The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 11, 1931, Page 1

| | i E | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 'VOL. XXXVIIL, NO. 5794 JUNEAU, ALASKA, DAY, AUGUST 11, FOG FORCES LINDBERGH THIRD DEGREE . METHODS ARE GIVEN DENIAL Many Chiefs of Police Re- fute Charges of Wick- ersham Commission CLAIM CRIMINALS ARE NOT HANDLED ROUGH Seattle Officers Assert In- vestigators Are Mis- informed COHICAGO, T, Aug. 11.—Unani- mous denials of ‘“third degree” methods in handling prisoners came yesterday from many chiefs of po- lice in answer to the Wickersham Commission charges of brutal and unfair enforcement of the law, made in a report and presented to President Hoover. Some of the chiefs of police made explicit denial of roligh treatment of criminals at any time although others couched their re- plies in the present tense or Te- ferred only to past acts of existing administrations. The Chicago police officials inti- mated third degree methods, if ever practiced, had passed with the tak- ing of office of the new adminis- tration. . Other police executives charac- terized third degree methods as in- efficient and the reports of them as “bunk.” 3 Seattle police officers said the Commission had been “misinformed or had been given only half- truths.” OMALLEY GOES 10 SITKA, MEET WALCOTT PARTY Fisheries Commissioner to Accompany Party on Extended Voyage Enroute to Sitka to join the Walcott party ahoard the Fisheries boat Penguin, Henry O'Malley, Unit- cd States Commissioner of Fish- eries, left here at 1:30 p.m. today. The Penguin is scheduled to reach Sitka this evening from Cordova. After spending a day or so there, it will cruise through Peril Strait, Chapham Strait and north to Skag- way. It is due to come here Sat~ urday. The party will spend the week- end here and then sail south to cover other areas before departing for Seattle, Those aboard include Senator Frederick Walcott and son, William, Congressman Carter from Oakland, Calif, and Carl Shoe- maker, Secretary of the Senate Committee on Wild Life Conserva- tion. ————————— SAYS CLARK BOUGHT .38 CALIBRE GUN Important Testimony Given in Los Angeles Mur- der Trial LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 11.— James A. Stillman (lflsefl), wealthy ing at present. Stillman’s former wi McCormick of the Chicago Stillman to Wed Dancer?i Hilda Moreno, former Follies dancer (above), are repo; the verge of marriage in England, where both are sai s and beantiful rted to be on to be sojourns married Fowler New York bar’\ke’r,‘ fe, Anne, recently family of harvester fame. GLACIER PRIEST | IS IN JUNEAU; - WILL LECTURE Father Bernard R. Hubbard Arrives on Yukon and ! Will Remain for While “'Tne Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard, 8. J., Professor of Gieology at Santa Clara University, well known as the “Glacier Priest” from his stud- ies in Europe and America, now an authoritative Alaskan explorer, arrived in Juneau last night on the Yukon and will be here for several days before sailing for the South. Father Hubbard has spent several months exploring the Al- aska Peninsula and other sections! of the North. He mushed 1,600 miles with dog teams, walked 350 miles and flew in airplanes ‘4,000 miles in the course of his explora- tions. i Father Hubbard has shipped 18,- 000 feet of movie films to New York. They were taken while flying over Aniachak Crater, the largest| in the world. | After leaving Juneau Father Hubbard will go to Victoria where he will spend a short time before proceeding southward and to east-| ward. He expects to reach New York in September and hopes to! return to Alaska next January for further explorations. “The Padre of the Snows,” another name that has been applied to Father Hub- bard, spent a lot of time in the air last winter and demonstrated that winter flying in Alaska is travel in winter exploration. date to be hereafter announced. Pictures will be shown with the lecture, which will be in Parish Hall, covering the flight over vol- canoes and mushing down the W. 8. Harris, sporting goods sales- man, testified in the David H. Clark murder trial that Clark pur- chased a .38 caliber revolver the day before the shooting of Charles Crawford, wealthy realtor, and Her- bert Spencer, former newspaper- man. Harris testified that Clark said #Mrs. Clark liked target ‘practice.” Crawford and Spencer were slain Dy bullets from a .38 caliber re- volver. Policeman F. H. Post testified | progress of Dave Barbee, former ‘Yukon. He has lectured several times in Juneau to appreciative audienozs.: His lectures are filled with inter- esting material, graphically pic-; tured and all spiced with a wlt; and humor that brings many laughs. ————e——— DIXIE FOLLOWS BARBEE ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 11—Dixie saseball fans are watching the SHORTS DRIVEN T0 GOVER AFTER EARLY DECLINE Upturn in Prices Halts Steady Sag of Past Week NEW. YORK,. Aug: 11.