The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 7, 1929, Page 1

| . D —— B e e e s e e e 0 B TS o ORI | SRR » DAk THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “A‘LL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” NO 5093 VOL. XXXIV., ABDUCTION NOTE THREATENS DEATH AN JUNEAU ALASKA TUESDA Y MAY 7 I929 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS D KIDNAPPING VIOLENT EARTHQUAKES PREDICTED MURDER PLOT | IN LITHUNIA IS FAILURE Attempt to Kill Premier Is Foiled by Two Per- sonal Attaches ‘ ONE LIEUTENANT DIES FROM BULLET‘ p Assassin Escapes from Scene — Many Sus- pects Are Arrested BERLIN, May 7. — Official dis-' patches received from the Lithun- Legation state that Madame emaras was not hurt in an at- tempt to assassinate Premier Aug- utinos Waldemaras but Adjutant Lieutenant Sudinas was killed and Aide Captain Yerbickas was badly injured. A young adopted son of the Fremier was shot through the body and was operated upon dur- ing the night. | The attempt to assassinate the Premier is interpreted as a political act following the Premier's action taken against the Democratic La- bor elements in Lithuania. Since December, 1926, the Pre-| mier has made himself a v:rtual Dictator. The attack was, made as the/ party was entering the Gardent | Theatre to attend @& concert. | Three «of ;the. bullets from the | assin's gunstruck Sudinas. Other reports say two attaches shielded the Premier with their own bodies. Several suspects have been &r- .1 rested. - e MILLER OUT GN PAROLE, - N REPUHT Former Alien P ropert y Custodian Believed Re- leased from Prison | ATLANTA, Ga. May 7.—Thomas Miller, former Alien Property Cus- todian, is reported to have been re- leased on parole from the Federal Penitentiary here after serving lit- tle more than one year of 18 months to which he was sentenced‘ for conspiracy to defraud the Gov- ! ernment. Prison attaches said they were, not allowed to talk and declined | to’ confirm the rumor of the re-| _ lease of Miller. | Mliller was convicted in New York | in 1927 after a spectacular trial. He was accused jointly with former Attorney General Harry Daugherty of conspiring to obtain German- owned property. He was also fined; $5,000. The jury disagreed as to Daugh- erty. HANSON IS ENROUTE TO INTERIOR POSTS| Eiler Hanson, chief clerk in the| headquarters office of the Alaska | U. S. Experiment Stations, with | headquarters at Sitka, arrived here yesterday enroute to western and\ interior stations. He was accom-| panied by Mrs. Hanson who will visit with Mr. and Mrs. E. M. God- dard for several days and then go to the States for a visit. Mr. Hanson will leave on the Alaska tonight for Seward. He will go from there to Matanuska and Jater to Fairbanks, returning to Sit- ka late in the summer. —r————— Plane Juneau Is Now on Way North SEATTLE, May 7.—The Alaska - Washington Airways plane Juneau left this after- noon for a nonstop flight to Ketchikan with Enscel Eckmann as pilot and Rob- ert Ellis as navigator. The plane is carrying two pas- sengers. @es0c000000e Pe e 000 v 00000 | financier, and Joe Norton, former amateur golfer of Albany, N. Y. {band so Joe got a job, but that didn't do any good. {matters in her own hands then and ' HUNGARIAN TELLS 1 ALASKA AIR MAIL | SILRPI(‘IL DISCUSSED , May 7.—Estab- mail service be- tween the United States and Ala ka, was discussed yesterday with Pruxd” t Hoover by Senators Bing- ham of Connecticut, and Moses of MANY SHOCKS ARE EXPECTED DURING NIGHT Italian Seismologist Looks For Violent Earth WASHINCGTO! lishment of @ Ha m']lsh\" As yet no defi- ite route has been chosen for the new service which is authorized by amendment to the Air Mail Law approved by Congress at the last session. Upheavals "AENZA, Ita May 7.— Signor Bandandi, seismolog- ist, expects widespread and viclent enrthqudkefi wil be felt in various parts of the| world tenight. | ~The statement declared the! reat telluric crisis will istart the night of Tuesday and continue to Wednesday. “Important shocks in many quarters will first be follow- {ed by a brief period of calm. | “Saturday, other shocks of {lesser intensity will occur.” R S FIVE FRENCH AVIATORS IN CRASH, KILLED |Wing of Bombing Plape Drops Off—Number of Bonibs Explode = BOURGET, France, May 7.