The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 27, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE \’OL XX)\III NO 5058. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNI;AU ALASKA, WI:DNESDAY I\1ARCH 27 1929 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRFSS MAN MEETS DEATH IN FIRE IN CITY JAIL AT KETCHIKAN PRICE T:FJ‘J C.ENW k[.S—_ FATAL SHOOTING NEAR ANCHORAGE MATT MURPHY SHOT, KILLED BY W.S.MYERS Two Elderly Men Involved in Fatal Shooting Near Anchorage “THREE SHOTS ARE REPORTED FIRED Myers Is Taken in Custody —Quarreled at Drinking Party, Is Report ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 27. —Matthew “Gold Tooth” Murphy emr of the Anchorage Light and Power Company at Eklutna, was shot and fatally wounded yes- terda; w. Myers, owner of a home- stead near the power project camp is held in jail and will be formally ged with the murder. The shooting occurred at 9:30 o'clock yesterday morning. Murphy died an hour later. hree shots are reported to have < ce W SHINGTO! decr meat f Army is being | terniaster Gen the mounting cost and the fact that eith in ol can- S been fired at Murphy from a nigh‘ power rifle in the hands of Myers, | two while Murphy was cressing the | flats in the dircetion of his tent! and one shot while he was in the! tent. The third shot is believed to have been the fatal one. Trouble sipried Monday night at a drinking purty when Myers is al-| leged to have drank heavily and oy D ji in Anchorage. Myers is past 60 years and Mur- | phy was about 55 years old. 1S DEMANDING - PROSECUTION DRY RAIDERS Man Whose Wife Was Shot After He was Struck Down, Brings Action AURORA, II., March 27.—Joseph Deking, through counsel, today de- manded that immediate action be taken against County Dry Raiders for the slaying of his wife in her home Monday night when the Dry Raiders entered. Deking was struck down by the officers Dcking was shot and killed by the raiders when she ran to the side of her unconscious husband. In the me affair the nine-year-old son| of the Dekings was shet in the leg| when he attempted to assist his father. Deking’s attorney calls upon tate’s Attorney Carbary to move! promptly and place responsibility for the shooting. If the authorities fail to prose- cute he said he will file a petition for a ‘special grand jury and for appointment of a special prose- cutor. ————— Shoeshine boys in the Texas cap- itol are very exclusive. No shine boy of the Senate will work for a Representative and vice versa. Mrs. James. ). Davis {left), - Hoover cabinet, and Mrs. Hen:y of state. "'I’Al’\] UP TOWN,” C( Q, s NATIONALISTS DEFEATED;ARE UPON RETREAT IStreets of Chefoo Are Fill-| ed with Soldiers, of fresh | flusi.a Romdeer Meat May Be Purchased for Army Posts of the £ 8. (ned or frozen meat c y be delivered to A than the cost of beef Gen., Cheatham seid studying the proposal reindeer meat to commissaries as ¢ of VIVES OF CABINET MEMBERS secretary of labor in the on. wife of the secretary JLLEGE HEAD ABFISES P 1.“th18 AND DAUGHTERS RELEASED BY NORTON, Mass, March 26— Home and community would be bet- off “says Dr. J. Edgar Park, pxesldam of Wheaton college, if | | parents went on night parties with ' ‘u‘ou daughters and “painted the | town red,” now and then, “If you do not have trouble with g.'u'L; of high school age,” su;; gests, “take them to a psyc. | trist for examination.” There seems to be something -1 s Dr. Park | BOEING BOAT FORCEDDOWN; ALL RESCUED Flying Craft Goea Down on Guard Island Isi | Towed Ketchikan | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, March 27. {—The Boeing flying boat, forced | down in a storm off Guard Island, |was rescued this morning by the! l(,nr.st Guard cutter Cygan and |towed to this city. The plane was | ‘out of gas. | | The Boeing flying boat left Ju-| neau Monday forenoon at 11 o'clok, ched Petersburg r an hour's and then continued south ! but later returned there on account ,ci bad