The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 24, 1928, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIIL, NO. 4954, FOUR ARE KILLED IN ¥ ALASKA, SATURDA , NOVEMBER 24, 1928. MARYLAND RUNS JINTO TROPICAL GALEIN SOUTH Big Battleship, with Presi-! dent-Elect Aboard, Hits Sea Storm *HOOVER .CALMLY SAYS HE HAS SEEN WORSE| Heavy Seas Strike Navy Craft—Everything Is Battened Down U 8. S. MARYLAND, Nov. 24 ~The battleship bearing Presi- ® dent-elect Hoover is riding out a ggle which attained a velocity of 70 mil an hour. The Mary- land is riding the storm well and Mr. Hoover is apparently un- disturbed by the gale At the height of the storm, waves broke over the clipper bow throwing spray high the bridge. At times the water was five feet deep in the forecastle and quarterdeck. Speed Reduced Speed of the battleship was re- duced from 17 to six knots The hammered the sea- plane on the quarterdeck so badly that the ship had to change its * course in order to permit it being moved to a sheltered position. The President-elect had his first taste of a tropical storm last night when the heavy seas lapped the side of the battleship until water poured into the port holes, Hoover Not Worried Sitting in a room and over- hearing an attache saying “This| ¥ is terrible,” Mr. Hoover replied: | “Oh, T have seen worse,” The storm signal division was routed out to pescue the canvas eanopy on the bridge in the gale which made the task extremely dangerous. There was some ex- citement when a life bouy blew overboard and it was first re- ported a man had fallen over. Everybody Below The battleship” was brought to stop in the heavy seas while everything was made safe for the members of the Hoover party who had been driven to sleep on the gquarterdeck by excessive heat and forced by the gale to go below As the battleship entered the Gulf of Teauntepec on the South- ern Mexican coast, where a seas were first encountered, 1 ¢ hatches, portholes and skylights were closed and led. - HOOVER WANTS INAUGURATION as as seas n . T0 BE SINPLE No ElaboraEterEeremony Is Planned—Not Return to Former Grandeur ABOARD U. 8. 8. MARYLAND, Enroute to Ampala, Honduras, Nov, 24.—Responding to importunities ¢ from many sources in the United States for the re-establishment of| elaborate inaugural ceremonies on March 4, President-Elect Hoover 4 announced his inanguration will be as simple as possible, telling the correspondents aboard the Mar, land: “I do not propose to have any more elaborate ceremony than the most simple ones of recent years. I have not yet considered the de- “® tails but I.certainly will not re. turn to the custom of an inaugu- ral ball and elaborate pageant. “My inauguration will be as sim. ® ple as those of Presidents Wilson, Harding and Coclidge. * 1 would like to simplify that if there are points on which there ‘could be simplification.” Under Hot Sun The Maryland moved forward & Yesterday toward the Gulf af Fon- seca where it is due Sunday. The tropical sun, off the lower ‘Mexi. ‘can coast beat so intensely yester. day that awnings were stretched over the quarterdeck for the pro. tection of the Hoover Party. The President-Elect seems to be unaffected by the heat and is en- Joying the trip more each day. He has alread © Leen greatly benefit- ted and a marked change in his ¢ appearance has Leen rhe subject of ‘much com ent abo:rd, . e A i | [} Condition of King George Shows —After night, King improvement for the first LONDON, No passing fair George showed tod although time it became known that pleurisy wa- present An official bulletin said His M je improvement main- ained and gave further lief to public anxiety, It understood that the pleurisy in the King's right lung and congestion nothing out of the ordinary and that therefore there be need anxiety on this account. a ty's re- is is no o DR, MULLINS PASSES AWAY President of Southern Bap- tist Thcologica] Sem- inary Is Dead DR EDGAR YOUNG MU NS — VABsSOC AaTED PRESW) LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 24— Dr. Edgar Young Mullins, Pre: dent of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary died at his home here today. He suffered a stroke of paralysis on Novem- ber 10. . Dr. Edgar Young Mullins, who served as President of the Baptist World Alliance and of