The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 29, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIIL, No. 5732. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1931. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRE sS RICE TEN CENT§ — e o - ASH PLANSATTEMPT TOHOP PACIFIC OCEAN TOMORROW PRESIDENT T0 GIVE ADDRESS MEMGRIAL DAY Goes into Historic Place Where Revolutionary Soldiers Trained WASHINGTON, D. €., May 29.— In the hilly country where winter | privation and training prepared the Revolutionary soldiers to con- tinue the struggle for Independence, President Hoover will tomorrow ad- dress America’s war dead. After delivering his Memorial Day Address, the President will in- spect the structure where George ‘Washington and the German-Am- erican von Steuben drilled the vol- unteers to reoccupy Philadelphia. After the inspection, the Presi- dent returns to Washington where the usual Decoration Day services will take place at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. FORTY AUTOS ARE READY TO START RACING Fastest Field on Record to Enter 500-mile Race Tomorrow | INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 20.— While two and one-half miles of the bricks of the motor speedway were washed clean of oil and| grease in preparation for the an- nual 500-mile auto race tomorrow, the city broke out in the annual prerace atmosphere. The fastest fleld ever to start is slated, forty machines and thir- ty-eight of them have covered the | trials in more than 100 miles an | hour. William Cantlon, of Detroit, with his 16-cylinder car, declared to be the fastest car, breezed several laps at 118 miles an huor in a practice | spin. Cantlon, Billy Arnold of Chicago, last year's winner, and Francis Quinn of the West Coast, and sev- eral other hard drivers have been | placed far back in the starting | line-up of ten rows of four cars| each. Dave Evans, piloting the only oil | burning car, said he believes his car will stand the grind without | stopping. Rice Leaves Fairbanks | for Return to Boston, FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 38.—-]} N. W. Rice, Vive-President of the ! Fairbanks Exploration Company,} left today for Boston. He has made | an inspection of the dredging op- erations. 1 i Santa Warned : He Faces Extra Heavy Toy Job CHICAGO, Ill, May 29.—San- ta Claus’ pack may be heavier next Christmas. It's a long time off, but F. D. Dodge, secretary of the Na- tional Toy Manufacturers’ As- sociation, said today sales for next Christmas had taken “a rcmarkable upward trend.” And the toys are going to be better than ever. Peru is the first South American nation to cancel passport require-!will be permitted to do so after the | ments for American tourists. BRAVES WEAR COSTLY RAIMENT AT IDAHO FETE Princess Cecelia Waters, (inset) 20, was quee held during the third annual Lewiztor, Ida., array, some of the costumes, cove Aid.lobless Beautiful Frau Erna Von Harr, millionaire Austrian industrialist, has turned paying factories to a thousand un employed mill hands. 1 specified that the plant must be Tun on co-operative lines. CONGRESS over one of her best- She has MAN MOONEY DIES IN CLEVELAND Democratic Representa- tive Passes Away, Re- sult of Pneumonia CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 29.— Congressman Charles Mooney, aged 52 years, Democratic Representativ> rom the Twentieth Ohio District since 1923, dled today as the re- sult of pneumonia. The Congressman had been wag- ng a battle with death since Wednesday. Congressman Mooney was par- icularly active on the Rivers and | Habors Committee. TEXAS GUINAN | other important warfar egases, both !must be inhaled to be effective. HELD ON LINER HAVRE, May 29.—Texas Guinan jand “Her Gang” arrived here today | ibut was not permitted to land until her working contract arrives from | Paris. ‘When the steamer was at Ply- |mouth, England, yesterday, she did not attempt to land but probably | engagement is completed in France. ] (81 cherry blossom festivel, n of the Ncz Percs Indian's spring IKa-ou-it celebration d with elk teeth, being vaiued at more than $15,000 each Associated Press Phiti The braves donned *“heir finest CHEMISTS SEEK BEST WAR CAS FOR U. S, USE | | — | {Outcome of Project May Resu't in Future Se- curity of Nation 1 WASHINGTON, D. C., May 29.