weather. The flying boat |was at Petersburg yesterday when | {the Alaska was in port and pre-| sumably took off in the afternoon | for Ketchikan and later forccd‘ | down There were six aboard the p.anc vhen it left Juneau: P. T. McCar- President of the company, ahd s, McCarty; Mrs. J. W. McCotd, | ~ a passenger on the trip! . pilot E. J. A. Burke, George | Y ankee Doodle to Aid rtie, mechanician, and Gerald| | Smith, representative of the com- | \Birdmen” pany, who has been in Juneau for 1]0\ wean R(’[’(’l& the last two months. | ik S o RRT } JU/\REZ. Mexict Sir George Hu in the Antarct man afr squadron of Amerl lots, has come into being as an ad- | junct to the Mexican Rebel Army, Capt. Park, aviator, 'hid§ been ap- | Ipointed flight commander of the! Folmfln Air Legion. that he will lead at least three ad- ditional pilots from the United statcs in war in the air on the [Fed"ml mrcps REPURTS REBE FORCE FLEEING MEX. REVOLTERS Buzz Morrlson, Flying for| Federals, Back Agam in Home Lan NOGALES. Ariz, March 27— Buzz Morrison, American aviator, | W]LKINS BACF FRO‘ AN'TARCTIC FLIGHTS BED. ALEXANDER BURNED, DEATH, KETCHIKAN JAIL | Seething Mass of Flames i Prevents Efforts to Save Victim | FIRE DISCOVERED STOCK MARKET HIT BY CREDIT CRISIS, WORSE IN9 YEARS ‘ NEW YORK, March 27—The | worst credits ¢ in nine years, in whieh the official call loan rate as high as 25 per cent, demand by the outside market, yesterday brought one of the most turbulent sessions in the history of the New \York Stock Exchange Prices crashed from $5 to $35' ‘\ share and then rebounded in a | spectacular fashion with a mmxd bre'l}'m" turnover of 8,246,740 sh: The credit stringency direct result of the Fede | Board's policy of seeking coopera tion of member banks in curtailing | | wrong, the educator remarks, with Who went down to Mexico to- fly| |girls who are 100 per cent perfect for the Federal forces as an ad- | the volume of eredit on speculative Jin all things. jventure and was captured by the| FROM MAZATLAN and Mrs. | Many Wounded CHEEFOO, Shantung FProvince, denly filled today a severe defeat west of here at the |hands of Marshal Chang Tsung ‘Chaug. | An American Naval Guard has The first hint that the National- |ists had been defeated in hostili- rom the Commander who tele treating eastward. Later swarms of through the streets. The U. S. Trenton, lying in the {harbor, is expected to provide a [guard for the Cable Office which ibelongs to the Chinese Government but worked jointly by the Eastern and Great Northern Telegraph com- panies. The Traffic Manager is an Englishman and the Superin- tendent is a Dane. — e —— Women drivers had 1279 acci- dents last year in Grand Rapids, Mich.,, but men figured in 14,191. soldiers fled | ARNOLD TRAIL TO COMMEMORATE MARCH OF AMERICANS ON QUEBEC EUSTIS, Me, March 27.—The trail which Benedict Arnold and colonial soldiers trod 135 years ago en route to attack Quebec may 27ain be traversed by troops next summer, “The Arnold Trail,” so named, ac- cording to its proponents, to mark the brave msarch of the troops and not to honor Arnold, the traitor, will be dedicated with the coming of summer. This motor highway will make a new short route from ‘Portland to Quebec. Efforts are being made to have American soldiers march along the highway to the Canadian border, where it is planned to have Cana- dian forces meet them and escort them the rest of the way. The trail will in part follow the course of the long trek of the Revo- lutionary forces and will pass through some of the most beauti- ful scenic parts of Maine. The country, an unbroken wild- erness when Arnold and his little} army of 1100 men struggled through it, still retains its rugged pictures- queness. Arnold and his troops made up of companies from New England Kentucky and Virginia, clad in non- | descript uniforms, dragged their supplies and provisions up the Ken- nebec river on bateuax made of| logs. At Caratunk plantation they swung west across Three Ponds’to Dead River. They fought their way up this stream, losing several of their crude boats in a storm. China, March 27.