—Railroad shares were on the verge of break- ing to new levels today when con- structive interests came to their rescue. Shorts were driven to cover. The resultant upturn halted a steady sag of more than a week's duration. Early losses today were from one point to three points, but were overcome by the later recovery, which was general. Net advances, ranging from two to four points, were made by Am- erican Can, American Telephone and Telegraph, American Tobacco, Brooklyn Consolidated Gas, New York Central, Southern Pacific, United States Steel, Union Pacific, Sears Roebuck and Allied Chems ical. 1 ———,r————— . | TODAY’S STOCK QUOTATIONS b NEW YORK,, Aug. 11.—Closing quotations of stocks today follow: Alaska Juneau Mine 15%, Ameri- can Can 95%, Anaconda Copper 25, Bethlehem Steel 39%, Fox Film 12%, General Motors 38%, Inter- national Harvester 39 Kenne- cott 18%, Checker Cab, 8, 8, 8, Cur- geasible and an effective mode of tiss-Wright 3, Packard Motors 6%, |Standard Brands 19, Standard Oil Father Hubard will deliver a lec- of California, no sale; Standard Oil ture before leaving Juneau at a of New Jersey 37%, United Air- craft 28, United States Steel 87%. ————————— GOLFER HURT BY LIGHTNING CHEAPER RATES GREATEST NEED Nebraska Congressman Advocates Lower Rates on Alaska Railroad CHEAPER COSTS AND MORE SERVICE URGED Covers 6,000 Miles in Search of Informtion About Territory “Alaska’s paramount need Is cheaper transportation,” in the Simmontls, Republican, Nebraska, who with Mrs. Simmonds and thefr three children, Robert G., Jr., Ray and Jean, arrived here last night on the stéamer Yukon for a brief visit. ‘They have made an oxten- sive tour of the Territory since July 1, and covered 6,000 miles in all since leaving Bellingham six weeks ago. “Cheaper transportation ratesand coupled with that is a general re- duction in operating and living costs seem the primary requisite for increasing Alaska’s population,” Mr. Simmonds declared = today. Lack of Inducement “I do not see how anyome can hope to encourage ‘people generally to come into the country where ex- penses in connection with main- taining a home and raising a fam- ily are so much out of proportion, as they are in those sections T have visited, with the average for other parts of the country,” he' added. And he has visited Alaska from Priblof Islands to Fairbanks,”eov- ering the Alaska Rallroad reglon, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska Peninswli, Bristol Bay, Prince William Sound, and the district along Richardson Highway between TFairbanks and Cordova. He has tra by can- nery transport, commercial steam- er, Governtherit cutters and fisher- ies patrol boats, automobiles and trains to leave in his wake 6,000 miles of journeying. He has visited canneries and mines, farms and fur-animal ranches, including the biggést producing establishment in the world, in fact the only one of its kind in the world, Uncle (Conuinued on Page ‘Two) e iin TAXIDERMIST ON ATTERBURY BOAT HAS CLOSE CALL Lucky Shot Kills Brown Bear that Invades Camp at Saook River “Arise, Take Up Thy Bed and Walk,” is perfectly fitting as a biblical injunction to & miracu- Jously healed paralytic, but as an admonition to one whose bed has just been invaded by a family party of brown bears it lacks forceful- ness. At least, Harry Lanz, taxi- dermist, accompanying Gen. W. W. Atterbury, President of the Penn- sylvania Railroad, on his Alaska voyage, can substantiate the state- ment that any admonition about moving is altogether unnecessary. Gen. Atterbury arrived in port this morning on his yacht, Arminia, bringing Lanz here to have an in- jured hand looked after by a phy- sician. The hand was bitten through by a brown bear last Saturday night. Is Near Tragedy Dr. H. C. DeVighne, who treated the wound, said it was not serious and no infection had set- in. The party was ' remaining ~here until tomorrow to give Lanz time to ORELAND, Penn. Aug. 11.—Ed- ward Dudley, Eastern and Western 1";6‘“" h"‘f :;‘:T‘ed again. B open goif champlon, was struck incident, ik .oame: pe: by lightening today while playing in hurt. ‘The that he was in the sporting goods | Oglethorpe university star, Who 18| .o i nis left arm for a while. store at the time of nicipal Judgeship. Clark lost by 13000 votes while under a murder indictment. —— MELBA’S ART TO NATION MELBOURNE — The late Nellie Melba's art collection, gathered in the heyday of the diva's career. is to be presented to the Austral- ian nation, the purchase |outfielder for Hollywood in the| of the revolver and introduced | Pacific Coast league. Barbee, who Clark as a candidate for the Mu-|was a member of the team consid- red by many the best college nine :ver assembled in Dixie, has been, eading the coast league in home| -uns, Sl BRITISH FANS IN MILLIONS LONDON.