—Five French military aviators were kill- ed today on Avord Field when a |bombing plane crashed when a wing dropped off. The bodies were taken from the plane and experts removed two un- | exploded bombs from the wreckage. When the crash occurred a num- ber of bombs exploded. The plane fell with terrific speed. \ As the plane was dropping, a | parachute was detached and wit- Inesses hoped someone would be saved. The parachute proved to {be empty. It is supposed the men | The love of a young girl and boy which they say hus mumph— ed over parental objections will culminate in a marriage next week. | Caroline Phelan, inset, daughter of James Phelan, prominent Boston and detached it too soon. The victims were two pilots and three student. are the happy couple. Her father objected to a golfer for her hus- Caroline took home and finally forced Rl = Voted Loveliest Wife left her parents to give their consent. OF 15 YEARS IN RUSSIAN PRISONS, BUDAPEST, Hungary, May 7.—| REPARATIDNS | Hundreds of Hungarians languish ' ‘in Soviet prisons, says Adolf San-, EXPERTS ARE |dor, who was made a prisoner of war on the Poland front in 1914 has returned home after 15| Conferences Contmue in| Effort to Bring About let tion. Agreement The Hungaruns are held, he clagn«u, to expiate the hundreds of | communists who were put to death in Hungary after the collapse of | the Bela Kun government. Sandor relates that ne spent ten | years on the icebound island of |Sola\obskl at the mouth of the| !Gulf of Onega, an arm of the| PARIS, May 7—Reparations ex- thxtc Sea. He says that for seven | perts, still hopeful, resumed con-| months of each year no one fromJ 7 fidential personal talks today in an me outside world comes to the 15- effort at an agreement basis on|land. There are 6,000 pnscnersw figures proposed. !there of every known nationality, | Owen D. Young and Dr. Schacht! about one-third of them women. conferred together and Young then‘ When first capwured in 1914 San-' delivered the text of certain con-| marched with others to| | was dition under which the Germans|So' 88 MERCRC WO AT o |made its separate peace with the‘ will accept the proposed settlemient.| Central Powers, he was released Thege were immediately communi- cated to the French and Belgian| delegations who conferred over them"md trudged through‘snow for six with Sir Josiak Stamp, of Gmm.months. finally reaching Moscow. Britain. | There he was arrested as a Hun- The conditions demand the right |82rian spy and sentenced to Solo- | of a revision plan or suspension | Vetski. of the unprotected payments any The sun seldom shines on the is- time the German Reich finds econ-|land and disease 1Is rife. Typhus omic difficulties. The conditions|rages in the summer. also ask right to demand another | “The prisoners are divided into! convocation over payments to be|three classes” Sandor explains.| reduced under certain circum-|“The most favored receive one kua-[ stances. !gram (2.2 pounds) of brown bread | —— !daily. The second class receives | William Fisher, of the U. S.|ahout four fifths as much but the Steamboat Inspectorss’ -Office at|inijrq gets only a little more than| se“"}: XWhO ]:,” b:e‘: ?::et:: 1:5 half that amount. Tea, concocted annual inspection tri st | by boili oz o e Miide toe. e | T G IR ARG THLAOUR WD attle. (Continued on Page Two) A d:stmgmshed trio of judges,’ consisting of John Barrymore, actor, F. Scott Fitzgerald, novelist, and Cornelius Van- derbilt, Jr., voted Mrs. George | Franklin Hest, above, of Rich= limond, Va., “America’s Love~ liest Wife.” ; International Newsreel) | i \ ibecame desperate in their haste| | Left: Interior of a cell Right: WASHINGTON, May 7.