The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 13, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXVIIL, NO. 5796, JUNEAU , ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1931. 'MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS LINDBERGHS ARE DETAINED AT NOME BY HEAVY FOG HOOVER REFUSES TO KARAGINSK HOP DEFERREDUNTIL 600D WEATHER Next Stop “in Siberia Is| Distant Between 1,000 and 1,100 Miles HAM AND FRESH EGGS | | RELISHED BY FLIERS! Sourdou gTGreets Dis- tinguished Visitors and Gives Them Nuggets l NOME, Alaska, Aug. 13.—Col.and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, en- route by air from the United States to Japan, were held at Nome today by heavy rains. The Colonel had intended to take off this morn-, ing for Karaginsk, Sfberia, his next stop, which is between 1,000 and 1,100 miles - distant from Nome.' After studying the weather, how- ever, not only here but along the path of his air route, he decided to await more favorable conditions. Yesterday morning, Col. and Mrs.; Lindbergh enjoyed at Nome a; breakfast of ham and eggs. The| eggs were fresh-laid here. They were the first fresh eggs the dis- tinguished fliers had eaten since| they left Ottawa. Yesterday evening, while the| Lindberghs were at dinner, an old sourdough insisted on greeting them. They received him gracious-| ly, and to both he presented gold nuggets. 1 At dinner last evening, Col. and| Mrs. Lindbergh were the guests of | Alfred Tomen. Yesterday after- noon and evening they witnessed kyak races, a wolf dance, blanket| tossing and wrestling by Eskimos.| Today mechanics are going over the Lindbergh plane. Its tanks havel been filled to capacity with gaso-| line—more than 500 gallons, IN FIGHT FOR LONGWORTH’S SEAT \Capt. von Gronau Not Cer-|Dries Are Beaten in Long- | the-world flight | Aleutian Islands in Alaska has not tions in the First and Twentieth jexplanations of plans for estab- | vacancy, as a result of the death Assoclated Press Photo David Lorbach, Democrat (left), and John B, Hollister, Republi- can (right), will fight it out with ballots in the Ohio election in No- vember for the house seat of the late Speaker Nicholas Longworth, ‘The election in the First Ohlo district, which they seek to represent, Is being watched closely as it will have an important effect on control ¢ the lower house. GERMAN FLIER WETS WIN IN WAITSWEATHER | OHIO PRIMARIES AT REYKAJAVIK FOR CONGRESS tain if He Will Come worth’s Distriet ‘and Over Aleutians Also in 20th NEW YORK, Aug. 13.—Whether; CINCINNATI ,0, Aug. 13.—So- Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau of called Wet forces in both Demo- Germany will attempt a r':und-;cmue and Republican parties tri- by way of the umphed over Drys in primary elec- vet been determined, his flighc Congressional Districts of Ohio. manager, who is now in Chicago,!| In the First District, which is said today. However, he asked for in Cincinnati, where there is a lishing gasoline stations on one‘lo{ Nicholas Longworth, Republi- of the Aleutions. ican, who was Speaker of the HUBBARD TELLS CHAMBER ABOUT ANIAKCHAK TRIP Glacier Pl‘it? Gives Vivid!§ Account of Latest Explorations In one of the most interesting and informative talks of the yeaf, Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard, “The Glacier Priest,” portrayed vividly to the Chamber of Commerce the great volcanic eruptions at Aniak- chak on the Alaska Peninsula last Spring. With his customary witti- ness and humorous descriptions his account of an extraordinary feat of exploration was énlivened $o that there wasn't a single dull TROOPS CLOSE OKL/AHOMA OIL W/ moment in his talk, " A detailed account of the Anink-" chak explorations of Father Hub- bard appear elsewhere in today’s! edition of The Empire. Other guests of the Chamber today were: | Sam T. Kelsey and C. K. White, ! former local residents and sons-in- law of Mr. and Mrs. Tke Sowerby, | whom they are now visiting; Lloyd Cleveland, Construction PEngineer, U, S. Supervising Architect's Office, Washington, D.C.; and J. P, Guiry, Denver contractor. Gen. W. W. Atterbury ,who had been invited to attend, departed from port last night on his yacht, the Arminia. A lsey, & ning engineer, | was connected with the Alaska Gold | Company during the development | of Thane. Filteen years ago..%e | went 'to South Africa with a dla-| |mond mining company. The current depression has hit| the diamond mining industry hard, | he sald. However, those engaged in it had some prosperous years| preceding the hard times and| “probably are in shape to stand a, drouth,” he added. | When he went to South Africa, the district in which he was lo-l The first unit of national guardsmen ordered by Gov. W. H. Murray | wells in his fight for $1.a.barrel crude oil | were shut down within four hours ernor, commissioned an emergency hown on the job at O'lai after the troops’ lieutenant.colonel to hand BRITAIN TO CUT HER EXPENSES TOSAVECREDIT | | Big Five' of Cabinet As-| semble to Balance Nation’s Budget LONDON, - Aug. “ 13.—The “Big Advfince ir; bils Causes Rise in Other Stocks Measures to Stem Flow from Wells Strength- en Market NEW YORK, Aug. 13.—Petrol- eum issues provided the fuel for moderate rises in prices today on cated was a primitive wilderness.' Five" of the British cabinet, have the New York Stock Exchange. In the intervening 15 years, roads cut short their vacations and have!Adoption by the Texas Legislature, have been built opening it up and assembled in London to arrange | which is in special session, of con- Capt. von Gronau and the three House, John B. Hollister was nomi- companions, who took off with nated by the Republicans and Dav- him from Germany, are still at;id Lorbach by the Democrats. Reykajavik, in Iceland, waiting for Speaker Longworth was listed as CACHES PLACED | development has been rapid. It is plans for the balancing of the gov- servative measures to stem the flood closely linked to the coast by mo- ernment's budget and thereby es- of oil from the East Texas pool, tor roads and it is possible to fly by |cape a threatened hundred-million was the immediate cause today of plane now in two days over a dis- dollar deficit. |the stiffening of crude oil prices, IN ARCTIC FOR JAPAN FLIGHT favorable weather to start for a Dry. Both Hollister and Lor- Greenland. bach are pronounced Wets. “The air trail across Iceland! In the Twentieth District, which and QGreenland and over the Hud- is in Cleveland, Judge Martin L. son Bay country to Chicago, is the Sweeney, Democrat, another pro- safest route for Capt. von Gro- nounced Wet, was nominated to nau to take” his manager said. fill the vacancy caused by the A. Milne and J. Slaughter “His plans call for a flight to Chi- death of Charles A. Mooney, Demo- tance that then required a 40-day! journey by boat and afoot. Drastic economies are expected to be recommended. The treasury which had been helped a little pre- viously by efforts in Oklahoma to He described briefly the game, is said to be facing a financial curtail production of wells in that climatic and other conditions the country. Being in the hills, the district was not extremely hot, the, temperature never climbing above 100 degrees. But it was not par- of crisis so serious that the nation’s state. credit is endangered. The “Big Five"” is composed of J. Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Min- ister; Philip Snowden, Chancellor Advances of a point or two points were general in the petroleum group. Union Pacific rallied three polnts| after the payment of the regular cago. What he will do after he crat. Sweeney's nomination is deem- reaches Chicago, we do not know.” ed tantamount to election. TALLAPOOSA'S ALASKA MAN'S TRIAL PUBLIC BROTHER SLAIN RAYMOND, Wash, Aug. 13— Will Go Close to Pole WINNIPEG, Canada, Aug. 13— Alexander Milne, aviator, who was marooned in Northern Canada with the MacAlpine party for two years, is planting caches along the route of a proposed flight that he plans to make from Canada to Japan with Capt. James Slaughter of Omaha. SEATTLE, Aug. 13—At the open- George Johns, 45 years old, restau- Their contemplated route willling of the trial of officers of the rant proprietor in Raymond, who take them comparatively close to|United States Coast Guard cutter has a brother