The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 20, 1929, Page 1

" VOL. XXXIIL, NO. 5052. WORLD WAR ALLIED COMMANDER DEAD BOEING PLANE ARRIVES HERE; LANDS AT 3:20 Goes Around Douglas Island from Petersburg —Arrives from West The six passenger Boeing e of the International Air- s reached Juneau at 20 o'clock (his afternoon with five | rd, three men and two en passengers. The plane left Seattle last Thursday afierncon at 1:45 o'clock and made stops enroute to techikan where it arrived | Sunday night at 6:30 o'clock. The plane took the air at Ket- chikan at 10:20 o'clock this | morning, reached Petersburg at 11:48 o'clock where it refueled | and then hopped off from there at 1: 5 o'clock for Juneau. i o piane came to Juneau from | west and probably lost the way | sburg in the Jow visi- i prevailed and went | as Island. The plane | > down in fine shape and hit| the water exactly at 3:20 o'clock, | in the Channel, half a mile from | A small motor boat went and at 3:30 o'clock hagd ‘the ! > in tow to bring to shoré, the plane is P. T. Me- | President of the company; | . J. Burke, pilot; Gectge‘ i Capt and Mrs. P. women : passengers. } Cord is the wife of J. Wi} , President of the McCord- | Company, ‘sieep, catile and s of the Aleutian Islands. the' westyard, NEAR TRAGEDY TOEXPEDITION OF COM, BYRD ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 20.— A near tragedy to Commander Richard E. Byrd and other mem- | bers of his expedition, a month ago. when Lai Gould pulled d | from the icy waters, is described | in a letter to Prof. Willlam Hobbs, | of the University of Michigan, Gould, who was yesterday report- | ed missing with Bernt Balchen and | | | [ [ to the ply Ship Eleanor Bolling, | d it was mailed from Queensland. 1e letter said, in part: i t today we escaped a near tragedy when a piece of ice bar-| rier onto which we were unload-| ing, broke off and let one man into | the icy water. Our biggest task| was rescuing the rescuers. I pcr-; conally helped pull out Commander Byrd.” Al Jolson Sad Singer; Automobile Hits Man; Is Rusked to Hospital | LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 20. —Al Jolson is a sad singer today beceuse his automobile ran down Leo King, aged 36, breaking his leg and also several teeth. The accident occurred as the Mammy singer, and Jack Conway, movie director, were being driven L Jolson's chauffeur along the Sunset Boulevard. The comedian placed the injured man in his automobile, sped to the police ation thence to the hos- pital. o | { | 'l:rouble Reno divorce and subs qus n't Fade Beaut Al 6B 00 5 5 3 = \ et | | : | | | A, w0 Mrs. Virginia S. H. Hayes, of New York, loses nothing of her | Denied by State Senate | good looks defending a separation suit brought by her former | husband, Giles G. Healy, who is endeavoring to set aside her | rriage to her banker husband. | JONES LAW SENDS NEW YORK PRICES OF LIQUOR SOARING WIEN IS FORCED | BACK BY STORM row—Dr. Newhall Dies at Far North Town Unable to Fly to Point Bar-| NOME, Alaska, March 20.—Noel Wien, who hopped off for Barrow last Sunday, was forced return on account of stor er, y was sick. day, according to a radiogram ceived here after Wien had been! forced back. Point | to y weath- He was going to Foint Barrow to bring out Dr. A. W. Newhall who | Dr. Newhall died Sun- re- Wien will leave for Siberia in a day or two for another cargo of} furs. — o NOME PIONEER PASSES AWAY NOME, Alaska, March 2—H. Carmen, resident of Nome since the ! gold rush days in 1900, died yes-!mys pody of terday morning after a short ill- gjed after a 17-day battle to save He owned much real estate hig ness. in this city. N. SMALL ARMIES RULE IN FUTURE CONFLICTS PARIS, March 20—A French general, who hides his identity be- neath three stars, writes in a well- known French revue that wars of the fut ure will be fought by small seeking a rapid decision. | he declares, is the German conception, and France, in count- ing upon complete mobilization of all forces with a view to general engagement with be at a disad- vantage. France and Germany, according to this critic, have been influenced by each other. The Germans, im- | pressed by the rapidly organized resistance of the French in the last war, no longer pin their faith The that | i ng penalties ition violations, has caus- |ed the price of liquor to soar, put-| |ting many of the cmaller speak-) (easies out of busin ) wholesale of whiskey | advanced much as $40 a| ohol has doubled | Th to around Delive! sies have | |been cur iled to such an extent: |that only about one-half of the| | liquor orderéd is being delivered. | Maurice phell, federal pro-| hibition adm ator, also declared | the Jones Act was pufting many | speakeasies out of ness. “The bootleggers do not like the idea of going jail for five years| and paying $10,000 fine. Fear of a long term has stirred the men in charge of the rings. They findi iit difficult to hire men who will take the blame for them. We are concentrating entircly on the source |of supply. The Jones Act strikes at the leaders.” ——-— £BO(I_V of Floyd iCollins, Mummified, 'Stolen from Cave HORSE CAVE, Ky., March 20.