The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 14, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL XXXIII NO 5047 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA THURSDAY, MARCH l 4 l 929 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE ThN CENTS S OEING FLYING BOAT NOW ON WAY NORTH T0 JUNEAU | FIVE HUNDRED SEARCH FOR L CREAT POSSE ONHORSEBAGK HUNTING BOY Year-Old Lad Is Lost 1 m Snowstorm in Ne- braska Reglon GENERAL ALARM IS SENT OUT BY PARENTS Mist Turns to Snow, then Raging Storm—No Trace of Missing St X- GC -.\D’)N Nobmskn, March 14.- today to find any trace ar-old Willie Reeves lost blinding storm which covered section with eight feet of feared the boy perished. He to the ire yesterday to for a pair of mittens. The 10 snow anc scon into storm. communicated with fbors and posses were formed as the intensity of the storm con~ tinued."§ A general alarm was fin. 7 sounded bringing recruitg.fro; around the country. The coufifey is sheitered noo;z into which the Jerawled. Tha norme ar ‘o place ns COrTon. More than 2b auto loads of men were et away because of the deep ted snow. TWO MYSTERY BLASTS CAUSE WIDE DISASTER Three Persons Killed and Nine Injured—Houses Are Demolished ST. JOSEPH, Mo., March 14— Three persons were killed and nine mostly children, were in- in two mysterious explosions iich wrecked two buildings to- The first blast at 1 o'clock this morning, brick building. he second blast, two hours later, wrecked a building two blocks away. The dead are: aged 65 years; Charles Donald No- lan, aged 10 years, and Dorothy Gloggner, aged 9 years. One of the wrecked buildings housed a grocery store with a rooming house above. The second building was a resi- dence. The police expressed belief that the blasts were set off by bombers and they are seeking two men seen leaving the® scene of the first ex- plosion shortly before it occurred. — - — Mrs. E. Brightman, whose hus- band is in charge of the radio sta- tion at Mile 14 on the Copper Riv- er and Northwestern Railroad, is a passenger south on the Alaska enroute to Eureka, California, where she will await Mr. Bright- man who, will soon be transferred. bov failed to return,| rough and there marooned at the ranch unable | demolished a two story; Mrs. Mary Lew,| | | | | | | hBr’%h #nd M. coliege. Will R jates: Luella Coffey (u ey are lookmg for a judge to pick the fairest co-eds at Okla- that, V'd never be able to live in Oklahoma again.” SEEK JUDGE FOR SOONER CO EDS | d-clmmg, sald' “If 1 ever did Here are some of pper left), Mary Pruitt (lower left), ogers, 3 | ADE; S SEATTLE, March 14, — Taking e canneries and floating of six packing com- .n' es, the Alaska P:wl c Salm(m‘ Lm poration of Ketchikan has com- | pleted the largest deal in the hist-| ory of the Alaskan fishing indus- try. Sea Packin; Salmon Company, neries of the Consolidated | | Canne four each _of the Sunny- ipoint and Franklin, Ore each of the 'Dm.p Sea, Gorman and Selig are included in the new company. | With 17 plants and 244 vessels, ranging from small craft to large Salmon Corporation will now con- trol 30 per cent of the Alaska pack. ——————— INAVY FLIERS Navy aviators expect to arrive in Juneau op May 25 and to start flying on June 1 to complete the air survey of Southeast Alaska be- gun several years ago, to cable received from C. H. visiting in Los Angeles. It is understood that R. H. Sar- gent, of the U. S. Geological De- as he did before. to be used as a base ship. ——————— M. Tierney, oldtimer of the Cor- dova district, is 2 passenger south on the Alaska. Previous to his de- parture from Cordova, the Elks held a special meeting and Tierney was initiated. WOMEN LEGISLATORS IN VOTERS’ LEAGUE WASHINGTON, D. C.,, March 14 —One third of the women mem- bers of the state legislatures be- Jong to the League of Women Voters. All of Ohio’s nine women legis- dors are members. Illinois comes next with all except one of the seven women legislators recorded on the rolls. Connecticut has six of 20 women lawmakers enrolled as members. Records show that league mem- bers have rendered distinguished legislative service. Six have been returned to legislative halls for their fourth terms while 18 are third terms. the board of directors of the na- | tional league. Ferguson, - another leaguer, pia. ""PLANTS PURCHASED EVENTEEN { SRR o PSR D G i NINE PERSONS i | armies MEXFEDERALS - ARE GLOSING IN ON REBELS {Powerful Boverimey t| Armies Surrounding Rebel Stronghold FOUR THOUSAND REBELS