The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 29, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XXXIIL, 5086. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1929, MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TENV CENTS ALASKA’S HONORED FLIER WELCOMED HERE TODAY WORLD FLIGHT IS BEING ARRANGED PLANS FOR ONE FLIGHT GIVEN INWASHINGTON Start Will Be Made in F)rst Clear Days of Next September PROPOSED ROUTE LIES OVER ALASKA Money Raised for Project —Fliers Interna- tionally Known WASHINGTON, D. C., April 29. —The Washington Post today says that six iator stop flights around the world from New York, on the first clear days in September. The names.of three are Lieut. Elbert Hulse, former air mail and y pilot; Capt. Harry Lyons, jr., or of the trans-Pacific flight Southern Cross, and Lieut. L. T. O'Connel, radio officer at Lakehurst The commander will be a flier who has over 5,000 miles air credit. The make of the plane to be| used is unknown but is described as being partly metal, partly linen,| and powered by five motors. The plane will be equipped to fuel en- route. established aiong the proposed rotte to be used in case of emergency. Two. of the five engines will held in reserve which will be suf- ficlent to bring the ship through should the others fail. The fuel tanks will have a ca-|c pacity of 1,900 gallons of fuel. Proposed Route of the internationally known av-) preparing to begin non-{ Twenty-two stations will bei~ be | OPEN NG OF uPECIAL SESSION OF CONGRESS House of r husbands W children zing of a widow President Hoover to consider farm re yper provision for and other sased person and forbid epresentatives of the pen- | weeks'’ cinity. trip ov surviving cependen wife, of pen- He who rema ASTOR WOULD BAR WILLS WHICH BAN SECOND WEDDINGS LONDON, April 20.—Wives and M, L. MERR]TT IS in their wills, d iarl’f revmon. BACK FROM TRIP| trip to Ketchikan and vi- made a field inspection the southern part of Ton- tional Forest with Forester i | Forest Service. e Considerable time was spent by{to' Mr. Merritt with the men at the|'™ | Forest Service Ma:ine Station,| ac the channel from Ketchi- | P! going over the plans for the {ox new ranger boat to be built there this summer. The materials are to! | be purchased immediately and con- | n, |mand for homesites throughout | southeast Alaska, Mr. Merritt said Since the homesite regulations went into effect 18 months ago 148 appli- fin /\Apl by Judge six months in jail and pay a total was given [Second Tornado J‘U ithin Two Days In South Carolina CAMDEN, C., April 29. —Tho second tornado to swoop down on South Caro- lina within two days took life today, in- Jured 14 p: ns and wreck- ed homes and automobiles. One airplane was blown off more than 100 miles, withcut any harm being done. cecoecso0 e .- - B, €ea cou ROUT REBELS, PULPITO PAS mes tively—Drive Is Star- ed Northward s force, have routed the wards Agua Pricta, Sonora, ebel stronghold A\e Used Effec- ture clause before a ballot on the rebels { |at Pulpito Pass and started a drive the FARM RELIEF MEASURE NOW UPTOSENATE A(‘ tion Is pre(t(‘d This Week—Debenture Clause Is Stumbling Block | ll()\()RbI) MAN | | | | | WASHINGTON, April 29.—Con- |gress today entered on the third ‘week of the special cession. 3 The Senate expects to act during the week on Farm Relief. The House js considering tariff revision. { The Senate must first of the controversial export $ dispose leben- Farm Relief measure. | 'The members of the Agricultural Committee are sorting bills and hope to pass among them the Sum- ! CAPT. CARL BEN EIELSON EL PAS K —En. | mers’ bill licensing p iret congress assembled for the extra session called by ‘ru:n‘:‘ l};c‘:r‘(l)ls T]\;t;xéafipégnggi GF;::. providing regul r Alsska’s owit filer, Lolder of the SR Sl . ot ‘m‘“ R ,_l,,“oivod word that Gen,|Vith the Haugen bill. A change Harmon Trophy for distinguished | | S e .