The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 5, 1928, Page 1

o 4 [ ~ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL XXXI., NO. 4678. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY JANUARY 5, 1928. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CFJHS 'ATTACK MADE ON COOLIDGE’S POLICY irst Victims of Sunken Submarine Brought to Surface THREE BODIES NAVY DISASTER ARE REVEALEI]\ vaerq Lnter Hull of Sunk-! en Craft—Investigation Move Is Started PROVINCETOV ¥ 5-—-The sunken submarine yielded: the bodies of three men of the 40 who I their lives when it was rammed and sunk 18 days ago. + Divers, entering the hull yester day afternoon, carried the bodies from the engine room at the ocean's hottom. No attempts were made at iden tification. BODIES IDENTIFIED WASHINGTON, Jan. 5—Th: bodies of the three men taken w from the S-4 have heen identified by finger prints as Lieutenant Commander R. K. Jones, Lieut. Joseph McGinley and Chief Ma. chinists Mate Aron Albert Hodges Jones was commander of the vessel. A gale forced suspension of diving operations this afternoon. £ » WASHINGTON, Jan. 5—In an- swer to the nation’s question con- cerning the loss of the S-4 with 40 wmen, the Administration has taken. steps to set in motion an I*vmlnflon by a specially ap- e o tion ot estion olidge has asked Congres: for authority to appoint three civilians and two retired Naval officers to inquire into the dis aster to insure the future safetv tM'of the navy's gubmarine forces and prevent, as far as possible # a repetition of the tragedy. Iden- tical resolutions were introduced ““In hoth Houses, BROWN TO RUN FOR MAYOR OF SEATTLE AGAIN SEATTLE, Jan. 5 — Former Mayor Edward J. Brown nounces that he will make an et- fort to regain the Seattle mayor- alty seat wrested from him two years ago hy Mrs. Bertha K. .Landes, who, with en others are already candidates Early betting odds are 2 to 1 that Mrs. Landes will be rc- elected. 3 » Brown indicated heé" will make an active campaign, outlining hie nolicies when he files his formal declaration later this week. e — w v . L] ALASKA POSTMASTERS WASHINGTON, Jan. 5—Post- masters nominated by President ® Coolidge include Henry S. Sogh, at Anchorage, and Stephen Birch ™ 4t Kennecott. PARIS ,BOASTS RIC IIFST POLICE CHIEF M. Jean Chiappe (left) cf Paris is called the richest chief of police in the world, and his wife (left) has a fortune in her own|is considering voting indictments | ngme al large as that of her husband. PARIS, the richest the.world. He'is M. Jean Chiappe, and if there are other chiefs with a cha- teau in the country .and racing stables Paris has not heard them. The Chiappe family the most ancient of Corsica. ancestor of the chief is said to have represented Corsica at the national convention after the revolution of 1789, and it is re- lated that the Chiappes loaned money to Napoleon in his im- pecunious days, for which the, monarch conferred the title nf Paris of Police Jan Chief in is one of erai * fi hefl of i& M -nuef :fins large &' TWO CHILDREN DROWNED BY GRANDMOTHER Aged Women then Takes Her Own Life—Mother at Club Meeting INDIANAPOLIS, Ind Two children, one aged one ar and the other five years, were yesterday drowned by their gl.uul mother who also drowned herself in a bath tub in the home in ¢ prominent residence district, The victims were Helen Dorothy Shonle and Mrs. Shonle, The tragedy was enacted whiie the mother of the two girls was at a club meeting. The Police and physicians work ed for more than an hour in at- tempting to revivg the victims. No reason is assigned for tho act. 3 Planning to Retire Third Liberty Bonds WASHINGTON, Jan. 5—Tha Treasury Department is working on plans for the retirement of. the Third Liberty Loan bond is- sue maturing next September 15. and Ella WOMAN, TWO PARROTS AND ATTEMPT TO ENFORCE STEAMER RULES IS CAUSE FOR CHARGES AGAINST CAPTAIN C. A. GLASSCOCK .SEATTLE, Jan. 5—An angfy ‘woman, two parrots and an alter- cation aboard the steamship Ala- meda, Capt. C. A. Glasscock, vet- eran Alaska -skipper, is in_ the @ hands of the Federal Depdrtment of Justice Agents, Capt. Gl cock being charged with assault on the high seas. Mrs. L. A. Peterson, who was a passenger on the Alameda from parrots returned to their speciai quarters. Then she started in, first planting, her foot in my stomach. Then she clawed my