The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 28, 1930, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL X)\XVII., NO 5576, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA FRIDAY‘ ’\IOVtMBl:R 28, 1930 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS WASSON GOES BACl( T0 LOCATE BURKE AND PARTY FREAK MAMMAL NEAR CORDOVA MAY BE WHALE McDonald Relurns w1th Specimen of Flesh and Stomach of Animal CORDOVA, Alaska, Nov. 28.—The identity of the strange animal found recenly entombed in ice on Glacier Island, near Valdez, still remains to be determined. An in- vestigation by W. J. McDonald, Supvervisor of Chugach National Forest, resulted in definite meas- urements and a description of the creature, but not in a determina- tion of the species. Mr. McDonald has brought the stomach and a large piece of flesh here to be frozen and preserved for submission to scientists further study. Measurements Taken With seven companions, Mr. Mc- Donald, acting under instructions from Regional Forest headquarters at Juneau, went to Glacier Island last Tuesday. They made meas- urements and obtained all other information possible. The following measulemcrts wer(‘ announced: Head—55 inches long, wide. Body proper—T74 inches at est place. Tail—14 feet long. Skeleton — entire length, more than 24 feet. The animal had flippers 40 in- ches long in each side of the head, each flipper having five fingers. The skeleton, it is estimated, weighs 1,000 pounds. It has seven ribs on each side. The head and tail were bare of flesh, while six feet of the midsec- tion was covered with meat which in texture resembled horse flesh. It had a snout similar to that of a pelican, the head is shaped similar to an elephant’s. The beast, apparently, was toothless. ‘sd- ND ON NOV. 10 s of the creature was found on Novemer 10, by Jerry O'Leary and Charles Gibson, ac- cording to a cablegram received from Mr. McDonald by Regional Forester Charles H. Flory today. It was first seen floating in glacier ice about 1,500 feet from shore in Eagle Harbor, Glacier Island. This is six miles south in a direct line from the face of Columbia Glacier. They tied on to it and took it ashore and later towed it to the fox ranch headquarters on the island. There flesh was stripped off the animal and hung in a smokehouse to dry for fox feed. “The meat was in good condi- tion and will probably last a month without freezing or other preserving,” Mr. McDonald said. “The skeleton was in four sections, but was fairly complete. It meas- ured 24 feet long.” Believes Is Whale It is possible, Mr. Flory said, that it is a small whale although the descriptions given of some of its body structures do not correspond to those of any species of that mammal. Until further examina- tion can be made by proper scien- tific authorities, he said it would be futile to speculate on its iden- tity. O'Leary has been directed to keep everything "intact pending a stuay of the su)mach and meat (Cormpued on Page Eight) WILL HAYS IS MARRIED AGAIN! WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 28— ‘Will Hays, czar of Moviedom, was married yesterday to Mrs. Jessie Herron Stutesman, widow of the former American Minister to Bo- livia. The couple was wed at Bethesday, Maryland. Hays was divorced from the for- mer Mrs. Hays on June 20 on the grounds of incompatability. Has 2 Thanksgiving Day Dinners Before He Is Executed \ CHICAGO, I, Nov. 28— Leon Brown, a negro, ate two Thanksgiving dinners yesterday before being placed in the elec- tric chair for the part he played in the murder of Martin French, a bank guard, in 1928. Brown ate goose at noon and had a turkey dinner just be- fore midnight. 36 inches CUPID CATCHES , i i | Charles W. Neva Prisk Malaby, daughter of a Pasadena, Cal, Paddock, once hailed as the fastest human, publisher, have an- UP WITH PADDOCK = —Associated Press Photo. nounced they will be married in December. for ~ COAST, GEODETI SURVEY ACTIVE, ALASKAN GOAST {Annual Report of Capt. Patton Lists New Charts —Details Are Given WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 28.