The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 10, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ' ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXVIIL, NO. 5793. PRICE TEN CENTS' v RAIN, FOG HOLD LINDBERGHS AT POINT BARROW Do Not Fly on Sunday for Nome, Next Port on Oriental Route FLIERS VISIT ICE CELLARS, FAR NORTH Real Alaska Family Dinner| Served—Wind Opens | Ice Leads POINT BARROW, Alaska, Aug. 10.—A haevy rain and fog held Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife to the ground Sunday. Con- ditions at Nome were also not re- ported to be favorable for a land- ing there. The wind is opening & big lead in the ice and the cutter North- Jand has reached Wainwright with gasoline for the Lindberghs. The Lindberghs attended serv-i jces at the Presbyterian Mission Sunday and then toured the vil- lage ice cellars and reihdeer camp. LINDBERGHS HAVE REAL ALASKAN MEAL POINT BARROW, Alaska, Aug. 10.—The Lindberghs enjoyed a long sleep last Saturday after partak- ing of a “real Alaska family din- ner.” Upon their arrival from Aklavik, early Saturday morning, the Lind- berghs were kept busy answering questions at the manse as Point Barrow has had no mail for four months and the white residents were starved for news from the out= side world. 5 Col. Lindbergh regretted that he had not brought newspapers. About 3 am., Lindbergh was al- most asleep in a chair and some- one suggested the visitors prob- ably would like to retire to which the Colonel remarked he ¢_Hd not care if he ever got up again. The menu of the “real Alaskan dinner” consisted of roast reindeer, wild geese, canned vegetables, ice cream and cake. The natives fairly went wild when the plane was sighted and covered their parkas with the “loudest” calico obtainable, the idea being to express pleasure by the gayness of the colors. — SEARCH MADE FOR AMERICAN AVIATOR NOW Parker Cramer Unreport- ed on Flight Between Denmark-Norway COPENHAGEN, Aug. 10.—Ships are searching the water between Denmark and Norway for Parker Cramer, American aviator, and Oliv- of Hannibal No. 1, largest passen- ger airplane in the world, prevent- afternoon. Catasiréphe Prevented byw Pilot as World’s Largest Airliner Forced to Earth ed a catastrophe late last Saturday | TONBRIDGE, England, Aug. 10.— [small field near here. The plane The brilliant handling by the pilot | barely missed a house and the tail wires. down, None aboard were hurt. One propeller broke off in mid- was torn off by telegraph A telegraph pole was pulled The Hannibal, with 18 passengers | air, struck another propeller and aboard, was bound to Paris from { knocked it off and a forced landing Croydon and was forced down in a | was necessary. SIX ARE DEAD WHEN BIG AIR Minute After Take- off at Cincinnati CINCINNATI, Ohio, Aug. 10.— Five men and one woman were killed Sunday when the Cincinnati- Atlantic airplane Embrey Riddle, division of the American Airways, crashed in a bank of the Little Miami River, one minute after the take-off. The dead: Willilam E. Keith and W. P. Brimberry, both of Atlanta, Geor- gla. V. B. Beum, of Memphis, Tenne- see. Pilot M. T. O'Dell, of Cincinnati. and Willia Jm. DeWald, both from ‘Thomas, Kentucky. i A broken hub of the propeller of the right hand motor of the Ford tri-motor plane caused the tragedy. >, JACK “LEGS” DIAMOND AT LAST GULTY Finally Convicted of Con- spiracy After Num- erous Trials NEW YORK, Aug. 10—Jack “Legs” Diamond has been con- victed of conspiracy to violate the Prohibition Law by possession of an unregistered still. The con- viction was secured in the Fed- eral Court here. Diamond's chief lieutenant, Paul Quattrocchi, was also convicted of a conspiracy charge but was ac- quitted on the other count. Sentence will be pronounced Wednesday. Diamond faces a maximum term of four years imprisonment and a fine of $11,000. [ Quattrocchi faces a term of two years’ imprisonment and a fine of $10,000. Diamond has many times been wounded in liqguor wars and has been tried