The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 24, 1932, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XL., NO. 6038. 1932. CONOUERORS OF DENALI CARRY MARKS OF TRIP Lindley and Strom Visit Juneau After Ascent of Loftiest Mountain 38 DAYS REQUIRED TO| MAKE TRIP BOTH WAYS Descent from 17,000 Feeti Made in 40 Hours | Without Sleep Tanned by sun and wind, lean from hard work and exposure, and osted from sub-zero temperatures cncountered at the top ¢f North America‘s highest peak, A. D. Lind- ley and E. Strom, youthful con- querors of Mt. McKinley, visite:i‘ incau Monday afternoon for a hours, on their way back to the States. , the younger of the pair, and only 26 years old, bore the ¢ marks. Three fingers on Strom’s right and two on his left hand bear the dark discolorations frosted spots, the result of a| minutes’ exposure on ‘the mountain’s topmost height while| he fought at a frozen camera. 38 Days Required Lindley hails from Minneapolis, Minn.,, and Strom, a Norwegian, resides at Lake Placid, N. Y. Both have had considerable experience in winter mountain climbing, are expert skiiers, and are hardy, vig- few MAXIE KNEE-DEEP IN ADMIRERS 0 Associated Press Photo Max Schmeling, who has a “heavy” date with Jack Sharkey June 21 in the middle of the new 80,000-seat asphalt saucer on Long Island, waded through a crowd of kids to have a peep at his future trysting place. The German champion answered the youngsters' demands: “What are you going to do to Sharkey?” with a pleasant, “Come over June 21 and see.” .4ttacie on WTu;o-Thirds Rule Holds Possibility of Drama | trip today. MEMBER OF |GOVERNOR WILL HONOR OFFICERS OF KARLSRUHE Reception Tonight at Ex-| ecutive Mansion to Be Followed by Dance The high point in the official program for the cruiser Karlsruhe will be attained tonight when Gov. George A. Parks will receive in honor of Capt. Erich Wassner and the officers of the visiting German vessel. The reception opens at 9 o'clock at Governor's Mansion and the receiving line will be' broken up at 10 p.m. Following the reception, a dance will be given at the Mansion whigh, it is expected will be attended By cadets from the Karlsruhe. Start Mine Visit Capt. Wassner and five of Hhis officers were guests of General Superintendent. L. H. Metzgar o6n a trip through the Alaska Juneau mine and mill today. Theirs will be the only party to go through! the mine, but the entire personnel,) or all who desire to-do.so, will be shown through the big gold mill. Parties numbering 25 each will be taken through it all during the woek. The first party made the City Park will be thrown open to the visitors Wednesday evening for the City League baseball game. Later the community, through the Chamber of Commerce, will be hosts to the cruiser’s officers and men at a public dance in the Fair Building. Preceding the dance, the e | % | Associated Press telephoto of John H. Curtis of Nerfolk, Va., N. J, after his arrest in investigation of his story hew he perpetrated a heax on Col A. Lindbergh. Curtis, socially prominent and a shipbuilder, told police he had deceived the Lindberghs by declaring he was in touch with kidnapers of their child. Hoax Confession Lands Curtis 2 e 1 CORDOVA RAI |Seeks Prohibition being taken te jail at ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS in ]ail i Flemington, d Mrs. Charles STOCK MARKET §25000 REWARD VOTED BY STATE OF NEW JERSEY Big Sum HuEUp for Cap- ture of Kidnapers and Slayers “JAFSIE” DICTATES MESSAGE TO “JOHN” Dr. Condon Resorts to Ad- vertising—Boston Official Acts TRENTON, N. J., May 24. —The New Jersey State Leg- islature has voted $25,000 re- ward for the capture of the kidnapers and slayers of Baby Lindbergh. The measure passed the Senate unanimously and pass- ed in the Assembly with only one dissenting vote. The dissenter suggested the reward might savor of pub- {licity and, pointed out that thousands of Government and {other operatives were now |working on the case. “The reward may cause someone to squeal,” said Gov. A. Harry Moore. for Democratic Conventior I Plank for ship’s band will