—For the first quar-’ ‘er of the present year 3,626,186 -adio recelving set licenses had ween issude. ] MISS BETTY J. NORRIS LEAVES FOR HER HOME Miss Betty Jean Norris, sister of Mrs. Jerry V. Goss, departed on lthe stcamship Princess Charlotte today for her home in Seattle. Miss Notris had visited Mrs. Goss for the past month. 7, iy o | the Philadelphia open golf | tournament. He was only slightly lightning passed through the steel shaft of his club, and ously close to being another brown bear tragedy, occurred on Saook River in the Peril Strait district. Lanz, who was anxious to see & brownie at close range ascended the river some two miles to its forks, where he had been advised by Dr. DeVighne that bear were plentiful. And the doctor wasn't mistaken. Lanz made himself comfortable on a gravel bar in the river and set- tled down on his blankets to await developments which weren't long in trarspiring. He probably dozed off briefly. Suddenly he was brought to life when a bear cub scampered rude- ly over his legs. He jerked up- (Conunuea on Page Two) | SIMMONDS SAYS| opinion of Congressman Robert G.] oy Progress of flight of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife un'(hl‘il‘ air trip to Japan is shown| by dotted lines. FLIERS JUMP WHEN PLANES ARE DISABLED Three Army Aviators Use, Parachutes—Rush Earth Safely HONOLULU, T. H, Aug. 11.— Three Afmy a;inwrs parachuted | safely to earth yésterday afternoon | when two airplanes became disabled over Waianal mountains behind Schofleld barracks, near here. Lieut. Weldon E. Rhoades leaped when his plane went into a tail spin. He has returned here. Lieut. Donald E. Meade of the Air Corps Reserve, and Private D. Coons, in the other plane, ]nnded!‘ in the mountainous country and | were found by a camp fire by a searching party. They are expected to return here today. BARRY-ACOSTA PLANE OVERDUE NORFOLK, ., Aug. 11— Capt. Lisandro Garay’s plane was picked up at 10 o'clock this morning by the steamship Qicco, 20 miles east of Cape Lookout. The plane was forced down Sunday night, and since then its occupants had clung | to the wrecked aircraft. They were almost exhausted. NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—Nothing has been heard of Capt. Lisandro| Garay, Honduran fller, and Ber{ Acosta, since their mysterious take- off here last Sunday on a non- stop flight to Tegucigalpa, Hon- duras. They were due there last' night. Theé distance is 2,3000 miles. ROBBINS, JONES T0 BARNSTORM Nonstop Hm: Seattle to Japan Has Lost Fi- nancial Appeal FORT WORTH, Texas, Aug. 11.— Lesser revenues and modest fame at barnstorming looks more attrac- tive to Reg. L. Robbins and H. 8. Jones than adulation and the mon- ey prize for a Seattle to Tokyo nonstop flight. ‘They arrived here | late last Saturday night after mak- ing an 1,800 mile nonstop flight from Edmonton in 11 hours and 35 minutes. DEATH FOLLOWS TYPHOON WAKE TOKYO, Aug. 11.—Five lives are| known to have been lost, scores; of ‘persons were injured, and thou- sands of buildings were either dam- | aged or destroyed and many fish- ing boats are missing as the result| of a typhoon that swept the is-| lands of Miyaka and Shigaki. Earthquakes were felt in Yoko- hama, Osaka and other cities. —_—————— JONES AND HARE OLD TIMERS | NEW YORK.—Billy Jones and| 1931, KARAGINSH PETROPAVLOVSH < MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRE HUDSON Nivebim OTTAWA Vveean SAN V. S. ¥ FRAMCECO NEWH™ vor oS ANGELES i FLIERS IN TRAVELING GARB i Associated Press I'hote and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh shown after their arrival in Canada, the first foreign city they touched on their vacation 2 the Orient. JESUIT PLANE CRAMER'S PLANE FOR ALASKA IN BELIEVED LOST INLOS ANGELES N NORTH SEA Brother George Feltes and Air and Water Craft Vain-| Missionary Going to ; ly Search for Miss- San Francisco ing Aviators 11— COPENHAGEN, Aug. 11—Parker Cramer and his radio operator, Oliver Pacquette, who in their air- | plane left the Shetland Islands last Sunday morning for Copenhagen, are believed to have been brought down by rough weather in the North Sea and to have perished. Naval flying boats and the Dan- ish Admiralty’s survey ship are continuing a search of the North Sea for the missing airmen, but SAN FRANOISCO, Aug. Brother George Feltes, of the So- ciety of Jesus, is expected in San Francisco tomorrow from Los An- geles with the mew Jesuit plane Missionary. He has piloted the air- ship across the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The craft will be used in Alaska by the Jesuit Order to prosecute religious work. The new plane will take the place of the Jesuit plane that crashed some months ago in the Kotzebue Sound district, with the loss of three lives. ———————— L. A AVIATRIX PLANS FLIGH SEATTLE, Aug. urns, Los Angeles aviatrix, an- nounces plans for a nonstop solo Seattle to Tokyo flight in an in- quiry to W. W. Connor, State Gov- ernor for the Aeronautical Asso- clation, concerning prizes. ——t—m e RUSSIANS NOW TELEVISE TWO IMAGES AT SAME TIMFE T w Russian sclentists also are joining in the drive to make television a success. Announcement from the labora- tory of the Physico-Technical in- stitute of the Academician Jolfe is to the effect that the scope of iis 1—Juanita' LENINGRAD, Russia, Aug. 11— | only slight hope is entertained of finding them. | FAIRAMERICANS “JAILED N CHINA WASHINGTON, Aug.1l.