—Hal Sinclair ate s,paring]y of the sunple breakf. WHERE SINCLAIR WILL SERVE Interior views of the District of Columbia jail whers tence following decision of the supreme court upholding his sentence for contempt of the senate. empt of the United States Senate. J tarry F. Sii Prisoners’ dining z!l. rry P, Smclau a prisoner, Sinclair was ast el ast. -y Prosul(’nt Is ¢|\To Take {An Ocean Trip WASHINGTON, May 7. —President Hoover has giv- en assurances that he will carry out his preinauguration plan and will visit Havana and other West Indies is- lands. While the Chief Exec- utive did not say he would, he intimated he might visit the Panama Canal Zone and may go to Haiti. The time when the trip will be made e has not been determined. oooc-ooo'oooo- entered jail here last night to The trial attorney and his brother accompanied Sinclair who was vulge the nature of their investiga- nerveus and apparently startled each time flashlights of a score of photographers boomed out. Starting his first full day a pensing pharmacist, assisant to the jail physician for his three months’ stay. was one of the first to arise this morning from his none too comfortable iron AIL SENTENCE BANKER BIVEN WARNING:$600 DEMAND MADE | Threatening Note Is Re- ceived and Handed Over to Police STUDENT SUSPECTED, ATTEMPT, EXTORTION |Decoy No!e_ls Left and Ransacked when Watch- ers Are Absent TUSCALOOSA, Alabama, May 7. nclair must serve a three months® | serve three months Xori d to the drug room to act as dis- | | bed and | H DAMAGES AW ARDED IN SOPHIA WRECK SEATTLE, May 17.—D: | heirs of 214 of the 398 |were drowned on the steamer SO-ie hero of a daring arrest. ol {phia October 25, 1918, to thelse Returning to his home amount of $2,095000 have bcen|e last night from a show with |awarded in the Federal Court in e his sister, aged 14 years of |2 memorandum opinion by United e age, Kenneth noted a light States Commissioner A. C. Bow-|e beam flashing in the house. man. i He sent his sister for the | The Commissioner found that all|® police and stationed himself | passengers were kept ahoard when|® outside ‘Lhe ship hit Vanderbilt Reef, north | ® The burglar suspect crawl- of Juneau, Alaska, in o snow storm [® ed out of a rear window although several ships stood by ® @nd Kenncth jumped on e| pending arrival of a sister ship of ¢ him pinning him to the e |the Sophia. 1' p.rnupd with & hammer-lock. Officers arrived and found e | ha, required six yean TRAVEL HALF WAY R TO AVERT EYES OUND WORLD FROM ECLIPSE i 1 | NEW YORK, May 7—Several imembers of estronomical parties |expect to sit blindfolded for about 130 minutes before the total eclipse ‘of the sun takes place on the other ] |side of the world May 9. And when tney remove the blinds it will not be to look first at the }impressive spectacle of an eclipse {but they will scan the earth hunt- |ing for the “shadow bands” that |are familiar to every person who! | has watched a total eclipse. | These bands are shadows sweep- 'mv with clocklike regularity over | the earth's surface, before and aft- {er the moments of totality. Wheth- er they persist during the total eclipse is what the astronomers wish to find out. There has been P | disagreement. In the past some observers as- | serted they could see the bands }cven during totality, but there has !been doubt whether this was real, or an optical delusion arising from watching the bands before the sun {was blotted out. Why are astronomers spending {months of travel for a few mo- | ments of experiments, each one as f"(actmg as that of the shadow bands? This question was asked of Dr. Charles P. Olivier, director | of Flower observatory and profes- !sor of astronomy of the University of Pennsylvania. “Because,” he replied, “the sun iis the only star sufficiently close {to be seen in detail. We must inter- (pret all other stars on the basis \of what we can learn about our own sun.” More information about the iden- | tity of coronium is another of the objectives in this year's eclipse. | Coronium is something that exists in the sun’s corona, the outer white glow that surrounds it during the moments of total eclipse. Spectro- scopic photographs contain cer- tain lines which show the presence of this element. But these lines indicate that it | | J Chemists know of two missing elements which they believe exist on earth, but the lines identifying coronium do not link it to either of these 14 ARRESTED FOR SEDITION, ' PENNSYLVANIA Included in Those Arrest- ed Is High School Boy and Sister far unknown. BETHLEHEM, Penn., May 7.— Fourteen persons have been jailed for sedition and among them is Michael Bular, aged 14, high school boy, and his sister Anna, 19 years of age, a silk worker. The_ arrests were made after the principal of the high school con- fiscated handbills distributed among over to the police. Later the youths were arrested and also 12 men at the alleged Sovigt headquarters. When the arrested me= were searched, copies of the Soviei oath were found in their pockets. A portion of the oath pledges alleg- lance to the Red Flag. e, —— Meningitis Carriers Refused Passage on MANILA, May 7.