The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 30, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNI:AU ALASKA WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1928. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS _—— MYSTERY MISSING ALASKA PLANES NO TRACE IS FOUND OF AIRSHIP ITALIA BASE SHIP IS BACKINPORT; VAIN SEARCH Vessel Returns to Kings Bay—Two Parties Landed on Ice KINGS BAY, May 30. base ship Citta di Mil returned here from an unsuce ful trip in efforts to obtain even faint trace of the Italia. — The h SEARCHING PARTIES LAND KINGS BAY, May 30. — Two parties cf Italian Alpine chasers disembarked from the Cit- ta di M no, base ship of the a ible Italia, to make an over- land search for traces of the air- ship. Two Norwegian guides ac- the two parties. The will attempt to reach jord on the northern coast, st of Spitzbergen. An ice pack is there being driven by a strong wind which is pil- ing up floes along the oc: - e, — ABOLISHMENT OF WAR, URGE (OF PRESIDENT Coolidge Makes Memorial Day Address on Old Battlefield GETTYSBURG, Penn., May 30. Speaking from the rostrum on the Gettysburg battlefield near the spot where Lincoln delivered his immortal address, President Coolidge today voiced the plea for abolishment of war as the fittest tribute to the war dead. President Coolidge demanded less fndifference to orime in the United States and condemned, what he described as the ten- dency of Legislatures to exceed powers granted to them by the Constitution. The President said these things tended to weaken the regime of law and breed populations to thoughts of war. e e 4 ARE READY FOR AIR TRIP T0 AUSTRALIA OAKLAND, Cal, May 30—With fair weather and favorable winds in prospect the crew of the South- ern Cross has completed virtually all preparations for the hazardous 7,708 mile flight to Australia. The crew consists of Capt. Kingsford Smith, pilot; Charles T. P. Ulm, co-pilot; Capt. Harry Lyon, navi- gator and James Warner, who will act as radio' operator. The first leg of the flight will be to Hawaii, the next to Fiji Islands and the next to Brisbane, Australia. have Prices of Autos Will Now Be Re(lu('ml DET m)lr, Mi The National Chamber of Commerce an- nounces that delivery prices of all automobiles will be re- duced from $9.50 to $183 as the result of the elimination of the war tax in the tax re- | duction bill which passed Congress and was signed by President Coolidge. CONGRESS PUTS 523 NEW LAWS, STATUTEBOOKS ntemobile Covered Rivaling Peace Time Sessions of Body WASHING TON, May 30.— Nearly 1,000 new laws on the (nation’s atute books and this tells the story of whirlwind leg- islative accomplishments of the first session of the Seventieth Congre: Covering a wide range of ac- tivities, the new acts constitute legislative accomplishments un- paralled in a decade. Aside from the actual volume of work done the magnityde...of . somesst. tasks rivals the “work of any peace-time session of Congress. ce-President Dawes smilingly refused to answer the cries for a speech but Speaker Longworth gave a brief farewell. Senate in Turmoil The Senate was in a turmoil until the end, going into an ex- ecutive session to approve of nominations made by President Coolidge five minutes before ad- journment. The House moved quietly and | in good nature. Had it not been for a filibuster on the Boulder Canyon Dam which held the Senate until the end of the session, Congress would have approved or rejected nearly every bill on the calendar. There were 19,770 measures introduced in the two Houses and 923 became laws. ALASKA HONORED WASHINGTON, May 30.—Al- aska and Hawaii will be invited, under the terms of a bill passed by the Senate, to place statues of outstanding citizens in the Capitol Statuary Hall. — - — WESTERN CANADA TO HAVE BIG WHEAT CROP EDMONTON, Alberta, May 30 —A prediction that Western Can- ada will produce at least 450,000, 000 bushels of wheat this year, providing weather conditions are favorable, was offered by W. R. |Wide Range of Activities | EVIDENCE N MURDER CASE TOLEDO GIRL Chauffeur Is Suspected of Abducting, Slaying | Little Girl TOLEDO, Ohio, May 30.