The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 13, 1927, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” WATER LOGGED WRECKAGE LOC JUNEAU ALASKA TUESf)?\Y ShPTl:MBER 13, 1927. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ATED Thousands Lose Lives in T HUGE LOSS OF LIFE,PROPERTY IS INDICATED| Most Severe Storm in De- cade Creates Havoc on Southeastern Coast TOKYO, Sept. 13.—scanty reports from the southeastt coast of Japan today indi- cated that revion has been visited by the most severe typhoon in a decade. Many lives are believed to have been lost and widespread d done. One thousand homes are ported to have been destroyed in Kumamota. One unconfirmed re- port said thousands of perspns; perished Jn one town near Kum- amota. Despatches received by Asahi,| (Japanese newspaper) from the scene of the storm said hundreds of persons were drowned and many victims were missing in the typhoon and following tidal wave which inundated villages in the neighborhood of the city of Kumamota, on the Island of Kuishu. The scene of the big storm is near Omura, where the Pride of Detroit, on its globe-circling flight, is waiting to take off on its next hop for Tokyo. The plane is not believed to ‘have been harmed though it is only a few miles mutheast of the storm scene. -Search Party Locates Body Man Long Missing TANANA, Aaska, Sept. 13.—1J. J. Dwyer and party, searching for Robert McMullen, missing since early last July, returned today. Dwyer reporied McMul- len’s body was found partly sub- merged in grass near a bank of Long Lake. The supposition is that McMullen fell out of a boat into the lake and drowned. ——— Franklin D. Roosevelt Plagiarizes President NEW QORK, Sept. 13.—Franklin D. Roosevelt humorously denied be might seek the Democratic nomination for United States Sen ator from New York next year. “In view of the publication of the suggestion that I might, anc its repetition by newspapers un State,” he said, “I'll state un- equivocally that I do not choose to run.” Unique Guide Book To Be Furnished By Wisconsin Univ. — MADISON, Wis., Sept. 13.—Su- dents entering the University of Wisconsin next week will receive a guide book which they will fol- low if they want to stay on th: “strait and narrow.” In it are set. forth the things which are frown- ed on by the faculty. Loafing habit. Smoking 1s treacherous and insidious. Profanity is useless, In- sane, and ‘stamps the user as of | low and vuigar mind. Gambling Is a fascinating vice that con. sumes time, money and moulx,l Drinking is most vicious. The unfortunatsly popular !ruh—] man is assured if he sticks to the booklet he will have more of a reward than a clear oouchlce‘ because University women refuso to associate with men who have’ been drinking. re-| is a very pernicious | Russell Scott Facing Thtrd Sanity Hearing, With Death | Or Ln‘e Term in Pen’ Ahead CHICAGO, Sept. 13.—Rus- sell Scott, who for more than three years has been in and out of the shadow of the gal- lows, won a continuance when he appeared in court for the eighth time in his fight for life. Scott was convicted of killing a drug clerk in a hold- up in 1924, He came into court Monday afterncon for a new sanity hearing. This was, however, postponed at the request of his attorney who filed a mo- tion for a contindlance until September 20. MAKES DESPERATE FIGHT CHICAGO, Sept. 13.—Hig lite in | jeopardy for ihe seventh time in the four years since he slew young Joseph Maurer in a drug | store holdup, Russell Scott today | faced his third sanity hearing { with the stake either death on the gallows or life imprisonment | as criminally insane. Immediately upon pleading gu SECURES REPRIEVE | | | !' (Continued on Page Seven.) 60V, RITCHIE - DECLARES FOR GOV. AL SMITH Maryland “Executive, Re- garded Presidential Tim- ber, Picks N. Y. Gov. BALTIMORE, M Gov. Albert C. R regarded as a Democratic dential possibility, in a statement declared: “Gov. Smith of New York is the only logical candidate for the Democratic - Presidential nomina- tion, and is the outstanding Dv- mocratic personality in the par > d L) % ' nussel Scott was scheduled to be hanged in Chicago, October 15, for the murder of a drug store clerk during a robbery. His case was marked by the heraic fight of his wife to win clemency. She made a pub lic fast to rafse funds at on¢ time, himself Presi- publ. : i WEALTHY GROUP SUPPLY FRISCO LIGUOR, CLAIM SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13— Charges that a few large stills owned by a group of wealthy men in San Francisco and the suburbs furnish most -of San Francisco’s alcohol supplies were made by E. R. Boehner, Prohibition Ad- ministrator for Northern Cali- fornia and Nevada. He declared that five men in the city were known to be financ- ing stills in Northern California, but that their operations were covered so cleverly that arrest and conviction had been so far impossible. York, in a statement given the Boehner sald three stills owned | New York imes, Senator Cope- by San Francisco men had been,land said: captured recently, with a total| “We have a candidate who cau |expense to the owners of about|win against any Republican. He $100,000. Onme of the stills was|is the outstanding character in at Gilroy and the others at Red-! American public life today, Of wood City. course, 1 refer to Gov. Smith of New York. “If, the Democrats care to win, Mr. Smith will be the nomines _Hllllmer, then €S| The Senate and House will be made Democratic by his nomina- Los AN(}ELES Sept. 13.