— |In a laboratory at Edgewood Arse- nal, Maryland, a little group cf| chomists are working on a project upon which, in the opinion of some | | military leaders, the security of the | nation may stand or fall, | This research organization, the| only one of its kind in the United | States, is seeking the best poss'tble“ gas defense and offense for the! army. | | i | Offensive Used christ, chief of the chemical war- fare service: “If we are to protect against an enemy gas, it is neces- sary that we should know all there | |1s to know about the offensive use | of gas. I do not make any claims that chemical warfare “alone will win the war, but I do insist that it is one of the most important if not the most important, auxiliary.” General Gilehrist says the pres- ent army gas mask is believed the best military mask in the world, but that its weight and bulk still | are more for foot troops than is de- sirable. Development of masks suitable for voice transmission and for use with optical instruments, such as range finders, is nearing completion. Nearly a third of the casualties in the American army during the world war were due to gas, Gen- eral Gilchrist says. In a large num- ber of cases it was found that the men would not put their masks on. Few Improvements As far as producing gases is con- cerned he believes there have been |few improvements on the types used during the World War. He | considers mustard gas the most ef- fective, and the devising of ample protection against it is one of the biggest problems of the chemical service. Phosgene and chlorine, the tvwrA They do not affect the body, but act on the respiratory tract. On| !“he other hand, mustard gas affect both the body and the respiratory tract, and that requires proper pm-; tective clothing, he says. ( FOUR ARRESTED FOR | TRAPPING ILLEGALLY | Four men—Teppo Ahma, Victor | l T ? | Says Maj. Gen Marry L. Gil- |, Indicted 1 ted Press Phol Roberts, friend of . Diamond and Broadway chorus girl, indicted for second degree assault In con. nection with the Greene' county, Wew York, gangster cleanup. Associa Marion Le RAIL SHARES PLUNGE DOWN TO NEW LOWS Declines Also Numerous in Food Prices; Trading Today Is Light NEW YORK, May 29—Rail shares plunged to new low levels today. For the past two years rails have dragged the rest of the list after| them. The pre-holiday short covering gave the market a substantial up- turn. Early dealings advanced some | shares t%0 and three points. Steel, | Consolidated Gas, Allied Chemical | and case advanced but soon lost. New York OCentral lost three| points going to the lowest in years. | Union Pacific and Santa Fe lost from four to two points. Declines were numerous in food shares under pressure. | Trading was light. Brokerage circles are inclined to hope that Memorial Day and the |week-end might mark a turning point after three successive months of stubborn liquidation. TODAY'S STOCK - | QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, May 29.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine [Theodore fi.—Torkelson JUNEAU PIONEER STEPS OFF PIER INTO ETERNITY s Body Found on Wil- loughby Ave. Beach Theodore H. Torkelson, 62 years old, resident of Juncau for more than 30 years, was accidentally drowned last night in the waters of the city’s harbor. His body was found early this forenoon on the beach in the rear of the gaso-| line filling station at the corner of Main treet and Willoughby Avenue, for the funeral, ary. the remains are the Charles W. Carter Mortu- The body was first observed at| k this morning by Clifford | Matthews, where it had been left| 6 o'cloc by the receding tide. He at once telephoned the Fire Department, and a truck with several firemen hastened to the scene. Accidental Death After merely inspecting the re-| mains, J. L. Gray, fire chief, no- tified United States Commissioner Charles Sey, who in his capacity as coroner decided that death had occurred several hours previously, that it