The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 6, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” T v VOL. XXXIL, NO. 4860. POLISH FLIERS JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1928. JU MP INTO OCE MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS " PRICZ TEN CENTS' AN e e S Mexican Region Partly Destroyed by Series of Quakes UNITED STATES AGAIN WINNER OLYMPICGAMES Makes Hig@AScore Over | All Competitors for { “__‘_A‘dopt d” by a City | Ninth Time AMSTERDAM, Aug. 6. — The United States has captured the Olymp! for the ninth time with 173 points America than four 3 scored 82 fewer points ars ago and won only 8 first places against 12 in 1924, America won the 1,600 meter relay setting the world and Olym- pic record of three and one- fifth mnutes. America also captured the 400 meter reluy tying the world rec- ord in 41 seconds flat. Other points of sc sat Britain 46, 14, Canada 19, South rers were: Sweden 44, 38, France Africa 14, Norway 7, Hungary | . Chile Italy 4, Philippines 3, Switzerland 3 and Holland 1. * 5, QUEEN OF MERMAIDS AMSTERDAM, Aug. 6.—Mar- tha Noreli, of New York, was to- day recrowned Queen of the Mer- maids of the World when she captured the Olympic 400 meter frec style swimming champion- ship for the second time in two Olympians. She shattered her own record making the swim in five minutes and lm‘!y-tw_u and two-fifths sec- o 1,500 meter free style shattering the world record in 19:51:4/5. e — NO RACE T0 SOUTH POLE Wilkins Announces €o-op- eration with Byrd Expedition LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6.—There will be no race to the South Pole as far as Capt. George H. Wil- kins is concerned. Wilkins an- nounced he would cooperate in every way with the expedition of Commander Richard E. Byrd and had no intentions of flying to the South Pole. He said he would confine his efforts to re- connaisance of 2,000 miles of the unmapped area of the Antarctic. Commander Byrd will make many flights of a more detailed nature and will attempt to reach the South Pole. Capt. Wilkins explained that two planes, both constructed on the West coast, will be taken by his expedition. Capt. Wilkins, who said he will have a Pacific Coast aviator as pilot, will sail from New York Séptember 22. ———— - — TRIPLETS NOW AND THEN SPRINGFIELD, TIL.—Over a per. iod of years, triplets are bora about once in theee weeks in Iili. rois, department of health figures show. Four pairs of twins and 275 single births are recorded daily—the total for a year being about 20 sets of triplets, 1,500 of twins and 135,000 single birihs. to Finland’s 102. |} “Borg, ot Sweden; wonflp{ i Ma PINETOPA IS PARTLY GONE; PANIC ARISES Mountains in District Re- ported to Have Disappeared MEXICO CITY, Aug. 6.—Dis- paches from Pinetopa, State of 'a, state the town was de- stroyed in part last Saturday Miss Kathryn Witwer has th unique distinction of being the *“adopted” daughter of a whole tity, for citizens of Gary, Ind,, took that step as the means for Insuring the girl’s musical edu- sation. She made her debut | last season with the Chicaga ivic Opera Company, but is ere lh:g: sailing for Europe undertake further study. DEMAND MADE FOR BLACKMER {U. S. Asks France to De- liver Missing Teapot Dome Witness PARIS, Aug. 6.—A formal de- mand for Henry M. Blackmer, wanted for perjury, was made (10 d ago by the American | Embassy, acting on instructions from the State Department at Washington, D. C. The legal department of French Foreign Office considered case arrived and have These have not reach- the sexamined. ed here. ] A decisicn is expected |Meanwhile Blackmer is |surveillance of the authorities |who have not yet disposed of the arrest of the missing Teapot Dome witness. St S AP PR iFoch Sees Own Statue Dedicated Near Ypres PARIS, Aug. 6.—Marshal Foch has just achieved the rare dis- tinction of seeing his own monu- ment unveiled. A huge equestrian statue, dom- inating the war-wrecked city of Ypres, was dedicated as a lasting memorial to the commander-in- cltief of the allied forces. Premier Poincare addressed the throng, saying that Marshall Foch’s head |had not been turned by praise Jand glory. soon. BELGRADE AIDED BY LOAN FROM AMERICA BELGRADE, Aug. 6.—A short time ago Belgrade, the capital of the newly formed Serb, Croat, Sio- vene Kingdom, better known as Jugoslavia, obtained a loan of $4.