face. I had to protect myself and grabbed her:arms but I never did strike her. Finally I told her if she did not quiet down, I would put her in irons. She did not quiet down and I sent for the irons but when they arrived I # Seward to Seattle, charges thefound the keys had been lost and mariner maliciously struck he fi with his fists and injured her on} December 22. Capt. Glasscock, vho has bl(n “the Seattle-Alaska run for 27 M has a different story to tell. “The' woman' insisted her two p‘gmh in her nd|is;the first time, I sent them back.” criminal complaint against the Captaip will be held January 20 vation plane, was demolished. Ma- when ,the. Alameda ntum- from! jor Mastin suffered cuts on the| xhce and body, and William R. her next run. Capt. Glasscock is one of thei best known commanders on thp Alaska route and has scores ‘of friends in every Alaska city. This ad far as 13 plai of | An | | = claims My iSeven Redoubled | | | The preliminary hen.rln‘ on the)tempt to land in has| citizen of Skagw: mfi:‘"fl Rogers 1 a title now held Chiappe’s brother. Chief Chiappe’s fortune |sK tqualled, if not exceeded, by that of his sport loving wife, who was Mile. Marcelle de Villers, a Paris- ian. She is now the chatelaine of the chatean de' Villers at Beauvais, near Paris, which she inherited upon the death of her mother two years ago. The Chiappe stables are located there. Next to horses, which she rides as_well as raises, Mme. Chiappe's| pet hobby is a home for incapaci- tated members of the Paris police staff. She raised $60,000 toward the founding of the home and n..lt. by M.! | Man Holds 13 Spades; Makes ST. LOUIS, Jan. 5—A perfec bridge hand was held by Lee ( ter. He had thirteen spades. original modest bid of one spade was increased to seven when hi opponents bid up (o seven clui The contract was doubled and re-| doubled. The hand scored 677 points, e, —— HOLDS RECORD FOR AIR TRiP Makes First Nonstop Flight from New York to Miami, Florida MIAMI, Fla, Jan. 5- Nichols, society girl, holds the honor of having made the first nonstop flight from New York to Miami. She plans to go into the flying business, she said, follow-| ing the 100 mile an hour trip which began yesgerday forenoon| and ended last night. Accompanying Miss Nichols in the monoplane were Harry Rog- ers, President of the Air Line here, an experienced pilot, and/ Major Willlam K. Lee, retired business man dand amateur pilot. Miss Nichols was at the coa trols for five hours and also two other times at short intervals. Miss Ruth Major Martin, of 1924 World Flight, In)ured in Crash HICKBVILLE N. Y., Jan. 5— Maj. Frederick L. Martin, original commander of the Army Tround- the-world flight in 1924 and a companion escaped with cuts an' bruises when a plane piloted by Major Martin crashed in an at- plowed field The machine, a Curtiss obser- Ives of Washington a few hflllne-h * Major Martin dropped out of the round-the-world flight after his plane crashed In Alaska. Frank L. ?3 IS'.&:;, well known arrived n and 48 ‘A u Hotel, He +tailed the hold-up by {shown to have been of the same i ringleaders | passenger |a . floor | the Inounced last night their decision | | ance here, it w HICKMAN IS BEFORE L. A, GRAND JURY Relates for Second Time| Killing of Druggist-— Youth Imphcated LOS ANGELES, George yer, Cal,, Hickman, the second Jan, confa: wll time de- | himself an:d accomplice, resulted in of C. Ivy on Christmas for his sixteen-year-old Welby Hunt, which the fatal shooting Thomas, druggist Eve, 1926. Hickman's second telling of the story, first given to the jail of- ficials several days ago, was be | fore the County Grand Jjury which'i against the young hold-up men. Although the bullet which fatal- ly wounded Thomas has bean calibre as those in the pistol car- ried by Hunt, the Californigg laws | hold both equally responsible fo. the murder. Hickman was the last witness of the day before the Grand Jury and he showed a remarkable memory as'to details. Hunt took advantage of hi= constitutional privilege and re fused to testify before the Graal Jury. NEW REVOI.T DISCOVERED MEXICO«CITY, Jan. 5—A revo- lutionary plot in the states .t Queretaro and Guanajuata for which arms are said to have been smuggled from the United VStates, has been discovered. Six alleged have been arrested and cited for trial. The revolu- tion was to have been made on January 1 