The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 28, 1929, Page 1

a2 XXXIIL, NO. 5059. “ALL THE JUNLAU ALASKA THURSDAY I\MRCH 28, 1929 MI-MB:.R BiG DIRIGIBLE SEARCHING OCEAN WOMEN MAKE AIR TRIP TO JUNEAU CITY OFFICIALS SELL MATERIALS T0 ME . REBELS Two Machine Guns and| Ammunitions Sold to Insurgents by Douglas FFEDERAL OFFICERS MAKE MANY ARRESTS Affidavit Secured from One of Conspirators, it Is Claimed il DOUGLAS, ., March 28—/ The entire City Government is to- day under investigation by the d States Department of Ju: lowing revelations in con- the smuggling of two and 37,000 rounds of property of the city, rebels at Aguaprieta, | f Police Gatliff and Po-' in Morris are at liberty each, charged conspired to smuggle across the | inder $5,000 bonc having a th 1 ammunition onal line here. are in jail on the same Five m were this after- taken into custody. The Federal authorities announced arre will be made of all im- e mtern Others : boat in first of their Lortic, Capt. them. The Seattle. are the Georg A. LIHL and was taken FEW MEASURES P. just T. McCarly, before the from General plice y |To Probe Death to Chief Gatliff, the < ‘ {ttorne hine guns and ammunition | were 1 on authority of the City ‘ Council to a strange American B ) -, B ioh. PASSE' UP Tfl |By Dry Immu.s The Department of Justice age.ltm /\I/"OP \ a signed affidavit 1, alleged conspirators e d € they hi of cne of t that he will _PRESENT TIME scescoee ® negotiated Wwith the Mex:can g 3 - v, 1l 10 O¥port “war A1S o |». .85k.A onn'v Geng: 1‘l Car Mexico but stating the price was | S ";"’“A‘kf t?:]llab;.h S 2,000 35 1 ation of the de 2,000 and not $500 which made its Om\, 14 Bll ls f’ass Both i Fheni’ Delting, ot way to the Cnty Treasuxy | 4 Ak o e i Houses So Far—Senate | by dry raiders. | I , who initiated the 7 | Passes Larger Number |o campaign that e ROK | 3 ° ght “bout the fatal e i . | le raid, previously rejected all e | Out of 91 measures introduced in|e suggestions that a special € | the Legislature, 14 had passccll. prose: r be appointed to ® through both Houses at the end|e conduct the inquiry. of the twenty-fourth day, yester-|e ® Nonc of them|(e @ e ¢ e @ 2 ¢ 06 © 0 0 0 @ to receive the approval —o———— Parks. —_—— | Twelve of the 14 were Scmte‘BDElNG PLANE Tractor Grader Used in bills and two originated in the lower House. The Senate has pased Street Work Reported Cause of Tragedy {31 of the 59 measures ithcre. Of the 32 measures | troduced in the House, only four jhad been passed by it. The Senate met in a short ses-! The Boeing flying beat, which| noon and trans- | was towed to Ketchikan yesterday! VANCOUVER, B. C., March 28.—| gas from a pipe broken| . on the street by a tractor grader,;’ 'GLEAN UP W||.I. Girl Sails to Eu mpe ‘But Will Fi STARTMUNDAY IN THIS CITY Two Prizes_m Offered to Residents for Dem- onstrations | R | Fine, mild, sunshiny days will ymake the Juneau Clean-up Cam- paign go over with a bang. Yards | will be cleaned of trash, winter ravages to outside paint will be remedied with the brush and some- jone will win a valuable merchan- dise prize. That was the subject lof an official communication from | the Juneau Civic Improvement Club |that was read today before the Chamber of Commerce members at the weekly luncheon. Clean-up weeks start April 1 and until April 15 the city trucks will| haul free of charge the rubbish | from the bome owners yard, if put on the curb. | ewarded. The rules have not been made known, but it is said they will go to the persons demonstrat- ing the most clean-up efforts. T0 DYNAMITE - GIANT GORGE ~ OF RIVER ICE |Army Engineers in Charge| of Flood Relief on | Missouri River i ‘ i | l BISMACK, N. D, March 28.— \mmy Engineers are in charge of {cfforts to break the ice gorge in; {the Missouri River south of nere} It is estimated that 50,000,000 tons of ice are obstructing the flow | ul water. The jam is estimated to be 20| miles in length. i While guage readings indicated| ‘(he high water mark of the flood |season has passed, the downstream level is higher than any other| time since the gorge was formed.