—|tion. The control of Federal Gov- Charles Zaro, 52, beat his wife|ernment is within the grasp of tne {so badly with a stone mason’s| Democratic Party. i hammer she is expeeted to die.| “Mr. Smith is not seeking and ,He then killed himself with afwill not seek the nomination. He razor. He called his wife intolregards public office as a public a bedroom, then attacked her. bond and insists on doing his chie continued, “is free to bhe drafted, despite his recent appa- rent withdrawal. The Democratic Party still is widely apart on Prohibition, child labor and the Federal Department of Education, and must solidify on these and other important questions if il expects to make any showing in the Presidential election. On Prohi- bition, the Democratic Party must adhere to its traditional doctrine tof State's rights.” COPELAND TO CAMPAIGN NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—Senato~ Royal G. Copeland, is on his avay to California to begin a campaizn for the Democratic nomination of Alfred E. Smith. Senator Copeland was nominated for Senator in 1922 as a member of the Hearst-Hylan Democratic faction which opposed the nomination of Gov. Smith, Before departing from New ‘Beats Wife with Stone “JOE TURTLE” GOES TO MOUNTAINS TO [ urgent nedessity “President Coolidge,” Gov. Ri« | work at Albany. He resists every effort, thousands of them, to take him away from duty in order to SPEND svmm! 21 YEARS IN 4 xoW make political speeches through- Mass, Sept. 13.— aunn out the length and breadth of the lmd This high-minded man will week in June and the last week| mot be coaxed from his own in September. He goes ruulnly work. to his mountain resort for m. “It makes no difference whether | summer and with the turning of Republican Party attempts o | the first leaf in September :oa’vloilh the third term prohibition, luklolhm-ifiuln aior chooses to nominate another ‘ orua of the oligarchy. Mr. Smith m Democrat who e SPECIAL TERM. OF CONGRESS NOT APPROVED President Told Senate i House G.O.P. Leade 3 Are Against Pldn, WASHINGTON, Sept. 18,8 turning to his desk in the House yesterday after a sul vacation in South Dakota, P dent opposition from Republican a- ers of the Senate and House g‘x spacial session of Congress, ai of the Senate alone. The opposition - of the was voiced by Reprerentativc Jolin Q. Tilson, Connecticut, Repub a leader in that body. He sald no existed for} an s |early session That the President is gi¥ing considerable thought to the mma:- ter ‘of restricting in some degree long distance overseas airplane flights was made known taday. It was said that he contemplated instructing assistant secretaries -f the departments of War, Navy and Commerce to make a thorohgh investigation ~ of trans-oceani: flights. ¥ “Slick” Stranger Is Too Smooth for Residents ol Redwood | 'Y, | pnqslbl) 1,000 local residents believed they were privileged to shake hands with Col. Charles A. Lindbergh when | he arrives here next Friday. At least, they held tickets | | giving them that right. Coolidge was greeted gl-h' i Now sheriffs of two coun- | | ties are looking for a dap- per, young man who sold the residents tickets for 50 cents each, The purchasers are vietims of a clever H I | 1 | | 11 ! ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE PUTS IN NEW HEAD WESTERVILLE, Ohio, Sept. 13. —Dr, Francis Scott McBride, Gev- | eral Superintendent of the Anti. Saloon League, will assume active charge of the general legislative duties of the League in Washing- ton, it was announced here today. He will act until a successor has B. Wheeler, as general counsel. A successor to Wheeler Washington will be named by the National Executive Committee of the League at its next meeting in Washington, December 1, or! earlier, if the League's general of the Commiftee is necessary for this purpose. A statement to this effect was made recently by Dr.. A, J. Barton, Atlanta, Ga, who at that time declined ‘o comment on the suggestion that he, himself, would be selected (o carry ou Mr. thahra work, Almy for Men Is in Austria VIENNA, Sept. 13.—Alimony for husbands is demanded in a petl tion filed today with the Ministry of Justice by the Austrian Ass2. mm for Men's Rights, which a8 formed two years ago. nll‘lt the tymny of women." Vierkoetter Sees Cash Reward i Siht TORONTO, Sept. 13.