in combination with rebel groups. - Levine Buys Factory To Make Planes for Transatlantic Run NEW \()RK .lnll 3 A. Levine today was the owner of a factory building in Long Island ,City in which he plans (o start at_once the manufacture of airplanes. The first trans-Atlantic airplane to Europe announced plans weeks ago for a great multi- motored air liner to be built after plans drawn by two young en- ginkers he met in Paris. | The newly acquired building has space of only 100,000 square feet, but other small build- ings on the same plot are avail-| able. i | | Charles After 41 Years on Road WILMINGTON, Ohio, Jan. 5! After forty-one ‘years on the road ! Al G. Fileld Minstrels ao- to disband. Last night's perform- said, would be | the last given by the famous ol line black face, actors. - BEZ LEAVES FOR SHORT TRIP TO TODD CANNERY | New York State Executive. Nick Bez, President of the Peril- Strait . Packing Company, who. arrived here last week from Seattle on busineas, left last night | on the Ma i for the company's plant at T He will retumn here about uary ;15 and pro-! ceed to Seatt® shortly afterward. Patrolman May | Hereafter Take Man’s Werd WALLA WALLA, Dash., Jan. 5 —Patrolman Jack Meehan is won- dering today whether it pays to’ doubt a man's word. Last nigit he stopped a man with a bottls. The suspect told him the. bottle conuh.ll Meehan pull: ed BLERIOT BUILDS OCEAN AIR LINER | TO PLY FROM FRANCE TO AMERICAS \ | NICARAGUAN POLICY NOW CHALLENGED Sending <! More Marines to South Causes Criti- cism, Both Houses ADMINISTATION CONTINUES PLANS Elimination of General San-| dino Be Attempted- -- Future Oratory WASHINGTON, Jan. 5—The announced policy of the Coolidge Administration to reinforce United States Marine detachments in Nicaragua and co-operate fully In the establishment of order therc was challenged yesterday on the floor of both Houses by Demo- crats and Independent Republi- cans. Demands that the mlrinel be withdrawn were the chr i hurled and they came ln less than 24 hours after the State Db-w partment explained an emergi existed and orders were issued tog ‘ dispatching 1,000 additional ma- rines to Nlcaragua. The State Department, if a flat statement, declared _that th» Washington Government, - intends to carry but the terms of H. Stiméon's agreement for of ' Alabanih, declared it was the “Administration’s and not the i American people’s war.” NAVY GOING AHEAD WASHINGTON, Jan. 6—With Trans-Atlantic air transport within the very near future is the goal of Louis Bleriot (below), French airman and inventor who made the first flight over the English Channel. He is building at the situation in Nicaragua de- seribed at the Navy Department a4 not changed from recent days Suresnes, France,’a test model of the huge 30-passenger ocean air liner shown above, which is to be nnd apparent quietness of a battle tried next summer on a France-to-North America flight by way of the zores. He hopes to follow the trials with regular passenger and express service between continents, Sunstroke Plea Is Advanced For Mrs: Snyder ALBANY, N. Y, Jan, stroke suffered as a little affected Mrs. Ruth Snyder’ when she grew up, her lawyér told Gov. A. E. Smith today, that she lost the sense of responsibili- ty and could not help killing her hasband. Her case taken before the Governor as final ap- peal from her execution set for next week. i e mind was SMITH NOT T ATTEND DINNER His Chair Will Be Vacant! Democratic Jack- son Day Affair at WASHINGTON, ~ Jan. 5—The chair tentatively placed for Gov. A. B. Smith at the table to be pread by the Democratic pariy n January 12 at the Jackson Day Dlnner, will be vacant, at least it will mot be occupied by th2 The gathering is looked upon as a har- mony meeting and those attend- ing will have to get along without the presence of one of the leading contenders. Whether any other potential candidates have accepted or declined the dinner invitations has not* been announced Kenneth Harlan to Wed Helen Patterson LOS ANGELES, Jan. engagement of Helen Patterson, stage actress, and Kenneth Har- % eirl so| 5—The | sentatives, LINDBERGH 1S NOW GUEST OF TEGUCIGALPA Gala Time Is Being Cele- brated—Gold Medal Presented Flier TRGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Jan. 5—All stores are closed lere, in- cluding barbershops, for the first time in history. The main street is carpeted