The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 29, 1928, Page 1

\ IY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS LANDES Three BIG SQUADRON FAILS TO GET CLUE, MISSING Forty-One Aircraft Scout- ing Chesapeake Bay in Renewed Search \\',\SHINHT()N,/ Feb. is described” by Navy offi- as the greatest aerial search ever made for misging men, was today rushed with renewed vigor as 41 atreraft scouted the Chesa- peake Bay, district for Command- er T.-G. Ellyson and Lieutenant Commanders* Hugo Sehmidt and Roger Ransehousen, missing since they took off from the Norfolk Naval Air Station Monday morn- ing for Annapolis. Ellyson was on his way to the bedside of his 2-year-old daughter who is ill Virtually no clue as to what happened to the trio has heen uncovered although the search has been pursued relentles: The Navy Department officials are giving up hope that the three missing men will be found. MILLIONS AR LOST, GAINED, 29.— Estimation of Rents, Salary, Etc. NEW YORK, Feb. 29—The New York World today estimates that millions of dollars-are lost ani gained as the result of a Leap Year day. For example, a man who pays yearly rental of $1,200 for an apartment, ordinarily spends $3.20 a day. Then along comes Leajp Year and the tenant is that much to the good. The landlord's loss ant's gain. In New York alone it is esti- mated the gain and loss is §4. 000,000. On the other hand, the manu who gets paid by the year gives his services free today. The an nual payroll of the United States, not including the military pe: gonnel, amounts to $798,000,000 meaning a loss to Federal em- ployees of over §$2.000,000. No Wedding Bells Yet; Miss Miller is the ten Not Feeling Well| CALCUTTA, India, Feb. 29—In fear of appendicitis, Miss Nancy Ann Miller, of Seattle and Valdez, Alaska, will seek medical advice here next Monday! Miss Miller and her grandmother will then zo to Nasick where the youngz woman will be initiated into Hin duism and her marriage to the former Maharajah is expected to occur about the middle of Mareh. Aviators an Tipe ?"f"*g?:fLIUNS DISCUSS B SCOUT GROUPS | ' AT NOON TODAY Appoint Rép;llé;enla!ive on Troop Council — Dis- cuss Building of Cabin The appoimiment of Si. Hellen: | thal as its representative on the Boy Scout Council, was the cul mination today of a discussion, on sponsoring the local troops of the | Boy Scouts at the weekly meeting | of the Juneau Lioms Club. Allen | | Shattuck presided in the absence of President L. D. Henderson, ! | "B ¢ Guerin, who was @ guest | lof ‘the club today, declared he | 'would be willing to give & weelc | [or more of his time in the erec- | [tion of a cabin on Kagle River Bar, with the cost undetermined, | but probably not to exceed $100 | Mr. Guerin added he had two men {who would work with him “The timber at Eagle River, for building the cabin, and the loca | tion are ideal,” Mr. Guerin as serted. “There is mot & better| sampsite on the coast of South. | eastern Alaska, as far as anything .1 have seen; the mosquitos are! inot bad, and what there are we | | cahin.” i i . Simpson Boosts Scouts { This offer of Mr. Guerin's wa imade after \Dr. Robert Simpson, | president of the Juneau Scout| ! Counell, had introduced the mat- ter with a short address in which | he bopsted the Sgout movemeni and urged the help ! cab/ As an added inducement, | he said it would be possible for the Lions Club to derive benefits R, PR from the cabin by using it as a| part time club house while the | Scouts were/not using the camp. “Last year's camp at ., — River wag the most successful I |have had in my five years' asso-! 2 l' ciation with Scouting in Alaska,” Harlan, film star, who has just divorced said - H. L. Redlingshafer, Scout master of Troop No. 1. “The lo-| cation is by far the best we have | had “since I have been affiliated | with the Scouts here, and the; boys derived many benefits.” He has been with Troop No. 1 since | 1923, the year after . the move. ment was started in Juneau. 29. were MANAGU, aragua, Feb —Four American Marines killed and nine wounded in an encounter with Sandino rebels. The names of those killed are not known at headquarters here. Will Wire Chicago | va'lnble F"m hnd' Following the report by H. R.