The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 27, 1931, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" VOL. XXXVIIL, NO. 5808. JUNEAU ALASKA, THURSDAY AUGUST 27 1931 " MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS LINDBERGHS TO BE ACCLAIMED FOR SIX DAYS Japanese Prepare Program of Receptions and Other Functions FAMOUS COUPLE IS ""GIVEN MANY HONORS Following Fetes, Plane Is to Be Given General Overhauling TOKYO, Aug. 27.—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is to have his plane rompletely overhauled and this work will begin after the six-day program of receptions. and other functions in honor of the famous flier and his wife. Nothing ‘s seriously wrong with the plane but sn overhauling is desired. Mrs. Lindberch is headlined for her “charm and captivating man- ner which wili win the hearts of the “King of the Alf) the King EIGHT-DAY TRIP ' FROMMARACAIB0 TO JUNEAU ENDS C. C. McDermond Flies 6,- 337 Miles Since Leav- ng Maracaibo Aug. 8 After having flown 6,337 miles in i |eight days, C. C. McDermond, rep- resenting the Pan-American Air- ways of Venezuela, arrived here late Wednesday ‘afternoon from Mara- caibo in the seaplane Petersburg, Pilot Robert Ellis. He was ac- companied by J. L. Carman, Presi- dent of the Alaska-Washington Airways, and Mrs. Carman. Mr. McDermond came from Se- attle via Ketchikan on the sea- plane Wrangell, with pilot Ansce! C. Eckmann at the controls. They were met at Petersburg by the lo- cai plane and transferred there. He will take off tomorrow on his re- turn trip home. Is Ahead of Schedule He was one day ahead of his schedule arriving here. He left Maracaibo on August 8, for Juneau, ped to Atlanta, using an Eastern CHAMBER WILL ASK HOOVER TO MODIFY ORDER Adopts Resolution Seeking| Removal of Restrictions on Duck Hunting The Chamber of Commerce today veiced local objections to the limi- ation of the open hunting season on wild fow! and adopted a resolu- tion asking for a modification of the President's evecutive order so as to exclude the Territory entire- ly from the score of its operations. The Legislative Committee was directed to prepare a suitable tele- gram to be sent at once to Delegate James Wickersham for presentation to President Hoover and to the United States Blological Survey. It will ask that no restriction, her than the usual seasonal and bag limits, be imposed on Alaska. Ketchikan Also Acts This is different from the ao- tion taken by the Ketchikan Cham- ker of Commerce which telegrapheé the local organization that it had cul Survey, asking that the season’s For Modern Aviatrix PRISUN DOCTOR IS SHOT DOWN. BY 4 CONVICTS Official Slain’in Attempted Break, Michigan Penitentiary /GAS BOMBS USED | TO QUELL DISORDER Murderous Prisoners, when Cornered, Take [ Own Lives | MARQUETTE, Michigan, Aug. 27. —Dr. A. W. Hornbogen, Acting Prison Physician, was shot and |killed by four convicts today. A guard was shot in the leg and two other guards were wounded. The outbreak took place at the Michigan Branch Prison. The convicts suicided when corn= lerzd in the cell block. The convicts were Tony Ger- mano, patrolman slayer; Ed Duver, the Japanese as this s a symbol on a Pan-American plane which oA B “ p L = nators Peter Norbeck and of modesty. : : . | ook him to Miami, via Barranquila Frederick Walcott and Paul Q lclgrlesdfl.olsbury m;ld Franl‘( Boffer. P Col. Lindberzh is featured as and Kingston. From Miami he hop- Redington, Chief of the Blologi- | Guards forced the convicts into {the industrial building after they had entered the prison hospital of the Skies and a superman Air Transport ship; an American A % > lates for Southeast Alaska be made | 3 he’;‘; S s Airways plane - transported him Assoclated Press Phote Oclober 1 to 31 instead of Septem- A |and Shozlt "“d[ k"l‘fd ;he physician e Colonel an s wife ex- from the Georgia metropolls to Paul Whit 1 1 ¥ | Associated Press Photo in an attempted break. aul eman, nationally known orchestra leader, and the red ber 1 to September 30. It asked | The four convicts parricaded perienced & quake while at their not interrupted. IS TO DISMISS MURDER GHARGE - AGAINST GLARK Authentic Report Circulat- ed About Confessed Slayer of Two they term authentic sources, said the murder charges against David H. Clark, former Prosecuting At- toney of Los Angeles County, and Avsoctated Press Photo speak English at Safety Bay, Alas- ka, telephoned The Associated