The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 18, 1927, Page 1

THE DAITY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — VOL. XXX., NO. 4483. JUNEAU ALASKA, WEDNE.SDAY MAY 18, 1927. A ——— * PRICE TEN CENTS PLANE WRECKAGE BEL[EVED FOUND BLAST WRECKS SCHOOL HOUSE . THIS FORENOON Many Bodles Are Taken from Ruins—Farmer Is Be- lieved Implicated. BULLETIN—LANSING, May 18. — The death toll in the schoel explosion is known to be over 35, mostly children. The State Police amnounced that Heykole had placed 500 pounds of dynamite in the cel- lar of the school and wired con- nection to the dynamite from his automobile outside. Previcusly the Heykole home and barn was destroyed in a dynamite explosion. LANSING, Mich,, May 18.—Twenty bodirs have been removed from the wreckage of the District at | Bath, 10 miles north of here, which was destroyed this forenoon by Dblast presumably by dynamite. The bodies were mostly thoso small children. Among the bodies was that of/ Andrew Heykole, a farmer, who wi nesses said had been lurking ne the school house. The police found four sticks dynamite at the farmer’s home. Neighbors revealed that he recent- 1y lost his farm when a mortgage ‘was foreclosed. Qbservers sal intendent of th the building after the explosion and climbed into an automobile to go fo: aid. Another explosion wrecked the car and killed Huyck. The normal attendance at the school is §00. The entire north end| of the modern brick building was| leveled by the explosion. SEATTLE MEN GO TO WINDHAM BAY CLAIMS look over some promising placer ground at Windham Bay, H. W, Hill of Seattle, and two companions, L. Prescott and DeWitt Arhart, left town this afternoon.| They expect to be absent for at least ome month and may spend| most of the summer in the dlslrh.l.j Mr. Hill is a son of Capt. L. A. Hill, wellknown former Alaskan and| now living in Seatiie. He became| interested in the Windham Bay| proposition several years ago and last year began preliminary investi- gations to determine the possibil- ity of immediate development and operations. of | E. Huyck, Super- To Seismograph Is Being Installed At Kodiak KODIAK, Alaska, May of the United States Weather Bu-! reau to make a scientific study of the relation of Alaska volcanic erap- tions and earthquakes were divulged here with the arrival of Prot. T. A. Jaggar, voleanologist of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Prof. Jaggar will be here several weeks superintending the installation of . seismographs and other Inslrul monts for recording and measuring | earth disturbances. He will then leave 'for Dutch Harbor where other) apparatus will be installed. Prisoner Escapes from Guards Aboard Train SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 18. ~—Jacobs Schybinder, who was being returned here from Milwaukee for perjury in connection with the steamer Qugdra rum running case, escaped from Federal guards aboard 18.—Plang sghool, .rushed from | | | | | | Rork, shotvn above, is an actp Los Anzelel movie producer. The reported seven-year romance of Robert Agnew and Mae McAvoy is ended by Agnew’s engagement to Ann Rork. Miss | on | [ how | We enact many laws, | course MEDICAL MEN COMPLIMENTED BY PRESIDENT Nature and Government —Looks for New Era WASHINGTON, May plimenting the medical profession its contribution to human wel- , President Coolidge declared t world looked largely to its members to bring about physical, mental, and spirftual regeneration The President addressed nual session of the American cal Association last night “Somewhere in human nature there is still structural weakness We do not do as well as we know We make many constitutions. laying out a of action and providing a 18.—Com- far the an- Medi- | | | done, J J and the daughter of Sam Rork, NINE ROBBERS LOOT 2 BANKS \Wild West Robbery Pulled! Off in Oklahoma—Des- perado Recognized. TULSA, Okla., May 18 robbers looted the two banks in Beggs, Oklahoma, early this fore- noon and escaped with several thou- sand dollars after a gun battle in which Marshal W. J. McAnaly was killed and a woman pedestrian was seriously injured. One of the robbers was recognized Mathew Kimes, notorious Oklu- Nine as {homa desperado The wounded woman held a baby in_her arms but it was not injured. Tho Farmers Bank and First Nu tional were entered and looted. The marshal whs killed as he open- ed fire on five of the men when they emerged from the Farmers Bank. The