— | The distribution of nautical charts —an increase of 13 percent over the previous year—is but anothe evidence cf the ever-expanding services rendered by the Coast and Geodetic Survey to the public, ac- cording to the 1930 annual report of Captain R. S. Patton, Director, to | the Secretary of Commerce. Six new charts of Alaskan waters name- i | were issued dmm; the year, ly: Crawfish Inlet to Sitka, Island; Yakobi Island a Inlet; Point Elrington to Cape Resurrection, Kenai Peninsula; Gore Point to Anchor Point, Kenai Peninsula; Sitkalidak Strait, Cape Barnabas to Old Harbor, Kodiak Tsland. Revised editions, containing the latest informaticn available, were also published of the 13 following charts: North End of Cordova Bay to Hetta Inlet; Central Part of Dall Island; Northern Part of Tlevak Strait to Ulloa Channel; Ulloa Channel to San Christoval Chan- nel; San Christoval Channel to Cape Lynch; Harbors in Chatham Strait and Vicinity: Hoggatt, Red Bluff, Herring and Chapin Bays, Surprise Harbor, and Murder Cove Khaz Bay and Elbow Passage; Peril Strait, Sitka Sound to Salisbury Sound, Whitestone Narrows, and Neva Strait; Dixon Harbor; Prince William Sound, Eastern Entrance; Latouche, Elrington, and Prince of Wales Passage; Orca Bay and Inlet, Channel Islands to Cordova; Morzhovol Bay and Isanotski Strait. ) B: Great Strides Made The strides made by this coun- try in commerce and indust; with an increasing number of po and larger ships, necessitates the por- trayal of additional data and the extension seaward of the areas sur- sels of today, representing not only a large investment but carrying a big passenger list, operates on an exacting schedule that makes no material allowance for fogs, shoals and other menaces to navigation. Accordingly, the navigator with modern apparatus and a new chart, showing the detailed configuration of the bottom more and more w the seaward, no longer slows his speed but fixes his positions from underwater landmarks by means of an electrical depth-registering device just as he uses other aids| and outstanding visible topogra- {phic features on apj | Chart, Basic Implement I greater productivity will appreciable for, possible without but for more detailed charts with {soundings extended more and more |seaward. The millions spent an- Inuall on harbor port works, lighthouses and buoys, 'as well as the elaborate hydro-, veyed. The huge and speedy ves-' proaching land. |was a decrease in the catch of all| With the enlarged staff asked ned salmon be . about 95 per cent of the total value in- of all products of the salmon in- rease in equipment. The chart is dustry. The number of persons en- |a basic implement of water-borne|gaged was 24271 or 157 less than| commerce, as essential to the ship in 1928. The output of canned sal- jas the compass, the radio, or rud- mon in 1929 consisted of 5,370,159 !der, and must keep pace with thp cases, valued at $40,469,385, as com- igrowth of our ports and methods | pared with 6,083,903 cases valued at of transportation. The demand con- 345383885 in 1928. The pack and| tinues not only for more chans value according to,species in 1929 improvements, | Frank B. Kellogg Is Awarded 1929 Nobel Peace Prize CSLO, Norway, Nov. 28 —Frank B. Kellozg, former American Secretary of State, has been awarded the Nobel Peace prize for 1929. He is author of the Peace Pact GOING TO OSLO THE HAGUE, Holland, Nov. 28.—Frank B. Kellogg, now World Court Judge, said he would go to Qslo, Nor- way, to receive the Nobel Peace Prize which has been awarded to him for his work against war. B g SALMON OUTPUT ALL ITS DETAILS Governor in Annual Report) Tells of Alaska’s Most | Popular Fish The number of salmon caught in 1929 showed a decrease of 19.7 per cent from the catch in 1928,} due chiefly to the smaller run of pink salmon in Southeast Alaska, declares Gov. George A. Parks in| his annual report to the Secretary | of the Interior. It should be noted, however, that there was a marked improvement in the run of this spe- cies as compared with the begin- ning of the cycle (1927). The take; of red salmon in western Alaska | was considerably smaller than in| 1928, but the effect of the decline | on the output of canned sal monl, was somewhat lessened by the un-} and Mrs. | last MUVIEGAMERAS 'TAKING SCENES IN SOVIET CASE Smoke — Everybody Talks, Microphone MCSCOW, No 28.—A with a cigarette in his hand shot ' questions yesterday at black-haired, | bespectacled Kuprianov, one of the | eight engineers who pleaded guilty to a counter revolution against the | Soviet, while four judges sat blow- | ing clouds of smoke over the court- | room. Professor Ramzin, | who Wednes- arcpean statesmen to cverthrow the Soviet, looked more like a Judge than a defendant as he sat next to the bench with amplifiers lon his ears, making notes of the trial An American would have thought |the scene was all the part of 2 ® 'ed the entire scene, movie cameras © | were cranked and flashlights ex- ® | ploded. ®| Everyone talked into the micro- ® | phone, everyone including the pris- ® | oners. Soviet soldiers on guard smoked | incessantly. Spectators filled the building and ia long line of ticket holders wait- ed outside the building. Kuprianov named other foreign officials. The judge topped his testimony and said ! they would hear such in closed ses- sions but the witness said: ; “I think by exposing the plans | to overthrow the government it wi!l help to destroy them and full ex- (posure to disarm foreign interven- | tion because it will be impossible {to get help within Russia.” iS DISCUSSED IN French and UNEXPECTED MOVE MOSCOW, Nov. 28—N. B. Kri- lenko, the most feared prosecutor in Russia, today unexpectedly called witnesses in the dramatic trial of eight engineers charged with plot- ting the overthrow of the Soviet Government. The action was unexpected. Thousands of Communists who had been listening to the trial over the radio, thought that when the of the defendants confessed and “repented” the Judges would immediately move to pass sentence. Krilenko demanded the presence of several notables to bring out | more incriminating evidence again the accused Industrial Par through which the defendants al- leged they plotted with foreign “Capitalistic” powers. Krilenko called P. S. Osadichi, member of the Central Executive Commitee, and several other pas® and present officials. It is expected statements will be received of sec- ret sessions in Paris. Demands are being made that |Judges and Altorneys‘ \\Y ]*LIE,R\ ]0[\ \I ARCH FOR MISSING AIRMEN i | | lawyer | told of the alleged plot with o right: Pilot 1. P. Moragne, Radi eetrician Claude Six naval aviators of San Diego Cal., jmovie set as hugh lights illuminat-{ g, o Ropin Renahan and four companio Alexander, Radioman R. Ketchikan where the navy radio tender Swallow is acting as mother ship MILLI()NS IN LOANS TO FARMERS WILL BE ASKED IN CONGRESS TO RELIEVE VARI()L STI’ILI\ have joined comme in Cha down Somewhere E. Geselel, Lieut. Scott and Pilot S. ioman L. J. DEADLOCK OVER FACES CONGRESS Solution of \;t;):lng Problem to Be Sought at Short Session WASHINGTON, D. C.,, Nov. 28.— That old war horse of legislation, Muscle Shoals, is being groomed to run another heat, perhaps its last in Congress. Immediate solution of the prob- lem, which has vexed Congress for 12 years and has been of govern- mental concern since John C. Cal- houn urged a survey of the region 106 years ago, will be sought at the opening of this winter’s session De- cember 1. Proponents of government oper tion, and advocates of the leasine of the $135,000,000 power -and ni- at loggerheads over of the project. If the deadlock is not broken at the short session, attempts may be made to force a special session of disposition usually large size of the fish. In {lations between the Soviet andithe new Congress next Spring the central district the catch was‘ the largest since the record pro-| duction of 1926, both pinks and chums making unusually good! showings. By districts, the catch in| both Southeastern and Western| Alaska decreased approximately 37 per cent, while in Central Alaska there was an increase of 32 per- cent. Of the three principal forms of fishing gear used in the salmon fishery in Alaska, 714 traps, 795 seines aggregating 117,987 fathoms of webbing, and 4,121 gill nets having a total length of 288,590 fathoms were operated in 1929. Number of Salmon Taken The total number of salmon tak- en in 1929 was 71,939,618, The take | by species was as follows: Coho or silver, 2,150,699; chum or keta, 9,-| 394,643; pink or humpback, 40,432, | 132; king or spring, 768133; and red or sockeye, 19,185,011. The total | take in 1928 was 89,584,685, 117,645,067 more than in 1929. Therr‘\ [ { | species except kings. The value of the output of can- in 1929 represented were as follows: Coho or silver, 171956 cases, valued as $1,304,457; chum or keta, 864,512 cases, valued | at $4,621,351; pink or humpback,! 2,571,657 cases, valued at $15,579,356; king or spring, 72,107 cases, valued A (Continued on Page Three) I (Continuea on Page Two) France be broken. One newspaper says the Soviet should recall the Ambassador to France before the French Government is forced to send him home. - — PRESIDENT OF BANK SUICIDES NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 28 With a shoestring tied tight laround his throat, R. E. Donne aged 63 years, President of the closed Liberty Bank and Trust Company, which he organized, was found dead today in a hotel room. Worry over financial difficu is said to be the cause for his & The bank is reported capable el | paying depositors in full. e e Fascists and Social Democrats in Fight| | copper 35%, EUTIN, Germany, Nov. 