The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 14, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXL, NO. 4764. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1928. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS GERMAN PLANE CROSSES ATLANTIG 135 DANCERS KILLED, EXPLOSION, FIRE 18 MISSING IN RUINS ; SEARCH IS BEING MADE Merry 'Vlakmg Throng Is! Plunged Into Fiery Gasoline Furnace DANCERS ARE BLOWN OUT UPCN STREETS Floor Raised by Explosion | then Crashes Down | with Crowd STPLAINS, April 14 Death stalked into (!\I\ little Ozark | city and turned a dance hall with | a merry making throng into a holocanst with 35 known dead. Rescue workers, tearing away at debris where laughter was changed into shrieks of terror as an expiosion wrecked the building last night, are seeking 18 missing thought to have perished beneath the falling walls. Sixteen injured hospitals. Many condition. The cause of the explosion has not been determined Fire followed immediately and destroyed the three story build ing before it could bhe brought under control. The property \um- at $150,000. Many of the injured ed up on the street far scene The dance hall was on the sec- ond floor. The ground floor a garage and motor car room. 40 Couples Dancing Forty couples were dancing when the blast came at 11:30 o'clock last night when the dance was at its height. J. N. We . owner of the build- ing, opened the door of his gar age, on the first floor below, hav- ing been called from his home to supply some gasoline As the door swung open, there was a noise and then thunder of a terrific explosion. The floor of lJifted almost to A moment of followed, then the in fragments into a line fed furnace below went forms of persons. Some of the dancers were blown through windows and survived. Three persons crawled away to safety and others were blown free of the ruins into the street, cut, mangled, burned and bleeding. e, KU KLUX KLAN IS DENOUNCED Pa., April 14—A of the Ku Klux Klan in which it was held to be responsible for riots, bloodshed and burning af men alive, was made by Federal Judge Thompson in an opinion dismissing the in- junction suit brought by the Klan against five members. The Court, after hearing the sensational testimony for five days, held the organization came into court on an equity with “filthy hands” and would not gain relief from him in dismissing the Klan's petition to restrain the .former members using its name and asking for $500,000 damages. Judge Thompson placed the costs on the Kh\n. One Divorce in Chwago w To Each Five Weddings CHICAGO, April 14—Last year|land and Australia, with 51,697,000 in Chicago there was one divorce to each fifth wedding, the report)cent as many divorces as there of Thomas O. Wallace, circuit!were in Cook county in'1927, al- Lcourt clerk, reveals. 'thongh the latter’s population is Marriages in Cook eonnty total-' 3,586,000. 1ed 40,688 and divorces 8,482. In the five countries, 417,327 ~ Curious as to Chicago's prowing | persons were married, and 5”‘! | record as a divorce center, Wal-|divorces were granted. " lace delved into the figures for| 'A number of stage folk have J countrigs and found that been freed of marital bonds in o e persons are in are in a serious AN 1 N P g1 0T L NRE N him——l - 3 is estimated were pick- from the was sales General Nobile hopes to start pino, Italy. Spitzenbergen, but this time it is expected the operations will TALKS PEACE THEN REVIEWS the dance hall the ceiling. terrible silence floor crashed raging gaso- it where WASHINGTON, Apti retary of State Frank B. Kellogg issued notes to four great powers yesterday seeking a world wide treaty renouncing war, then went to the White House and revie a large body of troops conducting a military exhibition for the bene fit of visitors and local residents Some comment on the apparen incongruity resulted and this brought forth an explanation that the Secretary of State, the highest ranking officer of the Cabinet, consented to act as reviewer only after both President Coolidge and Vice esident Dawes found they could not accept the invitation do so. 14—Sec- PITTSBURGH, stern indictment Special Services In Memory of Titanic Disaster ABOARD COAST GUARD CUT- TER MODOC, April 14.