Press of the arrival of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh there after a flight from Pt. Barrow. M'KINLEY PARK A WONDERLAND, SAYS M'BRIDE Predicts Wfierland Will | Collector of Customs J. C. Mc- | Bride, accompanied by Mrs. Mc- Bride, returned to Juneau early confessed slayer of two political this morning on the steamer Queen, figures, Herbert Spencer, newspaper via Skagway and Sitka, after a man, and Charles Crawford, wealthy five-weeks' trip through the inter- realtor, are to be dropped by the ior of Alaska and Yukon Terri- District Attorney’s office tory. Mr. McBride made the jour- It is said that District Attorney ney In the interests of the Customs to agree, standing 11 to 1 for ac- RELIEF FUND Indications Pomt to Much Distress During “We had the pleasure of motor- Park for impressive than the Grand Canyon | Kinley Park will be one of the finest attractions in America for tourists.” + Calls on Bunnell During their stay in Fairbanks the McBrides called on Dr. Charles A. Bunnell, President of the Alaska ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 27— ‘Walter A. Gifford, Director of President Hoover’s newly organized | Unemployment Relief organization, i3 seeking to estimate the total fund needed to prevent acute dis- tress among the unemployed dur- ing the coming winter. ¥ Among evidence so far gathered materially greater than last winter. the fall semester. “I think Fairbanks, on a whole, is prosperous,” said Mr MeBride. “The recovery of gold by the Fair- banks Exploration Company is bet- ter than they had expected, and several new quartz properties are being developed. The outlook is (Conunued on Page Five) Los Angeles with a stop enroute, at ried him from Los Angeles to Se- attle via San Francisco and Med- ford. From Maracaibo to Seattle he was at the plane controls. Coming from Seattle here the Alaska-Wash- ington planes were handled by pilots of that company. Returns Via East On his return trip, Mr. McDer- mond will head for home through Canadian and Eastern United ‘States Citles, stopping at Calgary,|, Winnipeg, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Atlanta, Miami, Santo Do- mingo, Trinidad, La Guaira and to his home in Maracaibo. He s scheduled to land there on Septem- ber 17 after covering 14,320 miles. He will have circled the United Mr. McDermond’s trip is being made for the purpose of studying ‘air lines, operating methods and other factors in air transportation throughout the country. He said incidentally he was getting a line on hotel accommodations and, in response to a query, said he was learning something about prohi- bition. “In Atlanta they buy Coon be bought in Colombia,” he said. former industry is operating at one- about 30,000,000. One third of the coffee produced is destroyed in or- der to keep prices up. Gomez at Helm Again He referred briefly to political conditlons in the country, which is under the rule of President Go- of depression, lasting but a brief while, then Gomez returned to power. And he is likely to be there (Continued on Page Eight) e Doak Fixed $11 Painters’ Wages terior of the Internal Revenue Building more attractive must be headed film actress, Margaret Livingston, were married at the White- IS NOMINATED FOR PRESIDENT, LIBERTY PARTY *“Coin” Ha@ Chosen to Head Ticket—Andrew Hardskog Is Mate MONTENE, Arkansas, Aug. 27.— candidates respectively of the new “Liberty Party” at a convention here. The convention adopted a plat- form proposing among other things, the revision of the monetary gvetem, moratorium on privake débts and Government ownership of all utilities. Harvey is 80 years of age and dential nomination but later ac- cepted. Higher in July in the United States during July are estimated by R. L. Polk and Company at 202, 510, based on fig- ures covering 'twenty-three states which normally account for 41,53 per cent of the country's total. The estimate is slightly higher than the gasoline with Cook County, Iil, as the starting point was opened to- day by the gasoline industry repre- sented by a gasoline tax evasion committee of six. FRANK HARRIS, NOTED AUTHOR PASSES AWAY Former Editor of Pearson’s Magazine Dies in France FRA’NK HARRIS saying Frank Harris, aged 75, not- ed author, died there. The cable was ffom Mrs. Nellic Harris and merely said Harris died in his sleep. Frank Harris, picturesque trav- eler, poseur, raconteur, editor and enough for his romantic adventures, on St. Valentine’s Day, revisited America ‘only once after he went abroad in 1922 to write the frank (Continued on Page Two) - Scientist Goes to Hunt ‘WASHINGTON, D. C,, Aug. 27.