The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 17, 1928, Page 1

fl THE DAILY FL[]R“]A AREA | TEXAS BEAUTY RANKING SCHOLAR IS SWEPT BY TERRIFIC GALE Hurricane Strikes East| Florida Coast—Large District Isolated JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. —After leaving a trail of de- struction in the West Indies, the| hurricane hit the east Florida| coost between Jupiter and Fort Lauderdale. | Communications yesterday afterncon mile-an-hour wind. This afternoon, a radio messag piced up by Gifford Grange, an amateur, said an undetermined | number of per: re. injured and great property damage has| been done at West Palm Beach | and Palm Betch by the hurri- cane. | There is no known lost of life hut many homes are wrecked. ‘ Buildings left standing intact » filled with refugees. 17. | w by re broken | the 100-| ms e = Students at the Texas Colleno of lndu.trlal Arts y M s Vir. ginia Elbert of Fort Worth is one of the 10 most beautiful girls on the campus, while th= teachers agree she is among the 10 most Intelligent. NEW TRAIL IN MURDER CASE IS TAKEN UP | | TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 17. — A‘Sea'Ch for Body of Jame wircless dispatch from West Palm| Bassett Switches from Beach said two persons are kllfl\‘\!l- to have been killed and 50 in- Seattle to Tacoma jured the result of a storm that and isolated that vi- cinity e H. Conkling. This is the name of | the publisher of the West Palm leach Post. The message also smid a hospital has been de- stroyed. Miami is isolated communications north Palm Beach. Laelk of emmunicats ed to Melbourne, more miles, while conditions unknown owing to wire " Seattle Aviator Is Missing; Was On World Flight SOUTHAMPF?TON, - K ng., Sept. * 17.—~English authori- ties expressed anxiety today concerning George Storch, Seattle aviator, who has not been reported to the local airdrome gince he hopped off Saturday on a 27,000 mile flight around the world. He planned to halt at Paris from wire of West | ateil than 100 uth are failure. as* hit 17.—Search for | & Bassett, mis-| SEATTLE, Sept HAza ithe body of James sing Bremerton visitor, today, {turned from the wooded tract and | TAMPA, Fla., Sept A|deserted house in Snohomish coun- wireless dispatch, unumfix-nwljt.»‘ to Tacon industrial district.| from Boyton, south of here, said| Tacoma police reported, that D.| FARM GRIMES 40 persons. were buried in u\l- Mayer, suspected murderer, had building which collapsed | {occupied a shack on the T IN cALIFuRNIA school during the storm and which |hey tide flats less than a fortnight/ The Tacoma police i1] Fifth Murder Is Revealed by Northcott — New had all taken refuge. | ago Search for Graves 40 PERSONS BU.BIED oma A wireless dispatch from Deer-' Mayer and his feminine companion ville states that several megroes|visited the house on September § are dead in that locality. {in a blue toned roadster from e | which Bassett believed was " 2 murdered three days earlier. Pickford Birthplace | Mayer ana his alleged ki Will Soon Be Razed ] is Mrs. Mary Smith, are still held i Oakland Bassett's automobile| 1,08 ANGELES, Sept. 17 and watch w found in posses-!pus George Northeott is held sion of Mayer in the southern city.|witness in the killing of D g o boys on his Riverside farm hr'l‘ur,li Ju::]u:;ry l_1mlr l.‘)):fi]y! w;q!n “;wAmorican Mi"ing ::m |‘4]>‘.“ “‘,:“ ;’1 !;:\ 1:1(.')‘: e plain little -fashioned | y grandson admitte: ) house in which the ‘“universal Engineer Released committed the murders. On Ransom Payment —C as a four He and they TORONTO, Sept. 17—Mary Pick- ford’s admirers must visit Toronto TN see sweetheart” was born. The detectives and of Hundreds of tourists visit the workmen continue ‘to dig on var- i ace 3 v v ious parts the farm for the birth place of the Hollywood fav-| oo Avopios cal. gept. 11 3 ; Ao G orite every day, and it ranks with bodies of the four Southern Cali ‘ e —A telegram received by Mrs. |t who' Ware hard v the Parliament Buildings and To.! fornia wi re ap d {B. J. Bumsted, wife of the LOS|{jves and then slain as claimed ronto University among the sights | ves and then slain as claimed which lectarers point. out to. cas.| AnEeles mining engineer who has |,y oy, cmployed on the farm ot b i O Daf-|heen held captive by Mexican ;. F " anéhortd ties exploring Toronto, | v Y ki told to the authori- N ¢ bandits demanding 20,000 The tiny red brick house iIn to1q of his release and start on The release which the Smith family lived when|his return journe Mary was born is a simple two-' was secured by payment of the story building tucked into a row|ransom. of similar residences on University | Avenue, all of which are to make mway for the new General Hospital. | Mary's former home and most of the adjoining buildings ready been deserted neglected, score of boys More Sensations king like a streak and pil- up ation on sensatiom, led another murder ing Nor MALAKAL, Anglo-Egyptian Su- dan, Sept. 17.—Because all efforts cn the part of the government to lower the price of wives have failed, the current quotation on Shilluk maidens will remain at 15 cows, This price is not absolute, how.- ever, since occasionally Sudanese girls bring as many as 40 to 60 cows into their father's exchequer. A few hundred miles to the south in the vicinity of Lake Albert, young men may purchase wives at the rate of onmly sfive cows, or three cqws and 20 goats. Governiment officials were anxi- cus to introduce the Lake Albor* yates hers, but hn'-u rglul‘dl ! Suilluk who ST baving been involved and he di- John Rustgard, Attorney Gen-iy..ieq the officers in a new awaiting wreckers. jto Ketchikan. suspected victims To File Information SUDAN GIRLS OBJECT don Northeott and his mother, Mrs. Louise Northeott. cabin on the desert several miles mediately because of the attitude)from the murder farm and in it, suggested a reduction of rates on! he father sald his son and wives, they invariably came outiipe miner were living in the our mothers!” and there was anififits, the partmer was killed by immediate end to the matter. the other two. present inflated prices quite outiwhom only the indulgent mother of keeping with the cost of o!herlhad any control. ply a portion of the purchase price bones still linked by human flesh it takes them approximately seven and a toenail believed from the T e to the four wiich his son Gordon have al-jeral for Alaska, returned on ”""w W for that grave and also on The authorities saild murder To CHEAP MA TRIMONY! The fifth slaying, according to beginning to assert their Fghts.!y,,ng Northeott Is sald to have Wwith this unanswerable objection: jcapin, When the miner's partner In general, young men favor thel The son is painted by the saleable articles, and point out| Officers digging on the farm years of hard labor to carn the foot of a 10-year-old hoy. JOHN RUSTGARD RETURNS 'Northcott is already accused of and stand|steamer Queen from a short trip i Riverside farm for graves of charges will be filed against Gor- ’Lhe father, was in a miner’s When approached by officials Whol}een ajded by a miner. “What! We go for cheaper thanlarrived and argued over the pro- proposed change. They find lh?,!nther as an “ape man” over lthnt if their fathers do not sup- yesterday uncovered halt a dozen u:l;;r c!ta.r\‘!:.:s}n ‘recuired to buy| Mrs, Northcott and her son are “ALL THE NEWS Demm racy’s M essage to | ‘Heart of Nation Will Be Delivered at Omaha 1ITH'S SPECIAL TRAI rO OMAHA, Sept. 17 Democ 's message n belt and the best wish. Ireds of citizens of Al- gave him a nolsy fare- Alfred . Smith is head- heart of the Nation to open his speaking /campaign. for the Presidency Omaha tomor- row nigh hu bany wh well, Gov ed for the SKA EMPIRE ALL THE TIME” epublican " Cindidite In— vades Debatable New Jer- | sey, Campaign Issues WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—Her Jer will take his Ba nto the Bast today Gov. Smith makes his fir to th We Mr. Hoover Newark to deliver the th iddresses he will make th | whore it is admi he hus a fight on his hands k tonight at Newark make other speeches Hoover As st ted roun( At Omaha, Gov. Smith ~will make [New York and Boston is first formal campaign addres notified in for the Presi- ith's theme Omaha will be agriculture, Gov. Smith will del five other speeches on the prezent tour at Oklahoma City, Denv¥¥, Hel- ena. St, Paul and Milwaukee. The subjects for those speeches have not been announced - F ar;ner-Labor Man |since he was his nination Goy iS5 R ATRS - Col. Frank E. Webb, San Fran cisco bridge promoter, has acceptcd the nomination tendered him by the | executive committec of the Farmar- Labor forces to head the presiden- tial ticket of that party in Novem- | ber, PLANE GOES DOWN, STURM‘ *“Soviet of the North” Wrecked—Crew Ap- | parently Not Hurt MOSCOW, Sept. 1 X of the RuSsian plane “Soviet of North,” missing since Augus on a flight from Viadivostok Leningrad, have resumed thelr) Journey by steamer to Stavropol.| The airplane was wrecked during a storm near Kolyuchin Bay, beria. The crew, apparently not hurt, i walked for more than 200 miles| over the bleak, frozen plain m\ the icebound coast where t steamer ook them ahoard. B g KOZOFF ARRESTED CHARGED | WITH POSSESSING LIQUOR| { Mike Kozoft was arrested yos.| terday on a charge of possession of intoxicating liguor. Four and one-half pints of moonshihe liquor are said to have been found on his possession. He was released today on bond, and no time been set this afternoon for a | ing of the case. —_— . — William MecAllister, who has Lfll with the Union Oil Company, left ‘en the Queen for Sitka, Albany | | years there has | chance | mission took 3 | Territory, S jup |ment is extremely Mr will b ithat at ye Hoover New York s delivered October 17 Boston will be on a determined. A A half dozen cities in New will be visited by Mr. Hoover before he returns to w .Mnm--un U, . INSPECTION OF AIR SERVICE BE MADE ALRSKA sey MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS “Tests Voice of Would-Be Speaker cam.! first of! on! Jer. | Al r pl anes Be [nspec[ed The picture shows Miss Rosamond Pinchot; danghter of former Examination Extend- ed, Parks Advised Airplanes operating in will be inspected and pilots oper ating planes will be examined the mear future, of the U. S. Department mer by Gov P, MeC retary George A. Parks from W ken, Jr., Assistant Sec of Commerce fo The Inspector ka in about two said. While aireraft and pilots in the Territory are subject to mental regulations, for been noe machin. ery here to give air companies a to (umxlh with There have Ween no facilities ingpection of planes, and. it been necessary for pllots to go to the States for for licensing. Subject of Protest Several months ago, the Board of Territrolal Road Commission- ers, of which Gov. Parks is Chair man ,and the Alaska Road Com.- up the matter with the Depdrtment of Commerce and asked that some provision be made for local inspection and examina- tion. The Governor also made like recommendation in his annual report to the Secretary of Inter. ior. In response, Assistant Sec MacCracken advised Gov. [hll[ the Inspector, while in would endeavor to set the necessary machinery for the enforcement of regulations lo- cally, will visit months, for ha examinations Sees Benefit Here That air (|Jl|~<]mrl.llwl| will play an important role in Alaskan de-| velopment is the belief of Mr. MacCracken. “Aircraft will un- questionably prove an important factor in those sections of world where existing transporta- tion methods meet with consider- able difficulties, and the Depart- anxious to a sist the Territory in every pos. sile way in developing its air transportation,” he wrote Gov Pnrkn He sald, also, that it was ,interested in learning of the pro- |Bress of commercial aviation in Alaska and gratified “at the splen. did co.operation and assistance which the Board of Road Commis- sioners is extending to its de- velopment.” — e J. J. MEHERIN ON QUEEN J. J. Meherein, well merchandise broker, passed through Juneau on the Queen on his way to Sitka after spending several weeks in the States. He will return to Juneau on the Queen next Thursday night or early Friday morning. the \llxlul\ in| by an Ilnxn»xhn‘ of Com. | . according to word received | Aeronau- | 4va.nh\ seve m] i " POLITICIANS : or “land it is about the f known | [reasons. = [(murnur Gifford Pinchot, of Pennsylvania, listening with | critical ears to an addr being delivered by Miss Mar Nieto. Miss Pinchot is official “coach for wonien speak | the Democratic camaign. Ruth Eldvr Claims She Fed Spouse in LOS ANGELLS, Examiner story that FARMERS ARE NOW PUZILING - in her Sept. 17.—Tha says in a copvright reports of the filing of uinst luth Euder, actress, resulted the . “back days preceding flight of the in Ire of the 0o, Hlulithd ocon plane, American Girl | And upon flomesti {her hpsband, blamed the failure 1Smlth Has Cities and Hoov-‘ g er Strongest with Women |in mido lot were | mack is reported to have |for a divorce in Balboa, Panama Canal Zone, charging cruelty Lt i “During three days of 2,7l perfect flying weather ever known M farhe jover the Atlant Y Elder ing | tOld an interviewer last night, " ; husband was haunting me highly speculative element in | v AREH Met | threats prevented me and from the whole range of Midwe uvn‘” \de. - | Presidential politics. Other fac- "‘P:”“"' "“‘{ It y g tors weigh heavily, but unlike|°OP the tr ried every way [the farmer vote they are more!t0 @void him and take off but he less fixed quantities It iy @lways managed to pop up at the conceded, for instance, that Gov. | Wrong moment That is why Smith will run strong in the W& made false starts. If cities and that Mr. Hoover will|We had managed to get away dur- run well among the women and|ing these three days I know we would have landed id France." Although sald s that there will b certain “hurt and ast shed” \\mnm k and Lyle Womack, she of the plane to rance . The craft landed | san where she and her pi- | hip. Wo. fi | | —Farmers Cause Worry rescued by By RON PRICE SPRINGFIELD, 11! |The ultimate choice of |ers as” between Herbert nd Gov. Alfred E. Smith re; and by rge 80 many switches on prohibition and re-| she ligious dssues dnd for other stated /(,(n',lnuull an I‘)lula l‘wnl When they talk privately these matters the polit both parties are pretty much m\ agreement. It fs when they .uk\ of the farmers that the Repub-| lican and Democratic forecasts come mest violently about of | ans into conflict, | about | parties are nformation whose intefitions b now seeking all the procurable, ————— EXHIBITS FROM SITKA, CRAIG AND JUNEAU ONLY The only 8¢hools represented in the large, attractive ex- hibit at the Southeastern Alaska Fair were the Juneau Public School, the Junmean High School the Parochial School, of June BERLIN, Sept. 17 {He opinion ha jmoved by a living plea for the out- |lawry of war g war vietims who assembled in t | Prussian state council hall | A youth blinded with both hands amputated aroused general compassion among the representa- tives of 19 na affiliated with the International ety of War | Vigtims, Al bers of this the Bureau of Education School|OTganization have experlenced per- at Sitka, the (Craig school, the|manent disability as a result of tive Sehool at Juneau and one | WAr. exhibit from the Sitka Public Of 5,671,000 war wounded, it was Schoel. stated, less than half, or 2,660, ————— 479, were in receipt of relief. Oniy J. H. Gllpatrick, well known|few countries, speakerc said, bad uki?en of Sftka, left Juncau for | made adequate provision for them, his home gz ‘the Oueen. In Austria, echoslovakia and German pub. been profoundly consi and sehool on: Sou | T"()ir “L()("',, Dl'ys:lvpflllml killed or inj ¢ d suit | the most | arting | PRICE TEN CENTS FAMINE IS NOW REPORTED; MANY IN DIRE NEED Death and Destruction from Last Week's Hur- ricane Reported COUNTRY PEOPLE ARE FLOCKING INTO CITIES Property Damage Is Esti- mated at One Hundred * Million Dollars SAN JUAN, Porto 17.—The death list reaching 1,000 and property damage of $100,000,000 the conservative estimate as partial restoration of communications permitted some check of Thursday’s tropical hur- ricane which ‘spread death and estruction throughout the islands with 2,000,000 population. Famine The spectre of famine stalked fthrough Porto Rico today. At least 300,000 persons are hungry. Disease also threatened the people. One million persons lieved to he homele: A declaration of requisitioning and. rationing of fopd and drafting of all abl bodied men arve being urged upon the Government by prominent and leading citizens. The National Guard ordered to protect Rico is sept. are be- martial law, has been property from Efforts are being made to stop profiteering. | even towns .report hundreads |depd. It will be at least a week | before accurate reports can be re- ceived No Americans are d. crops continental Most been d [ f of the homes, even those lof thatched, have been destroyéd 'or damaged beyond repairs. Country people are coming into the towns by thousands beggimg for food Hard pressed merchants gave |them as much as they were able, 1 One man with a bag of rice, bag ans and side of pork, lwas rally mobbed by 250 |homeless hungry people at Nag- juabo Playa of food have | VIRGIN ISLAND STBUCK 3,000 REPORTED HOMELESS | ST. CROX, Virgin Islands, Sept. 17.—8ix persons are known to have been killed in a hurricane which struck here last Thursday leaving 3,000 homeless and. 100 v injured. The chief commmergial centers lof Christiansten and Fredericksted were damaged Many villages {have been razed and several large {estates wiped out. Sugar factories |h been damaged and sugar crops destroyed. e, ———— | LUMBER MAN HERE | A €. Van Winkle, foreman for | the Sawye Reynolds Lumber Company arrived in Juneam \.u..mm the steamer Queen. MAIMED VICTIMS ASK ‘ FOR END OF ALL WAR Julgaria especially their umdlllou are said to be appalling. Frenchmen and Germans joined. hands in solemn promise to comr- bat the war spirit, which was, they sald, once again by military cliques in many {lan Chancellor Hermann Mueller pe- ceived the delegates and Ill'm them of his continued efforts to. promote reconciliation and | pom umong the nations. t An anti-war exhibition was 0"5 led at the same time in the Karl Licbkenecht House, where the ho®s rors of war were pictorially dis. |l One poster described how explosive. being fostered |artificial silk ‘could in very short [time, be converted into a deadly ~3