— Floyd Collins, who trapped in Sand| again rested in its| glass casket in Crystal | theft and recovery yes-| owner of the cave| gation will be pushed | s have been appte-: life when {Cave in 1 |bronze and !Cave after [terday. T lsald an inves until the t | hended. | {" The body had become camplet,ely'i | mummified since burial in Crystal on a decision by huge masses Of Cave, It was found along the riv-| troops. The French, on the other|er hand, impressed by the thorough |thieves expected to return and re- Marries Princc bank where apparently the! organization of the whole German cover it. army before striking a blow, lieve in what amounts, accord to the general, to almost natio: mobilization. A highly trained, comparauve:y' small fighting force, says the eritic, | will in the next war attack with ductor Barstead, Brakeman Fergu- to make it pleasant for her. lightning rapidity, leaving its rear|son and a newsboy were killed in| Tomorrow the Princess becomes. to be covered by a gradual gather- a collision between trains between/the bride of Prince Olaf, of Nor= ing of reserves, and any nation that Toronto and Winnipeg, near Dor- | way, but before the ceremony takes expects to have time to mobilize court, Oniario, this forenoon. Three place she will have experienced the will find itself vanquished before members of the crew were badly full measure of Norw it can get its effectives into the /injured. The - baggageman is re- to 2 woman who on: day should be| 18, field. be- ing nal e | |Canadian Trains ! | Collide; 3 Killed' MONTREAL, March 20.—Con- |ported missing. , pin “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PLAN TO DRY “UP CAPITAL O OF UL S, Police Ordered to Investi- gate Speakeasies—Pad- locks to Be Used WASHINGTON, March 20—A move to make the Capital City the driest city in the United States, has been started in Washington. Police Superintendent Hesse has' ued orders that a thorough can- vass of suspected places be made and padlocking of every speakeasy will be the objective. Dry leaders recently sought mop- up of the city urging that the Capital City should be an example to others. The Police indicated task will require a systematic effort. United States Attorney Rover de- clared that evidence will be fur- nished to show continuity of vio- lations and establish the fact that particular premises are being used | in the regular course of business | of keeping and selling liquor. Tho\ Police planned to study the past| records of convictions and arrests | to show continuity. ! . IMPEACHMEN 0F JUDGE TO NOW PROCEED Judge Hardy i J Demurrers by —Plea Is Made SACRAMENTO, Calif,, March 20. —The State Senate, sittinz as a High Court of Impeachment, has overruled the first four counts of the demurrer Superior Judge Car- los 8. Hardy, of Los Angeles, filed against the articles of impeach- ment, charging misdemeanors in office. Through the action, the Senate holds Judge Hardy for trial. The vote was 37 to 0. The four articles charging misde- meanors in connection with the af- fairs of Aimee McPherson, Evange- list. The Senate sustained one demur- rer, to the fifth charge, alleging misconduct in the distribution of seat checks at the trial of William Edward Hickman, for murder. Asked to enter a plea, Judge Hir- dy declared “not guilty” to all of! the allegations. N.Y, GANGSTERS | KILL MAN, WIFE Batter Down Door of Ar- mored Apartment—Un- derworld Vengeance NEW YORK, March 20.—Several gangsters battered their way into the armor-plated home of Sam Sacco during the night and killed Sacco and his wife. Sacco was married last summer after complet- ing a prison term for murder Apparently Sacco had known that he was walking in the shadow of death for he sheathed the door of his apartment with heavy pieces of iron and equipped it with strong bolts. The gangsters smashed the door while the pair slept. Sacco died with his gun in his hand. The police believed the shooting was a case of the underworld tak- ing the law into its own hands against one who had done the same thing himself years ago. Princess Martha Olaf Tomorrow OSLO, March 20.—Princ tha, of Sweden, spent her last day of unmarried life with the Weg= ians who are outdoing themselves Mar- welcome its Queen. ESDAY, MARCH 20, 1929. | that the artime Com | i { | | | I Familiar poscs of Marshal Ferdinand Foch, wartime Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies, who! Upper left: Marshal Foch in civilian clythes; Lo to United Siates; Low HE SLIPS QUT, SLIPS IT OVER BUT MAKES A SLIP; N KANSAS CITY, March 20.