28 —Two score of men were injured, oOr seriously, during a free-for-all be tween Fascists and Social Demo crats which developed at a lectur by Julius Leber, Social Democra! member of the Reichstag. Shortly after Leber announc as his subject, “Hitler's Big Frauc a melee started. Fascists inter- rupted the speaker before he had spoken 100 words. Fists, clubs, e were used before order was stored. — ., Helen Atkinson of Chadwick, Mo. has attended Sunday school every Sunday for more than 20 years The Senate has supported the Norris resolution fér government operation of the plant, while the House has backed the Reece bill providing for private operation, After years of controversy dur- ing which millions of words were spoken and written on the subject, the issue was deadlocked in con- ference committee last summer. Senator McNary, assistant Repub- lican Leader, says he will call Sen- ate and House conferees together as soon as Congress convenes in an attempt to break the deadlock While unemploymént legislation |and appropriation bills to be dis- posed of in a short session, fast work will be necessary if the Muscle |Shoals dispute is to be settled. ———.— TODAY'S STOCK . | QUOTATIONS | . { NEW YORK CITY, N. Y, Nov. |28—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is | American Can 114%, Anaconds Bethlehem Steel 60% Fox Films 30!, General Motors | 34%, Granby Corporation 17, Inter- | national Harvester Kennecott | Copper 267, Montgomery-Ward {22%, National Acme 7 Packard | Motors 9%, Simmons Beds 17, Stan- dard Brands 16'., Standard Oil of California 48 tandard Oil of New Jersey 52%, United Aircraft 28%, U. S. Steel 144% B et Hayden Lake, water source for farmers in the Couer d'Alene, Ida- | ho, district, will have a clay covel | ing placed on its bed to stop heavy seepage through its present gravel bottom. MUSCLE SHOALS: trate plant to private interests are | i COLD WEATHER PREVAILS OVER NATION TODAY- Heavy Fall of Snow [‘x, per ienced—Motorists Caught in Bln77a| d | | 11, *Nov Most felt the cold today places are experiencing SnOw. wave brought sub - zero at poinfs in the Middle extending throughout the South with freezing temperatures to the Gulf. Temperatures are low |in Northern Florida. Readings range from one to six below zero in Ohio, North Da- {kota, Illinois and Minnesota Hundreds of motorists are ma- rooned in Northwest New York b} blizzard which has piled snow in 10-foot drifts. | A snow storm has paralyzed traf- |fic in Cleveland. | Temperatures along the Atlantic |Coast ranged about eight degrees above zero to sub-zero. On the Pacific Coast and in the |Rocky Mountains weather is re- ported as homg "nm‘mul i SON'S INJURY BRINGS CRUEL GANGSTER HOME ig Joe' Sallis Surrenders! —No Quarter’ Judge Makes CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 28. — Fate has brought “Big Joe“ Saltis, pub- lic enemy, known as Chicago's| cruelest gangster and beer baron to this city from Wisconsin where he had taken refuge from the police mil Saltis, son was badly injured two automobiles. Saltis came to Chicago and asked that a bond be placed on him. | Judge Lyle, renowned for giving ' no quarter to gangsters, came down to his court and a bond of $30,- 000 was arranged. The bond was given and Saltis was given lus liberty and visited his son The *“Toughest Gangster” and “Toughest Judge” against gang- sters, were both softened by the boy's injury. ! e Train service on the division of the Alaska Ra be discontinued Decemb winter. The Chickalo serves a coal area nort chorage. CHICAGO, 28 lof the nation and many heavy The weather West of when “Big Joe," hit by cial pilots in the hunt for Pilots E. British les P. T. Pigott, Bond [t | ing ( Her i1 | tension | tensior ! seed ' plans to a Associated Press Photo. J. A since October. Left Radio El- at Columbia Gerber, in command; The men are now six navy ‘N AREAS By FRANK 1. WELLER A. P. Farm Editor) WASHINGTON, Nov. 28— Emergeency rather than parti- san issue m likely to occu- py attention of farm leaders in the short ion of Congress beginning December 1. is indicated by the of- of Democratic floor lead: in both with Republicans for the qm-.ly return of better times for agri- culture and industry. Three farm meas are out- standing—creation of a federal feed, seed and fertilizer loan; appro- ion of funds ald stricken rmers even to the extent of buy- ing food for them, and passage of the Agricultural Appropriation bill for 1932 Each involves innumerable items, questions 0! expediency so much so that ent advocates of the export debenture, reform of ltural marketing act and further