— into cavities in the mother’s leath- the local Chamber to take similar protest against the limitation of the season in Alaska argued that such restriction could be of no ma- terjal benefit to the drouth strick- en areas where the bird supply has been seriously affected. These areas draw their wild fowl from the mid- cle tier of Canadian breeding grounds’ very largely while the birds from Alaska Srounds go prin- cipally to the region west of the Rocky - Mountains Where conditions | are’ abouf normal. No Shortage Here It was further pointed out there is no shortage of wild fowl in the Territory; the season has been un- usually favorable for breeding, rear- a single administrative unit for wild fowl regulations, and has been for years, it was felt that the authori- ties would not consider dividing it into two units in establishing open seasons. And in that case, it would be unfair to the rest of the Terri- tory to ask for the open season in October instead of September since that would be too late for hunting There is a pressing need for the institution of sensible traffic regu- vising existing traffic regulations He declared too many cars are sllowed to stand in the streets all of the time, citing conditions on Willoughby Avenue as an exam- ple; “buttons” or street kmarkers placed in the streets were charac- terized as “dangerous”; the stop the number of cars parking in the streets, permitting only taxicabs, delivery trucks and other motor vehicles incidental to the conduct of business there. Second, reducs the speed limit to 15 or 20 miles per’ hour within the city limits. Accepts Holloway’s Offer The Chamber today voted to sup- Hamburg Shows How City Can Cut Lucile Williams of Santa Monlca, Gleveland. % LIEUT. FRENCH AGQUITTED BY GOURT MARTIAL ;Fourlh of A;x:sed Men on Tallapoosa, Like Cthers, Is Found Not Guilty Guard Cutter Tallapoosa, on trial {berz bafore a Court Martial, charg- with drunkenness, n! was acquit- The findings of that the charges ec ted this ing. the court were were unproved. Lieut. J. A. Hirschfield, Lieut. C. G Bowman, Machinist Mate Z. R. Schoen were previously acquitted morrow. That was not true. He was aboard cused, as was Lieut. Hirschfield, of report men for Like Hirschfield, he neglecting to runkenness. was ucqun.u-'d PRIN. NORAH VICTORIA, B. C., Aug. 27.—After four and one-half hours ashore on a sandy beach on the of Port Renfrew, a harbor on Vancouver Island, the steamer Prin- cess Norah came off under her own power and has headed here FAL NEW YORK.--Fruit and vege- of charges against them, There has, west side | themselves in the cell block part breakfast. Dishes rattled and flow- Mayme Dalquist, smiling Eskimo |Fort Worth, Texas. man farm, the home of Whiteman's parents, at Denver, Colo. action. Cal.,, displays a new flying suit 5 ) ers trembled but the meal was girl, the only person who could | The Pacific Alr Transport car-|_ Proponents of the movement to which she plans to introduce to |Of the building and the guards gt Icrowds at the national air races in | tossed in gas bombs. When the {gas cleared it was found the four convicts had shot themselves. The prison | noon. NATIONAL AIR RACES LURING SPEED FLIERS [Furious Pace for Record Jx William H. “Coin” Harvey, of this iLg and feeding of the wild fowl; : LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 27— Attract World Tour- |states and the West Indies com-|;ity, and Andrew Hardskog, of and flocks are known to be larger| .. Seeking Planes Calls b City newspapers, creamng& what | ists to Alaska gk Los . Avguiss,. DEve - Pas, . chasen than usual. gt i | BT ) Out A ‘ Studying Air Transportation | presidential and Vice-Presidential Owing o he, fact that Alaskd 18| Hosinald Trench Bt ¢he 1. 8. Goast | t Aces | CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 27— American aviation wiil thunder a |seng of speed at its annual classie, the national air races. The big show, to be held August L29~Sep!ember 7 in Cleveland, will set a greater premium on speed than in any of the 10 years of pre- vious competition. ‘ Pitts will ask dismissal of the Service, visiting Seward, Fairbanks, i i s ' | Hollow at $4 per pint. In EIPaso|g veteran of Willlam Jennings been no conviction at all by the| Engineers and pilots, pondering m;r::r _sf—mr?es nexL“B‘(?nday, ‘Tanlana.DFt, Yukmnc}:rcle City, | Green River is the favorite. And I Brian's dithe Campal:n. 8 :’nl{v:here nortvh of the Alaska |, . ' o vial, | the: “resistta: of last year's Taces: M J]B'sil s:ngge hfl v‘r:s‘ ‘xill; mee,mu:wson, ehorse and | oy told here whiskey costs $10 per Harvey at first refused the Presi- o .4 Make Traffic Study Enlisted men Leonard Odum and have predicted speeds of 250 miles y when al 5 gquart which is cheaper that it can Frank Bryant are to be tried to-'sn hour and possibly beyond the | American record of 266 miles an quittal. P ing through McKinley A native of Indiana, Mr. McDer- {hour held by Lieut. Alford J. Wil- R 0 T 47 miles’ Mr. McBride sald, “and|mond vent to Venesuela 10 years| o . - _ lations here, declared H. L. Fault-| no pRUNKENNESS CHARGE |lams. 4 | want to say that we enjoyed | ago and has made it his home since etail Sales of BT R O o miseus: the| A Seattle dispaten under date of | Greatest interest has centered in ‘ GIFF“HD Now eveiylsmlnuhte Of the tip. The|ihen Ho deseribed it as a great Passenger Cars e o the_ ity Gounc | August 17 said that Lieut. Bowman the Thompson trophy race, _the d park is a natural wonderland, more | nyoqucer of ofl and coffee. The in;ao?fer o co—operatiin in ye.|was charged with drunkenness. American speed classic ‘for land planes, won last year by the late of the Colorado, and on a larger i shipping but 9,000, £t » e P ” , ESTIM ATING scgle. T predict that when a suit- Ez}‘.'dbffr?sc b;y)'er :gnngm out of a| NEW, YORK, Aug. 27—Retail| NEW YORK, Aug. 27—Simon|was passed by the Chamlkber wi:};- i‘:;‘gd“:‘m!ll“[hr:f;:l (:Crzautrribld “(;-:[ 1(1>r f;‘:m?easn :wwed Holman -at 201 able hotel is erected. there, Mc- ales of new o land Schuster, publishers, have re-|out opposition. Mr. Faulkner cCriti-| Hen g o 4 potential productive capacity of | f new passenger automobiles ceived a cable. from Nice, France, |cized the present system sharply. which charges grew. He was ac High Qualifying Speed | The race course has been in- creased to 10 laps of 10 miles each with a qualifying “speed of 175 r:iles an hour. | Among the expected entrants in the race Labor Day are Lou Reich- lers, of Arlington, N. J. flying a Lcuisiana sportsman, with the “Wee !Wine,” a special ship, and twa races built by E. M. “Matty” Laird, of Chicago. One of Laird's ships is a new {one, to be flown by Major H. Doo- little, ldst American to win the Schneider cup while the other is the same in which Holman won CONTAINERS DISAPPEAR 15ps of a 10-mile course will be covered, a qualifying speed of 140 miles an hour being demanded. H l for Cotton Seen lf paid $11 a day. Off to hunt the “web-footed dog |ery skin. There the eggs hatch y table wood containers that de e p This was held by Secretary Doak that sings like a bird,” and other { The young toads go through the Covernm."nt Costs|the customer regarding th 1- | Another ~speed innovation will beasts as strange as sideshow freaks, |tadpole stage still nestled in their ume are rapidly disappearing, says be daily one-mile dashes for all Prohibition Is Repealed - charged, should be charged to fthe “noble experiment” which it is sald should be buried under an epitaph: “What price bigotry!” Cotton crops, the report said, ‘have not been excessive. Under- alysis said. “The railroad has to charge more for hauling wheat to market than the farmer gets for the wheat. Taxes have been raised or. everyone,” it said, through the “adoption of the Eighteenth ¢cn-umption is responsible for the Amendment,” to be the “prevailing wage” for painters in the District of Colum- bia. The decision was rendered under WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 27.—~Prohibition Director Wood- cock has dispatched to all Federal Dry officials through- out the country a new general crder forbidding the employ- ment of women as informers. Dr. William Mann, director of the National Zoo, is on his way to the South American jungles. in the water. ‘The Surinam toad, whose children hop into the world from the skin of their mother’s back, also will be sought by Dr. Mann, Bggs are laid by the mother in the usual way, but the male then presses them | mother’s hide and hop out as full- fledged young toads. The Surinam toads developed this pedition hopes to bring back. The “blanket” is the long hairy fringe that is attached to the animal’s tail. The great hairy eagle which has| claws of any |wips out a'$9,000000 deficit which the most powerful krown bird, also will be sought, HAMBURG, Germany, Aug. 27.