—The streets sud-| with retreating | | soldiers, hundreds wounded, indi- cating the Nationalists have met been requested at the Cable Office. ! |ties that started two days ago, came | In addition to the foregoing sug- | gestions to aid parents to get along better with their daughters, Dr. Park says: “As soon as you get ‘het up' about your children you are lost.| The relationships between parents and children should always be a battle of wits. Don’t get peeved. | Mothers must take their responsi- bilities in an intellectual way. Young people, are going to the limit in tasting évery drink once. But I think they are right in doing | s0. They are enjoying their youth | nd if you do not enjoy your youth | | phoned the city his troops were re- you do not enjoy your old age. The Ipefore the Rebel General. | young people of today are hard but clean. We are a slushy jelly | of sentimentality compared to { them.” | Dr. Park says he would rather |have young folks clean and hard than slushy and repressed. take more chances today, he says, and are better off in doing so. Par- jents, he suggests, must realize that this is a different world from the jone they roamed about in. | “Feminate morality survived the llong skirt and will survive the short skirt,” he asserts. “Love making is no longer a public scan- dal. It is a public art.” - e, — MUCH DAMAGE 1S DONE BY 2 ~ CHICAGOBOMBS “ CHICAGO, 11, |cago during the night, one of the {most powerful of the year causing |an estimated damage of $20,000 ang |injury to several persons. | The first bomb exploded in a |gro|ery store near the North Side Girlss March 27—Two| {more bombs were exploded in Chi-} Three Men Burned To Death; 2 Freight in rebel territory, is back again to-| |day in the “good .old” United o |American Consul Blocker | Morrison believes himself lucky to be alive after being held pri o in Full Retreat rebels, ‘ Rl Morrison walked into Nogales and | WASHINGTON, March 27— SEalp unstavensc MR (Ind o150 Mazatlan, has reported to the ‘bundle of clothes under his arm. the Rebel jcobar who announced he would be 4 411 retreat north in the direc- {held until the end of the revolu-iy . e Quila, {when he was captured and L“kmiuraphxc B hutcations to 'the the end : of the present week. /told the American Consul, “and| I never want to see another revolu-| American Ambassador Morrow, in M ike it.” |in the State of Sinalos, in which hito;tha better 1} e_ {Mazatlan is situated, is reported | Ambassador Morrow was no particular change in the . Calles is pursuing the Rebel forces. Trains Meet He(ul-on‘ P J rebels when his plane went dow: States. Says Insurgents Now loner of war for three days by the, asked for the American Consul. | American Consul Willlam Blocker, “I'm Morrison,” he told Gen. Es- ‘rorce: which attacked the city, are jtion. . This wes all that was s: Consul Blocker said rail and tele- “Well, here I am anyway,’ |south will be restored by tion, The farther I get away from |3 telegram, sald the Rebel force ito be between 2,000 and 2.500 men. Chihuahua * sector when General |Austria Making Siow March 27. | and | EDWARDSVILLE, Il —Three trainmen were killed two injured this morning al {head-on collision between (w0 freight trains of the Nickle Plate| VIENNA, March _ According System near here. Fire followed [to offieial figures just published the crash and the bodies of 'he‘o_he value of Austria's excess im- victims were not recovered Wil ports in, 1928 amounted to $147,- ,flremen extinguished the | Fourteen freight cars were lup in the crash. g e, o o omsmeemnd in 27 7 400,000, imports being and exports $317;000,000. Unfavorable as these iappear at first sight, ports nevertheless an im- [@® @000 veo oo vement of 6 per cent, while the ¢ . ~ HALIBUT PRICE |total trade turnover is 8 per cent ®® 00000000 inger than the total deficit $8500.