The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 16, 1928, Page 1

PRICE. TEN CENTS ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY VOL. XXXL, NO. 4765. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1928. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS BREMEN PILOT IS FLYING TO QUEBEC sarthquake Jwo Thousand Homes Are Destroved in DRY AGENT,IN Mev SHOOTING, 1S UNDER ARREST Is Surréndered by Federal Authorities to Chi- cago Police CHICAGO, 111, April 18-—Myron Caffey, Prohibition agent, who has Leen shielded by Federal authori-| ties for the past thres weeks af ter the shooting of Willlam Beat- ty. Municipal Court Bailiff, has, been surrendered to the police. jJeatty was shot; during a raid by Prohibition Agents. | The affair resulted in a clash between local and Federal author: ties over demands of the police for Caffey’s surrender, which were ignored Caffey ate eral Building. warned he could there, It was der Caffey with assault DEFENSE FOR SINCLAIR IS STATED TODAY Jury Is ]old What Will Be, Proven—Government Scores One Point WASHINGTON, April 16 defense of Harry F. Sinclair wa unfolded today before the jury in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia after the governm succeeded in placing in the rec ords of the conspiracy trial, evi dence surrounding the payment ol ecretary of In Albert 1l through the onal Bank El Pi Fall contended the mor was for the expense of a Russian trip which he made for Sinclair The government rested its casc shortly after this evidence wa placed in the records. Apparently the defense will em-| phasize the claim that Teapot | Dome was in danger of drainage ! when Fall leased it to Sinclair. | Owen J. Roberts, governmenl counsel, said the indictment did| not object to the leasing, but to the - ihahnor G - whieh- ft was| granted. it Sinclair's attorney, George Hoover, promised to introduce vi dence showing the leasing deci- sion was made by former S tary of Navy Denby and not by| Fall. : el ! Fed were and slept in the City officials not be to surren a decided today who has been charg \\ivh intent to Kkill. The B. of ! tion Senator Caraway Wants I nvestigation of All Activities of Lobbyists | WASHINGTON, April 16—An in.| vestigation of all lobby activities about Washington are asked in a resolution proposed by United; States Senator ‘Thaddeus H. Car-, away, Democrat, of Arkansas, whnl charges particularly that a drive | by lobbyists is being made against his bill for regulation of future trading. CHANGE TO BE SOUGHT IN M. E. MARRIAGE CODE CHICAGO, April 16—The Meth- odist Bpiscopal general conference in Kansas City May 1 will be asked to strike out the words “and first miracle He wrought” from the Methodist “order for the sol «emnization of matrimony.” The Northwest Towa conference delegation will make the request, and a list of reasons has been drawn up as ‘to why the phrase should go. To begin with, say the Towans, the statement is not true. “In the Scripture narrative up- on which the statement is based,” the delegates have written, “the gospel writer, Saint John, is:not relating the story ¢f a miraculons I3 performance, but rather is relat- ¥ 'New Marnage Bared wrested || ‘MINURITY REPORT | Hou | Rep Lof T /8 1 KNOWNDEAD AND ' SCORES INJURED. Region in Southern Bul-| garia Is Reported | Devastated 5 SCFIA, Bulgaria, April 16. | o —With 20 known to have ? been killed and about 100 injured, all available railroad cais arc being sent into the region of Southern Bulgaria which has been devastated by an earthquake. Unusually severe cold weather increases the hard- ships of the striken people. Two thousand homes were de'n'ov(d >oo— - EXPEDITION OF SCIENTISTS IS pAmemy: HEADED NORTH It is only recently revealed that } nlomb('d Mumn"eb Of [-" st ]osrf Ilnlmmn noted piauist, is divorced from his first wi'e:| Men from Asia Wil Be Sought and married to Miss Beiry Short, thirty-one years his ju 10r‘ None of the circumstan, ce of the divorce or marriage aiq ! made public, (International Illustrated lel) SEATTLE, April 16.—-Enroute to Alaska and §iberia attempt 1o discover traces of the remains of the first men believed to have er from Asia and inhabited orth America, g thé.,, British schooner Effie M. "Morrissey, op- erating in behalf of the American Musenm of Natural History arrived in Seattle from York The the sed New ON FARM RELIEF WASHINGTON, April claring the McNary-Haug is & “mere political predicting its it passed Congress, two members known Siberian ced by C York, hunter cruise is officially Stoll-MeCracken sxpedition, fina H. Stoll, of and big game Aleutian Islands will be ’ 5 3 e of operations where Agricultural =~ Committee, ,ppeqlogical arch will be SsonIR Y uklin W. Fort.