give a program | | concert between the hours of 8| and 10:30 o'clock. Dancing will be | us men. Lindley holds a mem- ship in vhe Alpine Club of Can- ada, but their expedition was pure- BYRON PRICE latform NOTE TO “JOHN” ly a personally-backed affair, made on their own initiative. They were jubilant over their success, attrl- buting much of it to Superintend- ent Harry Liek of Mt. McKinley National Park, and one of his rangers, Grant Plerson. And nei- ther of them just now have any “hankering” to repeat the feat. Thirty-eight days were requirea to ascend the great pile and return to its base. The greatest part of this period was spent in climb- ing up to the 17,000 foot level. From there onward it was com- aratively easy going. But the m dangerous work was the de- scent from the last camp at 17,000 feet to the foot of Muldrow Glac- fer. Have Narrow Escape Below the 11,000 foot level, on the main sheet of the glacier it- self, death snatched at the lttle band several times. The death of two members of the Carpe Cosmic Ray expedition possibly saved the lives of one or more of the four in the Lindley-Strom party. Had it not been for a rope for which they returned to camp after they had found Theodore Kovens body, Pierson, Liek and Strom might have gone the way Koven and Carpe did. AN three of them broke through crevasses and the rope was all that saved them. Thirty-three days were spent| by the expedition in climbing to 17,000 foot level where the last camp was established. Tt took 12 hours for the round trip to the south peak, and the same time for the morth peak. It took only 40 hours to backirack from the last camp to the bottom, but all cf the previous experiences were eclipsed in that descent. Leave April 14 On April 4, the expedition got under way from the park ranger station nearest the base of Mul- drow gracier. It mioved its sup- plies and stores by dogteam over the glacier to a height of 11,000 feot, the members of the party using skiis in traveling. At that point, the expedition left the glacier and climbed to the backbone of Karsten ridge. He and snow covered it, and its ridge in places was almost knife-narrow. Particles of snow and ice dislodged by one’s left foot would roll thou- sands of feet onto the glacier, and by the right foot into a river gorge separated from the glacier by half cf the mountain’s bulk. The ridge rises 3,000 feet in its Jittle more than one mile of length. Five days were spent pack- ing supplies and camp equipment up it. Almost every step had to be hewn out with axes. They “spelled” one another in cutting and packing. Once or twice it was necessary to do an entire day's work all over. As they snatched a hours rest in their camp at the foot of the ridge, storms would #ill up their chopped footholds solidly and they had to be refut. And the end of the sécond day's cutting found them only a 100 feet or so farther advanced than the preceding day. (Continued on Page Seven) SIGNAL HONOR | MRS. PUTNAM ~{ Chicago Democratic convention will | !bc vastly increased if anything comes of current talk of an ef- fort to cast overboard the bewhi: kered {wo-thirds rule, and nomin- Unaccompanied, U. S. A . . V gl P . ‘ Presumably, resort to such hero- Aviatrix Visits Frince ic measures would be taken only of Wales if matters had reached a piich (of extreme bitterness. The re- LONDON, May 24.—Mrs. Amonl"sfintn_mcnts which would accompany | Earhart Putnam, the first woman O€Cision of that question might to solo fly over the Atlantic, paid ™ Press, Washington.) late the candidate by a simple majol eke the Madison Square Garden a visit to the Prince of Wales at;tempest look like a spring zephyr. St. James Palace today at his in- The odds are all 2gainst any| vitation, This is a signal honor such thing ever happening. Aboli- for the woman flier. After the tion of the two-thirds reguirement audience, she went to the Ameri- 8nd nomination by majority has can Embassy, the guest of Ambas- been talked about for many years, sador Andrew E. Mellon, and had |Without tangible result. tea with British women fliers. | She