The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 23, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR VOL. XXXIL, NO. 4797. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1928. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRES3 PRICE, —_—— VESSEL HITS ROCKS, WEST ALASKA Farm Relief Measure Disapproved By Pres. Coolidge ‘Hoover Vies with Goff And Reed with Smith in We st Vtr ginia Primary | PRESIDENT IS PUTTING VETO ON MEASURES House Overwhelmingly Passes Two Such Bills After Returned BULLETIN — WASHING, TON, May 23. — President Coolidge has vetoed the Mc- Nary-Haugen Farm Relief measure, WASHINGTON, May 23—While the House overwhelmingly over- rode President Coolidge’s veto on | two minor postoffice bills yester- day, the President vetoed two other bills. The President vetoed the emer- gency officers’ retirement bill which the American Legion fav-| ored and the other vetoed bill would created a bandmaster in| the Army Cooli has vetoed 11 bills the largest in one session in many The House overrode the vetoes of the bill providing salary in- creases for night postal em- ployees, 319 to 42, and the bill providing for rent, fuel and light for fourth class postmasters, 319 tg 46. Many stalwarts joined | ggainst the President. MARINE BILL SIGNED WASHING TON, May 23.— President Coolidge has signed the | Jones - White Merchant Marine bill authorizing a big replace- ment program for the Govern- ment merchant marine. It now also only requires the sanction of but five of the seven members of the Shipping Board for the gale of vessels to private opera- tors and doubles the existing $125,000,000 construction loan fund of the Board and liberalizes the ocean contract mail system. U. . DEMANDS INDEMNITIES FROM CHINESE Brutal Murder of Dr. Wal- ter Seymour Must Be Paid for WASHINGTON, May 23—Co- incident with the arrival of a spe- Chinese envoy who is ex- pected to seek American moral support for the Nationalist gov- ernment, the State Department has published a note presented to the foreign minister asking atone- ment for the “brutal murder of an American” by the Nationalist|" soldiers. The United States demands in- demnities for the death of Dr. Walter Seymour, in charge of the Presbyterian Mission hospital at Tsinang, the executign of his murderer and punishment of om- cers and soldiers involyed. REPLY TO U. 8. PEKING, May 23.—Vernacular newspapers today state that the Peking Foreign Office, in reply to an American note, asserted the Chinese authorities are re- sponsible for safety of foreigners | Dr. PROHIBITION, DIVORC BEFORE May 23—Prohi-| , as well as ‘mat. | TULSA, Okla. bition and divorce ters of church government, engage the attention of the gen- eral assembly of the Presbyterian | Church in the U. 8. A. when it meets here tomorrow and con- tinues to May 30. The convention, which will be opened by the retiring moderator, Robert E. Speer, brings to- gether 1,000 commissioners elect- ed by presbyteries from all sec- tions of the United States, with an equal number of laymen and ministers. Enforcement the Eighteenth | amendment will be demanded in the prohibition platform, which Dr. J .W. Claudy, head of the de- partment of moral welfare of the Presbyterian board of Christian education, will present for adop- tion, Mrs. Ella A. the national Temperance a massmeeting May 27, when of Boole, president of Woman's Christian Union, will speak at Sunday afternoon, the platform will| be presented. Mrs. Boole is dea- | coness-at-large of the church, the| first it has ever had. Divorce would be limited to one cause only, infidelity, by a pro bosed change in church law wllil'hi would eliminate desertion as a ause. A special committee will recommend that the as: the timent of the church by sending the proposed change down to the presbyteries for con sideration. A special committee of eleven | will recommend a plan for reor- ganization of Princeton Theologi- cal seminary which already has drawn opposition. The plan pro- vides for the merger of the board of trustees and board of directors into one board, with-unified con- trol and with power to govern and to enforce its decisions. One member of the committee, will |, @ 'E T() COME PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY & % 5 ELLA A.BOOLE President D. son colle; :presenting the