The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 29, 1927, Page 1

ZT ™" DAILY JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1927. a3 0 A RS T SR e S N 2T EE AR -2 THIE VOL. XXX., NO. 4544. ALASKA 1mvice iR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” AiLLL pe MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRI ’TEN CENTS 100,000 ARE KILLED, EARTHQUAK 26 DROWN WHEN VESSEL CAPSIZES MORTGAGE STILL REMAINS! MANY FLIERS " PREPARING 0 >, |DEATH, TERRGR Crash of Oil Com pany Involves | MANY DIE IN WATER;CRAFT ESCRIBED it * DOWN IN GALE Chicago Excursionists Met Death—Boat Goes Over in Sudden Storm. CHICAGO, July persons, mostly women and dren on a boat excursion cape the sweltering heat, drowned last night when th a small boat, capsized Lake Michigan about a mile shore during a brief squall Twenty persons are he missing Eighteen persons wer The storm, which came ly and hed " as rified the engers who rushed to one side of the hoat to escape the rain. The boat listed and ampeded to the zing the craft them into the and tossing them lessly about The noise of a negro band blar away drowned the chocking of the drowning persons try clutch at floating chii to wer Fav orite, on off known { re up quick rapidly cued vani te the hel, in eric in object The Favorite tumbled and settled until only deck remained partly water. Capt were ar Rescue to some half oves the upper out of the Arthur Olsen and his crew ested., work hegun almost fore the boat settled in the wator, The few men aboard fought vali antly to save the children. Whea the first rescue boats reached the shore, doctors and nurses trans formed the entire beach into an emergency hospital working over ¢ome bodies for hours in efforis at ation. Find Mineral Deposits In Upper Rhine Basin resusc, BRLIN, July 2§.-—Miner da- s of co lerable value have boen found in the upper region of the Rhine basin in Baden. The state board of mines, publishing the ilts of two years of inde- fatigable prospecting in this area reports that in the Waldkirch dis trict at the outlet of the Elz val- ley sulphurous ores such quantities and depth as to warrant the govern ment in claiming possession. At two other points, the existence of brown iron-ore, or hematite, was also established. Th minerar aeposits, extend ing from the mountainous Bla Forest far into the plain, the gov- ernment of Baden is now planning to exploit on a large sc cially for sulphur, lead. were found to such arsenic espe- Twenty-six | and lead, copper, tinarsenite and| and i | | [ | | Leaves T SEATTLE, lHam tma Potentate of head a pa leaving Alaska ¢ for | | SEATTLE, Ju cent of the b Seattle Fur Exc Average |aged $23.25, the | An unusually | wolf averaged wolf predomina ing culls, the "k | verine sold at an average of $29.30 Bear skin in poor déman entire offering The next sale ducing wells. Shrine Party For Alaska FUR AUCTION SALE, SENTTLE Ninety por. Order Investigation Into Three Big Firms Blue fox averaged $44.75 Lower, left to GA ( i LOS A | Receivership | threw the Jullan | | ration into the into a so-called scandal.’ Prominent southwest LE omorrow bu re a various conspirac illegal acceptan bonuses for The defendant known in banki insurance and t and oil industr lare €. €. Julis ' first president of ration; 8. C. Le ed him as pres! F. Stern, presid Southwest Trust - - July wil- n, newly elected Nile Temple, is rty of 15 Shrin- | here tomorrow ities. 29 ed on usury iy 20 ver sold at the shange auction yes d $29. Otter aver-! » best bringing $2 fine collection, $20.86. Dark gr ted. ! f | vestigation of lationship betw neral Motors teel was toda deral T | Commission i 301 reports that last month, we has nd, practically the | ho thiee going to export. > will be August 31. 3 Presidefit includ- | [ at §162. W. 0 MEN WHO PAY AND PAY AND PAY FORM CLUB, THWART WILY WOMEN | CHICAGO, July 29.—A half hun dred of Chicago’s alimony rebels professed victims of laws which the;s say prescribe that the man shall pay and pay and pay, h organized an alimony club fight on “gold-digging” and h “pro- Among the founders of the club, which came into being last night, was a woman who said she was working to aid her husband pay an allowance to his former wife for a| with | reaus | voree a vision for . for tions and for A constitutio to be adopted and digging, crook framing detect profiteering in | The preventing effecting other duti expressed purpose: “To create pub- fiteering” in the divorce courts. | lic sentiment, produce legislation d in litigation to stop gold-| presidency RAPID Major J. tended an | Coolidge to in Spokane, tembe The i that it would attend. CITY, w. invit att w P of establtshing bu unfair di-} reconceil n and bylaws ar hased on the club’ ed attorneys and ive agencies from the divorce courts.” was given to Years Old L making lod WASHINGTON, a *community grown big corporations. m—'—' Invited to Air Races at Spokane Above is thown the field where the Julian Petroleum Corporation brought in its g:reatest pro-| right—C. C. Julian, 8, C. Lewis and Charles F. Stern. 