The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 2, 1928, Page 1

VOL. XXXiL, NO. 4806 EXCURSIONISTS FROM SEATTLE ABOARDALASKA Good Will and Trade Par- ty Leave for North— In Juneau Tuesday SEATTLE, June 2. —With 100 members, the Good Will and Trade Party of the Seattle Cham- ber of Commerce and Young Mens' Business Club sailed for Alaska this morning at 9 o’clock aboard the steamer Alaska. The party will renew business con- tacts with Alaskans. According to the schedule the Alaska should reach Juneau next Tuesday noon and remain until midnight. Bound for the west- ward, the Alaska will take the excursionists to Skagway reach- ing there at 7 o'clock in the morning of June 6 and remain- ing until 6 o’clock at night. Cor- dova is the next stop, June § 10 a. m. ard the Alaska is scheduled to call at Sitka at 8 a. m. on June 14, leave there at 4 p. m. and arrive at Juneau southbound to Seattle at 6 o'clock on the morning of June 15, leaving there at 9:30 o'clock. The Alaska has 303 passen- aboard, including the fol- Jowing for Juneau: J. G. Zabdra and wife, C. L. Hillyard, H. Thomas, J. 8. Lain, R. R. Moore, D. Dishaw, Miss Torkeson, Miss Harrison, Miss Reidi, G. Erick- son, J. Rasmussen, Mrs, Skinner and two daughters and four steerage. ———————— FORMER HIGH “OFFICIAL NOW IN LAW TOLS Former Congressman, For- mer Asst. Dist. Atty., Is Indicted who as former Con- nan helped to make laws as a former Assistant Dis- trict Attorney helped enforce them, has been indicted with six others on charges of robbing the United States mails. The indictments, which came from the Federal Grand Jury, is the result of an investigation into the $133,000 train robbery at Evergreen Park, a suburb, on February 3. Government agents have been engaged in building a case against the men, namely, Whar- ton, Charles Cleaver, alleged lead- William Donovan, Frank Mec- Lawrence O’Brien, Virgil ikger and John Flannery. The latter two are at large. Flannery, two years ago, sentenced to be hanged. Wharton’s bond has been fixed at $10,000 and the others at $100,000. Wharton said: “If robbing the, mails was not a serious crime, this indictment would be silly. I know nothing about the case ex- cept what I read. 1 defended Cleaver on four different occa- sions but he is the only ome I knew."” was ———a——— BUNNELL LEAVES Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, Presi- dent of the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, and his daughter Jean, will leave to- norrow morning on the Princess Alice for Prince Rupert. He de- livered the commencement ad- dress at the high school last ev- ening. From Prince Rupert he and Miss Bunnell will take a steamer for Ketchikan, where he will address the graduating class. — TO SPEND SUMMER, SOUTH Mrs. H. J. Turner, Mrs. Hec- tor McLean and Mrs. George ‘Simpkins and their children are leaving on the Princess Alice to- morrow morning for the south to spend the summer. They ex- pect to take a house on Bain- bridge Island, near Beattle, to- gether for the three months they will be away. e BLIND WIN IOIOIg CHICAGO—Fourteen blind stu- dents have been' graduated from of them with honors, S { Returning from | & “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1928, TUBBORN FIRES FOU | British Cruiser Is Invited to Spend Fourth of July Here The British cruiser Dur- | ban will arrive in Alaskan | waters on June 16 and re- main until July 10, visiting Western Central, and South- | eastern Alaskan ports, and may spend July 4, here, ac- cording to a tentative sched- | ule of its voyage just re- ceived at the office of Gov. | George A. Parks. The Gov- ernor was advised se that the usual courtesies and fa- cilities could be extended to | | the visiting warship and its personnel. The vessel will visit Ko- diak, arriving there June 16, and Valdez, and then come to Southeastern Alas- ka, touching at various ports | between June 26 and 29. | | An invitation has been tele- graphed by the Chamber of | Commerce to the British Ad- | miralty for the vessel to spend July 4th here. I S D R TAMMANY NOT A POLITICAL ORGANIZATION Olvany Says Tammany Non-Political — Commit- tee there by Sufferance NEW YORK, June 2. — Juydge George *W. Olvany, Tammany leader and Sachem of Tammany Society, who had left for a fish- ingg ), hurried back to appear wotord™ the Senate - Prestdential campaign expenditure investiga- tion committee. He testified to- day that Tammany had made no contribution to the campaign fund for Gov. Smith’s Presiden- tial nomination. Judge Olvany denied that Tammany is a politi- cal organization and declared that it is a patriotic society which has its headquarters in a ‘“place called Tammany Hall.” Tammany Society, he said, does nct take part in politics. Senator A. W. Barkley, Demo- crat of Kentucky, declared that ‘in the minds of the public Tam- many is regarded as a political organization.” Judge Olvany replied “that is because the Democratic County Committee of New York County has made its headquarters in the building known as Tammany Hall, owned by the Tammany So- ciety. It is there by sufferance only.” —————— SMITH AND GOFF MAY NOT GET ALL W.VA.DELEGATES Delegates Ee;d Mostly Opposite to Presi- dential Choice CHARLESTON, W. Va, June 2.