The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 21, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE + “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXH.., NO. 5053. JUNEAU ALASKA THLRSDAY MARCH 215 I 929 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICL TEN CLNTS EXPLOSHON ENTOMBS SCORES OF MEN IN COAL MINE BODY OF DEAD 1 MARSHALFOCH | LIES IN PEACE and Lowly—Pershing Pays His Respects MESSAGES RECEIVED FROM ENTIRE WORLD/ Funeral Sexvices May Be Held Next Tuesday in Paris Cathedral ARIS, 1\hrch 21.—The body of PA Marshal Foch lay today in peace in a simple sparsely furnished room of his old stately mansion near Invalides Palace. of Honor took posses- he country yard at the the home. ians passed with heads bow- d hats off while the nation ned the sixth national funersl ] hSL"\c" nown honor. es will probably be h great ceremony y ker. John J. Pershing visited today, arriving shortly er” Clemenceau. parts of the world, ircm Kings, Princes and humble soldiers homage was brought to the bier, to ihe home of the Generalissimo of the mighty Allied froces. An un- ending succession of distinguished personag messengers and mes-| sages b n to arrive before dawn| andl continued throughout Lhe dsy. | sligh and lowly of F2 noled | e A:h’iaxulb countr, q with [ * t e races whose Kkin scrved in the World War. 4 1 | HOOVER HAS NO FORMULAS FARM RELIEF Wants cheral Farm Board, that Will Have Broad 2 Authority to Act WASHINGTON, March 21.—Pres- | ident Hoover believed to lean F y from any plan to lay down hard and fast formulas for farm relief in the measure to be con- sidered at the forthcoming special scssion of the Seventy-First Con- ;e who have discussed agri cultural aid with the President are| of the opinion he would like to see ! a Federal Farm Board, it is pro-| posed to create, clothed with broad | authority to deal with any ecrisis| ht arise in the basic| | e Cluef Executive is represent- | d as holding out for formulas for u|r.ng, the present ills and prob- will not be applied to emer- arising in the future. MEXICAN REBEL GENERAL SHOT | XICO CITY, March 21.—Gen. | Chief Rebel Commander | Province of Vera Cruz, has| uted at Lamagras. The execution took place at T o'clock | this morning after a courtmartial. | | | | Lem Law, was bound over to thej Grand Jury by U. S. Commissioner , Thomas of Wrangell on a charge| violation of the National Pro- hibition Act. Deportation proceed- ings under the Jones Act, will prob- | be brought in this case, ac-|® ably cording to U. S. Marshal Albert White. Jean Barnie was sentenced to] serve five months in jail by U. 8.} [ oner J. W. Kehoe of Ket—; chi He was charged with as-| sault with a knife. ————— M\P&llAL SULLIVAN GOES TO STATES | S. Marshal Harvey Sullivan from Valdez, is a southbound pas- senger on the Yukon. Marshal Sullivan will be outside but a short time. U. |that the Ger jaccept the Al | Corporation 65 'Golden Gu-l’ Dworced e — ] | | | | | | | | | | Mrs ‘\Iunel Vanderbilt Church received her decree of divorce from Frederick Cameron Church, Jr., in Newport, R. I., Superior Court on charges of failure to provide. Religious differences were the real basis for their troubles. (International l\lwm.l) REPARATIONS : OFFER MADE 0 GERMANY Allied E\(perl Come to| Agreement—Terms Are | Given to Dr. Schacht | | PARIS, March 21.—Dr. Hjalmar! Schacht, President of the Reichs-| ba tonight an offer of the Allied ex- \perts on reparations to cept | $420,000,000 as the figure for Gor-i mén reparations annuities. The offer carried with it other conditions not revealed. Dr. Schacht has given indication n Government will es’ offer. e of one billien seven hundred and fifty million marks is| understood to represent the repara- tions payments of all categories. This will entail a reduction of the present annuities, under the Dawes | plen, of seven hundred million gold marks. e — MANY BURNED T0 DEATH IN R, R. ACCIDENT [ Two Trains Crash Head-on —Survivors Are Help- less to Give Aid PARRY SOUND, March 21.—Sur- vivers of the wreck of two Canad- lian National express trains told how they were forced to stand |helplessly by while men, women and children burned to death. Nineteen dead are accounted for and a scorc more were injured. Wrecking crews are searching the debris for other bodies in the wreck. The wreck occurred when two L.