—Seven menin- !xnls carriers were refused passage on the Dollar Liner President Jack- Honolulu. All were Filipino labor- is a substance never yet duplicated lers bound for the sugar planta- in carthly laboratories, and thus|tions. Taking of testimony in the c&sc, 1® the students and turned the bills} Liner Pres. Jackson son when she sailed last night for 12-Year-Old {Boy Is Hero; Capiures Burglar L8 ANGELES, O, May T~—~Kenneth Lang, although only 12 year of age, is the « *f . the boy holding the intruder ® helpless. 0000000000 GEN. ESCOBAR COMES T0 U, S. Commander Ill-Fated Mex- ican Revolt Said to Have Crossed Border EL PASO, Texas, May 7.—Gen. Jose Conzala Escobar, Commander of the ill-fated Mexican Revolu- tionary army, flew across the border into the United States last Thurs- day with former Governor Topete, of Sonora. They conferred with Gov. Rodruquez, of Baja, Califor- nia, at a ranch near Gila Bend, Arizona, on Saturday. SRS S, GARDNER BEATS PRINCE LONDON, May T7—The Prince of Wales in his first match as cap- tain of the Royal West Norfolk Golf club lost to Bob Lake, 70-year: old gardner. Lake won out on the last green. {—An abduction note threatening (R. H. Cochran, bank President with |death and the kidnapping of his |children, unless he. deposited $600 in a designated tree stump, today |formed the basis of efforts of the police to locate the writer. The police are reticient to di- jtion but intimate that a college student may have sent the note. This is supported on the theory that the writing, wording and punctuation is perfect. A special guard has been placed at Cochran’s home. The note demanded the monzy for a loan and said interest would be paid. The writer cautioned the banker not to make a false move. A decoy envelope was placed in the stump, filled with papers and this wes foulsl te bave beews opencd when watchers absented themselves for a short time. NS S NAVY AIRCRAFT TENDER GANNETT : STARTS, ALASKA Leaves San Diego for Pu- get Sound to Bring Aerial Mappers SAN DIEGO, May 7.—The air- craft tender Gannet, in command of Lieut. Comdr. A. W. Radford, left yesterday to aid the aerial sur- vey of a section of Southeast Alas- ka islands. Four planes will be used to make the survey and will take-off a week from next Wednesday for Puget Sound. On May 18 the Gannet and planes will start for Alaska. There will be 100 officers and men in the party. The first aerial mapping was done in 1926. Man and Woman Are Burned to Death in Toronto Apartment TORONTO, May 7—Two mem- bers of a theatrical stock company, Margaret Bird and Forest Cum- mings, were burned to death early today in their apartment. The cause of the fire has not been de- termined. They were members of the Victoria Stock Company which starts an engagement here tonight. PETAIN SAYS ERROR SA By S. F. WADER (A. P. Staff Writer) ¢ PARIS, May 7.—An error in [ judgment in choosing the com- manders of the German corps op- erating against Verdun in 1916, was | the salvation of the French in that !bloody struggle according to Mar- shal Petain's story of it, just pub- lished. Besides making this observation, he demolishes a number of long accepted conceptions as to the sit- |uation before and during the bat- ,ne pays special homage to the |clear sightedness of his adversary, the ex-crown prince of Germany, and vindicates his brother officers who were accused of having neg- ) L GERM AN VED VERDUN lected the defenses of Verdun and of thus being responsible for the heavy French losses. The German plan was to make a converging attack on the salient east of the Meuse with the idea of forcing the French back to the river, obliging them to retreat across it and leave the road open to Ver- dun. “Contrary to the ideas expressed by Von Falkenhayn,” Petain re- marks, “the Crown Prince, charged with the execution of the action against Verdun, did not agree to the narrow plan. He thought suc- cess could be obtained by renewing with more tenacity the maneuver (Continued on Page Two)