| . qe i an effort to discover en- How and - Anning S {4000 mummies which are said Prall, of York, have filed a p 2 3 fne L0 be older than the mummies minority report protesting against| .. o\ e tH8 pyraifidh- ns enactment of the measure t The minority report said: are al % Patr After a cruise along 5 iced the billl i,y fgands, the Biri as reported short o ) falls A will go to the Arctic and meeting the essentia "'J"““"““num where a search will be raised by the President.” ' ——————— !made for new and strange mam- mals for the American Museum PERJURY CASE CONTINUES 16 ew gesture, veto of in e Wel the M Alen- Mor- "I‘hl' scientists of the Expedition !will be picked up at Prince Rup- Two witnesses for the prosecu t. B. C. They are now enroute tion were called to the stand lhh‘f!fllll New Yor! morning in the Lee Donnelly per-| The Effie jury ease, in the U. § l,«uru-l‘lt-.nx Seattle Court. A. F. McLean, U. 8. Com-ing She under command of missioner and coroner at Haines|Capt. Robert Bartlett i testified as to evidence taken at| i PP~ the time Albert Chisel was killed | last summer, as it was in conne with the Chisel murder e: 'y is charged. soldier at (lnlkon‘_ | Barracks, who took testimony at} BURNED DEA IH the time of Chisel's death, also| appeared for the government, and | w was on the stand when court re cessed until this afternoon. He nlweddln g Party Ends in| expected to be called to the stand | Tragedy — Bride and Groom Among Dead M. Morrissey Wednesday morn- will is that this afternoon for further exam:| | ination. - i A T QIJOTATIONS ‘ ALTOONA, Pa., April 16—Thir-! sW YORK, April 16.——Al- | teen persous weré burncd to deatl aska Junean mine stock is quoted | M€AT here yesterday when fire de totay. At 9% { stroyed the home of Emtiro Kre- ¢ !nmhalk, The dead include the| | mother, her six children, another | daughter just married and five |men. They had gathered for the| i wedding in Krepachalk's home | |The bride and groom are among {the dead. The cause of the fire {has not been determincd. Krepa-| ichalk was the only one who es- (sned from the second floor. e ing the story of a significent inci-| dent. “In none of the three most im-| portant and generally WENE"‘Scores ESCIR from Greek John Westcott-Hort) or, so far as we| can learn, elsewhere, is the word| ‘miracle’ used or its Greek equiva |unmammerl man was killed and let ‘wonder.’ The Greek word,!ulx other men and two women “Teras’ or ‘Terata’ do mot appear;Were seriously injured when a fire anywhere in the orlgmal text of destroyed the Iroquois Hotel and the: narrative. Board Walk. Ninety-eizht persons “Phe use of the word ‘miracles'! were in the building at the time in the King James version isithe fire broke out. clearly a mistranslation of the| .- — Greek word ‘semeion’ or ‘signs.’ MRS. KING GOES HOME “If the phrase is to be retained, e the word ‘miracle’ should be re-| Mrs. Walter B. King and her placed by the word ‘sign’ in the|small son, bora April 3. -left St. interest of truth, acciracy and ip-|Ann's Hospital this morning for tegrity.” their home,. texts of the gospel of St.| ’ | (Tischendorf, Treelles, o | Hotel Fire in East| ATLANTIC CITY, April 16—An leurved surface wings, Lo | Wrights ident Coolidge is rcpmtcd to be try section of the country for his vacation llm year. along classic-colonial lines on LH ARGES WRIGHT PLANE | ing to find another This villa Sapelo Island off the coast of IS N()T LIKE ORIGIN. 1L OAKLAND, Cal., April 16— Do ments contesting recognition of the airplane which ‘is being sent to a British musenm as the “orig inal 1903 Wright airplanc” hay been submitted to the Smithsonian Institution by Richard J. Mont gomery, brother and executor the estate of the late Profe J. J. Montgomery, carly day air is | navigation expert Montgomery rts that (he plane being sent abroad is appu ently a reconstructed machine, a; sembled from many parts of ! original plane, bul when it was re built 1" was given cambered or whereas the surface or original. had flat straight wings. Contending t brothers in 19 Wright did not profess be pioneers of airplane build ing. he alleges that they drew distinction between eroplanes and “flying machines” and tha their original patent was for “flying machine,” the distinctior being chiefly that a flying ma chine had motive power while plane might be operated ihrougt mastery of the