1S, Cal., July 27.- proceedings that 1 Petroleum corpo- | courts developed “§100,000,000 stock siness men of the mong those indict charges, cy to defraud by bankers and ce s, s include men well ng, brokerage amd he motion picture ies. Among them an, organizer and ¢ the Julian corpe- swis, who succeed ident, and Charle ent of the Pacific and Savings - bank. July 29 In the financial re- een the Duponc and United States y ordered by Commission ted on Th published of in up between 8. D, July 29.- Pancher today ex- ation to President end the alr races ash., late in Sep resident be impossible to Has Face Paint That Is 5,000 DON, July 20.—Face paint including of | the | indicated | - JUMPATLANTIC | | Levine | | Scores of Aviators Are Waiting for Favorable | Weather Conditions. NE YORK, tinuation of tho July 29 Con present unfavor ihie long distance flying weath r incr s the possibility that dur ing the next six weeks a score of aviators will be flying the Atlantic at the same time. ‘apt. Courtney is waiting favor- @#ble weather at Calshot, England Maur Drouhin will be ready 10 days to pilot Charles A back to America Lecn Givon, another Frenchmar bag completed preliminary ) the “Blue Bird” with whu ¢ hopes to beal Drouhin to D over | York @ " - | DRY AGENT IS SHOTWHEN HE PULLS PISTOL Tacoma Police Officer| Shoots “Kinky"" Thomp- | son—I'wo Sides Given SEATTLE, July hibition Agent Thompson, the the Prohibition {hig life, Assistant | rector Whitney came ing he h motoreycle officer orne, of the Tacoma Police | shot Thompson through the | head without provocation. The Tacoma Police Depantment officials immediate countere that sworn sta nts from v nes show that Nerborne sho only after Thompson, who reputed to be drunk, pulled gun Assistant Prohibition Whitney said Thompson was ly an overgrown boy who |been the target for bootleggers’ agents. Thompson has tremendous zeal and was relentless in per- | secution of evil-doers.” Physicians in. Tacoma said it was problematical whether Thomp son wonld live and if he does he faces the progpect of repeated | operations | Thompson has been before the public for months. It is sald tha' | he would black-jack or otherwise beat his supposed alleged = evil doer and make explanations after wards regarding arrests. Thomp son has been in many unsavory lraillfl, it is said. 29.~While Pro- W. H. “Kinky’ “stormy petrel” of force, fought fou Prohibition Di out in his evidence | Willian | wi | | i i | hi | 1 Director TURN FOR WORSE TACOMA, July 29.-—The con dition of “Kinky” Thompson, to- [ pecta | Whila | flmultaneous ! Schiller are planning to fly from | jump from Ottawa | trom I'Seward, the Moose Pas | was operating three |ing from Whitehorse July 17. |that Mr. Three German to make wekds Otto Noennecke and Count Som- | slagbach will fly a Caspar bipls Freinderich Risticz planes the flight are withi a few e, and planning a in Junke 31 Loose Johann are flight monoplanes. Rene Fonck is preparing leave America for Paris, Floyd Bertaud and James I‘v”‘ are getting ready for a flight Rome. Phil Wood and Lieut. Duke| to to Winasor, M. L Ontario. Jenney to HEngland. is planning a| to London S e WILLIAMS BACK FROM | WESTERN INSPECTION Roaa work in the Moose Pass district on the Alaska Railroad is| progressing satisfactory, accord-| ing to District Engineer M. D | Williams, Bureau of Public| Roads, who returned last night| an Inspection trip to the| Westward, He visited Cordova,| and low- er Kenal Lake districts almon were apparently run- ning heavily in Icy Strait waters, | Mr. Wiliams sald. When the Aleutian, on which he returned arrived at Port Althorp Wednes- day evening, the cannery there lines. Yes- four lines and brought in from while the steamer loading. The Aleu- tian took aboard 20,000 cases of fish at Port Althorp, which was all it had cargo space for. terday it used many fish were the grounds was in port CAMERAMAN GETS CARIBOU PICTURES ON YUKON RIVER George J. Lancaster, camera- man for the Paramount News Reel, who went south on the last trip of the Alameda, took with him 800 feet of film showing caribou crossing the Yukon River. He went down the Yukon to the mouth of the Stewart River, sail- At the mouth of the Stewart he got a small boat and almost immed- iately was in the midst of the caribou. He caught the same boat