| Lost by Foreclosure{snepara that one of the Lionsi Club aims was to aid Scouting, | WASHINGTON, Feb. 29—Al-Mr. Redlingshafer was asked to most . $17,000,000 worth of farm{get in touch with Barney Ros- lands have fallen into the' hands|selle, who will probably cable to of the Federal Farm ' 'Board)national headquarters in Chicagn through foreclosures since estad-|to inquire how far the National lishment of the Board, Lloyd |organization will go in sponsoring Tenny, Chief of ‘the Bureau of the Scouts. A report on this will Kconomics Department of the De-/be made at next week's meeting partment of Agriculture disclosed |of the Club. : in testimony today: before the It was suggested, following talk House Appropriations sub on the matter of financing the mittee. ' movement, that a committee be These foreclosed lands and oth.[sent out to'raise funds, but the er huge tracts which have come [ Club decided the best ('“lll'fl‘(', to into possession of Insurance com-|follow was to give the Scouil panies is making it necessary for Council opportunity to announce the Agriculture Department to[its plans for the cabin, and also make a study of estate manage-|to invite other Scout sponsor or- ment, said Tenny. p? ganizations to aid in the raising | ————e of money. "REGAN . ENTERS HOSPITAL An outline of the source of Pat Regan entered the §t. Ann's | Boy Scout finances was given by hospital this morning to undergo|Dr. Simpson. 8. Hellenthal af- medical treatment. firmed the Lions not only shouid boost the movement to erect 2 FIRST PLANE OF WRIGHT BROTHERS GOES TO ENGLAND FOR SIX YEARS DAYTON, Ohio, Feb. 29—Skep- {ieal newspaper reporters a quar- ter of a century ago crouched he- Scout cabin, but should see that a sufficlently large one be built, even though expenses may .be somewhat larger, 4 Girl Camp Discussed % Orville Wright, living membeé-| Mr. afer outlined the of the famous brothers, whose|Camp Fire Girl Mévement for the | home is here, has not discussed |Club members and informed them will be able to keep out of the| | i Presidential Or a. teast for a few years, for Io Peaverbrook, has been found gu Beaverbrook, known as “the man center, T Mrs, Vi who appeared against him, Rigit mous gypsy violinist, who was a Carern sinfa Cam e o ik 10 Leap Year | | Stork Delivers . Babies in London { | LONDON, Feb. Stork broke’' all records at Queen Charlotte’s, London’s largest Maternity Hospital by | delivering ten leap year ba- | bies today before noon. 29-—The . OUT FOR HIGH = OFFICE; FILES Former Governor of Il nois Avowed Candi- date for President . Dak., Feb. 29 ~—Former Gov. Frank O. Low- den, of Illinois, announced him- self a candidate for the Repub- lican Presidential nomination in a personal declaration with Secretary of State. Lowden previously BISMARCK, had been lassured of a place on this State’s preference ballot in the March 20 primary through filing of a number of petitions last Saturday and his own de- claration was not required by law. HOOVER'S NAME ON BALLOT IN MARYLANDNOW |Application Is First Filed in that State by Either Party ANNAPOLIS, ‘Feb, 29.—Appli- cation of Herbert C. Hoover, Sec- retary of Commerce, for placing his name 4)n.fl|e Republican pri- mary ballot ‘of Maryland in the Presidential preference primary has been' filed with the Secretary of State. Formal application and affidavit was filled out by Hoov- the ! ALL THE TIME”® JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1928. THROUGH WITH WOMEN FOR LIFE bert Whitman, better known as Lord ty of @iand larceny in New York. with a thousand wives,” 1s shown at artin, one of his many spouses, Pringess Jencsl, widow of the fa- 1ess for the modern Dom Juan, 1 Newsrael) n ORGANZATIONS OF DRY FORCES | PLANCAMPAIGN | 'Are Opposed to Smith and to Insist on Prohibi- ! ~ {z, Aion Planks | 'WASHINGTON, Feb. 29—Two | movements, one designued to put I’a damper on the Presidential as- | pirations of Gov. A. E. Smith, and the other to force both the Demo- cratic and Republican parties to toe the mark on Prohibition at i the coming election, got underwav yesterday under the direction of group of dry leaders. | The offensive is directed at the 