principles of equil- ibrium and control with gravity as power, otherwise thar by machinery, The Oakland man declares the patent utilizing the p curvature was Montgom after the it the a its or tha maching of win Profes for a neiple anted y in 1905, two year: tirst flight of the Wrights and that the Wrights in their application for patent “were distinctly apologetic” as to a curved win, He quotes the Wrights application: “We hs term ‘aeroplane’ in this specifica tion and the appended claims indicate the supporting surface supporting surfaces, by means o to sor ic pateni used th | which the machine is sustained i the air, and by this term we wisl to be understood as including any suitable supporting su ce which normally is substantially flat, a though of course, when construct wl of cloth or other light fahric as we prefer to constr them | these surfaces may receive more or less curvature from the resis tance of the air.” Although Montgomery were issued two years after th had flown, the Oakland man alleges that the Wrights anl Professor Langley as well mad use of air navigation principle discovered by Montgomery's bro ther who flew in heavier than air planes, without engines, as carl as 1884, patent C. P. A. EXAMS WILL BE GIVEN IN MAY of exann The Territoriat countancy will Board conduct | tions for the degree of Cer Public Accountant the week b ginhing May 8, it was announced today by B. A. Rosselle, Secretary of the Board. It is now in order. he said, for applicants to file and pay their fee of $25. For details concerning these examinations those interes ed should get in touch with Mr Rosselle. The Board would aceountants prepare themselve for these examipations, Mr. Ro: selle said, for it feels such work in Alaska is Dbroadening Only two sets of tests are given each year, one in May and the other in November, like to GELEBRATION TAKES PLAGE ALASKATOWN ‘Nome Has Gala Event— First Subsidy Mail Trip | —Big Dog Derby [ NOME ALASKA, April 16—Cele | braging the first annual air mail subsidy frip. high spots in (oda program was the al of N Wein from Fairbanks with malil. The urday S oel air gala week-end started Sat when a carnival brought tor an all-Alaska-dog derby year to $10,000. The Nom Kennel Club pageant in the after brought. out 100 dog-draws representing all stages of noon floats frontier life Teams, one pair to 15 dogs, car ried little tots. The floats repre ented all forms of conveyance from skin boats to airplanes The dog race next year will un loubtedly be the greatest staged with the erew of drivers from Al ka, Canada and the State — e~ Newton 1). Baker May Become Head of Johns Hopkins BALTIMORE Diehl Baker, he Cabinet is amor the | ins Unive vank J. Goodnow. Dr. iffered his re nation ity to take effect July 1, any “time prior to that date he Board of Trustees might L SUCCessor While the position has heen offered to Mr. Baker, s a strong feeling among hers of the Faculty and Board of Trustees that onspicuous qualifications position. Mr. Baker April Secretary of 16 of President being of to Newton War in Wilson discusse« Hop D Goodnow in Jann ox when find sidency rsity for Johns not there mem of th» he has for an alumnus of Johns Hopkins, a member of the B . of Trus of the univer sity and a member of the commit tee appointed last January when Dr. Gioodnow's resignation was of fered to report that resignation tc the Board of Trustees. B Defective Foundation Was Cause of Collapse Of Dam in California WASHINGTON, April 16.- lapse of the St rancis Dam California is attributed to a de- fective foundation in a report made by Dr. Elwood Mead, Com- missioner of Reclamation. Commissioner Mead headed a committee of engineers which in- vestigated the disaster at the re- quest of the Los Angeles City Council. In connection with his report, Commissioner Mead said the dis- aster was not the result of care- lessness or criminal negligence “It arises in a large measure out of extraordinary obstacles which confronted the Water Department of Lo Angles in keeping pace with the need of the city in un- paralleled growtl concluded Commissioner Mead's report. is ees TWENTYPERSUNS PALATIAL RESIDENCE OFFERED TO COOLIDGE FOR VACATION ¢d to the President by Howard Coffin, onal Newsreel) il QUEBEE, ok 41 A { This intimate photograph was posed by Mrs, Calvin Coolidge and her White House guest, Mrs, R. B. Hills of N non, Mass. Mrs. Hills was a close friend of the First Laly when the latter was a very little girl known as Grace Goodhue, (International Jlluatrated N )] NOBILE, WITH DIRIGIBLE, IS NOW AT STOLP. Makes Long Flight in Heavy Wind and Elec- trical Storm ;l"mu' Persons Killed lu Week-End Accidents v W estern lf ashington| SEATTL sONs were jured in i Western April 16-—Four killed and a dozen weeleend aceidents Washivgion. Roy Buggert and | of Sed were vietims mobile crashes Ernest Worspeck | from a motoreycle | attle and Tacoma, I from mjuries. 