The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 1, 1931, Page 1

=5 'ROCKNE'S BODY VOL. XXXVIL, NO. 5682. 1931, ONE THOUSAND ESTI IDENTIFIED IN PLANEWRECKAGE Eight Victims Badly Disfig-| ured—=Watch Stopped ' _at 10:45 o’Clock CONDOLENCES SENT WIDOW BY HOOVER Tentative Arrangembnts : Made at Notre Dar je | for Funeral Services BAZAAR, Kansas, April 1.— Knute Rockne’s body has been identified by W. L. White, son of ‘William Allen White, Editor. The eight bodies of the victims of the plane are badly disfigured' but none burned. ! One watch was found. It stop- ped at 10:45 6'clock yesterday fore- noon, the time of the crash. The plane left Kansas Oity at 9:15 oclock, bound for the Pa-| cific Coast, during a mist which developed into rain. Knute Rockne missed seeing his two sons, Knute, Junior, and Billy, who had ‘arrived at Kansas City,| shortly after their father left by plane. TO CLAIM BODY | SOUTH BEND, Indiana, April 1. —Father Chay)es L. O'Donnell,| President of Notre Dame, said:| “The death of Knute Rockne is irreparable in many ways.” Father O'Donnell named “Hunk” Anderson, Trish end in 1920 and} 1921, and Jack = Chevigny, back-/ field men in 1926 and 1928 to lead| a delegation from the University to: claim the body. PHELAN GOES EAST l SEATTLE, April 1.—Jimmy Phe- lan, University of Washington coach and first captain of a Rockne Notre Dame team, left last| night for the east to pay his last| respects. “The loss of Rockne means los- ing the greatest friend I have in! athletics,” he said. ] Reminded that Rockne once said | that if anything should happen to him, Phelan would succeed him at Nofre Dame, Phelan said: “I did not take that seriously. It is his) manner of saying a nice word for an old friend.” —y | NATIONAL LOSS WASHINGTON, D. C., April 1—! President Hoover described the| death of Knute Rockne as a “na- tional loss.” The President dis- patched the following telegram to Mrs. Rockne: “I know every American grieves with you. Rockne so contributed to the cleanness and high purposes of sportsmanship in athleties that his passing is a national loss. (signed) “HERBERT HOOVER.” | LOW MASS SUNG SOUTH BEND, Ind., April 1.— Low mass was sung for Knute Rockne this morning, attended by 2,000 students and members of the faculty of Notre Dame. The body is expected here tomorrow morning| as it left Kansas City this morn- ing in charge of two sons, Billy aged 15, and Knute, junior, aged 12! The funeral arrangements are not complete but services are ex- pected to be held at the Sacred Heart Church here where Rockne was baptized in the Catholic fajth in October, 1925. The body wlllI be buried here. Mrs. Rockne is expected to ar- rive here several hours after the body, which will lie in state at the university. ———— Byrd Is to Be Decorated By King LONDON, April 1.—Rear Ad- miral Richard E. Byrd will be decorated by the King for ex- | ploration of both Poles. This is among the announcements made today of the awards of Royal Medals by the Royal Geographic Society. ————————— PACIFIC WILL GO ON SUMMER RUN Repaired and repainted, the mot- orship Pacific, Capt. Paul Kegal, will begin her summer schedule this week. She will leave here at 10 oclock Friday morning for Port Alexander and way ports. i | | !came to the United States in 1873. |son, and *w) steerage. | perimental Station at Sitka, who Licensed To Wed 16OV, ROOSEVELT [Constitutional C onvention! SIGNS MEASURE FOR DRY MEET to Be Convened on f 18th Amend. widow ef | life in an .attempted ocean flight, obtained a license in Union City, N. J, to wed Henry M. Messinge DR. GEORGESON, AGED 80, DIES TODAY, SEATILE | | | | Father of Agriculture in Alaska Passes Away— Retired 2 Years Ago SEATTLE, April 1—The Father: of Agriculture in Alaska, Dr, Charles Georgeson, aged 80 years, diled here today. He had been in poor health for the past year. He! —_—— e - retired_from his. duties mm,mwfifl ! two years ago. Dr. Georgeson was born on the Island of Lamgland, Denmark. He At the age of 22 he received; Master of Science and Doctor of| Science degrees at the University of Michigan. He taught agricul- ture in Texas, Imperial University of Tokyo and Kansas State. i In 1893 he was sent to Denmark to investigate the dairy industry,; then established and supervised an| experimental station. He was| Agronomist in Charge of the Alas- ka Experimental Stations from 1915 to ,1928. Previously he had been a Special Agent for the De- partment of Agriculture. He always said the