CAPTURED; | Another City Is Reported to Have Gone Back to Govt. Allegiance MEXICO CITY, March the powerful Federal arr tinued to close in on con- the stronghold at Torreon, the revolu- along the northern tionary ranks Coming closely on the heels of the action of Naco in returning to Government allegiance, a breach between the authorities took place in Agua Prieta and it is uncertain | whether that town had returned to the Government fold. The rebels ciaim the capture of |700 Federals in an encounter at Ar'ega yesterday but this is offset hy reports from Gen. Almazan who leading one of the main Federal against Torreon that he had captured 4,000 revolutionists on four troop trains. S. TROOPS ARE i ADDED 70 PATROL . WASHINGTON, March 14—An- other small detachment of Ameri- can troops are reporied on duty on the Mexican border to reinforce those sent two days ago to Naco, rebel | DEAD;TORNADO The purchase includes the Deep | Franklin Company and properties of | cannery tenders, the Alaska Pacific COME IN MAY according Flory, District Forester, who is now partment at Washington, D. C. will be detailed to work witk the flyers The Gannett will be sent north with the planes entering upon their second and In Minnesota a fourth termer who also is chairman of a house public welfare committee is Mrs. James Paige, & former member of | In New Hampshire, Mrs. Maud has achieved a place on the important judiciary committee of the house. A former President of the Wash- ington state league, Mrs, Mary C. Hutchison, is serving for the first time in the lower house in Olym- HITS SECTION Many Are Injured in Com- munity by Sudden and Swift Wind Splitter re | | I | GREENVILLE, 8. C, March 14. Nine persons dead and {wo are, dying, five or ten others injured, victims of a tornado which boredl swiftly last night into a six mile! community, & small setlement 25‘ miles from here, Although the community has a| population of only 200, the tornado | confined such a narrow zone and came and went so sud- denly that nearby residents took the roar for thunder and were not aware of its true nature until eries| lof the its ! injured and dying were heard. Four homes, a cotton gin, church tore buildings were in uction. The deaths llapse of two of and severa: | the zone of were caused four homes ¢ 5 Publicity Be Given Government Refunds and Credits on Taxes WASHINGTCN, March 14.—Pub- licity for refunds and credits, for abatements of income, war profits, £XCEss s, estate or gift taxes n exces 20,000 is provided for in ¢ by President Hoover. The order was issued upon rec- ommendation of Secretary of Treas- ury Mellon. Pursuant to the provisions of the 1928 tax revision laws the order provides that a full record of such |refunds and credits be open to public inspection in the office of the Commissioner of Internal Rev- enue. | Arizona, to protect the town and water supply. Conditions across the borcer from Naco indicated possibility of a bat- tle between the Federals and I1ebels. With the new detachment a total of 300 American Cavalrymen and |/ 100 Infantrymen are concentrated at the border poini. ONE BATTLE REPORTED MEXICO CiTY, March 14— A battlein which 30 rebels were killed and 80 captured at Encantada, in the state of Coahuila, is reported hn a government bulletin late this afternoon which added that three Federal columns are converging for a general offensive against Tor- eon. FAIRBANKS IS WINNER FIRST CHAMP GAME Defeats Petersburg at Bas- ketball by Score of Sixteen to Eleven FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 14. —Fairbanks came through in the first game of the basketball title series and last might won by 2 score of 16 to 11 after a hard fought game which saw the tide of victory swinging first one way and then the other. Fairbanks romped through the first half against Petersburg with a lead of 11 to 1 but the rivals came back strong in the second half. Harry Runstad made six points for Petersburg. Joe Kaklen played a stellar game at guard. John Butrovich, crack ‘local cen- ter, got out of a sick bed and scor- ed nine . points. The second game of the Alaska championship series will be played tonight. Plane Staiis in Air; Two Men Are Killed AMARILLO, Texas, March 14— Robert C. Toole and Harold Dun- woody, Captain of the Amarillo Traffic Police crashed to death late yesterday when a plane owned 1by Toole stalled 300 feet in the air. The pair had been in the air for half an hour and were preparing to land when the engine stalled and the crash resulted. —lt Mexican Rebel General Freed: To Investigate WASHINGTON, March 14—The Secretary of State has announced that an investigation has becn started to defermine the circum= stances surrounding the release of Mexican Rebel General Borguez, by immigration authorities at Nogales, Arizona. 1 tie trier fht d ) iy ar nd J. Haa, b o 7 E AN GRAF ZEPPELIN 150 e LINDBERGH i'rom Mate Who B Made Son Smoke I o e e i i e LO3 AN ° | |® 14-—Because e — ( ° ed three years, sn i 4 . and cigarettes a e leaves Mexico Clly with' % grown mean,” Msr, Verna ¢ P }. Huskey has been divorced e assengers and Mail D Nansen Gives Lecturejs trom ‘her husband. o for Texas L3 “My husband t¥ it e, ] Ry in Seattle Before |5 pot’ run for o S ; i Several Thousand o puff at a pipe too and I had | IXICO CTTY, Maroh 14--cl, & {® a terrible time trying to e rles A, Lindbergh, ending a e break him of the habit” e throe weeks visit to his flancee, isEA;I"}‘LE;,_March 14.;Thc .A_r?v;. Mrs. Huskey told the Judge. e|hopped off today for Browasville, Z.SC :j;g;t{?;:ofih;\::\.s :gziifinvzxfifi e The woman also said her e Texas, carrying 10 passengers and 3 i |® husband gave his s quor < |be dotted with meterological sta-|q \::Liillfi v\‘{s 31 8. lindot :v RS e tions maintained the year round|es The Judge gave Mrs o and conditions m:xd 1.3;):)31'3])11:,: of | o Huskey custody of the boy .‘A Q the Far North will be as familiar| s and a baby sister and also €| to those interested as that of the|e g50 a month alimony. .i Temperate Zone. That was the e ° promise held out to an audiencc e e o e 9 o © @ 6 0 0 0 0 © i of several thousand last night by Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, scientist and explorer, during an ilustrated lec- ture in which he dis d the pos- sibilities for a scientific research on the Polar expedition to be made {during April, 1930 by the Grat Zeppelim Nansen’s first attempt to locate the North Pole was made more |than 40 years ago by dog team. He |has since made several excursions into the North and added material- ly to science and knowledge of the Arctic region. | |in the Graf Zeppelin will give us with facilities and conditions under which I have made tx.ps 8 CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLEMENT Three’ Bank Officials Ar<;, Indicted—Two Held Under Heavy Bail | SAN FRANCISCO, March 14— John Bray, R. G. Haddou and Daniel Burke, officers of the Fill- more and Post Strect Branch of the Bank of Italy, have been in- dicted on charges of embezzling $300.000 from the bank since 1923. Haddou, assistant cashier, and Bray, manager, are held under $65,000 bail each, said to be the highest set here in years. The men are charged with violation of the Natlonal banking laws. st One Lieutenant Killed, Another BALTIMORE, Md, March 14— Lieut. W. Ligenfritz was injured’ when a plane piloted by Albright ‘mnbed in making forced land- ing. en at Sunbury General ion of t'xc new 1 new Salv [§ 1 ir ramwell ~ommissioner H. W. Napp, General E. J 05T Booth, Left to right are Hig- ou leader; Commanders D Dr. Nansen said “our flight over | the frozen ice floes and open water | accumte data on geographic nnd: atmospheric conditions not possible | Injured, Crash| Lieut. Jack Albright was killed and | IS KILLED IN AUTO AGCIDENT SAN FRANCIECO, Cal, 1l4—Henry Berry, sportsn killed late yesterday when his au- tomobile plunged down 100-foot ravine in Kern county y and | his brothers, larence, 1 and Klon- dike goldficlds. - Skagway Boy Dies at Pullman; Body Being Sent North on Queen (Special to The Empire) SKAGWAY, Alaska, March 14— Philip Gault, aged 20 ycars, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy A. Gaulf, died at Pullman, Washington, where he was attending the Wash- ington State College. The cause of death was infiuenza and com- plications. The body is being ship- ped north on the steamer Queen. Becides his mother and father, residents of Skagway, he leaves a sister, Mrs. W. E. Troberge, of Kefchikan. - - STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 14—Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted today at 7%, American Smeiting 117, Chesapeake Corporation 84'%, Cud- ahy 59%, General Motors, new is- sue, 86, Gold Dust 71':, Interna- tional Paper A 32%, B 22, Missouri 82';, National Power and Light 58, Packard Motors 141%:, Postum 71, Texas Corporation 63, Mack |Trucks 108%, U. S. Steel {Bethlehem Steel 1087, American T and T Company 2157, Contin- ental Motors 23%, kali 201%. R C. A. Sheldon, postmaster at {Sewazd, is aboard the Yukon re- HENRY BERRY | 188, | Mathieson Al-| NUTE IS LEFT VIENNA, March 14.