—With the vote tally practi- cally completed it is found that most of the West Virginia dele- gates to the National Conven- tions on pre-primary pledges are in direct opposition to the peo- ple's prefernce for the Presiden- tial nomination. While Gov. Al- fred E. Smith and Senator Guy D. Goff decivisely won the Demo- cratic and Republican votes re- spectively as the State’s choices, of the 19 Republican delegates to the Kansas City convention not one is pledged directly to Senator Goff and only five of the West Virginia National delegates are pledged to Gov. Smith. Two Republican delegates are regarded as pledged to Hoover and the remaining 17 are un- pledged. In the Democratic Party 20 delegates having 16 votes were elected. Fourteen of the dele- gats elected are anti-Smith and five are pledged to him. One is undesignated. —eteo—— A MATTER OF TASTE PARIS—American meat has a flavor unlike that of France, CHANG TSO LIN’S GRIP ON PEKING LOOSENED AGAIN AS CITY TOTTERS APPROXIMAATE § [BATTLE LINE S-S 0 ETIENSIN \, / =\ L rn China, notably the Nationalists under orafty capital, is reported ready to flee Chang Tso-Lin (above), War to his Manchurian stronghold. T Sulf of Chihli Ghiang Kaicshek (in circle) are Lorg of the North and ruler of the he Flamingo Gate (right) is onme of the entrances to the walled capital city. The map shows the battle area. BULLETIN—PEKING, June 2.—Marshal Chang Tso Lin is ' leaving Peki tonight. It is understood that he has arranged for the Shansi lead- ers to take over the North- ern capital peacefully. PEKING, June 2—The Chinese Nationalist army and. its allies are sweeping northward toward Pe- king, reaching for control of the capital city and threatening the dominion there of Chang Tso-Lin, Manchurian war lord. The history of China since the loverthrow of the empire and the Manchu dynasty in 1911 has been one of strife between the north and the south, divided geographi- cally by rivers and mountains. And Peking, because of its lo- cation, is now, as before, the cen- ter of northern activities and the goal of the invading hosts from the south. Of all the eastern modern times none more romantic life than Chang Tso-Lin, the bandit of the Man- churian ‘hills, who almost became emperor of China. This time the forces which hope to drive him from Peking include the Nationalists, commanded by Chiang Kai-shek, and the armies of Feng Yu-hsiang and Yen Hsi- shan, which have approached Pe- king from the south and west. Knows Ups and Downs Chang Tso-Lin has become thoroughly accustomed to the suc- cesses and reverses of. Chinesc civil war. Barly in the spring a year ago the Nationalists were driving toward Peking, and for days Chang had a train steamed up and headed toward Mukden, his Manchurian stronghold, ready for retreat at a moment's notice. But his peril did not keep him from holding a huge birthday par- ty, which lasted almost two days. Around his home in east Peking was strewn the yellow earth which was the classic symbol of old imperial China. His son, Chang Hsuen-liang, came home from the battle front to felicitate his father on his fifty-second birthday anniversary. The rice wine flowed through two dawns, and the simg-song ghis fed bird's- nest soup to the guests while the mah jong ivories clicked the clock around. Barbaric Pomp Party It was a party of barbaric pomp, an oriental version of the dance on the eve of Waterloo. But the expected Waterloo did not come. The Nationalists fell into war among themselves. So Chang potentates of has lived a rounded himself with a bodyguard of Manchus, who before China be- came a republic had comprised the royal family. He consulted with his wise men upon dn auspi- cious time to ascend the dusty Dragon Throne and even employ ed silk weavers in Socchow to design coronation robes. Now he looks agmn toward his Mukden refuge—but in Caine war lord, though often down, not out until he is beheaded. All Stories Not True Most of the stories of Chang