future of Alaska was in| agriculture, not minerals. Gl A e tymiemn i QUEEN SAILS NORTH TODAY, WESTERN RUN Taking Schedule of Ad- miral Watson for Present Trip SEATTLE, April 1. — Steamer| Queen sailed for Southeast and| Southwest Alaska ports at 10 o'clock this morning with 144 first class passengers and 54 steerage. The following passengers arc booked for Juneau: 8. J. Russell, Joe Madean, Suess Ignuty, Peter Grandson wife and The Queeu is taking the place of the Admiral Watson which 1s undergoing her annual overhauling and is on the drydock in San Francisco. LAST RITES HELD FOR E. A. EGGERSGLUESS Funeral services for the late E. A. Eggersgluess, Superintendent of the United States Agricultural Ex- died Friday, were held at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon under di- rection of the Juneau Lodge of Masons in Scottish Rite Temple. H. L. Redlingshafer, Master of the Lodge, conducted the rites. A vocal selection was rendered by Mrs. W. C. Ellis. The pallbearers were Peter Brevik, John Green, E. M. God- dard, F. R. Bates, L. E. Hendrick- son and H. T. Messerschmidt. Interment, in charge of the mor- tuary department of the Juneau- Young Company, was heid in -the Masonic plot in’Evergreen Ceme- tery. i ALBANY, N. Y., April 1.-Gov. Frenklin D. Roosevelt has signed | the Lill asking for the conveuing (' of a constitutional convention for the sole purposé of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment, despite his belief the proposal is faulty in trying to limit a constitutional convention to a particular task q ¢ Gov. Roosevelt said he gave the ibill his approval because he be- lieved it expressed the will of the D WRECK DIRIGIBLE BE 1S ARRAIGNED | people of New York State. | Legislature and the will of the‘ Assoclated Press Ploto s arrested in Akron, Ohlo, charged fnection with an alléged plot to wreck the giant navy dirigible *. thorities said omi of the “Akron” which Grand Jury In Seattle Starts Work May Extend Probe lnto1 GWENSA . Administration of . Mayor Edwards | A cT PR“P |} | Jury of 17 members has becn sworn £ in 1o mvestigate the Brt souma Nerland Seeks Raise for Savings and Loan Association lail-‘l ure. It was indicated that the, and Other Changes to the City Administration of May-i ! or' Frank Edwards, when Judge Amendments to the John T. Roland barred two city Workmen's Compensation Act employees from the organization. signed to raise compensation ers to the same base rate as b ried ones, and to require the p ment of the same sums for m- jured or killed employees with ” today by Representative Nerland, VISITS OTHERS = This was one of three measures | introduced in the Legislature this Father of Late Col. Eielson bills were introduced in the House ~ o e ,and four in the Senate, all calling IS ureeted by OfllClalS i for comparatively small appropria- Here Tuesday |tions. Four were for new school- SEATTLE, April 1—A Grand, Unmarried Employees Grand Jury will extend mwm«:s! | dependents of unmarried - \ !lorsign dependentss as for Ameri- ;can citizens are proposed in a measure introduced in the House imorning. Yesterday afternoon two | houses and one a deficiency meas- \ure. Ole Eielson, fatner of the late Raise to $4,500 Col. Carl Ben Eielson, known wide- Mr. Nerland’s proposed first ly as “Father of Aviation in Alas- amendment to the Compensation ka,” was a guest of honor yesterday Code, secks to raise the amount afternoon of the Territorial Sen-|gawarded to dependents of de- ate. He is a passenger on the ceased unmarried employees from steamer Yukon enroute to F'air-lsl 800 to $4,500. The latter sum banks and possibly Nome. is the amount allowed to married Mr. Elelson is a banker at Hat-'employees without minor children. ton, N. D. He first visited Alaska His bill also provides that the a year ago when he came north! compensation shall be escheated while the search for his son Was to the Territory as are other es- being made in the Siberian Arctic,;tates where no heirs appear in and took his body back to Hatton the period of one year. Recovery for interment. |can be made from the Territory as i1:: Ltt;lat ;}me‘;;e pm;flsedl to r:; {in other escheated estate instances. visl e Territory. e plans The second proposed amendment visit the interior five or more'deflls with "I:e p:ecugn covering weeks. On his return trip he ex-|employees with dependents not pects to stop off here for a Vislt|citizens of the United States and of two or three days, and said he|residing in foreign countries. The h(lwpe: to l}e able to visit other rate for unmarried employees un- Alaskan points. Parks and members of the House, of the amount for unmarried | which had adjourned, before being | Americans, and for married ‘ones received by the Senate which ac-lis 60 per cent. Mr. Nerland pro- corded him the courtesy of the|poses to compel full payment in floor and took a recess to visit|poth cases, but in the first class with Mr. Eielson informally. 