'two political parties and was |launched at a conference in which | representatives of 30 or more Na- | tional Temperance organizations participated. Resolutions were adopted da- \manding clear cut Prohibition | planks and dry standard bearers. While the meeting progressed, | plans were disclosed for the Anti ;Sul‘mn League conference month at St. Petersburg, Florida, |at which friends of Prohibitiorr of nine Southeastern States will be invited to take a -hand at that time Those in charge of the arrange ments predicted the counter of- fensive against Gov. Smith will then take definite form. Sevensy-Five Years Old; Is Adopted by Very Young People v y . LOUIS, Feb. 29—Leo Padde, 75 years old, will become the le gally adopted son of Mr. and Mr: John Bolte, 38 and 36 years, re. spectively, if the Cireuit Court at Clayton, a St. Louis suburb, approves the Boltes’ petition, filed recently, ‘The prospective foster parents explained in their peti- tion that Pedde has lived with them wmany ‘years and they have become attached to him. They offe to assume the same respon sibilities required of parents who adopt & minor child. ——ee - RENO next | MEMBER FORM COMPANY | T0 MINE COAL Immediate Deveiobment ot Old Harkrader Holdings Near Here Planned To develop the old Harkrade: holdings and adjoining areas in Kootznahoo Inlet into a produc- ing coal mine is the object of tho Admiralty Island Coal Com {which has just been organized here, it was announced today by Robert 8. Donaldson, pioneer coal mining man of Interior Alaskc and well known mining engineer He heads the company as Presi dent and General Manager. The company's holdings com {prise 132 acres of patented land. known the Harkrader group. | and 2, acres adjoining it which |are held under a temporary de-| velopment lease from the Federal | | zovernment. Pinances for develop | ment work are assured and thas| company’s plans call for immedi-| ate launching of the program, Mr. | Donaldson gaid. | Local People Interested The organization of the new en terprise has been in progress since late last year under the di rection of © Mr. Donaldson ani Howard H. Lerch. The latter {who is Secretary-Treasurer of the company, is a ploneer of this sec-} | tion, having resided here some 21/ iyears. The project is backed hby! (a number of local business lead-! jers and several Seattle men friends of Mr, Ponaldson and Mr. Lerch, who have subscribed fo { he’ company Will have | headquarters in this city. It will |be purely a local enterprise and purchase its supplies on the local| | market, Mr. Donaldson said to-| day. The Board of Directors is com posed of: John Reck, Presiden: jof the First National Bank of | this city, Wallis §. George, Presi.| |dent and General Manager of th iJuneau Cold Storage and Presi | {dent of the local Chamber of Com-| merce, Judge James Wickersham, former Delegate to Alaska, Mr. |Donaldson and Mr. Lerch. Donaldson in Charge Mr. Donaldson will have chargo| jof the development program and! | mining work. He is an experienc-| ed coal man. In 1920 he staked the claims now operated by the| | Healy River Coal Corporation on | !the Alaska Railroad, and fori more than five years was in| ;churgp of that property. At this time it is the largest coal pro-| ducer in the Territory. He sev- ered his connection with the in- terior company in 1926 on account of being called to the States by other business interests which oc- tcupied his entire time until last Fall. | Mr. Donaldson will leave here in the near future for Seattle to !inspect machinery and equipment for which arrangements have| ibeen made. This will be shinped to Killisnoo by steamer and transported from there to Kanalku | Bay in Kootznahoo Inlet by small- {er boats and barges. Mr. Lerch will leave here aboui March 15, for Kanalku Bay to erect a temporary development | camp. A crew of about 15 men will be employed at the outset of development work, all experienced coal miners. It fs expected later | to expand this crew to approxi-) mately 100 employees of all kinds, Will Push Program “Our development program will ‘be pushed forward as rapidly as possible,” Mr. Donaldson said in fts LOCAL PEQPLE | Becks o OF ASSOCIATED PRESS iators