— The Free City of Hamburg, Ger- many’s premier seaport and second abolished and other departments and sub-departments will be com- binad into. fewer units with fewer | officials. o ‘These ‘measures are expected hangs ‘over the city. the U. 8. Bureau of agricaltural economics. Ithe preachers are going to say {about him. | Hence, Patton, who is 80 years lold and a pioneer farmer, has ar- |rénged for five minister: to come out to his place on next Sunday, 'August 30, and officiate at his displacement _classes. Records will « Cuntlnued on Page Five) 50" he said. | The Rev. John D. Maulding d Mcljeanaboro, one of the five preachers invited, was asked how he would speak. He said he would “try to talk as though this old mu had passed on.” is quiet this after-” |College. A new addition to the o passe: » |author, wrote himself into com- Commgwmter icollege is now being constructed, :;:a:: Te{flx:;:sy:ier:ef%mfl:syefi Pl __,_wuf_ il parative poverty and self-exile from [signs on crosstown streets were also \E&L;“;';!éenm?;l;‘r’t’e Hr:ll; 1;;1;“1”2 T iand the roster of the college con-| . 1o Gumez was succeeded by Juan BOOTLEG ‘GAS’ BATTLE the land of his adoption. labeled by him as menacing. g gl e gfie ' . tains more names than ever before | po.c "yt the ‘latter was a victim | CHICAGO, Aug. 21—A nation- | The author of “My Life and| Two simple remedies were sug- ASHURE UFF s e pe e of students who expect to attend f wide campaign against “bootleg” |Loves,” who was born, coincidentally [gested by him. First, keep down ] racer, Harry Williams, millionalre are statistics from the Children’s very promising for lode mines, and 1 a dama _ v, Th Bureau of the Department of La- I understand that the Anderson i —_ i t . . (Continued on Page Eight) 1‘; ;m\::::::-: ;‘;:;% gk g ;‘ xs:r'spe A hcs Tor b % i i 2 mil t of| WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 27— 4 - CHE 5 passengers ; G e bor indicating that distress will be and McGinn Mine, 12 miles out of e Pads e Ry T o e oorted mngegin (1] - - LT R be flown for the first time. Five A NEW YORK, Aug. 27.—Repeal of | growers’ woes, and that under-|the Bacon-Davis Act, which pre- way of hatching their young, says|largest city, has an example of €6 the Eighteenth Amendment will|consumption, it said, was due 0 |scribes that contractors on govern- Armed Wwith traps, nets, snares|py Mann, because water some-|“brutal economy” for the municipal Farm()r Plans to Slt -ln . “lift the price of all commodities |lack of buying power. ment buildings must pay the pre- |2nd special cases, he will spend the | times s too scarce in the jungle [administrations of the nation. ; (including cotton), reduce tax bur-| . “Since 1918 the government has|yailing local wage rate next two months under a British |t pring young toads through the| Tt announced a sweeping general | 0 F l S . E den and give health and life to in- |passed up about $7,800,000,000 from Guiana tropical sun collecting little | taapole stage in quiet pools as|reduction of all public expendi- at wn f unera ervices, ternational trade,” a Wall Street|a moderate tax on liquor, not in- ith W. known birds, beasts and reptiles f0r | young bullfrogs -are brought up in |tures affecting all departments, be- | » house declared in a special cotton |cluding the revenue lost by states O” wit omen the national capital’s menagerie. America. ginning with a slash in the Ham- ok analysis distributed here. and municipalities.” As Informers The web-footed dog is & jungle| A giant anteater, or ant bear burg Senate payroll. VALIER, TIL, Aug. 27—S. R. Pat- | funeral” i The government put the burden ¥ animal Wwith & queer SINg-SONZ|that tucks self carefully into a| The Senate memberskip will beton isn't gojg to wait until he| “If the ministers wish to speak % The depression of the Stock EX- |ejsewhere, “increased the tax bill in Il"fo"cem'ent whine. Its feet are asurvival of |peq each night under its own blan- |reduced from 16 to 12, numerous|dies for his funeral sermon, be- of my mistakes and imperfections ¢ change, firm of Munds and WInslow or rajlroads 300 per cent,” the an- e some prehistoric ancestor that lived | et s another specimen the ex-|commissions and bureaus will be |cause he wants to know just what |they will have full liberty to do =8 i