- -lin the definition of olemargine is e in aviation, the man who led to other current business of the ') n, ‘Federal Commanger, and d st onething. This is to be .taxed start ssful commercial flying under the Haugen bill. The bill in AL is this afternoon guest will also establish minimum stand- of Juncaw and the Alaska Legis- ards for canned products. All were lature, The advance was made after air- | éPorted last session but action anes had bombeorded the Pass| fatled. " . 1d the rebels were routed. U o rH I R n TURGH v . | e |EXPLOSION John P b was found guilty MUHUER GIvEs |last week of violation of ‘the pro- E. Coke Hill to ser of $500. on The jail the first count ne sentence Sk { struetion will start as soon as the alize their uses re-marriage, ¥ grave (e iMeRinleh of living . B e O I Jier, s '&u ‘ CLJ«ES ve . the=Xeialcs vinz | ar 1. Merritt, Assistant District ufacture of intoxicating liquor and ey ¥ inder a bill introduced in the po...tar of the United States F A lot of timber sale business is|possession of apparatus used for ¢ of Lords by Lord Astor. |est Service in Juneau, returned on |being done all over the Tongassithe manufacture of intoxicating |Seventeen Mcml)ers Miss- 1 The ‘meastre insuring a |t dmiral Evans from a three |Forest, and there is a heavy de-|jiquor was sentenced this morning . Body of Woman, Bad.y ing and Believed to Have Perished ve | Charred, Gives New Po- lice Another Mystery in MANILA, April 20. — Seventeen From New York the route of the | down or the elimination |J. M. Wyckoff, of Ketchikan, They cations for homesites in Tongass|the indictment, a fine of $250 for| o oo *% tro" e of the Tnter-| NEW YORK, April 20.—The po- flight will be to Boston, Nova|of her inheritance, |inspected several timber sales that | Forest fi“f? been received by the|the second and a fine of $250 or|rgang steamer Vicking are missing lice sought to identify the badly Scotia, Glasgow _and after the ‘arc now in operation and attend- [Forest Service. ‘the third. and have apparently perished as charred body of a woman as the trar tlantic flight, the route; Recently there have been several| ——————mmer— —— oS s g i g BN TR o the result of an explosion in the first step to solve the third torch will lie thence to Siberia, Nome,|striking instances of posthum v el's cargo and gasoline then slaying in 14 months. Alaska and south to the United!penalizitation in wills. Sir E being set afire. | The body was found Saturday States, taking the northern routeVictor Buckley Rutherford be- | The disaster occurred midway be- in a clump of woods. to }‘h-w Y(‘)IL, ; {queathed to his widow the use of tween the islands of Masbate and The victim was about 20 years No, engine trouble is expected | his house and furniture and seven- Cebu. jof age. before reaching Nome, if any does;tenths of fhe residue of his es- arlCS G oo‘ The vessel is a total loss. | The autopsy indicated the woman e i i |tate, valued at $395,000, provided The steamer Delhi rescued 20 had been strangled before burned. £L ‘um‘lu‘zfmmglflfilgoo‘“gnge qnl;%igunc FtUptonG & NS B f Chapter I |his shop the “Pirate’s Cove,” and |we have known each other, I have |Who were aboard the Vicking but| In a milk bottle were traces of feet and the cruising speed will be| o oCls another marrlage she)pgg GOLD-MOUNTED PISTOL | Hyde, she Insists, s a reincarnation |felt a restrain upon his spirit, |failed to find the others. |kerosene. A towel saturated with 1% 1‘|hl<-s PR b s ‘would receive only an annuity of| of Captain Kidd. had a sense of looking upon a mask | The skipper is among the lost. |[the liquid was about the head. A The cost of this flight is p]accd‘ at $350,000. More than $500,000 has been subscribed. Formal announcement of the name of the plane and other mem- b and details will be expected | within a few weeks. Prepa uons‘ are reported to have been under-| way for the flight for the past six months but have been closely guarded. - Chicago Plant Held-Up Ry Robber Band of 12| CHICAGO, I, April 29.