—Ernest Vi .M' ‘German Dbaker, 18 quite optimistic over cash results from his victory in the mar:inom to appeéar in persom |’ eatre \tomorrow. . _about tH | i lo@smw by Capt. Backland. "' the election. He|swim. He has a movie contract !hflt be fn the air. ipart of the train crew and pas- | sengers prevented fatalities. itm‘ automatic reception of S0S been appointed to the late Wayne |Sl8nals js being fitted to British | officers deem a special mr-vunx‘]:;“:'"“n a small:afily 48 recalled sl Left to right: Joseph Lefkowitz, Irvin, York police for drowning Benj enterprises. to pxy them $l 000 for murder. FARL SANDE “MUST G WIFE. WHO WAS PA MANY INJURED IN BIG WRECK, LOADED TRAIN One Lands in Missouri River — Many Hurt ST. LOUIS, Sept. 13.—Twenty. four persons were injured, sev- { eral seriously, when pullman, diner and observation cars in an east bound Rock Island passenger | train left the track 33 miles west of this city. The train was heavily loaded with summer vacationists returning from Colorado Springs. A number of’ passengers nar- rowly escaped death when a pull- man car rolled down a 20-foot ewm- bankment and turned over in 10 feet of water in the Missouri Ri ver. Quick rescue work on th: The observation car and diner rolled down the embankment but stopped at the edge of the water, Conductor. Dunlop said the wreck was caused by a “sun kink“ {in the rails due to expansion of i the rails from the heat. e ,—— Ships Fitted Out To Get SOS Signal LONDON, Sept. 13.—Apparatus ships carrying only one operator. A great number of ships have; only one operator, on duty part| of the Jday, and distress signals jare missed when he is off duty i By the new device the single op- radio post by an automatie alarm which rings in his cabin and cn the captain’s bridge. The device is put fnto opera- tion by a disiressed ship sending three four-secovd dashes before the actual SOS signal. ———te—— Schooner S. C. Holmes Is o . Back from Arctic Trip SEATTLE, Sept. 13.—Sailing ner C. 8. Holmes arrived, from Point Barrow with a big: cargo of furs. Favorable ice con- ditions and an easy voyage was reported both to and from Point Marriag, BeMude hm Not in mm Mass,, Sept. 13.| nation in the next decade. Of Ali! jamin Goldstein, 20-year-old “partner” Rubinzahl and Greenberg, DILS Ab RI«SULT OF HER EFFORTS /Saratoga season after a strenuous bhoon on Coast of Japan o g Rubinzahl and Harry Greenberg, held by New of Lefkowitz in various according to police, confess that Lefkowitz promised 0 IT 4L()/\E"- CEMAKER IN DIET, LINDBERGH 1S AGAINST TOTAL NEW YORK, Sept. Sande “now must go it alone.” Mrs. Marion Casey Sande, wife of the noted jockey, died at Sara- toza Springs recently, and friends told the story of her illness— health undermined by a valiant effort to be diet ‘“‘pace maker" to keep the jockey down to weight after his spill on the track at Baratoga four years ago. 13.—Rarl Says Some Fazardous Fly- ing Is Necessary for Aviation’s Progress SPOKANE, Wash,, Sept. 13— Col. Charles A. Lindbergh - took. Sarde was caught under the 4 off from the airport here at 8:44 horse in the fall. He would never ride again, the wise ones said, as the jockey lay in a plaster cast in a hospital for months. the airport, the giant monoplane circled over the city and hospital, giving the crippled children in the Shriners’ ward an opportunity to see it, then the flier headed westward. The take-off was made in thick- Holds Up Courage But his wife was Dbeside him daily, and told him that he cer- tainly would ride again. With re- cuperation came the task of keep- ing down to weight—112 pounds Sande was no longer the 70- pound boy who ran away from his “father's farm at American Falls, Idaho, when he was six- teen years old in 1913. heavy with clouds. SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 13, -- Total restriction of “hazardous flights” would be disastrous to the progress of long distance avia- His diet was fruit for break-|tion, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh fast, beef broth for lunch, and told the Assoclated Press here sometimes a steak at night. Inltonight. Pioneering in trans-ocea- between came long hours of road-j nic flights, he added, is over. work. ( Col. Lindbergh told the Asso- “We'll take care of the weight| ciated Press: proposition,” his wife was quoted|{ ‘“Trans-oceanic flights have been as having said. “In making this|accomplished to demonstrate the weight you need a companion, afeasibility of air transportation be- sort of pace maker. I will diet|tween continents. The trend of with you.” | future developments should be to- It was too much for her, they ward making such transportation said at Saratoga, and Mrs. Sande| practical under all conditions. became i1l at the opening of the| “Pioneering is over, but perfect- ing is yet to be done. Regular » | | | | | | OCEAN'S DEEP YIELDS CLEWS; VANISHED MEN i ‘Water -logged Airplane RESTRICTION ly falling rain and the sky was| Wreckage Reported Found NEW YORK, Sept. 13.