the South- tist Theological Semin- ary, at the age of fifteen, a tull-fledged telegraph operator. Bofore this, young Mulli worked as printer's devil and a typesetter in his home town of Corsicana, Tex., where he had lived since he was eight years old. He contributed part of his wages towards sending his older sisters through college. After his sisters we graduated he w told that his father had means to send him through college. He »n a liberal arts course Texa§ State Agricultural entered u in the College. Four years later, after his graduation, he wandered one night into the tent of a traveling evangelist at Dallas. That night he was among the converts. He returned home and became active in religious work at his father's church in Corsicana. Enters Ministry The youth determined to enter the ministry. He entered the Southern Theological Seminary at Louisville. Here, at the age of Dr. Mullin received his de- gree. Kentucky became his adopt- ed State. at Harrodsburg, Ky. From there he went to the Lee Street Baptist Church, Baltimore, where his work came under the notice of Joshua Levering, President of the Board of Trustees of the South- ern Baptist Seminary. Dr. Mullins left Baltimore to take the pastorate of the First Baptist Church at Newton Cen- ter, Mass., then considered one of the most important Baptist pulpits in the United States since the Newton Center Baptist Theo- logical Seminary was there. In 1899, the Baptist seminary at Louisville closed its session without a President. Shortly thereafter, the Baptist Argus at Louisville, wired Dr. Mullins for his picture. His curiosity was aroused. He went to the tele- graph office at Newton Center to investigate. The operator was out and Dr. Mullins was granted per- mission to flash his own query over the wire. Much to his sur- prise he found that the Boston office was calling Newton Center (Continued ;Pue Three) 1 | | | | i | His first pastorate was|Juneau: i | ] | THREE PLANES California | Turn-overs Nearly Seven| NORTHWESTERN LIEUT. N | Assistant to Santa Claus Reackes Seattle TTLE Nov stimulate interest shops in retail tr. ka Bureau f Comm ok Jack, boy 24— To in the toy de, the Alas- ttle Cham- introduced 12-year-old Es- the children of morning. He ar- liott Bay in a navy T0 THIS CITY Verne Gorst Going After! Mail Contract—An- nouncement Made of Seattle rived th on k S Nov. 24.—With the seaplane, Alaska mail contract its goal, a company is being organized to operate a regular airplane service from Seattle to Alaska with three Sikcrski planes worth $60,000 each, Verne Gorst, President nf‘ the Seattle Flying Service an- nounced last night. Gorst, who founded the Air Transport, returned to | tle m the Rast where he stud- ied types of planes for the AHTH A R and he said the pos-| i y aska service sibilities the successful opera-| tion of airplanes between Sl'ullh"; kan and Juneau had been under his direction for| y mentk | 1id will ear-| ry enge nd he is going to Washington December 1 to inter- view Senator Wesley L. Jones and Co in John F. Miller, of the State of Washington Fog Problems Regarding fog problems, Gorst| declared that “we hit the fog| preblem over the Sikiyous inj starting the coastwise attle to| mail run which was! called impossible but we found | way to beat the fog. On the| inside passage to Alaska, the fog| could be no worse and I am confident a regular service can be| maintained. Furthermore I be-| lieve almost every letter writter in Alaska would gladly patronize | the air route.” | — STOCK MARKET AGAIN BREAKS SALES RECORD ATTLE, look | “Happy” Jack, which Jack, came as first assistant Santa Claus and was met by city officials when he arrived Jack wi night means to radio talk children > .- Seat- of DIES N. Y. HOME ‘Man Who Organized Large Corporations, Pass- es Away 2 service i | a Million — Gains and Declines Both Noted NEW YOKK, =rov. 24-—The Stock Market, which has been run. | ning with high speculative fever for the past fortnight, went into convulsions yesterday and it was a day of record turn-overs, nearly 7,000,000 shares Final quotations disclosed a long list of gains running as high as $20 per share and a long list of declines almost as great. The Board Governors, meet- ing in a special session late yes- terday afterncon, declared today a holiday, giving the harassed brokers and clerks a breathing| spell The curb ma ord with 2,364,000 shares. An Exchange seat sold yester. day at a record price of $550,000. e TED PRESS (T THOMAS F. RYAN NEW YORK, Nov. 24.