was unaccompanied when |28rees that if Gov. Roosevelt or she talked with the Prince of 8nyone else once atfains an ac- Wales. X‘tual majority, it will be nexh'lo impossible to keep him from going lon in two-thirds. Conversely, if any candidate got to the majority land then was blocked, it might leasily mean that his lines were too shaky to risk a rule-chanzing vote. H That is the reason the rule has stood so long. | WILL GET AWARD WASHINGTON, May 24. — The Senate has passed a bill authoriz- ing President Hoover to award the D guished Flying Cross to Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam for crossing the Atlantic ——————— Harmony Plank Scught The newest plan for a Republi- | can harmony plank on prohibition propo: that the party agree to 2 referendum, if and when a mn-f jority of the states ask for it DO-X NOW ON WAY TO HOME | Thus far, all discussions of this ) |project have been in executive| y Whether the idea ever| | | session. sees the light of public debate probably depends on the attitude lof the dry organizations, whose support many partly leaders are| janixious to keep. Final Hop — In Near Unless the dry leaders will agree [to it in advance, there would | Crash at Landing !appear to be no peint in bringing LONDON, May 24—The German g oy at all. It does not go near- flying boat DO-X left for Germany 1y 45 far as the modificationists this morning, having arrived here . ..4 like to go, and if the drys| yesterday from Spain after crossing .. 15 ne logt to the party, an the Atlantic Ocean via the Azores| .. modificationist leaders from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland.| 31055 will demand something | Yesterday the DO-X was caught iy o.o” ceening | in a fast flowing tide, after the! o Wa.rnh:lgs from “both Wets motors had been shutoff, puc me-1.1d drys, pouring in almost daily chanics got one motor going jus;;:‘.ne whole party organization is as _thi ?}?:La\:&:ta??;?tje:y TR |approaching the subject cautiously. agains E . — e Leaves London Today for | The next two weeks probably will |show whether the latest of many . . |pending plans can accomplish the wmd Ruesy Temperah.lr_e |desired end of keeping the drys| Drops in Idaho Locality /in line without at the same time | |closing the door entirely in the POCATELLO, Idaho, May 24— face of the wets. This city had a taste of bizarre weather conditions. The wind rose| to 60 miles an houf and the tem perature dropped 37 degrees in the short space of 10 minutes. — e LIGHT BACK Sam Light, Manager of the Unit- ed Food Company, returned on the Yukon this morning from a busi- ness trip to Seattle and other Pa- cific Northwest points. Want to. Be Home In fairness to a much-criticised | Congress, the voters should under- |stand that if the present session | continues after the National con- ventions, it will not be because the members desire it. Most Senators and Representa- |tives would far rather be back in | |their summer baliwicks during the coming summer for various potent (Contmuea on P8age WO | For one thing, almost everyone from 10:30 p.m. until 1 am. The program for the concert follows: Admiral der Luft, Marsch .. %) Blankenhil Pique Dame, Ouverture Sisa . Suppe Slavishche Rhapsodie Friedemann Steuermannslied and Matrosen- scor ‘Wagner Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt, Waltzer . Tramslateur Fackeltanz Meyerbeer Echoes from the Metropolitanhouse : Tobani Zim Stadtel hinaus, Marsch Meisner Tomorrow afternoon between 3 and 6 o'clock the cruiser will hold open house for the public. Soccer Game Thursday City Park has been turned over to the visitors for Thursday even- 766}\tmued on Page Two)" ———eo——— KARLSRUHE MEN HAVE FINE TIME AT MODSE HALL Eighty of Cruiser’s Per- sonnel Attend Dance in Their Honor One of the most enjoyable events in Juneau for the entertainment of officers, cadets and enlisted men 0f the German cruiser Karls- ruhe was the dance last night in Moose Hall under auspices of the Moose lodge. The festivities began at 9 o'clock and lasted until 1. Eighty of the warship’s person- nel, headed by Lieutenants