The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 12, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA VOL. XXXIL, NO. 4839. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1928. TWO ITALIANS RESCUED FROM ICE: LEADER OF GROUP FOUND DEA RASKOB TAKES CHAIRMANSHIP | OF COMMITTEE Defends Smith’s Stand on | Prohibition in State- ment of Acceptance STRESSES CAPACITY | OF HIS LEADERSHIP | | | | | Says Smith Is Leader Nol? Pussyfooter—Five Vice- | Chairmen Are Chosen | NEW YORK, July 12 --john 4 of Delaware, Chairman the Finance committee of the eral Motors ration and di rector of mar induostr an firancial enterprises, has accepted the chairmanship of the Democrai-| National Committze. { In his, ent of aeceptanva® he dr *d the right of Gov. Alfre] E. Smiih to work for a change in the prohibition laws and qualities of leadership. Mr. Raskob has never besn tive politically. Republican, but is a close, person-| al friend of Gov. Smith. Ha arose| to be one of the leading financlal| figures of the country i=om a start as a $5 a week bhookleepar in a small couniry town. s Defend: Smith's Course: .. An his stasd gt Ii I PRV atice, Mr. Raskob stressed the right| of Gov, Smith to work for a chanze | in the country’s prohibition tem which would improve cond tions. He said: “If as the re-| sult of careful study, Gov. Smith| can evolve a plan and I'I’L'Il]il“i)ll‘l to control the liquor question in a| way to absoluteiy prevent the re-| turn of the saloon, eliminate boot-' legging and its accompanying evils| of graft, corruption and murder, and restore temperate life in the country, then all fair-minded men| ob, an | _— time of 23 days. Their plane 8y, | *Tail Wind.” TOKYO, July 12. — Ameri and are confident they will set a {circuit. They will board a steam Around the Worid in 23 Days |from whence they will fly to New ks B’i’si‘éfirfldflfi‘fi%{ "pm‘h’e Jolint Henry Mefir_s\' nféapt. C.B. D? Collyer, pilot, will attempt to go around the world in the record is a cabin job, Wright-motored Fairchild, which has been named for the city of departure, Bes |5 low, Miss Vivienne Osborne, musical comedy star, presenting | the aviators with a mascot, which they promptly christened can aviators John H. Mears and Charles Collyer arrived here yesterday on a trip around the world new record of da er tomorrow for Vancouver, B. C., York. HOOVER SOON T0 GIVE PLAN ON FARM AID Statement on Issue Will Be Made in Accept- ance Speech must admit it is his right if indeed | not his duty as President to pro-! mulgate such a plan and to advo.| cate changes in the laws and “on-| stitution that are nec ry. This in is leadership and not pussy- footing.” Mr. Smith’ Raskob reviewed Gov. aid to agriculture in New ng: “The volume tremendous. It demands the best thought possible| to secure a solution along eco nomic lines with resultant pros- perity. Gov. Smith is expevienced | in this important problem.” He added that the New York gover-| nor believed in a tariff of, honesty. | Plans for Campaign airman Raskob s already studying campaign plans and an- nounced the appointment of Her- bert Iehman, one of the country’s|his views of farm relief wita the leading investment brokers and|statement that the i will be a direcior in the Studebaker cor-!discussed fully in his speecn of poration and many industrial, busi-| accepting the nomination fcv the ness and financial concerns, to be| Presidency cn tha Republizan Na- Director of Finances for the cam.|tional ticket. This speech will be paign.” He also made public the!made on August 11. appointment of five vice-chairman,| Journeying across the o noent including Mrs. Nellle Taylor Ross, next week, Hoover will receive en- farmer Governor of Wyoming and|route several party leaders and one of the earliest and most en-!state officials who n some in- thusiastic supporters of Gov. Smith|stances will ride a short distanee in the West with him. It was ared that the cam.| S paign would be kept on a highi plane, conducted on a businesslike| Fortune Left Nurse basis and no mudslinging would be | By Mother of Man indulged in. She Aided in War ANGELES, July 12—-A WASHINGTON, July 12.—Fcl lowing his previouslgs indjeated policy, Herbert C. Hoover hus met the request for an exp n of des { CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED # NEW YORK, July 12—With only| 108 the determination of the notifica-| Mother’s ~gratitude for the care tion dates for the two standard.