—Leaving a pathetic farewell to Prince Ernest Windish Grat grandson of the late Emperor Franz Josef, Madame Helen Rench, beautiful 20 year qld actress, comimtted suicide with her mother in dingy apart-; ;|ments. In her arms was the body of her baby boy, Franz Josef Rench, “Bury me with the photographs {of my two grealest treasures, my lover Ernest, and my baby son, { Franz,” the note said. Newspapers hint that Ernest, a handsome youth, aged 24, failed to reciprocate the love of the act- ress, The triple tragedy has stir- red all Vienna, where the actress was extremely popular. . H. M. Sawyer, brother of Mr. Sawyer of the firm of Sawyer and Reynolds Company, logging opera- tors, arrived in Juneau on the Yukon BOY & PASSENGER AIRCRAFT IS ON WAY NORTH |Takes Air This Afternoon on Flight to This City from Seattle OVERNIGHT STOP PROBABLY BE MADE Five Pcr:,ons Are Aboard | Plane Coming to Juneau —2 Women Passengers SEATTLE, Niarch 14.—A six | passenger Boeing flying boat took off in the air at 1:45 o'clock this | afternoon with five passengers for |a two day fiight to Juneau, Alaska. | Due to the late hour in hopping ,0ff, the plane is expected to stop 'overnight at Alert Bay or Prince Rupert and then continue tomorow (o Juneau. Emergency stops are Vancouver, Petersburg, Wrangell, Ketchikan ;and Skagway but the plane will not stop at those places unless forced to. HAS TWO PASSENGERS Last night The Empire received the following press dispatch from: !the Asscciated Press at Seattle re- | grading the flight: A Boeing flying hoat, the first’ jof a fleet-of five expected to be ]\opemmd this year by the Inter- national Airways on the coast of |Alaska and to the interior mining |districts, is scheduled to take-off in the morning (today) with Mrs. P. T. McCarthy, wife of the Presi- ,dent and Mrs. J. W. McCord, wife of the President of the McCord- Alaska Company, sheep, cattle and fox growers of the Aleutian Islands, 'as passengers. McCarthy, with E. J. A. Burke, pilot, and G. Nortic, mechanician, mill also be abeard. Coming to Juneau The plane will fly first to Ju- neau, then to Ketchikan and later 1ily to the Portland Canal mining {district, British Columbia. The plane has been purchased from the Boeing Company under contract of George S. Cochran and Company, of Seattle. The planes are to transport men and supplies to the Portland Canal district and later to the Yorke Peninsula tin district, 100 miles from Nome. McCarthy stated the plans call for an addition of two Boeing fly- ing boats and two land planes to jthe fleet during the summer to furnish a taxi service to the In- \terior. { George Cochran, who has prop- erties in the Portland Canal dis- trict and Yorke district, near Nome, said today he may purchase a larger craft capable of transporting | heavy na'-hinery W L Chxdcster. Prohibition En- forcement Officer with headquart- ers here, returned from Ketchikan aboard the steamer Yukon. Mr. Chidester has been in the Pirst City several days in an official ca- \pacity. Supremacy (Editor's Note: Extraordinary problems have entered the ef- ficlent use of fighting aircraft as a pavy auxiliary. How these problems are being solved and the part the airplane itself may play in future maneuvers of the world fleets have been told exclusively for The Associated Press by Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, chief of the bureau of aeronautics of the navy de- partment.) By REAR ADM. W. A. MOFFETT WASHINGTON, D. C, March 14. ~—Supremacy on the surface in any naval engagement between forces of comparable size cannot be had turning to his home after vaca- uoning outside. with inferiority .in air strength. However, to avoid any possible Adequate Air Force ‘Moffett Sa ys Naval Depends on misconception, I want to emphasize that supremacy in the air is of no use to anybody except as it affects conditions on the surface of the earth beneath. There is no general classification of service in the United States navy that is so essentially and compre- hensively naval, in the broader sense of the word, as is naval avia- tion. It becomes ever more ap- parent, as we gain experience, that = the zirplane does not and pjerform any new basic function i war which has not been pe: in some manner or other for s past by other naval agencies. b 4 it becomes apparent that there no type of vessel, lmdnoch. naval service, whose l (Continued on Page w