50 per cent and in the second 40 - | percent. would go to the Terri- FRESH FISH LEAVES | torial Treasury. Wants Territorial Aid JUNEAU FOR SEATTLE| rerritorial atd in tne protection of the town of Fairbanks from ‘With approximately 100,000 pounds the encroachment of the waters of of fresh halibut, constituting catch- the Chena Slough is sought in a es of vessels of Juneau's fleet, the measure introduced in the House Sitka, Capt. William Doucett, left|this morning by Representative | here today for Seattle to deliver|Johnston,.Fairbanks. It asks for a the fish to the United Pacific Fish-, direct appropriation of $10,000 and eries. boats were transferred in Gastineau!$10,000 from divisional road funds Channel to the Sitka last night for the project. and today. Yesterday afternoon, Mr. Ziegler PR . R AMENDMENT He visited GOV. der the existing code is 50 per cent| The cargoes of the small an authorization of an additional ¢ '3 while working on the structure Protests Begin to Reach Senate On Sales Tax Bills Out of town protests today began to reach the Senate on the proposed general sales and gasoline levies con- tained on two measures in- troduced late last week by Senator Hess. Two objections were re- ceived today addressed to Senator Hess from the town of Seward, signed by Mayor McMullen. One was author- ized by the City Council and the other was sent on be- half of fishermen protesting against taxing oil and gaso- line used by boats. |e 09000000 sccee®eso ® 000eececcccsecee Education. Senator Dimond in- troduced three schoolhouse bills in the Senate yesterday. For buildings at Afognak and Long- wood, $12,000 each was asked. For a building at Uzinkie, he asked for $4,000. Mr. Johnson, Ketchikan, intro- duced a bill to remburse the town | of Petersburg in the sum of $1,610 for expenses incurred by it in transporting pupils from Scow Bay to Petershurg at a time when Ter- ritorial funds for that purpose were exhausted. Mothers' Pension Deficit i To cover deficiencies in three Senate Finance Committee yester- day reported a deficiency measure totaling $9474.14. The items in- clude the sum of $6255 for pay- ment of pensions for dependent children which are past due; for payment to dairymen for cattle destroyed by the Territorial veter- inarian under the Livestock In- Spection Act, $1,208.67; and for the Office of the Auditor of the Terri- tory, $1,92047. !ment by adding the following pro- in the district . . . . the affidavit shall show only that the action is an action upon a contract ex- | press or implied against a defend- ant not residing in the district, and that the sum for which at- tachment is asked is an actual, bonafide, existing debt, due and owing from the defendant to the plaintiff, and that the attachment '1s not sought nor the action prose- cuted to hinder, delay or defraud any creditor of the defendant.” Postpone Education Bill Shattuck’s measure to re- | ofganize the Territorial Depart- Mr. RT M'DONALD AT KETCHIKAN Enters Plea of Not Guilty —Is Accused of Mar- shal Slaying | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 1.— | Bert McDonald, accused of the | murder of G. P..Marshall, fish | buyer, yesterday entered a plea of | not guilty before Judge Justin W | Harding, in the Federal Court. Attorneys George B. Grigsby and | Harry McCain, representing the | accused man, reported to the court }Lhey wou'd be ready for trial with- in a few days notice. The prosecu- | tion indicated it will be April 1 | before important witnesses will be able to reach here from Portland and other cities. McDonald also pleaded nst guilty to the charge of grand lareshy. Lloyd Close, who was arrested in connection with the same crime but indicted only on a charge of lar- ceny, entered a plea of not guilty e ;A ustin Is Elected to U.S.Senate [Republican Defeats Demo- i crat in State of Ver- | mont, 2 to | MONTPELIER, Vermont, Apri 1.—Warren R. Austin, Republican was elected to' the United State: | Senate by a majority of 2 to 1 of 248 is g. The count was Austif 27,620] Driscell 15881 HISTORIC CITY HALL IS AFIRE OTTAWA, Ontario, April 1.