Tso-Lin's life are probably more romantic than true. But he came from Shantung, and as a boy he became a bandit. By 1905 he was leader of one "of the biggest bands in Manchuria and when the Russo-Japanese war broke out he helped the Japanese by harrowing the Russians. Then he came to Peking and won the favor of the old empress | dowager. She took him and his bandit band into government service, and in 1911, last year of the empire, he was made military governor of Fengtien, Manchuria’s chief province. Since then Chang has had many ups and downs. Twice he has been war lord of Peking, coming there last two years ago by de- feating theé “Christian general,” Feng, who now is at his throat tagain. Illiterate, but cunning, he scorns diplomacy and rules by the law of club and fang, Chang’s chief vice, it is said, is gambling. He is reported to play mah jong for 48 hours at a stretch and to pay off his under- lings when he loses with 1. O. U’s. In his harem are generally but four or five girls. Once when he brought a favorite concubine from Mukden he had an arch erected in Tiensin dn her honor. Peking itself is a city within a| city. The Chinese portion is a mere 400 years old, while the Tartar settlement dates from 1267 and includes the “Forbidden City.” The whole of Peking is surround- ed by a wall 30 feet high and 25 feet thick at the base. 3 Since the republic was estab- lished Peking has %ost much of its imperial mystery, and today the main streets of the city are broad avenues flanked with low houses and buildings and newly planted trees—the one spacious city in all China. PEKINQ, June 2.—Reports are current that the Mukden troops, | of the Northern Alliance, have been defeated at Liuliho, 30 miles south of Pekin with 4,000 IMPEACHMENT OF ATTY. GEN, RECOMMENDED Special Legislative Com- mittee of Massachu- setts Reports BOSTON, Mass., June 2.—The special legislative committee has unanimously recommended im- peacL.ment for Attorney General Arthur K. Reading ‘“‘for miscon- duct and maladministration.” The committee found Reading has ‘“‘wilfully, wrongly and cor- ruptly prostituted his official power and influence for the pur- pose of securing benefits for him- self.” Most of the report dealt with the Attorney General's relation with the Decimo Club, Incorpor- ated, whose payment of $25,000 started the investigation. K. G. ATTORNEY T0 NOMINATE " SENATOR REED WASHINGTON, June 2.—Unit- ed States Senator James A. Reed has named Charles M. Howell, Kansas City lawyer, to make his nomination speech at the Demo- cratie Comvention fin Houston, Texas. They have been close per- sonal friends for 30 years. Howell served under Senator Reed and was a law parther until Reed became Senator. Postum Cereal Company Sold for $45,000,000 NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 2.— Announcement was made here to- day that the Creck Neal Coffee Company has sold the Postum Cereal Company for $45,000,000. Filing of Divorce Suit Causes Tragedy casualties. The defeat was the MARRIAN, Tex., June 2—R. M. Maurice Ravel, French composer, | promoted himself from marshal 0| result of severe fighting between | Landrum, 85, was shot and killed found. He doesn’t like it, and|gemeralissimo and moved into thetne Northern the -University of Chicago, eight|thinks it ridiculous to eat can-|long-deserted palace of the yelow-|gnansi Province died sweet potatoes with a steak. rqofed Forbidden City and sur- troops and the £ troops which are allied with the Nationalists. by W. E. Frazier, 23, his brother- in-law. Mrs. Landrum filed a suit for orce two days ego. ¥ DOWNTOWN FIiF STUBBORN; LOSS NOT YET KNOWN Fire in Front Street Store Building Baffles Fire- | men Over 2 Hours | A stubborn fire raging in the upper story and benecath the roof of the Juneau Billiard Parlors building, between Seward and Franklin Streets on Front, kept the local Fire Department busy | for more than two and one-half hours today and was finally ex tinguished without heavy damag from the flames although it was not possible to obtain any. esti- mates on the loss this afternoon. Some damage to the rooms was done by the water. . | Six lines of hose were laid and | the firemen chopped their way | through walls, roof and ceiling before they could reach the seat of the fire. The cause of the blaze was not definitely ascer- tained. The flames were first discover- ed shortly before 11:30 a. m. by a small boy playing in the street, who turned in the alarm. The last line of hose was shut off at 2:10 p. m. The building is owned by the McGrath Estate. The upper floor was divided into apartments and living