- 000,000 from an American financial group. The results are alreadv apparent. Where before there were un- gightly patches of waste land now there are parks and gardens, the overcrowded, dirty old tram cars have been replaced by quicker, cleaner vehicles and their servica supplemented by a fleet of fast and comfortable omnibuses. Most Temarkable of all, the rough Turk- ish cobbles which made walkingy difficult and motoring an adven. ture have civen place to ‘smooth asphalt or wooden blocks. This change in the street sur- faces has brought many other re- sults and has greatly expanded the market for automobiles, motor ey. cles and bicycles in Jugoslavia Five years ago there was mot a single motor car plying for hire in Belgrade. To cross the town meant half an hour in a crowded tramcar or even longer bumping cver the cobbles in a two.hors: cab, Now there are many hun- dreds of taxi-cabs on the streets and thousands of private cars in addition. At first Italian, French and G man cars were more popular ha- Lut of late American and Britisa makes “have begun to appedr in €ver increasiing numbers and are steadily gaining in popularity. {Faces Mich Work-at Al- the' no action until the documents in| been | under | noon by the most viclent earth- quake ever recorded there, after a series of heavy shocks | Fifty or more tremors were felt Saturday and 10 on Sunday. | People are panicky and living {in the open in fear that the re maining buildings will collapse Several “mountains” in the igion are reported to have disap- peared ualties are reported al- fears are entertained for nce no replies to tele- requests for information have heen received since the quake there which was followed {by torrential trains which added to the destruction. SMITH BACK FROM 10 DAY OUTING TRI bany " as'Nominée and Also as Governor NEW YORK, Aug. 6.—With, his acceptance speech as well as other important matters on [his mind, Gov. Al Smith is back in_his old stamping grounds to-| lday from a 10-day vacation that: was not all play. He returned to | the executive mansion in the dead of night, terminating a 100-mile automobile trip through the stormy darkness along the west bank of the Hudson Rier. The Governor and members of | {his family motored here from {Camp Smith, near Peks Hill where he reviewed two regiments of the New York National Guard. | As he got bacK to the grind, | being a Presidential nominee as well as Governor, he found a mass of accumulated business Irequiring his immediate atten- jtion. He also is faced with the necessity of whipping into shape his acceptance speech which he {will deliver in two weeks from next Wednesday evening. He ,will also confer with many prom- {inent men in connection with his candidcay. ——————— 20 INJURED TRAIN WRECK THE MOUNDS, I, Aug. 6.— 1At least five persons were killed and approximately 200 injured when a southbound passenger train side-swiped a northbound| train early this morning. Search is continued fer three additional bodles believed to be in one of the overturned coaches | Between 50 and 60 passengers wére injured seriously. They have been taken to hospitals and some are in critical condition, League Supports U. S. Fight Against Drugs | GENEVA, Aug. 6.—The Ameri- lcan government has been obliged to seek the aid of the League of Nations in checking the activities of international mnarcotic smug- glers. | This action followed the recert seizure of drugs in New York. The United States authorities attempt- | KELLOGG TREATY MAY HASTEN END OF 0CCUPATION Germany Spurred by Hope that Rhineland Soon Be Evacuated By S. F. WADER (A. P. Correspondent) PARIS, Aug. 6. of Secretary Kellogg's anti- pledge by 15 nations has spurré Germany's efforts to hasten the evacuation of th2 Rhineland. In French government circlés the belief prevails that Germany in- tends to strike while the iron is hot and press the point that therc s no more need for milita: antees in the Rhineland Locarno agreements and the new Kellogg pacts in operation. The evacuation of the Ruhr Val- ley began in July, 1925, as a di- rect comsequence of the Dawes Plan and the Germans are expect- ed to argue that France should make a similar gesture of conii. dence in the Kellogg treaty. The forces of occupation, for- merly 100,000 men, has been re- duced to 50,000. Under the tre: of Versailles the Coblenz head was to be held until and the one at Mayence until The occupation provided for un- der the terms of armistice was continued under the treaty of Ver. cailles until 1925, when the time came for the evacuation of the first zone, which happened to be the British zone at the bridgehea. of Cologne, The British remained on because at that time all Allies were agreed that Germany had not complied with the terms of the treaty of Verzailles concern- ing disarmament. The Brit'sh left the Cologne area a few months bridge. 