sem- inary’'s board of directors, will present a minority report The majority leave the nomination of the new board's personnel to the assembly and recommend that the president be the chief executive officer of the seminary. The mi- nority report holds that the com- mittee should make the nomina- ! tions and would make the presi- dent only a member of the faculty and its presiding officer. The board of directors of the seminary has drafted a resolu tion asking that the majority plan be rejected. Not on the assembly calendar, but likely to be submitted at the convention, is a proposal that the Presbylerian and Methodist Epis copal churches unite. The sugge: tion already has been broughi before the quadrennial general conference of the Methodists which is meeting in Kansas City. COL. LINDBERGH IS ASSOCIATED NEW AR LINE Accepts Position in Com- mercial Airplane Field, at Once NEW YORK, May 23. — Col. Charled A. Lindbergh has decided | to enter the commercial airplane, |field and has accepted a full time | job as Chairman of the Technical {Committee of the recertly formed | Transcontinental Air Transport, \In(-nrpnratetl He will assumne his | post immediately and take charge of putting into operation the| railroad and plane service be- tween New York and the Pacific Coast, which the Pennsylvania| | Railroad, Atchison, Topeka and Santa F2 Railroad, Wright Aero- nautical Corporation, Curtiss Air- plane and Motor Corporation, and the National Air Transport co- operated in forming. Col. Lindbergh will have sup- ervision of “all matters concern- ing the choice of equipment, fields, general service, flying route and safety appliances. As- sociated with him will be four aviators not yet selected,” says an official statement issued by the offielals of the Transcontin- ental Air Transport, Inocrpor- ated. but that China objects to the marking out of special defense areas which is contrary. to in- ternational usage. . The note is said to request the United States Consul at Tsinan to ordeer aboli- tion of the gefense areas there. ——————— Danger from Threatened Flood in Utah Believed Over; Return to Homes SCOFIELD DAM SITE, Utah, May 23.—Thousands of residents in the flood tHreatened country returned to their homes today but prepared to flee should the dam burst. Officials believe the climax is over. ————e———— IOBALESA.J NEW YO!K May 23.—There were mno sales today of Alaska Juneau mine stock. quotation was 3%. Yesterday's JUDGE LOMEN LEFT FOR SEATTLE THIS MORNING ON ALASKA Judge G. J. Lomen, of Nome, who has been in Juneau for the last two weeks, presiding in the U. 8. District Court here, left this morning on the steamer Al- aska for Seattle where he wilt rejoin his wife and family in time to celebrate his golden wed- ding anniversary on May 27, and attend the marriage of his daughter, Miu Helen Lomen on May 29. Miss Helen Lomen will be mar- ried to Clinton Austin, who is associated with a large fur com- pany in St. Paul,” Minn, The couple plan to go to the East for a trip after which they will make their home in St. Paul, the city in which Miss Lomen was bern. - jcave-in, 4 236 WORKERS IN MINES ARE DEAD,MISSING Four Disasters Have Oc- curred Since Saturday in Four Fields NEW YORK, may 23.—It is indicated that 236 workers have lost their lives in four mine |accidents since last Saturday, as f()llow% Mather, Pennsylvania, coal imine explsoion, 164 known dead, 133 missing. Bluefields, West Virginia, coal mine explosion, 164 known dead, 4 missing, Harland, Kentucky, coal minc explosion, 2 dead, 16 missing. Kimberly, Nevada, copper mine dead. Rescue work at the Mather coal mine slowed up today when rescue crews were affected by odors in the underground work- ings. Many bodies recovered were decomposed. Some bodies are buried under the giant fall of a roof and it may be a week before they can be dug out. At Bluefields the bodies of 13 workers have been brought to the surface, The exact number in the mine at the time of the ex- plosion is not known but com- pany officials said they did not believe more than 17 were work- ing. The cause of the explosion has not been determined but it is believed to have been cauced by gas. At Harland, the explosion oc- curred last night when 600 men on the day shift has left and ap- proximately 75 on the nigat shifi had entered the mine. DON MELDRUM HERE FROM ICY STRAITS Don Meldrum, in charge of Southeastern Alaska surveys now being made by the Cameron- Chandler and Zellerbach paper interests, arrived in Juneau to- day on the Valkyrie, Capt. Wood. Surveys in the Icy Straits dis- trict are progressing favorably, he said. He is leaving again to- morrow morning, having come in to purchase supplies for the sur- vey gangs. T Warfield of Wil- WINNING TEXAS ! Democratic Contests in Texas Convention Thus Far Won by Smith BEAUMONT, Tex., May 23.