The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 8, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXIV., NO. 5094 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1929. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS mrnns e PRICE TEN CENTS THREE ARE SLAIN IN RENEWAL OF CHICAGO GANG WAR NAVY BALLOON ND. 1, WINNER OF BIG RACE Credited WE_Coing Nine Hundred Miles mn 44 Hours PITTSBURGH, Penn., May 8— The Navy balloon No. 1 is credited | with winning the National Elimi- nation balloon race. It landed on Prince Edward Islynd. travelling e distance of 900 mides in the air in 44 hours. The record must be checked by the National Aeronautical Associa- tion before the official report made, | Twelve balloons started the raco; last Saturday. - e BALLOON DOWN IN WILDERNESS One Entry in Elimination Race Drops—Crew Has Hard Trip NEWCOMB, N. Y, May 8. — A party of trappers have been or- ed to salvage the balloon in h two aeronauts dropped in the wilds of the Adriondacks four days ago. E. J. Hill and Arthur Schlosser, crew of the Detroit Times entry in the National Elimination Con- test, emerged late yesterday from the wilderness where they had wan- dered two days, beset with hunger and cold and seeking their way to civilization, 1/ Hill and Schlosser /jraveled about 350 miles. The pair|said their ad- ventures after lanfing were no more exciting than he flight. They battled in snow, fag land thunder storms to keep frofr \being blown out to sea. They logt their food supply and were forced to dump their load. The reglon were they landed is|sun is eclipsed so completely that | sparsely familiar days without finding a house. - e IGE_ BREAKS IN FRONT OF DAWSON CITY led and persons un- M V3 terday Afterncon—Two Winners of Prize DAWSON, Y. T., May 8—The ice broke in front of Dawson city at 2:33 o'clock yesterday afternoon, is SUN ECLIPSE DRAW SAVANTS TO BORDER OF THE INDIAN OCEAN l | By LOUIS P. LOCHNER (A. P. Corresvondent) BERLIN, May 8-—Five minutes ‘of total eclipse of the sun, predict- ed by astronomers for tow iset in motion three expeditions jGerman savants to make observa jtions in Northgrn Sumatra, Siam, and the Philippines. | The first group will test the ef- jfects of Einst ativity theory; the second will investigate the spec- trum cof the sun’s corona; the third jwill attempt to show by photo- graphs that sun spots determine the shape of the corona. The costly ex- peditions have been undertaken in the full knowle: weather may b them completely. Localities Unfaverable According to Professor A. Kopff |director of the Astromomic Mathe- | matical Institute at Berlin-Dah- |lem, “the regions in which the ob- ! Gbs ion of the total eclipse is I are not favorably located The totality zonc for the most part cuts through the Indian Ocean and |touches land only in the northern :pnrt of Sumatra, on the peninsula of Malakka, and in the middle sec- |tion of the Philippines. | “Besides, cxperience has shown /that in the tropics the conditions |for observing total pses are less fayorable than in temperate zones. \But an eciipse of such long dura- jtion so unusual tk stronomers of the whole world have neverthe- 'less made preparaticns for its ob | servation.” | The first cof Potsdam professor: |Dr. Erwin Freundlich, Dr. | Rlueber and Dr. Walter Grotrian. It will make its observations in the highlands of North Sumatra. | Freundlich and von Klueber will {test the existence of the so-called nstein effeet. Aecording to Ein- tein, a ray of light is deflec islightly in the pursuit of what ,previously assumed to be an ab iluhc]y straight course, in other {words, even the “straightne f tr is only relative. The proof of this can be tested, however, only |on those rare occasions when the von {the astronomer can observe the ith the country travel|giars near the sun and measure the | |course of them. light emanating from | Relative Luminosity | Professor Grotrian, the third {member of the Potsdam group, |hopes to determine the ; luming ]corona' fields. | veloping the sun, knéwn as its co- !rona and visible only during a to- Ital cclipse, according to Professor | Kopff, emits light which on {tral analysis reveals not only o in the various spectral | spectral lines: “lnlundfi to photograph the corona ‘.spectrum with varying apparatus {to