1 ed to trace. the consignment to its source but was blocked by the re. fusal of foreign governments in- volved, to ooperate. The League has therefore sent requests to all member nations. ‘They are asked to supply all pos- sible facts to any country at the receiving end of narcotic ship ments. later, however, and moved to Wies. zone. In the meantie, January, 1923, the American army of occupation had handel the Coblenz bridgehead over to the French. This area would normally be evacuated in 1930 while the Mainz bridgehead would be given up in 1935. The acceptance ¥ | Toombs refused 30+ him in Chicago. the | visiting here for \In Alaska was spent baden in the French occupation'camp of Harry G. W MUST PRODUCE SECURITIES OR FACE CHARGES Insurance Company Offic- ials Given Ultimatum in St. Louis ST. LOUIS, Aug. Toombs and other offic International Life Insurance Com- pany have been given one week in which to produce $3,500,000 in securities or face recommen- dations for criminal action by eight insurance commissioners from different States who have investigated the company. Toombs, in Chicago, denies there i8 any shortage or discrep- aney in the affairs of his com- pany saying it in splendid condition, The commissioners were unable to find securities and them access to his books when they called upon id they Toombs said that neither he nor any officer of the company had received a report from either insurance examiners or commis- sioners, —————— GOVERNOR'S NEPHEW LEAVES Ben Thompson, nephew of Gov George A, Parks, who nas baei the last two months, lef* today on the Alameds for his home in Pocatello, Idaho, where he will. complete his year at high school during the coming term. Much of his time at the mining atson on Moa. tana Creek, where he was intrc- duced into the methods of placer mining, and became familiar with the sight of brown wnd black bear in the woods. The young man left Junean reluctaniy anl said l:e hoped to be able to return next Jear. 3 2 CASCADE LIMITED CRASHES INTO AMERICAN BAR SPECIAL® Thirty-nine persons were injured when a fast Seattle to San Francisco Southern Pacific train plowed into the observation car oi an American Bar Association Special, at Cortena, Cal. Rescue workers are to be seen taking injured through the car windows. 'GIANT LOCOMOTIVE OVERTURNS AFTER RUNNING INTO TRAIN After telescoping the observation car of the American Bar Asociation special traln at Cortena, Cal,, the huge locomotive of tne Southern Pacific Cascade Limited left the rails, a twisted mass of wreckage. World ]Lairgesit— Difigflb]le Will Open Polar By LOUIS P. LOCHNER (A. P. Correspondent) LEIPSIC, Plans for argest dirigible blaze s the top of the e disclosed hLere by Professor Ll wig Weickmann on bis return from a meeing of the A~roarctic Society Leningrad. The groat Zepjelin rearing completion at F shafen, will make the polar trip says Professor Weickmann, after 8 fortheoming maiden flight to the United States. It is two ant one half times ihe size of General Umberto Nehbile's ill starred Italia, He reported the opinion of th. international Aeroarctic convea-| tion to that the new world would soon be linked with the old world by regular ai arvice be. tween northern Kuroy i Ales ka. He said that Dr. Hago Ecke- ner, builder of the Zeppelin, would act as Commander-in-chief on bolh | the trans-Atlantic and trans-polar | flights. “The Polar regions contain the| key to important occurances in| the atmosphere,” Weickmaun says, | The projected cruis of the LZ; 127 are therefore to supply dofi- nite data about the circulation of polar air currents, their height and temperature and the points from which they break forth, about magnetic phenomeno at the mag- netic pole, and about the division of land and water in the polar ro glons, Such investigations are important mnot only for making possible