The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 27, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIL, NO. 4878. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1928. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS OUTLAWING WAR PACT SIGNED BY FIFTEEN NATIONS IN PARIS Six Believed Dead in C Political “Jaci(_Spratt »and Wife” MONOPLANE 1 MISSING:DOWN | IS ONE REPORT Fishermar?Claims Air Craft Plunged Into Washington Harbor SEARCHING PARTIES FIND NO TRACE Several Prominent Passen- gers Are Reported Aboard Airplane PORT ANGELES, Wash., Aug. Information indicating that| missing British Columbia Air- way's plane, which is believed | to have carried six persons to| death while enroute from Vie-/ toria to Seattle last Saturday, crashed in Washington Harbor, | about 80 miles south of here, has been received from a fisher- man whose name has not been | learned. He reported a large monoplane ! circled low over his boat, the | second time so low that he duck-| ed to prevent being hit by the under carriage, then it crashed into the water at a peint 200 yards off Gunderson's Spit. When he reached the spot the plane| had sunk. Beaches, Waters Combed The fisherman said the acci- dent happened at 11 o'clock in the morning. Searching parties have combed the beaches and waters where the plane might have fallen, Credence to the fisherman’s re- port {8 _ given by Mrs. Antin Bugge, wife of the cannery op- erator at Washington Harbor. She #aid she heard a plane circling over the harbor many times as if | se aboard the plane were | Alexander Scott, English barris- ter, member of the English Par-| liament from Glasgow for twelve years; his wife; Thomas Lake, Far Eastern Manager of the Union Oil Company of California, returning from the Orient; Dr, D. B. Holden, of Victoria; Har- old Walker, of Seattle, air mail pilot, and 1. Carson, assistantj pilot of Victoria. e SCHOONERS TAKE BAIT Tme Ilene, Capt. M. Madsen, the Venus, Cdpt. W. E. Muller, and the Chelsea, Capt. George Ehlar, took bait at the Juneau Cold Storage Company yesterdnyl and today. The Chelsea is the Ketchikan schooner around which is woven the latest Good House- keeping magagzine novel by Edi- son Marshall, who was a visitor in this city last summer. { ] (Intermational Illustrated News) — 5 (Harris & Ewing) Charles H. Sabin, New York banker (leit), is one of the leading figures on the Democratic National Committee. But just after he accepted his appointment, it became known that his wife, Mrs. Pauline Morton Sabin, is working just as energetically— | but for Hoover, You see, she’s Republican National Commiti teewoman from New York. However, Mr. and Mrs. Sabin agree on everything, except the TEXAS VOTES FOR SMITH MAN FOR SENATOR Tom Connally, Pledged to| Smith, Defeats Mayfield, | Last of KK K. Leaders DALLAS, Tex., gressman Thom (Tem Connally) for United States Senator in the| Texas Democratic primary run-| off Saturday, pledged to support Gov. Alfred E. Smith for Prosi-| dent and President in the| event of his election. Aug. 27.—Con- Terry Gonnally was nominated In a mes-| sage of thanks to his supporters Tom: Connally again promised to| stand squarely on the Houston platform and ticket. Connally defeated Senator E: B. Mayfield, candidate for re-electicn, by more than 50,000 majority. Senator Mayfield is the last in office of those elected in 1922 with the support of the K. K. K. He will retire March 4, next. Connally has served ten years in Congress. He is 49 years of age, a lawyer and a Methodist, but strongly opposed to the Klan. France Staggers Under Cascade of Stabilized Silver Francs; Is Burden By SAVINGTON CRAMPTON (A, P. Staff Writer) PARIS, Aug: 27.