The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 25, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXAIL, NO. 4877. PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, SA 7 1928. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS MAN FLOOD WATER CONTINUES IN " ARE KILLED AND INJURED IN CCIDENT IN NEW YORK SUBWAY | CAR DERAILED; FIRE ADDS T0 SCENETERROR ; o r L Accident Happe:ns at Peak ! A 2 B of Rush Hours in Busiest Station o SEAGIRT N.. J Aug. 2 SEWARD, Alaska, Aug . ' B /ALL EMERGENCY UNITS ter a slight lull in the 72 hours of | S & e o ande AT ; : | PRESSED IN SERVICE continuous rain and wind : ¢ blocked pre pss of his @u'omobile storm, \Gav. Alf Smith 1 . the storm renewed and the battie | . o K F 1gati our Investigations Are Started — One Head- s : | through ] | .section of is on again for control of Lowell| Ay AtLern ol Creek which is a ripping, tearing | ] ed by Mayor Walker NEW YORK, Aug ~Four- ; stay hore, e 4 f : A ‘ current | made his hone} e The of the stream is| ! changing momentarily as piles and teen persons were killed and 156 injured when the eighth car om a southbound Interborough Rapid debris are heaped along the sides Volunteers are seeking to save| Transit Express train jumped the track it was leaving Times the Fourth Avenue bridge, the last conn ng link between the Square Station and crashed into partition in the tun- DAY, AUGUST 25, ROBINSON PREPARING ACCEPTANCE npfy CROWDS GREET BOV. SMITH IN ALASKA TOWN JERSEY TOWNS Rain and = Wind Storm‘ ] , ; kNorEiqee tlasSel;lgi ;lZme Rages Continuously for | ? { ong 72 Hours at Seward 5[“’"4 WiekEnd Exposing Evils of Dance Marathon | L i { | | | E | | nassed| wh | Woodrow in 1012 | As the car passed cey ¥, men, women and child- ren from the curb ani| forced the car to come to a stand- | still, | Again Wilson course ] through Jer. | " two portions of the town, and carrying the only remaining w;uw: main, | | | | & near Newark adm swarmed into the roadw the auto proceeded at a pace o % ¢ { YOUNG MARRIED b " WOMAN KILLED BY HER FATHER # y an snail Sen. Joseph T. Robinson working on his acceptance speech as democratic vice presidential candidate at Hot Springs National park. His notification will takes place in Little Rock, Ark, August 30. P Under the direction of L. V. Ray, masses of debris have been dynamited and protection | banks of sand bags built to save| ;l}::m.ll“:.l‘:l.rlll Avenue bridge ap- K()llogg P(lct I_Iol(ls | , Interest of Lawvyers Attending Big Union concrete accident happened shortly o'clock yesterday after- noon, at the peak of the evening rush hour in the busiest and most |congested station in the New ‘\'rrh subway system ; { The entire length of the West : - - Side subway line was brought to While the long-distance dancing craze con- ja standstill. tinues at Coney Island, N. Y., these interesting The General endangered as eat their w, tions. Several families have been driv- en from their homes by the high water. Hospital plant is the flood waters toward the founda- ers permitted an atmosphere of immorality ana kept the dancers going by pumping them full of caffeine. All police and fire department ; At left you see BERLIN, Aug. City in Darkness The city’s main power still city out of eommission and the is kept from total darkness plant s The K| Wins Marathon Swim logg pact in renunciation of war | has no official place in the pro-| gram of the Inter-Parliamentary | :Shooting Is Accident as| | Husband Was Man In- thotographs were taken, urse Terese Siccord treating Mildred Web- ster for tongilitis, as Mildred snatches a brief respite from the arduous “grind” on the dance Mona al 1 asserted that payment OMmergency unmits were called out, was sometimes made i the form of “rubber” . | AMmDPulances from every hospital checks. Lower right: Helen Brennan sleeps |/ Minhattan were rushed to the on Frank Granese’s shoulder as Frank tries to | e, Vith doctors. Taxicabs and tended to Be Shot BAOTH, N. Y., Aug. 25.— Louise. Dart MeGowan, aged |years, ‘was slain, and her. hus " |band, Claude McGowan, was se- riously wounded by the young! Jtdrvara, Rumanian, | BBl | woman's father. Dart, who sur- pact, n afford only | |rendered to the authorities, ad-} ethical security” and imitted the shooting at the Dart| of the Rumanian I thome where his daughter had Landslides and weak bridges are [liament he cffered a Central | | been 1living since estrangement reported at many points along the|Buropean agreement along the| i A | three months ago. Alaska Railroad. lines of the Locarnc Treaty a i 3 | Late last night, Mc Officials predicted that the slides | means of insuring European | > ied at the Dart hous will be cleared and washouts re.