was accidental and that there was no occasion for an in- quest. moved by firemen to the Carter mortuary. Torkelson is supposed, while the tide was in, to have stepped off| the wharf near the, place where his remains were found. followed the trade of locksmith, His place of business and living quarters were in a building owned by Isador Goldstein south of the Juneau Lumber Mills on Lower Front Street. Estate Worth $1,000 The estate of the dead man consisls of his tools and a small stock of goods, the whole, it is estimated, worth not more than $1,000. Isadore Goldstein will be appointed administrator. Torkelson was born in Bergen, Norway, where his mother and his sister still live. He has a brother, George Torkelson, carpenter and locksmith,” who formerly dwelt in Juneau, who now is a resident of Seward. The brother has been notified of the death. Funeral arrangements await word from him. ALMA TAKES 23 DESTINED FOR WHITEHORSE Excursionists are Schedul- ed to Return Here Sun- day Afternoon With a party of 23 excursionists destined for Whitehorse, Y. T., the motorship Alma left Juneau at 7 o'clock this morning. She called at Douglas outbound and was scheduled to stop at Chilkoot Bar- racks. A dance will be enjoyed at Skag- way tonight, Tomorrow morning, the travelers will board a train on the White Pass and Yukon Route and will arrive in Whitehorse to- morrow forenoon. Baseball and field sports are on the amusement program at White- horse tomorrow afternoon. A dance will be held there tomorrow night. Returning, the excursion train will leave Whitehorse so as to ar- rive in ®kagway Sunday morning. Embarking on the Alma there, then the travelers will return to Juneau Pending arrangements | The body then was re-| | NEW PR Characteristic poses of Faul Briand, the pre-election favarite. THO AVIATORS "MAKE RECORD IN ENDURANCE Stay in Air Without Re- fuelling for 84 Hours and 32 Minutes JACKSONVILLE, Fla.,, May 20.— Walter Lees and Frederick Brossy succeeded in their ambition to stay aloft in an airplane without re- fueling, longer than man had done before. They landed their diese!-motored monoplane on the beach at 7:20 o'clock last night setting a world's non-fueling endurance record of 84 hours and 33 minutes. This is nine hours and ten minutes better than the former mark made by two Frenchmen in Algeria last March. This was the third attempt at a mark. A leak in an ol tank ended |the first attempt last March and a storm forced them down in April USED PACKARD DIESEL } Frank McCafferty, Proprietor of |the Juneau Motors, has received |the following cablegram concern- |ing the breaking of the endur- ance flight and mentioned in the Associated Press dispatch above: “At 7:20 o'clock this evening (last night) our courageous pilots Lees and Brossy, landed Packard diesel Bellanca plane aft- er breaking by nine hours and ten minutes -the world’s record for continuous flight without refuel- ing, thus Packard recaptures for America a record first held by Americans, then by Germany, then This national fresh tribute to Packard engineering leadership. All agree that this record will stand a Packard diesel engine wants to ESIDEN their| until| ™ T OF FRANCE Donumer, president of the senate, e e B d‘ who was elected thirteenth president ot France, defeating Aristics or many years Torkelson had | RED ROBBINS -~ PLAN FLIGHT " OVER ALASKA Nonstop, Refuelling Trip to Tokyo Indicated; Fairbanks Queried FORT WORTH, Texas, May 28.— Credence is added to the report | current in aviation circles that Red Robbins is planning a non-stop re- fueling flight from Fort Worth to Tokyo when it was learned today the endurance flier had cabled to Fairbanks, Alaska, asking if gaso- line was available there. The dis- | patch from Fairbanks gave the in- formation that ample gasoline was available, Robbins declined to comment on the report of his intended trip. He recently, however, purchased a Lockheed Vega plane of the type |noted for speed. The plane is now |being repaired and reconditioned |at the Municipal Airport. CAPT. F. HAWKS ON NEW STUN |Off in Plane Planning to | Circle France With- in Two Days | | LEBOURGET, France, May 