\ms met head-on late today. The extent of the disaster is un- {known because of poor wire facili- | | ties. - eee ® 000000200000 TODAY'S STOCK ° QUOTATIONS le o ® & 0000000 00 SEATTLE, March 21.—Alaska Ju- neau mine stock is today quoted at 7%, American Smelting 118%, | Chesapeake Corporation 82'%, Cud- al 572, Gold Dust 63%, Mack { Trucks 108, Missouri 80%, National Power and Light 56 %, Packard Motors 1381:, Postum 70, Texas %, U. S. Steel 1867%. Bethlehem Steel 107, American T and T Company 215%, Continental Motors 22% and Mathieson Alkili, no sales. ‘Judge Hardy by Mrs. ., will take with him to Berlin|” MUHE SCANDAL ' GROPPING OUT HARDY TRIAL ' {Judge to Face Impeach- ment Before California Senate April 8 'MRS. KENNEDY TO ‘GIVE DEPOSITIONS | Disappearance Investiga- tion of Mrs. McPherson May Be Unfolded SACRAME! T; (;:I!‘ March 21 —After authorizing April 8 as the, opening for the impeachment trial of er Judge Carlos J. of Los Ange the State ing of Pherson's disappearance in- L ve: ation. After a four hours’ argument be- hind locked doors, the Senators voted 28 to 10 to authorize the ament Board to go to Port- , Oregon, and take Mrs. Ken- nedy's testimony. Assemblyman William Hornblower told the Senate, Mrs. Kennedy’s af- fidavit, made three weeks’ ago, de- clared that the $2,500 check given McPherson |as a love offering was positively for legal services. He said a second check, heretofore not mentioned in e case, for $2560, was paid Judge by Mrs. McPherson and Kennedy, for detective servic- The check was subsequently voided. Ralph ‘Jordén, said to be a Los Angele newspaperman, demanded {that Asa Keyes, then District At- torney of Los Angelts, be given the cancelled check to which Mrs. Ken- nedy replied: “Aimee, you know that would be betraying the confi- of a friend.” The check af- rd was subpoenaed. . Kennedy is expected to be tioned at Portland about March M SALMON PACK MOVING FAST {Ninety Per Cent of Pack Has Passed Out of Original Hands SEATTLE, March 21.—Over 80 per cent of the salmon pack has passed out of the original hands and shipments out of the Pacific Northwest have been the heaviest in many seasons, declared Victor H. Elfendahl, president of the Asso- ciation of Pacific Fisheries who has jreturned here after a trip to Wash- ington, D. C., New York and Chi- cago. In Washington, Elfendahl was concerned in the tariff rev&sion! hearings affecting salmon and the other coast products. At Chicago he outlined bhefore the Salmon Brokers, the mnational advertising campaign of the packers which is credited with strengthening prices of. pinks and the rapid movement of all grades to consumers. ————— JUDGE HARDING RETURNS Having returned from Ketchikan on the steamer Aleutian, Judge J. W. Harding presided in the U. 8. District Court this morning, when it convened at 10 o'clock. Little| of importante came up this morn- ing and after a short session Court was adjourned until tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock. Mrs. Hard- ing, who accompanied her husband to Ketchikan, also returned on the Aleutian. PR =, N A A TENDER FROM EXCURSION INLET WITH INJURED MAN; - e The tender Mercury, Capt. S, Rckram, arrived from the Excursion jInlet cannery of the Astoria and Puget late last night. Sound Packing Company The trip to Juneau was made to bring to medical aid|Princess Mary due from a workman who today was said to be quite serious. The tender recently.came from Seattle where it had wintered in Lake Union. Capt. Eckram report- ed that a large crew of men are| now at work at the plant getting the various equipment in order for the season. The Mercury left for Excursion Inlet this afternoon. {He was known as a Cheer Leaders | Laura Lou Seiber (above) and Virginia Surface are not only cheer leaders of Trinity university, Waxa- nachie, Tex., but also the most popular girls in the school, by vete of the other students. ANNEMORROW, COL.LINDBERGH MARRY IN JUNE Bride - to-Be—l\iakes An- nouncément—Place for " Wedding Not Decided MEXICO CITY, March 21.—Miss Anne Morrow will be a June bride. She and Col. Charles A. Lind- bergh thmselves authorized the an- nouncement they will be married in that month. The couple has not decided whether the wedding will take place in the United States or Mexico. Col. Lindbergh is expected to fly back to Mexico City within a few weeks for another visit with Miss, Morrow at which time more defin- lite plans will be revealed. CONFESSES T0 KILLING MAN; HAS FORTUNE Conscience Forces Man to Return for Trial— Reveals Surprise CHICAGO, iii, March 21.—John Mackenzie has come back and his tattered grip is bulging with bonds and mortgages worth $450,000 and man last October. Mackenzie said his conscience has troubled him since October 24 when he was. provoked to the point of shooting Arthur Glanke after| Jong years of wrangling, legal and physical, over a spite wall. More surprising than his co: sion was the discovery of wealth. He always lived frugally. real estate operator but the police had no knowledge his operations w ere ‘14 ficient to produce nearly hal million dollars. Glanke was slain after Ma zie made a final appeal to re the spite wail between their ad-| joining properties. Prior to the shooting, Mackenzie had gone as high &s the Supreme Court in a vain attempt to get relief. The two had brawled frequently on the streets, the police rcca]lvd s ey PASSENGERS FOR JUNEAU ON MARY Passengers for Juneau aboa the Jack Schmitz, F Schmitz, Joe Nello, Rt. Rev. Bishop J. R. Crimont, Theodore Hey Miss Helen Whiteley, Georg vella and Carl O. Pearson Pioneers of Anchorage have re- duced Igloo dues to 50 cents a month and started a membership h tonight are: lc‘rive. with a confession that he killed a} | ve COVERNOR OF OKLAHOMA IS iRemoved Sen Sen Acting as Im- S xfhx nenti BBl FOUND GUILTY ate aie, nor of State Removed ! for Offenses OKLAHCMA CITY, Okla., March The second successive Gover- 2 as a Court of Impcach- rent | Johnson was exonerated on nine (other chargas. | J. C. Walton, his predecessor, was removed in November, 1923. W. J. Holloway, Lieutenant Gov- ernor, was sworn in as Johnston’s su has been acting Governor since Johnston’s Suspen- nm two months ago. he verdict was received impas- by Johnston last night. He caid he would be acquitted. Centers About Woman Much discussion of the Adminis- {tration of Johnston centered about O. O. Hammonds, his confi- | flmt 1 secretary. It was declared| that the attack on her was inspired | by disappointed political inousmcn 4 hnston refused to dismiss M |Hammond but she was dhmh.od after Johnston’s suspension, [Wfla sadd ex bccnuso of rumors he had improper rela- itions with her. NEW SEC. OF * STATE IS NOW ~ ENROUTE EAST ReacbsiiBan Frantisco | from Philippines—Is Keeping Quiet Imd SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March 21 ~—Henry M. Stimson, Governor Genmal of the Philippines, named (Se\.remry of State in President | Hoover's Cabinet, has arrived here |enroute to Washington from Ma- nila. The Governor General refused to |discuss his future work before he 1has taken his oath of office or con- {ferred with the President He believes the Islands are pros- perous and in a better condition {than they have been for a long time. The Moros are contented | lunder the new American Governor | recently appointed. | VICE-PRESIDENT OF NEW SALMON MERGER HERE FOR FEW DAYS| visit canneries that will be operated |this season by the Alaska Packers Salmon Corporation, J. N. Gilbert, Vice-President and General Man- lager of that company, has arrived ifor a few days’ visit here. He will g0 from here to Kake and other plants in this vicinity }w Prince William Sound a| The new company, which has re- {cently acquired some of the most |valuable Alaska salmon plants, is now one of the largest salmon packers in the world. It qul operate eight plans in Alaska |vhis year. | “Our policy will be to buy every- |thing possible in Alaska, and to |cmploy all the local labor avail- lable,” Mr. Gilbert said. He was confident that both the Territory and industry will benefit from the ing can be more efficiently done as v ell sa the efficier the pro- ducing units increased. The Terri- , should es from the he \lory’s tax receipts. le increased by |higher brackets of the super. case Jevies. The consolidations, he add- ed, will not in any way be harm- |1ul to local labor as the company's policy will be to give local people rreference, ——-—. Mrs. Carroll Wiley, of Winches- iter, Va, who died at the age of| 97, had 112 lineal descendants, FOUND GUILTY from_Office by| OF. INCOMPETENCY Second Successwe Gover- ' of Oklahoma has been remov- | om office by the State Sen-| when Henry 8. Johnson was | 1d guilty of the, charge of gen-| incompetency, preferred by the ! | On his first trip of the year co‘ and later canning | mergers. Production and market- | Se umhmwmn Row uil y | Wedded Toda y | | | | | | | | OSLO, March 21.—Crown Prince Olav, of Norway, and Puncess |Martha, of Sweden, niece of the King of Sweden, were married here |today in the presence of Royal kindred amid the acclaim of the re- cing Swedish people. The spectacle was made impressive by the distinguished company of gue: patriotic music and special choruses. Prince Carl, brother of the of Sweden, gave his daughter in marriage. The entire Scandinavian country participated in the collec- tion of wedding gifts. | {Secret Wedding Is Revealed BOEING PLANF, | PI.FASEI] TRIP SKAGWAY, Alaska, March 2 ]Sp;endld Tlme Made from 21— Miss Elizabeth Heidelberger, of | | Buckner, Missouri, teacher in the| ‘Skagway Public School since last September. and Occie Selmer, fire- ijman on the White Pass and Yu- 4 kon Route, were retly married | Ketd“kan to Iuneau last December 17 and was only —McCarty Talks made known today. Mrs. Selmer = will continue teaching until the end of the present school term and the | couple will continue to make Skag- 1 The arrival yesterday afternoon way their home. of the International Airways Com- ‘pmvs flying boat, the N C-115E, ! Boeing commercial type piane, with |its five passengers from Seattle marks what will be a new area in Ithe States to Alaska transportation ‘Anm & trip that was entirely with- jout mishap of any nature the ship glided easily to the water at 3:20 kntlock and 30 minutes later the ifirst passengers®to come by air |from Seattle stepped out of tho| Over the route north the plane |spacious cockpit ashore and all|fey gt varying altitudes. Long dis-| |were delighted at the experience |tances were covered at compara- | ofi thie ol MOCER; tively low levels and in other | One of the first remarks made piaces to meet conditions, the ship jby P. T. McCarty, President of the ey at several thousand feet. ‘Inteumtmnal Airways Company, as | The powerful motor functioned {he stepped from the ship, was that |yithout s miss, according to me- |this first trip north was not made | chanic Lortie, who at periodic in- in an effort to establish a time|{epyalg left the cockpit and in- |record. He said: “We were not fly- spected the engine. }’[?,i :.l:lnl:lr]:toft"anCprclvf;):;:\a‘l(;msu]rsvel; The navigation was accomplished {made more to gather data pertain- Lwfi':;(::t n::;m:}&":;[ :;lflumg;. The I+ 2 gation aids {ing to the various condi that | wore for air travel and especially ‘nre to be encountered by an regu-for the coast from Seattle north. lar schedule plane operating from|arecarty stated that in his opinion {Seattle to Alaskan, than to land|in. Seattle to Alasks air service a few hours” lpresented no great difficulties. Pi- lot Burke, who controlled the ship Mr. McCarty told of the work done enroute north and he with|cnroute north concurred in this op- inion. pilot, E. J. A. Burke, and plane imechanic, George Lortie, gave de- 'Lmls of the venture from the hop- ofl Lt Seattle until they reached ed Petersburg at 11:48 o'clack where it refueled and then hopped off for Juneau at 1:50 o'clock in the after-|{ noon, landing here at 3:20 o'clock, or approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes flying time after leaving Ketchikan. Altitudes Varies Operates on Routes The International Airways Com- pany has operated planes for some time over several routes in the i Hop- 0{7‘ y States. The company is one of ‘ The start at Seaitle was made|thres that is contemplating to last Thursday afternoon. Altitude start operations in the Seattle to Alaska service in the near future. ‘The Union Air Lines, which is a| separate and distinct independent company from the International, do 50lhas gt this time a representative throughout the long trip in Juneau. It is stated on good Out of Seattle the first stop Wasiauthority that they are soon to made at Campbell River where the|nave a preliminary plane in the party stayed ashore over night. north. A third company it is said | At Alert will enter the field this season. The second stop was made @t gow Jong the Boeing ship of the Alert Bay, British Columbia. Gas|ynternational Airways Company will was taken aboard and at that place jwas gained and the ship headed north in fine weather. The motor, !a Pratt and Whitney Radial Wasp of 425 horsepower, functioned per- fectly and continued to - remain in Juneau is not known, |the best landing spaces were de-lnor giq Mr. McCarty know when termined and the varying weather |interviewed today. He said that conditions studied The party members es over Friday and recorded.|the ship's stay depended on several busied them- | circumstances 8 and hopped off | Scturday afternoon. Weather that{ . was fair for flying prevailed ovcr[ the inside channels to Lowe Inlet,' ywASHINGTON, March 21. It where the next stop was made.|oost the United States nenrly $7,- From there a one hop flight was|go0000 to keep armed forces in | made to Ketchikan where the plane | C” na and Nicaragua the last three landed Sunday night at 6:30 o’clock. | | troublesome years. A House Appro- In Ketchikan the local conditions priation Committee was told the were again studied. Plane accom-|cust of the Nicaraguan mterven- modations were investigated and in|jon over and above what is regu- ‘(,zhcr respects data pertaining 101ar)y expended for garrisons, was the future Seattle to Alaska flying|5$3110710. In China, the cost was RS SR A EF CAME HIGH were investigated at length by Mc—flg 784,231, |Carty, pilot Burke and mechanic i | Lortie. James Fileder, one the old- | Hops to Juneau timers of the North and & resxdem‘ | The ship took the air yesterday|of Valdez for many years, died nt morning at 10:20 o'clock and reach-,Valdez after a brief illness. J ONE HUNDRED OF 300 MEN MAKE ESCAPE Scores of blh;rs Are Be- | lieved Caught in Main Mine Heading 'RESCUE WORKERS ARE IN FEAR OF RESULTS ‘Blasl Takes Place This Afternoon when Large Force at Work P’\?NAS.)US Penn., March 21.— Scores of miners are entombed as the result of an explosion this af- ternoon in the Kinloch mine of the Alley Camp Coal Company. Approximately 100 miners caped two hours after the blast. Company officials said there is a possibility that many others may find their way to safety. More than 300 miners were in the workings and of these the greater number are believed to have es- een at work in the main heading ¢ and rescue workers fear they were near the center of the explosion. MISSISSIPPI WATERS RISE; DIKES WEAKEN |Highest Sta-g_e_in 26 Years Reached at Quincy—No Relief Promised CHICAGO, I, March 21.—The |angry Mississippi River is rushing past Quincy at the highest stage in 26 years and hurled itself against the levees along a 50-mile front, battering the already weakened dike and seeping through in places and splashing’ over in others. Patrolmen are standing by with sandbags. Scores of danger spots have been found. Cause for more worry came when reports from Des Moines, Iowa, were received that the Cedar Rapids crests have not reached the Mis~ sissippi. This meant continuance of high water for several days and removed all hope for relief. S eee MEX. FEDERALS ARE ATTACKED NORTH, COAST Sharp Counter Offensives Reported—Calles Con- centrates Armies MEXICO CITY, March 21—Sharp counter offensives by the Rebel |armies faced the Mexican govern- ment forces in the North and along the West Coast as Commander-in- Chief Calles continued concentrat- ing his powerful army at Torreon for a drive in pursuit of the retir- ing Insurgents. A Rebel movement has developed at Sinaloa which may threaten the left flank and rear. The Insurgents have descended upon the Mazatlan West Coast and demanded the surrender of that place, but Gen. Carrillo is defend- ing it with 2,000 men and is pre- pared to combat any attack. P 52 U INJURED SISTER FROM FAIRBANKS AT ST. ANN'S Sister Couer de Jeses, of the Nu- lato Catholic Mission, arrived in Ju- neau aboard the steamer Yukon from Fairbanks. The Sister came south to receive treatment for in- juries suffered December 27 when through accident she received a broken leg. She is at St. Ann’s Hospital. The accident occurred at Nulato and she was sent at once to Fairbanks by airplane where she underwent treatment in the hos- pital for some time. e Alfred Schmaeltle, an inmate of the prison at Konstanz, Germany, wanted to get into the prison hos- pital, whence he believed he could escape. of a window sill and five spoons, Consequently he ate part