robbers traveled in two auto mobiles and were armed with rifles. Posses are in pursuit of them. Kimes was one of the participants in a robbery last spring of the Farmers Bank in whirh $20,000 were taken, Cluplm’s Demuirer Is Argued, Superior Court LOS ANGELES, Cal, May 18. Charliz. Chaplin came in for a verbal thumping and target of a hail of {charges in the Superior Court in an hour and an half battle of attorneys yesterday afternoon arguing on his demurrer and motion to strike some of the more sensational parts of Lita Grey Chaplin's divorce com- plaint. At the close, Judge Hahn delayed giving a decision but indicated his the train near the Berkeley city limits this afternoon. action will be adverse to the come ‘dian in part at least. SECOND DIVISION TO CELEBRATE WAR’S END SAN ANTONIO, Texas, May 18— ‘The ninth anniversary of the begin- ning of the end of the World War and tenth anniversary of the Sec- ond division of the United States Army will be observed here June 2, when that division celebrates its part in victories at Chateau Thierry, Belleau Wood, Verdun, St. Mihiel, the Alsne, hteMarne, the, Argonne, and Champagne. § The celebratifh will be a part of the annual division day of the outtit. one of the most noted of the Amer ican Expeditionary forces. The divi. sion captured one-fourth of the prix- oners taken by the Americans and suffered one-fourth of all the casual- ties of the United States’ troops. One brigade, which helped the di- vision write some of its most illustri- ous pages in history, will be absent. Th2 Fourth Brigade, composed of Marines during the war, was return- ed to the Navy at the end of hostil- ities. On June 2, 1918 the Second division deployed across the, Paris-Metz road, and met the spear-head of the last German drive gn Paris. The Teuton ——etei B Bl T (Continued on Page Six.) | | President Is Silent on Third Term | WASHINGTON, May 18.—An | extra degree of quietude is added to the White House silence con- cerning President Coolidge's in- tentions toward a third term. Re- \ | cently a number of newspapers | | prominently announced repeated questions as to the President’s candidacy for reelection had been ignored at the White newspaper conferences Today it was announced that the President thinks it improper for a newspaper to say such and such questions were asked and J gone un.mwored House at || FRBRMD: 45 T TS PO FLOOD WATERS IN LOUISIANA TAKING LIVES Many Known Drowned— Death List Will Increase Before Waters Fall. NEW ORLEANS, May 18.—With! approximately 8,000 square miles in-!| undated, residents of South and Cen-| tral Louisiana are helplessly watch- ing the flood. An undetermined number of lives have been lost and prospects are that many more will perish before the flood waters finally fall. At Melville, 10 negroes are known to have been drowned. At the Rosa plantation the fate of 40 persons in unknown. They are throughout to have been trapped in the lowlands where a 20 mile an hour current is flowing. W. T. Clark reports the drowning of a man and his two sons. Clark sald he removed his mother from the roof of a floating house and before he could reach the others,! the house carcened and they were swept away. The bodies have not yet been found. Army engineers said 20 parishes are covered by flood waters and that approximately 5,200,000 acres of land are inundated. St. Paul Island Is Surrounded by Ice DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska, May 18. —St. Paul Island is still ice bound. The relief personnel for the naval station on the island is here walting. lmore |WEMTHY MAN | ration a 4/to run down every |the pistol on herself. |Cutting off |Water Is Ruled method of ‘relationship one with an other, which are theoretically above | eriffeism but do not come into full observance and effect. Among na- tions there are still wars and ru- of war. In spite of all of our 5 much remains to be| said the President | The President sald he looked for- ward to the “era of right living, | right thinking, or good-will and of in accordance with the teach- ng of the (.lfint I'hyxhinn ¥ douh AND SEGRETARY ARE FOUND SHOT Sensation Is Tossed Into In-| vestigation of Los An- geles Tragedy. LOS ANGELES, Harold Davig, Chief Deputy of the District Attorney's office, tossed a sensation into the investigation of | |the deaths of George K. Powell, Jr. | w'-'ilvh\ Pagadena man, and his se retary, Margie Pike, with the decla the 'couple had