regulation e on and in exchanges may be able to crowd no more than preliminary | ideration in the three months 0 the Seventy-second Congress. | re Read Money in Sight agricultural appro tion 1 iner Feder Highway ald from $75,000,000 to $125,000,000 Secretary Hyde is preparing to a»k Congress, when the bill is passed, to make the 1932 appropriation for road work available in 1931 I is purpose to | unemp peeding up state road buildi in to ar of ases his ment by programs as increased high- gricultural appro- d to exceed way fund priation bill is expe the $175618,112 appr urposes of the Department of Ag- 1 for the fiscal year 1931. Congress considers each item | separately and there are thousands "of them $60,000,000 To Be Sought Pres: t equally long de- bate ntative Aswell, Dem- of Louisiana, expects to in- troduce a joint resolution authoriz- an appropriation of $60,000,000 to aid farmers in drought and storm cken areas in 1931, Loans would be secured by lien crop to be produced and 1 agencies to be desi he Secretary of Ag- lture a or m: the Aswell to include and fertilizer such purpos- been handled t ugh ed Loan Offi Aswell resolu- considerable pecific loan fur 5,000,000 to be adm istere lea, the 21 states where t ought hit hardest Asks Money by January 1 W. Warburton, Director of Ex- Work, Department of Aj inder whose supervision nds are dis rxb\md Congress to nmkr reso- lution funds ed nds for es alone the Fed Regarc tion ment of f the sent b seed C culture loan fund it “(Continued on Page Two) and policy - minimize | especially priated for all| loan. | AVIATOR OFF WITH WALSH, NEW SEARCH Flier Returning to Scene of Frozen-in Plane on Liard River TAKE PROVISIONS TO LAST SEVERAL DAYS Details of Fipek Flight Are Reported When Plane Is Located VANCOUVER, B. C. Nov. 28.— Word has been received here that Pilot Everett Wasson and Joe Walsh, experienced woodsmen as guide, hopped off Thursday from Telegraph Creek in a new search for Capt. E. J. A. (Paddy) Burke and his two comapnions Emil Kad- ing and Bob Marten. The flier and his guide carried plenty of provisions. It is said the two do not intend to npturn for at least four days. Meanwhile details have been re- ceived here from Whitehorse re- garding the discovery of Burke's plane Monday. | Off on Search Pilot Wasson and Walsh left Whitehorse a week ago today hop- ing to pick up information regard- ing the direction Burke was flying when last seen | “Owing to a snow storm, we were |obliged to land on a small lake 40 miles from Liard Post,” said Was- son at Whiteho and we had ito get Indians to swamp us out through 3,000 feet of standing tim- ber so we could have room for a take-off | In Second Snow Storm il “On 1 Saturday we ran into another snowstorm so crossed the |Pelly River and landed on another ismall lake. We had difficulty in {getting off again on Monday but |finally made it and headed for the \Liard River where Indians con- Ifirmed the previous reports Burke was last seen heading up the river. Plane Sighted “Flying low, we flew up the riv- er and finally found Burke's plane frozen in the ice of the river but we were unable to land on account of the rough country. Hummocks in the river ice prevented landing on it. (Continued on fage Two) LOSES GOURAGE, REGORD FLIGHT, JUMPS T0 EARTH "Young Aviator Leaps at [ 10,000 Feet Altitude —Lands Safely SAN DIEGO, Cal, Nov. 28— Within less than forty miles from San Diego, his western goal in at- tempting to establish a new junior trans-continental record and with a two-hour margin over the present mark, Gerald Nettleton, aged 20, of | Toledo, Ohio, “bailed out” of his monoplane coupe when 10,000 feet over Pine Valley late yesterday and | floated gently to earth in his para- chute. The plane crashed to earth few miles from where Nettleton anded The weather was so ‘“soupy” Nettleton said, he could not see and had to jump, although the motor was working perfectly. A rancher sat Nettleton down to a Thanksgiving Dinner then brought him to San Diego. FLIER MISSING CLEVELAND, Ohio, ov. Fear that Willlam Griffin, Cleve- land pilot, became lost in the storms while flying from Hamilton, Ontario, to Buffalo, New York, is expressed here when b wife re- ported he has been missing since Tuesday iffin was flying 28— a small cabin WOMAN FLYING VANA, Cuba, Nov. 28.—Mrs. J. M. Keith-Miller, Australian wom- an flier, left Havana for Miami, Florida, ‘this morning, expecting to reach her destination about noon. Flying conditions however, are poor. She arrived in Havana last Sunday in three hops from Pittsburgh, | Penn. Unfavorable weather held up return. HA