— Thus far the honors in the ter- battle in the Texas Demo- cratic State Convention are with the supporters of Gov. Alfred E. Smith. The convention adjourned late last night until today with- out settling the dispute as to the selection of delegates between the Smith forces and Gov. Moody's “harmony” forces which had for- merly united to rout the Ku Klux Klan. After the selection of W. L. Dean dry, but supported by the Smith forces, for temporary chair- man, a resolution was introduced providing Yor the selection of forty delegates by a committee to be appointed by the chairman and then to be voted upon by the convéntion. The Smith leaders accused the harmonyits of double- crossing them, and insisted upon allowing each of the eighteen Congressional Districts to elect its own two delegates. -The Smith forces won, but a delay followed over the seating of county dele- gations, and an adjourpment was taken. MARYLAND DELEGATES FOR GOV. RITCHIE BALTIMORE, May 23.—The Democratic State Convention el- ccted 16 delegates to the Demo- cratic Natioal Convention and in- structed them to vote as a unit for Gov. Albert C. Ritchie for the Presidential nomination. The delegation is expected to be for Gov. Smith whenever needed to bring about his nomination. ——————— 53 CHILDREN ARE DEAD IN 2 ACCIDENTS MOSCOW, May 23—Thirty-four children were drowned when a steam launch capsized at Temry- uk. The launch carried 80 chil- dren. Nineteen other children were killed in a fire on the steamer Leo Tolstoi on the river Dneiper. The steamer burned while tied to the wharf. The victims were among the first and second class passengers, Relief Expedition May Be Sent Forth For Fox Film Party SEWARD, Alaska, May 23— With temperature of 40 ahove in four separated parts of Alaska, from Kotzebue to Seward, friends of Capt. Jack Robertson, of the Fox Film expedition, who hag hot been heard from since he flew on May 11 from Wiseman to Point Barrow, with a party in two planes, are planning a relief ex- pedition, if no word is heard by next Sunday. Barrow navigation is closed for many more weeks {and overland travel is virtually impossible. The two planes had wheels and a possible mishap might have oc- curred in landing in soft snow at : Point Barrow. ——e— VOTE ON BISHOPS' TERM KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 23.— The Methodist Episcopal Confer- ence has voted that limiting the tenure of Bishops to a set num- ber of years rather than life is unconstitutional. This was after four hours debate. |Powerless Airplane Is Brought Safely Down B y Glganuc Parachute |SMITH MEN ARE CONCLAVE FIGHT [ SAN FRANCISCO, May i The successtul use of a gigantic Ipmnhnll' in bringing a power- tless airplane safely to earth was jaccomplished near here yester- | day. is hailed in avia- i tion a device which means “absolute safety” for pas- senger aircraft. The device is the invention of | Charles Vroderick, of San Fran- | cisco. The device co s of one | parachute 72 feet diameter ane which acts as a 23.—| es as in capable of sustaining an airp and small chute pilot fcr the larger one. The little chute is used to draw the big one out of the plane. In the experiment, E. J. Mec- Kecn, veteran San Francisco pilot, took a -time Jenny plane, condemned as unserviceable, 4, 000 feet up into the air, shut off the motor and put the safety de- vice into action. McKeon tossed the small chute overboard. It opened at once and a short time later pulled the big parachute out at 1,500 feet and the drop was checked. The airplane, pilot and para- chute floated gently to the earth and the plane was only slightly damaged in landing. —— e —— TEXAS 6. 0.P. SPLITS IN TWO TCONVENTION Lone Star State Will Send Two Delegations to Kan- sas City Convention DALLAS, Tex., May 23.