been under several days to detormine they had been obtaining by staphone secrets of the .Julian Pet roleum Corporation, said to be in- volved in an over issue of stock. Davis said he has dispatched meu lue in connection with the strange e which develop- n-(l Tuesday morning with the dis- un\Prv of the bodies of Powell and Miss Pike, each with a bullet hole in their head, in an automobile park- ed in front of Miss Pike's rooming | Cal., May 18 watch { whether Coolidge Cr)rr\pal'es Human | Vo it warry her, either, N Then the joke was on Mrs. C EW YORK (LI-N the extraordinary persona: Hopkirs. Then Comstock met Connie sort. Then Comstock left for California. But that was no joke to her, in sists Miss Almy. And the joke fsn't going to be on her, elther. She's setained Francis C. Dale, a member ef the fiym that saved Daddy Brown- ing's alimony, and a breach of promise complaint has been filed. ‘The complaint recites that “the plaiptiff has been held up to public iculy At the special instance of | Does Not Know house. The shot by believe Powell was | Pike who then turned | police Miss PG — | | | \ | | | | Extortion 18.—The practice of of shutting off the tenants unable to has been declared of Danzig to be a and therefore | BERLIN, May many landlords water supply of pay their rent by the courts form of extortion punishable by law. A precedent was established at the trial of a shoemaker. Herr Ste- chow, who had shut off the water supply of some of his tenants. The tenants were in arrears because al- most their entire income had been attached by the court for other out- standing debts. The prosecuting at- torney described Stechow's procedure as “a most reprehensible form of blackmail,” and the court sentenced the landlord to a fine of 100 guldenl or two weeks jail. | Widow Tnvolved in i Murder Film Cowboy|, LOS Ar\(,lulrhs, Cal., May 18.— Two witnesses testified at the Ker-| rick murder trial that Henry Isa-. bell, one of those participating in the fatal moonshine party, said after the shooting: “Sarah shot Tom.” Sarah is Tom Kerrick's widow, and is one of the five defendants. Kerrick was a film cowboy. R e e SEATTLE HALIBUT PRICES SEATTLE, May 18.—Halibut prices It 18 expected the mext storm will break up the ice around the island and open navigation, yesterday were 10 and 15% cents. The Alice B arrived with 11,000 W hether Man Is - Her Hubby or Not SPOKANE, Wash., The mother of a 9-year-old son reported to the police that she | believes a stranger posed as her husband for three days at her home. She said the boy felt the man was mnot his father| The | woman said the supposed strang- er looks much like her husband, | wears the same sort of clothes | and has a similar voice. The | police are investigating, | May 18— | | - eee Fourth Man Convicted For Murder of Editor CANTON, ©hio, May 18. Floyd Streintenberger, former Canton Police- man, has been convicted of first degree murder by a jury for com plicity in the assassination of Don R. Mellett, Canton Editor. The jury recommended mercy which automa- tically results in life imprisonment. This makes the fourth conviction in the mur(ll-r case, e GARDEN CLUB MEETS i The Juneau Garden Club will meet Friday night. May 20, in the High’ School Auditorium. jal event of the evening will be a talk on dahlias by C. H. Flory, President. As an experienced dahlia grower, Mr. Flory will have much to say concerning succesful growing of this particular flower, of interest to those who wisn to cultivate them. A rofind table discussion which is proving to be of much help and in- spiration to the members of the pounds, ON FRIDAY NIGHT| The spec- | Conme Almy Sues for Love She Won from Peggy Joyce The reported engugement of Peggy Joyee (left) and Stanley Comstock (inset), wealthy redltor and lusdidrman, failed to el in marriage alter Comstock met Connie Almy (right), a singer. But now Misy Almy wants $500,000 because Comstock didn't Special)—Peggy Joyce Hopkins, she of lity, met Stanléy E. Comstock, millionaire realtor and lumberman, 'omstock, who thought that her own marital reins would prevent (‘omstock from becoming en- gaged to Countess Morner, which is another name for Miss Akmy, singer in a Flondn re- Then the joke was on Peggy Joyce, the defendant she gave up her em. ployment and devoted herselt preparation for sald marriuge, and to ministering to his comfort, l'ealth and well-being. of sald promise, expend her meager savings and other