—Attacks | by Chinese coolles on two Ameri-| can women are under investigation by thez State Department. Accord- {ing to reports received in Wash- ‘ington the mistreatment occurred | ;aner an accident that wrecked a| i rickshaw in which the wife of Lieut. | Ralph Flelding, U. S. N, and an- other woman, whose identity is not known hcre, were riding. the accident, the wom- Follow en were taken to jail, subjected to minor indignities and held incom- municado for a long time before Ithey were released | - Navy to Build Forty ~ PRICE TEN CENTS EVERYTHING 0. WIFE OF FLIE RADIOS T0 NOK |Bad Weather Develo | After Take-off from Point Barrow RESIDENTS OF GOLL CAMP DISAPPOIN Populace Stood for | ‘ in Cold to Greet Plane NOME, Alaska, Aug. Col. Charles A. Lindberg | Mrs. Lindbergh landed i plane near Nome at 1:% afternoon, Pacific time. circled over the ecity and alighted safely in a b miles away. The Lindbergh plane t: at noon today from Shi where the aireraft had r ed at anchorage after been forced down by fo, night. NOME, Alaska, Aug. 11.— Mrs. Charles A. Lindberg) safely in their airplane o bue Sound at 2 o'clock th ing, Pacific time. On leavt Barrow last night, they pected to come direct to N were. forced to alight on K Sound by fog, Which develop er their take-off from Barr The exact location of .the is not known here. Mrs. Lin¢ sent a radio message to | saying everything was O. K Kotzebue Sound is about miles from here. Residents of this city were gre: Iyt disappointed at- the non-arriy here Jast night of the Lindberg plane. They had piled drift woou and lumber on the beach to be lighted at the first sound of the | plane’s motors. The populace waited two hours in a chilling fog before word was received of the plane having land- ed on Kotzébue Sound. The alrcraft, on its flight from Point Barrow, passed over the | United States Coast Guard cutter Northland, which is at Wainwright, SEATTLE, Aug. 1I.—A wireless message relayed to Seattle from St. Paul Island said that the Lind- bergh plane at 7:30 this morning was one hour's distance from Nome. The message is believed to indicate that the plane has taken off from Kotzebue Sound for Nome. HOP OFF FROM BARROW POINT BARROW, Alaska, Aug. 11.—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife began warming up the motor of their seaplane at 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon for a hop to Nome, Alaska. The Lindberghs hopped for Nome at 8:53 o'clock last might. Mrs. Lindbergh radioed an hour | after the take-off that everything was OK . The distance from Point Bar« row to Nome is 523.5 miles. DISCUSSES AIR ROUTE POINT BARROW, Aug. 11— Speaking in the school house last Sunday, Col. Lindbergh said he believed the route he has followed is the shortest from New York ta China. Col. Lindbergh expressed the be- lief that air routes in the future will pass through the Arctic be- tween important cities of the world, explaining that travel will television equipment has been in- creased so that two images can be| televised at once instead of only| one as formerly. Five Fighting Planes; | Boeing Given Contract Ernie Hare will celebrate their tenth anniversary as radio artists) this fall. They say they are due for a party as a result. 5 {where not too great Lqu'.red. Certain success also has ben at-| WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 11.-- tained in picking small scen »s 'The Navy has awarded a contract detail is re-|for 45 fighting planes to the Boe- |ing Company of Scattle. ‘formicuuou.t be much faster than by boats. He sald he believed Point Barrow, be- fore many years, will have an air mail and light package service. Col. Lindbergh explained that it was much cheaper to carry light goods by airplane than by dogteam, - eee — AMER, FLIERS' CASE NOW UP . TOKYO, Japan, ‘Aug. 11.—Sign- ed statements by Clyde Panghorn and Hugh Herndon regarding photo- graphs taken have been submitted to the prosecutor for a decision {as to whether the case will go to . the courts. The law is rigid and a fine is expected. Panghorn and Herndon are held by the authori- - ties and ‘their plane is under lock and key because a movie camera P was found aboard the plane, They are believed to have taken photo- graphs when flying over Hakodate R