on which he had gone down the river, the White Horse, and returned to Skagway in time to catch the Alameda. A cameraman for the Inter- national News Reel also went down the Yukon at the same time Lancaster did and at Thelma Christler, nineteen, is under arrest at Saginaw, | % | Mich., and the mortgage on her father’s farm is still unpaid. She walked in to the Saginaw Peoples’ Savings Bank, thrust a | fietitions eheek for $5,000 at the cashicr, drew a gun, and de. | manded the money, The cashier ducked and called the police. | BOB GAINES 1S FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE Convicted Slayer of Daugh-! ter, Believes She Is Still Alive. ; SEATTLE, death on the (Bob) Galines is apparently cling ing for life to the theory that the body found on the shore of| Green Lake was not that of his| daughter, Sylvia Gaines, whose/ murder he hag been convicted of | and the rentence of death passed | on him by the King County Su- perior Court has been affirmed by the Supreme =ourt at Olymyia. | In the jail hore, Gaines said to| reporters: “I did not even see the body. They would not let me look at it and I never saw the photographs shown in the trid, I did not want to see them then but wanted them sent to my coll I know the body found was not that of Sylvia, my daughter.” Wants Rehearing Gaines said it was none of his business where his daughter was now and he talked of asking the Superior Court to grant a rehear- ing on the grounds of new evi dence, supposedly a contention that Sylvia ines fia still alive. Failing here, he said he would carry the fight back to the State Supreme Court and the United State Supreme Court, if neces- sary and possibly ask the govern or's reprieve, Says He's Innocent “I' never let them hang me Like God I'll keep fighting for [ am innocent, understand, that T 29, Faciuz [ July | Wallace C. | | gallows, am innocent, 1 tell you” said Gaines. Gaines was continuously nervoug and puffing cigarettes in apparent effort to control I It: Minister Is Found | New Cruiser Proposals Made Naval Session A, July uggest th delegation build more secondary cruis- than provided for under vesterday’s plan. The British look favorably upon such a proposal providing the Brit- ish tonnage cruisers raised in proportion to solve the difficulty DOCTOR BEATS TWO ROBBERS, HOLD-UP GAME Quickly Draws Pistol ‘and Kills Two in His Of- fice in Chicago. 29.—The the Am- ask to ers of is CHICAGO, 111, July 29 doctor last night beat two gun men at their game, killing them when they attempted to rob him The robbers, who have not been identified, posed as patients on entering the doctor's offices but the physician, Dr. Frank Nathanson, who was recently robbed, and became susplcious, stood by his desk and when the two robbers drew their guns, the doctor pulled open a drawer of his desk, whipped out his pistol and fired before they could level their weapons. One of the robbers fell dead and the other staggered out of the office and fell down the stair- way into the arms of a policeman who heard the shooting. The in- jufed robber died in the hospital A BATHI SUITS WILL AT CHOIR PRACT D | CHINA CUAXE st Details fr"m Great Disaster Reveal Ter- rible Catastrophe CITIFS, VILLAGES TCTALLY DESTROYED Estimated Hundred Thoo- and Killed Mo Mountain Crushes C LONDON, July 29.—Seen of death and terror are scribed in the first deta’l account to com: out of west China o the g carthquake wh *h oeecuiirl in Kansn Province on My 23. Details telling of tha complete destruction of t: cities of Sislang, Lianch Tumentee, Kulang and numerable towns and villa with a casualty list estim- ed at 100,000 shows the dis turbance may be classel among the most terrbe catastrophies of all timas, In Lianchow alone, 10.607 persons were killed while moving mountain completei s wrecked the city of Tu- mentse. In some places, great fis- sures appeared in the earih from which a bluish blak liquid spurted, MRS. M'PHERS(:] 3 "1 n HAS RESIGNED AS EVANGELIST Quits as Pastor of Angelus Temple—Announce- ment s Climax. | ( | LOS ANG S, The Los Angelus article appearing in that paper this morning, s Aime mple McPherson w'l dicate the throne of An Temple. The Times says the Evanct announced she would submit resignation to the Church Coze mittee engaged in reor| the affair Temple and the resignation become effective McPherson’s position as pasto filled and the present squabil tween the pastor and her m Minnie Kennedy Cal., Tim 2% July in now. 1 a al- 4 | | it business soon as as Le | ronsd | Mrs, {out. The announcement came 83 3 unexpected climax of the last months during which the fo nd of the Four Square Gospel h=*3 rarely heen out of the news light Mrs. Josepfiu*fifzef Dies, Short I'l: YORK, July 29. 