—Fire today swept the historic City Hall built in 1876, and caused damage estimated at $200,000. Seven firemen dropped from the fourth floor to the basement when a heavy ‘safe crushed the floor All were saved and none were funds for the past biennium, the |sericusly injured. GANDHI ILL; KEPT IN BED KARACHI, India, April 1.—Ma- hatma Gandhi is ill with a serious cold and nervous exhaustion. He One bill was introduced in the |D8s been forced to bed by a physi- Senate today by Senator Dimond,|¢lans who say that only rest will It proposes to amend Section 969 | rehabilitate of the Compiled Laws of Alaska|d8ys he ha relating to affidavits of attach-|sleep daily. him. For the last ten The Cabinet and All-India Con- vision: “Third. In an action upon |8ress begged their followers to have a contract, express or implied, | mercy on Gandhi and allow him against a defendant not residing|to rest. FAST SERVICE BY AIR STARTS), SEATTLE, Aprll 1—Inaugurat-|Shows Effects of ; ing a new 32-hour Pacific-North- west-New York air service, a Boe- ing air liner left the Municipal Airport this morning and is sched- uled to reach New York tomorrow evening at 7:24 o'clock. The new service includes stops at ment of Education, which is un-|Tacoma, Portland, Pasco, Spokane derstood to be sponsored by Com-|and Boise. missioner W. K. Keller, and is A westbound plane is due to Seven hundred pounds of fresh introduced a bill for an appropria~|iaroely similar to the plan recom- | arrive here at 4 o'clock tomorrow salmon were shipped by the San construction of a new school build- Juan Fishing and Packing Com-|ing at Ward's Cove in the dis- pany, Wallis S. rge, represen- cretion of the Commissioner of L. W. Breuer in his report to the 4 (Continued on Page Eight) Rogers. Two tierces of mild cured salmon were sent by the Juneaa' Cold Storage Company on the Rogers to Seattle. e Humor magazine editors from about 100 colleges have been in- vited to attend a gathering at tative, to Seattle on the Admiral Sheldon School POINT BARROW, Alaska, April Madison, Wis., on April 1, All|1—Two new cases of diphtheria, Fools' Day. one a relapse, have developed here, R 4, T U No word has been received from A monument to Lief Erikson,|the inland but it is expected some discoverer of North America, is to ' families will arrive here however, be erected in Grant Park, Chicago, | within the next few days. near the Field Museum. The Nor- wegian National League is behind the project. been exhausted. Twelve convalescents have been ' The antitoxin supply has almost Graduate Helps in Barrow Epidemic placed in a vacant house of three rooms, with accommodations, with Miss Flossie George, aged 25, a volunteer, in charge. She is taking a great chance but shows a fine spirit. She is a graduate of the Sheldon Jackson School at Sitka and a Bureau of Education teacher 'here of the first and second grades for the past two years. 'halibut and 700 pounds of fresh tion of $6,000 to be used in the' mengeq by former Commissioner |afternoon. PERMANENT PLACES GIVEN 8 AT CAPITOL; . Permanent positions were given today to eight temporary employees of the Federal and Territorial Building. As laborers, Henry G Goodwin, John J. Cashen, Walter A. Savikko, Carl W. Jensen and Edward C. Sweeney were changed i(rom temporary to permanent em- ployees on announcement of John C. McBride, caretaker of the build- ing, and as charwomen Miss Esther Perkins, Mrs. Anna M. Hill and Mrs. Ida B. Stotlz were trans- ferred from the temporary to the permanent list. All had qualified under Civil Service rules. " MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS | LED, MANAGUA QUAKES | Recall Asked w MANY THOUSAND | ARE INJUREDIN | SHOCKS, FLAMES. :Twenty Blocks of City’s Business Center Is Laid in Ruins ESTIMATED PROPERTY | LOSS IS $30,000,000 United States: Marines in Charge with Martial ‘ Law Declared | 4 } Wash., faced recall charges for ti Assoctarea Press Photo Mayor Frank Edwards of Seattle he N0 NN SPRNSSR | .