|peace. {to his wife. paired so that rail communica- hapurii Sahlatvala, Dart said hi tions may be resumed late today|[Indian Communist of the ! “Father come, he's killing or early tomorrow. of Commons, declared the Dart said he ran up the e ee was a ‘“great forward s |and saw the two struggling. He limmeasurable moral value. lahot but the shotgan charge — e — struck the girl in the head and| Tn SUPPBHT another shiot hit MeGowan at the | 1 nearly solidly for Gov. Alfred Guv. SMITH Smith, Mrs. Anna C. Struble, M | 1 of the skull. She died in- i | | tional Committee Woman and gt | s antly. nance Director for South Dakota,| P, 1a} reported to Democratic Nm;.umHA“thor of Elght.een!h Headquarters in New York Ci Amendment Believes in Party Nominee floor. Mona Dale (upper right), dropped out of the competition, charging that the promot- Union but for two days has held the attentiop of more than 500! 1ot iR, countries. Virtually every speaker dis- ussed the treaty, no matter what his theme. Mircea Mile Seven, on the Highw and |said the other places to the morth, are cut!moral and off from communication entirely. [in behalf by independent power plants erated by gas, 5 JThe . Seward Geteway, - daily not ‘published - for two days but auxiliary power may enable the paper to issue late this afternoon ! ! d {private automobil Op‘ shave himself while dancing along, a0 remorel e (0 (into se: ce 1o - (International Newsreol) 1 lured z‘wfa:; r::l?:;qlhewch = - g = {broysht “reScue workery.” : J Acciden! Official Hoover Tag , Atcident Bad One P - {sinde in November, 1018, 96 persons were killed in a de- tilment of a Brooklyn Rapid i Transit train running through an i open cut. There never has been such a disaster in the subway itself. x W. E. Baldwin, Subway Main- ’b..‘ tenance Man, is held on a charge H % of homicide for his alleged neg- ligence in permitting the train to over a defective switch, He being held responsible for the accident, Investigation Started Four investigations are under with Mayor James J. Walker in personal charge of the inquiry. Before the power could be shut off after the crash, short cireuits get fire to the wreckage and ters ror of fire added to other perils. Eighteen hundred passengers were on the train. The transit company advertises as having the fest raillway in the world and equipped with all modern safety devices, The train was composed LA HOOVER WILL NOT DEBATE WITH SMITH Considers Wet and Dry sue Defined in Accept- ance Sp(‘(’,(‘,hes ) | worst when Stephen Jarosz Is Missing on Mount McKinley SEWARD, Alaska, Aug. Concern s felt at | cKinley tation on | Railroad for the Stephen Jarosz, | of the Polis who started August 8, accom- | by a local Polish | youth to climb the moun- tain He said would be back in ten day The. last | word of the pair was from Toklat Cabin, half way to | the base of the mountain Jarosz knew nothing of the country was without proper equipment, Mount the Alaska safety of ” representative Government from there panied as owan call- and talked | British House pact | op - of cried me. road daughter Norwegians Lining Up for Gov. Smith WASHINGTON first phase of his an end, Herhert €, reviewed the 8,000 the continent produced when he the been dec Aug campaign Hoover mile jourr and the 25.—The it today | Ry way e HODVER . é’«?"" 2000t o v NEW, YORK, Aug. 25.—Norwe. gians of South Dakota will across it Just cussion of has MUCH SALMON i$ UNLOADED TODAY i AT COLD STORAGE | Today lays at company ling season in but The following catches = were |purchased by Wallls George for dis ues | ded but he has | tion of engaging in any with Gov. Alfred Smith on Hoover regards (he lefinitely defined in the . Sl o of all-steel cars. A Shot and Vel - o | Scores a Hit {Col. Mitchell Will 5 : DANiEIW[l Stump»for Goyv. Smlth: ‘ ./ * Buus-r SM"" (<)|“L\\\",‘[\,}JI,:|L .'\’" ' 4 3 { RALEIGH, N. C., Aug. 25.