llving in Alaska, was the North Pole. Tallapoosa before a court of Coast shot and killed here today by Slaughter was navigator for Ad-|Guard officers here today the John Stone, aged 57 years, a log- miral Byrd on the latter’s flight|names of the defendants and the ger. ; to the South Pole. nature of the charges were made According to several witnesses, ——— public. Stone started trouble by abusing 2 FLlEHs sT'LL The accused officers are Lt. Johns, and then was struck in the ticularly healthy owing to the pre- of the Exchequer; Arthur Hender- dividend. valence of malaria. son, Secretary of State for For- United States Steel, Underwood ‘White Notes Improvements | eign Affairs; James Henry Thomas, Typewriter, Westinghouse, Johns Mr. White left Juneau in 1018, Secretary of State for the Domin- Manville, Safeway, Allied Chemi- spent two years to the westward, lons, and William Graham, Presi- cal and numerous other shares Gontinued on Page Eigh -dent of the Board of Trade. |registered gains of two to four e S ity TODAY’'S STOCK | QUOTATIONS | Glacier Priest Describes | Recent Terrific Explosion | That Tore Mount Aniakc’lak \aska Juneau 16%, American Can '94. Anaconda COD‘DEI' 24%, Beth- |1ehem Steel 3%, Checker Cab 8%, 18, 8%, Curtiss-Wright 3%, Fox Film {13%, General Motors 387, Inter- !national Harvester 39, Kennecott |Copper 17%, Packard Motors 6%, Standard Brands 19%, Standard X . NEW YORK, Aug. 13.—Closing prices of the stocks today on the New York Exchange were: Al- By REV. BERNARD R. HUBBARD, S. J. Head of the Geology Department of the University of Santa Clara James A. Hirschfield, Lt. Reginald face by the latter. Thereupon Stone H. PFrench, Lt. Carl G. Bowman drew a pistol and fired at Johns TOKYO, Aug. 13—Hugh Herndon and Clyde Panghorn, aviators, have been ordered not to leave Japan pending a decision on the charge that they flew over fortified areas in Japan and took pictures of for- tifications. The aviators were plac- ed in separate rooms and each was questioned by the authorities for more than seven hours. Patriotic organizations are de- manding that the airmen be se- verely dealt with. Associated Press dispatch yester- day were to the effect that Mrs. Hugh Herndon, the flier's wife, had received a cablegram from him saying that hefand Panghorn had been exonerated of any intention of taking pictures of Japanese for- tifications and that what had caus- and Warrant Officer Machinist Zina R. Schoen. The charges are drunkenness on the part of some of the defendants and failure to report drunkenness on the part of the other defend- ants. Lt. Hirschfield is the first of the defendants to go on trial. He is accused of having failed to re- port that Assistant Surgeon How- ard Hahn fell overboard at Cordova April 23 and that he saw Hahn and Lt. Prench under the influ- ence of liquor at Kodiak June 20 and that he failed to order them back to the ship. French is said w0 have appeared at mess badly { bruised. —————— NON-ALCOHOLIC, OF COURSE OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Aug. 113—When R. D. (Billy) McManus, 365-pound doorman of Gov. Will- ed the trouble was the presence iam H. Murray, leaves the Ex- of a motion picture camera in the ecutive Offices of an evening he plane thurries home and dons an apron. S i R Then he becomes chemist experi- JOBLESS PROSPECT FOR GOLD menter, mixer, bottler, and Presi- SANTIAGO, Aug. 13.—About 5 dent of the Billy McManus Nectar 000 of Chile’s unemployed are pros- Company, manufacturer of five pecting for gold in lands recently kinds of fruit extract for beverage opened by the Government. . purposes. with fatal effect. o Stone came to Raymond a few |days ago from Aberdeen. After the shooting he is reported to have said to arresting officers: ! “I have been waiting five years ‘bo do this.” CREAMERY MAN KILLED IN BLAST BELLINGHAM, Aug. 13— One ‘man was killed and another seri- ously injured today when the ex- (plosion of a steam boller wrecked |the San Juan County Dairymen’s Association Creamery plant at Fri- |day Harbor. E. C. Ward, manager of the plant, was killed. | Chris Rosler, a farmer, suffered a fractured collar bone and other , injuries. ————— ONE ON PRINCE GEORGE | KETCHIKAN, Aug. 13. — Julius Seguin is the only passenger for Juneau listed on the steamship Prince George, due to arrive here at 7 o'clock tonight. Aniakchak crater erupted this year. It was the most terrific eruption, since Katmai erupted in 1912. Unlike Katmai, though, whose eruptions were not popularly known for several years after the erup- tion and then only because the highly financed expeditions of the National Geographic society were able to bring the notice of the public to what would otherwise have been only another Alaskan volcano erupting, Aniakchak was explored this year while still erupting and accounts are now ap- pearing while the region is still hot! Generous courtesies of the Pacific International - Alrways allowed val- uable air surveys to be made, while my rugged student party took their beatings like men in traversing the difficult region on foot and under pack for over 350 miles. Has Wide Spread Aniakchak with its huge base 100 miles in eircumference, spreads all over the central section of the Alaska peninsula. The nearest native village is Meshik at Port Helden on the Bering Sea and from its cluster of deserted barabaras and shacks the volcano rises to an unobstructed view. May the first of this year dawned clear and bright on the Alaska peninsula. Winter had departed from the shore, line and the snows had be- gun to retreat up the lower slopes of the mountains but winter still maintained its icy grip on the interior. The trapping season was over and the handful of hardy men who seek a livelihood from the furs of this section had either departed to| sell their catches or were preparing their fishing boats for the summer ! run in Bering Sea. Among the latter was Frank Wilson, one of the few inhabitants of Meshik. He was scraping and caulking his boat when an exclamation of surprise called his attention to his little daughter Mabel, playing in the sand nearby. Pointing at Peak She was pointing excitedly at the peak of snow on Anlakchak, fifteen miles away, whence a dense column of white smoke was shooting miles high into the blue Alaskan sky. Wilson noted the time. It was ten o'clock a.m. There were no pre- Uminary symptoms usual with vol- canic eruptions. No earthquakes shook the ground nor were any rumbles : heard from the nearby mountain. For, two hours the white smoke rose in billowing (Continuea on Pagc Three) 4 Oil of California 38, Standard OHI of New Jersey 38'%, United Air-| craft 28%, United States Steel| oKLLEDIN CUBAN REVOLT HAVANA, Cuba, Aug. 13. —More“ than 60 fatalities have been caused | by the revolutionary movement in, Cuba, according to statements is- sued today. Houses in Havana are being searched for arms by the police. Outlying provinces are be- ing penetrated by Government troops in the hope of capturing former President Menocal, reputed leader of the revolt. | — e —-— ‘ Decrease Is Shown in Bank Resources WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 13. —Total resources of 6805 national banks in continental United States, tween March 25 and June 30, decreased $483,769,000 to $27,642,- 608,000, announced United States Comptroller of the Currency, W. ‘W. Pole, today. ELLS Associated Press Phato of Oklahoma to closs the state's ia City, whare neaily 800 wells icers Muiray, cousin of the gov. ho SAWYER WORKS WITH CANADIANS FOR HIGHWAY [Reports Submitted on Progress Made on In- ternational Road VICTORI, B. C., Aug. 13.—Ernest Walker Sawyer, Assistant to the Secretary of the Interior of the United States Government, began a series of conferences in Victoria today with high offieials of Canada to stimulate interest in the pro- poszd extension of the Interna- tional Highway to Alaska. He held discussions with Premler Tolmie of British Columbia; George Black, Speaker of the Dominion House of Common, and officials of the Public Works Departments of Canada and British Columbia. Mr. Sawyer issued a statement saying that at the conferences Premier Tolmie presented maps showing 500 miles of the proposed highway had been surveyed in British Columbia and that Speaker Black submitted data on 300 miles of the proposzd extension in Yukon Territory. Mr. Walker declared that United States officials were ready to pro- ceed with definite civil engineering perations looking to the construc- Ition of the highway extension as soun as the Canadian officials were |rrepared to undertake the same work. Donald MacDonald, of the Alaska Road Commission, who is regarded |as the father of the British Co- {lumbia - Alaska - Yukon highway | plan, is.ready to report on more |“han 180 miles of the proposed route, extending from the Richard- son dighway to the Yukon Ter- ritory. FRENCH CHIEFS TO VISIT BERLIN PARIS, August 13.