—Texas Republicans will send contesting delegations to the Republican National Convention at Kansas City, one of them instructed for Secretary Herbert Hoover for the Presidential nomination and the other uninstructed. The conven- tion split under the impetus of a heated wrangle between the Hoover and anti-Hoover factions. The Hoover faction asked for an instructed delegation and the anti-Hoover faction asked for un- instructed delegates, Wild ‘dis- order preceded the split and was| marked by smashing the glass door of the City Hall Auditorium and the arrest and release of State Committee Chairman C. C. Littleton. Advocates of an uninstructed delegation marched out and held their own convention. Both sides claim that the Na- tional Committee will recognize their delegates. The Hoover meeting proceeded to name 26 delegates while the other faction claimed the con- vention could name only four as 22 had been chosen at meetings of the delegates from Congres- sional districts. SMITH AND LOWDEN WIN IN SOUTH DAKOTA PIERRE, S. Dak., May 23.— The unopposed slates of the Democratic and Republican con- ventions were elected in yester- day’s primaries here. While they are mot bound so to do, it is ex- pected that the delegates will abide by the convention's in- structions and primary reaultn,‘ and the ten Democratic delegates will support Gov. Alfred E. Smith |at Houston for the nomination for President and the thirteen Republican delegates will sup- port former Gov. Frank O. Low den at the Kansas City conven- tion, ——————— Kenai River Guldes\ Incorporate; Are to Remove Obstructions . SEWARD, Alaska, May 23—To make the hazardous waters of Kenai River navigable for boats of hunting expeditions to the famous moose grounds, Alaskan guldes have incorporated and are to blast boulders and other ob- 8 fons from the river. The is under the supervision of Andy Simons, noted guide, mxnw again_op & favorite son Virginia Presidential primary May ; mtor”fluy Dmfl't’vt!& Pfi'-,l left.) In the Democratic contest Smith and Reed are opposed, the Smith forces led by C. W. Osenton (upper right), Naticnal Com- mitteeman. Dr. H. D. Hatfield (lower left), former Governor, and Gov. Howard Gore (lower right) are among seekers of the Republican Senate nomination. | ndorsing the Hoover candidacy against that of Senator Goff, The' CHARLESTC —~West Virginia's N, W. Va.,, May 23 contests for presidential preference will be de | BOvernor, a former secretary of} cided at the state primary May | agriculture, said endorsement by 29, * [the West Virginia voters of the On the border line between the|commerce sccrelary would be “golid south” and the “uncertain| Very pleasing” to him. north” the state will become the| BOth parties will nominate elec: tive state officers. More than battle ground for spirited clashes | both in the Republican and Demo, cratic parties. West Virginia hag 400 candidates are in the field for national and state offices, includ- delegates and members of| A P. A VESSEL WITH OVER 300 ABOARD, ASHORE Star of r'ai];l;a\;]-d Runs on Rocks—Coast Guard | Rushing to Aid SEAT 'LE, May 23.—With 280 Chinese and 40 whites aboard, the aska Packers Association vessel Star of Falkland, is ashore on the rocks half a mile west of Akun Head, inside of Bering Sea. The Coast Guard officials here have been advised of the accident. The Star of Falklan is re- ported down at the head with the forward deck under water. The Coast Guard cutter Haida is expected to reach the vessel during loday. The lighthouse tender Cedar i also proceeding to aid the vess The plight of the cannery hands is not revealed. The Star of Falkland sailed from San Francisco for the Bris- tol Bay canneries. ———————— NOBILE OFF FOR FLIGHT, NORTH POLE Intends t‘o, Land and Make Plant Cross KINGS BAY, May 23.