| 'oooo.o-ocoooo FOR MISSING PLANE i Miss Morrow May Be Wedded in Maine BOSTON, March 28.—The Boston Traveler, newspaper, says it is learned that Col Charles A. Lindbergh and Miss Anne Morrow will be married in the Morrow mer home at North Ha Maine, sometime in June, | 1 i 348 accordance with the an- ® nouncement of the wedding o date. No further plans are © known besides the fact that o the caretaker of the home is ® preparing for the arrival of I © the Morrows from Mexico | e City early in June. ! . ° . . ° o ! Ed . ° ° . e . ° ° . ° ° . ! | | | | GRAF ZEPPELIN BACK IN HANGAR FRIEDRICHSAFEN, March 28.— ‘The Graf Zeppelin returned to the ! {base ‘here this morning completing a voyage of 81 hours and covering 15,000 miles over the Eastern Medi- From Snowslide Which | Occur 202 SUSPECTS ARE RELEASED {Filipinos Are leen Liberty from Meningitis Quarantine SEATTLE, March 28.—Two hun- dred and two Filipinos were landed | last night from Diamond Point suppesedly free to go where they {want if Health Officers of Wash- ington towns are not able to keep them out of their districts. The Filipinos were brought to Seattle to make room for 205 new meningitis suspects brought in Monday by the American liner President Jackson The Pilipinos were rele: Diamond Point with permi: the Health Officer and?.ive hours after the City Health Commission~ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE NEWS ALL THE TIME” OF ASSO(IIATED PRFSS V Back | | | The Juneau Chamber of Com- | [ Invites every resident to| \lilqred Johnson, mset, American aviatrix, is | carry a regular cargo of freight. Miss Johs ! make a brush-up during clean-up prepariny to sail for Europe, where she will | will not the ship, according to present | s\c;ks Bt e cizes| OTANIZE a return flight to this country. Ac- will travel as “custodian“of the 5 ol g »mmf:.m(hs‘o Prizes| . ,rding to present plans she will return in a b have been put up, one to the total| TS FO PEREIE § et 2 1 3 gl of $25 by the Al Elcctric Light Rohrback plane, shown above, which wil « national eel) i and Power Company and the other, ——————— e et e S—— i e 10, by the Butler Mauro Drug ’llldl)(l ] d mpany. These prizes will be g ave | (”‘rliu h scape s Near Stewart| PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., March | 28 —Two members of a pack train' cnroute to the Marmot Mining' property near Stewart, B. C, had a narrow escaps from death when (caught in a snowslide, George Dunyg’ ot the Marmou ghted the avalanche with j field glasses as it struck the pack train. Rescuers hurriedl to the scene and Jack Morrison’s hand was seen waving above the snow and he was dug out just in time. Jack Ren-| nic was stunned by a block of jes| but he hung on to a sapling and | the rush passed. | The foot of a horse was seen| kicking on the surface and the ani-| mal was dug out alive. ACQUIT BARCLAY IN QUICK TIME KETCHIKAN, Alaska, March 28. {which T. Raymond Finucane, | wealthy Rochester sportsman, and (may have made a forc |and is drifting eastwa |tome trace of the plane |turn Federal Ain:e_n Report In- PM@MCEMS 10§ ANGELES SENT 0UT T0 LOCATE PLANE Wealthy Sportsman and | Three Companions Reported Missing LEFT ON FLIGHT LAST FRIDAY, UNSEEN SINCE Dirigible Flying Over At- lantic One Hundred Miles Off Shore NEW YORK, March 28—The dirigible Los Angeles is flying over vhe Atlantic today towards Norfolk 1 search of a Sikorsky ‘plane in three companions have been ing since they tock off fzom |1olk last Friday. Commander Rosendahl to fly over the ocean from shore in the belief ¢ plantied 100 milé the Los Angeles is expec to the hangnr tor REBELS LEAVE JIMINEZ, MOVE TONORTHWARD suvgents Move 1o New . Stronghold MEXICO CITY, March 28—The apparent evacuation of the town of Jimenez, in the southeastern part of Chihuahua, is reported by Fed- eral airmen. It is said the In- surgents are proceeding northward in the direction of the rebel strong-" hold and the Government looks for a battle at Bachimba Pass, a strong , strategxcal