moneys, upwards of $500." to She dig, In reliance Miss Almy will be satisfled with | '500 000, thanlk )ou. W'raum’ll Man i Is Saved from Starvation Starving cancer of stomach, gell, came to to death bec the arl use of a lower part of the Dyrendal, of Wran- Juneau several weeks ago for treatmerit An operation removing the lower one fourth of the stomach and the beginning of the small intestines was performed by Dr. L. I". Dawes, and Mr. Dyren- dal was rescued from and is recovering splendidly. Mr Dyhendal could not have liv- ed anotber month in the condition he was in, said Mr. Dawes, since it was impossible for him to keep any food in the stomach. - e RUPERT HALIBUT PRICES PRINCE RUPERT, Halibut sales totaled pounds today, all Canadian, sold for 7 and 13.40 cen B. C., May 18 40,000 which | starvation | PLANE'S WING BELIEVED SEEN UPON ATLANTIC Wreckage Slghted by Steam- er 100 Miles Off Shore —Lost in Darkness. COAST GUARD BOATS ORDERED OUT, SEARCH |Fate of Missing French Aviat- ors May Be Cleared Up —Hopes Revived. \ | | | | | 1 |" | ( | BOSTON, Mass, May 18.—Hopes lof the disappearance of the Frencn laviators, Capt. Nungesser and Major | Coast Guard and government patrol jboats were dispatched to investigate jat soa Yesterday afternoon, Capt. Ring of pline, told of sighting a spread of natural colored wood 20 feet long traverse ribs, similar to an airplane wing, about dusk on Monday. Effosts futile and it was soon swallowed uv in the night. Frnme vme quo _projected course, arrived this afternoon without find- e of the course with extra lookouts posted all of the way, MINEOLA, N. Y. May 18— Giuseppe Bellanca, designer of the peace conference. wit hthe Bellanca Trans-Atlantic Flight Camp. The the difficulties which threatem to postpone the flight of the Columbia. that Lloyd Bertaud expresed his position in a telegram to Levine, game hotel e SEATTLE, May 18.~The Seattle L. Werick, of Juneau, Alaska, who |dropped out of sight following his |an artifical leg. Werick’s disappear- | is reported by B. H. Elwell, | who been found., The missing man 15 as 40 years of age and weighing about 245 pounds. TERHUNE IS TAKEN TO | The patrol boat soul, of the Al- ska Game Commission, which left was forced to put into Bellingham owing to the illness of H. W. Ter- today at Commission headquarters. Mr. Terhune wired he was not-se- able to resume his journey within | three uu | were revived today that the cnigma | Coli, might be solved as a fleat of a bit of wreckage reported 100 milps the Shipping Board Steamer Belle- and five feet wide, with a eross and to take the wreckage in tow were LINn 4 the Nun- gesser and, Coll FLIGHT SQUABBLE CONFERENCE airp e Columbia, has arranged a con ence will attempt to iron out The dissension reached such a point although both are staying in the JUNEAU MAN police have been asked to locate C. ‘arrival herc n week ago to purchase | anee said no trace of Werick has described HOSPITAL, BELLINGHAM Seattle last Saturday for this port, hune, according to advices received riously sick and would probably be had engine trouble in H»'ynmur Narrows and during the | delay occasioned by that, Mr. Ter- |hune was taken sick. The boat then !put back into Bellingham where he was taken to a hospital. RUM Pirates oper Sandy Hook. as being solely res ponsible for the financial difficulties of Lieut. Colonel John Allan Rule, of Carlton Mansions, Paul Mall, who appeared in the London bankruptey court for examination. Accounts had been liabilities ,of £37,021, 008 was unsecured, £1,167. Toward the end of 1923, said the debtor, he became interested in a scheme for the exportation of brandy and champagne from France to the “high seas.” Col. Rule and some of his friends staked their “fortunes” LONDON, May 18. ating off “rum row,” were described filed showing of which £30.- and assets of club will follow Mr, Flory's talk. on this, BANKRUPT BLAMES ROW PIRATES As the vessel carrying the ship- ment neared the New York coast lines, pirates appeared and took charge of the ship. They made them- selves at home, and transferred all the wet goods to a vessel of thefr own. The raiders, he said, checked goods oft by the case, according to the invoice, to make certain that noth- ing was overlooked, and even took the captain's cork screw. The Colonel attributed his insol- vency to inability to recover anmy- thing in respect to this loss, whicn was complete, as he could nover get hold of anyone to sue,