{8!Ven her soldicr-son by a World Dbearers awaited as the spark that) War nurse was revealed here as will formally launch the Demo.ihm‘lnx been expressed in a $3,600,- eratic party for the Presidential | 70V Dequest to the nurse. campaign, organization is somplet-| 1M the early days of the war ed and_the Democratic camp lounaiEdna Irving nursed back to health itself fully prepared for the bat-|® YOUDE British officer in the tis. base hospital at Boulogne, France, Capt. Maxwell Woodlyn was one of the many she cared for daily. The nurse, who went overseas |from a little Canadian town, said NEW YORK, July 12—Alaska she has received word from a firm Juneau mine stock is quoted to-jof London attorneys that her name day at 3% ; Bethlehem steel 531 lwas set down in the will of the Congoleum Nairn 223%; Endicott-| officer’s mother, Mrs. Juila Wood- Johnson 81%; General Mph:.ltl yn, for a bequest of 750,000 pounds 70%; Glidden Company 22%; Great:of approximately §3,600,000. Northern Ore 20%4; Kelly-Spring- field 20; Remington-Rand 30; Southern Dairies “A”, no sale; Stewart-Warnér $6%; U. 8. Steel 135; Yellow Truck and Coach 33, ., —— STOCK QUOTATIONS ————— PONT L'EVEQUE.-—The French army’s slightest soldier among this year's conscripts is Emile Lemon- nier, a 51-pound. Norman, four feet SALMON BOAT STRIKES POCK Steamship 7Hy(:1;]es Badly Damaged—Reports of Platinum Strike | s Irean « | port afte in which aska were visited Capt S. Whitla msaid the cannery steamship Hyades, of the Red Salmon company of San Fran- cigeo, struck an uncharted rock in thé eastern Bristol Bay and was badly damaged. Platinum Strike Whitlam gave details of platinum Strike in the Good ws Bay district. He saiil Gordon Bet oldtime mining man, had taken out a quantity of {placer platinum and sent samples to Seattle lysis. pt. W F ald he was told 106 ounces had been taken out of claims 70 north from the village of Good News Bay. Bettles and “Tom-cod” Ch e, formerly of Nome, are working the claims. Tractors * and supplies are being sent to prepare work on a larger scale. Most of the world's supply Ural Mounta suiv. 12~The Bu- luca Boxer is in a voyage of 6,000 miles Indian villages in Al- Capt. the recent platinum for the is taken fyom the in Russia, < Seven Men Must Die Tomorrow; Executive Clemency Is Refused FRANKFORT, Ky, July 12— Gov.” Flem D. Sampson has refus- {ed executive clemency to any of {the seven' men condemned to die at Eddyville tomorrow, ———e— DALY VISITS JUNEAU . Eldon 3. Daiy, manager of the Ketchikan Spruce Mills, is aboard \the Aleutian enroute to his home town after an extended trip to the westward on business, in a globe | BRISTOL BAY| RM LABOR TICKET WILL BE IN FIELD {Senator Norris, Republican of Nebraska, Nomin- ated for Presidency 0 Coalition Ticket Scheme Rejected by Prohihi- tionsts and F. L. BULLETIN — WASHING, TCON, July 12, — Scnator Ge~rge W, Norris announcel this eftcrnocn that he will head no third party move- ment in connection with his nomination on the Farmer Labor ticket for the Presi- dency. CHICAGO, 1., July 12, |United States Senator George W {Norris, Republican has become the unwilling canili= ydate for the Presidency on (he iFarmer Labor ticket, despite his refusal to head a third party | ticket. Senator Norris was placed nomination last night at a sess sion of the Farmer Labor deles gates and received 16 ballots te ‘H for Norman Thomas, Social- 1ist mominee. The Farmer Laborites named Wil Vereen of Moultrie, Georgla, tcotton mill owner, for the Viee- Presidency. The possibility of a merger of Prohibitioniet and Farmer Labor group ended when both vetoed the proposal, COALITION TICKET CHICAGO, I, suly 12.—Gif- \ford Pinchot, of Pennsylvania, Republican, and William R ISweet, of Colorado, a Democrat, both former Governors and well tknown Prohibitionists, were ask- ed late yesterday afternoon by telegraph, by the leaders of the Prohibition and Farmer Labor party conventions in session he if they would head a third party coalition ticket A committee convention in e of six from each recommended they join issue this ve: ction was delayed until sentiment from both jSweet and Pinchot is received but it is said the mapority of the del are for a Hoover and Curtis indorsement. DENVER, Colo., July 12.