— ok NS nformed that the Republican ol Gl e | National Committee has made iq”“m“ e Imhvnv a letter quoting him as e saying that the nomination pf stump Wisconsin Gov. Altred E. Smith will be & pbadiv fatal mistake,” Josephus Daniels recalled the fight he made against { automobile 8D aa s R g ek S} : N8"|the New York Governor prior to auspices of the Democratic Statel tonm, D, C,, is seen here holding | the Houston convention but de= u.nrl .\:nu:ual‘l'wm!. teg It 151 one’of the official Hoover auto clared he is bound to support ald he will pay his o ‘tags which have been adopted him “by arbitrament of the ma- | for use during the Presidential | jority of my par because . he | campaign. | participated as a delegate to the International Nowsreel) convention, g Danlels reiterated opposition to | Smith’s Prohibition modification and "announced his ine to support dry Demo- 8 eratic Congressmen ——-——— and renew ar: nol dshate he i th subject one of Junean was the busiest | \ B+ Ve % Cold storaze'\Coolidge Takes the salmon tro! 1 Twelve be s brought | king salmon and hali-| the id Mrs. Struble said that-the )wrlh.! west community of South Dakota has a heayy population of Norwe-| TR oy e glans, and that here Gov, Smith| TEXARKANA, Texas, Aug. 25.- has an impregnable stronghold, URited States Senator Morris “This is a strong Lutheran com.iSheppard, the author of the Eigh- munit Mrs. Struble said, “and !eum!n Amendment, said that while | we find that religlous issues will{he disagreed with Gov. Alfred E.| not play an important part.” Smith’s views on prohibition, he would support him. ! “Outside of his recommendations | for changes in prohibition en ments and comments thereon. regard Gov. Smith’s acceptance 'speech as convincing, an able de- liverance and that he will give effeétive enforcement to prohibi e | {tion as long as it is a Jaw, Th The Coast Guard ocutter | no one can justly doubt,” said Unalga, according to radio | |Senator Sheppard. advices reaching Juneau, was | | w LR EREAETY | oft Cape Cleare at 8:30 | ! STLLMANS o'clock this morning bound | | Laura Stillman and A. B. Still. for Cordova. The cutter is | |Man, sister and son of Rev. 0. A. | expected. to reach Junmeau | |Stillman, who have been visiting next Tuesday evening, ac- | ([heve for several weeks, left or | cording to further advices | 'the Queen for the States. Mr. received, Stiliman is to resume his teach- A ing duties at Oregon State Col. 3¢ lege, Corvallis. issue as Athenais Eichling of Memphis Tenn, won the Biloxi to Isle of Caprice swimming mzrathon a* Biloxi, Miss, by covering the 1 miles of water in 6 hours and 17 minutes. 25, cohoes, SUPERIOR, Having revealed pistol shot shot gest catch of fish this summer, is ready to to routine life Lodge after an Wis,, Ang. 25 himself a crack ind with the b vet to his er esident Coolidg le down again Cedar Island overnight .visit to the estate’ of Charles Lewis, of Minneapolis at Lewis, Wisconsin, President Coolid astonished even his oldest companions of the year by calmly oting crane at 20 yards with o .38 automatic pistol, ' DD i | cause of wer the parate will{ . | Allred| % o4& | i i in y g a aviati ( Unalg.. Is Due Here Next Tuesday Evening | the ate’ in an king under the| Miss Esther Stieg of Washing- VI eXpense LONDON SEEKS U. . BUILDING SECRETS D | REPUBLICAN WOMAN IS OUT FOR SMITH . program tention LONDON, Au the British buii turned eagerly | ed skylines of ¢i States in an eftor can construction The eyes of ¢ industry have vard the elevat- in the United to bring Ameri methods to bear the Englishman worlk as the American, but lack of organi toil three times duce the same & More British econom clined to give more to a NEW YORK par Whitney, of Aug Mrs. Cas. Ir n-on-the- . ¥ Hudson, N. Y., formerly First Vice. T, -\ Chairman of the National Leasue| | Plane Atten |of Women Voters, and .a member Ocean Flight | s > ',II-‘fll' Herbert Hoover's Committee for cdence (ol Belglum . Relief durig the was Returns to France the latter statement. Apartment|has accepted the appointment of | ¥ houses and office building own-|Chairmar National Com. ! ers complain of the length of time|mittee of Independent “Smith-for- required to erect a large struc-|President” Clubs o Mr: ture, during which iod ‘their| Franklin ‘D. Roosevelt, chairr huge investmfent is tied up and un-jof the Women's Advisory Commit. productive, of the Democratic National The most astonishing fact of the!Committee has o frequent