determine the relative luminos- | | 1 The outer atmosphere en-, - BIDS ASKED BY te that unfavorable & German group consists |2V headed by | relative | pleting a trip aecross the Gulf ity of the lines of the sun’s |Alaska and welding the last link More than Seven e ty ¥ CAPITOL BLDE, - TREASURY DEPT, Call Issued for Bids | Alaska Capitol Building —Opened July 15 !bay yesterday for the construc- | xa capitol building, | A call for bi tion of the / a three-quarter of a million dollar | 'structure, is being published today ! in The Empire by the United States Treasury Department. The bids are to be submitted to James| |A. Wetmore, Supervising Architect, | w. gton, D. C, and will be op-| 2 |ened in that office on July 15. A tornado which swept parts of Georgi | J. C. McBride, Collector of Cus-| this house near Cochran, Ga., was wrecked. toms, was also notified that the|—— s e g e plans and specifications were being ' sent to him. They had not arrived LEAD Rs UF today but were expected to reach deld . { saund S 1 n | } The “Chicago sneezeless” plan, { Which sees the city a paradise for here at an early date, probably on | the next mail steamer to arrive| from Seattle. | Are Discouraged at Eflor[s}lm ¢ victims by 1933, has been E {launched by the League for the to fe. % 3 & Lo D( f( at lLXpOfl DB t!’n‘v ntion of Hay Fever. benture Plan and South Carolina Even little, | privacy of | pect. secret sneezes in the the home, are completion of the structure are so there will be no delay on account of lack of money. { The plans and specifications have | been in process of preparation in| the Supervising Architect's office; WASHINGTON, May 8-—Admin- since last February. It had beeniggtion leaders are discouraged thought bids would be let early this ¢ offorts to defeat the export de-| Spring, but delays were encount-!p. 4.6 plan in the F.u'n'\ Rel ered in making-the final plans and ' pg, !)é most Tecent ehecle 81 these were only recently ironed out. |, ON FAST TRIP | Makes Quick Time, Juneau ator Watson of Indiana said | that cven if the debenture clause|Introduce Bill to Cordova—General Celebration Held passed the Senate, the House would |, % climinate it. To Regulate CORDOVA, Aalska, May 8—Com- of While Mr. McBride was not so| advised, it is und ood to be the| lintention of the sury Depart- ment to require uction work to be started immediately upon award of the contract. Funds for ssisted by loyal troops Chicago Woman's |certain mer, |sally out th its from | and e will mmer to do to death lar dragon, the ragweed. nothing to be sneezed at,” | Dr. Bernard Fantus, the big ze and T ed man, referring | o the plan, And Dr. Fantus, who | Ser | The outcome in the Senate ,”””'(, Imlus'lrv {regarded as important it will | b test the strength of the President; AT RO Oy B in the upper House of Congre: - y” e The vote is expected thi Reapter e s an- troduced 2 bill in the Senate '\T i iy to regulate the Motion Pic- | . ture industry. The bill is GHINESE ARE aimed at the alleged op- AT IT AGAIN week lependents. in the airways extending from the - Equator to the Arctic, the Gorst plane Alaskan landed in Cordova afternoon making nonstop flight from Juneau, joeees0coscsce | the | spec- | 450 miles in four hours oves Out of River Yes-continuous spectrum, but also light | | Professor Grotrian |* {ity of the lines. This problem has) been tackled experimentally only pressive measures employed by the larger producers and Fighting Is in Progress Along Railroad from distributors against the In- and 20, ' Canton Northward ADMITS BEING SRIBED; JUROR HAS CONFESSED minutes. The landing was perfect despite he high tide running. The plane left shortly after and landed on Lake Eyak to obtain a better protection base to be estab- lished here. Plans indicate the possibility of a trip across the mountains to | | | | | | HONGEONG fightir is May 8. — Heavy in progress along the ' railw from Canton to Kowl on the north, belween the fo of Gen. Hsu Kingtong and the {Rl(} SNEEZE WAR OPENS IN CHICAGO TO AID SUFFERING HAY FE) IJRI',"I-.'S‘TARIFF B"-I- .