point south of Chihua- hua. The rebels on the other hand mdicnted a clash is expected in the vieinity of Jimenez. No confirma- tion has been given regarding the reported evacuation of that town. Gen. Escobar has repeatedly as- serted he will lead the advance on Mexico City itself. The Federals, at Naco, are strong- ly entrenched and still awaiting the - long delayed attack by the rebels —Bert Barclay, charged with con- spiracy to violate the National Pro- hibition Act, was late yesterday having a light by the Coast Guard cutter Cygan, | :calendar for the day. It passed fought snow, in|two bills and considered several for three hours, Three Army observation planes; rain and wind storms |and three hea bombing planes\ before running out jare here to in the work of| ier ordered that all ships carrying VOrlentals keep out of Seattle Har- i bor. caused the death of Mrs. E. Adams, aged 73 years, and her grandson, wrold Jefferies, aged 24 years, (terranean and Holy Land. encamped 10 miles away. Unless the attack develops soon, the Fed- erals declared that they will start ¢ m hers in their second reading f gas on the flight from Peters- | disintegrating the jam. | Six nurses employed by the acquitted by a jury after 10 min- by sterday. The two ©% ,of gas € | F TP some activity th LLS‘-rm h:erz g;}fi{e,‘td today. | 1t proved it can move in & BUITY burg to Ketchikan according to ad-| Yesterday 2,000 pounds of dyna-|'TQ GIVE FAREWELL [mqmbhm compeny to care for|utes' deliberation. George Grigs- sitviby \hesossvg) e !when desired. ‘The Finance Com- | yices received by The Empire last|mite were exploded. The Engineers the Filipinos have been taken ill|by defended Barclay. > 2 b ty Foreman in i A e Clx};held for in- mmee introduced a measure ap-'pight. | propriating $348.28 to pay some bills | Those aboard the plane floated {incurred by the 19: This | helpless for an hour near Guard) was read the requisite three, times tslanq ‘where they were picked up! and passed by a unanimous vote. |py an Indian who towed the plane TO MRS. STILLMAN; s g The Women'’s TForcign and Home Missionary Society of the Presby- terian church will meet at the home Rev. Devon Uses Plane to Visit Coast Missions said the work must be speeded or |with the disease. the lowlands will surely be flooded. | The number of known cases at Diamond Point is placed at 32. iAberdeen reports 12 Filipinos 'under quarantine charge of the grader, vestigation. The tragedy was discovered by city workmen who visited the home | Spmush Fliers Tnke To Air to Complete A "J\fifl,ycsdfv’fl:giofi‘jg Gowq! Included in this were: $26643 for |ynti) the Cygan, which was search- KELLBGG OUT lof Mrs. David Waegoner tomorrow | Ff::xrteen have died from men- Spain-Brazil Flight| oo o vocen 2—Rev. Poile. S £ 3, ford & pany, i e the flying b R o 3 lock. o | ingitis. i % 5 = boside his bed in night attire. He|J: B. Burford & Company, $75.25 ing for the flying boat, found it afternoon at 2:30 o'clo: The e i BAHIA, Brazil, March 20—Span- |~P Devon, Superior General of all | for Morris Construction Company,i-nd to t in tow. meeting will be in the nature of a Jesuit Missions in Alaska, arrived had apparently made an effort o A ish aviators Jiminez and Iglasias STIMSON NOW | 6.60 for the Alaska Electric| flying boat expects to hop farewell for the retiring president, ! yesterday in Floyd Bennett’s bis pack d the rear of nis|and $ The 7 have left for Rio de Janerio to ;‘C(‘;;o;“m N, M8 |+ jeht & Power Company. Funds for | loff from Ketchikan as soon as the| |Mrs. 0. A. stillman : complete their flight from Spain|Plane on a tour of the Bering Mrs. Adems was found to have|these items were appropriated bY yoather clears. The following program will be’ which was interrupted when they|Se& coast Catholic missions among died in her sleep. e 1 Lesllepr b, Inging | s, B i S 5 given: !were forced down'here after span-|the Eskimos. In seven and one- A dog was found dead in the| | specific authority for their expen-| o b ole ainis Devotional, by Mrs. Personeus; ning the South