Miller and Tollner, were met at the Gov- ernment pier as they landed from the cutter from their ship by a Moose committee composed of C. H. MacSpadden, John Pastl and Phil Jolie. Sang on Way to Hall As the visiting seamen marched in a body from the pief to the hall they sang German songs. At the hall once before the danc- ing began, and twice during inter- vals between dances, the warship guests sang German songs and were enthusiastically applauded by the large number of residents pres- ent. The Gastineau Orchest nished music for the occa Three Were Here Before Three of the visiting party were on the German cruiser Emden when she was in Juneau several years ago, and on ‘that occasion guests at a dance given by Moose in their hall. “Don’t forget to mention~ said Mr. Pastl, “that the lodge com- mittee in charge of last night’s affair is grateful to the many Wo=- men that attended the party. Their presence and co-operation made it a most delightful success.” fur- Te the Wilbur Irving of Cordova Is Forced Down Near Here 30 Hours Principally for pleasure, and just inadvertenly for business, Wilbur Irving, who is employed by the Copper River and Northwestern Railroad at Cordova, has bought a seaplane and he is flying the craft to his l.ome city. He reached Juneau last evening from Seaitle and plans to take off for Yakutat this afternoon. In coming north from Puget Sound, which was left last Saturday morning, the air- ship made stops at Alert Bay and Ketchikan and then by a defective spark plug was forced down on waters off Glass Peninsula 35 miles south of Juneau. Was Down 30 Hours The plane was there 30 hours, while Mr. Irving, who is polot and F. Davis, who is mechanic, fixed ‘the spark plug with wire. The craft then flew to Juneau. Aboard the plane as passenger is James Dividson. Mr. Irving bought which is a Cuntiss with a Challenger engine, in Los Angeles, Cal. He flew it to Seattle. This morning, Mr. Irving, Mr. Davis and Gordon Graham, of this city jmechanic with the Southern Alaska airways, made permanent repairs to the defective spark plug. the n, airship, Night at Yakutat ‘The plane is expected to stay tenight at Yakutat and will re- sume the flight to Cordova to- morrow. “This plane purchase is only in- advertently @ business venture” said Mr. Trving. My chief pu is to make flights for pleasure. Occasionally, I miay do some freighting with the airship.” ———o—— Seattle Judge Named to Supreme Court in State of Washington OLYMPIA, Wash.,, May 14. — 'Gov. R. H. Hartley has appoin Superior Judgze William of King County, to the S preme Bench, succeeding Beeler, who has resigned to : the United States Republican § atorial nomination. Gov. Hartley did not mention who would succeed Steinert on the King County bench. - - Hillquit to Remain Socialist Chairman 24— was MILWAUKEE, Wis., May Morris Hillquit of New York re-elected chairman of the Bo- falist Party after a bitter fight lover Mayor Daniel W. Hoan of Mil- ‘Waukee by 158 majority. MAN PURCHASES “ ! PLANE FOR FUNi ASHINGTON, May 24— Republican leaders close to President Hoover are seeking to perfect a Prohibition platform plank, the basic principle of which would allow a slow modi- fication of the present Prohibi- tion laws. | There is no way of telling | just to what extent, if any at all, the President is committed on the proposition. AKRON PA SSES OVER PORTLAND | ~ EARLY TODAY| Residents Are Awake to! Watch Dirigible Sail Through Air PORTLAND, Oregon, May 23.—' The Navy dirigible Akron, which left the mast at Sunnydale, Cal., al 8:44 o'clock yesterday morning for the Pacific Northwest, no land- ings scheduled, passed over here at | 6:25 o'clock this morning headed north at-a speed of 45 to 50 miles an hour. The Portlanders were| awake and viewed the great craft | as it skimmed gracefully and ma- | Jjestically over the city. VISITS SEATTLE ¥ SEATTLE, May 24—The Akron visited Seattle today, flying over| the city shorfly after the noon hour.. The dirigible was seen by thousands of persons. Horns and whistles were blown. | The Akron headed north for Bel- | lingham, Mount