Anglo-Americar compari-| Mrs. Whitney, sons is that, though the American|tently voted the Republ earns three times as much as \n-m‘mi\' resigned from British colleague, ‘the total cost|al League of Wi of identical buildings in England|their convention | and América is exactly ‘h ame. i work for Gov. Smith This 'fact, too, 1s laid thelbe her first National De door of lack of organizatioa, vote, hard b bui to | American Pair Embark On Honeymoon Marathon un work LEBOURGET FIELD, France, Aug. 25-—-An attempt to span the Atlantic by air, east to west, failed this | morning when the mono- | plane France returned to the tlying field at 7:20 o'cloek after having taken off om what was hoped to be a non- stop flight to New York City. Unfavorable winds caused the aviators to turn back shortly after the take-off. D of the JOHANNESBURG, South Afri- ca, Aug. 25.—Mr. and Mrs. Barratt ‘Waters, of Kentucky, have arrived in Central Africa on the first stagz of the world's longest honeymoon. They expect it will occupy nearly twelve months and before they are back in their home town they will have covered more than 33,000 miles by train, boat, motor ecar and’ airplane. They have already traveled .nmmgh South Africa to Rhodesia, visited the Victoria Falls and re- turned to Durban, where they are shipping to Mombasa. Inland from Nairobi, they are setting out on a month’s big game shooting expedi- tion that will take them to the borders of the Belgian Congo. When that is over they intend traveling up the White Nile to Khartoum, whence they will visit Damascus and Bagdad, and fly to Teheran. After that they will turn back to Constantinople and Europe, Dengue Epidemic Sweeping Greece; - nized by s | tee ATHENS, Aug. 25.—Deaths from the dengue epidemic which is grip- this city, have averaged 20 a day. :There are over 90,000 cases at Piraeus where business has come |to a standstill, Many steamers are unable to leave ports because of lack of personnel. consis.] | n ticket| | the Nation-| | Voters at Chicago ;\\'.-mlmry, 108 cohoas, 116 pounds 1of kings and 200 pounds of hali- flmy T-1044, |Capt. John Lowell, 2230 pounds |of kings and 1,720 cohoes; T-3380, at a special meeting today, voted (0f kings. to authorize a reward of $500! New England had one boa* the lieved to b sages 'lowing: Active 11, Capt. 8. Wi“k, came through the air Thursday|500 cohoes; Agnes, Capt. Frank and anncuncing the plane was|T-27, Capt. A. Palmer, 55 cohoes, 4 down on a small island off New- — e — on rejuvenating their profession. ing to claims totaling about $3,000 [that the British workman was more agalnst the boat for supplies from |Pproductive than (he American, He ish labor. statement of {the Junéau Cold Storage—Falcon, | Capt. A. Hanson, 309 cohoes anl {24 pounds of kings; Ace, Capt. Aj Capt. Robert Oberg |40 cohoes and 40 pounds of kings |T-11, Capt. Chris Nelsor, 40 co- ! | Capt. John Pademeister, 106 co- HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 25.— hoes, 60 pounds of kings and S0, The Execitive Committee of the pounds of halibut; Husky L, Capt. Amer Radio Relay League, |Paul Lee, 124 cohoes and 92 pounds for infcrmation leading to the|Wondsor, Capt. H. R. Thompson, apprehension of the persons who|which brought 4,800 cohoes. El'on broadcast «sages signed Rock-|Engstrom, fish buyer for the Alas. ford fliers I'he messages are be-| ka Fish Brokerage, took the . night and purported to have come | Wooten, 300 cohoes and 700 poun ls from the plane carrying Bert of kings; Independent, Capt Ben Hassell and Parker Cramer on Olsen, 75 cohoes, 200 pounds of the proposed flight to Stockholm [kings nad 1,000 pounds of ha'ibut; foundland. HALIBUT BOAT SEIZED Two events have centered -atten- — Halibut »oat June was seized|tiOD on trans-Atlantic architecture, by represemtatives of the U, 8., One qwas the statement of an | Marshal's office this morning, ow.|&fterdinner speaker in London companies in Seattle, Ketchikan|Stated that American firms which and Juneau, according to Chiet|had erected factories in Kngland, Deputy U. 8. Marshal J. F. Statter.|SU¢h ag automobile assembly — plants, found it paid them 23 years an architect of Americun skys rapers and now .a candid for " Parlia- ment, that in huilding operations, | BIRTHS DOUBLE DEATHS IN CANADA OTTAWA, Aung. 25 births in 1927 totaled 2: lrluges, 69, 465; deaths, 105,136,