- William R. Sweet said last night, when informed of the Chicago convention action, that would probably not look with favor upon a movement to name him head of a ecoalition ticket. Italy to Strike Coin For War Anniversary ROME, July 12 will soon have a novelty on the market when the new Italian 20 lire silver piece, just ordered struck to commemorate the tenth anni sary of the war victory makes its appearance. It will bear as motto the saying of an unknown infantrymsan of the Piave campaign: “Better to live one day like a lion than 100 years like a sheep!” The Fascist em blem of the axe and lictor's rods will figure in the design, with the dates 1918-1928 and the “year VI" of the Fascist era. The value of the issue will be 500,000,000 lire or about $26,315,000. i pirre & Lewis and Clark Site Marked by Playground BISMARCK, N. D, July 12 Shouts of youngsters at play will echo over Wildwood lake and the valleys nearby, historic the winter camp site of Lewis and Clark on their first trip to the Pacific Ocean. To mark premanently the where the two explorers their first winter in the wilds of this region, a public playground has been established on the shores of the lake. The lake, located 33 miles north of Bismarck, was a favorite stop- ping place fo rearly traders and explorers. The spot still ahounds with wild Coin collectors spot spent lite, 1 MEMBER HOOVER’S HOME IN CALIFORNIA Y s oo o s, 0 of Nebraska,® OF ASSOCIATED PRESS +To this beautiful home on the summit of San Mrs. Hoover, her husband interesting himseir {Juan Hill, Stanford University, Cal., Ererbert in the laying out of the grounds. “Tut,” the lie, 1 oover, Republican nominee for the Presi- dency, will retire to write his speech of accept- lance._ The mansion itself was designed by canime member | | NEW HEAD OF ) HAS RECORD Otto Chlson Worked His Way from Bottom to Top of Railroading | ' \ DULUTH, Minn July 12 Starting work on a railroad at 17 vears of age, Otto F. Ohlson, nam ed yesterday by S In terior Work as General Manager of the Alaska Railroad, succeed ing Noel W. Smith, resigned, has tworked his way from the bottom to the head of a railroad, now that | he has been chosen to the position he will take on A 1. Born in Sperlingsholm, Sweden {in 1870, Ohlson started work on a railroad as telegraph operator. He was an operator in South Ameri ca and Bast Indies until 1893 wher he joined the Pennsylvania Rail road as telegrapher. Then he became switchman, yard foreman, assistant train master, In 1901, Ohlson started telegraph- ing on the Northern Pac then bhecame a dispatcher istant trainmaster and istant to the| General Manager. Ohlson joined Corps of the World war as ( Superintendent of France. He became was appointed General tendent, then Lieutenant Colonel In 1919 Ohlson urned to. the Northetn, Pacific in 1921 was named trainmaster. A year lat- er he became assiztant to the perintendent of the St. Paul sion and last year $ promote to the superintendency of the Lake Superior division ———— Dynamite Used to Save Industrial Center Ore. Town KLAMATH FALLS, 12.~Dynamite was u north end yesterds n industrial district from tion. A battle with the fire waged for two hours. The fire started in a lumber yard and burned be |tween three and four million feet of Jumber. of 15t Engineering my during the n and became Terminals in a4 Major and Superin- the Ore., July ed in the wved the lestrue GRENOBLE, 1 Reindeer, brought from North America, dwin- - ance ALASKA R. B, | dled when kept in corrals. Turned |100se in the hills, they are thriv- !ing. # 1 Lindbergh Is Not Known; Forced to Dig Up 20 Cents NORTH PLATTE, July 121 don’t know you,” Col. Charles A. Lindberg wa told yesterday when he ten dered a $4 check at a local restaurant for and rolls, He was forced to dig for 20 cents to pay his bill. || ELKS ADOPT NEW SYSTEM The Elks, Neb., coffee | | | | MIAMI, Fla., July 12 in session here, voted to estab-| ish a $20,000,000 trust fund for! use of charitable cducation and henevolent enterprises H —— — Disgruntled Democrats In Texas May Join in With the Republicans DALL i movement to effec tween the Texas posed Gov, Al state Republican under way with hoth factions promi ate While plans for being perfected, be started to e names of candidate fices, who announced support Smith, from the ballots election on July 28 — > 2 Model Treaties Are Adopted at Geneva Metting July 12.--The an alliance be: op-| thet ! Democrats | Smith and organization i# eade 1 ty coaper | to ance sre 1 whether | | | i wil| barred | rimary | conl a further meral re Confer-{ bitr pted the | GENEVA, July 12 inspiration for duction of armaments ence on Security and in session here, ha text of model tr: non-ag [ gression, one bilateral and one genoral, ! The conference also adopted ar-| ticles of a treaty of mutual assist-| ance whereby a nation the victim| of aggressive war, would be lwllvml‘l in its defense hy other couniries. All governments will be urged i sign these treaties o, | proval of California as a place of r (International Ilinstrated News) 'SENATOR REED | zene | American i country {land and of the family, barks his ap- dence. TAKES RAP AT REP. NOMINEE Attacks Hoover in State- ment in New York— Confers with Smith 12.