLEASANT, O., Nov. 2L{then killed self in an apart- ~—A Methodist church is to be bulltment the three have occupled for on the site of the old Grant tan-!the past two months. Masone is nery here, formerly owned by the!saijq to have been jealous of the father of Gen. U, 8. Grant. Poster woman. in 25.— | |\ Francisco shot | PILOT WASSON SIGHTS PLANE, LIARD RIVER Craft Does Not Appear to Have Been Wrecked IS Fl'Ol_Cll'iT‘, BELIEVES BURKE, TWO OTHERS, WITH INDIANS Returns to Scene Tcday to Make Further Inspection —Has Woodsman (Paddy) day m capt. B. J. A found yester- erel Burke and Indian: + This announcement in a special d pire received f ‘White Pa and Whitehorse. The confirms the r The Empire yeste plane had been locat Pilot Wasson for the past four days has been searching for Cagt. Burke and his two companion: Emil Kading and Bob Martin, who were last reported leaving Liard Post on Octcber 11. Plane Sighte Pllot Wasson di 150 miles up the Li Liard Post. He on account of ¢ returned announce he plane er from unable ‘o lard hortage of gas and to Whitehorse yesterdav i5 suppossa to have this forensan, ac- Wi ri- to to the lefi Whiteho companied by Joe enced woodsman, scene and land on a small lake, then snowshoe to the plan: and make an inspection. Not Wrecked Pilot Wasson repo: plane did not appear to b: indicating the possibi forced down and landed Wasson believes Capt. Burke and his companions may be found among Indians. He believes a mes- sage of some kind may be found at the plane telling what occurred and what they intended to do. Renahan M, Ty The fate of Pilot Robin Rena- han and his two missing compan- ions, Sam Clerf and Frank Hatcher missing since October 28, remains a mystery despite rumors Renahan had been sighted. This report was not confirmed from Prince Rupert. Renahan and his companions were enroute north to search for Capt. Burke. Search Planes Unreport>d Two Pacific International way machines flving ers, British Columbia, Telegraph Creek reported since lea Saturday. Communication lines graph Creek are down The planes intended to search for Capt. Burke's party. More Mystery mystery has been added six airmen. received query this it the rockad, it was casily. Air- from Smith- to Atlin, via had not been ng Smithers last from Tele- Another to the The ciated saying “Have you any missing aviator by the name of Everett Thomas? A carrier pigeon and radio in Cali- ies messages from a po- atitude 59 and lon; might be 130, can an Ass morning \ere no missing aviator In s section by the above name as AVIATION 100L BREAKS PRISON MADRID, Nov. —The Spanish police are seeking clues as to the hereabouts of Major Ramon anco, aviation idol, who escaped from prison yesterday where he had been enced for eight months for ed seditious writ- ings and talk. | 1t is believed Capt. Franco has |fled to Biarritz, France. Letters found in his cell showed ;[he Major was indignant at his treatment and said he would es- cape to France ARG - s The Chicago stadium has adopt- ed a schedule of popular prices for 1 its boxing bouts.