—Com- mander Umberto Nobile hopped off for the North Pole today in the dirigible Italiu. He intends to land at the Pole and make expiorations and also plant the cross given to him Ly the Pope. The expedition iz expected to last 40 hours. Commander Nobile, accompan- fed by scveral scientists, plans to make studies of temperatures, prevalent winds, climatic condi- tions and magnetic compass var- fations. POPPY SALES 19 votes in the Republican con-| M8 vention and 16 in the Houston | PATLY committees. Fach party has party parley. These are the last|®1X candidates for governor. Of- Republican delegates to be se-|ficers also will be nominated In St tad county and district political sub- | divisions, making a grand total of | more than 12,000 candidates in | the primary. Secretary of Commerce Hoover again will come to grips with a “favorite son,” entering the Re- publican primary against Senator >ee Guy D. Goff, Senator James A. Reed of Mis-| souri and Gov. Alfred E. Smith of, New York will compete for the : endorsement of the Democratic electors. Of prime interest also in the state is the th ornered con- test for the Republican senatorial nomination, with Gov. Howard M. Gore, Dr. Henry D. Hatfield, a former governor, and former Rep.' Benjamin L. Rosenbloom seeking that office. Senator M. M. Neely, Democrat, is unopposed for the party nomination for re-election, THAN §300,000 Expenses for Nomination of Hoover Running Higher than Others As leader of the Smith forces in West Virginia, C. W. Osenton, Democratic national committee- WASHINGTON, May 23—The man, entered the name of theliota) expenditures of the Hoover New York executive in the pri- campaign for the Republican mary as a defensive move to Dro-| pregidential nomination exceed teet a slate of delegates pledged those of th candidate i 1o bin baiifinscy. Whils: potiias any other candidate in either party and are over $300,000, choice in West Virginia is notlaceording to the figures listed binding upon the delegates, Osen-| yith the Senate investigating ton said it carried a moral "b”""commlltee tion, but that with Smith an ac-| Glaudjug Huston, Chattanooga tive candidate, delegates for him | would be “doubly protected.” The | Reed forces did not file a slate of delegates pledged to the Mis- and New York business man, tes- tified as to expenditures in behalf of Herbert Hoover to the amount Fin v o e of $32,296. This brought Hoover's ' AW total listed expenditures before Filing of the Smith and Reed|ihe campaign Investigating com- certificates developed a move:|niriae to $300,745 ment for an unpledged Demo- pist cratic delegation, and a score of i candidates for delegate filed BRSO ER PARER LOSES BUT HAS HOPES WASHINGTON, May 23—Frack J. Hale of New York, publisher of “Polities,” an anti‘Hoover week- ly publication, told the Senate campaign funds committee that he has been personally bearing a loss of $420 a week incurred by the publication, but said: ) think after this month the paper will be on a different basis be- cause it has had a million dok lars worth of publicity in this in- vestigation.” amendments to their declarations stating it was “obvious” that vo- ters will have no “fair opportuni- ty” to express their real choice for president, and announcing they would not feel bonud to support anyone “who might appear to be the popular choice.” Spokesmen for those delegates sald their at- titude was anti-Smith rather than in favor of any particular candi- date. Governor Gore joined the presi. dential and senatorial contests by ‘ 1Zyn SOON STARTED ‘With Memorial Day next week, activity will center in the an- nual! poppy sale which will be conducted in Juneau as usual by the Auxiliary of the American Legion. The money derived from the sale of poppies is the greatest means of revenue by which the rehabilitation and child welfare programs are carried on. Poppy Day is the one day the public is privileged to contribute toward this cuuse. The local committee is now recelving orders for window wreaths. | The poppy sale will start in Juneau the first of next week. e FORMER SPEAKER OF HOUSE, SMITH, IS VISITOR HERE With the intention of spending the summer in the vicinity of Juneau lockine over mining prop- erties and prospects, Sumner 8. Smith, Speaker of the House of Representatives during the last Territorial Legislature, arrived from the south on the steamer Aleutian, Mrs, Smith and their children remained in Oaklal Cal., to be with Mrs. Smith's family which resides there, and Mrs. James A. Smith, mother the former Speaker, owing whose ill health they were called south last winter. Mrs. Jennie Smith will be Juneau, as she came to the city with her son and his wife ll 1911, Mr. Smith is a guest at the + Hotel, and will* make headquarters in Juneau the ‘amme:. though he will numercus irips to various properiics in this district, remembered in and spent some time here.