rocms, all of which were said to have been occupied. On the street floor was located the Juneau Billiard Parlors. All of OF SOCIATED PRESS M'HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE B — PRICE TEN CENTS \’ i W ‘Home"” "wo Times ve vy loday e ir home a =lnale was the and L. who uneau Burned ou xperience ten Jun {udon, lo your baen sidir 1 h sin the €1 fire ing tically in the aorn- e prac- \ir belongings, When xcitement from the blaze ha almed down they mov- into a vacant apartment over the Juneau Billiards. When the fire alarm for the second fire was turned in this forenoon they again found themselves in the danger zone and once more head- ed for the air with their possessions. open - e+ FOUR FLIERS T0 CONTINUE THEIR TRIP Southern Cross to Take: Air Monday for Next Leg of Flight HONOLULU, H. L, June 2.— Determination to continue the flight to Australia was reiterated today by Capt. Kingsford Smith and his three companions, after the successful flight from Oak- land. its stock and most of its store furnishings, pool = and billiard tables, etc., were removed, suf- fering some damage in the mov- ing process. Water flooded both floors and filled the basement so rapidly it was necessary to pump it out almest continuonsly. Workmen .were busy, as soon as the water was #hut off, clean- ing out the debris and getting the building in readiness for im- mediate repairs. The Salvation Army staff here served coffee and sandwiches, furnished by Rhodes Cafe, to the fire fighters. No insurance was carried on the building butf the loss suffered by the Juneau Billiards is par- tially covered, according to Fred Cameron, part owner. —————— |ARE TO SEARCH ON SKIIS FOR MISSING ITALIA KINGS BAY, June 2.—In firm belief that the Italia crashed among the mountains and glac- iers of Northern Spitzbergen, Italian Alpinists are eager to start for the north on skiis in hope of finding the crew of the airship, dead or alive, Members of the base crew bas- ed their belief on the known wind direction on the morning of May 25 when the last radio message was received from the Italia. The base crew estimates that the airship crashed between Wood Bay and Wiljde Fjord. They believe there is a scant possibility that any of the crew are alive. ——————— CLEAN-UP CAMPAIGN TO START NEXT WEEK The aviators are not decided whether the next landing place will be Suva, 3144 miles distant or the Isle of Opolu, in British Samona, 2500 miles distance. The next hop is the most per- ilous. Facilities for landing at Opolu are reported by the Brit- ish. Consul .as betier--than 'at Suva, The third hop will be to Bris- bane, Australia, a distance from the Fiji Islands of 1,795 miles. The Southern Cross will hop off not later than Monday. REBUILT PLANE NEW YORK, June 2. — The Fokker Aircraft Corporaticn re- ports that the Southern Cros which arrived yestcrday in Hon- clulu on a nonstop flight from Oakland, Cal, was bullt of the remnants of two wrecked plaues of the Wilkins' Expedition to Al- aska in 1926, The fuselage of Wilkins' single engined transport, wings and landing gear of the tri-motored monoplane and new motors form- ed the Southern Cross. “B0B” GAINES LOSES APPEAL Petition Denied for New Trial — Only One Hope Remains OLYMPIA, Wash., June 2 petition of Willlam C. Gaines for permission to file for a mnew trial on the grounds of newly discovered evidence failea before the State supreme court. A remitter has been mailed tc King county and when it arrives a new date will be fixed fo Gaines’ hanging, he having been convicted of the murder of his daughter Sylvia. An appeal to the Governor for clemency is Gaines’ last hope. Clesnup, paincup. st next SIMON HELLENTHAL Tuesday and finish in two weeks. This 18 the order which has been issued by the Junean Wo- man’s Club, the organization which will sponsor the Annual Cleanup in Juneau this year. Due to the unsatisfactory weath- er during the past several weeks no action has been taken until the ‘present to organize a cam- paign for the beautification of the city. However, next Tuesday the drive for a cleaner Juneau will be tlaunched under the leadership of Mrs. Charles Skusg, president of the Woman's Club. As in past years, the city will furnish carry away wagons free of charge. ——eo—— MUD MONEY ROCHESTER, N. H—1It's mud- hole season. One farmer is re- ported to have made $200 in a week retrieving autos from 80g- BY places. Others sold hay to motorists to improve traction wrl horses were not available. OFF TO CONVENTION Simon Hellenthal, who sails on the Princess Alice tomorrow for the South, will be the first of the