on charges ranging from a petty crime to murder but has never been convicted before. er Pacquette, radio operator, over- due here in rough weather at sea. Cramer is mapping a new air mail route to Copenhagen from the United States. He and his com- rade left Detroit July 27. The route is being mapped for Trans- American Air Lines, Cramer was lost in Greenland for two weeks in 1928 when at- tempting a flight to Copenhagen from Rockford ,Illinois, with Bert Hassell. Cramer also piloted a plane which came to grief in the Hudson Bay country while attempt- ing a flight from Chicago to Ber- lin. ROBBINS, JONES ARE BACK HOME FORT WORTH, Texas, Aug. 10. —Reg. L. Robbins and H. S. Jones landed at the airport here at 7:05 o'clock last Saturday night after a nonstop flight from Edmonton. MacDonalds and Sti Are Visiting in Scotland SHIBER CROSS, Scotland, Aug. i0—Premier Ramsay MacDonald and his daughter Ishobel, returned home to Lossimouth after a visit near here with American Secretary of State Stimson and Mrs. Stim- son. i —to——— HAWK INLET TO HAVE PACK OF 85,000 CASES The P. E. Harris salmon cannery at Hawk Inlet will have 70,000 cases of fish packed tonight, ac- cording to Hans Floe, Superintend- ent, plane from the cannery and re- turned about two hours later. The company will have a final pack of 85,000 cases at Hawk Inlet, he de- clared. ‘Commercial fishing ends in the district tonight. Traps must be brailed and put out of commission before Wednesday morning. The fish runs this season have been very good, Mr. Floe said. ‘Takes have been fine. e, PROSPECTORS BUY SUPPLIES have spent the time in the Glacier Bay country. They are in Juneau to replenish supplies, and will then Miss Wrenna D. Hughes, copilot, who arrived at 1 pm. by| been good and thej escapement to spawning beds has!,,” \souor James J. Walker, of Paul Lenhart and Louls Mideke, \champion heavyweight. who came from the States on a; prospecting trip two months agoi| LEGION REPAIRS B.AR. VETERAN'S LINER@ASHESEBURNED_ HOME Fatal Tragedy Occurs One More Volunteer Work to Be Done on J. N. Carver's House Time cannot lessen, no call to labor or to pleasure, can impair the comradship of men-at-arms. Vet- erans of the World War forgot their . plans for Sunday outings yesterday to help a survivor of the Conflict between the States,” on whom ill-fortune had befallen. Twelve members of the Juneau Legion Post worked to repair the house of J. N, Carver, member of the Grand Army of the Republic, whose habitation on Willoughby Avenue had been damaged by fire Saturday. All charred woodwork and the remains of burned furniture were removed; the roof was reshingled where shingles were needed; ruined boards outside were replaced with new; parts of the interior were re- lined with lumber sheeting, and doors and windows were glazed. There is still considerable nec- essary work, and it will be done by Legion volunteers tonight and to- morrow night. Workers yesterday were served a bounteous luncheon with coffee by ladies of the Post's Auxiliary. >, 43,079 POUNDS OF SALMON G0 INTOFREEZERS Forty-three thousand and seven- ty-nine pounds of salmon constitut- ed fish receipts here over the week- end. All the cargoes were bought by the Juneau Cold Storage Com- pany, W. 8. George, president, and will be kept in the freezers for fall and winter demand. Arrivals this week-end were more than 2,000 pounds in excess of ar- rivals in the same period a week ago. Boats, captains and cargoes follow: Boats, Captains, Cargoes Celtic, H. Moy, 7,714 pounds; Beulah, H. Moy, 3321 pounds; T- 3768, James Young, 5302 pounds, Hyperian, Oscar O'Berg, 2,000 pounds; Sadie, Sandy Stevens, 3400 pounds; Emma, Thomas Ness, 21,- 342 pounds. All the craft took ice today and left for salmon waters. Yesterday, the Cold Storage Com- pany loaded aboard the motorship Norco on consignment to the At- lantic and Pacific Packing Com- pany at Seattle, 15 tierces of mild cured salmon, weighing 12375 pounds. Net Is Repaired The Wilson, Capt. Martin