—Hays Vangorder, master forger, so clever with the pen that he forged h way out of Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary, is back again behind | the bars because the lure of Lhe} racket was too strong. | Vangorder gained his freedom | several weeks ago. ‘ Recently a flood of bogus money | orders appeared in the Middle!' Western States. | Postal Inspectors got busy. The trail led to Milan, Missouri, ere a suspect was arrested. He pr to be Vangorder. The authoriti could hardly believe it but investi- gation proved the convict had gain-| ed his freedom from the Peniten-! tiary on a forged court o which he sent to a friend in Washington who remailed it to Les worth in a franked envelope. | o ! SNt - 1 MISSISSIPP THREATENING MORE FLOODS Water Is Approaching Top! of Levees and Con- tinues Rising QUINCY, Il March 20. — The| Mississippi River is approaching the, top of the levees and still rising| after reaching the highest stage, in 13 years. The river is expe the erest during the d of flood stage of 22 fect | There is danger of the levees be-| ing weakened by the continual pres- sure of the last few days and they, might give way espe v in case Engineers predicied that the levees would withstand the stage of 17.7 feet. It the riv of foot | §i Alaska College | Graduate Given | Fraternity HmmrJ is just under a a under this and still - FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 20.| —Clifford Smith, graduate of the class of '28 of the Alaska College, now working for a Masters’ De-| gree in Mining Enginefring at Columbia University, has been elect- ed a member of the O Theta Tau,| honorary mining fraternity at Co-| lumbia, according to word received | here. ‘Membership is limited to Smith was chosen from 350, who were eligible for membership.! to reach :Chesapeflke Corporation 82%, Cud- just short |ghy 581 | 8teel 107, American T. and T. Com- MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS man : Allied 7/‘1rmivs, Dead left r right: Seated baaide his desk dur haking hands with soldiors dug- g the war. Graf Zeppelin To Make Trip To Nome, Arctic W IT’S ALL OVER ° — ° ° CHICAGO, Ill, March 20. e o —Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, fa- e ® mous Arc explorer, an- e FLOODS LANDI ® nounced here today plans e § o for an Arctic Exploration e . o Expedition aboard the Graf e E LE e Zeppelin next year. He said o © the dirigible will leave Ge: ° e many in April next year, ® - A ® cross the Northern Seas and o Worst Flood Since 1872 ¢ tie-up ot Nomé where the e N B . @ United States will build a e hxpenence(l'—Rlver © mooring m: From Nome, e A !'® according to present plans, Cllol{‘ed “_‘th XC& © the Zeppelin will fly over BRATISLAVA, Crechoslovakia, o ¢ Arctic and make mete- o March 20—Thousands of families fhliponl Obasresbons . Kufog along the right bank of the Dan- o SoUect sclentific data. : e e o vcecsocoecseo ube have lost their homes, cattle and other belongings in the worst flood since 1872. great river, which is choked with millions of tons of thawing ice, is rising steadily and threat-| ening further disaster. | | - eee TWO WOMEN Church belis tolled aleng the 1,- cLA'M MEN 800 miles length of the river warn- ing the dwellers to fiee for their| NEWARK, fives. | vomen are Augumented by sousands of ©f Pilot Lou Foote, sole survivor mountain streams, lakes and other |Of the plane crash near here in tributaries, the swollen waters of ,Which 14 persons were killed. the Danube are rushing past vil-| 4 telegram from Trulock, Cal, lages and towns along the banks |inquiring as to Foote's condition and throwing ice berriers around :@$ been received and the sender this and other towns completely j¢'alms to be the pilot's wife. isolating them. A woman known here as Mrs, Foote, said at her hotel, that Foote had divorced his wife, mother of a seven-year-old child, and her J., March 20.—Two n ®$0000c00200000 0 o TODAY'S STOCK e ® QUOTATIONS L ©ce00eeecos0ee e quoted the Trulock woman as say- ‘ng she had not been granted a inal decree. At the hospital it is sald Foote has & chance of recovery. - - City electricians of Jacksonville, Fla., assert t pellets from boys air rifles have broken 309 street lights there. NEW YORK, March 20.—Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted today at 7%, American Smelting 121% General Motors 87%, Gold Dust 637, Mack Trucks 105%, Mis- souri 80 National Power and Light 56, Packard Motors 138%, Postum -70%, Texas Corporation ing to be the wife | own marraige took place in that! State. Information from California | DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN ;,‘E}‘JTS MARSHAL FOCH PASSES AWAY Military Genius Bows to Supreme Commander | 1 After Long Illneses |DIRECTED FIVE ARMIES |AT ONE AND SAME TIME | | Smashed Hindenburg Line [ ’ and Made Other Vic- | tories Ending War PARIS, March 20.