—A mounting torrent of silver coins, disgorged from the proverbial woolen stock- ing of the French peasant as a result of the franc's stabilization, continues.to clog the nation’s fi- nancial machinery. The tax collectors find it im- possible to keep ahead of the tide, shipping the money to Paris has and their task of counting and become a tremendous burden. The tax department of the finance min- istry is overwhelmed by the suc- cess of stabilization. Hundreds of thousands of silver franc and half-franc pleces, worth 2e and 10c before the war, are piling up on thie coumters of pro- vinicial offices. The F¥ench peas- ant has decided that half the face value of his money is better than nothing. o In come the peasants, crowding the collector’s offidd. The money is heaped on the counter from an- cient, hairy and profound stock. ings, purses, tin grocery boxes, wooden kegs and linen sacks. There are card-board boxes and a dozen other conveyances used by peasants who have never learned( to trust banks. Here is a suspicious market wo- man with a sack containing- 3,000 tiny half-franc pieces. It must be sorted, stacked and exchanged for paper money. The old woman does not miss a single movement. She contests the count and the clerk begins all over.again, The pieces must all be verified. Peasants loudly complain when the clerks refuse coins marked “Louise Philippe, King of the French,” or “Napoleon 1" There is evi- dence that some of the hoards must have been carried on by the same family for more than a century. There are few men in the crowds bringing in coins. The priest of a small village deposited outcome of the election. Government Is Going Into “Red Ink” Side WASHINGTON, Aug. President Coolidge’s hope | for a balanced Budget next | June 30 apparently faces dis- | appointment and the Govern- | ment for the first time since | the war is facing a deficit | in the Treasury, as set forth in the annual report of Di- | rector of Budget Lord. He | figures the red letter side of the ledger is expected to be about $94,000,000 for the | fiscal year. The reason Is given for greater outlays of money due to expapded ac- tivity of Bureaus and pros- pective decrease in revenue | tax collections of the last | fiscal year reported at $75,- | 000,000 less than in the pre- ceding year. 217. IOWA SECTION WIND SWEPT Two Are Known to Be Dead—Property Damage Large — Wires Down DES MOINES, lowa, Aug. 27. —With two persons dead and four others seriously injured, Southwestern lowa is checking up the damagq caused by a tor- nado which dwept across four counties today. The known casualties reported are from Elliott where James Jer- vis and five-year-old son were killed as the tornado demolished the farm house, Mrs. Jervis is ina critical condition. At Oakland, it is believed the most property damage has been done but with all telephone and telegraph wires down throughout the district only meagre reports have filtered in this afternoon. Former Minister To Paraguay Is Killed by Fall BLUEFIELDS, W. Va., Aug. 27.—William O'Tolle, American Minister to Paraguay during the Harding Administration, was kill- ed today in a fall at the Ameri- 5,000 silver franes, explaining it|can Coal Cleaning Corporation’s was “on behalf of parishers.” Plant at Gilliam, P MCSHVECY PRSI O 1 Pledges Program For Pulp, Paper : Industry, Alaska | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, 27. Pledging a definite program toward establish- ment of pulp and paper mills in Alaska, Secretary of Ag- riculture William M. Jardine, accompanied by United | States Fisheries Commis sioner Henry O'Malley, has left for Seattle aboard the Brant. The Secretary an-| nounced he saw the fishy eries, timber, furs and min- ing as the dominant Alaska | industries of the future. | He also praised the scenic | attractions, FLOOD DAMAGE AT SEWARD IS ABOUT $50000 General Manager Ohlson Gets Opportunity to Prove Activity SEWARD, AlaskasAug. 27.~Thi | Aug | | | Lowell Creek Flood and also the high waters of rivers and creeks l:uljm'vm to Seward, gave General | Manager Otto F. Ohlson, of the | Alaska Railroad, his first oppor- action, Ohlson arrived on the scene Friday night on the first speeder to reach Seward since the flood tie-up. He was worried when a freight train coming in was 15 { minutes behind time. Without as. | Isistance, he jumped aboard a hand- car and started investigate the up the track to train's delay. Af- ter pumping the hand-car for three miles, Ohlsen met an incoming handcar whose operator reported all well and he returned to Sew- ard and directed removing of deb- ris and wreckage in the railroad yards, piled up by the Lowell creek flood waters. Ohlson is already laying plans for constructing a new channe] for the creek. Seward Takes Inventory With the sun bright, after a week of almost stdady downpour of rain ,Seward has begun taking an inventory of the flood damage estimated at $50,000. The Fourth Avenue bridge is saved :but the city’'s power plant