—The big took a toil of more than seventy lives. One person killed when associate fessor of medicine Rnsh Medical college, lays out full set of statistics to prove it. Between 30,000 and 40,000 suf- fe live in Chicago,” hi “Chicago loses $1,000,000 ev: mer because of the thou: s who | must run away from this atmos- phere, not counting loss of time from busin 1d the money spent for treatments. “There is one way out—erad tion of ragweed. One-tenth of Chi- | cago's 40,000 acres of vacant lots can grow ragweed. If 10,000 suf ferers could each set aside $10 for weeding one. sere. of ragweed, the work of eradication in Chicago could be accomplished by August.” RED METALIS MINERAL KING ASSERTS BIRCH President of Kennecott Copper Makes Report to Stockholders - FINDS WAY INTO HOUSE TS im- | Substantial Increase 1a Rates to Aid Farmers, * Manufacturers ON, May 8. —Sub- stantial increased rates designed to afford greater protection to the Amy ducers and many manufacturing ja- dustries is recommended in the Tariff Bill presented in the House and designed to replace the Ford- ney-McCumber Law of 1922. Some of the schedules, notably those dealing with tobacco and T ts are left unchanged. The fish paragraphs have been rewritten to accord with modern commercial practices with compara- tively few changes in duty. — - eee ASKS St0000 FOR DAMAGES Youths File Suits Against Kathleen Norris, Nov- elist, and Others SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 8.— Damage suits totaling $80,000 have been filed against Kathleen Nar- . ris, novelist; her husband, Charles $73,000000 was Kennecott's equity. |G Norris; Mrs. Lillian Kolster, Most of the megtal has been sold. wife of a radio manufacturer, and NEW YORK, May 8—Stephen Birch, President of the Kennecott Copper, told the stockholders that the company expected this year to be as good if not better than last, as far as the red metal is con- cerned. Birch said the Kennccott gr had $93,000,000 in er, of which more than an fomwesas ind SUZAT DD "TRUGE ENDED WITH 3 MEN SHOT, KILLED Two “Aces” of Moran’s Gang Murdered—Bodies Found on Rural Road SLAYINGS BELIEVED TO BE RETRIBUTION Over Dozen Suspects Ar- rested and Are Held for Investigation | HAMMOND, Ind, May 8 — A triple slaying has terminated the brief truce in the Chicago gang war. Three men identified by new- papermen as John Scalisi, Albert Anselmi and Joe Guinta, were found shot to death on a rural road. The forfeit of lives is seen as re- | tribution for the St. Valentine'’s Day massacre of George “Bugs” Mor- an's seven clansmen in Chicago. Scalisi and Anselmi are reported to be henchmen of Al Capone. Scalisi was freed on $50,000 bond a week ago pending trial as one of the Moran gang executioneers. Two of the men were found heaped in the rear seat of a stolen .coupe. The bodies were covered |with a blanket. | Twen 3 was found the body of Guinta. | Scalisi and Anselmi were a dread- led killing duet and regarded as ace imen of Capone's staff. They have |three times been charged with kill- ing policemen but alway escaped sentence contending that they thought the policemen were mem- bers of a rival gang. b P Jyadiaster:, i, was sdd over one dozen men have been ar- rested for investigation regarding the murder of the three gangsters. CHR ISTERS ARE ROUTED, BATTLE Mexican Federal Force At- tacks and Drives Away Religious Rebels MEXICO CITY, May 8. — Des- i patches from Guadalajara tell of a band of Christers who fought their way to the Colotland Church St. | Nichols which they tried in vain |to hold against Feedral troops und- ier Gen. Cedillo. They were driven from the church. Sixty-eight are 'dead and 48 were wounded. The Christers retreated to the ceme- tery and were attacked again and driven to the nearby mountains. Colotland was recently captured from the so-called religious rebels. - t owiprii m.the eamper™ .. | within a few years. Cantonese Gener: {Fairbanks and possibly to Circle May 7. The first prize is divided| The second group of German sa- between Thomas Leach, of Dawson, |Vants is led by Prof. Hans Stobbe and Grace Stewart, of Anchorage, and Dr. Rosenberg of the Kiel Ob- approximate amount in the first servatory. They took apparatus to prize pool being $7,200. The ice broke in front of Daw- son last year at 3:12 pm, May 9.