—In mem- ory of the victims of the sink- ing of the steamship Titanie, the crew of the Modoc held special services near the location of the Titanic disaster, which occurred 16 years ago when the White Star liner sank after a collision with an iceberg in the North At-| lantic with the loss of 1,517 livei E TO START SECOND POLAR FLIGHT WAsmNsTUN To flight to the North Pole in his airship, which is shown at Ciam- As before, the base of the expedition will be at many and Russia instead of via France and Great Britain, (International Newsreel) ARMED FORCE ved | to . [triotic associations that | signia, population had less than 65 pe,‘lrled hereafter at all the Unknown VOTE AS UNIT FOR AL SMITH | Evergreen State Democrats, | Instruct Delegation for | New Yonk Governor ! —— | April 14—The Wash- | Democratic Conven tion in session here instructed | the delegation to the Democratic | National Convention at Houston | to cast its fourteen votes as a unit for the nomination of Gov. Alfred E. Smith for the Presiden tial nomination sorge F. Christensen was scted National Committeeman While the platferm was sile Prohibition, it declared in of impartial enforcement it applies to all clas: land conditions. Other than thi reference, the speeches and plat form planks are very largely con- cerned with an atraignment of the Republican State and National ad ministrations, with a stirring sum mons to the voters of the State to follow the Democratic Party to re. lief from public ills along the path outlined in the platform. NAVY MEASURE NOW HELD UP WASHINGTON approving an inc enlisted personnel from 83,250 86,000, the Senate deferred fin. action on the Naval appropriation jbill in the face of a fight by a| Ygroup of Senators who had bee n| opposing the use of American Ma.| rines in Nicaragua. These Sena-| tors, led by Senator George Nor-| ris, will undertake to b inser| led in the bill provisions that none | {of the funds for the Marine Corps will be used to maintain Am can Marines in foreign lands u.;-‘ [ the purpose of supervising elec tions. SPOK ington State re on vor law as April 14 se of the ~Mav carlv next nmuth for a second will be reached by way 6f Ger- ve It last all summer, RICHARDDIX House, Chairman Martin B. | Madden, of the House Appro- priations Committee, predict- ed that President Coolidge would veto the Flood Control legislation unless the states in the flood area agree to bear the of land needed for spillways and constructign of levees, LINDBERGH IS FORCED DOWN WILLIAMS, :\|IZOII.I April 14, —A Santa Fe Railroad telegraph operator has reported Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has been forced down in a wooded section six| miles north but neither he nor his plane w dama Veto of Flood Control Bill Is Predicted WASHINGTON, LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 14~ As a result of serious lung and| kidney condition following an op-/ eration for appendicitis, Dix, film actor, is given only an |even chance at recovery by his physicians. The actor was said to have been recovering splendid ly from an operation performed last Tuesday until complications set in, cost (CREW LEAVES SUNDAY FOR FUNTER BAY MINE A crew of eight men will lml\v | here Sunday for Funter Bay prepare for a resumption of min | ing development on the Sam e kovieh property, it was learn:d today. Mr. Pekovich, who has been in the east for several months, was teday enroute from | New York to Seattle and was ex pected to arrive here in abou two weeks. | No information was -availabl: nlm - regarding the development pro-| U OW'II.I slgl.dlero Fl«l‘ gram for the season. The crew [ ve Uwn is being sent out by Dave Housel \ —_— . on a telegraphic request from Mr | PARIS, April 14—The Unknown |Pekovich. It will have everything | { Soldier, under the Arc de Tri-|in readiness for resuming work {omphe, is to have his own flag. [by the time he arrives, - { There are 520 veterans' and pa- beione | GOVERNMENT WHARF | WORK GOING WELL “The Flame,” the organization that every eveming conducts the With the completion of the cap-| ping of piles driven for the ap little ceremony of figuratively re- proach to the new Government lighting the flame that burns for- ever. over the bufied soldier, As all have different banners and in- it has been agreed that| Wharf and the planking of a sec- one emblem be chosen, to be car-|tion of the face of the latest addi- tion to 'the approach, work was begun yesterday ‘on the construc- | tion of the dock proper. Piles are now bolng driven in 3 rows of five, and will extend for BOSTON, April 14—The boy-|approximately 400 feet more when hood home on. Beacon Hill where|that section of the work is com- Jobn Lothrop Motley, historian|pleted. Today work is being con- and diplomat, played with Wen-|centrated on the continuation of Soldier ceremonials. ——————— MOTLEY'S HOME SOLD dell Phillips has begn sold- lnd Te:| the piling om account of the favor- ‘modelled ?flg apartment, sultes, |able weather. {and Richard |, (dispersed | Anti-Imperialistic (!IHH I’I 1’\I' n Island James he Junke landed Gireenly