Atlantic Ocean. half hours, his trip was completed Pl g Ldlhh\‘ th:*h(}memor was unable L01: 5.0 ’u:n' Y'S STOCK 5 R — presentation of year book and mis- ; - >ee - :thhkwotyulddm‘v’: taken}gmm | disburse them, o sio) / Mrs. Waggoner; | ©eeoeoevo e e o0 e e e tomakebydogteam. He said t Investipain | B 100 - bavemonts The Senate yesterday also passed" QUOTATIONS « |Official Change Takes tril:m{ey [ abg'g Mi e HALIBUT PRICES e|trip was so pleasant and safely discloged, GORY P Pabe, ] iding for improve-/¢ @ © e ® 0 e e 0 0 e e o8 { ute fo Mrs. Stillman, bY M| pATTLE, March 28—Capt. Ira 5 * been broken in two places. Pre-|8 measure providing or imp: e—L Place at Close 0! Van Atta; business meeting; pa-| & / 2 - ot @@ 000000 00 0 0 o o made that future inspections will sumably the tractor had caught|Ment, repair and malntenante off. o L TUl 5 Algeka Work Toda geant, “America” by Wesiminster B2ker, famous Army Flicr, left Se- probably be made by airplane. He the service pipe and bent it un-| {the Valdez dyke, appropriating| x 15 quoted y Society; song, “God Will Take Care |8tu€ for Oakland aboard a Paclfic| SEATTLE, March 28—Nine ves-|said the Eskimos were in excellent til it broke. 1$10,000 from the general fund, to be | Juneau ml"w stoc m“q Selting B s of You” | Alr Transport airplane two hours|geels prought 58,300 pounds of hali- |condition. There were forty cases i lused in co-operation with the Alas- day B rooration 81% | WASHINGTON, March 28—| All friends and those interested Afcr Dis errival here vesterday put to port yesterday which sold of smallpox on the lower Yukon, at " -7 9+ ka Road Commission. {18 iy Kiene al Motors 85 |Frank B. Kellogg today came tolin the organization are most cor-\fmm Portland with the Boeing for 193 to 12 cents. Cod sold for |Akuluruk village, lower fork, but Federal Building ’ The Senate rcsull;!llon A:ltlghfls f‘,‘"gé 11t Mack Trucks 98 |the end of more than four years|dially invited. Light refreshments | {:u;:; cm;m:l ;:(‘Lvhu(llzl‘ul; n:;cx‘xix‘};:);m i aflng ho fatlitis ns : amended, directing the Attorney - = al ‘Powi !service as Secretary of State and|will be served. { o o Plans Prepared;; | General to compile and codify the Missouri 77+ 'l,'wk.,rr(n‘:\;[o};‘:r“serla:?f was ready to relinquish the post flight from Panama to Brownsville, Light 52%, [Alaska Session Laws and Com- o 0 Yo7’ ponichem Steel 1044, Soon Ask for Bids G pfled Laws of Alaska and have them . 2 L o J. C. McBride, U. 8. Collector of | {ready to submit to the 1931 Legis- ég;e:)c:x:'ta?\{“{j{ifbrfi(f‘o"";fl;‘zieg:" Customs and Custodian of FEderaI {lature, was favorably reported yes- ,Mk;“ 103, International Paper Buildings in Alaska, has received | |terday by the Senate Committec A 32, B 21 a mmmumcatwn from the Super- on Judiciary. The amendment of- yising Architect of the Treasury De- |fered by the Committee allows the | mrlmem in Washington * Smflflg‘l\’w'ney General extra clerical help. | that the drawings and plans for et the new Juneau Federal Building; have been prepared. The k‘ttencovemor of Canton further stated that the specifica-; tions for the structures are now Repofled Execute being written. ¥ 5 tum 66%, Texas Corporation 647%, The date of advertising for bids} yaNprNG March 28. — Chal Bethlehem Steel 103%, American for the construction of the baildlng .Sun, Governor of Canton, is re- 7T and T. Company 217%, Conti- nd the date for their opening has’ _ported to have been executed. The pental 20%, Mathieson Alkali 190, yet been fixed, but it is Un- yeport is given general credence ynternational Paper, A, 31%, B. officially believed that the bids will although it is not confirmed. '1915. be roquested about April 1. It is also reported that Wu Tza' - Hua, venerable Nationalist states- BERLIN—Every sixth foreigner man, ended his own life follow- who came to Berlin during 1928 ing the reported execution of Chai in archery has been added to the Quotations mine stock 6% 112%, ' Chesa. Yesterday’s Alaska Juneau Avnencan Smelting pmm Corporation 80%, Cudahy |56%, General Motors 84%, Gold Dust 63'., Mack Trucks 98, Mis- d souri! 