|Potsdam colleagues, Rosenberg . and | ———————— DICK DOUGLAS COMING NORTH Will Leave Seattle on May 15—Be Greeted by Gov. Parks — NG SEATTLE, May 8—Dick Doug- las, one of three Boy Scouts who went with the Martin Johnson Ex- pedition to Africa, will leave here May 15 to hunt bears on Kodiak Island. The boy is scheduled to leave New York during today and will arrive here next Tuesday. He will be entertained by the Boy Scouts of Seattle and civic organi- zations. At Juneau, Alaska, he will be greeted by Gov. George A. Parks. In Westward Alaska, Douglas will be en by guides to shoot on Kodiak Isiand and it is also ex- pected that he will accompany a boat of the whaling fleet for a few days' trip. The trip is being sponsored by George Palmer Putnam, publisher. e ———— H. Bloom, Fairbanks merchant, is a2 westbound passenger aboard the Alaska, |an observation station near Kobe- | IBhodi, in the Siamese section of | the Malakkan peninsula. Like their Stobbe will concern themselves with (Continued on Page Three) |Flight Proposed From Chicago To Copenhagen CHICAGO, May 8. Another Sweden is planned by Bert Hassel who piloted the Greater Rockford on the projected flight last summer |and was forced down on the snow. ifields of Greenland. Hassell declared that his next attempt will nine refueling polnts and paying gacoline tanks which would be re- quired for a nonstop flight. Hassel predicted that within five years, airplanes with pay will make trips regularly on a Copenhagen-Chicago route. longest water streich of the new route will be 600 miles. - HALIBUT SELLS 11.85 TO 8 Three boats soid halibut catches today totalling 16,400 pounds at prices of from 11.80 to 8 cents. The 400 pounds and the Freemont 10,500 pounds. San Juan, at 11.80 and 8, took 5900 pounds and Alaska Fish brokerage, at 1185 and 8, tock 10,600 pounds, flight from the Middle West to; loads | jof Col Pletskaitis, The | position “4the first plane. 1 i i J freight will replace the oversized excitement as a protest to the at-ers‘ Hess and Mrs, Donnelley, who | Fo rdsold 5500 pounds, the Marie|estimated but above all, relations'passenger aboard the Alaska west- |City completing & hop from the| | plane Service on the suspended. The native Kwangites h: States to the Arctic Circle. Clayton Scott is the pilot of the A Gosion Crsharn captured Shiuhine, ailroad has been ' Warrants Are Issued— newspaper said the| New Developments Gen. Calles has detailed a new [ :cd reports today from Yovna, Lith- be over a route of iuania. !the Government and that signi-|traders in the interior, with head-ling on the Malabar coast. Murder Trial on and are rapidly | e Canton troops are > the Kwangites. - LEGISLATORS LEAVE chanic. J. H. Murray, Paul bott and H. W. McDermott were the passengers. | Al Cordova joined in a gigantic| celebration to mark the arrival of | retiring befo NASHVILLE, Tenn, May 8-—D. |P- Osborn, whose vote for acquittal fhung the jury trial of Walter Lig- |gett, for the alleged murder of TUESDAY FOR HoMEslTumey Cunningham, and Rainey ’ |Creswell, a grocer, confessed to Thirtcen members of the Legisla- |charges of accepting a bribe and of ture, which wound up its 60-day |bribery, respectively. sescion here last Yriday, diparted | Warrants were issued last night. yesterday for their. respective ho; Investigation showed that Cres- taking passage on three vess of ;wc)l sent Osborne a message telling the Alacka Steamship Company. him not to worry about his grocery Only one of the out-of-town mem- | bill as “I'll take care of it.” bers remaine here—Representa-| To this message Osborne replied, tive C. J. Woofter, of Nome. |“All right.” | Most of the members left on the | Liggett shot and killed Cunning- | a. Aboard it were: ham in an alley last October after | Dimond, Hess, Sundquist kecping a tryst with Mrs. Cunning- | and Representativ 1. She and the defendant ad-| Burgh, Donnelley, Fisher and|mitted an affair of several years Speaker Rothenburg. Mrs. Dimond, | stand: i S S | TROUBLE iN LITHUANIA INCREASING BERLIN, May 8.