Capt on Fit Herman Koehl National Banks Of U. S. Have Billions in Money | WASHINGTON, April The combined resources the National Banks United States ka and Haw %, aggr ted an increase of half billion over 14 of |I|. uary 87,000, and year two last one ARE. ATTACKED BY SEN. HEFLIN WASHINGTON, aApril 14 mum-uvurlng Senate leaders sought to delay his speech tor J. Thomfas Heflin made a new attack on Go Smith and brought into range of his fire Mayor James J. Walker of New York City. The Alabaman argéd the New York Governor, candidate for the | Democratic presidential nomina |tion as the head of the “Roman A(hulh political machine in erica” and asserted that the mmth campaign fund was the largest and most corrupt ever used. Mayor Walker was dec ed by Senator Héflin to be smooth artist and the slickest cel in the pmul " DEMONSTRATORS ont who UNDER ARREST IN WASHINGTON o/ Attempt to Stage Disturb-; ance but Marched to Police Station WASHINGTON lice today arrested a group 100 who the of about Leaguers staged a demonstration at | White House {the Nicarguan poliey: The pickets marched two abreast past the Executive offices, many ecarrying posters criticising |the Nicaraguan activities. Appar- {ently intending to complete en- {circlement of the Executive man- | ciom, the column turned down the east side of the Vvhite House. | The police arrived and without |breaking the formation marched the whole caboodle to a nearby police statfon. —eo—— SENTENCED THIS MORNING Cecil® Wells and Maude Rada- baugh, who pleaded guilty to a charge of illegal cohabitation last week, were sentenced this morn- ing by Judge T. M. Reed, of the Uz 8, District Court, after Grover Winn, attorney for the defendants, requested leniency for them. Wells was given 13 months in the peni- tent at MeNeill's Island and baugh was fined $400. April 14.—Po-! vickets and | protesting against | Administration | ‘ N v AT LANTIC IN. WESTW ARD 11OP I;R AVES | | have & is shown was the second to afely sed von the Atlantic Huenefeld and reported Upper left zmaurice an from Baron upper right pilot pilot “TWO PROJECTS" IN ALASKA ARE GIVEN APPROVAL Earl Rossman Circles 3 Peaks, Plane I‘hght TALKEETNA, ‘\l.ukn April | 14—Karl Rossman has re- turned after a suceessful four | | hour flight circumnavigating 5 | | peaks of McKinley, Foraker Channel atPort Alexander,| | uud tunier. Attaining n al- Re[ugee Harbor at Sew- titude of 19,000 feet, Rossman | circled Mt. McKinl 1 ard Are fgogu: ‘ vatare 50 b found the (3 low. e found < eonditions | perfect for taking pictures which was the purpose of the | WASHINGTON, ' April 14 j Port Alexander #nd’ Resurrection |’n Alaska harbor pre flight | been adopted by the House and Harbors committee The Port Alexander [ wint provide a channel 15 feet deep and 150 feet wide at the entrance to the bay with a chan- nel two feet deep and 40 feet wide |at the entrance of the inner la-| K”UAIII at a cost of $17,000 The Resurrection Bay project provides for a harbor refuge | Seward for small boats at [ $85,000. In Rivers | proposal at| a Cost | recommending the Resurrec tion Bay project, Major General Edgar Judwin, Chief of the Army Engineers, said “Seward as the point of terminus of the Alasks Railroad should become one o the most important cities in Alas ka” and that its “full develor ment seems to demand provisic for a safe harbor feor small boat Sueh a harbor appears particular ly nece y since Seward is the|!! te neare point to the ishir grounds and may become tra ith Nebraska communities but shipment point of value thic [the power and transportation fa industry and general lities are hampered. ey Ketchikan Creek Project Approved By Com. of House CHICAGO, kicked around wirled through Wisconsin and Minnesota last vight and ‘today. The snow in st localities is one foot deep ud the storm is accom| by ib-freezing temperatur Dam- ze reported is not comparable tc rm of a week ago when a torm isolated Omaha and 1., April 14—8now by strong winds Nebraska, Iow to the public. ST. PAUL, Minn., orm of last night nd today the wo on April recor e April 14—The is WASHINGTON, April 1+—Ket chikan Creek project, ng for the dredging of the mouth of the ek, has adopted by the House Rivers and Harbors Com mittee. The cost of the project will be $272,000 and will be spent in deepening the mouth of th. creek to a depth of 10 feet at : mean low w Cost of main | tenance will be nominal for many (years, Major General Rdgar Jud- Peter Woeck, Sedttle contractor, I8 a passenger for Juneau on the steamer Yukon which sailed from Seattle this morning, and here next Tuesday or Wednesday. His trip to Juneau is in connec lon with the general contracts for the High School bailding and Masonic Temple, which were awarded to hlm recemly - temperature 50 be- | | IN 4 STATES | | | Ireland | | | | PETER WOECK NORTHBOUND/|Uh¢ plane. i | | | | the |land, AVIATORS LAND JN o LAniu GFF German Plane Reporte Damaged but Fliers Are Well ARE LOST IN DENSE FOG FOR FOUR HOURS First News of Successful Flight Is Received Last Night MANCHESTER, New Hamp- shire, April 14.