delegates to the Democratic Na- tional convention to leave Alas- ka. He will visit in Seattle, Portland and San Francisco be fore leaving for Houston. After the national convention he will visit Chicago and with relatives in Michigan before returning to Juneau, R — KENO HILL MINER DIES Henry Dubois, formerly a resi- dent of Dawson but for the last several years engaged in mining at Keno Hill, Mayo district, died at Mayo recently of heart faiiure following an operation. He 18 survived by two brothers, A. Du- bois of Dawson and Joseph Du- bois of Ketchikan. He was a member of the Dawson-Aerie of Eagles, ODAY DAMAGE DONE BY BIG FIRE THIS MORNING Cliff Apartments Gutted by Stubborn Blaze—Ten- ants Lose Heavily In a fire which started shortly after 2 o'clock this morning, the Cliff Apartments on Calhoun Ave- nue below Court House Hill, were badly gaited and practically all residents of the huilding lost most of their personul property. ANl but one apartment of the twentyfive suite apartment house were occupied. The fire was so far advanced when discovered that the tepants had little oppor- tunity to save any of their belong- ings and many made hasty egrcss in their might clothes culy. Miss Sully Alarms Probably one of the first to dis- cover the fire was Miss Henrietia Sully, who was awake in her rooms at the time the fire broke out. Her first knowledse o it was when she heard the flam.s crackling. Sho rushed from her rooms and awakened a number of other tenants of the building, and then returned to Ler apartment and saved most of her property. At approximately (he same time Miss Sully discovered the ftire, a call was turned in by the telephone central aad the firemen tumbled out of their beds. Then alarm from box 42 was turnad in. Within five minutes water was being poured on tho tlames from hose lines. Six lines, comstituting 1,900 feet of hose, werc soom in gse, two from the Fire Hall cor- ner, two from the high pressare Aydrant on Court House hill, one from the corner of Wifth and ofn Streets and oue from in nt of the Weldon Apartments on Calhoun Aveuue. Hollmann Awakens Sleepors ilenry Hoilmanu, member of the fire depurtment, awakenod a number of teuauts who wore asleep when the truck arrived ca the scene. A few personal ef- tects were saved by him and cther firemen who made the rounds of the bullding to be snre each tea- iat was cut of his room. Difficulty was encouutered in lighting the fire because of i3 location, in the ceuter of the building. Firemen said after- wards that they did not think at first the fire was of such large dimensious for litile smoke wus issuing, but when a brigade win lire extinguishers attempted to put the flames out, the necessity was seen for several hose lines. With great rapidity the fire spread through the coal and wuod room on the second floor, wacre the fire is thought to have o.ig- inated, and up the center air shaft, spreading into the th.rd and fourth floors. It was almost three hours later before the tire was completely out. The top three floors had been almost com- pietely gutted, while the rooms on the ground story were soaked from tlie water which had seeped through. Credit to Firemen Too much credit cannot be giv- en to the loca! firemen, according to all those who lived in the apartments. Al had high praise for the excellent work in putting out the flames and saving such property as they could. The twentyfive firemen who turned out to fight the fire wish to thank all who helped in any way at the fire, and Miss Minnie ®elds, cook at the Federal jail, who served coffee aud cake to them. Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Welch, own- ers of the Cliff Apartments, did not definitely say whether or mot they would rebuild. Mast of the loss is covered by insurance, but the amount of damage dome wiil not be known until contract car- penters have gone over the build- ing and made an estimate price on the task of rebuilding. Mrs. Letty Fry is manager of the Cuiff, Following are the mames given by Mrs. Welch of those who wera in occupancy at the time of the fire: Mr. and Mss, James Scri- ver, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Cook, Mr. and Mrs. Mabry, Mr. end Mrs. Boyce, Mr. and Mrs, H. G. Welch, Mr. and Mrs. Steve Johmson, Mr. Scott, Mr. Kessner, Mr. and Mrs. Hansen, Mr. and Mrs, Pete Ham- mer, F. Cook, Mr. and Mrs. Van Wort, Nrs. Erickson and two sons. Mr. and Mrs. Boyes, Mr. and Mrs. Cochrame, Mis: Tlenrietta A ¢ 9 Sully, Miss Foster, Mr. and Mrs. McJilton, Mizs Geise, Tom son, br. and Mrs. J. D. Van A:fi L. Hudov and Keometh Ji The origin ot the fire is Fergu: