The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 15, 1928, Page 1

X" THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIIL, NO. 4946. SEA DISASTER TO BE INVEST JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSD AY, NOVEMBER 15, 1928. MRS. HOOVER 1S GOING ON . A, VOYAGE Will Accompany Her Hus-| band on His Good-Will Tour, S. America ITINERARY OF TRIP PARTIALLY MADE UP No Cabinet Infx:'»rmation Is| Being Discussed | with Anyone ANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal., 15.—Mrs. Herbert Hoover | will accompany her husband on | his good-will mission tour to! South America, the President-| BEleet disclosed to Capt. Victor Kimberly, Commander of the bat- N des Affaires Etrangéres de d’Amérique dans la guerre 4 Pheure ok la pensée du dental se veporte & cette dpik de Ventrée en guerre des dresse au peuple amé émue des sentiments fique, s'associd la défense des cours de ces an justice ot d'humi nos deuz pays, dge tre fin 8 la guen'y retour La France veut phére de confiance et Se sont traduits par tendant 4 écarter Ia La limitation des arm tleship Maryland upon which the | party leaves San Pedro next Mon- | day | Upon a tentative schedule, the | first port of call after leaving San Pedro will be Corinto, on the West Coast of Nicaragua where Hoover will probably be weleomed by the President of the | Republic. | From Corinto, the party will| move down the coast to Hn!lnm.l Canal Zone, where the President- Elect will inspect the Panama Canal. The next call will be at Calloa, Peru, then Lima, the capi- tal, the next Valparaiso, then | across the Andes to the Eastern | Co B consideration but no decision has been reached. The details of the trip await the arrival of Ambassidor Henry D. Fletcher who will accompany the President-Elect. He is ex- pected to reach Palo Alto Sunday. | The party will also include George Akerson, Hoover's secre- tary, and George Barr Baker, of New York, personal friend. | Continued publications concern- ing possible selection of Hoover's Cabinet today brought forth the statement in behalf of the Presi- dent-Elect, that he has not dis- cussed appointments with anyone and would not do so until he re- turns from his good-will tour early in January, Information is also obtained that Hoover does not intend to return to Washington until the day before his inauguration on March 4. —————— HOOVER TAKING NO CREDIT FOR VOTE OF SOUTH Regards Vote as Victory for G. O. P. and Not Personal Tribute BALTIMORE, Md, Nov. 15— President-Blect Hoover regards the large number of votes cast for him in the South as a victory for the Republican Party rather than as a personal tribute. 1‘ Writing to R. H. Bdmonds, Bdi- tor of the Manufacturers Record, | Mr. Hoover said; “With one third of the nation's land area, with about three-fifths of its sea front- age, with vast sources in soil, cli- mate and minerals, no limit can be set upon continued progress and the ever-increasing population of the whole South.” The President-Elect declared he| was ‘“profoundly appreciative at the extremely heavy vote cast throuzhout the South” for himself and Senator Charles Curtis, “I aceept this vote as no personal tribute but as an expression of developing sentiment throughout the South on behalf of the things for which the Republican Party stood in the campaign.” b 1ador and Belivia are under aussi_sincérement par nements, répond auz peuple francais tout ents depuis plus d'un demi charges militaires et qu war, Government publication. PARIS, Nov. 15.—The French| foreign office has published & {Dook containing the documentary | round of the which led to the Kellogg general treaty for renunciation of war. The first exhibit in the publication is | people by the French foreign min- | ister, Aristide Briand, through The Associated Press April 6, 1927, The history of journalism is fill- ed with examples of reporters’ ac- tivities which have given new di- rections to national and world events, but ncne exceeds in story. book aquality the part played by Smith Reavis of the Associated Press Paris bureau in the creation of the Keilogg treaty. Early in 1927 he sought and ob- tained from M. Briand a state. States on the tenth annive ry of America’s entry into the war. This resulted a year and a half later in the Salle de I'Horloge of the (Voecasion du 10" anniversaire de Ventrée des Etats Unis (Publié par 1" « Awociated Press, le 6 aboil 1927.) — v negotiations | the message of friendship and re.! |spect transmitted to ‘the Amerfcan | ment for publication in the Ulli((‘d’ Reporter’s Part in Kellogg Pact Related o Wl RO s v p 4 MESSAGE| ; “adressé au peuple américain par M. Aristioe BRIAND, Ministre la République frangaise, a mondiale. ¥ v celles des ‘moins clai- Credit for eliciting the statement of French amity toward America from Aristide Briand (in- sert), French Foreign Minister, which eventually led to the signing of the Kellogg treaty outlawing given Smith Reavis (right) of The Associated Press Paris bureau, in an official French Above is a facsimile of the page containing the now famous Briand mes- | sage, given Reavis for publication on the tenth anniversary of America’s entry into the World War. French foreign office The English text of the famous statement, as published in Ameri- time when the western world alls that solemn date when the United States entered the war I am addressing to the Ameri- can people an expreswion deeply felt of the sentiments, fraternal and confident, which the people of France will always cheerish to- ward America. “I have not forgotten that it | was reserved to me fi by an official communication from Sharp, then American ambas. sador, that the federal government had taken the decision which was to exercise so considerable an in- fluence in the history of the world war, t to learn w, in the problems of peace France and America are following different roads, but each toward the same goal. Disarmament can come about only by the will to peace among all nations. In t the thought of America will ever be certain to find sympathetic ac- cord in the thought of France. “If there were need of it be- tween the two great democracies in order to give high testimony of their desire for peace and to fur- nish a solemn example to other peoples, France would be willing to enter into an engagement with outlawing war, “The reminciation of war as an instrument of national policy Is a conception already familiar to the signatories of the League Cove- nant and the Locarno treaties. Any engagement subscribed to in the same spirit by the United States toward another nation, such 'as| France, should greatly contribute ! in the eyes of the world to en- large and fortify the foundation ich the international policy e is Dbeing erected. Thus the two great friendly nations, equally devoted to the cause of peace, would furnish the world the best illustration of the truth that the condition immediately to be obtained is not disarmament, but the practice of peace.” Government Ow NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 15.— The National Association of Rail- roads and Utilities Commission- ers has condemned Government ownership and operation. Delegates rapresenting every section of the United States ap- proved of the report read by Richard Higgins, of Connecticiit, Chairman of the Committee on Public Ownership, saying the Government in business ‘‘tends to Socialism.” . The report contained state- ments attributed to President Coolidge, and President - Elect Hoover opposing Government op- eration and adding that a *‘suc- cessful business requires men of broad vision and trained minds whose talents and ambitions should and cannot be limited by the fortunes of politics or a meager Government payroll. The Government in business tends to Soclalism and Socialism is con- trary to all tradition of our peo- ple and to the principas of the Government as expressed by the Constitution of the United States.” Rehabilitation For Homeless, Etna Eruption The President-Elect added that it was his beliet that the time will come when the voters:throughout the country should cast ballots on their ccnvictions and not make “things of a former generation” a basis of their vote. e e POSTAL SERVICE DE LUXE l STOCKHOLM—American news- paper and magazines may now be subscribed for at any Swedish) /post office, under a recent a rangement. ¢ | CATANIA, Sicily, Nov. Plans for the rehabilitation for thousands of persons whom the Etna eruption made homeless, are under way. Much pride is felt that the Government is assuming the entire cost of reparation, not calling for forelgn aid, even the Red Cross. A nation-wide subscrip- tion is also prohibited. ! The estimated 1oss is $18,500,000. The lava flow is decreasing steadily but a new stream, toward 15.—| nership, Operation, Is Condemned BOOTLEG KING UNDER ARREST lJoe Parente Is Nabbed by Authorities in Van- couver, B. C. VANCOUVExK, B. C, Nov. 15. ~—Joe Parente, of San Francisco, bootleg king, who escaped six moenthe ngo from the Vancouver immigration authorities while be- ing held for deportation, was ar- rested last night and turned over to the Immigration Department. He is being held pending instruc- tions from the United States. Parente is alleged to be the leading spirit in one of the big- gest liquor rings on the Pacific Coast. Search for him .was con- ducted relentlessly in the great- jest secrecy for months, since his escape, {German Ocean Air Line Plan Now Crystallizing FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germaiy, Nov. 15.—Dr. Hugh Eckener’s plan for building a huge airdrome near Bale, Switzerland, as one terminus of a trans-Atlantic airship service has received the support of Di- rector Colsman of the Zeppelin ‘Construction Works. Friedrichshafen is almost 1,500 feet above sea level, which means that the carrying power of an air- ship taking off at this point is four tons less than it the depar- ture had been .made from a local- ity of lower altitude: Colsman be- Baden is one of the most Europe. Men Felled by Blow:; Another Is Arrested On Charge of Murder| { LOS ANGELKS, Nov. 15.—».‘\1 street fight between two men who | the police said were intoxicated, | caused the arrest of 20-year-old Walter Devore on a charge of killing William Murray, 48, a miner. ¥ Devore felled’ Murray with a |blow of his fist in the brawl, knocking him w0 the pavement and causing injuries which re- sulted in his death. ————— ALASKAN TRIES T0 SLAY WIFE SEATTLE, Nov. 15.—Madden- el by the attentions his wife Mary, aged 30, received from other men, A. Mendez, veteran Alaska seaman, cut his wife's throat with a razor and |slashed his own. | The two were rushed to a hos- pital where they may recover Friends of the couple told the police that Mendez for years has remonstrated with his wife for accepting attentions from other ‘men. Mrs. Mendez refused, tell- ing her husband he could get a divorce if he did not approve (of her conduct. They have a son! aged seven years. | Had Hobby of !Collecting Sewing Machines, Organs then America mul T to use your way of expressing it. | Democrat, HEROES DROWN WITHIN SIGHT OF RELATIVES Seventeen Members of Life- boat Crew Meet Death Early Today LONDON, Nov, 15.—The London Press Association publishes a graphic count of the drowning of all enteen members of (he crew of the lifeboat sent out by the Rye Station in a tempestous sea at Jury's Gap when the b overturned while attempting to as- sist a small steamer in distres: Eye witnesses are quoted as giv- Ing the following description the tragedy which took place with of the wrecked steamer had been sight of sobbing men and women all waiting at the harhor side but powerless to do anything., It was some hours later before the bodies began drilting ashore. Mothers, wives and sigters of the crew rushed along the Beach gath ering the bodies. Therc is hardly a persam. fn the village who has not Ig86.a hus- band, father or some relative, DEMOCRATIC PARTY MUST BE CHANGED Senator DilT,*ke-eleclcd, Says Party Must Be Progressive SEATTLE, Nov, 15.-—Decisive- ly defeated in the National elec- ticn, the Democratic Party must become progressive if it is to en- dure, said Senator C. C. Dill, in his first statement since re-election as United States Senator. Senator Dill added: ‘‘National- ly, there has nevet been such a break-up, politically and geo- graphically, as this year. There have been so many cross cur- rents that a few general con- clusions can be drawn. I feel the Democratic Party must be definitely a Progressive Party and I believe it will be. If not, some new party will come up that will be a Progressive Party.” ———-—-—- 1S KILLED BY TORNADO Woman, Milking in Barn, Victim of Wind Twist- er in Jowa State CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Nov. 16. — A tornado cut a path through Benton County last night leveling farm houses and causing thousands of dollars of damage. Mrs. Alpha Hankinson, aged 30, was killed when the tornado demolished a barn in which she was milking, at Silver Creek. Former Alaskan Killed While Visiting Seattle SEATTLE, Nov. 15. — Search for Frank M. Fite, aged 70, miss- ing from his home in Harrington, Wash., ended when it became known he was the man killed here a week ago by an auto. The vietim was a former Alas- his brothers. He was fatally injured when struck by an auto- mobile driven by Edwin Blair. — - — S8TOCK QUOTATIONS |, NBENAS, Wis, Nov. 15.—Miss M. L. Bdgerton, recluse, is dead and among the antiques she left were 100 sewing machines. They sold for 16 cents each at an aue- lieves that, the Rhine valley of|tion. She mado a hobby of sewing suitable machines and organs, A few of went for 75 cents. the latter NBW YORK, Nov. 15.—Alaska Junean mine stock is quoted today at' 9%, Chrysler 130%, Cudahy 69%, Missour: 70%, ner 112%, U. 8. Bteel 169%, Pos- tum Packard Motors 109%, 64%. of | in sign’ of relatives of the victims When he lifeboat was return.| ing to the harbor after the crew rescuzd by the German steamship| Smyrn: at o'clock this morning, 1 gro.p of people, including many women who were anxiously wait- ing, saw the lifeboat, half a mile from ihe harbor, hit by a gigantic wave and capsized. | The crew was drowned «within| kan and eame to Seattle to visit| Stewart-War- ) ynqer the With the aid of a ceaplane ition, new river ‘which they name: granite formation (left), is NEW CONTINENT, LAST IN WORLD, MAY BE FOUND Discovery May Be Made by | Capt. George Wil- | kins’ Expedition | NEW YORK, Nov. :5.—The I)u::,[ siblity of discovering a new. con- tinent—probably the last in the world—lies in the scope of the Wilkins Expedition to Antarctica, This expedition of two planes, | three flyers and a mechanic is headed for that great sector of Antarctica which no man has seen, a stretch about as long as the United States wide, that geographers have said may be sep- arated from Antarctica by an jce. capped strait, | S0 completely unknown is most of this area that any additional knowledge whatever will go far toward permanent conclusions about its structure, { On present maps Antarctica |’.¢1; shaped somewhat like a tadpole, | its head toward Australia and its' tail projecting far northward to.| ward South America. From Cape forn to this tail is less than 1,000 miles, but everywhere else anl an Atlantic surrounds A n tarctica. From the tail of the tadpole, down the west side, 18 the largest un- known portion of the frozen con- tinent. Starts From Tail Tip | It is this portion that Wilkins proposes to explore, starting from the tail tip, At the far end of this strip lies Ross Sea, base of the Byrd expedition. On the east side of the tail is Weddell Sea, a great identation in Antarc- tica, which, if it conncets with | Ross Sea, makes a separate conti.' nent cf the land over which Wil- kins plans to fly. | Geographers have assumed that this area is land, and that there is possibly a comnection between the two seas named, t Wilkins himself has said he be-l lieves the unknown coast is low. | Blsowhere in. Antarctica, the, known coasts are high. Sir Doug.! las Mawson,*in Problems of Polar! Research of the American Geo_| graphical soclety of New York, says: | “Whether the rocky basement! polar ice dame is con- tinuously above . sea . level, or "(Continued 6n Page Two) 4 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS by s 3 o Scientists in Plane Explore “Blind S pot” In Wastes of Alaska States Geological Survey explored hitherts inaocessible Alaska. ed by J-R: Co Rty Tound ocean about as wide as the North - m— PRICE TEN CENTS IGATED INCUIRY BEGINS NEW YORK CITY BY AUTHORITIES Federal P ~be is Started This Aliernoon—Wit- nes: < Subpoenaed HEARIi(G [ PLFORE U. §. COMMISSIONER British Beard May Permit Full Findings t;Be Re-- turned fron: Inquiry TRAGIC POTNTS Aboard the Vestiis. which foundered. were (2@ o= . ers; 169 merheve crew., Resoued — 6 154 meigher L e Prosuma v udad 69 pas- senges nnd 45 of the crew. Bedie rered—?" Missing-—92 Amony, th 1 amd wisse n end 13 NEW YORK, Nc L. —&otting aside questions a 11 risdiction, Federal authorities have began a thorough investigation into the inking f the Lauibert n:id Holt liner Vestris 1 Munday after- noon. o voast Th ig.ton 1w the re- sult o piciimin cuertioning by Aclstant United Stites Attor- nev: Mintzer and 8ilver of ship- (below), scientists ot- the Unite! rtions ot W8 authoritie:, T e forma! inq. iy opened this o e X lw‘--‘~»_ Tted O Neh »‘wfll!‘ Ancther.” The “Tusk,” an' unusual Comziion ot gt i am, es were sulpoenaed Lo X .qn,‘fl g Mrean, B Although the Vestris was of British registry und the jurisdie- tion of Amciican aathorities is no' certain, it is indicated the Britieh authoritics might consent to have the entire inquiry com- ducied here, United States District Attorney Mintzer said he neard unofficially that the British Board of Trade Lad cabled the Consul General here saving that ii the inquiry was unbiased and exiustive, the Beard would ahbide by it. About the 808 Yivaus dampden, negro freman WASHINGTON, Nov, 15 over the rugged mountain that ordinarily require we travel by foot and pack train to surmount them, three American geologists have rec:nt. ly returned from Alaska to relate how nature’s barriers to an un - plored section of t Alaskan range 're broken down by seaplane flight. Wih no prospecis of +mogth landing fields alter ‘they shguld have reached their rugged infand ~Fiying poaks weeks of objective, the American sclentists ol tic Vestris, voiced on behalf of the United States Geological of 23 iiremen, the belief that Survey who set out to map and the £Ob should Lave heen broad- cast by the Vestris at 8 o'clock Sunday nizht when he said_the ship was Lsting 15 degrees and the waior (u the fireroom wag Mp deep e Hampden bLelieved tue disaster study one of Alaska's “blind spots” were forced to trust to a sea- plane’s ability to fly over jagged peaks until some inland iake near thelr working base was reached. They took off from the harbor at Anchorage and in an hour and Was due vatirely to (lie coalhole 20 minutes the pilot set the plane ©% the port side, iour inghes down on Chakathamna lake— a "hl"l‘”’ thih ‘"’""|‘”‘,‘ "hm’h:; distance inland from Anchorage S31d was open six iuches wi that requires three weeks by pack ;he‘lv""_"‘ "“::’e'{ "l‘:ld - d‘; train over treacherous country. J:Je:f Ahaj coulfs i nog He made four trips from Anchor. age to the mountain base, carrying the three scientists and 3000 pounds of supplies. The seapiine Water in Fireroom At 8 o'cloek Sundiv morning ihe water wn- ankie dcep in the o o fire rcom. At 4 o’cock the water flight made possible 93 days of.h“d put out the fres under the exploration—the fullest span ul-| gtarboard boilor and , coming in der existing climatic conditions iti| g page the pumps were umahle Alf‘r";:“' et ol & |to keep u; with the inflow. At 98 eIhere. of e party 8 o'clock 3 mday night a V) included S. R. Capps, the chi f: il o Hhex lurch sent the water up to the necks of the men. Hampden said L» weat of duty Gerald Fitz Gerald, engineer; topographical W. E. Spur, recorder; C. (Continued on Page Gight) ANIMAL STOW AW AYS COMMON ON PLI. NES WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 5.~ “Tail oxciied barkiig as though to tell Wind,"” boasted as ti- only pup tof he werld » Wt the leat he had make o non-stop flight from con=t|jusi accn hed. to coast hy the owner and p! The !'wenty-sscond pho »graphic of the tkee Doodle,” ha had [ section of tuc alr 03 adds to plenty of rivals in the way of ieal|ie wvinter - hed-time storles with live aviator animals. an @t 6" throe kittens which “Tail Wind” was a “h dog™ | mac several ovionded journeys with tooth picks for 1 mat:h for a tail. wnd a|bhefc e they w 2 foind in the fuse. But Air Corps|lage of th plan The mother records here show that not onlyfpeat had ovidently considered it & ha live animals flovn 1ong dis-| 5004 sate home for the kittens. tances in planes, but they have Recorls also suow that dogs, ven made parachute jumps, frogs, ¢ mice aud snakes have “Bing,” dog muscot of the Afr|made a Ju s+ W the cock Service Mechanics School at Kel|pits of s comeiimes to the 1y d, San Apwnio, once made have A" a parochute jump from the heightfdiseovered the Live frelght. after of a thousand feet. He had 8p--|tho plane has ‘aken olf. At France clal harness fitted on him. A ser. |ijeld, Panama, a nother geant pulled the rip cord just as{an. her hrood of little ones the drs dropped into space. The|discovered in the fuselage. They varachute opened beautifully, and|wore a. @ by tha hangar and now it iz mo uy; non | to see a crcwmm)?g:& ‘ ouldar. reai nunoyaice of pilois who | “Bing"” floated gracefully to earth, alighting in the arms of Le leu- tenant who had raised him from|work with « <mall a pup. He set up a joyful and i ing grouly to ais -