—The Telena- taphen Union, newspaper, publish- 1 } saying speakers worked | crowds into a frenzy and seething SRS (R LA tempted assassination Premier | Waldemaras. Speakers expressed belief that the, assault was the work of followers Lithuanian op- leader whose work has‘ spent all or most of the session ! here, were members of the party. |Six Thousand Persons Senators Dunn and Steel, and Representative Nylen, left for Se- | attle on the Aleutian. Senator | been to overthrow the Government. | Benjamin and Representative Mc- | The newspaper said the “plot is Cormick, went to Wrangell on the | a link in the long chain of at-iN--’“‘" 5 LONDON, May 8—A dispatch tempts by political elements of; ;‘Irum Bombay says Hindus and Mo- Vilna to do away with the head of | big | hammedans engaged in serious riot- | Six ficance of the crimes cannot yet be | quarters at Mountain Village, is a'Lhwsn.nd persons armed with | [km'.'es and missles fought over an larea of two square miles. The po- ————— |lice finally dispersed the rioters by R. Huddleston, prominent resi-|bayonet and and sword charges. dent of Valdez, is a passenger west-| Trouble started when the Hin- bound on the Alaska, “dus played music near the mosque. | ingage in Riots; Use | Knives and Missiles! < B e — N. D. Sheppard, one of the with Poland are bound to be more;bound. strained.” e 8. Wallstedt has returned to Ju- neau, a passenger on the Alaska. {and Sc. The President said the company!James Benet, by Robert Ethen, produced 801,000,000 pounds of cop-, aged 14, and Joseph Ward, 15, both per last year and sold about 930,- Palo Alto youths. 000,000 pounds, the balance comin,’y; The damages were received while from stocks. jthey were passengers in a machine “At present, our production is in|owned by Mrs. Norris and driven by line with consumption, which is 2 Benct. The accident occurred last very healthy situation. Only about |March. 45000 tons of copper have been sold for export and domestic ship-| ments at above 20 cents per pound; by the copper industry,” said Birch. I Mrs. A. J. Kashevaroff will leave for Seattle tomorrow on the Ad- .. {miral Evans to take her daughter, BUNNELL LEAVES ON jmiral Brans 1o iake VISHETO. SEATTLE ihrse sociter oo waatincas | Miss Kashevaroff has been troubled J |since December with her knee and Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, JPresident | p),veicians advised sending her of the Alaska Agricultural College 'goith” They will be pioid G Mg bol of Mlnes,‘lcfl last night i qefinite period on the steamer Aleutian for Seattle | — e WILL LEAVE FOR SEATTLE ‘asslgnment of troops throughout \the nation to prevent the large larmy of the North being scattered through the country. A new force will be sent against the Christers and a Federal air force will accompany this body of | troops. | The property of the Topete !brothers and Fausto Ricardo, lead- lers in the revolt in North Mexico, {has been confiscated by the Mexi- jean Government. 1 —— e ——— CONFINED TO HOME Mrs. Wallis George is confined to her home suffering from an injury {to her hip. While the injury is inot serious she will probably be Naid up for several weeks. ) on business connected with tha institution He will be there but a few days, returning nortb in about ten days. | Dr. Bunnell spent about days here during the recent session of | the Legislature in the interests of | the Colleze. He was only partly successful in his efforts to secure funds for expanding the school's work and was unable to get an ap- propriation to take over the Fed-, eral experiment station near Fair-| NEW YORK, May 8.—Pressure banks which it was desired to op-.is being brought to bear upon the erate in conjunction with the Col-‘Ncw York stock exchange authori- lege. |ties to admit to trading the stocks ‘of investment trusts, which have D. M. locai broker, re- become immensely popular in the turned on the Alaska after calling last few years. on the trade in Southeast Alaska. Officials of the exchange feel R 3 P CANEERS |that the situation still is in the J. D. Burchard, one of the well experimental stage and are not known interiorites, is a passenger ready yet to codify regulations gov- for the Westward on the Alaska. |erning thelr listing, | W. PRENOSIL (A. P. Financial Editor) UL A R Both EXCHANGE BALKS AT INVESTMENT COMPANY STOCKS Only two investment trusts have been admitted to date, the Ameri- can International corporation, start- ed as a 'holding company and which has been traded in for sev- |eral years, and the Alleghany cor- | poration, created by the Van Swer- |ingen brothers to absorb some of | their minority railroad holdings. It is understood that application for listing is also being made by the United corporation, sponsored /by J. P. Morgan and company, " (Continued on Page Thre))