Holst, with net repaired, is scheduled to leave today for a catch of her- ring. The Fern, Capt. John Lowell, is on the Municipal gridiron for over- haul. The cannery tender O. M. Ar- nold of the New England Fish Company, came to Juneau from ‘Chatham She expected to re- turn there tonight. MAYOR WALKER GREETEDBY MAX BREMERHAVEN, Germany, Aug. New York City, h:'a arrived here. {He will visit the’ Spas for his |health. Among the greeters of the ! Mayor was Max Schmeling, world's e L. M. CARRIGAN 1S BACK L. M. Carrigan, representative of Armour and Company, returped to Juneau. Sunday.from g business return to the Glacier Bay region.,trip to Alaska towns south of here. \REPLIES TO CHARGES BRUTALITY OF POLICE CITED FORPRESIDENT Wickersham Com m ission Makes Another Report to Executive MASS OF DATA COVERS OF WICK. COMMISSION|PERIOD OF TEN YEARS Says Methods Recommend- Extorted Confessions Are ed Obviously Came Listed—Abolishment from ‘Observor’ I of Degrees Urged SECRETARY OF LABOR AROUSED BYNEWATTACK Demands More Men and Equipment to Seek Out Aliens in U. S. WASHINGTON, D. C. Aug. 10—~ WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 10.— A call for more men and equip= A ten-year record of police brutal- ment to seek out and deport & ity and barbarious third degree huge body of aliens illegally re= methods is reported by the Wick- siding in the United States, came ersham Commission in data furn- Saturday from Secretary of Labor ished to President Hoover today. Doak who was aroused by the,' The reporte listed more than 100 criticism of the latest Wickersham instances of extorted confessions| Commission report. and urged legislation to abolish ‘The Secretary of Labor hit back such conduct. at some of the suggestions but The report listed more than 100 agreed with it that additional de- Loeb case where an innocent school portation machinery would help teacher was beaten into a confes- reach “hundreds of thousands” of sion. aliens now here, many of them, The Snook case in Ohio was criminals. talso cited where the prosecutor Secretary Doak’s reply asserted struck the university professor on Reichbanner Men Clash with Antis in Coblenz; Pepppr Thrown in Evyes COBLENZ, Germany, Aug. 10— |with a constant flow of new ar- | Numerous clashes occurred last rivals. | Saturday between Reichbanner men Saturday evening, one girl wcar-l and anti-government groups as the ing a National Soclalist insignia, | Reichbanner men gathered to cele- | was arrested for throwing pepper brate the Twelth Anniversary of into the eyes of Republicans. the signing of the constitution of Between 30,000 and 40,000 mem- | the German Republic. bers of the Rhenish Relchbanner, | There were no casualtles, |a men’s organization, poured into! Conflicts subsided as the ranks the city during the day to take| of the Republican forces thickened part in the celebration. STOCK PRICES FOREST FIRES SAG SLIGHTLY | ARE RAGING IN | N. Y. EXGHANGE BRIT.COLUMBIA Sweeping Decline in World|Ranches Are Destroyed-—‘ Cotton Markets Is Prospectors Believed Announced Today | to Have Perished 1 NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—A sweep- ing decline in the wald cotton markets as the result of the Gov-|parts of British Columbia. ernment’s crop report estimating a' The worst fire is reported in the much larger crop than expected ln-fiOllver District, south of Penticon, | VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 10.— Fires continue to threaten several ol that steps had been taken to cor-, rect some of the abuses but added | that some methods recommended in the reports obviously ecame “from an observer without ex-| perience in practical problems of deportation.” The Commission's report was written largely by Rueben Oppen- | heimer, Baltimore Attorney. | The report flatly accused the Federal Tmmigration. officials with| resorting to oppression, extortion and unconstitutional methods in their deportation activities. 