—United A. Reed had Al Smith and cussion wa Y YORK, July Senator James akfast with Gov hoth declared i ator eed attacked Hoover aying, “I don't think people ready a man for ident his adult 1 all of his tments Britain, then to agricultural price the lished that job.” Three flCQn NEW d y late to who and in came this American Eng omp- are Pre life inve elect spent made Great abro to beat down to benefit H adian Pacific Trainmen Dead, Explesion Toree today when July Kkilled pusher WINNIPEG, 12 trainmen we the boiler of engine of a Canadian Pacific Railway freizht xploded near Glacicr, [ ud are M engineer; tandbury, tiremar 1 W Clay, conductor The three lived at Revelstoke. The gion is attributed to water short Th w d togers, men the! axplo CMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS ] TWO MEMBERS TALIN'S CREW RESCUE TODAY | Russian Ice Breakes Fg i Way Throu:! Floe ‘. to Camp ' % SWEDISH SCIENTIS™ AND LEADER. IS |, Story of Silent H: Related — Daru Aviator Stranded (Copyrighte Associated ABOARD R DREAKER KRAS TIC, July 12.—C Mariano Filij and Italia, without and seemingly doo: onizing death, has by the Krassin unbelievable epic has been darkenc that Dr. Finn M {ish meteorologist |group, that set ¢ 8 to get help to th wded {alia {erew, died 30 di 0. | Guard Body | The full story of Dr. Malm- gren’s death and their own bit- | ter suffering was told aboard A ]Kmmn by tho two rescued {lans, For 30 days they clung to {Dr. Malmgren's body in vague hope of taking it back to elvill- !zation. They had alf but resigned [themselves to their fate when they were sighted Tucsday by !Russian airman Chukhnosky. ]'r | AN WE i ARC Albe *to pii08 lirigible fc 13 days ) AN Es regened Almost e news Aawed- ol e da hey then directed their reseue. Story of Survivors Setting out from the Nobile group on May 15 to bring help, the progress of the three men was impeded by the injury to Dr. !Malmgren's leg which he suffers ed when the gondola of the Italla |crashed ! Unable to move heroic sclentist begged }1 lians to march on itheir own lives and leave him to | the fnevitable end, but they !would not go. They felt bound |by the closest bonds of comrade= ship and on the desclate waste © | ministered to Him until he died. Silent Horror ‘hen the two Italians spemt the silent horror with food dim- = inishing. Thirteen days ago they had virtually no food left. They had just one hope—that some= how - cut of the skies, they might be rescued. Their dream, born in infinite pain was finally fulfilled when out of the sky |emerged aviator Chukhnosky, like la cuing angel Krassin at Scene 3 i All night the Krassin plunged through the thick mass of lce o5 and made 20 miles intervening . {between the former location and b |the camp of the stranded three lat o’clock this morning. The captain of the Krassin, standi ‘on the bridge at c'elock | morning, saw a figure on the md drew alongside the one mam: Iwho was waving faintly a tats tered A second man lay exha the ice and bes |- J further, the the two and save | re | i & flag sted on d (Continued on Page Three.) London Brokers Veto Meth LONDON, July 12 nancial leaders have the present proposals stock quotations mericanize” the for least otherwi City sh Y 1 to br London | Exchange. United ticker Stoek in the tecent inno States designed service from the New York change have aronsed st but nothing The belief is fa conditions do not installations. to wide inter; I land neral that nt faster else in 1y war, More telephones are nead of London operators, and ‘he latest boom In industrial stocks timulated the installation of pri- vate booths. While arbitrade dealings in 17, chief | ods of Americans |S. railroad shares have been oft since the war, there is groi inte in certain securities ich operators on both sides of the Ad lantic deal in, and these are hams dled by cable, mostly after ificial close here. It was: at that time, around 4 o'clock, | Shorters Court used to w.h to activity with the early openinj | prices from Wall Street b right int othe court through | pecially installed cable These offices are still and several members the belief that with the |growth of dealings bet two countries ‘a resu trading on pre-war occur in the not too and when the ban is e