—Hold- ing three employes at bay and tak- ing full possession of the plant of the Alemite Manufacturing Com- pany, a band of 12 burglars early this morning hauled away three truckloads of grease cups valued at $56,000. J A Liverpool merchant bcquedllud' 1$180,000 to his widow but she must} except $5,000 husband. give up all takes another The most discusse ever, was that of the novelist. He {married but his will directed that an annuity of $2,000 to Mrs. Hardy >hodld be halved Instances are not lacking in Hyde’s i o {had bee d example, how- Thomas Hardy, re was note sort of thing. at 69 one has hardly begun one's nothing that in Nathan even remotely suggested a connection with what {was to happen that night. If there 1 should have quailed a little, for T am getting on for that Not that I am old— It was early afternoon. I h:\d‘ nothing to do, so there was no rea- | son why I should not see Hyde at | once. Magnolia avenue is loveliest thoroughfare of San Fe- lipe and I drove along it with pride. And yet, 30 years ago the San Fe- lipe Valley was a sun-burned wustcf hi co; the | was probably nonsense. were not, scal what chambers of his memory he chooses? instead of a man himself, and if s antecedents are a matter njecture, what of it? My feeli But if hasn’t he the right Jerry Ogden, Andrew’s boy, a Several of those saved are badly handkerchief also bore an odor of of | injured. the fluid. Dental work is the only ng R »‘cluo to work on as it is not known itleo e 00000 00 e e o o Whether a dress found some dis- tole TODAY’'S STOCK o tance from the body belonged to . QUOTATIO the woman. eeoeoc0eeee o v ael| Thisisoneof three torch mur- ders, nd | The blazing body of Margaret rice | dec years. garden, my # s D i 26.—Alaska LB el i 3 et m,’:{‘;'m,, of pistols | °f Sag¢ and cactus. But that was | Liuck have cemented our friendship.| NEW YORK, April 26.—Alaska p o0 oo 'eoing in Pebruary, 1928 " i " g before Andrew Ogden, our first| Lucy, I see, is wearing a handsome Juneau stock was quoted today at The sl has never by ap- fill my active moments, and Lucy, . Sy | : 2 8% Vi Smelting 1047%, Cud- e slayer has never been cap: i e el citizen, brought water and accom- |sapphire. I shall be sorry to lose [6%, American Smelting ’ d-! tured if she marries "}h 1_;‘ b % | plished another of those miracles | her. 4 ahy 54%, (“‘“e’fl_, Mares 133\? | Mrs. Mildred McVey's body was S e 8l i 7 | which are the wonders of the| After the brilliant afternoon sun-|Gold Dust 64%, Mack Trucxs i fousl & War Inter for whidh @it The note, which was written in|gouthwest. light, the weird gloom of Hyde's Missouri 83%, National Fcwer and Colin Campbell ex-convict has been which women left similar restric- |Hyde’s cramped hand, asking 'tions upon widowers but generally |to drop in and sce him about an it is the widow who is thus re-<old pistol he thought might inter- I don't care a great deal the suffrage leader, states further |for Hyde—he is as smooth as a stick—but strained. Mrs. Pe! thick Lawrence, | est me. that English widows have no re- mahogany dress under present left penniless by bands. well-to-do hus- | I walking law, even ir‘hns an uncanny faculty of getting his hands on the rarities collectors |so rarely in their friendships. And bsrgam their souls for. Lucy called ‘if, at times, during the nine )ears me Andrew js my next door neigh- bor and my friend. His wealth has left him unspoiled and we have much in common. In fact there is between us that fine qual- ity of affection which men achieve se at he shop blinded grope my way forward. me and I had emed to be no one about; a then I heard voices in the office | As I approached the office I saw that Hyde was talking with Roy Hammond, a local lawyer. the rear. (Conunued on Page 'I‘wo) There Light 52%, Texas Corporation 64%%, U. S. 8:cel 187%, Bethlehem Steel 1109%, Continental Motors 23, Mathieson Alkali 51'%, Goodyear ‘Rubber 129, International Paper A} \ 29%, International Paper B 17, Dynamiting of fish is annoying Independent Gas 36, Standard onlthe Brazilian government, which of. Califfonia 77, Stewart-Warner, has no laws prohibiting this no sale slaughter to arrested. He is said to have con- fessed to the killing to get money and is awaiting trial. -ee - nd he will find the murderer. slumpedoverndakwm:ndmerlnthe neck, the body of Andrew Ogden is discovered by his neighbor, John Pecbles, who vows that | l Lucy, Peebles’ niece, rushes to the assistance| A million dollar mine blasted to entomb the of her fiance, Jerry Ogden, charged with kill- | victim of perfidious murder. Another baffling ing his father. Dimly the ghost town Torridity | crime. Did it have any conncction with Og-|cracked a town’ enters the tangled maze. den’s murder? Two stony, silent figures was not a dream. —a haunting shadow of “a poker game that who defies the police and proclaims her lover ”—a nightmare of horror that|innocent, plays a heart stirring role lendlu‘ to “In Gold Bullets” Starts Today seated at the table| Will love and romance triumph? The girl, l un expected climax. Alaska’s Llndy CAPT, EIELSON * RIVES. HERE - FROM SEATTLE Is Greet- /| ed by Enthusiastic Crowd This Afternoon LEGISLATURE WILL GREET HIM IN A. M. Arrives from—Kelchikan by Airplane — Good Flight Made Capt. Carl Ben Eielson, Alaska's “Lindy” arrived in Juneau this afternoon shortly after 3 o'clock and was given a royal welcome by American Legion officials, members of the Chamber of Commerce, City officials and Alaska Legislature. Capt. Eielson came north irom Ketchikan by the “ane Juneau, Pilot Anscel Eckmapn, of the Washington and Alaska Airways Comwpany. The plane swooped over the Channel and then landed first near the Alaska Juneau rock dump, then taxied to the Government dock where Alaska's distinguished (lier was greeted by officials, es- corted to the automobile of Harry E. Watson. The Juneau City Band, which had been on the job prepared to 4 v part fp.the itis welcome since ‘shortly after 2 o'clock headed A parade which escorted Capt. Eielson to Main Street, along Front to Seward, up Seward to Third Avenue and to the legislative chambers, There it was announced that Capt. Eielson will be officially- greeted by the Legislature in the Chambers of the House at 10 o'clock tomorrow forenoon. Capt Eilson was then taken to the Gastineau Hotel, where he is a guest, Several hundred people lined the waterfront awaiting the arrival of the plane and then joined in the welcome to Capt. Eielson. Resolution On Wednesday, April 17, Capt. Eielson was praised for his pioneer- ing in Alaska’s aviation field in a joint resolution introduced by Speaker Rothenburg and passed by the House in less than one minute after it was read by the Chief Clerk. - The resolution follows: “Whereas, Captain Carl Ben Eiel- son made the first commercial air- plane flight in Alaska in 1921 _{thereby demonstrating the feasi- bility of air service in the Terri- tory, and “Whereas, he has since acquired fame and distinction through his aerial performances in the North and thereby materially assisting in bringing airplane travel into gen- jeral use in Alaska: “Be It Resolved, that the Legis- lature of Alaska express their ap- preciation of his efforts by these presents and that this resolution be spread upon the records of the Legislature, a copy of the same to be transmitted to Captain Carl Ben Efelson, and a copy filed in the Territorial Library and Museum.” FLIGHT TO JUNEAU Pilot Anscel C. Eckmann, speak- ing of the northward trip from Se- attle, asid that fine weather was experienced. The plane functioned flight. It was planned to leave Ket- chikan yesterday but the plan to bring Capt. Eielson to Juneau ma- terialized and the hopoff from there was postponed until the Aleu- tian should reach that port. Through the American Legion Post of Ketchikan it was arranged that the plane Juneau was to fly out to Mary Island and pick up | Capt. Elelson and return-with him ahead of the ship. This was done this morning. The plane met the steamer off Mary Island and Capt. Eielson was transported from the ship to the plane by a small boat. | The Juneau took the air and reach- led Ketchikan three hours ahead of the vessel. A luncheon sponsored by the American Legion at Ketchikan was {given and soon after the Juneau took the air for the Juneau hop. (Continued on Page Three) perfectly throughout the hours of ° Enroute to Juneau a stop was