1 — oo 4 | 120 OFF HENRY VIEW WONDERS OF MENDENHALL, Mendenlh:iall Glacier proved a pop- ular attraction last evening for tourists off the steamship Prince Henry. The natural marvel, shot by the rays of a setting sun that shone from a cloudless sky, was a spectacle of unrivaled grandeur, and was viewed in wonder by 120 of the voyagers that had come north on the Canadian vessel. With 201 passengers out of Van- couver, B. C, the Prinée Henry, Capt. Harry Neddon add Purser John Crawford, bound to Skagway, reported a delightful voyage from ' her home port. 4 Arrives After 6 p.m. & e arrived here shortly after 6 0'Clock last evening and remained until midnight. She will return| about 1 o'clock tomorrow morn- ing on her way back to Vancouver. Nine persons disembarked at this port. They were Mrs. Edwin L. Knapp, Ruth Hawkesworth, H&n-‘ nah Smith, Mary Davis Perelle,| Charles William Perelle, Leonard Peterson, Curtis Gardner, Rich-/ ard Gardner and Hugh Douglas Gray. 68 for the Yukon 8ixty-eight of those aboard the vessel were destined for various places in Yukon Territory. Among the prominent round-trip tourists are Ely E. Palmer, United | States Consul General at Vancou- ! ver and members of his Iamuy;: Robert Huntington, solicitor, and B. T. Chappell, superintendent of the Western Division, of the Can- adian National Railways with head quarters at Vancouver; Dr. Archi- bald J. Gilchrist, chief of the medi- cal department of, the Canadian National Rallways, and Mrs. Gil- christ' of Montreal. ALASKA PILOT DOWN, UNHURT NOME, Alaska, Aug. 10.—Pilot Barnhill, flying a pontoon Pia plane, was forced down on the barren tundra 60 miles from Unal- akleet last Saturday. Pilot Barn-| hill and his passenger, Postal In-| spector Jefferson, were not hurt. Pilot Joe Barrows, making a round trip, brought the two men here, { — e John Ahlers of the Rice and Ahlers Company, plumbers, went to Wrangell. Sunday. in connection with contract work being done there by his company. climbing up a rope ladder that had )Alaska Washington ‘Airways; Llano |log cabin to be used by fishermen jand hunters, are still there. | Whitecrost well known former Can- the jaw to obtain a confession. The report did not comment on the Mooney-Billings case and gave as the reason for not doing so that a pardon was under consid- eration. The report cited brutalities in 29 cities, including Seattle, and the case of De Castro Mayer, sus- pected slayer of Eugene Bassett was cited. — MOTHER FLIES WITH HER BABY T0 CATCH BOAT , In the lexicon of women, there s ‘no such d as “can’t.” “You can't take the Norco to Seattle today; the boat sailed an hour ago,” Mrs. James Larsen was told yesterday afternoon by D. B. Femmer, agent of the motorship, when she asked about the vessel's time of departure, “Please stow that ‘can’t’ speech young man; you're not carrying your audience along with you. I'll 1ly.” Thirty minutes later Mrs. Larsen, tightly clasping her little baby, was been flung over the Norco's port rall to the seaplane Petersburg, gently floating in mid-stream alongside. Saturday Night at Lake ‘The Petersburg returned to Ju- neau yesterday morning from Lake Hasselborg on Admiralty Island, where it had stayed Saturday night after having flown there Saturday afternoon. Those who went in the plane to the lake Saturday were Pilot Rob- ert Ellis and Lloyd Jarman of the Morris of the Morris Construction Company, and Dr. W. W. Council, Boat Is Built ‘With Ellis and Jarman helping, Morris built for the Airways a small boat that will be used for fishing and hunting on the lake. Doctor Council did some angling from shore.- All members of the party returned with the plane yes- terday morning. The two men that were taken to Hasselborg last week to erect a The structure will be completed in a Yay or so. Owner of Race Horses Dies Suddenly at Atlin ATLIN, 'B. C, Aug. +10.—Fred adian hockey player and owner of ace Horses, died here as the result of an attack of the heart. e JOHN HELLENTHAL GOES SOUTH TO ENTER SCHOOL Enroute to Santa Clara, Calif., where he will enter college, John Hellenthal, son of Mr. and Mrs. 8. Hellenthal, left here Sunday morning on the steamer Prince Rupert for Seattle. He was ac- companied by his mother who will return home in a short time. e ——— CHARLES FERDENE IS WELL Charles Ferdene, who entered St. Ann’s Hospital July 8, has left for his home. jected fresh bearishness in the financial outlook and obscured the improved international situation as the result of the victory of the Bruening Govenrment in the Prus- sian plebiscite. The market sagged again after publication of U. S. Steel's un- filled tonnage and a report of the Union Pacific. Santa Fe tumbled six points. Allied Chemical and General Rail- way Signal lost four points. New Haven lost more than four points, U, S. Steel, American Can, West- inghotse, Seats-Roebutk, New York Central, Pennsylvania and South- ern Pacific were off one point or two. ————— TODAY’S STOUK QUOTATIONS . | | . NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 15%, American Can 91%, Anaconda Copper 23%, Beth- lehem Steel 37%, Fox Fllms 12%, General Motors 37%, International Harvester 37%, Kennecott 17%, Checker Cab 8, 8, 8, Curtiss-Wright 3, Packard Motors 6%, Standard Brands 17%, Standard Oil of Cali- fornia 36, Standard OIll of New Jersey 36%, United Alrcraft 26%, U. 8. Steel 85%. PAINTERS BEGIN THEIR WORK ON CAPITOL WALLS Work of painting the walls of halls and offices in the Federal and Territorial Building began to- day. J.P. Guiry of the firm of the Guiry Brothers Wall Paper Company of Denver, Colo., which was awarded the contract for the task on a bid of about $8500, is here to oversee the beginning of the undertaking. He arrived yes- terday on the Motorship Norco with Mrs. Guiry and Leonard Guiry. “The work will require about two months’ time” said J. P. Guiry. “When the task gets fully under way we shall have a force of 14 to 16 men on the job. To Hire Local Help Lloyd Flood, who came north with me, will be in charge. He will hire all his help in this city. All the paint has arrived here.” Mr. and Mrs. Guiry will re- main in Juneau about two weeks, after which they will return to Denver, Guiry Brothers have a‘great deal of experience in federal work. Last year they were second iIn the list of firms in the volume of painting done for the government. Pleasure and Business “I certainly am combining pleas- ure with business,” declared Mr. Guiry. “I am more concerned in seeing Alaska than in making mon- ey on this job. All my life I have been anxious to visit the North. Mrs. Guiry and I have wondered and marveled at the succession of natural grandeurs on land and sea, ever since coming across Dixon En- trance. “It 1s a country of unrivaled heauty. which is quite a compliment from me for my home state, Colo- raqo, boasts of some pretty fine seenery.” near the International line. The fire swept over Anar- chist Moyntain and laid waste to the surrounding ranches. No trace has been found of a number of prospectors working in the district and it is feared they have perished. A Vancouver Island fire at Camp No. 3, of the Comox Logging com- pany, is out of control. It has burn- ed through the slashings and every man in the camp and a number of picnicers on a nearby beach have been recruited to fight the flames, which are near the town of Cour- | tenay.’ - h | REDINGTONIS | “ENROUTE SOUTH TOCONFERENCE Chief of Bi:)—l;ical Survey Ends Alaska Visit— Leaves Sunday Boundary Paul G. Redington, Chief of the United States Blological Survey, | who spent last week here after an inspection of districts as far west as the Pribilof Islands, left Sun- day morning on the steamer Prince Rupert for Seattle. He is due there Thursday for a conference with as- sistants from the Washington of- fices of the buredu. Mr. Redington expressed grati- fication at existing game and fur bearing animal conditions which, he declared, were generally whole- some. The problems of administra- tion, many of which he was study- ing on his visit, he sald will con- tinue to have