is flooded. "The pipe line will be out of commission for two weeks, It is estimated that a small aux- iliary waterwheel will furnish power for the presses of the Daily Gateway enabling it to get out the first issue after three days’ suspension. Families are their wet homes. moving back to A. R. C. Receives Report Much damage has been done by the recent flood in Seward, where preliminary work on the flume for Lowell Creek is under way by the Warrick Construction Company of Portland, which was awarded the contract by the Alaska Road Com- (Coatinued on Page Three) Senator Curtis Off On Second Speaking Trip of Campaign VSASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—Sen- ator Charles Curtis, Republican nominee for Vice-President, has set out on his second speaking trip of the campaign heading for New York and Pennsylvania. Tomorrow, in Syracuse, N. Y., he will address the State Fair speaking under the auspices of the American Farm Bureau. He is prepared to discuss the agri- cultural situation. Senator Curtis will speak at Harrisburg, Penn., on Thursday at a picnic of Pennsylvania farm- ers and next week will go: inte he New England States. Ad- resses are planned in Massachu- setts and Maine. /| IMitchell Favors Naming tunity to prove himself a man of|States. 600D MATERIAL IN ALASKA FOR DISTRIGT JUDGE Alaskan for U. S. Dis- trict Judge BOOTLEGGING WORSE IN STATES THAN HERE Solicitor General Says Al- askans Are Law-Abiding, Better than in South . SEWARD, Alaska, Aug. 27. eaking in conpection with the ‘:ur,u Division Judgeship vaean- ‘cy, Willlam D. Mitchell, Solicitor General of the United States, who arrived here on the steamer Yukon, said: “I found much good timber qualified for the bench in Alaska, all things considered, and an Al- askan who qualifies for the job and passes approval of Congress should have it. However, I have communicated a report dent Coolidge and I am liberty to discuss the further. & v, “1 am particularly struck with the smoothness of the administra- tive machinery coupled with the absence of crime in Al a, com- pared with conditions in the 1 was led to believe that things were rough and tough here but I find it just the re- verse. This condition I is due to radio and telegraph, and perhaps the airplanc which links Alaska in a great network, making it practically for a criminal to escape. “Bootlegging is no worse here tan in the States, in fact, in pro- porticn to the population, much less. ‘“Through the delay in the ap- pointment of a Judge in the First Division, business is piling up. I have recommended to the Depart- ment of Justice that if an ap- pointment is not made this ses- not at matter sion, @ special order be made to, from some other are of the busi- send a Judge district to take YCLONE ARIZ.C DOES DAMAGE But No Loss of Life Is Reported PHOENIX, Ariz, Aug. 27.—A saving Providence rode with a cyclonic storm in a nine-minute sweep through Phoenix and vi- cinity last night and nlllmugh‘ the rain, hail and lightning left| a quarter of a million dollars damage in wrecked buildings, un- roofed house and broken tele- phone poles in a mide wide path, a check by City and County of- ficlals showed no loss of life Several persons were injured by the wind which tossed the missilés about, but their condi- tion s not serious. Theé destruction centered near the Phoenix Union High School auditorium which was being built. It was levelled, A garage was completely wrecked. A bolt of lightning passed through three bulldings. . Workmen have started on the job of wrecking damaged stand- ing buildings especially parts of walls left standing in which in- ner partitions are gone and build- ings unroofed AMERICA FIRST RETURNS The America First ,Capt. John Haho, arrived in port from Peters. burgh and way ports at 5:30 o to Presi- | | This new and hitherto unpublished picture is of Mrs. Ellis A, Yost, Republican National Committee-woman from We ginia. She ranks. high in the new school of we :en politi I)(-‘van‘ bl impessible | | the | im the United States, | Panama’s Only Portia Senorita - Clara Gonzales, Panama’s only woman lawyer, ton to take up her work in conaectios with the Inter- American Commission of Women. (Harrla & Bwing) —————— GEORGE CARD Past 35 Years, Dies Suddenly WRANGELL, “Alaska, —Geoge Card, aged 71 vy died suddenly of heart