—Thomas | Fortune Ryan, aged financier, died | late yesterday afternoon at his home he Thomas Fortune as a financier was mainly devoted ito the consolidation and extension |of street railway and electric light | and power systems in New York Chicago and other cities. About | he resigned as controll- | ling factor on the directorates of {more than 30 corporations r ing directorship in only three, Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Rail | way, the Clinchtield Coal Corpora |tion and the Guaranty Trust Com.| pany of New York City ° Active In Politics He combined politics with busi.| ness and for years was a leading| |figure in the counsels of |Bryan wing of the Democratic party. In 1904, when a deleg {from Virginia to the Democrat | National Convention, he was said |to have been largely instrumental SEATTLE, Nov. 24. — Steamer | in reconciling opposing factions to| Northwestern sailed at 10 o'clock |the acceptance of Judge Alion B.| this. morning for Alaska ports Parker, the nominee's Ryan’s career of the the 1 ket also set a rec- nti- telegram |couple had lived in Hyder, FORMER ALASKA WOMAN DIES AS PUBLIC CHARGE Mrs. Eddy, Once Heiress, Passes Away in ‘Coun- ty Hospital TRAGIC STORY NOW REVEALED IN SEATTLE Wife of Former U. S. De- puty Marshal at Douglas, Dies in Poverty SEATTI wealthy e Eddy move from X the st i night Th widow « U. 8 at Dougla daughter Nov Once a ., Mrs. Mildred few weeks ensive hotel suite to hospital for her died Thursday e 1 ago an King [ County nd publie ¢ the tragic stery of the Willlam Bddy, former Marshal, stationed Alaska, and the Bradford, reputed millionaire, riends arranged nodest funeral Spent Money Lavishly Supposing she to share in her father tate with her mother, she spent money lavishly up to the very day she w stricken. It aid this was the day she learned that second will had been discovered leaving everything to her stepmother When her husband died in aska last February, she to New York and Washington staying at expensive hotels, writ- ing check after check against the dwindling bank account which ented her husband’s insurance. Under Delusion Returning to Seattle, she took a swuite at the Assembly Apart- ment-Hotel, stfll under the de- lusion was heir to a huge estate. She declined to stint her- self even after her bank account vanished. Belongings Held When the woman who once Seattlé’s streets behind her own chauffeur died, the hotel was holding Hher most intimate sonal belongings in part ment of her bill, it was Glen McLeod, Chairman he committee of the attle Elks, who at last interested themselves in her welfare. Believing her stepmother would care for bedy the Elks committee raphed her and the reply a curt refusal, McLeod said Mrs. Bddy's first husband Federal Judge in Hawaii years of age. Al- repres she rode s aid tele- was was She wa Mrs. Bddy was well known on tineau Channel where she re ided with her husband, U. § Deputy Marshal at Douglas, up to the time of his death. The where ed in also at intere and William mining BEddy was property, | Nome. {HERRING SEINING IS BEING INVESTIGATED To investigate a report that oats are seining for herring in eymour Canal, the Fisheries pa- rol boat Auklet, Capt. C. [ib- sitts, left here this morning It vill probably return tomorrow Under existing regulations her- ng can be taken only by gill nets this season of the year. Seini with 66 passengers aboard, in-|declarin cluding the following booked for J. B. Adeney and wife, Miss M. L. Adeney, F. Met:gar, L. H. Metzgar and wife, George E. Cleveland and wife, C. W, Wright, J. Krugness and wife, | J. Krugne Jr., Tim Ferkins and one steerage Born in Nelson county, Va., Oc-| tober 17, 1851, and educated in the public schools, Ryan went to Balti-| more at the age of 17 to work in a drygoods store. There he re- mained until 1870 when he went Ito New York and began work as a clerk for a Wall street Four years later he bec member of the Stock E He became acquainted wi Wil- | liam C. Whitney and for more 2.2 & than a quarter' of a century had Under a change in Army “"““""xapuve charge of the latter's enter recently received here, Lieut. J"h"iprises, R. Noyes of the engineering staff| of the Alaska Road Commission | has been assigned to duty with the First Engineers stationed at Fort Dupont, Dela, instead of being transferred to Camp Lewis as specified under his orginal orders. Lieut. and Mrs. Noyes will leave here December 4, for the East. They will go by way of San Francisco where they will take the transport Cambrai. through the Panama Canal to New York. They will probably spend New Year in the Canal Zone, and arrive in New York on January 8, proceeding at once to Fort Dupont, concern me nze OYES TO GO TO FT. DUPONT, DEL.! a | With Big Syndicate In 1886, Whitney, Anthony Brady, John Dolan and K with the traction syndic; headed | by P. A. B. Bidener and Wil-| liam L. Elking of Philadelphia to| | obtain control of the New York| Traction Company with its subsi-| daries which later became the In-| terborough Rapid Transit Com-| pany. At one time the united| capitalization of the street X'l;[-‘ ways and public utility corpora- | tions the syndicate controlled reached $1,500,000,000. In addition, & for a gold standard plank.| s illegal. 4 (Continued on Page Eight.) l . T0 SENATE IN tep- | traveled | _|as he the MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS COOLIDGE’S THANKSGIVING TURKEY Thie huge gobbler is being fattened for President Co akegiving dinner. It was the gift of the city of Charlotte m r which the president will spend Thanksgiving at Swemees olub atop the Biue Ridge mountains, ge svil the While Hunting KETCHIKAN Jack Leib Alaskan in his ear \laska, Nov 79 years, plo ATH DIVISION ‘McDonald, Rothenburg, | Donnelly Sure and Fish- | er Probable for House neer ished from evidently has per s a few n ad n rom the Coas ed la the w home ar Guard night a search L Hov 1 ibrant has 14 en missing sinc when he we rms ha then, He ght May Fox and a son Thomas Sedro-Woolley, mber hunt- th area since FAIRBANKS, | With than standing, Luther C. assured of nator, and Joe McDonald, D , R. C. Rothenburg, Indepen and Harry Donnelly, Republi- can, are sure of electipn, ith Walter PFisher, Independent, prol wble for fourth place in the Ho The “missing precinetssare: An. vik, Beaver, Ligtle Squaw llar and Sleetmute. It is certain |they will not report mors than 160 votes in the aggregate. This will not be sufficient to alter the present standings. The surprise of the race was Sheld defea went out of Fairbanks with lead, which teadily away in the outlying pre. Donnelly polled a heavy of irbank It predicted Johnston will pass St the final return vote reparted unoff :Fer Senator, Hess, 1,04 in 984; for Representativ Donald 901 nelly 7 Alaska, Nov 100 24 Mrs in less Vo out- tle, Dem for HATCHET MAN . 1S BELIEVED- UNDER ARREST Negro Identified by Wom- an Vi('liln ’Tilk('ll to Penizentiary is er ent, A big whittled cinets. outside was vote ¥ OMAHA Omaha stricken cause Nov who have since last attacks of hatchet killed three and wounded two, breathed easier last night in the hopes that a negro suspect is the killer The police said Stribl one of the positively identified Jake E as the man who crushed I husband’s skull with a hat- chet and then kidnapped her. Bird was taken the State Penitentiary at Li ast night to avold possible violence ich as happened nine years ago when a crowd burned the County Court House and killed gro accused of attacking a white girl 24.—Citizens of been terror Sunday don in be- The fally of a Br. slayer who Mrs. Harold Nordale vietims, Rickert 462, Peterson son 99 od 24 ! > ADMIRALTY MINE TO MAKE HISTORY SAYS DONALDSON to he Admiralty Islaze pany property at Ma A ory in Alaska dur rs,"” deeclared Rober 1son, President and mana. the company, who arrived in Juneau yesterday afternoon “Phat is my firm belief, based upon developments that have taken place and the discoveries th have been made. This is Mr. Donaldson’s first visit to Juneau for three montl He has been at the mine direc the development work that i prosecuted He came to Juneau to attend a directors’ meeting [ which will be held next wevk The slope 1s now down more than 500 feet, and last month win- ter quarte for the crew completed. The work will be ried on all winter. Mr. Donaldson will return to th mine at Harkrader next weck. ) B ES b PATROL MAINTAINED OMAHA, While Bird, who from Utah, is the hatchet slayer, the police main- tained another all-night patro over the city. Bird denied con nection with the killings although identified by Mrs., Stribling as being the killer. Inspector Danbaum he nust have more before him that Bird is the man wanted A g s SHATTUCK WAY FILL make next S. Do Nov an ex-convict in prison r of held as sald evidence heing wer The work of is making the what now known ick Way, from Front stroc rry Way, at the rear of the Theatre and the Alask is about completed started about hs ago, jointly by the owners. Ov f crushed rock was requi VANCOUVER, B. C., Nov. 24 fill. The material J. E. Betts bought a trunk at an!|was hauled by several trucks that unclaimed baggage sale for $14.50. have worked double from Upon opening it he found a wood- the A. J. trailing dump. D. B en casket inside. In this was a tin|Remmer and the Morris Construe- container, soldered, when opened tion company, hauled the rock on disclosed the body of a Chinese|a per yard basis. It is planned to or Japanese, apparently embalmed. |extend the street from Ferry Way The authorities’ believe possibly [to the Juneau Cold Storage in the the body had been prepared for|near future. The work has been shipment back to the Orient. How |surveyed and as soon as all of the it came to be among the baggage!property owners that will be bene- ‘14 a mystery. |titted dgree, work will be started. | ) as raliseum he three Body Found in Trunk vas and Kasaan Bird, ! IS ABOUT COMPLETED rock | PRICE TEN CENTS CRASH OF BIG PASSENGER PLANE PLANE TAKES SUDDEN DIV WHENLANDING Lives of Four Men Aboard Crushed Out—Two Others Injured ACCIDENT HAPPENS AT SPGKANE FIELD Plane Cruises for Hours Over City in Fog and then Crashes SPOKANE 83 12 over Wash,, Nov. 3i,—A airplane cruis- seve hours in dense fog landing place, then killed four men and severely, one of great ed late pokane for yesterd a seeking a and injured two whom may die H The Dead | Those killed we Lieut. William Williams, crack pilot of the Spokane Airw: {Inc 7 Lewis pert Arthur Enarson aged of the Namer of Spokane. The Injured Mechanic D, Mitchell lieved mortally hurt. Rex Heath, Business Manager of the Spokane Airways, Ine will live. The party was returning from an air carnival at Colfax, Wash. Heath said when the plane was about crash, Enarson re- marked: “It looks pretty bad, you in Hell." crashed Dunlop, bank employee B. Burger, airplane ex- Business Man- | Flying Se | | | is be- to T'll meet RILLED 11 ¢R At 4 VICTURIA, B. €. Nov. 24— Arthur Raybone, British Colum- bia Airways flier, was killed and Valdemar Bendropt was seriously {injured yestreday afternoon when Raybone’s plane crashed at Lans- downe Roud Afrdrome. Observers said the plane sud- denly went into a nose dive. The exact cause of the accident Is not known ——glies g il /AUTUMN GALE HITS ENGLAND DOING DAMAGE 24. Another g loss of life, and interfer- transportation Eng. LONDO Nov lautumn gale, brin ressed shipping ice with land damaged property throughout land yesterday The wind timated to have had a velocity of 100 miles an hour York Two sons Liverpool. One truck and the falling tree Hull reports two deaths, an aged man dying from caused b uggling through the storm land a school girl was killed when |2 chimney collapsed as children |were ing the school building | Channel umer service was halted all In London, rocts, show land bill boards suffered | o>> jat hird i 4 killed in »wn under crushed by were was | a other exertion day windows severely. {INGRAM BACK FROM SEASON ON KENAI PENINSULA ROADS work com- R. €. Ingram, engineer in of the activities of the U. Bureau of Public Roads on Ke- nai Peninsula, returned here yes- rterday. All work has been closed {down for the year in that distriet. good weather conditions iig all season, fine progress { was made on the several projects. '"The Hope-Sunri tion of Moose Pass Highway completed. Emergency work was done and new bridges erected on the Kenal Lake Highway. On Kenal River Highway five miles were re-lo- cated for future improvements. On the Crow Creek route there was a relocation and extension survey made. The usual main. tenan work was done on all \routes in the distriet, With | pleted, leh S the season’s o-mile