and Plane Mysteriously Disapp Claim i+ 4 » b v k ' S — Mrs. Willlam B. Leeds of New York, former Princess Xenla of Greece (above), remains convinced and not an impostor. (Intarnational lllustrated Newe) AVIATRIX IN CLOSE FIGHT WITH DEATH Jumps from Plane 15,000 Feet Up—Parachute Becomes Caught ST. PETERSBURG, 29—Jeanne Durand, 18-year-oid stunt aviatrix, miraculously es caped serious injury and perhaps death when her attempt to set a new world’s record for a para chute jump went awry and her bilot was forced to land with Miss Durand hanging from the plane. Leaping into space at an alti- tude of 15,000 feet, her parachute became entangled Fla., Feb. herself but managed to swing up and hold on the undercarriage. After the plane landed it was found Miss Durand had fainted She was rushed to a hospital where she quickly recovered. Her only injuries were slight brulses about the arm. ——————— ROGERS DUE TONIGHT Steamer Admiral Rogers, Capt. that Grand Duchess Anastasia i | | really the daughter of the late Czar | with the plane. tand she was unable to disengage PRICE TEN CENTS car 'WOMAN MAYOR O SEATTLE N " FINAL RUN-OFF Opponent WBe Retired Theatre Magnate— Brown Third Man RECORD VOTE CAST IN SEATTLE PRIMARY Present Councilmen Given High Vote—Six Con- test on March 13 SEATTLE, Feb. 29 —With 8, 000 votes ahead of her nea opponent in the primaries held yvesterday, Mayor Bertha K. Lam- !des today marshalled her forces for the final drive to obtain re- election at the city election to be held March 13, Frank Edwards, retired theatre magnate, will run against Mayor Landes in the finals. Mrs. Landes polled. 28,711 votes. Edwards polled 25,488 and Dr. Edwin Brown, former Mayor, | polled 22,729, | Mrs. Kathryn Miracle, the oth- ler woman candidate for Mayor, polled only 232 votes, More than 92,000 highest number fit . polled. 4 Three Councilmen seeking re- election topped the candidat Oliver, Erickson, Otto Case and E. L., Blaine being the first, ond and third high. 8 Ralph Nichols and F = “to be elected. ; The day was a splendid one for bringing out the vote, the finest of weather prevalling. - eee——r tes, the hisfry, were HONESTY! YOU " SAID IT WITH \ NEW YORK, Feb. 29—Jobless |for several weeks, Alexander La. |bowsky, aged 40 years, a painter, found a sack containing $52,000 lying in a gutter in Brooklyn and he returned it to the owners. Today he has a first class repu- tation for honesty, still mo job. Definite prospect of a reward (of the United States Trucking | Corporation from whose armored jcar the bag containing the money { was lost, said the matter of a re. ward had not been officially con- { sidered, pending inquiry, The Bowery and Bast River Na: tional Bank' turned the money over to the trucking company to deliver to the Federal Bauk. The bag contained bundles of §5, §10 and $20 bills., e ————— — ‘laska Anthracte Railroad May Be Given More Time WASHINGTON, Feb. 20—Th> Alaska Anthracite Raflroad Com- pany has been given two addition- al years in which to file a final. map and definite location for ths Stillwater - and = Canyon Creek branches and ithree additional vears to complete construction of its main line and branches. This is under a Dbill introduced by Delegate Sutherland. The mea- - ACAPITAL“H” MINATED the shipping of the plane. It To-|that sponsoring the group involv- 2 Frank Landstrom is due in port sure also’ exempts, the railroad the Secretary's | | discussing plans. “Exploratory hind hills and hummocks on tho desolate sands of Kitty Hawk, N C., to see a sight they had not believed in the telling. versy with the Smithsonian Insti- tute two years ago. | Museum labels on one of the pefore their eyes, a contrivanca which looked 1ke a - great white Box kite rose gracefully into the alr and skimmed aloug. pProbably the amazed spectatora mehl have had m_'hani!uey in affirming that they ‘had seen -the st flight of man in a machi heavier than the air. That, how- ever, was an fssue upom which the United States temporarily has lost control of the airplane that made history at Kitty Hawk. " The bi-plane invented by Orvilla nd Wilbur Wright made its first| jght Dec. 7, 1903. It mow has shipped to the British Na- g uu: where 1t | ton, near . At be exhibited for six honor of being the first heavier- than-air machine to make a suc- cessful flight. Wright protested that his plane should be so la- belled and withdrew it when 'his protest was not heeded. Afterward, museum officia:s agreed to the change, but Wright British museum. / Friends of Wright, however, and Dayton aviation enthusiasts even now are ‘planning measures to & sure the return to this “country at the had accepted the offer of ths|be | morial to the Wright brothers, ix| units. and their heads.. The mat- ter will be faken up with the Woman’s Club. and other organi- will be made next week. Communications read at the be- ginning of the meeting included ona from the Rotary Club of Ket- chikan, ~ which * extended best | wishes. and & desire to vo-fl‘ntr-' ate ;in . community work. -The Lions sent back word they would glad to co-operate with the Rotarians in aiding Keichikan, Juneau, or all- of Alaski. The Juneau Woman's Club also offer- to co-operate with thc Lions in commubnity weitare work. 8 "t ~-Alaske was quoted er and sent to sulted, however, from his contro-led only the ‘eertification of th“’olflce by J. Craig McLanaran, Baltimore lawyer who has been selected President of the Mary- land Hoover for President Com early Langley gliders gave it tho|zations interestéd and a ropm't'mm“' recently formed. Hoover's application is tha first to be filed in this State by either party. Final Action Taken . On Alien Property Bill by Congress WASHINGTON, Feb. 29.—Fin- al action’ by Congress on the Alien Property bill was faken when the House approved of the Senate and House conferees on the measure which ptrovides for settlement of American claims and return of German-seized prop- erty. The Senate approved of the Kindness Gets 1 Confession in | Mail Robbery | ] CHICAGO, 1L, Feb. 29—A police officer offered to take care of Mrs. Katherine Cleav- er's canaries and dog while | she was: detained following | further. fnvestigation ' of the | livergreen Park mail robbery. | Seventéen minutes later she | confessed to him the details | on which the Federal grand | | jury . Indieted her husband, | Charles Cteaver, William Don- ! ovan and Frank Meccia. | “I was kind to Mrs. Clenv- | i | er and that is how I securod | | her ~confession,” said Police | l Jeutenant Naughion. | | e —— e gy _{ the company can produce. While! work will be carried on as ex-| peditiously as conditions will per- mit. Upon the outcome of this Mwill depend the location of tha | permanént camp, which it may | be found advantageous to locate in Salmon Bay. We are uunr!-! dent that we will have coal on the local market by August 1.” No difficulty is anticipated in finding & market for all the coal no definite plans have been made enroute south at 10 o'clock this company from license tax during evening, according to Admiralthe period of comstruction and for Line agents today. one year thereafter. % LESSENING OF WORLD “SAVAGERY” oo SEEN IN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP BOSTON, Feb. 29-—American [learn, among other things, that leadership in world polities is i internationally speaking, the world likely to bring about some ame- 11 is in_ a .period of primitive lioration of a state of Interna |savagery.” v tional ‘“savagery” in whieh the| “Nations,” he' said, “have not for supply other than local de- mands during the initial period of) operations, the company has been assured by a Seattle coal sales company it will take 5000 tons wéekly when it can be supplied In that amount, Mr. Donaldson sald. Is of High Grade ‘The coal is described as being P 0 A 1 on Page Eight.) world finds itself, belleves Thom-\llm»n content even to extract am as K. Benner, chancellor of the |oye for an and a tooth for University of Porto Rico. | tooth. Of-the'‘offender and — 1 Al | of the Inlo?: t, they have 2 2 by the x‘nnw itself which made such extrace were aceol tion possible. In an address at the econvention of the departm superintendence of the hltlona" ht Education association today, Ben- | "% ner cautioned the ‘educators that | "~ “with the new era B see: Tlhm s Ry Baropean domination give way to | “" %% American leadership, _!. must ¢(Con! e