- 000 ompare SEATTLE, March 21—Five ves-[ipag S;Itmll;ezr_, when_ compared with sels brought 40,300 pounds of hali-| " woregyer Ayetria’s unfavorable but to port yesterday which ~ |trade balance is wiped out by her jfor 18% and 12 cents. invisible exports, her transit trade for 7 cents. iand her large income from invest- ment abroad. Thus ether the country manifests slow but steady | progress. pilec ures my ustria’s e: she PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., ) 27.—Fifty-seven thousand of halibut were sold here - said there | But Steady Progress: $464,400,000 collateral. Heavy Withdrawals I'Lis vesulted in heavy withdraw- ais of [upds from New York City nations of New York City bankers to mect the deficiency caused the h rise and threw a scare into many small investors who dumped their stock. At the close the ticker was two hours and fourteen minutes behind, the longest delay on record. Yesterday's Quotations Alaska Juneau mine stock 6%, American Smelting 105%, Ch peake Corporetion 807, Cudahy {52 General Motors, new issue, 82%, Gold Dust 61, Mack Trucks 96, Missouri 74%, National Power and Light 47%, Packard Motors |130, Postum 64!, Texas Corpora- tion 61%, Bethlehem Steel 99%, Continental Motors 187, Mathei- Ison Alkali 185%. Student Gets Indemnity For Ship Sunk in War CHICAGO, March 27.—Fourteen years after the sinking of an Amer- ican merchantman, the William P, {Frye, by a German cruiser, and | the resulting exchange of diplomat- ic notes, Sewall Gardner, a great grandson of the founder of the company owning the Frye, has re- ceived one-third of the indemnity demanded. Sewall is at an eastern prepara- tory school. He was a baby when the Frye was sent to the bottom by the German warship Prinz Eitel Friedrich in January, 1915. | Edward Sewall, the youth's an- cestor, founded the Sewall Ship- building company of Bath, Me. ——— VICAR SAYS (‘HUB(‘H BELLS ARE NUISANCE DERBY, England, March 27— Reverend C. A. Page, Vicar of St. Michael's Church'says that church by out of town banks and disincli- | At Flagstaff 300 men under Col-! jand jarred part of the Gold Coast. suffered severe reverses. Arnold’s|ture Factory. later disgrace and his flight toj affair. tle damage was done. onel Enos turned back but Arnold.Severfil persons were thrown from land the remainder continued. The their beds and injured. Every win- siege of Quebec was unsuccessful dow in the radius of a block was and was withdrawn after the troops broken including the Ninety Furni- The Social Athletic Club was the England had no part in this gallant |target for the second bomb but lit- day. American fish brought 1 and 7 cents and Canadian 14.6 and 16 cents. KETCHIKAN, Alaska, March 27 | —Seventy-three thousand pounds |of halibut sold here yesterday at l!6.38, 15 and 8 cents. bells should be classed with Scot- ‘uish bagpipes and night-prowling cats. . JACKSONVILLE, Fla—The Brit-| The Viear's Mttle church stands ish Zoological Society is dickering almost in the shadow of Derby WANT ALBINO ALLIGATOR for ‘an albino alligator owned by the Florida alligator farm here. The reptile is the only known al- ligator of its kind. Cathedral whest chimes sound fre- quently. “Church bells are to me like a red rag to a bull,” he told ,iriends. LO IN R 4 TF fET e Seek Pension [\ For Widow of He revealed jumped from 18 to 20 per cent and ']l{l"& l(ll I oc ]1 . PARIS, March 27 e Government- has engered a |® bill in the Chamber Dep- ’0 uties providing for an an- |' nual pension of $4,000 for the widow of Marshal Foch. The bill provides that after her death the pension shall be divided among the grand- children until they attain their majorities. j/eecoeocoeoveco FISH TREATY " NOW SIGNED WASHINGTON, March 27. — A treaty for pr vation and epten- sion of sockeye the Fraser! River, which also in- cludes water contiguous to the State df Washington and Province of British Columbia, has been signed by Secretary of State Kellogg and Canadian Minister Massey. -+ Dowager Marchioness Passes Away, London in-law of the Queen, died late yes- terday of septic pneumonia. The Dowager was Margaret, daughter of the Pirst Duke of Westminster. She married the Marquis of Cam- bridge, brother of Queen Mary, in 1894. Her husband died in 1927 The Marchioness was born in 1873 {FAMOUS TRANS-ATL. —Ro0se: 97 NEW YORK, March velt field, starting point of a history making trans-Atlantic flight, is to be converted into a $1,500,000 airdrome. Backers of the project say they are prepared to spend that amount to equip and develop the field, which they plan to purchase. The field, now in the hands of a real estate company, is 381 acres in area. A marker commemorating Col. Charles A. Lindbergh’s New York to Paris flight will be erected in the heart of the airdrome, near the spot from which he took off. Plans include two huge concrete steel hangars, each 1,100 feet long with a half mile of concrete aprons 150 feet wide. ~Workshops, service stations, an administration build- ing, flood and boundary lights, bea- salmon fisheries on | AT 5 THIS MORNING R Interior of Snucture De- stroyed—Other Places Are Threatened KETCHIKAN, Alaska, March 27. —Fire starting in the Municipal Jail at 5 o'clock this morning de- stroyed the interior of the structure and threatened the Washburn gar- age and Electric Laundry. George Alexander, brother of C. 'J. “Kinky” Alexander and father of Clande Alexander, jailed about 1 o'clock this morning, was burned to death. Although searched, it is believed that Alexander may have had a match and possibly a cigarette |which: caused the outbreak. | | LONDON, March 27—Dowager of office Marchioness of Cambridge, sister-|guest of President Hoover at the When patrolmen discovered the fire, the interior of the jail was a seething mass of flames with no chance to reach Alexander. His body was a charred mass when llnully found. STIMSON GETS BUSY AT ONCE INWASHINGTON New Secretary of State Loses No Time in"Get- ting Acquainted WASHINGTON, March 27.—Hen- ry M. Stimson, new Secretary of State in President Hoover's Cabi~ net, lost little time after his ar- rival here from New York in be- ginning his task of getting ac- quainted with questions he will deal with. Within less than half an hour from the time he stepped from the train, he had a conferénce with President Hoover, and then spent the remainder of the afternoon in the State Department conferring with Secretary Kellogg and Am- bassador Hugh Gibson, head of the American delegation to the preliminary Arms Conference to be held at Geneva next month, Mexican affairs and the Arms Conference were the first subjects Stimson discussed. His attention was later taken up with the Re- parations, World Court, State De- partment, Diplomatic shifts and ap- pointments. Stimson, who will take the oath tomorrow, will be the White House for the remainder of this week and will have ample op- portunity for discussion of the many subjects. Stimson was met at the train by a delegation from the State De- partment headed by Secretary Kel- logg. ANTIC TAKEOFF TO BECOME $1,500.000 AIRDROME {cons and other equipment for night many flying, are included in the pro- Ject. A stub mast for dirigibles will be added later to make the airdrome suitable for both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air operations. Backers of the project believe that Roosevelt field provides the closest ample facilities for such a project near Manhattan. Fast express bus service and am- phibian flying service to a point |on the East river have been planned as the best method to provide fast, adequate transportation. Although the field is now in use for operations, it will be ready for heavier traffic in an improved state by June 1, backers of the project say. Buildings and other facili~ ties are to be added after the phy=- sical development of the field is finished.