—Premler La- val of France anounced today that he had accepted the invitation of Chancellor Bruening of Germany for a return conference in Ber- lin. The Premier will leave Paris August 28. He is likely to be ac- companied by French Foreign Min- ister Briand, who also was invited by the German Chancellor to at- CAPE GO PLANE LEAVES FRANGE MARSEILLES, France, Aug. 13.— Boardman and Polando with their plane Cape Cod, embarked today on the steamship Excaliber, for New York. PARDON FALL PRESIDENT IS - SILENT AS TO HIS REASONS | {Clemency Had Been Urged by Judges and Prosecutors PAROLE ELIGIBILITY DUE IN FOUR MONTHS Former Secretary Serving Sentence in New Mexico Prison WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—From the White House an official an- nouncement was issued today to the effect that President Hoover had refused to extend executive clemency to former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, who is serving a year's term of im- prisonment. The President gave no reasons for his refusal All judges and prosecuting at- torneys who had taken part in any of the various proceedings against the former Cabinet officer. had advised that clemency be ex- tended to him. The former Secretary, who is in the hospital ward of the New Mex- ico Prison, will be eligible to parole in four months. He was convicted of having accepted a bribe of $100,000 from Edward L. Doheny in connection with leases of Gov- ernment oil land to the latter. Doheny, when triad for givln:' the bribe, was acquitted. SITKA PEOPLE OPPOSE BROWN BEAR CODDLING Prominent Fur-Grower Writes Chamber of Com- merce on the Subject Residents of the Sitka dlutrict are opposed to further protection 0 fthe brown bear, said a letter received by the Chamber of Com- merce from C. Jay Mills, owner of the Sitka Fur Farms, operating ranches on five islands in the vi- cinity, The bears this year are invading the island ranches for the first time, killing fur-bearers, destroying dens and tearing down feed houses, he added. “They are worse this year than ever before,” he added, Opposed to Chichagof Park Mr. Mills volced objections to setting Chiehagof Island aside ag a national park, saying: “There must be other places than Chichagof Island which could be set aside for the bear and Mr. White, which would not cost the Government so much, and the peo= ple so much in taxes. “Why deprive the Indians of their homes and hunting grounds. Mr, White is very free in advocating that some one else’s: home and hunting grounds be taken away from him at the people’s expense, But he personally does not offer ta do any of the paying. “Not one tourist out of each hundred who comes to Alaska on the steamers would or could spare the time or money for the extra side trip. { Bear Swim to Islands “This summer the brown bear have been swimming out from Baranof Island to the fox islands in Sitka Sound, and doing con= siderable damage to the foxes and equipment of the fox farmers. Our islands were visited by at least two bear at one time. This is the Krirst time in eight years that the bear have come here. “Damage was done on the ise lands used by Dawes and Clausen; on Elovol island, used by C. D. Huff, three trap houses were torn open; on BanVard's island, trap houses were bothered and dens dug into; on Blorka island some damage was done. These islands are all in the vicinity of the God= dard Hot Springs. B “On our islands the bear killed a doe and fawn. We killed one of the bears, and the other bear ate it. “Before the salmon start to rl. v