— Water-logged urplnne ‘wreck: age, reported found at mi widely separated points the sea, provided clews re- garding the ten brave ads venturers who vanished into Atlantic skies in a great Emble against the deeps of e sea. The Atlantic Ocean bfi to yield its secrets com 1 ing the lost Old Glory, pos~ siblv the Nungesser-Coli ex= pedition, the monoplane St Raphael which carried Prin- cess Lowenstein, and menoplane Sir John LOCATION OF Wreckage of the Old reported found by the st Kyle. A rudder and part jwing of an unidentified p! was found on the beach at Quay, Cornwall, England. {French fishing schooner e having sighted airplane age three weeks ago. 300 east of Halifax, but there no trace of fliers. Th age was partially subme plane was yellowish I black lettering. After its fall, the Old evidently had been wi hed mfles northeast from 1 sent out its SOS early on a. m. today for Seattle. Lenvlnmmommg of September 7. Mrs. Payne and Mrs. Bertaud, wives of two of the occupunts of the Old Glory, when informed of the Kyle's discovery, told the As- sociated Press they had lost hope | for their husbands and their | companion, Pilot Hill. . KYLE RETURNS TO w ST. JOI}I\?S. N. F., Sept 18— The Government steamer chartered by the New York Mirror to search for the ml monoplane Old Glory reported Government officers last ni she had picked up a piece of plane. No trace of the crew found. ' v" The indicated location of th wreckage of the Old Glory, cials here said, was 300 north of the fishing grou making it improbable that ermen may have rescued its occupants, e e CANNERYMAN DIES SEATTLE, Sept. 13.~The of Willlam Gilbert, identitied {training grind. Ten days ago she was able to accompany her hus- band to the course to see him ride Chance Shot to a glorious victory but as the jockey crossed the line Mrs. Sande coliapsed. “Marion Has Gone” {‘Marion has gone,” Sande said as he started for Boston with the boy. “It doesn’t seem possible.” Notables of the social and financial world were at the train and across the high heap of floral pleces one turf magnate said: “Sande must now go it alone.” LR P iEngineering Paper For Herbert Hoover NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—The En- gineering News-Record, one of the | McGraw-Hills publications, has de clared editorially for the nomina- tion and election of Herbert Hoover, an engineer, as Presi- dent, one of its two leading edi- torfals asserting: “The road to the Presidency is a' long one and no chart for it has ever been made. But, laying aside party differences, discarding the minor issues which politi:s | would make major, Herbert Hoov- er stands out today as the men b-t fitted to cope with the pecu- lht problems that confront the ‘may be made in, engineers who have stepped out . h the aninlou ot ‘beyond the confines of their .job,| “cullud folks” registered so vivid- ‘McPherson. He ro-] to ne, saying he did not turn a sacrament into ey he seems to have lived up best to the possibilities of the profes- Presidential possibilities he has best nlulu for the N of the position.” trans-oceanic travel by air is no more practical today than trans- continental air lines were a de- cade and a halfl ago. Years of development and scientific re- search will be required before such regular inter-continental serv- jee can be inaugurated. “During this experimental period we may expect many casualties, Yet to totally restrict hazardous flights would have the same ef- fect on future trans-oceanic flying as the air mall would have ex- perienced had it been abandoned during the period of heavy casual- ties in the days of its pioneering. During the first few years follow: ing the initial flight of the Wright brothers, any flight was more dan- gerous than trans-oceanic flying at present.” the salmon industry for a of years, is being brought Dutch Harbor, where he aboard the United States Guard Cutter Haida. e ———— Wife Being Beaten, Dog Being Chewed, Man Rescues Canine LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. When Frank Hosch saw two bor women beating his wife chairs and a table, and his fighting another dog, he sepa: the dogs. The other fight on. ‘When his wife and the bors being tried for a free | all fight, Hosch tesiified: I saw them beating my wite the head, but about this dog started fighting another and I went. to separate hate to see a dog chewed The three women were ten days’ jail sentence for ing, but the sentences were - e - OLD TIMER ILL James Kelly, old time Alaskar, I8 seriously ill in the St. Ann's hospital. suffering from what Is thought to be pneumonia. He be: came i1l when living in a cabin near De Vighne's camp and was brought to Juneau yelterdnq pended by the court. CROONINGS OF “MAMMY” LEAD WOMAN 4 TO FAME AS WRITER, NEGRO ST¢ L ——— Pope put her ilm life on the plantation of her MONTGOMERY, Ala., Sept. 13 ~Croonings of an old negro “mammy” and the quaint life of ly in the mind of Mrs. Louise ‘Bowden Pope in childhood that officiate for a couple in sion and its ambitions. Of all the|today she is one of the best known + { writers of negro dialect in the South. -