—New evidence, the nature of which the police declined to reveal, aided today in attempts to fasten the Kingsland, general manager of the Western region of the Canadian National Railways here. ——eeo—— CANADA IS NOW SEPARATE NATION IN EYES OF WORLD OTTAWA, May 30—Canada was today invited officially to become a party to the proposals of United States Secretary of State Kellogg for the outlawing of war. Nurses Are to Dispose Of Memorial Question LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 0-—’!‘115 queéstion of disposing of the $43,- 000 collected by American nurses for a memorial to Jane A. Delano, wartime head of the American Red Cross nursing service, will be settled at the biennial convention of the American Nurses’ associa- tion here June 4 to 9. ‘The fund was established as a memorial to the 291 American nurses who gave their lives dur- ing the World war, as well as to Miss Delano. Four major propositions have béen made by different groups of nurses, as being suitable meth- ods of using the memorial fund. .One, sponsored by Miss Mabel T. Boardman, secretary of the Red Cross, plans for the construction of a Jane Delano room in the new Red Cross building known as the “Memorial to the Women of the World War,” now being erected. Miss Boardman’s plan specified using $30,000 for building the room and the remainder of the fund for furnishing it. Some members of the Jane A. Delano commiitee ob- jected on the grounds that the room would be buried in 2 small portion of what was a greater me- morial. Other proposals recommend use of the fund for building a monu- ment in the national park in ‘Washington, for needy nurses or scholarships, or for an endow- ment, the interest to be used for meeting foreign nursing appeals for financial assistance. blame for the abduction and slaying of little seven-year-old Dorothy Sielagowski, upon a 26- year-old chauffeur, name with- held. Dr. Edmund Pailinski, dentist, determined from examination of the victim’s body, that the slayer had a missing front tooth. It is reported that the suspected chauffeur’s teeth correspond with the dentist's chart. It is also said that the suspect is familiar with the layout of the Sielagow- ski home, from where the girl was stolen,, from her bed, early yesterday morning. This is im- portant for the slayer apparently had a pass key and knew exactly what room Dorothy slept in. San Francisco Yachtsman To Make Cruise to Alaska SAN FRANCISCO, May 30.— John C. Piver, San Francisco yachtsman, today announced plans for a two months’' cruise in Alaskan waters. He will start his trip on Saturday. Piver said his two sons and a party of friends will accompany' him on the voyage on the schooner Eloise. They will pick up more friends at Vancouver, B. C.,, and cruise through the Inland Pas- sage to Sitka. G. 0. P. CONVENTION BECKONS MOTORISTS KANSAS CITY, May 30—Heed- ing the call of the trail, throngs of national convention visitors will come by motor to watch the Republicans name their presiden- tial choice here in June. Headquarters of all of the large national and regional highway as- sociations report unprecedented demands for information on roads radiating out of Kansas City, Several of these routes pene- trate some of America’s most pic- turesque sections, including much of the old west. Such alluring scenic as the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Custer Battlefield and the Rocky ! Mountain parks, Lookout moun- tain and the Ozarks are conveni- ent of access from some of the pikes leading into the convention city. Short side trips over improved roadways are emphasized in pre- convention literature. most attractive of Missouri show places in Excelsior Springs, with | gatg its healing waters, about an hour's drive from Kansas City. The American dation sketches sible routes to Kansas City as follows: From New York: State high- way 12 to Reading; state high way 3 to Harrishurg and Pitts burgh, and from Washington, Pa by National Old Trail (U. 8. 40)| to Columbus, Dayton, Indianapolis, Terre Haute and St. Louis. From Washington: U. 8. high erritories | territories | p o ublican Presidential | {they Perhaps | Research Foun-|Will not happen. the most acces-|that the Hoover managers are |from now on 1300 votes on NO CANDIDATE HAS MAJORITY 6.0.P. DELEGATES Hoover Claims Wil Win on First Ballot but Has not Majority Yet ASHINGTON, May 30.— With the last delegates to the (Kansas City convention selected, candidates for the nomina- | ticn are claiming enough strength to win on the first ballot. winner must gain a majority of 545 or more delegates. none of the Secretary Hoover's managers says he has almost that many and that the last minute trend, predict, will benefit Hoover clinch the nomination for before the convention clerk warmed up calling the roll. and him Dt Hoover’s political foes say this They contend much he in taking in too and insist that the momination territory, is far from that events right up to the moment of balloting will break Hoover rather than make him. Lewden’s managers predict that Gov. Lowden will have around the first ballot. They chart out in speculation a way 240 to Frederick; U, 8. 40 course of developments that.will to Hagerstown and Cumberland, National O}d Trail to Kansas City.|ination point. (Northern | that Hoover’s lieutenants say is Dixie highway to Macon; |not even possible. From route) : U. 8. 41 and Magnolia route to At Jacksonville build his strength up to the nom- This is something Hoover's managers claim that lanta, Chattanooga, Nashville and | they now have a first ballot vot- Vincennes; Midland trail (U. i ‘mg strength of 5221 out of a 50) to St. Louis and Kansas City. \mlal of 1,089 delegates. From Jacksonville 18«uth~rn route): Old Spanish trail to Talla hassee and across Apalachecola river; state highway 7 to Mont gomery and Birmingham; Jackson and Bankhead highways (U. S. 28) to Memphis; North on U. S. 61 to St. Louis, west on U. 8. 40 to Kansas City. From New Orleans: U. 8, 51 to| (Continued on Page Seven.) ) | J —_—ete— — MEMORIAL FOR WALCOTT WASHINGTON, May 30. — A |meeting to commemorate the life and services of the late Charles Doolittle Walcott, who for 20 years was Secretary of the Smith- \sonian Institution, has been call- ed at the Natural History Build- ing of the National Museum, The | NO WoRD OF FILM PARTY, 2 SEARCHERS Fairbanks Rehef Expedi- tion Fails to Report from Arctic \NIEMIEN AND HEYSER MAY BE DOWN, FOG Fate of Fu‘ Dlrt .ctors and and Camerian Causes Grave Concern | | | | w | | | | | F Lrst bivision _firoved Yank Mettle in Drive at Cantigny Ten Years A go CANTIGNY, France, May 30— Acting on its own—the first time an American division had partici- pated as a unit in an offensive in the World war—the First division swept out of its trenches in Pic- ardy ten. years ago last Monday morning and wrested the plateau of Cantigny from the crack BEighty Second division of the Imperial German army. Fourteen hundred American doughboys were left to sleep eter- ally on the slope in the first fous 1 3 of fighting, and the position | was gained only by unusual te- | nacity, but the savage countér- attacks ' ordered by the German high -command availed nothing. The line held, and the world knew lha,t the ‘uw ally had stood the test. Official records point out that \the Cantigny opuration was more or less local, but that it was ex- tremely important because of the psychological effect of the dis- tinetly American victory. The First division, under Ma- Jor General Robert L. Bullard, had moved inte. the vicinity of Mont- didier April 21, in expectation of participating with the French in lan offensive movement. Prepara- tions were begun for the actionm, but inability of the British to par- ticipate and lack of reserves pre- vented initiation of the project. Surprise Attack When the signs pointed to the abandonment of the plan General Bullard proposed a surprise at- tack by the First division with- out awaiting the combined oper- ations then being studied. The request was granted and orders were issued to the First division to prepare for an operation to capture the heights of Cantigny | without assistance of French in- fantry. The French placed 173 guns un- der the comtrol of the division and planned to support the attack with an equal number on the flanks. As it turned out not all of these guns were used, however, and most of them were available ouly the first day. The Twentyseighth I infantry, which had been designated to make the assault May 28, was drawn back to a rear area where the details of the plan were re- hearsed. A battalion of Krench tanks and a detachment of French flame-throwers were attached to the regiment. On the nights of May 26 and 27 the Twenty-eighth infantry. re-en- tered the line. Barly the morn- ing of May 27, after