—Radio sta- tion 1HA at 8:35 o'clock last night picked up a message from the Canadian Govern- ment station at Louisburg, Nova Scotia—‘‘German plane B o P own s Crew well.” i i Greenly hlmd is a tiny ;ruk on the northwest coast -3 FLIERS . SAFE MANCHESTER, April 14— Messages exchanged between the Canadian Government and t 'radlo station at Louisburg, Nova | Scotia, and the Marconi station at Point Amour, Labrador, plek- ed station 1HA, Manches- for, eMphisized the rentoteness of Greenly Island on which the piane Bremen descended after the {flight from Ireland. News that the fliers were safe was hours late in reaching the outside world because messengers had to traverse 20 miles inter- vening between the island and radio station, either afoot or by dog team. The plane, the messages said, landed at about noon, Friday. The first message was sent out by the Marconi operator and re- ceived at St. Johns, Newfound- at 6:30 o'clock last night, Standard time. The second message was from the Point Amour station and add- i |ed the delay was partly due to landing on the island indicating there was some difficulty in eaching the mainland. at this on The plane took off from Bal- donnel Airdome, Dublin, Irish Free State at 5:38 o'clock Thurs- doy morning for New York, y ier conditions ideal, but conditions on the Atlantie oast reported stormy Capt. Hermann Koehl, German war fleir, was at the controls with Col. James Fitzmaurice, t t |Chief of the Irish Free State Air | Forces as second pilot. Huenefeld was also Baron aboard von Was LOST IN FOG QUEBEC, April 14.--The Ger- man plane wandered about the skies and was lost in a dense e d"“'rm: four hour before it made a \forced landing on a frozen small lake of Greenly Island, said the first message received here. Details received here at noom (Continued on Page Eight.) win states in approving the pro- ject. Major General Judwin sald that !the development of the fishing in- dustry at Ketchikan had been so | great that harbor facilities are 'not adequate. He declared there was such congestion that damage results from rough weather when no protection is available from southeast winds Saxman Harbor “he considered too distant from Ketchikan activi ties (o be of service and develop- ment of a satisfactory harbor there will be too expensive. —— eee—— Film Extra Girl's | 8o tong, e says, as the eigh M | teenth amendment is a part of the Death Invesgigated; | constitution he will be a dry. Van- One Arrest Is Made! | denberg’s study of the question of ‘nulhflvanon lead him to write a LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 14 )nmk “The Trail of a Tradition.” A secret investigation conducted| In recent years Vandenberg has by Albert Daniels, wealthy New ! made seven intimate _ trips York beauty parlor operator, into)through Central America, and he the supposed suicide of his daugh-|will bring to the senate a valuable ter, St. Claire Evans, film extra, fund of first hand information or last June 4, at Hollywood, has re-| Central American affairs. sulted In the arrest of Arthur| Vandenberg stepped into the Evans, surviving husband, on a,fore of national prominence by his charge of susplcion of murder. ’vlgarom\ fight against the League GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, April 14—Appointment of Arthur Hend rick Vandenberg to the United States senate to succeed the late Woodbridge N. Ferris brings to the capitol another dry. Senator {designate Vandenberg, however, describes himself as a “constitu | tionalist."” VANDENBERG STUDENT OF CENTRAL AMERICA of Nations. His keen study of the league and his able articles were attested to by the statemen of Senator Lodge that' he was the first man to propose that the United States daopt the covemant with reservations. Although Vandenberg will Mi rank among the very youngest of the senators, he may still lay claim to being one of the “youl‘q sters.” He celebrated his forty- fourth birthday on March 22, just nine days before his’ appo!ntn.fi by Gov. Fred W. Green on M 31, For the last 22 years he been editor of The Grand Raj Herald. Ineligible for active service ing the World war, he closed hi desk and devoted more . year to Liberty loan It is said that in 17 me made 817 speeches for the § ment, K.