8. Joseph Pulitzer, widow of ihd | founder of the New York Worli, died today at Beauville after an illness of one w is | w3 NEW 8, e BE WORN 'ICE HEREAFTER IN CHICAGO METHODIST CHURC'I Dr. Vernon P. Cooley, dentist. Jailed Man Is Speaker used by some Egyptian flapper 5,000 years ago is among exhibits at the British Museam. It was discovered at Ur of the Chaldees by the joint expedition of the British Museum and the Univer- | sity of Pennsylvania. The paint is contained in dainty little shells. There are also fragments of toilet combs and silver articles| which figured on some beauty’s dressing table in those days. A series of clay tablets, bearing school exercises, religious and grammatical texts, multiplication tables, and directions for find- ing sauare and cube roots are also|One supposed assailant is said (o Stewart he got a launch, but he had not yet returned to White- horse at last advices. e, - day took a sudden turn for the worse. It ig reported at the hos pital that his temperature is run- ning high and signs of infection are sgetting in. He passed last night uneasily. Battle Reported At Alitak Cannery SEWARD, Alaska, July 29. Advices received here state thal one man was killed in a battle among the employees at the Ali- tak Packing Company cannery. who was spending it on riotous living. Among the speakers was O. L Still another said he was under| Blake, former real estate broker, an order to pay alimony to a wife| who told of his experiences in get- who was earning more than he ting sent behind the bars in an was. alimony {angle. Victims Have Weird Tales “When 1 was sent to jail I met The rank and file included a|sixty-five fellow-sufferers,” he said. “victim” who said he had dodged | “The jail is no pleasure resort. fortyseven cities to escape ali-|Men are sent there for punish-| mony payments; one who* sai1/ment and the nonalimony payer his wife dosed his coffee’ With|shares his cell with criminals. carbolic acid and then ran off| (“A lot of this alimony trouble with a neighbor; a man who In-|jg due to a foriner wife prosecut- vented a bullet-proof vest after|ing to spite a man’s second mate.” martial mishaps, and one Wwko| Another brief speaker was Wal- bad married a bigamist collecting | fer Brinkman, who failed in the|on view. A diagram illustrates|be held while a Deputy U. S. Mar- ~money from five ex-hushands. first attempt in Cook County to|the methods used for measuring|shal and a United States Com- The founders expdet the club!force a woman to pay her hus-[the area of an irregular plot of|missioner are hurrying to Alitak to become a national organization, band alimony, ;| ground, aboard a cutter, Unconscious, Study WASHINGTON, July 29.— Francisco Latour, aged 51, Guate- malan Minister, whose life in Washington has been marked by a period of trouble, was found unconscious in his study today with a bullet hole above his heart and an old-fashioned pistol nearby. Relatives depreciated sugges- tions that he shot himself in a suicide attempt. Mrs. Latour said her husband had no worries but added, however, that the re- cent suicide of Congressman Crumpacker, of Oregon, in San Francisco, greatly worried her husband, Latour and Crumpacker were close friends, CHICAGO, July 29. Bathing | night after choir suit choirs are springing up along | eighteen members of the ¢hor the North Shore as the lastest'have had a good time swimmi-z wrinkle in mixing youthful Npirlln’lflg\*llmr and then sitting around | practice, Thy | Stage Driver Dies in Heroic Act and church attendance. The style|on the beach and practicing thoir started at the Bowen Methodis: |songs. Church. Several enterprising mem But now they are planning ¢ bers of the choir, including Miss | thing different. They are Bernice Finley, Miss Ruth Ga ! [swimming right after the ri} Miss Gertrude Hagen and Frod|sal in the church. All the mem and Theodore Graham, devised tho | bers will wear their bathing =1 when they go to the church, w' & plan. bathrobes or kimonos over them The matter was put up to their!astar the practice session thes director, Dr. Wayne Kidder, who{will go to the beach for a dip thought it was great and several Choir practice s held ‘e o swimming parties already have|other Wednesday. It is planncd been held. But so far they have|start the bathing suit chofr m consisted of beach parties theitice next Wednesday, | ELLENSBURG, Wash,, July | | 20—While attempting to res- | cue one of his passengers, | George Pittman, stage driver, | was drowned after his big | automobile plunged 40 feet in- | to Lake Keechelus yesterday afternoon Four passengers | were rescued from the water, | R 11 - b