16 Patgy Knox Commander Umberto Nobile! Wagh,, was ¥illed brought his Polar dirigible [talia' from a hor: ainst through the nizht in beadwinds My Catherine Tobe; and electrical storms, landing here, Geo Krause, of Seattl today at the airdrome riously hurt wheu an The craft took 30 hours and 40 nese-dived 20 feet at K minutes to travel 680 miles | ol Commander Nobile id: had a terrible storm over the pathian Mountains. [ am e ingly proud of the Italia. She be haved perfectly 1 am confident the North Pole expedition will be successful.” Says Business Is Only 7 Per Cent Below Normal WASHINGTON, April 16—Sam uel Vauelain, President of the Baldwin Locomotive Company, af ter a call upon P dent Coolidze, | said he was satisfied with busi- ness conditions. He declared! business is only =even percent be-| low normal and that unemploy- ment is no worse than usnal ulz' per in in of auto was hetween Se STOLP of Vancouver, when he fell a curb, Germany, April wers plane verett g Car. | ol | | 1 OMAHA, April 16— | American ety to glovify growing boy at a fixed time r has spread around the world, iaecording to Walter W. Head of Omaha, chafrman of the National Boys' Weekh Commitice, An In 1920, April 29 to May 5 was t oside by a group of men o Boys'’ Week,” The idea was to! focus attention of the country on| }llu‘ boy as a national asset. The ninth annual week will be this time of the year, held on the same dates this year. Millard Blagg, | thrown | and died Jate | and the | IRISH AVIATOR LEAVES GREENLY ISLAND FOR U. S Col. Fituna;;i‘c—e Is Aboard | Canadian Plane for the Mainland GFRMAN FLIERS ARE REPAIRING BREMEN |[Aviators Had Nearly Given [ Up Hope of Achiev- ! ing Purpose BULLETIN — QUEBEC, April 16.—Wireless operators at Clarke City said Col. James Titzmaurice, co-pilot of the plane Bremen, has left Greenly Island in a Canadian plane for Quebec and will proceed from Canada to New | York. Capt. Hermann Koehl | and Baron von Huenefeld re- 1| mained behind to repair the i plane. ¥ PLANE LANDS ON ILAND April 16.-—The first countact from the outside the ice-blocked (ierman Bremen was established a Canadian plane landed ton Groenly Island. Luis Cuisiner and Duke Schiller flow from Seven lslands, Quebee, landing apfety |~ Wireless messages said the Bre- {men avialors were making satis- factory repairs and the plane is @ “to leave under its own power shortly.” airplane mechanic Is en- route from New York with a new “\rup(‘l]()l and equipment for re- pairing the Dremen. IN STORM AREA ( MONTREAL, April 16.—Snow, i {divect |with plana when sleet and rain swirled over New- foundland today composing a ‘storm barrier though which lit- tle news penetraled of the Bre- men erew or the Canadian plane {which went to relief. Out of the storm drifted ru- that one of the crew had (eft for the mainland but no con- firmation is pessible ] he general oelief is that javiators have litrle chance ireach the mainiand for | time g First reports thal the Bremen's tled through the fog un- the aviators almost gave up’ {of hope of achicving their pur- then sighting land, are con- {firmed The Bremen's crew touzht the land was Newfound- [tand. Fuel was almost gone when the plane descended, Another plane left reenly Island with and a photographer. OIS ARl RERIRRRRE R S 1 mors the of the o pose, today for reporters | Statue of Sevemth i President Accepted I For Nation WASHINGTON, April 16 - The seven foot hronze statue of Andrew Jackson has been accepted by Presideut Cool idge for the nation for dis- play in the Capitol's Hall of Fame. The acceptance took place yesterday before a large gathering o President Coolidge extolled the sav-nth prekident for his | publlc snd private virtues and | | his effort in strengthening National conscigusuess. LR I { . : AMERICAN “BOYS’ WEEK” BECOMES WORLD EVENT The movement has gained a foot- hold in England, Prance, Mexies, jJavan, Belglum, South Africa, | Cuba aud South Americhn cot tries N There is nothing commare about the observance. The sors Include such men as John J. Pershing, Vice P Charles G. Dawes and | Herbert Hoover. The committee suggests ° each day during the weot. munities recognize the b ‘ some mapngr,