raliable weather predie- Itions, but also for finding the |proper basss for the future inter. leontinertal afr service via the poiar regions.” Anchor mastg will be neccssary it varfous: pivotal points in the far north, For the Zeppelin expe. dition of 1929, one mast is to be rrected at Nome and in all likeli- Germany, Aug. 6. an Arctic flight by the in the world, to al air trail over rth, have becn tin 121 “|storm brought temporary relicf, hood, one at Leningrad. The funds for these masts Lave already beea Russia 1« anxious to have the second mast erected in Leningrad, j, (Continued on Page Seven) _ #uppliad hy the Soviet government ! PLANE FORGED DOWH IN SEAs ARMEN JUNP [Polish Majors’ Attempt to Cross Atlantic En in Disaster FLIERS ARE P!CKED UP BY GERMAN BOAT Arc Taken to Hospital in Portugal - Reports of Accident BULLETIN — WARSAW, Aug. G.—The Polish Tele- graph Agency anuounced that it is learned from an un- named source af ‘HRiIwg that the Polish fliers, Ma- jors Kazimer Kubala and Louis Idzikewski, werc res- cued late Seturday afterncom by fl:.le‘h:ir . stewmer Sa moz, Their bipianc is report- poited to have faiicn in Both men m When their plane hit water. 1 PIPE LINE BROKEN LISBON, Aug. 6.—Majors Ku- bala and Idzikowskl said a broken ' pipe line forced them to turm beck aiter they had ilown 21 of 12 hours whick they had esti muted would take them to fly te New York from Paris. he two airmen were rescued whew found iu the sea near the wreckage of their plane by the German stearner Samos and taken to Lexivoes, near Oporto. Major Kubala in an interview in the Orpoto Military Hospital, 8 where he has been treated for am injurea arm, sald the tube feed- ing the oil stopped working. The airnien thought it would be im= possible to continue the flight and detided to reiurn. When they were 70 miles off Caj Finisterre. the westernmost p of 8pain, they noticed additional damage. This caused the plal to capsize and plunge into the [sea. They threw themselves i |the sea und swam toward Samos whose crew rescued th The two ‘fliers left the bourget Flying Fleld, near Pa at dawn lasi Friday morning an attemypt to make the flight from Europe tu the Unil States. y Air Route| NINE DIE OF HEAT IN EAST NEW YORK, Aug. 6.—A heat wave under which Fastern States have been sweltering since last Saturday, took nine lives Sunday before an electrical and wind Much damage is reported from several sections, especially in Massachusetts, by the storms. Two persons died in New York from the heat; two in Ph phil, one in Reading, Penn., 1 one in Albany, N. Y. H Several drownings are reported. ———.———— AUSTRIANS COLONIZE B | RIO DE JANEIRO. The Auss trian mimister has -~ompleted lt* b, 1angements to establiish three onies of Austrian mmigrants the city of Theophile Ottoni, sits uated on the railway that Lyle Reappointed Dry Administrator WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Roy Lyle has been reappointed Pro- hibition Administrator for Wash-!'nland from the Port of Carave's ington, Oregon and Alaska. This |l ¥ region is sparsely pe is the announcement made by uliied, but said to be well s 2 Seymour Lowman, Acting Secre-!for production of coffee and 0= tary of the Treasury. coa Australia Sets the Pace For World in Suicides X VIENNA, Aug. 6.—A wave of(ployment, 6 to worry over be- Auicide is sweeping Austria, whichficavements and 400 for unknown now holds the world’s record fo: reasons. 3 relf-destruction. Paring the lasi| Among juvenile suicides, no six months 1,530 people tcok their than 36 killed themselves bacau lives or an averaze ol ¥ a day lu( Poor marks 2t schoot. This is an appalling rate, \vh""‘lvo::g“lli-:fi;és L-::lm ;,o.-:::' 8 it Is considered the population of\iigping whieh show that for the whole of Austria is less thau ~orresponding peclod of 1913, that of New York City. Amoiz|sygiria had a population of the suicides were 766 men and 764 g0 inhabitants, ihe n women, The number of suicluex',““.me. was less than half among children is steadily Erow-|yymper civen above. The ing. dinary ing:ease 1o ati Of the 1,530 suicides, 239 cases the coniinualiy hard tin were due to family troubles, 2/T)Austria has facsed since the 3 to misery, 160 to incurable diseas-|Wa#f, the widespresd i es, 160 to shattered love, 130 to|mont, bankruptcies, and loas _{rental derangement, 146 to unem.-'tortunes. .