76, National Power and Light 7%, Packard Motors 130%, Pos- - was an American. , capital was visited in 1928 by 'antors of safety of Chai and felt for girls. 40334 Americans, an increase of the execution meant disgrace which cipal, “is an introduction to efi- he was unwilling to face. 135 per cent over 1927. | quette.” {at the close of the da; |Harry M. Stimson. The new Secretary takes up his official duties tomerrow. It will be the second time for a similar experience for he was Secretary of War in the Taft Cabinet. He was| particularly pleased to have the oath of office administered today by his former leader, William How- ard Taft, as Chief Justice of the United States. e WIEN PRAISED For his flight from Nome to Cape |North, Siberia, and return, Noel »chn Fairbanks flier, has received ‘praise from William P. McCracken, Jr., Assistant Secretary {merce for Aeronautics. rsald |erieca and Asia. This s lwonhy pioneering effort.” —— COURT HOUSE WILL OBSERVE SEWARD DAY The U. 8. Dist brief session during which no im- portant business came before it,! was adjourned until tomorrow| morning at 11 o'clock { On Saturday, Seward Day, | ces in the C closed, it was made known today. | offi- — s FOUND NOT GUILTY William Hawkins, arrested by of Com- |Chief of Police George Getchell and In a wire [terDeputy United States Marshal TOKYO — A compulsory course sent to the airman the SccretaryWiilam Garster, and charged with “Sineerest congratulations | Vagrancy, was found not guilty at The German Sun. Wu was one of the guar- curriculum of a Tokyo high school'upon the successful completion of {8 jury trial in the U. S. Commis- “Archery,” said the prin-|your round trip flight between Am-|sioner's Court. a most|U. 8. Commissioner presided over by Charles Sey | | of Douglas, today. lv. eek’s luncheon. tors at Boeing Field said ' Capt. Eaker was returning to Oak- land to answer charges he stunted over the airport and made a power 't _Court con- gjve from a 2,000 foot altitude to| {¥ened this morning and after a'near a crowd below. - - SPECIAL COMMITTEES NAMED BY FAULKNER Two one-man committees were it House will bejtoday appointed by H. L. Faulkner, | President of the Juneau Chamber | lof Commerce. It appears that | former President Wallis George has, he said. {not attended the weekly luncheons’ ddubt whether the Volstead Act ap- | for some times President Faulkner admonished Harry I. Lucas to bring pressure to bear upon Mr. George and see tb it that he is at the: next meeting. Allen Shattuck was appointed to personally invite Speaker of the House, R. C. Rothenburg, and Sen- ator Charles Benjamin, to next A VISI TS MANILA, March 28.-—The Elgh- | teenth Amendment in the opin: ,‘ni |of William E. (Pussyfoot) Johnson, | applies to the Philippines, but is| not likely to be made effective in | the islands. “There is no question, I guess, {but what the Eighteenth Amend- ment does apply to the Philippines,” “There’s a good deal of | plies. I don't think it does.” ‘The noted advocate of world pro- hibition visited the islands recently |during a tour of the far east in behalf of the cause for which he is working. A Philippine League Against Alcoholism, composed of both Americans and Filipinos, was | PUSSYFOOT JOHNSON PHILIPPINES the “World League Agamst Alco-| holism. Johnson said that it was nob| probable that an attempt would bej made to extend the Eighteenth Amendment to the Philippines be cause there is a general feelin that congress should not pass laws that it is not compelled concerning the internal affairs the islands. He expressed & lief that it would not be wise cram prohibition down their since Filipinos might resent its Incidentally, many Americans not know that prohibition dees no prevail in the Philippines. r quently newly arrived travelers vite friends to their hotel room have & drink of “real stuff” bo ny organized during his stay here. The | organizeis intend to affiliate with in Shanghai or Hongkong. Their ?' nocence doesn't last long.