\ o Nicaragua, April 1~ Up to 6 o'clock last night, the earthquakes and fire here took an s had but one hour's|Horace Hulter was killed when a Switt, dismissal ot J. D. Ross, city ligh estimated toll of 1,000 dead and superintendent for 20 years. many thousand are injured. Among the deed and injured are many e o — ————— Americans The American and British Lega« FLUUD WATERS tions, and Nicaraguan Government buildings were destroyed. Twenty blocks of the business district have been destroyed. The estimated property damage is $30,000,000. United States Marines took charge and martial law was declared. L Many dead or injured have been taken from the wreckage. . . Only one hos - ')ne Man [ ki Llfe Nk ly pital was left stand: Crcek Whlch IS Or_ The Army, Navy and Red Cross o r |1s assisting in relief. dinarily Dry | Not a stone is left standing in - the business center where there SEATTLE, April 1.—Swollen flood were several large hotels, banks waters in this state claimed the and other business places. life of Phillip Fox, aged 73 years, Flames Devour Wreckage ncar Walla Walla. He fell into 2' Flames are devouring the wreck- over Stephen Driscoll, Democral | >reek, ordinarily dry, while put- age wrought by the eleven separ- in yesterday's yote. One town out}’ing up planks to protdct a barn. ate shocks coming within a period Rains loosened the face of the o 22 Sluff adjoining the State Capitol Grounds at Olvmpia, and earth lid down and covered the main ine tracks of the Northern Pa- :Af] minutes shortly after 10 o'clock Tuesday morning. g The shocks shook down the major art of the city and fire broke out almost immediately. The market center was quickly om 300 to 400 people at Walla o bag embankment when water Was & o4 e oo g o e L foot and a half deep in the streets, made $o_ehpck s The shocks left shattered water Longview had a new record for et ‘ainfall, 200 inches in 24 hours. T0InS Protruding through the pave~ 4 -oo The Tropical Radio Station, threa TURNADOES HA"- miles outsifle of the city, escaped, 1 1 destruction and sent out the firsg news of the disaster. Five-Year-Old Girl Killed —Scores of Houses Are Demolished ATLANTA, Georgia, April 1.— A serles of tornadoes, hail and ain storms struck widely over the South today. A child was killed and hurt. The Georgia peach belt suffered. The five - year - old daughter of U. S. GIVES AID WASHINGTON, D. C., April 1.— Within half an hour after the first Associated Press dispatches of the Managua disaster were received, President Hoover ordered the War (and Navy Departments and Red Cross into action. e, The first Associated Press word was recefved at 11:40 am. yester= day and the first official Govern= ment message was received at 4:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon. ) Mathew E. Hanna, American Minister to Nicaragua, was asked to coordinate all relief activities until the arrival of Ernest J. Acting Direétor of Insular and Foreign Affairs of the Red | Cross. Swift left for Managua last night. 5 KILLED WHEN PRISON WALLS FALL ‘National Penitentiary at | Managua Collapses r in Earth Quakes IRVING W. LINDBERG v yright by Associated Press 4 5 several ornado demolished the home at Elba, Alabama. A member of the artillery unit it Fort Bragg was fatally injured when horses stampeded in a hail storm. Seven others were slightly njured. The high winds demolished a score of houses in Mulberry, Flor- ida. —_—— e — iking Survivor His Experiences BOSTON, Mass, April 1— Henry Sargent, one of the sur- vivers of the Viking, has ar- rived here still showing the effects of his two days on a | raft in Aretic ice flocs. His logs are still badly bruised and his fingers in a bad shape from freezing. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 1.— b/ 10 B LAt st 150 persons were killed g ¥18 e and probably the same number TODAY'S & L injured - in the National Peniten= QUOTATIONS i tiary according to reports received i just before midnight. Fid The shocks in Managua were o severe that people were unable o reach the patios or streets. e | There were cleven shocks in 23 NEW YORK, April 1.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 13%4, American Can 122%, Anaconda Copper 32% inutes, Bethlehem Steel 57%, General TIutes. Motors 42%, Granby Consolidat-| American casualties, dead, are: § ed 16%, International Harvester| James F. Fickey, Chief Quariess 49%, Kennecott 24'¢, Packard Mo- | Mmaster Clerk, buried under tors 9%, Simmons Beds 15%, benitentiary debris. Standard Brands 18%, Standard lLieutenant Commander Hugo Oll of California 42%, Standard A. Baske, of the Medical Oil of New Jersey 41%, United|formerly of Seattle, Wash., kille Aircraft 32%, U. S. Steel 139%,!in the collapse of the penitent) Curtiss-Wright 3%, Hudson Bay| Collector of General 5%, General Roods 52', Ghookor Lindberg was injured in the Cab 14, 12, 13, is not in 2 s>ious conditio