—Marshal Ferd- {inand Foch died at his home here this afternoon at 12:50 o'clock, after fa lengthy illness. “The foremost strategist of the | great war,” was Sir John French's | characterization of Ferdinand Foch, | Marshal of France. | Crowned with an immortal glory, as the “savior of civilization,” the conquer of the Germans will go down in history as the military leader who, with more than 10,000,- 000 soldiers under his command, | directed five battles at once and | brought peace to a world desolated |by four years in indescribable ter- | ror and bloodshed. | “Humblest of Men” The victor of this modern Ar- mageddon was said by Marshal | Joffre to be “one of the humblest {of men” The brilliancy of his jgenius was hailed throughout the world during these historic days |in 1918 when the Allied armiés un- | der his command drove the Ger- /mans out of France. The magni- !tude of his military operations was stupendous. He never would ad- | mit defeat. His memorable message to Joffre, the hero of the Marne, when the overwhelming armies of von Kluck ;were sweeping on toward Paris on | September 9, 1914, will ever re- {main a classic with all soldiers. He said: Diplomatic Stroke “My right is crushed. My left is ‘m retreat. I am attacking with |my center.” The appointment of Foch as | Generalissimo of all the Allied | forces, on March 29, 1918, eight idays after the Germans had start- ed what was to be their last great |offensive in the West, was gener- ally regarded as the master diplo- | matic stroke of the war. Unity of |command brought fresh confidence !to the Allies and consternation to !the enemy. | Germany’s idol—von Hindenburg | —at last had met his master. The Teutonic juggernaut of infamy and | injustice, the “war machine” which was 40 years or more in building, |was about to be cast upon the ‘scrap heap. The Pyranean moun- taineer, “lithe as a panther, with | quiline nose of a conqueror, a man | five feet six inches tall, 165 pounds in weight and 67 years old,” was to strike the final blow that was to hurl a dozen kings from their {thrones and blast a new path for !the pioneers of democracy. | Three months or more after tak- ing the supreme command, Marshal Foch maintained an unbroken front of more than 350 miles from |the North Sea to Belfort. He |awa£ted his time to strike; the arrival of American reinforcements jgave him numerical superiority over |the enemy and on July 18 he be- |gan the ponderous smash that was to end in the complete collapse of (Continued on Page Three) 66, U. 8, Steel 186, Bethlehem pany 215, Continental Motors 227¢. — e COMMITTEE MEMBERS OF OLYMPIA YACHT CLUB AND C. OF C By ANDRUE BERDING (Associated Press Staff Writer) Members of the Olympia General Committee for the Capital to Capi- tal Yacht race, are Joseph Pilerce, |, 4 jurists the world over are Adolvh Schmidt, George Briffett, | j,wing interest in the workings E. J. Thompson, Walter Driham.]of probably the most unusual legal Joseph Speckart and B. F. Hume, |change of modern times—the re- secretary, according to a cable re-|introduction of canon law in Italy, ceived by officers of the Juneau|as a result of the new Italo-Vati- Yacht Club this morning. can agreement. This is a joint committee of the, By this treaty, the law of the Olympic Chamber of Commerce and | Church is restored to go hand in of the Olympie Yacht Club. hand with the law of the land. The e tem of civil law will be modi- One day Great Bend, Pa., miseed | fled in religious and moral matters its fire truck. It was found that [by canon which will take hold three students from Susquehanna |as soon as the agreement is form- had taken it to their town as a [ally ratified by the new Italian prank. Parliament. ROME, March 20.—Legal experts t CANON LAW TO MODIFY ITALIAN CIVIL RIGHTS Citizens of Italy in future will thus be guided in many of their | relations one to another by one of |the oldest codes in the world. Canon law was first codified by Gratian in the middle of the twelfth century, but it can be trac- | ed’ practically to the beginnings of |the Roman Catholic Church. The introduction of Canon law will mean & number of changes in | present regulations, such as those law are practically the same, Ital- out much fear of interference. ' Cenon law is important the world R R (Continued on Page Six) | relating to marriage; but since the | fundamentals of canon and civil | ians can carry on as before, with- | AT HOME, PARIS ;;