with pine needles and residents are passing about in gala attire and waving flags as if [~ Dawes Attacks Federal a great national holiday prevailel, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, who arrived here Tuesday afternoon, witnessed the celebration when he issued forth from the Americun Legation yesterday morning after a splendid night's rest. He was recetved by the President at o'clock and decorated with a goli medal. Hondurans regretted that Lind. bergh, the “marvel child,” will have to leave them today. A eom- mission representing each of the 17 Departments of Honduras paid the flier final tribute The flier's route today 1is 150 miles from here to Manasun, Nicaragua. Boundary Treaty Is . Oked, Peru, Columbia LIMA, Peru, Jan. ary treaty between lombia, drawn in 1422, has heen approved by the house of repre- 102 votes 1o 7. in Lima m ' ~A bouad Peru and Co- The treaty signed lan of the films was announced|March, 1922, was not immediately here last t by Miss Patty The 'fic will not take pl unm 1928 as Mr. H | rad o hecanse tHome by Brazil dlanure, b 3 "}un ted of Tajac Wi thm rance, Jan. 5.— Eighteen ago Louis Bleriot jof France reared the first mile- |stone along the path of trans- |aquatic aviation by flying across the English Channel. 3 | Today he is building the test model of the first transoceanic liner, and he hopes to demon- i:.trme next summer the practi- | cability of comercial air trafffc between France and the two Am- ericas. The first model of his air liner is taking shape under Bleriot's eye in a factory here. Some time this year it will set out from France for North Ambrica by way of the Azores, the inventor plans, laden with mail and carry- ing two pilots. In the course of the trip it will be landed delib- erately on the open ocean, 80 | | SURESNES, | of words in Congress over the American policies in Central America, the program of eliminat- ing Gen. Sandingo from the pl- ture is being carried forth. Plans for sending an additional 1000 Marines southward are prog ressing. Meanwhile the campaign of “phrase making” on Capitol Hi! in defense and denunciation ot the presence of American forces (Cont q(’(ll‘t‘h Is 'Abandoned for Plane Dawn NEW YORK, Jan. 5—Due to the absence of mnew clues regarding the Grayson plane Dawn, the search is virtyally abandoned #nl all efforts to locate the plane ! since the unsuccessful search by the dirigible Los Angeles anl cruisers have proved futile. System of Bookkeepmg WASHINGTON, Jan. 5—Tura ing aside momentarily from hie campaign for a change of th- Senate rules, Vice-President Dawes trained his guns on Comp troller General McCarl. In a review of a book on “The National Budget’ System,” by W. F. Willoughby, director of the In- stitute of Government Research Mr. Dawes said reform in govern- mental bookkeeping was contem- plated by the budget act of 1921, but that one was little encour aged to believe that this reform “is at last receiving somq atter- ton from the comptroller general.” The vice president, who was the first director of the budget, #aid that “to properly carry on 2 business ome must know it ani to know it one must have the proper accounting, Furnish Little Aid “The hookkeeping methods o” the different departments still ace decentralized,” he said, “and in o0t form furnish b Wi o e executive or fo L agent, the divegtor of (he hudges W determining the relative: oper-) ating efficlency and cn-t partments. They oresent system of xnvsmm«hl hookkeeping would not be toler- ated for a day in a properly cou- ducted private business onter- prise. “The whole system could be properly changed and put iu, working form within a short time and should have been put in this form concurrently wi the or- ganization of the bureau of the budget. Could Be Model “With the present powers fa the hands of the comptroller gen- eral he could inaugurate a reform in governmental bookkeeping f the United States which would at once make it a model for the world. The changes thus far have been minor and comparatively in- consequential. “The form in ‘onrlml h- counting is certain to come. ¥t {may be that the present it will continue in his hesitation 1o’ undertake ‘it properly, whielj will be a great misfortune, but ll Is | liconceivable that successors ! the :fllu will - l-ll to grasp great opportunity for tal service. Uull it is business: by, the