intensive ar- tillery preparation, a strong Ger- man raiding party tried to pene- trate the sector. The attack fail- ed completely and most of the Germans, including the comman- ing officer, were killed. By 3:30 a. m. May 28 the regi- ment was in position. The objec- tive had been set at a line one kilometer east of the village of Cantigny. First Offensive Blow America’s first offensive blow i Point FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 20. Myste mrrouniing the dis- appearance of the Kox Film Ex- nedition to Point Barrow heizht- ened as the days have passed thout 20y word from the relief {expedition, Matt Niemie pilot, jand Richard Hcyser, rudio op- erator, whieh left her: May 25. Heyser has had ample time to set up a radio grouud station at Barrow and send a report of the faio of the five men and the two planes in the Fox Film BExpedition, Belief is expressed that Niem- fen and Heyser landed at Wain- wright where they may be wait- ing for a break in the fog but others scout the theory saying they would have returned to Kotzebie and communicate with other radios, ln The Fox, Expedif here May 18. . The uxpodm ported out from Wiseman. The two planes were plloted by Noel Wein and R. 8. Merrill and car- ried Jack Robertson and L. Virgil Hart, film directors and Charles G. Clarke, camerman. The planes carried provisions to last two weeks. Hart intended to return here within three days with the two planes and pick up Ewing Scott and Ruay Wise, remaining mem- bers of the party. STUDENTS OF YALE IN RIOT | NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 30. {—Two hundred Yale students, {hurling bricks and fruit, stormed police headquarters today in an effort to rescue six comrades who had been arrested, but they were unable to break ‘through the ranks of 50 policemen. Bricks were thrown through the windows of the office of the Chief of Police. it wus one of the worst students’ riots recorded here and 500 studcnts partiei- pated in it. The riot lasted two hours. —————.— SIX CHILDREN NOT ENOUGH TO WIN PROGENY PRIZE BERLIN, May 30.—Deing father to “only” six children brought a Berlin baker nothing more than a boohy prize at a competition among children-blessed families, was struck in a mist. The artil- lery preparation began it 5:45 a. m., one hour before the infantry went over the top. The Ameri- cans moved forward in good or- der, the tanks in the lead, behind @ rolling barrage. The terriilc fire from the French guns had blasted a way and the suddenness of the movement took the Ger- mans completely by surprise. The Americans overran the hostile front lines and by 7:25 a. m. they had reached their objective with- out much difficulty or loss, cap- turing more than 200 prisoners. But by noon the Germans re- covered ‘from their surprise, be- ginning a heavy bombardment and a series of counter-attacks which continued throughout the mnext three days. The doughbovs suec- ceeded in consolidating their new lines and, despite the hard thrusts of the enemy, the mounting Hst of dead, and the desperate hand to hand fighting in Cantigny, kept their morale like seasoned vet- erans. It is known now that the Ger- man division lost 1,316 casualties between May 28 and 30. ‘The fighting at Cantigny con- tinued during the first days of . (Continued on Page Seven.) The competition was held in the “Neuo Welt” (New World), a com- bination rcstanrant, dance halt and indoor amusement resort. Amid the bluse of trumpets, the ciramplons of human wass produe- tion marched upou the platform, accompanied by their exhibits, Only ohe, a master cooper, could point to what was lettered “Ex- hibit O,” or u fifteenth child. The neurest competitors lagged three hehind. The cooper with his lusty legion of 15 carried off first prize, two couples with 12 ecuch were tied for second aud three 11 chil- dren each for third. The baker's haif dozen, endin: with Exhibit F, was simply out of the running. NEW YOR HALIFAX, May 30.—Business interests Lere are considering the establishment of an aerial freight, express and mall line between this city and New York. Govern- ment departments plan to experi men! with air mail routes between Halifax, Montreal and Ottawa. " NEW GOOD WILL TOUR VISA, Italy—Two young Vem- tiang are visiting on foot ufls ) lone of Italy's 9,600 um-ugg ALIFAX BY AIR