the bureau’s most sympathetic consideration to the end that the best interests of the people of the Territory will be served efficiently and satisfactorily. - MISS MORRISON BECOMES BRIDE ~ OF B. W, FRENCH In a wedding Saturday evening that came ‘as a total sutprise to her many friends, Miss Mildred | Morrison, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Morrison of this city, became the bride of Mr. Baird Miller French. The ceremony was| performed by Dean C. E. Rice of | Holy Trinity Cathedral. Mr. and Mrs. French have taken apartments at the MacKinnon and will make their home there. Mrs. French has resided here for many years and is one of Juneau's popular young ladies. She is a graduat e of the Juneau High | School and attended Oregon State | College and is a member of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority there For the past two years she has been stenographer in local head- quarters of the United States Pub- lic Burveys. Mr. French is an engineer of the the United States Bureau of Public Roads, attached to the Alaska dis- trict. He is a graduate of the University 6f New Mexico and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. French reside in that State. He has made his headquarters in this city for PLEBISCITE T0 DISSOLVE DIET FAILSATPOLLS Oppositign to Bruening Administration De- civisely Defeated DISCONTENTS ONLY MUSTER SHORT VOTE Attempt of Leftists and Rightists to Change Heads Beaten Off BERLIN, Aug. 10—The present German Government has the con= fidence of her people. An attempt of the Leftists and ightists, opposition forces, to dis~ solve the Prusslan Diet by a plebs iscite, failed Sunday by more than 3,500,000 votes. The Nationalists, National So~ cialists, Communists and other parties backing the dissolution vote pollad only 9,703,000 votes as against 13,409,000 which would have been required to carry the proposal, to a majority. All qualified voters in Prussia were necessary to carry the vote, thus the onslaught of the opposition to Chancellor Bruening in Germany fail:d DISORDERS CONTINUE BERLIN, Aug. 10. — Chancellor Buening and Foreign Minister Cur=~ tlus returned here today from Rome. Disorders continue although the Sunday plebiscite failed by 3,500,~ 000 votes to dissolve the Prussian Diet. Two police captaing are reported slain and others are believed dying in Beriin. . A Steel Helmet leader has been killed In Cologne. —————— POPE CONFERS: WITH GERMANS Holds Speci—a—l—Audience in Library with Bruen- ing and Curtius VATICAN CITY, Aug. 10.—Chan- cellor Bruening, of Germany, a Roman OCatholic, pald his respects to the Pope at a special audience lasting half an hour last Saturday afternoon. Foreign Minister Curtius followed Bruening in a separate audience. The Pontiff received the visitors individually in his private library, The Pontiff told the German Chancellor that it was ceftain from Bruening's conduct and his views that he is a sincere worker for peace and he wished him success, They also talked of Germany. SEATTLE HAS HOTTEST DAY, SEATTLE, Aug. 10.—This city had the hottest day in four years yesterday. The thermometer reg- . istered 91 degrees late yesterday. Louis Schoch, of North Bend, was drowned in Lake McLeof when a boat overturned. John Willum, of Everett, was drowned while swimming in Lake Sammamish. William Belyea, of Seattle, died from a heart, attack while rowing a boat. Martial Law Effective in Provinces in Cuba HAVANA, Cuba, Aug. 10.—Mar= tial law reigned today in Havana and the Pinaa Belric Proviness. Three persons have been killed in uprisings. Armed forces are seek- ing former President Menocal, al- leged leader of the movement. President Celebrates |57th Birthday WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.— Mrs. Herbert Hoover rushed back here from christening the Navy dirigible Akron, at Akron, Ohio, and then went to the Rapidan Camp to join the President on his 57th birthday. There will be a birthday cake in 'the past year. the White House tonight.