Vernon and Port Angeles. | Enroute here from the south the airship wvisited Bremerton where the airplane carriers Lexington and Sarotoga are mow harbored. - TRUITT AND BURTON LEAVE FOR SURVEY OF KODIAK PROJECT To make a survey of proposed improvements at Kodiak Harbor, ngineer James Truitt and eut. | A. H. Burton, of the United States District Engineer’'s Office, le ere Saturday night on the steamer Ad- miral Watson for Kodiak. They will be absent three or four weeks, depending largely on transporta- | tion. A preliminary examination has already been made of the Kodiak project, and a recommendation that it be undertaken was approved sometime sometime ago by the United States Board of Engin- ecrs. A bill Is now pending in Congress authorizing the work. — e Eggs will remain fresh much IN DOWNWARD FLIGHT AGAIN ,Food Shares, Public Utili- ties, Other Issues Under Attack NEW YCRK, May 24.—The Stock Market mosed out today and went into a downward current again. The decline was moderats but sell- ing was substantially of a larger volume especlally of a selective nature converging principally upon shares, public utilities and also many industrials. held up well. al Foods, Public Service of New Jersey, Corn Products, Ameri- can Tobacco B., Liggett & Myers Tobacco B, declined about two points tc new lows. American Can, American Tele- phone and Telegraph, Borden, Con- solidated Gas, Dupont and others were off a point or so. National Biseuit, ree and two points but recovered more than one point. United States Steel lost only a fraction. General Motors eased slightly to ster a new low. YORK, May ns of Alaska Ju is 9%, American Amer- igan Can 36%, Anacond: lehem Steel 2! Fox, Films 1'%, 24.—~Closing meau mine ‘Wright, General Motors 8%, International er 16z, Ken- T 6%, P ard Motors 2%, Un i States Steel 28. e —— BROWNE MAY HOP TOMORROW SEATTLE, May 24—Nathan C. Browne made additional load tests vesterday and will probably wait until tomorrow for his flight from Seattle to Japan. It is expected the low pressure area in the vi inity of Dutch Harbor up by that time. Late this afternoon Browne in- dicated he may his attempt- ed hop tomorrow He has been granted permission to land by Ja- pan. .o Rescue Workers Are Killed, English Mine BAKEWELL, Derbyshire, Eng- land, May 24—Eight men were killed N in an explosion and subseque: rescue efforts at the Shinning - Gutter lead mine near hers. Three of those killed were r | Mott. BECKET, Mass., May 24.— | Dr. John F. Condon this after- noon dictated a message for a newspaper to the myster- ious John to whom he tossed the $50,000 ransom money. “John. Money I gave you is money you can’t get rid of, Return it to Lindbergh in time to get $25,000 reward. {Signed Jafsie.” The message was dictated after Dr. Condon had been |informed the New Jersey | Legislature had voted a $25,- 000 reward. OFFICIAL ACTS BOSTON, Mass., May 24.— Superintendent of Police Michael H. Crowley said last night he had furnished the proper authorities with the, name of the person believed involved in the kidnaping of Baby Lindbergh and also col- lection of the ransom. Crowley refused to divulge any detai - e MOTT LEADS IN |OREGON,RECOUNT IS NECESSARY Congress Hawley 74 Be- hind—Ballots Will Be Recounted PORTLAND, May 24—Complete unofficial returns from the close vote for the Territorial Congres- sional primary nomination in the | First Oregon district between James Mott, Corporation Commissioner, and veteran Congressman Willis |C. Hawley gave Mott 30814 and |Hawley 30,740, a lead of 74 for | A recount probably will be ssary to determine the victor lof the contest. | Whoever gets the nomination |will meet Harvey Starkweather, who is the Democratic nominee, in the General election in No- vember. ne Al Smith Gets ; ‘ Jersey Delegates TRENTON, N. J, May 24 — Without a dissenting voice New Jersey delegation to the ocratic National Convention endors- ed former Gov. Alfred E. |for the Presidential longer when placed for half a members of a rescue squad, caught |The endorsement means 32 minute in boiling water, in a slide. | votes for Smith,