29. —Capt. Frank Hawks soared away today with the intention of girdi- ing France by air in two days. He planned to spend tonight in Mar- el ver ids and whirlpool by It: and lastly by France, Stilles and tomorrow to return to rive; rapid : 1 t anplishmenly is yfln Inter- | Paris via Lyon, Dijon and Nancy, year, will try it again tomorrow. hoping to land here at 3 o'clock |in the afternoon. PLANE BEING PREPARED FOR OCEAN FLIGHT {All_Extra Metal Stripped To Allow for Load of Gasoline ! | 'RUNWAY 1S PREPARED {TO AFFORD TAKE-OFF INo Radio, No Pontoons Will Be Carried on Projected Air Trip SAMUSHIRO, Japan, May 20— The prob of getting his mono- | plane F nto the air with one |ton and a half of fuel aboard, is the chief concern of Thomas Ash, lir, on the of his projected | Pacific flight from here io Tacoma, | Washington. | Everything is in readiness to give | Ash a smooth start tomorrow. 1 Runway Planked The runway is planked for more {than 200 yards after which the | plane should taxi along the bare ;bench for a mile or more during ‘whlch it is intended speed will be | attained of 70 miles an hour be~ | fore taking the air. | “If 1 can only get the plane into the air, I will feel half of the bat- tle is won,” said Ash. | Girls Decorate Japanese girls were up all last night sewing strips of red, white and blue muslin and a lot of white |stars on a blue field, resembling |the American flag and decorating an evergreen arch by a villager |over the roadway which Ash will take to board his plane. | The arch bore the word, “Wel- {come,” both in English and Japan- | The plane has been stripped of ,every ounce of superfluous metal to lighten the load. He will carry no radio or pontoons. Ash is only worried over the cumbersomeness and hard manipulating of the plane. ' SRS S S (OCEAN FLIGHT ~ ARRANGED FOR 6. MACKENZIE ‘Will Be Agnpanied by i Woman Copilot, Tokyo { to Seattle, in '32 ! VICTORIA, B. C, May 20— Capt. Gordon Mackenzie, of the Alaska-Washington Airways of British Columbia, announced plans for a”non-stop flight across the Pacific ocean from Tokyo to Seat- tle, In July of next year. He will | be 'accompanied by an unnamed woman as co-pilot who has com= i pleted financial ngements. Capt. Mackenzie will use a twin- motored ship with a cruising speed of 180 miles an hour. He is ex- pected to make the flight in from 28 to 30 hours. - ———— DARE-DEVIL PLANS STUNT NIAGARA FALLS, May 29.—Wil« liam Hill, veteran river man dare- devil, who navigated the lower last | | | Hill will use a specially built bar- rel for the attempt. |Salo, Vivian Kilgore and Oscar Mc- stock today is 16%, American Can “Graw—'wem recently arrested at 95, Anaconda Copper 22%, Bem_‘late Sunday afternoon. break it.” French “Radicals” Are Losing Trees Record Rain Slump in Growth Rings; Report Made ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., May 29.— Trees in the drought area are re- cording the slump in rain as clear- ly as down-dipping graphs of sales reveal the slump in business. Trees are not growing any better than crops this year where the drought has hit says the United States forest service. Whole forests are being delayed a year or two in reaching the size at which they can be cut into logs. The “inside story” of how the drought affects trees is told by the “increment borer,” a hollow auger used to cut a small core of wood out of a tree’s heart. It represents a cross section of the tree’s annual growth rings, laid against each other like a pile of pennies from the heart oyt to the bark, ‘The section that the borer hol- lows out reveals not only the tree’s age but the conditions of growth during every year of its life. Sections from trees in the drought stricken states show very thin rings for 1930. Some trees show two rings for the same year. Rain that broke the drought temporarily encouraged !them to a rew burst of growth af- | tar the first spring spurt had boen stopped by lack of moisture. sample trees reveals what the fu- ture growth of a forest will be. A | scientist expert at reading the rings can translate their meaning into Study of the rate of growth of | |Kukak Bay, Southwestern Alaska,|lehem Steel 40%, by Game Warden Homer Jewell, charged with trapping last win- ter without having a non-resident | license, according to word received |at local headquarters of the Al- |aska Game Commission. | They were tried before United' at Kodiak early this month and| entered pleas of . guilty. Judge} | Stowe sentenced them to pay a fine | of $100 each. Two lynx, eleven red fox, one wolverine, 20 weasel and eight land otter skins were‘ seized from the trappers and or-| | dered forfeited to the Government. | 1 —_———— SEEKS “GREATER” PARIS l PARIS—Creation of a “greater” Paris, after the example of New York, London and Berlin,” with a probable population of 5,500,000, is i board feet or cords of wood that will be available at come future date, {being sought in some French cir- lcles as an “urgent necessity” in ]vlcw of present population trends. States Commissfoner A. F. Btowe Wright 2%, Hudson Bay 3'%, Check- | Fox Films 15, General Motors 34, Granby Con—i solidated 11, International Harves- ter 43'2, Kennecott 16%, Packard 6%, Standard Brands 15%, Stand- ard Oil of California 34, Standard Oil of New Jersey 33, United Air- | craft 26%, U. 8. Steel 91, Curtiss-| er Cab 9%, 9, 9, California Packing | 22, Trans-America 7%. New Process Turns Wool | Into Artificial Leather SULLIVAN ARRIVES WITH 2 IN CUSTODY C. J. Sullivan, Deputy United States Marshal at Haines arrived this morning on the steamer Ad- miral Rogers with two men in cus- tody to be served out sentences in the local Federal jail Arthur Johnson has a 60-doy and A. C. Crawford a 90-day s2ntence to do. Both were convicted of vio- lations of the Alaska Bono Dry Law. LEEDS, England, May 29- Art- | cial leather has been made of ool after a year’s guarded work 2y the British Wool Industrics Research association. ‘The product is said to look much like real leather and have durable qualities and be capable of being | substituted for leather in many places. | if v - MRS. MUSETH ENDS VISIT Mrs. J. L. Museth ,whose hus- band is in the headquarters of- fices of the Pacific Steamship Com- pany at Seattle, took passage on the Admiral Rogers this morning for the Puget Sound metropo! She was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. 8. Kirk for several weeks. E2ERAE. S-b T A BOBBY VEACH STILL PLAYS immortals, is still playing the game. Veach left the Tigers and the majcys several years ago and time. Recently, however, the lure caught up with him again and he Jjoined a Detroit semi-pro team, the Regals. In his first game with the Regals he slammed a two-base hit and followad through with a single. Although slowed up because of his advanced age, he still uses the same free and easy swing and knocks 'em a mile, DETROIT, Mich., May 29.—Bob- | by Veach, one of Detroit’s baseball | stayed out of the game for some| | Out to More R PARIS, May 29 | nessing what cbs prove to be an hi | internal polit | The radical socialist party, which | has had a large hand in the forma- of modern Prance, is slowly of the pic- Prance | beli cal tu will n in | tion |dying, being edged out ture by socialists. In the majority of by-election held since the general elections of 1928, ocialists and radical ociall ) the former ha Recently, and [time in Frenc {tory, the |the cham’ |radical sBeialists 109 | Observers foresee that this grad- |ual pecking away will continue un Jtil the social | } i | the day. the first iamentary his- ad 109 seats in ties and the adical Socialists voting power. | This latter consideration had { much to do with socialist insistence |last January, when cabinets were {falling in rapid succession, that | parliament be dissolved and elec- | tions held. Socialist leaders were | confident that the country would | return them in such inumbers that {they would be abie to form a gov- | ernment. And their increase would have been at the expense of the radical soclalists, their more moderate | brothers of the left | The party. is composed largely of middle class people of provin- | cial towns whose ideas are slightly |in advance of the right but not as |radical as those of the socialists. ‘hey party name, radical socialist, hus is a misnomer,