trouble He was a native of Maine and a resident of Wrangell for the pasy 35 wears He was formerly in the legging business but for pdst few was in the service of the Bureau of Fish- eries Under the terms of his will, all property goes to his son and daughter, and a nephew, B. E. Card, of Port Gamble, Wash. Aug clock yesterday afternoon with James H. Tehse, post officc wan,| from Kake. | The funeral was held yesterday under the auspices of the Pio neers of Alaska. | Loop, and shot 1 ang men kiiled Benjamin ! Benjamin, 33 %' manager of the Standard Amu whe has arrived in Washing-( Resident of Wrangell for; rash, Seattle-Victoria Pla (Harris and Ewing) GANGLAND IN " CHICAGD OFF - ON RAMPAGE Two Bombings Reported | Within 24 Hour Per- iod, Also Murder CHICAFO, |is over for ‘ Within a | Aug Chicago’s bad 24-hcur period, at 4 o'clock this had throwp two which rocked the a man dead | | 1 Vacation | which ended morning, they bombs, one of aged owner and ment Company, operating a small carnival. They ecrowded Ben- |jamin, riding in a small automo- bile, to the ditch and they shot Ihim when he intended ‘o resist {"The robbers escaped with a pouch contalning $724 The first bombing wrecked the front of a two-story building in which the Star was published at |Chicago Heights. The bombing i attributed to the paper's editorial |and warfare against gamblers. l The second bombing was Just outside the Loop, the office of an | |employment The reason is unknown agency. | & > Man in Cal. Town Cal., Aug. aged 15 years, is of Ramy Yeung the number of fallen rifle FAIRFIELD, Nellie dead, a With dead (Yeung's 27 Long 5 vietim death who have hatchet and |eleven persons her totals *{man before | PRICE TEN CENTS —— e — Political Leader Among Women 1S TORIG"WAR TREATY SIGNED THIS AFTERNOON German War Minister Is* First 1o Affix His Signature SECRETARY XELLOGG BINDS U. S. TO PACT French Minister Briand Evokes Cheers After Reading Document TARIS Aug. 27.—The Kellogg~ Briaid renunciation war treaty was gigned thiz afternoon by plenipotentaries of 15 nations, German Foreign Minister Stresemann was the first to sign the historic doeument, attaching his gnaiure ~at 3:45 o'elock. American Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg was second and Foreign Min'-ier Benes of Czech- oslovakin aitixed hLis signature, the fiftecenth, at *:566 o'clock. By the pact 15 countries (pe= nounced w es an instrument of mation:l policy,” with their signaturoes ¥ o All the peoples of the world are invited to join the great ef< Sk e pehlre - peryiamint 4 % |universal peace. Stresemann was the first Gér- Foreign Minister officially received in Paris :ince the war of 1870. Briand, - whose 11essage to the American people 8 given through the Associnted Press many inonths ago, was the orig- inal author of the pact which etary Keilogg doeveloped, and ned fourth, When iond shed of weicome and the _paet had been read, it wis trunslated |into Engiish. This tovk 43 mine" tutes Tuen the French Mins ister, wfter a burst of applause, 1 {invited Stresemann to sign the {document. UNDERWORLD ROUNDED UP {Attempt to Kill Crusading I - Councilman Starts Activity his ad- uress | | mem- bers of Alron's underworld s jusderway because of the P atiempt in thres days on the |0t Kyle Ross, crusading Counells |man who engaged in a gun di jwith gangsters after his home I has been set afire. Ross, who had been appoin by the City Council to inwi gate crime conditions, was fi; on as he stood in his kitel door. He ran outside and uged in shots with Lis assafl ttacker, who fled. | il [ILLINOIS FOR SMITH i SAYS CLARENCE DARRC NEW YORK, Aug. 27.—C Darrow, criminal lawyer, soom ter arriving in New York Chicago, asserted that Goves ISmith was so strong in I that he would carry that st the Presidential election were {now. | | | | TOKYO, Aug The Japanese government has approved the ap- | propriation of almost a half mil- {lion dollars for the establishment lot a colonial ministry. i The project is believed to mark the beginning of a new and wmore Jvigorous era of economic develop- Japan Decides to Have Ministry of colo |menz in yeighboring regilo i direetly nuuder the jurisd the Tokyo government. The new miuistry will be by a minister of eolonial & holding squal cabinet ministers. A bill pn Mg for his creation will be introduced into the ne: